the insurgents would appear to have been completely
disheartened by their want of success, and the harassed
troops were permitted to repose after their bloody
victory. From the ample details given by the correspondents
of the principal London papers, we extract a
few passages which will give an idea of the scenes of
this lamentable day. The greatest slaughter took place
on the Boulevard Montmartre and Boulevard des
Italiens. "The people," says the correspondent of
the Daily News "were idling about without any special
object—most from curiosity—none, it would seem, with
any hostile intention. The soldiers themselves were
conversing freely with the populace, and the greatest
good-humour prevailed. On a sudden, some person
from a side-street fired a pistol—from a window, it is
believed. This was the signal for a general firing on the
part of the troops, without the slightest warning or
preparation, and a rattling and deadly discharge was
opened upon the quivering and retreating mass. Round
after round poured upon them with fatal precision.
Any of your readers who have heard bullets whizzing
about their ears, and seen them chipping the stone
pavement and stone walls, and flying into houses amidst
the clatter of broken glass, may form some notion of the
panic of the unarmed mob. It is certain that very few
fell with their wounds in front. My informant was
certainly not prepared to make any such sacrifice. As
he made the best of his way from the scene, men were
falling around him on all sides—ones, twos, threes—
little groups falling in heaps, and clasped together in
dying agonies. Leaping over their corpses, with that
terrible instinct of self-preservation which knows no
pity, my friend succeeded in gaining the shelter of a
shop, followed, I may almost say, by a bullet, which
missed him by a hair's-breadth. Then came the scene
of desolation when all was over—the carrying of the
wounded to the hospitals, of the dead to—Heaven
knows where. The sad, sullen aspect of the soldiery,
when their work was done, had in it something
portentous; and many a scared, spirit-broken ouvrier, who
ventured to take the Boulevard on his way home, might
be seen regarding these symptoms with mingled hope and
fear. Some of the soldiers who had taken part in the
attack were subsequently met by the gentleman of
whom I have spoken, in a wine-shop. According to
their own account, they had as little anticipated the
order to fire on the people themselves; against whom
they professed not to have the slightest ill-will: but the
order was given, and it was their habit to obey, and
voilà tout." It appears from various accounts, that
such of the people as did fight were almost everywhere
gentlemen or shopkeepers, never workmen. There is
also evidence that the earliest builders of the barricades
were police-agents—in order to provoke that popular
antagonism to the Government which was to justify the
extreme exercise of the military power. One police-
agent thus employed was shot before he escaped, and
made the dying confession to his mother. While
passing opposite to the Rue Vivienne, the soldiers fired
several times on the passers-by; who were for the most
part persons belonging to the Bourse, coming from their
business. These unhappy men took refuge, as well as
they could, behind door-ways: whenever they showed
themselves and tried to get away, the soldiers fired upon
them again. Two young men had been to visit a female
friend. After quitting her house, they reached the
Boulevard at the moment when the soldiers were about
to fire. Their first impulse was to rush towards the bell
of a neighbouring house-door; but as five other persons
followed their example, the porter refused to open the
door. All the seven threw themselves on the ground:
the younger of these two men lay under his elder
brother. The soldiers fired; and out of these seven
persons, two only arose from the ground; one of these
was the younger of the two brothers—the other, a
woman. The elder brother, wounded by a ball, and
having one of his arteries torn, lay bleeding and in
agony. His younger brother threw himself on the body,
and clasped it in a distraction of sorrow. When the
soldiers came up, in their onward march, he implored
them to leave him near his dying brother. But they
drove him away with the butt-ends of their muskets,
saying, "Get away with you! don't you see that he
has not two minutes to live?" In the official accounts
published by the Government, it is stated that, on the
side of the people, whether insurgents or spectators, the
killed were 800; on the side of the army, one officer
and seventeen men were killed, and seventeen officers
and 167 privates wounded. But unofficial accounts
worthy of credit place the deaths of the people at nearly
2000. The officer killed was Lieutenant-Colonel Loubeau,
of the 72nd Regiment; who was shot through the
chest as he advanced on the barricade of the Rue St.
Denis, cheering his men on with his shako on the end
of his sword. Among those of the people who perished,
were the representative Baudin, and the brother of
Gaston Dussoubs, member for the department of Haute
Vienne, who fell fighting on a barricade; M. Reims,
an eminent journalist, formerly editor of the Courrier
Français, also perished on a barricade. Among those
accidentally killed were two Englishmen,—Mr. Peter
Pariss, a well-known apothecary, of the Place Vendôme;
and Mr. Hoff, brother of a dentist in Paris. Mr. Pariss
was proceeding to an establishment which he possessed
in the Faubourg St. Denis, and had reached the corner
of Rue Rougemont, when the firing took place; he was
desperately wounded in two places, and died three hours
afterwards. Besides this loss of life, the destruction of
property was immense.

On Friday, the 5th, there was no renewal of fighting,
but several unprovoked outrages were committed by the
soldiers. In the morning a body of 50 or 60 men,
having the appearance of respectable bourgeois,
assembled in the Boulevard Poissonniere; as they passed a
body of troops, an officer recognised, or pretended to
recognise, one of them as an insurgent of the previous
day. He was arrested and made no resistance, but the
party from whom he was taken cried, "Vive la
Republique!" on which the soldiers fired and laid
thirty of them dead.—Near the Madeleine, a troop of
Lancers rode down a number of men, women, and
children, who were promenading in their own
neighbourhood without apprehension of any violence. No
weapons were used, but many were dangerously
wounded from being trodden on by horses. Large
masses of military still occupied the main places in Paris
on Saturday and Sunday. Five thousand soldiers
held the entrepôt of the Custom House in the Faubourg
du Temple. But on Saturday the gardens of the
Tuileries were open all day, and the passage of the
Louvre free; some law courts again held their sittings;
the shops re-opened, and many of the theatres. On
Sunday morning, the streets were crowded with carriages
and well-dressed people, anxious to see the scene of the
late contest; and in the evening all the theatres were
opened, and as much filled as usual. Since then, the
city has remained quiet. One of the President's first
measures was the suppression of the newspapers. The
only journals allowed to appear were the Moniteur, the
Constitutionnel, the Patrie—all government or governmental
papers, and the Débats and a half-sheet impression
of the Assemblée. The offices of the National,
Opinion Publique, Messager, Republique, Ordre, Siècle,
and La Presse, were all occupied by soldiers. Some of
these papers have since re-appeared, abstaining from all
notice of political events. On Thursday, the President
issued a decree modifying the provisions of the previous
decree respecting the suffrage. It was now declared
that all Frenchmen were called to vote who were aged
twenty-one years and in the possession of their civil and
political rights; and that the suffrage should take place
by secret ballot on the 20th and 21st of December. But
the suffrages of the army had already begun to be taken
by open voting. The votes of the army were—for,
243,854; against, 16,384; abstaining, 845.—When the
coup d'état was known in the provinces, disturbances
broke out in many places, but were speedily suppressed
by military force.

The vote by ballot for the election of Louis Napoleon
as president, took place throughout France on the 20th
and 21st. The result of the polls in eighty-three departments,
up to the 27th, was as follows: Yes, 6,710,000;
No, 584,171. The conclusion of the election is to be
celebrated by a grand mass and a Te Deum in the cathedral
of Notre Dame.

The President has decreed that the Pantheon be