THE REVOLUTION IN PARIS. (From the Liverpool Albion.) Paris, Sunday, Feb. 28, 1848.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 225, 26 July 1848, Page 3

THE REVOLUTION IN PARIS. (From the Liverpool Albion.) Paris, Sunday, Feb. 28, 1848.

My dear Cousin,— l wrote you a few hasty lines on the termination of the three days, as 1 thought you and my other relations at Liverpool, would be anxious to heai bow we were after all the horrors of a bloody Revolution. The conduct of the people in the hour of triumph has been admirable This vast ond wealthy city, with its pa luces, banks, and bhops full of costly ai tides, was in possession of the mob fjr twenty four hours, and j(t

not an atom of propctty ,wa« stolen,, of.au HiMi^t offered to any human being. Well dres^d women were walking about the. Tuilleries during the tune the work of destruction wa* giing on — such was their confidence in their fellow citizens in this moment of templat'on I saw men, the very dregs of the people, standing sentry at the gates of the palace, and examining every person that came out— those found with property on them were immediately *hot, without mercy or remorse. The sight in the Tuilleries was a most painful one -at the same time you could net help laughing at the curious spectacle of the loweat rabble stt titling about in Admirals' and Generals' uniforms, nnd the gorgeous* liveries" of the loyal sonants, whilst the women dressed themselves up in bonnets trimmed with lace, and in hall dresses. Their honors were, however, but of shor duration, as they were obliged to leave their gay apparil behind, and tale again to their blouses, Sec: The srent>s the wine cellars preset) ed no one can ever deenbe, but you m»y fo.m some faint idea" what muit have beenpioduced by an infuriated mob, flushed wish victory, afier three dnys* and nigbti' fighting, breaking into the cellars of a royal palace. I *aw numbers in a perfectly lifeless hlate of drunkenness, wiih half emptied bottles tightly g rasped in their hands. The K<ng, bareheaded, had only just time to escape with the Queen to the Place de la Concorde, when ho took one of the public c^nvcyancies to Versailles, and tbence to the Chateau d'Eu. The most desperate resistance was made at the Palais Royal, by the Mth regiment of the liife, tflio fought from door to door, and fiom window to window, and d.ed to a man in obeying the ordois of their officers, and in discharging whit tficy considered their diry to their king and country. Honour to ehcli brave but unfoVtunate men ! i observed that each band of insurgents, a's they parsed down the Rub de 1» Paix, <va« headed by the boys from the Ecole Polytechmxjuc, and the National Guard led tho assault against the Palaio Royal. That part of the Tuilfrics under which you go through the archway to the Carousal was ret lire to ea^ly in the dny ; ft company of infantry, who defended tho post, retreatud into the interior of the building, and being shut in, were all burnt. The garde muntcipßle fought to the last, and w re almost all cut ofF. The post of tho Rue St. Florentine at the Plare de la Concorde, was defended by these guards with the greatest bravery, but nothing could resist the impetuosity of th^ assault, and not a man was left alive. Ne:rly opposite to us is the shop of Mr. Roberts, the apotb.ee try. A report had got about that he had refused assistance to the wounded. The maises wbo proceeded down the Rue de la P.iix, to the attack on the Tuileries stopped opposite his shop, fired at the windows- (I saw the bolls strike the walls), and then broke open the shutters. On hii offering some explanation they immediately, put the shutter* up again, and lpft everything at they found it. In the meantime another part of the mob were taking the English arms from the steam packet office, next door to vi. I then thought an antUEnglish feeling had raised itself up with the political demonstration, and that it was all ov<t with vi. The moW ordered the gates of oar hotel to be opened, a little cntre acte which by no means tended to lessen our apprehension. They then entered the casernes of the Sappeurs Pompers, which you know are next door to us, and took every implement of war they could find — muskets, pistols, and swords. They immediattly charged their guns, fixed their bayonets, and marched to the attack of tho Tuilleries, unking up the popular air of— "Enfanta de la Patrie," and rending the air with their Bfcouts. There weie boys of twelve to fourteen, nrmed to the teeth with daggers, pistols— in short any'hing they could lay their hands on. Many of .hsse young patriot* were found arro >q the dead. A person called here yesterday who had been present nt the destruction of Neuilly— he saw the people shoot three men who Imd attempted to plunder. I fear this inter esti'g chateau is burnt. They killed all the deer but would not allow one to be touched. There is nothing comparable to their whole conduct since the cessatu n of the Etrugg'e, in the annab of the world. Had Guizjt given in his resignation on Monday, they wruld have been satisfied— in fact every concession caaie a little too late Odillon Barror and that section were thought, on Wednesday, ultraTailical— but on Thursday theidtaot such men forming the Provisional Government was scouted by the victon. us people of the bai ricades. On the Thursday night I went over all the parts ot P«aris where the most obtt naie resistance had been made, and the sight was a most painfully interesting, and never to be forgotten, one, the barricades were erected from one extremity of the Boulevards to the other, at intervals of about GOO or 700 yards— they were, most formidable, ftnd I regret were made in pan of those trees we have co often admired, paving stone*, omnibutses, cart 3, gun carriages, &c. At the entrance of every street a barricade was established of the same nature, and most curious they are— and when you consider that these hundreds of barricades wore all formed n one night, one cannot help being struck with amazement. The wolls are every moment being placarded with manifestoes issuing from tho Provisional Government, whose arrangements for the preservation of public order seem admirable. They have a bard task— they have been sittingsixly hours I M. Lnmartine has bren obliged frequently to suppress the violence of the. mob at the Hotel de Ville, as they threatened tl)9 Government with destruction. His eloquent appeals were always listened to. Ever since, the filing of rubs, beating of drums, and all such sounds, to which our cars in these piping times of peace, have been so long unaccustomed, have never ceased, and when there are no such sounds, I fancy in the night that I hear the distant roar of cannon and the vociferations of tlje populace. An edict was issued yesterday laying—" the enemy is still at your gates, do not waste your amm&- I I nition I"— since then I have not heard a shot fired. The barricades are being partially removed, and the j carriages begin to circulate through the street! and the shops to be opened. They have enrolled 48,000 additional National Guards, who are to receive 30 sous per day, and to be clothed and lodged.- This in an admirable measure for the public security, by absorbing bo many turbulent spirits. They say that immense armios are to march immediately to the Rhine, and to the frontiers of Italy. AH the Polei and Smv have joined the Republican army— the Russian and Belgian ambaisadors are gone— but the Sardinian has been stopped at the gates.. The Duke de Montpensler has given up his sword, a/id his adhesion to the new order of things, having enrolled himßelf 'as a soldier of the Republic. The scene at the English pasport office yesterday; was suarouiing one.« WhiUt there with a friend, I saw a ' man and woman of the second clasi, go up to the door of the Embas-y and ring the bell. The seitant pointed to the paßpori office— they came up to me and asked whether they cou d see the Ambassador ? I toll them it wts not likely unless their business woi important. They said it wes extiemely so, as they had not one fa«hin of French ny ney, and they wanted him toch >ngo them a£s nott 1 What a reliei it is to have anything to smile at, after all we have gone through we week, and btill suffer. You may judge what mj »Dxiety hai been. * • * * * have really sjpported themselves wonderfully, but the reaction is beginning to tell now. Paris ii perfectly quiet, at least as quiet ai it can bs with 3, ot 400,pU0 armed repub-

cans in it, how lonjj it wil remain so, God only knows! \Vh it I <)rf!i<l is a^y feeling against the English spting1 ing up, in conscqiKna' of uny acE of our Government. j In tin' meantime our rcreat is entirely cut of!', by the I bii(]|>i'ii on the nnlwnjs to lioucn and Boulogne being destroyed. I shall sturt the moment I see a fair opportunity, but at present we arc safer here, ss (here is more danger to be iippicliended from the people ontsids the baniers, where there is no police, than from ihoso within, where life and property is respected. Bead's, there are neither dihge^cs uor po->t hoisCs on the T;<e ppople adopted first the rcJ flatj, lu^ Lannrtine 'tod them 'icrevai uoutd acknortledje n — he said the tricolor had mud" the rour of Europe, with ou. hbditjr and our glory, wheieu" i\\k red Hjg had only made the tour of ih'.} Clump dc Mais, st. i ei.e*l in the blood of the people. Tl.c Republ'f has been procl.umpd at' Bordeaux, Ton n, and many of tin* large (on as. VmcenneB with nil its nrMUerj, amnmnuion, and noilitaiy Etoree, has been talten po^scrsion of by the Republic. The detached fi-ji" are ?c< upied by the National Guards, of the DntiUu The fort of ;Mont Valcnen was t.iJ.en after five houn' resistance The Tmilened nre destined as a hosp-'t •-! fo> the work people. 1 forbesr to icpeat thm^Q you nuv read in llu \ n|U j r3.