The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-26 00:00:00

CONTINUATION OF THE STRUGGLE.

PARIS, SVNDAY, 5 P,Sf.
It has been extremely difficult to-day to obtain
correct information of what is going on. No one is
permitted to move through the principal thorough-
fares without a pass, and these passes are limited to
specified points. lam therefore compelled to supply
you with very scattered and unconnected details of
the day.
The general aspect of Paris is the same as I have
described it yesterday, except that the liberty of pass-
ing from place to place is interdicted, which gives an
appearance of utter desertion to the streets.
It is forbidden to close the external jalousies of the
windows, or the internal shutters, or to open the
windows themselves. This measure is adopted to
prevent persons firing from the windows on the troops.
Orders are given to prevent persons from standing
at the doors or windows.

All political placards are interdicted.
This morning fighting took place at the Garden of
Plante. _ . .

A report has reached me that the insurgents who
were in possession of the Halle aux Vins have
poisoned the wines, with e.e view of destroying the
troops and the National Guard.
The delay allowed the insurgents in the Faubourg
St. Antoine to surrender having expired without any
reply, the operations immediately commenced. The
first barricade was vigorously attacked and car-
ried, but nut without considerable slaughter on
the side of the assailants. Colonel Baynaud,
of the 48th Regiment, of the line, and several
other officers, were killed. General Boquet, of
the Engineers, arrived at the Place de la
Bastille at 12, with the firemen and a battalion of
sappers. Some houses were in an instant blown up,
and several barricades thus turned were captured
without loss. On some points the insurgents had
dug trenches, against which the artillery was un-
available. They fired from within, and, on the
approach of the troops, escaped through passages
opened in the cellars of the houses. A large body
sallied from the suburb towards noon, entered
the island of St. Louis, and formed a barricade on
the Pont des Tournelles, which was undergoing re-
pairs. They were there kept in check by troops sta-
tioned in the wine stores on the opposite side,
and were actually placed within two fires. The en-
closure of St. Lazare was re-occupied in the morn-
ing by the insurgents, who carried away ten small
pieces of artillery belonging to the Chateau Rouge,
which they loaded with stones and pieces of broken
bottles. On the Quay de la Megisserie some ruffians
fired from a window on a battalion of troops of the
line, and escaped by a back door in the street.
Others were, at the same time, erecting a barricade
close by, in the Rue de Bethizy ; but a patrol of Na-
tional Guards dispersed them, and they fied, throwing
their arms in the streets. A battery of artillery had
been placed on the hill of Montmartre, and measures
were adopted to prevent the insurgents from gaining
possession of that important position.
On the south side of the river the insurrection was
completely quelled.
The insurrection loses ground on the north side.
M. Floeon announced that Paris is abundantly sup-
plied with provisions.
At two o'clock it was announced that a resolution
had been taken by General Cavaignac to bombard
Montmartre. Several places in the Clos St. Lazarc
and its environs were set on fire by the insurgents.
At one o'clock firing was taking place in the
Rue St. Denis; at the passage du Grand Corf shots
were fired from the windows of the houses.
The President of the National Assembly, at its
sitting to-day, anuouncedthat the left bank of the Seine
was completely in the hands of the military, but it
was afterwards stated the island of St. Louis was in
the hands of the insurgents. It is said to have been
ascertained that the number already killed is upwards
of 6,000 persons.
M. Lagrange attempted to go to the insurgents,
for the purpose, as he said, of inducing them to lay
down their arms, but the National Guards refused to
allow him to pass. The office of the Minister
of Commerce has been searched by the authorities,
and 30,000 f. in gold removed.
The firing is going on without intermission, and
they are undermining the Clos St. Lazarre, with the
intention of blowing it up.
The sitting of the Assembly was resumed at half-
past three, when, a member ascending the tribune to
give an account of fresh successes on the part of the
National Guard, M. Duclerc rose to condemn the too
congratulatory expressions of the speaker, saying that
on both sides the fighting had been carried on with but
too much obstinacy and courage.
An explosion or cries of " Order " and " Vive la
Garde Nationale."
M. Duclerc then said he only meant to express his
deep regret for the effusion of blood.
de Larochejacquelin regretted the rumours

which had been spread amongst the insurgents, as to
the disposition towards them of the National As-
sembly, and he supplicated its members to give an
open denial to the words attributed to Malheur
aux rainew." These words were followed by a scepe
of extraordinary tumult in the Chamber, and M. de
Larochejacquelin was obliged to leave the tribune.
M. Ducoux ascended the tribune, and said that he
was the bearer of moat satisfactory news. A great
number of insurgents had acknowledged their error,
and laid down their arms. It was no longer possible
for them to hold the barricades, for the engineers had
now cut a way from house to hou-e, so that
the barricades fell into their hand with facility.
Several barricades had accordingly fallen, end there
could be no doubt that the affair was rapidly ap-
proaching an end.
Some sharp words ensued in the passages, M.
Lunean addressing reproached to M. Louis Blanc.
hi. Raynal, who was one of the foremost in repro--
jug the words of M. de Larochejacquelin, was about
to came to blows with one of his colleagues, when the
would-be combatants were quickly separated, and the
sitting was adjourned, de facto, until 5 o'clock.
At that hour it was again resumed.
31. Senard r,ad a letter from M. Marrast,
announcing the recapture of the mairie or
the 2nd arrondissement and the streetssurrounding it.
The insurrectionists had made a complete citadel of

this quarter, established communications, and put
mattresses behind the windows. The troops and
Guard Mobile had to lay siege to every ham between
the Hotel de Ville and Rue St. Antoine. Their losses
were immense. Columns were then marching towards
1 the Place des Vosges, to re-capture the municipality
of the eighth arrondissement. The great barricade
which had stopped the troops since noon had
been captured, and the troops were in possession
of the bridge of Damietta. The Faubourg du
Temple and the Marais were then the only places in
the power of the insurgents.
It is positively asserted, that Count de Narbonne,
former aide-de-camp of Charles X., and his servant,
arrested behind a barricade in the act of di 4tri-
buting money to the revolters, had both been
shot in the gardens of the Luxembourg, by the
country National Guards. Forty-four other prisoners
were said to have been pat to death on the Place de
Greve.

The old Municipal Guards have been called to Paris.
A great number of them were assembled round the
Avembly, anxious to join in the fight.
Bills due between the 23rd and 28th are prorogued
for 5 days.