cular to the Prefects of Departments, containing instructions relative to the taking of votes. The votes are to be given on the 20th and 21st inst; the electors are to be the persons who would be entitled to vote in virtue of the electoral law of the 15th of March, 1849, that is to say all those not laboring under certain specified disqualifications, who are 21 years of age, and have resided six months at least in a commune. The lists are to be published at the latest on the 16th, and are to be definitely closed on the 19th. The voting is to be continued each day from 8 till 4. Electors are to bring their voting papers ready prepared. They are to contain the word "yes" or "no as an answer to the question submitted by the President. The ballot boxes are to be sealed up, and deposited during the night in the Mairie, and protected by a post of the National Guard or the army. The counting is to be by the members of the Bureau. The Minister of War has made an address to the Generals of the army. The soldiers are to vote for the election of a President within forty-eight hours after its receipt. Yes or no is simply to be replied to the following proposition: The French people wish the maintenance of the authority of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and entrusts him with the powers necessary to frame a constitution on the basis mentioned in his proclamation of the 2d in stant. has been taken down by the government, and whenever members have attempted to meet officially, they have been ordered to disperse, and arrested if they refused; more than two hundred having been arrested-many of them, however, being released in a few hours, but all the leaders of the opposition are imprisoned. Many members of the Assembly have given their adhesion to the President - it is said as many as three hundred during the first day. No organized resistance to the government was attempted, and telegraphic reports from the Departments declared the news to have been hailed with enthusiasm by the provincial population. Subsequently, however, partial attempts at opposition were made in Paris, and rumors reached that city hostile to the alleged unanimity of feeling in the provinces. Barricades were erected in the more turbulent quarters of Paris, but were all broken by the troops. At one of them, two members of the Assembly, taking prominent places, were killed in the conflict. A section of the Assembly contrived to meet at one of the Parisian Mairier, on Tuesday, and had decreed the deposition of the President, and his impeachment for high treason; but the meeting was dispersed by the troops, and the decree ridiculed and disregarded on all hands. In addition to the arrests, troops were placed in the houses of some of the ex-officers of As Among others, that of M. Dupin, President of the Assembly, was occupied by troops, and himself put under a sort of durance, although he was not actually arrested. In an address to the army, Bonaparte en-sembly, who were exempted from arrest.treats them to be proud of their mission, as to them he looks to save the country. He says, vote freely as citizens, but, as soldiers, do not forget that passive obedience to the orders of the Chief of the Government is the rigorous duty of the army, from the general down to the soldier, to be ready to repress all attempts against the free exercise of the sovereignty of the people. He concludes - "Soldiers, I do not speak to you of the recollections attached to my name. They are engraved on your hearts. We are united by indissoluble ties. Your history is mine. There is between us in the past a community of glory and misfortune. There shall be in the future a community of sentiments and resolutions for the repose and grandeur of France." The full rigor of martial law had been proclaimed against all persons concerned in barricades, and they were accordingly shot without delay. PARIS, Friday morning. A decree appeared ordering the voting on the 20th inst., to be secret, instead of public. During the day, barricades have been thrown up in earnest. At half past one o'clock an immense crowd of about five thousand troops moving along the Boulevards, was fired on from the neighboring passages and houses close by. The firing was returned. The combat lasted briskly for upwards of half an hour. Cannon shot and musketry were used. Among those arrested are Gen. Changarnier, Cavaignac, Bedeau, Lamoriciere, Leflo, At the same time, further down the BouleCol. Cyarris, M. Baze, Theirs, Brum, and oth-vards, firing was brisk up to 4. P. M. It had ers. It is said that Lamoriciere afterwards escaped. Eight journals had been suspended, among them the Evenement. then nearly ceased in the neighborhood of the Boulevards, at Theirs, but continued in other quarters. Complete particulars cannot be obtained. Nothing is certain, but that this sanguinary battle has taken place. The President declares himself to have been forced into this measure, and it is ascertained that Changarnier, Lamoriciere, Theirs, and A fight took place in the streets, lasting from others of his opponents had decided to de-mid-day until 5 o'clock, in the quartieres St. mand his arrest and impeachment on the 2d Inst., and were together, and in the very act of confirming this decision, when they were themselves arrested and conveyed to Vincennes, whence they were next day removed to Hull. The temporary Hall used for the Assembly Martin, and St. Dennis, when the insurrection was quelled in all parts. Cannon were requir ed to destroy several barricades, and the troops returned to their barracks. The barricades of the Faubourg St. Dennis and St. Martin, and the Boulevards near the Bastile, had been destroyed, when the troops retired. Commodore Thos. Ap Catesby Jones, of the American Navy, was shot on the Boulevards, and severely wounded. The President has put forth a new proclamation, in which he invites the people to vote freely, and declares if the majority be against him, he will resign. Everything, however, says the correspondent of the Globe, indicates that he will have a very large majority. Many persons blame him for his decree, restoring the Pantheon to its original destinationreligious worship; but the general feeling is decidedly in his favor. It is a guarautee that he will uphold religion against its enemies, and will render the clergy, who have great influence in the rural districts, favorable to his election. The Globe's correspondent says another decree, which will produce good effect for the President, is that in which he places troops engaged in the suppression of riots on the same footing as those engaged in campaignsthus giving increased pay, increased rations, and additional years of service. This is one of the most judicious measures as regards the army that could be done, and after this act it would now be very difficult to shake the devotedness of the army to Louis Napoleon. The exact loss sustained by the army in the late engagements, is not known. One superior officer and fifteen soldiers were killed, and three officers and one hundred and four soldiers wounded, many of the latter seriously. The loss is estimated a heavy one. M. Thiers has been liberated by the President on account of ill health, but with the proviso that he leaves the country. On Monday, Dec. 8, Napoleon issued the following proclamation: bush. 45 bush. 75; bag, $145; Cranberries HP bush. $4,00; Eggs doz. 18 @ 20; Ham, Boston, fib 10; Hayton $11,00 @ 12,00; Lard f tb, 9 @94; Mutton ib 3 @ 6; Onions & bush. Frenchmen-Disturbances have disappeared. 50; Oats bush. 374; Potatoes Whatever be the decision of the people, socie-@ 50; Pork lb 65 @7; Rye ty is saved. The first part of my task is ac- Sausages 1b 84@ 9; Turnips bush 25; complished. The appeal to the nation to ter-Turkies tb 10 @ 11; Wood, Oak and Beech minate the struggles of parties, occasioned, I cord $4 @ 5; Wood, hard Pine $3,50 (@ know, no serious risk to public tranquility. 4,00; Wood, white Pine 250 @ 275. If it no longer possess our confidence, if your ideas have changed, there is no need to cause precious blood to be shed. It suffices to deposite in the urn a contrary vote. I will always respect the decree of the people, but as long as the nation has not spoken, I will recoil from no effort, from no sacrifice, to baffle the attempts of the rebellious. This task, for the rest, is rendered easy to me. Why should the people rise against me? --- .Dec. 24. BRIGHTON MARKET. At market 1000 Beef Cattle, 100 Stores, 12 pairs Working Oxen, 40 Cows and Calves, 3000 Sheep and Lambs, and 150 Swine. Prices Beef Cattle- Extra $6,50; first quality $6,00; second $5,50; third $4,50 @ $4,75. Stores - Yearlings $8 @ 12; two years old Swine-4 @ 5c; retail 5 @ 6&c. On one hand it has been seen how mad it was to contend against an army united and disciplined, animated by honor and patriotism; on the other, the tranquil attitude of the peo-Extra at $3,50. ple of Paris, the reprobation with which they stigmatized the insurrection, show for whom the Capital pronounced. In those populous quarters where insurrection was first to enlist In the February number of the Visitor its recruits, so quickly among workmen docile we shall give full and correct reports of the to its instigations, anarchy this time has only Brighton and Cambridge Cattle Markets; the been able to meet a profound repugnance, for Boston Prices Current, as well as other matters these detestable excitations. Thanks be ren- of interest omitted to give space to the interdered for this to the intelligent and patriotic | esting Congressional and Foreign News. |