Guardian (Newspaper) - June 28, 1848, London, Middlesex 128.] NEWS OF THE some no There has been bloody work this week in revolutionized In two of its greatest cities the thunder of cannon and the rattle of roaring on through day and night amidst populous church and stacks of houses crowded with human have proved that M. de Lamartine is and that the age of revolutions has not come The struggle which everybody save the members of the French Executive begun jn Paris on Friday The determination of the Assembly to close once for all the running sore of the national workshops had become and on the morning of that day a detachment of operatives had been ordered to quit the metropolis for their By barricades had been thrown the red flag had been and the streets were alive with a hundred thousand penniless men fighting for the bread which they could not or would not J'ai said one of the with perfect coolness to a gentleman who remonstrated with mais jc no. pas je me ferai The man who spoke thus was getting twenty-two sous a day for doing The combativeness which forms so prominent a feature of the French character was never more conspicuously developed than in this terrible scene of the revolutionary The desperate ferocity of the pauper army was not more than a match for the determined courage of the National body drawn mainly from that class of people whom we are accustomed to think the least the reckless gallantry of the half-grown lads who form the Garde And yet of those who fought on the side of order there must have been many thousands who had as little to lose by the triumph of anarchy as its famished The obstinacy with which the contest was maintained from Friday evening until Monday in the face of seventy thousand troops of the besides an immense force of volunteers and is partly accounted for by the strength of the ground occupied by the which comprised the steep winding streets of the Quartier St. the labyrinth of the and the lanes and alleys which skirt both banks of the the whole purlieus of the Faubourg St. and further north the high half covered with which goes by the name of the Clos St. They had cannon and the judgment evinced by the disposition of their forces shews that their whoever they may have were no mean proficients in the practice of insurrectionary But Paris is never without a handful of these dangerous con- The origin of the outbreak at Prague is in little to be doubt that it was a party against the German Of German the schemers who have been lately at Austrian to do him appears to have looted throughout with laudable and and no his duty in crushing a Whether it is really or only remains to In either lament the necessity which drove Prince to extreme not only on account of the blood that because the soreness which it must create more difficult for Austria to to herself by the only effectual the sense of a common a province which she cannot hope to shackle by 1 as our perhaps is the title assumed by a species of propagandist which has for many years been busy throughout the extensive tract of Eastorn Europe inhabited by the Slave stretches from the Baltic to the foot of the and from the confines of Si lesia and Bohemia to the shores of The auto cratic whose existence of is rather suspected than work for a great Slave empire under the sceptre of the whilst their democratic brethren labour to erect one or more federal groups of states altogether dent of foreign But Ave fin say that the proceedings of the Prague far as they have come under our furnish no indication of a wish to throw off the hegemony of or the nominal sovereignty of the House of Their so far as they assumed a hostile was directed the Magyars of had the sittings the Congress been they have led to a rising against the Hungarian Government in the which might have given that Government as much trouble as the quarrel in which it is now engaged with the Slaves of tho samo 3,000 were drafted from the rind for their arid off Thoy ' four who proceeded through the Barrier tie returned to the Luxembourg t mantled an interview with M. Marie a f of who took upon himself tho of 1>,/1 in thn attack the National by who have studied the tactics of as a and are ready to take advantage of every period of distress and discontent to plunge the countay in bloodshed and Louis Philippe trampled on the and got stung for his lie made the matter worse by imprisoning men whom he ought to have hung. It will take another to destroy the The rising has been put down as it might have been put down had the license given to Cavaignac been conferred on Bugeaud or But is Paris safe from a recurrence of the struggle We fear Will trade and industry revive whilst the blood that has been poured out like water within the last few days is hardly dry upon the stones if how will site feed or pacify that grim instead of putting up with short commons and harder and waiting patiently for better grasps a musket as Hoon as bread becomes dear and labour cheap How combat the now deeply rooted in the minds of the that property and capital arc an unjust and that to husband them in time of need is to withhold from the working man his rights But the first question what is to succeed the dictatorship of in their present were General The old who have evinced b 1 supported by such relief as small foresight and presence of mind in the ordeal of the few last will hardly regain the authority at a hint from the they reluctantly Whatever shape the Executive may it is now clear that it must be a homogeneous M. Lamar tine's crotchet of having all parties represented in the Government is a proved M. it is has been sent for by tho victorious And just before the insurrection we heard of a new combination against the a regular such as we used to see handed about in the old days of the Has the Republic already settled down to the level of Dufaure and Thiers If why too A sad but striking incident of this terrible warfare is the death of the Archbishop of who was killed by a shot from one of the barricades whilst striving i to fitting death for a high pastor of the The Prussian Government has broken up by the resig nation of closely on that of three of his the the defunct Cabinet remains in and is to form an administration on a should say a of retirement is to be Although from the shortness of his political coupled with a deficiency in moral courage and strength of to govern a great country in times like he was a man of acknowledged ability and moderate and a large party in the if not in the to him with The new Premier is a manufacturer of Aix la He is a man of some respects superior to whilst Minister of Finance under the has succeeded in avoiding censure if he has not merited I lis Cabinet is an attempt to combine official efficiency with an infusion of Liberalism strong enough to draw ' from the Such combinations are rarely three Glorious has called slaves of this and cim surely stato your own On to their comrades tho declared thoy had and otherwise misrepresented what had taken Tho thon Down with Mario 1' ' ' Down with tho with tho Somo of ' them attempted to force into tho church of St. with tho intention of ringing tho but fortunately tho gates woro closed in timo to prevent thoy proceeded to tho quays by tho streets ' St. and Du singing to tho air of Dea ' 1 Wo will wo will remain 1' Thoy next to tho Faubourgs St. Antoino and St. thoir numbers being increased by crowds of 1 Thoy stationed on tho Placo do la tho Barrier du uttering various ' Vive Viae ' Eu pain ou la 'A has ' A 1 bas Lamartine 1' ' A bos ' Vivo la et ' was now but tho cry of wolf had been r raised that it was slowly eight and nino o'clock much alarm in consequence of a body of at least 5,000 with a having marched tho Pantheon to tho quay of tho Hotel do and to tho Faubourg du with tho us it was of forming a with tho neighbourhood of tho Temple and of St. As of tho National Guards woro summoned at thoir to bo ready to if detachments of troops woro assembled at tho A squadron of Dragoons and several companies of tho the Gardo arid tho National on open space before tho Hotel do A battalion of tho Lino was stationed in tho of tho Prefecture of Tho Palais do was guarded by tho Garde and tho hall of tho National Assembly was filled with Tho Government had previously tho place a battalion of infantry and two squadrons of under tho command of in front of tho National Tho body of tho building was occupied by troops of tho At nine o'clock on after a night of tho rappel was again and tho consternation was At was heard in every the erection of barricades by the insurgents throwing stones and overturning Portos St. and St. tho the samo tho Place do la and tho Faubourg St. bands of men traversed the crying Aim armest ou efforge noa At ton o'clock they barricading at tho St. Denis and St. about two thousand persons arriving by tho Faubourgs bearing standards of tho ateliers At thoir head were soon who could bo recognised by their blue caps with gold Thoro also among them men bearing tho uniform of tho Republican as thoy arrived at tho Porto St. Denis they began to tear up tho pavement and tho iron bars of the railway leading to tho do thoy also broke tho drum of one of the drummers of tho 8th was beating the Tho drummer only by taking refuge in tho restaurant do do on Boulevard Bonno At tho same on tho somo before the Buo tho woro soon many children and tho latter woro The men of tho barricades went into tho mid demanded they broke in tho doors of tho houses Nos. 98 and 100, and did tho saino everywhere where they to open M. arrived alone on horseback in the uniform of a do of the National Somo men wished to disarm him and force him from his lie resisted arrested a and culled tho National Guard to his M. Roger great a man held a pistol to his who was killed at his At this moment tho fusillade began at different points at three National Guards woro killed at tho barricade and their bodies remaining on the boulevard thoy wore soon stripped the men of tho deluged Paris with blocked up its streets with and spread anarchy and The cause of this fearful event no to be found in the approaching dissolution of tho a debate in j the Assembly on yesterday week foreshadowed that gigantic A demand was made by the Government for a vote of three million francs to carry them Victor Hugo vented deep ho thought the new system was Under tho monarchy 1 Jen no but under the Republic idleness had been formed inl u The workmen were losing those fine qualities which formerly belonged to Thoy woro becoming thoroughly demoralised and unfit for M. Victor Hugo looked upon the present stato of Franco as most and ho warned tho Socialists that their to tho people calculated to push them to a servile tho that one-half of Paris whs the other could There would soon not bo a manufactory in tho shops were closing one after - Tho provinces would soon be in a similar It would bo under such to apply tho money now applied to these national to the relief of tho indigent only one remedying present and that wus restore confidence by establishing They should put down and stop tho of those Communist doctrines that were M. proposed the adoption extensive of for which Algiers reclamation of waste lands at If there had of and demoralisation of it was fault of tho labouring men who only desired but of those know how touso tho means at their the vote passed tho a general understanding that in future no grant of than a million at one should be and that measures should bo adopted for tho speedy termination of the of the decision of the Assembly took place increasing in numbers till when on behalf of tho was to put some td the in tho Assembly legs important At about ten o'clock first conflict tho and the armed force became National Guard behaved in a most gallant A body of some commanded by a attacked a formidable barricade at tho Porte St. people made a stout and the fighting was still going when the captain climbed the leaped down on tho opposite and fought to hand with the The National Guards thoir and the barricade was finally carried und but only after a hard in which forty guards woro killed and many The barricades in the Faubourg St. Martin woro taken without much Some two hundred of the insurgents had taken possession of the barracks in the Faubourg St. they were soon expelled them by the assisted by of National Some sharp lighting took place iu ' the old tho Quartier St. and ' tho slaughter was dreadful in the 12th in which elected Colonel of the National The troops of the Lino were brought into play very and the which was ordered At two point of tho bayonet severed in the neighbourhood of tho Palais do Justice and the Faubourg Nothing could bo more scientific than tho up by the whose ranks contained one hundred thousand of and Ultra or lied Republicans of 1702), of thousands of people ' absolutely or seek to have continued tp the stipend which they have hitherto received for doing men tho Red Republicans adroitly provoked into the fight with a raises thorn to a level with of tho Barricades were thrown up in the narrow streets of the tho islands in wore and the Hotel situated upon one of of one a connection imd the operations on both banks of tho On the left bank the position of the Republicans extended beyond the and defended in front by a complete system of street whilst it in rear the Faubourg St. On right the party extended all along the faubourgs of the to tho of St. in the north Of including that focus of
