The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

REVOLUTIONARY
MOVEMENT IN FRANCE.

Paris has returned to a state of tranquillity, but con.
siderable excitement appears still to prevail there. From
the provinces the news is rather alarming. The socialists
have risen in great numbers in the Nievre, Var, and Gard;
aid. for the present, have been able to maintain their
position. Louis Napoleon appears to consider that no
further consequence will arise from his coup d'tStat. He
gave, on Monday week, his first public reception since
the event at the Elyeee. The Palace was crowded to
excess, and-it was found necessary to throw open additional
rooms for the reception of the company. As may be con-
ceived, there was an extraordinary number of officers of
all ranks. The members of the corps diplomatique were
also in great numbers, and there were many present who,
only three days ago, were the loudest in condemning the
coup d'erat. There was a considerable number of ladies,
and among them a good many of our countrywomen.
Subjoined is an account of the most interesting incidents
which have occurred since our last.
TUESDAY.

The Siecle has re-appeared for the first time since its
suspension. It publishes no leading article. There is,
however, a short note signed by the editors, stating that
their principles are unchangeable, and that they abstain
from comment on account of the state of siege.
The Moniteur publishes a decree, announcing that all
individuals placed under the surveillance of the high
police, who have been proved to have quitted the place
assigned them as their residence, may, as a measure of
general safety. be transported to Cayenne or Algeria for a
minimum of five years, and a maximum of ten. The same
measure shall be applied to individuals found guilty of
forming part of a secret society. The prefects of the
places under the surveillance of the high police will in
future give the Government the right of fixing the place
the convict shall reside in after having undergone his
punishment.
The Petrie publishes the following votes of the army :
—Number of votes. 65,289; votes for Louis Napoleon,
61.456 ; against, 3.749 ; abstained, 84.
The President of the Republic, accompanied by Cols.
Ney and Fleury, and the minister at war, and attended by
his usual escort, visited the hospitals on Tuesday morn-
ing. After remaining some time at the hospitals, where
he visited the sick and wounded soldiers, he visited the
hospital of the Ecuries du Roi, in the Fauhourg du
Roule. The following is from the Constitutionnel :
" These brave soldiers, in spite of their sufferings, replied
by the warmest acclamations to the consolatory words
addressed to them by the President. One of them. who
was very dangerously wounded, told the chaplain in the
morning, ' I only wish for one thing, and that is to see
Napoleon before I die.' He recovered strength to bless
the President, who decorated him with his own hand.
Another of the men, who had had an arm amputated, told
the President, with great ardour, I have another left at
your service." All the men on receiving crosses, kissed
them till their eyes moistened with tears. Nothing could
be more affecting than the expression of the enthusiastic
gratitude of these brave men, on finding that their devo-
tedness was appreciated by Louis Napoleon. The emo-
tion of the persons present was very great, and the tears
which filled the eyes of the President showed how much
he was affected by the scene. Ten crosses were distri-
buted. The wounded, to the number of 37, each received
100 f. The President was very warmly received through-
out the whole of his route. His carriage was escorted by
a detachment of cuirassiers.
WEDNESDAY.

On Tuesday, M. Thiers received orders to quit France.
After a slight preparation for his journey on Wednesday
morning,' he was escorted out of his house between two
agents of the police, placed in a carriage, and conveyed
to the Paris terminus of the Strasbourg Railway. There
be was placed in a carriage apart, with his two official
attendants, who were ordered not to leave him until they
bad seen him fairly over the French frontier to Kehl, on
the right bank of the Rhine. opposite to Strasbourg. It
was reported that M. Mon Faucher had received orders
to quit France. but up to four o'clock on Wednesday
afternion, M. Faucher had received no such order. The
Siècle states 'hat M. David (d'Angers) has been arrested.
The Monileur publishes a decree of the President of
the Republic declaring the department of the Basses Alps
in a state of siege. Another decree names new prefects
to the departments of the Ille-et-Vilaine, the Tarn-et-
Garonne, the Vaucluse, and the Indre.
The department of the Gera. Var, and Lot-et-Garonne
are declared to be in a state of siege. The government
accounts state that complete tranquillity has been re-
estaLlished in the departments of the Eure, the Seine-et-
Marne,HauteMarne,Vaucluse Cotes-du-Nord, Dordogne,
Cants!, Arriege, Eure-et-Loire, Lot, Vosges, Haut Rin,
Meuse, Cote d'Or, and Yonne.

The Globe's correspondent, dating from Paris on Wed-
nesday evening, states that there was a private meeting

on Tuesday evening of some of the most respectable
English residents, to take into consideration the propriety
of drawing up a protest against some of the statements
which have appeared in England respecting the conduct
of the government and the army during the lat

e events.
Ind

It was generally admitted that these statements

above all the spirit which pervaded the communications,
were much to be regretted, and the more so as tome false-
hood of some of the reports was generally declared before
they were transmitted. But there was a difference of
opinion as to taking any steps, with a view to prevent an
unfriendly feeling towards the English in Paris, either on
the part of the government or that of the very large por-
tion of the people of Paris who approve of the conduct of
the President of the Republic. The advice given by the
English Ambassador to the English residents generally,
to abstain from publicly discussing the affairs of a country
in which they are only visitors, receiving from all classes
respect and protection, and the fact of his having already
taken care that the government should not think un-
favourably of the English residents here because misre-
presentations have appeared in some of the London
papers, were considered by some of the persons present to
be quite sufficient to render any public protest unneces-
sary. Whatever may be thought (says the same writer)
by the English of the coup d'etrit as a violation of the
oath to the constitution, nobody here, not even the ene-
mies of Louis Napoleon, attach importance to it. His
friends contend that the duties imposed on him religiously
and morally were paramount to the formality of the oath ;
and even assert that there has virtually been no violation,
since his oath bound him only to the majority of the
people, to whom he has appealed, and whose decision he
declares he will obey.