The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-03-25 00:00:00

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THE INSURRECTION IN PARIS.

PARIS, Mach 19, Noon.

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To-day's Oflol Journal, referring to the disturbance.,
says the liovernment, being desirous of avoiding a uollision,
scorched patience find temporised with men whom it hoped
to bring back to good sense and duty.

It then gives an account of Saturday'. occurrences, and
says ,—"The positions at Montmartre had been carried, and
tha guns about to be taken back to the arsenals, whim some
ermOd N 3tionai Guards and others without arms, inciting and
drawing on the crowd, fell up m the soldiers, and snatched
away their arm.. Several battalions were surrounded, and
others were forced to fall hack. The rioters thus became
masters of the position. The day closod amid disorder,
without the National Geard, which had been summoned
mince the morning, melting its appearance in mllicient num-
ben to repress the rioting.
" In the evening the Insurgents invaded the quartere of
the staff of the NatlonsiGuard end the Ministry of Justice.
People ask, In a stupor, what can be the aim of this culpable
movement. The evil disposed have spread a report that the
government was preparing a coup d'ilat. This is an odious
calumny. The Government, which bus hinted from an
Assembly elected by universal an !Inure, haa several times
declared that It wished to found • Republic. Those who
seek to overthrow it are the men of disorder, A.AABSbIB who
do not tear to sow terror and death broadcast In a city that
can only be saved by peace, labour, and respect for the law.
Their crimes, we hope, will evoke the Just Indignation of the
inhabitants of Paris, A bleb will rise to its feet to indict upon
them the chathemeut they have merited."
The o!ficial Journal proceeds to relate what occurred at
the shooting of t ;mends Lecorate and (lenient Monies. It
nays there was no trial, and the bodies were mutilated with
bayonet cuts. General Lecorote's two aldes.de-camp nar-
rowly escaped a similar death.
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Finally the official organ remarks that the population of
Paris, hitherto so indulgent towards the promoters of public
disturbances, will at length understand that It must show
Itself energetic in dealing with crime.; of such a character,
ur otherwise it will place itself in the position of all accost-
pike.
A proclamation hae been addressed from Versailles to all
the prefects, procurators general, and mayor. of Prame,
declaring that the Goveniment sitting at Versailles is the oily
one that is legally established, that all the Ministers have
gathered there, around the chin' of the executive power and
tine Assembly that, consequently, any persons giving In
their support to the Insurrectionary ti.ivermnent will be
looked upon as rebels.

the Mayor of Versailles has leaned a proclamation Inform-
ing the tihabitants that, in consequet to of the events
occurring in Paris, the Government has removed to Ver-
sailles, followed by the whole army. He urges the people to
twelve the soldier. well, and to facilitate their being .inar-
tered as much as possible.

A woman in the Faubourg SI. Martin abused a National
Ouard, and was shot.

General Irlanzy arrived on Sunday night from Tours by
railway. When the train stopped ...aside the fortifications
to collect ticket., a large crowd of Montmartre insurgents,
who had heard that the General was M the train, seized the
guard, entered the carriages with revolvers, and searched
till they found the General. They arrested him In the name
of the Central Committee, and carried him oft to Chateau
Rouge.

A soldier of the Gardes Mobile., who bore some resem-
blance to General Vinoy, was seized at Montmartre, and a
cry raised that he was shot. Tido augmented the rumour
of General Vine'. assaasination, which prov es unfounded
March 20,
The Government of NI Thiers are pursuing a policy of
isolation towards Paris. They have sent instructions to all
officials throughout the Provinoes that anybody recognizing
the Government sitting In Parts shall iv considered a traitor
to the country. They declare that the sole legal Government
is the one sitting at Versailles. They have also intercepted
telegraphic communications between Par is and the Provinces.
Several battalions cf National Guards, among them that
of Flourens, are slid to be marching in the direction of
Versailles. Artillery of the Line, on their way to that city,
have been repulsed from the gates by the posts of the
National Guards. Numbers of the soldiers of the Line gave
up their chassepots to the National Guards. Yesterday the
Mayor of the oth Arrondissement was forcibly removed And
replaced by a member of the Central Committee in the 14th
Arrondissement. llenry, the Commander of the National
Guard, has announced his intention of Installing himself at
the 31alrie.

A very strong reaction in setting in against the Govern•
ment of the Central Committee throughout all the re-
spectable quarters of Parte The expressions of opinions In
the Boulevards are loud and fierce.

At three o'clock this morning the members of the Central
Committe, alarmed at the turn which events are taking,
came to an understanding with the Mayors of the Oil arron-
dissements. They have requested the latter to but them-
selves In communication with the Government at Versailles,
in order to secure the nomination of Admiral Galsset ci
Commander in.chief et the National Guard.

Pallid, Match 21, Mernhig.
At a meeting held yesterday by the editors of the Parisian
newspapers the following resolution was adopted :—"
aideriog that the convocation of the electors constitute. an
not of national .overelguity, which can only be done by
Powers electel by universal suffrage Considering that the
Committee established at the Hotel de Ville h: a I tereiore,
neither rights nor qualifications to make such a convocation;
The representative. of newspapers consider the convocation
for the 2111.1 inst. as mill and void, and engage the eleCtors
not to take it into consideration.

Signed by the lournal des Debats, Conititutionet, Plecteur
Libre, Petite Press*, Veriti,. Figaro Goldoni, Paris
Journal, Petite Journal National, Univers, Cloche,
Patrie, Francais, Then Public, Journal Ville et Canu
Espies, Paris, Moniteur ['Mt:era!, France
.Nottoelie, Gazette de France, Monde.
AU these newspapers publish this resolution at the head of
their column' In their morning edialoo.

VIIRSAMLLI, March 20.
There is a great concourse of people at Versailles. The
troops are concentrating and quartering there. The town
resembles a camp. The outworks commanding the ap-
proaches to Versailles are armed. The neighbouring villages
are occupied strategically. M. mien Is surrounded by •
large number of politicians. The prisoners of Meta and
Sedan are assembling and altering their services to the Go-
vernment.

The hotels are crowded, and many Deputies have been
unable to and rooms. and have passed the night in stables
A sitting was held yesterday by those Deputies who t.ould
be got together.

General Vinoy is organizing the defence of She town of
Versailles. sJme difficulties have mac Rested thsruselves on
the question of commissariat • but a certain amount of pro-
vision le already accumulated at Versailles for the troupe
Intended to protect the Assembly.

VERSAILLES, March 21.
The National Assembly has adopted unanimously a Pro-
clamation to the Inhabitants of Perla and to the Army
denouncing the criminal insurrection, and calling upon the
people to rally to the cause of (irder. A very Rtnernst Goon.
was occasioned by the SMlCaellt.l, mat the words " Vole la
France " V ha Republique " should be subjoined to the
proclamation; the Eight vociferating "No.' M.
was refused a hearing. Even M. Tillers for the lint time
since the Assembly met obtained a hearing only with great
difflcalty. Once he left the Tribune. lie Implored the Howe
to hear Mllii2re, and urged that though the termination
Vtce fa France—Vice la Republique" might be legitimate,
it was too into to asld it now that the Proclamation hart
already been adopted. He urged that what the Chamber
wanted was calmness and union. There were cries from the
Eight that firmness was also wanted. It. Tillers was very
well received by the Left.

Mr S.'hoelcher gave an account of Ma mission to procure
the releare of General Chancy. The majority of the Corniti
Cer, cal decided to keep him, lot declared him in perfect
safety, and treated him with the utmost respect. They said
that in two days they were going to resign thetr powers, and
that he would then be free.

On the other hand, Admiral &asset had stated that I 'hanzy
was kept as a hostage, and was to he killed if the Assembly
used force against the CotniU Cen,ral. N. Langlois proposed
to give Paris at once a Comeil arguing that this
measure would prevent the Parisian. Irons voting to-morrow.
M. Tillers thought the same, but asked for one or two days'
delay to frame a L.p. Municipale.
Mr. Clemenceau stated that the officers had no confidence
In the army. and deduced that it would never obey orders to
march against the National Guard. It was hopeles, to try
to employ force. The only course was to bold the municipal
elections.

M. Schoeicher strongly advocated the bolding of a grand
review of the National Guard In the Champs Plysien, to see
who of them would rally to the cause of .Oder. This was
opposed by other speaker.
It is reported that General Allard and his wife have been
taken prisoners, and are kept as hostages.
Lord Lyons, in conecduence of instructions, left Paris at
430, and repaired to Versailles.
A great demonstration, headed by a flag inscribed Lee
mills de l'Ordrc, started from the Boulevard dee Millen. up
Rue de in Pain, to the Place Vendome this afternoon There
was great exeltemeut. Orators from the window of the
Etat Major were booted. borne 130110i/tie battalions held up
their musket dockland wavered, but the friends of Order had
no arms, and oily cheered. They were about 3,000, and
produced a great effect. They went into the Public Ofdees.

A Special Correspondent of The Times, writing from
Paris, under date Saturday, the 18th instant, thug des-
cribes the disturbances which took place on that day:—
Between seven and eight the shopkeepers in the Rue de la
Pala were standing at their doors and debating as to whether
they should "open "or not. Some resolved on opening their
shop door, but not one ventured to take down his shutters.
It was the general opinion that we were °lathe verge of some-
thing serious. Passing into the Place Vendbrne, I came upon
a considerable uumher of the National Guluds, whose arms
were stacked in front of General Vinoy's Head-Quarters.
There were a few Mb .ers going and coming on horseback;
but there was little or no excitement. The men *hatted and
' smoked in groups of two and three. l'hey were to) al to the
authorities, and seemed to think that the whole of the Vim
and the great maas of the National. might be depended
upon. They looked upon the carrying away the guns from
Montmartre as a thing which must have been accomplished
by that time. There was not half-a dozen men out of uniform
in the Place.

On reaching the Rue an Ricoh, I saw that all the gates Of
the gardehs of the Tuileries were closed, that the posts
within mud at the several entrances of the Pahce were
Regulars, and thAt Regular. stood all along inside the
callings, peering through and conversing with passers by. I
expected that the gates at the Carrousel would be open, u
they usnally are for Noe passengers and carriages; hut they
were bolted and barred, and double poste of the Line kept
guard at them. None of the gates leading to the courts of
the Louvre were open, and all passage between the Rue de
Rlvoll and the (emu was clued till you arrived at the streets
connecting those great thoroughfares.

It was at about midway up the Rue de Rivet! I met the
first group of people going In the direction of the Roe St.
Antoine and the Phce de in Bastille. Among them was •
little man enveloped in an Inverness :Ape, and wearing a tall
hat. He appeared to he In a great hurry ; hut as he went
ating tie explained his position. He was a National Guard,
and he was anti°u, to have his position understood. Ad-
dressing those near him as .16yen8 he said, 'This morning
at five o'clock I heard the rappels Instantly I jumped out
of bed, put on my uniform, took my chassepot to my hand,
and went to my captain. ' Are we going to tire 013 the
Prussians, said I. ' Ito,' said he. 'What !' I exclaimed,
• then against what enemy are we going to make wall' We
are not going to make war,' replied the captain. ' The Go-
vernment calls on U. They want to take the guns that are
at Montmartre.' I rushed back, put down my rifle and pulled
off my uniform. Lead me against the Prussian, but not
against cocoons. No, mensiturn, e Ural PUT lee PTUSSU.7IB ;
AMU 31, iota freres—jamate ," Thin nor little man was
evidently hi mental terror of firing of any kind, fort olieerved
that he .• sloped oft" from the Rue St. Antoine the moment
he caught sight of the cannon on the Place de in Bastille ;
, hut he had a sympathetic audience They praised him for
' his patriotic determination, and I thought It prudent to tell
him that he deserved well of Franco.

About the Tour St. Jacques there were crowds of blouses
and still larger crowds of National Guards. The cmver•
nations were earnest, there was much fratern,ratlon between
the armed and the unarmed, and it struck me that many of
the former were halting In their allegiance to the Executive.
(little further on the rear of the ,tel de Vile there were
hundreds of groups of men and, women. Here It wail now
the first ohe containing the proclamation Issued by I.
'Mien and his confreres lad night. It was extenelvely
pasted all along the Rue St. Antoine, though It could not
have been long up, for the paste with which it was ['loitered
over was still wet. The market held alone this street went
on as usual. (lid women and young shouted out the prices
of their vegetables, and there were cestomen at every b.ket,
bargaining and buying as briskly self insurrection and blot,
' shed were not Impending at their doom. But every inch of
the pavement was crowded with men and women talking of
the event of the morning, and from all the by streets came
he sound 1 the noisy and never ceasing call to arms.

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In the Rue St. Antoine there were no National Guards
doing duty Their place had been taken by the Regulars.
Neither the National Guards, who lounged about, nor the
populace showed any hostility to them. On the contravy, ii
was clear that the game to be played was fraternizathin
People swarmed round the off rhea the Government, and In
many cases one person read It aloud for the others. The
flying commentary on Ita various sentences was significant.
a'un our, a ant." " ci!oyen,,

-Une Writable rerUEtstion de nunrante r,ioon. One—
middle.aged dame wee disposed to be charitable toward, the
head of the Executive. "Monsieur %in, o-c," She broke in,
"est 1/ll bon pert( homtne, Innis see ides, tout tin you pass Jes.
11 a era pr,"Y " " Cornier Trochu," jocularly remarked
another bystander. "OM," rejoined madame, "sortune
Troehu yr iremod, des projets girl we font slut." This
elicited great merriment and general applause.
tin the Inace de in Bastille there was a force of Hone,
Foot, and Artillery. They hot been there for some hours.
The wearied look of the men and hones told one that at
a glance. There were two field piece. and two mitrwilleusen
at tic' opening Into the Boulevards and the Roe ht. Antoine.
A troop of gendarmes were drawn up on tho opposite side,
out infantry were all about the Column and on the pavement
all round. The =WWI of the cannon and mitrailleuses were
covered, and one tired artillerym ift WAS asleep across his
gun. The unarmed National Onards and the people out of
uniform who made up the large crowd that ewlkod about the
place were very indigt ant at the display of regular. They
endeavoured to converse with them, and frequently I saw at.
tempts made tosurround the artillery and talk to the gunners ;
but a line of gendarmes kept riding round and round the
column like a troop of equestrians in a circus, and whenever
any one stopped, one of those troop. immediately cried
' Circules. Mon.teur,' or " (Armies, Madame," as the case
might be. The Genius if Liberty, who surmonnts the
column, was yet adorned with inantortelles, and had one on
each arm, but the flag. were gme from his hands. This was
loudly and indignantly commented on by the crowd "
harder ; ifs oat prig lee drapenux " In the vicinity of the
Government alliche there was all about this quarter one
printed on red paper, and addressed by a I.opublican c.nn-
mittee to the °nosier. do &can. Though there was nothing
seditious in this document, it was evidently regarded as an
IMpuiltion manifestation, and attracted no small amount of
attention.

Making towards the riverside, I passed through a num-
ber of back streets in all of which there were beatlim of
drums and • running to and fro of National Galicia, and ani-
mated discussions on the emergency. Coming out on the
Quai des Celestials, I crossed the river by the Pout de Marie,
about which there was more than one strong post of Na-
tional Guards. I heard a woman ask • sentry what cow.,
he would take. Ills answer was extremely suggestive,
madame, jar tends." This good ciOyon was bolding with
the hare and running with the hounds. Ile would declare
himself for the successful party. I wandered all over the
Latin quarter, but without hearing or seeing anything new
till coming out at the Palace of the Luxembourg, I observed
that the garden. were one vast camp, and that the pave.
flint outside was crowded with soldiery. The grounds in-
side were thickly studded with tents, and the soldiers were
sitting at camp tires and cooking their food In the open air.
There were double posts on the gates, and none but soldiers
of the camp. 'there were two field pieces outside the nearest
end of the gardens ant close to the Boulevard Si. Michei
Further on, at the extremity of the Gardens, there was
moth, r gun in the roadway of the thulevard. But there
were no crowds here, and nothing beyond the presence of
the military and the .1111011 to indicate that anything ex-
traordinary was either going on or expected in Parts. It was
the same all along the Route d'Orleans aster as the saceints
but in passing the end et the Route de Maine which COMO.
out MI the Orleans road I saw that Montrogue was up and
stirring, though it did surrender its cannons to the lawful
authorities a few days ago. I have never seen anything more
threatening than the attitude of the people In tilts
quarter. They were out in thousands on the Route du
MUMS, and scarcely a man or boy was without arms.
In a dilapidated shop at the corner of the Rue Roche-
foucault the Opposition Commander.in-Chief of the
National Guards haa his Ilead.Quarters. The streams
of Nationals of the Fourteenth Arrondissement were going
to and coming from these premise.. I saw among them
men who are typical revivals of souls of the characters of
which there are pictures hi Laniartin Is Ilia fury Of Me
Girondists. It woo positively frightful to see arms iu the
hands of such men. They aro not at all particular as to cos-
tnme, particularly in the matter of hoed-near. Numbers of
them wear slouched felt hate and have hair falling to their
shoulders, and I aaw a brace of pistols In the belt of more
than one of them. There is a more than Republican
fraternity among them. Many of them were so well provided
with cartridges that they stuffed them into their pockets.
Not far from the quarters of their Commander-in Chief I
met single youth wino could not have been more than fourteen
at the outside, lie wore a long grey coat, high boots, a
slouched hat, and was armed with a chassepot twice as
high aa himself, and a pair id pistols. Me was walking at a
rapid pace as if trying to overtake some life and death
business. On my making bold to ask him what all sir he had
on hand, this juvenile Swashbuckler told me France was in
danger! Before the Commander-In-Cafes door there was
• guard of Nationals, who kept • line that extended for
some distance out on the roadway. On the pavement stood
an enthusiastic. looking officer, with a drawn safire in his
Laud and a pistol with a steel stock in his belt. ills hair
was minimally long, and he wore one of the slouched
hats. Ile was addressing the guards in energetic terms ;
with his sword he suited the action to the word, and
his oratory raised Ms comrades to high enthusiasm.
I endeavoured to get near enough to hear him; the guard
politely but resolutely put me back. The women and children
were all out at Montrouge, and all the walls were placarded
with a proclamation from a committee stating that the
National Guards are the protectors of the Republic, and that
their chief and their officers ought to be appointed them
and them alone In all the wine shops and stall the corners
down to the Boulevard de Montrouge there were National
Guards, awl in some cases I saw them linked with soldiers of
the line. Every man of them carried a chassepot, and it
needed no verbal declaration on their part to tell one that
they were not out to help the authorities.

Itecroseing the river, and passing again through the Rue de
alvoll, I observed many National Guards sibling down the
by streets and making to a distance from the main body of
their particular corps. They were coming from the direction
of pests which the Eteeutive thought they could rely upon.
But their bear ng loft no doubt on my mind that, like the
gallant little National who had thrown down his firelock and
pulled cif his uniform because his chief would not lead him
against she Prussians, they were going to show their pa-
triotism by running away. At this time It was known that
shots hail been fired and men killed, that troops of the
Ligne had turned up the butt end of their musket. and re-
fused to act, and that a serious struggle was impending.

The Special Curreepowient of The Times, writing the
19th instant, thus continues a description of the
scenes in Paris :
The position of aft drs late last night was as follows. The
rumours which had vaguely been current of the assassination
of Gallant Clement Th onus and General Lecomte were con-
firmed. It appeared that these officers were recognised near
the Place Plitsliehetween four and live, captured, put throuah
the mockery of a trial, and shot at half•past live I.'clock
yesterday afternoon In a garden lathe Rue des Rosters, near
the Moe Male
I have since heard upon good authority hat many per-
sons have been shot without the ceremony of • trial early this
morning. Od the Boulevard last night there were large
crowds diecusslr g the conditions of chairs, but as the day
had turned against the Government no one bad the courage
to express strong opinions agatmrt the rioters. Ito the con-
trary, there is a very general sympathy manifested in their
favour, and as in most of the groups were National Guards
of the rebellious battalions, there were lord and tierce denun-
ciations of the authorities. The universal sentiment was that
IMore. uloy, D'Aurello, and others should be shot If they
Could be captured. . .F. very snow and then some excited
rebel would let loose a torrent of invective against everybody
and everything, and the servile crowd round Min uttered
murmurs of approval or bands of half-drunk Line and
National Guards, linked fraternally, would roll down the
Boulevards ahmtug at the pitch of their voices obscene hymns
about Badingwt. What proportion of Regulars are in iuli
complicity with the insurgents I have no means of knowing,
nor would it be desirable to publish It if I did, but, to judge
' from the quantities of tiddlers 1 saw—most of them drink,
and in company wtth Nallonanx in the same condition—it
must be considerable.

I walked as far as the Place Chateau d'Ean, and found It
full of insurgent Guards. In fact, it is beginning to be dial-
cult now to say what Guards are not insurgent, for on my
return to the Place Vendfsme I found that the army of the
faithful, who were to accomplish such wonders hi the night,
had disappeared, and their places were taken by an Insurgent
battalion from Belleville Passing On, the scene was strU
more strange and unexpected. The gnale and Place do is
Concorde were full of troop, in movement. Were they
going to attack again, and again fratemfra, or were
they in full retreat before the exempt A little further
and all doubt on the matter was solved the Court
Caulaincourt, Vinoy's head-quarters, was silent and de-
serted; the usual sentinels at the doorway were no longer
visible, the mounted orderlies, the horses of aide-decamp.
usually In attendance, all the ent9t.reige of a generals head-
quarters had vanished. The rooms to which I had been in
the habit of resorting were silent, and bore all the traces of
a hasty denarture. At nine the Ilead llnarters were trans-
leered to Versailles. All through the night the change was
being effected, and at four this morning there was a grand
flitting of personnel in artillery waggons, fourgens, carts,
and every description of vehicle in which people and archives
could be stowed awity.
It had been decided at a C cuncil hell yesterday afternoon,
and which U.:initiated at seven o'clock, that no capital re
seat of Government having been decided upon for the Re-
public, there was no obligation upon them to attempt I.
govern France from Paris, especially as the Assembly was to
Kt at Versailles, and a very great necessity for them to pre-
serve their power of Independent action, and of f niilihlng
their treaty obligations. The soldiers having distinctly re-
fused to support the Government iu Parts, that city became
practically ungovernable, and there was no alternative left
but to leave it to govern itself according to its own sweet
4 p.m.

I have just returned from a tour of exploration. A serdon
of sentries prevented all entry into the Place Vendome, in
which were lately the Head lemurs of General d'Aurelle,
now in the hands of the opposition, ... I went down another
street to the Rue de Rival!, which was deserted, all the
sentry boxes at the Tuileries and Louvre empty, and the
porter himself profounoly perplexed. I walked Into the
once Jealously guarded precints, but he remonstrated;
although there was not a soul in the building, he felt he had
still an abstract duty to perform towards it. lie had
seen many changes of oce•patits, and was the only per-
son to whom the Palace might really be said to belong,
as he, at all event., Was stationary. I had a curious
conversation with him, and went on towards the Betel tie
Ville, where the street began to be more thickly peopled,
until we found ourselves in a crowd mend a barricade. All
the avenues to the Place in front of the hotel de Ville were
strongly barricaded on a peculiar system, which allows of a
passage for foot passer gers through the centre, the middle
section of the barrio ode being advanced and overlapping the
two side sections. Boys, learning in early life the art of
governing Paris, were activtly engaged in constructing these
erections, at which, now and then, a passer-by, If he looked
especially aristocratic, was called upon to assist by placing a
stone.

Presently the sound of bugles was heard, and caused some
aommotion, and a body of National Guard and Line mixed,
the latter unarmed but preponderating In numhers, same
shunting along, waving their caps, and were warmly greeted
by those at the barricades. These are the occasions Wbeu it
Is prudent for the most anti-democratic of men to raise Ids
hat and shout, and an old lady who had been standing near
me, abusing the whole movement In slow tone to her M.O.
ter, waved her handkerchief, and shrieked " Pitt to Apo/J-
-Al.' !" with her omen:Men. trembling In her reciter.
Wm. Just opposite where we stood were the marks of three
rece at bullets on the face of a house; • few shots were fired
but without injury or necessity, so far as I could learn, about,
ten o'clock last night An hour later Worm Ranvier noon-
pled the Hotel de Vale, and almost immediately al terward•
a meeting of the Central C Immittee was hell In it; and their
End resolution was that barricades should he erected at MI
the approaches. The consequence Is that when I was there
It presented the appearance of an lotrenched camp, the
" Place " full of National (1 sards, and companies constantly
arriving, apparently to give In their adhesion to the new
movement and make a general demonstration of triumph.
At an earlier period there bad been a good deal of firing of
: salvoes of triumph. tom the cannon which have been the
' teterriow camas of the whole catastrophe
in the midst of these demonstrations an ''ugly rush"
occurred, and we knew some poor wretches were probably
being hounded to death ; they wore overtaken and hustled,
and, finally, secured lust 5 I reached the mob, and I dis-
c ,vered a couple of eergente de vide with clothes rent and
haggard conntenances, staggering along, the pleturea of
agonizing terror. There has been little mercy shown to any
one the mob fancies ought to be killed AR yet, and so, per-
haps, them poor men had reason to look alarmed. An
episode of this kind makes the crowd suspicious of every-
hotly; there Is • contagion In the Idea which play
vent Itself most inopportunely, to we strolled oft
to quieter parts along the Boulevards, where crowds
were arguing and Itleputing as usual. Thle time the
topio which agitated them was the Idea that the 'remiss.
might come and bring order Into lane, a notion which some
scouted In the old style,—" Let them come ; not one will
ever leave," its —language whit% a painful experience has
deprived of a good deal of Its former effect it Is significant
to observe how many soldiers lounge about the streets de-
lighted to be emancipated front all control, generally
arm.lu-arm with a "National," A good many Moblute
are still In Parte, and look puzzled s,t bewildered
at the whole •if alr, in which they have taken no part.
Some of their officers have been pulled from then
horses, however, and lit treated, on the ground of being
" aristos." The Elyine Palace is held by "the people," and
a strong guard Is Inside the enclosure in front of the
Mluistne l'lnterienr. All down In thsr i'larters may be
seen the rough unprepossessing faces of ruen evidently belong-
ing to other arrondimements, while the National Guard
which belong. to It remains tamely at home. The Place
Vendome drew a large crowd later In the day, and iris almost
tiled with Naldnal Guards, relieving each othcr act march-
ing In and out of it With bandit play Um and colours flying.
It la a beautiful day, and, although nearly all the 'hope

are shut, there is a great deal of movement in the Weeks,
and all fear of violent outbreaks on the part of the mob tor
the present seem removed. The people take It as they would
fever and ague, Sian intermittent complaint which they
cannot avoid, and to which they are becoming accustomed;
the women especially seem in their element, they go about
with babies wherever barrteades are.to be built or police

agents drowned, and are a good deal more courageous In
every way than the men, which. indeed, would not be difficult.
To day for the first time I saw an angry altercation
in a crowd for one of the remarkable features of a
political discuutou Is that the disputante seldom
quarrel, one side generally being in the maj
and his opponent not having the courage of his opinions,
when there is the posalbility of being shot for entertaining
tbern but in the middle of the lien Venonne two perfectly
ell.dre.sed women formed the centre of a group, and were
only prevented by their husbands from tearing each other's
eyes out. They terminated the diecussion to the great satis-
faction of the bystanders. by each calling her own husband
a coward and walking off with him In opposite directions,
contemptuously. It Is curious to watch the faces
and demeanour of the Inhabitants of the Rue de Is
Palx and the Italian Boulevard, in the presence of
the Eelleville and Montmartre roughs, ish. have
come down from the heights to give them a taste of
liberty and equality at the p drit,of the bayonet. Two pro-
clamations have jolt appeared, which you will receive with
this letter, or, perhaps, before it, from which you will see the
mimes of our new rulers—names unknown to fame, menu-
tog that of M. Posy, celebrated as the instigator of the strike
at Creuz t, The blank tacos with which the rich shop-
keepers of these regions read the list, of these political
economists who are opposed to the selfish idea of making all
you can and kaving it, are arousing and instructive to
behold.

The Gormand willifind a good deal more sympathy In some
quarters the next time they enter Paris than they did t
lent; and men are beginning in muttered cones to pray for
them. ideantinfe the whole tlwn I. barric.ded to such an
extent that movement, except on (Get, Is Impossible. Mont-
martre has become completely a military monition. and no
one, except in uniform, Is allowed to past along many of the
streets In that quarter or op to the heights. Pick and shovel
are at work all day, and gangs are busy throwing up earth-
works, erecting batteries or making barricades. Numbers of
public places are occupied militarily, while the ugly grated
muzzles of mitraillenses point down many of the streets. Toe
word as you pass the barricades in process of construcion ii
" Voice paw', egtoyen !"--• command which must Instantly
be obeyed with polite Weston, and as It you really enjoyed It.