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 canuoniers of the national guard. The latter having made resistance, five of them were killed. While were circulated of a coup de main for Mouday. 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 generale 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 this piece was fired in the direction of the 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. At eight o'clock, and even before, the firing recommenced in the direction of the Croix Rousse. It was kept up with vigour. D:scharges of grape-shot killed or wounded a great many people. At one time a report was spread that the workmen, forced in their positions, were retreating by the new fortifications of Montessier, and that they would disperse in the country. It appeared, in fact, that the display of a considerable military force could not fail of bringing about this resalt. Suddenly the news of important advantages obtained by the workien 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. It was known that the workmen had obtailed possession of the barracks of the Bon Pasteur, and had disarmed the artillerymen who occupied it. Almost at the same instant 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. 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 filty individuals paraded several quarters, crying, "Vive la Republique !" Some workmen, unconnected with the city, arrived in the night of this morning. They state that they are to be followed by a great many others. A report is current, that the town of Tarare is completely in a state of insurrection, 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. Several couriers, who had been sent in different directions, experienced the same fate. This afternoon, at three o'clock, a Proclamation, signed by the Prefect, the General, and, it is said, the individual filling the office of Mayor, has been placarded in the quarter not in possession of the workmen. 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. 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 incredible efforts have been made. square is occupied by the troops of the line, heap more than a million a year on who are also masters of the Quai St. Vincent, Louis-Philippe and his family, and to the adjacent streets, and the powder magazine, a post for the preservation of which the most pay the interest of a debt contracted by the Bourbons to pay the holy alliance The greater part of the houses situated near for putting those Bourbons upon the the Hotel de Ville, where all the authorities throne, and for giving immense sums to 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 an exaggeration if the number of dead and wounded were to be estimated at 1,000 or 1,200 ? May the official documents diminish the gravity of the statements of the multitude, and, above all, may the workmen of Lyons and the soldiers become convinced that they ought to cease a war of extermination. 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 character singularly refined. Then, again, when he sees his employers living in splendour; not at all complaining of the taxes; seeming to say that all 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 aud 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 couse- both countries is one and the same; it quences of these incendiarisms. This quarter is the weight of the taxes, doubles in 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. both countrics, 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 sen- Paris, the NATIONAL GUARD, as it is sible that their distress did not arise called, are the fundholders, of whom from any of the measures of the Go-Louis-Philippe is the greatest; but vernment, nor from any want of justice and liberality on the part of their employers. 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 It is singularly perverse in Doctor does seem, indeed, to be a cause more Black, particularly, to protest against founded in reason; for who can deny holding out to the working people any that it requires no common portion of hope, that the Government has the power education, and that possessed in no to better their lot. Why not hold out common quantity, to make a working the hope, Doctor? You are, every day man clearly perceive that the Govern-of your life, telling your readers that ment does not at all contribute to his "boroughmongers have got their hands in distress by taxing every-thing that he the pockets of the people." This is a consumes in order to get money, to figurative expression, by which you Paris is not to France what London is to England. The resources must chiefly 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! mean to tell us that the boroughmon- swept away; and in all human probagers tar us, and apply the taxes to their bility it will end in creating a REown use, which makes them wallow in PUBLIC, that horrible spectre, to lay wealth, and makes some of us half which for ever we contracted in debt, starved. Well, then, Doctor, if we were dead-weight and poor-rates, perpetual to jerk, or rather if the Government obligations to the amount of eight hunwere to jerk, the hands of the borough- dred millions, in addition to what existed mongers out of our pockets, should not before the war began. If that frightful we be better off than we are; and would spectre should rise up again, and that not the labouring man, who must now too before a reform to satisfy the people pay 9s. 6d. for a bushel of malt, be bet- be made, those who plotted the debt of 2, ter off, if he could get that malt for four France in 1815, will feel, in right shillings a bushel? I put that question earnest, the consequences of their hellish home to you, Doctor. Well, then, it policy. is a monstrous piece of impudence to say that the Government has not the power to take off the malt-tax; and, therefore, it is to tell a falsehood or to be a driveller, to say that the Government has not the power of relieving the working people. In France, as here, all is usury and monopoly; both of which are upheld by the systems which the governments pursue: these evils go on producing greater and greater effect every day: the working part of the community always suffer more in degree than the other parts; the working part consists of the millions; they will endure only to a certain point, and when they will endure no longer, the whole fabric of the system, after rocking to and fro for a while, comes tumbling down upon the heads of its upholders, disappears from our sight, and (to be bombastical), "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaves not a wreck behind." 4 1 But, Doctor, why tell the people that they cannot receive relief from the Government? Why tell them this, if you think that reform will bring them no relief; and at the same time call upon them to form Political Unions; call upon them to strive at elections; call upon them to fight as for their lives, in order to get that very reform, which, according to you, can do them no good? This is as bad as the Liar, who called upon the people at Preston to vote unanimously, that the Reform Bill would have done them no good; while, in the same breath, the stupid oaf boasted that he had voted for the bill! Come, come, Doctor, adopt my thirteen Manchester propositions; tell your readers that the bill would have effected all that; and then you may lament the loss of it (for you will never see it again!) with perfect consistency at any rate. DADDY BURDETT. Doctor, do you remember that, at the making of the peace of 1815, the Courier and the bloody Old Times suggested the necessity of compelling France to I ALWAYS said, that this daddy put have A GREAT DEBT, in order that himself at the head of the National Pogreat numbers of people of property litical Union, in order to prevent it might be interested in upholding the from producing any real effect in furBourbons; and in order that France thering the cause of reform. And, I might be unable to go to war to disturb now understand, that, finding he could her neighbours ? If you do not re- not keep it under his control, he has member this, I do, and can turn to the withdrawn his name from it! This passages at any time. The scheme suc- fellow appears to be resolved to make ceeded; for awhile the two banks and good every word that I have ever said the two governments were united in the against him; but, to say the truth, none bonds of marriage. When Charles was but most besotted creatures have adshoved down, Louis-Philippe came andhered to him since the year 1818, when perched himself upon the stool. But it I made a full and fair exhibition of his is now over; the French debt will be conduct and character. dealer. A new edition, with very great addi- THOMAS, R., Glynn, Glamorganshire, cattletions, of my CORN BOOK is just published, price five shillings. Also, No. 8 of the HISTORY of GEORGE IV., price sixpence. This Number contains an account of the curious intrigues of 1813, relative to the Princess of Wales; and it shows to young men that Cocky Waithman has not at all changed, but is now just the same man as he was then. BANKRUPTS. ADAMS, J., and A. Kettelty, Fenchurch-st., tailors. BATEMAN, J., Southampton-builds., agent. BAWLER, F., Bath, baker. Also, TWOPENNY TRASH, for GROSJEAN, F., Piccadilly, hatter. December, 1831. HOLGATE, E., Mitchell-street, St. Luke's, carpenter. JENKINS, J., Portsea, pork-butcher. LEES, W., Newton-Moor, Cheshire, cotton- scrivener. I have no room to insert an account of any part of the fires that are blazing throughout the country; but I cannot refrain from addressing one word to the farmers, and that is this: Be you assured, my friends, that this plague of all plagues, this terror of all terrors; this curse, which makes England a sort of hell upon earth, is never to be put a NICHOLLS, R., Bath, silversmith. stop to, until the labourers have an ex-THOMAS, W., Broad-street, Bloomsbury, change for their labour, good victuals, good drink, and good clothing; by the using of any other means, you will only harass your lives, and finally effect your own ruin. The yeomanry cavalry swords are of no use; their carabines are of no use; their menacing attitude is of no use; even the gallows, or, rather, the chance of the gallows, is of no use; nothing can put a stop to these fires but conciliation; and a hungry belly knows of no conciliation. LUCAS, J., Cromer-street, Brunswick-square, MARTIN, F., Cheapside, ribbon-manuf. victualler. TURNER, J., Great Portland-st., Oxford-st., tailor. WARDER, H., High-st., Newington, china dealer. WHITE, W., Manchester, livery-stable-keeper. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1831. ASHLEY, W., and W. E. Ashley, Gainsboro', BELL, R., Cloth-fair, grocer. CHINN, T., Merthyr Tidvil, Glamorganshire, COTTON, T., London-road, Southwark, and ment than that to which the sellers seemed Paradise-row, Chelsea, boot and shoe-maker. willing to submit, the trade was throughout DEMOND, W., Launceston, Cornwall, book-dull; with wheat, barley, boiling peas, and seller. DICKINSON, J., Earnest-st., Hampstead-rd., victualler. FARRAH, J., Hatfield, Hertfordshire, coal merchant. FREE, R., Rotherhithe, commission agent. GUEST, H., Manchester, woollen-draper. HART, H., and J. Davies, King-st. Hammersmith, and Monmouth-st., St.Giles's, clothessalesmen. HOMEWOOD, T., Pollard's-row, Bethnal- KËNSETT, F.,Kingston-upon-Thames, farmer. SNELSON, T., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester- STEVENS, J., Bread-street, Cheapside, and THORPE, G., Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolns., THORPE, J., Usselby, Lincolnshire, dealer in WIGHT, R., Painswick, Glocesters., clothier. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. trader. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 23. Our supplies have been, since this day se nnight, of English and Irish wheat, English and Scotch barley, English malt and flour, Irish oats, and Foreign linseed, great; of English beans and peas, mustard and hemp seeds, Scotch wheat, Irish flour, Foreign peas, rye, malt, at from Is. to 2s. per quarter beneath Friday's quotations, or from 28. to 3s. beneath those of this day se'nnight; with oats, beans, and peas at their last week's prices. Flour is expected to fall 5s. per sack before the close of the market. Canary seed has looked considerably upwards; with other seeds the trade is very dull at last Monday's currency. The arrivals this week are large. The tares, and rapeseed, moderately good; of market very dull and prices rather lower. Foreign wheat, barley, and flour, as also seeds not above-mentioned, from all quarters, very limited. THE FUNDS. Fri. Sat. Mon. [Tues. Wed. Thur. 83 831 83 831 831 831 |