The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-26 00:00:00

PARIS IN 1545.

JOURNAL OF A BESIEGED INHABITANT.
MARCH I.—The G,vernment has learnt to-day that the
coalesced armies were marching from Troy upon Paris.
Consternation is in every district. We shall then see of
what use will be those fortifications which were so much
asked for five years ago by M. Thiers' partisans.
MARCH 2 —Not being able to risk too unequal a battle,
the French Army has fallen back on the Loire. It is in
abserva.ion, pending the moment for risking a final cootest
under the walls of Paris, where our own plans of campaign
save called forth the fifteen hundred thousand soldiers of
the coalition.

Maßcit 3.--This morning all the cattle, which the Pw i-
,ians are to subsist upon during the siege, were penned up
between the double walls of the enciente. These miserable
animals come from such a distance that the greater part die
of fatigue on arriving.
MARCH 4.—The city was banded over to-day to military
authority. At ten o'clock it caused the forty-eight gates
of the walls of the enceinte to be closed. What was feared
has come to pass: half of the oxen and sheep penned up
between the two walls of the enciente are dead.

MARCH s.—Tee Boulevards, the Chatme d'Antin. the
Faubourg Saint Honors, and all the streets between the
Louvre and the Rue St. Denis, are filled with dung up to
the first floor of the houses. This measure, which is adopted
with a view of deadening the fall of the bombs, has stopped
the circulati mof carriages. Trade is at a complete stand-
still. The Bourse closed yesterday. Three hundred bank-
ruptcies have been dec!ared during the day.
MARCH 6. —Black flogs have just been placed on the
summit of the hospitals and public buildings. Boards and
'nattresses are la,irg put round the surface of the Church
of Notre Dam; in order to preserve that fine Gothic monu-
neat from cannon halls. M. Victor Hugo supel.intends
'his great undertaking. He is a son who renders the last
fiitee to his mother.

MARCH 7.—The Faubou-g St. Marceau is stirring. It
oretends that all that is thought of are the rich districts,
ind the means of saving them from famine and destruction.
Meetings arc taking place on the Place de l'Estrapade.
['he price of bread is increased fifty centimes. Vegetables
tre already scarce ; the cold, it is true, is excessive. The
market gardeners come no longer.
MARCH 8.--All on the qui vine. The report is current
that the enemy was at Meaux. Nothing is done but cart-
ing powder and muskets from Vincennes to the fortifies-
Vons. The mont de piete (pawnbrokiag establishment)
lends no snore money. Twenty-four suicides have occured
luring the day.
MARCH 9.—The liberty of the press is suspended by mi-
iitary authority, under the pretext that the journals tend to
disunite the population. All the principal editors who
orotested are in prison.
MARCH 10.—The coalesced army is in sight. A fresh
misfortune. A sort of epidemic ha, broken out among the
-:attle within the walls of the fortifications. There is the
.tt.noost danger in eating their flesh. Potatoes cost fifty
=ous a pound.
MARCH 11.—The theatres are shut. Prayers are being
said in the churches. M. Thiess' house was set on fire dur-
ing the night. Fortunately the celebrated journalist was
sot at home.

MAltCti 12 —The enemy has opened the first trenches.
It fell back at a vigorous sortie, but resumed its position
luring the night.
Martell 13. —Fifty pieces of cannon are round the PAttee
)f the Tuileries. Dogs are beginning to be eaten, and
:hose who live any do not allow them any longer to run
About the streets. A baker has been thrown into his oven
by persons who accused him of wanting to have a monopoly.
flow dull Paris is

MARCH 14.—'The enemy has opened the second trenches.
Po-morrow it will attack Mount Valerien, defended by
Souk.

MARCH lb.—The Faubourg Saint Antoine is on fire.
Some insurgents have burnt the wood-yards in the Rues
Charonne, St. Bernard, and many others. A cat sells
For twenty-four francs.
MARCH 16.—1 t is stated that the French army is be-
!rayed. There is no more meat, broad, or vegetable; in
Paris. It is a complete famine. The National Guard
snd the Line no longer act togeth. r. Questions as to
,receience have caused a mi3uloer3tanding. Atmy
mat Guards refuse to do service. Canna:4-1;3;1, are
showering in every direti...m. Nothing is heard but. la.
nentations and compl mints. Paris is divided it two great
fictions; one disposed to surrender, the other to burn the
..!ity, in order to avenge the deception of Moscow. The
ries, " Bread 1" " Give us bread !" resound in all the
streets of Panic.

MARCII 17.—A bomb has fallen on the roof the Royal
library. It is burning at this nynne.it. What a misf,:r-
unel What an irreparable disaster ! I hear that the
P:mtheon has just fallen down.
Mawr' 18.—Mount Valerian is t :ken. News from the
French army: it is in full march ; it in arriving ; may it
arrive in time I

MARCH 19 The Louvre is no longer in existence : it
is a heap of ashes. It is stated that a mother has eaten.
ny pen stops short. Where do those conceal themselves
who wished for the fortifications?

MARCH 20.—1 f the French army had come forward six
hours sooner the enemy, notwithstanding the imme.ise su-
ocriority is numbers, would have been crushed at the foot
of the fortifications, which were very badly served it is
stated. But the enemy was alrcarlyin possession ofscveral,
and had turned the batteries on Pens.
MARCH 21.—The•e were not 20,000 National Guards
an duty a' the siege yesterday.
MARCH 22.—1 t Paris does not surrender to-day before
12 it will be subject to the laws of war, that is to ray, tiree
days' pillage.
MARCH 23.—The twelve mayors of Paris went out yPs-
terday at 11 o'clock, to offer in an humble manner the keys
to the Generals-in-Chief of the coalesced army. But, at
the moment when this disgrace was being'consummatA,
the French army, which was being fired upon by the I.rts
in the enemy's possession, made a sudden, terrible, dread-
ful, and desperate attlck, and the destinies of France
changed in the twinkling of an eye. The enemy was
beaten back, and flod, leasing 40,000 dead, 18,000 pieces
of cannon, and teprodigious quantity of war materiel.
The French army has saved Paris, in spit•s of the forti.
fications, which it took possession of, and which only sere d
against it.
MARCH 24.—T0-morrow -the demolition of those fatal
stones wilt be commenced. It will he an evidence of vic-
tory, and it will be a noble day.—Charicari.

THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, "JOAN
of ARC."—Mr. Series long prorriefi pnrtreiture of the
Maid of Orients is at length before the world. It has
numerous beauties. A romance on the achievements of
her, whose metear'c career w.ss one thr'lling chain of ro.
mance must; indeed, prove a production of no ordinary ex-
citement. In novels of this kind, history has been fre.
quently rendered but too subservient to romance. Iry th,,
11 •
ent instance Mr. Serle bas inverted their relative posi-
tions by rendering rornrim e the t-ain-bearer to his ory.
Every spot of celebrity—every anecdote of 4u:henticity—
every trait of the heroitie'e character has been eirefully
visited, properly sif!ed, and duly considered : in short. we
aro here presented with neither bust nor profile, hut J..an,
the far-famed Maid of Orleans, at lull longth.—Conserva-
live Journal.

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THE LATE DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLO-
SION AT, WILI,INGTON, ON THE TYNE.—In this as in
almost every other case of a like nature, the cause of the acci-
dent is involved in obscurity, from the fact' that those sho
alone could have furnished a clue to it, shared in the general
destrnctir4. There were in the pit at the tim ~ 35 men and
boys, 32 of wham perished. Thei-e were four bodies brought
up the sanyt afternoon. The men worked the whole of Tues-
day and Tuesday night; and at six o'clock on WWII. sday
morning, all the bodies had been found except four. These
were George Campbell, John Campbell, John Brown, and Jolm
Hall ; about twelve o'clock, the body of George Campbell was
brought up, much mutilated, having been buried under a heap
of fallen material, from which it took three hours to extricate
him, after he was discovered. The fire was not quite win_
guished, though water had been conitatitly wknyo .d,i).r.i
1.,;)14-11lotp4ay aftepniqtp It wont 4 Ile eei.P'§' to
attprript, ici
paint the scene at Bank, as the mouth a the mine is tei2bni-
ally termed. As a measure of precaution, the
aspect,th. ..-
occupied with
as they
ready to receive
Parties who could be of no avail. w,-- '
women and
tht spot. 00,.i. .. . , • —.. ,(ept at a distance from
of the Bank being occupied a most
melancholy
the vici-
nity— exinui t
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ewtelreecema'tiedeh ',figured, others were
d.th.-y were brought to
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little injured, having, as it was supposed, survived the file, and
been s u ffdoaya
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An inquest was held on
S. Reed. Coruner, and the
.
lVfollowingednes occa-
sioned by an explosion of hydrogen gas."