At a few minutes past four o’clock, we heard the drums, but paid little attention to them, the affair of the hair-dresser and Invalid having for some time escaped the memory of every one. In Paris, one soon forgets the events which are of but little interest to remember. There was simply a movement of curiosity on the altar, where two thousand people were seated, and on the ground of the Champ de Mars, where some ten to twelve thousand were walking. These drums were those of a battalion of the advanced guard of the Faubourg St. Antoine. This battalion was totally misinformed of what was taking place in the Champ de Mars. They had received an order from Bailly and Lafayette to fire in case of any resistance being made, but only in case of resistance. Before entering the Champ de Mars, the command was given to halt, and load their guns. They thought they would have to face some fifty thousand brigands, determined on bloodshed and pillage. They found, on the contrary, an inoffensive population amusing itself. The battalion halted a second time; but, as they did not find what they were in search of, they put their guns in clusters, and sent a few unarmed grenadiers to see what was passing on the altar of the country. These came back, saying that they were signing a petition in the greatest possible order, and without the slightest noise. The people walking in the Champ de Mars did not, on their side, pay the slightest attention to the arrival of the military from the Faubourg St. Antoine. But about the same time, the drums of Gros Caillon and the Cours la Reine were heard calling to arms. From Gros Caillon it was Lafayette, and from Cours la Reine, Bailly, who arrived with the National and paid Guards. Lafayette sent, in advance, an aide-de-camp and a hundred armed men, to find out what was really passing in the Champ de Mars. But from the group, which I have already mentioned as having been commanded by Verriéres and Fournier, a gun-shot was seen to proceed, which wounded the aide-de-camp of Lafayette. The advance guard returned to Lafayette, and the aide-de-camp, bleeding, made his report on the manner in which he was received. To him, wounded as he was on his entry into the Champs, all the inoffensive strollers appeared to be brigands. Lafayette placed himself at the head of the three thousand men he commanded, and marched on the Champ de Mars. He found Fournier, Verriéres, and those they led, busily engaged in raising a barricade. He marched straight up to the barricade, and destroyed it. From under a cart, Fournier, the American, fired through one of the wheels on Lafayette. The gun missed fire. Fournier, the American, was taken, and charged with revolt and homicide. The National Guard would have shot him on the spot, had not Lafayette torn him from their hands, and rendered him his liberty. The most curious of all was, that this bloody day was caused by these two bloodthirsty men, Lafayette and Bailly.