The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-04-08

The Paris correspondent of the Trimno
gives some interesting particulars in the hi,
tory of the Revolution. We copy as follow,
A SCENE in THE STREET.
went out after dinner to see the moc
ments, and in passing up Rue de la Pax saw
an immense crowd-many thousands-un.
armed and preceded by torches, making their
way down the boulevard l followed them
until they came in front of Guizot's Hotel 4
where they rent the air with the usual cries
but seemed every way peaceahly disposed.
Surprising it was all Overseeing that
every house was being illuminated in honor
ofthe down fall of Guizot, and believing that
the revolution was al an end, went away to
friends. 1t was but n few minutes after
left, than.an accidental shot from the Hotel
itself, broke the leg ofan officers horse. The
officer in command thinking his troops were
attacked, without moments consideration
gave the order TO fire, and deachmentOf
the lth line dropping their muskets TO the
| hip with the muzzlcs touching the dense mass
ofunwarned people before them, fired, and
fity-two persons fell dead and wounded. A
cry of horror and astonishnlent burst from
the crowd-"1hey assassinale us! they as
sassinate us To arms ! to ormsw sounded
on every side. The wounded were taken H.
and the dead placed in carts were drawn from
street to street. through the city with torches
gIaring on their CHASTITY countenances, and
fierce and eloquent men pleading over &er
bloody corpses for vengeance. There was
no longer any though: of reconciliation; all
night the people toiIed at the barricades, and
ut sunrise the next morning, scarcely street
was passabe to cavalry or artillery. The
pavement was torn up, all the trees were cut
down, cabs, omnibuses and carts were over.
turned, and when morning came Paris was
no longer in n riot but in open Revolution
THE ESCAPE OF THE KING.
The people were not now. however pre-
pared 10 take concessions, and cries of "a
bas Louis PhihppeE began 10 he heard on
every side. The masses now armed and deS
perate and released from service in most of
the streets--the troops having ceased firing
poured like a flood toward the Palace of
the TuiiereS.
Meanwhile desperate battle was going on
atthe Palais Royal, and the Chatcau d'Eau
between the people and The 18th line; and it
was evident that il was The design of the in
surgents to attack the TuiIeres. The Ma
tional Guard had already iraternzed with the
people, and at may points the troops OF the.
line, after turning down their hayonets, had
by the people, who wanted weapons,
1t was evident that the King had no more
hope, and that if he grcmaned much longer
in the palace he must become prisoner.
His seventeen years oftreacherous and fraud
ulent Government was at an end, and hc
King Of the French, exalted TO his place by
a Revolution. obliged to yield TO the same
lower and abdicate. So sudden, so uneX-
pected was all this to him, that the fanny
breakfast was found half eaten on the iable'
The royal family were obliged to leave inc
table, witness the abdication and be out OF
the Palace in the short space of fifteen NM
utes. The King and Queen, and most OF 'De
royal family, made their way on foot through
the garden to the Place de la Concorde, whefe
with the greatest difficulty, they sllcceeaeu
in getting couple of cabrioleis the most
common description, and in these surround,
ed by a large detachment of cavalry lheygh
Paris by the quays. So sudden was the hIs'9,
that not an article of clothing was TAKEN ana
the King was obliged to borrow money ~
the Place de la Concorde from the officers "
bout him, in oyder to be able to get away
SCENE IN THE CHAMBERS OF DErU'
o TIES.
[After the rejection of the Duchess Oh VIZ
leans as Regent and her oldest son as 'e"
to the throne, and sthe PRONUNCIATION OF '"'
Provisional Government, the following 'n0''
dents occurred:1 trt
The names were accepted,by acclaIra,',J,"o,
and Ledru Rollin, raising his voice ANY, W ;ts
wild disorder, called the Government. ,yb;le
first session in the Hotel de Vile, anu w." W, at
a workman was discharging his lnusS n,hers
the picture of Lonis Philippe, auu " other
were endeaVorng to preserve that anu fEeb-
property from destruction,the SESSION u
ruary "a ended. cuIom.
1t was at the close ofthe speech Oh W that
artine that the Duchess d'Orleans, seeing v;pI,.
there was no hope for her, turned 10 The
draw, but this was no longer fache. ,aren.
Duchess was separated from her c.in ,.ork,
and the children from each other; =, a . Yours
man broke the sword ofthe Due de Ne'1' The
in his face; and a man in blouse seiz .e'.ncle
Comte de Paris by the throat as II 10 s,r s,;o,-
him, but was thrown off by young N ,a.;nc
al Guardsnan, Alfred Mary. who, p Those
himself between the child and the tnop, "" Sre
guns were leyeled nt him, told them ~, 70 frst
if they would, but they must take his i'o s;de
Then, hurrying the Comte through awe ave,
door leaped from the window TO me ,ba
ment beneath. A friend handed down ~
child, and Mary ran with him in ms arr" car,
the Hotel DIES Invalides, outstrrpping ll'1 be,
rage which brought the Duchess ana ,,or ~i
otf,er child to The same Mace. The ieie'S