Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-12-25
FOREIGN NEWS.
seven days Later from Europe
Arrival Of the Europa.
Highly Important from France.
PARIS IN A STATE OF SIEGE.

The Royal Mail steamship Europa, from
Liverpool 9Th, bound for New York, arrived
at Halifax Saturday, Dec. 20. after constant
succession Of heavy gales, and with the loss Of
one man overheard. . .,g NJ, NJ. .... .-.-
FRANcE.-Ihe news from France in most
important: The long dreaded coup d'etdt has ID
been made, and the President having seized
the reins Of Government dissolved The Assem-.
bly,, declared state of siege, arrested The Lead
ing opponents of his policy, and appealed n
the people. All this was done az an e,,iv
hour Tuesday, the I'd inst, preparations for /,
having been perfected with comsumn,a,e skill
and secrecy during the preceding night and
the whole thing done and completed before auy
one had the least idea that it was in progress
ion or in contemplation. An entire new Min
is,ry was formed during the might Of Monday
The Presidents proposal Is the instant re-
storation of universal suffrage-the instant
election by the people and by the army Of a
President to hold office for Ten years, supper
ted BY Codhciot State, and by two Houses
of Legislature; and that during the few days
required TO complete the elections, the execu-
tive power shall remain 10 The hands of the
President. The election fixed to take place
during the present month, and the President
promises 10 bow to the will Of the people,
whether they elect himself or any one else,
and declares that he holds power only until the
will uf the people can be made known.
Meantime he demands preliminary vote
from both The army and the people, to declare
whether they confide 10 him the executive pow
err, ad interim, the army to record their vote
within fortyeisht hours, the people being al
lowed longer time. - iHf 1854 t"a-'"''
The President declares himself to have been
forced into this measure, and il is ascertained
tina, Changarnier, l.. A. Moriciere, Theirs,
and others Of his opponents had decided to de-
mand his arrest and impeachment on the I'd
inst, and were together. and in the very act
of confirming this decision, when they were
themselves arrested aud conveyed 10 Vincen-
mes, whence they were next day removed to
Hull. 7.s.I+ ~" 'f1. sob
MANY members of the Assembly have given
their adhesion to the President it is said az
many as three hundred during the first day
| The full rigor of martial law had been pro-
claimed againgst all persons concerned in bar
ricades, and they were accordingly shot with
out delay. Do ..,,-rgl.u.4~ .s-iI- =, IN.
LATEsr.-Paris, Friday morning. tits said
that seven hundred French refugees left Lon
don for Paris on Thursday evening. 81"
During the day. barrcades have been thrown
| up in earnest. At half past one O'Clock an inn
/ mense crowd OF about hve thousand troops
moving along the Boulevards, was fired on
from the neighborng passages and houses close
by. The firing was returned. The combat
lasted briskly for upwards Of half an hour
Cannon shot and mnsketry were used. ..,i
At the same time, further down the Boule-
wards, firing was brisk up to P. M. 1t had
then nearly ceased in the neighborhood Of the
Boulevards, at There's, but continued in other
quarters.
Many passers by were injured, and gentle
man and his daughter were reported killed
At the Boulevards Dec Iiaticues the firing had
almost entirely ceased at seven o'clock
A fight took place in the streets, lasting
from midday until five O'Clock, in the quar-
there's St. Martin, and ST. Dennis, when the
instruction was quelled in all parts. Cannon
were required to destroy several barricades of
the Faubourg ST. Dennis and St. Martin, and
the Boulevards near the Bastile, had been dsy-
troyed, when the troops retired.
SlcnY.-A letter from Palermo, of the 18th,
states that an attempt at insurrection in Sicily
has been made by Baron Ooze, and other no.
blemen with view TO proclaim the indepen-
dence of Sicily, and compel the King TO alb
dictate, as King Of Sicily, in favor Of his son
| Francis. a.