LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [From English Papers to July 5.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 343, 15 November 1848, Page 3

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [From English Papers to July 5.]

General Cavaignac bad caused the Bth. 9th. and 12th. Legions of the National Guard to be disarmed, and also the National Guards of Belleville and the " Courtille", and after the Legions were disarmed they were dissolved. An order has been issued to disarm every man who had not been righting against the insurgents. * The most savage atrocities were committed by some of the insurgents on the prisoners who were so uttfoftuifate as to fall into their power. ' 6 A woman 40 years, of age, who was afterwards confined. in_the cellars of the Tuileries,- .confessed with- the most savage joy that she, decapitated fiye officers of the Garde Mobile with a kitchen knifel On the principal barricade of the ,Faubpurg, St. , Antoine the mutilated body of a Garde Republicaine was seenlinapiled on a stake. The bodies of several of the. Garde. Mpbile were found in the Panineon hung by' the wrists, pierced witti nationavx were dissolved, The

mayors of arrondissementswere instructed to aid the necessitous and deserving, until the Government had time to take measures which -would put ar^ end to the present state of things and restore workmen who' desire employment to their ordinary habits.' A loan of 150 millions of francs was concluded between the State and the Bank of France. Repayment was to be made of the deposits in the Savings Banks in, rentes at the price of the present day, and a loan of 5 millions of francs 'advanced t «to,the Builders' Society. M. E mile' > -de Girardin, the proprietor of the Presse, had, been imprisoned, bail had been refused, and no person was allowed to communicate with the prisoner. The Presse and several other journals had been suppressed. The Cholera had latterly increased in Moscow to a most fearful extent. According to the statistical accounts of the papers published in the interior, it appears to have taken a southerly rather than a westerly direction. Count Zichy the late commandant of the city and fortress of Venice had been tried and convicted by court martial and sentence*] to death; The Minister of War has urged the Emperor of Austria to coufirm the sentence. The Sicilian Parliament, sitting at Palermo, has published the list of four candidates for the throne of Sicily. They are a son of the King of Sardinia, the son of the Duke of Tuscany, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, son of the Prince de Canino (Lucien Bonaparte), and the Prince de Beauharnais. It is stated that King Ferdinand has made .^arrangements for effecting his escape to Malta, .in the event of ; another and more successful insurrection at Naples. Jamaica had been visited by heavy rains which had done considerable damage. The country had been flooded several feet deep. Plantations had been destroyed, vegetation and the surface land washed away and in its place a heavy deposit left of mud and drift treess The roads had been rendered impassable and would require an enormous ■ outlay to repair them and a length of time would elapse before the means of communication could be established. The destruction to stock had been immense, and many human lives had been lost. Such heavy and continued rains had not been experienced in the island since the year 1815. The quantity of rain that bad fallen during the six days that the rains lasted was 43 6-10 inches. True bills had been found against Mr. Devin Reilly on a (harge of drilling and training. Mr. Devin Reilly was arrested on this charge on his return from visiting his friend Mr. John Mitchell in Newgate. General Cavaignac, who had resigned the extraordinary powers conferred upon him, had been reinvested by the unanimous vote of the National Assembly with the Executive power, with the title of President of the Council, and was empowered to name his own Ministry. The following list of the new Ministry was published in the Paris papers June 29th :—: — M. Bethmont, Justice. General Bedeau, Foreign Affairs. M. Lenan?, Interior. General Lamoriciere, War. M. Basiide, Marine. ' M. Goudchaux, Finance. M. Carnot, Public Instruction. M. Recur t, Public Works. M. Tourret, Commerce. The Archduke John of Austria has been s elected by the German Parliament assembled at Frankfort, as the head of the Germanic confederacy, or as it is more commonly called, the German Empire.

The Journal dcs Debats gives the following description of the damage caused by the firing during the insurrection ;—; — " A free passage through the streets being now permitted, we have been enabled to visit the streets and open spaces which have been the theatre of the melancholy events which have been accomplished. The Quartier Latin, from the Hue de la Harpe to the Place Maubert, and from the Hotel Dieu to the extremity of the Faubourg St. Marceau, has'suffered most. The battle was most desperate in_ this part of the capital, and the traces of the insurrection are everywhere horribly visible. The columns of the facade of the Pantheon are almost all damaged ; the figures in front are mutilated, and some of them completely defaced. It was against tbis portionof the building that the formidable barricade was fixed which defended the approach to the Church of St. Etienne-du-Mont, and which was carried by cannon shot- Two colossal statue's placed in the interior, one representing la Ripublique, the other the genius of Immortaljtt, were destroyed by thp effept of the cannon. , A .painting, a copy of Raphael, was pierced by a ball. A stage has been raised under the cupola, on *which repose the bodies ot'twp vjjgimsjpf- the^furj of the insurgents';

The brave General de Brea and his Aide-dc-Camp wera basely assassinated at the Barrier of Fontainebleau. The Church of St. Etienne bears the marks of cannon-shot. The top of the spire has been broken. The Hue St. Jacques presents the most desolate appearance in that portion of it near the Rue dcs Maturing and the bridge of the Hotel Dieu. The front, of every house is completely riddled with balls. Every projecting' wall or dooicase is likewise broken, but the portion still more damaged is the lower part. The barricade placed there was bravely attacked by the Republican Guard, and captured with the assistance of cannon."

The following account by their Paris correspondent is from the Times July Ist ;—; — We have had a quiet night, and seem likely to pass a tranquil day. Six thousand of the insurgents have, however, escaped from Paris, and are in the Forest of Bondy, the Wood of Versailles, the Forest of St. Germain's, and even in the Bois de Boulogne. They threaten to destroy the railroads. Troops have left town to disperse or capture them. The hurry of the insurrection has a little subsided, and men begin to look a little coolly at the horrible occurrence, and to demand who were its authors, why it took place, and why it was not anticipated and prevented or crushed at its commencement. Some of its authors are in Yincennes. Others are named publicly. The insurrection took place because the last promising opportunity for it presented itself. M. Caussidiere was right. I The moment for the revolt was when, on the 17th of March, the ouvriers, the Sections, the Communists, and the Socialists, were in possession of the city, when there were in it but two regiments of the line to back the National Guards, and when the Garde Mobile was scarcely yet created. The dissolution of the national workshops ordered by Government would ultimately have deprived the Sections and the Socialists of the aid of the hundred thousand men, miscalled 'workmen,' congregated in Paris and kept together and supported in idleness and dissipation ever since. Hence, having lost the great opportunity that offered on the 17th of March for establishing the reign of terror, the conspirators determined on a movement while they could yet have the co-operation of a body so large and so ill-disposed as were ' the ouvriers.' The conspiracy that preceded this outbreak was one of the best concealed on record, always excepting that of Robert Etnmett in Dublin, which was six months in preparation, and of which the Irish Government had no more notion until within an hour of its explosion into insurrection than they had of the day of their death. Either this conspiracy was known to the Government, or it was nof. If not, why not? The answer to this question is looked for with impatience. It is no calumny on M.M. Barbes, Blanqui, Raspail, and others arrested for the affair of the 15th of May, to assume that they were in it. They could not, however, have conducted it since their arrest, nor made the military and other preparations for it which have astounded the world by their extent and effectiveness, and plunged their country into mourning by the number of victims that have been made by its bursting into open revolt. One way of accounting for the wonderful organization displayed is the alleged existence of a "Red" Republican party for many years. 'The Sections have been, and remained, in existence these 30 years and upwards,' I am told. 'They were,' say my informants, 'the Sections who effected the revolution of 1830, and who two or three months afterwards projected overthrowing the Government of Louis Philippe, They were the Sections who fought in 1832 and 1834 and in 1839 (under Barbes), but never since 1832, until 1848, did they act with anything like unanimity.' In a word, it is believed that there are no great new names to be quoted of persons implicated in this conspiracy who were capable of organizing it, militarily or otherwise, and of rendering it general, and consequently truly dangerous. The conspirators, whoever they were, reckoned, it is believed, on 'the aid of the masses ; but why they shouldkhave done so with anything like reason I Jfcnnot say. They also counted upon thejjraror they could inspire ; and they deemed .top&ational Guard unequal tp a contest with t||m, because of the number of their own partitions that they knew were ,ia its ranks, anil who because of the general obligation to serve in it, could not be excluded from it. They saw early the danger of allowing the introduction of troops Into Paris, and after the 17th of March compelled the withdrawal of those who had'b,een literally smuggled iqg; but the troops were adroitly brought iutMtfye capital after the affair of the 16th pfiApfru, apd ever siqce their numbers have b.eejvjjradually inprejfpjng^, * Who farcied., on th^'^Vpirapy ttv:o v: its i burs.tipjp|prlh,! |^jridfd fhe mx>usy. witbj

which the instruments of it are said to have been purchased ? Who organised the fighting force ? Wt»o allotted the parts to the leaders and the subordinates ? Who amassed the amis — the ammunition? These are questions, I repeat, that one hears on every hand and at every moment, The most eminent men in the Assembly are denounced as cognisant of the conspiracy and parties to its explosion. The name of one representative of the people — lately extravagantly popular — is in all men's mouths. He is said to be garde a vue (incessantly watched) and that his life would be the price of any at* tempt of his to withdraw, I have not, unfortunately, tinge to pursue this subject further to-day, but I shall return to it to-morrow. In the interim, let me say that, according to the universal impression, Paris owes everything to the 16,000 or 18,000 boys and striplings embodied and armed and organised as a Garde Nationale Mobile. I repeat that this is almost the universal conviction, but the opinion seems, equally entertained which General Cavaignac is said to have stated on Monday, at § o'clock, to an officer of the National Guard, who observed to him, ' We are victorious, General,' ' Yes, 1 said the General, ' as I am told ; but without my old Africans you would have been done* (the only word by which I can convey the expression attributed to the General.) If General Cavaignac used these words, he might truly have said, ' without me and my old Africans ;' for the fortunate result of the insurrection is universally acknowledged to be in 1 a* great measure due to him. What an assemblage of ' old Africans' Paris now bpasts ! Cavaignac, Bugeaud, Jsedeau, Lamoriciere, Cbangarnier ! Paris is tranquil. I mean there Is no disturbance ; 1 10,000 troops of the line, independently of 200,000 National Guards, qccupy the city, and one-third of them are at this moment in the streets. The insurgents are still believed capable of other attempts, however hopeless, and against those the Government is every moment resorting to new precautions. Arrests continue to be made every instant. For example, I saw a dozen powerful men marched prisoners down the Faubourg St, Antoine an hour ago, handcuffed and tied together, who, I was told, were newly captured. 40,000 stand of arms, the fruits of the disarmament of the two legions, of the National Guards and the Faubourgs were transferred from the depot at St. Thomas d'Aquin to Yincennes last night under an,.escort of two regiments of cavalry- (Cuirassier* and Carabiniers). Parties of Mobiles have left town to scour* the forest of St, Germain and the wood of Versailles, It is said that the magistrates charged to make a judicial inquiry into the circumstances connected with the late insurrection have obtained proof that on the morning of the 23d a great quantity of arms and ammunition was received by a commissioner for the transmission of merchandise by waggon who resides at La Vilette, and that 1,500 muskets were shortly afterwards distributed amongst the in* surgents, M.M. Napoleon Lebop and Kersansie were arrested on Monday, A draught of a decree written with a pencil was found on the person of an insurgent. It was to the following effect : — "Art. 1. All citizens paying more than 200 francs' taxes are deprived of their civil aqd po« litiea.l rights during ten years. " Art. 2. The landed and chattel property of all citizens who have exercised public functions of any kind whatspever since the year 1815 is confiscated, " Art. 3. The constitution of France is that of 1793. "Art. 4. The army is disbanded."