The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

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am witch deprives the chimes of all partieipa-
ties f. lit rights, violate the national soveretg ty, and
tan Y emsmiumps the cause of the troubles andndangtra
wine leaf anal oiler; and whereas they thus keep Franca
to a trysts!s beamed and ruinous at home, and degrading
and Minnow; abroad, the undinigned, the deputy for Tou-
louse, demands from the Chamber the impeachment of the
President of the Council and of his colleagues.
The Paris journals of yesterday, morning are filled
with reports of the events of Tuesday, but contain
little of importance up to six o'clock of that evening
which we have not already reported. During the even-
ing and night of Tuesday all the streets and tho-
roughfares between the boulevards from the Ma-
deleine to the Rae de Richlieu and the river, were
occupied by troops. Parties were stationed at the
ends of all the streets leading from the Rue St. Honote
towards the river, by whom all access to that quarter
was stopped. A similar interdiction was made by a
party stationed at the termination of the Rue Itivoli,
in the Place de la Concorde.
From an early hour on Tuesday afternoon all the
shops were closed in this quarter, and at an early
hour in the evening the same measure was generally
adopted through the city.
A considerable body of workmen were employed
early yesterday in clearing away all the preparations
for the banquet. At about half past nine, a body
of about GOO municipal guards, horse and
foot, arrived and took possession of a piece of
ground adjoining the place of the intended assem-
blage, which was a large inclosed field, between
the Rue de Chaillot and the Barriere de Long-
champs, where a marquee had been erected. But few
people bad collected in that quarter or in the Champs-
Flysees. In the course of the afternoon, however,
very large crowds assembled, and the guard-house
nearly opposite Franconi's Circus was besieged and
afterwards set fire to.
At various points along the Rue St. Honore, and in
the streets leading from it to the Tuileries, the pave-
ment was torn up, and attempts made to form barri-
cades; the arrival ;of the troops, however, soon ren-
dered these abortive.
In the Champs Flysees, two omnibuses were over-
turned, and a barricade formed with them and the
numerous chairs which steed on the side walk for the
accommodation of promenaders. On the approach of
the troops, this was set fire to, and burned.
The windows of numerous houses and shops in the
Rue St. llonore and its cpproaches have been broken.
The commander of the Palace of the Tuileries was
disabled by the blow of a stone on the breast. Aa we
stated yesterday, the shops of several gunsmiths
and armourers, in various quarters of the town,
were broken into and pillaged. A great
destruction of gas lamps has been effected, and nume-
rous public carriages overturned.
Various and contradictory rumours arc afloat as to
the fatalities which have occurred. Some of the jour-
nals affirm that several lives have been lost, while
others deny that any one has been killed. We have
been assured that 17 persons have been wounded and
several killed in the Batignolles. Two females are said
to have been killed in the Piace de la Concodre. It is
said that in one of the charges made by the cavalry
on the bridge of the I'lace de la Concorde, the horse
of a municipal guard fell, and crushed a poor women.
It is further asserted that many people were obliged to
leap into the sunk-gardens of the place, to avoid
being crushed by the horses. Complaints are made
'that the municipal guards were violent; it is also stated
that, on the contrary, the regular troops of the line
acted with great moderation. It is said that near
the hotel of the ministry of Foreign Affairs, a
municipal guard, who fell from his horse, was cruelly
111-treated by the mob, but that some persons
present rescued hies, and removed him to a doctor's
shop, where he received every attention.
In several quarters of the town on Monday night the
National Guard were ea duty. We have already
reported that the feWrate was beaten to call them oat
between five and six o'clock in the evening. A Nati-
aide formed at the corner of the Rue de l'Arbre Sec,
behind which a cotelderable mob was collected, was
carried by the National Guard ot the sth Legion. It
is said that the 9th Legion assembled almost to a man,
regularly accoutred, in the Faubourg St. Antoine,
under the command of its colonel. A battalion of
the national guard, passed a part of the night in the
Place des Victoires. The Place de Carousel is filled
with troops, who have bivouacked there during the
sight.
The Dec de Nemours, on horseback, passed them
in review. Several gunsmiths' shops have been plun-
dered—that of Lepage was preserved by the soldiery.
At nine o'clock at night, a party, to the number of
about fifty, mostly young men in blouses, promenaded
the Quarter of the Schools, singing the Marseil-
Jaime." After having passed through the streets of that
quarter, they went to the Rue Racine, where they
phmdmed the shop of a gunsmith. Several of them
ran away with guns. Half an hour afterwards this
party went to the Rue de Seine, No. 84, the residence
of a gunsmith. They broke open the shop ; but the
guns had disappeared. Patrols then arrived, and
they fled. At half-past nine all was quiet in that
quarter.
It is reported that a post of soldiers of the line,
composed of ten or twelve men, was surprised and
disarmed at the Batignolles.
It was also reported that attacks had been made on
other barriers of the city, which they had attempted
to set fire to.
We learned that at half past ten o'clock, an assem-
blage of persons, armed with guns and pistols, formed
a barricade with the paving stones of the Rue St.
Denis, near the Rae Grande Truanderie, and fired on
a patrol. A strong detachment of the municipal
guard arrived unexpectedly on the spot, put the
rioters to flight, and restored order. We have not
learned that any one was either killed or wounded.
In the quarter of the Halle some arrests were made
by the National Guard, at eleven o'clock. The posts
and piques of the line bivouacked under the fish and
meat market and the large market, and were reinforced
at eleven o'clock by the 6th Chasseurs, who arrived at
10 from Vincennes.
It appears that on Monday evening a meeting of
peers and deputies was held at the house of M.
de Lamartine, at which many were opposed to any
postponement of the banquet. M. de Lamartine spoke
with much force, in favour of persevering in the pro-
posed act of protestation in favour of the right of
public meeting.
At midnight, by the efforts of the troops, all that
quarter of the town which had been the principal
theatre of the erneutes of the day, was calm and de-
serted. Our correspondent, who walked through the
principal streets, describes them as presenting the
aspect of absolute solitude, save at the points occupied
by the troops, and now and then the appearance of
the patrols of cavalry.
On Tuesday evening, two persons connected with
the Journal de Commerce passed between 8 and le'
o'clock at night through the line of streets forming
the Rues Clery, Neuve St. Denis, Meslay, do Temple,
Rambuteau, Pointe St. Eustache, and Joquelet. At
the end of the Rue Ciery they found a commencement
of a barricade ; at the Boulevard St. Denis the crowd
filled the street, and prevented a free passage. In
the Rue de. Temple was a crowd of young persons,
armed with pikes and guns ; in the Rue du Ram-
buteau the crowd was earnestly talking of a barricade
which had been made in the Rue Bourg rAbbe; in
the Marche des Innocent they found a crowd col-
lected under the stalls; from the Rue de la Feronnerie
to the Rue Croix des Petit Champs, near the Rue St.
Honore the streets were occupied by the crowd ;
everwhere the appearance was of a town on the eve
of some dreadful event. In no one point were seen
the national guards. The conduct of the troops can-
not be too highly commended in these miserable
events.
At 11 o'clock, in that part of the Marais
between the Rue de. Temple and the Rue St. M artin,
near the Rue Phillippeaax, many of the streets were
filled by armed crowds; barricades had been formed,
and it was reported that several attacks had been
made by the troops.
The barricades of which we have spoken in the
Rue Clery: and the small streets adjoining, were
completely abandoned at eleven o'clock. Many
patroles of national guards occupied the streets thus
deserted and placed in utter darkness by the lamps
having been broken.
At 12 at night it was stated that barricades had
been formed in the Rue Orenetat. A skirmish took
place.—The dead and wounded have been removed,
and among them a woman.
It is affirmed that M. Thiers was opposed to the
impeachment when that measure was proposed at the
meeting of the opposition deputies.
The rappel, which was beaten generally thee*
Paris on Monday evening, had but a very
effect in calling out the national guards. the
quarter of the Bank about two hundred assembled,
who bivouacked in the Place des Petits Peres and in