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FRANCE. INSURRECTION IN PARIS
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Commemoration Of The Cracow ¦ In. Surrec...
labour was sought to he freed , by g iving the land o Poland to the Polish peo L \ ( Cheers . ) It is because the address from Cracow contains this great feature , that I take leave to sneak ot it as an immortal document- (! oud chcer ^ -and of its authors a , immortal patriots- ( loud cheers ) -and of ihe stru—le in which they were engaged as one which will vet in a great measure influence the future desfiilv of Poland . ( Cheers . ) The resolution invokes the execration of mankind against- the trio of roval butchers who authorised the brutal atrocities which were perpetrated in Galicia . ( Hear , and cheers . ) For myself , 1 freely execrate , not only those crowned ruffians who were more immediately
concerned in the Galician murders ; hut I cannot forbear from expressing my indignation at the conduct of those powers who were parties to the treaty of Vienna , by which the independence of Cracow was guaranteed , and who stood quietly by aud witnessed the violation of a treaty , to uphold whieh Great Britain itself was pledged . ( ' Shame' and cheers . ) >"»; the princip les ploclaimed in the Cracow Ms eslowere abhorred as much by Palmerston as by ii . ; iternich-and hence the unanimity of feeling for ihe destruction of lhe Cracovanian Republic ' . { Hear , hear . ) How different the conduct of the palfrr government o f this country in the case of Portugal , where an abandoned queen and a corrupt
Court " had set at open defiance the opinion of the people ' . ' 'Hear , hear . ) In this latter case , a fleet was fitted \> nt at-the expense of the peop le of this country , and a blockade of the Tagus was effected bv them . What a noble employment lor the ' wooden walls , ' or rather the ' wooden heads , ' of old England . ( Cheers and laughter . ) But this fleet has been withdrawn from the Tagus , with a view , no doubt , of protecting us from ' foreigu invasion . ' Would it sot be well if we had some power to protect « s from domestic aggression—such , for example , as the ' Budget ? ' " ( Cheers aud laughter . ) I believe that the cry of the ' Foreigner' will no longer raeet with attention ia this country . ( Hear , and cheers . ) This noble association has suhsiituted the term
' Brother' for that of ' Foreigner ; ' and as nations learn to struggle for their own rights , to the same extent will they sympathise with those of oilier lands , who are similarly engaged . ( Cheers . ) Too much praise , then , cannot be awarded to the men who created , and who have fostfred , this cosmopolitan fraternity . ( Hear , hear . ) I , for one , tender them lay most sincere sad unqualified thanks . ( Cheers . ) To this Association of Fraternal Democrats , do we owe that spirit of enlightenment which is now springing up amongst the working classes of this country upon questions relating to foreign policy . ( Hear . ) Mr Clark went on at some length to argue against what is called ' Nationality , ' and sat do-sn loudlv cheered .
— Pfaexdek delivered a speech in the German language which was loudly applauded . After a few remarks from an English working man named "Wilson , the resolution was unanimously adopted . Colonel Objrski , a Polish exile , then briefl y addressed the meeting , thanking his brother Democrats for tliis manifestaiion of their sympathy for his persecuted country . The Colonel was loudly applauded . Dr Berries ' Pontaixe then spoke in French . Ke delivered a very eloquent aud soul-Stirring address , and was greatly applauded . Edwin Gill , in a brief hut excellent speech , in the course of which he was loudly cheered , moved the adoption of the third resolution : —
' That we observe with pleasure the progress ef free principles in Italy , and regard with _ profound interest the struggle for freedom now going on in France , and we hereby call upon our brethren , the Proletarians 0 J " Francs , te remember the pa « t , and resolve that- for the future , the veritable sovereignty of the people shall assure tbe veritable reign of Equality . Liberty , and Fraternity . \ V . Cuff ay , in secondng the resolution delivered a speech which elicited shouts of applause . The resolution was supported in a lengthy and interesting speech by J . A . MiCHEtor , And on being put to the vote was unanimously adopted .
Three thundering cheers for Colonel Oborski ; three for Julian Harney and Ernest Jones ; three for Feargus O'Connor and ( he English Chartists ; three terrific gioans for Nicholas , Metternich , Louis-Philippe , Guizot , and all other tyrants , and a vote Of thanks to the chairman , closed the proceedings ol this most interesting meetintr .
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DEPOSITION OF THE KING . PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT . The revolution lias been accomp lished . A Provisional Government has been formed , and is sitting at the Hotel tie Ville- The members are said to be as follows : Arago , Dupont de Leure , Lamartine , Ledru Eolliii , Marie , Ferdinand Focon , Louis Blanc ,
Marrast , editor of the National , and Garnicr Pages . The deposition of Louis Phillippo has been pronounced . It was proposed hy Odillon Barrot that a regency should he formed uudei- the Duchess Orleans until Count de Paris comes of . age . This has been rejected , and a republic is insisted upon . All Paris is in the hands of the national sna ' vds . The Tuillieries has been
sacked , and the furniture destroyed . King , Queen , and Princes have been allowed to depart without molestation . They left in a brougham . Tho troops were all withdrawn at noon to-day . Some lives were lost , hut not a very great number , Mole was first named , and rejected by the peop le . MM . Thiers and Barrot were next named and rejected . The Chamber met to-day , hut the populace overpowered the majority . Gamier Pages is Major of Paris . A strong government will be organised . A republic , on the model of the United States , is proposed .
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The Tocsin. •« Back To The Struggle, Baf...
THE TOCSIN . •« Back to the struggle , baffled in the strife , War , war is still the cry , war even to the knife !" In another pajre will be found a report of a Public' Meeting held in commemoration of the Cracow Insurrection . At that meeting Democrats of nearly all the European nations assisted ; attesting , " by their presence , their earnest and und ying' sympathy for unhappy Poland . The Cracow Insurrection is worth y of beingcommemorated , not so much because'it was a
noble , though unfortunate protest against es ~ tablished tyranny , as because the objects sought to he achieved by the insurgents were such as must command the approbation of all friends of the people . The patriots of Cracow desired " Poland for the Poles j" they aspired to establish the reign of equal political right , and social justice . Their " Liberty'' would have been a reality , for all would have enjoyed equal political franchises , and the labourer would have been ensured his social rights ,
wanting' which , " political equality is an illusion . The Cracow Manifesto proclaims the sterling patriotism and sound intelligence of the Patriots who engaged in the struggle of 1846 . But they failed—they perished in the unequal strife to which they had committed themselves . Still their noble efforts were not altogether in vain , — « ' The patriot ' s blood ' a the seed of freedom ' s tree . "
- From the ashes of Poland ' s martyrs has arisen a spirit which , arousing to energetic action the oppressed millions of other lands , assures the triumph , sooner or later , throughout Europe , of the principles of the Cracow Manifesto . Retribution has followed hard upon the heels of crime . The criminals who destroyed , and the criminals who betrayed , the independence of the last vestige of ancient Poland , have now their hands full of trouble . At this moment Austria is arming in hot haste to meet the threatened rising of all Italy against her usurpation ; and Louis Philippe sits on a tottering throne ^ a throne so shaken , that even the shouts of the uprisen people of Paris may not unlikely bring it to the dust .
The news from Italy is of vast importance . It tells of the Neapolitan King ratifying his promise of a constitution by ! the promulgation of that-constitution . It tells of the determination of the Sicilians to secure to themselves those veritable liberties which their heroism justly entitles them to . It tells of other Italian princes conceding the just demands of the people -over whom they rule . It tells of the vain attempts of the assassins of the Galician patriots to strike terror into trhe hearts of the men of Lombardy . The blood of Poland cries against Austria for vengeance , and Italy seems destined to I e the avenger of her suffering
sister . The concessions granted by the Pope are still more striking . The substitution of laical for ecclesiastical ministers in the departments of Justice , Commerce , and Police , mark an epoch in the history of the Roman States , from which may be dated the beginning of their regeneration . Popular power has triumphed over priestly privilege . The clerical nightmare has been taken off the breast of Young Italy . The Roman heart will now beat without restraint , and , free in its pulsations , may and will defy the deadliest rage of Metternich and his barbarous Austrians .
But the . grand event of the week is the triumphant insurrection of the Parisians . Glory to the men of Paris . ' who have once more read a lesson to tyrants , and set an example before the oppressed of every land . It is a singular fact that the Parisian ) Insurrection burst forth on the 22 nd of February , the anniversary of tbe Cracow Insurrection . But two years have passed since Cracow was betrayed by Louis Philippe , and his dirty man of all work—Guizot ; now- the " man of Ghent" is stripped of the power he so wickedly abused , and the throne of his master is . menaced with destruction .
Ihe ample details we have given of the origin , rise , and progress of this insurrection , will fully inform our readers of the particulars of this most important event . The intelligence received up to the moment we pen these remarks , assures us that the victery is with the people . Victory has declared for the people , because , 1 st . —the masses displayed a spirit of unexampled heroism ; 2 nd . —because the National Guards fraternised with the people ; 3 rd . —because the soldiers of the line exhibited unmistakable proofs of their disinclination to fight for a damnable despotism .
Ihe heroism of the people has been beyond all precedent , When , in the first revolution , the Parisians captured the Bastile , and stormed the Tuilieries , they were for the most part well-armed and assisted by cannon , and hadbut comparatively speaking—a handful of tr > ops to encounte ' r . In 1830 , some four thousand soldiers constituted the principal defence of the throne of Charles X . against a
wellarmed people . But in the " beginning of the end , '' we have just witnessed , the people found themselves opposed to a hundred thousand troops , provided with innumerable pieces of cannon and all the horrible materiel of war ; hacked too , by those wonderful forts , whieh built ostensibly to keep out the foreigner , were really intended to muzzle the Parisians . The people , too , were almost totally unarmed . The
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very few who had arms , appear to have been wretchedly provided with ammunition ; nevertheless , in the might of their moral and physical courage and the majest y of their numbers , they bore down all opposition , and inspired the National Guards to fraternise with them , and the soldiers of the line to ground their arms . This , we repeat , is an example to the oppressed of all ' nations . " For a nation to be free , it is sufficient that she wills it !"
Up to the time we are writing , the only result of this combat is the hurling from power of Guizot and . his fellow-conspirators . The struggle came unexpectedly , and , consequently , the people found themselves without an aim , or leaders to direct them ; but , we repeat , we believe this combat to be only " the beginning of the end . " If ministerial responsibility is not the veriest farce , Guizot , Duchatel , Hebert , and the rest of the gang , will be made to answer with their heads for shedding the blood of the people ; and if the people are not absolutel y insensible to their own interests , they will , in this hour of their triumph , insist upon such a " Reform'' as will place the sovereignty of the state in their own hands .
Whatever may be the results of this conflict —forthwith or remote—for France , tho imme « diate effect upon Europe generally will be immense . Germany will be roused to action , and Italy will at once burst her Austrian fetters .
"Vox ub , too , the tocsin feounih !" If Englishmen are not tbe most despicable of slaves they will at once set about the work —peacefully and legally—of struggling for thoir Charter . Furthermore , the English people are bound , by all their hopes of liberty , to sympathise with those who are ' struggling to achieve freedom . We have much pleasure in announcing—first , that on ftlonday evening next , the Fraternal Democrats will assemble at their usual place of meeting , to declare their
sentiments on this most important subject ; second , that for the same purpose a public meeting will be held on an early day next week ( time and place to he hereafter announced ) , convened by the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association . Let every true Democrat and Chartist attend both meetings , and testif y adhesion to the princip le that : — " Whenever a Government violates the lights of the People , insurrection is for the People , and for every portion of the People ; the most sacred of rights , and tke most indispensible of duties ! ' '
P . S . —Friday morning twelve o ' clock . —Our Paris papers have not arrived , but information has come by the Electric Telegraph , that the fighting has been renewed j that tbe people have obtained possession of the railway stations and barriers , and have torn up the rails to prevent the arrival of troops . Some of tke soldiers of the line have refused to act . Amiens is in full revolt ! Hurrah 1 A successful insurrection bids fair to become a triumphant revolution !
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . All other questions are , for the time bein < r , thrown into the shade by Lord John Russell ' s monstrous Budget . If a bombshell had suddenly exploded in the House of Commons , it could scarcely have created greater sensation , not to say consternation , than the war speech—war estimates—enormous amount of the expenditure for next year , and the mode by which it was proposed to raise Uie income to an equality with that expenditure . Lord John's boWness has been frequently commented upon—the witty Sydney Smith remarked , that he would take the command of the Channel fleet at an hour ' s notice , if called
upon to do so j hut . great as that temerity mioht be , it would be nothing compared to the boldness of making such a financial statement as that of Friday , the 18 th instant . The curious part of tbe matter is , that his lordship actually spoke , and seemed to feel , as though he was making proposals which would be quite pleasant to everybody , and , with the most engaging ingenuousness , took credit to himself for being so exceedingly moderate in his demands . He has since . found out his mistake . The tempest of objurgation , remonstrance , * and opposition , which has since burst upon his financial scheme from all parts of the House and of the country , must have convinced him of that fact .
When Sir R . Peel , in 1842 , imposed the Income Tax—the necessity for it was undeniable . A long course of Whig financial mismanagement , that inseparable adjunct tj their being in office—had reduced the Exchequer almost to a state df insolvency . The exigency demanded a prompt and stringent measure , and Peel was just the man for the crisis . The country at large entertains almost unbounded faith in him as a practical financier , nnd will , at any time , listen to propositions from him , which would be scouted if emanating from any other quarter . -Butbesides this
confidence in his financial abilities , and the e xi genciesof the time , Peel really did gild the bitter pill , which he asked the nation to swallow , in a very adroit . manner . He said— " It is only for three years that I askthissevenpencein the pound from all who have ' an income of £ 150 a year , and as a compensation for the imposition of Ithis temporary burden , I will remove a host of fiscal exactions which fetter trade , impede commerce , and paralyse industry . " The fascinations of the persuasive baronet prevailed , and the country almost exultingly submitted
to the new tax . But Russell does nothing of the sort , nor has he anything like the same excuse . When he came into power , but comparatively speaking a few months ^ go , he found in the Exchequer a clear surplus of hard money of three millions eight hundred thousand pounds sterling . In less than two years , he and his miserable apology for a Chancellor of the Exchequer , have contrived to convert that surplus into a deficient : !/ of two millions nine hundred andffty-six thousand pounds sterling , making together a balance against the country of not less than st'ic millions seven , hundred and
fifty-six thousand pounds sterling , for less than two years of Whig . Government . ! Certainly , this ia paying too dear for our whistle , with a vengeance ! ; , . Instead of proposing to revise the whole system of our taxation , . with a view to making such reductions as nifty be practical and 'just , the . Prime ' . Minister coolly , proposes , the permanent continuance ' of the' Income Tax , with the addition . that for ' ' the next twoy ars it
shall be one shilling ; lrt the ' pound , instead of sevenpence in-the pound / notwithstanding the fact that when- the "lowest amount was first proposed , he was . 'its '' strenuous opponent , and after delivering a . long speech against it , submitted formall y a resolution to the House of Commons , in which he stated strongly all the arguments that could be brought to bear upon the imposition of what he justly termed a war tax in the time of peace ,
Nor has the Whig minister copied Peel by proposing any co-ordinate reductions in indirect taxation—the only reduction he proposes is one upon copper ore , and we have a fair ri ght to suppose that even that would not have been proposed , } j , -id not a near connexion of one of the great Whig houses been a smelter . The proposition , in fact , resolves itself into the naked and undisguised robbery of the class specially marked out to be victimised . I is stated upon authority , that the amount raised by the present tax , is produced by 500 , 000
persons only . Upon . this small proportion of the tax paying population , who already , besides all indirect and ^ local taxation which they bear in common with the rest of the community , pay upwards of five millions annually , Lord John proposes to saddle an additional burden of nearly as much more . Now justice demands that in taxation two essential princip les should be strictly adhered to . Firstly—not a farthing beyond what is absolutely required for the proper wants of the State should be raised ; and secondly—that this amount should be fairly
and impartially apportioned among all class of the community . We should like to ask , if there be an absolute necessity for the increased expenditure proposed by Lord John Russell , why it should fall upon those only who have incomes of 150 Z . a year and upwards ? Why should the man with 100 J ., 120 J ., 130 J ., 140 ? ., or 149 / . 19 s .. be altogether exempted from bearing his share of these alleged necessary burdens ? Why should John Smith , living at No . l 9 , be called upon to pay £ 7 16 $ . to the Government out of £ 3 a-week , while Thomas Jones , who lives at Iso . 20 , and receives £ 2 17 s . 6 d .
a-week , is not called upon to pay one farthing ? Besides , the class upon wbom this impost really falls—for whom there is no possible escape—are a hard-worked , struggling , meritorious class—mercantile and banking clerks , warehousemen , literary men—the fags , in fact , of the middle classes , who have a hard struggle to nuke both ends meet , and to keep up a decent appearance . The merchant and tradesman can ^ manage to evade the literal operation of the tax . It is impossible to guaee their
fluctuating incomes with aeeuraey , and it may be presumed . that it is seldom they err against themselves . But in the case of the clerk , whose salary is fixed , there can be no evasion ! His employers are boundto return atrue ' statementofhis income , and so the John Smith aforesaid , has to let his children go with a smaller allowance of shoes , stockings , jackets and frocks , than they would otherwise have had , because Ministers are too lazy to construct a more equitable and discriminating system of taxation .
Not onl y , however , does Thomas Jones altogether eseapn the burdens which his less fortunate neighbour has to bear , but the lucky possessors of income and property in Ireland also go scot free . A brain-racked poor devil of a sub-editor must pay £ 7 10 s . to the Exchequer , while the owner of estates worth £ 10 , 000 or i £ 2 O , C 00 a-year in Ireland pays nothing ! In every point of view , the tax is a monstrous
and unjust one . There ought to be a broad distinction between incomes derived from professional and personal exertions , precarious in amount and duration , because they depend upon the personal health and ability of the owner , and that derived from realised property , whether in lands , houses , banking or railway shares , or money invested inthe Funds . The value of the two kinds of income , bear no
relation to each other whatever , and it is simply tbe grossest extortion and robbery to subject both to the same amount of taxation . To the principle of direct taxation , we are decidedly friendly , but it should be applied justly and with due discrimination , and surely the system of the sliding scale , which is applied in so many other instances , could be easily applied in the case of a Property Tax . * * * An extraordinary press of matter , occasioned principally by the important events in France , compels the curtailment of our comments . We will resume in our next , when other topics shall also have our attention .
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W . H . Moirbegsto acknowledge tha sura of 12 s , 5 d . for the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat , from Mr Poster ' s , Drui ^ -hill , Nottingham . Notice . —I should feel under Rreat obligation to any reader of tha Northern StAk who will furnish me with the full and correct address of tha wife of a poor man , named Michael llriscoll , supposed to reside on or near West Calf Island , when the unfortunate ship Stephen Whitney was wrecked . This poor woman gave her only sheet to wrap the body of a lady who perished at the time . My object in desiring this information is , that 1 may be enabled to eommunicite with this hindhearted woman , and to remit her a substantial evidence ( received from a distant part of the world ) that such a manifestation of Christian feeling has not been unnoticed in a foreign land . —William Rideb , Nobtbkhn Stab office . IticiUBD Mabsden , Blachburn . —Should send Mr O'Connor a petition upon the case referred to in the placard ,
which he will present to the House of Commons . Blackburn , John New-beginning . —Mr O'Connor hopes tocMivmvmwate with Mr Nowbeginning before the 19 th of March , relative to his visit to Blackburn . Malcolm Christie . —Mr O'Connor is excessively obliged for his remittance towards the defence of his seat , but begs to decline it , as he considers it too largo a tax to impose upon the good nature of any one man . He has handed his cheque for £ 40 to the Manager , who will return it according to Mr O'C . ' s directidn . Oi . biiam . —Mr O'Connor begs to acknowledge the letter of Afr flamer , and will comply with his request vrhen at Manchcst . r , on the 17 th and 18 th , if possible . 4 = f Tlie Insurrection in Paris , 5 Ir O'Connor ' s Letters , and lengthy reports of important meetings have combined to render the postponement of numerous articles and communications unavoidaolo . Julian Hahnkj has received through Mr M'Crae , Dundee , Is from Robert Kydd , and Is from J . Hossack , for the Fraternal Democrats .
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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES . THE ACCUSED HIS OWN JUDGE , i It is a farce with which the people should be acquainted that Feargus O ' Connor is the accuser of Whig delinquents , while FoxMauIe , the Whig Secretary at War , is the person who has the nomination of the Election Committee which is to decide upon Mr O'Connor ' s right to sit in Parliament ; while Mr Morgan John O'Connell , the deadly enemy of Mr O'Connor , may be , and probably will be , selected as chairman or judge upon the Committee . Formerl y the practice was , that thirty-three members were balloted from amongst those present ;
the ; petitioners , as in the case of a special jury , struck out 11 names ; the member petitioned against also struck out eleven , and the remaining eleven constituted the Committee . Now , however , the case is altered ; the house is divided into panels ; Mr Fox Maule , as Chairman of the Committee of selection , refers the petition to what panel he pleases , and selects his Chairman of the Committee . Now this is the tribunal to which Mr O'Connor ' s right to sit in Parliament is to be submitted ; while , as far as the subscriptions have gone , it would appear , as if those for whom he had struggled were determined to allow him to struggle for himself in this instance .
We believe that the amount collected in one night for the defence of the seat of Mr Reynolds the member for Dublin , was over £ 2 , 000 , while the amount subscribed for the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat scarcely amounts to £ 400 . This forms a strong contrast between English and Irish patriotism . The amount altogether subscribed does not exceed five farthings a man of the Members of the Land Company . The Directors consider this but a poor inducement for any gentleman to struggle for the rights of the poor .
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1 , Morphet-street , Green-street , Bethnal-green . London , Feb . 25 th . Sir , —I am anxious to obtain a Government situation . If you will interest yourself in my behalf , I should be happy to place in your hands the sum of three hundred pounds , to be disposed of as you might think proper , I can give respectable references and security ; tbe most inviolable secrecy may be relied on . Should you please to entertain the subject , and will enclose your Town address , 1 shall be glad to wait upon you . I remain , Sir , Your humble servant ,-James W . Emeu . Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P .,
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Sin , —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter , and the only chastisement to which I shall subject you for your insolence in writing it is , its publication and your exposure . Feargus O'Connor .
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" A working woman" of Redmatley ( who , for certain reasons , must use no other signature ) , encloses sixty postage stamps as Tier tnite towards the defence fund of that noble man , who , if seats were allotted according to desert , would now be a member of the Upper House , instead of the Commonsand yet they seek to deprive him of that ! but he is no common man—God grant they may not be able to unseat him 1 But , if they do , he has not done with them ! There is one seat in which he is so much more firmly fixed than his opponents—in the hearts of the people of England O'Connor will be enshrined , while truth and honour , generosity and benevolence , and , above all , self-sacrificing patriotism has a place on earth ' . In an accompanying envelope will be sent sixty other stamps , with singly J , W , R .
France. Insurrection In Paris
FRANCE . INSURRECTION IN PARIS
TRIUMPH OF THE PEOPLE ! We resume ( from our lasl number ) the history of the all-absorbing struggle of Which France is at this rasment the theatre . It had been decided that the banquet should take place , notat Mont-Parnasse , as originally intended , but in Paris , in a private property , consisting of a large piece of enclosed land , in the Champs-Eh / sees , belonging to General Thiars , deputy . SANOTJ 1 NAHY PREPARATIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT . The Union Monarchic ^ of Thursday . stated that a collective representation bad been made by the
Municipal Council of Paris to the Prefect of Police , in order to warn him ot the peril of a crisis provoked by the employment of brutal force . The Uhiow adds'The Ministry are also adopting their precautions . The regiments , provided with ammunition of all descriptions , as for a siege , are kept in their barracks ; all the posts nre doubled ; the etat-major of Paris , and that of the first military division , are en permanence ; and the police commissioners of the twelve arrondissements have been assembled , in order to receive precise instructions as to the conduct they are to hold in the crisis which is preparing .
The Rbfobme of the same day , bad tbe following : — ' Cartridges for fifty days have just been distributed in the barracks to every man of the Municipal Gunrd and regiments of the line quartered at Paris . The cannon of Vincennea are aimed on the bastions and courtines ef the old fort . All tbe Paris gunsmiths' shops hare been inspected , and all the Mtwtviem of tho guard houaea and barracks put in order . ' The National reported similar preparations on the part of the government : —
' We have already stated that the Minister of War had placed the whole garrison of Paris on a war foot inland ordered axes , pick-axes , shovels , and provisions for four days , to be delivered to them , as if on the eve of taking the field . We learn to-day that directions have been given at Vincennea to manufacture ball cartridges day and night , and ; to send artillery , caissons , and waggons laden with ammunition to the military school , in the Champ de Mars . All those orders ought in reality to have naturally emanated from the Minister of War ; but matters have been simplified , and at a critical moment like that in which we live , itis the future Grand Master of the Artillery , the Duke de Montpenner , who gives and signs the orders . The following is one of those orders , of which we have obtained a < npy : —
' Deliver immediately , from the artillery stores of Vincennes , to be forwarded , without delay , to the military school in Paris , the followin ? articles and ammunition : —two batteries ol fie ' d pieces with their caissons laden , twenty infantry caissons also laden , 300 erape-shpt canisters , 400 rockets and torches for night service . ' A . d'Orlbans . ' ' Moreover , ' adds the National , ' preparations are making at Vincennea to place tha chateau in a state of defence . ' TDK BANQUET POSTPONED—ORBAT EXCITEMENT IN THE DEPARTMENTS .
The postponement of the banquet to Tuesday was announced on Friday by tbe committee , the preparations far it not being sufficiently advanced . The agitation had spread rapidly through the provinces , and addresses had arrived from Chart res and Amiens to their deputies , exhorting them to resistance . These addresses were signed by bankers , lawyers , municipal councillor ? , officers of the National Gaard , and elector . ' . Similar addresses were on thoir way from Bleis , Tours , Rouen , Havre , Arras , and Lille . Deputations were coming from the provinces to attend the Reform Banquet . At the meeting of the opposition on Saturday , the following manifesto was agreed to , and published in the journals ot Sunday : — MiNirSSTO BY THE BAHttOET COMMITTEE .
The general committee entrusted with the organisation of thel 2 iharrondissemen {'» banquet deem it their duty to remind the public that the object of the manifestation fixed for Tuesday next is the legal and pacific exercise of a constitutional right—the right of publicly meeting — without which representative government would be but a derision . The ministry having declared and maintained at the tribune that the practice of that right was subjected to the police ' s pleasure , tbe Deputies of the Opposition , Peera of France , former Deputies , members of the Coun . ctl-General , sub-officers and soldiers of tbe National Guard , membars of the central committee of the Opposition , electors , and editors of the Paris journals , have accepted the invitation made to them to take part In the manifestation . In order to proieit , in virtue of the law , aiainstan illegal and arbitrary pretensions .
As it Is naturally io bo foreseen that this public protest may attract a largo concourse of citizens ; as it is likewise to he presumed that the National Guards of Paris , faithful to their motto—liberty , public orderwill , on the occasion , wish to accomplish that twofold duty ; that they will wish to defend liberty by joining in the manifestation , protect order , and prevent all colli * eion by their presence ; that , in the expectation of a numerous meeting ef Nationel Guards and citizens , it seems proper to adopt the arrangements that shall remova all cause of disturbance and tumult—The committee have thought that the manifestation ought to take place in tho quarter of the capital where the wideness of the streets and t totes permit the population to assemble in large numbers , without incum . btance resulting .
'With ench view the Deputies , Peers ef France , and other persons invited to the bav . quet , will assemble on Tuesday next , at eleven o ' clock , at No . 2 . Place de la Madeleine , where the parliamentary Opposition usually meet . The eabseribers to tbe bouquet forming part ef the National Guard are requested to assemble in the front of the Madeleine" church , and to form ten parallel lines , between which the Invited will place themseWea . The cortege will have at its-head superior officers of the National Guard , who will present themaelres to join in the manifestation . Immediately after the invited end guests , a rank of officers of the National Guard will be placed . Behind these will come the National Guards , formed into column" , according to the number of tbe legions . Between tbe third and fourth columns will march the young raeu of the schools , under the direction of the commissioners selected by them .
Then will follow the other National Guards of Paris , and the banlieue , in the above-mentioned order . The cortege will set out at half-past eleven , and move by the Place de la Concorde and the Champa . Elyoeea towards the banquet place . The committee , convinced that this manifestation will be the more efficient as it will be calmer , and the more imposing as it will avoid even all pretext for a conflict , invite the citiz ins to utter no cry , te carry no flags or external signs ; they invite the National Guards wbo may take park In the manifestation to oema with , out arms ; tbe object here la a legal and pacific protest , which must be above all powerful by the numbers and firm and quiet attitude of the eitiztns .
Tho committee hope that on this occasion every man present will consider himself entrusted with the maintenance of order , tbey confide in tbe sentiments of the Parisian population who wish fer public peace with liberty , and who know that to secure the maintenance of their rights , they need but a peaceful demonstration , rb behoves an intelligent and enlightened nation , conscious of the irresistible authority of its meral force , and sure of making its lawful wishes prevail , by the legal and calm expression of its opinion . This communication from tho ' Banquet Committee ' was mest conspicuously published by the
Sikclb and National , which latter republican print aa conspicuously oubliahed tho letter whereby ninetythree opposition Deputies , including , of couraei M . Odillon Barrot , and MM . de Lamartine , Arago , Cremieux , Durvergier de Hauranne , Gamier Pages , George and Oscar de Lafayette , Mauguin , cordially promise to attend the dinner . Several other members and three or four peers had also promised to be present from beginning to end . Tbe students of the Paris schools of law and medicine were to muster at their usual rendezvous , the Place du Panthoon , and take up the station allotedto them in the procession .
The trades of Paha offered to present themselves with banners and emblems , but the committee for managing the affair dissuaded them from any manifestation . The Reforms of Monday , whose friends , the ultra-Radicals had been excluded from the committee chirged with the organisation of the Reform ban . quet , announces that M . Ledru Rollin would be present . * The revolution and the counter-revolution , ' it says' are in presence . On one side is right ; on the other arbitrary power . Our choice cannot ba doubtful—we will join in the m » nifeBtation , and invite all our friends to do the same . '
. MUTATION IX THE LEGISLATORS . The members ef the committee of the BatiqUfit , met at eleven o ' clock , a . m ., on Monday , at the house of M . Barrot . About twenty . five deputies were present , with the editors of the independent journals . Thoy adjourned from there te the Hall of Conference of the Chamber of Deputies , wbere a great agitation prevailed . Report stated that the government had resolved to prevent the banquet ; that a proclamation of tho Prefect of Police would
bo published at six o ' clock in the morning , to prohibit all assemblage of people ; that the ground where the banquet was to be given would be occupied by troops ; and that the superior commander ot the National Guard would issue an order of the day forbidding them to meet on the Place do la Madeleine . The Deputies of the Left assembled in one of their standing committees , and agreed that M . de Tocqueville should question Ministers relative to their intention , and that M . Odillon Barrot should reply to the minister .
THBrUNDS . —GENERAL ALARM , The tunds fell on Monday . Much alarm has been manifested by the foreigners
France. Insurrection In Paris
— = ^ ^^ g resident in Paris , ten thousand of wbfcm have if said , taken their departure rather hastily . 3 Another and a very serious cause of alar m is win . respect to tho working compositors and pie = smon , Paris . They are a very formidable and a veivHt bulent body , amounting to upwards of sixteen th ^' sand men . Hitherto they have taken little nr part in the affair of the Reform banquet , but tiuln they have given notice in almost all the printing tablishraents , that they will not bs at their work * * morrow , as they have to attend the procession tothl Champs Elysees . They are almost all DemoS and Coramuniats , and were the first movers V , i the principal contributors to the revolution ofjn ] '
SUPPRESSION OF THE BANQUET . '" On Monday evening the debate with which ' ft , Chamber of Deputies was occupied was adjoar , ? and M Odillon Barrot roao , and having adverted ?' the violent measures of repression which it wa , ported that government were about to exercise xt Duchatel , Minister of the Interior , replied bv' i daring , in the most explicit asd unequivocal term that after the formal declaration and prrc ramm which had been published in the morning in ° tnB position journals , the government had decidedT resort to measures of force to prevent the proceed ings as announced trom taking place . The charabp then adjourned to one o ' clock on Tuesday . Immediately after the Chamber adjourned , a meet in * of the opposition deputies tonkplace at thehouae of M Odillon Barrot , and the Mowing paraoranh appeared in the Patrie at a late hour en Monda , night : — }
We stop tho preaa to announca that tbo opposition not wiBbin ? to tike , directly or indirectly , the response bility for the consequences which may result from tha new measures adopted to-day by the government , ha 3 resolved not to attend the proposed banquet to-morrow The opposition deputies entreat tho good citizens to abstain from all public assemblies , and from every proceertlng which may afford a pretext for acts of violent \ t the same time the opposition is sensible that the ne » measures taken by tbe ministry impose on it net ? and grave duties , which it will not fail to fulfil . The following proclamation was posted on tie walls and public places of Paris at a late hour on Monday night : —
PS 0 CLAMATI 0 N OF THE fBEFECT OP POLICE . Inhabitants ot Pabib !— A . disquietude injurious V » labour and business has reigned for some tin » , - the public mind . This arises from manifestations ln preparation . The government , from motives of public order but too well-justified , and exercising the ri ght ia , vested in it by the laws , and which has constantl y been brought into use without dispute , has interdicted tha banquet of the 12 th arrondissement . Nevertheless a , it has declared in the Chamber of Deputies , as this question mi of a nature to admit of a judicial solution instead of opposing , by force , the projected meeting , it came to a resolution to suffer tbo contravention to ba established by permitting the guests to enter the ban . quet . ro ) m , hoping that they will have the prudence » '
retire at tbo first aammoss , m order not to coavert a simple contravention into an act of open rebellion This wa » the only means of bringing the question before the Supreme Court of Cassation . The government persists In this determination , but the manifesto paf > . lished this morning by tho journals ot the opposition announces another object and other Intentions ; it sets up a- government against the true government oi the country , that which is Instituted by the charter and which rests upon the majority of the chambers- it calls for a public manifestation which is dangerous to the peace of the city ; it convokes , io violation of tho
law of 1831 , the National Guards , whom it arrange beforehand ic regular number of legion , with the officers at « heir head . Here no doubt is longer possible . The clesrojt and beet established laws are violated . The government will cause them to be respected ; they aio the foundation and the guarantee of public order , I invite all good citfcens to conform to these laws , and not join In an assemblage , for fear it might give rise to disturbances that may be regretted . I make this appeal to their patriotism and their right reason , in tbe name of our institutions , of public peace , and the deamt interests of the city . —Paris , this 21 st February , —G . Delessebt , Peer of Francs , Prefect of Police .
Several ordonnances of the police were annexed to this proclamation , in which the various articles of the law against assemblies dangerous to public order and tranquillity are recited , and the penalties incurred by persons refusing to disperse when summoned to do so by the authorities ate enumerated . Orders were issued on Monday night by the chiefs of the legions of the National Guard , to their respective captains to have the rappel beaten in the morning . The journals of the opposition , which are understood to be the organs of the Reform Banquet party , publish a paragraph exhorting all National Guards to give prompt obedience to this order , that there may be no pretext for charging that body with insubordination .
MAKIFKSTO OF THS BANQUET COMMITTEE . Tbe following manifesto of the committee of tha projected banquet of the 12 ; h arrondissement ap . peared in the opposition journals on Tuesday morning : —
' TO ALL CITIZKNS . 'A greatand solemn manifestation was to ban taken place ' to-day , in favour of the right of public meeting , contested by the government . All measures had been taken to secure order and prevent every kind of disorder . The government was aware for some days of these measures , and knew what would he the form of the protestation . It was aware that the deputies would go in a body to the place of the banquet , accompanied by a large number of citizens and of National Guards , without arms . It bad been
announced the intention to oppose no obstacle to this demonstration , so long - hs the public order should not be disturbed , and to confine itself to drawing up a ' proces verbal / stating that it regarded it asa breach of the law , and that the oppoaitian considered it an exercise of a right . All at once , and taking as the pretext & predication , the sole end of which was to prevent the disorders which might have arisen from a numerous assemblage , tha government has pro * claimed its resolution to prevent by force all collections ot tbe people in the public streets , and to pre vent the people and the National Guards from all participation in the projected manifestation . This dilatory resolution of the government does not allow time for the opposition tochange the character of the demonstration . It finds itself , therefore , in the alternative , either of provoking a collision between the people and thV public force , or of
renouncing the legal and peaceable protestations it had resolved on . In this situation the members of the opposition , protected in their character of deputy , would not expose the people to the consequences of a struggle as dangerous to order as to liberty . The opposition has , therefore , considered that it is its duty to withdraw and leave to the government all the responsibility of its measures . It entreats all good citizens to follow its example . In postponing thus the exercise of a right the opposition pledges itself to the country to obtain this right by all constitut ' iana ! means . It will not fail in tbia duty ; it will contimie with perseverance and redoubled energy the c & nfliot it has undertaken against a corrupt , arbitrary ) and anti-national policy . In not attending the banquet the opposition accomplished a great act of moderation and humanity . It knows that there remains for it to accomplish a great act of firmness and justice . '
The electoral committee of the 2 nd arrondissment published a manifesto , in which it expressed its astonishment and regret that the deputies of the opposition should have given up the banquet without at the same tinse laying down their commission as deputies , and entreat them to doso without delay . After tbe meeting of the Deputies at tbe house of M . Odillon Barrot . at which it was resolved that the banquet should not place , Count d'Alton Shee , Peer of France , and several Deputies , went to the office of the Reforms newspaper , declaring that they were determined , at all risks , to attend the banquet , and advising the persons assembled in tha offica to follow their «& raple . Soiflo of tho Depute went with the same intention to the office of tha National . After a long deliberation , and several communications between the two meetings , it was resolved that , for the sake ef the public peace , any manifestation of any kind would be dangerous , and that the affair ought , therefore , to be postponed .
PARIS ON MONDAT NIGHT . The proclamations and ordonnances of police were not placarded until a late hour on Monday night . In less than an hour they had all disappeared fr om the walls . Nothing could exceed the excitement ou the appearance of the evening journals . Ciw « ( yere collected along the Boulevards , where the vendors of these papers usually stand , and torches were procured by which they were read , one person reading aloud for the information of each group- u j course many strong expressions were heard to pro « ea from these auditories . During the night between Monday and Tuesday . military waggons and artillery caissons , escorted of cavalry , were incessantly passing along the line ot Boulevards which connect Vincennes with the quarter ot the Tnileries and Palais Bourbon .
, STATE OP PARIS TUESDAY MOR-NIXO . Tha correspondent of the Morning Chronic" * says ;—The crowd begins to collect in the neighbourhood of the Madeleine and the Champs Elysees , in grep t numbers . Great numbers of workmen , and men in blouses , are to be seen both there and in the PlaCCS Carousel , on the Quays , Place Madeleine . and on the Boulevards ; they all seem to be directing their steps towards the spot where the procession was to start trom—and I may say that the scarcity of any r " pectable people in the streets ia equally to ^ noticed .
Wo take the following from Galio . vasi ' s MkssbMgbr : — ' On the Boulevards , opposite the hotel of tM Minister ef Foreign Affairs , a dense mass of pe ° P assembled , and it was necessary to call for the assistance of the municipal guards and troops of tflfl line to keep the mob in movement . This was , however , effected without any violence , by small patrols being kept in motion on the fotrtway . The troops ot the line seemed to have been prepared for acti | a operations , many of them being provided vfith pic ^' axes , as if to destroy barricade ?
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 26, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26021848/page/4/
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