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

PARIS.

We have received the French papers of Saturday,
and intelligence from Paris up to ten o'clock yester-
day morning. The fighting during the whole of
Friday and Saturday had been most severe ; the in-
surgents, who were well armed, and who were also
supplied with cannon, fought desperately, but after
immense slaughter they were driven from all their
strongholds except the barricades of the Faubourg
St. Antoine. General CAVAIGNAC had given them
to ten o'clock to surrender, and it was generally
supposed they would obey the summons. This has
been the most sanguinary and destructive contest
that has ever taken place in the streets of Paris; not
only has the loss of life been terrific (1,500 National
Guards were killed in the taking of one post alone,
that of St. Severin), but many houses have been
plundered and burned, and many public buildings de-
stroy ed. The church of the Pantheon, the most
beautiful church in Paris, was seized by the insur-
gents and fortified with four pieces of artillery. It
was breached by the artillery of the regular troops
and National Guard, who entered by the breach, and
after some hard fighting compelled the Communist
garrison to surrender.
It appears that the 25th of July was the
day originally fixed upon for the outbreak,
which was arranged upon an extensive scale, and
which must have been under the direction of persons
well acquainted with strategy and fortification, and
who possessed large funds. The barricades were
erected, not as they had hitherto been at random,
but upon a regular plan, so as to surround the city
with fortifications, from which it might be attacked
simultaneously at all points, and were garrisoned by
men well supplied with arms and ammunition, and
in many instances defended by cannon.

We continue our narrative of the occurrences of
Friday from the account which appeared in The Sun
of Saturday. That narrative gave an account of the
occurrences of Friday on the right bank of the
Seine; meanwhile on the left bank of the Seine there
was also much hard fighting going on.
M. ARAGO, member of the Executive Government,,
left the Palace of the Luxembourg at three o'clock
on Friday, at the head of strong detachments of the
National Guard, of the Garde Mobile, the Line,
and of two pieees of artillery. He presented him-
self before a barricade at the corner of the Rue
Neuve Soufflot and the Rue Saint Jacques, and
used such conciliatory language to the men as
to y cause them to abandon the barricade. But
scarcely had the troops and the National Guard de-
molished the barricade, when they were assailed by
a volley of balls from the neighbouring houses.
These houses were immediately entered and searched,
and several insurgents were arrested, among others a
young man carrying a brace of pistols, who was
wounded in the cheek. A trumpeter of the 7th
legion was wounded in the cheek, and another trum-
peter was killed by an emeutier who was arrested.
There was a fusillade in the Place du Pantheon, and
in the Rue St. Jacques; in the latter street there was
a strong barricade near the Rue des Gres. A
great number of insurgents took refuge in the
houses in the course of construction in the Rue
Souffiot, from which they were dislodged by the
National Guard, who had to employ their bayonets. In
entering the Rue St. Jacques, the National Guard had
seders to fire on the individuals who might appear.
Meanwhile the insurgents who had abandoned the
Rue Soufilot went to St. Etienne du Mont and rang
the tocsin. The barricade in the Rue St. Jacques
was carried by the Line and the Garde Motile, whose
conduct merits praise. Barricades were constructed
in the Rues des Mathurins, Saint Jacques, and des
Poirees. M. ARAGO sent cannon against them, and
they were demolished, when a sharp fusillade took
place between the troops and the insurgents. A
captain of the 7th Light Infantry was killed on the
barricade, and -the company which he commanded
suffered a good deal. Several officers and men of the
National Guard were killed or wounded. The num-
ber of prisoners was considerable, and all were con-
veyed to the prison of the Luxembourg under strong
escort, in order to protect them against the public in-
dignation. Another barricade was raised at the bot-
tom of the Rue de la Harps, at the corner of the Rue
Saint Severin. M. MassoN, chef of the 4th batta-
lion, who ascended the barricade to recommend to
the emeutiers to withdraw, was killed there. He had
just done speaking when he was struck by five balls.
Two soldiers of the line who were with him were also
struck. M. ARAGO exhausted all means of preventing
a collision. All the troops and National Guards of
the 11th legion displayed great courage and admirable
devotedness. Several of them had their arms broken
in their hands by the balls of the insurgents. An
officer of the National Guard, an old soldier, was
shot in the bowels ; a sergeant of artillery was seri-
ously wounded, and several other persons were also
injured. An ambulance was established in the Rue
SoufUot, and another in the Rue de la Harpe, oppo-
site the Rue Racine. The greatest praises are due to
the employes of Val de Grace—they were every.
where, and were indefatigable in rendering assistance
to the wounded. A surgeon of the National Guard
had his thigh broken whilst he was dressing the
wound of a man at a little distance from the barricade
at the bottom of the Rue de la Harpe. The total
number of wounded was, it is said, considerable. The
Debats says that several of the prisoners were drunk,
and could scarcely walk. At six o'clock M. ARAGO
went to a barricade in the Place Cambrai, which was
the strongest in the quarter; but no attention was
paid to what he said. An attack was then com-
menced, the artillery making several discharges, but
the barricade energetically resisted. It was carried,
however, at one time, but the insurgents soon regained
pwsession of it. M. ARAGO returned to the Luxem-
bourg at seven o'clock.

The Rue de la Cite, which was occupied about ten
o'clock in the morning by the insurgents, was cap•
tured at eight in the evening, after numerous dis-
charges of artillery and musketry. The firing re-
commenced immediately after towards the bottom of
the Rue St. Jacques, but was much less severe.

While the troops of the line were resting on their
arms on the Petit-Pont, near Notre-Dame, they were
fired on suddenly by some insurgents who had mixed
with the crowds assembled around, by which four men
were killed and several others wounded. Before the
soldiers could recover from their surprise the rnis
creants had mingled in the crowd, and escaped. Ina few
seconds afterwards the place was cleared by the troops
and the Garde Mobile. Some barricades, which had
been raised in the Rue Constantine, were carried by
the National Guard. At three o'clock the Cite was
the scene of great disorders. A column of about 200
individuals formed on the Place Dauphine, under
the direction of an elderly man, well known in that
quartier, and who had organized the movement there
on the 15th May. Several of the Old Gardes Re-
publicains, in uniform, but without arms, formed
part of this assemblage. After drinking several
bottles of beer at a cafe at the corner of the place,
they announced their intention of marching on the
National Assembly, and raised a shout of " Vire la
*Republique democratique et sociale ! Forward, those
who have any courage !" They had not advanced
far before they returned, and quickly dispersed on
the arrival of the National Guards.
At four o'clock the troops attacked a barricade at
the Rue Chateau-Landon, a formidable rampart
composed of materials belonging to the Strasburg'
Railway. Musket balls were powerless against such
an obstacle, and at five o'clock the cannon were
brought to bear on it, and after four discharges the
barricade was destroyed. A column of the first
legion attacked a barricade in the Rue Nationale
Saint Martin. A party of about twenty of the in-
surgents fired on the National Guard, when an old
man, wearing the uniform of a Lieutenant-General,
mounted the barricade; at the same moment a young
man advanced towards him, placed a pistol at his
head, and threatened to fire if he advanced a step.
The veteran soldier, with the greatest sang-froid,
knocked the pistol aside and cleared the barricade.
The insurgents then yielded. This officer proved to
be Lieutenant-General Pir6' who about a week since
was placed on the retired list by the Government.
Several other general officers also rendered valuable
service.