The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-28 00:00:00

FURTHER RESISTANCE OF THE

INSURGENTS.

TUESDAY Moexiso.
The rappel was beaten again this morning at seven
o'clock. The barriers arc Frill strictly guarded. Per-
sons seeking to enter l'aris must be provided with
pasties. Starches are made on the persons of all who
pass through the streets. One is stopped at every
hundred yards, tied the pockets and clothing searched.
All carriages of every description are strictly
searched; waggons and market carts are accompanied
by an escort to the place where they are unloaded.
An exact estimate of the loss of life, and the num-
ber of the wounded, is at present unattainable; but
according to the most authentic returns obtained by
the authorities in the Assembly it appears that the
killed on both sid s may amount to from 3,0110 to
4,000, and the wounded to about twice that number,
making a total of 10,000.
The number of prisoners taken among the insur-
gents is 5,000, who arc deposited in the vaults and
dungeons under the Tuileries, the Louvre, the Palais
Royal, the Chamber of Deputies, the Hotel de Ville,
and in the various prisons.
Four or five of the members of the Assembly are
among the killed, and about as many among the
wounded.
Fourteen general officers have been put hors (le
comlnd, several being killed. The loss in superior
officers has been greater than in the most brilliant
engagements cluing the wars of Napoleon.
The greatest praise is accorded by all parties to the
troops of every class. The national guard behaved
heroically ; the Garde Mobile, composed chiefly of
boys miler 20, exhibited an ardour characteristic of
their youth, ccminitting imprudences, proceeding
from an rm.( ,s of bravery. Tue imputation of an un-
willingness to act, which bad been cast upon
them in the beginning, was the extreme reverse
of the truth. The regular troops behaved
nobly, and were distinguished in their bear-
ing from the civic soldiers just as professional
soldiers might be expected to be distinguished from
civilian volunteers; with less external masifesta.ion
of ardour, they showed equal bravery, tempered with
the most admirable coolness and determination.
Although the insurrection may be considered as
quelled, it is not expected that the capital will be alto-
gether free from partial disturbance for many days to
come.
A body of the insnrgente, who have not yet sub-
mitted, lave intrenched themselves in the cemetery of
Pere la Chaise, and other detached bodies have taken
refuge in La Viilette and other parts of the northern
and eastern " Banlieue."
The struggle will now commence in the Assembly,
where a ministry will have to be agreed upon. The
expulsion of the body of clerks who now occupy the
ministries will be effected as a matter of course ; their
ignorance, presumption, vulgarity, and imbecility,
have excited unmitigated disgust and indignation.
General Changarner, to whom the eyes of the
moderate party are especially directed, is expected
to arrive to-day. With respect to the pro-
bable ministry much dissension will prevail in
the majority of the Assembly. The great
capacities and practical experiences are excluded

The approaches of the paface of elle National Ail-
aembly being very favourable to the employment of
troops, the charges of cavalry, and the use of artillery
they directed no attack on that side.
Divided into four divisions of from 5,000 to 6,000
each,without reckoning many individual sharpshooters,
all their efforts were directed to approach the Hotel-
de-Ville, and from thence, if they were victors, they
would have followed the quays by the two banks
of the Seine to the palace of the Assembly.
On the left bank the first corps of insurgents, having
its head quarters at the Pantheon, occupied all the
Rue St. Jacques. the Rue do la Cite and the ap-
proaches to the Pont St. Michel. But this bridge, as
well as the Palais de Justice and the Prefecture of
Police, was guarded by forces who would have
offered an energetic resistance.
Further, on the same Lank, another column occu-
pied the Rao St. Victor, the Place Maubert, and the
Pont de rHotel de Dieu.
On the right bank, the 3rd colutnn, having far its
headquarters and for fortress the new hospital build-
ing in the Me St. Lazare, Faubourg St. Denis, sup-
ported the combat from the Faubourg Poisaonniere to
the Temple, attempting to advance by the great'arte-
ries which (rem these quarters lead almost directly
towards the Halles and the Hotel-de-Ville.
The fourth mass of insurgents, having for support a
gigantic barricade very strongly constructed on the
Place of the Bastille, the entry of the Faubourg St.
Antoine, reached by this long street to the church
of Saint Gervais, which is, as is well known, behind
the Hotel de Ville, and near which they had con-
structed another, extremely strong, at the entry of '
the Place Bandoyer.
It is superfluous to add, that all the principal and
main streets were cut by numerous barricades, be-
tween which the insurgents passed by means of a
small passage lett at the side of each. It is super-
fiuous, also, to add, that a multitude of small armed
bands, having each their chief, fought on a variety of
points on their own account.
Never until this fatal day was civil war carried on
with such bloodthirsty ardour, and never did the
plans of the insurgents appear so well devised. One
is compelled to see that the plan was organised, since
the combat was coefined to four principal points,
whereas in all the other insurrections fusilades and
barricades were heard and seen in every quarter of
Paris at once.
The uninterrupted vigilance daring three days and
nights by the national guard prevented the idle and
curious, almost as dangerous as the insurgents, from
encumbering the public streets, and preventing the
action of the troops.
The circulation being interdicted all communica-
tion was cut off, and the obtaining the journals was a
matter of the greatest difficulty, as almost all the
employes, from the editor to the " portenr," were out
with the national guard.
The physiognomy of Paris during the last three
days is extraordinary. The general aspect is that
of an immense city, the whole of whose population
has suddenly disappeared. The quays, the boule-1
yards, and the streets, are silent as the desert, save
when this silence is broken by the tramp of troops,
the beating the alarm dram, the sinister rolling of
musketry, or the more awful thunder of the cannon.
The only population apparent are the military, and
these devoted men watched and fought for a million
of seals, who waited with dread anxiety the issue of
a struggle that might perchance consign them to the
hand of the murderer and their property to pillage.
On Sunday the Archbishop of Paris, whose wound
we have already spoken of, left the archbishopric
at half-past 5, to wait upon General Cavaignac,
to ask him if it were forbidden to him to go amongst
the insurgents to carry them words of peace and con-
ciliation.
The general replied that he could not take upon
himself to give any advice; that each a step was
certainly highly perilous, but that at all everts he
himself could not but be very grateful, and that he
was convinced toe whole population of Paris would
be greatly moved at it.
The archbishop then said he was resolved. He re-
turned in haste to his palace, took some personal pre-
cautions, and at about eight o'clock presented himself
at the foot of the column of the Bastile. Many of the
representatives tendered their services to accompany
him, but were rejected. His two grand vicars were
his sole companions.
The military authority ordered the firing to be
stopped, a branch watt broken from a tree on the
boulevard, and this sign of peace was the only one
which preceded the prelate ; and the two ecclesiastics
ascended the barricade, where the insurgents had
received, but a few moments before, an envoy an-
nouncing to them the step taken by the archbishop.
Scarcely had the venerable pastor pronounced
some words expressive of his love and charity, when
a shot was fired, as if by chance, no one could discern
from what side. It caused the greatest agitation
amongst the insurgents. They immediately
discharged their muskets. The mobile guard
re-posted with energy. The archbishop dropped down,
shut in the loins, and was immediately lifted up by
the insurgents, and conveyed by them to their
quarter, to the house of the Cure des Quioze-Vingts.
Ile was there attended by one of the surgeons of the
insurgents, and the next day, when the negotiations
for a truc,o were commenced, he was placed
on a litter and conveyed to his palace. The
nature of the wound gives every reason
to believe that the shot must have been
fired downwards, as from a window. The
state of the venerable patient became more
alarming from hour to hour. He received the
last sacraments before he left the Faubourg St. An-
toine, fearing he should breathe his last before he
reached his residence.
The representatives met yesterday morning in their
bureaux to name a committee of fifteen members, who
are to examine a decree relative to the immediate de-
portation, in countries beyond the seas, of all there
insurgents who have been taken prisoners.
The leaders, instigators of the iusurrection, and
those who have seconded it by assassination, are to be
brought before a court-martial, and tried as rebels
taken in arms. The other prisoners are to be con-
demned to deportation, and immediately sent lx,youd
the seas.
Tice bureaux, yesterday, named a committee of fifteen
members to investigate the affairs of the 15th May,
and the cause of the insurrection of the 23rd June.
The representatives are desirous of ascertaining the
causes of the two revolutions, and the connexion
which may exist between the entente Bathes and
Blanqui, and the emeute called that of the ateliers
nationaux.
The commissioners named are MM. Potigeard,
Waldeck, Rousseau, do Larcy, Delespaul, Wirhayc,
Landrin, Odilon Barret, de Beaumont (Somme),
Goudchaux, Flandin, Bauchart, de Mornay, Dahirel,
Lanjuivais, and Latrade.
Speaking of the affair of the Clos St. Lazare,
an eye-witness says :—At half-past two, the tad
battalion of the Ist legion, composed of the 3rd
and 4th companies, and of several national
guards of the sth and 6th companies, left the
Mairie ; it was rallied at three o'clock by General
Lebreton, with a park of artillery and a piquet
of cuirassiers close to the barracks of the Faubourg
Poissonniere. The battalion was there joined by some
mobile guards and half a company of the republican
guard.
At 4 o'clock, the 3rd company took up their quarters
in the houses near the Clem, and the barricade, an im-
mense work, having before it a deep ditch palissaded,
and behind it a mountain of paving atones heaped up
against the gate of the barriere. The insurgents
occupied the buildings of the Octroi and some of the
neighbouring houses, from whence they fired down-

wards ; they had placed tiraillenrs from distance to
distance, in the hospital now being built.
The battalion, preceded by artillery. commanded
by the brave Captain Vieyza, issued boldly from the
street forming an angle, and which led straigthfor ward
Ito the barricade. Atter having fired off the cannon
three times the battalion sprang forward and reached
the barricade, after having driven away the insurgents,
who placed in it, and in the buildings of the Octrois,
kept up an incessant and most murderous fire. In
spite of that, the barricade was taken and destroyed.
But it was impossible to proceed farther, for want
of artillery. However the battalion stood its ground
till relieved from its position at about 10 o'clock in
the evening.
Yesterday morning a new system of defence was
adoptedndeound the Assembly. Barricades were
erected or prepared on the quays and adjoining streets.
The Quartier St. Germain had in fact been kept in
fear of an attack curing the night.
A great number of the insurgents were led away
by'demagogues, and if some of them had money a
very great portion were induced by the excess of
misery which had overwhelmed them for the last four
months.
Yesterday evening an order of the mayor of Paris
announced that the circulation in the streets was re-
established, except on such points as the measures of
order and surveillance rendered still necessary ; by this
same order the inhabitants are all compelled to illumi-
nate, to facilitate the service of the patrols.
The quarter of the Hotel-de-Ville has suffered almost
se much as the Quarter tit. Antoine. It Is known
that the insurgents had possession of the prairie of
the Bth arrondissement ; the ban icadcs were enormous,
and communicated by subterraneous ways under the
houses. A considerable number of guns and arms of
all kinds were found in these houses.
'the brave General Negrier, whose death we an-
nounced yesterday, was the victim of his intrepidity.
Standing on a barricade, he received a ball in the
forehead. In falling, he extended his hand to those
near him, and said, " Adieu! I die like a soldier !"
Negrier bad faced all the dangers of the war in
Africa. He distinguished himself beside General
Daniremont, who fell at the head of the French army.
It is impossible to conceive the state of the Quar-
ter St. Antoine. In the streets, more than 50 home
are almost entirely destroyed by the artillery, and a
much larger number have suffered considerably. At
every hundred paces formidable barricades were con-
structed, here with carriages, filled with stones, there
with paving-stones, further with trunks of trees, and
in some cases with large flag stones.
On the Place de la Bastille the disasters aro not less.
The column of July has been injured. The warehouse
known as "La Belle Fermiere " is completely
destroyed; two houses, which formed the angle of
the Place de la Bastille and the Rue de la Roquette,
are a heap of rubbish.
At two o'clock the porapiers were employed to put
out the fire which had commenced in the ruins.
The Faubourg St. Antoine presents a still more
sinister aspect. There is not a house which has not
suffered more or less by the cannonade. The insur-
gents, driven from barricade to barricade, and from
heuee to houee,epposed foot by foot a resistance which
compelled every instant a new combat.
The inhabitants of this unhappy faubourg appear in
consternation. The greater number submit with
eagerness to the search for arms which the insurgents
have abandoned. Everywhere are found guns and
ammunition, and numerous arrests are made. Cries
of vengeance are very rare, and those of misery pre-
vail.
One of the insurgents who was arrested was me-1
naced by some exasperated citizens for the loss of
numerous comrades who bad fallen, when an artillery-
man of the ri ational guard interposed, say ing," Have pity
on the vanquished !" Some representatives, who
were ther ~ applauded this ; it was universally re-
peated, and the prisoner was saved.
The Faubourg St. Antoine war divided with enor-
mous barricades. Every one who passed was obliged
to take up and carry the paving stones. Evidently
among those who lowered those ramparts were many
of those who had contributed to their erection.
Others, on the contrary, accomplished their task with
ardour, and saluted with their " vivata" the passage
of the national guard and the troops, whose con-
duct was so admirable on these points, where the insur-
rection had organised so terrible a resistance. The
artillery of the national guard, who did the service on
the Place do la Bastille of several pieces of cannon,
was cruelly decimated. M. Maillard, the lieutenant,
was severely wounded.
After the reduction of the Faubourg St. Antoine
some guards mobiles received a discharge of several
shots from a house. Three brave young men imme-
diately mounted and found there eight persons clothed
in the uniform of the empire. These persons were
immediately shot, and every one might see on the
boulevard a garde mobile bearing the cap, the mili-
tary boots, the cloak, and other accessories of the uni-
form of one of these miserable men.
A woman distributing money to the ouvriera was
arrested in the Rue de Verneuil.
A temporary hospital has been established in the
genes of the Louvre. In a few hours the inhabitants of
the quarter had furnished 200 beds and all the linen
necessary fur the wounded.
Two carte with 200 coffins passed the Rue St. Ho-
nore to take up so.re of the dead who had not been
owned by their families.
Dr. Bourgeoise, who, notwithstanding his great
age, has been indefatigable in his attention to
the wounded, received the last sighs of Benjamin
Laroche, the translator of the works of Sir \Valter
Scott, who was killed at the barricade Rocheatiart.
As a body of the national guard were conducting
some prisoners to the Tuillenes, a musket was acci-
dentally fired, when the adjoining posts, thinking an
attempt was about to be made to release the prisoners,
fired and killed a colonel, an officer of engineers, and
eight of the prisoners.
All the communes of the environs of Paris have
been requested to send bread to Paris. All the
private families whose means allowed them to do ao
immediately complied, and each house sent in a cer-
tain quantity.
It is a heart-rending sight to see all the females of
Paris busily employed in preparing lint for the un-
fortunate men who have been wounded in this sad
battle. Yesterday morning very honourable citizens
were to be peen going down the streets, begging
linen and lint fur thew ounded.
From the Place de la Bastille, along the boulevards,
to the Porte St. Denis, the disasters are most horrible.
The windows of the greater part of the houses are
smashed to pieces ; others bear marks of balls and
bullets.
The following appeal was posted yesterday in the
Faubourg St. Antoine by the insurgents :
"At AltMEs.—We wish the republic democratic
and social. We will the sovereignty of the people.
All citizens of a republic should not and cannot will
any other. To defend this republic all must
concur. Numerous democrats who understand
this have come out within these two days.
This holy cause reckons already many victims; we
are all resolved to avenge them or die. Atone,
Cifoyene! let not one fail to this appeal. In defend-
ing the republic we defend property. If a blind
obstinacy find you indifferent before so much blood
that has been shed, we will all die beneath the
burning ruins of the Faubourg St. Antoine. Think
of your wives and children and join us."
Galignani's Messenger of this morning says :
The exasperation of the troops oldie line and the artillery
of the national guard was such that it was impossible to pre-
Tait • considerable massacre among the insurgents, when
they commenced flying before the troops in the Faubourg
St. Antoine. A great number, however, were mete pri-
soners, and the armed fugitives, who we understand in
their flight frequently turned round to continue the
fight, were pursued by • division of the artillery of the
national guard to a considerable distance. The number
of muskets abandoned by the insurgents was sufficient to
load several carts. One woman, we are assured, cut into
pieces the bodies of two of the garde mobile, who had been
killed. She was taken, and in the heat of indignation and
horror at her conduct killed with blows from the butt-ends
of maakets.
General Cavaignac published in the course of yes-1
terday the following proclamation:
Cinsens, soldiers!—The sacred cause of the republic
has triumphed ; your devotedness and unsbakaVe courage
I have baffled guilty projects and done justice on fatal errors.
In the name of the wuntry, in the name of all humanity, be
• thanked for your efforts —be blessed for this necessary

Accounts received since the above was in type,
state that upwards of N national guards were killed
or wounded. The troops of the line also sus-
tained some loss. The national guards would
have continued the attack, and the commander of
the troops of the line was determined to do the
same, but the civil authorities entered into a parley
with the insurgent., and fraternised with them.
It remained, however, to be determined who should
take down the barricades. The national guards in-
sisted on doing it, and the workmen said they would
do it themselves. On this point also the civil
authorities had the weakness to yield, and
the consequence was that the workmen, in-
stead of performing their engagement, forti-
fied themselves during the night, and on the mov-
ing of the 23rd their defences had become formidae.
They were all well armed, for at the period of the
elections they had been organised, in order, as it is
said, to overawe the moderate party, and secure the
return of ultra republicans. The national guards, ex-
asperated at the slaughter of their force on the pre-
ceding day, rushed to the attack with great animation.
and after some fighting succeeded, aided by the
troops of the line, in quelling the insurrection.
By advices of the 24th, we learn that on the even-
ing of the 23rd order was re-established. One of the
companies of the national guards who bad assisted
the insurgents, was disbanded and ordered to deliver
up their arms. This company appears to have been
persons of th' lowest class, to whom arms were dis-
tributed after the revolution of February by the com-
missaries of M. Ledru Rollin.