The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE

Revolution in France.

In our last paper we stated that the King of the French
had, in his speech at the opening of the Chambers a few
weeks ago, condemned the Reform Banquets; that great
excitement prevailed in the house during the debate on
that question ; but that the offensive passage in the speech
was approve(' of by a majority of 43.
The opposition, stung by defeat, afterwards published
a manifesto, declaring that the recent ministerial address
was a flagrant violation of the rights of the deputies, and
the principles of the constitution. They also declared
their determination to hold a reform meeting in Paris,
and it was said that the National Guards (12 legions) had
given in their adhesion to the opposition party. The
parliamentary reform.

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avowed obj

leet of the movement was

Yesterday week the government resolved to prevent the
reform banquet by military force. A proclamation was
issued prohibiting all assemblies, and these, when posted
on the walls, were torn down by the populace. The
committee of the banquet published a manifesto renoun-
cing the meeting, recommending, at the same time order
and submission. Meanwhile the opposition deputies an-
nounced their intention of impeaching the cabinet on
nit in which this determination
nities immediately affixed their
facts became known, the great-
Multitudes collected in the
ministers was loudly depre-

Pressed, thirty de

est excitement prevailed

cated.
During the whole of Monday night, military waggons
and artillery caissons rolled constantly from Vincennes to
the barracks in Paris. Troops were collected by the go-
vernment to the number of 100,000 men, adequate, it

faithful, to suppress any insurrection. The popularity at
M. Odillon Barrot (a deputy) became somewhat on the
wane.

On Tuesday, at noon, 30,000 persons assembled round
the Chambers, which they proceeded to attack. The ap-
proaches were entirely closed, except for deputies. Tin
populace were frequently charged during the day by ca-
valry. An attack was made upon the Hotel of Foreign
Affairs, and the windows were broken. An attempt to
force the gates was repulsed by the troops. Throughout
the principal thoroughfares the lamps were entirely bro-
ken. Odilion Barrot proceeded at four o'clock, to lay an
impeachment of the cabinet ministers before the Cham-
ber of Deputies. The rising was general throughout
Paris. The rappel was beaten throughout all Paris tr
call out the National Guards. The shops of several gun-
...

Is and arn►ourers were pillaged. 13-arricades wereob
viou,ly preparing in several districts. The funds, how
ever, did not decline.

At five o'cleek, the lintel of Foreign Affairs was fillet
with troops, the mob shouting in every direction, "A Las
Guizot ! La ate de Guizot !" • Several cavalry wen
wounded, and sub officers killed. The mob paraded thy
city singing the " Marsellaise." The Rue de Rivoli wa,
unpaved ; the omnibuses were overturned, and all publi,
conveyances were stopped. Several skirmishes took pin
between the people and the military, but withoi
injury to either. Each company of infantry d, be-
sides their usual arms, a collection of impltil is for cut
ling down barricades, such as hatchets, i 1 axes, a

THE CHAMBER.
On Tuesday the Chamber of Deputies presented
gloomy aspect. Few deputies were in attendance ; tb,

Guizot arrived at an early hour; he looked pale but con-
fident. He was shortly afterwards followed by the Min-
ister of Public Instruction, and Commerce. Marshal Bu-
geaud, who was believed to have accepted the militat:,
command of Paris, in the event of a revolt, took his seat
close to the Ministerial Bench. At three o'clock M.
Odillon Barrot entered the hall, accompanied by Messrs.
Duvergier de Hauranne, Marie, niers, Garnier' Pages,
&c. Their appearance produced some sensation. Shortly
afterwards, M. de Hauranne went up to the President
and handed him a pa 'nosed to be a proposition for

the impeachment of Ministers. This paper having been
communicated by the President to M. Guizot, the latter,
after perusing it, laughed immoderately. M. Thiers,
Dupin, Lamartine, Billaut, Cremieux, and the Minister
of the Interior and Justice next made their appearance,
but no incident of interest occurred. When the discus-ion
terminated, M. Odillon Barrot ascended the tribune, and
deposited on the table a formal proposition to the effect
of impeaching Ministers. The President, however, raised
the sitting without reading it, to the great disappointment

of the Opposition, but announced that it shou-h1 be sub.
mitted to the approbation of the bureaux on Thursday.
The house then adjourned.
Shortly after five o'clock on Tuesday a collision toot
place in the Rue St. Honore. A squadron of dragoon
t'— -1 in hand, and a great slaue

chargec, ie people sworn s.ea iter
took place. The conflict was going on at the time the
last accounts left. Several wounaed had been taken to
the hospitals.
The money, securities, &c., of the Bank of France
were removed to their caves, lest the populace shnuld fire
or destroy the bank and pillage it. Tile le,ling was bitter
against M. Guizot. The movement was not confined to
the merely poor and destitute. The opponents of the
troops were for the most part composed of tradesmen and
better sort of mechanics, and in many instances masters
shut up their establishments, in order to afford their men
an opportunity of taking part in this manifestation.
Many of the hotels were occupied by troops. During
the night of Wednesday, there was sovere,fighting in the
Rue Montmatre, and in the Faubonrgs St. Denis and
St. Antoine. In the Faubourg Sr. Denis the fighting Was
very se-

re. In the Fauhouig St. Antoine the people
were early victorious. In the quarter of the Temple the
streets were strewed with broken glass to prevent the
cavalry from charging. General Jacqueminot, the Com-
mander of the National Guards, went round to the differ-
ent arrondissements, and attempted to harangue the men,
but they refused to listen to him. At three o'clock in the
morning the Colonel of the Second Legion of the National
Guards, accompanied by an officer, went to the Tuileries,
and announced to the King that he could not answer for
fidelity of his men. This account must have obtained
ready credence from the King, as he could not but bear
the cries of "A Las Guizot !" " Vive la Reforms !"
raised by the National Guard assembled outside the gar-
dens of the Tuileries. At four o'clock in the morning it
was announced to the people that the ministry had re-
signed. They received the announcement with cheers,
but,exclaimed, " It is not enough. we must have reform."
From that moment, however, fighting ceased, and Marshal
Bugeaud, who had been invested with the command of
the troops, was escorted home by the National Guards.

RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS

On 'Wednesday a deputy put some questions to M.
Guizot, in the Chamber, relative to the movement, and
he immediately rose and said,—" I have nothing to say
at the present moment to the interpellations of the ho-
nourable member. The King has sent for Count Mole,
who is empowered to form a ministry." (Loud cries of
" Bravo" and cheers followed this announcement, which
appeared to annoy M. Guizot.) He then continued,—
" We are not to be prevented by such manifestations as
those I now hear, as long as we remain in office, which
will be till our successors are appointed. from doing our
duty. We shall consider ourselves answerable for all that
may happen. We shall act in everything we do accord-
ing to our best judgment and our consciences, and ac-
cording to what we consider the interests of the country."
Odillon Barrot wished to postpone the impeachment of
ministers, but this was not entertained. About one hun-
dred members of the opposition supported the adjourn-
ment ; the whole of the conservatives were against it.
The chamber immediately rose in great agitation.

At a subsequent meeting it was announced that minis-
ters were out of office. A ministry headed by Count Mole
was named, but this was merely conjectural.
The Presse, in reference to the transactions of Wednes-
day, says :—" The whole of the quarter of the Faubourg
Montmartre and of the quarter Poissonniere were near
remaining last night in complete obscurity. The work-
men of the two establishments which supply those dis-
tricts with gas met in their workshops, and declared that
they would not permit the gas to be lit in the evening,
and that if the cocks were turned they had decided to cut
the pipes. The authorities, after a long parley, were
obliged to send for the troops and have the establishments
evacuated."

ACCUSATION OF MINISTERS

The following is a copy of the accusation signed by M.
0. Barrot and 42 other opposition deputies ;
"We propose to place the Minister in accusation as
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guilty-1. Of having betrayed abroad the honour and in-
terests of France. 2. Of having falsified the principles of
the constitution, violated the guarantees of liberty, and
attacked the right of the people. 3. Of having, by a
systematic corruption, attempted to substitute, for the
free expression of public opinion, the calculations of pri-
vate interest, and thus perverted the representative gov-
ernment. 4. Of having trafficked for ministerial purposes
in public offices, as well as in all prerogatives and privileges
of power. 5. For having, in the same interest, wasted
the finances of the state, and thus comprised the forces
and the grandeur of the kingdom. 6. Of having violently
despoiled the citizens of a right inherent to every free con-
stitution. and the exercise of which had been guaranteed
to them by the Charter, by the laws, and by former pre-
cedents. 7. Of having, in fine, by a policy overtly coun-
ter-revolutionary, placed in question all the conquests of
our two revolutions, and thrown the country into a pro-

The following proposition, by the Abbe de Genoude was
handed to the President of the Chamber of Peers on Wed-
nesday :

-• wnereas ministers, in refusing to consent th a reform
in an electoral law which deprives the citizens of all parti-
cipation in political rights, violate the national sovereignty,
and are in consequence the cause of the troubles and dan-
gers which befall social order ; and whereas they thus keep
France in a system immoral and ruinous at home, and de-
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gruumg atia injurious abroad, the undersigned, the deputy
for Toulouse, demands from the Chamber the impeach-
ment of the President of the Council, and of his col-
leagues."

SUBSEQUENT PARTICULARS RECEIVED ON FRIDAY NIGHT.
Louis Philippe has abdicated. The Comte de Paris is
king. The Due de Nemours is rejected. The royal fa-
mily have left Paris. A provisional government is in-
stalled, composed of Alphonse Lamartine, Ledru Rollin,
Odillon Barrot, Marie Arago, Granier Pages, and Lous
Blanc.

he provi-

ition of Louis
• of the Nations

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Philippe has been pronounced.
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established under

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