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    Ggghmbbb 2, Ib48, The Northern Star. 7

    gggHMBBB 2 , Ib 48 , THE NORTHERN STAR . 7

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    THE FRENCH ' REPUBLIC ' EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS IN THE ^ 'NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . *

    Funuv . August 25 th . —At half-past twelve M . jjurait , President , took the chair . The order of the day being the discussion on the jgpott of tie Committee of Inquiry relative to the events of the 15 th of May and the insurrection of Jane , the President invited the Assembly to be jihn , and listen to the speakers without interrupting them . M . Chaekas , the first saeaker , suggested that it would be advisable , before the discussion was opened , tc hear the members who had any penoial explanations to give . Tie propsrition , being put from the chair , was adinitted . ^ Admiral Cast denied certain things imputed to hia in the report .

    ML Cetbis next ascended the tribune , and observed that he had been twice attacked in the report ; first , as representative , and secondly , as commissary He «* s'fewrited as having accompanied Barbes to the Hotel de Ville , wh = n it was notorious that he had marched against him . M . Portaus and M . Latjdris made statements , showing that the evidence of M . Arago was false in certain respecfe . M . Abago replied , bnfc cut but a pitiful figure . Seveta' other representatives Mowed in vindica tion of themselves , against imputations contained in the report .

    » t E ^« ca 1 BDSTJ WJIIW . M . Ltortj Rollw afterwards ascended the tribrjneamidst ths most profound silence . He would , he said , bs as calm and moderate as possib ' e . and if any expression should escape his lips ia the heat of his extempore oration , he requested the Assembly to ™ a * . \ Political inquiries had originated with thafiretrevolution . After the events of the 5 ; h and 6 th of October , 1 J 89 , which forced Realty to bow to popular ^ omnipotence , an inquiry , instituted by order of the . National Assembly , had lasted nearly an entire year . Mirabeau pulverised it ia a few words , and £ e Assembly passed to the order of the day . After the 10 th of August , and the 9 : h Ttermidor , similar inquiries had taken place , and what results had they

    produced ? He would not defend himself , for he was not on hia trial . Onthe 15 h of Mayand 24 b , of Jane he was at his post , and had done his duty , both rathe Assembly and > t the Hotel da Ville . The committee had no right to bring Mm to an account for any of his acts , for his circulars and the appointment ef the commissaries ; if he had recommended in the areolars , that theehoice of the electors should tallontheRepublicans of the vieille , it was through consideration for certain men , whose opinions could not change in twenty-fonr hours . lie remembered the declaration made by the chief of the Opposition , at the last sitting of the Chamber of Deputies , that if the Regency was not prec ' aimed the utmost anarchy must ensue . The commissarita he had named were

    all honourable men . Heconld not be answerable for the choice of the sub-commissaries , which was made by the commissaries . One of these , who had spent a portion of his life ia the balks , had been named not by him bat by a man the Assembly honoured with their confidence its former President , M . Buchf z . Hia conduct as regarded foreign affairs had been likewise irreproachable . The expedition of Risquons Tout required some explanation . The partisans of the fallen dynasty were conspiring in Belgium . Three English ships of war were at the time in the Scheldt , r -ady to seize on Antwerp . A Belgian legion was formed , and he ( M . Ledra Rollin ) had done for them what he had done for the Germans and the Poles . Wfrentb . 3 column arrived on

    the Belgian frontier , the prefect of the north apprehending some disorders , had sent muskets to arm the National Guards . Those arms were plunders ! by the Belgians , and were not distributed < e them . The hen . deputy then addressing himself to the right , said tint it had contributed perhaps Bore than himself to bring about the revolution , it now continued to do what it had done for the last eighteen yearshang onthe chariot-wheel te prevent its moving . CHanaara . ) Daring eighteen yews , continued the hon . deputy , you loved tba government which you had established ; and yoa followed it without having an idea , or a principle to pat in its place . Well thes , what yen have been under thetgovernment of Jury which yoa founded , and which you loved so ranch , I

    aueh fear you would not effect for the Republican government which vera have sot founded . The learned gentleman then went oa to accuse the tight of having tailed in the rende & vcms , which it had made on the 16 sh of April witb . 20 G , € 00 meson the Boulevards . You must not , ontinued he , recomosnee a captions opposition , and if yoa are good citir , jus , your mission ia to follow , bat not to direct the government , for yoa are without ideas , and without principles . { Hear . ) There was general distress in the-eoantry . be would admit , but it shoald not be said Chat it j „ the Republic which has caused the evil . St shoald boldly be said that the grsat majority of tho houses which had failed were three pavts rained fesfora tha revolution of February .. It was necessary to make

    ¦ kaawn tbit there ras only one means of safety—tbe Republic . It was necessary ts bind oneself to its -car , and not dream of reaction . Yon wish , he continned , to frighten us with the bugbear ct the Red 'Republic , bnt it is -e-vain phantom ; the Red Republic does not exist ; the evils which voa perceive , yoa wish to scare away with a constitution . What is Treated in the preseufrstata of affairs k social institutions . The hen . deputy then declared that he and his friends wished foi family ties and rights to their fullest extent ; but is the child , he asked , that is eo often seen at the gate 0 * the Foundling Hospital to be called a family < tie ? Is it tbe young female who , not being able te nwritain herself by honest labour , is compelled to enter on a life of infacy in order to

    procure herself a morsel of bread ! -Certainly not-But real family ties we all wish for . We are accused of proscrifikg property , whilst we are well aware that it is the basis of liberty . Property ! Why , we perhaps love it more than yea . The hon . deputy here remiadsd the Assembly of what he wished to do for the interest of property by creating mortgage-banks , as the only means ef releasing it from the iron , grasp of the usurer . The cry was raised that be wished to create paper money . ^ Paper money ! Why what waa the 150 millions which had been borro ^ eifrom the Bank ? He declared tbat he and hi * party were the only true -friends of p « K

    perry , for they wished to make it accessible to all He repr . sented the republic of the United States as ready to founder , ^ because property was too much concentrated in soma haads . ( Marmora . ) I cannot , he continued , reply to reproaches which I do not Jiear , butwhatl wish to say is , that in America there is social danger , because the state retains too much land in its-binds , and agitatieais carriea on ithere to the cry of ' Land is liberty . * The hon . -deputy concluded by insisting on the-aecessity which ¦ existed for anion and concord . They most aet be ¦ merely uttered b « the month , bnt mast be felt in the ihearr . ( Criesof * bravo ! 'fromthelsfe . )

    BPBBCSOF LOUIS BLAKC . M . Loses Blakc . — Placed fer some time under the falsest and moit ostrageona accusations , it is with difficulty that I can maintain the calm which selfrespect imposes . 5 There is one circumstance which particularly strikes-me in this debate , and that is , that the men who accuse ns were avowed partisans of monarchy aud always combatted tie Republic ; whilst we , who are & coused , are , on the contrary , Republican ? , are the men who have shed our blosd , who have smf . red far the Republic , who have fifty timea risked our livesfor it . The Republicans were made over by the lategovernment to public execration—they were branded as men of blosd and of tbe scaffold . But when tkey obtained powee they proclaimed the abolition cf the psnalty of death for political offences ; they < did not pronounce a singje word af hatred , of vengeance , or of ill-will ; they did aot scepend a single journal , and they loudly prosacred

    claimed in the government respect for the principles which they had previously defended . Of what , ' continued M . Louis Blanc / ' ami accused ? Of the Eieeches 1 delivered ? Then it is , ia fact , a veritable aroces de tendance , which is brought forward agaiuss me ! ' M . Louis Blano then proceeded to examine the charges made against him , aad especially the idea of the creation of a Ministry of L » hour and Progress . On the lalter point be stated that it was with repugnance he had consented , on theiepresentatinsofM . Arago , to accept the mis gion of the Luxembourg , and he detailed under what circumstances the derree reducing the number ot waking boors , was issued . He declared that his « ta might be attacked , but thst he would alwaya Afesd tbe doctrises on which they were based . He next energetically denounced the principle of free competition , and presented an apology of socialism . 1 emlcininaiunfcieefcandtendencies \ Theasttttmn (

    of ihe Assembly interrupted this part of it Louts Blanc ' s discourse . ] He afterwards proceeded to notice the facts * et forth in the ^ P ^ of Jhe Comaittee of Investigation ; and declared that all the speeches he had delivered at the Luxembourg had been published in the Mcsitbub . It the . speech BreegLt f «« ard by the committee had not been repaSikotheo ' -hera . it was because *»«^ "wj on an occasion enconmxsted with thif ^ W Luxembourg . The workmen , hesaid , had demanded haadvice ittki ^ ectto fl » elMtiims ^ rtw » ° * that occasion thaUehad <* » " ^ - the queatien , into which , to the V mthctmp ^ S ^ some expressions which penW * ? i ™ SfK had dipped , and which he would certainlyhave « b ™ lr nnf I « »« * nrA ens * d > J " » Speeches

    de-, livered at the national tribune ^ . ?^ KH « hpJ MositirjH ) , if he intended to hire &** ' * published in the official journal of the Repub ^ f **• jf ««¦ Blanc then defended or excused the . * "" Jvj ? speech , and after proceeding for some tun" * " ™* V , " was extremely fatigued and requested the AS *& to allow a few minutes' repose . f . Toe sitting was accordingly suspended , and alter some minutes the President announced that M . L" » uis Blanc , in consequence of hi * treat fatigue , had i > quested tbat thesitang might not be resumed until ! half-past seven . .... . I TiuswastereedtoaidthaAtwrnblyadjoaraed .

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    The sitting having been resumed at eight o ' clock , M . Lotus Bluic again ascended the tribnne and continued bis justification . He affirmed that he had strenuously exerted himself to prevent the manifestation of the 17 th of March , and , when he perceived that it waa unavoidable , he did everything in his power to prevail onthe chiefs to act with calmness and moderation . As respected the demonstration of the 16 th of April , he protested that it was not contemplated to overthrow the Provisional Government , which he considered the best government of transition , being composed of heterogeneous elements ; and that big most constant preoccupation had been tbat it should hold together until the opening of the National Assembly . Moreover , he never entertained

    the least intercourse with any club or any influential member of a clnb . He wished at no price to separate from his colleagues , and considered their maintenance in power as the sole chance of salvation for the republic . He did not believe that the masses of workmen assembled at the Champ da Mars on the 16 th of April , wereanimated with hostile designs , and was astonished that the government of the Hotel de Ville shoald have treated them as enemies . With regard to the national workshops , M . Louis Blano declared that they had not only not beea organised according to his principles , but that they were actually instituted against himself ; andthat the title of delegate of the Luxembourg was a title of exclusion from the national workhouse ! 1 , in consequence Of the spirit of

    rivalry that excited M . Emile Thomas towards the former president of the government Committee of Labour . The passage of the report referring to him was completely erroneous , for be never bad any direct cr indirect connexion with the chiefs ot the national workhouses . The club of those workhouses had been established by M . Emile Thomas , who was supposed to be under his influence , but who constantly cornbatted his opinions . It was not either placed under the 3 nfiaence of the delegates of the Luxembourg . Tho * e delegates could not , as stated , fill the posts of brigadiers of the national workhouses , for M . Emile Thomas had issued a notice prohibiting that the brigadiers shoald belong to any other corporation . It is consequently notorious that , instead of a cordial

    understanding , actual enmity existed between the dele gates and brigadiers . M . Louis Blano then explained bis conduct en the 15 th of May . The inviolability of the representatives was necessary to enable them to fulfil their duties . One of his colleagues was twice oa the point of being murdered , and he wondered that the Committee of Inquiry had not thought proper te investigate such a fact . On the eve of tbe 15 ; h of May a meeting was held at his house . The committee should have known that a nnmberof representatives assisted at it , and tbat its object was to secure the * reedom of the deliberations of the Assembly . They were anxious to form a constitution committee , and one of tbeir colleagues M . Brives , was deputed to that effect to the circle of the Rue des pvramides . One of the instructing judges said that he had been

    met in the morning of the 15 th of May proceeding in the directionof the Place de la Bastille . He repaired from the Rue Taitbout , wher e be lived , to the cafe Vernoa , ia the Passage des Panoramas , with a cousin of his , and breakfasted , not privately , but in the coffee-room , where he conversed with ene of the delegates of the departments . The instructing judge had refused to examine the witnesses he mentioned , because it was a part of the system to leave everything in a state of uncertainty and obscurity . He thence walked to the National Assembly , and no sooner had M . iWolowski ascended the tribune to defend the cause of Poland than the people entered the hall . Here 21 Louis Blanc teas interrupted by loud tries of " Don ' t call them the 'peopU ? call them t * e factions . "

    M . Lours Blanc thes appealed to the testimony of the officers of the house , wbo could state whethea he lock the least step or proffered a single word that could induce a belief that he made common cause with the insurrection . He bad Eeen M * Barbes the day before , and said to him , ' Yoa are the chief of a clsb , and I would advise you to exert yourself to prevent the people from committing any act of violence , f < . T it would injure the Repnblic instead of serving it . ' Barbes was a man of heart , who appreciated his suggestion , but may have been compelled by circnm stances to alter hi < mind on the foSowing day . On the 14 th he found him animated with the most pacific acd loyal sentiments , and he affirmed it on his honour asd with more energy than he would for

    himself , as he waa pleading the cause of another , M . Lonis Blanc consented on tfee 15 th toharansne the people , when he obtained leave to do so from H . Bnchez the President . The Mositkub and other pepera bad published an incorrect repoit of his speech . Several sentences were pl aced in his mouth which were pronounced by M . Barbes , who had the manliness te 'claim their responsibility . He was accused of bavins encouraged the pecple , under the peristyle , to inva € e the hall . Several respectable witnesses , he admitted , had certified it ; tat it was impossible that he could have held such language , which Tas so widely at variance with 'his address ten minutes afterwards to the invaders of the Assesrbly . M . Low ' s Blanc next dieo & Ked the merits of the

    evidence adduced against 'htm . One of the witnesses ha 4 % een pointed ont in tha inquiry as an individual who would give any eiHence tbat was required for money . He had mentioned several persons who could have counterbalanced his depositioB , and in particular M . Lem & neois secretary general of the quezture , but neither M . Lemansois no ? 'the others were examined . It was asserted that , having been forced out of the hall into the Salle des "Conferences , he had been appointed member of the ^ Provisional Government . HeappsaledtotherecoUeeticnofallthe persons present . The confusion a & d noise were such that it was impossible to hear cue word tbat was said . He attempted to escape by the gate-opposite the bridge , bnt that passage was closed % the Garde

    Mobile . The crowd then conducted him through the garden of the Presidency to the esplanade of the Havalidss , crying . " To the Hotel tie Tille ! ' A -cabriolet just passing by at the moment bis friends forced him and hist & rotber into it . " 55 . Lemaigre , ithe owner of the cabriolet , said that he was most anxious to proceed to the Hotel de Ville in order to prevent the shedding of blood . He did not contest the accuracy of his deposition , wMch was evidently intended to favour his cause . Had 'fee manifested the desire he supposed of preventing the shedding of blood , should he now disavow it ? Nobody knew how ! fthat scene would terminate . Waa it not rational to eo to the Hotel cWilie to complete the work of pacification which he had commenced vainly in the

    Assembly ? He did net require the cabriolet of M . ^ Lemaigre to repair to the Hotel de Viffe . He might have gone there in another carriage er on foot . On being brought to-the house of M . Arcand , a friend of M . Lemaigre , in Rue de 1 'Ecole de Medecine , he « onld not find theiflannel he wanted , and went to -change at a bookseller ' s M . Victor Masson . On 'leaving tbe house of the latter he was reported to have ' gone to tbe Hotel de Ville , and a colonel of -artillery even asserted that he had seen him within the buifdinff . There was no troth in rthe assertion , acd M . Marraat -bad delivered htm a certificate stating that he bed not presented -himself at the 'Hotel de Ville , and that he had beec-deceived by a National Guard , whose same he did -cot recollect .

    -One of the insurgents confined in the fort of Remainville had written to him to contest the-veracity of his ceiumniator . In a ( prntest , signed by several National Guards of the-6 ih legion , it was stated that Colonel Watrin had not entered the Hotel de Ville one of tbe ¦ first , and that he , -on the contrary , remained a long time on the > sauara . M . Ferestier , colonel cf the legion , -had signed tbet document . The evidence of M . Prevot , a National Guard , who arrested Barbes , confirmed it . M . 'Watrin had not entered the Hotel de "Ville before half-past five o'clock , when M . Bs & ea waa a prisoner . It was proved by M . Lemaigre and M . Araaud that he ( Louis Blanc ) was in the apartment of the latter at talf-past four o'clock . M .

    Massen declared that he remained in hia house until half-past five o ' clock , and it was at that same hoar he wae seen by M . Paget , depnty-oommissioner-of the Republic , on the Qaai auE Pleura . It was also asserted tbat he was then escorted by three armed men . Now , M . Redon , aeaanoneer of the National Guard , positively swore that he was one of those men whs met him butdid noteseert him . Ananonyeous letter badly spelt , but written in a good hand andeansequentlyfeigned , was produced . Laubardementsaid , that he only required three iiaes in the handwriting of a man to hang him . The eomraittee has gone farther ; it opposed to him three lines in an unVnowo handwriting . The deposition of M . Trelat could not ) militate against him . It was contradicted by that ;

    of M . Enile Thomas , who stated that he did not know him . M . Louis Biano then returned to the national workshops and the 1 , 500 tailors of Cltchy , of whom only ten had been arrested among the insurgents . M « Louis Blano next gave an account of his conduot daring the insurrection of Jane . Oa the 23 rd nit . he breakfasted at a coffee-house with M . Baband Liriviere , and on his return home , at eleven o ' clock , he was told by hia porter tbat there were r atfettc / eminsatthegateofStD . nis Thence he proceeded to the National Assembly , accompanied by a countryman of his , who deposed before the committee that he bad dissuaded all the individuals he met on the way from joining tha insurrection . ' My defence is terminated . ' concluded M . Louis Blanc . 'Nobody wid believe that , after exciting an insurrection I had the cowardice to fly at the hour of danger . A

    asw man guilty of such an act would cover himself witb infamy . ' , , „ ... M . CausstniERE next ascended the tribune , carrying with him a mass cf papers . M . Toux asfed leave to give a personal explanation . He said tba * , although he was opposed to the Commission of Inquiry , he was bound to say that Louis BJanc , in his relations with the operatives , excited them more than he appeased them , aud he inspired them with Spanish hatred more than with French fraternity . M Loma Btwc replied , that it was true he was oara ' iu Madrid , bat that his father and Bother were ! both . French . . u iVns'JWaBB then commenced speaking at a AMrter i ^ t « ea o'clock . Hesaid , ' Cife ? repre-£ S «! We I begin I ought to mention that 1 te & Mim VWXS * of yesterday announced that

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    the speech I ant abont to make was not composed byme . ' A MasmsB —What consequence is it whether your Bp is com sed ty yon or M . Lingay ? M . CAUssinnsHB . — 'Having been acquainted for ten years with an intelligent man , I thought it my duty to obtain his assistance . The Cosstitutionnel oansidsrs that extraordinary . I trust tbat you will find ta that wbich I am aboat to read a justification , although the details are numerous . Tueattack hss been leng and minute . = I must be leng and mfnnte ^ P * "kfe ® - I must ask permission to read what I have to say . ' ( 'Speakspeak . ') The orator

    , then unfolded a voluminous manuscript , which he began to read with great volubility . Several members requested him . to read louder and more slowly . M . Caussidiere began by declaring that during the entire time , he filled the office of Prefect of Police , he regarded it as a dictatorship of common sense . He flattered himself that he had restored order in the midst of the gravest disturbance . He endeavoured to render the police a police of conciliation . 'In my circular , ' said he , 'I recommended all hackney coachmen to be civil to the public , and to live in terms of fraternit y with foreign coachmen . ' ( Roars of laughter . ) : ' :

    M . Caussibkbb . —If I am not peimitted to justify myself on all the points on wbich I am attacked , I shall be compelled to demand a commission to take evidence . My mother and roy sister are here , and are respectfully waiting my defence . The Pbssioskx . —I rise again to complain of this interruption . M . Catjssimbrb . —I held that language to the French coachmen , who wished to expel all foreigners , An atrocious expression is attributed to me . I am made to say tbat all that would be necessary to burn all Paris would be a box of lucifer matches . Well , I organised an additional company of firemen in order to prevent fires . I proposed to the government to increase the pay of the firemen , a

    matter always promised but never performed . At Nanterre I imprisoned those who burned theatations and tbe bridges oh tbe railroad . When , on the 14 th of May , I was informed of the movement ef . the following day , I proposed to occupy the Church of St Roch with the Garde Mobile . ; General Duvivier i refused , because he desired to receive orders from the government . I can again invoke the testimony of M . Lamartine , I wished to disarm the Montagnards because I had been informed that a conspiracy bad been formed amongst them to munfer me . I remained fifteen days in that pleasant position . ( Laugh * ter . ) The affair of Lshodde is easily explained . He was attached to the Refobhk under the late government . Whilst living in intimacy with us he

    denounced us . On the 14 th of March he signed tho confession of his treachery , and we never saw him afterwards . M . Caussidiere next referred to his conduct during the 15 h of May . He said , that although confined to his bed by the effect of an old wonnd , he had adopted all the necessary precautions to place the Prefecture of Police in a state , of perfect defence , and tbat if similar precautions had been adopted at the Hotel de Ville it would aot have fallen into the p ower of the insurgents ; he added , that he had received the thanks of M . Marie , a member of the Executive Government . He then passed to the insurrection of June , and' as far as regards that occasion , ' said he , 'it is not a functionary whose acts are attacked for efficiency , but acitisen

    representative of the people who is accused of a conspiracy against the safety of the state . I have no longer to explain the measures I have adopted , but I have to multiply proofs in refutation of interested calumnies . I begin by a collective contradiction addressed ( 0 all those who have declared positively that I took an active part in the insurrection of June , 1818 . This contradiction , given in the presence of the Assembly of the representatives of France , in the name of truth , in the name of honour , in the name of my devotedness to the sacred cause of the Republic , defies all quibbles , all hatreds , and every inquisition . Examine , and you will find nothing but falsehood at thebittomof all those denunciations . I said , citizens , in a moment of excitement , that it I had been a

    conspirator—if I had been a leader , I would have been , at the barricades , aud Ij would have died there . I hare nothing more to say on that , and £ wish that France , that Paris , may not some day ' have to defend itself against attacks from another ¦ quarter . You will then see that I waa not at the barricades of June , because 3 would be found in the ranks of those defending tbe Republic . At another period such a solemn denial on my part would have been sufficient ; but after the impression of the strange documents which have been submitted to you—after the publicity given to them , it is not permitted to us to confine ourselves to coutempt for

    calumniators . It is necessary to refute word for ward so many impostures . We must unmask the authors ; we must submit their manoeuvres to your disgust . We must , in fiee , inspire , if it be possible , your Commission of Inquiry with disgust or with hitter regret for having accepted such testimony . I am about to follow tbera both in the order in which the report presents thern . ^ M . Caussidiere then explained his having breakfasted with M- Daairabode , the governor ef StClsnd , bat denied that he had held the conversation attributed to him on that occasion . M . Elocok rose to confirm the assertion of M . Caussidiere—that he had beea infamously calumniated .

    M . CiTjssnreBE next adverted to the testimony of the police agents , Bozon and Rollet , who asserted that they bad seen him between ene and two o ' clock oa theSSrd of June near a barricade in the Rae St Antoine . ' I shall commence , '' said M . Caussidiere , 'by establishing an incontestible double < j ? ftt . Aad what then shall remain of the deposition of those two men ? A double calumny . I did not qnit the 'Barriere de l'Etoile , where I live with a friend , until half-past , one o ' clock , to proceed to the Assembly , where I arrived about two o ' clock . The withessesof ray presence at heme are seven , independently of tbe domestics , whsee evidence would have 'been rejected . Other peredns ^ who called on me the same morning might prove that they saw me at

    home , and amongst others my uncle . Ton have , moreover , « in the report the evidence of four persons * who called on me during tfae > morning . Many per-• eons oame-to my lodgings on that morning , and when € said tbat their visits referred to agricultural pursuits I was laughed at . I would desire to have ' -the laughers onciy side , ford have occupied -myself seriously with such pursuits , and had it not been fer that unlucky Committee of ( Inquiry I might , like -others , supply my fund of'feeble intelligence to ( the committee charged with the examination of these questions . * We shall return to it at a later period if—^( movement in the Assembly ) . 'The seven letters which I am about to lay before the Assembly ere signed -by honourable men , and contain most circumstantial details whichtcould not be concocted for the occasion , and which coincide perfectly with , each other . Such was the manner in which roy

    time was employed from eight o ' clock in tbe morning until half-past one . At a quarter or halt-past one O'clock I tooLa cabriolet , which conveyed me to the Assembly . Here I find , as witnesses of my presence amongst yon , thirty-nine colleagues , of whom two are Ministers . Those thirty-nine representatives signed deposttteas which figure amongst the documents distributed to you in support of the report . ' All did not exactly see me during the three days ; but : I appeal , I demand , and I invoke the recollection of those who saw me here oh Faiday , at two-o ' clock , and particularly M . Duclerc . who has permitted me to question him on that subject . M . Duclerc—That is perfectly true . I saw Caussidiere enter by the lobby of £ ha Salle des < Conferences at two o ' clock . My recollection is precise . I left the chamber at half-east two ^ o ' clock , and i proceeded to the Ministry of Finance . At three o ' clock I rode on horseback .

    M . diussnuBBB . —Remark that at that hour I was said to have been in-the Faubourg Si Antoine , which is a league-distant from this . It would have been impossible for me to have crossed barricades , fer my knee was swollen , of which I can give proofs at this moment . A m au whom you all esteem , and who fills an honourable aii 4 on in the name of the Republic , M . Anselme Petetis , has sent me from ; Hanover a letter , under date the 9 th of August , not ! less conclusive , and which contains proofs of undoubted accuracy . I add ibis letter to the evidence ,

    quite spontaneous on his part , and whichdoes honour to us both- It may bs seen from this evidence what value is to bs attached to tks evidence of MM . Bozon and RoIIett , even under the fatronage of their chief of polioe , M . EUwun . ' M . Caussidiere concluded m the following terms : — « I defy anybody to prove that I was either the author or the instigator ef the two movements . I would give my life to have prevented that which has occurred . I have but another word to say— ' F » t » e la Retmblique . " IMPBACHHENT 0 * LOOTS BLAKC AUD OAUSSIDIBBB .

    At half-past twelve o ' clock , when M . Caussidiere had descended from the tribune , the President announced that he had jnst received a communication from the Attorney-General of the Republic- The most profound silence ensued , and the President read a requisitory , by whieh the Attorney-General called on the Assembly to authorise proceedings to bs instituted against Messrs Louis Blanc and Canssidiere , charged with being tbe authors or accomplices of the attempt of the 15 th of May , and against Caussidiere for participation in the attempt of the 23 rd of June . A lively agitation was excited by this commuaiea . tion . M . Laubbst dk l'Arbechb ascended tbe tribune , and said , that the Assembly should terminate the pending debate on the inquiry , which was entirely political , before it examined the judiciary

    question . INFAMOUS CONDUOT OF THE DICTATORS . M . Bac observed , that the present demand for authorisation to prosecute was to be expected , a * the journals had been speaking far some time back against the Republicans of the vitille . He complained of the manner in which the demand had been m * de—so late at night , and in a Chamber worn ont with fatigue . He then entered into an examination of the charges alleged agaiast M . Louis Blano and M . CauBsidiere , and came to the conclusion that then was no goedreMQU to pro ^ against them .

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    Ha designated the present course of proceeding a coup de theatre . < , General Oavaionac declared that , in the opinion ot the government , the Assembly having all the documents under its eyes , could pronounce on the rpqnisitory as well as on the report , and that it was indispensable the question should be settled that sight . ¦ " . .. - v - . ... Some members of the Left having moved that the Assembly should adjourn to the following day , the proposition was rejected by an immense majority .

    M . Lagbanob next condemned the manner in which the committee had fulfilled the duties imposed upon it . Instead of delivering up to justice men wh ) were truly guilty , it punished the Republicans . M . Lbbru Rollin a > ked to say a few words on the mode of putting the question . Did the Assembly mean to pronounce on the judiciary inquiry before closing the discussion on the political inquiry ? Now , it was impossible to close the latter , for the honour of the ^ members of the r-ommittee was at stake . Several important documents tad not been printed , and it was impossible to close the debate until it was known why those documents had not been published . ' . J ' ' J ? . I , ABOr » member of-the committee , replied that the honour of the committee was not at stake , because a Le gitimist proclamation , which had not been submitted to it , was not to be found among the documents . -

    A Member here observed that a Colonel Gendarmerie had arrested aman , the bearer of a Legitimist proclamation , which had been communicated to the competent authorities . That individual declared that he had fought at the barricades for Henry V . The document was in the hands of the Prefect of Police , and should have been placed before the committee . . General Oavaionac next rose and said— 'I beg permission from the Chamber to return to a former incident . One of the members has spoken of a long prepared coup de theatre . ' It is important to explain the situation . Whilst the inquiry was proceeding t he government was hot wanting in its duty , and the judicial inquiry continued all the while . The de . mand we have jnst addressed you is not the result of

    the political inquiry , but of the judiciary inquiry . ( Profound sensation . ) The government was anxious that tbe discussion should come on and terminate promptly . We did sot and could not desire that this application for leave to prosecute two' members of the Assembly sheuld be the subject of a new discussion ; The government only interfered after the political debate . If we , allowed a new debate to take place inafew days we should be wanting in all our duties . ' We consider the Assembly perfectly competent to pronounce in both cases on the same day . I protest against all idea of juzgling and coup de theatre . We perform our duty , aud find little pleasure in it . ' M . Louis Blanc next asked that the political and judiciary fact-, be discussed together . The Assembly had already rejected such a demand as respected himself , and could not bow ccmo back on its

    decision . A Voice : But if they are fresh ob urges ? M . Louis Blano : There is not an honest man in the conn ' ry who does not , in his conscience , proclaim me inaocent . (' Oh , oh' end laughter . ) What it is wished to strike in me is not a guilty man but a political opponent . M . Cohsb , the Procuteur-General , said , that three things had gone on concurrently to enlighten the law officers—the judicial instruction on affairs of May 15 ; the military instruction on the insurrection of Jane ; md the judicial investigation on the same . Therefore , the tacts were well known . M . Louis Blano ought to bear in mind tbat since the last demand for authorisation new facts had come to light . M . Louis Blakc again protested against the course adopted ,

    The Pbbsidbst of the Comcil ; We certainly wish to have a prompt solution of this matter ; but the solution which we demand we by no means impose on the Assembly . We declare that we think this demand necessary . We do not say when we formed this opinion ; but this we can declare , that for several days the documents on which it is founded bave been in our hands . We do net wish to influence the Assembly in any way ; we merely wish te state the case . ( Hear , hear . ) M . Flqcon declared that the committee had , in his opinion , failed altogether in its mission , having sought for particular rouses , and carefully avoided the general and true ones .

    M . Dopin wished to place the question clearly befoie the Assembly . It was necessary altogether to separate the political from the judicial question in the matter . The Assembly had no power whatever to decide the judicial question ; all it could do was to decide whether two of its members shodld be stripped of their parliamentary privileges in order to be handed over to tbe law officers of the government . The Assembly bad nothing whatever farther to do , go that all that was said about judging and condemning the

    members alluded to was nothing bnt mere words . The Assembly would , therefore , first have to place aside tho political question altogether . Next it could aot separate the affair of May 15 from that of June , as they went together . ( Cries of ' No , no , ' ' Yes , yes ;*) Let them remember the disjunction act , and how Unpopular it had been , lie would now , therefore formally propose to set aside the political part of the question . Tbb Pbbsidbst : I now put to the vote the question to set aside the political part as proposed . ( Agitation . )

    M . Flocoh ; 1 propose the order of the day on the ¦ whole report —( great confusion )—without distinction as to the parts composing it . ( Renewed confusion . ) The Minister of Jusiice wished to observethat in the affair of May 15 the persons implicated would be brought before the ordinary courts oflaw , but that they who were accused of participating in the insurrection would be sent'bsfore the court martial . ( Great agitation . ) The President : H now propose the pur & TOd simple order of tbe day on tbe report , wfaioh -will close the discussion—it being-understood'that the-report does not affect the demand for the authorisation , ( Great

    noise . ) This wau carried-by an immense majority . The PxcsiDgirc : The subject-now under discussion ; is the demand of authorisation . The Mnwsm ovVvbixcx-: iFrom the motives just expressed by the President I have to calbfor a discus-j sion on-the 8 ubject forthwith' # ' < tt » g' « t « . ; I M . Bac proposed * hat the demand should be sentin the usual way to the bureaux . The Assembly ought ' to have time to study the new decuments . The ! matter had not been sufficiently studied . ( 'Oh , '

    oh . ' ) ' Tne -BeEBiDBNT .: A division-has been called for on \ the question of urgency . (( Muwnurs . ) Great agitation was manifested whilst'the vote was ; going-on , and whilst * he secretaries were reckoning the bulletins , tbe members collected in ^ foups on the : . floor , conversing and gesticulating with great energy . It was now broad daylight , anddhe appearance of the Chamber , with the-dying lights in the lustres , the worn look of theladies in the galleries (( which continued crowded to the < close ) , and the feverish agita- ' < tion of the house , presented a strange and unpleaiant -spectacle . , The following was-. the result of the division : — iFor thedemand > ef urgency .... 493 ' Against it ... ... ... : 20 ' 2 Majority * .. ... .... - —201 j ( Sensatinn . ) > ¦ The -President . —^ Inconsequence the discussion is ) to take place forthwith . . .

    The moment the urgency was declared M . Louis Blanc and M . Caussidiere left the Chamber .

    THE IMPEACHMENT VOTES . The PfcEBEOBNT—A formal division has-been applied for on the demand for authorisation of prosecution in the ease of M . Louie Blano for the affair of "May lo " 5 h only . The following was the result : — For granting the authorisation SOi Against it ... 0 u ... 252 Majority ... . „ ... — -25 $ . The PBEsiflBNT . —In consequence the Assembly accords the authorisation to take judicial proceeding against M . Louis Blano for the affair of May 18 . Toe discussion now opens on tfeo case ofM . Caussidiere for the same event . , ii , Flocon expressed his regret at seeing ' suoh a ! determination come to against a man who was a !

    friend of his—who bad fought in February to found the Republic , and who had shared in the responsibility ef the Provisional Government . Then , referring to the case of M , Caussidiere , he observed that he bad been already punished for the affair of May 15 , having beea deprived of his situation of Prefect of Police . ( Marks of denial . A Voice— ' He was obliged to give it up for bad conduct ! ' ) He would demand , was it fair to now again visit him even more severely for . the same matter ? As to the affair of J une 23 , the Assembly must not forget that if the authorisation to prosecute were granted for tbat event it would bs to send him before the Council of

    War . He felt convinced that if such a result could have been foreseen before the present discussion had begun , the matter would never for a moment have been permitted to go so , far . He then wont through the circumstances connected with M . Caussidieie ' s conduct in June , and declared that it was impossible to find in them anything to criminate him . The hon . representative then touched on the circumstances of M . Caussidiere ' s family ; spoke of his brother , killed for the Republic ; and , alluding to hiaaged father , remarked that the old m & n would indeed have been happy had he after beholding tho glorious revolution of February , at ence yielded up bis last breath ,

    _ M . MiTHiEnfde la . Drome ) also adverted to some circumstances , ef the same period , and ex pressed his belief that M . Caussidiere had not been implicated in the insurrection . He referred , amon gst other things , to the fact that M . Caussidiere bad accompanied him aad other members to General ^ Cavaignac with a view to enter into some conditions with the insurgents . ¦ . . .. TiiePRBsiDEHi of the . CouKCifaftfttd , that u truth

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    he remembered that five or six representatives , amongst whom was M . Caussidiere , had called on him and spoke about treating . He refused , the matter having become bo grave that it was absolutely necessary to master it . completely . It was agreed , however to issue a . proclamation , which tbe members conld undertake to have distributed amongst the insurgents . M , Jambs dbMontray declared tbat he had aoepmpamed M . Caussidiere and the other representatives to General Cavaignao ' s house , and there the proclamation was agreed to , which not a little contributed to discourage the insurgent party . M . Baunb spoke to the same effect .

    The PRBsiDBNT .-The Assembly will now vote on tbe question for authorising , a judicial pursuit against M . Caussidiere for the affair of May 15 . The following was the result of the division : — . For tbe authorisation ... 477 Against it ... ... ... 268 , . ( . Majority ... - —209 ThePBBsiDKNT . —In consequence , the authorisation is accorded . The Assembly will now vote eh the question of granting the authorisation to allow

    proceedings to be instituted against M . Caussidiere for being implicated in the insurrection of June , which will have the effect of delivering him over to the Council of . War . ( Great outcry ; cries of 'No , no ; ' 'Yes , yes , ' ) The following was the result ef the division : — Fer the authorisation ... 370 Against it ... ... ... 458 Majority against it ... —» -88 The Pubsidbni . —In consequence , the authorisation relative to the insurrection of June is not accorded against the citisen Caussidiere .

    The Assembly then rose , at six o ' clock in the morning , adjourned to Monday . : . The . whole garrison of Paris , and all the troops within many leagues of it , were literally under arms last night . The whole of the Gaide Mobile was abroad or in the torts . The elite of the National Guards were noiselessly assembled at their respective Mairies , and patrolled the city in every direction throughout Friday night , aud until six o ' clock on Saturday morning .

    REPORTED ARRESTS 0 * LOUIS BLAKC ASD CAUSSIDIERE . M . Louis Blano and M . Caussidiere bad left the Assembly when it was evident , from the result of the urgency vote , that the case was going against them . On leaving the Assembly tbey . went into one of the committee rooms adjoining the Assembly , where they remained till the rising , of the house , and wrote , a great number of letters . As soon as the vote was passed granting the authority of the Assembly for their being prosecuted , an officer of justice made his appearance , and took them into custody . They were

    immediately carried to the Conciergerie , where tbey remained for some hours . They were then escorted in a carriage , surrounded by cavalry , to the lortresa of Vincennea , where they are at the present moment ia company with their friends Barbes and Albert . In consequence of this arrest , the process of the affair of the 15 th of May will ba proceeded with as quickly a ? the forms will permit . In opposition to this account , the following letter appeared in several of the Paris papers of Saturday , from which it would appear that Louis Blano had withdrawn himself to avoid arrest .

    Struck not as guilty—that is Impossible—But as an enemy , by men In whom political passions have silenced every sentiment of equity , I go out of the way , ( je n ' eloigne ) In order to protest more effectually against the consequences of tire state of siege and government of force . -I cannot brieve tbat France will patiently suffer tbe regular course of justice to remain suspended much longer . When tho day for discussion comes I shall be there . August 26 , 1848 . Loom Blanc . In the conduct of the Government and the Assembly the Rkfobme sees the subjugation of the Republic , and adds : ¦—

    Tho Republic ! After five , months behold the lot ; 19 , 001 men In prison , hunger amongst the masses , des . pair . below , anxiety everywhere ; liberties gagged , glory absent ; poetry , the arts , and all lights extinguished ; an Assembly which denominates itself a bourgeoisie , irritated and suffering , and our only hope , a constitution about to be made in the midst of these disasters . And this is . what we have hitherto been doing for the perpstuation of the great Republic . Ah ! the victims of February are not the only martyrs , '

    TUB FRI 80 NBR 3 OF JUNE . A second lieutenant of the 11 th legion of the National Guard of Paris was convicted by court-martial on Friday last of having fought in the ranks of the insurgents of June . He waa sentenced to five years ' imprisonment . , .. ¦ ; The Pruplb SouvBBAm of Lyons states that the priest party is organising itself in that city , and that its ramifications extend to Chambery . An army of the faith is announced to bring back Henry V . The partizms of a regency are likewise organising themselves under the denomination of 'Honest Men . ' These societies it is said , receive no interruption from the authorities ,.. ! The Red Republican principles seem on the other hand to prevail in other parts of France . An instance of it waa . given in the late municipal elections at Saint Arnand , at which Marshal Soult was a candidate , and was defeated by a shoemaker . , , '

    A letter dated Avignon , states that a tumultuous procession had just taken place in that city , in which several red Saga and red caps were paraded . Cries of Vive Barbes ! '' Vive Blanqui ! '' Yin Robespierre !' 'Down with the rich , ' 'Down with the merchants , ' resounded in the ranks . A number of the National Guards on horseback rode at the head of the procession . <

    XUVi WAR AOAISflT THB PBBSS . There was a meeting on Thursday of journalists at the salon of Lemardelay , Rue Richelieu , to consider the decree of tbe President of the Council , by which four journals have bean suppressed . M . de Girardin the editor of the Prbbsb . took the leading part in this manifestation , from . which some ot the leading journalists abstained . ThaDaBAW , Conitubhonnbl , NaTfioNAi , Sibclb , I'Umom , and some others werje not represented at the meeting .. It was agreed in conformity with the suggestion of M , de Gitatdin , that a protest against the decree should be drawn up , and presented immediately to the National AsEamMy .

    DISTURBANCES AT LILLE , The "workmen of the ateliers < ommtmauxo { . Lille , suspended work again on Thursday . Five or six numerous assemblages were formed in the streets , and in the evening some persons were arrested . Great escitementnow ; prevanedinthe city , and the groups of workmen became eo numerous , and so threatening in their language .: that the rappel was beaten . Oa the appearanceof the National Guard the perturbatorsfled , but'bands of boys paraded tbe streets singing the Marseillaise . 'the 'Girondins , ' the "Chant du Depart , ' . A force was sent to

    the . Mayor ' s house ,-but the rioters , though they broke some of the windows , made no attack on it . The National Guards xemainedunder arms till midnight . The next day the mayor issued an amte , dissolving the ateliers communqux , promising relief to the workmen until associations of them should be formed to do tae work by the piece . Absut six . o'clock in the evening ,: the workmen assembled in numerous groups , and displayed a threatening attitude . The rappel was agaiuibeaten , aud the National Guards turned out . . A decree appeared on Thursday evening suppressing the' & AzaTiE de Francs . It states that : —

    Considering that this journsJ contains Incessant attacks against tbe Espubllo , and excitations tending to destroy-this form of geverment in order to $ at in its > place tbamonarchial ^ orui ; ( . ¦ ¦ Considering that th « se attacks and these excitations are of a nature , under present . circumstances , to tarn dliaene one against another , a & d thus to rsjso civil war in'Puis nnd in thedepartmentejDeorees—iThat from < tbis day the Gazstie de Fjunce is and remains suspended . The first number of a new journal , called the Bcucfifi db Fbb , was yesterday suppressed within a few hours of its appearance . The Gaz & tss de France was the oldest of all tbe journals . Its editor was the Abbe de Genoude .

    iTOSPAKATIOHfi jTOR . COMBAT . The Opinion Pdbliqub contains the following significant paragraphs : — Paris is new two months in tAtate of etege . A milliea of cartridges cava beta distributed to the National Guard . Yesterday several . carriages with shells aad howitzers passed along the quay going towards tbe Ecole Mtiitatro ; tight amtnunitloa waggons heavily laden proceeded from yinoennes to the same destination . At Tincennes 100 field pieces are In the conrt . yard ready to be put to . There are four in the Hotel de Ville , forty In the Temple , four in the court of the Tuiltriei , eight in the Luxembourg , four at the Palais d'Orsiy , sixteen in the court and garden of the National Assembly , and a whole park in the Ecole Mllltaire , Champs ia ilars , Afount Valerian and several other forts have cannons of siege planted on their ramparts .

    VRIOH 1 FDL STATE OF PARIS— DESPAIR CF TUB PEOPLE —ANOTHER STRCaOLE CERTAIN . ' ( From the Correspondent of the John Bull . ) Paris is still under arms . But the soldiery are no longer encamping on straw in the streets , half asleep through tbe exhaustion ef incessant watches ; they are in good fightine order , ready prepared fer another bloody conflict . The hour of extermination is at hand , and if it has not yet struck , by way of signal for fresh horror ? , it is because despair and hunger have not yet reached their utmost limits , and a

    martial force as yet forms a rampart against the swelling tide ef popular passions , \ The troops are extremely jealous of the Qara \ Mobile , which has a franc and a half a day , and is cajoled and flattered , while the soldiers continue te receive their former pay . The Carlistaare busy in the provinces , and the authorities stand at bay . What a situation- to be in ! Fear is on all sides , and what is to be the end cf it , it is more difficult than ever to conjecture , As for the Constitution of the Republic , it will never be enacted , All faith in it is gone ; and the

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    most frightful revulsion will sweep away the very project of it . We have ai rived , at a crisis when every week will be pregnant with events cf the most intense interest , and tho most dramatic character . ( From the Correspondent of the Britannia . ) The week that has paesed away since I last wrote has been very agitated and full of alarms . Gteupa in tho streets in earnest political disnus » ion—vast aiscmblaees at tbe Fortes St Martin and St Denisgloomy attitude of the workmen of the Faubourgsmovements of troops , and precautions of all kindsdetachments of military in the streets-sinister rumours—exhortations of the jjurnalato the people to remain qutet—we have had all these , and , in a word , all the symptoms which preceded the outbreaks of

    May and June . Now , as then , the same circums ' ances of course show that the popular volcano is in agitation again , and will burst forth to cover theland with desolation and woo . I repeat what was said in former letters , that the period of this new eruption cannot be fixed—it may be next week—next month —or even later j my opinion is , as I have said before , that it is not so near as many imagine—perhaps will not come until the severest part of the winter shall have increased the mi .-ery of tke working classes ; but that it will come sierner , bloodier , more hor * rible far than its predecessors , is , according to all human probabilities , as fixed , certain , inevitable as anything human can be , The character of tho new outbreak , come when it may , will he the same as that of

    June—Socialist ; it will be a battle of class against class—a battle to make the rich less rich , in the belief that the poor will be thereby made less pcora struggle on the part of the masses , goaded on by misery and hunger , to obtain a government that shall fulfil the promises which the Republic established in February so solemnly made and has so shamefully violated . It is unjust to the people on the one hand , to represent , as some of your daily contemporaries do . that they only fight ter wholesale " pillage , assassination ' , and incendiarism ; and yet it is not to be wondered at , on the other hand , that the bourgeoisie resists tbeir demands , inasmuch as the granting of them would destroy' the basis on which society has existed for ages—a destruction not to be accomplished 'without appalling disaster .

    INTRIGUSS OP TUB RICH . Every day and every hour the feeling of themiddle and upper classes against the Republic becomes stronger and stronger . You wonld be reallyastonished to hear how such people talk against it . The shopkeepers in particular express the most intense disgust at it , and devoutly pray Heaven that it may be crushed at once and for ever . Tbe aristocracy both of money and birth—that of Louis Philippe and that of the Faubourg St Germain—neither ' of whom , of course , entertain any friendly feeling to it—are acting with a good deal of tact at thismc * - ment . They send their wives and daughters into the shops to examine articles for sale , and to pick out what they would like to have—generally , the

    most expensive objects ; and then , when the shopkeeper is gleefully rubbing his hands at the prospect of doing a stroke of business—a rare thing for him since the revolution—the fair visitors exclaim , ' Oh I we cannot bay now ! We have no money ! And , besides , ho one can tell what will happen—we must wait until we have a monarchical government , which is the only one that can suit France , and then—oh ! then Mr — - ! ' And , so saying , they leave the poor devil of a shopkeeper to ruminate on the advantages of monarchy and to curse tho Republic , which last he does with heartfelt sincerity . This system , I understand , has been acted on to a very large extent within the last fortnight , and has been attended with extraordinary success .

    SUFPEHINGS OP TUB POOR . As to the workmen—God help the poor creatures ! They have nothing for themselves , wives , and families , but the miserably insufficient pittance of bread doled out at the Mairies . I assure you that it is heartrending to visit the quarters in which they reside—yon see them glide about in rage , with pale and haggard faces—ashamed to eat the begrudged bread of charity , yet unable to obtain work ; and if you enter their small dirty residences you would be shocked still more—all tbeir furniture gone—small bundles of dirty straw serving as tables , chairs , aad beds 1

    BSCAPE OP LOUIS BLANC AND CAUSSIDIERE . Up to . Sunday evening the proscribed patriots had not been arrested . It ia said , that they had requested permission to arrange some private affairs previous to their incarceration , and that they took advantage of that indulgence to titact their escape . Tranquillity had been re-established in Lille . The ringleaders in the disturbances were in custody ,

    ANOTHER ACCOUNT . Warrants were issued On Saturday morning for the apprehension of MM . Louis Blinc and Canasidieie by M . Benrand , the magistrate , in virtue of the requisitory of M . Pinard , the Attorney-General of the Republic . Several commissaries ot polioe , attended by their agents , proceeded immediately to the residence of M . Caussidiere , and to the . lodgings of M . Louis Blanc , but neither Caussidiere nor Louis Blanc was to be found . They had quitted their lodgings the previous evening , and had not returned , M . Bertrand , the magistrate , proceeded , in presence of the Attorney-General of the Republic , to search the apartment of M . Caussidiere and that of Louis Blano . The papers seized at M . Caussidiere ' s residence were lodged in the Record office . Seals were placed on M . Louis Blanc ' s office .

    Hone PERSECUTION . A prosecution has been commenced by order of the Attorney-General against tbe founders of a new clnb , established in the Rue Saint Mery , under the title of the Club d ± l'Homme arme ( the club of the armed man ) . The founders of , " the club are accused of exciting hatred and contempt against the government of the Republic , and of acting in contravention to the new law regulating clubs . ,

    ESCAPE OP LOUIS BLANC TO'SNOLIND . It is said that Louis Blanc quitted the National Assembly on Saturday morning last , previous to the division on his case . He proceeded in a cabriolet , accompanied by a friend , to St Denis , where he arrived too late for the first train to Brussels . He waited at St Denis for above two hours until the second train started , by which be proceeded to Belgium . He arrived on Tuesday at Dover . CauEBidiere is said to be in an inviolable hiding place , where he will remain until the session of . the National Assembly shall close . The expression inviolable , as connected with his place of reluge , ia mysterious , and somewhat unintelligible .

    Lisle is in a very disturbed state , owing to measures adopted for obliging the workmen of the ateliers notfoncMKc to do piece-work . The CoNSimmoNNEL appeared on Monday for the second time without any leading article . It gives no reason for its continued silence , but it is well known to be the indignation felt by its conductors at the threat thrown out by the government to suppress it in cenjunction with the Refceme . The Presse cannot suppress its exultation at finding the organ of M . Thiers following its example , in abstaining frem all political comment during the present reign of terror . It is certain that the French government has given a positive refusal ts the demand of intervention made by the envoy from Venice , fearing that by so doing it might complicate the pending negotiations .

    The deserted state of Paris may be judged by the fact that there are 25 , 000 apartments to be let , ranging from 1 , 500 to 2 , 500 f . a year ,

    GERMANY . SBRIOUS RIOTS AT BERLW . Bbbllv , August 22 .-On Sunday a body of Char , lottenburgers assembled , broke into the democratic meeting , place in this city , attacked oS and members , dragged or drove them into the street and pursuing them to their own or other houses ^ beat IS £ ? « l f ' T i , ere , y- Am 0 D & them are the two . Baners and a tradesman named Jacobs Ti « Burgher Guard of Charlottenburg , eithS"ft weak or unwilling : to interfere , aIlo * e § matters toteke thejr course , and the military totally abstained £ this intelligence among the parent democrats 0 f Be ? iin . Meetings were held yesterday mornin * and emissaries employed to inflame the

    "people against the ' reaction . st 8 , ' . aad to get up a demonstSn , I ^ t ° T' * / * ere no outffard symptemBup to post hour , beyend a greater increase of gronpa on ! £ ifiS and confc , 8 uo » B garter * , to whosenTghtly vociferations men are somuch accustomed that thev up longer even disturb sleep or attract aXffi Towards nine o ' clock these groups augmented ^ a formidable mass , and after being harangued from a lamp-post , they rushed in a body to the ministerial res « aenceof the Minister of Commer ^ - S calling upon him toappear , and demanding that the men whs attacked the'demoorats of Charioitenbur * should be arrested ^ and brought to trial , or that M prisoners aeonsed of political offences should be Iiberated . M . Milde , to save his windows from bein * smashed , soon appeared at one of those ef the first story , and attempted to address the mob ; but , as his voice is weak and shrill , conld not make himself heard . Thereupon he was ordered to open his doora and to receive a deputation . This was also complied

    wun , ana promises given by him that the Charlotten . burg ^ ffair should undergo a strict investigation This being settled , the mob , who appeared Sift extreme violence , tore down the iron bars thffil off the centre from the flaWillfl Lmden broJJ ™ JJ benches , and , thus armeTproceeded to the fitS otthe Interior , where , with yells and vr . n ; f «« 7 ;^ 7 they demanded an audience / and 3 nm " fc & SI ? ?? aroh J t ho use' Not having fouad tuti K D - wa de twmined t <> Proceed to the aboS ot the President Auerawald , whose evenings of ' at norne are fixed for Monday , and , consequently , at me moment the immense and furious mob arrived the apartments were filled with members of ta diplomatic corps and numerous guests . Upon lh * approach of the mob some half dezen conatablet attempted to interpose , but were quickly driven backs one with a dangerous wound ending in almost immfc « ate death , At the same time two pistol shots w «»

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 2, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02091848/page/7/