Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-12-24
LATE FROM EUROPE.
CRISIS IN FRANCE.

Try.
HALIFAX, Dec. 2o.-The royal mail
steiner Europa, Captain Kott, which sailed
from Liverpool on the 9Th inst, for New
York, with seven days later intelligence
from Europe, pu. in here this morning, shor.
Of coal.
She brings most important news from
France bu. from other parts of Europe the
news is of little importance.
Cotton has declined an eighth, and bread
s,uffs generally have advanced.
FRANcE.-The news from Paris is Of the
mos, important and exciting character, and
is regarded as the commencement Of new
state Of governmental affairs for France.
A coup d'etat was made by President Ma
poleon on the Cd inst, of the most bold and
mportant character. He seized the reins Of
Government, and Dissolved the Assembly, de-
clAring Paris in slate Of seige, appealing
directly to the people to sustain him in his
movement to arrest the monarchal tenden-
cies Of the Assembly.
The Presidents arrangements had been
made with consumate skill and secrecy, du-
ring The night of the Is. inst. The whole
hing was done before the public had the
least in,ima,ion of the event.
A new Ministry was formed, and procIa-
nation issued, restoring universal suffrage
and proposing a new system Of GovernmenI,
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 Legislature.
At daylight on Tuesday morning, the
Presidents proclamation was found posted
throughout The city, in which he advised
the immediate dispersion Of the Assembly,
with a new form Of Government. The cleo
ton for President is to take place during
the present month, and the President prom
ses 10 bow to the will Of the people,
Everything was consummated before the
Assembly bad the least idea Of the intention
Of the President, an entire new ministry hav-
ing been formed during the night.
Pending the election the President pro-
poses that the Executive powers remain in
his hands. He says ,ha, he had been fore
ed into his present position by the course
OF his opponents in the Assembly, and it is
certain that Theirs, Changarnier, and Others
of his opponents had decided to demand his
arrest and impeachment on the Cd inst, and
were slmos, in the act Of moving in the
matter when they and their principal friends
were arrested and conveyed TO Vincennes.
Whenever the members of the Assembly
have attempted to meet officially, they have
been ordered to disperse, aud were arrested
if they refused. Two hundred members of
The Assembly had been arrested, and many
subsequently, released but all sNlnnnsipal
leaders Of the opposition were in ffs~A
Three hundred of the members of the
Assembly, it was said, had given in their
adhesion to the President; and Geographic
dispatches from the Departments slate that
The Presidents demonstration had been
hailed with the utmost enthusiasm. Suisse
quenlly, these reports were con,radced,
and several barbados erected in different
quarters Of Paris, but were speedily broken
down by the troops.
A. one of these barbados two members of
the Assembly, occupying prominent places,
were killed in the conflict.
On Tuesday section Of the Assembly
continued TO meet, and decfeed the depo-
silion of the President and his impeachment
for high treason. The meeting was dis
persed by the troops, and the decree rldi-
cuIed on sll sides. Troops had been sta
toned in the houses Of NJ. Dupin and other
ex-officers Of the Assembly who had been
exempted from arrest.
The full rigor of martial law had been
proclaimed against all concerned in the bar
reading, and large number had been shot,
Up to Thursday nigh, The success of the
President seemed certain, and advices re-
ceived in London on Friday do not vary
the affairs, though new elements of discard
were constantly arising.