PROSTRATION OF LIBERTY IN FRANCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 636, 19 May 1852, Page 3

PROSTRATION OF LIBERTY IN FRANCE.

A series of edicts and decrees continues with fearful apidi'y and fianiic violence to modify most of the ersting institutions of the country, and to convert the npre will of the Dictator into the organic law of France. Paris has remained since the 2nd December mder mrntial law; but, not content with the overbrow of the tribune aud the extinction of the press, the police threatens to puisue into the closest relations or" joci.il and domestic life the last protests of a nation vhicb boasted till lately of its eloquence and its freelom. Arrests aie multiplied in every part of the counry to an incredible extent. Immense gangs of unconricted political prisoners are brought down in letachments from the foits n<>ar Paris, and despatched o Brest for embarkation to Cayenne. No lees than 300 were removed in this manner from the Fort d'lvry m Thursday night, and the total number of persons ikely to be transported without trial is new stated at 1000. five of the representatives of the people, whose >nly crime is that they expiessed the levolutionary ipinions of upwards of J 00,000 electors, are included n this seizure. Nor is this all. A list of proscription, xpels from the tonitory of France, under pain of trans>orlation, 65 more representatives of advanced opinions. Vnd another list consigns to exile, or to the alternative if sumg 1 for permission from Louis Napoleon for leave o inhabit then own country, men of the highest rank n politics and m arms — some as eminent as General and M. Thiers, otheis as irrepioacbablens \l. Remusat and M. Julis de Jvasteyrie. In the whole lourse of tins i evolution no act has excited more intense ndignation than this decree of exile, fot it has been lictated by no plea of necessity, but by a paltry repenge, and it is mtended to strike terror into what stilj emains of political soiiety in Fiance. — Tunes, Jan. 13.