The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

A Parisian mob, estimated at thirty thousand men,
broke into the National Assembly and the Hotel de
Ville on Monday ; and having dispersed the deputies
and the ministry, proclaimed a new government, with
Ledru Rollin at its head. Ths National Guards, how-
ever, and the military came to the rescue ; and, soon
after, the old ministry were reinstated. Mons. Blanqui
and another ultra member of the clubs were said to have
instigated the movement, and were in custody. The city
was in a state of great excitement.
The following scene in the National Assembly, when it
resumed its sitting after the restoration of order, is taken
from the Debats ;

The National Assembly resumed its sitting. M.
Lamartine declared that the place of the Executive Com-
mission was in the midst of danger in the street, and he
quitted the Assembly, in company M. Ledru Rollin, to
proceed to the Hotel de Ville. It is announced that
MM. Courtais, Barbes, Blanqui, Sobrier, Hubert, and
Raspail are arrested. It appears that one of them had
already proceeded to the Ministry of the Interior, had
taken possession of the seals of office, and had despatched
order's, when the National Guard resumed possession of
the Hotel, General Foucher, commanding the first mili-
tary division, received the command of all the troops.
General Baraguay d'Hillicrs was appointed to command
the troops charged with the defence of the National
Assembly. M. Etienne Arago announced that the service
of the Post-office was perfectly free. M. Duclerc,
Minister of Finance, informed the Assembly that an
announcement of the restoration of order had been des-
patched to the departments by telegraph. Cries were
heard outside, but on this occasion they were raised by
the National Guard. On the proposition of M. Portalis,
the Attorney-General, the Assembly authorised the arrest
of two of its members, General Courtais and M. Barbes.
Great applause greeted the appearande of MM. Arago
and Gamier Pages, who came from the Luxembourg
where they, had been sitting all day. It was thence they
gave orders to convoke the National Guard. M. Gamier
Pages stated that all the measures necessary for the pro-
tection of the Assembly had been adopted in the morn-
ing, but that all the orders given by the Government had
not been obeyed. He added that the Government had
determined to maintain order ; that the right of associa-
tion should be respected ; but that the clubs, whose sole
object was to attack and overthrow the National Assembly,
should be closed. When M. Gamier Pages stated that
France desired an honourable republic (une republique
honnete) his voice was drowned with acclamations. The
entire Assembly rose and exclaimed enthusiastically,
Five la .Republique.' M. Clement Thomas entered into
the hall and was received with universal applause. The
Government had appointed him Commander-in-Chief of
the National Guard. M. Lamartine entered and was
almost carried to the tribune. The sedition,' said he,
has been crushed in the bud. 'The men who escaped from
this hall to proceed to the Hotel de Ville have been dis-
armed and seized. The entire population has risen to
restore the sovereignty to the Assembly of which it had
for a moment been deprived. The people are pledged to
.the National Assembly through life or death. The ac-
clamation with which these words were received were
interrupted by a fresh tumult outside. M. L. Blanc
entered the hall, pale, his features distorted, and his
clothes torn. He ascended the tribune and descended
without being able to speak. It was said that he had just
returned from the Hotel de Ville. He again ascended the
tribune, and said, I affirm, upon my honour.' Those
words were received with exclamations of incredulity.
M. Louis Blanc then swore by all that was most sacred
that he was perfectly unconnected with all that had
passed ; that he had never been an advocate for violence,
and he protested his respect to the Assembly. The con-
fusion was extreme on all the benches. M. Marrast, in
his turn, briefly recounted what had occurred at the Hotel
de Ville. The guard was found insufficient to repel the
columns of men who pressed on that point. The iron
rails were forced, and four or five provisional governments
were proclaimed in succession. But the National Guards
recovered possession of the Hotel, which was surrounded,
and amongst the individuals arrested were found two
members of the Assembly, M. Barbes and M. Albert,
who were there perhaps by accident. The Attorney-
General then asked permission to arrest M. Albert, and
the Assembly granted it unanimously. After a few words
from M. Marie, the Assembly voted thanks to the
National Guard of Parls, and the Garde Mobile with
acclamation. The sitting was concluded at nine o'clock
in the evening. An immense body of the National Guard
remained outside under arms. The city was perfectly
—the cry of ' Vzve A:ssemblee Natufait;" wmuleinn
find an echo throughout France."
The Constitutionnel is very severe on Ledru Rollin,
whose conduct on the 15th was neither that of a member
of the government. nor of a representative of the people.
His servile temporising with the clubs, while in the act of
overthrowing the government, was disgraceful beyond ex-
pression. If Lamartine was weak on that day, his excuse
is, that his band was paralysed at seeing that he was sur-
rounded by traitors. He sees now a clear way before him,
and weakness is no longer excusable.
The Paris morning papers of Wednesday relate the fol-
lowing details connected with the affair of Monday :
.‘ On searching the house lately occupied by Sobrier, and used
as the office of the Commune de Paris, several documents were
found which prove that the conspiracy was concocted in the
offices of that payer.
"The first of the decrees found began with these words,—
' Whereas the revolutions of February and May, 1848,' so that
it would appear that it would appear that the conspirators felt
pretty sure of success.
"In another decree it says, Whereas, the national assembly
is composed of the advocates of re-action, and that it was not
appointed by labour; it is decreed by the people that it should
be dissolved.'
" In one of those documents there are some words written by
Sobrier with a pencil.
" A domiciliary visit has been made to the residence of M.
Cabet, and some muskets and ammunition seized. In an ad-
joining house a small quantity of powder was also found, as
well as some muskets. Two individuals were also arrested.
"Before the people had succeeded in forcing into the cham-
ber, on Monday, General Courtais was heard to say to some
ultra Montaguards, If you hear the rappel beating, I authorise
you to break the drums.'
"So great was the popular indignation against Sobrier, that
the officer who arrested him had the greatest difficulty in pro-
tecting him from the fury of the national guards and the people
who were present, and who showed the strongest inclination to
inflict summary punishment on him."
The following list of the candidates to form the com-
mission on the constitution is recommended to the Na-
tional:—MM. Lamennais, Donnes, Pascaul, Duprat,
Vaulahelle, Dupon-, De Boussac, Jean Reynaud, Crepu,
Perdiguier, Felix, Pyat, Jules Favre. Saint-Romme, Veg-
nerte, Considerant, and Trouve Chauvel.
General Cavaignac has been appointed minister of war,
Trouve Chauvel prefect of police. By a decree of the
executive, all armed meetings are forbidden, under pain
of from two years to three months' imprisonment. Louis
Philippe and family are expelled the French territory.
The state is to resume the possession of the railways.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.—In the French Assembly, on
Friday, Citizen Napoleon:Bonaparte, son of Jerome, ex-
King of Westphalia, moved that the Minister of Foreign
Affairs should lay on the table all the documents relating
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to Poland and Italy since the 24th of February to the pre:
sent time. It is remarked in the French papers that the
likeness of this gentleman to the Emperor Napoleon is
most extraordinary.
LORD NORMANDY IN DANGER.—His lordship was in

the French Chamber on Monday, at the time 'the mob
burst in. His lordship was hastily retiring when several
ladies claimed his protection. His gallantry could not
of course, resist the appeal, and turning round he saw a
citizen, en blouse, acting as leader, to whom he addressed
himself and claimed protection, as a stranger, for himself
and the ladies. This, in the most dignified manner, was
in a moment assented to, with the remark, " The citizens
,of Paris will always respect and protect strangers and
ladies." During this short conference his lordship saw
the glitter of a bayonet under the citizen's blouse.