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Our French Correspondence
PARIS, August -, 1s4S.
Tremendous Disclosures Unuttersble Iniquity-Red
Repu6tcanism-.A Government by a D,ctator-Con-
slant .aiarms--The Great De6ate-Causes of the
Great Insurrection-The Franco-.q Mediation
.gGairs Of Italy and Germany.
We live with unwonted rapidity; tho events of
years compressed into weeks. The present week
has been signalised by circumstances which have
shaken society to its very fou ndatons The of
documents and "psrole" evidence collected by the
committee Of the Assembly charged with the invsst-
cation Of the events which led to the
the 18th Of May and 23d June have been published
in three quarto volumes, and have literally engrosssd
the attention Of the press and the public not in Paris
alone, but in all France, AID not in all France alone
but throughout all Europe. What marvellous COM
ment these volumes supply upon the history Of the
last six months What wondrous disclosures Never
was the adage that" Truth Is sometimes more incredi
BILE than fiction" practi ally verified in conspiou
GUS manner.
No romancer would have dared to have inter-
woven. in the productions Of his Imagination, the
February.
1t is now evident that tho great revolution which
assembled IN two or three oficss Of journals having
small circulation ana less inhnencs. Happily for
France, sane individuals, like M. M Marie and Lamar
tine were admitted to the first provisional govern
nent To this, mainly, are debted for the saliva
ton Of France from . rcd republic red republic
Do you know what this means? 1t means everything
the reverse Of the American Republic it is the off,
spring of acts and Of men who would reflect as much
disgrace upon the country and humanity, the
he war me N itadS n dart Wsshi nOtou
reflected credit the transatlantic republic Il has
now come out that Louis Blanc demanded n the out
set q red republic and reign Of terror. His friend
Barbes demanded the restoration of the Ruiotine
and another friend and member Of the National AS
sembly declared, that five hundred heads Of the nine
hundred constituting that body must fall
This Is the Red Republic. Happily for you at the
other side Of the Atlantic such spirit ia foreign
TO your natures, that you will find it diff
cult either to conceive to credit It. Read however,
some Of the dispositions which you will translated
and printed in the English journals. Read the de-
position of M Arago, member OF the late provisional
government M. Trouve Chaavel, Project OF Police, NJ.
Chenu, . Mo',tagnard, and others Read the docu-
brought by Bsrbes before the Assembly in the emeuts
Of the 18th May, and you viii in what situation
France has been. Nor have yet emerged from It.
We are now living under military dictator, q mo-
derste and for bearing one II Is true bat still diota
properties may be swept away at any me ment Yss-
terdsy, he issued Decree which at xuuguishsd
have bssn but the power would have eauay
existed, even though 1t were inustly exercised. In
surgent prisoners sent by bands of 500 at time
bound together with ropes out of their country they
sent without any legal formates or trial By the
exercise Of the same power Military commissions,
ting six or eight daily, and pronouncins sentences
the galeys for life on other insurgents convicted
cordng to their fashion, and We shall doubtless bye
and bye, hear Of military executions.
Now all this must be understood as not imputing
any real injustice on the part Of Cavaignsc the mill
no sympathy butt nevertheess such is our condition
that we are compelled to save society from entire and
utter destruceon, to submit to . normal, illegal nd
exceptional power from the sway Of which we have
immediate prospect Of releate. The alternative for
society lies between military dictator on the one
hand and anarchy, pillsge and general massacre on
We have so or co. 900 troops in and about Paris we
have camps In every the crowded
embankmsnts are thrown up around the National As.
semby cannon are planted there. Scarcely q day
out. On saturday last, at O'clock IN the sssrnoon,
the Assembly WAS suddenly invested with troops, all
approaches to It being stopped cannon were leveed
from IT'S vesupuie ana picquets Of dragons psrsded
This state of things continued for several hours The
wives and children Of the nsursent prisoners were, it
is said to go In body to the Assembly to petition
for their pardon and release but behind the women
1t was expected that body Of men would make their
appearance, and precautions accordingly taken.
Another alarm was raised yesterday. The probable
outbreak when was then expected had induced the
at Vincennes In all the barracks the infantry cavalry
artillery and Garde Mobile, consigned In Paris
all the posts were doubled and the most discipline
prescribed The hotel of Gen. Cavagnac and all the mi
nistres were well guarded. The guardians of Paris and
the inspectors Of police in attendance at all the
corners Of the streets. The National Assembly was
guarded by the 18th and Oath of the line the 9Th e
gon and the artillery. with matches lighted great
many workmen were actively employed in construct
ing on the Quai d'Orsay the wall OF defence of the
garden Of the Presidency and In the wood yard were
all the implements Necessary to unpaye the streets
moments notice. strong redoubt was constructed
to the east Of the garden nding the Pent de la
Concorde. The gate at the garden Of the Tuileries
was strongly & larded All the morning numerous
cal. sons travcrsed the Faubourg st. Germain with
ammunition, for divers points In the barracks of the
Qusi Orsay the dragons by their horses ready
to mount at the fret signal At the Ministry of War
the salons hled with general and superior off,
GERS, aids de- camp. and officers Of the staff
About IL o'clock, little more han the ordi nary
emit was observed about the National Assembly
Before the pertye and on the bridge several groups
aud the parapets Of the bridge lined
with persons Of sinister ntenance, who exami
the ground to judge Of the practcab.y of gettn g
emeute by forming attroupments and inducing a
charge of cavalry.
Many of the wealthy class left their houses In the
Faubourgs St German and st. Honorc.
AT the Hotel de Vill aud the Prefecture of Police,
there strong gsrrisons. At no point, however,
was public order disturbed.
M Louis Blanc has given notice of an application
to the Assembly to prevent the press from publishing
the evidence. This IL vain task. The evidence Is
printed already, and distributed in every language, all
over Europe The great debate, however. will be
the report and evidence themselves, and this Is not
expected to commence before Thursday. What It's
consequences will be- foresee IL will take
place too late to give you any ascount Of 1t in this
despatch.
led to the insurrection Of June proceeding from
After the revolution Of February, the rich left
Paris the poor from all parts arrived In It, One ella