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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2

dynastic immoralities and the vindication of the fame,
of the dignity, and of the independence of the Spanish
population.
Before this memorable and auspicious day arrives,
at the moment, in fact, when the Cabinet of the
Duque DE VALENCIA is oscillating in the balance of
Political Accident, and when the wife of RIANZARES
is making her last struggle for the preservation of her
malign supremacy, it becomes advisable to consider once
more the precise position of affairs in the administrative
circles of Madrid, and not only in the administrative
circles of Madrid but in like manner throughout the
whole breadth of the peninsula. Nothing can blind
the people, either of Spain or of England, to the fact
that the Narvaez Ministry are deplorably em•
barrassed by the blundering insult offered by So-
TOMAYOR to the British Government, an insult
which has led at once to the adoption of an indignant
retaliation by Viscount PALMERSTON. Had the
under-clerk of M. GUlzOT—cet excellente ABERDEEN
—been at the head of the Foreign Department in
Downing-street, the dismissal of Sir HENRY Bei.-
wEa might, perchance, have been meekly submitted
to, and rendered, if possible, the cause fur
a still closer alliance between the two Ca-
binets. But, luckily, the insolence of SOTO-
MAYOR manifested itself when Lord ABER-
DEEN had dwindled into a cipher in the House of
Peers, and when the character of England in all her
foreign relations was entrusted to the guardianship of
a vigilant and courageous statesman. On this ac-
count NARVAEZ and his colleagues suddenly found
themselves in a false position as regarded the Lng-
lish, in a position in short quite as perilous as that
in which they already stood in reference to the
Spaniards themselves. Upon the head of this dilemma
comes now the belligerent avarice of the widow of
FERDINAND VII. ; and, harassed on all sides, the
Cabinet of the Duque DE VALENCIA trembles on the
brink of destruction. If it falls where is the re-
source ? An administration under the Presidency of
General CONCHA. is spoken of as well
might they expect stability in the rule
exercised by SANCHO PANZA. over the Baratarians
They whisper again of a compromise between NAR-
VAEZ and CHRISTINA, whereby the former will be
nominated to the superior command of the army in
Catalonia—as well might they talk of a compromise
on the brink of a burning mountain, at the very time
when it is preparing its eruptive powers for an appal.
ling and unprecedented explosion ! No, the neces-
sity rests at this moment, not with SOTOMAYOR, not
with NARVAEZ, not with CHRISTINA, but with the
whole Spanish population. The happiness and re-
organization of Spanish society are dependent
not upon a clique of courtiers, but upon'
a coalition among the honest men of the two
great political parties—the Moderados and the
Progresistas. Such a coalition as has been recom-
mended by ESCOSURA. Such a coalition, again, as
has been demanded by the disinterested voice of
PEREDA. Shall there not be such a coalition ? Is
not this the very moment for it ? Shall not the
patriots of Spain gird up their loins_ for the occasion,
shal. they not inquire into the continued validity of the
law of PHILIP V., shall they not march boldly along
the only path which can lead the nation to its pris
tine strength, greatness, prosperity, and indepen.
dente ?

Already we have reminded the people of England
and of the peninsula, of that remarkable declaration of
Don V. M. DE PEREDA, that the ancient law of Spain
is compatible with true liberty ; and we have laid the
more stress upon that assertion because its correctness
is regarded as unimpeachable ,by a vast body of the
Spanish multitude. " The ancient law," says this
impartial pamphleteer, " is compatible with true li-
berty, and can accommodate itself to the exigencies of
the age." Further on the writer explains his meaning,
and enforces (logically speaking) his position at greater
length. Without pretending to give an elegant and
perspicuous translation of the original, we will
rapidly convey the gist of the arguments contained in
a later portion of the pamphlet "La Nacion y los
Partidos," pp. 71-73. In order to found a national
party, I)on VICENTE DE PEREDA. maintains that it
is necessary to calm those animosities which incite
one faction against another to the detriment of the
common interests of the country. He considers,
nevertheless, that it would be in vain to endea-
vour to effect anything like an univer-
sal combination, if the interests of the ma-

iority were sacrificed for the exclusive aggrandize

meat of any particular faction. On the contrary,
he insists that the difficulties which impede such a
reconciliation as the one desired by himself and his
compatriots, should be at once discovered and dealt

with—bearing in mind the fact that all party dis

sensions are born from the divergence of interests,
and that those incongruous interests are visible in the
various principles professed by individuals. In order to

secure the success of these endeavours, he considers i

advisable to destroy the causes in which all such

animosities originate; causes which to all appearance
seem to be unfortunately destined to maintain a per-
petual discord not only between the politicians of the
Peninsula, but between those scattered over the

whole surface of the globe—since, says he, we find
that society everywhere presents the deplorable spec-
tacle of internal dissensions, of more or less violence,
dissensions which, be it said to the disgrace of
humanity, are apparently the inevitable results

of the imperfect state of the human family.
He afterwards declares it to be impera-
tively necessary to reconstitute the society of
the Peninsula upon a basis more solid and more

analogous to the character and necessities of the
times—" que es necessario reconstituirle en una base
mas selida y mas anciloga al caracter y necesidacl de
los tiempos." After enlarging upon the advantages

arising from progressive reform, as contrasted

with a sudden interference with the fundamental

aws of a state (laws which, says he, should in

all cases be unalterable), and after maintaining

,hat certain casualities may arise compelling a

-
nation to alter the line of succession, he pro-
.
. .

claims such a casualty to be the fact, that the nation-

ality of Spain is jeopardized, if, in compliance with
the new law (la nueva ley), the Crown is permitted
to descend to the children of the spouse of a French
Prince, to the grand-children—(the pamphlet was
written, be it remembered, before the 23d of February)
—Of such a King as Louis PHILIPPE.

Let the Spaniards meditate well upon these argu-
ments, let them combine with them a remembrance
of the law of PHILIP V., let them consider the depth
of the shame, and the extremity of the danger into
which they have been driven by la nueva ley, and
then let them coalesce in a National Party, a party
bound together by an oath as stringent as the oath of
the Tennis-court, an oath pledging them to revive to
the Spaniards their liberty, their nationality, and their
constitution !

The House of Commons
has been occupied.
and unwarfroarnttehde
greater portion of the three last nights of its sitting
in discussions arising out of rash
charges, brought forward by the Noble
Lord the
Member for King's Lynn, upon the
"'duct and
motives of his political opponents. The Mouse of
Lords was last night also engaged in a similar man-
ner. Thus legislation is suspended, the business of
the country is brought to a stand-still, and a sprivit
of personality infused into the debates, alike deroga-
tory to the character of Parliament and injurious to
the national interests.

It would be impossible to desire a more complete
and triumphant refutation of the unjust imputations
that had been put forward than was given by the
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies on
Monday evening, as well for himself personally
as for the department of which he is an able
and efficient administrator. And the effect of
this vindication was greatly enhanced by the
admirable tone and temper in which his explanations
were conveyed. There was no bandying of re-
proaches, no uncourteous or stinging retorts to
which the Noble Lord had undoubtedly exposed
himself, in consequence of the unjustifiable language
he had used. The statements were those of a gentle-
man, who felt keenly the injurious nature of the ac-
cusations that had been so unjustly preferred against
him, who would not suffer any imputation to rest
upon his character, but who, in the strength of con-
scious
innocence, and recollecting what was due to
himself, and to the assembly of which he was a dis-
tinguished member, abstained from any vituperation
in return ; and ke had his reward. His plain and
simple statement carried with it the fullest conviction

to every section of the House, to every district
throughout the entire country.
It is to be regretted, for his own sake, that Lord
GEORGE BENTINCK did not at once fully and unequivo-
cally withdraw his charges, and apologise for having
in the heat of the debate so far forgotten himself as
to make them. It would surely have been more
to his credit if he had abandoned his un-
tenable position, and freely acknowledged his
error, than to repeat a portion of his charges
in another form, and even after he was in possession
of the explanation given by Mr. HAWES, to use such
language as the following :—" Sir, my part is to show
that these great possessions of the British Crown
have not had a fair trial—that the Government,
whose business it is to guard and protect these colo-
nies, has acted as if they were hostile suitors, if not
criminals, upon their trial—as if the Government had
cause of complaint against them, and the Attorney-
General were prosecuting. Sir, the charge which I
make against the Government is that of a systematic
suppression of the truth, of a misleading of the
House as regards the West Indies ; and the Hon.
Gentleman, the Under-Secretary for the Colonies,
and the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the
Board of Trade (if he knew of these dispatches having
been withheld, which lam convinced he did not) have
not dealt frankly with those who dealt frankly with
them, when they were asked to give an opinion!'
And, again, when speaking of the Noble Secretary
for the Colonies, he added, " I repeat that Ido make
a charge against him of politically holding back this
information for a political purpose." Here is a
reiteration of the accusation, if not in the
coarse and offensive terms in which it was
originally couched, at least in such a manner
that no gentleman could rest under the im-
putation. Earl GREY was, therefore, compelled to
make his defence to the charge, and it was equally
satisfactory and conclusive with that which his col-
league had the preceding evening delivered in the
House of Commons.

'We may now shortly allude to the nature of
the charge. Fraud and forgery were either
freely imputed, not to one or two, but to
several high-minded and honourable gentlemen, or
that a Member of the House and of the Government,
when under examination, had knowingly returned
untrue answers ; in fact, that he had been guilty of
wilful and corrupt perjury. It could bear no
other interpretation. The words used by the
Noble Lord were " I said that if these
minutes and memorandums were not got up
subsequently to his examination of the ith of April,
he was troubled with the shortest memory since the
days of green bag notoriety, when THEODORE
MAJOCCHI gave his answer of non mi ricordo.' "
This allusion to a notorious personage could not for
a moment be mistaken, it amounted to this—either
memoranda had been made with fictitious dates,
which did not previously exist, in which case
Lord GREY, Mr. HAWES, Mr. Cox, and
Mr. ELIOT, have conspired together to
deceive Parliament by means that are tanta-
mount to fraud and forgery, or Mr. HAWES
wilfully deceived the Committee by means of untrue
answers to the interrogatories exhibited to him-
These were " the horns of the dilemma," from which
the Noble Lord stated that Mr. Hewns " could not
escape."
The answer to that accusation is now before
the country. Lord GREY and Mr. IhwEs have
both repeated it. We shall not weaken its force
by any abbreviation. It is impossible not to
be fully convinced that the mistake which
undoubtedly occurred was purely accidental and
when the circumstances of the case are taken
into consideration, " that no less than 308 dispatches
had been called for, in the course of the inquiry, by
the House of Commons and the Committee, and with
respect to miscellaneous questions, 295 other dispatches,
making a total of 630 printed folio pages, which had to
be furnished by the department," it appears to be by
no means an extraordinary or surprising accident.
Lord GEORGE BEISTINCK is now for the fourth time
in the unpleasant position of having made unjust
and unwarranted accusations, which a little
discretion and prudence, a closer examination into
the circumstances, might have enabled him to avoid.
Sir lt,. PEEL, Mr. PORTER, Mr. J. Noon, and now
Lord GREY, and Messrs. HAWES, ELIOT, and Cox,

have in turn been made the subjects of his vitupera-
tion, and the charges have in every instance been
most triumphantly refuted. We trust the Noble
Lord will be taught for the future to abstain from
such a course, thst must inflict infinitely greater rnis-

chief upon himself than upon the person-whom it is

ntended to injure.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 21st announce the arrival of
Count AltuasoL in the Capitol on the preceding day
The arrival of ISTURITZ was hwurly expected.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

TERMINATION OF THE INSUR
RECTION.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The public tranquillity had not been disturbed
during the night, and the insurgents appear to have
been completely driven out of the city, although a
body of them entrenched in Pere la Chaise still re-
sisted, and in the Banlieu some of them had made an
ineffectual attempt at a ri.-.lly. Upwards of 200 of
them were captured at Batignolles, and a body of
them, who for a moment seemed determined to make
a stand at La Villette, fled on the approach of the
troops.
The following report of the proceedings of the
later sittings of the National Assembly on Monday
continue the official narrative of the history of the
insurrection up to its close :
After the passing of the law of Deportation, the As-
sembly adjourned. They met again at eleven.
The President, having taken the chair, said, " I
hasten to apprise the Assembly of the termination of
the crisis. An aide-de- camp of the Minister of War
has just arrived and communicated to me vide voce the
following intelligence :-IVher: the four delegates, who
waited on him in the morning, returned to the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine a lively agitation manifested itself in
that quarter. At the hour fixed for the resumptien of
hostilities, General Lamoriciere commenced the attack
with vigour, but experienced along the whole of the
left line a most obstinate resistance. The Faubourg was,
in the meantime, attacked on the side of the Bastille by
General Perrot.
In the course of a few moments an individual, the
bearer of a flag of truce, presented himself, and an
nounced that the insurgents surrendered on the terms
proposed by the President of the Assembly and by the
chief of the Executive Power.—(lmmense cheerio(%)
The troops immediately moved forward, and when
the aide-de-camp lett, three battalions had entered the
suburb without resistance. The aide-de-camp supposed,
from not hearing the fusillade and cannonade that all
was terminated.—(lleep sensation.) Particulars are
wanting, but it appears certain that the resistance has
been conquered, and that we may now thank the Al-
mighty from the bottom of our hearts and exclaim,
" Vivo la Republique."
All the representatives here rose and joined in the cry.
" And the Archbishop of Paris," inquired a Member,
" the Bishop of Langres, M. Parisis, could give us some
account respecting his situation."
The Archbishop, said another Member, was danger-
ously wounded in the leg.
M. Parisis replied, that he had received accounts from
M. Cohn, the parish priest of St. Louis, and, if he was
correctly informed, the prelate, after consulting with
General Cavaignac, had presented himself as a mes-
sengere of peace to the insurgents. At the same moment
theth idnrsuumrgsebhetastaannddthtewootrhoeurndhys were fired, theTh
prelate Arch-
bishop eo.snker cbhY-
P Was shot, not in the arm, but in the back. The
ball.wer e entertainedTh e
ball penetrated deeply ; his wound is serious, and fears
immediatelyfor the r esn
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sokfe thed
toextractionreceive h
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of the church. The insurgents
affirm that the shot was
not fired by them, and insisted on obtaining a certifi-
cate to that effect. The wound appears to
have been
occasioned by accident.
Beslay next gave the Assembly some information
respecting the mission of M. Larabir, who, having en-
tered the Faubourg at seven o'clock the evening before,
was detained a prisoner by the insurgents.
The House afterwards adjourned.
At one o'clock the sitting was resumed, and M. Senard
declared that this time all was terminated. " Since the
aide-decamp of the Ministers brought to me the last
intelligence I communicated to the Assembly, the most
contradictory rumours were circulated. I thus account
for the misunderstanding that occurred. When so
extensive a suburb as that of St. Antoine sends a
flag of truce, one man cannot
be supposed to repre-
sent the whole population. The surrender was
only partial. Many were ignorant of the resolution
come to by a portion of the insurgents, and the
combat that ensued was the result of a mistake.

A second capitulatio❑ was subsequently signed. Se.
reral expresses had since reached me. . One of them,

a sergeant of the Guides, sent to General Cavaignac by
his aide-de-camp, who was on the scene of action, rode up
the Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine to. the Barriere du

Trone, thence turned to the right, passed through a
number of small streets, crossed the Rue du Faubourg,
traversed several streets on the left, and returned to the
Place de la Bastille. He everywhere met patrols circu-
lating without any obstacle. Whilst on his way to the
Barriere du Trone, he heard two or three cannon shots
to the left, where General Lamoric 6re was operating,
but, when he returned to the Bastille, the firing had
ceased. The Faubourg was then quietly taken pos-
session of by the troops, and, if any resistance continued
on the left, it could have been only partial."
M. Anthony Thouret here rose and said—" It was re-
ported that M. Larabit had been killed. This lam
happy to state is incorrect. I met and embraced him
an hour ago in the suburb, and my colleague has been
removed to a place of safety. The resistance has nearly
ceased. A house on fire at the corner of Rue de
Laroquette fell in when I passed by."
M. Adelsward, who next ascended the tribune, stated
that he had left General Lamoriciere at a quarter-past
one o'clock, and had been authorised by him to cor tra-
diet the report of the capitulation of the Faubourg. It
was not true, either, that the three battalions which had
entered the main street had been ill-treated. The
General complained of the communications opened with
the insurgents by three representatives. The success of
his operations bad thereby been to a certain degree com-
promised. The insurgents, instead of making a desperate
stand, as they intended, on the side of the Bastille, had
concentrated all their forces along the canal, and the
capture of the barricade of the Rue St. Sebastian had
cost him dearly. A chief of battalion of the line, ano
ther of the National Guard, ten officers, and 120 rank
and file were either killed or wounded. Whilst Gener:d
Lumoriciere was operating along the canal, General
Perrot attacked the positions of the insurgents abreast,
on the side of the Bastille, and had advanced as tar as
the Rue St. Nicholas. (Here M. Adelsward asked leave
to cite the names of three of the Garde Mobile who had
particularly distinguished themselves, but the Pieiident
interrupted him, saying that it was not three but thou-
sands of names ho should cite, and would nut allow him
to mention them.)

M. Leon de Ma-Neville next rose and asked that M.
Adelsward be permitted to continue his statement, and
inquired if hostilities had ceased when he left the head-
quarters of General Lamoriciere.
The President observed that it was impossible to
question the authenticity of the accounts he had ob•
tained from the aide-de-camp of General Cavaignae.
He then opened a letter he had just received from the
Prefecture of Police, dated half-past one o'clock, and
fully confirming those accounts. It was thus worded:—
" The suburb is in the possession of the troops. The
insurgents themselves assist in removing the barricades."
The sitting was afterwards suspended.
At two o'clock M. Corbon, one of the Vice-Presi-
dents, took the Chair, and read the following letter to
the Assembly
_ _

" Citizen I'resident,—Thanks to the attitude of the
National Assembly, and the devotion and courage of the
National Guard and army, the revolt has been sup-
pressed. The struggle has completely ceased in Paris.
The moment I am assured that the powers confided to
me by the National Assembly are no longer necessary
for the salvation of the Republic I will respectfully re-
sign them into its hands.

" CAVAIGNAC."
This communication excited the liveliest enthusiasm,
and the whole Assembly rising, cried " Viva la tie-
publique!"
We are not surprised at the enthusiasm excited by
the, perusal of this letter. It is worthy of the ante •
cedents of General CAVAIGNAC, and those who know
him best know that if there ever was a man who
took WASHINGTON for his model CAVAIGNAC is that
man. There is a remarkable resemblance between
the careers of General WASHINGTON and General
CAVAIGNAC. Both are descended from ancient
families (General LOUIS EUGENE CAVAIGNAC is the
son of Viscount CAVAIGNAC), both have ever proved
themselves staunch and honest patriots and republi-
cans, and the families of both were known for their
republican connexions, the brother of General
CAVAIGNAC is the famous GODEFROY CAVAIGNAC,
the former President of the Societe des Droits de
l'Homme ; both had established a high military repu-
tation before they were placed at the head of affairs,
as the Dictators of their respective countries, and we
doubt not but that hereafter we shall be able to com-
plete the parallel by adding, that both after having
secured the liberties and organized the administra-
tion of their respective countries, surrendered into the
hands of their fellow-citizens that power which they
had taught them how to use without abusing it.
General CAVAIGNAC has published the following
address to the National Guard and the army:—
" Citizen Soldiers,—The sacred cause of the Republic
has triumphed; your devotedness, your invincible
courage have defeated culpable plots, and have done jus-
tice to fatal errors. In the name of the country—in the
name of universal humanity, be thanked for your efforts
—be blessed for this necessary triumph.
" Even this morning the emotion of battle was legi-
timate—inevitable. At present be as great in tran-
quillity as you havo been in battle. In Paris I see
conquerors and vanquished; may my name be for ever
accursed it I should consent to see in it victims! Jus-
tice will take its course. Let it act. It is your opinion
—it is mine.
" Ready to return to the rank of a simple citizen, I
shall bring back amongst you that civic recollection of
having during those serious trials taken from liberty that
which the salvation of the Republic itself demanded, and
of having bequeathed an example to whoever in his turn
shall be called to fill duties as great.
" The Chief of the Executive Government,
"CAVAIGNAC."
General CAVAIGNAC has also addressed the follow-
ing circular to the Mayors of Paris:—
" Citizen Mayor,—A great number of the insurgents
have been disarmed, and others no doubt will be. I
request you to take all the measures necessary that
those arms be collected in your rtsairie. As soon as you
shall have collected some hundreds, I pray you to for-
ward them to the central depot of artillery (Place Saint-
Thomas-d'Aquin), where orders have been given to re-
ceive them."
The following proclamation was also published on
Monday evening :
" The Chief of the Executive Government. In virtue
of the decree of 24th June, 1848, which declares Paris
in a state of seige, and the decree of the 24th December,
1811, decrees that the officers rapporteurs of the court-
martial of the Ist military division and their substitutes
shall immediately proceed to the prosecution of all indi-
viduals arrested on the occasion of the attempts com-
mitted on the 23d June and following days, in order
that they may be punished according to the pens
laws "

The Mayor of Paris published the following decree
at an early hour on Monday evening :
" Considering the decree which placed Paris in a state
of siege, and the present state of things, all the houses
of the twelve arrondissements of Paris shall be illumi-
nated every evening until further orders, by the land-
lords or inhabitants. The National Guards shall re-
main at the corners of the streets of their respective
arrondissements, and make patrols during every night.
The circulation, however, shall not be interrupted except
in the quarters in which such measure may be indis-
pensable."
The illumination ordered to take place was ren-
dered necessary by the destruction of the lamps, as
it was apprehended that during the hours of darkness
the insurgents might attempt to renew the distur-

bances.
The National publishes the following summary of
the events of Monday :
"At 9 o'clock in the morning the barricades of the
Rue Grange-sux-Belles, in the Faubourg du Temple,
and of the Rue d'Angoulerne were carried, and the in•
surgents confined within the line of the canal were
driven back into the Faubourgs Menilmontant and Po-
pincourt. Towards 11 o'clock the Mobile and the line,
crossing the canal at the bridge of the Rue St. Sebas-
,

tian, advanced into the Rue de Menilmontant on an or-
der given by General Lamoriciere charged to act on that
point by combining his movements with those of General
Perrot, commanding the troops destined to attack the
Faubourg Si:. Antoine. The battallion engaged with
the Mobile and the National Guard in the Rua do Menil-
montant beyond the canal was to maintain its position
until further orders. In the meantime the cannon and
the howitzers which General Lamorieiere was ex-
pecting arrived. The pieces were placed in
battery and ready to fire. The insurgents thus concen-
trated were about to be attacked on all sides by an
imposing force, and no doubt they would have been ex-
terminated. General Cavaignac had ordered a regiment
of engineers from La Fere and Arras, and they had ar-
rived with all the materials for a siege. All was ready
for a final attack. What an amount of blood was still
about to flow! The day was advancing, and General
Lamoriciere, whose activity never slackened during four
days, and whose life:was preserved by a miracle, was
waiting with painful anxiety the moment to act, that
is, the signal for the attack on the Faubourg St. An-
toine. General Cavaignac, whose prudence equals his
firmness, wishing to avoid:the effusion of blood, had sum-
moned the insurgents for the last time to surrender.
He waited their reply. General Lamorietere counted
the minutes. At length a message reached him from the
Assembly. The insurgents had surrendered, and the
Faubourg St. Antoine was occupied by the National
Guard and the troops.
" When the news was announced soldiers and officers
crowded round General Larnoriare, crying, ' Vive la
Republique,' and, pressing him in their arms, thanked
him with much warmth for the noble and brilliant ser-
vices he had performed. A number of officers returned
into town to announce the joyful intelligence."
The Moniteur du Soir gives the following official
account of the operations of the army under General
CAVAIGNAC on Sunday:— . .

" The attack vas commenced at an early hour against
the Faubourgs du Temple, S!. Antoine, St. Denis, and
the streets du Temple and Martin. The Rue du
Temple was first cleared, but the insurgents who were
driven from it entrenched themselves in the faubourg of
the same name, towards the Rue Saint Maur, and joined
their friends in La Villette and La Chapelle. The left
bank of the Seine was completely in possession of the
National Guard and of the troops of the line. At the
Place Maubert, however, a musket shot was fired from a
window on the Republican Guard, which was drawn up
there. The soldiers instantly entered the house, and
having round the man who fired the shot, they forthwith
put him to death. Some attempts were made during the (
clay to erect barricades on the left bank of the Seine,

btit they were instantly destroyed by the National
Guard and the troops of the line, who remained
definitively masters of every point. On the right
bank the contest was prolonged, but several of the barri •
cades in the Rue St. Antoine were carried and the insur-
gents constantly lost ground. They retrenched them•
selves, however, on other peints and forced their way
into several houses, from whence they fired on the troops.
This occurred towards twelve o'clock in the Place du
Chatelet, the Quay of the Megisserie, and in several ad-
joining streets. Some battalions of the National Guards
of the departments, which were marching in perfect
confidence on the Quay de la Megisserie, received seve-
ral discharges which caused them a severe loss. A
similar occurrence took place at the Place du Chatelet,
and in the small streets in the neighbourhood, where the
insurgents endeavoured to form barricades without
success. Engineers and firemen were employed
to dislodge the insurgents entrenched in the houses.
Those houses were pierced in the rear or in
the roof, a passage having been effected through
the adjoining houses. At three o'clock the insurgents
were defeated on almost every point. The Clos St.
Lazare and the Faubourg du Temple were cleared. The
insurgents then entrenched themselves in the Marais,
where preparations were made to dislodge them.
" Five thousand muskets were captured by the Na-
tional Guard, who passed from house to house until they
reached the barricades. The engineers and corps of
firemen afforded valuable assistance in accomplishing
those perilous operations. During those attacks, which
cost several valuable lives, a superior officer of the artil-
lery of the National Guard of Neuilly was severely
wounded. An officer of the former Garde I?epublicaine
was captured whilst tiring on the troops at the barricade
of the Hue Planche Milbray. The troops would have
shot him had not M. Dutier, a representative of the
people, saved him by throwing his scarf over him. He
was lodged in the cellars of the Hotel do Ville. M
Michel, .Lieut.-Colonel of the Parisian artillery, was
wounded near Notre Dame,

The same journal gives the following description
of the capture of the strong positions of the Bar-
riere Poissonniere and La Chapelle on Sunday after-

noon :
" The insurgents had trenched themselves outside the
wall of Paris, which they had loopholed. They had,
moreover, intercepted the outside boulevard with strong
barricades, placed at 200 yards from each other. Two
pieces of cannon were planted in a position by which
the Custom-house of the Barriere St. Denis, occupied by
the insurgents, was cannonaded. The houses at the
upper end of the Faubourg Poissonniere were occupied
by the National Guard and, the Mobile, and several
companies of those two guards, together with some com-
panies of infantry, occupied the streets adjacent and
the new hospital, keeping up a running fire with the
insurgents, which produced no effect until towards four
o'clock, when, a reinforcement of National Guards and
troops of the line having arrived, a movement in advance
was made along the entire line from the Clus
St. Lazare to the Barriere Poissonniere, which was
carried in double quick time. The insurgents fled
along the exterior boulevard on the side of the Barriere
St. Denis, crossing and abandoning a number of barri-
cades, quickly pursued by the heads of the columns
composed of troops of the line, the Garde Mobile, the Na-
tional Guards, and officers of all ranks, amongst whom
were even surgeons of the National Guard and of the
army, and amongst them Dr. Baton, son of the brave
general of that name, who, with a musket in his hand,
at one moment fired upon the ilsurgents, and the next
was dressing a wound. The trodps arrived thus where
a last barricade was defended by about 50 men, who
waved their handkerchiefs as a sign that they wished to
surrender. Unfortunately the head of the column was
too weak to trust themselves to those wretches, and it
was not until half-an-hour longer that a sufficient farce
arrived to surround them; but the insurgents had in the
mean time escaped and dispersed in La Chapelle and La
Villette. They were quickly pursued, arid, the houses
having been searched, about 20 insurgents were cap-
tured. To conclude, all this portion of the insurrection
was completely suppressed towards six o'clock on Sun-
day evening, but not without numerous and lamentable
sacrifices of life."
An eye-witness of the capture of the Clos of St.
Lazare gives the following account of that affair :
" At half past two the 2d battalion of the Ist legion,
composed of the 3d 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 Le-
breton, with a park of artillery and a picquet of cuiras-
siers close to the barracks of the Faubourg Poissoniere.
The battalion was there joined by some Mobile Guards
and half a company of the Republican Guard.
" At four o'clock the 3d company took up their quar-
ters in the houses near the Clos, and the barricade, an
immense work, having before it a deep ditch pa-
lissaded, and behind it a mountain of paving
stones 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
downwards; they had placed tirailleurs 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 straightforward to the
barricade. Atter having fired off the cannon three
times, the battalion sprang forward, reached the barri-
cade, 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 further for want of artillery.
However the battalion stood its ground till relieved from
its position at about ten o'clock in the evening."
The Siecle gives the following account of the mur-
der, for by no other name can it be called, cf the
venerable Archbishop of Pants :
" The insurrection being confined to the Faubourg
St. Antoine, the following occurrence took place:—The
Archbishop of Paris, as authorised by General Cavaig-
nue' presented himself to the insurgents, accompanied
by MM. Larabit, Galli Cazatel, and Druet Desvaux,
representatives of the people. On arriving at the
Faubourg St. Antoine the Archbishop advanced to a
barricade, which he scaled, followed by the three rc-
presentatives,•unfortunately. Drums beat, shots were
exchanged, and the Archbishop received a ball in the
side. He fell, and was carried to the Hospital of the
Quinn Vingts. The representatives descended at the
other side, and were in the power of the insurgents.
They were led to the chief, who promised to um) his
efforts to save them, and led them to his house. At
three o'clock in the morning some of the insurgents
came to propose that the representatives should bear to
the Assembly a message calculated to lead to a cession
of hostilities. M. Larabit consented to accompany the
delegates of the insurgents with his colleagues, and to
return and surrender himself in case the conditions
should not be accepted. M. Larabit did return, as he
promised, like another Regulus. Towards eleven o'clock
one of the insurgents advised the three representatives
to escape, and told them the road to take, and so they,
escaped. There is no hope of the Archbishop's re-
covery."
The murder, too, of General BREA is, perhaps, un-
'equalled for cold-blooded atrocity and cowardice by
any event recorded in the annals of crime. General
BREA was commandant of the garrison of Nantes.
He had already been wounded in an attack on a pre-
ceding day, but had resumed service. One of the
insurgents having been captured by some of the
Garde Mobile, these men, infuriated at their inhuman
conduct, determined to shoot him, when, at the mo-
ment of execution, General BREA threw himself be-
fore the prisoner, and entreated them by all the laws
of war as well as humanity to spare him, and leave
him to the hands of justice. This noble appeal had
scarcely passed his lips, when the ruffian, who stood
behind him, pulled out a pistol and shot the gallant
general dead.
Nothing could exceed the atrocities 'Perpetrated
and avowedly contemplated by the insurgents.
" This time," says the Constitutionnel, " the dra-
peau rouge has been displayed, and the cry has been
Vive la Republique Sociale !' and, by way of com-
mentary upon this rallying cry, there was written on
several banners pillage et viol. Posterity will refuse
to believe the tortures inflicted on prisoners by fellow-
citizens in an age like ours, and in the capital of a
country which boasts of being at the head of civili-
zation ! Judging from what has been done by the
vanquished enzeute, we tremble on thinking of the lot
that was reserved for Paris if this sacrilegious enter-
prise had succeeded."
We have already recorded the massacre of the
prisoners in the Place Maubert by the insurgents,
but this was humanity compared with their conduct
in many instances. They in seine instances cut the
wrists of the soldiers who were taken, dividing the
tendons so as to deprive them of the use of their
hands ; in others they cut off their hands, their
heads, or their legs, and stuck their mutilated
bodies on the barricades. They pumped vi-
&ol into the faces of their antagonists, and
they pumped turpentine into the houses, their inten-
tion being to burn Paris. Indeed, they now openly
avow the intention to have recourse to incendiarism
and assassination. Some idea may be formed of the
desperate determination of the insurgents by the pe-
rusal of the following placard, which was extensively
posted in the Faubourg St. Antoine on Monday :
" TO ARMS !
"We wish for a democratic and social Republic. We
wish for the sovereignty of the people. All the citizens
of a Republic ought to desire nothing more. To defend
that Republic the co-operation of all is necessary. The
numerous democrats who have comprehended that ne-
cessity have already been in the streets for the last two
days. That holy cause already counts many victims ;
we areal! resolved to avenge those noble martyrs or to die.
"Be on the alert, citizens ! Let not one of us be in-
attentive to this appeal. In defending the Republic we
defend property. It an obstinate blindness finds you in-
different, after all the blood that has been shed, we shall
all die beneath the burning ruins of the Faubourg St.
Antoine.
" Think of your wives—your children—and you will
join us I"
Under these circumstances we learn, with feel-
ings rather of sorrow than surprise, that the troops
were not at all times enabled to command their feel-
isnge of indignation and their desire for revenge.