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

operative."

dition would be every'' fnf' crier to that of st,
regularly employed operairvi., • And We refer, es-
pecially, to the manufacturing and mechanical clams
of workmen, because it is from them that Mr.
O'Coloon chiefly, if not exclusively, obtains the
" members" of his land company. When, therefore,
the land company's prize holders win the right to
occupy land at twice its real annual value, there can
be little doubt that their gain is a loss.
But if such be the position and prospects of the
winners, what of the losers? If the pnzei be the
right of working, to live and pay rents hope-
Wily exorbitant, what are the blanks And
this is the point of view in which, at
present, we must regard this scheme. Mr.
O'CONNOR is seeking from the legialature a
special act to legalise his company : a select commit-
tee is sitting to take evidence, that parliament may
consider the propriety of giving to the "national
bailiff" facilities beyond the ordinary law of the
country. Mr. O'CONNOR'S scheme is, that there
should be one hundred thousand shares of
11. Gs. each, of which no one person is to hold
less than two or moro than four ; consequently, the
number of shareholders may amount to fifty
thousand ; and report says more than forty
thousand persons have in fact become sub-
scribers. Now, assuming the average cost of each
allotment at 3331. and a fraction—which, taking the
figures from Mr. O'CoNr/on's own statements on di-
vers occasions, is below the mark—a thousand pounds
will locate three persons. This will give 310 fortu-
nate peasant proprietors as the result of the contribu-
tions of between forty and fifty thousand persons.
But all the forty thousand blanks want to be located
as well as the three hundred prizes. Working men
don't take their two, three, or four shares in the "Na-
tional Land Company "as investments. They do not
look for any high rate of interest fur the money they
have eked out of their earnings. And, in truth, if
the profits of the land company should prove high, be-
yond the rate of the most exaggerated railway esti-
mates of past years, the actual amount of profit
payable to each shareholder would still be so small
as not to be worth notice. Tlipt, however, is not
pretended to be held out as a motive for subscribing;
to get an allotment is the hope, the promise of an
allotment is the inducement, of the subscribers and
the author of the scheme. Let us ask any hard
headed working man how all the 49,700 members arc
to be provided with allotments when all the capital of
the company is required to provide allotments for
three hundred ?
"Oh, but," says Mr. O'Coasoa," we will mortgage
the property, and lay out the money we have bor-
rowed in buying more land," and as that gentleman
comes from Ireland, we may assume that he knows
something about mortgages. Let us see if we can
obtain some notion of the data on which this gentle-
man founds hie calculations, if his random estimates
deserve that name.
Mr. (rens:vim stated lately that he was going
to se I, as auctioneer, some allotments in Lincoln-
shire ; and to induce mean to buy, Le added, that there
was interior land in the same neighbourhood let for
from 22/. to 30/. It appears since, that a few lots
had sold at a comparatively high price, but that more
remained undisposed of. In Mr. O'CoNaott's letters to
the members of the land company, giving an account
of this sale, we find a passage which indicates how
he values allotment lands. Ile says, " many parties
with a little capital, but not sufficient to purchase,
offered to pay a year's rent in advance, and
201. a year for four acres without a house.
Now, estimating tbur acres, that would have brought
that rent, at 751. per acre, or 3001. for the lot, it
would have left the capitalist nearly seven per cent.
in land and labour seorrit y, he land becoming every
day better and more valuable—and therefore every
day int marling his security."
Without professing to understand exactly this
not very clear passage, we think it may be taken to
mean that land thus allotted out is good security for
capital, and that it is a security " in land and labour"
which will constantly increase. Mr. treox Nile, there-
fore, imagines, or affects to imagine, that having
establhhed one set of allottees, he can go into the
market and mortgage their " land".and their "labour"
to raise money to establish another.
A more vain expectation wits probably never in-
dulged in. 1) lee lie suppose that persona who have
money to lend, will overlook the fact that a rent of
per acre can never be permanently paid? Will
they forget that, instead of constantly improving, their
security must be regularly decrees& g in value year
by year from the deterioration of the numerous cot-
tages, in respect of which these high rents are—pro-
nnsed ? Indeed, instead of the property becoming
more valuable us a security, when parcelled ote. by
the land company, it would not be worth so much in
the money market as in its original state. Ask the
mortgagees of 16,1 estates what they think of such
securities,and a i ole rably correct not ion may be gained of
the utter absurdity of the attempt to borrow and buy,
and borrow and buy again. Why, this is what the
Duke of BUCKINGHAM has been doing through life,
and we see to what end that unthrifty process has
brought his grace. Why should Mr. O'Cuallou's
land company—that is, Mr. O'CoNsioe, himself—
follow the same course and fare better ?

A report which I have just received, affirms, that
although it was well known to the authorities that bar-
ricades were being made from an early hour in the morn-
ing no attempt was made until noon to molest
the insurgents. At noon some detachments of the
national guard arrived by the Rue St. Martin at the
Boulevards, where they were received by a brick fire
by the insurgents ; they fell back upon the Porte St.
Denis. Some firing took place from the windows.
At half-past 12, the second legion attacked the
barricades at the Po.te St. Denis. The National
Guards toting fired on by the insurgents, answered
by a discharge iu platoons, fi ring,however, iota tionally
in the air ; this was replied to by an effective discharge
by the insurgents, after which the National Guards
being reinforced discharged vollies continuously
for a quarter of an hour, to which the insurgents an-
swercd by a continual dropping fire like that of sharp-
shooters. It is impossible to describe the effect pro-
duced by these fusillades upon the muses which
crowded the Boulevards, who fled in indescribable
terror and contusion. This was increased when the
National Guards, from want of ammunition it is said,
retired before the insurgents several of whom were
disarmed. e
At one o'clock a conflict took place in the Rue St.
Denis between the insurgents and a battalion of the
Cith Legion. Another conflict took place about the
same time in the Rue St. Martin, at the corner of the
Rue des Arcis.

At one o'clock an imposing force arrived from the
quarter of the Madeleine, under General Lam.,riciere.
At two o'clock an order was published, signed by
the l'resident of the Assembly and the Executive
Commission, appoiujing General Cavaignac com-
mander-in-chief of thb tro pa of every arm, iccluding
the National Guard and the Garde Mobile.
It is said that General Cavaignac refused to
accept the command without receiving unlimited
powers which were conferred upon him. Paris may
now therefore be considered in a state of siege.
About three
.o'cleek there was a conflict et the bridge
near the Hotel de Ville, when eighteen soldiers of the
line are reported to have been killed.
A member of the Assembly appearing on horse-
back on the Boulevards, bearing the ribbon designat-
ing his office, was saluted with criers of " A bus lee
aristocrats!"

The " vivanditre" of the 2nd battalion of the 2nd
legion has been wounded in the shoulder. All the
apothecaries' shops in the quarter St. Denis and
St. Martin are concerted into ambulances and filled
with killed and wounded.
A detachment has been disarmed in the Rae St.

But, referring to the rules of the land company, I
published " at the (ace of the National Land Com-
pany,' we find that among the " means" of accomplish-
mg the objects of the scheme are a " bank of de-
posit," and a " bank of redemption." The pur-
pose of the former is thus stated :—" That a
hank of deposit shall be established through the
medium of which the money expend( d in the
purchase of land, and in the erection of buildings, &c.,
shall be reproduad, the property of the company
being security for all the cash deposited in such bank.
That the depositors shall receive three-and-a-half per
cent. upon their deposits, and that the interest or rent
charge payable to the company by the allottees be
available fur that purpose. 'the money thus advanced
upon the company's property to be invested in the
purchase of other lands, erection of other houses, &c.,
upon which in the like manner money shall be raieed."
Wns there ever such a wild scheme ? Why, this is
not a bank of deposit at all ; it is asking the working
men to subsiaibe to a mortgage debt. Talk of the
property ot the company being security for the "cash"
deposited. There will be no cash ; it is to be all laid
out in land.
Imagine the grim and astonished look with
which the bank manager would receive a depositor
desiring to withdraw his deposit. " Oliver Twist
asking for more" would be nothing to it. " Du-
remit, sir?" would the manager say, " your depo-
sit is invested in land and labour's at " O'Connorville,
or " Festgus-town," or some ether Milesian paradise
of rack-rented allottees.
We know of but one parallel instauco to this, that
which is recorded in the report of the case of
"Colt e. Wuollaston," well known to equity lawyers,
where a shareholder in the " Land Secarity aid Oil
Patent Company" sued the projectors for tile money
he had invested, and recovered it. The projectors
proposed to extract " oil out of radishes," and pro-
' leased to give as "land security" property which coat
28,0001., and remained charged with all the purchase
' money and 0,0001. besides.

FRANCE.

COUNTER REVOLUTION IN PARIS•

Joseph.
Mr men of the Garde Mobile have been disarmed
by a body of the insurgents, headed by an individual
in the indium of an officer of the National Guard.
At half-past three the fusillade continued in the
Rue St. Jacques, in which quarter enormous barri-
cades have been raised.
Six O'CLOCK.—The fighting still continues, and the
number of troops has been increased. Fifteen
National Guards have been killed at the Porte St.
Denis. By a fatal mistake two legions of the Na-
tional Guard fired on each other.
I learn that the insurgents are in complete posses-
sion of the environs of Notre Dame. A company of
the National Guards has been made prisoners in the
place of the cathedral.
HALF-PAST SEVEN.—My messenger has returned
from the railway station, to which 1 sent my latest
despatches, and has brought them back. Ile informs
me that the railway station is in the utmost con-
fusion, all departure of trains being altogether out of
the question. The roils have been broken up as far
as St. Denis. I must therefore forward this despatch
by some expedient or other. Whether a courier can
be had is doubtful.
The cries among the populace were various. Viva
Henri V.!" "Vivo Napoleon!" "A bas les Cinq!"
" Vive la Republique!" were severally heard. A mem-
ber of the Assembly seized a flag at the l'orto St.
Denis, bearing the inscription, "Du pain, ou la
mort" (Bread, or death).
Fighting still continues in the Faubourg St. Mar-
ccau.
M. Caussidiere has joined the members of the execu-
tive government on horseback, and they have passed
along the Boulevards.
The insurgents occupied a house in tho Fauburg
St. Denis, from which they fired on the troops.
Two hundred prisoners have been taken by the
National Guard on the Place de la Sorbonne.
Artillery from Vincennes have been marched on
Paris.
HALF-I'AST EIGILL—Large bodies of troops, with
artillery, are now moving along the Boulevards and
' principal thoroughfares towards the quarter St.
, Denis. Everything portends a terrible night. I
' have sent in all directions to seek a courier, but have
as yet found none who would engage to take this
despatch to Boulogne.
SATURDAY, 7 A.M.
In my despatches of last evening, I sent you the
reports oft`. e proceedings of yesterday, so fat as it
was practicable to collect the facts by personal ob-
servation, and by emissaries in a city which was the
actual theatre of such a conflict. I shall now proceed
to supply such further more detailed information as
has been afforded by more official reports, and by the
journals of this morning.
It is now admitted that the Executive Government
were themselves aware of the threatened explosion on
Thursday night. Whatever preparations they may
have made to meet the exigency, they afforded no
opportunity to the other authorities of the state to do
the same, and, consequently, the insurgents were
enabled to carry on their operations for several hours
unmolested. It was not until a late hour in the fore-
noon that the National Guards were brought to offer
any effectual resistance, and it was still later before the
troops of the line were available.
The first scene of operations seems to have been
at the Porte St. Denis and its environs.
About nine o'clock about fifty men, "en blouse,"
commenced fixing a barricade. An omnibus and some
drags served to stop the public way, and behind these
the street was unpaved.
A band of about 200 persons traversed the Rue
Beanregard, crying "Aux armee ! on egotgo nos
freres!" A single shot had not then been fired,
and they spread the first alarm. Many of them were
armed with guns, others with pistols, swords, or iron
ban. They evidently tried to create disturbance in
the quarter, and seduce the working people to join
them.
In the first part of their plan they succeeded ; the
shops were shut as they passed, but the onvriere in
general only received their invitation either with in-
difference, or in exhibiting themselves as National
Guards.

GREAT SLAUGHTER.

(BY STLCIAL COURIEILL)

A pot Lion of the following appeared in late edit!ons
of Saturday's Express:
PARIS, Fulusr, 2 r.m.
In the postscript of my lettter this morning, I men-
tioned that the rappel had commenced to be beaten in
the Faubourg St. Honore. My letter had hardly
been despatched before the generale was heard in
every quarter. The inhabitants generally closed their
porte-cocheres, and the shops were all .but. Even the
cafes and plovkion shops were doted.
At one o'clock I made a tour of the pat ts cf the town
where moat movement prevailed. The hired carriages
generally had disappeared from the stat.ds, the owners
fearing that they would oo raised for barricades.
Hating, however, imlactd one to venture ertt, I
visited the Place de la Concorde, which I fourd occu-
pied by au immense body of troops of every arm,
including a considerable number of the Garde
Mobile ; but I n marked, that none of the National
Guard was to be wen. All circulation through
the Place was stopped. From hence I tra-
versed the Faubourg St. Honore, the Ittts do Rivoli,
the Rue de la Paix, and the Boulevarjs. Everywhere
the same aspect of alarm was presented. Shops and
gates closed. Groups, with anxious visages, collected
here and there, interchanging news. The inha-
bitants looked with alarm from the wiudows.

The generak was sounding, near and distant, in After having traversed several streets, they went to
every direction. The drummers were on this the Porte St. Denis. It appears that they entered
occasion accompanied by an escort, intended to pro- wine shop, occupied by a man who in the "meow
tent them from any assault which might be of the Porte St. Denis is the known receiver of the
attempted by the °ironer+, who on former mansions "emeutiers." The " rapper was now beaten in the
ereeAred them, and broke the drums. neighbouring streets. '1 he drums were escorted
On ascending the Boulevard, as far as the Boule- usual. A small body of the National Guard, co:
yard Poissoniere, I encountered the populace flying posed of about thirty men, accompanied four drums;
before a charge of the troops. This forced me back when within sight of the barricade they advanced
to the Madeleine. with arms reversed, in sign of having no intention to
FOUR o'CLocx.—The result of another tour of the fire, and crying out that they would not fire. When
town has put me in possession of further informs- within a few paces of the barricade they were met by
lion. It appears that this morning large bodies of a fire from behind it. At the same momenta discharge
operatives presented themselves in an imposing was made on them in flank from neighbouring bowel,
manner at the Hotel de Ville. Their number which had been forcibly taken possession of by the
rapidly increased, and barricades were soon insurgents; ten national guards here fell victims to
thrown up, by tearing up the pavement and their loyalty; their comrades retreated. At the
seizing carts and vehicles of every description. The noise of this firing about 100 national guards spent&
streets and quays leading to the Hotel de Ville were soon neously advanced to take part in the fight. They
barricaded. The movement was next directed towards advanced bravely, but in disorder, on the barricade.
the quarter St. Martin and St. Denis. '1 he Boulevards Thee were received bye well-sustained fire, but they
there were soon occupied ; the line of omnibuses fired against men sheltered by the barricade, and
which run between the Bastille and the Madeleine was within the houses, and they received the fire of their
stopped soon after noon, and many of the vehicles adversaries unprotected. Neither were they sufficiently
seized and overturned for the formation of the barricades. numerous to succeed in their enterprise. The emeu fier-s
By half-paat onethe troopscollected therein large num- finding their superiority and force, made a sortie to
leers including artillery and cavalry, and firing took the number of 300 or 400 on the National Guard, who
place, but lhavenot yetlearned all the detakle. It is said being thus taken between two fires bad not time to
that about forty of the National Guard are killed. form into rank, and they were obliged to disperse.
The insurgents are variously armed, some with guns, But at the same moment a battalion of the second
some with clubs, and almost all with knives. legion of the National Guard arrived in good order.
FIVE O'CLOCK.—I have made another tont of the They had no orders, but the dead bodies of
theatre of insurrection, not without considerable diffi- their comrades were before them, and the fire
culty, owing to the streets debouching from the chief of the insurgents continued. They took a de.
points of conflict being barred by piequets of troops tided course. Deploying by ranks, and prestating
to all passengers. I themselves to the fire of their adversaries, they firedThe rappel continues to be everywhere heard, which in platoons. They soon thinned the ranks of the in.
verifies the observation I have already made as to the surgents wbo guarded the barricades. Many of the
indisposition of the National Guard to tarn out; the fact National Guards were killed or dangerously wounded.
is, whatever be the cause, they do not appear, although A strorg detachment of infantry came to support
the rappel has been beating now for close six hours. them. The action on the part of the assailants became
The regular troops and Garde Mobile cover the energetic, and soon the National Guards and the
thoroughfares in every directiox. An additional soldiers of the line carried the barricades at the paint
force of artillery has just been sent up to the Bouve- of the bayonet, entered the houses that had been 00.
lard St. Denim. copied by the ementiers„ and drove out the insurgents.
. . . • . .

At this time large forces arrived. A wrong column
under the command of General Lamnrici,irc, came by
the Boulevards by forced march. L was composed
of a battalion of the 14th of the line, of the Guard
Mobile, and a squadron of lancers. Thi' s'ruggle was
ended, but it cost dear; about 13 dead of the National
Guard were carried away.
Another repo:t says, that the first movement of the
insurgents took place at the Bastille as early as nine
o'clock. From thence this assemblage, consisting of
about 600 or 700, marched on the Boulevards to the
Porte St. Martin, mei the Porte St. Denis, crying,
" A bas l'assemblee Nationale ! A has Lamartinel
A bas Ledru Rollin! A bag Marie! Vive la
Repub:ique democratique et socials!"
At 10 o'clock they commenced barricading at the
Portes St. Denis and St. Martin, about 2,000 percus
arriving by the Faubourgs bearing standards of the
ateliers nationauz. At their bead were coon briga-
diers, who could be recognized by their blue mps,
with gold bands. There were also among them men
bearing the uniform of the Republican Guard. As
soon as they arrived at the Porte St. Denis they began
to tear up the pavement and the iron bare of the rail-
way leading to the Rue do Ciery they also broke the
drum of one of the drummers of the Bth Legion, who
was beating the rappel. The drummer only escaped
by taking refuge in the Restaurant de l'oll de Bmuf,
on the boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle. At 10 o'clock
they seized an omnibus which commenced a barricade
t the Porte St. Dents: two • • -

at . Porte St. Denis; two gentle men's cabriolets and
a porteur d'ean's dray were aftewards taken and
served for a second barricade ; before No. to on the
boulevard Bonne•Nouvelle they made a third bath-
e ade.
At the same time, on the same boulevard, before the
Rue Mazagran, in the barricades, were seen many
children and women; the latter were very animated.
The men of the barricades went into the houses and
demanded arms; they broke in the doors of the
houses Nos. Os and 100, Rue de Clery, and did the
same every where where they refused to open them.
At half-past eleven the fusillade began on the Boule-
vard St. Martin. There w, re only a few detachmehts
of the national guard. :.t twelve o'clock the national
guard debouched by the Rue de Clery. A smart
fusillade took place.
M. Roger(du Nord), ex-deputy, arrived alone on

horseback' in the uniform of a diet de bataillion" of
the national guard. Some men wished to disarm him
and force him from his horse; he resisted bravely, ar-
rested a man, and called the national guard to his aid.
Roger showed great courage ; a man held a pistol
to his head, who was killed at his feet. At this mo-

meat the fusillade began at different points at once;
three national guards were killed at the barricade
Mazagran, and their bodies remaining on the Vale-
yard they were soon stripped by the men of the bar-
ricades.
During the forenoon crowds of met in blouses sta-
tioned themselves noiselessly at the corner of the
crooked and narrow streets of this quarter, without
uttering a cry or shewing any banner as soldiers who
are acting under orders and who execute the m. Spite
of the agitation of yesterday the impression was that no
extensive plot was formed, end the Palais de Justice
was the rendezvous, as usual, of the men of business.
The courts were open. The palais was protected as
the day before by a battalion of the Garde Mobile,
who had received express orders not to quit their
post, and to defend it come what might. Strong pie-
queta were placed at the gates. About two o'clock
sinister rumours began to circulate. It was known
that barricades had been commenced at the corner of
the Rue Planehe-Mibray, celebr, ted in the annals of
Parisian insurrectionreand that many of the armourere
shops had been pillaged on the quay. The stealthy
agents we spoke of began the pillage as if they had
been executing some order. At the same time the
rappel, which was being beaten in the city was heard
ist some distance. An incident tilled the Salle des
Pea Perdue with tumult. A man, "en blouse,"
attempted to disarm an officer of the Garde Mobile.
He was arrested, as well as aaother, who wan tearing
up the pavement in the Rue de is Bardlerie.
These facts induced the cloreng of the courts.
From the top of the staircase of the " Perron
et'llonneur," a crowd was seen in the Roe
Constantine, and soon two barricades were constructed;
bound by their orders, the Garde Mobile could not
prevent this. Shots were heard in the direction of
Notre lame; an infamous attack was made there.
Some soldiers of the line were stationed, resting on
their arms on the Petit-Pont. Considerable groups
were formed round them, std some of the men com-
posing them fired on the soldiers ; four la ere killed
and many were wounded; but before the troops
had recovered from their surprise, the mur-
derers had got away in the crowd. Orders
were now issued, and the Garde Mobile
cleared the Place du Palais. At the same time
battalion of the National Guard debouchcd on the
Quay. The barricades of the Rue Constantine and
ncighbourng streets were carried. At two o'clock
the quarter was in possession of the troops. At three
o'clock the city was the theatre of new disorders. A
column of about 300 persons formed on the Place
Dauphine, under the command of a person advanced
in age, well known in the quarter, and who had organ-
ized the movement of the 15th May. Many persons of
the ex-Garde Republicaille, in uniform, but without
arms made part of the body. After having drunk many
bottles of beer at the cafe, which is at the corner of
the Place, they announced their intention of going
to the Assembly,: and they began their march, crying
"Viva la Republique democratique." It seems this
column had not much success. It soon returned, and
dispersed on the arrival of the National Guard.
A barricade had been erected on the Pont Bt. 3licheL
A red flag was planted there. This barricade was ear-
ied by the National Guard.
Partial conflicts took place along the quays. The
people endea‘oured to disarm some soldiers, and fired
on the officers.
About six o'clock tranquillity in some sort apivared
to be restored here, but the fight still continued be-
tween the insurgents, entrenched on the kft back, and
the defenders of order.
At three o'clock, General Cavaiguac, having by his
side the representative of the people, M. Caussidiere,
zed followed by his staff and a squadroa of dragoons,
went down the Boulevards—he was saluted by uni-
versal acclamations on all parts.
M. Arago, a member of the executive power. left
the Luxembourg at Use same time. lie was at toe
head of a strong detachment of the national guard, of
the mobile guard, and of the troop, of the line, and
had two pieces of artillery. He presented himself
before a barricad,2 erected at the corner of the Rue
Neuve Soufflot, and of the Rue St. Jacques; he there
pronounced some words of concilitaion, which caused
the barricade to be abandoned. M. Arago was saluted

everywhere. Scarcely had the troops of the line and
thenationalguardsdemolished this barricade, when they
were assailed by firing from the neighbouring houses.
These houses were immediately invaded ; several of
the wocrgents found therein were taken into cus-
tody. A musician of the 4th light infantry was
killed by au Imeatier, who was taken into custody.
The fusillade continued on the Place du Pantheon,
bat especially in the Rue St. Jacques, where a high
barricade had been erected at the Rue des Gres.
A great number of the insurgents had sought refuge''
in the bermes, now building, in the Rue Neuve
Souffiot, from whence they were driven by the
National Guards.
The National Guards received orders, on their
entraure in the Rue St. Jacques, to level their mule
keta at the windows, and to fire upon all persons who
should appear at them. Meanwhile, the insurgents,
who had abandoned the Rue Neuve Soufflot, had gone
to St. Etienne du Mont, and had caused the tocsin to
be tolled. The barricade of the Rue St. Jacques wag
carriei by the line and the mobile guard, whose con-
duct `15%1a most praiseworthy.
In the Rues des Matthurins, St. Jacques, and des
Poiret*, barricades had been erected by the insurgents.
M. Ara go immediately sent artillery on to that point,
and a warm fusillade took place. The barricades
were demolished by cannon. A captain of the 7th
light iefintry was killed on a barricade, and the com-
pany under his command suffered greatly.
Amebae barricade was erected at the bottom of the
rue de la harps, at the corner of the rue St. Severin.
It was de re the death of M. !damson, the chef of the
4th be:alien, teok place. He had ascended the
barricade in order to prevail upon the rioters to
withdraw. Scarcely had he finished speaking, when
he fell, struck with five bullets, as well as two soldiers
of the one who were near him.
M. Arego made every effort to prevent a collision.
All the troops and the National Guards of the 11th
showed the greatest intrepidity and the most admir-
able di % otedness.
A hosidi al was established in the Rae Souffiot, and
&actinr in the Rue de la liarpe. The services of the
Val-di -Grace were most meritorious ; they were
every% here tending the wounded. lam told that
a surgeon of the National Guard had his thigh broke n
while he attended one of the wounded in the Rue de
H Haulm. AVe have seen many prisoners who were
drank and could hardly stand.
At 6 o'ebek, 91. Arego went to the sliongest
barricade, that of the place Cambrai. But there, less
fortunate than before he could not succeed. The
attack began. The artillery commeuced playing on
the barricade but it resisted. Taken once, it was
again retaken. We have not heard if a new attempt
was made to take it. •
M. Arego returned at 7 o'clock to the Luxem-
bourg. A considerable body of troops occupies the
Pantheon this evening.
At 3 o'clock the environs of the Assembly were
goaded by the Line and the Garde Mobile. On the
Place de la Concorde were placed strong picquets of
dragoons, and several batteries of artillery. A cry
of " aux armee r was raised, and the dragoons mount-
ed their horses. No group was on the place, but it
was said that a c..lunin advanced by the Boulevards.
The dragoons and the artillery made a retrograde
movement to the other side of the bridge, and took up
a position at the peristyle of the chamber.
Between three and four in the afternoon the Rue du
Faubourg Poissaniere was the scene of a bloody con-
flict. A first barricade was made at the top of the
Rue Richer. The insurgents did not defend it, they
preferred to concentrate their forces behind another
stronger barricade, which they had made across the
Itue du Faubourg Poissoniere, above the barracks where
the Rues Beiletond and Lafayette meet. They had
taken possession of these two streets, and had taken
forcible possession of some of the houses in the Rue
Bellefouil. 'flair number was considerable; they
were armed, and obeyed the orders of a person in the
costume of an officer of the national guard. The
Garde Mobile arrived the first, and occupied the
width of the street. Soon the 7th light infantry,
followed by a large detachment of the na-
tional guard, rime arid. The firing tft this point
lasted '2O missies. To the repeated discharges
of the troops the insurgents replied by discharges,
not ooh from the bare cedes, but oleo from the houses
in the itues Lafayette and Itellefond. At last they
were obliged to fly. Many National Guards, a great
number of men cf the line, and the Garde Mobile,
were killed. The combat continued in the Rue
Lafayette. Some barricades' formed with planks
and carriages upset, barred, at cis o'clock, the
Rues Petits-Hotel, des Jardine, du Faubourg Pois-
soniere et Rochelionart, but they did not appear to be
defended. itic barricades in the Rue Faubourg Pois-
soniere served as an asylum for the wounded.
Two barricades were made at the Pont Neuf; one
at the corm r of the Quay des Grande Augustine, and
the other at the angle of the Quay Conti. The tocsin
was sounded at the church of St. Severin. In the
groups were men uttering threatsagainst the National
Guard, whom they would, they say, exterminate. The
National Girard debouched on the quays at a quarter
past lour. 'the insurgents fled at their approach.
A numerous deputation from the Ecole Polvtech-
nique, followed by seine National Guards, debauched
on the Quaide rilorloge. They were going to the
Assembly.
A heavy storm no w came on, and dispersed some of
the insurgents. The barricades on the Pont Neuf
were destroyed by the National Guard.
At a quarter part four the fusillade again began, as
well as the cannonade.
At five o'clock the two ends of the Pont Neuf were
occupied by detachments of the 4th legion, and the
11th leiving the pupils of the Ecole Poly technique at
their 1r ad.
At tine o'clock in the evening the conflict in the
quarter S. Jacques was still terrible, and the
approach s to the Pont St. Michel and the Petit
-Pont being at that time strongly barricaded,
the insurgen.s were established on the left bank,
where they kept up a brisk fire, to which the national
guard and .the troops replied with energy. Many
discharges of cannon were made at this point.
The staff was tetirdiehed at the Hotel de Ville,
from whence the operations against the tarricadesin
the Faubourg St. Antoine and the quarter St. Jacques,
and the quarter St. :Marceau were directed. The
artillery was placed on the Pont Notre Dame. The
cannonade front this point on the Rue de la Cite and
the Rue St. Jacques appeared to do much damage to
the barricades in those directions._

General Francois was Acounded in leading an at-
tack on t.iis side. .

From the Rue Dauphine towards the faubourg,
there was nothing but barricades and troops without
number. Iu the Faubourg St. Antoine, towards the
evening, the insurgents went to the small barracks of
the Rue de Montrenil, where there were about thirty
of the Garde MAile, and forced them to march with
them. A cannonade was made in the Ituo St. Maur.
From the Boulevard across the Place des Vosges,
and joining the centre of the Rue Rambutean, the
city was tranquil. The quays of the right bank and
the Boulevards were free. The Louvre, Carrousel and
the garden of the Tuileries were occupied by troops
as well as all the approaches to the assembly. The
Faubourg St. Germain WGB tranquil, but no one was
allowed to approach nearer the Luxembourg than the
Carrefoor Bossy.
_ _

At ten e'd •Lc p.m. t e firing had nearly ceased.
The national ;;u tell, the Garde Mobile, and the troops
were under ims. 1 here was no means of approach-
ing the theatre of the struggle, so that it was not
pessible to learn if C.° insurgents had r:.,aired their
position. lite engagement was very bloody in the
quarter of the tkolo de Medicine. It was said that
/4. Pascal, the Henley) In. enlonel of the 11th legion,
had been mortally wounded.
M. Bonju.u. ard M. on learning at the
Assembly the disorder in Paris, said that the 'Mem-
bers of the Aseenahly should be the first to expose
themselves to the fire. " Our place (said M. Bixio)
is at the head of the National Guard, to atop, if pos-
sible, the efiheion of blond;" and borrowing the scarf
of oi.e of the membeis' he immediately left the
Chamber to carry out his declaration. M. Bixio
has only been too true to his glorious aspira-
tion •, he has been shot in the breast, and it is
much feared he earn A survive. M. Clement Thomas
has ri.ce ived a ball in the thigh. The wound is not
dangerous. General Belleau has been wounded in the
left thigh. M. D )rn&, a representative and editor
of the National, who accompanied General Cuvaig-
nee, has also been weareleJ. M. Pierre Bonaparte,
son cf Lu:.,en, has had his horse wounded by a ball by
the *hie of M. de lamartine. During the greater
rut of the day, latuartine accompanied General
tavaignse to all the scenes ( f contest.
A foundry of bails was established on the Place
Conked.

SATIIIIDAY, 6 PIC
The last was a terrible night. None, save those
who have been in a battle-field, or in a city •
tacked by an enemy, can have an adequate idea of it.
After I Closed my despatches last night, the move-
ment of the troops rapidly increased, and all the signs
of an approachirg struggle, of the most serious
nature, were manifest. The " generale" continued
to be beaten in all quarters till midnight.
Nothing could exceed the terror that was everywhere
spread. Cavalry and artillery passed at full gallop,
every moment, along the Boulevard. About midnight
these troops drew up for the night along the sides of
the street, the cavalry dismounted and bivouacked on
the footways. At two in the morning I made a pro-
menade of this scene, which certainly was one of the
most remarkable I have ever witnessed. The
solders, who had been on duty from a very early
hour, completely overcome, were extended everywhere
on the footpath sleeping, having helmet and
sword laid beside them. Some tended the horses,
who in thousands occupied the carriage road. This
state of things continued until 3 o'clock, when the
trumpets and drums again sounded, the cavalry
and artillery mounuted, and infantry formed, and
marched off to another scene.
In the course of half an hour discharges of cannon
and musketry began to be heard, and this continued
until seven o'clock when silence again prevailed.
At that hour I made another promenade in the
, neighbourhood of the Assembly ; there I found all the
streets and thoroughfares strongly occupied. The
Place de la Concorde was crowded with cuirassiers,
lancers, and artillery.
These troops, with infantry of the line, and the Garde
Mobile occupied the Champs Elysees; the bridge oppo-
site, the chamber, and the quays, on both sides, were
similarly filled. The gardens and palace of the
Tuileries, and the Place Carousel, were filled with
National Guards. The esplanade of the Invalides
was occupied in like manner, as well as all the streets
debonching from the Palace of the Assembly. From
nine till twelve o'clock the Boulevards continued to
be patrolled by troops.
Members of the Assembly, in various numbers,
also patrolled the principal streets about noon, each
escorted by detachments of National Guards. At
one o'clock, notice was given by these functionaries
and others, that the capital was declared in a state of
siege, and all individuals except those in arms as
National Guards were ordered to remain in their houses.
It was announced at the same time that the
Executive Commission had abdicated, and that General
Cavaignac was appointed provisional president of the
republic, with the powers of a dictatorship. At the
moment I write these lines (two o'clock par.) the
streets have been swept by columns of the national
guard, and the few individuals that are visible are
wending their way home.
The following are the terms of the decree by which
the National Assembly has declared Paris in a state of

siege :
Art. 1. The National Assembly remains en permanence.
Art. 2. Pafiais in a state of siege.
Art. 3. All power and authority is delegated to General
Cavai4rae.
The National Assembly alto voted unanimously a
decree, by which the wives and children of the citi-
zens who have fallen or may fall in the defence of
order are to be adopted by the country.
After this decree was passed, the Executive Council
resigned its powers in the following letter, addressed
to the l'resident
" Monsieur le President—TheEtecutive Committee would
think it was wanting alike in its duty and its honour if it
withdrew before sedition and a public peril. It withdraws
only on a vote of the Assembly. In remitting to it the power
with which it invested us, we return to the ranks of the Na.
tional Assembly, to devote ourselves with you to the common
danger, and to the safety of the Republic.
"LARAIITINE, ARAGO, Mum; ROLLIN, GARNIER.
PAGES, MARIE, the Members of the Executive Clmcnittee.
'• 24th June. " FAGS ERRE, SECRETARY."
The extreme left was strongly opposed to this pro-
position, and a number protested against Paris being
declared in a state of siege.
General Perrot has been appointed Commander-in-
Chief of the National Guards of Paris.
The following proclamation was published this
morning:—
" National guards,—As on all o-casions, you have re-
sponded with courage to the appeal of the country. Wher-
ever barricades have been set up by the factions, you have up
to this moment destroyid them. Their colour, which are
those o; all the pretenders, have been trampled by you under
foot. Ina few hours the republic lies shown that, with the
ever ready and ever spontaneously admirable succour of all
its eitiaci.s, national guards, army. garde mobile, and garde
republicnine, it has nothing to dread tram factions. Citizens,
you have done much in the interest of order and liberty,
but remain on foot as long as there are duties to perform :
and these duties are immense. Your enemies, the enemies
of the c.untry, are on the alert ; be oho on the alert. Be
vigilant on every point, be vigilant during the whole night
in every quarter. Be vigilant in order to secure the triumph
of end, r and respect for property if inw nsate men should
dare to attack it. National Guards of the great city, show
to every body, by your attitude and your energy, that you
are really the first children of the republic, and that you will
defend it everywhere and against all enemies." (Signed by
the members of the Executive Government.)
Very large detachments of National Guards from
the environs and farther points are arriving in the
capital.
Foun o'CLoCK.—For the last two hours all com-
munication between the Madeleine and the Assembly,
and the eastern part of the town, has been stopped.
Detachments are placed at the Foreign-office, on the
Boulevards, and at and across all the streets leading
towards the Palais Royal and the eastern quarters.
On the dictatorship being conferred on Gen.Cavaig-
nae he issued the following notice :—lf at noon the
barricades are not removed, mortars and houitz,rs
will be brought, and by which shells wilt be thrown
which will explode behind the barricades, and in the
apartments of the houses occupied by the insurgents.
Judging by rho constant firing dining the after-
noon, this terrible threat appears to have been exe-
cuted. The foriratien of all groups and assemblages
on every part of the Boulevards during the day,
where the circulaticn was left free, has been prevented
by constant movement of cavalry.

Since the above was written I have received a more
detailed report of the events of this most eventful day.
Since one o'clock this morning till nine o'clock the
fusillade and the cannonade had not ceased in
the quarters of the Cite and St. Jacques. The
insurgents had, it is said, thirteen pieces of cannon.
Three have been taken. About half-past nine, the
insurgents, who were surrounded on almost all points,
succeeding in forcing a passage by means of their
artil:cry. About ten o'clock this column was in the
quarter of the Halle, where a bloody encounter took
place. At the same hour, it was said, that the insur-
gents of the Faubourg St. Antoine were marching to
operate in junction with the column of St. Jacques. It
is said that an armistice until eleven o'clozit was
proposed by Gen. Cavaignac, who declared that after
that hour the most energetic terms would be adopted.
From the break of day, that is about half-past two
in the morning, the cannon has thundered without in-
termiseion in the direction of La Chapelle. It appears
that a considerable body of insargents,driven yesterday
evening into the I'laiue des Vertua, between La Cha-
pelle and La Villette, was surrounded in the night.
The combat still continued there at the moment we
quitted it to return to the Boulevards.
In the coarse of the morning the insurgents became
masters of the church of St. Severin.
In the Rue St. Jacques the troops have demolished
several houses to seize the barricades, which were
dt tended from their windows.
The Assembly sat yesterday till midnight, and
resumed this morning at 8 o'clock. I send you a
ref tine': of its proceedings. I am informed that the
muirie of the Bth arrondissement has been burned.
The troops which occupied it were dislodged by
the insurgents. At half-past 9 a.m. the national
guards of Poissy, Mandan, Mantes, and other places,
arrives by the Rouen Railway.
At 10 p.m., the Eger of the Bastille was cleared, but
firing was continued along the canal.
The conduct of the Garde Mobile has been deserving
of all praise to day. At noon, they carried foar bar-
ricades, and took 15 prisoners, whom it was difficult
to defend from the rage of the peop.e.
At noon enormous barricades were erected between
the Rues St. Denis and St. Martin, constructed en-
tirely of paving stones about fifteen feet thick; they
are almost proof against cannon balls. Barricades
not less formidable are erected at the extremity of the
Faubourg Poissonniere.
Soon after noon two battalions of the National
Guards of Versailles arrived in Paris.
At tall-past two o'cloek the cannonade and the fu-
sillade continued in ti:e Faubourg St. Marceau, the
Quartier St. Jacques, red the Faubourg St. Antoine.
Shetts were much used.
A report, dated 3 o'clock, says that the slaughter
was then immense. An order is reported to have
been isaed to give no quarter.
At half-peat three the conflict became so general