The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-17 00:00:00

INSURRECTION IN PARIS.

(From the Times of Tuesday.)
We have this moment received by an extraordinary ex-
press letters from our correspondent and the evening papers,
dated Sunday night eleven o'clock, announcing an insurrec-
tion in Paris. The following letter, from our correspondent,
contains a summary of the events known to him up to the
date of his letter :
" PARIS; Sunday Night, May 12, 11 o'Clock, p.m.
" This day, at half-past two &clock, commenced an emeute,
if not insurrection, of a very serious nature. At half-past
two o'clock this afternoon a number of men, amounting to
at least 200, suddenly made their appearance in the Rue St.
Denis. Their presence attracted a great crowd of idlers,
and they were immediately joined by others of their own
party, no doubt, all of them being, like them, dressed in
blouses, with casquettes (the ordinary apparel of workmen.)
They passed down the street rapidly, and halting before the
house of Lepage, the gunmaker, which they attacked ; and,
after some difficulty, forced an entrance into it, and seized
about 150 muskets, and other fire-arms, which they carried
off. They forthwith passed down that street (the focus of all
previous insurrections), and, reaching the quays, divided.
One party proceeded to the military post on the Quai aux
Fleurs, adjoining the Palais de Justice, and called on the
troops to surrender. Without waiting for a reply, they fired
a volley, which killed a very fine young man, the sentinel at
the door, and wounded the officer in command, and a serge-
ant. The, soldiers (principally conscripts) immediately sur-
rendered, and were disarmed.
" Having achieved this feat, they attacked the Palais de
Justice, but were repulsed by the Municipal Guards, who
killed several of them. _ _ _ _

" Another party returned towards the Pont Neuf, per-
fectly at leisure and at their ease, as I saw them in the re-
volution, and subsequently on the sth of June, 1832.
" Several dead bodies were brought to the Morgue, and
and among them two women—one elegantly dressed, and the
other of the working or lower orders.
" While this was going on, the military post in the Place
du Chatelet was attacked and easily disarmed.
" A party which proceeded to the Place de Greve attacked
the Hotel de Ville, defended by some National Guards, who
surrendered to them. They erected on the Quai Pelletier a
barricade with coaches.

" A general movement was then made towards that classic
ground, the Rue St. Martin, where, as usual, they com-
menced erecting barricades, extending from the church of
St. Marie towards the Halle. The Rue Aubrey le Boucher,
and those in its vicinity, are said to be as well covered with
barricades as in June, 1832.
• has OCatipled RE,Ferly an hour. irk.
guards were the first who approached the insurgents,
and fired on them. After a heavy fire, with but little mis-
chief to either party, the latter gave way, and fell back on
their central point already mentioned. There they must
have received reinforcements or co-operation, for at eight
o'clock some of them were already in the Rue Coq St. Honore,
and in the Rue Croix des Petits Champs, were two shots
were tired ; but, although their object was unquestionably to
have attacked the Louvre in that quarter, they were deterred
from it by the closing of the gates, and the firm attitude of
the troops within. (I ought, when speaking of the first
movements of the insurgents, to have stated that they shot a
national guard, u painter by profession, at the Rue Hauteville.
A woman also unfortunately fell there.)
" Even in the Rue Richielieu, near the Rue St. Mare,
some of the insurgents presented themselves, and fired half-
a-dozen shots, and then proceeded to the Rue St. Denis.
"About half an hour since I saw a general officer, who,
from his white-feathered hat, I took for a marshal, proceeding
with a heavy escoxt of cavalry to take the command of the
castle of Vincennes. It is needless to say that all the gar-
rison is on foot. The National Guards also turned out nu-
merously at the first beat of the rappel. Patroles of each are
passing every instant through the streets, and an occasional
shot is heard, but no vollies or sound to indicate that a gene-
ral attack is going on. The morning will be a terrible one,
it is to be feared.

" You will now ask me, as I have asked a hundred people,
"What is all this ? What is it about ?'

" I am told it is the outbreak of a regular republican con-
spiracy. That the disaffected have 26 depots of arms in
several parts of the town, and that they are well organized
and well prepared.
" There is in the affair an alarming feature. Six or eight
regiments of the garrison are under orders for the depart-
ments, to be relieved by others on march for the metropolis.
Rumour states, that their removal is owing to an intimation
received by government that they had been successfully tam-
pered with. If this be true, there is but too much reason to
expect that the insurgents will be joined by some of the
soldiery.
" I cannot close without observing, that the revolt has
come like a thunder-clap on the government ; and that the
respectable portion of the public, while condemning the in-
surrection, attribute it in a great measure to the want of a
government, arguing that ' if there had been a government,
no insurrection would have occurred, for the plot in which it
originated would have been discovered.'
There are great crowds at Tortoni's, but no business
doing, as you will easily guess.
" I forgot to say that no rallying cry was or is heard from
the insurgents, but yells of the most savage and hellish cha-
racter. Will you. believe it.? The mob are told that the
people of England and Ireland are in full revolt.
" In fine, the only thing clear is, that we are in insurrec-
tion. I think it will be suppressed ; btlt God only knows at
what expense!'