ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 14, 27 July 1848, Page 3

ANECDOTES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

The throne which was taken from the Tuileries was burned at the foot of the column of July. The coaches of the royal family and furniture of the chateau were burned in the court of the Tuileries. A fire was also made is the court of the Palais Royal in the same way. A national subscription has been opened for the benefit of the wounded and. i ue families of those kiUrd iu the revolution, to which the principal banking hou cs and other public companies have already sub. scribed. Tie subscription anoouutcd on S tturday tj 337,412 francs. M. de Uttuschiid sent 50,t00 francs, to ihe Mayor of Pans, the wounded. The hospital lut show* that the number of wounded is 428, of whom Jjl) ate civilians, and 7S military. All the ministers of the late government were as. p°tubled'; it is (-aid, on the 24 h instant, about twelve o'U«»ck, at the Ministry of the Interior, when at the Q «s of the abdication of Louis firilippe they ul! j imped cut of the windows into the garden, and separated at the door in different direction*.

The blind confidence of the ex-King was unshakeaMe- On the day of the reform banquet Louis Phi. lippe said to a foreign ambassador, " I fear nothing j I j am st> firmly seated in tny saddle that I dread neither \ a change of ministry nor a disobedience of my. com- | mauds." The King also requested a gentleman about j to quit the capital of France to remain and witness the quiet manner in which he (the King) was about to *« put down" the mob. The " Legitimists" have no chance. Ten young men attempted, says the Caurrier Frcncais, u to get up a legitimist manifestation in the Faubourg; St. Germein. The people seeing them oil dressed in black, with white cockades in their hats, cried out *Tiens! Tiens! A funeral! They are undertakers' men!' lbs young men, finding the people in such good humour; Immediately „set to wotk. ' Friends,' exclaimed they* 'remember HeniylV*. and proclaim his descendant. Long live Henry V.!' Th 3 people, in tbe Barae good humour, immediately cried out, * Ah, how is he, the dear prince? Is he not dead? So much the 1 etter 1 Make our compliments to him, if you pleafe gentlemen. How happy he will be Henry IV. is dead I Vive la Itepublique V Thus did the people turn legitimacy to the rightabout. If we relate i this fact, it is merely to add that, in despair for the I cause, they immediately went to inscribe themselves ! at their respective mayoralties, as nearly all the young | men of the Faubourg St. Germain bad already done. ! Thus legitamacy has turned into republicanism, the wisest tiling it could do. ' Henry IV. is dead. Long live the Republic' *' Tbk •• Charivari" on Kings and Revolutions.—"A dogle remark will prove better than a thousand commentaries tliat kings are dead—utterly extrict! In 1793, the first king that was dethroned aspired uneasiness, and he was guillotined. In 1830, ihe second king whom the prople deposed was escorted *o the sea side, and a strict watch kept over him until he had set sail from the shores of la belle France. In 1848, the people treat the ex-King with sublime disdain— topy give themselves uo trouble whatever con. ccruing him. The king goes whithersoever he will—no one looks after him, uo pa'ns are ever taken to ascerta : n if he does go or not. A few days afterwards some report that he is dead, and the reply is ' Ah!' Others affirm that the poor devil is very well, and the reply is still, *Ah!' No one cares to be assured whether he be dead or alive. As little uneasiness is felt as if he had never been in existence 1 Is it possible to suppress a king and a whole dynesty more completely or with greater generosity ? Let us pursue the creer of degradation : The movement of 1789 lasted three years. T&at which resulted in the restoration lasted three months. The revolution of 1830 lasted time days. The revolution of 1848 lasted three hours. Happily no more revolutions are possible, for, considering the rapid ratio in which the strength of the people increases, such a revolution would be accomplished in three minutes." The Journal des Debats, the devoted and even servile organ of the ex-King, joined the Republican Government on Sunday! The pi ess is unanimous in giving the world to understand that monarcMa.l government is for ever thrown in France, and that a republic is a sine qua non. During the march of the people to the To'leries, a woman, well dressed and very pretty, was seen brrn» dishing a large pistol to excite the people on their march. She frequently examined the priming of the weapon. She rode a caiifeurchonslon a small grey horse, at the head of a band, composed partly of National Guards and partly of citizens, who loudly chaunted the Marseillaise, in which she most eneigetically joined. On the Thursday, when the crowd began to withdraw from tie Tuileries, alter flinging out of the all the rich articles of clothiog, pictures, and furniture, a working man, with a musket on his shoulder, was going along the Boulevards to the MadeWine.lie buddenly.stopped before two gentlemen and a lady w ho had ventured down ro their porte cochere to get a prep at what was going on. " Who do you suppose," said he, addressing the gioup, " wi'l be most put out by this famous cEiaiivari ? Why, Abd-el-Kader to be sire. For what now becomes of the famous promise made at Im capitulation ? E»fonce VArahe!" And saying so. quite satisfied at having unburdened hia mind to some one, he passed on his The Provisional Government has at its disposal 200,-0 OOOf. (deposited in the Hank of France). The domains of the ex-civil list are annexed to the domain of the republic. The banking houses have nil resumed business, headed by the Bank of France. That bank discounted 7.003,000 worth of paper on Saturdav, and tbe Provisional Govcrm..er.t bus lodged in iu coffers 200,000,000f. The bank subscribed 100,000f. to the fund io iavour of the wounded in the lute struggle. The Agens de Change at ihe Bourse decided, in addition to tue price of 73f. 35c. for the settlem nt of Febiuary, that 73f. 50c. is to be the quotation for such rente as was carried to the end of March. The following incident in the invasion of the Tuileries is stated to have occurred :—ln one of the apartments was found a considciuble sum of money. One of tbe commanders of the insurgents called a small pariy of the men en blouse, entrusted it to thero, with dirertiens to carry it to the treasury, telling them the nature and value cf the charge; a trust which they peiformed with the strictest fidelity. The hostility of the populace to the English, in the first instance, vrus manifested by their destruction of the British arms erected over the dcurs of the tradesmen of the B.itish embassy. The chop of Robert*, die apothecary, in the Hue dc la Pais, encountered the especial hostility of ihe populace. Tbe arms were not only torn down, but the windows and everything in them entirely destroyed. During the beat of the late contest, an armed man waß caught in the act ot stealing & silver spoon. Immediately tbe brave men who were fighting with him, perceiving what he had done, said, " You do not belong to our cause—we disavow you. Down on ycur knees this instant—and we will show you how we treat thieves '" At the same moment live balls struck him, and be fell dead. A deaf hdy, living in apartments at the Tuileries, heard nothing of the emeulv, when she was surprised i reading by the entiy cf the people. When she re. covered herself, ihey told her she must quit the | palace, but should be escorted whither she pleased, and I might take her t-lollies and jetv<?]s with her, and leaving ! her to pack up !ier thing, they locKed herdjor and j placed a guard be!ore it. Three hours later they ; reiurned to take her away, when one of her Urge boxes i cordrd, came o;«en, aud all her things fell on*; they piu'kcd U again for her, and marched a" ay nith three driuna m front and a b-ront; guai*t, imul d*.-po-.itfti her a..d her property at the house of one of he*- retail' ii. The Alarums de Police, second of the urn sl<T ofCb.TIH X M tnru!led himself m the battalion m» iu'e i f the luth He was unanimously elcc.cd captain. AI. Armnnd Marr.it, tbe editar of the Xutwual. who contntued sj pe'..\rfu<y io the late political taust ophe, hoi b;Ln chir-tfd v.\lh tut, gt the civil hit, and with Utti ot the uuoiauw pmtic,

and of thp princes and princesses ,of the ex-royal family, which have been sequestrated. A young girl was present at the last massacre of the Municipal Guard of the post of the Place de la Concorde, which fired on the 6th legion. There remained only one of these unfortunate men, ** Mdlle." cried M, de V , commandant of the firemen, *• you may save this man 1" •• What must Ido ? lam ready 1" " Throw yourself into his arms, and claim him as your father." The young fcirl threw herself at the same moment into the arms of the municipal guard, and, weeping, ciied, "Gentlemen, in the name of God, spare my father, or kill me with him.*' At the same moment the muskets of the assailants were lowered, and municipal guard, protected by his liberatress, sum saved.