Political Extracts.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 23, 28 September 1848, Page 3

Political Extracts.

FRANCE. (From a Correspondent of the Times. The most serious disturbances have taken place in the departments. Blood has flowed freely, but order is now generally restored; but as the serpent is hidden I in tbe leng grass, and the spark glows in tbe embers, so is there n spirit in France among the ultra radicate, ' whirl, nredsbut a breath and opportunity to be fanned | into flame. The subjoined proclamation, issued by the redoubted Blanqui, on the very day of the National Assembly will suffice to prove to you that my words are uue. It it) as follows : , ' The Central Republican Society to the Provisionary | Govei nment. *' The counter-revolution has bathed itrelf in the i blood of the people. Jimice—immediate justice—on 1 the assassins! For two months the royalist bourgotse of Rouen has been hatching in the dark a Saint Barholomew against the workmen. It bad made great store of catridges, and the authorities knew it. Words of death broke out here and there, precursory sympi toms of the catastrophe. Oie'must be done with these i canaUies. Canailles indeed! who had in February. 1 after three days of resistance, forced tie lourgoisie to ! submit to the republic. Citizens of the provisionary [ government, how comes it that within tbe last two | mot ths the working- population of Rouen and the , neighbouring valleys had not been organised into na* \ tional guards ? how conn-sit that the aristocracy alone were organized and possessed arms ? How comes it that at the iroment of the execution of their frightful plot, they met none bat unarmed breasts ? How comes it that the 2Sth regiment, which gained so sinister a name in the F<tubourg de Valise in 1834 ? How comes it that the orders of generals declared enemies of the Republic- of a General Garard, the creature ; (and ame damme) of Louts Philippe ? They thirsted or a bloody revenge—those slaves of a fallen dynasty! ! They required a massacre of April as a consolation for a second July* and they bad sot long to wait for it; the days of April, scarce two months since the revolution. Quck work that citizens of the provisionary government. And nothing has been wanting to these new scenes of April—neither grape shot, nor butlets r nor demolished houses; nor tbe Bta'e of Beige, nor the ferocity «.f the suldiery, nor insnlt to the dead, the unanimous insult t<f the journals—those cowardly worshippers of force. Why the Rue Transnouian is surpassed. To read the infamous recital of these brigand exploits, one is brought baik again to these inauspicious days wmrh formerly covered France with mourning and shame. They are just the same executioners and I the same victims. On one side a furious hovrgoisie \ urging on to slaughter senseless soldiers gorged with wine and hatred—on the other, the unfortunate workman falling whhout defence beneath the balls and bayonets of the assassins. As a last resemblance see j enme the Cour Royale, the judges of Louis Philippe, ; faliirg like hyenas upon the debris of the massacre, aud filbng the durgeons with two hundred republicans, At the head of these inquisitors is Frank Carre—the exenable Procureur General of the Court of Peers—j th.it Lsubardemont who demanded with rage the ; heads vi the insureds of May, 1339. Mandates of j an est prrsue even to Paris the patriots that are flying j from tbe royalist prescription which reienß at Rouen ? Tbe Garde Bourgeoise of Rouen rejected with fury | the republic in the month of February. It is the j republic which it blospbtmes, nnd now wishes to over- | lu.n. Every republican of l,a Vielle has betn cast into I irons. Your own agents aie threatened with death, i deprived of their functions, and guarded in sight. | v ' The municipal magistrates, Lemasson and Duraud have been dragged through the streets, the bayonets at their breasts, and their garments in raps ; they are now in suliary confinement by order of the rebels. I is a royal st insurrection which has triumphed in the ancient capital vf Normandy, and is it you, a republican government, who support these assassins in revolt. Is tliis through treason or through cowardice ? Are you their support or their accomplices ? They were not opposed you well know. They committed slaughter, and you allow these butchers to vaunt with pude their acts uf prowess. Can it be that in your eyes, as we J as iu the eyes of the kipg, tbe blood of the people is r.o good, but to from t:me to time tbe too mcumbeiedfitrtcts. If so—efface, biot out from ycur edifices that detestable falsehood, inscribed i on them m tfcte three words—liberty, equality, fraternity. «• Were your wives, were your daughters, those brilliant and fragile creatines—who, clothed in gold and silk i.ily promenade ia sumptuous equipages, suddenly thrown down at your feet, their bosoms? pierced with tbe steel ol pitiless enemies, what a. cry of grief and of vengeance would you not make re-echo to the extremities of the world. " Well go. Go and see stretched on the flags of your hospitals, and on the straw beJs of thc:r gan->ts, those bodies of slaughtered women, their breastl pierced by the bourgeoise balls. Those brents, do you hear, which have carried and nourished those workmen whose sweat fattens the bourgeoise. •* The wives of the people are as good as your own and their blood should not, must no:, remain without vengeance. Justice, then, justice on the assassins. "He demand—- " 1. The dissolution and disarmment of the bourgcwie guard oi Rouen, ••2. The arrest and trial of the generals and officers of the bourgeoisie guard and of the troops of the line who ordeied and directed the massacre. "3. The arrest and trial of the s oi di,ant members of the cuur d'appei ,seidij named by Louis Philippe, and who acting in -he narre of the the victorious royalist faction, lure imprisoned the lawful magistrates of tbe city, and filled the dungeons with republic cans. " 4. The immediate departure from Paris of the troops of the line, whom at this very moment the nacteurs are preparing in fratricidal banquets, for a St, Uartholometv for the Parisian workmen, I

"For'the Central Republican Society, the office bearers. (Signed) L'Auguste Blanqui. President. C. Lacambre, 0.M.P., Vice President. Flotte, Treasurer. I Pierre Berand, Secretary. I-arque, do. G. Robert, do. Lacbambeandie, Member of the Bureau. Crousse, do. Pujol, do. I Javelot, jun., do. j B'UCker, do • Tomeerteaux, do.

Insurrection in Hessf-Cassel.—Disturbed f. State or Badfn. Mayence April 11 Hesse Casselis in the hands of the people. On the evening of the flih the mob had a " charivari" in front of the hotels of the ex-ministers who had been very unpopular. The military were called out to disperse them, and at the instigation of their officers, youner noblemen who bad been heard to boast that they would put them down by force if any riot was attempted, they charged upon the people, sabre in hand, and several of them were it- jurert. The tocsin was Immediately rung, and the rappel beaten. The people, in a furious state of excitement, armed themselves and threw np barricrles in all directions; so that the cavalry were unable to act. A parley was tried, but the mob once excited, could not be easily calmed down—they said they would drive every soldier out of the city. A foimidsule body proceeded to the arsenal, and as much from the terror of the soldiers as their I own numbers, carried it by storm, and an abundant supply of arms and ammunition was in this way pro- j cured. They then proceeded to the batracks, and after a short and ineffectual rrsistonre, the troops retired, and the citizens took pnssess'on of it. In a comparatively short time the building was entirely sacked and rased to tbe ground. Meanwhile the fighting continued in the streets. Upwards of 4 09 citizens were now armed, and even hoys of 14 fuught at tbe ■ barricades with pistols and rifles. The troops retired j by degrees, and finally etacuated the town. Trim- i qniljty has been in some degree res'ored, and the bar- | ricades still remain and are guarded by the citizens. | They demand the abolntian of the corps de garde, and '. tbe trial snd punishment of the officers who instigna- •■ ted the attack, and have declared that they will not lay down their arms until this is accomplished. The ■ minister, Eberhard, was a spectator of the proceedings < during the whole of the revolt. j Meetinc or Railwat Workmen expelled from : France —A public meeting of the engineers, engine- ' men. &c, employed on the English lines of railway, ' was held on Monday last, at the Green Man, Tooley- | street, Mr. 3. Ward in the chair. The meeting was ' to give expression- to a strong feeling of sympathy j in behalf of the English workmen who have been ex' ; pelled from France by the recent revolution, in many | instances with tbe loss of their tools and furniture; the loss of which, amongst this class alone, is estimated at not lets than j£3ooo. The following resolution was I unanimously carried:—" That the meeting having I heard the statements of their fellow workmen who had been violently expelled from France and of i their property and deprived of their wages, after hnving j been seduced from this couutry to undertake works there, are peculiarly entitled to public sympathy in their present distressed and unfortnnate situation." A resolution was also carried, that " this meeting, consisting of engineers, drivers, and fitters, now engaged in various Ines of English railways, do most heartily concur in the propriety of a subscription being imrae. diately entered into for the purpose of enabling the committee already appointed to prosecute tbe claims of tbe injured parties to compensation, in such mode . as they shall bo advised to adopt, and pledging the j meeting to support the subscription." i British Workmen Expelled from France.— On Wednesday a vessel, chartered by the committee for the protection of British woikmen expelled from I France left the river for Calais, where she will receive a number of English n echanics and labourers for con- ; vejanceto South Australia. The total amount sub- i scribed towards this fund up to Wednesday was about ' £3749 19s. Two thousand refugees hove passed I through London alone, the whole of whom have recei- , ved assistance from the funds. The children of tbe British Orphan School, at Paris, who have "men i brought over to England, are temporarily located in the I irphan Asylums at Clapton and Hempstead, and at St. Ann's Schools, Brixton. ,