Chapter XVIII: THE REIGN OF VICTORIA (continued)

Insecurity of the Orleanist Monarchy--The Spanish Marriages--Lord
Palmerston's Foreign Policy--Meeting of the French
Chambers--Prohibition of the Reform Banquet--The Multitude in
Arms--Vacillation of Louis Philippe--He abdicates in favour
of his Grandson--Flight of the Royal Family--Proclamation of
the Provisional Government--Lamartine quells the Populace--The
Unemployed--Invasion of the Assembly--Prince Louis Napoleon--The
_Ateliers Nationaux_--Paris in a State of Siege--The Rebellion
quelled by Cavaignac--A New Constitution--Louis Napoleon
elected President of the French Republic--Effect of the French
Revolution in England--The Chartists--Outbreak at Glasgow--The
Monster Petition--Notice by the Police Commissioners--The 10th
of April--The Special Constables--The Duke of Wellington's
Preparations--The Convention on Kennington Common--Feargus O'Connor
and Commissioner Mayne--Collapse of the Demonstration--Incendiary
Placards at Glasgow--History of the Chartist Petition--Renewed
Gatherings of Chartists--Arrests--Trial of the Chartist
Leaders--Evidence of Spies--The Sentences 548