The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-26 00:00:00

AY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26_, 1848.

people, and thus decided the contest. The inter-
course with the Quartier Latin and Faubourg St.
Germain was cut off, but firing was heard in that
direction in the forenoon of yesterday. General
TIBURCE SEBASTIANI, is said to have been killed.

The Bourse was closed during the whole of the
day, but at four o'clock, when the Provisional Go-
vernment was installed, the firing had ceased. The
people had broken open the cellars of the Tuileries,
and were distributing wine.
An attempt had been made to storm the Hotel
of the Minister of Finance, but it had failed.
The number of killed, in the attack on the Palais
Royal and the Tuileries, is said to have exceeded 500.
Thus far we published in the late editions of
The Sun of last evening. We now resume our
narrative from the French papers, which have been
waived this morning.
Galivant's Messenger gives the following narra•
tive of the events of Wednesday night and Thursday

morning
" The following information of the events of yes-
terday will be found of great interest, both as regards
some of the details and their results :
" By about nine o'clock in the morning people
assembled in considerable numbers in the quarters
St. Denis and St. Martin, and at ten o'clock they had
succeeded in erecting barricades at the Porte St.
Denis, in the Rue de Clary, the Rue Neuve Saint
Eustache, the Rue de Cadran, and the Rue du Petit- '
Carreau. A fusillade took place at some of these
barricades between the populace and the Municipal
Guards. Two young men were killed, and a munici-
pal guard was disarmed. Several municipal guards
were pursued to the Place du Caire, by young men
armed with sticks. The guards fired, and wounded
several persons. A woman, the relative of a trades-
man, was, we understand, killed on the spot. Accord-
ing to the Patrie, the officer of a platoon of the Na-
tional Guard, who was on the place, was so indignant
that he cried To arms !' whereupon the municipal
guard beat a retreat. Two hours later one of our
reporters passed through the Place du Caire. It was
then perfectly calm—in fact, not a soul was to be
seen except three National Guards in the Passage du
Caire.
" At the Porte St. Denis the troops charged the
people, and the barricade in the Rue Cadran, at the
entrance to the_Rue Montmartre, was attacked by the
Municipal Guard, who fired on the mob, whereby a
child was killed, and two workmen and three women
were, it is said, seriously wounded.
" At eleven o'clock, the crowd was dense in the
vicinity of the Porte St. Martin, and there were cries
of ' Down with Guizot !" Long live Reform !' A
detachment of troops fired on the mob, compelling it
to retreat.
" At twelve, all the quarter of the markets was
fully occupied. There was a battalion of the 21st
regiment on the Marche des Innocens, besides de-
tachments of the Municipal Guard, horse and foot, and
two detachments of Cuirassiers. Two pieces of can-
non were on the spot, one of which was directed
towards the Rue Montmartre, the other towards t he
Rue de la Ferronnerie. They were ready to be em-
ployed at a moment's notice. The fish-market was
occupied by a battalion of the Ist regiment.
" On the Place du Carrousel the horse Municipal
Guard charged the groups who were assembled there ;
but the people, after dispersing on one spot, imme-
diately re-assembled on another.
" At the barricade in the Rue de Clery, which was
half destroyed, the Municipal Guard fired, and several
persons were wounded.
" Between one and two o'clock one of our reporters
visited the different quarters in which disturbances
prevailed. On the Boulevards, in the Rue St. Denis,
the Rue St. Martin, the Rue lontmarte, the Rue St.
Honore, and, in fact, all the principal streets, the
crowds were very dense. On the Boulevards, espe-
cially near the Portes St. Denis and St. Martin, there
was a large assemblage of military, infantry, dragoons,
light dragoons, and municipal guards, both horse and
foot. In the Rue St. Martin frequent charges were
executed.
"An attempt to erect barricades in the Rue St.
Antoine was prevented, as were also other attempts
in the Rues St. Laurent and St. Lazare.
"In the Rue de la Cite and Rue de Constantine
the troops had to disperse the mob. On the Place
du Chatelet and the Pont au Change, a fusillade was
kept up for some time. In the Rue des Filles de
Calvaire barricades were established, but were de-
stroyed by the troops. Barricades which were con-
structed in the Rue du Temple were destroyed by the
troops about four o'clock. A chef-de-bataillon was,
it is said, killed.
"The Place des Victoires and the Place du Car-
roussel were occupied by strong detachments both of
dragoons and infantry. The Patrie relates that, in
passing along the former, the pickets of the National
Guard cried Down with Guizot ! Long live Re
form 1' They proceeded to the Place des Petits Peres,
and from thence to the Rue Montmartre. They were
followed by an immense crowd, who alternately
chaunted the Marseillaise,' and cried' Vive la Garde
Nationale!' At the same time charges were made
on the assembled people in the Place de St. Andre
des Arts, the Place de I'Ecole de Medecine, and in
all the adjoining streets, as far as the Place Maubert.
Pickets of troops of the line, National and Municipal
Guards, were stationed at almost all the corners of
the streets.
" The Patrie asserts that at the corner of Rue Lepel-
letier, M. Delaborde, chef-de-bataillon of the 2cl Le
gion, at the head of a strong detachment, refused to
allow a detachment of Cuirassiers to enter the street,
a proceeding in which he was warmly supported by
his men, who uttered cries of "Long live Reform !
Down with Guizot In one street which leads to
the Place de Petits Peres, some National Guards also
prevented the troops from entering On the Boulevard
between the Chateau d'Eu and the Ambigu, a supe-
rior officer ordered the National Guard to charge the
people, but, says the Patrie, they refused.
"In the course of the day M. Cremieux, the De-
puty, went along the Quai du Louvre, to the
Chamber of Deputies, followed by 400 National
Guards in uniform, without arms.
" In the morning, a post of the Municipal Guard,
in the Rue Mauconseil, was carried by the people.
Soon after, the Municipal Guards succeeded in re-
taking it; but the people subsequently attacked it
with renewed ardour, and succeeded in again getting
possession of it.
"During the whole day a large crowd was assem-
bled in the vicinity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
They cried incessantly, Down with Guizot! Long
live -Reform !'
" A strong force of the National Guard occupied
the Arcades and Rue de Rivoli during the day. A
large crowd was assembled there, and it amused itself
in shouting Long live the National Guard 1'
" In the course of the afternoon the mob attacked
a body of the Municipal Guard, which was stationed
under a gateway in a street in the Msrais, and a
small number of National Guards having come up,
assisted, it was asserted, in disarming them.
"About four o'clock the intelligence that the
Ministry had given in its resignation began to be
generally known. It was received by every demon-
stration of satisfaction. Even a large crowd of well-
dressed persons on the Boulevards testified their joy
by shouting, Vive la Reforme r
"At about five o'clock the mob made an attack on
the guard-house on the Boulevarde Bonne Nouvelle,
where some prisoners were confined. It succeeded in
disarming the soldiers who occupied the post, and in
releasing the prisoners. All the windows of the
guard-hbuse were smashed. The National Guard
also released some iirlsonersho were confined in the
Mairie of the 3d arrondissement.
"The Patrie announces that a strong picket of the
National' Guard was passing before the Imprimerie
Royal, followed by a numerous crowd shouting,
' Long live Reform ! Long live the National Guard !'
A detachment of the Municipal Guard fired on them,
and wounded seven. Great exasperation was pro-
duced
by this, but it was somewhat calmed down
when the mob learned the downfall of the Guizot
Ministry.
" At seven o'clock an immense crowd, consisting
almost exclusively of persons of the working classes,
many of them very young, descended the Boulevards.
They were headed by men bearing blazing torches.
They sang the new favourite song, beginning,
" Mourir pour la patrie,
C'est le sort le plus beau, le plus digne d'envie!'
Or it would be more correct to say that they sang
only those two lines, for they rarely got beyond them,
repeating them over and over again. At intervals,
however, they' changed the refrain, by shouting with
all the force of their lungs—
" Down with Guizot ! Down with Guizot !'
" On reaching the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
they found assembled very strong forces of infantry
and dragoons, which occupied the whole , width of the
Boulevards with the exception of the pavement near the
Rue Besse du Rempart. Some persons expected to
see the mob come into collision with the troops, but
instead of that the torch-bearers filed off on the pave-
ment, shouting Viva la ligne! Vive la ligne!' and
they were followed by all their large train.
" After having passed the soldiers the crowd
raised a terrific shout of Down with Guizot r after
which, having formed themselves into something
like order, they struck up the eternal Mourir pour
la patrie !' and continued to bawl until they reached
the church of the Madeleine. There a large detach-
ment of the National Guard was stationed. The
commandant, on seeing the mob, went to the leaders
of it, recommending them to extinguish their torches,
and to be orderly. The torch-bearers immediately
complied with the request, and a thousand voices
shouted Long live the National Guard !' The molo
then cried To Duchatel,' and went along the Rue
Royale, with apparently the intention of paying a
visit to the Minister of the Interior.
" In the Rue St. Honore there WAS also an im- ,

mense crowd, which also sang as one man Mourir
pour la patrie!' varied alternately with the ' Allons,
enfans de la patrie l' and Aux arines citoyens !' of .
the Marseillaise.' On ascending the Rue St Honore
they fell in with a detachment of National Guards
and of a regiment of the line; whereupon a thousand
voices cried Long live the National Guard! long
live the line!' and to wind up came a fierce shout of
Down with Guizot !'

" When the news of the resignation of the Ministry
had become generally known in Paris, there was a
burst of satisfaction which it would be difficult to
describe. Large parties of the National Guard
paraded the streets, the officers and men shouting
'Vive la Reforme,' and the crowd cheering loudly.
Bands of 500 to 1,500 men and boys, went about
crying 'five la Reforme,' and singing the 'Maned-
laise; and on being met by the troops, they divided
to let them pass, and as soon as they had passed re-
peated their cries and their song. Towards half past
six o'clock an illumination was spoken of, and many
persons lighted up spontaneously. The illumination
of course became more general when the populace in
large numbers went through the streets, calling
' light up.' Numerous bands alone, or following
detachments of National Guards, went about shout-
, ing 'Vive le Roi,"Vive la Riorme,' and singing the
Marseillaise: On many of the points where barri-
cades had been erected, and the people were resisting the
troops, they ceased resistance when they heard the
news of the resignation of the Ministers, and the
troops retired ; but we hear that on other points the
people were less reasonable, and between nine and ten
1 o'clock in the evening a large crowd from one of the
faubourgs arrived opposite the hotel of the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, and some shots were fired at the
hotel.

" The National Guard mustered rather strong yes-
terday, and, when the news of the resignation of the
Ministry was known, a great number more who had
refused to turn out made their appearance..

"ELEVEN O'CLOCK.—At this-hour there was no
actual disturbance in the Rue St. Denis, the Rue St.
Martin, and that neighbourhood, and the troops were
all withdrawn ; but the people were busily engaged
in constructing a formidable barricade near the Porto.
They had turned up a great part of the foot-pavement,
had seized some carts, broken down some iron railing,
and in fact possessed themselves of almost everything
which it was possible to remove. The difficulty of
removing some of the stones was considerable, busthe
mob enlivened their labour with reiterated shouts of
"Down with Guizot !" In the Rue Montmartre a
barricade was being constructed, near the hotel of
Baron Delessert, a short distance from the
Boulevard. The pavement was there dug up
—the railing in front of the hotel was broken
down, and several back-cabs were seized. At the
entrance into the Faubourg Montmartre from the
Boulevard, the mob was also engaged in constructing
a barricade. Surprise was expressed at all the troops
being withdrawn, but it was said that they were
busily engaged near the Hotel of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, and the noise of frequent fusillades
confirmed that statement. The mob seemed tolerably
good-humoured, for several of them politely advised
our reporter to take the by-streets in preference to
the Boulevards, stating that there was danger in the
passing along the latter. Many persons were walk-
ing up and down the Boulevards, armed with muskets
and clubs. The only armed force we saw was a
patrol of the National Guard, which was greeted by
the mob with cries of Vive la Garde Nationale!'
A. number of boys amused themselves in smashing the
gas lamps. The Guardhouse of the Boulevarde
Bonne Nouvelle has been abandoned by the troops,
and the mob was occupied in pulling everything to
pieces in the interior, breaking down the iron rail-
ing, &c.
" TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NIGIIT.—It is with the
deepest regret that we announce that the 14th regi-
ment of the line, stationed in the front of the Hotel
des Affaires Estrangeres, fired to night on a nume-
rous groop of young men who were passing, with
some National Guards at their head, and killed a
considerable number of them, besides wounding many
others. This event caused the greatest excitement,
particularly at a later hour of the night, when some
of the dead bodies, (at least 20, it was said), were
carried in a waggon along the Boulevard towards the
Bastille. Some barricades were immediately thrown
up in the Rue ,'du Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue
Montmartre, and other streets close to the Boulevards.
Some Cabriolets, trees, barrels, and other articles,
were also flung together across the Boulevard des
Italiens, so as to form a kind of barricade, but the
pavement had not been torn up as in other places
mentioned. At the hour at which we write matters
have become more tranquil.
The Reforine has the following :
" When the 10th Legion of the National Guard
was assembled yesterday morning on the Place Ta-
ranne, one of them shouted Vive la Refurtne !'
whereupon M. Lemercier, the Colonel, gave orders
that he should be seized, but the National Guards,
surrounding him, declared that he had only expressed
their sentiments.

" A detachment, consisting of several companies of
the 3d Legion, prevented the Municipal Guard from
attacking the people near the Pont Notre Dame.
Between five and six o'clock, about fifty Municipal
Guards, who were shut up in a court-yard of a
house in the Rue Bourg l'Abbe, were forced to lay
down their arms. The National Guard negociated
between the people and the Municipal Guard for the
disarming, and when it was effected the former took
the latter under their protection. The exasperation
of the crowd against the Municipal Guard was most
intense, owing to the severity with which that bodyhad
acted in different quarters ; and when they issued from
the court-yard a strong force was required to protect
them. The people then demanded that they should
be made to take off their schakos, and that they were
obliged to do. They were then led along a number
of streets headed by a detachment of cuirassiers, and
surrounded by the National Guard, the troops of the
line forming a passage for them to pass. On arriv-
ing at the Place de l'Hotel de Ville, a clever cavalry
movement prevented the crowd from entering, and
the Municipal Guard were thereby enabled to escape
into the place. They then warmly expressed their
thanks to their deliverers.

" At nine o'clock the quartier Transnonain and
part of the Rue St. Martin were filled with barri
cedes, which were guarded in military fashion by
the people. The inhabitants were politely conducted
to their residences. Fires were lighted for the bi-
vouac. In the Rue Rambuteau, the people carrying
torches knocked at ;the doors, until some one an-
swered. They then cried,. Have you arms ?'
Yes.' Then give them.' When the arms were
given the people wrote on the doors, On a donne des
annex.

"As the crowd was assembled before the hotel of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and were uttering the
usual cries, they were fired on without any previous
notice, and 52 persons fell dead or wounded. A cry
of vengeance was immediately uttered by the people,
the victims of an abominable ambuscade, and several
of them hastened into the neighbouring streets, shout-
ing To arms ! to arms ! We are being assassi-
nated!' Shortly after we saw a cart arrive at the
offices of the National, containing dead bodies. The
vehicle was surrounded by people, who were weeping
and full of indignation, and who showed us the
bloody bodies, crying, "lhey are assassins who have
slain them 1 We will avenge them ! Give us arms !
—arms l' The torches, casting their glare by turns
on the bodies and on the people, added to the violent
emotions of the scene. M. Garnier Pages, being at
that moment in the offices of the National, addressed
the people. He promised that he would employ his
efforts to obtain for the people thus attacked the satis-
faction which is required from these impious and
atrocious Ministers. The funeral train left our offices
conducted and lighted in the same manner ; they
conveyed the bodies to distant quarters."
The National thus continues the history of this
affecting incident, which seems to have been the first
occurrence that raised in the people a desire of blood-
shed and of vengeance, and which has cost Louts
13111LIPPS his throne, and may cost his Ministers their
lives :

" M. de Courtais, deputy of the Opposition, hastened
to the Boulevard des Capucines to ascertain the
causes of this shameful butchery. He informs us
that the colonel of the regiment which had caused
the firing to take place was in consternation at what
had occurred. He thus explained what he called a
deplorable imprndence:—At the moment at which the
crowd arrived a bullet from a gun, which went off
by accident in the garden of the hotel, broke the leg
of the Lieutenant-Colonel's horse. The officer com-
manding the detachment believed that it was an
attack, and immediately with a guilty want of reflec-
tion commanded his men to fire. This officer was
immediately placed in prison.
"IM. Lemercier, Peer of France, and Colonel of the
10th Legion, having stated to a battalion of the
legion that the erneute was crushed, and that the
National Guard was called on to give a testimony of
confidence to the Government, one of the National
Guards stepped forward and declared that they would
not do it, and that they all desire a change of Ministry
and reform. These words were received with accla- ,
mations.

" General Friant having stated at the Past des
Petits Peres that they had compelled M. Guizot and
M. Duchatel to resign, there was a cry—' That is
not enough—we want the overthrow of the whole
Ministry and its impeachment !'
" In a detachment of the National Guard in the
Rue Pinon, there were cries, in addition to those of
Down with the Ministry 1' of 'We won't have
thieves in embroidery, any more than in rags !'
" In the Palais Royale the Municipal (uard at-
tempted to charge the people, but were prevented by
the National Guard.
" The employes of the octrois at the barriers yes-
terday received orders to remove ; the barriers are
occupied by the National Guard.

1‘ About two o'clock the colonels of the twelve
Legions sent a deputation to the King, informing
him that it was impossible to preserve the tranquillity
of the city unless prompt and important concessions
should be made.

" Just before seven o'clock an immense body of
infantry marched up the Boulevards towards the Porte
St. Denis, and other strong detachments occupied
the vicinity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Some firing took place between the soldiers and the
people at the barricade at the entrance to the Fau-
bourg Montmartre.
" From seven to ten o'clock the people continued to
erect barricades in different streets, and in some places
there was firing.
" At about ten o'clock the troops were all under
arms, as hitherto, opposite the hotel of the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs. A large body of cavalry was
drawn up in the middle of the street, and a dense
mass of infantry was drawn round the whole of the
hotel. Drums were heard, and a body of infantry
advancing. As they approached it was perceived
that they were preceded by a body of the people all
armed in different ways, and bearing the tri-colour
flag. The people and this body of soldiers advanced
towards the soldiers on guard, and, after some expla-
nations, accompanied by shaking 3 of hands and
crossing swords, in the military style of salutation,
all the soldiers, en masse, sheathed their bayonets,
the officers sheathed their swords, and quitted the
hotel, leaving the people to act as they pleased. All
that the latter did was to cheer vehemently, while a
young man mounted up over the gate and took down,
amid loud cheers, the lag which was waving over
it. Shortly after this a body of National Guards
came from the Rue des Capucines amidst great
cheering, and took their station opposite the hotel, as
the cavalry retired towards the Madeleine. Every-
where the soldiers along the Boulevards took off their
bayonets from their muskets, which they then re-
versed, appearing much to enjoy the scene. Whilst
this was going on the people wantonly set fire to the
bureau of the hackney-coach station nearly opposite
the hotel.

" In the evening a group of young men, headed by
tri-colour flags and torches, and led by a captain, a
lieutenant, and a sub-officer of the National Guard,
went to the Caserne de Neuilly, to demand the release
of soma persons who had been arrested. On being
assured that they had been released they quietly
dispersed.
"An attack was made on the Hotel de la Chan-
cellerie ; the windows were smashed, and the crowd
insisted on the windows being illuminated.
" An attack has been directed against Mont-Vale-
rien —some sheds were burned down.

" At the Batignolles four children have been killed,
and their bodies are deposited at the guard-house.
" The Debats says that the collision which took
place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was caused
by a crowd, headed with torches and flags, attempt-
ing to force its way through the ranks of the sol-
diers. It says nothing of the number of persons
killed and wounded.

" After midnight the tocsin was sounded in the
Church St. Germain des Pres, and the rappel was
beaten in several quarters.
" The following declaration was yesterday signed
in the 4th Legion of the National Guard :
" We, the undersigned, all belonging to the Na-
tional Guard, declare that, in the midst of the trou-
bles of the capital, the summons to assemble having
been beaten, we, the protectors of order, shall pro
teed wherever we may be ordered to go to prevent
or arrest the effusion of blood ; but at the same time,
being protectors of liberty, we declare that cur ob-
ject is not in any way to approve of the Ministerial
policy, either at home or abroad, or to lend any sup-
port to a Ministry which, on the contrary, we blame
with all the energy of good citizens. We do not
deliberate under arms—we merely state our way of
thinking, before we go to our post.'
" Yesterday evening, at about 8 o'clock, an'immense
crowd proceeded to the residence of M. Odillon Bar-
rut, and entered the court-yard of his house, and
many of them his apartment, in the most peaceable
manner. A deputation advanced towards M. Odillon
I3arrot, who was at the time in company with many
of his colleagues. M. 0. Barrot addressed the depu-
tation as follows :

"My Friends,—l think I see your fathers of
July 1830; it is a display of the same courage—the
same generosity.—(Unanimous cheers.) And to be,
like them, worthy of liberty, be calm in triumph ;
that is the character which is suitable to the cause of
right and liberty."
"Loud cries of Long live Odillon Barrot' R ere
then raised. M. Garnier Pages added a few energetic
words to persuade the crowd to retire peaceably. The
shouts recommenced with increased strength, and
were taken up by the people in the Rue de la Ferme
des Alathurins.

The correspondent of the Times, who was present,
gives the following graphic account of the unfortunate
event which occurred at the hotel of M. GuizoT

" At ten o'clock a column of 600 or 800 people of
all ranks, who had been fighting, passed up the
➢oulevard. Among them were evidently many of
the Communistes, and, possibly, some of those male-
factors who will mix in all popular movements.
The bearing and attitude of this column was ter-
rible. The subsequent act of one of the party jus-
tified the apprehension which their appearance sug-
gested.
"Although M. Guiaot bad retired from the ➢Ministry,
the Hotel des Affaires Etrangeres remained occupied
and guarded by troops. About ten o'clock a young
man walked up to the oficer in command, and blew
his brains out with a pistol. Seeing him fall, his
soldiers without orders fired on the people, of whom
four or five were killed.

" The report of this discharge at a moment when
we flattered ourselves that all was tolerably well over
created a painful sensation. Twenty minutes after-
wards, however, a most touching and melancholy pro-
cession arrived, and, as far as I could perceive,
turned alarm into rage.
" The buzz of an approaching multitude coming
from the Boulevard des Capucines was heard, and a
low song of death, Mourir pour la patrie,' was
chanted by the throng instead of the victorious Mar-
veillaist. Mingled with this awful and imposing
chorus, the noise of wheels could be heard. A large
body of the people slowly advanced. Four in front
carried torches. Behind them came an open cart
surrounded by torch-bearers. The light was strong,
and discovered four or five dead bodies, partly un-
dressed, which appeared to have been carefully ranged
in the cart.

" When the head of the column reached the corner
of the Rue Lepelletier the song was changed to a
burst of fury, which will not soon be forgotten by
those who heard it. The procession halted at the
office of the National, and the whole party burst into
a unanimous shriek or cry of Vengeance !' You
know how sonorous is that word when pronounced
in French. The dead bodies in the cart were those
of the men who fell under the fire of the soldiers
above-mentioned.

"This event is deplorable. It may possibly change
the issue of the affair.

" The night was an awful one. The noise of work-
men appeared to break on the stillness. Having heard
a similar one in 1830, 1 guessed what was going on.
Barricades—one immensely strong at the end of the
Rue Richelieu—were in progress of construction.
This has continued up to this moment (half-past ten).
Every tree on the whole line of the Boulevard has
been felled. Every one of the superb lampposts
has been thrown down, and all converted into bar-
ricades.

"At the corner of every street is a barricade—gen-
tlemen, shopkeepers, clerks, workmen, all labouring
at the work with an eagerness and an earnestness
beyond description."
The Journal des Debate says :

" Between three and four o'clock a deputation of
about 100 members of the National Guard, composed
for the most part of officers of the fourth Legion,
went towards the Chamber of Deputies. A battalion
of the tenth Legion, which was in the service of the
Chamber, advanced to the middle of the Pont de la
Concorde, and declared that they had orders
not to permit any deputation to proceed to
the Chambers. At the moment at which this
was passing M. Odillon Barrot and M. Garnier
Pages, who were followed by a great number of
deputies of the Opposition, joined the deputation.
The petition was then remitted to M. Crimieux.
" The efforts of the crowd were concentrated
between Rue St. Antoine and the Rue Montmartre,
and between the Rue Vielle du Temple and the
Rue St. Martin, the barricades of which, as has
been already stated, were constructed with dill-
' gences, cabs, carts, &c., filled with paving stones.
Most were abandoned without resistance, and the
crowd assembled in other_epots. A barricade in the
Rue Vieille du Temple, near the Rues de l'Oseille
and de Poitou, was surmounted by a red flag. An
officer who commanded a detachment which attacked
one of the barricades in that quarter was struck by a
ball. A barricade at the entry to the Rue de Perche
was destroyed by artillery.
" In an attack on the Place du Chatelet, M. de St.
Hilaire, chef de bataillon of the 34th Regiment, was
killed."

The following is from the Conservateur :
" The service of the arrondissement post.offics was
impeded yesterday and the day before by the insur-
gents. The post-office for the Halles remained con-
stantly closed. That in the Rue l'Echiquer was
partially interrupted. Yesterday and the day before
the insurgents prevented the postmen from taking the
letters from the receiving boxes, and on Tuesday
night one of these postmen was surrounded and de-
tained for several hours. The post-office omnibuses
were prevented from running the whole of the day by
an assemblage of 400 or 500 armed men. Some
letters were spoiled by the injection into the receiving
boxes of water or some other matter."

When in the night of Tuesday, the deputation from

the National Guard waited on the KING for the pi-r

pose of demanding a change of Ministry, the Kr.c,

sent for Count MOLE, who undertook to form a new
" Ministry of the Barricades." This, however, by Lo
means satisfied the people, who insisted on guarantees
exclaiming that there should be no mistake this time•
Count MOLE then proceeded to the KING, and de'

dined to undertake the composition of a Ministry

whereupon the KING sent for M. Limas, and that
gentleman at once undertook to submit to his 31,t-
JESTY the list of a new Cabinet, making a proviie,
however, that he might be permitted to join with hint
as one of hie colleagues M. ODILON Manor. T°
this his AhausTv was graciously pleased to accede.
In the morning a little before eight o'clock, as 3
number of people were busily employed in erecting a
barricade at the end of the Rue Taitbout, close to the
Boulevard, they saw a group of gentlemen approach-
ing from the end nearest to the Rue des Trois Freres.
Some of the crowd immediately recognised them, and
loud cries of " Vive M. Thiers," " Vive M. 0. Bar-
rot," burst forth. With these gentlemen were 31'
DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, M. DE REMUSAT, Prince
DE LA. Muscowa, and other members belonging t°
the Opposition. The whole party walked on towards
the Chateau, followed by cries of " Vive la Reforme.4
" Yes, yes," said M. TRIERS, "you shall have
At another point, in the Rue Grammont, the crY
arose of " Empechea au moins lee coups de fusil
which was also responded to affirmatively by the
group of Deputies. The whole way from the Boule
yards to the Rue St. Honore is intercepted by
mense barricades, some of them considerably higher
than a man's stature. At each of these impediments
M. TRIERS and the other gentlemen were obliged t°
pass singly, and as the rumour spread that the 800.
Gentleman was going to the Ktroa loud cheers con'
tinued to greet him.

About ten o'clock M. ODILON BARROT passed uP
the Rue St. Anne on foot towards the Boulevard',
proclaiming General LAMORICIERE Commandant of
the National Guard of Paris, and accompanied by a
numerous escort of National Guards and citizen'
intermingled. On arriving at the corner of the Rue
Richelieu, M. 0. BARROT gave orders to a troop °i
dragoons and the 21st regiment of the line to proceed
to their barracks. The order was iminedistelf
obeyed amidst shouts of "Vive Lamoriciere ! Vive
Odilon Barrot ! Vive le Vingt-unieme de ligne !" the
soldiers fraternising with the people. The caissons
of the regiment were in an instant broken, and their
contents immediately distributed amongst the crowd 4.
By eleven o'clock the muster of the National
Guards had become very strong, and most of the
posts which had been occupied by the infantry of the
line were taken possession of by them. A compel)!
of the line was seen returning to their barracks, is
the Rue de Faubourg Poissonniere. Many of them
were disarmed, having given their muskets wirli
demanded by the people, or rather by mere lads, Wll°
were in the crowd. Those who were not disarm"
had their muskets reversed. Two pieces of cannoa
and two caissons were seized on the Boulevart
Italiens by a party of the people, mixed with
National Guards. The powder was taken out of the
caissons and distributed to the people, and then the
cannon and the caissons were taken to the mairie 01
the second arrondissement.

The following proclamation has been posted at th•
Bourse :

" Orders have been given to cease firing every'
where.

" We have just been charged by the King to for
a Ministry.
" The Chamber will be dissolved, and an appo'l
be made to the country.
" General Lamoriciere has been appointed Com•
mandant of the National Guards.

(Signed) " TRIERS.
ODILON BARROT.
DUVERGIER, DE HAURANNF,.

LAMORJCIERE."

In the meanwhile the people had not been idle.
During the whole night the people were busily en'
gaged in erecting barricades in the principal streets
as well as in those smaller ones in which it might
appear of importance to prevent the entrance of the
military. Barricades existed at an early hour this
morning in different parts of the Boulevards, especially
near the Porte St. Denis, where there was a very
formidable one, and near the Rue Richelieu, where
there were two ; in the upper end of the Rue Mont-
martre two, the Faubourg Montmartre, the Kee
Geoffrey Marie, the Rue de Provence, the Rue
Cadet, the Rue Vivienne two, the Rue Richelieu, the
Rue des Deux Ecus, the Rue St. Honore, the Roe
des Vielles Etuves, the Rue des Fosses St. Gerraind
l'Auxerrois, and in a multitude of other places, id
fact, it would occupy a column to name all. The bar-
ricades were constructed partially of cabs, diligenct sr
carts, boards, or anything else the people could lA/
their hands on ; and these different objects being piled
and fitted together as well as possible, were kept it'
their places by paving-stones torn up from the streets.
On the Boulevards a7great many of the trees were
cut down, and the bureaux of the men who register
the hackney cabs were dragged into the middle of the
roadway. Almost every barricade was guarded by A
small number of persons, some of whom were armed
with guns, others with clubs, but the great majority
were without arms at all. The people at the barri-
cades behaved very civilly to the passengers, allowing'
them to pass most of the barricades without mud'
difficulty ; but at some of those which opened on the.
Boulevards, permission to pass was refused.
Exasperated with the slaughter which had taken
place in front of the Hotel of M. GUIZOT, they at-
tacked and carried the Palais Royale and the Tuileries.
and insisted on the abdication of the KING:; and this
Ministerial combination which, if made on Monday,
would have saved to LOUIS PHILIPPE his throne, w
in consequence of this delay of three days, insufficient
to save the monarchy itself.
At twelve o'clock M. ODILON BARROT, accom-
panied by General LAUORICIBRE, repaired from, the
Chamber of Deputies to the Ministry of the Interior,
where he was formerly installed, in presence of the
National Guard and a multitude of citizens, who filled.
the Court. Shortly afterwards the following procla-
mation was posted up on the gate, amidst universal
acclamations :

"My dear Comrades,—l have been invested by the'
new Cabinet with the superior command of the Na-
tional Guard of the Department of the Seine.
" By your energetic attitude you have asserted the
triumph of liberty. You have been, and will ever
be, the defenders of order. I rely upon. you, as you
may rely upon me.

" Your comrade,
(Signed)
"General LAMORICIERE.
(Countersigned) " ODILON BARROr.
" Paris, Feb. 24, 1848:
At two o'clock the following proclamation was
posted on the walls of Paris :
" Citizens of Paris,—

" The King has abdicated. The crown, bestowed
by the revolution of July, is now placed on the head
of a child, protected by his mother. They are both
under the safeguard of the honour and courage of the
Parisian population. All cause of division amongst
us has ceased to exist. Orders have been given to-
the troops of the line to return to their respective•
quarters. Our brave army can be better employed{
than in shedding its blood in so deplorable a col-
lision.

" My beloved fellow-citizens ! —From this mo•.nent
the maintenance of order is intrusted to the c(urage
and prudence of the people of Paris and its. heroic
National Guard. They have ever been faithful to
our noble country. They will not desert it in this
grave emergency.

~ ODILON 13ARROT."

All the military posts on the left bank of the
Seine were disarmed early in the morning, and oc-
cupied partly by National Guards and men of
the people. At noon a party of armed workmen,
headed by pupils of the Polytechnic School, pre-
sented themselves at the barrack of the firemen, in
the Rue du Vieux Colornbier. The sentinel at first
offered resistance, but when told that they acted in
the name of the National Guard the officers imme-
diately agreed to surrender their arms, which were
passed to the people under the gateway. The firemen'
then appeared at their windows and cried " Vive Ia
Reforme I Down with Guizot !" The people pro-
ceeded thence to release the prisoners confined in the
military prisons of the Abbaye and the Conseiis de
Guerre, three of whom had been sentenced to be shot.
All the bedsteads and furniture where then brought
out into the street, formed into a heap, and set on fire.
At one moment it was feared that the fire would corn
municate to the adjoining houses, and the firemen
were sent for in order to extinguish it.
The troops having evacuated the Tuileries, the
palace was immediately occupied by the insurgents,