Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-31
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM
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seizure of the Reins of Government by, Louis Ma
esase Of sieee--x New Ministry formcd--Pro-
,,lanafion Restoring Iniyersal suffrage; frnmc-
Members Of The Assembly in Prison; Iiarricades
Erected in Paris and destroyed by the Troops;
A1ortiai Law Declared aud Enforced.
The steamer Europa with seven days
later news from Europe arrived at New
York on the esd inst. The news she
brings is of the utmost Importance, par
ticularly from France.
FRANcE.-The news from Paris is of
the most important and exciting charac-
ter, and is regarded asthe commencement
of new state of governmental affairs for
France. So
A coup d'etat was made by President
Napoleon on the end inst, of the most
bold and important character. He seized
the reins of government. and dissolved
the Assembly, declaring Paris in state
of siege, appealing directly to the people
to sustain him in his movement to arrest
the monarchial tendencies of the Assem-
bly,.
The Presidents arrangement had been
made with consummate skill and secrecy
during the night of the LIST inst, The
whole thing was done before the public
had the least intimation of the event.
A new Ministry was formed, and a
proclamation issued restoring universal
suffrage, and proposing new system of
government with the instant election by
the people and army of President to
hold office for ten years, supported by
council of State and two houses of the
Legislature.
AT daylight on Tuesday morning the
President's proclamation was found posted
throughout the city, in which he ordered
the immediate dispersion of the Assem-
bly,, with his plan ,for new form Of
government. The election for Presi-
dent is to take place during the present
month, and the President promises to
bow to the will of the people. ~ =
Everything was consummated before
the Assembly had the least idea of the
intention of the President, an entire new
ministry having been formed during the
night.
Pending the election, the President
proposes that the executive powers re-
main in his hands. He says that he has
been forced into his present position by
the course of his opponents in the AS
sembly, and it is certain that Theirs, Chan
GARNER and others of his opponents had
decided to demand his arrest and i'm
peachment on the 22d instant, and were
almost in the act of moving in the matter,
when they and their principle friends
were arrested and conveyed to Vincen-
mes.
Whenever the members of the Assem-
bly, have attempted to meet officially,
they have been ordered to disperse, and
were arrested if they refused. Two hun
dred members of the Assembly had been
arrested, and many subsequently, releas-
ed but all the principle leaders of the
opposition were in prison.
Three hundred of the members of the
Assembly it was said had given in their
adhesions to the President and tele
graphic dispatches from the department.
state that the Presidents demonstration
had been hailed with the utmost entlu
siam. Subsequently these reports were
contradicted, and several barbados cree
ted in different quarters of Paris, but
were speedily broken down by the
troops.
AT one of these barricades two men,
bers of the Assembly, occupying pro-
minent places, were killed in the con-
flict.
On Tuesday, a section of the Assem-
bly, continued to meet, and decored the
deposition of the President, and his i'm
parchment high treason. The meeting
was dispersed by the troops, and their de-
cree ridiculed on all sides. Troops had
been stationed in the houses of NJ. Du
pin and other ex-oficers of the Assem-
bly,, who had been exempted from ar
rest.
The full rigor of martial law had been
proclaimed against all concerned in the
barbados, and large number had been
shot.
Up to Thursday night. the success of
the President seemed certain, and adj
vices received in London on Friday, do
not vary the aspects of affairs, though
new elements of discord were constantly
arising.
Additional.
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