Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-03-30
From Wilmer < Smiths European Times.
The Revolution in France.

Chronicle:
PARIS, Tuesday evening.
The accounts which | sent you this morning will
have prepared you for great confusion in the streets
of Paris great assemblages of the people, and partial
disturbance, if not for actual instruction. The re-
suit is just what might have been expected. I'm
mense masses have paraded the public thoroughfares
throughout the day. Troops in vast numbers on
foot, and occasionally, where the masses became
more than ordinarily dense, charges of cavalry were
made upon the people, and the streets were cleared
with wonderful quickness. The shops were all closed
and business of every kind was suspended. The
crowd generally directed itself toward the Place de
la Madeleine, (where, If the banquet had gone on,
the procession of the deputies was TO have started
from to the Place de la Conccrde, and to the neigh
borhood Of the Chamber of Deputies.
The principal portion of the crowd appeared to have
been drawn together more from curiosity than from
the wish to create disorder, and they were far
formidable from their vast numbers than from their
apparent intentions; STILL however, there were occa-
sional parties Of very different character Masses
Of in blouses frequently amounting to thousands,
were TO be eeen marching together with certain
degree of order, and apparently under regular lead
A large body of students also paraded the bou
levards, mixed with others of more ambiguous, if
not of more dangerous description, singing the
MGrSeIGise at the very pitch Of their voices and vo
cerating A bdS Guizot! bas le minisiere riUe Ia
Teforne accompanied with groans or cheers, the
nicpal guards horse and foot, drawn up in different
quarters, and occasionally charging the people where
they assembled In large numbers or appeared threat
ening thousands upon thousands Of cavalry and in
fantry in all the principal squares, boulevards, and
quays; and muitudes Of anxious people cIOwding
tie windows wherever there chance of seeing
what was going on, you have before you picture Of
what Paris was during the whole Of this day.
l shall now proceed to give you detached details,
which 1t is difficult TO arrange In regular and con-
nected form. have already said that the principal
point to which the crowd tended the Place de la
Madeleine and the Place de la Concorde. About half
past eleven regiment Of infantry and several squad
Tons, drew up near the church of the Madeleine,
where the crowd was mct dense. few minutes af-
forwards, an immense body OF persons, almost all
dressed in bouses, and said to upwards of
6OO0 appeared from the direction of the bouleyards
but no one could exactly say from what place they
came. They marched in procession, holding each
others arms, and sung the Marseillase in gene
raj chorus. When passing Durand's restaurant, they
gave three cheers for reform, and then proceeded,
without stopping to the Place de la Concorde, their
evident intention being to make their way to the
Chamber Of Deputies. At the bridge opposite the
Chamber of Deputies, however, they were stopped by
a large body of cavalry and infantry, drawn up on
the bridge. They then brought to standstill,
and their numbers were great that they filled the
whole of the Place de la Concorde of the largest
squares in urope. Just at that moment portion OF
the cavalry al the bridge charged upon the mass, sep
araed and drove considerable portion back towards
the boulevards while the rest driven into the
Champs Elysees, and the rest down the Rue Rivoli.
The whole of the place cleared In less time
than can be conceived; but the soldiers though they
did their duty with great determination and effect, SO
far from using unnecessarily harsh means, appeared
to 90 about 1t with great humanity, and even good
humor. The portion of the crowd driven back to-
wards the bouleyards md still marching in order and
arm-n-arm, had four national guards at their head
armed with their sabres. In the Place de la Made
lene an attempt was made by the troops to dispense
them, which only partially successful and shortly
after they another large body, the leaders Of whom
fraternally embraced the national guardsmen On
irving in front of the Hotel des Aares Etrangeres
they stopped and sung the MGrseiise in full chorus
They then began to cry out "a bGs Guizot bGS Il
1IiniStere!" and the excitement evidently in
creasing. At length very young man took up a
large stOne which he hurled against the great gate OF
the hotel, example which was followed by the rest,
who began knocking against the gate; shower oil
stones thrown at the time, and broke seve-
raj windows. During this time q body of the NUM-
cipal guards, (infantry,) who were drawn up within
the gates, deliberately loaded their muskets and pre-
pared for what might follow but body of cavalry
emerging from the Rue des Capucines at that moMent
charged, struck of the most active with the flat
side of their sabres, and very succeeded in dis
persing the crowd, and relieving the residence of the
President of the Council from the danger 1t was in.
In small street in the neighborhood of the Rue
Vivienne, body of rutans attempted to break into
gunmaker's shop, but failed. They then attacked
the shop of poor msrchdnd de bois, and plundered il
of the small quantity of rewood it contained, which
they formed into stakes. In the different attacks made
by the troops, severe blows occasionally
dealt, and upon the whole u considerable number OIL
received sabre and severe bayonet wounds
but did not hear of any one being killed.
may as well mention, that among the other cries
which issued from the crowd, was that of rire d
hgns. which to be heard every time the compac
bodies, which appeared from time to time, p used
regiment Of infantry. A great nsmber of prisoners
taken by the police, who had been caught in the
act of uttering seditious cries throwing stones
impeachment of the Ministry.
At the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies on the
3d. the deputies of the opposition, to the mum o.
50, submitted the following proposition:
"We propose to place the Minister in accusation
guilty
81. Of having betrayed the honor and the iuteres
of France
"2 OF having falsifed the principles of the consti
tuition, violated the guarantees of liberty and attack
ed the rights of the people.
80 or having, by systematic corruption, at
tempted substitute for the free expression of pub
lie opinion, the calculations of private interest, ant
thus perverted the representative government.
"a OF having traficked, for ministerial purposes
in public offices, well in all the prerogatives ant
privileges of power.
as For having in the same interest, wasted tn
finances of the State and thus compromised the force
and the grandeur of the kingdom.
sc. Of having violently desPoiled the citizens O
right inherent to every free constitution, and tn
exercise Of which had been guaranteed TO them by tn
charter, by the laws, and by former precedents.
at OF having, in fine, by policy overly counter
revolutionary placed in question all the conquests
a. H., r.<f<