The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-07-15 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.  THE PRISONERS.  It is said that the number of persons arrested, as connected with the late insurrection, is every day increasing. There are at present 14,000 distributed amongst the forts of Vannes, Montrouge, Ivry, Mont Valerien, Issy, and Vincennes. Others are confined in the Ecole Militaire, Gros Caillon, the barrack in the Rue de Tournon, the Conciergenie, the Prefecture of Police, the Force, and St. Pelagie. Four persons have been arrested at Montargis, who are supposed to have taken an active part in the late insurrection. On being searched, a sum of I,ooof. was found divided amongst them. One of them, named Rigoulet, an old soldier, had in his knapsack a quantity of gunpowder and bullets, together with cartridges and lead.  Every moment new discoveries and new captures are made, not merely of combatants in the revolt, but of parties to the conspiracy which preceded it, and in which some persons in high station as well as irmumerable professional men are compromised. Curiosity is expressed respecting the fate of those in custody, or who may yet be arrested. Numerous though they be, exeniplary.punishment awaits them. Comparatively few examples will be made among the common herd of combatants, but the conspirators and the chiefs of the insurrection will be seVerely dealt with. Gen. Cavaignac has, it is true, declared himsel(e,ainst the principle of revenge, but he never intended to allow those guilty of atrocious crimes, either in the conception and preparation of the revolt, or in the execution schemes, to escape with impunity. Transportation w b e general punishment of those who may be condennekl, capital punishment will not be omitted. The treacherous and savage murderers of General Brea, and his aide-de-camp, Captain Mangiu, are in custody, and have been identlikl ; in fact, they make no secret of their having slaughtered that brave but too confiding officer. These, with the assassins of National Guards and Mobiles, the murderers of the Archbishop of Paris, if discovered, and those who slaughtered the poor Gardes Mobiles, will be shot or guillotined. It is reported, and.kenerally believed, that a negotiation between the French ad British governments is on foot for the cession of an island to be used as a convict station. Others state that it is the intention of government to transport to Senegal, or other distant points, the most dangerous of those implicated in the late insurrection, but that all the comparatively minor offenders will be sent to the least agree ableipart.of Algeria.  APPEARANCE OF THE SUBURBS  Although mortar and putty have been unsparingly used in covering the ravages of the firing during the late insurrection, enough remains to indicate how frightful hail been the combat. The iron gates of the Barriere have not been replaced, but the re-pavement of the streets and Boulevard on the spots in which stood the formidable barricades, is proceeding generally and rapidly. The loopholes made in the city walls are .filled up, but it is impossible to replace the noble elms on the BOlevard, which were felled through a spirit of wanton devastation, or to contribute to the construction of barricades. On passing the Barriere de Belleville you find yourself in the Rue de Paris (or, as it is called, the Courtille), with its double line of dane-houses, extending up the hill, which have, from time immemorial, been infested by thieves, cut-throats, and mailvais sujels o\ every possible class. Some of these haunts of crime lean accommodate as many as 200 visitants, and, .when they were all filled, contained the largest number' of miscreants of every description to be found outside the walls of Paris. On Sunday all those houses were open, but the customers were no longer visible. Every house up to Ronnainville was occupied by soldiers. Two entire regiments (the 29th and 45th), composed of 4,000 or 5,000 men, garrisoned the town. Sentinels, although at noon-day,. w)oce posted at distances of 15 or 20 steps from each other., illitc4he church was a troop of dragoons. The "Isle d'Alhour," the "Isle de Calypse," and all the other taverns, or what we call tea gardens, of this celebrated outlet, with their attractive titles, and which on ordinary Sundays are crowded with holiday folk—men, women, and children—contained not one visitant on Sunday last, although it was the fete, or fair-day, of the commune. The grand salons and the gardens, in place of merry dining, or more lively dancing parties, were thronged with soldiers, whose arms were piled, and all ready for instant service. All the walls were, moor, placarded with gentle hints that martial law prevaite,d, aN that to be seen out of doors after sunset or before suntisetNubjected the offender to the inconvenience of being shot or imprisoned.