New-York tribune., 1870-05-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
FRANCE.


THEM.
PARIS, Tuesday, May lo-1o O'Clock p m
Rarricades have again been thrown mp in the
rorhourp du Temple and also in Belleville, and
the troops are now operating against them.
7, ;s rc,orted that Capt Lafontaine, in command
81 ono Of the attacking columns, was wounded by a
pistol shot.
THE BARRICADEs TAKEN-TRANoUnLlIf hE-
STORED.
PARIS Tuesday, May 1l-s O'Clock a. M
All the barricades were taken by the troops about
midnight. and by o'clock this morning the rau-
bourr du Temple and Belleville were occupied py
the military. Tranquility now prevails throughout
the city.
THE VOTE ON THE PLEBIsCITUM-How THE
ARMY voTED--FREEDoM OF THE PRESS DE-
MANDED-DEATH OF MONS. NlLLEMAlN'
PARIS Tuesday, May 10, 1870
The rotnrns Of the vote on the PlebiSctum received
from all parts of the country except Algeria foot up:
Yes...........7 ,2lo,29O lNo....-........l,6So6lO
The following official returns have been received
from some of the principal cities
rarfs..lliss, 1sss5s Lms ss;s7 1s,sss 1ssSs
Marselcs % is,li iSn2 aS2s Toulouse. s,il2 1854
The returns from the Army vote are all in. They
show the following result
Ycs...............227,336 1886 No....-........29,Se4
Several riots occurred late last night, but they
were not serious.
Three or four barricades erected in the Belle
Vile district but they were feebly defended the
troops carrying them easily without firing Shot
Shots were fred but not by the soldiers
la LiJert6 says the Emperor intends to abrogate
the decree banshing the members of the Bourbon
and Orleans families. The same journal asks for
complete freedom of the press the result of the
PlGbesctam and proves that after years of expert
all efforts against the opposition press are pow
erleSs
Abel Francois villemain, the perpetual Secretary
of the French Academy, died to-day.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TRICK-A BAR
MECIDE FEAST-HOw TO COUNT.
lFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
PARIS April 29.-HOw not to write about the PIE
Ljsciim, of which everybody is talking and writingf
Not only the newspapers full of it, not only pub
lie meetings innumerable are being held to discuss
it, and others, innumerable Also to ii, but You
can't escape l., if you want to, by declining to
buy newspapers and staying away from the
meetings. People are arguing about it in
the railway carriage, quarreling about it on
the omnbuses, wTanging over it in the little Seine
steamboats, laughing over ii in the Bois Boulogne,
and chatting il in the entractes at the theaters
On every blank wall you see the Emperor's PrOcla-
nation and his Address to the French people, and
the announcement of where the polls to be- and of
where tickets to be had conspcuousy posted and
those who think they have not enough of it in all
these ways NAV 60 if they be women, to Madame
IS. and order the latest thing out, the mdatoau
la PIcbscite or if they are unfortunate as to be
men, TO any one of the fashionable tailors who are
now furnishing people bent being nobby with
pGletOts gilets jdc1uees la PlebScite. You think
am making fun. Not a bit of it. Every day the
Emperor's artful dodge is served up to us in new
style for the Partisan fancy has been tickled by it.
and they will make merry with their new toy
as long as it lasts Tis only yesterday that
a vendor of porcelain advertised - thinking
probably, of last Summers election" soup-tureens
d Ia Plebisci.e !" Not but that there plenty of
people who that the plebisctUm is not toy at all
but weapon and plenty .who dread the use that
may be made of the weapon; and plenty who are
profoundly mortified at the trick that has been
played and at the skilfu way in which the net has
been thrown so as to snare many electors as poss
bla, but unless it be in the newspapers and In
overheard conversations / should not know
where to look, in order to judge how deeply
moved the people Of Paris really are Nothing but
the vote itself can tell that. You have seen the
Emperors proclamation announcing the question on
which the popular voice is demanded. Its wording
shows that no other hand but that of the Emperor
was employed upon it. 1t is now next to Impossible
that there should not be an overwhelming majority
Of affirmative votes The people asked "to ap-
prove of the liberal reforms effected in the Constu-
tion since 1860 by the Emperor, with the aid of the
Senate and the House, and to ratify the Senatus-
Consutum of April %, 1870" Now, although these
reforms are undoubtedly very shadOwy and unsub-
stantial and though it would be very difficult If not
impossible to name single reform deserving the
name that has really been effected and though, as
believe it would be absolutely impossible to
name one that has helped to lift from the
backs Of the people any portion of the
material burden that weighs upon them,
ii is nevertheless true that there has been so much
talk about the reforms that have been accomplished
and SO much talk of reforms to be accomplished,
there is no reason to wonder that many people do
really feel their bellies little distended with the
imaginary banquet that NJ. Olivier has set before
them In fact as must be plain by this time, M.
Olivier is a ministerial BarInecide and he has been
so eloquent the visionary dishes he has ordered
set before the politically starving people OF France,
] am not surprised that when the Emperor
comes to ask his subjects whether they approve
the dinner they have been eating, they should hex
their chops, and cry Yes" with unanimlty. And,
certainly the bill fare has been tempting enough
There was the POtage la rforme electorae" served
up in tureens with the Imperial cipher which the
head cook Olivier described, as he made believe set
il on the table, as miracle of the
culinary art There was the "Vol-du- Vent
de rinstruction graiuite," which, while it was
being not served up, the gushing Emile
declared to be beyond all praise. There were the
"Ees la Ministfe reponSGble," which the fluent
chef could Mt say enough for as, with flourish, he
oct down the empty dish before the citizens who