ENGLISH 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 in the Icng grass, and the spark glows in the embers, so is there a spirit in France among the ultra radicals, which needs but a breath and opportunity to be fanned into flame. The subjoined proclamation, issued by the redoubted Blanqui, on the very day of ihe National Assembly will Biiffice to prove to you that my words are crue. It is as follows :—
" The Central Republican Society to the Provisional y Government. •• The counter-revolution has bathed itself in the blood of the people. Justice— immediate justice— on the assassins ! For two months the royalist bowgoise of Rouen hat been hatching in the durk a Saint Bartholomew againit the workmen. It had made great store of catridgei, and the authorities knew it. Words of death broke out here and there, precursory symptoniß of the catnstrophe. One must be done with these canailles. Canailles indeed ! who had in February, after three days of resistence, forced the bourgoisie to submit to the republic. Citizens of the provi&ionary government, how comes it that within the last two months the working population of Houen and the neighbouring valleys had not been organised into na» tional guards ? how comes it that the aristocracy alone were organized and possessed arms ? How comes it that at the moment of the execution o f their frightful plot, they met none bat unarmed breasts ? How cotnei it that the 28th regiment, which gained so sinister a name in the Faubourg de Valise in 1834 ? How comes it that the orders of generals declared enemies of the Republic— of a General Garard, the creature (and arne damiite) of Louis Philippe ? They thus ted lor a bloody revenge— 'those slaves of a fallen dynasty ! They required a massacre of April as a consolation for a second July, and they had not long to wait for it ; the days of April, scarce two months since the revolution. Quick work that citizens of the provisionary government. And nothing hat been wanting to these new scenes i f April — neither grape shot, nor bullets, nor demolished houses; nor the slate of Beige, nor the
unanimous insult of the join nals— thosr cowardly worshippiTS oHoice. Why the Rue Trnusnouian is surpassed. To lead the infamous recital of these biigand i exploits, one is brought back a^ain to these inauspicious days which formerly covered France with mow ning and shame. They nrc just the same executioners ami i the same victims. On one side a furious bourgoisie urging on to slaughter senseless soldiers gorged with wine and hatred — on the other, the unfortunate workmen falling without defence beneath the balls and bayonets of the assassins. As a lust resemblance see come the Conr lioyalc, tbc judges of Louis Philippe, falling like hyenas upon the ddn is of the mass acrei and filling the dungeons with two hundred republicans, At the head of these inquisitors is Frank Carre — the executable Procurenr General of the Court of Peers — that Laubardemont who demanded with rage the heads uf the insurgents of May, 1839. Mandates of arrest pursue even to Paris the patriots that are flying from the royalist proscription which reigns at Rouen ? The Garde Bourgeoise of Rouen rejected with fury the republic in ihe month of February. It is the republic which it blasphemes, and now wishes to overturn. Every republican of La Vielle has been cast into irons. Your own agents are threatened with death, deprived of their functions, and guarded in sight. " The municipal magistrates, Lemntson and Duiaud have been dragged through the streets,, the bayonets at their breasts, and their garments in rags ; they are now in solitary confinement by order of the rebels. It ii a royalist insurrection which has triumphed in the ancient capital of Normandy, and is it you, a republican government, who support these assassins in revolt. Is this 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 pride their acts of prowess. Can it be ♦.hat in your eyes, as well at in the eyes of the king, the blood of the people is no good, but to water from time to time the too encumbered streefes. If so— en*ace> blot out from your edifices that detestable falsehood, inscribed I on them iv these three words — liberty, equality, iraternity. I " Were your wives, were your daughters, those brilliant and fragile ci eaturus — who, clothed in gohl and silk idly promenade ii sumptuous equipages, sud« denty thrown down at your feet, thpir bosoms} pieiced with the steel of 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 itretched on the flagl of your hospitals, and on the straw beds of their garrets, those bodies of slaughtered women, their breuslb pierced by the bourpeoise balls. Those breasts, do you hear, which have carried and nourished those workmen ! whose sweat fattens the bourgeoise. j " The wives of the people arc as good as your own, and their blood should not, must not, remain without vengeance. Justice, then, justice on the assassins. " We demnnd — "1. The dissolution and disarmment of the bourgoisie guard oi Rouen. " 2. Tho arrest and trial of the generals and officers of the bourgeoisie guard and of the troops of the line who ordered and directed the massacre, "3. The arrest and trial of the soi disunt members of the conr d'appel /scidij named by Louis Philippe, and who acting ia 'he name of the the victorious royalist faction, have imprisoned the lawful magistrates of the city, and filled ihe dungeons with republicans. " 4. The immediate departure from Paris of the troops of the line, whom at Ibis very moment the reactews arc preparing in fratricidal banquets, for a St, Bartholomew for the Puiibtan workmen. " For the Central Republican Society, the office bearers, (Signed) L'Auguste Blanqui, President. C. Lacambre, D.M.P., Vice President. Flotte» Treasurer. Pierre Berand, Secretary. Larque, do. G. ltobert. Jo. Laehambeundie, Member of the Bureau, Crousse, do. Pujol, do. Javelot, jun., do. Brucker, do Totneertcaux, do.
The Commune de Paris states, that the Piovisional Government, as a measure of economy, had determined to let the Purk of Monceaux, the private property of Louis Philippe, to a speculator, who ottered 100,000 francs a year foi it, in order to convert it into a public garden, but citizen Emilc Thomas, Colonel of the 2d Legion of the National Guard, has taken possession of it, and is guarded there uhsolutely like a general in his camp.
British Workmen Exi'klled from France.— On Wednesday a vessel, chartered by the committee tor the protection of British workmen expelled from France left the river for Calais, where she will receive a number of English mechanics and labourers for conveyance to South Australia. The total amount subscribed towards this fund up to Wedneiday was about j£3749 19a- Two thousund refugees have passed through London alone, the whole of whom have reccivtd assistance from the funds. The children of the British Orphan School, at Paris, who have Ixen brought over to England, are temporarily located in the ( irphan Asylums at Clapton and Humpstead, and at St. Ann's Schools, Brixton.
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New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 243, 27 September 1848, Page 2
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