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

' .1848,

Galt* gnani s Messenger says :
" The exasperation or the troops of the line and the
artillery of the National Guard was such that it was im-
possible to prevent a considerable massacre among the
insurgents, when they commenced flying before the
troops in the Faubourg St. Antoine. A great number,
however, were made prisoners, and the armed fugitives,
who we understand in their flight frequently turned
round to continue the fight, were pursued by a division
of the artillery of the National Guard to a considerable
distance. The number of muskets abandoned by the
insurgents was sufficient to load several carts. One
woman, we are assured, cut into pieces the bodies of two
of the Garde Mobile, who had been killed. She was
taken, and in the heat of indignation and horror at her
conduct killed with blows from the butt-ends of muskets."
A military commission has been installed at the
Prefecture of Police. It is assisted by six substitute
of the Procureur of the Republic. All the repris de
justice, forcats libe'res, or forcats who have broken
their ban, as well as all those found in possession of
considerable sums of money, are included in the same
category, and immediately given up to the high mili-
tary court. An investigation into the charges against
all the other prisoners is postponed.
The prisoners taken and awaiting their trial
amount already to upwards of five thousand, they, as
well as the prisoners of Vincennes implicated in the
affair of May, will he tried for high treason, and, if
convicted, transported to the Marquesas, which is
henceforth to be a convict colony.
DEFLOTTE, the ex-officer of Marine, who was com-
promised in the affair of the 15th of May, and was
one of the chiefs of the insurrection, has been cap-
tured. It is said that at the time he had a sum of
150,000 f. on him.
It is said that the Government possess ample in-
formation as to the leaders in the insurrection, all
of whom are known, and many of whom are in cus-
tody. Men of the highest rank—men who have
hitherto been considered as of the most irreproach-
able character—are said to have been deeply im-
plicated.
Although Monday night passed off quietly, yet it
was a night of terror. The whole city was occupied
by military. The entire National Guard was on
foot. The Boulevards and quays were closed ; the
other streets guarded at their extremities by large
bodies of National Guards, and throughout their ex-
tent by a line of centinels, who incessantly, that is
at intervals of only five minutes throughout the
entire night, called to each other, " Sentinelle !
garde a vous!"
In many streets every window in every house was
illuminated.
Some musket shots were occasionally heard. In
one quarter a body of National Guards were convey-
ing forty prisoners to one of the prisons, and were
fired on by men concealed in the houses of a narrow
street through which they were passing. In the
confusion they escaped.
General CAVAIGNAC ordered that the Faubourgs
should be disarmed during the night. In the
Faubourg St. Antoine alone 30,000 muskets were
collected.
The Debats states that at midnight a sharp fusillade
was heard near the Tuileries, which lasted only a
few minutes. The troops and National Guards
were immediately on foot. The cause could not be
ascertained.
On Monday, about midnight, a terrible catastrophe
took place in the Place de Carrousel. Two companies
of the National Guard of the Banlieue ,of Paris
were conducting about eighty prisoners to the
Tuileries, in the cellars of which a large number of
the insurgents are confined. When close to the
Rue de.Rohan some of the prisoners attempted to
escape. They attacked their guards suddenly, dis-
armed some of them, and attempted to run. The
alarm was at once given. The troops of the line and
the National Guards in the vicinity flew to arms. A
terrible pell mell followed, in which the soldiers fired,
not only upon the prisoners, but upon each other, and
the result was, that about twenty soldiers and Na-
tional Guards were killed. More than half the pri-
soners were killed. The bodies of the soldiers and
National Guards were carried into the Tuileries.
The bodies of the prisoners were left for a consider-
able time lying on the spot where they fell. •
The National Guards who arrested M. Louis
BLANC accused him of having established correspon-
dence from the Cafe Vernon with the insurgents, and
of having been in communication with them to the
last moment.
An ambulance for the wounded, with 120 beds, has
been established in the Tuileries, and another in the
Louvre.
The following journals are suppressed during the
state of siege :—La Presse, La Revolution de 1848,
L' Organisation du Travail, La Vraie Republique,
L'Assemblee National, La Napoleon Republicain, La
Lthertd' L' Aimable Faubourien,
.1 a Lampion, Le
Pere Duchene, Le Pilori.
M. EMILE DE GIEARDIN, who was arrested, has
been, it is said, set at liberty.
M. JANVIER, a representative, had a narrow es-
cape. He went alone to a baffle tde in the Rue
Meslay, with his scarf, &c., and endeavoured to ap-
peal to the insurgents. He was received with cries
of—" Down with the Representative ! Down with
the National Assembly !" and was surrounded by a
furious crowd, who menacingly brandished their
weapons at him. His life was at one time seriously
in danger, but at length it was decided to detain him
as a prisoner. A combatant, however, stepped
forward, and cried, "No doubt he is a guex de repre-
sentant : but as he has had the courage to trust us, let
him be of!" The ranks then opened, and M. JAN•
VIER was allowed to escape.
The house of M. FLocort, the Minister of Com-
merce has been searched.
On Tuesday morning considerable alarm was
created by the beating of the rappel, and a report
was spread that the insurgents had strongly posted
themselves at Pere la Chaise, and had resumed hos-
tilities. This report, however, proved unfounded. The
insurgents had retired from Pere la Chaise to Ro-
mainville, pursued by the troops, and the rappel was
beating to arms for the funeral of the victims of the
insurrection. At eleven o'clock yesterday, several of
the cafes and shops were open, and the circulation
through the streets was partly resumed.
The last barricade attacked was at the corner of
the Rue de la Roquette. It took place on Monday
evening at eleven o'clock. General LaatoßciEßn,
after having taken the whole of the barricades in the
Faubourg du Temple, arrived at the Place de la Bas-
tille, from which he attacked the barricade with can-
non and shells. A shell fell on one of the adjoining
houses, and set it on fire, and the insurgents after
a short defence took to fight. This was the last
effort of the insurrection. From that moment the
insurgents were not able to rally. They immediately
flew to the Barri6re de Menilmontant and du Trone
which they had in their hands, and thus escaped to
the country.
The insurrection was by far the most terrible that
as ever desolated Paris. The number of killed and
wounded will probably never be known ' but eer-
tainly they amount to many thousands. Many cal-
culate the 'number as high as 20,000, and none
estimate it below 10,000. The troops of the line
suffered greatly, and of the Garde Mobile nearly one-
third are either killed or wounded.
The number of prisoners Taken among the insur-
gents is 5,000, who are deposited in the vaults and
dungeons under the Tuileries, the Louvre, the Palais
Royal, the Chamber of Deputies, the Hotel de Ville,
and in the various prisons.
Four or five of the Members of the Assembly are
among the killed, and about as many among the
wounded.

Fourteen general officers have been put hors de
combat, several being killed. The loss in superior
officers has been greater than in the most brilliant en-
gagements during the wars of NAPOLEON.
The greatest praise is accorded by all parties to the
troops of every class. The National Guard behaved
heroically; the Garde Mobile, composed chiefly of
boys under 20, exhibited an ardour characteristic of
their youth, committing 'imprudences, proceeding
from an excess of bravery.
The destruction of property has been immense.
It is impossible to conceive the state of the Quar-
tier St. Antoine. In the streets, more than fifty
houses are almost entirely destroyed by the artillery,
and a much larger number have suffered consider-
ably. At every hundred paces formidable barricades
were constructed, here with carriages, filled with
stones, there with paving-stones, further with trunks
of trees, and in some cases with large flag stones.
On the Place de la Bastille the disasters are not
less. The column of July has been injured. The
warehouse known as " La Belle lermiere" is com-
pletely destroyed; two houses, which formed the
angle of the Place de la Bastille and the Rue de la
Roquette, are a heap of rubbish.
At two o'clock the pompiers were employed to put
out the fire which had commenced in the ruins.
The Faubourg St. Antoine presents a still more
sinister aspect. There is not a house which has not
suffered more or less by the cannonade. The insur.
gents, driven from barricade to barricade, and from
house to house, oppoeed foot by foot a resistance
which compelled every instant a new combat.
The inhabitants of this unhappy faubourg appear
in consternation. The greater number submit with
eagerness to the search for arms which the insurgents
have abandoned. Everywhere are found guns and
ammunition, and numerous arrests are made. Cries
of vengeance are very rare, and those of misery pre-
vail.

One of the insurgents who was arrested was me-
naced by some exasperated citizens for the loss of
numerous comrades who had fallen, when an artil-
leryman of the National Guard interposed, saying,
" Have pity on the vanquished !" Some representa-
tives, who were there, applauded this ; it was uni-
versally repeated, and the prisoner was saved.
The Faubourg St. Antoine was divided with enor-