New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-20
FRANCE.
We cut the following from the Paris cor
respondence of The Daily Ne1cs:

We cut the following from the Paris cor
respondence of The Daily Nelcs:
The sentence Of the Court Martial of Montpelier by
which seventeen insurgents of December con-
Cemned TO be euillotined, has produced sensation Of
pr found horror. Judgment having gone by default
against elk CT the accused the number OF heads doc
TO fall In the public place OF Bedareux the scene of
their crimes, Is eleven. The oiense for which these
men have been condemned 30 death Is the murder Of
three gendarmes. Thus military justice makes sham
bles OF French town 10 punish a crime which was the
imme date consequence Of the coup feG of December
and the lives Of eleven are TO be taken In sold
blood for acts OF vio nee, which, however atrocious
committed 10 the strife of civil war As no Gage
10 the history Of the bloody events of last December
Pver striking picture of the chara ter of the IN
surreccn IN the Southern Departments shall narrate
here briefly the events Of Bedareux upon which the
sentence Of Court Martial given In my letter of yester
day, is founded.
On the night of December g. the emssary Of ssecret
society at Beziers, In the Hersut brought Bedaeux
the signal for nurrecton Ia the OF Bedarieux
alone here were as many as three thousand affiliated
members, which comprises the whole population If ar
sAns snd lao0rers. They organized, armed,
end In communication with the secret societies OF
Paris ard Lyons, as well as those Ct their own de-
partnents On the 18th the asiiers had empltd their
into the streets and cafes of tls town Men
mounted on tables, with nfaned features and violent
gesture stirred up TIE people b march the townha
and the quarters Of the gendaTmes The may having sp
peald In vain TO the better class Of citizens In support of
order finding toward close day bis residence ged
" OIsLuUfeu Tue Consisting VI
only Eve sendsrses, charging them with dispatches for
tGccor to shborng towns, and then retired hi nsef
Favored by the dark, and charging the crowd with
liked bay onet, the eendsrnes succeeded Ia making
tber way good to their barracks but before they could
get cut their horses to start with the ospatchs they
were biockaded by an Infatuated mob The Quarter.
mater Lettard, ara he gendsrms Buguieres made a
desperate sitempt to sally out and dischaging their
esrbnes. killed en- insurgent This was the signal for
reeuisr siege The insurgents took possession Of the
DeighbOripg houses and poured from the windows an
ircetsant FIRE into the barracks. Their first victim was
The wife Of the gendarme Flscou who fell shot through
The head, as she ~as Standing at the window The be-
seged continued b hold with desperate bravery
until IRE Wa se 10 the gate OF the courtyard Faseots
were brought from the bakers p ed sAius. toe door
and fred amid the ysils Of nen and women Driven
from their quarters by the flames and smoke tree of
the eendsrmes scaled, by means Of rope ladder a
partition WALL and TOOK refuge In the hsase OF one Meal
s email Iacesmen.
TIE remainir txc, the game who had sailed forth 4,
ire heginnirg and killed an irsutgent being bsdIv
wounded, concealed themselves ~ they could Men.
While the flaming door having been rem, aWsy The in.
sufents burt H. The unt0rruas.a Bfve,i9re, va,
ioupc under itrefs, On hesp Of litter IN the ysrs