houses, were sent, in the same ignominious vehicles, to
the fortress of Ham, more than a day's journey from
Paris. M. Thiers was conveyed to the German frontier.
The decrees of the representatives who met as the
undissolved Assembly was published in lithograph on
the same afternoon. It was carried into the Court of
Cassation. The court immediately proclaimed the
deposition of the President, in terms of the resolution of
the Assembly; but just at that moment an order came
from the minister of justice that the court should go no
further in the affair, and the judges at once adjourned,
precipitately. The high court of justice, convoked by
M. Hardoin, one of its members, met at the Palace of
Justice, to summon the President before it. After
consulting some time, it separated without coming to any
decision. While the legislative element of the
constitution was thus destroyed, measures were taken to
disarm the power of the press. All the offices of the
journals were occupied by the military, and none of the
journals, except the government organs, were allowed
to appear. During the whole of this day the people
remained quiet and apparently indifferent, and there
was so little alarm that even the jewellers' shops
remained open as usual. At a late hour in the evening,
the attitude of the populace was so calm that the troops
were ordered to their quarters. Precautions, however,
were not overlooked. Regiments were already pouring
into Paris from the provinces; and the prefects of
departments were everywhere enjoined to exercise the
most ceaseless vigilance and prompt energy.

On the following morning, Wednesday, the 3rd, it
became publicly known that the President had dismissed
his Ministers, on the ground that he was unwilling to
compromise them by implicating them in his acts; and
that he had appointed a new Ministry of which the
principal members were, M. de Moray, Interior; Fould,
Finance; Rouher, Justice; Magne, Public Works; Le
Rouche, Marine; Casabianca, Commerce; St. Arnaud,
War; Fortoul, Public Instruction; Turgot, Foreign
Affairs. A decree was promulgated regulating the
proposed election. It convoked the people in their districts,
for the 14th instant, to accept or reject "the following
plébéscite:"—"The French people wills the maintenance
of the authority of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,
and delegates to him the powers necessary to frame a
constitution on the basis proposed in his proclamation
of the 2nd December." All Frenchmen aged twenty-
seven, and enjoying their civil rights, were called on to
vote. The period of voting to be the eight days ending
on the 21st instant. The Minister of War addressed a
circular to the generals of the army and the chiefs of
corps, ordering that the soldiers were to vote for the
election of a President within forty-eight hours from the
receipt of the circular. A provisional Consultative
Commission, in lieu of the abolished Council of State,
was nominated; embracing Messieurs Baroche, Drouyn
de l'Huys, Admiral Cécille, MM. Montalembert, Lucien
Murat, and seventy-five other distinguished members of
the late National Assembly. The tranquillity which
had hitherto prevailed was first interrupted on this day.
A member of the Mountain, M. Baudin, appeared on
horseback in the Rue St. Antoine, followed by several
other members of the same party, and endeavoured to
excite the workmen to rise. He succeeded in getting
together a small body, who threw up two slight
barricades. Troops were instantly marched against them,
and, after a brief skirmish, the barricades were taken,
Baudin and another representative being killed on the
spot, and several of their followers wounded. Decrees
were immediately put forth by the prefect of police and
the Minister of War, declaring that every person taken
in the act of erecting or defending a barricade, or
bearing arms, should suffer according to the most
vigorous laws of war. Groups were to be dispersed by
the armed force and without previous notice; and the
circulation of public carriages was prohibited. During
Wednesday night, several representatives of the Mountain
passed through the streets, attempting to address
the people; but they were everywhere prevented. The
body of one of the representatives, shot at the barricade
in the Faubourg St. Antoine, was put on a litter and
carried through several streets. When it came down
the Boulevards, causing great excitement in its course,
the bearers were met by troops, and turned into a bye-
street. Here there was such resistance that the troops
charged, and fired; and two of the men carrying the
corpse were killed. Proclamations signed by Michel of
Bourges, Soelcher, and others, calling on the people to
fight, and offering to lead them, were posted in a multitude
of places, but were speedily observed and removed.
Another proclamation, by Victor Hugo, told the people
that the National Guards and the Line were marching
on Paris to depose Louis Napoleon as an usurper. A
proclamation appeared here and there, signed by Emile
Girardin and all the members of the Left, declaring
that the Assembly was undissolved, and that through
the treason of the President it was now the only legal
power, and the sole Executive: it therefore called on
the army, "at their peril," to obey the Assembly.

Thursday, the 3rd, opened gloomily. From an early
hour of the morning the quarter of the Faubourg St.
Antoine was astir, and temporary barricades of the
slightest materials were thrown up here and there, and
abandoned on the appearance of the troops, whom it
appeared to be the wish of the populace to harass. The
alarm began to spread, and the shops in the neighbourhood
of the disturbed quarter remained closed. Barricades
of a more formidable character were thrown
up at the Porte St. Denis, Porte St. Martin, Rues
Baubourg, Transnonian, St. Mery, and St. Martin—
amounting in all to more than one hundred—before
information could be forwarded to the troops. Before
twelve o'clock the aspect of affairs became so serious
that all the small posts of soldiers were withdrawn,
to prevent their being surprised and disarmed by the
rioters, and shortly afterwards three or four regiments
of cavalry and as many of infantry, with six battalions
of artillery, were marched upon the disaffected quarter,
and fierce and determined conflicts commenced at the
barricades. It was rumoured that shots were fired
from Tortoni's coffee-house upon the troops, and it was
immediately attacked by the soldiery. The same plea
was urged for attacking M. Sallandrouze's carpet
manufactory, which was riddled with cannon, and at least
thirty of the workmen killed. Charges of large bodies
of Lancers were made every five minutes to clear the
Boulevards. No quarter was given to the insurgents,
and a number of persons taken between two barricades
in the Rue Chapon were shot on the spot. Before two
o'clock there were 30,000 troops of all arms on the
Boulevards, and the most peremptory orders were issued
by the officers that the windows of the houses should be
kept closed, and that no persons should show themselves
in the balconies or they would be fired at. Volleys were
fired at windows, and several persons were killed. The
large barrier at the Porte St. Denis was not taken till
after two hours' hard fighting, and the loss of from fifty
to a hundred lives. The Mairie of the fifth arrondissement
was besieged and taken, and forty of the National
Guards were deprived of their arms. At this time the
populace appeared to be entire masters of the quarters
St. Denis and St. Martin, and all the houses at the
angles of the Boulevards were filled with men armed
with swords and muskets. Some regiments of the line
and Chasseurs de Vincennes were at length brought up,
and the insurgents were driven off at all points. At the
Porte St. Martin the greatest loss of life appears to have
taken place; the defenders of the barricade at St.
Denis having, when they fled from it, been caught
between two fires, and after the barricade was taken
some hundreds of dead and wounded were found behind
it. In the middle of the day a formidable attempt was
made by the insurgents, moving from different quarters,
to get possession of the Bank and the Post-office; but
the large force stationed in the Rue de Pagevin having
deployed into line, the populace, after firing a few
volleys, retreated. During the greater part of the day
the bank was partially blockaded, as by some accident
the communication with the main body of the troops
was not kept up, and the one hundred and fifty soldiers
stationed there were without provisions, the barricades
erected in the neighbourhood cutting off their
communications and supplies. At four o'clock, however, the
barricades were carried, and the garrison relieved. At
eight o'clock in the evening tranquillity had been
completely restored, the fighting had ceased on all sides,