Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1848-04-08
From Wilmer and Smiths European Times.
THE REVOLUTIONI IN FRANCE.


We noticed in our last the feversh state
in which political affairs stood in Paris on
the night of Tuesday, 10th Feb, and we
regret TO announce that each day has ad.
ded to that excitement which had increased
TO such pitch on the 22d, the day on
which it had been fixed to hold the great
reform banquet, that the entire city was in
open Instruction. The conversation which
took place in the Chamber of Deputies on
Monday evening. between Parrot and Du-
chatel, prepared the people for the formal
prohibition of the reform banquet which
was to take place on the following day
Procamatons by the project Of police.
and an order of the day by the commander
of the National Guards, were published,
forbidding the banquet and all assemble.
ges of people. and prohibiting the appear
ance Of the National Guards in uniform,
unless ordered by the chiefs. In conse.
quence of these acts of government, the
opposition deputies met, and resolved that
the banquet should not take place, that the
people be en,reated TO submit, and that a
motion for the impeachment of ministers
be made in the Chamber of Deputies. Ii
was further resolved, that should this be
negatived they would resign their functions
as deputies.
The army collected within Paris and the
surrounding villages aud forts considera-
bly, exceeds one hundred thousand men,
This force, unless the soldiers sympalhise
with the people, could crush the Parisians:
while the King and M. Guzot ight in
dulge their animosity to public meetings
with perfect safety. But if the army join
the people, this revolution would be more
effectually completed from the fact that sc
many men are congregated in the capita
and its envrons. Orders have been giver
to take military occupation of all the points
of the capital on which the assemblage Of
the people might be expected AS the day
advanced, the assembages in the streets
gradually increased, until dense crowds
filed the principal thoroughfares leading to
the legislative chambers, and large bodies
of police and military were called out &c
preserve order. They assembled in grea,
multitudes round the Chamber Of Depu
lies, andrforced their way over the walls
They were attacked by the troops and dis
persed, but re.assembled in various quar-
lers. They showed their hatred of M
Guizot by demolishing his windows and at
tempting TO enter his hotel, but were agar
repulsed by the troops. All the military
in Paris, and all the National Guards, were
summoned to arms and every preparation
made on the part of the government to pu
down the people. The latter raised BARR
cades in various places, and unpaved the
streets, overturned omnibusses, and made
preparations for vigorous assault, or {
protracted resistance.
All the accounts from Paris represent
the city in a terrific state of excitemen
and dismay the whole of that day. Al
the streets leading to the Chamber of Dep
utes were like The bridge, occupied by
strong attachments of troops, and 40 one
allowed to pass except the deputies, the
newspaper reporters, and those who were
furnished with special tickets of admis
, sion.
We take the following from the Londor
Morning Chronicle:
, PARIS, Tuesday evening, Feb. %.
The accounts which sent you this morn
ing will have prepared you for the grea
confusion in the streets of paris, great as
semblages ofthe people, partial disturbance
: if not for actual Instruction, The result
is just what might have been expected
!, Immense masses have paraded the publ
thoroughfares throughout the day. Troop
in vast numbers were on foot, and occa
: sonally, where the masses became NOR
than ordinarily dense, charges of cavalr
were made upon the people, and the stree,
were cleared with wonderful quickness-
The shops were all closed, and business @
every kind was suspended. The crow
. generally directed itself towards the Plac
de la Madeleine, (where the banquet ha
> gone on, and the procession of the dept
J, ties was to have started from,) to the Plac
de la Concorde, and to the neighborhoo