The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Since the foregoing was in type, we have received
the folloa lug from our Purls correspondent:
PARIS, MONDAY, 6 P.M.
In my dispatch of last night. (see inside page) I
said that the calm of yesterday was attended with
the prognostics of a storm. The storm has accord-
ingly bii,ken.
At ten o'clock thii morning the populace, composed
of the clubs, the atteliers nationaux, the provincial
delegates, and other violent democratic associations,
began to assemble on the Place de la Bastille, and
by half past eleven upwards of fifty thousand
persons had been convened. They were marshalled
ender burners, and marched in procession
along the line of the Boulevards, by the Place de la
Concorde, to the Chamber, the numbers augmenting
as they proceeded.
At eleven o'clock large bodies of the National
Guard, battalinns of the Guard Mobile and the Guard
Urbaine, and squadrons of cavalry ,of the national guard,
and of lancers arrived at the Chamber, the gardens and
courts of which and those of the President's house,
and the vestibule of the Chamber on the quay, were
faun completely filled. Regiments were also stationed
in the eplauade of the Invalides, on the Quay
d'Orsay, and at other points around the Chamber.
The populace that formed the procession shouted
contently " Vive la Pologne " Vice la Republique
Univeraelle.." hot appeared to awaken no sympathy
with the _ruwd that filled either side of the Boule-
vard. who rather treated the affair with apparent
ridicule.
On arriving at the bridge, finding the passage inter-
rupted, the procession turned towards the Chamber, and
arrived at tile gate lathe Place Lafayette. Gen. Courtais,
who, je,tly or unjustly, is suspected of being a party
to the aff tir, had previously ordered the bayonets to
be taken from the muskets. Some of the people
seeing thi., were encouraged to escalade the railings ;
others followed, and the court of the Chamber was
soon filled. General Courtais then advanced to them
with conciliating lerguage; bat, in fine, the gates
were soon forced open, and the populace entered the
chamber.

At a little before two I made a detour w as to arrive
at that point, and found the Place, on which the gate
of the chamber opens, filled with a compact crowd,
waving banners and uttering the most deafening
Knouts. The Rue de Bourgogne, the quay under
the vestibule of the chamber, the bridge, the Place
de la Concorde, and the Rue It9yale were all crowded
to nearly the same degree.
The character of the populace composing this im-
Image mass wan, for the most part, of the lowest
orders; there was, hewers r, a sprinkling here and
thereof officers of the national guard, in uniform, and
of individuals who seemed. from their costumes, to be-
long to the more respectable classes.
They were divided into clubs, headed by banners,
with their charcteristic inscriptions. The most con-
spicuous figure, however, in the procession, was M.
Loain Blanc, who had his place about the centre of it,
amidst the e oueriers nationaux," by whom he was
loudly cheered.
At half-pest two o'clock, after the populace had
thus been toll, cted round the chamber for some time,
the "rappel" was beaten in all the surrounding
(touters of Paris. As, however, it was known
that the drummers would be stopped and their
drums broken,they were in each instance preceded and
f°llowed by wrong detachments of the National
Gaud with fix, d bayonets.
fiefure four o'clock the National Guard, in immense
matillw, were everywhere under arms and marching
towards the chamber. At that hour I again visited
tie neighbourhood of the Chamber and found that the
troops of the line, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
had been called out and were under arms. The
Zseade of the Invalides and the quays, and
* avenues connecting it with the Chamber
I,lre completely filled with these troops, nun-
!Al with the national guard. The legions of the