The New York herald., 1868-11-17

III lS an OmlnOuB IaCL Lnat our CelegrapulC
news from Paris now consists chiefly of sum-
mary of prosecutions against the press. Our
dispatches of last night inform us that orders
have been issued to the Projects of Depart
ments to suppress all public manifestations in
regard to the bloody event of December 2,
1852. We learn also that the Office and ma
terial Of the Temps have been seized by the
police Of Paris and the issue of that journal
suspended. A general persecution Of the inde-
pendent press appears to have been set on foot
by the French government. NJ Jules Wales has
just been condemned to imprisonment for two
months and fine of two thousand francs, on
account Of an article inserted in the Courier de
vIntarseur under the title of can Unpublished
Chapter of the History of the I'd December"
The Steele and other journals, which have not
hesitated to pronounce this "a rigorous SEN
tence" and to express their s9ively sympathy"
with NJ. Valles and the Courier de rInterieur,
are constantly exposed to similar seventies ON
the part Of the imperial government. Accord
ing to one Of the Paris kilograms which we
published yesterday several journalists figure
among the persons who have been prosecuted
by the government convicted, heavily fined
and additionally punished by the suspension
of their civil rights, because they promoted
the subscription for a monument over the
grave of NJ. Baudin, one Of the victims of the
coup Getat of the I'd December. The deci-
sions of the court in these cases have excited
so much popular indignation that the police
and military authorities Of Paris are now
taking extraordinary precautions against the
disturbance of order A Paris telegram Of the
18th instant announced that at Council of
Ministers held at the Tuileries proof was
adduced of the existence of conspiracy for
the overthrow of the existing order of affairs
in France, and . resolution was adopted pro-
viding for the most rigorous measures for Its
repression. The same telegram added, s'The
public journals will be exempted from inter-
ference If they refrain from melting the people
against the government. A subsequent tele-
gram indicates that the Gaulois newspaper, at
least, has paid but little heed to this warning,
and prosecution has been instituted against
it for infraction of the Press law.
jealously watching the French press, but that
he is becoming alarmed at the symptoms Of
popular discomfort revealed by 1t. Our pre-
dictions that such would be the case are veri-
fed. Anxiety and trouble at the Tuileries
could not fail to result from the revolution at
Madrid. The Gaulois newspaper, it will be
remembered, first published the famous letter
Of General Prim, and the full budget Of news
from Spain which II has since regularly given
has made II virtually the organ of the Spanish
provisional government. The Montteur, the
organ of the French imperial government, has
deemed 1t necessary almost daily to complain
fthis record of Spanish events by the Gauloss.
This record, apparently, Is the head and
front of It's offending. Publishing it is held to
be ''inciting the people against the govern
ment" If this can occasion so much trouble
at the Tuileries what can be expected to follow
from the direct attacks which the press may
be provoked to make upon the government ?
In place of apprehended war with Prussia IL
Is clear that the real source Of the danger which
now threatens and alarms the Emperor Of the
TTeuCu 10 IcvoiusiVu Cpaiu. luo pIc-
sent agitation in the Paris press and among
the French people reverberates the Spanish
revolution. Moreover, II is premonitory Of
another French revolution. In fact, 1t would
not be surprising If this agitation should prove
to be the first mutterings Of general revolution
throughout Europe. Such popular move
ment may be developed within year.
THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS YEsTRRDAY-No
| violence attended the elections in Great Britain
yesterday, Notwithstanding that popular excite
ment ran high. Returns from forty-one con-
stituencies give the liberal party gain Of six
members, but this is Of course but feeble in
dication Of the general result Dsraeli has
been elected from Buckinghamshre, as have
also been ten other prominent tory candidates.
| including four members of the present govern