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Paris, Tuesday livening. — There has been another rise to day at the Bourse. The five per cents at one time reached as high as Sof4oc, but some sales in realisation prevented their keeping at this price ; they closed however, at 80f. 6c. The three per' cents closed at 59f. 50c. At about half-past one the President of the Republic drove up to the Bourse in an open carriage, and alighted for the purpose of going over the diffeient parts of the building. •An immense crowd as>embled, and the President had great difficulty in making his way. He was received enthusiastically, the prevailing cries were Vive le President, Vive Louis Napoleon,' and heie and there a cry of Vive la Republique. Yesterday, when the President was in ihe Champs Elys>ees on horseback, the crowd was so great, that for several minutes his horse was almost stationary. The cries then were — Vive le President, Vive Napoleon and Vive la Republique — two or three persons only shouted Vive l'Empereur. He seems to take these manifestations of public favour with great calm, generally speaking ; but to day, on his visit to the Bourse, he was evidently much moved, for the persons assembled were very different from the mixed crowd that he meets with in the Champs Elysees. Confidence is evidently reviving, and if the National Assembly should 1 ot, on the third reading of the bill for its dissolution, allow the Mountain and the National party to carry their proposed amendment for making the voting of the budget obligatory, and thus protracting the session to July or Augu&t, there is every reason to believe that tranquillity will be maintained. The rejection yesterday, by a majority of 112, of the attempt to pass a vote of censure upon Marshal Bugeaud for his speeches at Bourges and Lyons, has given great satisfaction to the moderate party. I am happy to inform you, from an official source, that owing to the energy and firmness of the police authorities, there is not at this moment a single political club open in Paris. It appears that the clubbists are afraid to give notice to the police of the day of s-ttinj, as i many of them have been denounced in various charges of plots and conspiracy, and to an- ! nounce the opening of the club would be telling the police uirere to find them. A curious capture was made on Saturday. The Prefect of Police had received information of a club held secretly at Montmartie, in contravention of the law, but the information was not so complete as to authorise the arrest of the menbers on this charge. The Commissary of Police, therefore, arrested them (32 in number) as vagabonds. Indignant at this, several I of the captives exclaimed that they were not vagabonds. " Hx>w is it, then," says the Commissary, "that I find you congregated here?" They replied they had met for a political discussion. "I am sorry," observed ihe Commissary, " that you compel me to arrfst you on a more serious charge than that of being vagabonds, which would expose you to a very slight punishment. As members of a club meeting without authority, you are liable to severe penalties, and as such you are now my prisoners." They were then all removed to prison. The Prefect is making a complete razzia in the cabarets and other haunts of thieves and vagabonds outside the barriers. Yesterday forty were arrested, of whom thirty-two were found to be notorious ruffians. The other eight were set at liberty. To-day nearly sixty have been captured. The French Government has decided on sending an engineer to examine the gold and quicksilver mines in California. Orders have been given to the maritime author hies at Brest to prepare a ship of war to convey the engineer to his destination.
The Times of February 6th, says—" The French Government has just rescued Paris from imminent danger of an insurreciion through the vigilance and decision of the Minister of the Interior,, and of General Chang&rnier, the Commandant of the Forces. The object of those implicated in the conspiracyaTe stated by one of the legal journals of Paris'iohave been — To dissolve the National Assembly, and. to establish a Committee of Public. Safety. To annul t'>e Constitution. To imprison the Bonaparte family. To suppress,-the liberty of the Press for, two years. To snspend personal liberty for three irionths. To try by a commission , all those who have taken part in ths proceedings against the insurgents of June. To pay the interest of the debt in paper money. To impeach all the Ministers of the Crown since 1830. To establish the right to labour, dissolve the National Guard, adopt the red flag with the triangle of association, and establish progressive taxation, with confiscation of the
property of the emigrants, &c. The conflict would have been more formidable than that of June, inasmuch as. the Garde Mobile would prohably have turned against the line, in the event of an engagement Nothing could excepd the hostility of the two corps, unless it be'that of the army against the mob. There were about 100,000 troops in Paris and its immediate neighbourhood, and in addition to .this a portion of the Army of the Alps was making a forward movement in the direction of the capital." ' The President of the Republic had conferred the order of the Legion of Honour on M. Bonpland, the celebrated traveller, and on Dr. Jackson of Boston. According to the New York papers, more than 40 vessels were on their way to California via Cape Horn and the Straits of Magellan with nearly 2000 passengers, besides those via the Isthmus of Panama, and those overland from the Mississipi. A Boston pilot boat, of 75 tons, with a crew of ten men, and carrying about 1200 feet of canvas, had sailed, and her Captain had asserted he would reach San Francisco through the Straits of Magellan in 110 days.
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