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FnAncs.—The interest of the news from Paris centres in an attempt made on Monday, by the extreme faction, with open violence to upset the present order of things and establish a new Provisional Government. The popular sympathy with the Polish cause was seized by the clubs; and it was in agitation at the end of last week to organize a demon- stration in favour of that cause, with the object of forcing the Executive Government into a declaration of war for the restoration of Poland. On Friday evening, meetings of the real friends of Poland were held, at which delegates from the clubs attended and announced the contemplated de- monstration: the most influential Poles were adverse to the movement, and imploringly besought that it should not take place; but the delegates persisted.

'A momentary agitation in the National Assembly was caused on Satur- day by the marching towards the hall of some 2,000 workmen, with ban- ners flying, and to the cry of " Vive in Pologne!" The National Guard stopped the procession on the Bridge of Concord, and only some delegates from it were allowed to present its petition to the Assembly. M. Vavin presented it there; and caused some further excitement by attempting to have it read aloud—the rules of the Assembly forbidding.

On Monday, an immense organized procession of workmen—some ac- counts say 50,000 men—paraded the Boulevards, and at last concentrated at the approaches of the Bridge of Concord. There, on essaying to pass, they were opposed by a small band of National Guards. But a mul- titude of the foremost—who seemed prepared for the task—rushed forward, threw their arms round the Guards, and with gentle force held them still whilst the bayonets were taken off their muskets. The Guards offered no further opposition, and the multitude poured over the bridge towards the hall of the Assembly. A large body of the Garde Mobile was drawn up in front of the peristyle of the Chamber of Deputies, but did not interfere in the slightest degree. The procession then proceeded by the Rue de Bourgogne to the entrance of the hall of the Assembly, in the Place Bourbon. There they found the gates shut, but not a single man to defend them. A few men in the uniform of the Guard were mounted on the wall on each side of the entrance; who, on the cry of " A has les bayonettes!" immediately put them into their scabbards. The people were then allowed to scale the walls without op- position; and in a few minutes they opened the gates from the inside, and allowed the whole of the mob to penetrate into the court of the Assembly. la the court there was at least 1,000 of the Garde Mobile; who did not inter- fere, because " they had orders to allow the people to pass." It was plain that there was some understanding between the invaders and the defenders of the Assembly. The nature of this understanding was afterwards dis- closed in the debates of the Assembly itself; the interior of which now becomes the scene. The order of the day was the Italian question; but M. Wolowski was in the tribune speaking on the subject of Poland, when the sounds of uproar reached the ears of members. A brief solemn silence was broken by the opening of the side-doors and the entry of the members dispersed in the various committee-rooms; who hurriedly announced that the people were forcing their way to the approaches of the galleries. M. Degousse stated from the tribune, that General Courtais, the Commander of the National Guard, had, contrary to the express orders of the President, ordered the men not to act against the people, but to sheath their bayonets. A great sensa- tion was produced by this declaration: Representatives rushed to the tri- bune, and were contending for precedence, when a miscellaneous crowd broke into the galleries at the end of the hall, and, waving flags and branches of trees, drowned the voices of the members with their shouts. The ladies, terrified, were retreating from the places appropriated to them, but resumed their seats on the assuring gestures of the members. A contest arose at the tribune for liberty of addressing the Assembly. M. Barbee struggled to rise, but was restrained by many members, whe even laid hands on him. The people in the gallery shouted that he should.

be heard, and gesticulated fiercely against those who restrained him. M. Clement Thomas and Barbee addressed each other with defiance; M. Thomas threatening the other with arrest, as an anarchist.

Meanwhile, greater numbers of the people crowded the galleries, and prepared to descend into the body of the hall by the lofty pillars. The President left the chair, and retired with some leading members; having first stationed a Vice-President in his place. At last the doors of the As- sembly were burst inwards, and an immense crowd entered, mingled iudie- criminately with the members, and especially surrounded Barbes and Louis Blanc. The latter climbed on a railing, and proposed, " in the name of the people," the reading of a petition in favour of Poland. M. Respell read the petition, amidst tremendous shouts. A shot was heard without, and there was a momentary panic-' during which the ladies generally re- treated from their positions in the hall.

[The shot turns out to have been an accidental one: it caused the in- vaders outside the hall to fly in great confusion for a moment; but pre- sently the Guards in the courts were resurronnded, and their muskets being examined and found unloaded, the crowd again pressed into the hall.] A squabble arose about a flag; and there was a general fight which con- tinued some time. M. Blanqui at last obtained a hearing, and made a fiery speech in favour of Poland: from which he passed to the events in Rouen, and with exciting language and gestures demanded the opening of the Rouen prisons, and the punishment of those who ordered the " assassina- tion " of the people there by the National Guard. He was proceeding to demand also the establishment of a Ministry of Labour, when a commotion in the crowd and cries of his name announced the entrance of Ledru-Rollin.

M. Ledru-Rollin ascended the tribune amidst shouts from the intruding people—

He alluded to the justice of their demand in favour of Poland; spoke of the admirable good sense of the people of Paris; declared that the people had set their grievances before the Assembly with justice, and that without doubt they would be properly attended to. But he would appeal to their sense of justice if it were possible to deliberate in such a tumult. He called on them to withdraw on the instant, and allow the National Assembly to do its duty and decide what was to be done.

Voices cried," Let it vote at once! It has deliberated enough! We have enlightened the Assembly!" An eye-witness continues his report of what followed-

" A Delegate and a Pompier successively addressed the crowd from the tri- bune•' most probably recommending them to withdraw, for almost immediately after the tribune was evacuated. A movement also was perceptible towards the door; but it was only for a moment. The human tide was turned back by some exterior force, and again everything was in confusion. A cry was also raised new, that the tribune was giving way ! ' Every one looked towards the tribune at the end; from which several men were seen letting themselves down hastily into the hall. No accident, however, took place; all the alarm being caused by a cracking noise of some of the timber-work.

" The whole hall was by this time filled as if with steam from the perspiration of the crowd.

"eL Barbee here again appeared in the tribune, and addressed the crowd. The first thing heard was—' A fixed tax of a milliard shall be levied on the rich, to carry on war for Poland.'

"All the cheers of the day were mere trifles to that which now burst forth. I thought it would never cease. Just as it was dying away, Louis Blanc was re- amongst the crowd; and being lifted on their shoulders, was borne to the cenInclilectihe hall in triumph, amidst the loudest cries of Vive Louis Blanc!' The delegates, who had by this time lost all sense of politeness, and got completely be- fore me, prevented me seeing what became of the body thus proceeding in their ovation.

"A cry here arose,' They are beating the rappel!'—which having been repeated, it was answered by the dreadful exclamation of 'Aux anneal' This did not, however, meet with mach encouragement, 'Let them beat it ! what is that to us? ' VI the midst of the uproar and emotion excited by these exclamations, M. Barbee again addressed the crowd, eflourishing his drawn sword over his head]: he said that the people having inauitestedly merited well of their country, whoever should order the rappel to be beaten should be declared a traitor to his country, and hors la lois! Die usual, thunders of applause greeted the speaker.] "All this time, the President, who had made but a short stay outside, was &an time to time ringing his inefficient bell, as if to show that the National As- sembly was but an empty sound, and that he was there to proclaim it ! It was, certainly, a moat extraordinary scene, and, to one accustomed to the order and dignity which marks the proceedings in the English Houses of Parliament, a melancholy one—to see the Representatives of the People sitting motionless, and their calling gone, whilst the people themselves seized on their functions. "But a new orator had taken :: see:ion of the tribune; and, by the silence which followed his advent, it was a favourite of the crowd. I found it to be M. Hubert, who had been a political prisoner in the time of the former Government Citizens,' he cried, proclaim, in the name of the sovereign people of France, that the National Assembly is dissolved!' What shouting arose here it is use- less to attempt to describe—I thought it would never cease.

"I here looked out over the heads of the people before me, and found that the mist of which I have already spoken had increased to such a pitch that it was not easy to see below. But I could perceive that the estrade where the Presi- dent's chair was placed, the tribune where the orators spoke from, the benches where the Representatives were, were all covered with men in blouses—in their shirt-sleeves—in the short jacket of the workman. Flags were waving—men were shouting—a paper on the end of a pole bore the words 'Francais secours la Pologne!' All was a scene of such confusion that at first the eye could catch nothing: it was an inextricable mass of the people and their attributes." Lists of a new Provisional Government were hoisted aloft; containing generally the names of Louis Blanc, Barbee, Albert, Respell, Blanqui, Hu- bert, Sobrier, and Pierre Leroux. At last, as seems the approved fashion in Paris, the"mot d'ordre " for the Hotel de Ville was given; and most of the leaders of the clubs left the Assembly for that place, with great num-. bars of followers. The promiscuous crowd became more select; and ulti- mately the hall was occupied by legions of the National Guard, who ex- pelled all intruders, and restored to the members their exclusive possession. The sitting was recommenced, and the Assembly declared itself en perma- nence. Lamartine and Ledrn-Rollin left the hall for the streets, and to follow those who had gone to the Hotel de Ville; which now becomes the scene for a time.

Bathes, with Albert, There, and other leaders, arrived at the Hotel

about six. The guard was insignificant, and unable to prevent the en- trance of the mob which accompanied them. The iron gates were forced, and a flood of people entered. Open discussions commenced, and the leaders spoke. A Provisional Government was proclaimed, of these leaders —Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, Albert, Caussidiere, Sobrier, Hubert, There, Prudhom, Pierre Leroux, Cabet, Respell, and Blanqui. The name of Flocon was rejected. That of Rollin was objected to, but at last received. The few National Guards who were present protested against the doings they could not prevent. The leaders forced on their proceedings meet uproar and even conflict. The tables were broken, and several persons wounded. Barbes wrote with his own hand the first list of the new Pro_ visional Government, and threw it out to the people; but it was torn to pieces by the National Guard. The banner of the united clubs was die. played from one of the windows; but it was taken down and torn by it Captain of the National Guard. Barbee, Albert, and There retired, with about twenty other persons, into a small room in the left wing, and, closing the door, entered into deliberation. While the leaders were thus engaged, a voice exclaimed—" They are going to surround the Hotel do Ville, and kill our brothers. Make haste, Citizen Barbee!" Blanqui, Ledru-Rollin and Louis Blanc, were every moment called for. A voice said, " Ledre. Rollin is a traitor; he would assassinate you: the Garde Bourgeoise ad. vances." Other voices called out, "Aux armee!" The National Guards present were disarmed. At six o'clock, Barbee was writing a proclamation in the Hotel de Ville, which was to be sent to the printing-office, and was attributing sundry administrations to each, when two captains and hale a dozen National Guards of the Third and Fourth Legion entered the bale shouting, " Barbee! Where is Barbee? We must have him!" "No, no! To arms!" vociferated some men with red belts. " You shall tread us under foot before you touch him."

Other Guards pressed in, and made for the room occupied by the retired leaders. The sentinels posted at the doors opposed violently. M. de Lamartine arrived; the passages of the Hotel de Ville were for- cibly occupied by an overwhelming force of Guards; and Barbes, Al_ bert, There, and the other chiefs of the movement to the number of some sixty persons, were arrested. Possession was taken of a multitude of pro- clamations and decrees which were in course of being issued.

We now return to the hall of the National Assembly.

M. Gamier-Pages and M. Arago entered from the Palace of the Luxem- bourg, where they had been sitting in Executive Council, and whence they had been summoned by the Assembly. M. Pages stated, that they were aware of the intention to make violent attempts against the Government, and had taken precautions: they had ordered troops to be collected round the Assembly; but those orders had been disobeyed. As soon as the Executive became aware that the precincts of the Assembly had been menaced, three of them had come there; and two, M. Pages and M. Arago, had gone to the Luxembourg, and thence issued orders; to the armed force. M. Clement Thomas--whose arm was bandaged as if wounded—said that in the elinure of the interruption to the Assembly, the President had placed him provi- sionally at the head of the National Guard, with the commission of pro.. tecting the capital from anarchy. He now restored the authority with which he had been temporarily invested. M. Garnier-Pages replied simply by proposing the following decree, superseding General Courtais- In the name of the French People and of the National Assembly, the Executive Committee declares that Citizen Clement Thomas is nominated Com- mander-in-chief of the National Guards of Paris." (Tremendous applause,) [La Presse describes a scene in connexion with General Courtais which occurred in the hall before the National Guards quitted it.

" The General, against whom exasperation is at its highest pitch, and who was assailed on all sides by the cry of 'Down with the traitor! having made sign that he desired to speak, exclaimed aloud, 'In the name of the People, order the National Guard to go out.' A National Guard exclaimed, in his tun- ' General of the National Guard, you are a general no longer. You are a traitor. I degrade yon!' At these words, the same National Guaid pulled off his epau- lettes, while another wrenched from him his sword, upon which he had laid his hand. An instant after, he was driven from the Assembly to the cries of 'Down with the traitor l' "]

We return to the ball of the Assembly. A violent tumult ;was beard outside; and Louis Blanc, supported and protected by M. de Laroche- jacquelin and another of his colleagues, was pushed into the ball by a great number of National Guards. He was very pale, and had his clothes torn. Many voices cried—" No, no! wait our leisure; don't interrupt the speakers." M. Louis Blanc descended, and placed himself on the seat at the extreme left. Subsequently he attempted to speak, and met with every sort of contemptuous interruption. He was heard to exclaim—" I swear to you on my honour that I had nothing to do with the scenes of this day, and that I even expressed my disapprobation of the demonstration." Numerous voices—" You are a lathe! Speak not of honour; you are thoroughly heartless." He was at last obliged to leave the tribune. M. Fortelle demanded and received authority from the Assembly to hold in custody two members of the Government, Citizens Barbee and Courtais, who had been arrested Aureate delictor and to proceed ju- dicially against them. The Assembly now resolved not to sit en perma- nence, as it was understood the Executive would sit through the night at their official bureaux in the Luxembourg: the Assembly therefore adjourn- ed, to an early time next morning. As they went out, the members re- ceived congratulatory greetings from the National Guards and the people, who had assembled in vast crowds.

Daring the night, extraordinary precautions were adopted. All the streets leading to the Palace, the Quays, and Place de la Concorde, were occupied at an early hour by the National Guard and the Garde Mobile; and the thoroughfares were stopped for half a mile around. Nobody was permitted to cross the Place de la Concorde, except members of the As- sembly and reporters, on exhibiting their cards, and cantiniers carrying provisions to the detachments stationed at the extremity of all the streets and avenues. The Palace and gardens of the Palace were defended by a numerous garrison, and two pieces of artillery were pointed on the bridge. The Executive sat through the night at the Palace of the Luxembourg, under the protection of the National Guard and the First Regiment of Light Infantry, which was summoned from Versailles by railway late iu the evening. The Assembly met early on Tuesday. The President gave some per- sonal explanations, which seemed to depreciate him in the esteem of the Assembly. He had vacillated in ordering the rappel to be beaten. Inter- ruptive cries of contempt were frequently raised during his defence. He at last withdrew, without resuming the chair. M. Gamier-Pages stated that the house of Sobrier had been entered, himself and seventy-six of his men arrested, and a quantity of warlike stores seized. The club of the Rights of Man and Blanqui's club had been closed; and it was intended to prevent any club from deliberating in arms. The prisoners, Barbee Blanqui, Albert, Sobrier, and Respell and his nephew, had been sent under escort to the Castle of Vincennes. This has been contradicted on the part of M. Raspail and his nephew.] The disbanding and suppression of the corps of Montagnards had been pronounced, and was in course of being effected. The command of the National Guard and of the Army had been ,ion to Colonel Clement Thomas and General Bddean. A member rose, ilia complained of the wrong that such bodies as the Montagnards and the Republican Guard had ever been permitted at all. He denounced ruffians who were not Republican, and who knew and obeyed but one man— Caus- sidiere. M. de Lamartine defended M. Caussidiere; who had, he said, given proofs of patriotic zeal. Subsequently, Caussidiere arrived, and defended himself. Nobody deplored the scenes of the preceding day more sincerely than he. Named by the combatants of the barricades, he had maintained the peace of the city during two months and a half. In less than three days all the streets had been repaired, and the circulation restored. Six days after the Revolution, the price of bread had diminished, in consequence of the measures he had adopted. ke had established an effectual police, and was aware of every movement of the enemies of the Republic. His object had been to maintain a balance between par- ties. A combination among the journeymen bakers, 5,000 in number, was near depriving Paris of bread, and it was through his interference the catastrophe had been obviated. Alarmed at the machinations of Citizen Blanqui, whom he re- garded as one of the greatest enemies of the Republiean party, M. Caussidiere had applied for a warrant to arrest him; which had been reftssed. He might have executed the warrant at six o'clock on Monday morning, and thus obviated the deplorable scenes of that day.

A warm canvass of Caussidiere's defence ensued. Many facts were alleged by members which impeached him of complicity with the leaders of disturbance. M. Caussidiere replied stoutly; and concluded by telling the Assembly, that if they did not approve his conduct, they had better supersede him in his office. M. Billanit moved that all the assemblages of people within 1,500 yards of the place of sitting of the National Assembly should be adjudged il- legal, and that the authorities receive instructions and power to disperse such after three legal summonses disobeyed. He proposed too that the leaders be liable to the banishment pronounced by the 110th article of the Penal Code. The three propositions were referred to the Committee of Legisla- tion.

Ultimately the Assembly passed to the order of the day.

At the sitting of the Assembly on Friday the 12th, it was resolved that the Committee of the Constitution should consist of eighteen members, to be elected directly by the Assembly. On Saturday, the Assembly adopted a series of rules for its internal regulation. The proposed Committee of Public Worship elicited a spirited remonstrance from M. Portalis, the Attorney-General: he objected to the formation of a department of Ecclesiastical Affairs, which the Restoration itself had not dared to estab- lish. The Abbe Lacordaire and others defended " religious toleration."

M. Bethmont resigned the Ministry of Public Worship on Saturday. General Cavaignac is appointed by decree to the Ministry of War.

Iii Caussidiere has resigned both his office of Prefect of Police and his seat in the Assembly. M. Trouve Chanvel succeeds to the office of Prefect.

The Executive has decreed that the corps of the Republican Guard, the Montagnards, the Lyonnais, and similar bodies, are disbanded: but their members are to have right of preferential admission into the new " Garde Republicaine Parisienne."

SPAIN.—Madrid has again been in revolutionary commotion, and again been placed under martial law. On Sunday week, 600 men of the Regi- ment Espafia "pronounced," and marched under their sergeants for the Plaza Mayor. They seized the post-office there, and maintained a bloody struggle of many hours' duration against all the force that Narvaez could bring against them, Many civilians joined in the contest; but it was chiefly a railikory_rising,,. Upwards of fifty insurgent soldiers and thirty civilians were slain and as many of the Government forces. Genetal Fulgosio, the brother-in-Iaw of Queen Christina, ryes mortally wounded, and died next day; and seven other officers fell.

Madrid was replaced under martial law. Courts-martial sat at the dram-heed. Thirteen men who were taken with arms in their hands were convicted, and, after brief confession by priests, were shot.

Fears of fresh outbreaks were entertained.

Olozaga has been captured, close on the Gibraltar lines. More notes—very unpleasant ones—have passed between Sir Henry Bulwer and the Duke of Sotomayor.

ITALY.—The news from Milan is to the 12th instant. Charles Albert's army made a great Combined movement on the 6th, against the whole of the Austrian lines in advance of Verona. The object is said to have been to force in the advanced bodies, and get close to Verona, at the same time that a rising was accomplished in Verona itself. The movements of the army were brilliantly successful in the first instance, es- pecially against Santa Lucia on the Piedmontese right, which was defended with great obstinacy from behind breastworks by the Austrian troops. The Austrians were at last obliged to retire; but they did so with such skill that an important body of Piedmontese was drawn into a false position, and driven back with great loss. Ultimately, indeed, the village of Santa Lucia was retaken, or at all events reoccupied, by the Austrians. The expected rising in Verona did not take place; and Charles Albert's army retired to its omit lines, without having secured any permanent advantages. The troops of Durando are said to have encountered those of Nugent near Belluno about the 9th instant, and to have suffered a severe check. The news from Rome is to the 7th, and is of no striking import. The Austrian Ambassador received his passports OR the 7th. It is said, too, that a levy of 6,000 new troops for Lombardy has been ordered.

UNITED STATES AND Maxrco.—The Acadia arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday. The news from Mexico is still undecided as to the ratification of the amended treaty. There is a report of an engagement between the Americans and Mexicans at Chihuahua; in which the former were victors, after a contest of nine hours. Mr. Trist has arrived from Mexico at New Orleans, under arrest by the President's orders.