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OF several witnesses, that the WOrkmen LYONS
were starving and that several of them had thrown
themselves into the Rholfe in despair; that they
would do well to force the Government with arms
in their hands to give them wheat, and that he him
self, in such case would place himself at their head
The same day the court sentenced Pierr Mercier,
political convict, but who had been pardoned, to
two months imprisonment, for using threatening
language to commissary of police in the execution
of his duty. Mercier, who had used violent Ian
guage after the attempt the Emperors life on the
l4th of January, was summoned to the police office
at Monteimart. When there he exclaimed that it
was human flesh the government wanted-that it
was always wanting fresh victims, and if the au-
| thorities wished to arrest him, they would do well
not to send fathers of families to do So because they
would be sacrificed.
In December last Jean Jeanviere, liberated con-
vct circulated report that Paris was in a state of
siege, and that the black flag was hying at LYONS
lie was sentenced by the court of Gap to mprison-
ment for five years, and to pay fine of one thou
sand francs.
The Monteur of March 25th contains the fol,ov
ing paragraph:
at is endeavored by the evil disposed to excite
mlsglylngs with respect to the application of the
law of public safety by misrepresenting the inten-
tions OF the government. The culpabe expecta-
tons which followed the attempt of the l4th Janua
ry imposed on the government the duty of protect
ing the public security, and for this has suffered the
arrest OF few men notoriously dangerous As for
those who remain within the limits of the law. if
they do not render themselves guilty by fresh mis-
deeds they have nothing to fear from the effects of
| w.
The Paris correspondent of London Norninq Her.
! aid SAYS:
'.The people about the Tuileries assert that her
Majesty the Empress is once more encicnte. send
you the report, without vOuching for its truth.
| "Ihe health of Prince Jerome continues to 90 on
improving, and his imperial highness may now be
considered in state Of full convaescence"
Correspondence Of the Commercial Adcertiser.l
PARIS, March 25, 1858
The appointment of Marshal Pelissier, Duke of
Malakof, as Ambassador to London, in the place of
the Count Persigny, resigned, produced a strong
sensation, as well at Paris as at London. 1t was
certainly not so much account of the inappro-
prateness OF the individual, as the unexpectcdness
OF the selection Since it had become certain that
NJ dc Persigny desired to be replaced, the appoint
ment had been generally conceded either to the
Duke de Grammont or the Marquis de Moustier
NO one ever dreamed of the old African soldier of
the man who was condemned by the English as
! heartless murderer because he smoked the Arabs
to death in cave for the important diplomatic most
across the channel. But then adversity and trials
change opinions, and the man who fought side by
SIDE with the English at ScbastOpo and managed
there not to break the alliance, is deemed lust the
person not to break the alliance at London.
But 1t seems that in the present state of affairs
| Cor no matter what journals in the interest
OF cabinets may say the alliance is stretched to its
last fllament,) something better than man who
VIII SIMPLY support the alliance is needed. The DO
sltlon requires partisan, devoted friend. Mar
| shal Pelssler is a man of talent and of fair udr-
ment; but like every officer of the French army
he hates the English a nation whatever he may
| think OF them as individuals his whole life has
been spent in circla where imprccatons against
England form part of everbody's conversation
and he must cherish in his breast a dcep-rooted
Pfe]udlce which, at his advanced age, contact with
that nation, especially he does not speak their
language, will not remove Moreover, he is one of
the most abrupt and decided public men of the age
and pronounces an infexible yes or no on the in
stant, and this.perhaps unfortunately not the
present style of diplomacy.
| The motives which prompted the restoration of
NJ de Persigny are toleraby obvious With the
Palmerston Cabinet he was unit on this refugee
question; with them he agreed completely, and
| they were marching together in arm. The
English people condemned the policy of the Palmers-
ton Ministry and overthrow them. NJ. de Persignv
| tclt from that moment that his position was com
| promised. Moreover he had taken certain grounds
with the PalmerstOn Cabinet which had been grant
ed, but which are denied by the Derby Adminstra-
tion. He therefore found himself incapable of the
lree ana cordial Intercourse with Ministry so es-
sentlal to the position. Again, it is evident that
Count W Walewsk perhaps because he is Pole is
mouch more sympathetic with the refugees than is NJ
de Persigny and when thereis difference of opinion
| between an Ambassador and his chief. the posi-
ton for the former is longer tenablc. Then
Count Persignyi the most devoted friend Napoleon
can claim; he has no mercy either for men or meas
ures inimical to the interests Of his master. He
| hrmly believes that what he demanded of England
| she ought to accord: he believes he demanded it in
proper terms, and now that she refuses, he throws
| the blame OF whatever may happen upon her, and
retlres from the field His presence at Paris and in
the cOun ellis of the Emperor is not likely to calm
| the angry feelings that have been aroused 1t is
thought that he will have place in the Cabinet
ihere IS even talk of his suppanting NJ. Waewski
! IN the bureau of Foreign Affairs. But since NJ de
| Persgny has igned at London, NJ. Walewski no
longer talks of retiring from his present place. and
it is not likely that the Emperor will make the
change 1t is more probable that NJ. de Persigny
| will be sent as Ambassador to St PetersburG
! post that is now vacant.
The article of the London Times on the police
surveillance at Paris, and the taken by the En-
perOr of his person, to which | referred in my last
has not ceased to be subject of comment at Paris
Not only has the Minister of the Interior replied
officially to the article in the columns of the Non-
teur but the Emperor by his conduct seems to wish
to give public contradiction of the ines asser-
ton. Since then his Majesty is to be seen every
day IN the street, in open wagon with horses
| which he drives himself, with of his aids
de-camp at his side and two lacquevs in behind or
on foot, in quarters near the Imperial residence.
| L saw him only yesterday with his open car
| riage get entangcd in a blockade of car
| riages on the Boulevard in which he was obliged
frequently to stop and in which more attention
was given to him than if he had been the commonest
OF drivers. 1t took him ten minutes to thread his
| way through the mass of tangled carriages. All
this, however, may not be pure courage for when
he passes thus exposed through the streets without
cortege, his movement is unforeseen, and evil-dis-
posed persons cannot be prepared for him. On the
other hand when he went few evenings ago to the
Grand OPERA to the first representation of alevys
new opera, La Hayicienne, he attended by verv
numerous mounted escort, and the whole Rue lie
Pelletier the of the attempt of the 4th Janu-
ary, from the Boulevard to the far side of the Rue
Rossini, beyond the theatre, kept clear of peo-
Pile by numerous company of policemen. The
| houses opposite were also occupied bv policemen
This time it would have been impossible for a strang-
er to approach near enough the imperial carriage
to do HARM
The Moniteur of this morning contains two official
articles intended to calm the public mind; the first
in regard to reported that were to be put
in operation against the pardoned political offenders,
and the other In regard to the passport rigors
Thus the Minister publishes one day a repressve
law, and the next day he taps the public on the
back, and says: "Never mind that's the same law
in force in 1884 in 1904 and in 1915 it will not
hurt yOu at any rate it was not intended for you
but for your neghbOr, who may be a bad ftllOw.''-
This is the sophistry with which the government is
now calming the minds of the excited people.
1t appears now that the ''litte republic of Cha
OnS is going to escape much more lightly than was
at first supposed. The cause of the ridiculous at
attempt at republic the arrest by the govern
ment that very morning OF mercantile man very
much loved by the men who revolted, and to whom
they were indebted for many fayors. Their object
principally to have been to release this gen
tleman from prison; at least the immediate of
the riot was his arrest. The cause Of this measure
has not transpired any further than that it po-
litical.
The dissatisfaction in Switzerland against the new
regulations on the passport system continues, and
may yet be the cause, if the affair is not speedily
| arranged between France and England, of serious
trouble. 1t is felt that France has asked too much.
OF the seventy-one dangerous refugees in Swtzer-
land about onehaf have been expelled or have vol
UNFAIRLY left the country, many of them going to
London to swell the list of the disafected and dan
gerous in that city of refuge.
The French journals again declare that the Amer
lean contract to restore the sunken ships in the port
of Sebastopols is complete failure The sloop Sill
yer Key and steamer Gen. knox, belonging to the
American Company, are said to have abandoned
the project as impractlcabe.
Anthony Allen, sailor belonging to the Ameri-
can ship Zenobia, was stabbed and killed few
nights ago in the streets of Eavre Scotch sailor
named Robert Wright, who was in Aliens compa-
nv at the time, also stabbed but not seriously.
The assaing parties not known.
The election for Deputies to the Legislature in
the three vacant Republican districts of Paris, will