The preacher grappled with his enemy as he fell, and both came rolling to the ground.

Neither was much injured, but a tumult ensued.

A pistol-shot was fired, and the sailor wounded in the arm.

Daggers were drawn, cudgels brandished, the bystanders taking part generally against the sailor, while those who protected him were somewhat bruised and belabored before they could convey him out of the church.

Nothing more, however, transpired that day, and the keepers of the cathedral were enabled to expel the crowd and to close the doors for the night.
Information of this tumult was brought to the senate, then assembled in the Hotel de Ville.