The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN,

they were at present admitted, would have sufficed to
hold ten times their number ; but all was wild con-
fusion, marked by indignation on the part of the
persons who had been, as they looked on it, unfairly
excluded, and by nervous apprehension on the part of
those on whom ladies were dependent for protection.
Down came the human torrent on the spot where the
Prince and his cortege stood, and with such irresis-
tible violence, that to all appearance the seats and
everything else would be swept away before it.
Seeing this, and fearing the effect of such a collision, the
officers around the President rushed forward with loud
exclamations to meet it, and, if possible, to oppose to it a
barrier. By immense exertions, and at the risk of great
personal danger, they succeeded in stopping the first
lines of the crowd ; but the rush was still continuing
behind, and the parties who had pulled suddenly up,
were now in danger of being borne forward, whether
they would or no. Link arms together, gentlemen,'
cried the loud voice of General Magnan, and on no
account give way ! On you we entrust the task of
not allowing a man to advance !' The command was
immediately complied with, and the persons in the
two first lines having takers each his neighbour's arm,
and at the same time bearing strongly back, the
farther advance of the crowd was completely re-
sisted. A body of gendarmes was also placed a
little farther down somewhat in advance of the line of
seats already spoken V. But this state of calm was
only of temporary duration ; for efforts being made to
extricate ladies from the crowd, it was necessary for
the persons who were linked together in front to un-
lock their hold on each other's arms, in order to allow
them to pass; and soon the facility thus afforded began
to he abused, for husbands began to enter under the pro-
tection of their wives, and murmurs arose. Then at-
tempts were made to force those persons to retrace their
way, and at last disorder arose, which served as the
signal for a fresh rush from behind. The front lines
endeavoured to oppose it, but they could not make
good their footing on the waxed boards, which were
as slippery as glass, and the crowd rapidly advanced,
though not with the dangerous speed of the preceding
ru.h. The gendarmes were borne gradually back
until the crowd approached at last the spot where the
new preparations for the ceremony had been hastily
effected. Here the President of the Republic as-
cended one of the banquettes, and signing with his
hand for silence, the crowd stopped almost imme-
diately and listened. Gentlemen,' said the
Prince, the other room in which the distri-
bution was to have taken place has unfortu-
nately proved too small for the number of persons who
received tickets of admission. Under the circum-
stances of the case the best thing that can now be done
is to adjourn the proceedings until to-morrow.' The
Prince then descended, and, accompanied by his staff
and the various persons who had been admitted to the
other side of the seats placed across the gallery, left
the Louvre by the door which leads into the state
apartments of the Palace of the Tuileries. The crowd
on the other side of the seats by degrees dispersed,
and in about an hour the long gallery was empty. It
was arranged yesterday evening that the ceremony
shall take place tomorrow, at the Circus, in the
Champs Elysees."