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"Crowds are pouring into Parisi," telegraphs the
Special of the Daily Neice ; "• large number of
English are among them, some coming on pleasure
others on business.. 8111141028 orders are also coming
into Paris faster than the houses can execute them."
And the indefatigable Renter " wires " the following
—"All the streets are now open for traffic, the barri-
cades have disappeared, the pavements and roads are
repaired. The city is daily resuming its animated
silPearance, and perfect order prevails in all quarters."
Again, it is stated that "the service of trains on the
various railways has been resumed, and an Immense
number of persons have arrived in Perin, large crowds
collecting around the ruins of the late conflagrations."
This cheering news is confirmed by what we on this
aide of the Channel also ascertain. We know that
hundreds of people, not to use stronger language,
have left our shor-s to go and visit Paris, to see for
themselves bow much she has Buffered, and to note ,
the terrible destruction which has fallen on some
pasts of the still beautiful city. If the Parisians ,
wi'l but keep moderately quiet this summer and
autumn, the hotel keepers and tradesmen will
reap a harvest after their long season of famine.
Fost will they keep quiet ?—ay, there's the rub.
Figaw calculates that there are still 50,000
" insurgents " in Paris, and it adds that these persons
will always be a source of danger: only awaiting a
favourable opportunity for exciting disturbances. If
this estimate be true—and it is certain that there must
Mill be a large number of LA, in the city—earnestly
ie it to be hoped that the favourable opportunity will
not ariee, but that France may speedily &cite on some
firm Government which may give her as much
" liberty " so she can bear, and which may at all events
assure peace and order.
In the present unsettled Mate of France the maul-
fret° and protest of Prince Napoleon naturally attracts
great attention. The doesunent is cleverly and artfully
worded ad captandont tidos, but it will not bear care-
ful examination. It might easily be shown that the
abuse which the Prince heaps ou the head of M. '
Jules Fevre is not wholly deserved, and that others
were in some respects more to blame than he was
lint people now care more about the present and the
future than about the past. To guide France in her
tronblotis course she requires, be says, "healthy
light," and this is not to be found "in • principle
which is the negation of modern society" (i.e. Re-
publicanism) ; "in a white flag which France no
longer remembers" (i.e. the flag of the Legitimists) ;
"in the fusion of pretenders" (i.e. the fusion of the
orleanists and Legitimists) ; "in the return of the
French Stuart," (i.e. the (irleanista). What France
wants, says the Prince, is "the abdication of all before
the will of the people freely sod directly expressed."
This seems fair nough on the surface, but we know
there is something behind this, and that Prince Na.
poleon looks for the restoration of Imperialism through
the expression of the popular will But in whore
person? Perhaps in that of the Prince himself. This,
at least, is a rather common opinion.
There is • large number of French pelple in London
ust now, for although a good many returned to France
on the conclusion of the war, numbers have come over
here owing to the disturbed state of Paris. It is
likely enough thed some among these are men whom
the French Government may desire to charge as
criminals, A recent Act of Parliament clears up
former difficulties on this subject, and if the French
Government determine to prosecute any refugees here
the trial takes place in our courts of first instance, as
the French would call them—re/go, police-courts.

A number of people here, professing to represent the
working classes, have been holding meetings to express
eympathy with the Communists, and with the intention
of getting up a " demonstration " in Hyde Park in
favour of the French refugees amongst us. I shall not
1122C2/28 the extravagant opinions expressed by many of
the speakers, who had sbont an much right to claim to be
represented of the working classes as they had to claim to
represent the House of Lords. But I cannot re-
rain from recording my es,isfaction that no further
steps are likely to be taken toward; the talked.of demon-
etration. I do not profess to know or represent the
opinions of the working classes, though perhaps I know
219 much of them as some of the speakers referred to,
but I believe that the great body of the workirg class
Is decidedly opposed to thee demonstratEns, and
certainly there is a pretty general opinion among all
classes that the time has come when such dangerous
and utterly useless gatherings In the public•parks
should be prohihited. This would in no way interfere
with the right of public meeting, properly understood.

Without breaking the wholesome rule not to enter
rat the merits cf a ewe under examination, I may note
that the interest in the TiJhborne clee c.rtainly does
ut .lecrta-e. l'-..; Is in sy li, rru,ewbat weary of it,
owing to its sppsrently intermina'de length; but its
complications, its continually varying pillow., the
slumber of people bronght on the stage, and the ter-
rible severe crose.examination of the claimant, all coin.
Fine to contribute elEments of intereit to one of the
roost remarkable trials of our own day. The progress
if the case is watched with anxiety, and this in some
I ante for the most mercenary of reasons, for these is •
mat deal of betting on the result, to may nothing of
the Tichlocrne debentures. Meanwhile pople are
talking with admiration of the skill displayed by the
Holicitor-General in cross•examination and of the
claimant's replies ; it really is a spirited and well.
fought skirmish, with what result remaine to be seen.

As this is the season for railway travellinT, let E2O
note a somewhat carious, but decidedly convenient
experiment, that has just been made by Messrs Spiers
and Pond, whose names are so familiar to railway
travellers. You obtain at one station a little basket
containing half a fowl, some slices of ham, bread and
chem., and a pint bottle of fluid, actording to choice,
and in the basket are cutlery of the period wherewith
to consume the viands and potables ; and at another
station you return what of course you are not expected
to eat or drink, and receive back your deposit. Not a
bad way, this, of mitigating the discomforts of a long
railway j mirney. The system at present is scarcely
adapted to third-class paasengers, but it Is very good
as far as it goes, and the experiment is sure to succeed
and become developed.
" What a frightfully noisy place London is !" re.
marks a country visitor to the metropolis, addressing
himself to your humble servant. The friend who
makes this remark comes from a pretty, a clean, and
a quiet little country town which shall be nameless.
"I have been there and still would go; lb, like a
little heaven below," for Its quietude, and yet the
good people of this little town do plenty of business
"in a quiet sort of way." But to revert to my friend
from thence. He complains especially of the rumbling
noise of waggons and carts, and of the screech of rail.
way whistles. The truth is, that he and Mrs. Visitor
have unwisely chosen an hotel near a railway terminus.
In this establishment "there is all that there is of
agreeable," as a Frenchman would put it, and the
charges are not more than 20 per cent, too high; but
the anise is continuous throughout the live-long day
and sleep-little night. He complains that—but I will
give you an extract from his letter: "Yes, we like
the hotel very well, and comfort is supplied in the
most business-like way imaginable. I find the
charges rather stiff, and I have not yet gone ,
through the terrible ordeal of pawing through core
ridors and down staircases, through a single tile of
servants with itching palms, albeit 'attendance is
charged in the bill ;' but 1 don't grumble at that—
its only once a year, you know. But what I as
grumble at is the incessant noise, Pat you re-
member when you were at -- how you remarked
the—to you—etrange,quittude of the town.) What a
frightfully noisy place Landon is Is it not Moore
who says something about Oft in the stilly night,
when slumber's chain bath bound me'' Well, there
is no stilly night here, and as to slumber's chain, why
it is so slight that it is broken, alas! too easily. The
screech of the railway whistle walo n us up two or three
times in the night, and then those horrid railway vans
~omtaenco rambling, and porters and waggoners begin
indulging in choice language at a stupidly early hour
in the scorning ; and, added to all thie, is the rumbling
of goods trains throughout the night, and the ringing
of the hotel bell as late or as early—which is it?--as
one or two o'clock in the morning. Much of this, I sup-
pose, cannot be helped, but I believe a good deal of it
could be. At all event', we shall be wiser next year, if we ,
come up to see your monster town, and if we can't get a
'lodge in some vast wilderness,' we will at least pick out
quiet lod‘inge, if such things are to be had in your
noisy city.' My friend is quite right, and I dare say
the experience of many of your readers will tally with
his.

- AN ARISTOCRAT lir SPITE Or 1111ISELP.—A
foreign correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says
that Henri Rochefort has now become a marquis, in
consequence of the death of his father, who has just
departed this life, at the advanced age of AI years. II
is eaid tr have been a Legitimist, and to have died in
abaolute want. More than 40 years ago he married •
well-known pastrycook woman, /a moire Morel, by whom
he had the present marquis and two daughters. With
respect to ILchefort's trial, a correspondent says—
The impression of those who have examined him and in-
vestigated his case is, that It will be difficult to prove him
gellty of any offence entailing a severer penalty than a term
of Imprirurnent The charges against him perhape be re-
tinned to defamation,excitement to hatred between citizens find
Other minor offences. tie dose not seem to have borne arms,
and he cannot be accused of sharing in incendiarism, since
he left Paris before the fires began. Whatever he may be
found guilty of, however, the Court will assuredly condemn
Itlm to the tooxlmtun peaty the law awards.

The cellars of the house of M. Tillers are not damaged, and
the valuable collection of objet, en vertu, to which he was Co
much attached, 11 Lu safe keeping •, It Is probahle that the
reconstruction of the new house, the money for which lieu
already been voted, will ba commenced Immediately.
Ten thoussnd incendiary b ,mbe have been discovered In
the catacombs, As 23,00 were manufactured by the Com-
mune according to documents found on prisoners, and of
these not many were used, a large unmoor are believed to be
still somewhere concealed.

It Is stated by the Sub•Clovernor of the Bank of France that
the Communists have bad from that establishment
9,301,(001., out ef its own funds, and 7.200.0001. in virtue of
an order from Versailles ; or, in all, 16,091,0001. (X 607 to)
M. Bosley, a mbar of the Commune aid all in Ms power
to protect the Baur

To save their windows from being broken by exploalons
many shopkeepers had pasted paper on the pane., cut out In
•arlous fanciful design.: but tide ha. not ales). proved
effectual, and the smash of glass In Paris and its environs
during the two sieges has been quite beyond calculatim

A family of three—father, mother, and daughter—living
In the neighbourhood of the St. Honore maiket, have been
arrested and shot for poisoning the drink of some sailors
statJoned In the quarter. The not Ls thought to he a pieoe
of revenge for the death of the son, who be:ouged to the
COMMI.IIIO.

The sanitary authoritlea propose to dig up all the insurgent
dead In Parte, and burn them with tar and petroleum. It le
found that lime doe. hot decroy organic matter quickly
enough for such Immense maw. of corpus, as the cemeteries
have received during the lest week of the Revolutb n. lb.
fear of a pestilence Is gaining on everybody, In spite of the
assurance of the medical faculty.

According to the France, aeveral proprietors of rihafiel
manufactories at St. Etienne have had an interview with SI.
Lambrecht, who Informed them that the lioverument vttli
desired to Impose a duty of 21 per cent, on foreign Mika
entering France, thls duty to be restored in the shape of
drawback upon the aLk being exported in a manufactured
term.

Corpses are still being found from time to time burnt under
barricades, or, charred and calcined. under the ruins of the
burnt bonier. On Sunday an arm was lound at the corner of
the Rue Royals anti St Honore. it is Impossible yet to et-
tlmate the number of thas which have been lont by lire and
suit .cation

At the o dices of the Legitimirt journals In the Departments
signatures are being obtained to an address, which is to be
presented to the Pope on the 16. h of June. The address
terminates as fellow. Slay France, restored and re-
generated, soon lend once More the aid of tier avenging arm
to her oppretebd Father."

_
To all c onmsnders of corps there have been distributed
photographs of members of the Lommune and of the princi-
pal persons compromised In the late insurrection, and not
yet arrested Further to assist researches, and to correct the
shortcomings of photography, which Is apt to make fair
persons dark, on the back of each portrait • description of
the person la printed.
The police officers of Versailles have received • most
curious album. lithe complete sake a photographic
portraits of the members of the Commune, and of all the
leaders ot the revolt. Fach portrait Is accompanied by a
most detailed eignetitirteht. It Is asserted that • copy of this
album has been sent to all the comminutes of police round
Paris, and to the officers detached with the staffs by the
Grand Provost."

Vermesch, the writer of the Pt‘re Duchene, who Is a
prisoner at Versailles, made about £4O a du by the sale of
that disgusting little tent. As many as 60,00) copies were
sold sorry day. Vermesch lea young man, and not devoid of
literary talent, Ile was roots liable for his elegant appear.
anew and used to pride himself on being" the mould of fashion
and the gleam of form."

One of the insurgents 'hot on the Place du Trona was
accompanied by his two sons, aged ten and eight respectively.
After the death of their father they rematned by the side of
his corpse weeping. The colonel of the regiment to which
the 'bootleg party belonged, tort pity on the poor boys, and,
lincirg they had no friends in the world left, ordered them
to be enrolled at once in the enithts de trot, e.
Thee tEmpetor Napoleon has puhltahed another pamphlet,
it, which be once more averts that if he had been pernilt ed
to have his own way in refr roma to matters of army orgahl-
Cation France could not hare been beaten as she were by
Germany. Ile decleres that be wws thw acted at all points
by the Chtniber and the pros, arid apparently wishes It to
he understood that his Coucesslons to Liberallem really led
to the military distaitere of France. He Is ready with • new
plan of army reform, which, however, amount" simply to an
ar'option of the Prussian system.
The Parts Special Correspondent of the Dailg Noce, re-
ferring to the cry for vengeanco now being raised there
against the Communist., toys it is exceetilvely bitter and
diztive, but, nevertheless, means very little. A few mouths
ago the same cry went forth against the Germans : but al-
ready that is krgotten, and Perla Is swarmtr g with ,roman.
who walk the streets fetrlasoly. Toe teeth g againet the
Clllllllllll._ will ran away Just as raptdiy, and time who are
now fort most in oiling cot for vengeahce will be ashamed of
their blood-. hirstiner s.

Almoat all the members of the Commune are said to hays
been shot. The r tie appears to have teen unequal to Use
F t • it in the o.e-insects of Insurgents contined
the pea. of L* It sentse, ru the mnralileuse was
ibereb,a pressed Into the service. A cortespoodent of
The 7 iinem wLo, as a suigesu, was allowed to enter the
prism, writes I heard a eeriep of seine hundred elle shots,
ill med t y the tear of • mltraillense, and was informed by
an incite standing by that it Was Justice etring her work."
M. Want has published a pamphlet vpao the situation In
France in the form of a letter to M Or vy, the President of
the French Assembly. bf °dent thinks that before deciding
upon the definite form of Government to be adopted pre-
liminary and secondary questims should first be settled.
Among those questions be places the vacancies which require
to be tilled up in the Fret ch Assembly, and the election. of
the Pence de Joinville and the Duke d'Aumale. These sub-
pcta disposed of, France cm then decide whether she will
adopt steal and non-revolutionary Republic, or a genuine
Constitutional Monarchy. In the course of the letter Ni.
Gale it decl tree himself in favour of the abrogation of the
lase of exile by which the Orleans Princes are excluded from
France.

It la stated that the Faubourg da Temple, where the in-
surgente were hemmed In at the last, was the scone of the
moat horrible outrages the nand can conicity*. When the
Federate found they were doomel, they gave way to the
ferocity of their paternal Bowls of punch were made In
saucepans, and the men got mad drunk, and danced round
them—they were accompanied by women of the lowest class
Oyscene songs and obscene outrages followed, and when the
troops took the Faubourg they f. uud the bodies of several re
spectable young girls, inhabltanta of the quarter, In a condi-
tion impossible to desert ; they had been shot

Manful SPNlahon haa issued an order of the day to the
soldiers aid marines, in which ho ,e:—" Your courage and
devotion have triumphed over all obstacles. After a liege of
two month. and • struggle of eight dafs In the street., Paris
is at last delivered. In taking Paris from the hands of the
wretches who intended to moues the city to ashes, you have
Dremrved it from complete ruin, and have reatored it to
France. The whole country applaud, the suncess of your
patriotic efforts. The National assembly, which represents
the country, has accorded a recompense moat worthy of you ;
It has declared by a unanimous rote that both the military
and naval services have deserved well of their country."
Prince Napoleon's rtcent letter to M. Jules Fevre livery
severely criticised by the French papers. The &bats
chararacteriste the letter tas an audacious apology of the
Empire, and a moat vlo:ent Indictment against the Govern-
ment which sue iteded It. The usurance of the writer, It
adds, is astoutudng. The authors of the coup d'art of
December actually speak of 'Pretty and legality, alit pretend
to reproach the men of the 4th of September wtth v.olating
their oaths ! The Te Mpg considers the letter clearly Indicates
the plain of the Bonapartist intrigues But now being carried on.
That plan 1. 10 lay the blame of all she dhastere which have
occurred In France upon the Government of National De-
fence and the Republic The E noire was entity of faMts, it
Is admitted , but the Republic Is answerable for the capitu-
lation of Perla and the insurrection of the Commune. This
manner of presenting fact., the Toni. Flays, can only Impose
upon th most obtrum • and Prince Napoleon has too much
n Intelligece, It adds, to believe in his own words.