The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-23 00:00:00

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

FRIDAY.

As we draw nearer to the redoubtable 2Gth, it is natural
some little anxiety should be felt respecting it. Everyone
professes perfect security; all the journals declare that an
attempted demonstration has been abandoned in tote. The
Government, to judge by the Ministerial policy, are sub-
limely indifferent to such mateli:l considerations as riots
and barricades. Nevertheless every one who has anything
to lose will be glad when the 2Gth is well over, and
Wednesday morning finds us where Monday evening
leaves us. There are always so many disor-
derly and turbulent spirits in a city like Paris,
that it is impossible to guarantee the absence of any
demonstration, and in the present excited state of political
feeling, with some thousands of commis unemployed and
discontented, any excuse for an outbreak is very much to
be deplored. The Emperor, as I have told you, is to arrive
in Paris on Monday—a wise precaution. The authorities,
I understand, are making every effort to prevent, rather
than to repress, a disturbance ; nevertheless, if called
upon to use force, they will do so unsparingly.
Such, at least, is the tenour of Marshal Bazaine's
order to the Imperial Guard. Paris is divided into two
military circumscriptions, the Boulevard de Sebastopol
being the limit. From this line to Vincennes, Marshal
Canrobert commands ; from the Boulevard de Sebastopol
to Courbevoie, Marshal Bazaine is the chief.
Let up hope that there will be no scope for
their interference. It is satisfactory to find the
Liberal, and even the Radical press, so strongly upholding
the cause of public order and the maintenance of
law. Nevertheless, the danger of disturbance does not
arise so much in political circles as among the ma:niers and
others cn strike who have been heard to express their con-
viction- that the 27th would find them with very different

prospects.
It has been said that matters are arranged at Com-
so that MM. Schneider and Rouher shall not be
there together, but this is contradicted by the Presse,
which affirms that these two personages were both invited
on the ISth to remain till the 22nd. 111. Rouhcr, I under-
stand, is not in the best of humours, and has declared that
he came to Compigne for sport rather than for politics.
The Emperor does not contemplate any change in his
Cabinet until after the 29th November.

The kStiecle publishes a letter addressed to M. Raspail by
nine members of the ancient Radical Socialist Committee
of the Fifth Circumscription. These members declare
their conviction that, in the present aspect of affairs, M.
Raspail's intended demonstration of the 26th will be inju-
rious to the revolutionists, and only favourable to those in
power. They, therefore, entreat him, in their own names
and in those of a considerable portion of the electors, to
abandon the idea, reminding him of Isis own counsel to the
electors in June, when he warned them to avoid the traps
laid for them by the reactionists. To-day they address the
same advice to himself. Courage should not exceed pru-
dence. Should M. Raspail persevere in his determination
the doors will not be closed against him.
The Reforme of this evening publishes an account of a
Private meeting held yesterday, in the Rue do Lyon, at
which fifteen hundred persons were present. Jules Simon,
Gamier-Pages, and other Radicals were at the meeting,
and were warmly received. M. Jules Simon explained the
absence of the other invited deputies, by stating that
Gambetta was still au invalid, and that Pelletan and Ferry
were attending another meeting in the Rue Jacob, while
Dance]. had attended a third, the name of which did not
transpire. You will see, therefore, that meetings are all the
fashion.
M. Simon referred to the Clichy affair, and denied that
ne was insulted. He should always, he said, be ready to
account for his conduct to assemblies that were really
democratic. He concluded his address by a forcible appeal
against any demonstration on the 26th. What folly, he
said, would it be to act on a day of which the Government
had been warned for the last two months. We have
against us, he said, a conspiracy of falsehood and
the Chassepot. Let us keep away from the
Place de la Concorde, and swear that we will not
fight until we have prepared our batteries. The Empire,
he thought, must fall beneath the attacks of universal
suffrage. By two Acts it had signed its own death war-
rant—by the law of public safety and by the Mexican
War. A citizen who was present demanded an official
inquiry into the "assassination" at Anbin, and Jules
Simon announced that he was glad to be able to state pub-
licly that this inquiry would take place, and that the Left
were preparing for it. The assembly broke up amid cries
of " Vive la Republique."
The Emperor returns to Paris on Sunday, and a grand
review will, it is expected, take place the next day on the
Champ de Mars. The object is the presentation of Marshal
Bazaine, the now commander, to the Guards.
The Park, is indignant at being called the official
organ of the master drapers, and declares that it only
seeks to impart information and convey warnings in respect
to the movement. There is little fresh news on the sub-
ject to-day. The heads of the establishments adhere
firmly to their resolution, and are quite overwhelmed by
applications for engagements, so that those on strike will
find all the doors shut against them should they
evince a desire to resume their old employments. The
most arbitrary demands are put forward by the Syndical
Chamber of the assistants. One establishment which had
entertained the idea of a compromise, was compelled to
relinquish the notion and join the other large houses in
their resistance. In another establishment the old hands
have been taken back without conditions.
The Gaulois says that the strike of the omnibus-drivers
will not take place, the company having accorded the addi-
tional franc per day demanded.
The journeymen gilders of Paris have struck, in conse-
quence of the decision of the Syndical Chamber of
masters, which reduced the increase of wages they had
obtained.