17 JUNE 1837, Page 10

An unhappy accident marred the Parisian fkes of Wednesday.

" On issuing from the Champ de Mars, Cat the angle of the Military School,) the crowds whu had been the witnesses ot a grand military spectacle became wedged together ; when a panic ensued, which caused, by sullocation or wounds, the deaths of twenty.four persons. An immense number of wounded were carried to the hospitals. In consequence of this shocking affair, the banquet and ball to be given by the city of Paris on Thursday to the King and Royal Family were postponed."