The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1848, Page 1

Cwhete Me 6050. NEW YORK, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1848, AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. ADDITIONAL. INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED BY THE SitHAM SHIP CAMBRIA. THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. Interesting Incidents. Re. &e. &e Addivonal Perticwiars of the Revolution in n€0 [From the Lonon Stendord, Feb 26 J Panis, Priday, Reb, 25, Last night Paris wor corersily iiumiaated. ‘Ihe coaches ot the family avd furntinee of the obateau were burned in ths court of the Cuilerica. A fire war also made in thy court of the Palsiv Royal ia the ame Che throne as burned at tho foot of the Column ot July. Noverthsless oll danger bad cessed, At midvight the silence, owing to the absence et sli carrieges and horses in the strerte, which were broken up to make Dorsicades, wos very etrauge. Throvgoout the night Imess, broken by ox: cecssional qui \ an amateur guardsman, showing thet daty neglectsd. Everywhere the red thag was dis +i in heu of the tri-color I foar {hat my xecountr inoktrend very confused, tor I know not in what order you receive chem —Yenterday I pnt into the receiver ¢ ‘ort Offiae my first dispatch. It wor after thet the fightiog degen froia before the Palui: Royal to the Lu. lie ended in the flight of the royat fumily firing loud’and oontinued, and questing Leon}t not lnave, | made up a recond despaten, which a sriavd endsavored to take to Boologne. but failed, and brought it back ‘This I berowhth exolcee # papere ap the most part in a single fruit e A uo ice siguyd Ledru Rolin, places the direction of Besux Arta uader the winter or the laterior, and or- dere that thejury to exemins pictures tor exposition nt the Louvreshell be uamed by election. The exles open the 14th of March. “ Thin will greatly geotify the: artists. Colonel Da- moulin, Atde-de-Camp of the Emperor, is appointed Commandant cf the Louvre, At five o'clock the provisional government assembled in the Hotel de Ville, surrounded by people in arms, and fall of generous enthusiasm. To the people, buruing with impatience te know the first acta of ‘provisiomal government, M. Lou! Biane anno \d the republic, which was received with ‘energetic ap) M. de Lamartine had already, in the Great Hall, pas- niomately moved the people, aad was followed by Ledru Rolin, of whose speeches no reports are given, but they are euid to have excited great enthueiasm. The minis- ters having bee and public safety seoured by pontments of M Courtans tothe command of the mal Guards. with M. Guinard for obief of the etat major, Generals Bedeau and Lamoriciere oxme forward and offered their serviees, which were accepted. The first was mamed Commandsr of the First Military Di- vision, ed Ministry of War. ‘The second pro- posed 0 the frontier. ‘Tho provisional government has set down as among its first duties, to provide for the subsistence of the people. The Natienel assures the people that they may re- fume their silairs with perfeot safety, order being cem- pistely restored A letter fora Versailles to the Nasional, ssys—*Louis Philippe ond his family reached Trianon at five o’clock, and immediately set out for Eu” . {Some accounts state that the king had landed at Folkestone; others assert that he had reached Dover.—Ep. Hxratp.] [From the London Times, Feb. 25.] ‘We hi received from our Paris correspondent the following letter: -- Panis, Feb. 23, 1848. I will not apologise for any want of regularity or con- seoutivecess im ths narrative | am about to enter upon, for | write amid the most exciting circumstances that can be imagined. ‘The coarler who bora my letter of this forenoon had hardly (at heif past 11 o’elock) left this house, whe: there took pinon uader the window at wich I write the moat exiraordinary aad the most decisive movement that bas yer ovourred. Altrec ed by » buz of voloes in the Rue Lepelletier, I perosived eclirctiag in front ef tho Opera houre the Netional Guards ef this the second, legion. I took it for grauted stiat they had cbeyed the rappel and had nasempied to support the goveramenct in resistanc: of reform. I was, Lowever, soon convinced of my error. I bad hardly recemmenced the translation from the jour of some of ths very interesting details of the events of yesterday and last night, whom | heard loud skoats from the popuiscs. | opened the window, and Perevived that the people ware thre Prive iva la Keforme!” * Vi ‘vent les vruts Defenseurs de la Patrie !” and th the Marseillaise, mm which the Nav T descended in‘o the strovt instantly, and found that the N tine! Guards, to the amomst of one hundred and fifty, vad formed fa two lines across the Rue Lepelletier—one fi at exch extremity of the theatre. In the centre tke ofc outsi¢e, the people. frantic w: On arkieg a National Guard what bed hopp have @-elaved for Reform,” said ho, “Thet ii differ abow! Reform. but we are agreed about Guisot!”’ ‘Vive la Reform!” “Vive le Garde Nationale!” cried the Propie incewanily. Ao hour «terwards the National Gaards procesdsd. with their sapeurs at their head, in full uniform, to the Tuile- Tiss, 10 deelare tusir peti They returned about 1 0 nd oseupied the Rue Lepelicticr agala, A platoon clesed the strest om the Boulevard. Loud cries of ‘ Viee ta Garde National ! calied me to the window agaia. A squadron of cuirsn- re, supported by haifa squadron of chaseeurs d chev 1 trive’. The chef d'ercudrom gave orders to draw evords The rants of the Nation jaarda closed, The cries cf the psople redoubled, although not a man of them was armed Tserquadron meade e half movement on the Ree Levelletier, whon the offloer im command of the National Gaards drew his sword, advanced, and #a- luted Bim. A fer words were exchanged. ‘They eopa- reted. The ong placed himrelf atthe a of his rol- disrs, awd gave the word te wheel aud ‘forward,’ and they resumed their merch, wccompanied by oheera and clapping of bands from the ruliisnde. The officer ot National Guards returned very quietly to his post, and shear bed hts swerd. Lara told the words exchanged between the officers wors theee—* Who ave these men 2?’ * They are the peo- ple’ ‘Ard those in uniform?’ ‘fhey are the second Legion of the Nations! Guard of Paris’ ‘ The people must Ginporse.’ ‘They will not.’ ‘I shail use force’ ‘Sir, the National Guard sympathize with the peopie, the people who demand reform’ ‘Lhey must disperse.’ ‘Prey will not.’ ‘1 mu @ force.’ “Sir, we the Na- Guards, sympathizs in the desire for reform, and od them’ Tam aasured by porsons who say that they beard all thes poased. that toe oMoer and the cuirassiers eried ‘Vive la Reforme ! But | cannot affirm or contradict it. Hatr-rast Two Thrico since similar scenes have occurred. Tho Mu- nieipal Gaurds, who at present oocupy the unpopular of the gendarmes of 1830, ere now, by order of government, mixed up with troops of the line, on whom t ople ae lavish of their compliments ard earorse:. A ovluwn of eavelry and infantry, Manicipal Guards d chev: 1, oairaesters, and Manioipal Guards d pied, and in- fautry of the \ine, arrived by the Boalevard at the end of tha Rue Lapelistier, They made a move like the ethers ag if to wheel into that street, but the attitude of the N nal Guard made them pause, sad immediately the word wes given to continae their march, the people he air with eries of ‘Rive la Referme!” “Wive la Garde Nat‘onale!” aud “Vive la Ligne!” Aga s precise- ly slutinr cecurrencs took place, ous this tims it ended with rhe absolute retreat of the troops, for tuey turned round and retired up tha Bouleverd. ivive you these partionlars, because they passed nn- dor my own eyes,ant bscause thay will eerve for the history of chat which hes taken or is taking place throughout Faris) The initiative, hewsrer, appears to Dave beem taken by the 34 Legion of the National Guard, who, et the maine of the Sd arrondissement —Place Petits Perer—decinred for reform (his uoraing. The 1s) Guards, whose barracks adjoin the epurch of ts wa, were Ordered to disarm them, and ad- yancad with charged bayonets on them; but the move- imitated by the National Gourds, the bayo- nats exerted, blood was about to flow, when the Coionel of tha National Gnards, M, Textorix, (m slook broker, | Helicve } cried out, “Hold, roldiers--These are the peo- le; respect the people” The effect was electric. The raised tusit bayonets, shouldered ema, end marched off Ty eincident had a» powerful influence on the reat of the National Guayde of that legion, They aimoat ton men joined thelr comrades, asd attained the numbor of 8,000 by ono o’elock Hauer rast Tuner o’cLock ‘The 24 Legion of the National Guard has just lett for the seene of a melancholy and wneqnal conflict, which, T lament to lsarn, has boen going oa the whole day in ‘the obf ground,’ {he Market of the Innocents, and the Rea Si. Martin, Besubourg, ko. Their object will be to interpore between (he combatants It Is Uanecornary I sbouid tell you that the excitement isiinmense. What will ho the result? One of two things will be done, The, Ministers wili be dismissed, or the Na- tonal Guard will be dirsolyed and Paris declared ina state of siege, and the capabilities of the detached forts tented. j L interrupt my narrative to to’ you that the Ministry inohanged, Count Mole is now Prise Minister of France. Of this you may rost astured After announcing there last-men\ioned facts, the in- cidente of this important day will lose some of their in- terest, but they will still be found to bave irresistible claiins on your attention. Thin is the greatest victory the Parisians have ever obtained. The people were yesterday mormiog unarm: ed. They were in the prosanoe of an army of 100,000 of the flsest troops in the world, with artillery and stores nolimited In number and amount, and who wore cengre- gated in bercacks, forts, citadeis, nearly impregnadle, with the King’s name to support them. Those uusrimed men defisd and withstoed «barges of cavalry in the largest equare of Europe throughout an entire jormed barrioad eommitted what, but for je name of outrage, with » coviness ‘end an audacity perfectly mi@rvelious, and im the very resence of troops four times more mumerous then ves. They braved the fire of infantry lest night; Scenes in Paris---Reading the Journal “La Patrie” by Torchlight in the Streets. The Illustrated News of the 26th ult., gives the above illustration of a companion scene of the reading of La Patrie by torchlight, such was the intensity of the people to Jearn the progress of tie movement. f —— = — ome @ this moraing, notwithstanding that proverbial draw- back on their oourage—heary rain—resumed thelr oon struotion of barricades and their defence of them with a few bludgeons and paving stones. I must not omit mentioning that the ories for reform and the ebeers for the National Guards and troops of lim accompanied by others of very icant ‘Al bas Guizot !* A bas Ducha des voleurs!’ were wound up with * bas le Hatr-rast Four o’crocr. An officer of the Etat Mojor has just passed along the Boulevard, announcing the change of ministry and the appointment of Count Molé to the Presidency of the Council. Half an hour since I thought that these facts would be the last of imoportance that I should have to communicate to-day, but | must add that there conces- sions will not be deemed suffisient, and that “securities” will be demanded. ‘There shall be no mistake this time,” | have heard in a dosen groups. ‘The staff officer just alluded to, stated that the fight- ing was over,and I am eure it is; for all noise of musket- ry, which wos hesrd at iutervals, has ceased. | fear there will be sad returns published to-morrow, but | hops that the deaths will turn out to have been compa- ratively few. ‘A colamn of young fellowsen blouse, singing the “Mer- seilles,” is now. passing my window. escorted by ten times their number; the former are raid to have been the eombetents in the asighborhood of the Halles I close my letter by observing that the three per cents fell on the Bourse to-day to 73f 35c, and left off at 73f 50c. They have been since doue at 74f 50, becuuse of the change of ministry. L resume to introduce tbe report of one of my col- leagues, and the extracts from the papers It ars that 30 or 49 jives have been lost. Tt is said that » General (Peyrenet Tibarse Sedastianl, brother of the Marshs}) who commanded the troops et the Filles ju Cebriaire, was kiliel bya man en blouse, A tow cannen shots hed previously been fired in that street ‘A great number of peopl were wounded by a volley frou the Municipal Guards in tue Faubourg St. Martin. A strong patrol cf National Guards arrived gud inter- pored. and compelled the Muvicipil Guards to surren- der their colors ‘Len of the people made prisoners by the troops were confined in the guardhoure of the Boulavard don Bonnes Nouvelles, which bas uotformly been taken by the peo- plein every émewe. The people attacked it at 5 o'clock this evening, disarmed the soldiers. discharged the mus- turned them to them, and liberated the priton- They carried off tho flag that adoraed the en- tranoe, and presented it as a trophy to the 3d Legion of ional Guards. The Sth regiment, which joimed the people in July. 1830, was here during this affair, and agsin fraternised wih the peopt The people e now procatding to the Prefecture of Police to liberate the prisoners confined there. On their way they callad at the Reforme newspapar office, and were told that all waa not over, twat the banquet must take place, and that good care would be taken to secure their libertie: Marshal Bugeaud commanded in person at the Rue St. Denis to-day He is now returaing to Lis house un der the protection of the National Guards, [anoragk account ] ‘The National Guard of the 2d Arrondirsement, to the number of about 500 or 600, aszemb'ed et aa easly hour in the Ras Lopellitier, opposiis the opera. It was a first supposed that their intentions were hostile to people, but the Inttereson acquired conviction thas they were animated wich the samo sentiments as the immense mejority of the population. Their motto was “Reform, and the dismissal of M. Guizot ? Wheu tho intentions of the citizen foldicrs became kos wn, an menseerowdaszatabled before them,crying* Vive la Garde "Vive la Reforme!” The latter ory was loudly rep by ths National Guarda, tho oilicers joining in it,and Mourishing their swords Both then fraternised, and a guard having stepped forward said: “A differanos of opinion may exist between us relutive to the expediency aad nature of reform, but we ate ‘unanimous iv condemaing Guizot—down with Guizot.” ‘The ory was echoed by the multiiuds, and by none with more force tian by the well dreased men who part ly composed it. ‘The cause of reform may be ssid to beve triumphed from that moment, sud the door of the ministry sealed, Shortly rfcerwarde, thono National Guards formed in line, marched up the Rue Lepelistier, rep iced slong tae Boulevards to the Rue Richellen, which they descended towards the Tuileriss amidst deafening crie £ Reforme,”” and * Down withthe Ministr: they energetically responded. Iustead of entering vi Place du Carrousel, they proceeded along the Rue de Rivoll, and drew up between the Ras du Dauphin and the Rue du 29 Juillet. Thay bad no sooner taken their position than an efficter d’ordonnance of General Jao- queminot rode up, and after exchanging « few words With the lieutenant colonel, rode back 10 ail haste tot chateau An immengo crowd then sesembled aroun the National Guard, and thein cries of, * Vive ia Re- forme,” aod “Down with the Ministry,” could be dis- tintly heard by the King avd the Royal Fara Nevertheless no troops were ordered in that direction. and the people and Nationals were left quietly to frate nize, although the two extremities of the street we occupied by au immense foros In the meantime the Nationals of the Third Legion collected to the number of 3.000 on and about the Vises Potice Peres, aud their offleers having belt ® couacil agreed to depute their Colouel fo the king to anquain’ his mojesty with the wishes of the National Guard—-in other worus Reform and ths dismissal of the Cabinot ~ That officer immediately procoeded to the palace, but was not edimitted into the royal prose ho merely saw General Jacqueminot, the Commander General of tus National Guard, who prouised that ald that jostaut carry himself the memorial to the king. The National Guards remeined assembled ou the equare awaiting the return of the Colouel, their determination being to march upon the, Tuileries, if the :eply was ne- gative. Ovcasionally strong patrols sent oul Lo tatespose if necessury, between the combatants, but no hostilities took place ia the neighborhood tha troops quietly remain- ing in the adjotning Piuce des Vivtoires without giving the least provocetion. ‘The Nationais filed by them, cry- ing for Reform and the diemissal of Ministers, surronud- ed and followed by an immense mass of people uttering the seme ries, and the soldiers by thelr countenanoes toatified that they concurred in that wish. In one of the by-strents @ detachment of troops, stationed there to in- tercept the passage. accepted bread and wine irom the people, and their offiger looked on, nay, encouraged them to accept the provisions offered to thom ‘The 4th Legion aleo took arma and stationed detach- ments in different direotions to maintain order aud pre- vent the effusion of b\ood (from @ private letter } Panis, Feb 22, 1848 It if a curious fesling to bo sitting within gunshot of that dreaded monster, a Paririan ements | write to as- sure you that we are safe sod tranquil for the present In this country nobody oan venture co predict a fatuce when the passions of the people are roused You will have read the ordonnance avd proclamations to the National Gasrd and the citizens of Paris —words full of fata! aasociations! You will ses how far France |, as yot, from all the ideas of a constitutional govern- ment, from the bearing of a constitutional king. Think of s government openi: OMoiaily, and exprenly re- plying to amanifesto in les journauw de Lopposition. But Jou will judge ail these things, and perhaps with » safer judgment, from afar. "The Miniatere des Etrangeres is completely cerné with soldiers Of the line aad Gardes Municipoux © pied. Tho abutters are shut,end no one can approach: wo T thiek Of the innocent youch and venerabic age, tho virtue and the picty that sro nut up within ite wal insult and terror from a menacing crowd, my heart sinks —above all, for her who has felt the fall extent and horror of popular fury, and to whom a.l these distracted sounds are but the echoes of a inore fearful part. Noboby can conceive the state of terror to those who ere old enough to by pessed through the scenes of the Revolution, which the most popular writers of France are now reproducing ; all the bloodstained spectres of that time rise before them. But to talk of real prosaic calamities, A very inteltt- gent workman told me the other day, that thore wei now 30,600 ouvriers on the pavé without work. Imagine the effects of this ill-timed, ill-managed sffsir. | can tell you, from the best authority, that 6,000 passports ave been delivered within the it three or four days To-day allthe shops are shut; it is the clear loss of » day to all who have their living to get. A friend bas just told me that a manuf» sturer said to him, "This ef- foir will cont me 50,000f in~spring orders’ Nobody can oven affect to measure the results to the country. {From the London iimes, Feb. 26.) Panis, Feb 24 I write in the midst of alarm eud excitement indes- cribable. In two words—the change of ministry will not satisfy the people, who are now, | believe, unanimous ‘The King has been required to edicate in favor of the Count de Paris, under the ragenoy of the Duchezs of Orleans. They will net Mstem to the regency of the Duke de Nemours The Choembers will not sit to-day. ‘LRe wight has been one of siarm to all but the actors in what was going on, and who, to do them justin, wera as active and as resolute as if engeged in any ordinary business of life that require energy and despeten As wuch communication outof doers is outof the question, my letter will be in a great measure # personal narrativ I wrote leat night under the imprestion that all wae settled. Never was there @ greater ercor. Noariy all remained to bs done, anda very terrible affair it promi- ses to be The fichting osaged on evens pOimt at Ualt~post4 Lite tle loss ef arutively)-ocedreed. The namber of killed wae estimated at only 30 or 40 ‘this arose from tho conflict having been prineipslly co fined to the people and the Municipal Guard, aithough the rol- diere did in some cases fre ‘The contest wos at anend at hoif-past4. A sight calm eneued, and | took up a position at the corner of the Rus Lepelietier and the Boulavard des Italiens, next door to tha offles of the N tional newspaper About half-past 7, the Bouleverd being then crowdod, there arrived 9 coluwn of the combatiants, meny of thom armed with muskets and singing the Marveil/aive and the chorus ef the Girondins, which I have so often mentioned. They were reovivad with uproarinus f-licl- tations by the people, and proceeded to the offies of the National. which seems to ba the organ ot this formida- bie opposition. They demanded that ths editors ses that their libsrties wore uot agaia” play \. Marrest, principal editor of the Nat:oval, he them from the baicony, wnd araured them that sbeir liverties would this tima be secured. This s repeated six times during the nigh* At 10 o'clock # column of 60 or 809 peopla of all ranks who had been Sighting, passed up she Boulevard. Among them were evidently many of the ten, ond possibly, some of those malefistors who will mix in all popular movements The bearivg and attituie of this columa was torrislo. The subsequent act ot one of the patty justified the apprehension whish their appearance suggested Although M Guizot had rotired from the Ministry, the Hotel dex Affires Etrangéces ramatned coouvied and guurded by troops. Aboat 10 o'clock # young msn command, and blew hia b at with a pistol Seeing him fall, his noldie without orders fired on the people, of whom four or five were killed. ‘The report of this discharge at a moment when we flattered ourselves that aii was tolerably well over, cran- apainfal seusation Twenty minutes afcerwar however, a most touching and elancholy procession arrived, and, as far as! could porosive, turned alarm into rage walked up to the officer in ‘Tie buzz of an approaching multitads ‘coming from the Boulevat hoacd, and alow song of death, * Mourir pour la patrie,? was chanted by the throng. instead of the victorious Mar: ell rise Ming with this ewfal and imponing chorus, ths noies of whee could be héard. A large body of the peo ad vanced Four infront carried torches B nom cums an open cart, sourrounded by toroh-beare The light was strong, aud discovered foar er five dead bodies pertly undressed, which appeared to have bees carelully ranyed in the cart When tuo haadof the coluran reached the corner of the Ruo Lepsilstier, the song was changed to # b of fury, which will not soon b» forgotten by those who hoard it. ‘The procession haited at the of toe Notional, oud ths who's party butat into wasni.aous shriek orery of vengeance! You know how sonorous is ned, when pronounced ia Freach. ‘Th the cart wera those of the men who foll unter the £ the roldiers abovementioned This event is deplorable. It may po: iscue of the affair Ths night wasan awfal ons The no eared to break on the stillness. Hay flav one in 1930, | gusased what was golv jcaden—one immonsely strong atthe ea Richelieu wera in progress of construstion continued a9 to this moment (heli-past 10) on the whole ling of the Boulevard has besa d Every one of the superb Inmp posts has becom thrown down, and all converted into barrie: des. At the corner of every street in ab: msn, shopkenpers, clerka, workmen, all 1 work with an eageroess and an earnestaess beyoud foade—peatle must go farther than he has, or defend his ion to the last extremity 12 o’clook M, Odilon Berrot, accompa’ ral Lamorteiere, repaired from the Chamber of Dep ties to the Ministry of the interior, where he wa malty fnstalled, im prassnos of tho National Guard ands mu titaés of oitizens who filed the court. Shectly af terwards the following prociamation was posted up on the gate, nm versal aoclamations My dea th y binet with thi r commaad of the National Gaard of ed by Ger 1 ve triumph, getic atirtnde you have asserts i aders of Li ever bi rel Reb, 24, 18 look the toliowing proclamation was posted on lis of Paris Citizens of Paris,— The King has addierted. The crown, bestowed by & Intion of Jaly, is now placed on the herd of a child tected vy his mot They are both under the safegnard the honor ard courage af the Parisia eat of division au us his conse to given to the © quarters Our shedding its blood 1a ao dept “My beloved fellow citizens!—¥rom { nt the main tenance of ord erasted (a the ¢ the people of Paris aud its herai er bees fithful ty ow 1h iu this ycovs emergeney . “ODILON BAXROT All the military postson the lets bank or th» wore disarmed early in the morning, sad ovoupied portly by Nations Guard# and men of the people. As noon & party of armed workmen, headed by pupils of the Poly- tochaic rohool, presented themselves ac the berrnck of the dromon, in'he Rue du Vieux Colombler. The sea tinel at first offered resistance, but when told that they aciedin the name of the National Guard the offloers imusdiately egreed to sutreuder their arms, which wore passed to the people under the gateway The firemen then appeared at theie windows, nadorlet “Vive la Réforme! Down with Guin Che poople pro- cerded thenes to xoleane the prisoners conflued fn the military prisous of tha Abbaye and the Coarein de Guerre, three of whom had been senienged to be rbot Ail the bSdatea:s and furniture wers then brought oub into the street, formed into s heap, and fot on fire, At one moment 1¢ was feared that the fire would commu- nivate to the ree | houses, and tue firemen were sent for to extinguish it. The troops having evacuated the Tuileries, the palace popalit ‘They wil was immediately oooupied by the insurgents, who de- stroyed everything in it—windows, furniture, pictures, 9. The throne alone was left entire, carried in proces- sion through the streets and the Boulevards, and ulti- A similar scene of deatruc- All the furniture mately smashed to pieces tion took place at the Palais Royal. was taken out and burnt in the court. Panis, February 24—1 o’olock, P. M. Iwas unable to send my despateh off this morning, although the courier was at the railroad before 12 o’elock, the rails having been removed in some places. Communication by that means is, therefore, out of the ‘The Post Office is closed. There is no fighting. It is all over for the present — ‘The proclamations you will receive herewith have pro- duce i temporary calm. The summons of the king to M. Thiers, and that geutleman’s stipulations that M Odilon Barrot should be a member of any ministry of which he himself should be t generally this forenoon, aad You will regret to leara, however, that nothing short of the abdication of the king will now satisfy the people. Hundreds of orators traverse the city declaiming against aud calling out “ Down with Louis Phi- his, was made known over, the unfortunate oocurrence at the Foreign Affairs inat ‘night threatens to change, as I feared it would, the character of the struggle. blood ara still on the Asphalte pavement of the Boule- and the Rue Basse du Rampart. that the troops only fired when their They demand “vengeance.” Another lameatable incideat has ooaurred to produce {was coming down the Faubourg St Honoré, about half-past 10 this forenoon, when I heard at the col leeot tin fae dee Okan pe Hilysees (was slopped by @ goatieman who was running, ond advited mae to do the same, which I confess 1 dit ‘out that ® band of the people were proceeding towards the Champs Elyséos potted them, and reached the guard house of th» ) ord, mentioned in my letter of Tuesday. He littl garrison, told them all was over, and y no means to resist tho people. yod hit injanetion, ‘They replied by a yolls ctormed, aud every man of them was more than one young fellow, beating on atiok of the staughtered soldi An oxtraorjinary ovcurrencs took place on the Boule- vard des [aliens about tho seme moment, Several regi- : of infentry of the lins, preceded by National a reg ment of Cuirassiers.three field pleoes,and © caissons @f ainmunition appeared topped hy the people, who. with the most perfect coolness the heads, broke open the caiso: xamunition without any resiata fred to them On the contrary, indict od feeling aud fraternization parsed between them are were at least 3000 poldiers, armed to the teeth, sad about 500 National Guards and men of the people Ths horses were uoharnessed, and tho cannon wore drewo away by the poopls, scores of whom were mounted Large pools of Che people forget Colonel was brutally shot thirst for blood exposition, that eminent person is undo Aatoiwms be -wiedem- end what An officer of the staff Unfortunately they Thor erme were demanded ard house was s novered with blog: seized the horses shall, if I can, reserve other details for « cooler At preseat, the great game is in progress. he king’s orowa is menaced ; Ths deposition of the king is celled for by thr usands ‘The eligibility cf every man ratively lesa important conditions, are stiadesde of ma are now to be reen armed with muskets, whots appearance is appalling national guarda with the army, to defend city and the monarehy azninst those This day may teil The national guards hs! Bugeaud is named coman, and the troops of the hese forces united may check the ultra-revoin- ministerial power in refusing & timaly and moderate concession to public tive but to opposs a resolute resis movements of that their resi infariated musaes, it spoken of had no reason to doubt thet the sour Hacr-rast Oxr o’ctock. Palace of the has bern attacked by the people, is Tam equally toli the king has abdicated in favor of the count © Paris, but that thir will mot satiety the people, who 10% call for the reverse] of tho dynasty and the forma- n of a provisional covernme: cepublic” is not far off. che populace, and to dictate to t contagion of revolutionary passion spread with fo rapidity. What a complished on the next; and, umph of public opinion, snd of the popul absolute and complete, these inflexible minirt tenacious King. this eudacious military chief, this army, with ail ite forcifications, arme aud powers, sink into im- potent submission, almost without the discharge of « shot of the loss of & life! If this be true “the ‘The King formally abdicated ia the Chamber of Depu- ties, at Lo’olock, ant then proceeded to Neuilly, under oort of Cuitassiers Kx possession of the Tuileries without ‘The throne has just been car- The tri-colored ileg has been resistanos, and cutted it a by ared flog. sa to the people, from M Marrast and oth- party, will ba published in half an hour, osliing on the people not tolay down their arma isa shall have been assure. ors of the ultra-liber aotil their liber Banquets of France—Their ‘acter and Infl [From the London Horald, Feb. 14,1 Oar readers may remember that ducing the summer hi sar, tha public dinner custom utinnal mania of Eagland, exteaded ‘Thera was noarcely a considerable r if you will, const itself to France wo or olty of the kingdom which had not what is called y our neighbors ita réu i south, the custom excended itself, and Lille, Cdalona, and Amiens ma} g olher towns drinking, toasting. A out fifty or sixty banquets, we believe, k place betweon the prorogation of the French Chan Jaly. and their re-assembling again at banqaecs @oout @ a treme diffirulty in many other co is fett from the quorter where nliffereatly comp: nd some few of the ex » santimenta, attended; and th of course very Wiverse and very uae- aotual rtate great mover and entrrproncur, if we may #ospenk, constitutional exhi uranne, the deputy for San lig Mf@ some three or fonr aud of the weisers in the @lohe newspaper, aud who, though Guizot in 1839 and has ‘Thiers, has never to yi sead tor Count Mele. We are as yet wainfor whether M. Gaia resigaation, or wh emergency, who began his pub re ago as one ho cast off hia al singe been an assiduous follower of VI e wavered in his predilection fer constitutional go- verameat, or in hin desire to seoure tho liberties of his country on a solid basis + character, compatant fortune, and coa- \ Ml. @Hauranne is neither by natute or by habit of turbulent or tribunitian cha He haa infiniiely more to lore than to gain by nny movement pertaking of force and violence, and any one who has read hia pasplicts or his spseshes would igi not inseusibls to the advan- . he devices to accomplish no ges otherwise than’ openly, legally, aud coustitu- tnan thors who have Mele. It incimd bitterent op onents Centre Gauche with a consery rate it is probable that M. Dufaure aod vl. Passy will bs the most prominent momosrs of the new g ment, M. Thier ’ nams has not yot been mentioned. readily admit, that, th ges of aacive agin. y ciated with the deputy for Sanoarre were rome of the mosé eloquent and able inea of Francs, whether ns publicists, OF orators Odiloa Barrot, Arago, Of Lamartios, » geatiemaa by birth, aud of no incon- siderable fortuns, the renown, as writer and speaker, is Odtilon Barrot, too, for twenty years, hes cely in the ob amon of world-wide ink, are amo; principle of governm under foot. Ele appiis, with unflinchiog courage with blind presumption that theory of power, based oo stitutional iews,in which he believed. Like other | od & high ponit but at che ber, ° tm his woapona shattered in the hour of his severest trial ; yet he will probably extibit to the world a epirit i versity eatitled to more respect feats of his diplomacy or hia paritineatary taction impeachment preferred agains’ supported yan sigoavare: Chamber of volves tho very serious questiva of the responsibility of skbarna, Sorviser, George Turners of Franes. bold’ character wnd extromer opinions, such, for in- stance, a8 Mi. Ledta Rolla, the deputy for sionally sought to associate themselves; but we must do Odilon Barrot tha jastios to say that though he did not rudely rapel, yet he did not iuvite th's co-operation; aud the moderate members of tho gauche generally et @ distaste than a desire for the cumber- some aid of tho vehement or the violent. ‘With such mea, others circumstances it was that the greater number of the dinners came off, to use a sporting phrase. There was at the festive board, some good, much indifferent, and » very great deal of bad speaking on the subject of parlia- mentary reform, andon the whole wo began te think that a healthy excitement in the public mind had been produced towarda the end of September, and that there was then really prospect of soon witnessing the ration- al progtees of constitutional opinions in France —‘To- wards the beginning of autumn, however, some very Ix norant, andacions, and ill-advises persone, thought pro- per to omit the kicg’s health at two or three of the ban quets, aod this omission—which the nation in genera) wad moderate men of all parties, regretted and deplored—is now unwisely seized upon by the Miniasera to atixmmatiae thie whole ryatem of public dinners gener- ally, and of public mostings for the cfsoussion of popu- lar topics aud grievauces Not merely is the tenth ond last paragraph in the address in snewer to the ‘fh levelled at them under the designation * parstogle mis” and “ entrar evgles”? bat Ministers havo bron so rash and ill-ndviaed a» to disinter an old andobeolets police law of 1790, peased by the Js tembée — Nujionate, with view to proclaim | 0 the banqnets aa! t of th» 12th arrondt placs. Suche stretch of power as this - and the pro sal, sud to prevens t nent of Paris fro mation of such doctrines in the year 1845 —not werely | in France, bot in Paris, fifty-nine yenrs wftor the firat ra yolution, and eigiteen yours alter a second, accompani- ed by » change of dyausty. appears not merely uowire and inopportune, bus rash, hezirdous, aud frauyh) with temerity wnd dan; es remota nor ¢ whothor in referouc 0, mivistry, ort try at large. ‘Th aden, write, Up ia arins 6 ma, vi fray from afar, we most ray, with more town rearon We should ouracives be the last to to! respect, much lees disaffection, to ¢ rion of the vereiga of aay State, con tibution despotic Suc cond. ct ls not merely unmannerly, visgracerul, and un wise, but it isa high crime and misc nr se the first principles of coaatitutional goveramen proclaim the person ministers being the persons whwily respoosible, Luatead, therefore, of evekiog to alight the monaroh, hy the omis: sivu of hi me, the persons guilty of this unpardon able pisce of igaoraat and impudent omission, would, tad they known better, have directed their aim et his majes'y’s constitutional advisers. It f# not, however because certain burgenses and gros bonnety fourrés of Ainivus. or elsawhere, have pluyed the silly game ot M Ledra Rolia, that ministers whould throw down the gauntlet to the whole opposition, bring tha namo of their sovereign im question, charge on @ whole boty the acts of a faw hoes feu,” teak to put @ ptop to all pub- lic banquets and pubic meotings, and try, by every means, fair and unfair, to revive an wopopulur police law of an evil and branded epoch, to atitly free opinion, and strangle freo discussion, as was well said in the de ate by M Lesseps. Indeed, it seems nothing leas than madness and folly to think of governing the full-grown France of 1848 by an ordonnance of tha police signed Treilhard, and dating so far back as 1790, when the country was in @ state of constitutioaal infancy, and to contend that Fronchmen, now grown to men’s estate in constitutional knowledge, shall not, towards the middle of the 19th century, meet in greater numbera than 18 or 19 without being summarily dis- persed, ‘The promulgation of doctrines such as these, at the present period, is not merely inexpedient and inad- visable, but dangerous to the repose of Frauce and to the peace of Europ, Ministers have, however, coutend- ed that they are within the letter of a police law, though the contrary was forcibly argued by M Feuillade Chauvin, himself 9 megistrate, and by mombers of the bar of such repute s# Maria, Barrot, Paillet, and C micux, [tir trug that M Hebert, the Garde des Soraux, and M. Chegarey, Avooat General at the Court of Cas- sation, maiatuin the perfect legality of the acts of the cabinet. But the arrogant and indisoreet tone in which this legality was proclaimed, only inflamed the cholor of the opposition, and their chiet exclaimed that theso lawyers were worse than either Peyronnet or Polignac. For ourselves, we with to see France a great, a pow- erful, and a fees nation, not merely in the interests of France, but of the civilizsd world; and it is because we qish to'see her great and powerful that we depreoate aoenes such ay this. It was advisers such ax M. Hebert und Chegaray, that ruined the government of the restoration, and it may, wo think, be well doubted whether the increased majority obtained by the disso- lution of 1846, and the tone in consequence adopted, has not been of infixite disservice to the government of M Gujzot To the praise of the highest literary ability, of profound learning, end groat powers of expression and but he has for the last two years shown himself gre mmamehi>. Gad the tee or of managing Men and conciliating opinions; while his gue, the minister of the Interior, bas, by hie un- rerupulous use of the pubdlio money, and abuse of public ronage, doue more to swell the ery for reform than any minister sinne the time of Viliele or Capelie. We uust to the eagacity of one ins higher station than auy minister to extricate his servants from an en- barrasament which has placed them in opposition to his interests, in placing them in open conflict with the nation at large. The Kff-ct In England of the French Revo- lution—The Progress of Kvents, (From the London ‘Times, Feb. 25 | ‘The French goverament was prapaced to put downs Hot, but it has succumbed to the power of a revolution Chat omfoous term rust be employed when the inatitn- tions of the country hove been subverted and the au hority of the crown subdued by military violence. Several legions of the National Guard, called ont for the maintenance of public order, prosounced for“ reform,” featernized with the peopis, and marched upon the Ta lerien to demand the dismissal of the cabinel. The troops of the Lins, who were called to opposs this formi dable movement, refused to act agalast tho citizens of he National Guard. When the yequisition of this armed multitude reached the royal closet, ail rosistanos seams to have ban already at an end. Count Mole was sent for, and the adminintration of M. Guizot perished in presence of thia anowalous, and, we must add, ucox- pected act of popular sovereignty. We remarked yesterday, when assuredly no one even in Paria had forereen this unparalleled catastrophe, that he least weakness was surrender of far more than for the obstinacy of the goverament »piaioa on the reform question, had left it mo alterna. ace to the popular st Tuesday. Their last fault has deen ace was not resolute enough They vere in possesion of all that military power could give hem to maiatain the authority of the crown. They ive of Pari which detesta popular tumuits, on account of the injury they inflict on trade, would coms forward {o protect the public peace, as it had done on more alarming occasions; still Is in this res did they suppose—thoug's t they were grossly sistaken—that the arma of the National Guard would bs used to protect 9 sovereign. But the rfal mead impoasivie on one day, was ac. if to re: et the tri will, more this ‘The magnitude of such an event cannot be overrated. The royalcy of July has well nigh ended as it began; and after the labors, the struggles, and the contriva. ccm 17 years, it has undergone « defeat -carcely lors de- ive, avd more surprising, than that of the elder Bour- bons ' For 17 yeara the policy of Louis Philipps hes been a continued protest agaiast the principle of popa- lat power, to which ho owes his throne; but it » in his destiny, to feel ones more the bittermess of a losing cause—to stand again on the verge of and to lasrn that the terriblo energies of the French revolu " rity. Such o defeat is ths temporary aunihilacion of government Nosecurity remains. The court, wate! hae been obliged to y miss au unpopular Minisier, stands compar armed in presenos of an excited peopl, whos may possibly ba dirested era long against a more iliaseri ous head. ‘Che deoger which has been dissipated by such a tardy concession is inignidcant in compa with thors whieh now lie bes been suddonty and viol to revolution The kingdom with eleetric force. They wiil reverberat archy, m defy the stoutest precautions of wutho- ld yesterday, and to di animosity on fore thy country France kened from apachy ly a events im ough Europe where the materials of combustion o y profusely sircwn abroad, and at a moment of ea wemcutty te ntries @ sudden shack it was least exprored These considerations disclose @ most threatening and un- in future. We tata, however, irom them to the fatfairs in Paris. The first act of the King, when it was found necessury 4 to the requisition of the armed propio, was to inet voluntatily tendered tts her they wore dismissed oo the Ins Hat of Ministers cicoulated in tho of afar more liveral oharacter fore co-operated with Count chamber copsiats of m ladeed, those w ive head; snd ®t eny ern- hs members ofthe late cabinet is be- The position of youd measure crit cal. As ministers, their ill-judged pertinacity has br sity of submitting to a popular Cumuit: as men, they have tanpi with an laconowivabls am: 6 birion, the wethering scorn of his eloquence, the inacces- | sible height ef his disdain, have left the wounds of sever years of triumph and lofty #9 numerous, such & man can hardly fall w fcom ministerial digaity to private retirem presents, and ic has been his pride to represent, Che ent whion this amuic hos troup led | 8 aght the crown into the oruel a 4 their autagouisca and the psopls generally, ant of personal hatred 7 ntic proportions ef his a ots character, (he gt n! power all unheated, Atvse 90 great stand againat passions so fierce, and enemies a seourity a equally sanguine and resolute, he has lived to ree t than the questionsbie The the goverament, and of fifty members of the t now an idle menace. It fa- putin. is agar ost | a | the sovereign inviolable—bis | is with shake the | | in France pin 1939 were his | Such a Ministry would be pure | Suine Wwe Uewtas these deplorable disturbances. One party or the other stands couvieted of having brought the ete'+ to the brink of revolution. It is of couree the conqu ved party which bears the reproa ad must suffer ihe punish- ment. As we showed rday, the fatal resolution of the government, and the mad imprudence of the opposi- tion, have equally contribnted to th'« calamitous result ; the opposition oan only endeavor to shake off the burden: of this charge, by throwing the whole of it on the fallen. We do uot "i instent, doubt that the men who Will be oslied ugfim to assume the duties of government vt thin crisis, will exert oir powers to restore to the city, to maintain authortty revent « violent popular reaction, and to rescus their sovereiga from the hazerious position in which he has beea left by his late advisers, Twenty four hours hone sufficed for the monarchy of July to stid> precipit-re from the Keene te had #0 laboriously attained; Prinee who was dreaming but yesterdoy eachimes of Louis XIV, bjugalion of S n of Tats. the n Switz-viand, and the forcible cocrcian of at party of home, wakes the following morning gh harness and the equivocal position of onr dike Citizen Ki auch # distre ve to the dangers whiel ey tho world; yet iv eannot but be observed anions of the French government, which It has followed to Lhe length of infocuation and rata, eoin- cide with its estrangement from the alionos of this untry. Spanish fofrigues end Austrisn comnsela were propriate diplomatic puranits of a cebinet which ad its back on fr gisnd. avd threatened to the interests of @ dynasty the pence of the ave no wish to nent, When we are fis event must pro. ‘he task of the new Cabinet must bo one of extreme \ty ; for, whatever Conorssiona may ba made, what- © omy a mt be proposed, th overoment has re- « wuleh undors the workef yeaa ‘This new" ministry can searcely hope to oppose any certain re- sistance to the ious of the poouiarparty, to which they thome hardly beloog. 7h: wnder-current of this movement will turn out to be vepublicun; and, £ though a vietory has beet won in the name of the peo- ple. 46 stilt vemmaius to be seon who ia to profit by i. We believe the result of these cisturbances te heve been so extremely unforeseen that tho popular lenders were un- prepared to take full advantage of them. [a spite, how- ever, of the momentary combination between the Na- viowal Guard of Paris and the populnee, by which this blow has been atruck, it is highiy Improbable that any an last © tendenoies and wishes of thone two classes of citizens are totally distinct from rach other ‘The vast majority of the householders of Paria will be found to deprecate these political copvul- sion, by which they suffer moat heavily, Wea will add, ‘hat the vast majority of the French people dread revo- lutions far more than they desire them; and that ol- though a day of excitement may prompt them to tram- ple on the law, and to inflict indelible tojury on the con- stitution, itis by no means pectee that a factions mi- nority will succeed in plunging that powerful nation in- to lasting anarchy. ‘The powers and firmners of the new administration will, however, at once be tried ; for the morrow of a revolution is already a day of resistance. [From the London Standard, Feb 26.) In our later edition of yesterday we gave full details of the events that have consuminated the third French revolution effected within little more than half # cen- tury; indeed, if we were to enumerate, as distinct revo- lutions, the const»vational changes of the last ten years of the 18th century, we might oall the revolution, now effected, not the third, but the thirtieth. How is this to end? The causes that have led to the late violent ohange in the neighboring kingdom are to us inscrutable, We haye so ofceu, 80 sincerely, aud s0 anequivooally ex- expressed our approbation of the government of France during the last seven years, that shame, if no higher principle, must forbid our exercising ingsnuity to detect apologies for rebellion in the conduct of those by whom that government has been administered. We frankly declare that we can find no euch apologies, One fact stands prominently forward to refute them. France has improved mors {n material prosperity and ia national importanos during thease seven years, thaw in eny equal period of her history And itiway be added, that che only territoria: sequisition made by France since the reiga of Louis XIV , and still possessed by her, has bee made since 1841. It is not im the season of Louis Philippe’s adversity that {¢ becomes ua to forget these things ‘Tho Times, we nee to-day, explains the revolution of February, 1548, by asoribing it to the neglect of the late king ef the Frengh to imitate the prog? sit is called, of England during the seventeen years of his reign. The specific omissions alleged by our contemporary are, the not opening the munictpai corporations, and the withholding of free trade. As for the first of therm omissions, {tmMay be enough to way that the munictpal corporations were guaranteed by the charler, which was the title ot Louis Philippe to the throne, and gua renteed upon 8 plen at least as popular as the muni palitien in England; for the second it is notorious that the opinions of the King of the French, and of iis mia- ster, M. Guizot, were much more favorable to free trade hau were the opinions and inten the o f the French people; surely his mejesty’s gracious re- ception of Mr Cobden, ought not to be forgotien, even though Mr. Cobden’s “guide, philosopher and friena, {. Cremieux” (the only Jew in the chamber, as we be va, by the way) has taken an active part in the insur- rection against the king and his governuent. If however, we cau find no reasonable gcound of pro- yooution for the last convulsion, we are as much at a joan toexplain its euddenness and its suceem. That there must bave beea some preparation for it,of which overninent was wholly ignorant, is too maniteat t # doubt,and it would appear that the admin- ltogether miscaloutited the fidelity and eal ary force which it brought into Paris. * there ai yat & gonerel coldness to the service in which they wel ed, would seer to have characterined the troops pebly wea than assures that con- luded his reiga, as, in cases like nis, vaccilia ing mea- sures always do Deeply, however, as wa regret the oourse taken by the French people, we iaust not permit our regret to take the shape of resontment. They undoubtedly have a right to man their own affairs; and whether our view of thelr wiode of managing be favorab.e or the re- verso. thene views must not poss the limits of respeotful speculation, Within chese limits we inay use there late events as proofs that even an amiable, honorable, intel- ent, and gallant nation, such as the French ucdoubt- dly ave, can still hardly be entrusted with the cuardian- ship of their own happiness aud prosperity, it they do aot call in one other influcnce to atd (heir a je quali- ties, their sense of honor, their intelligence, end their courags- a pervading senae ot the paramount authority of religion. I is with nations as with men, a strong re- ligious feeling is the only security for stability of oon- luct, or singleness of purpose, ia the nation, or in the individual. such union . . . * . That the events in Paris may have «powerful infu- ence upon the destinies of all Europe is too certain; but 4 groni deal will zest upon the judgwent and dircretion of the Europesn nations gens Let the inistaxes of 1792 be carefully avoided—let us, es we are bound to do, cheerfully acknowledge the right of the French na- ion to regulate iis own affairs, wholly uninfluenoed, im the acknowledgement, by our opinion of the wiafou, or ovoa the justice, of the regulation made. We have aad proof that nothing is geined by interforence in such cares as that before us, and that even the expression of a wish or an intention to interfere must reflect fatally apon those interests which we may wish toses protected. So fr, therefore. from what has ocourred in France be- ing au argutuent for warlike prepsrations, on the part of thiscountry, it isda atgament the other way, The evolutionary party in Frans in, aa gil kuow, the war nd outi-English party, In mo way oan that party be so effectually served as by furnishing it with # pretext for quarrellin this country, Wo are ani hat if uo disturbing fores intrude, he democratioal and war psrty will have triumphed to their own rain, But the u most acy moat ea tant account be observed If Rogiand were @ quate to defend untry whose resource er ultimately against “e world in army,” there might be in the dist t h shboring uation ao cuse for hasty is not now that the states of the # hat toe fimal con- quest of Engle saad that waatever Of mere injury an enemy can inflict apon her, will be re. lated ten-fold upow the aggressors. We are, there. r ui “Rational defen ine * rfect ooufldence the progress o and (he more pauien our confllenct the mor from an interruption of peace, We may, ahd hold, dring ona war by precipitese prepa- d in propertion to the amount of those prepa~ 6 atent and the obstinacy of the war rest us we are, wo pail leave our ichout excuse, amd with sympatbies of the majortiy of the them to fink auder their own follies aud faults. At pre- sent we presume not to covjecture what shape the ouch government is to take. It may be monorebieek or republican, or whatever the oaprics of the populace hell choose; but this ia no sffair of ours the Krenela News in the tho House of Commons, oa the 4 i ord PaLMensrox, iu rr » @ question by Mr. Hind- ley, atated that a i ence Teovived from Puria anaounced 2 nt of M. Gui aot aud his colicagues, aud chs ocmmission given to Count Mole to form an administration; to fer was the Official intelligence bebind thet which we were able to give in our lace eo! printed @ndin eireala- whea Lord Pal bing an S reno oft King of the French reached the House ot Comme ly afcor four o'clock, and of course it produced 4 g Of excitement fa tna House. For some tims after tv@ rumor became knowa, knots of memb- the bar, standing roucd M t Wortley, ared to be retailing eliigence from ons of the daily papers. fmme- he dintely that (ne curtonity of the Hoa, \embers asseni- Died ac the b: n gratified, the portion of the pa- legraphio news, per ooatal § pie to the Speaker. At was torn out, and thea handed w: this moment Sir R, Peel en House, and on talk | ing hia usual seat opposite the tab he mip was paseed w hun, The right Doaorable baroce:, timking no doubt, that is was an ordinary commuc n, wl wed some miauves vo elapse bef t no s00ner ad Ho glanced over it than 1 the floor o the treasury benokes, wher a Ruseeli sud Lord Palmerston had just takeu ead banded document to thes: nobis lords, who eagerly de- voured its concen te. 4 Right Honorabte Bareuet held ashort but evidently animated verano with the two Nobis Lords, and thea retucned to the opposition. ‘The stir and excitement whieh (he news bad or amongst Hom. Membera did not subside til Lord Palmer~ tton Gad aaswered (uc question of Sr, Hindley, and che