The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

V11.7A GROUP OF EMINENT MEN.

Armand Marrast, one of the secretaries to the Pro-
visional Government, is the principal editor of the
National. He is of diminutive stature, and very thin,
with a light graceful figure, and a pale pensive coun-
tenance, and his age borders on forty. He married,
some years ago, an English lady—the daughter of M.
Berti Ambrosse, the author. His talents aro of the
highest order; and the vigour of his style is appreciated
by every ono who is accustomed to peruse the " leaders"
in the Nalional. A stern and unflinching Republican, he
has suffered prosecution—persecution—and exile, on
account of bis opinions, during the despot sway of
Louis Philippe; and he now occupies a pround position
in that democracy which he helped to establish. Generals
Bedeau and Lamoriciere ar both young men, and earned
a high military renown in Algiers. The former is an
admirable tactician in the art of war: the latter is cha-
racterised by a dauntless, dashing, Diarist kind of bra-
very. Admiral Baudin, who is nominated to the com-
mand of the Mediterranean fleet, is one of the finest
naval officers in the French service. He can boast of
never having been beaten, although he has seen a fair
share of hard fighting. He commanded the squadron
which, some years ago, blockaded Mexico; and his
splendid achievements of taking the fort of Saint Juan
d'Ulloa in six minutes is well known. Garni6r Page!,
the Mayor of Paris, has been an unflinching Republican
ever since he was capable of forming opinions for him-
self. M. Carnot, the Provisional Minister of Publics
Instruction, is the son of the famous Conventionalist of
the same name. He is now in his forty-sixth year.
Albert, the artizan, was foreman in a factory in one of
the faubourgs, and is a well-informed, enlightened,
shrewd, and, at the same time, an unassuming man.

TILE RIOT AN]) COLLISION WITH
'TIE POLICE IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
[The greater portion of the following appeared in our
Third Edition of last night:—]
When our reporter returned from Trafalgar-square
to The Sun Office, shortly before three o'clock ,
for the purpose of framing the report which appeared in
our last edition, he was led to believe that the
people would quietly t3isperse : indeed, a great many
left the place, but it seems that as many
as 10,000 or 12,000 persons remained, apparently
with no settled purpose. No expressions, as far as
we were enabled to ascertain, escaped the crowd that
remained after the termination of the meeting, from
which ono might judge of the settled purpose which
they had in view. We heard one man cry out in
French—" Death to Guizot," " Long live the
ilepublie," but he sot med afraid that any one
should observe that he was the utterer of such senti-
ments.

At two o'clock, or a little after, a large number of
of the police, consisting of dr•titehments of the U, E, A,
and B divisioiat, took up their position at different
parts of the iquare, and proceeded simultaneously
to clear away the crewel, elio resisted the rather sum-
mar). way in which they began to put their orders into
force. In fact the people—and it is right to state
that a vast number of them were young men
and boys of the labouring class—did not relish
the interference of the police, eh°, in order the better to
accomplish their object, struck with too much violence
right and left. They were assailed with the most dis-
cirdant yells, and we saw several stones thrown
at them. Some were severely punished, and the
truncheon cf one was wrested from him and
thrown into the basin amidst cheers. We were
informed by several persons, who, seeing us with a
note-book and pencil, gathered round us to give infor-
mation, that a little boy was struck so violently across
the head by one of the A division, of whose violence
a great many complained to us, that he fell, and that the
blood flowed from beneath his cap; also, thet a young
man was knocked down like a bullock by one of the
same division, and carried off for dead. A man told us
that 63 A acted with the most unnecessary
violence. It is right to mention that the tempers
of the police were sorely tried. When we saw them
strike they did so with unnecessary force, and seemed
altogether to have lost their tempers. Many respect-
able persons with whom we entered into conversation,
agreed in opinion that if the police had not interfered,
no acts of violence would have been committed.
Between thirty and forte men and boys have been
taken into custody for assaulting the police in the
execution of their duty. Some of them are severely
wounded about the head. A great many were taken to
the Charing-cross Hospital to have their wounds dressed;
a few came back with plasters on their heads and
exhibited them to the mob. At the time we
write, two persons, a man and a boy, are
in the hospital, being treated for rather severe
wounds ; but we were informed that it was
not unlikely that they would be in a condition to be
discharged in the course of the night.
Inspector Baker, 19 A, had his eyelid severely cut
with a :Acme; he received also a severe wound at the
back of his head, and was obliged immediately to go to
the surgeon of the force.
About three o'clock that portion of the palings
of the Nelson monument nearest the National Gallery
was torn down, and a number of men and boys got on
the plinth of the column. Two or three persons who
stood on the margin of the basins mere pushed in out of
sheer fun, and did not escape without a severe ducking
Police constable 48 A had his eye severely cut, and the
police are more or less injured.
The greater portion of the police were withdrawn at
half•past five °clock, and as soon as they went order
was in a great measure restored.
We have seldom seen a mob more inveterate against
the police. Had they not mustered in such large num-
bers some must have been killed, for there were bitter
cries of " throw them into the basin." The people
were exasperated at being struck with their truncheons.
The fierce rushing to and fro of large knots of
people chased by the police, now closing upon them,
then struggling fiercely, and shouting with all
their might, with the batons striking away in all direc-
tions, had the appearance of a formidable riot, looking
down upon it from the steps of St. Martin's
Church. The club windows, and in fact every available
spot from which a view of the conflict could be obtained,
was crowded.

About five o'clock the great body of the mob left
Trafalgar-square and proceeded along Pall-mall, into
St. James's Park, breaking the lamps at intervals and
tearing up the wooden rails placed round the young
trees, with which latter they armed themselves. Pro-
ceedieg up the Mall, they passed Buckingham Palace and
returned through Westminster. In passing up Tothill-
street a baker's shop and beer shop were menaced by the
mob. The baker very discreetly emptied his shelves,
and threw out all the bread he had to the mob, many of
whom eagerly devoured it. The police coming up with
the crowd here, took several of the ringleaders into
custody. The great body returned up Whitehall to
Trafalgar-square, where they remained in groups up to
ten o'clock.
A correspondent sends the following:—.
Eleven o'Clock.—At the present time the erowd,which
two hours since numbered in Trafalgar-square and its
tv
oi i
aboutni t)-
fifteenfive
hundred.
thousand
persons, has dwindled down
The
parties who are still
lingering behind appear bent upon mischief. Imme-
diately under the equestrian statue at Charing-cross, a
man, evidently insane, has been addressing about two
hundred persons for the space of five minutes. His lan-
guage, however, was most inflammable; he advised the
little knot of persons around him to go to Buckingham
Palace and insist upon the Charter being given; cif it
was refused, to do to the palace the same as the people in
France did. He should like to see, provided they did not
hurt the Queen, the throne burnt in the middle of Tra-
falgar-square. The speaker had hardly uttered his
treasonable sentence than the approach of a body of
police made him run from his position. As he departed
he was loudly applauded by the rabble.
Half-past Eleven.—The crowd has considerably dimi-
nished, and there is no appearance of any further mis-
chief being done.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence, in Downing-street.