the army of Paris, seeing the day was passed in
insignificant skirmishes, now determined to withdraw his small posts, to
allow the discontented to gather to a head. On the morning of the 4th it
was reported that the insurrection had its focus in the Quartiers St.
Antoine, St. Denis, and St. Martin, and that several barricades were in
progress. The General deferred his attack until two o'clock, when the
various brigades of troops acted in concert. The barricades were attacked
in the first instance by artillery, and then carried at the point of the
bayonet. There were none which offered very serious resistance, and the
whole contest was over about five o'clock. In the evening, however, fresh
barricades were raised in the Rues Montmartre and Montorgueil, and others
in the Rues Pagevin and des Fosses Montmartre, which were successfully
attacked in the night by the officers in command of those quarters. On the
5th the last remains of street-fighting were effectually quelled. The loss
to the military in these operations was twenty-five men killed, of whom
one was Lieut-Col. Loubeau, of the line, and 184 wounded, of whom
seventeen were officers. The number of insurgents killed is unknown, but
they are estimated it from two to three thousand, including,
unfortunately, many indifferent persons, who were accidentally passing
along the boulevards when the soldiery suddenly opened their sweeping
fire. The insurgents taken with arms in their hands were carried to the
Champ de Mars, and there shot by judgment of court martial. Most of the
political prisoners arrested were discharged after a few days, some of the
more formidable only being longer detained.

By a decree of the President dated the 2d December, the French people were
convoked in their respective districts for the 14th of the month to accept
or reject the following _plebiscite_: "The French people wills the
maintenance of the authority of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and delegates to
him the powers necessary to frame a Constitution on the bases proposed in
his proclamation of the 2d December." On that day the voting consequently
commenced by universal suffrage; and the President has been re-elected for
ten years by a majority greatly exceeding that of his contest with
Cavaignac. In Paris, of 394,049 registered voters 197,091 have voted in
the affirmative; 95,511, in the negative; and 96,819 abstained from
voting. The majority for Louis Napoleon being 191,500. In the provinces