Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-04-20

The ARMED FORCE OF PARIs.-For several
years past Louis Philippe has paid great atten-
ton to the Notifications and garrison of his
capital; and so apparently efficient has been his
military organization, that his throne was con-
sidered impregnable. Even the London Times
that oracle among newspapers, expressed an
opinion, after hostilities had been commenced,
that the outbreak would tend ''to increase the
strength ofthe Government, and expose the inn
pudence of the opposition This reasoning
was evidently based upon the known fact that
nearly taeo hundred thousand troops were sub
ject to the Kings orders, and would, it was
thought, carry his wiz into effect. That he
might be more certain of their aid in an hour of
need, they were divided into three seperate'
independent divisions, between which a
certain degree of rivalry was encouraged,
though all were taught TO cry, "Vive lie
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The Regular army of France is raised by
consCr ption-a lottery in which every Young
man in Francois forced to take his ticket, and
certain proportion who draw fatal numbers, to
serve for seven years, or purchase the services
of a substitute, which few have themeans to do.
The new leyies are first sent to Algeria, where
they are we'll drilled often in action, and as
martial law reigns there, acquire habits of i'm
on garrison duty at Paris, changing their quar-
ters every two months, in order TO prevent fra
termination with the populace. One hundred
thousand of these troops were in Paris and
quartered in the vicinity, under the command
of Marshal Bugeaud, whose hatred of civilians
is well known, aud who has little regard for
human life. He had at his command fourteen
detached forts, whose heavy artillery could re-
duce Paris TO ruins in day, as every house is
within range of their peices-while the arsen-
ais commissioned department and guard houses
were all well supplied with provisions and mu-
nitions of war.
The Municipal Guardisa police force. con-
sisting Of nearly seven thousand picked men,
who are divided into cavalry and Infantry, pro
badly the most serviceable corps in the world,
Though most of them have served in the army,
they consider themselvesabove the line, and are
insuflerably vain. In former troubles they have
been found very efficient in Emeutes, and are
generally married into the families of the work
ing classes. The Project of Police was their
nominal commander, acting under M. Du-
chatel, Minister Of the Interior. He also
commands battalion of Sapeurs-P Ompeirs
or soldier fremen, consisting of 329 men and
officers.
The National Guard enrols every man es-
tabllshed in business or who is householder,
and IS thus MALTA, composed OF the citizens
who have an interest at stake. They are we'll
uniformed and equipped, as infantry and cav
I airy, and have generally been called out about
five days in the year, as one legion is, in its
turn, on guard at the Palace. They ballot once
in five years for five candidates for each Office,
! from which the Ministers commission one, and
have thus managed TO get in their supporters
| They number about sixty thousand in the city
| limits, and twenty-five thousand in the banli-
Gus or suburbs, commanded by Gen. Jacquemi-
not. Their annual expenses for music, staff
officers, guard houses, &C., is about $3.50
and the individual expenses for uniforms are
| large. Not very soldier-like in their deport-
ment. this train band has been standing butt
ofridicule with the regular force; but in the
recent troubles, the Kings policy of keeping
them apart seems not to have succeeded. as
the troops ofthe line have sympathised with
them and the people. The municipal guards
have resisted with yalor worthy of a better
cause. fNI. -t-fE -
/ No Body Guard has existed in France since
the dissolution Of the Swiss Corps, in $780,
| Guard has been mounted at the Palace by
detachmeuts from all three. The above di-
! visions.