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FRANCE.—AR di: petty crises of party politics are merged in the crisis of a new revolution. President Louis. Napoleon has torn up the Constitution, by dissolving the Assembly, and putting some hundred and fifty of its chief members into the forts of Paris. The coup d'etat was as sudden, and it seems to have been as stunning in its effect, as a gash of lightning. The latest intelligence from Paris on Monday evening was nothing ?wire important or exciting than that M. Devlin*, having, received 38,000 votes out of the 133,000 voters for Paris—the necessary fourth of the whole constituency, which it was expected he, would not get—was named representative for Paris.

On Tuesday mooning,, the inhabitants awoke to foul the whole city oecaipied by troops, awl the following proclamations posted en every wall. Decree.

"In the name of the French People, the President of the Republic decrees- " Art. 1. The National Assembly. is dissolved.

"Art. 2. Universal suffrage is reestablished. The law of the 31st May is abrogated.

"Art. 3. The French people is convoked in its elective colleges from the 14th of December to the 21at of December following.

"Art. 4. The state of siege is decreed throughout first military division. "Art. 5. The Council of State is dissolved.

"Art. 6. The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present decree.

(Signed) "LOUIE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. "DE MORN; Minister of the Interior. "Palace of the Elysee, Dee. 2."

Appeal to the People.

"Frenchmen—The present situation cannot last much longer. Each day the situation of the country becomes worse. The Assembly, which ought to be the firmest supporter of order, has become a theatre of plots. The pa- triotism of three hundred of its members could not arrest its fatal tendencies. In place of making laws for the general interest of the people, it was forging arms for civil war. It attacked the power I hold directly from the people; it encouraged every evil passion; it endangered the repose of France, I have dissolved it, and I make the whole people judge between me and it. The Constitution, as you know, had been made with the object of weakening beforehand the powers you intrusted to me. Six millions of votes were a striking protest against rt, and yet I have faithfully observed it. Provo- cations, calumnies, outrages, found me passive. But now that the Panda- mental'pect is no longer respected by those who incessantly invoke it, and the men who have already destroyed two Monarchies wish to tie up my hands in order to overthrow the Republic, my duty is to bailie their per- fidious projects, to maintain the Republic, and to save the country by ap- pealing to the solemn judgments of the only sovereign I recognize in France—the people.

" I, then, make a loyal appeal to the entire nation • and I say to you, if

Yon wish to continue this t f disquietude and malaise that degrades you and midaugers the Suture, choose. another person itt my .p/ace, for I eo kept wish for a place which is po.werleets for good, but which makes me. reopen, Bible for acts that I cannot Metier, and chains me to the helm when I we the vessel rushing into the abyss. If, on the contrary, you have still coal. deuce in me, give me the means of accomplishing the grand mission I hold from you. That mission consists in closing the mra of revolution, in satisfy- ing, the legitimate wants of the people, and in protecting, them against sub- versive passions. It consists especially in creating institutions which survive men, and which are the foundation on which something durable is based. Persuaded that the instability of power, that the preponderance of a single Assembly, are the permanent causes of trouble awl discord, I submit to your suffrages the fundamental bases of a constitution which the Assemitllea will develop hereafter.

"1. A responsible chief, named for ten years. "2. The Ministers, dependent on the Executive alone. "-3. A Council of State, formed of the most distinguished men, preparing the laws and maintaining the discussion before the Legislative body. "4. A Legislative body, discussing and voting the laws, named by univer- sal [suffrage, without the serutin de hate,' which falsifies the election.

" 5. A.secoud Assembly, formed of all the illustrious persons of the nation; a preponderating power, guardian of the fundamental pact and of public liberty. "This system, created by the First Consul in the beginning of the present century, has already given. to France repose and prosperity. It guarantees them still. Such is my profound conviction. If you partake it, declare so. by your suffrages. If, on the contrary, you prefer a Government without force, Monarchical or Republican, borrowed from some chimerical future, reply in the negative. Thus then, for the first time since 1804, you will vote with complete knowledge of the fact, and knowing for whom and for what you vote. "If I do not obtain the majority of the votes, I shall summon a new As- sembly, and lay down before it the mission I have received from you. But if you believe that the cause of which my name is the symbol—that is, France regenerated by the Revolution of '89, and organized by the Emperor— is still yours, proclaim it to be so by ratifying the powers I demand of you. Then France, and Europe will be preserved from anarchy, obstacles will he removed, rivalries will have disappeared; for all will respect, in the will of the people, the decree of Providence.

" Done at the Palace of the Elysee this 2d of December. " Louis NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE."

Proclamation of the _President of the Republic to the Army. "Soldiers !—Be proud of your mission ; you will save the country. I rely upon you not to violate the laws, but to com • and respect for the first law of the country—national sovereignty—of e ,,ich I am the legitimate rem, sentative.

" You long suffered, like me, from the obstacles that prevented me doing you all the good I intended, and opposed the demonstrations of your sym- pathy in my favour. Those obstacles are removed. The Assembly sought to impair the authority which I derive from the entire nation : it has ceased to exist.

"I make a loyal appeal to the people and the army; and I tell them— either give me the means of insuring your prosperity, or choose another is my, place.

" In 1830, as well as in 1848, you were treated as a vanquished army. After having branded your heroical disinterestedness, they disdained to ccggnn suit your sympathies and wishes; and, nevertheless, you are the elite of nation. Today, at this solemn moment, I wish the voice of the army to.be heard.

"Tote, then, freely as citizens; but, as soldiers, do not forget that passive obedience to the orders of the chief of the Goverument is the rigorous duty of the army, from the general down to the private soldier. It is tbr met who am responsible for my actions before the people and posterity, to adopt the measures most conducive to the public welfare.

" As for you, maintain entire the rules of discipline and honour. By your imposing attitude assist the country in manitbsting its will with =Imam and reflection. Be ready to repress every attempt against the free exercise of the sovereignty of the people. . "Soldiers, I do not speak to you of the recollections attached to my name, They are engreven on your hearts. We are united by indissoluble ties, Your history is mine. There is between us in the past a. community of glory and misfortunes. There shall be in the future a community of sentiments and resolutions for the repose and grandeur of France.

(Signed) " Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTP4 " Palace of the Elysee, Dec. 2."

As the citizens began to crowd the streets and to diffuse reports, it was generally understood that some fifty of the leading Members of the Assem- bly had been arrested by detachments of the Police, at their lodgings, long before dawn, and carried off to tho prison Mazes ; including Generale Changarnier, Bedeau, Leila, Lemoriciere, and Cavaignae, Colonel Char- ras, MM. Thiers, Base, Roger of the North, Baune, Greppo,, Miot, Nadaud, Lagrange, and Valentin. It was noted that some of the mode- rate Republicans and some of the extreme Mountain were among those who had been arrested. The masses of troops abroad were especially concentrated on the. Legislative Palace. A line of infantry extended from the Porte Royale along the Quai D'Orsay ; cavalry occupied the Place Concorde as far as the Rend Point and the bridge; and at all the brides were stationed batteries of field-artillery. The gardens of the Tuileries were closed ; troops surrounded the Louvre and covered the faubourga. The decrees on the walls explained the military demonstrations ; the decrees themselves were explained by common report, in this way. The President held a levee on the Monday evening; and while it was pro- ceeding, word was brought to him that a meeting was then in progress at Changarnier'a house, attended by M. Thiers, M. Bazc, and about fifty of the chiefs of parties, at which it was decided that a coup de main should be made against the President the very next day—" he should be arrested, the Assembly prorogued or dissolved, and the Republic, no doubt, abolish- ed." Without the least change in his cool demeanour, ho staid to the end of the levee, and then took instant steps to strike his blow first. The pro- clamations were instantly printed by a private press in the palace ; and they had been posted on the walls, and the troops had marched into the streets to enforce them, before the citizens had left their beds. The first question asked was " What will the Assembly do ? " The Assembly answered for itself. As early as eight o'clock, some Representa- tives assembled at the residence of M. Odilon Barrot ; but it was im- mediately after decided to go to the house of M. Dare, one of the Vice- Presidents of the Assembly. Towards eleven o'clock nearly two hundred Representatives were assembled. They decided that they ought to pro- ceed to the Legislative Palace, and formally claim their right to hold their sitting. Marching in a body to the gates of entrance, they were refused admittance, on the ground that the Assembly no longer existed. Some of them endeavoured to enter by force ; and it is said that in a alight a

ineffectual struggle which was made, M. de Larcy was wounded by a bayonet-thrust. Thus driven off, the Representatives again accepted the invitation of M. Daru, to deliberate at his residence. As they were com- mencing their proceedings, a message arrived from General Lauriston, Colonel of the Tenth Legion of the National Guards, offering the hotel of the Tenth Maine for their deliberations, under the protection of the Le- gion. They adjourned to the hotel of the Maine, and opened their deli- berations in the great room ; the short-hand writers of the Mottiteur being present. It was resolved with due forms, that Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had violated the Constitution, and had thereby forfeited his office as Pre- sident of the Republic : therefore, in accordance with article 68th of the Constitution, they pronounced his decheance, liberated the officers of the army and navy and the public functionaries from their allegiance to him ; and convoked the High Court of Justice to judge him and his Ministers as traitors. The decree was signed by all present ; among others, by Messieurs Odilon Barret, De Broglie, Mole, Dufaure, Passy, De Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont, Dufour De Tracy, Coquerel, Mortimer Temaux, Be Kerdrel, Piscatory, Grevy, Ferdinand Lasteyrie, Didier, and Colfavru,—a list em- bracing every shade of party between the Liberal Conservative and the Red Mountain. Among the regular features of the proceedings, was especially a recital on the minutes, that the number of Members was a full legislative quorum. " The Assembly " was still exercising its high functions, when the Members became aware that an overwhelming body of troops had surrounded the building. Immediately they appeared at the windows, wearing their representative scarves of tricolor. As the soldiers took position, a groat mass of the populace looked on with cool curiosity. M. Berryer addressed himself to the people and the troops, and proclaimed that the Assembly had formally pronounced the decheance of Louis Napoleon, and appointed General Oudinot Commander-in-chief of Paris. As he said this, M. Thamisier raised the cry of " Vive la Re- publique !" but the cry was very coldly received. A voice in the crowd cried, " Who is Berryer, but the lacquey of Henry the Fifth ? " An- other voice shouted, "Who is Oudinot, but the man who went to Rome?" This attempt to raise the people was a dead failure. Presently, an officer of the surrounding troops knocked loudly at the door, but was refused admittance. He was peremptory; and being admitted, showed his orders that he should disperse them. The Representatives refused to dis- perse, and the officer then declared them to be his prisoners.

"They said they would not oppose physical, but moral resistance. Troops having been called in, the Members, two and two, were brought into the court-yard. Here General Oudinot addressed the troops. He told them that he alone was their legal chief, and called upon them to obey him. He was proceeding with much energy, but without producing the slightest ef- fect, when two Commissaries of Police came up and read the orders of Gene- ral Magnan to arrest all persons seeking to seduce the troops from their duty or to disturb public tranquillity. The Members, finding that they could not make the troops waver' submitted, and were marched off between two lines of troops to the barracks of the Quai D'Orsay. At seven o'clock, refresh- ments were procured for them, and they were invited to make themselves comfortable for the night; but early in the morning cellular vans were brought, and most of the Members were removed to the prison Mans or the fort of Mount Valerien. The few who remained at the bar- racks were then indulged on account of illness or great age. M.. Etienne had received a bayonet-wound in the morning, in attempting to force his way into the National Assembly ; and be remained to have his wound, which was slight, dressed by a military surgeon. IL Keratry was allowed to remain, as he is eighty-four years of age. In the morning, M. Keratry, the Duke de Broglie, M. Etienne, and many others, were set at liberty. Several Representatives who could not get in time to the Maine of the Tenth arrondissement went afterwards to the barracks of the Quin D'Or- say, to share the imprisonment of their colleagues. Among them was M. Vavin. Whilst the members were being taken to the barracks, a portion of the crowd called 'Vive l'Assemblee!' but the cry was faint.'

Some attempt was also made by a body of the Representatives of the Mountain to assemble in the hotel of the Sixth Maine, and they carried their endeavours to the point of a sharp personal struggle with the Police; but they were dispersed without bloodshed. The attitude of the people is partly indicated by the exclamations of Contempt which greeted Berryer and Oudinot ; but, though very few cries of sympathy were anywhere raised for the Assembly, there was little "enthusiasm" for Louis Napoleon. All the accounts concur as to the fact that the only general cry was "Vive la Republique !" The temper of the people was that of goodhumoured apathy : one writer says in disgust, "the apathy of the people is frightful." As to alarm, so little was felt that the jewellers' shops remained open as usual. One power in the state was thus suppressed. Another power, the press, had been equally imprisoned. None of the journals except the Government organs were allowed to issue from their offices. The print- ing-offices of all were "occupied" by the military. • The decree of the Representatives who met as the undissolved Assembly was published in lithograph on the same afternoon. It was carried into the Court of Cessation. The Court immediately proclaimed the deposi- tion of the President, in terms of the resolution of the Assembly ; but just at that moment an order came from the Minister of Justice that the Court should go no further in the affair, and the Judges at once adjourned, precipitately. The High Court of Justice, convoked by M. Hardoin,• one of its members, met at the Palace of Justice, to summon the President before it. After consulting some time, it separated without coming to any decision.

Towards evening, the general report was that the arrests of Parliament-, ary leaders and men of influence amounted in the total to between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and eighty. Some doubt was ex- pressed as to particular arrests. M. Thiers was said to have escaped, through not having slept at home; - M. Base had evaded the Police ; and General Lamoriciere was said to have taken captive his captor—he and the officer who arrested him had disappeared together. Other accounts signalized the General's prowess, but still left him a captive. He had severely wounded one or two of the party who arrested, him, and, like Grenmul Changarnier, had to be bound when overpowered. General Be- dean had also made fight, and Colonel Charms had killed outright the first man of the party who advanced on him. However' on Thursday, it WAS stated that all these stories of resistance were "malicious inven4 Lions" : the Representatives had all resolved to oppose only "mend force "—not one resisted. It was reported, later in the week, that "an offer of freedom had been made to the incarcerated Deputies, then said to be 152 in number, on, condition of their verbal submission to Louis Na- poleon ; but they refursed, almost to`s man." Yesterday the Govern-

ment papers announced, that leaders arrested at their own houses of Tuesday had been removed to tthhefortress of Ham; but that ,the Repre- sentatives arrested at the Tenth Maine had nearly all been liberated.

At about ten in the morning of Wednesday, Louis Napoleon sallied forth on horseback, accompanied by his uncle the ex-King Jerome General Magnan the Commander-in-ehief, and a very numerous and brilliant staff, but guarded by a remarkably small escort of Lancers. Everywhere he was "well received" ; but that is the warmest descriptive epithet that eye- witnesses use. We stated above that the gardens of the Tuileries were not opened in the morning ; the people learned in the course of the day that Louis Napoleon had removed his residence from the Elysee to the Tuileries. The Carrousel was full of troops and cannon. An order for the demolition of the " salle provisoire," in which the Assembly had met the day before—a -building erected by M. Ledru.Rolliu of, wood and plaster, for the "Constituent"--and which they bad. been, forbidden to enter today, was issued at half-past four o'clock; and it is said that the soldiers in charge of the building energetically assisted the workmen in the work of demolition. The Imperialist' reminiscences recalled and the Absolutism suggested by these acts, were made additionally significant by the historical coincidence that the 2d. of December is the anniversary of the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon in 1804, and of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805.

At a late hour in the evening, the attitude of the populace wall. so perfectly calm that :the troops were ordered to their q.uarters, Precau- tions, however, were not overlooked. Regiments were already pour- ing into Paris from the provinces; and the Prefects of .departments . were everywhere enjoined to exercise the }Host ceaseless vigilance and prompt energy, An act of decision, in Paris, was the disbanding of the Tenth Legion of National Guards, which offered its protection to the Re- presentatives who assembled in the hotel of the.Tenth Maine. Tuesday

night passed calmly., , . . .

One of the earliest pieces of news on Wednesday morning was, that the President had "written. an affectionate, letter ". to M. Thorigny and the other Ministers, on Monday night, to the effect that his mind was made up; "that he could not allow himself to be sacrificed by his ene- mies, who were conspiring at that moment ; but that, as he was unwil- ling to compromise them in any way by implicating them in his acts, he thought it better they should resign." The request had been complied with at once ; and it would seem, from the signatures to tbe deereea, that M. de Moray was instantly made Minister of the Interior ; but the- Moniteur of the same day stated that the. Ministry was not yet defini- tively constituted—the real nominations would be published.in a supple-• ment. Nevertheless, the following:list was commonly placarded, and re- ceived as authentic. M. de Moray, Interior ; Fould, Finance ; Rouher, Justice ; Magne, Public Works ; Le Rouehe, Marine ; Casablanca, Com- merce; St. Arnaud, War ; Portoul, Public Instruction ; Turgot, Foreign

Affairs. ,

The revolutionary decrees appointing an appeal to the ,People were- followed np on Wednesday by a decree regulating the proposed election. The exordium was in this Imperial style- " Considering that the sovereignty residei in the universality of the citi- zens, and that no fraction of the people can attribute to, itself the exercise thereof-, considering the laws and decrees which have hitherto regulated the mode of appeal to the people, and particularly the decrees of the 5th Fructidor year II, the 24th and 2stliFnmaire in the year VIII of the Re- public, the decree of the 20th Floreal year X, and the •Senatus Colisulte of the 28th Floreal year XIII'. the Fri:Indent of the Republic decrees as fol- . lows "—

The decree then convoked the People in their districts, for the 14th in-

stant, to accept or reject "the following plebeseiste "— ' "The French People wills the maintenance of the authority of Louis Na- poleon Bonaparte, and delegates to hint, the powere meetiesary Ito frame a Constitution on the bases proposed in his proclamattoniet,tke 441-.Meetaber."

All Frenchmen aged twenty-seven, and enjoying.their civil rights, were called on to vote. The period of voting ia,.to be the eight daya ending on the 21st instant. • - . .

The Minister - of War addressed a circular to.thy Acgc,rals of the. Army and the Chiefs of Corps. " The soldiers are to votejor the elec- tion of a President within forty-eight houm from the receipt.pf the circu- lar. ' Yes' or ,' No' simply is to be replied to the plebeciete mentioned in the above decree.

Coun- cil of State, had been nominated ; embracing Messie . geele, Drouyn • . A provisional Consultative Commission, in lieu of ti 14aboli,shed de r Huys, Admiral.. Ceeille, MM. lifontalambert,' ueien Murat, and seventy-five other distinguished Members of the 10,01141.°nel Assembly;" It was stated at noon, that "-the genensl, gtitusle!' was one of .,:`.4- feet tranquillity " . " Mat- favonrable aer_.onntentigl, been receinsie ein seventeen departments" But soon after noon, these came newata liend- quarters of attempted resistance in the turbulent,psgtions of thcmietr - lis. They are described in a letter written at five o'clock on Wednesday.,, " Til'e tranquillity ;that Paris: *eyed fleet Dights and. early this morning has been interrupted for a short time, and-blood already flowed. Last

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night twenty sections remained en permanence, W11 'de that an

attempt should be made at insurrection. The i: morning

passed off very quietly ; indeed, until near to O'.cl 4-indication of emeute in that quarter which is ever tlit such Occa-

sions. About that lmur, a Representative e plc idle, a mem-

ber of the Mountaiu suddenly appeared eh 'h0qabileIt t pie .St. An- toine. He wore a travelling-cap, and:earned a naked'S He was followed by sax other Representatives, and the illikl;lviA lf.ilel. signia of Representatiies. The hour he appeared

workmen of the faubourg leave their workshops V), b' dm's

appearance attracted a great many groups ; whom` UM- moned to take up arms for the delivery of such of rested yesterday who are still at the prison of Mazaii," Nthich is- bourhood. He was aided in his efforts by his celiniftegs, and soon . of 4 Aux anneal ' was heard. A great deal of agitiani-ivas the cOngdi; and many of the workmen ran about to look ffirliquil.';' .61r -fulf at "` was made against the guardhouse of Mon ` y-iiilieli te., I, In ii,., treaillig soon succeeded in disarmiaggthe Eery soldieril 't ' *era .... . .

as they 'were by numbers Old at ii distirligp tee ...

insurgents set about multingliarricieleil::• 06. ..,., ... 'fii in

which; however, were veryfragile,* '' ' "

........... . .1 or -49. b - bus, a dung:Cart, and a cabriolet. "The- , 404 . - intheationi of hat- tility were observed, 'expresses were desiitottedife -aid'; and in a vett short time the insurgents were caught between two detitohnients of troops,e one from Tineennea; headed by: General ,Marelityv tad the other - from an opposite threetion, 'under the orders ofefsenemIXourtiges. The troops had received orders not to fire unless they were attacked, They advanced: acmes au bras up to the fens of the barricade; when they were fired at: one soldier was killed,' and one or two wounded. The troops re- turned the fire; M. Baudin; the Representative, was killed on the spot, [and also M. Madier de -Montjau, Representative,] and, it is said, six or seven of the other insurgents were wounded. A woman who happened to be passing near the place was, it is feared, mortally. wounded. The insurgents, who were not in very large numbers, fled in all directions. The barricade, such as it was, was taken ; and the soldiers advanced to the second, which they as quickly took and removed. Detachments continued to arrive, and soon the whole of the Rue St. Antoine was occupied by the troops. "The whole operation of taking the barricades, which were at the corner of the Rue St. Marguerite, did not occupy more than seven minutes. The second barricade was so wretched that only six men were sent to take it. The insurgents fled. In a short time several regiments moved along the Boulevard. The whole of the space between the Porte St. Martin and the Bastille is occupied by the military, and no one is permitted to go beyond the Porte St. Martin—at least in the line of the Boulevards. Though it was not believed that any attempt at insurrection would be made during the day, yet, as the workmen of the Rue St. Antoine had not returned to their work- shops, and as they presented themselves in numbers on the Boulevards, it was considered necessary to take precautions so as to prevent any attempt at bar- ricades during the night: the military force, however, is overwhelming, and it is believed that any attempt at insurrection will be abortive. In the Rue Montmartre also, near the printing-office of La Freese, an attempt was made to construct a barricade of carriages ; which was frustrated."

Decrees were instantly put forth by the Prefect of Police and the Mi- nister of War. The military decree was in these words—" Every person taken in the act of erecting or defending a barricade or bearing arms shall suffer according to the most rigorous laws of war." Groups were to be dispersed by the armed force, and without previous notice; and the circu- lation of public vehicles was prohibited.

During Wednesday night, several Representatives of the Mountain passed through the streets, attempting to address the people ; but they were everywhere prevented. The body either of Baudin or of Madier de Montau, the Representatives shot at the barricade in the Faubourp, St. Antoine, was put on a litter and carried through several streets. When it came down the Boulevards, 'causing great excitement in its course, the bearers were met by troops, and turned into a bye-street. Here there was such resistance that the troops charged, and fired ; and two of the men carrying the corpse were killed. Proclamations signed by Michel of Bourges, Soeleher, and' others, calling on the people to fight, and offering to lead them, were posted in a multitude "of' places, but were speedily observed and removed. Another proclamation, by Victor Hugo, told the people that the National Guards and the Line were marching on Paris to depose Louis Napoleon' as an usurper. A pro- -demotion appeared here and there, signed by Emlie Girardin and all the members of the Left, declaring that the Assembly was uudissolved, and that throngh the treason' of the President it was now the only legal power, and the sole Executive : it therefore called on the army, " at their

peril;" to obey the Assenably..' = • '

On ThuriY morning, the attitude of the people was still peace- able on the whole. But about noon it became -generally "so much more aggressive,' that the police and troops assumed an extraordinary activity. Arrests were made in all directions. The cavalry swept the streets, driving the people into the shops; and then sergens de vile who lay in wait for the turbulent or the suspected pounced on them and carried them off. Everywhere the general cry raised was that of " Vivo la Republique !" No one cared for the Assembly, but on the other hand the lower classes did not seem to give Louis Napoleon credit for the least sincerity. The Moniteur gave an official list of the new Ministry. The name of M.Ducos was now in the place of that of M. Lacrosse as Minister of Ma- rine, and M. Lefevre-Dnrufle was made Minister of Commerce. The Monitcur also published a new list of the persons constituting the pro- visional Consultative Commission, in lieu' of the abolished 'Council of State. Out of the number, 120„ Who were invited, Only 39 had consented to be named. It had been said that M. Baroche had refused to be named, but the Monitorr persisted-in making him Vice-Pregident. The accounts of Thursday state that the only journals seen that day were the Honiteur, the Constitutioincl, the Patrie—all Government or Govern- mental papers; and the _gads and a half-sheet impression of the Aseemblee. The last two had not a single remark on events. The offices of the National, Opinion Pullique, Messager, Republique, Ordre, Si&le, and La Pressc,.were all occupied by soldiers. At severi'in the evening of Thursday, telegraphic messages were flashed towards London' that there had been fighting in the Quartier de St. Martin and St. Denis from mid-day until five o'clock ; that cannon had been employed for the destruction of the barricades ; and that " the in- surrection' was then "completely put down:" The army concentrated in Paris was more than 100,000 men, including the finest cavalry regi- ments in the service.

'On that day, the Debuts published a letter from M. Mole, dated Tues- day, containing these passages—'

" After having been this morning expelled from the residence of M. Darn, Vice-President of the National Assembly, with all the rest of my colleagues who had assembled there to pretest- against violence and oppression, I vainly attempted to join the nierfibers of the Assembly who had met at the Tenth arrondissement." "I join fully in the conduct and acts of my col- leagues assembled at the Maine of the Tenth arrondissement, and if it had dependEd on me I should have shared their fate." The following letter from M. Leon Fauelser also appeared- " Mons. le President=It is with painful astonishment that I see my name figure amongst the members of an Administrative Commission that you desire to institute. I a4 not imagine that I could have given you the right to offer me this insult. Thii:Sendees which I have rendered you,, while believing I rendered theni to the ,eonfitrY, perhaps authorized me to expect from you a different return. any case, my character merited more respect. You know that during my career, already long, I never belied my pnneiples of liberty, no more than my devotedness to the 'cause of order. I haie never participated,' directly or indirectly, in the violation of the laws; and to determine me to decline the mandat that you confide to me, I have only to recall that given me by the people, and whichI yet raisin." The cerresPenAlettt pf;the Morning Chronicle wrote on Thursday, thet "tour mpd k 'ling of the Club of the Rue des Pyramides, at which. were present ILDitru, Berryer,andl1L Montalembert, resolved to request the President to renounce Ids coup d'etat, of which they had u presentiment., and to hint'to him, that very probably a prolongation of his powers for ten years might be agreed to. The message was taken : Louis Napoleon replied only with some explanations of his plan of uni-

versal suffrage, and a hint that it would only operate once, and that once to his profit.

M. Grimier de Cassagnac presents in the Ccmstitutionnel what is appa- rently quite another revelation, but what is perhaps only the Napoleonist version of the same transaction. He says, that " the most accredited chief of the Legitimists sent, last Monday, to the President, saying= Execute a coup d'etat ; transport the Socialist minority ; and five minutes after we are with you.' "

The London journals of yesterday published an address by the French exiles in England to their countrymen, which had been " sent to Paris." It was signed by M. Louis Blanc, and thirty-two other exiles who gene- rally act with him, not by Ledru-Rollin or Caussidiere. Addressing the French people, it asked-

" Will you be debased ? Will you be enslaved ? Will you become hence- forth an object of eternal contempt and ridicule to the oppressed peoples who awaited their deliverance at your hands ? Louis Bonaparte has just crowded into a few hours more crimes than it would have been thought possible to include in the life of man. Like a thief, he has seized upon the liberties of his country by a nocturne I surprise—a vulgar artifice, which certain people have been rash enough to call courage. lie has outraged, stricken down, and trampled under foot, the national re- presentation, not only in the persons of your enemies, but also in that of Greppo the energetic and loyal representative of the workmen of Lyons, end in that of Nadaud the mason, who has so often and so nobly defended your interests in the tribune." Declaring that the fate of the Majority is a just retribution on them for their conduct to the exiles, it asks the people, "Are you now in the mood for a change of tyrants ?" It declares that Napoleon turned against the law of May "only because the candidature of Joinvillc made him afraid." It fixes on his declaration that there be "no scrutiny of the list,'! and declares it to mean a repetition of "the great swindling manceuvre which has already been practised upon France once in her history," " to filch the right of suffrage at the instant it is pretended to restore it." The exiles "owe their blood to the Republic " ; " they know it, and will not forget it."

At the end of last week there occurred an event which recalled the First Revolution in a purely historical and biographical point of view— the death of Marshal Soult. On Monday the journals had long biogra- phies of this last and greatest of Napoleon's Marshals ; but the stirring events which have since suggested the possible birth of a young empire under Napoleon's nephew, have almost swept away all interest in the re- moval of the most famous living representative of the empire of Napoleon himself. The career of Jean-de-Dieu Soult closed on the 26th of last month, nearly on the spot of his birth. In the same commune of the de- partment Tarn, where he was born, of unknown parents, in 1769, he died, the most famous military captain, (after the greater leader under whom he served,) and one of the richest and most dignified nobles, of his nation. Every student recalls the main features of his eareer,—his early entry into the army ; the fame and promotion which his superior ability and cool mastery in critical positions procured him while yet scarcely a man; the still higher commands and fame which he attained under the direct eye of Napoleon ; and his ultimate rise to be the most trusted lieute- nant of the Emperor, alike in all the great enterprises which placed Napoleon at the climax of his power, and in the struggles which he put forth before his last fall. The gaining of but one of the great battles which Soult won in Spain, or the fighting of many of the battles which he could not gain, would have stamped the fame of a great general. The reader also recalls the ability which he showed as a states- man, and the tact which he showed as a diplomatist, in the civil service of the Government of Louis Philippe, which his military prestige con- tributed immensely to establish and consolidate. We remember how that Soult, the Marshal who had always been fighting us under the Em- pire, was the strongest advocate of the " British alliance," and of " peace at all price," under the regime of the late Napoleon of Peace. And lastly, Englishmen pleasantly remember the generous reception which their country gave to their great "hereditary foe" when lie came to England as the Ambassador of his King to be present at the coronation of Queen Victoria. The recollection is still fresh of how the populace were de- lighted to see him in the streets arm in arm with the Great Captain of England, his ancient foe : those who heard it, will never forget the shout of welcome, spontaneous and unusual in a sacred place, which greeted him in Westminster Abbey ; and now he is gone, we recall his earnest words at London Guildhall, of hope that two great nations, who had learned to respect each other so much on the field of war, should heneeforward maintain an " eternal alliance "-of peace.

HANOVER. —The subjects of King George the Fifth have received ano- ther painful surprise. The King, notwithstanding his infirmity of blind- ness, has taken on himself the personal command of the army of his kingdom. A Hanoverian letter says—" When a German Prince declares himself commander-in-chief of the armed force, be signifies that the army ceases to be under the control of a responsible Minister." " In the un- fortunate position of the King, the command can only now be exercised by his first aide-de-camp, under the Camarilla which cannot fail to sur- round a prince reduced to depend wholly on the eyes of others."

The remains of the late King were conveyed to the tomb at Herren- hausen by torchlight on the night of the 26th November.

PRUSSIA.—The King returned from Hanover to Potsdam on the 27th November; and the Court took up its winter residence in Charlotten- burg, on the last day of the month. The First Chamber elected Count Rittberg for its President, by 60 votes, against 62 votes given to Beth. mann-Hollweg, the new leader of the high religious Conservative party, who was supported by the slender party of the Left. The Second Cham- ber chose Count Schwerin, by 151 votes, against 120 votes given to Arnim-Boitzenburg. M. Manteuffel had introduced three bills modifying the several Provincial Diets in the ways which those Diets themselves have variously recommended.

AUSTRIA.—The Emperor has decreed that the new tariff shall come into operation on the 1st of February 1852. On that day commences "a re- duction of ten per cent on all the most important of those articles the im- portation of which has hitherto been forbidden." The same Gazette which published this modicum of commercial Liberalism contained a decree that the Societies of German Catholics, Friends of Light, Free Christians, and the like, are suppressed. Members persisting in their membership, and _ all. ensona pretending to baptize, marry, or bury, by their rites, are to be treated as criminals ; deceased adherents are to be buried by the police without funeral rites.

Morsocco.—The steam-ship Sultan brings word from Gibraltar that the French Rear-Admiral, Dubourdieu, has taken measures of extraordinary vigour against the pirates of Rabat and Salee, for the recent attacks on French and English vessels. Demanding reparation, and meeting evasive answers, he bombarded Sake till it was nearly razed to the ground, and Rabat till he had done great injury. The Castle of Rabat answered the fire of the ships, and killed at least seven men on the Admiral's own ves- sel, the Henry IV. The loss of life by the Moors was believed to be great. Subsequently, on the 29th November, Dubourdieu prepared to bombard Tangiers; and the batteries of that city were preparing for a vigorous defence. INDIA.—The overland mail which left Bombay on the 3d November brought only one piece of interesting local news. A Parsee newspaper published an offensive biography of the prophet Mohammed on the eve of the Mohurum festivaL The Mohammedans rose in riotous violence, at- tacked the quarter of the Parsees, and were not reduced to peaceable or- der by the police till they had sacked several houses and inflicted personal injuries on many of the owners.