REPORTED PLOT TO OVERTHROW NAPOLEON.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 322, 6 February 1868, Page 3

REPORTED PLOT TO OVERTHROW NAPOLEON.

The correspondent of the Belfast Neios Letter at Paris sends the following startling information from the French capital, under date of 12th November last : — " News has reached me through reliable quarters of a nature so alarmingly important that I hasten to communicate it to you by the first available channelnews of such a peculiar character that its transmission by telegraph is out of the question— nothing less than a meditated revolution and the proclamation of a republic. The recent aots of Louis Napoleon's Government, the intervention in Italy, the arrest of unqffending individuals for rendering homage to the remains of Daniel Manin and Godefroi Cavaignac, President of the Republic of '48, have tended to alienate considerably the popular sympathies. Among those seized and flung into prison on Saturday from the Cemetery of Montmatrae were the editors of the Cormire, the Figaro, and the Journal de Paris, law and medical students, 1 and the nephew of Jules Favre. The hour struck the ardent spirit among our population as ripe for revolution, and it was resolved to make last night the time for a new appeal to the barricades. The plan of insurrection, | as far as I have been able to glean it from

authority I can trust; was as follows :— lt was to be commenced by a party of 1500 workmen, recently thrown out of employment at the foundries of La Vilette (at the head of the Rue dv Faubourg St. Martin) arming themselves from a secret depot in their possession, and marching clown on the Tuileries, which they calculated on taking by surprise. Simultaneous with this movement the medical students were to have occupied the left side of the river, barricading the network of streets between the Boulevard St. Michael and the Rue Bonaparte, the law students taking charge of the Montaige St. Genevieve. It was hoped this would be the signal for a general insurrection. At five o'clock I repaired to the Amphitheatre in the Rue de l'Ecole de Meclecine, where the opening of the medical course of 186S was to commence. Upwards of 1100 young men were presunt, and received the Professor (Gavarret) with the singing of the Marseillaise, which is interdicted, and repeated crie3 of 'Vive Garabaldi.' The Professor was obliged to give up the idea of lecturing; but the word was quietly passed that political spies were present, that the authorities had been apprised of the plot, the leaders of the workmen seized, and the "troops massed around Li Vilette. So for the present passed off the cloud. Treachery savod the ruler who came to his power by treachery. These are facts that may not leak out for days yet, which may seem incredible, but which are nevertheless based on facts conveyed to me from competent sourcis and corroborated to sufficient extent by personal observation."