The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

INSURRECTION

PARIS.

We have received intelligence from Paris up to
Two o'clock P.M. yesterday.
At that hour all the strong entrenchments of the
insurgents had been carried. The Faubourg St.
Antoine had been taken, and Paris was completely in
possession of the troops and of the National Guard.
The insurgents were flying into the country, and were
pursued by flying artillery, by cavalry, and by the
National Guard, who were taking large numbers of
them prisoners and bringing them to Paris.
In our Third Edition of yesterday we announced
that the troops and National Guard had succeeded in
taking the Clos of St. Lozare, the stronghold of the
insurgents, and which effectually prevented any at-
tack being made on the Faubourg St. Antoine. The
insurgents had here a battery of ten pieces of
artillery, which they had taken from the Chateau
Rouge, and which they loaded with stones and broken
glass.

Almost all the wounds received by the troops and
National Guards in this attack were in the legs.
This fact is explained by the position of the insur-
gents behind their entrenchments formed of cut stone
prepared for building in that neighbourhood. They
fired low, without being able to take aim, and the
balls struck in general after ricochet.
The National Guards of Amiens and Rouen were
engaged in this attack and did their duty gloriously.
Their loss in killed and wounded was enormous.
General LAMONICIBEE had his horse killed under him.
Once in possession of the Clos de St. Lasare, the
attack on the Faubourg St. Antoine commenced.
The first barricade was vigorously attacked and
carried, but not without considerable slaughter
on the side of the assailants. Colonel RAY-
NAUD, of the 48th Regiment of the Line, and
several other.officers, were killed. General Bo Burr,
of the Engineers, arrived at the Place de la
Bastille at 12, with the firemen and a battalion of
sappers. Some houses were in an instant blown up,
and several barricades thus turned were captured
without loss. On some points the insurgents had
dug trenches, against which the artillery was un-
available. They fired from within, and, on the ap-
proach of the troops, escaped through passages opened
in the cellars of the houses. A large body had sallied
from the suburb towards noon, entered the island of
St. Louis, and formed a barricade on the Pont des
Tournelles, which was undergoing repairs. They
were there kept in check by troops stationed in the
wine stores on the opposite side, and were placed be-
tween two fires.
Until now the taking of the barricades had been
murderous. A battalion of the Garde Mobile after
the taking of that of the mairie of the Bth arron-
dissement was reduced from 750 to 120, but Com-
mandant DUMESNIL, of the 2d battalion of the Ist
Infantry, imagined a good means of rendering
it less so by breaking some holes in the houses which
communicate with the barricades. By these the
troops can arrive behind the barricades, and thus
take the insurgents without being exposed to certain
death. The Commandant DUMESNIL thus took the
barricade Beaubourg without losing a single man.
This officer has rendered an immense service by
this plan, which has since been employed with com
plete success.
By two o'clock yesterday the whole of the Fau.
bourg St. Antoine was in possession of the troops;
and the insurrection was completely suppressed.
The plan of the insurgents may now be under.
stood.

The insurrection extended on the right bank from
the Faubourg Poissoniere to the Seine, embracing
thus the Faubourg St. Antoine; on the left bank it
occupied the Faubourgs St. Marcel, St. Victor, and
the lower part of the quarter St. Jacques ; these two
positions were connected by the occupation of many
points, such as the church of St. Gervais, a part of
the Quartier du Temple, the approaches of Notre
Dame, and the Pont St. Michel.
The church of St. Severin served as head-quarters,
and the Faubourg St. Antoine as a magazine. This
plan was ingeniously conceived, for the insurgents
were thus masters of an immense semicircle which
formed nearly one-half of Paris. In case of check,
the nature of the houses and the narrow streets
created difficulties almost insurmountable to the
troops, and afforded certain chances to the insurgents
of retreat ; in case of success it was easy for the in-
surgents, by advancing a little, to occupy the im-
portant lines of the quays and Boulevards, and they
could surround by degrees the Hotel de Ville, which
would have been thus in their power, and once

masters of that and the prefecture, they could have
established their government.

This plan enables one to perceive why it was ne-
cessary to make so severe a fight at the Pont St.
Michel, at the Pont de l'Hotel-Dieu, and the Pont
which leads from the Rue Planche-Mibray to the
Quai aux Fleurs ; and it was because the taking
these places divided the insurgent forces, one can
also understand the bloody determination with which
the insurgents defended the position of St. Severin,
which served them for head-quarters, and that of St.
Gervais, which directly menaced the Hotel de Ville.
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organised and carried out such a plan as this. None
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cades were many of them victualled to stand a siege,
and the unfortunate workmen, who were the mere
tools of those traitors, of whose discovery and
punis • hment we entertain strong hopes, were
kept in an almost constant state of drunken-
ness. The following sketch of the interior of a
barricade, by M. PAYER, the Member for Ardennes,
bears out the statements which we have always made,

,hat the honest Communists were mere tools in the

hands of the reactionaries to bring about a counter-

revolution.

After the Place du Pantheon was taken, the bar-
ricades of the Rue Veulle Estrapade, and the Rue

Neuve St. Genevieve were still to be forced. For

five hours the cannon roared incessantly. The most

dreadful carnage ensued; and it was not before four

o'clock (the attack haying commenced at one) that