Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-22
THE LATE NEWS FROM FRANCE.

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Paris, we could fill many columns with further in
teresting details from eye-wimesses, would our
space allow us TO do so consistently with other en-
gagements to which our colvmns are pledged. We
are obliged TO limit ourselves to the extracts below.
The following excerpts, from the Correspondent
Of the New York Tribune, (whose prepossessions
rather favor the classes engaged in the insurrecon
give distinct idea of the origin of the revolt,
and the prospects OF the future:
"The Revolution, (of February, it has been said often
enough made By the working classes. II their
premedated spontaneous actan inspiration wholly their
The Bougeoise, middle wealthy classes, had no
desire for t the utmost that they wanted was some reform
the mode Of elections The leaders Of the public thought
tho journalists and the chiefs ofhe different schools Of So
calss Of them expected revolution, still less re-
public They doubtful whether France ready for
such change The old conspaors the Republicans de Ia
uei had tried and failed, and without either power
hope try again. Quite as little did the working classes
themselves intend the revolution They discontented
miserable weary of the wretched and precaous life which
they compelled to lead and ready for change, but with
idea OF what change that they could have the OF
making any. But when the critical moment they seized
the Bougeose, the party Of the monarchy, struck
with CONSERVATION and could offer opposition Louis Phi
ppe driven out the revolution was accomplished and
the PROVISIONAL Government installed. ssh
elf ever in this world had glorious chance TO do
something immortal it those Of the Provisional Go
vernment Carried into unlimited power by the triumphant
enthusiasm Of the revolution, the whole nation ready TO
be moulded anew by hem and in truth expected nothing less
II well known that the labong classes had begun the
change, and had put them in their position loudly
proclaimed by all the organs Of the people, that the monarchy
not the only thing overthrown but that the moneyed
feudalsm had fallen with it, The revelation made by the
people, their benefit and not solely to hebe
nefit of the moneyed classes" &c. a-
The only mode in which the public aid bestowed
the starving aboers and their families through Louis
Bancs national workshops which, said, great and
growing source of expense They began with fifty thousand
men, and now contained eighty thousand, while fifty
thousand camorng for admtance. Not less than
seventeen millions of francs had already been spent hem
The bourgeoe had determined that they should cease the
people knew this and prepared arms POWDER and balls, and
arranged their plan of operations They resolved,
possible overthrow the Assembly, and put in Pro-
vonal Government which should provide for them. They
starving miserable beyond description the bankers and
spectators Of the Chausee dAnn and that quarter
rolling wealth, of which the aboreIs who had produced
had been cheated This should be taken from them by pub
lie Decree and at the time their labor should be
ganzed that they could be cheated to such extent
again In wod they prepared for that worst and most
terrible of all wars, ervile war Of those who have
nothing against those who have all and the immediate eH
which urged them to starvation in the midst
Of the spendors Of Paris
GA direct and outright dissolution Of the national work.
shops resoed The workmen organized into
divisions petence Of being dispatched here and there into
the country where they told work would await them
Some thousands Of them actually off, and the report
is that they at work and tranquil large body were
marched Cobe place forty miles to the southeast
Of the city, but received with contempt by the authors
ties there, and told that there work for them They
back Wednesday last On the morning OF that day
the remainder told that there money IN the
hands of the Government and their stipend could longer
be paid When they could expect again was impossible
say Perhaps after while there would be money, and
then they should have IT, Meanwhile they must shift for
themselves the best way they could However, if they would
become soldiers the Government would find to pay
them They might have that alternative.
sThis the signal for what both parties prepared
for On Thursday the workmen collected In bands and
vesed the parts Of the city which they had arranged make
the OF their operations bearing banners with inscriptions
expressive of the feelings uppermost in their minds In the
evening the public alarm had become general The
the National Assembly occupied by guards and troops
Of the line and the police busy dispensing the groups
that gathered in the Streets whether OF workmen or
others In the night barcades formed IN several
ters, and on Friday morning the battle began.
"For the details Of the fighting have not space and
you viii find them in the newspapers"
"Ju progress and permanent public order lido not expect
it the only the beginning, and nothing
ind that period Of convusve transition is The
old Revolution awful spectacle OF desolaion tut
from this distance look back and reckon the great good
that accomplished desoyed the old feudaism and laid
the foundations Of political liberty The Revolution has
work to do. It s to destroy the moneyed feudaism
and lay the foundation Of social liberty Wilt do this with
suffering and disturbance II might have done ~, one
would say but the leaders wanting, the proba
by il But through whatever trials France has
yet pass would be Atheism TO doubt that Providence
directs them and that the good Of humanity is the end Of ALL
This writer, the reader would learn from his last
paragraph. if we had no: already informed him, is
Of the progressive" class, in France termed So
ciasis who are for u?:n-ni1g 30 s:o-,Na.oIs =
society in order to reconstruct ii ro plsase tloin-
selves. The information which he gives of the
origin of the late conflict, however, we have no
doub. is true and so, too we fear, are his predic
tons that the reign Of anarchy carnage, and desc
laticu" is now only at the beginning"
But the following. from M. GAILLARDET, Gate
Editor, and now the Paris Correspondent, of the
New York French paper,) is of greater interest," be-
cause from an intelligent Frenchman, who knows
his countrymen, and writes apparently with candor
and without prejudice. He confirms, in the main,
the foregoing account of the origin and causes OF
the late sangunary scenes:
FROM THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
We con6ne our trsnsations, for the present, to
what he I'M. GAILLARDET says Of the preceding
events as developing the cause
The breaking up Of the national workshops in Paris has
the origin and precxt Of this social war; which has had
Cor s victims the wokmen aide and the national guards
and soldiers Of the regular army the other.