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      FRA . NCE . The following proclamation was issued on Friday last : — ' The President of the Republic and his government will not hesitate to employ any measure calculated to maintain order and save society , but they will always know how to pay attention to the voice of public opinion , and to the wishes of the well-inclined persons . They have not hesitated to change a mode of voting which they had borrowed from

      precedents in history , hat which , in the actual state of our electoral habits , did not appear sufficiently to ensure the independence of the votes given . The President of the Republic desires that all the electors s \» a > . l be completely at liberty in the expression of their vote , whether they exercise public functions or not , and whether they belong to the civ ; l professions ot to the army . Absolute independence , complete liberty of voting , is what Louis Napoleon wishes to see established . * De Mosky , Minister of the Interior .

      • Paris , Dec . 5 . " A correspondent writes the following , dated the 6 th inst . : — * I hear from public report in the streets that twenly-four men , taken with arms in their hands , have been shot this rooming in the Avenue Marigny . * Madier de Montjau was wounded on Wednesday at one of the barricades in the Faubaurg St . Antoine . His death was announced in the " Patrie , " but incorrectly . He is expected to recover soon , and lies at present in arrest .

      ' This morning & 11 is quiet . The carriages circulate ; the shops are open ; the military have disappeared , and the capital resumes its usual aspect . I have not been able 33 yet to procure even an approximately correct statement of the number 0 / persons lulled . The greater part of the barricades were abandoned after the first platoon fire of the infantry ; very few of the soldiers have been even wounded ; but the loss of life among ; persons altogether unconcerned in the disturbance , mere quiet citizens surprised in the great thoroughfares and slaughtered by discharges of musketry , is really fearful- There are at this moment thirty-eigh t

      bodies lying in the cemetery of Montmartre , co vered with straw , and laid out for recognition by their bereaved friends . People come and draw aside the straw to examine the features oi these victims , who retain their usual clothing . Thirtysix of these are well-dressed persons , with an appearance of opulence , with watches , chains , papers , and other objects found upon them , indicating an easy station , and leading to the conclusion that they were shot in the streets as they went about their usual avocations . There is only one workman among these bodies ; and one woman , a Bavarian broom vender .

      ' One of the oldest English residents m this capital , Mr . P . Pariss , druggist in the Rue de la Paix , was killed on Thursday afternoon , in the discharge of musketry caused by the firing from a house on the troops as they were passing . Mr . Pariss received two balls , and died four hours afterwards , He was on his way from the Rue de h Paix to another establishment that he had near the Faubourg Poi 3 sonniete . ' A great number oCcorpses are laid out for recognition in the Bazar du Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle . ? The following passage from the 'Constitutionnel / B f II give au idea of the enormous military force by hich the coup d ' etat is snpported

      ' In the combats of the 4 th , and m the military demonstration of yesterday , only one-half of the army of Paris was employed . Not a battalion from any of the neighbouring garrisons has been sent for . One may judge from the powerful reserve at the disposal of the government , with what vigorous repression a& 5 attempt at a » ew insurrection would be met . Every one has been able to convince himself of the splendid arrangements made by General Magjiaa and of the rare precision with which the movements have been executed by the generals under bis orders . * A correspondent thus describes the appearance of the Boulevard Bonne ftouvel after tha fighting . —

      ' The crowd of people on foot and in the carriages assembled to witness the traces of destruction ou the beautiful edifices of this part of Paris was immense . But the ruinous breaches effected by cannon in the carpet manufactory of Anbusson and the neighbonring buildings were the chief objects of curiosity . Among the carriages grouped opjosUe to tMs sttrage scene I observed to my great surprise , that of M . Thiers , with Madame Thiers within . The change in the aspect of the people was surprising . Not a soldier was to he

      seea anywhere along this line . The glad sense of security was visible in every face , even while gazing on the scarred houses . Now and then the Utters of the « Ambuleacea' were florae along for the transportation of the wounded . Beyond the Porte St . Martin up to the Place de la Bastille there is not 3 trace of fighting . There was evidently an intention of striking terror into the opulent classes , who favoured the views of the royalists . The handsomest modern mansions in Paris stand exactly on the Boulevards Pjis 5 ona ' ere and Bonne Nouvelle

      whicn have suffered most . Every stone edifice , distinguished by elaborate architectural decoration , and ornamented with column and cornice , bears the innumerable dint of ballets . la the plate-s > lass of the windows yon see the clean round hole of the rifle ball in a little halo of white cracks . Before you reach the Porie St . Denis there is a raised path to the right . AU the railings which protect passers by have been tent away . TJnderneath lay the black rusty springs of two carriages which had been bnrned . The restored paring near the arch showed that an ordinance of the Prefect of Police

      posted up had been attended to . AU those round pillars which are ranged at intervals along the . Bou < % v&ris , and serve / or ' affieaes * aad other purposes -were turn down , and showed only a ruined stamp . The boxe 3 where the arrivals and departures of hackney coaches are cheekf d had disappeared with their clocks generally . The pavement everywhere is either restored or in process of restoration . At the Chateau d'Eau I saw the traces of a camp , where a detachment of cavalry bivouacked , all strain with . Utter and tefwse . In the muddy road , round dry spots marked the places where their fires had been kindled / The following circular has been sent by the Prefect of Police to the different police

      commisoners : — ' Paris , Dec . 5 . 'Mr . Commissary , —The insurrection is put down , Oar enemies are henceforth powerless to re-erect the barricades . Nevertheless the excitation to retoU continues . Ardent demagogues go about from group to group to provoke agitation and to spread false news . The ex-Mon ! agnard representatives are tttining tO account the last vestiges of their former prestige , to lead the people to follow them . Furnished . hotels , cafes , and suspicious houses , become the receptacles of conspirators and insurgents .

      Arms , munitions of war , and incendiary writings , are concealed in tbem . All these causes of agitation must be suppressed by practising the system of arrests , and the searching oi houses upon a vast scale . These are the raeaas of restoring to the city that tranquillity which a handful of factious persons seek 10 rob her of . You have all under my own eyes done your du-. J With SO much courage and devotion , that I do not doubt bat that in order to fulfil this new and important mission , yon will find in yeucselves all the vigilance and energy which dircumsiances commaml . —The Prefect of Police , Dk Matjfas . '

      Dr . Hoffe , an English dentist , residing at the Cite Vinde , was among the persons killed on the Boulevards on Thursday , vfho were mere spectators 0 / the operations . His body is said to be pierced with twelve balls . Disturbances 0 ! a verr serious character have broken out again in the Cher . The valley of the Loire seema destined to give the government some trouble yet . A covernment organ stated , on Saturday , that some attempts at insurrection were made at Lyons , in the faubourgs Vaise and de la Guillotiere , but without any result . At Auzin , it it said , « ome workmen threatened a strike , but were deterred by a simple demonstration of the authorities . StjsdaY j —The < Moniteur' contains the following * emi-oflicisl notice : —

      • TjrojonraaU of Laadon-tbe u Morning Chron . cle" and the " Globe" copying the former-publiih concerning the acts of the government and ihe deeds oi the 2 nd Peceraber , the most odious and absurd calumnies . We are authorised to give these journals , whose introduction into France is forbidden , the most complete contradiction . We learn wi « the correspondents have received to-day the Order to quit France . ~ J , ? n ilUttr " ctio ( n , of ^ e valley of the Loire is ¦ Min g ground . The : u 54 r etrt 8 have invaded seve-

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      ral cantons of the Allier , and occupied L » Pabsso afteT a conflict in which the gendarmerie tustained severe losses . At Tournus they have taken the Hotel de Ville . Serious riots have broken out at different points oi the Saone-et-Loire , particularly in the arrondissemfnt of Cnalon-sur-Saone . A decree appears in the « Moniteur , ' placing the Allier and Saone-et-Loire in stale of siege . M , de Moray , Minister of the Interior , states , in the preamble of the decree , the above facts concerning the spresd of the insurrection .

      Numerous arrest * wer « effected yesterday in the quarter of St . Martin . Among others , a represeni aiive was taken there . Stores of arms , many of the guns yet loaded , were found in the houses , Almost all belonged to the national guard . Quantities of tin cases filled with powder have been found in the sewers . Mathe , representative of the AWer , Huguenin , of the Haute-Saone , and eight redacteurs of the Revolution' were also arrested . Riots have occurred at Clermont , but were suppressed . A correspondent says : —

      • The members of the dissolved Assembly are now , with few exceptions , at liberty . The first u « e which they have made of their power of seeing one another has been to consult whether they shall stay at Paris or repair to the various departments , where they have most influence , in order to organise a pacific resistance to Louis Napoleon by way of vote . This question has not been yet decided . But several conservatire representatives wiil

      meet this evening at tfce house of a well known ex-minister , in order to come to some common resolution on this subject . I understand that none of the representatives hostile to the government receive their letters addressed to them ; and their correspondence has to be sent through third parties . Monday . —A conflict has taken place at Mnntargis in the Loiret , in which the socialist party were defeated , with loss , by the National Guard .

      The Chamber of Commerce at Havre made in its sitting of the 5 th a demonstration against the acts of the President . The military commander of that port during the state of siege has therefore issued a proclamation , warning all deliberative bodies not to exceed the strict limit of their attributions , by passing resolutions on such matters , otherwise they will be dissolved . He abstains Irom dissolving the Chamber of Commerce on the present occasion , considering the inconvenience that might result to commerce from sudfa measure . A coiLmission of three mayors , an architect , and doctor , presided over by the Prefect of the Seine , is appointed to value the damages done to innocent victims . A credit of 200 , 000 fr . is opened to the minister of the interior to provide for ( he first needs .

      We may gather from various signs that gradually all traces of the revolution of February will disappear , whether in the shape of external symbols or political institutions , as for instance . The reconversion of the Pantheon into the Church of St . Ganevieve , decreed by an ordinance in the ' Moniteur' of this morning , is a sop thrown to the priesthood , the more ardent section of which has atill stuck to the cause of Louis Napoleon . This concession has at the same time the advantage of appearing to abdicate a feature of imperialism unsuited to the feeling of the age—I mean the heathenish imitation of Greek and Roman ideas .

      The following is from a correspondent . — 1 Monday—Everybody to-day looks though ful . Go into whatever house you will—and I have been in many this morning—people will recount to yous with that graphic skill for which the French are so remarkable , every incident of the wetk , and accompany the sketch with some useful , though perhaps commonplace moral . The sacrifice of liie louche , every heart . The indiscriminate , brutal manner in which the soldiers Lave used their momentary power is the subject of universal comment . It is known that hundreds of shot were fired into houses from which not a gun had been discharged . Most

      of the four or five hundred persons killed were young men who had taken no part in the struggle . The same may be said of the hundreds who were wounded , and are now suffering uutold agonies in the public hospitals . At least twenty of the wounded and ten of the killed were English , who happened to be at the scene of action when the unlooked-for discharge was made upon the troops from a house in the Boulevard Poissonniere . These facts fill everybody with sorrow , and illustrate only too forcibly the ioolishness , under any but the extremest circumstances , of an appeal to brute force . 'A fact came to ray knowiedge this morning , which shows that some of the hostile

      demonstrations of the people were made , not only with the connivance ( as is generally believed ) but under the direction of the government . Among tae poor , fellows who were dangerously wounded in the fight on Thursday at one of the twenty or thirty barricades , was a commissary -of police in citizen ' s dress . On being taken home to his mother , he confessed that he had wickedly assisted at the building of the barricade , and urged others to do the same , by direction of bis superiors . 4 This fact confirmed me in the opinion I had before formed , when witnessing the operation of the insurgents at their strongest barricade , in the Porte St . Denis . That opinion wa 8 , that seeing there was no policeman or soldier present , to prevent the laying of the first stone , it was evident the insurgents were led on and encouraged in all their

      demonstrations by the authorities . ' The truth is , that the first and second day after the coup d ' etat , the President was frightened at the terrible calm which followed . He had prepared for an instant and fearful resistance . The silence of the multitude , the absence from the streets of Red Republicans and Socialists , alarmed him . Where were they all , and what were thty about ? And , above all , how to get at them ? That was the great question . The answer seems to have been withdraw not only every soldier , but every policeman from his post , and leave the " demagogues" to suppose that we are in a state of unwarrantable and fool-hardy confidence . This will bring the , fellows out , and set them at work . We will then stand quietly by till they tiave built their barricades , and then pounce upon them like vultures , and sweep them from the earth .

      ' This seems to have been the policy , and it certainly met with some , though not much , success . Fortunately the overwhelming majority of the Radicals were far too knowing and prudent to be caught in any such ( rap , ' People are now reviewing and reflecting upon these things , and are resolved , for the present , to preserve a masterly inactivity . 'If anyone supposes that the reen who sent Eugene Sue to the National Assembly , the more moderate party who support Cavaignac , and the innumerable readera of the late " Skcle , " " Presse , " " National , " and " Democratic Pacifique" have faeea suddenly metamorphosed intoKapoleonists or indifferen tists they make a vital mistake .

      The result of every day ' s serious thought is more and more against the election of Napoleon . Meanwhile the news published in the official journal * that several of the departments have "rebelled , " and are now in a state of siege , is encouraging boll ) Legitimists and Republicans not to despair . ' Last evening I visited some of the theatres and other places of amusement . They were moderately well attended ; but between the acts people talked about something else besides farces . At a cafe concert in the Qaartier Latin , where there was a large company listening to indifferent music and drinking indifferent beer , I observed that the fine liberal songs of Pierre Dupont , which 1 bad been accustomed to hear there , were not in the pro gramme .

      ' The President ' s repeated assurance that he will abide by the vote of the 20 th and 21 st inst . baa certainly a tranquallmng influence upon the people ; and if the ballot boxes were not universally in the hands of his chosen and devoted partisans , and if there was any certainty that the vote would be honettly declared , France would at once become perfectly satisfied . ' One of the great grievances of the moment is that the people are utterly deprived of their press . This deprivation to a people like the French is insupportable . The enormous and increasing circulation of "La Pre » se , ""Le Bien-Jtre Universel , "

      <( L'Illustration , " "Le Charivari" La Semaine , " and the " Journal pour Rire , " was a fact far too momentous to be overlooked with impunity . Gome what may , the people will have their journals . 1 And the thought which ia occurring to every mind to-day , that as long as Louis Napoleon is in power there cannot , iu the nature of things , be a free press in all France , is filling the people with alarm ; not merely selfish alarm that they will no more hare the luxury of morning and evening newspapers at their tables ; but well-grounded alarm at the conviction that with toch & « Ute of things torecaabenotranqaillityororder , «

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      'In this connexion it may be well to remark , that not only in Paris , but in all those parts of France where wa are told by the government that the people are perfectly delighted with the new regime , every Republican journal , and in fact every journal which i 3 not abjectly devoted to Louis Napoleon , has been suppressed . 1 Trade is 0 / course at a stand ; and as for the bourse , let the government alone for managing that . ' The one phrase in all mouths this morning ia thai " all i « tranquil . " But the tranquillity of a

      roan vriih a bayonet at hi 3 breast is not much to boast of . It is too much like the tranquillity of death . Tne public gardens are once more thrown open , but the yery trees aeetu melancholy . The groups of happy children which we used to see playing in front of the Tuikries , and in the pleasant groves of the Luxembourg , are all gone like the summer bird . « . The splendid arcades which branch off from the once gay Boulevards like so many sparkling streams from a noble river , are to-day dull and cheerless . One hears the tramp of feel , and the low murmur of stifled voices ; but the gay repartee and the merry laugh , never .

      ' Nobody is at bis ease . One scarcely dare think lest hia very countenance betray him . An indignant republican cries out " A has Napoleon , ' and itraightway a pistol is snapped in his face , and bis brains strew the pavement . Heuceforth we must all be dumb . The only safe men are Napoleonists and idiots . This morning the news comes to us that all English papers are contraband . We must not even read . Presently all our houses are to be

      searched ; and woe be to the man who has a liberal book on his premises . Everybody is watched like a p ickpocket . Two English correspondents are to be sent at once out of the country . The writer waits bis turn , and will . be only too thankful not to be shot . And this is called " tranquillity ! ' ' I have just walked through the mo 8 t demo , cratic quarters of Paris on both sides the Seine , and find silence and gloom everywhere , but no disturbance .

      ' Tbe majority of the repablicans bad nothing to do with the barricades . They abstained from the use of bullets for the same reason that the day before the revolution they had abstained from ballots—to wit , that under tbe circumstances they would be useless . They are ready either to vote or to fight whenever they can have fair play , but not before . The men who built the barricades , and perished in defending them , were the extreme socialists . That they are devoted to their principles , is shown by their being so ready to die for them . I saw many of the poor fellows a few moments before they fell victims to their zeal , and a more determined set of men never lived . There they were , in plain blouse or paletot , without a sword or a musket , erecting their wretched

      barricade with as much confidence as if it were to be as strong as the rock of Gibraltar . And when the poor framework of waggons and paving stones was completed , the desperate creatures planted themselves behind it , armed only with a few bludgeons and crowbars , and waited coolly for the approach and attack of countless troops and artillery . One frantic fellowt well dressed , and apparently well off , ran about from group to group while the barricades were building , and with * ' words round and hard 83 cannon balls , " sought to inspire the idlers with patriotism and courage . Now and then his fiery eloquence would touch the heart of some young impulsive fellow , who would immediately rush forward , and the next moment he wan hugging huge stones , or drawing huge waggons , as if he had been a barricadist all his life .

      1 1 stood a spectator of this scene , at the Porte St . Denis , for two hours . There was no soldier , no gendarme even , within hearing . The insurgents had their own way , and worked at their leisure . They looked with mingled sorrow and scorn upon the mere lookers-on , but used no force to make us assist them . It was pla ' n they were building their own coffins ; but it was useless to say so . They had rather become corpses than subject * , and , feeling that ttt be the alternative , were resolved to die bravely . Thise who were not shot or bayoneted in the first terrible onslaught were made prisoners , and have since been executed on the Cbarops-de > Mars .

      • For the most part , the republicans of Paris re . solved to make no warlike demonstration until they could know something favourable from the departments . For that they have waited in vain , and now they are in a state of despair . Many of them have returned sullenly to their ateliers , to brood in silence over their , fell , and invoke upon theit tneinies the vengeance of the future . * I have been to many of their haunts , and returned as sad as if I had been visiting a newly-filled grave-yard . I tried to talk with them , and ascertain their state of mind , but they were distrustful and " discreet . "

      ' A few ouvriers whom I happened to know personally—and one whom I bad had occasion to employ—spoke to me with great frankness . They seemed to think that the only thing now was to wait and VOle . They were pleased with tbe idea of a secret and universal suffrage ; but then , they ask , " what security have we that the President will fcliide by the mult , if U should be unfavourable ?" They also dwelt much upon the fact that since every republican journal in France is suspended , and nearly every republican editor or advocate in prison , there cannot possibly bn a free expression of opinion . " If , " said one of them , " if I should declare today my intention to vote against Napoleon , and should use my influence , however quietly , to persuade my daily associates to do so , I should be immediately arrested and itnnrjsoned . "

      • Under these circumstances it is the opinion of the ouvriers themselves that Napoleon will receive at least a majority of the votes . ' There are many among the more desperate of the " Reds" who say that the first day the PresU dent dares to march through the Btreels he will assuredly be Bhot , as that is the only way of removing him from power . 'Men who would be likely to vote against Napoleon are being arrested by the hundred every day .

      ' The streets are almost free from troops , but single soldiers are seen riding and-walking about ; and spies are known to abound in every street , ready to report tbe most trifling occurrence . There is not a house in all Paris which is not at this moment under surveillance . Tfie Prefect of Police Spreads his complicated weh all over the metropolis with the subtlety and skill of a spider . How raauy poor fellows are entrapped like so many flies , and suddenly pounced upon , no one at present can know . ' Thirty-five corpses were exhibited in the Cite Bergere on Friday , only one of which was dressed in a blouse ; one of them was that of a postman , with a letter still m his hand . '

      Tllfi editor of the ' Journal du Havre , ' who has declined to lend his pen to the support of M . Bonapane ' s government , but who on the other hand has refrained from attacking it , has received the / allowing communication from the sous-prefect of that town : — ' Sir , —The situation of the country makes it neceasary that no document or argument tending to weaken the acts of the executive power should he

      published by the press . Conformably to the orders of the government , I have to request you to observe in this respect th < : strictest reserve . From this day forward you will be good enough to submit to me day by day a proof of the journal which you conduct prior to its publication In the event of your nrgSecting to observe tbe regulation it will be " my duty to suspend your newspaper . —I remain , &c ., Laiway db Provost , sous-prefect of Havre . — Dec , 5 , 1851 . '

      The Jingliah journals which should have been delivered in Havre on Sunday , had not found their way into subscribers' hands on Monday morning . The council-general of the Ille-et-Vilaine has protested against the act of 2 nd December , with the exception of three members . The . council-general of the Loire-Inferieure has protested unanimously , . , The HerauU and the Gard are placed in a state of siege , on the usual pretexts—the dreadful spread of ' detestable' Social principles . The President , on the proposition of the Minister of War , has published a decree , ordering that when troops have been employed in active service in putting down riots , it shall be reckoned as if they were engaged in the field . This ia another sop in the pan to the army .

      The following is an extract from A surgeon ' s letter , dated Paris , Dec , 5 v' I Cannot now give you much account of tbe awful scenes that happened here yesterday . I narrowly escaped being shot in the street , as many were ; and having entered my hotel on the Boulevards , which were filled with thousands of troops , a sudden discharge of musketry took place along the whole line—volley after volley ; not a house , iCircely a window , was spared , whether containing combatants or not . Before I could rush- from my

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      room musket ball * entersd by the window , from which I bad retreated but a step or two . In ano . ther room was a Russian family ; the brother , a fine you ^ man , and his sister were both struck by halU while hastening from the room with their mother . The lady had her hand shattered , the brother was shot in the chest . I have seldom felt a more intense pleasure in my profession than in being able to give immediate assistance to these poor persons , for which otherwise they muat have waited many hours . They displayed a beautiful ami generous devotion , each begging me to attend first to the other . There is a house opposite . ours tbat is

      breached by cannon shot fired into it at a few feet distance . The loss of life , which will never be published , must hare been awful . With characteristic peculiarity , after the troops had performed their unworthy ' task , the military surgeons , at night , went from house to house to see after the wounded . One of them told me he had just seen sixty dead and eighty wounded in our immediate neighbourhood . The greater part of the injured are noncombatants , suddenly surprised in the streets or struck down , unsuspecting danger in their own homes . Such scenes—fit enough perhaps for the storming of an Arab town—with an indiscriminate attack on unresisting houses , were never before

      known ,-even in Paris . ' The following is an extract from a private letter dated Paris , December 8 , 1851 , sent to the ' Times' : — ' One of oar female servants is married to a non-commissioned officer in one of the regiments of civic troops which are employfd more especially in the arrests and executions now going on . We learn from her that her husband was engaged with his company the entire-day yesterday in making arrests . He does not know how many hundred were lodged by his company in the prisons . He says they are ordered out to the Champs de Mars to-day to shoot a number—reported to ba 156—of those condemned by the court-martial .

      1 From the language used by the wife we infer that the soldiers , at least of that regiment , notwithstanding their enormous extra pay , are thoroughly disgusted with their work . , All the usual vocabulary of abusive epithets ir showered on the President , such as brigand , scelerat , &c . 'Last evening a friend called who ought to be well informed , and assured me tbat a list of suspected persons has been made which includes all the Buglish in Paris who are supposed to have any engagements in connexion with the press , and especially with the newspapers . It is said to he decided to order any one to quit France who is

      suspected of writing articles or letters hostile to the Government , Another friend called last evening , who is the chief judge of one of the high tribunals , and also a member of the soi-dhant ( * Canaultative Council , " to whom I mentioned what I heard about the suspected list . He ' replied that he had not any knowledge of such a list , but that in the present state of things it was very probable , and that he conceived such a measure to be dictated by motives of wise precaution and prudence ; that it gives France trouble enough to manage her own affairs without being embarrassed by the meddling of foreign journals .

      ' As I think there is danger even in sending letters through tbe bureau of your correspondent , and , as letters addressed to tbe " Times" ( not proceeding from the usual correspondent ) would ( as I am assured ) , be opened at the Post-office , I think it best to inclose this to a- friend , who will forward it . 'Weare now literally living under the reign of terror . Not one word that appears in . the French journals can be relied on . Indeed , it may be in general taken to be false . ' . Tuesday . —The ' Moniteur' publishes a decree , announcing that all individuals placed under tbe surveillance of the hijjb police , who shall be proved to have quitted the place assigned them as their residence , will be transported to Cayenne or Algeria for five or ten years . The same measure will lie applied to individuals found guilty of formins ; part of a secret society .

      Eleven more ex-representatives ( as they are now called ) were arrested last night . They are MM . Garbonnean , Ceyras , Cbabert , Cbavassieu , Gavarret , Gambon , Guiier , Perdiguier , Uicbardet , Matbe , Hugueuin , and also M . Madier de Montjau , the father of the es-representative , was arrested on Friday evening . A letter received from a private source , written by the Duke of Albufera to Louis Napolea \> , o » perceiving his nam « on tbe list of embryo senators says , 'Your uncle gave my family an honourable name , which you have tarnished liy putting it in the list of your commission . ' We are not aware how many such protests have been written . But we hope the honourable pride which dictated them will not be changed by tbe alchemy of power into an humble regret .-

      Wednesday—The President visited yesterday the hospital of Grosuaillon , and distributed decorations and money to thirty-seven wounded soldiers . Each received lOOfr , His cawiftgo was escorted by cuirasBiera , Admiral Dubordieu has addressed a despatch to the government dated November 29 , announcing that the Pauhii of Tankers had made the conces * sions demanded by M , Bouree , the French Chargp d'Affairs , on the 28 th . In consequence the admiral had saluted the Morocco flag with twenty-one guns ; and all was finished . Yesterday by order of the Prefect of the Seine , the electoral lists of March , ISid , were posted up at all tlio mayories of tbe department . On the 16 th a supplementary list will be published , containing tlio corrections made necessary by the lapse of time .

      No fresh proclamations appear this morning , but the Moniteur' is posted up on the walls . Several arrests made yesterday at Neuilly , It is stated officially tbat complete tranquillity ia restored to the departments of tho Euve , Seine-et-Marno , llaute-. Marne , Vancleuso , Cotes-ilu-Nord , t > ordogne , Cantai , . Arriege , Eure-et-Loire , Lot , Vorges , llaut-Rhin , Meuse , Cote d'Or , and Tonne . There arc no additional papers published this morning . A correspondent says : —

      ' The fifty-one representatives confined in Mont Val 6 rien have beon nil liberated , excepting Generals Ouninot and Laurisfcon , and twelve members of the Mountain . I met to-day at tho side-door of the ministry of finance M . Dupin talking with smothered earnestness to two representatives , who had piobably } ust touched their salary up to the 1 st of December . Never did I sue men who had just fingered their pay look so completely dejected . The ex-President of the Assembly , stauding with bis umbrella under liis arm . in the well-known tbzck-soled shoes upon the muddy pavement , was gesticulating with a suppressed energy , -while he poured into despondent ears words which made his

      hearers look still graver , and seemed destitute of a single spark of those facetious sallies that were wont to set the Assembly in a roar . And if my information be correct , the representatives may Wtill look grave , for I he : u- that it has boen iufcimated to them from the Ministry of War thnt if they meet anywhere to deliberate , they will be seized and tried forthwith b y « OWrt"KUirtial . It 19 saiu that » n . -my of them believe that Genoial St . Arnaud would have very little compuuetion in ordering them to be shot if they wero found guilty of

      contravening the orders of the state of siege . YJitliout partaking of ihese extreme feavs Y ? e Hiay ba sure that the government would have very little hesitation in transporting auch offenders to Cayenne or Algeria . It is already affirmed that this doom is suspended over tho heads of the prisoners still remaining in tho Castle of Ham and . the fort of Mont Valerien . In fact the decree in tho ' Moniteur ' is especially levied at these prisoners , who are thereby , if they break their ban , subject to transportation . '

      M . ThierB was so ill while in prison that the government were only too glad to set him free , lest they might bo suspected of foul play , should he have died , General Cavaignae is not yet married ; he is only allowed to correspond with his bride elect through the prefect of police . Despatches from the south infotm us of resistance to the prefects , but the official accounts state they are all put down . A great number of prisoners have been taken . It is asserted by the TimeB , ' that on Monday

      week the Minister of Finance induced tho Bank of France to lend him a million sterling , alleging that ifc was a mere affair of temporary accommodation to be provided for by Treasury bills . The use made of these funds ia now sufficiently apparent , for the coup d ' eta ( took place next morning , and services were required and performed for which the most liberal donations to the army and the police would hardly geem diBproportioned . This however , ia denied by Cataiabanca and by the Governor of the Bank .

      AUSTRIA . Accounts ftom Vienm slaie , iljat a poor fellow who fora long time was established in England married and amassed a little property there returned to Austria a short time ago to see a ' sick relathe , and now finds tbat he will not be able to go back agam to England , having received a strict order from the police to return to the village in Hungary where he » u born , but m \ ZZZ if'iT V < W « ion : RemonstrS in all such cases i « vain . When vhe Jews were m \ afcgy , th 6 ma «« fac-

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      turers and wholesale houses remonstrated that the police were depriving them of tbeir customers , and that they could not continue to pay their ordinary dues and taxes if this were done ; when an armed force was sent down to the exchange to bring all business to a stagnation , remonstrances were again made , but ' those who will to couper maun to couper , ' as the proverb says , and remonstrances might be as well addressed to a mule as to an Austrian functionary . A correspondent says : —

      ' Every part of the Austrian dominions may be looked upon as ripe for revolt , and the first spark which may chance to fall onmaterials perhaps moreinflammable than wer collected together in any country will kindle a blaze which may set half Europe on fire , This h no secret , no oue indeed can be more conscious of it than are the government themselves . '

      PRUSSIA . The papers express , with regard to the French coup d ' etal much such sentiments as might have been expected from their known principles . The ' Constitutionner and 'National-Zeitung' loudly denounce the p erfidy and perjury of M . Bonaparte . Tb . e ' New Prussian Gazette' sees in his usurpation of supreme power a phenomenon threatening for Germany . The legitimist and government' Kreuz-Zeitung , ' however , while true to its notorious hatred of parliamentary government , holds up the Count de Clumbord to supreme contempt for not daring to make a similar coup d ' etat , and praiaes Louis Napoleon for doing it .

      HUNGARY . Accounts from Hungary state that although the appointment o { the Archduke Albert ( aon of the late Archduke Charles ) may be looked upon as a popular measure , it has been wholly inadpquate to allay the existing discontents . Life and property are stated never to have been so insecure as at present ; the pasiive resistance system ia carried so far that subordinate officials purposely mistake the orders of their superiors and lastly , it ia certain that M . Kossuth ' a reception in England has been deeply Mi throughout the length and tbe breadth of Hungary , and that by all classes . alike , perhaps by none more so than the higher ones . The administration of that country since the conclusion of the war has been such a series of mistakes—has been

      so irritating to the pride and national feelings of many—so disastrous to the interests of all , that discontent prevails there perhaps to a greater extent tban in Italy , and the disease of bad government is still more wide spread and deep seated .

      SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN . Tbe Hamburg papers continue to give fresh illustrations , of the unhappy situation of the Schleswigers under the restored ascendancy of the Danes . The ' Hamburger Nachrichten' has the following : — { Kiel , November 20 . —Scarcely a day goes by that countrymen are not brought prisoners to town , bound to the horses of the gensdarme and obliged to keep pace with them on foot . The following account of tbe treatment of , and conduct observed towards , Dr . de Lamotte and wife , will characteristically show how the different grades of despotic tyranny ect in concert with one another ; at the same time making known facts until now unheard

      of . It was intimated to the aforementioned gentleman that a sergeant was to be quartered , in Idi house ; at the same time , this officer being notorious for vermin , Dr . de Lemotte made a private application to the captain of his company to have another man in his place . The capla ' ui refused to grant him this request , and on applying officially for the sergeant's non-admittance into his house , and producing witnesses to prove the uncleanVmess of the man , he ( the doctor ) , instead ot receiving an answer , had an additional man quartered upon him . Soon after , Dr . de L . was summoned to appear before the commander of the battalion , and commanded to mate an apology to the sergeant for his

      insulting assertion . He refused to do so unless compelled by law . As soon as he arrived at home a gendarme arrested him . Immediately after his removal , another appears and demands of his wife , in the name of her husband , the delivery of the gun and dagger concealed in the houSBi She declares }> er ignorance of arms bsing in the bouse . The gendarme persists in his request , and forces the poor woman , by beating her with the but end oi his musket , to unlock everything in the house , until through his maltreatment she falls down souseless . Tbe children run shrieking out of the hou-. e to their father at the house where he is still detained , and beg and pray him to divulge where the arms are concealed , to save their mother from being murdered . He denies being in possession 0 . ' arms , and begs the officer to pacify his enraged

      subordinate , which fee did , finding that the doctor ' s wife lay bathed in her own blood . The doctor was then removed and kept in prison for some time , when a trial took place , Lamotte being accused of insulting the sergeant , but after a short hearing , and a further confinement of a few days ( without any decision being given ) he WHS liberated . Antler , dated the 28 th . November , states Dr . L's . wife has died in const quence of tbe brutal treatment she experienced from the hands of the gendarme . Of all the accounts in circulation respecting this affair , tbe juost exaggerated scarcely expresses to the full the atrocity that has been exhibited . She was literally so struck and beaten on the breast and back with the butt of the musket , that the blond spouted out of her mouth . The magistrate has refused to take up the doctor ' s ca 3 e .

      HANOVER . Our advices from Hanover represent the opposition in the chambers as becoming serious . The first chamber having adopted a motion , calling on George V . to realise the promised reforms , and safeguard tho independence of the kingdom against tbe interference of the Diet , the seoond chamber has now pronounced in favour of a similar motion , in a more conciliatory form , confining itself to the expresfion of a wish . M . Stuv © , chief of the

      opposition before March 1848 , and afterwards minister , will , it is expected , shortly re-appear in the chamber to support the constitution and oppose the new treaty . Constitutional addresses in support of the rote of ' chambers reach the ministry from Beveral towns , especially from Osnabruck . The so-called Hungarian emissary , lately arrested by the Austriarts at Rondsburg , has just been hurried off to "Vienna , under strong escort , to be tried by a council of war .

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      The Prussian government intends tore-impose the stamp duty on newspapers , and it is understood of double the amount of the old tax . Every daily paper will have to pay two thalers a year for each subscribed copy . The police department of Belgium has issued the most positive instructions to the officers of both tbe land and sea frontier not to allow any traveller to pass whose passport has not the vise of a Belgian authority abroad . It is the custom at the Foreign-office to tell travellers that such vise is not required for a passport taken out for Prussia , for instance , but the iuformaiiou is incorrect ; if the Belgian territory be crossed or touched upon , the vise of a Bel gian authority is neeessoj-y . An official notice slates that the Neapolitan government has granted to importations into Sicily , by French vessels , which have called at intermediate ports , the reduction o ( ten per cent , enjoyed by the United States and other nations .

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      Ht 7 BnicANB in the Bay of Bbkoai—By the arrivaL of the extra Calcutta steamer to Suez , and thence to Southampton , we have received intelligence of a terrific and most disastrous hurricane which swept over tho bay of Benga l on the ? 6 th of October Tho gale commenced from the southeastward , and blew in tremendous guats for twelve tours , extended along the whole of the coaat from Madras to the mouth of the Hoogniy . At the ] iSS pfau » several j ) bt ships w «« driven on shore as also the Precursor steamer , although ridin- ? with liX l ^ Vnf a ClM > r 3 - Frencn and o » s or two Si * , hah ships of some size were drivnn f » A « . * u ° s ^ svxSlg mmmsM Pjvb Fishermen Dhowseb tx Naibs -On th « ^ wai-tsittSsK « ms »« s tho trough , the sail buk-filled , and the next so " atrikmg her broadside on , she was upset ! whSthe 2 f * V&F " "" $ ** were "" own tato the £ 1 L « t a 1 BQ . med « telj- manned and put off to the wreck . On arriving at tho wreck , only three of the unfortunate men could be seen , amUlS mately fire out of the seven . perisbed , A aubsorin tJoniiaa been opened fw behoof of the widowS t MUratf themaum . - * £ O ' SmtS !

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      2 *__ THE NORTHERN STAR , . PecEmb ^ ' i ! gL

      ^ Dr. Orser, ^ -^ 11, Hutci1esc2* Street, Glasgow Professor Of Hyueianisji ' 'James Queer, Esq., M.L).

      ^ DR . ORSER , ^ - ^ 11 , HUTCI 1 ESC 2 * STREET , GLASGOW PROFESSOR OF HYUEIANISJI ' 'James Queer , Esq ., M . l ) .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 13, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1656/page/2/