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_FuruiT , Au . _ust 25 th . —At half-past twelve M . lii rrstt , _President took the chair . The order of the day being the discussion on the re port of tie Committee of I « _qairy _relative tothe eTen ta of the loth of May and the insurrection of June , the President invited the Assembly to be _gito _, and listen to the speakers without interrupting tb ero . _jj . Cata-us _. the first streaker , _suggested that it _, _fo a ! d be advisable , before tha discussion waa opened , * a hear the members who had any _pereojal explanations to give . _Tt 8 proposition ., being put from the chair , was _adtaittaL Adrniral Cast denied certain things imputed to tia in the retort .
M . Cartas next ascended the tribune , and observed that he had been twice attacked in the report ; fi rst , aa representative , and secondly , as commissary . ] Je was described as having accompanied Barbes to the Hotel de Ville , wb .. n it was notorious that he had marched against him . M . _Portaus and M . _Laroais made statements , ( howing that the evidence of M . Arago waa false in cer tain respects . M . Abago replied , bnt cut bat a pitiful figure . _Seveta' other representatives followed in vindication of themselves , against imputations contained a the report .
_-parcH of uastj _uoms . M . _Lrmarj Rollin afterwards ascended the tribune amidst tha most profound silence . He would , be said , be as calm and moderate as _possib _' e , and if my expression should escape his lips in tbe heat of his extempore oration , he requested the Assembly to forgive him . Political inquiries bad originated with the first revolution . After the events of the Sib . and 6 th of _October , 15 S _8 , which forced _Royalty to bow to popular omnipotence , an inquiry , instituted by order of the National Assembly , had lasted nearly an entire year . Mirabeau pulverised it ia a few words , and the Assembly passed to the order of tbe day . After the 10 th of August , ard the 9 : h Tfceraidor , _siorHar inquiries had taken place , and what results aadaiey
produced * 9 c would not defend himself , for he was not on his trial . On the 15 a * _sf May _and'Si h of Junehewas _' st his past , and hai * . done _his-dnty , both rathe _A-aembly and > t the H _, itelde " v * ilH : The committee ttd no right to brine him ta an ¦ account for any iff his act ? , for his circulars and the appointment ef the oommissarieB ; if ha had recommended in tire _mrcukes , that theehoice of the electors should _ftUflnthe _^ Repablicans of the _vizHle , it was through _cotaderatiia for certain men , whose oplrsons could _ast change in twenty-four hoars . Be remembered the declaration made by the chief of the * OppiHition . at the last sitting of the Chamber of _Dapaties , that if fee Regency was not proc as & ed the utmost anarchy must ensue . The _commiasarita lie trad named were
_allhoBtJcrable men . He could not'be answerable for the choice of the _sub-commissariss . which was made by the commissaries . One of tfcese , who had spent s portion of his life * in the hulks , had been _jsamed'not by him but ty a roan "the Assembly honoured with their _eerjfidence . _'its former President , M £ . Buchcz . Hw ccodudt as'regarded foreign affiilrshad been likewise _Irreproachable . The _expedition of _Risquons To * itrr < quireds * _-me exolanatioa . The partisans of the fallen dynasty were conspiring in Beigiam . Three English ships of war were at tke time ia the Scheldt , r -ady'to seize on Antwerp . & Belgian legion waa formed , and beC { M . Ledru Rolling hai done for them whet he had done far the _Ger-• mansand the Poles . Wfreu _Vhsrolumn arrived on
tie-Belgian frontier , tie prefect of the north appro- ; bending some disorders / hid _renfraiusketato arm the "National Guards . _Tfease arm- _, were plundered "by . ! the £ el 8 Miis land were not distributed te them . The hon . deputy then addressing himself to the right ; -said' thit it had contributed perhaps more than himself to bring aboat therevoladcc . It now _conttnue'd to'do what it had dene for the fesfc eighteen years— - 'hang on the chariot * whefel ta-prevent its _mc-ringl - { Murmurs . ) Daring eighteen _**> ears , continued the hon . deputy , yoa lo-red the government whieh yoa htd established ; aed you fallowed it without fearing an idea , or a principle to put ic . ita place . WeU then ; "what you have beee-ander _thegovernment of _3 clyi winch yon founded , and which vou loved ao touch * I
snch fear yon _wotrid not efect for the _Repuhtirad government which you have not founded . _Thg learned _gentlemaathen went on to accuse t & eTight of having tailed in & e _rendes * ous , which it had made en the 16 : h of ApriI _^ Khr 2 # (* € fJ 0 men on _tfee-Ban _' e- ' vards . Yoa _mast-iot , _oattsaed he , _rectmiHiencs captious oppoaitioG _, and if yon are good _citisms , _yser _missionia ta _folkrcr ; bat not to direct the government , for yoa are without ideas , and without principles ( Hear . ) There waa _.-generaltistreis in the « cantsy , ne would admit , bet it should not be said cacti it * i < the _Reoablic whieh- _'haa caused the eviL It shacld boldly be said tb . *& . thagreatiiiaj'jrity of the houses which had failed ware three psvts ruined before 4 fce revolution of February . lit _* was necessary to _meke
- knowa that _there- * _ras onlj _ons means _ofsatety-s-tha _KepuWic . It was _necessaryris bind oneBerf to _rxts car , and not dread of reaction . Ton wist , he continned , to frightec _us-with the bugbear ot _the'tEed ' _^ Republic , but it _ksavain . phintom ; the _EednBspublic does not exist ; tbe evils which yoa perceive , you wish to scare asray _witavs constitution . W hat-is -wasted in tbe present state- of affairs is _wkesJ institutions . The hen . deputy then declared that he and his friends wished *! ot family ties and rights to tbeir faUest extent ; _bat-isi the _ekild , he asked , that it -so often seen at ths gate or" _thel-Fouadline Hospital to be called a family tier ? < Is it the young _feeiclecwkj , _-sol _& _ins able to maintain herself by honest labour , is- compelled to enter un a life of infamy in order ¦ to
_prepare heraalf a _mcrsal of- > bjcad ? _Certaisly aot . Bat real family _tiee-we-all wish for . We are _aa--sused of proscribin & _UEoperty , whilst we are -well aware that it is the -bvaa -of liberty . Proper *? : Why _»« 7 e perhaps lore it more than you . ' _-. Tke ion . -deputy here reminded the tAstembly of what ., he ' _. _wishedtodofortheicteresto _& _propertyby _ereatiug mertgage-banks , astfeeanlyrae 3 ns of _rekaang-¦ fr om tke iron grasp _cf-the-. _uatrer . The cry ¦ was ni _« d that he _wisheiia create neper money . _Seper _iSDoey : I Why what wsa the 350 milliosa whieh bad been Sorrow ! from the iBanfe ? lie declared ( that ihe _andiii party were tha _unly teas _fnenda of pro *
_. perty _, far they wished _tCitaake it accessible ta all ; He _rapr . _aented the republic oft tbe United States ai _treadytofonnder , because _, property was too much _siBceniKted in some hands . _; { _Msrmuri . ) I _cauEot _, ha continued , repiyto i » proachta » whici I do not _iear , bat whatl wish to _^ ay . ia . tthat in Americaj _tiereis _^ o cial danger , _beeauaatbe-ctate retains too _euchl 2 ad in it 3 hands , acd _agitation is carried on there _toUbe cry of 'Ltaid . is _fiberty . * The hao . deputy ccsoluded by _insiscmg . on the necessity whieh exkted for-union and con 39 « d . _Ta _« F must mot be meeely . utt $ red by the moatfc , bat tnnst be felt in the heset . . { Cries of ' bravo ! 'from the left . )
EPZKCH OF _LOtSSW-J / C M . Loss _Scanc—Placed fer sometime under the _falsest _andjuest outrageous * _ccusations , it is with difficulty that lean maintaia the . caka which selfrespect _imwsas . There is ot * _e . _circajE _« tance which pudcuiariy a _& zkes me in this debate , and that is , that the men who accuse us were avoaed partisans of monarchy aa * always combsited the Republic ; vh lst we , wbfi are accused , a » _, on the contrary , _Republican ? , are the men who base _alwd our Wood who have cuff K & far the Repubiie _, who have fifty tinea risked _aardiws for it . The fiepuh & aus were made over by the jltte government to i » _bte execration—thev were h *» _uded as men of blood and of the scaffold . " But when tier obtained power ther
proclaimed the abolition of the _pznalty . of death « w poliiical offences ; they did not pronoance _afflneje word of hatred , of-sengeance , or of ill-will j ttej did aot suspend a single _jeurnal . and toey loudly _prosbSmed in the _goverament respect for the _ssoed arinciples which they had previously defended . Of what / _rontinued M . Loefe Blanc , ' ' ami accused . ? Of the _speeches I _Adivered . ? Then _itia , ia fit * , * writable proets de tendime , which , is brought forward against me ! ' M . Louis Blanc then proceeded to examine the charges made against him , and especially _fche idea of the creation ol a Ministry of La fcoar and Progress . On tbe latter point he stated that it wa _* with repugnance te had consented , on _theiwresentatinsofM . Arago , to accept the mis j what
sion of the Luxembourg , and he detailed under _drenmstanfiea the decree reducing the _number of working hoars , was issued . Be teetered that his acts might be attacked , but that he would always defend the doctrines on which they were based . He next energetically denounced the principle of free competition , and presented an apology of socialism , explaining its o _^ etsand tendencie _* . { The murmurs of the Assembly interrupted this port of M . Louis Blanc ' s discourse ] lie afterwards proceeded to _notica tte fasts let forth in the report of the Committee of Investigation ; and _declared that all the peaches ha had delivered at the _Luxembourg had ken pu & ished in the _Mcsiretra . If the speech brought , _ttrward by the committee had not been
_re-P- < tei like the otlura , it was because it was delivered _cu au occasion unconnected with the meetings of ihe luxembourg . The workmen , _faeiiid , had demanded a _s sdvice with respect to the election * , aud it was on that occasion that he had delivered the speeoh in qusthn , into which , in the warmth of improvisation , * ° me expressions which perhaps jrere exaggerated , aad slipped , and which he would certainly hare struck ont ( as was done every day in speeches _deleered at the national tribun j and reported iB tbe _M okkhjb ) , if he intended to have had it published 5 the official journal of the Republic M . Louis _Bhmc then defended cr excused the terms of the _fpeech . and after proceeding for some time stated he * _as _utremely fatigued and requested the Assembly to allow a few minutes' repose . .
. . , Tae sitting was accordingly suspended , and after _Knae minutes the _President announced that M . Lotus Blanc , in consequence of hia treat fatigue , had _re-^ aated tost _{ _fce sitting might not be resumed until _•^ PMtseTeu . ., 3 . . Tali wm lined to and tha _Aoeobly _f _^ utaed ,
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The sitting having been resumed at eight o ' clock , M Louis Btwc again ascended the tribune and e mtinued his justification . He affirmed that he had strenuously exerted himself to prevent the manifestation of the 17 th of March , and , when he perceived that it was unavoidable , he did everything in his power to prevail on the chiefs to act with calmness aud moderation . As respected the demonstration of the 16 th of April , he protested that it was rot contemplated to overthrow the Provisional Government , wbich he considered the best government of transition , being composed of heterogeneous elements ; and _that bis most constant preoccupation had been tbat it should hold together until the opening of the Naj tional Assembly . Moreover , he never entertained
the least intercourse with any club or any influential member of a club . He wished at no price to separate from his colleagues , and considered their _maintenance in power as the sole chance of salvation for the republic He did not believe that the masses of workmen assembled at the Champ du Mars on the 16 th of April , were animated with hostile _designs _. and was astonished that the government of the Hotel de Ville should have treated them as enemies . With regard to the national workshop ? , M . Louis Blanc declared that they had not only not been organised according to hia principles , but that they were actually instituted against himself ; and that the title of delegate of the Luxembourg was a title of exclusion from the national workhouse ? , in consequence of the spirit of
rivalry that excited M . Emile Thomas towards the fermer president of the government Committee of Labour . The _passage of the report referring to him was completely erroneous , forhetrever had any direct cr indirect connexion with thethiefs oi the national workhouses . Tbe club of those workhouses had been established by M . Emile Thomas , who was supposed to be under his infiience , nut who constantly _comba'fed his opinions . It was not either placed unuer the ( influence of the delegates of the Luxembourg . Tud ? e delegates could wot , as stated , fill the posts of Brigadiers of the nations ! _workhouses , for M . _Smile Thomas had issued a notice prohibiting that the brigadiers should belong to any other corporation . It is _consequently Eotnricrasthat , instead of a cordial
_undersfaadtug , actual _wimity existed between the dele gates and brigadiers . M . Louis Blare _thre-explained his conduct en the 35 th of May . The inviolability of tbe representatives _waseecessar ** to enable them to fulfil their duties . One of his colleagues was twice ob tbe point of being _murdered , and ha wondered that the _Comraitree'of Inquiry had not thought proper to investigate su & a fact . On the eve'of the 15 : h of May a meeting was held at his house . The committee should _bave'kBOwn that a numberdf representatives assisted at it , and that its object was to secure the f n ? ed « n of the deliberations of tbe Assembly . They were anxious to form a constitution committee , aud : one of their colleagues M . _Brrves , was deputed to ! tbat effect to the circle of the . Hue des _Pyramtdes One ot ths instructing judges _srild that he had been
met So the morning of the 15 th of May proceeding inj tbe drrectionof the Placode ia'Bastille . _Herepaired : from the Rue Taitbout , where he lived , to _thecal Ternrr 5 , \ B the Passage desf * _eaoramas , with _acousiu of his , and breakfasted , not privately , but in the _ernee-raom , where _fcecorrveracd withsneof the _delegates of the departments . Tbe instructing judge tail _TefnseS to examine tbe 'witnesses he mentioned , because _itwas apartof _theuystem to leave everything in a state of _uncertairrtyeHi obscurity . He thence walked to tbe National Assembly , and no sooner had "M . : v ? o ! _owski ascended tbe _tribnue to defend the cause of Poland tban the people entered the hall . ' Sore M Louis _Btmcwesinurrupted _bp'lotMtries _< vf "Don ' t call them'ike '{ people ? call them ihe _fae' Horn "
M . Loots Blikc then-appealed to the _testitasny of the officers of the house . * wbo could state whether be totk the least step or _'proffered a single word that _-cooid induce a belief that he made crrmmen cause --with the insurrection . He had seen M . _'Bafkea the day before , and said _to'him , * You are _thetfcief of a club , and I wosfd aidvise you'to exert yoursetf to pre-° rsnt the people from committing any act ofMrioience , f ritwouldicjareth _^ _UepublicinBteadOhervingit . ' _Barbes was a _raan-of heart , who _appreciated his suggestion , but may have been _compeUf & _'fcy circum stances te alter hi * mind on the following day . On -the _Uth he found hira animated wirh _^ the most ¦ pacific and loyal sentiments , and he affirmed it on his honour and with more energy than _hewrould for
a himself , as he 'was pleading the cause of another . M . Louis Blauo consented on _the-KUr to harangue tbe people , when he obtained leave to do to from M . _Buoher the President . The Mo-aT _* rrjBtend other papers bad pubh ' filred-an incorrect repot _t-of his speech . Several _seatenees-were p l aced in bis month which were pronounced by M . Barbes , who had the manliness to data their responsibility . r _Hervras accused of _havingeucoeraged tbe people , under the peristyle , to _isvsde the' &* tll . "Several _respwte _. _HeVitnesses , he admitted , had certified it ; bnt itwas impossible tint he could have held such language _. wwBioh was so widely at variance with his address'ton minutes afterwards < tr tbe _invaders of tee _^ Assembly . M ; Louis Btacc next -discussed tbe merits of the evil
_denca adduced against him ; One ° _of the witnesses ha < _l been pointed « ct in tha inquiry-as-an individual who _wnsdd give _asy evidence tbet A _was required for money . He had mentioned several-, persons who ' could have _eoanterhalauced his * depcritioH , and in particular RL ' _-Lemansois secretory general of the ) over ture , but neither M . Lemaneoia nor the others were examined . ( It was asserted that , baring been ' forced out « f the hell into the Safie des' Conferences he had been appointed _number ef 4 he Provisional Government . HeaBpealedtothefeedlsectionofallthe persons _pre-ent . The confusion _wd-noue were inch that it was itnpossibleto hear cue wordtbat was said . He attempted to escape by the gate-opposite the bridge , but that passage was _etoeed » by the Garde
Mobile . Tee crowd then conducted him throagfa the garden of _the'Presidency to the esplanade nf the Invalides _, < rrying , 'To the Hotel--de "" V ille ! ' A cabriolet _jasfepassing by at tbe moment his friends forced hira and- _huftrother into H . < M . Lemsigre , the owner of tha _eabriolet , said that be _wob most anxious to proceed-to the Hotel deVWille in order to prevent _theeheddisg of blood . He did- not contest the accnracy-cf his _^ eposition , wkich was evidently intended to favour-his cause . Had _<> he manifested the desire he-supposed of preventing _the-shedding of blood , should he _uowdisavow it f Nobody knew how that scene woeW terminate . Was it not rational to eo to the Hotel _deWiHe to complete _the-wark of pacification _which-he had commenced vaini ? in the
Assembly ? He -did net require the cabriolet of M . -Lemaigre to repairto the Hotel de Ville . He might have gone _there'inaacther carriage ororrfoot . On -being -brought to tbe house of M . Aroaud _, a friend ef M . Lemaigre , in Rue de l'Ecote de Medecine , he -eould not find the _^ _aanel he wanted , and went to change at a bookseller ' s M . Victor _-Maaton . On 'leaving the house of tbs latter he waa reported to _have ' gone to the Hotel de Ville , aud -a . _colonel of ¦ artillery even asserted-that he had seen'him within the building . There was no truth in _iheoacertion , _asa M . _Marrast 'had . delivered him a -certificate stating that he had not presented himself at tbe Hotel de Ville , and thafe & e had been deceived by a _National Guard , whose nana he did not recollect .
_Oae-of the _innnrgeutacoanced in tbe fort « f _domainville & ad written to hits to « oateatthevet ; acity « ef his _eadusuiatof . In a protest , signed by several Natknsl _Gaards of the i 6 ; h . _legion , it was _staieddhat Colonel Watrin had . not entered the Hotel de Ville -one of the ficat » and that he , on the . contrary , remained a long time on the square . M . _Forestier , colonel , _« f the legion , had signed tbat dceument . The evidence of M . Prevot . a National Guard , who arrested Barbe _? , _confinnedut . M . Watrin had not entered the Hotel de Ville feefore ha & past five o ' clock , v & ea M . Barbes was a prisoner , Jt was proved by M . Lemaigre and M .. Arnaud _& at he ( Louis Blanq _) was in the aparUJ ment of tie latter at half-past & _ur o ' clook . M . I
Masson declared that he remained in hia house until ) half-past five o ' clock , and it was at that same hour ! ha was seen ey M . Paget , _depatf-coaaiissioner of the Republic , ou lie Quai aux _Fleure . It was also asserted that he evas then escorted by three armed men . Now , M . _Sedon , a cannoneer : Of the National Guard , positively swore that he _wasoueof those men ' ¦ _vho met hia butdid not escort him . A « anonymous letter bad ly spelt , bat written in a good _handandconfejuentlyfeigned , waa produced . Laubardementaaid , that he only required three lines in the baud writing of a man to hang hie . The _committee has gone farther ; it opposed to htm three lines ia an _uuknown handwriting . The deposition of M . _Trelat eoald not militate against him . It was contradicted by that
ofM . _Esile Thomas , whs _ 8 tated that he did not know hiti . M . Louis Blauo then returned to the national workshops and the 1 , 500 tailors of Clichy , of whom only ten had been arrested among tbe insurgents M . Louis Bkino nest gave an account of his conduet during the insurrection of Jane . Oa the 23 rd u : t , he breakfasted at a coffee-house with M . Babaud _Lvivisre _, acd on his return home , at eleven o ' clock , he waa told by his porter that there were _ratf _« m & few _€ / w atthegateofStD . nis Thenceheproceeded to the National _Asiembly , accompanied by a _eoantrymm of hie , wtodeposed before the committee that he had dissuaded all tho individuals he met on the way from joining the insurrecfi in . My defence is terminated . ' concluded M . _Liuis Blanc .
'Nobody wi'l believe that , after exciting an insurrection I had the oowaidice to fly at the hour oi danger . A roan guilty of suoh aa act would cov 9 r himself with M . ( _iacsstDiEHB next ascended the tribune , _carryisg with him a mass of papers . M Trsx « a ' . ked leave to give a personal explanation- ' He Baid tbat , although he was opposed to the Commission of Ioqairy , he was bound to say that Louis Blanc , in his relations with the operatives , excited them more than he appeased them , and he inspired them with Spanish hatred more than with French fraternity . ..- ' . , -. M Louis Blasc replied , that it was true he was born _' in Madrid , bat that his father and mother were both French '
. . , .... M _Cxns n ) iE 8 « then commenced speaking at a _aaarier past ten o'clock . He said , Citi « p _reprejSeiVoefore l begin Ioughtto meution tha tS ConmoTiomn * of _ytsferday _Mnoraoed _$$
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speech I am about to make was not _composed cyme . A Membbb r-What con ? equence ia it whether your speech is composed by you or M . Lingay ? M . Caussibkbb . - * Having been _acquainted for ten years with _in intelligent man , I thought it my duty * o obtain his assistance . The Cosbtittjtionnel considers that extraordinary , I trust tbat you will find iu that which I am about to read a justification , although the details are numerous . Theattack bis been long and minute . I mmt be hug and _minutei in my defence . I must ask permission to read what I have to say . ' (¦ _Speakepeak't The orator
, . then unfolded a voluminous manuscript , which he began to read with great volubility . Several members requested him to read louder and more slowly . M . _Caussidiere began by declaring _tbatdurir-g the entire time he filled the office of Prefeot ef Police , he regarded it as a dictatorship of common sense . He flattered himself that he bad restored order in the midst of the graveBt disturbance . He endea . voured to render the police a polioe of conciliation In my . circular , ' said he , 'I recommended all hackney coachmen to be civil to the public , and to live in terms of fraternity with _loieign ooaohmen . ' ( _Roara of laughter . )
M . _OaussiBasa . —If I am not permitted to justify myself on all the points on whioh I am attacked , I shall be compelled to demand , a commission to take evidence , My mother and my sister are here , and are respectfully waiting my defence . The Presides ! . —I rise again to complain of this interruption . M . _Caotsidibrk . —I held tbat language to the French coachmen , who wished to expel all foreigners , An . atrocious expression is attributed to tne . I am made to say that all that would be necessary to burn all Paris would be a box of . lucifer matches . Welly I _Organised an additional coropany of firemen in order to prevent fires . I proposed to the government to increase the pay of tbe firemen , a
matter always promised but never performed . At Nanterre I imprisoned those who burned the stations aud the _bridges on the railroad . When , on tbe 14 th pf May , I was informed of the movement ef the folio wing day , I proposed to occupy the Church of St Roch with the Garde Mobile . General Duvivier refused , because he desired to receive orders from the government . I can again invoke the testimony of M Lamartine . I wished to disarm the _Montagnards because I had been informed that a conspiracy had been formed amongst tbem to _murder me . I _retnainedtStteen dajB in that pleasant position . ( Laughter . ) The affair of Lahodde is easily explained . He waa _attached to the Refobhk trader the late government- Whilst living in intimacy with us he
denounced us . Ou tho Hth of March he signed the confession of his treachery , and we never saw hira afterwards . M . _Caossidiera next referred to his _conduct during the 15 ft « f May . He said , that al-. though coEfined to hiB bed _% y the effect of an old wound , he had adopted all the _necessary precautions to place the Prefecture of Police in a state of perfect defence , and that if similar precautions had been adopted at the HoteldeVille it would lot have fallen into the power of the insergenta ; he added , tbat he kad received the ttanksofM . Marie , a member of . ' the Executive Government . He then passed to the insurrection of Jane , aad ' as far as regards that occasion , ' said he , ' it it-Ttot a functionary whoso acta are attacked for efficiency , but a citizen
representative of the people _whe is accused of a conspiracy against the safety ef the state . I have no longer to explain the measures I have adopted , but 1 have to multiply proofs in-refutation of _interested « alnmuies . I begin by a collective contradiction addressed to all those who _JnWeBeelared positively that I took an active partin the ' insurrection of Jane , $ 818 . This contradKftion , given in the presence of the Assembly of the representatives of France , in the name of tenth , in the name of honour , in tire name of my devotedness to the sacred cause of the Republic , defies all-quibbles , all hatreds , and every inquisition . _Examiee _. 'and yea will find nothing tut falsehood at thebittomof all those denunciations . Tsaid , _citizens , in a moment Of excitemant , that if i had been a
conspirator—if a had _bsen a leader , I would have beea « t the barricades , and I , would have died there . 'I have nothing more to say on that , and I wish _thatwrance . that Paris , may not some day bave'to defend itself against attacks from another quarter . You will then see thatH was not at the barricades of 5 « ae , because £ would be found in the _raTJks of those defending the Republic . At another period _such _^ a solemn dental on my part would hare _bsen sufficient j but after the 'impression of the strange doonraents which have been submitted re you—afterUhe publicity given to tbem , it is not -permitted to us to _Ciinfine 'ourselves to contempt for
_eulumniatars . It is necessary toTefate word for word so many impostures . We _must'unaask the authors _? we must submit their _osanmavres to year _disgust . 'We must , in fine , inspire , if _itfbeipossible , your Commission _of'Ioquiry _with-disgaat or with bitterregret 'for having accepted such testimony . I am about to follow tbem both in thet > rder : in whioh the report presents them . ' M . Caussidiere then explained his having breakfasted with M . _'Disirabode , the _governor « f St Cloud , out denied that he-had held _the-eouvereat ' _ton attribated to bim oh that occasion . M . _FxoooK rose to * eoufirm 'the assertion of 33 . _Ganssidiere—that he fl « d beea infamously _colnBiniated .
M . _GicsstEiEBsnextadrertedtothe testimony of _* he police agents , _Boissand fiollet , who asserted that they bad seen htc between-one and two o ' clock ' on tha' 33 rd of June near » harrioade in the _Slue W Antoine . 'I shall oocmence * , ' said M . _GaussidiereJ * by establishing an inoontestHile double 'dlibij vknd what then _shall'ramainof the _deposition of ; these two men ? A <» dcub ! e calumny . I-did not _, ouit theBaniere _de-lffitoile , where I lire with * friend , until _half-past « ne 6 ' clock , to proeeei to the Acsembly , where I arrived about tiwoo ' cloek . The _-witnessesof _nty presenoe-at heme are seven , _independently of _thedomestics , _> wh 8 ae evidence woald have ¦ tee * rejected . _Otherp « fsons . < - ? hoealled on _^ _me the same _msrniog might prove that they _sowme at
_homeland _amengst _-owers my . aac / e . \ Yoc have , moreover , in tho report & e evidence of _fourpersons ¦ sAo called oa _tueiduring the morning . Mas ? _pereauscame to my lod | ingson _tbatmea-oing , and-when _Lsaid tbat their visits-Mferred to agricultural _pursaitnl was laughed at . I would desire to have-the laughers on my _tidejibrllihave occupied myself _se-i fiously with sack _purauito , and had-it not beea for that . « aluoky Committee . cf Inquiry I might , like others , supply myt £ _ood . « ftfeeble intelligence to'the caauaittee charged .. with the examination of tktse questions . * We shall return toiit at a later _period-if—( movement in the Assembly } . _The-seven _lettersdrhich I am about _today before the Assembly _are-sigaed by honourable can , and contain * _acst _ciraurastential details . _which . could not be concocted for the . _accaaion , and whieh _coincide perfectly with each ether . Such was thejnanner iu _^ whioh my
time _< waa « 3 iployedfrom 6 ight' 0 olook in tb _# , morning _untShalfipastoue . && _Affjexter or halt-past one o ' clocktltcok a cabriolet , whieh conveyed me to _thej Assembly . Here I find ., _aS'Jtritnesgesofmfipresenoel amongst vycu , thirty-nine . _coUeagues , of whom two ! are Ministers . Those thirty-nine representatives ' signed depositions whioh ifignre amongst the documents distributed to yen in _support of the « eport . ' All _didcotexactly seemedurirjgthe threedayE * -but ; I appeal , ! l demand , and I _ueroke the recollection ofi those who -saw me here oa ( Friday , at two o ' clock , ' and particularly M . Daclerc , who iuu permitted me | to qaestion bim on that subject . _ M . Due _< iEU 0 _<—That is perfectty _^ rue . I saw . _Caua-, _sidiere enter by the lobby « f tthe Salle des _Coofis-i rencesattwco ' elook . My recollection is precise . J : left the bhatnharat half-past two oldock , and I proceeded to the Ministry of Finance . At three o ' clock _Irodeonhorsebaek . \
M . CicssimwE . —Remark that at _< hat hour I was said to hare been & the Faubourg St Antoine , which is a league distant from this . It woald have been . impossible for me to have crossed barricades , fer my _fcaee waa swollen , of which I can give proofs at this mement . A man whom you all esteem , and who fills an honourable misdon in the name Af tbe RepuVic , M . _Anselme _Petetifi , _haa Beat me from _Hacover a letter , nnderdate the 9 th of August , not less eonoluBive , and whioh contaiRS proofs of undoubted accuracy . I add this letter to the evidence ,
quite spontaneous on his part , and which doe * honour to us both- It may ba seen from this evidence what value' ie to ba attached to tke evidence of MM . Boon and Rolktt , even under the patronage of their chief ot polioe , M . Elouin . ' M . Caussidiere ooholuded in the following terms : — ' I defy anybody to prove that I was either the author or the instigator ef the two movements . I woald give my life to have prevented that whieb has occurred . I have bnt another word te say—* Vive la RepuUique . '' IUPKACBUBST OF W > 0 » BLANO i _«> CAU 8 BIDIKBB .
At half-past _twelre o ' clock , when M . Caussidiere had descended from the tribune , the President announced that he had just received a _communication from the Attorney-General of the Republic . The most profound silence ensued , and the President read a requisitory , by whioh the Attorney-General called on the Assembly to authorise proceedings to be instituted _againet _Meairs Louis Blanc and _Uuss diere , charged with beiag the authors or _aooomplieea of the attempt of the 15 th of May , and against Caussidiere for participatien in the attempt _oftheSSrdofJune . .... A lively agitation waa exoited by this
communioa-M . _Laubbni _di-l'Abdbcbk ascended the tribune , and said , that the Assembly should terminate the pending debate on the inquiry , wbioh _*«<»; tirely political , before it examined the judiciary question . 1 HPA . UOU 3 CONDUCT OF THE _BIOrATORS . M . Bag observed , that the present demand for authorisation to prosecute was to be WteMj the journals bad _baen speaking far . some time baok against the Republicans of the meille . He complained of the manner in which the demand bad been _Bwde-so late at night , and in a Chamber worn out with fatigue . He then entered into ao examination ofihSr ges alleged _agaiust M . Louia Blanc and M Caussidiere , aad came to the conclusion that there waa bo _goodreuoa to _pwwdftSUMttaem .
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designated the present ' course of proceeding a ' coup de theatre . — General Oavaionac declared that , in the opinion of the government ; the Assembly , having all-the documents under its _eycb , could pronounce oh the requisitory as well as on tho report , and that it _was indispensable tbe question should be settled that sight . Some members of the Left having moved that the _Assembly should adjourn to the following day , the proposition was rejeoted by au immense majority . M . _LAGEANOEnext condemned the manner in whioh
the committee had fulfilled the duties imposed upon it . Instead of delivering up to justice , men wh ) were truly gnilty , it punished tbe Republicans . M . Ledru Rillin a-ked to bb ; a few words on the mode of putting the question . Did the ., Assembly mean to pronounce on the judiciary inquiry before _cloain ? the discussion on the political inquiry ? Now , it was impossible to close the latter , for the honour of tbemembers of the committee was at stake . Several important documents \ M not been printed , and it was impossible to . close the debate until it waB known wby those documents had not been publisher ? . M . ns _Larcv , member of the committee , replied tbat the faoRour . of the committee was not at stake , because a Legitimist proclamation , which had not been submitted to it , was not to be found among the documents .
A Member here observed that a Colonel Gendarmerie had arrested a man , the bearer of a Legitimist proclamation , whioh had been communicated to the competent authorities . That individual declared that he had fought at the barricades for Henry Y . The document was in the bands of the Prefeot of Police , and should bave been placed before tho committee . General CmroNAc next rose and said— ' I beg permission from the Chamber to return to a former , incident . One of the members has spoken of a long prepared coop de theatre . It ia important to explain the situation . Whilst the inquiry was proceeding t he government was not wanting iu its duty , and the
judicial inquiry continued all tbe while . Tbe de . _mand we have just addressed you is not the result of the political inquiry , but of tho judiciary inquiry . ( Profound sensation . ) The government was anxious that tbo _disrussioB should come on and terminate promptly . We did not and « ouid not desire that this application for leave to prosecute two members of the Assembly should be the _subject of a new discussion . The government oaly interfered after the politioal debate . If we allowed a new debate to take place in a few _dajs we should be wanting in all our duties . We consider the Assembly perfectly competent to pronounce in both cases on the same day . I pro test against all idea of juggling and eoupde theatre . We perform our duty , and find little pleasure in it . '
¦ . M- Loms Blanc next aiiced that the politioal and judiciary fact- be discussed together . The Assembly had already rejected such a demand as respected himself , and could not now ct . me . baok on its
decision . A VotcB : But if they are fresh charges ? . M . Louis Blase : There is not an honest man in the coun ry who does not , ia hisconseience , proclaim me _inaocent . ( ' < _% , oh , ' and laughter . ) What it is wished to strike in me is not a guilty man but a politioal opponent . _, M . Cokse , the _Procureur-General , said , that three things had gone ou concurrently to enlighten the law officers—the judicial _inatruotion on _affairs of May 15 -the military instruction on the insurrection of June ; £ nd the judicial investigation on the same . Therefore , the tacts were well known . M . Louis Blanc ought to bear in mind tbat since the last demand for authorisation new facte had come to
_lisht . M . Louis Blanc again protested againBt the . oouree adopted _. The Presides * of the _Comon : We certainly wish to have a prompt solution of tais matter ;; bnt the solution which we demand we by no means impose on the Assembly . We declarethat we think tbie-demand necessary . We do not say when we formed this opinion ; but this we can declare , that for several days the documents on which it is founded have been in oar hands . We do net wish to inflqenre the Assembly in any way ; we merely wish te Btate the case . ( Hear , hear . 5 M . Flocon declared that the committee had , in his opinion , failed altogether in its miBBion , having sought for particular causes , and carefully avoided the general and true ones .
M . Dons _wishedto pace the questronclearly befote the Assembly . It was necessary altogether to separate the political from the judicial question in the matter . The Assembly had no power whatever to decide the judicial -question ; all It could do was to decide whether two ofits members should he stripped _* of their parliamentary privileges in order to be handed over to the law dm & _ete of the goverament . The Assembly bad nothing whatever further to d _? , so that all that was said about judging and condemning the
members alluded to was nothing but , mere words . The ; Assembly would , therefore , first have to place aside the _politioslquestion altogether . Nextitcould not separate the affair of May _ts from that of -June , aB they went together . ' ( Cries of ' Ko , no , ? 'Tea , yes ;' ' ) Let tlrem remember the disjunction aot , and how unpopular it had been . He would now , therefore , formally propose to-set aside the political parto ! the question . _Tbb'Phbshmsut :: 1 now _put'tothe < vote the question to set aside the politioal part as proposed . ( Agitation . l
M . _'Flocok : I propose the order of the day on the whole _repcrt-i ( great confusion )—without dtBtino tion as to the parte composing it . >( Renewed . confusion !) _, The Mhisibr of _SFcsxnm wished to observetbat in the affair of _May'IStthe persons implicated , would he ¦ ftrongbt before , the ordinary courts of'law , but that -they who were accused of participating in the _iasuritection w * ald _besenttbefore theconrt martial . 'fGreat agitation )) . _ThelPaBsiDENi : ? I now propose the pure and _eimple order of tbe day on the report , 'which will oloee the _disouBsien—it being understood that the report does set affect the demand for the . authorisation . t _^ Great
noise . ) . , , . This ww carried _byxwr immense majority . _TheiFasiissflT : The subjephaow under discussion isihe demand of authorisation . The _Mibisteb of _JeeiicR : -From the motives jast expressed by the President I have to call for a-discus sion on tbe subject forthwith d' mgence . . M . Bac proposed that the demand _sbonld'be-sent in tke UBual way tothe _itircauic . The Assembly ought to ( have time to study the new _documents .. The matter had . not been sufficiently studied . r _>@ h , oh . ' ) ¦ ¦ . .
. _TbePsssmsKT' . A divisionhasibeencal ! ed > for _« _on the question of urgency . (( Murmuss . ) Great agitation was _manifested _^ wiiilst the vote « fis going on ,-and _flhilBt the _seeielaries were reckoning the bulletins , the members eollecteddn groups on tbe . floor , oon */ eraing > and gesticulatingiTOth _greatenetgy . Jt waB now broad-daylight , _aedcthe appearance _ofthe Chamber , with the dying lights in-the lustres , _ithe worn look of _theiladies in the galleries ( which _ponuuued crowded to the close ) , and the feverish ,
_agitatien of _theiouse , . _presented a strange and unpleasant spectacle . j The following was tthe result of _tha . _fiivigion : — j For tb _^ demaud of ur gency .... 493 ! Against it .... ... ... 292 > Majority .... ... « .. —201 ( _Sensttirn ) The PaEsiDBtflr . _—Insongequence the fiaoussion is to take place forthwith . The moment the urgency was declared M . Louis Blano and M . Caussidiere left tbe Chamber ..
THE _IMPEACHMENT VOTED . The _PjtesmBHT— -A formal . division has-been applied _, fur on the demand for authorisation of _iproseoution in the czse of M . Louie Blano for the _Affair of Maf 3 £ thonly . The following was the result : — For granting the authorisation £ 04 AgainBt it ... ,. ... 252 - _-. Majority ... ... ... ——252 The _Pbesidbnt . —In consequence the Assembly accords the authorisation to take judicial proceeding against M . Louis Blano for ths aff-ir of May 15 . Toe discussion now opens on the _aase of M . Caussidiere fer the same event . _, ,..,, . . M . Flocon expressed his regret at seeing , suoh a determination come to against a man who was a
friend of his—who had fought in February to found ihe Republic , and who had shared in the responsibility of the Provisional Government . Then , referring to the caBe of M . Caussidiere , he observed that he bad been already punished for the affair of May 15 , having been deprived of his situation of Prefect of Police . ( Marks of denial . A Voioe— 'He was obliged to give it up for bad conduot ! _' ) He would demand , was itfair to now again visit him even more severely for the eame matter ? As to the affair of June 23 , the Assembly mtut not forget that if the authorisation to prosecute were granted for that event it would be to send him before the Council of
War . He felt convinced that if such a result could bave been foreseen before the present _disousaion bad begun , the matter would never for a moment have been permitted to go so far . He then went throngh the -circumstances connected with M . _Caussidiere ' s conduct in Jane , and declared that it was impossible to find in them anything to criminate him . The hon . representative then touched on the _cironmstances of M . Caussidiere ' s family ; spoke of his brother , killed for tbe Republio ; and , alluding to his aged father , remarked that the old man would indeed have been happy had he after beholding the glorious revolution of February , at ence yielded up his last breath .
M . MATHiEu ( deIa Drome ) also adverted to some circumstances of the same period , and expressed his belief that M . Caussidiere had not been implicated in the insurrection . He referred , amongst other things , to the fact that M . Caussidiere had accompanied him aid other members to General Cavsignao with a view to enter into some conditions with the insurgents . _ThePRasiDBRt of tho Council , said , that in troth
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he remembered that five or six representatives , amongst whom was M . Caussidiere , had called on him and _apoke . about , treating . He refused , the matter having beoome' so grave tbat it was _abiiolutely necessary to master it completely . It was agreed , however , to issue a proclamation , which the members could undertake to have distributed amonpst the insurgents . -M . Jambb db Montrat declared that he had acoompanied M . Caussidiere and the other representatives t » Gsneral _Cavaignac ' _s house , and there tbe proclamation was agreed to , whioh not a little contributed to discourage tbe insurgent party . M . Bauhe spoke to the Bame effect .
The President . —The Assembly will now vote on the question for authorising a judicial pursuit against M . Caussidiere for the affair of May 15 . The following was the result of tbe division : — For tbe authorisation ... 477 Against it 268 Majority ... —209 The President . —In consequence , the authorisation is accorded . The Assembly will now vote on the _q'lestisc of _graniiug the _atithorisatioa te allow proceedings te be instituted against M . Caussidiere for being implicated in the insurrection of June , whioh will have the effeot of delivering him over to the Council of War . ( Great outcry ; cries of 'No , no ; ' ' Yes , yes . ' ) r The following was the result of the division : — For tbe authorisation ... 370 Against it ... 458 Majority against it ... —88
The _PaBBiDBNi . —In consequence , the _authorwafcion relative to the insurrection of June is not accorded against the citizen Caussidiere . The Assembly then rose at six o ' clock in the morning , adjourned to Monday . The whole garrison of Paris , and all the troops within many leagues of it , were literally under arms last night . The whole of the Garde Mobile was abroad or in the torts . The elite of the National Guards were noiselessly assembled at their respective Mairies , and patrolled the city ia every direction throughout Friday night , and until bix o ' olock on Saturday morning . REPORTED ABRE 8 T 3 OF LOTUS BLAKC ARD CAUSSIDIERE . M . Louis Blano and M . Caussidiere had left the Assembly when it was evident , from tbe result of the urgency vote , that the case was going against them . On leaving the Assembly they went into one of the
committee rooms adjoining the Assembly , where they remained till the rising of the house , and wrote a great number of letters . As soon as the vote was passed granting the authority of the Assembly for their being prosecuted , an officer of justice made his appearance , and took tbem into custody . They were immediately carried to the Conciergene . where they remained for some hours . They were theu escorted in a carriage , surrounded by cavalry , to the _lortreas of _Vincenneo , where they are at the present moment in company with their friends Barbes and Albert . In consequence of this arrest , the process of the affair of the 15 th of May will ba proceeded with as quickly as the formB will permit . In opposition to this account , the following letter appeared in several of the Paris papers of Saturday , from whioh it would appear that Louis Blano had withdrawn himself to avoid arreat .
Strack not as guilty—that Is impossible—but as an enemy , by men in whom politioal passions have ' silenced every sentiment of equity , ' I go out of the way , ( jt n ' elo \ jjne )\ _a order to protest more effeotually against tbe const _quvnses . of , the state of siege and government of force . I cannot b _.-Iieve tbat France will patiently suffer the regular course of justice to remain suspended much longer . When the day for discussion comes I shall be there . August 26 , IMS . lows Blasc . In the conduct of the Government and the _Assembly the Refobmk sees the subjugation of the Republio , and adds : —
The Republio ! After five months behold the lot : 19 , 009 men in prison , hunger amongst the masses , despair b » low , anxiety everywhere ; liberties gagged , glory absent ; poetry , the arts , and all lights extinguished ; an Assembly whioh 6 onominatos itself a bourgeoisie , irritated and suffering , and our only hope , a constitution about to be made la the midst of tbese disasters . And tbis Ib what we have hitherto been doteg for the perpetuation of the great Republic , Abl the victims of February arc not the ouly _martm . '
TH « _JMBOOTRS Ol ? JUHB . A second lieutenant of the 11 th legion of tbe National Guard of Paris was convicted by court-martial on Friday last of having fought in the ranks of the insurgents of June . He was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment . ¦ ThePBWM Souvbbain of Lyons _stateBthat the priest party is organising itself io tbat city , and that its ramifications extend to Chambery . An army of the faith is announced to bring back Henry Y . The partisans of a regency are likewise organising them _> : selves under the denomination of ' Honest Men . ' These Booieties it is said , receive no interruption from ' the authorities . [ The Red Republican prinoiplea seem on the other hand to prevail in other parts of France . An instance of it was given in the late munioipal elections at Saint Amaud , at whioh Marshal Soult was a candidate , and _^ _W (« defeated by a shoemaker .
A letter dated Avignon , states tbat a tumultuous _procession had jast taken place in that city , in which several red flags and red caps were paraded . Cries of 'Wvot Barbes . "' Vive Blangui /'' Vive Robespierre !' Dawn with the rich , ' ' Djwn with the merchants , ' resounded in the ranks . A number of the National Guards on horseback rode at the head of the _procession .
THB WAR AGAINBT THB PRESS . , There was a meeting on Thursday of journalists at theealen of _Lemardelay , Rue Richelieu , to consider tbe decree of the President of the Counoil , by which _fourjoutnalshave been suppressed . M . de _Girardin the editor of the _Prebjb , took the leading part in thiB manifestation , from which some of the leading journalists abstained . TheDsBATs ( _Consthbtionnbl , _Nationac , _Sikclb , I'Uflioi _* , and some others were not represented at the meeting . It was agreed in conformity with tbe suggestion of M , de Girardin ! that a protest againBt tbe decree should be drawn up , and . presented immediately to the National _AseembW ..
DISTDBBAKCSB AT LILLE . The . wotkmen of the ateliers communaux ef LiHe ; suspended work again on Thursday . Five or six numerous 'assemblages were formed in the streets , and in the evening some persons were arrested ; Great exoitement now prevailed in the city , and the groups of workmen became so numerous , and . so threatening iin their language , that the . rappel was beaten . On _> the appearance of the National Guard the _pertatbators fled , but bands of hoys paraded the _streetsaingingthe 'Marseillaise , ' the * Girondins , '
the'Chant-du Depart , ' < so . ¦& . force was sent to the . _MayorVhouse , but the rioters , though they broke some of the windows , made no attaok on it . The National Guards remained under arms till midnight . The next day the mayor . issued an _arrete , dissolving the atelimicommmaux , promising relief to the workmen until associations of them should be formed to do the work by the piece . _Abeut six o ' clook in the evening , tbe workmen assembled in numerous groups , and displayed a threatening attitude . The ¦ swppel was again ibeaten , and the National GuardB turned ont .
A decree appeared on Thursday . evening suppressing the G Azarre as _Fbancb . It states that : - Considering that this journal contains _inoesiant _Btitaoka against the _St _* . pu % llo , and excitations tending to I destroy this form of _determent in order to put in its place the monarchist form ; , _Canstdering that these , attacks aad these _exoltatlons are of a nature , under present _oiroams'ances , to turn _cltiiess one against . another , and thus to raise civil war in Paris and in the _departments—Daotees—That from tbit day the _Gasstte se Fbanos it and remains suspended . The first number of a new journal , oalled the Bouche ob Fib , was yesterday suppressed within a few hours of its appearance . The _Gazbete _na Fbahcb was the oldest of all tbe journals . lis editor was the Abbe de _Gsnoude .
PBBPARAMONS POR COMBAT . The Opinio * - _PonuqoB contains the following significant paragraphs : — Paris is _it » _i ? two months io a state of ilege . A tplllkn of cartridges have been distributed to tbe SfattoBBl Guard . f _esterday several carriages with shells and howitzers passed along the quay going tovtards tbo Boole Milltalre ; tJghi ammunitloa waggons Heavily _Udeu proceeded from _Vinuoones to the same destination . _Atjinotnnes 100 flald pieces are lathe _court-yard ready to be put to . Tbere are four in the Hotel de Ville , forty in the Tempi . * , four in the c « art of tho Tuilerios , eight In the Luxembourg , four at the Palais d'Oraay , sixteen In the court and garden of the Natloaal Assembly , nnd a tvhole park in the Eoole Milltalre , Champa « b liars . Mount Valerian and several other forts bave _rannons of siege planted on their ramparts . FRIOH 1 FDL BTATE OF PARIS—DBBPAIB 8 F THB PB 0 PLE
—ANOTHER _SIRDOOLE _CERIAlfj ! ( From the Correspondent of the John Bull . ) Paris is still under arms . But the soldiery are no longer encamping on straw in the streets , half asleep through the exhaustion of incessant watches ; they are in good _fightim ? order , ready prepared fer another bloody conflict . The honr of extermination ia at hand , and if it has not yet struck ,.. by way of eignal for fresh horrow , it ia because despair and hunger have not yet reaohed their utmost limits , aid a martial foroe as yet forms a rampart againBt the swelling
tide ef popular passions .. . The troops are extremely _jealoua of the Garde Mobile , which has a frano and a half a day , and is cajoled and flattered , while the _soldierscoutinue to receive their former pay . The _Carlists are busy in the provinces , and the authorities stand at hay . . What a situation to be in 1 Fear is on all sides , and what is to be tbe end of it , it is more difficult than ever to conj « otire . As for the Constitution of the Republic , it will never be _enaoted . All faith in it is gone ; and the
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mo 3 t frightful revulsion will _weep away the very project of it . We have arrived at a crisis when every week will be pregnant with events of the most intense interest , arid the moat dramatic character . ( From the Corresponden t of the Britannia . ) The week that has passed away since I last wrote has been yen agitated and full of alarms . , Gioupa in the streets in earnest politioal _diBCUBsion-vaBt awemblaees at the _Portes St Martin and St __ Itemsgloomy attitude of the workmen of the Faubourgsmovements of troops , and precautions of all Kindsdetachments of military in the _slrcetB-Biniater rumours-exhortations of the j . 'urnalB to the people to remain quiet—we have had all these , and , in a word _, all the symptoms which preceded tbe outbreaks or
May and June . Now , aB then , the same _oiroums ance 3 of _cotirie Bhow that the popular volcano is in agitation again , and will burst forth t * cover the land with desolation and woo . I repeat what waa earn m former letters , that the period of this new eruption cannot be fixed—it may be next week—next month —or even later ; my opinion is , as I have said before , that it is not so near as many imagine—perhaps will not come until tho severest part oi the winter shall have increased tbo rai _.-ery of tke working classes . ; but that it will come sterner , bloodier , more horrible far than its predecessors , is , according to all human probabilities , as fixed , certain , inevitable as anything human can be . The charaoter of the new outbreak , come when it may , will he the same as that of
June—Socialist ; it will be a battle of class against class—a battle to make tbe rioh lees rich , in the belief that the poor will be thereby made less pcora struggle on the part of the masses , goaded on by misery and hanger , to obtain a government that shall fulfil the promises which the Republio established in February so solemnly made and has so shamefully violated . It is unjust to the people on the one hand , to represent , as some of your daily contemporaries do , that they only fight _fsr wholesale pillage , assassination , and incendiarism ; and yet it is not to be wondered at , on the other hand , that the bourgeoisie resists their demands , inasmuch as the _granting of them would destroy the basis on which society has existed for ages—a destruction not to be accomplished without appalling disaster .
_IBIRIOOBS tP THE RICH . Every day and every hour the feeling of the middle and upper classes against the . Republic becomes stronger and stronger . You would be really astonished to hear how such people talk against it . The shopkeepers in particular express tho most intense disgust at it , aud devoutly pray Heaven that it may be orushed at once and for ever . The aristocracy both of money and birth—that of Louis Philippe and that of the Faubourg St Germain—neither of whom , of _ceuree _, entertain any friendly feeling to it—are acting with a good deal of taot at this moment . They send tbeir wives and daughters into the shops to examine articles for sale , and to pick out what they would like to have—generally , the
moat expensive objeotB ; and then , when the chopkeeper is gleefully rubbing his hands at the prospect of doing a stroke of business—a rare thing for him sinoe the revolution—the fair visitors exolaim , ' Oh 1 we cannot buy now 1 We have no money ! And , besides , no one can tell what will happen—we must wait until wo have a monarchical government , whioh 3 b the , only one tbat can suit France , and then—oh , I then Mr . —— 1 ' And , bo saying , they leave the poor devil of a shopkeeper to ruminate on the advantages of monarchy and to curse the Republio , which last he does with heartfelt sincerity . ThiB system , I understand , has b ? en aoted on to a very large extent within the last fortnight , and has been attended with extraordinary success .
8 UFFBMN 08 OF TUB POOR . As to the workmen—God help the poor creatures ! They have nothing for themselves , wives , and families , but the _miserably insufficient pittanoe of bread doled out at the Mairies . 1 _assure you that it is heartrending to visit the quarters in which they reside—you see them glide about in rage , with pale and haggard faces—ashamed to eat tbe begrudged bread of oharity , yet unable to obtain work ; and if yoa enter their small dirty residences you wou'd be _shooked still more—aU tbeir furniture gone—small bundles of dirty straw serving as tables , chairs , aud beds !
KBCAPB OF LOUIS BUNG ADD . CAUSSIDIERE . Up to Sunday evening the proscribed patriots had not been arrested . It is said that tbey . had requested permission to arrange Borne private affairs previous to their iooarceration , and that they took advantage of that indulgence to efleot their escape . Tranquillity had been re-established in Lille . The ringleaders in the disturbances were in custody .
ANOTHER ACCOUNT . _Warrants were issued on Saturday morning for tbe apprehension of MM . Louis Blano and _Cauasidiero by M . Bertrand , the magistrate , in virtue of the re . qaisitory of M . Pinard , the Attorney-General of the Republio . Several commissaries ot police , attended by their _ageats , proceeded immediately to the residence of M . Caussidiere , and to the lodgings of M . Louis Blano , but neither Caussidiere nor Louis Blanc was to be found . They had quitted tbeir lodgings the previous evening , and had not returned . M . Bertrand , the magistrate , proceeded , in presence of the Attorney-General of the Republic , to search the apartment of M . Caussidiere and that of Louis Blano . The papers seized at M . Caussidiere's residence were lodged in the Record office . Seals were placed on M . Louis Blanc's office .
MIRE _PERSECUTION . A proseoution has been oommenced by order of the Attorney-General against the founders of a new club , established in the Rue Saint Mery , under the title of the Club de Vtiomme arme ( the club of the armed man ) . _ The . foundera , pf the olub are accused of exciting hatred and contempt against the government of the Republio , and of acting in contravention to the new law regulating club ? .
_XSCAPJ ! OP LOUIS . BLANC TO , SNOLAS » . ' . It is said that Louis Blanc quitted the National Assembly on Saturday morning last , previous to tha division ou his case . He proceeded in a cabriolet ; accompanied by a friend , to St Denis , where he arrived too late for the first train to _Brussels He waited at St Denis for above two hours until the second train started , by which he proceeded to Belgium . He arrived on Tuesday at Dover . Caussidiere is said to be in an inviolable hiding place , where he will remain until the session of . the National Assembly shall close . Tbe expression inviolable , _sb connected wiih his place of refuge , ia mysterious , and somewhat unintelligible .
Lisle iB in a very disturbed state , owing to measures adopted for obliging the workmen of the _uiev Hers nationaux to do piece-work . The _CoNSiiTunoNiiBL appeared on Monday for tha second time without any leading article . It gives no reason for its oontinued Bilence , but it is well known to be the indignation fel { by its conductors at the threat thrown out by . the government to _snppresi It in cenjunotion with the Rbfobme . The _Prebse cannot suppress its exultation at finding the organ of M . Thiers following its example , in abstaining frem all political comment during the present ream of terror . __ It is certain that the French government has given a positive refusal to the demand of ihterven * tion made by the envoy from Venice , fearing that by so doing it might complioate the pending ncgocla _. tions .
The deserted Btate of _Paria may be judged by the faot that there are 25 , 000 apartments to be let , ranging from 1 . 500 to 2 , 600 f , a year . GERMANY . bbriovs mora at beruw . Bbrli * _-, August 22 .-On Sundays body of Char lottenburgera assembled , broke into the democratic meeting place in this city , attacked orator * and members , dragged pr drove them into the street , and pursuing them to their own or other houses , beatand brmsed several moBt Bevorely . Among them are ' the two Banere and a tradesman named Jaoobs . The Burgher Guard of Charlottenburg , either too weal or unwilling to interfere , allowed matters to take their couree _, and toe military totally abstained fromall interference
. Great exoitement was produced by this intelligence among the parent democrats of Be / hn . Meetings were held yesterday mornin _? , and _emiBsanes employed to inflame the people against tha _reactiomsts , ' and to get up a demonstration , of which , however , there were no outward _svmptemB ut > to post hour , beyond a g reater increase of group s oa the Linden and contiguous quarters , to whose nightly vociferations men are bo much acouBtomed that they _ZltT'JZ _!* _*} _^ Bleep OT a"wot attention _, _iowards nine o ' olock these groups augmented to a formidable _masB , and after being harangued from a _lamp-post , tbey rushed in a body to the ministerial residence of the M . mster of Commerce , M . Milde _, calling upon him to appear , and demanding that the men who attacked , the democrats of _Cbarlottenhnw
_snouia ne arrested and brought to trial , or that all prisoners _agoused of political offences should be Jiberated . M . Milde , to Bave his window ' s from _beina smashed , eoen appeared at one of those of the first story , and attempted to address the mob ; but , as his voice is weak and shrill , could not make himselfheard . Thereupon he was ordered to open bis door § and to receive a deputation ; This was also complied with , and promises given _by'fiim that the Chartot ten _* burg affair Bhould undergo a strict investigation . This being _settleu , the mob , who appeared ripe for extreme violence , tore down the iron bars that rail off the . centre from the Bides of the Linden , broke u p tha benches , and , _thua armed , proceeded to the _Miniah _*
oi tne interior , where , with yells aud vociferations - _, they demanded an audience , and wheteuDon aebur ' informed that M . Kuhlwelter was ff CeB ¦ SSS * f ° f * ft . , Not hOT « K found thit j nnntw . it _JMi determined to proceed to toe abodj _i _^ _-J _** _" * _AuenwrJtl _, whose evenings of _»! the moment the immense and _furiomfmob arrived ; the apartments were filled with members of _tlT _diplomats corps and numerous guests approach of the mob » ome half dozen attempted to interpoae , but were quiokly one with a dangerous wound ending in oiare death . _Atthesame time two
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 2, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02091848/page/7/
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