were gathered around them, talking eagerly of ed of early departure. The crimson flag, that the day and black-belted workmen wiped the since three o'clock had been floating over the blood and dust from their bayonets, as they lis-Tuilleries, haunted their slumbers. There was tened to the reading of the proclamations. That something even in such names as DUMOULIN, and worst of faubourgs, St. Marceau, was all alive MARRAST, and CARNOT, to make that first Rewith bare-headed women, and bare-legged boys, publican night, a night-mare. climbing over the barricades, and shouting huz-| The evening was all a wonder; the night was zas as they waved the streaming placards over all a tremor. There were not a few who passed their heads. Here and there, in more open it beside stiffened corpses, or at the bed of woundstreets, cabmen drove furiously along, with cock-ed. And there were some who, drunken with ades stuck in their shining hats. enthusiasm, or by excesses in the cellars of the The Cafés wore their usual brilliancy, and Tuilleries, danced fearful orgies around dead were filled to overflowing, with noisy, talking brothers. companies. Ladies and gentlemen were passing Others, glowing with a generous zeal, at with quick, half-frightened step, along the Bou- thought of the monarchy that had been put down, levart, looking curiously on the rude barricades, and of the popular government that had been and the mangled stumps of their favorite shade-erected, and confiding in the good intent of the Workmen, arm in arm with National victors, slept quietly and soundly beside their trees. Ambitious heads dreamed strange dreams. Such as BLANQui, Barbes or LAGRANGE, so long the hunted victims of a dynasty that feared them unless chained, are awake and free, plotting, and rejoicing. They were men of fierce enthusiasm, who had perilled life, property, liberty, every thing that men hold dear, for their idol scheme of a Republic; and now that it has overtaken them, half unawares, they huzzaed like fanatics, The shops were all closed: and twice at least, you might have seen a white-lipped, staring group gathered round a corpse, guarded and bil-while they trembled with apprehension. letted-Voleur. By the Madaleine, the post of the soldiery was burning, and the white flames lit up like day, the columns and entablature of the church. The prison of the Abbaye had no soldier guards, save the citizens, and political offenders were wandering at will around the streets that hem the Luxembourg. Fierce old women in upper garrets, inflamed by poverty, and the blood of offspring shed that day before Chateau d'Eau, still kept their light burning, and till morning cleared up the danger, were turning scraps of lead into murderous bullet. In the old families through the faubourg St. Germain, which had begun to creep from the The Carmagnole and Marseillaise were chant-shadows of the July Revolution, into the sunlight ed from time to time, around the corner wine- of court-splendour, there was wonder and fear. shops, and by students of St. Cyr, walking in long file. Enthusiasm had caught hold even of cold reformists; and black-coated Bourgeois were chatting with porter and brick-layer. The rich merchants of Chaussée d' Antin, and Rue Lafitte, grown rich under patronage of Bourgeois King, trembled for their bourgeois pride, and their bourgeois wealth. As darkness drew on, the Cafés, and here and There was now no far-seeing TALLETRAND there, a tall house, were illuminated. Still, the for the fearful nobility to beg, and to bolster citizen soldiers stood guard. The barricades re-themselves upon. There was no General LAFAY mained untouched, and the sentinels stood upon ETTE, or popular LAFITTE, for rich Bourgeois to them—their forms projected darkly against the seek in shelter. These men, and such as these, red light of the bivouac fires below, had all passed. It was not a night without feaful anxiety. The people had triumphed : but how were they to use their triumph? caps. There were many afoot, and astir who had witnessed, and been partakers in one Revolution. or in two-perhaps in three. But of those great Mothers trembled at sight of the blood red names which belonged by history and associa Old men, mindful of the old Republic, tion, to half a dozen Revolutions-which retainshuddered at those words, fresh printed, of Lib-ed old taint of an old Royalism, and which, noterté, Egalité, Fraternité. withstanding, were sustained in public favor. Royalists grew timid, and gathered up their either by admiration for talent, or respect valuables for flight. Bankers passed the night lineage, only one now belonged to a living man. in arranging papers, and jewels. Strangers talk- And he, that night, in a narrow street, heavily for shaded by the tall and princely houses-the Rue | de Bac, was lying on the edge of the Grave. But none, neither of the timid, or of the strong, of the winners or of the losers, thought it worth their while to consult now the great CHATEAUBRIAND. His day was gone. The mind that had illumined the literary horizon for nearly half a century, had sunk almost into idiocy. Old nurses took care of the man, who had been once the care of kings. He who had revelled in the splendor of every court in Europe, and wandered with young feet over American wild-lands; who had united reputation of Poet, Philosopher and Statesman, who had belonged to the Diplomacy of the age, whose name was attached to great treaties, and whose opinions had weighed with imperial cabinets,now, that the chrysalis of lingering feudality was breaking fibres, and a new political being stretching wings, was but a slobbering fool, quarreling with his nurse for gruel! Thus, the hero of letters and monarchy, the failing support of a failing cause, the last of royal poets, the lingering dreamer of regal dreams, was passing away amid the luxuries of old-time FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. extravagance ;-was listening with the irritable petulance of dotage to the guns that ushered in a Republic, was lapping his last cordials from golden spoons, and slowly dying on regal damask. THE GRAVE OF BYRON. It is a shrine where poets bend Of one, who living, awed the world, Though scorning its oblation; A world which knowing not the heart 'Twas well nigh wrought to madness. As from the wind-harp, o'er whose chords That unto thee was given, Did'st wake a lyre whose murmurs knew No echoing tone in Heaven. And still, with saddened hearts we think And yet unblessed,-unblessing: Turning from hearts that might have loved, A home that might have kept thee, Thine was a grave in foreign climes Where only strangers wept thee. PARIS, June 28, 1849. France, calling itself republican since February, 1848, has, at length, since the date of my last, enjoyed a few days of republican government. It commenced on the 28th of May with the opening of the Legislative Assembly. On that day the Provisional ceased: the Constituant gave place to the Constituted: and the regular machinery of a free republican government, organized by the new Constitution was put in complete operation. It worked fifteen days-only fifteen-when its insufficiency became patent: it was set aside, and the stronger, simpler machine of despotic government was necessarily resorted to for the salvation of society. On the 15th instant Paris was declared in a state of siege-the two chief cities of France and fourteen entire departments are now under the iron rule of martial-law. You know how this was brought about. The main result of the elections of last month were, as 1 anticipated, overwhelmingly reactionist. Five hundred of the seven hundred and fifty members composing the new Assembly were monarchists of one or other of the fallen dynasties. Two or more were of the ultra republican and socialist party, composing the mountain. The very small fraction remaining consisted of the moderate republicans, who formed perhaps the controlling element of the Constituant Assembly. I did not anticipate the almost total discomfiture which overtook this party in the last elections, and the consequent increase of power, at the ex- appearance of the French army before Rome, pense of the moderates, which awaited the dem- that the Pope had been ejected, and the repubocratic socialists. These last count in the new lican form of government imposed upon the RoAssembly much more numerously than in the man people by a factious and audacious mineriold. Their untiring propagande, their union at ty-that so soon as the city should be relieved the polls, their energy and discipline, won signal from the terror in which it was held, the majoritriumphs even in Paris, where, beyond all ques-ty would recall the Pope, and accept the mild, tion, the friends of order had they evinced simi- ameliorated and progressive government which lar qualities, would have carried all their candi- that really liberal and excellent prince had inandates. The Mountain in the new Assembly at gurated in Rome. I do not yet believe that the once took position boldly and confidently, as the Romans are ripe for republican government: or representative of a strong and growing party in that, if left to itself, absolutely free from Austhe country, ere long to become dominant. Their trian, French, and all foreign intervention, it efforts to gain the army over to the socialist doc- would fail soon to end in wild democracy and trines had succeeded, if not to a positively very anarchical excess: but in view of the events of great, certainly to an alarming extent: witness the last two months, I cannot resist the convicthe triumphant candidacy of three simple and tion that if not unanimously republican, the Roignorant sergeants, whose sole recommenda- mans are unanimously opposed to all foreign dietions to the party which sent them to the Le-tation, and are valiantly, aye gloriously resisting gislature, were the extreme violence of their po- it. The French Republic engages in its constilitical opinions and their contempt of wholesome tution "to respect nationalities," and not to discipline. The election returns showed that in "make war upon the liberties of any people." I all places where the army was allowed to vote believe it would be wisest to restore the Pope : freely, a large vote was given to the socialists. but if the Romans don't think so, no other naThe Mountain exaggerated the disaffection that tion, nor all other nations united have the right prevailed in the army. They believed it almost to say they shall receive him, imposing upon the complete; at least to an extent that would neu- Romans liberty in any other sense than that tralize the action of the army upon an appeal to in which they themselves understand it. The force and they showed from the very com- French were checked in a first attempt to enter mencement of the session a confidence in their Rome: and now they say, (the government says,) power, an intolerance and audacity which indi- their military honor is engaged-that before this, cated clearly enough their intention to bring all other considerations must yield—and in spite matters to a speedy crisis. The majority, or of French constitution, of sacred nationality, their side, furnished them with abundant prov- and natural rights, Gen. Oudinot is ordered to ocation. Confident in their actual numerical enter Rome with his army-no matter what the force, they were as intolerant and ultra and al-cost. most as noisy as their opponents themselves. Rome will have to succumb. It probably has All questions were decided against the Left- succumbed: and ere this, Gen. Oudinot dietaits members were excluded from all offices-its ting his terms from the Vatican or the Capitol, presses were almost daily seized-its writers is complacently persuading himself that French prosecuted, fined, imprisoned-reaction was evi- honor has been sacred. Error! All the real dently at work in the assembly and in the gov- honor of the day belongs to the defeated Roernment. It was clearly visible not to the ex-mans! And the French have justified, if they asperated Montagnards only, but to all impar- have not prepared, another Congress of allied tial observers. But it was the misconduct and sovereigns in Paris, imposing upon France libperversion of the Roman expedition, ordered by erty as they understand it,—that is the bastard Government and sanctioned by the Assembly, son of a degenerate race for legitimate monarch. which was seized upon by the opposition and It would be a just and most fitting retribution. made the pretext for precipitating the appeal to This iniquitous expedition was seized upon by force, which for several months past I have been the Montagnards, and made the pretext for a sure was in contemplation. This Roman expe- course of most violent parliamentary and popudition was in its very inception of questionable lar agitation, which ended on the 13th instant is expediency and legality. In its subsequent man- another call to arms of the people of Paris. Leagement, in the gross perversion which has taken dru Rollin, it is believed, thought the insurrecplace from its original avowed object, it has cer- tion premature: but the other leaders, and the tainly become a flagrant, disgraceful and outra- impatient, ardent clubs, urged him, compelled geous violation of the French Constitution, of him on, in spite of himself. The Democratic the laws of nations, and of natural right. I be-leaders of Rome and Paris were in close cer lieved, as did almost every one else prior to the respondence. The crisis here was hastened with the hope of saving the Roman republic. It was permanent introduction of clubs, and the regulatoo soon by at least a couple of months: and tion, (it was expressly refused to add “and assuthe cause of the red republic, (whose triumph rance") of the right of political meeting. This would have been assured with more discretion,) is not all. A bill has been offered by ministers, if not utterly lost, is indefinitely adjourned. The and the majority are about declaring urgency, repression of the insurrection was admirably and voting it forthwith, by which the liberty of prompt and energetic. Had Gen. Changarnier the press is almost extinguished; severer in many adopted Cavaignac's plan of last June, allowing respects than the bill of September, 1835. Those the insurrection to fully develop itself, and then measures, I believe with the goverment, are nesuppressing it, secundum artem, a more terrible cessary. Without the state of seige and the retragedy than that of June, 1848, would have pressive measures I speak of, Anarchy will howl been enacted. The result itself would have triumphant throughout all the departments of been doubtful in view of the known disaffection France. Well, what is to be done? Will the of several legions of the National Guards, and people submit? They will not. They ought the reasonable apprehensions with respect to the not. Professing to be republican, living under army. True the army did not exhibit any signs liberal institutions guarantied by a constitution, of faltering: but the occasion can hardly be said they will not consent that the constitution should to have offered itself. No where did it come be to them a dead letter-a continual lie-worse, into serious collision with the insurgents. The a bitter mockery! Without their constitutional barricades were no where seriously defended. liberties, they will conspire and rebel. With They were rushed upon and demolished even be- them, they will speed through license to Anarfore they were completed. The insurrection thus chy! Well, what is to be done ? I answerhappily crushed in its inception, did not cost on be honest! abolish the constitution-abolish the both sides more than a dozen lives. Some four republic! Make legal a strong, almost despotic or five hundred arrests have been made. Some form of government: and then-why then-I twenty members of the Mountain are included won't promise that Frenchmen will be quiet; in the prosecutions. Most of them have fled but they'll be-as quiet as they can. Que voulezfrom France. Ledru Rollin, Boichot, and Rat-vous? It's in the nature of the beast. You may tier, the two sergeants, have escaped. It is sup- lead the donkey where you will with a simple posed the trials will take place in August at Ver- cotton thread about the nose-but try to conduct sailles. The insurrection broke out simultane- the tiger with a simple cotton thread! France ously in Paris, and several of the departments. is the beautiful and terrible tiger of nations. Had it gotten well under way in Paris, but few of the departments would have been spared, and terrible civil war would have desolated France. There are signs of important political combinations approaching, and dissensions in the cabinet,-Dufaure, Minister of the Interior, uniting with some seventy moderates to form a constitutional third party between the royalists and democrats. These new Girondists will fail as the old did. But they will save their heads I trust. At Lyons the struggle of the troops with the insurgents continued for two days. Several hundred were killed on both sides and many prisoners taken. But the cause of order finally triumphed. In Paris the majority are confirming their victory by a series of measures of great severity: some I have observed that so many of the French of very questionable expediency, others of ques- journals take malicious pleasure in culling from tionable legality, and others of unquestionable American papers every thing that will enable unconstitutionality. Several legions of the Na- them to indite a paragraph of abuse and dispartional Guards are dissolved and disarmed. By agement upon our institutions, or throw contempt virtue of the state of seige, six of the radical upon American manners and society, that I must daily papers are forbidden to appear: and five plead guilty to a little spiteful gratification, as I others have been formally notified that a similar send to be recorded in the Messenger and amuse order will be taken with reference to them if they its readers, the following advertisements copied continue to discuss the constitutionality of the verbatim from several of the most respectable Roman expedition. Clubs have been interdict- Paris journals. They might well afford the text ed; and the right of union for political purpo - | for a page or two of capital retort. But I don't ses suspended for a year at the pleasure of gov- feel in the humor just now so the advertiseernment. This is not by virtue of the state of ments may speak for themselves; after I have seige, and is palpably in violation of the consti- simply reminded your readers, (they might doubt tution. The Executive is not bound to render as they read,) that I am writing from France, account of the execution of this law till after the expiration of the year; but must, before the expiration of that period, introduce a bill for the which claims for itself the exclusive worship among nations of "the Beautiful, the Just, the Unselfish, the Grand," and which never fails to taunt America with grovelling addiction to the information given. In proof of its good faith mere material well-being." 66 "Insurance-On Life, against Fire, Hail, Maritime Risks, Failures in Business, Accidents in Carriages. "MARRIAGES.-Company of Assurance of Marriages. Rue de l'Ouest 104-near the Luxembourg. in this matter, the company will guaranty to those who desire it, the exactitude and the amount of dowries. It will also by means of an insurance, to be good for three, six, or twelve months, undertake to procure within a stipulated time a marriage suitable in every particular. This is an advantage whieh no company has been able to offer to its clients: for, we repeat it, none of the conditions of society, from the most sphere of our operations. We can put in communication persons who possess dowries from one thousand up to two millions of franes. Marriage is the most important engagement we may contract. It is that which has most in-elevated to the most humble are without the fluence, for our happiness or misery, during life. By a single word we contract an indissoluble engagement and this word is often pronounced with the greatest levity. One yields to the attractions of beauty, of fascinating manners, or of fortune, without sufficiently examining whether the object possesses those principles and sterling qualities which alone can insure the happiness of a household. But this conscientious and so necessary examination is impossible for a great number of persons, who are hindered by their engrossing daily occupations and are therefore compelled to rely upon information too often entirely untrustworthy. "It often happens that one cannot find in the circle of one's acquaintance, the person with whom he should form this alliance; and then it is that he is beset with interested reports respecting fortune, morals, character, &c. Too often also is deception practised in those alliances which are called marriages of inclination, and the late truth comes upon you at last with a bitterness proportioned to the depth of the delu sion. "A marriage negotiation should be conducted by a mind free from all prejudice and proof "All communications must be addressed, free of postage, to M. the Directeur of the Administration, Rue de l'Ouest 104.” Another. "Marriages-M. de Foy, negotiator of marriages, No. 48 Rue d'Enghien. (Severe discretion.) Pay postage. "Nota. 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"A young person, 18 years of age, of agreeable personal appearance, belonging to an hon orable family, but without fortune, is desirous «á marrying a gentleman of easy fortune. She will be very particular upon the score of birth and social position. Address, free of postage, Mile. Marie at Grenelle (Seine.)" I have read lately another advertisement of this "The company charges itself with all the nego-kind, but cannot at this moment lay my hand upon tiations: and the most implicit confidence may it-in which an uncle offers to the notice of the be placed in its discretion and in the sincerity of public a ward, his niece, setting forth in the short |