FRANCE. NARRATIVE OF THE NEW FRENCH REVOLUTION. [From the Watchman, December 10.]

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FRANCE. NARRATIVE OF THE NEW FRENCH REVOLUTION. [From the Watchman, December 10.]

We were enabled to announce in our last, by telegraphic and other communications, that the affairs of the French Republic had reached a crisis, and that the President, by an audacious breach of every moral and patriotic obligation, had suspended the Constitution, and become a military usurper. Anticipating the consummation of a real or supposed plot against his Government, Louis Napoleon, yesterday week, dissolved the National Assembly,— declared the re-esta-blishment of universal suffrage, — appointed a new election to take place during the present month, — decreed Paris to be in a state of siege,—dismissed the Council of- State, —and threw himself" upon the support of the army The President at the same time ordered into arrest, — and indeed, during the night, had caused to be arrested, — the most formidable of his opponents, including the principal military chiefs of the Assembly, namely, Generals Changarnier, Cavaignac, Lamoriciere, and Charras. We will endeavour to give some additional particulars of the outbreak, with the details of the week, in chronological order, On the nigbt of Monday (December 1), the President held a brilliant reception at the Elysee. Most of I the ministers were present; and General St. Armand, Head of the War Department, was the last to leave, at two o'clock in the morning. The arrangements of the President weie most comprehensive and complete. I Alter the reception, he despatched letters to the Ministers, stating that bis mind was made up — that he would not be saciificed by the Assembly, — but unwilling to compromit-e them, be suggested that they should resign. These letters, as a matter of course, were replied to in the affirmative. Meantime, the President, who would not tiust even the Moniteur with his plans, had proclamations printed at a private printing press in the Elysee, at which the Napoleon newspaper used to be worked off. These proclamations, which decreed the dissolution of the Assembly — the establishment of universal suffrage, and the lepeal of the restrictive law of the 31st of May — the convocation of the people in their communes from the 14th to the 21st of December — the cU-claiation of Paris and the whole of the first military division in a state of siege — and the Council of State dissolved — were posted up throughout Paris at an early hour of the morning ; and, before daylight, the military chiefs above-mentioned, with M. Thiers, and some of the leading members of the Mountain, were arrested, while Du|iin, President of the Assembly, and others weie guarded in their houses. Simultaneously, the [ telegraphic wires leading from the different ministries to the forts and the railways were cut, and the streets, quays, and bridges occupied by troops. On Tuesday morning, the population of Paris discovered, on going forth to their usual avocations, that the capital was occupied, at its most commanding points, by large masses of troops, — that a revolution was in progress, — and that martial law was in operation. Before the day closed, 180 members of the Legislature were in durance, and eight out of twelve daily journals were suspended. The Paris correspondent of the Chronicle says, MM. Thiers, Changarnier, Lamoriciere, Bedeau, &c, were each seized in his bed, between three and five in the morning, by sergens de v'tlle. '1 he agents were ignorant why they arrested them. M. Thiers was led off without being allowed to speak to bis wife, or any other member of his family. General Cavaignac was allowed to write a line to the parents of the young lady to whom he was on the eve of being married. General Bedeau, Vice-President of the Assembly, gave and received wounds in the struggle that ensued. General Lomoriciere resisted, and was handcuffed. Some of the friends of General Charras state that he made a formidable resistance, and tilled one of the sergent de vitle, Between five and six o'clock, the troops took military possession of Paris. Between seven and eight, those detachments in which the most confidence was placed, were stationed in compact masses in,the Place de la Concorde, the Pont Louis XV., and in the vicinity of the Assembly. Tim " African Chasseurs" (riflemen) took possession of the Palace of the Legislative Assembly. Rations of meat, wine, and brandy were distributed to the men. The melancholy sight was then witnessed of officers touching glasses with the coiporals and privates, and exciting their animosity against the Assembly. The initiated who had their instructions, spread the repot t that the monarchist factions bad been taken in the flagrant act of conspiring against the nulhonty arid life of the President. They were promised, moreover, to be led to battle against the Mountain and the Socialists. On the first news of the preparations made to prevent the legal meeting of the Assembly, a number of Representatives, belonging (o the most moderate party, assembled spontaneously at M. Odilon Barrot'u. MM. de Remusat, Passy, Dufaure, the Due de Broglie, the Secretaries of ihe Assembly signed a first protest against coup d'etat which was about to be perpetrated, and against the decrees of the President which vrere already being posted up in tho streets. The Members present at this fiist reunion then separated, with a view to arouse their friends and tho population, and to invite all they could muster to meol without delay at M.

Daru's, Vice-President of the Assembly (M. Dupin having been arrested and kept a prisoner at the ball of the Assembly). They proceeded in a body to the Assembly. The African Chasseurs, excited and instiucted how to act, hailed their anival with savage shouts and brutal insults. Driven back, they returned to the house of Al. Daru, to draw up and sign an official statement of the facts. This second protest was signed by the bureau of the Assembly, aud by all the member* present, including the signatures of Count Mole, the Duke of Broglie, MAT. Dufaure, Passy, Odilon Barrot, and others. These gentlemen then proceeded to the JNJairie of thp tenth arrondissment.... For nearly three hours a sitting was held. The Assembly deliberated and voted :—l.: — 1. A Proclamation tothe x Peopleand the Army. Si. A decree deposing the President. These deliberations took place calmly, and, after the appel nominal, the vote was passed unauimously. The Commissary of Police, and the officers in command of the troops who bad meantime surrounded the building, were then admitted. The President then read aloud the Articles of the Constitution, which declare the President to have forfeited his powers, should he oppose the meeting of the Assembly, and which confer all the powers upon the Assembly, including those of the President, should the latter have recourse to violence against it. Taking, then, the penal code, the President warned ihem of the penalties they were liable to incur in lending armed assistance to an authority faulty in its origin, and at that moment deposed and brought befoie a High Court of Justice. He called upon them in the name of the Constitutional law, of which he was the representative and the oigan, not to execute the illegal and criminal orders which they had received, but rather to give their aid to the Assembly, the sole representative of the French nation. This appeal embarrassed them somewhat, but did not prevent the execution ot their orders. The appeal found no support in the population assembled near the Maine. At this moment a spectacle took place which, in oilier times, and in another country, would have aioosed public indignation. All present, to th*» number of 200 to 250 representatives, elected two years s ncp by universal suffrage, were designated to the ill-will of the soldiery. Men with European reputations, such as AIM. Oudmot, Montebello, Odilon Barrot, Due de Broglie, Dufaure, &c, were seized by the collar like ordinaiy criminals, and conducted two-by-two between two files of soldiers liora the Mairie of the 10th arrondisement to the barracks of the Quai d'Orsay, from whence they were sent in detachments to Fort Valerien, a mihtaiy prison, and to the prison Mazas, where criminals of the worst description are incarcerated. The early part of Wednesday morning passed off very quietly; but about ten o'clock, when the workmen leave their workshops for breakfast, a representative of the people, AI. Baudin, a member of the Mountain, suddenly appeared on horseback in thp Rue St. Antoine, with a naked sword in his hand, and accompanied by six other representatives, all wearing their insignia of lepresentatives. Al. Baudin harangued the people, calling upon them to take up arras for the delivery of the lepresentatives detained at the prison of Mazos, in that neighbourhood. The cry, " Aux armes !" was raUed, the guaid-house of Monlieuill was surrounded, and the few soldiers stationed there overpowered. Appeals to arms were likewise posted up in manuscript, some in led, others in black, signed by Michel (de Bourges), Madier de Alontjau, Emmanuel Arago, Schucelcher, Baudin, Deflotte, and other members ot the Mountain. Bodies of men passed along the Boulevards fet. Martin, St. Denis, Bonne Nouvelle, and Alontmartre, reading aloud the proclamation of the ex-representatives who assembled at the Mairie of the lUth arrondissement,and endeavouiing to excite the people. The body, led by M. Baudin, began to raise a barricade at the corner of the Rue St. Maiguerite. On a battalion of the line advancing, a shot was filed from the barricade. The troops returned the fire, and AI. Baudin was killed on the spot, and six or seven of the other insurgents killed or wounded. At another barricade, on the Boulevard Beaumarchais, AI. Madier de Alontjau was struck by a ball from the troops. Another representative, AI. Schoelcher, was also wounded. The insurgents fled in all directions, and the two barricades were quickly taken and removed. In a short time several regiments moved along the Boulevard, and the whole of the space between the Porte St. Martin and the Ba-tille was occupied by the military, and no one was permitted to go beyond the Porte St. Alartin, being in the line of the Boulevards. The brigade of General Marullaz was stationed on the Place de la Bastille, with 12 pieces of cannon. The houses at the corner of the streets fioin whence the insurgents in the days of June, 1848, killed seven Generals and the Archbishop of Pans, were occupied by the military from the cellar to the gariet. Three mortars weie dnectcd towards the Faubourg St. Antoine ready to fire, gin the couise of the fighting, that took place that morning, AI. Alphonso E~quiros, another member of the Mountain, having mounted a barricade to harangue the people was shot at and wounded. The barricade raised in the Rue dv Fauborg St. Antome, at which AI. Baudin was killed, was carried by Captain Henry, at the head of the Ist company of the Ist. battalion of the I9:h Light In f antry. Towards the middle of the day, some of the rioters from the Faubourg St. Antoine attempted to get up a demonstration on the Place de l'Ecole de Aledicine, which was prevented by General Saul. About five o'clock in the evening, a banicade was raited in the Rue dus Vieilles Andriettes by upsetting some carts, but after some firing it was deserted by its defeuders Another attempt at a not was commenced in the Cloitre St. Mery, but was immediately quelled. In the Rue Montmarte, also, near the printing-office of£a Presse, an attempt was made to construct a barricade of carriages, which was, howerer, frustrated. As the workmen of the Rue St. Antoine had not returned to their workshops in the evening, and as they presented themselves in numbers on the Boulevards, it was considered necessary to take precautions to prevent any attempt at barricades during the night. In the course of the evening AI. 11. Recurt, W. Wavier Durrieu, formeily member of the Constitutpnt Assembly, AI. D.'lhetz, General Leyd^t, and AI. Ducox were arrested while attempting to excite the people, It has been remarked that the persons killed or wounded on Wednesday were mostly representatives of the people, who are easily known by their scnirs and other emblems, It is said that the troops received orders to shoot them when ever they found them about the barricades. The following decree and proclamation of the Alinister of War were subsequently posted up •- — Decree of the Minhter of War. "Every person taken in the act of erecting or defending a barricade or bearing arms shall surfer according to the most rigorous laws of war." "Piociamutiim of the Minister of War. tl Inhabitants of Paris ! — The enemies of order and of society have commenced the struggle. It is not against the Government, not against the elected of the nation, that they tight but they wish for pillage and dest. uciion. Let good citizens unite in defence of society, and of the families, which are menaced. Remain calm, inhabitants of Pans! Let there be no useless lookeis on in the streets ; they get in the way of our biave soldier*, who protect you wiih their bayonets. For myself, you will find me ever immoveable in my determination to defend you, arid to mnintain order. — The General of Division, Minister at War. " St. Aiinavd.'' Another decree of the Prefect of Police prohibited the assembling of groups. All seditious cries, nil placards of political import, &c, were also forbidden. The groups were to be dispensed by the armed force, without previous notice. The circulation of public vehicles was likewise prohibited, as well as of waggons loaded with provisions and materialo. Immense numbers of a>re«ts took place in the course of Wednesday, in consequence of the more aggressive attitude of the lower classes. The Monitfitr of Wednesday announced that the President, desirous, until the re-organization of Ihe legislative body and the Council of State, of surrounding himself with men who justly enjoy the est< em and confidence of the country, had formed a Consultative Commission, consisting of eighty persons, belonging mostly to the late Club of the Rue dcs Pyramides. MM. Baroche, Drouyn de L'Huys, Admiial Cecillie Montalembert, and Lucien Murat, were among the number. Al. Baroche accepted the Presidency of the new Council of State* ; but AI. Leon Faucber addressed an angry letter to the Piesident declining to act, and treating the appointment as an insult. Alany others, who were named members of the Commission, declared that they gave no authority to have their nnmes inserted, and protested against the course adopted without their knowledge. The Puttie of Wednesday announced that about 200 Representatives bad already sent t heir adhpsion to the President of the Republic, and that a great number were expected in the evening. On Wednesday a number of Generals called at the EJysee, and offered their sprvices to the President : — On Wednesday, they commenced taking the votes of public functionaries on the question of the election of Louis Napoleon for ten years. All the employes in the public offices, the Post Office, &c, weie called on to sign. It is npedle«s to say, all were favourable to the wish of the President — who would have the boldness to record his name on the other side ]

On Wednesday evening, the Piesident held his reception as usual, which was numerously attended, the carriages rcfllingfor two hours into the Court-yard. The theatres were open, and so were the shops, and the ordinary business of the city was proceeding in its usual course. It was anticipated that the attempts at insurrection would be renewed on the Thursday. Tbis proved to be the case ; and it nppeaied that numbers of the working classes were unfavourable to the coup d' etat. In the Rue St. Denis, and other democratic quarters, a p'acard was posted during the night, which, after leading off with " Vive la Republique ! Vive la Suffrage Universel ! Vive lv Constitution !" went on to proclaim Louis Napoleon a traitor to the State, who had forfeited his powers. This placard was signed with the names of Victor Hugo and others, probably without authority. As fast as it was torn down by the Sergens de Ville, it reappeared again. Another placard, signed by Emile Girardin and all the Representatives of the Left, was also posted, declaring that the Assembly was not dissolved; on the contrary, that it was the only f legal power, that the Piesident had forfeited all authority, and that the executive power had passed into the hands of the Assembly. It called on the army at their peril to disobey the Assembly. Immense excitement pervaded all clashes, and there was an evident tendency on the part of the Natioual Guard to side with the Assembly against Louis Napoleon. The fighting re-commenced at an early hour on Thursday morning. Late on Wednesday night a group of about 200 men continued shouting and singing on the Boulevard dcs Ituliens, while stiong detachments moved along the Boulevards and the adjacent stieets during the greater part of the night : and a large force occupied the Boulevard St. Martin. Among the excitements to disorder on Wednesday night was a procession carrying the body of a Repiesentative, either Baudin or Madier de Montau upon a litter through the streets. The piocession came down the Boulevards and then turned down a bye street. They were charged by a body of troops, and two of the men carrying the corpse were killed. An attempt was also made to pillage the shop of Lepage, the armourer, of the Rue Richelieu, during the night. Several barricades were erected before day-break. They were destroyed by the troops in the morning. The accounts of the loss of life vary ; about twenty of the insurgents were either Lillet! or wounded, and some made prisoneis. Only oue soldier was killed and a (aw wounded during these morning insurrections, which were suppressed by eight o'clock. Some thirty of the old leaders were arrested. Barricades of a formidable character were then thrown up at the Porte St. Denis, Porte St. Martin, Rues Bauborg, Transnonain, St. Mery, and St. Martin — amounting in all to more than a hundred — before information could be forwarded to the troops. The more determined became the aspect of resistance the more rigorous became the proclamations of the President. At twelve o'clock, the aspect of affairs became so serious that all the small posts of soldiers were withdrawn, to prevent their being surprised and disarmed by the rioters, and shortly afterwards three or four regiments of cavalry as.d as many of infantry, with six batallions of artillery, were marched upon the disaliected quarter, and the fighting at the barricades commenced with the ferocity and determination and courage winch the Parisians display on such occasions. It was rumoured that shots were fired from Tortoni'a coffee house upon the troops and it was immediately attacked by the soldiery. The same plea was urged for attacking M. Sallandrouze's carpet manufactory, which was riddled with cannon and at least thirty of the workmen killed. Charges of large bodies of Lancers were made every five minutes to clear the boulevards, and the report spread was that no quarter would be given to the insurgents, and, in pi oof of it, a number of persons taken between two barricades in the Rue Chapon were shot on the spot. Befoie two o'clock there were 30,000 troops of all arms oa the boulevards, and the most peremptory orders were issued by the officers that the windows of the houses should be kept closed, and that no persons should show themselves in the balconies or they would be fired at. Iv fact, several vollies were fired by the troops. The large barrier at the Port St. Denis was not taken till after two hours' hard fighting and the loss of from fifty to a hundred lives. The Mairie of the sth arondiasement was besieged and taken, and foity of the National Guards were depuved of their arms. At this time, the populace appeared to be enthe masters of the quarters St. Deni3 and St. Martin, and all the houses at the angles of the boulevards were filled with men aimed with swords and muskets. Some regiments of the line and Chasseurs de Vincennes weie at length brought up anil the insurgents were driven at all points About three o'clock, the President It- ft tho Elysee follow ed by a bnllidiit staff and escorted by a regiment of Lancets and a battery of artillery, he proceeded firot to the Place Carrousel, then c-ossecl the Place dv Palais National and went towards the boulevaids. . At the Porte St. Martin the greatest loss of life would appear to have taken place, the defenders of the banicade at St. Denis h.iving, when they fled from this, been fairly caught between two fires ; and after the barricade was taken, some hundreds of dead and wounded were found behind it. Lieutonant-Colonel Lobeau, of. the 72nd Regr. of the Line, was killed, Colonel Quilleo, of the same regiment, and several others whose names have not yet been ascertained, were killed or wounded. In the middle of the day a formidable attempt was made by the insurgents, moving from different quartiis, to get possession of the Bank and the Post-office ; but the large forcp stationed in the Rue de Pagevin having deployed into line, the populace, after firing a few volleys, retreated. Several instances are given of persons who vis ted the distuibed quarter, either from curiosity or o;i business, having been shot, and the fussillade against the windows of the houses in the boulevards was fatal to a large number of persons standing at the doors or balconies. One account gives the los>s of the insurgents at between 800 and 1,000, and that of the tioops at about 200 — but it is evidently impossible to arrive at anything like certainty at piesent. It is undei stood that on 'lhursday evening there were 100,000 troops under aims in Paris, and 100 pieces of artillery. At eigbt o'clock in the evening Uanquillity had been restored, the fighting had ceased on all sides, the insurgents appeartd disheartened by their want of success, and the harr.is^ed tioops were peimitted to repose. — During the heat of the contest, a large number of persons, taken with arms in their hands, were shot, and instances of retaliaiion by the insurgents aie tlso recorded The notification of the President, issued during the day, that the voting would be by secret ballot instead of by the inscription of the name, appealed to give satisfaction. A new list of the members of the Consulative Commission appeared in the Aloniteur of Thursday. Of the 120 names published on Wednesday, eighty-one — who v\ ere nominated, without their consent — refused to accept. A permanent Court-Mai tial was named in the course of Thursday, to try the prisoners taken by the troops on Tuesday aud Wednesday, In consequence of the threatening chaiacter of the insurrection, several members of the Club of the Rue dos Pyi amides met during the day and resolved to support the Government against the insurgents. The greatest loss on the part of the insurgents was on the Boulevard Poissomere, Rue Montorgueil, Rue Montmartre, Rue Transnonam, Rue St. M-pry, and at the Poite St. Denis. Thirty-five | bodies were found in one heap in the first stieit; and bodies were to he seen at the doors of many of the houses in the other streets. The troops are said by the Government accounts to have "suffered but little in their numerous engagements." Affairs looked more satisfactory for the President on Friday morning. Anything like an organised resistai cc to the new regime appeared to be at an end.* Neveitlieless the precautions during the day were not relaxed, and such an imposing foice was maintained as was calculated to crush effectually any attempt at resistance. The Boulevards were considerably crowded, but theie werp no assemblages or groups collected, ths principal f cling being evidently that of curiosity. Most of the shops remained with the shutteis up during the day, and the doors partially opened. Tue rain which fell for some hours helped to thin the stieets and thoroughfare-, and, with the exception of omnibuses, vehicles of all descriptions were again allowed to ciiculatp. The troops marching through thd htreets were saluted respectfully. At five in the afternoon, there being no symptoms of further disturbance, five of the regiments on duty — two of Cuirassiers, two of Dragoons, nnd one of Lancers — were marched to their quaiters for the night. In half an hour afterwards two regiments of Caibineprs were moved off. There was one slight attempt to erect a barricade in the morning near the Pantheon, but it was a very puny affair, and undefended. The Moniteur of Friday again published the proclamation of the Minister of War, declaring that all persons found constructing barricades, or with arms in their hands, shall be shot. The Minister of War issued a decree declaring that any individual, whatever his quality, found in a meeting 1 , club, or association tending to organise any reliance whatever to the Government, or to paralyse its action, should be arrested and given up to the CouitsMaitial. 1 A proclamation hy the Minuter of Wai ittUert that

every peison propagating false news shall be arrested and brought before a Court Martial. Tbe following are the names of the Generals of Division and Brigade of the Aimy of Paris :— The Generals of Diusion are, Generals Carrelet, Levasseur, Renault, Coite; the Generals of Brigade are, Generals Ruibell, Dulac, de Bourgon, de Cotte, Canrobert, Ilerbillon, Marulaz, Courtigis, Sauboul, Ripert, Forcy. The Comtitutionnel stales that the following, namely, Generals Changarnier, da Lamoriciere, Bedeau, and MM. Thiers, Charraa, Michel, (de Bourges), and Valentin, &c., who were arrested and taken to Vincpnnps, were subsequently removed to Ham. M. Theirs remained at the prison Mezas. It is said that Louis Napoleon threatens to send him and his confederates to Nonkahiva. M. Odilon Barrot is confined in the fortiess of Mont Valeiien ; he was offered his freedom, if he would consent to withdraw from affairs, and retire to his country seat ; he declined to give any such pledge. M. de Tocqueville is also at Mont Valerien. The Duke de Broghe had been suffering from gout, and requested that he might be allowed to remain as a prisoner in bis own house. M. Dufaure, a member of whose family is ill in bed, requested tlie same; as also M. Keiatry, who is over 70 y ears old; the request was instantly complied with. The offer of freedom rr>ade to the arrested deputies, on condition of their verbal submission to L. Napoleon, has been refused almost to a man. The number of the military killed is not known, but there is no doubt that some hundreds have fallen. In the attack on one of the barricades the 72nd Regiment lost 38 men ; a large number were also wounded. On Saturday morning Paris resumed something of its usual aspect. The night had passed in peifect tranquillity. The shops weie open, and the circulation was ever) where free, except in tome districts where barricades bad been erected, and where tbe pavement was unrepaired. Precautions were, however, visible, all the barriers being strongly guarded. In the afternoon the Boulevards were thionged, to view the traces of damage effected by the cannon and musketry. — In the course of the day the President addressed "a letter to the Minister of War, advening to the decree which he had issued, changing the mode of voting to he adopted by the people ; and observing that, as the suffrages of the army were already almost entiiely given, and in his favour, he wi&hed to be ignorant of the names of those who voted against lum, and requested, after the numbers had been verified, that the registers might be burnt. A decree of the President restores the Pantheon to its original destination— as a place of religious worship. On Sunday Palis was perfectly calm, but not gay : troops were moving about hy way of precaution. There were several arrests — among them some chiefs of secret societies. The gaidens of the Tuileries and the shops of the Palais Royal were open, and also most of the theatres. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular to the Prefects, with instructions to carry out the electoral law of March 15, )849, in tbe ballot of tbe 20th and 2lst December. The lists of March 31, 1349, will be taken as the base of the new lists, which will include all citizens who have since that period acquired the age of 21, and undergo other necessary modifications m conformity to the law of March 1:>, 1849. The electors will hand in a closed ticket, inscribed simply ' Oui' or ' Non.' ' F J On Tuesday the 9th a dpcree was issued by Louis Napoleon which has brought all his despotic measures to a climax. In this extraordinary document he announces that he will transport to the tropical swamps of Cayenne, or to Algiers, for a term of from five to ten years, all persons, subject to suiveitlance of high police, who break their ban (that is, quit the distric, in which they are obliged to live), or have belonged to secret societies. In other words, he proposes to transport all persons whom he may regard as obnoxious to him, or suspect of being opposed to his schemes of ambition. Residence in Paris is interdicted, also, to all persons under surveillance. The decree is as follows :—: — "The President of the Republic, on the proposition of the Minister of the Interior— Considering that France has need of order, labour, and security; that for too many ypars society has been profoundly disquieted and troubled by the ma< hinations of anarchy, and by the insuirectionnl attempts of the membeis of secret societies and liberated convicts, always ready to become instruments of disorder; considering that, by their constant habits of revolt against all laws, this c!.)ss of men not only compromise tranquility, labour, and pubI'c oider, but authorise unjust attacks and deplorable calumnies on the sound part of the working population of Paris and Lyons; consideiing that the existing laws are insufficient, and that it is necessary to make modifications in them, whilst conciliating the duties of humanity with the ititeiest of general security—Decrees :—: — " Art. 1. Any individual placod under the surveillance of the police, who shall be proved guilty of the offence of rupture de ban, may be transported, as a measure of general safety, to a penitentiary colony at Cayenne or in Algeria. The duration of the transportation bhall be five years at least, and not exceed ten. Art. 2. The same measure shall be applicable to individuals proved to have formed part of a secret society. Art. 3. The fact of being placed under the burvedlance of the police shall be, for the future, to give the Government the right of determining the place in which the condemned must r side aft j r undergoing 1 i-s [ u lia'iment. The Administration shall determine the formalities for proving the continued presence of the condemned in the place of his residence. Art. 4. Residence at Paris and in tbe banlieue is interdicted to ell individuals placed under the surveillance of the police. Art. 5. The individuals designated by the preceding article shall be obliged t quit Paris and its bunliene within ten days from the promulgation of the present decree unless they shall have obtained permission to remain from t the Administration. r l here shall he delivered to thoj-o who may demand it a Jemlle de roule el de secours which shall fix their route to their place of birth, or that which they may have designated. Art. (5. In case of violation of the measures presciibed by Article 4 and 5 of the present decree, off-nders may be trnnsported, as a measure of general safety, to a penitentiary colony at dtypnne or in Algeiia. Art. 7. Persons transported in virtue of the present deciee shall be subjected to labour in the peniientinry establishments; they shall be depiived of their civil and pointed rights ; they shall be subject to military jurisdiction ; the military laws shall be applicable to them. However, in case of evasion from the establishment, the transported shall be condemnc I to imprisonment, which cannot exceed the tune during which they may then have to remain in tiatisportation. They shall be subjected to military discipline, and subordnniion towimh their chiefs and keepers, whether civil or military, during the period of imprisonment. Art. 8. Regulations of the Executive Government shall settle the organization of these penitentiary colonies. Art. 9. The Ministers of the Interior and of War are charged each in what concerns him, with the execu.ion of the present decree. *' Done at Paiis, at the Elysea National, the council of Ministers bjing heard the Bih December. " Lours Nai'oi.eon Bonaparil. " A. De Mouny, Minister of the Inteiior." A commission of thiee nmyois, an architect, and doctor, presided over by the Prefect of the Seme, is appointed to value the damage done to innocent victims. A credit of 200,000 f. is opened to the Minioter of the Interior to provide for the first needs. O. j