and even ammunition was not forthcoming till late, and then only in small quantities." It may be seen from this that the business was not over on the night of the 21st, and reports are in circulation, that letters dated the 22d have reached Paris, announcing the recommencement of the contest, | (From the Journal des Debats.) tional Guard, assembled at the Croix Rousse, and came down into the town, The drums immediately beat to arms, and the National Guard, headed by its chiefs, went to meet the insurgents. The Prefect of the Rhone and the Cominandant ordered the garrison under arms, which, unfortunately, was at this moment not very numerous; the detachments of the troops of the line were distributed among the National Guard. the 21st is sufficieely afflicting. It is unfortunately too true that the blood of Frenchmen has been profusely shed by their countrymen; and, what is more to be deplored, all the murders committed on this terrible day were not done with arms in the hand. Three assassinations are spoken of, committed at the houses of three citizens.-According to a letter which we have not ourselves seen, disturbances have broken out at Grenoble. Persons corresponding with Lyons did not yesterday PARIS, Nov. 25.—It is with the deepest pain receive their letters. The following is an ex- that we yesterday received the confirmation of tract from a letter written by a young artillery- the unpleasant reports that were in circulation man, the truth of which is guaranteed to us :- concerning Lyons. The movement has no "We are in an important crisis-since 8 political features. For some time agitation o'clock this morning, Nov. 21, the drum has prevailed among the workmen, but the is beating to arms throughout the town. The tarif for the wages of the silk-manufacturers workmen of the Croix Rousse have displayed was the only cause. On Sunday, the 20th, the intention of coming down into the quarter numerous mobs assembled at the Croix of the Capuchins and the Terraux, to require Rousse, but they dispersed without force being the execution of the new tarif. In fact, since necessary; but in the evening the Magistrates eight o'clock this morning, masses of work- were informed that great preparations were men have descended armed with pikes, mus- making for the following day. In fact, on kets, and stones, on the side of St. Sebastian. Monday, from 10,000 to 12,000 workmen, They encountered there a detachment of the mostly armed with muskets, and a great national guard, who prevented their proceed-number dressed in the uniform of the Naing further. Threats were used on both sides, and the workmen very soon began to fire, and hit several national guards. It is said that the number of wounded is 150, and of the killed twenty. Probably the latter number is too much by half. Several attempts have been made to force the barricades which the rebels have formed in their quarter, but without success. A shower of stones compelled the national guards and the troops of the line to retreat. We left our quarters with our guns It seems certain that the first shots were and lighted matches. It was quite necessary fired by the workmen at a company of the to establish a regular siege, but the impossi· National Guard, posted at the end of the Rue bility of using guns was soon acknowledged. des Capuchins. Two National Guards were For those who knew the paths which lead to mortally wounded. All the efforts used to perthe Croix Rousse, it is demonstrated, that it suade the rioters to disperse were fruitless is impossible to force them. On yesterday After the legal summonses, several charges (Sunday) there was a review by General Or- were made, and they succeeded in driving back donneau, appointed General of the national the insurgents into the old suburb, now the guard at Lyons. He wished this morning to town of Croix Rousse. That is their central satisfy himself of the disposition of the work-point of union, and that is situated on one of ing classes; he was accompanied, it is said, by the hills which command Lyons. The work. the prefect, but they were surrounded by se- meu carried on the contest there with more veral hundred workmen, and made prisoners. boldness, and the firing was twice resumed. It is now seven o'clock, and the place of con- A detachment of National Guards, commanded test is tranquil-each party has kept his by Gen. Ordonneau, supported by a company ground. The workmen are still masters of of the 66th, mounted the hill by a street their entrenchments and of all the Croix that is very steep, and is almost wholly Rousse. To surround such a place we require occupied by the houses of workmen. They two or three regiments, and we have only had hardly reached a certaiu height_beone. The whole of the national guards fore a thundering discharge was made from did not comply with the call, only three almost all the windows. Taken between two or four thousand men repaired to the ap-fires, and not having much ammunition, the pointed spot. The artillery is placed at the ar- troops were obliged to retreat, but not without senal. We have just heard that M. Schirmer, leaving some dead and some wounded. At the associate of M. Depouilly, is killed. Capt. this moment some of the workmen having B. is dangerously wounded. We expect a demanded a parley, the Prefect and General tranquil night, but anticipate a terrible morn-Ordonneau, willing to stop the effusion of ing. The Magistrates have wanted prudence. blood, went in the midst of them, unaccomFor several days it was known that the work-panied. They began to speak to them and men were agming, and yet the authorities were persuade them to return to their duty, when in a manner surprised. Nothing was prepared, they were surrounded, made prisoners, and PARIS, Nov. 25, ELEVEN AT NIGHT. We are happy to be able to give more satisfactory accounts from Lyons. The city was tranquil on the 23d in the afternoon, at the departure of the mail, which the insurgents suffered to leave the city, not to prolong the alarm which it was justly presumed must be felt in the ca confined in a house. The Prefect was threat- an inevitable chaange in the condition of thi ened to be hanged if he did not, before ten manufacture." o'clock, deliver powder to the insurgents. Lieutenant-General Roquet caused the men who came to demand a parley to be instantly arrested, and sent a demand that General Ordonneau and the Prefect should be immediately set at liberty, otherwise he should shoot his prisoners and set fire to Croix Rousse. The General and Prefect were speedily set at li-pital. berty; the former is said to have received a The mail arrived this evening a little before blow with a sword on the head. Among the nine; beyond Melun it met the Duke of Orvictims are M. Schirmer, a partner in the leans and the Minister of War. The Duke house of Depouilly, and an artist of great talent. alighted from his carriage to make some inSome other manufacturers have perished, and quiries respecting the situation of Lyons, from persons of great mildness have been wounded a merchant in the mail, with his wife. He by paving stones, when they went among the was able to learn, as we have done, that on the workmen. It is hoped, however, that they 23d, about three in the afternoon, the insurwill recover. On the side of the insurgents it rection had not taken any political character, is supposed that the loss has been greater. the workmen were formed into regiments, The grenadiers of the 66th, on seeing the of- and their chiefs had announced the penalty of ficer fall who commanded them, made a ter-death against any individual guilty of burning rible discharge. A great number of arrests have taken place. (From the Journal du Commerce of PARIS, Nov. 25.-No letters from Lyons having been received to-day, as appears by the official notice posted up on 'Change, we have no details of what passed on the 22d, and even the events of the 20th are not perfectly known. We have received the Courier de St. Ain, which gives an interesting but evidently softened account of the transactions of that day. This article concludes as follows:: "The dispersion of these workmen by force will, doubtless, cause numbers of them to retreat into those parts of the Department of the Ain which are near Lyons. The gendarmerie is going to send all the men that can be spared to reinforce the brigades at that point; but the national guard especially is interested in the maintenance of order and respect to property, which the appearance of these bands may endanger. "Orders have been given to all the mayors of the Cantons of Monituel, Trevoux, Meximieux, immediately to take such measures as are required for the public safety. We learn that the mayors of most of those communes had anticipated these orders at the first news of the troubles, and have stationed posts on all the roads; their zeal and foresight are very commendable. "The manufacture of silks, drawn from Lucca by civil wars; from Vienna by heavy taxes; had been fixed for many years at Lyons, and seemed to be for ever attached to that great city. Such events are the signal for its ruin. It is a branch of commerce that is leaving us, and by which Switzerland, Prussia,land England, are acquiring riches. Their competition already crushes us, and what is passing at Lyons is, properly speaking, a revolt against the necessity of exportation, and against or pillage. It is said they even wanted to have this proclamation sanctioned by the Prefect, who remained in the city; that magistrate had answered that his authority had ceased, but that he recommended them to content themselves with incarcerating the malefactors. Deplorable excesses had taken place before this resolution was agreed on. Several magazines had been cleared, and the goods carried into the streets and burnt. At the house of Mrs. Gueren, widow, all the household furniture was thrown out of the windows. A coffee-house, on the Quai de la Saone, had been plundered and demolished. Serious acts of violence had been committed on several persons. The number of killed on both sides is estimated at 600. At first it was said that workmen from the neighbouring towns had come to join those of Lyons. This does not seem to be the case. The troops sent for from other places had not yet arrived. All the authorities had in fact left the city, except the Prefect, who remained as a private individual, and whom he workmen respected, doubtless because he was favourable to them on the establishing of the Tariff. These are the facts we have collected at the post-office, and from a merchant who arrived this evening. We may add, that on the road from Lyons to Paris, all was tranquil, but uneasy. It is hoped that the mail, which was to leave Lyons on the 23d, will arrive to-night at the usual hour. That which arrived this evening has brought the bags from all the roads that led to Lyons, and those of that city. They are all untouched. The letters will be delivered tomorrow morning at seven o'clock. It is said that there are only about 50 letters written from Lyons itself, and that none of them are addressed to the ministers. (From the Messager des Chambres, dated Sunday.) released unless they signed bonds for the fur- There is no description of alarming accounts that has not been circulated to-day at Paris, in the Bourse and elsewhere. One account|menced in the streets which bordered on Croixwas that Toulouse, another that Grenoble-Rousse, and continued during the day. The now that Strasburg, then Montpellier, were in a state of insurrection. At the hour that we are going to press, no dispatch has arrived to confirm these reports. We affirm that they are invented by malevolence. working population of Britteaux, of the Guillo tiene, and Saint-Just, put themselves in motion in the morning, and towards ten o'clock General Roquet, who had planted a battery at the Gate Saint Clair to prevent the passage of the bridge Moraud and the bridge Lafayette, gave orders to fire on Britteaux, from which along the quays of the Rhone. In the course of the day barricades of boards and thick planks were erected on the quays of the Saone and the Rhone, on the bridges of the Saone, in the streets, &c. On Sunday, the 20th instant, the report became pretty general that the silk weavers were about to make a violent attempt for the estab-place the workmen kept up a constant fire lishment of a scale of wages. Nothing was very distinctly stated as to the precise or special motive for this attempt, but sinister expressions were frequently uttered, and were calculated to excite the serious attention of the authorities, who were, from other sources, it is said, informed on the subject for several days. Orders were, in fact, given to the National Guards, who were to assemble on Monday morning, to preserve public order under all circumstances. We are uninformed why it was that the Guards had not appeared under arms to an imposing extent until towards eleven o'clock-a period when the weavers. had already completed the organization of the insurrection, and had made themselves absolute masters of the Croix-Rousse, where the labouring classes principally reside. The shops of three armourers were broken open and plundered. In the evening, the military, and what remained under arms of the National Guard, were shut up in the Place des Terreaux, and in the Hotel de Ville, where the authorities of the city and of the department were assembled. The powder magazine of Serin, and the arsenal established at Anai, were carried towards the night. To-day, Wednesday the 23d, at two o'clock in the morning, the earnest requests of the civil authorities induced General Roquet to quit the city with the troops which he commanded, consisting of the 66th Regiment, and From the first discharges, there were, on several battalions of the 40th and 13th Regi both sides, several persons killed, and a great ments of the line. The workmen had a post number wounded. Even women and infants at the barrier St. Clair, and it attempted to were shot, and nothing was wanting that could intercept the retreating columns. A general strengthen the horror of this catastrophe. discharge, and which it is said left only a few The workmen who descended into the city living among the workmen, opened a passage when the contest took place returned to Croix-for the troops. We understand that Genera! Rousse, the National Guard of which district Roquet is encamped at Montessier, an elevated they had on this morning disarmed. The position, which commands Croix Rousse, and workmen had also seized on the two cannons is about a league from Lyons.-Precurseur. belonging to the National Guard, pointed them towards the city, erected barricades, and, in fine, fortified that faubourg as a military position. We have received the Lyons journals, from which we make the following extracts: THE DAYS OF THE 21st and 22D NOVEMBER. This position is naturally very strong, and The dykes have been broken, and the poputhey have continued, up to the present even-lar torrent has inundated every part. We write ing, the fusillade of the respective out-posts. Towards two o'clock, a detachment succeeded in turning the position, and in commanding it, by taking possession of the height. We are informed, but we can scarcely credit the statement, that an order extorted from Gen. Ordonneau, and signed by him, forced the Commandant of this detachment to abandon the position which he had taken. It is also said, that at four o'clock the deputies from the workmen presented themselves armed to the Municipal Authorities, and that they laid aside their arms at the Council-room, but upon the express condition of their being restored to them on their departure. We are not aware what propositions these deputies were the bearers of, but it is said that they declared, in the name of those who sent them, that the General and the Prefect should not be in the midst of general disorder, and an uneasiness which is momentarily increasing. The impressions which we receive are terrible; and we cannot yet foresee the issue of the sanguinary drama which is being performed before our eyes. It had been for scveral days announced that the silk-weavers, exasperated at not seeing their condition ameliorated, as was expected, had formed, for the purpose of obtaining the enforcement of a scale of wages, an offensive coalition, which was to burst forth last Sunday. Nothing, however, occurred, and the day passed in the most perfect tranquillity. The National Guard, which was reviewed in the morning, on the occasion of the installation of General, Ordonneau as its Commander-inChief, had not the least excess to repress. Notwithstanding, however, sinister rumours were circulated of a coup de main for Monday. The authorities were informed of them, but they did not take any decided precautions for the maintenance of order. On the morning of that day, the generule was beaten in every part of the city. The National Guard took up arms, and, towards eleven o'clock, went in great numbers towards the Croix Rousse, where the workmen had assembled in great numbers, had erected barricades in a position to sustain an attack, and had already obtained advantage over some detachments of the National Guard, who, in their anxiety to hasten to the spot, had forgot that they were not sufficient in number to act against their opponents. Being repulsed with stones, they beat a retreat, but not before several of them were severely wounded. (From the Gazette de Lyonnais.) The courier from Paris has not arrived at Lyons. He was stopped on the Faubourg de Vaise by the workmen. From the first of the morning, it was easy to judge that the struggle would be terrible. New troops had arrived the 13th, and the whole, or part, of the 40th of the line. The military authority had made its arrangements, On their part the workmen had not remained inactive, at least as far as it is possible to judge by the results of the second day. The tocsin was sounded in the faubourgs and at St. Paul. A part of the 13th of the line, it is said, laid down their arms, and a similar report was spread respecting the 40th. It was announced, that at the gates of St. Clair a piece of cannon was taken by the workmen from a detachment of cannoniers of the national guard. The latter having made resistance, five of them were killed. While this piece was fired in the direction of the Quai St. Clair, that of the workmen of la Guillotiene swept the avenues of the Pont Moraud. We are assured, but hope the information is not correct, that this bridge has been cut away. The bridges du Concert, de la Guillotiene, de l'Archeveche, and several others, are strongly fortified with barricades formed of carriages and paving-stones. The Corps de Garde of the Place Belcour is in flames. It is stated that several posts of the line have been disarmed. We may say, that everywhere (and the people generally have had the same opportunity of seeing and learning as ourselves) the workmen have found an echo. Even women and children act and speak in the most hostile manner against the authorities. It is said that a band, composed of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty individuals paraded several quarters, crying, "Vive la At eight o'clock, and even before, the firing recommenced in the direction of the Croix Rousse. It was kept up with vigour. Dis-Republique! charges of grape-shot killed or wounded a Some workmen, unconnected with the city, great many people. At one time a report was arrived in the night of this morning. They spread that the workmen, forced in their po- state that they are to be followed by a great sitions, were retreating by the new fortifica- many others. A report is current, that the tions of Montessier, and that they would dis-town of Tarare is completely in a state of inperse in the country. It appeared, in fact, that the display of a considerable military force could not fail of bringing about this result. Suddenly the news of important advantages obtained by the workmen circulated from mouth to mouth. The noise of the firing came nearer the interior of the city, so as to leave no sort of doubt upon the subject. surrection, and that some gendarmes, the bearers of dispatches addressed by the authorities of that town to the general commanding the division, fell into the hands of the workmen who guarded the dispatches. This morning General Roquet published a proclamation of a different tendency. It is said that his wounds, which were beginning to heal, have broken out again, and that he was forced to return to his hotel. Several couriers, who had been sent in different directions, experienced the same fate. This afternoon, at three o'clock, a ProclaIt was known that the workmen had ob-mation, signed by the Prefect, the General, tained possession of the barracks of the Bon and, it is said, the individual filling the office Pasteur, and had disarmed the artillerymen of Mayor, has been placarded in the quarter who occupied it. Almost at the same instant not in possession of the workmen. they made themselves master of the large establishment of M. Brunet, in the quarter St. Vincent. From this advantageous position they for some time kept up a heavy fire upon the troops of the line intrenched in the Rue de l'Annunciade. There were twenty other places of contest in different parts of the city. On every side barriers were raised, and the streets and quays were unpaved. It was announced that the posts occupied on both sides of the Saone and Rhone by the national guards were in the power of the workmen; some of them fell a prey to the flames, and in others a sentinel was placed. Towards the Pont St. Vincent the military chests of the line were stopped, in the midst of a heavy fire. The noise of cannon and musketry only ceased at night.-According to the information which we have been able to obtain, the following is the present position of the combatants: The workmen are masters of all the faubourgs the streets which lead from the Terreaux to the Croix Rousse, and the entire city, with the exception of the large square comprised between the place de l'Herberie, and the rue Neuve to the south, and the streets parallel with the place des Terreaux to the foot of the Croix Rousse on the north. This square is occupied by the troops of the line, who are also masters of the Quai St. Vincent, the adjacent streets, and the powder magazine, a post for the preservation of which the most incredible efforts have been made. The greater part of the houses situated near the Hotel de Ville, where all the authorities are assembled, and in the quarters which we have just described, are occupied in a military manner by the troops of the line. The number of victims of this frightful day is not known; but would it be au exaggeration if the number of dead and wounded were to be estimated at 1,000 or 1,200 ? heap more than a million a year on Louis-Philippe and his family, and to pay the interest of a debt contracted by the Bourbons to pay the holy alliance for putting those Bourbons upon the throne, and for giving immense sums to the old Noblesse, whom the Republicans drove out of the country. To make a working man see that this does not tend to augment his distress, his EDUCATION must, I confess, be of a chaMay the official documents diminish the racter singularly refined. Then, again, gravity of the statements of the multitude, when he sees his employers living in and, above all, may the workmen of Lyons splendour; not at all complaining of and the soldiers become convinced that they the taxes; seeming to say that all ought to cease a war of exterinination. is as it should be, while he and his family are starving, though working sixteen hours in the day; when he sees At seven o'clock in the evening, the work- this, a very powerful education is cermen, exasperated by the firing from the win- tainly necessary to make him believe dows of the place des Terreaux and the vici- that neither his employer nor the Gonity, set fire to two or three houses with light-vernment is in fault! The disease in ed fagots; but we have not heard the conse- both countries is one and the same; it quences of these incendiarisms. This quarter is the weight of the taxes, doubles in iş unapproachable. P. S. General Ordonneau was, at three o'clock this morning, set at liberty. We have heard that a large sum was paid for his ransom, as well as for that of the Prefect. Paris, the NATIONAL GUARD, as it is both countries, by a lessening of the quantity of money. The diminution of the quantity which has taken place here It is truly curious to observe how must have been accompanied with a exactly the newspaper-men in France proportionate diminution of the quanchime in, in cases like this, with the tity of money in France, and in every newspaper-men in England! FIRST, other country in the world. This is There is nothing political in the motives only one cause, however, of the sufferof the insurgents. SECOND, The insur-ings in France; for the positive presrection is caused by the want of education sure of the taxes there is very great, in the insurgents, who, if they were though not so great as it is here. At properly educated, would be quite sensible that their distress did not arise from any of the measures of the Government, nor from any want of justice and liberality on the part of their em-to England. The resources must chiefly ployers. Complete, however, as was the absence of all political motive, the working people did, it seems, advance to the charge, and defeat their opponents, under the cry of" Long live the Republic!" The want of education does seem, indeed, to be a cause more founded in reason; for who can deny that it requires no common portion of education, and that possessed in no common quantity, to make a working man clearly perceive that the Government does not at all contribute to his distress by taxing every-thing that he consumes in order to get money, to come from the country; as long as that debt exists, there can be no tranquillity in France; and when the debt shall cease to exist, then will come the Republic! It is singularly perverse in Doctor Black, particularly, to protest against holding out to the working people any hope, that the Government has the power to better their lot. Why not hold out the hope, Doctor? You are, every day of your life, telling your readers that " boroughmongers have got their hands in the pockets of the people." This is a figurative expression, by which you |