The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-07-01 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.  We have passed another quiet night, and any apprehensions of a fresh outbreak are, fortunately, entirely at an end. The insurgents have been completely dispersed, and of those who took refuge in the country round Paris, few have escaped the pursuit of the dragoons and infantry sent after them. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a party of about 400 of the fugitives, who had taken up a position in the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise, were surrounded by some regiments of infantry, and summoned to lay down their arms. They refused, excepting on condition that they should be set at liberty, and appeared to be preparing to make some resistance, when some shots went off from their side, one of which struck a soldier. The troops imagined themselves betrayed, and without further ceremony opened a murderous fire upon the insurgents, drove them from their position in the cemetery into the neighbouring vineyards, and as quarter was no longer the order of the day, almost every one of the unhappy wretches was destroyed. In other parts of the same neighbourhood a vast number of prisoners were taken, who were all carried into Paris. Yesterday afternoon the number of prisoners in custody was upwards of 6,000, but every hour adds to the number. The prisons, the cellars of the Tuileries, and of the National Assembly, are gorged with prisoners. In the Conciergerie 1,500 are confined in an open court, which on one side is separated from the street by a gate, through which they can be seen. The indignation of the National Guards and the inhabitants against them is so intense that it is with the utmost difficulty they can be saved from summary vengeance. What is to be done with such a mass of human beings is a question which appears to puzzle every one. To send them all to the Pacific is utterly impossible, and to keep them in France is to expose the ogi,rtry to a renewal of such criminal attempts as that from which we have just escaped. In the national assembly the decree of " depottation" against the prisoners was carried last night almost unanimously. The only members who spoke against the measure were M. Pierre Leroux and M. Caussidiere, and their remarks, so far from doing good to the cause which they wished to serve, did it an injury. Their remarks created universal disgust. In the course of the sitting General Cavaignac announced that at the meeting of the national assembly to-day he would restore into the hands of the assembly the extraordinary powers with which he was invested. The announcement was received with loud acclamations of "No, no," from all sides, and it is probable that he will be induced to retain his dictatorship for a few days, and until Paris shall have been relieved of the enormous numbers of troops and National Guards from all parts of France with which its streets are at present encumbered, and who continue to pour in even now that the necessity for their presence is all over. One of the great questions which must come immediately under the consderation of the assembly is the formation of a new executive government M. Lamartine, M. LedruRollin, and their colleagues having resigned, it is for the assembly to consider what is to be done, and the only thing certain is that "the fire kings" will not be re-appointed. It appears also beyond a doubt that the Flocons, Recurts, Trelats, et hoc genus omne, will be got rid of, and that persons having some administrative experience, and whose principle of government is not to produce "order by disorder," as M.