On 'Wednesday matters grew much worse. The first hours of
the revolt were marked with blood, some mutinous soldiers under .General Lecomte having seized that officer and shot him slowly to death, over the body of his comrade, General Clement Thomas, a tried Republican, who had been insulted, struck, and finally shot by the mob for having been one of those who betrayed Paris. In .these cases and in the frequent murder of the police agents the mob were instigated by hatred to known individuals, but Wednes- day was distinguished by a mere massacre. A great crowd of respectable persons marched unarmed down the Rue de la Paix, .and pressed on by their numbers tried to obtain a passage _through the Guards who barred the way. The Gualds hesitated, -and some one, seeing the hesitation, ordered them to fire. They .fired, and killed and wounded thirty persons, firing, it is believed, after the remainder had escaped, upon those who came to succour rthe wounded. The massacre raised alarm to its height, and the -battalions from the richer quarters armed themselves, but up to 'the latest advices had attempted nothing beyond garrisoning the region around the Bourse. They have the lads of the Polytechuique to direct and inspire them.
