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growing dark, and suddenly there was such yio-
lent reco Of those in front as to take us nearly off
our feet. As soon as | could regain my footing
looked the heads of the crowd and there right
in front of us, battalion Of the Imperial Guard
mounted and drawn up in solid phaanx across thu
way. turned to the left-the cavalry were pouring
in to the right, more cavalry From all sides they
came in at full gallop with clashing sabers and
abines hanging at their sides. The mob was fairly
entrapped and had the order been given they might
have been moved down by the thousands. The mn-
titude absolutely fed like the leaves before tho
wind The sodiery occupied the center Of the streets
only, and took to prevent the dispersion
of the mob. And never was mob dispersed in
shorter order. Backward to the right, to the left,
in every direction they fed perfectly panic
passed down side street, In which was stationed
regiment Of cavalry, around the Palas de PIndus-
tre, and so back again into the Champs Elysees be-
hind the soldiery i could not have been out of the
avenue more than ten minutes, but to my astonish-
ment the mob had entirely disappeared. Not frac-
ton of it was left. The Imperial Guard was still
there but they were masters of the situation, with
out drawing saber firing a shot Were it not
for their presence. would not imagine that any
thing unusual had transpired.
| Passing down to the Place de la Concorde found
everything as quiet as usual. Little knots Of men
were gathered here and there discussing the events
of the day. and the general sentiment seemed to be-
one of disgust at the cowardice Of the mob in not
making the slightest stand before the sodiery Here
learned that the guard had allowed the carriage of
N. Rochefort to pass and that entirely deserted by
the mob, he had gone peaceably to the Corps Legs-
latf Going in that direction found everything as
quiet as usual. There was no tumult nor had there
/ been any,
| huo hac a,Ia tha faCtO ar
ton that Paris has seen since the days of the Second
Republic Its immediate effects have been sufli-
GENTLY absurd but what its final results may be can
not yet be told.
| ENGLISH EXCITEMENT OVER THE BoNAPARTE
MURDER-sPIRIT OF THE PREsS-FRENCH
| MAMELUKEs AND ENGLISH FLUNKEYs-wHY
ENGLIsHMEN ARE BoNAPARrISTs-A WORD
| FOR n. ROCHEFORT.
| IPROM OUR owS CORRESPONDENTS
| LONDON Jan. l5.-Although Mr.. Bright has made
half dozen speeches. longer shorter, since that
| of Tuesday night the public interest turns away
from home topics TO concentrate itself on the tragedy
at Paris 1t is almost the only matter one hears dis
cussed in private and it has its leading article every
morning in every newspaper That it Is which
obliges me to notice it. You will scarcely credit the
state of feeling in certain quarters in England,
Comparison has long been the fashion, but this is
Bonapartism run mad. There are journals in Paris
whose editors take pride in describing themselves
| the Mamelukes of the Emperor. There are journals
| in London that go lower than that. They are not
| Mamelukes They are funkeys. OF course do mt
mean ALL but some and when you have read the
quotations am going to make. leave it TO you to
| saw whether my word is harsh-except as the truth
| is sometimes harsh
When the first imperfect, garbled, and one-sided
accounts of the murder reached London there were
journals which made haste to explain away the crime
and to heap calumnes the victim and his friends
1t was enough for them that the assassin was Bona
| parte The Times, The Telegraph, and The Standard
have so long made it business to excuse assassina-
tions on large scalethe assassnatlons OF the bou-
| levards, which were rewarded with a crown-that
they fall naturally into strain of excuSelfor single
murder committed by one of the same family The
method is simple enough. Begin by explaining what
n worthless fellow the victim was and what miser-
able gang he belongs to- leaving the reader to draw
the inference that there is no great harm in Kidding
| the world of such wretch.
1.-The origin of this affair."" says The Times OF JAN
| H. lilies IN the envenomed paragraphs of the Mar
seillaise journal rather periodical issue OF IN
vective emanatng from NJ. Henri Rochefort, the
well-known author of the Ldnte.se, and at present
one of the representatives of Paris. This person and
his publications are too notorious for any description
of his style and that of his friends and colleagues To
be necessary"
This is wholly untrue. the "orgin" being not IN
any paragraphs of the Narseilldise, however enve-
omed, but in paragraphs written by Prince Nape-
leon Bonaparte himself in a Corsican paper, whch
surpass in vulgar brutality anything that even In
glish prudery ever falsely charged on NJ kocheiort
and his colleagues But true false the purpose OF
The Times is to raise prejudice against victor MOTT
who was simply bearing challenge proVoked W
the Princes paragraphs and so to excuse the rince'
ave in this happy country exelaims our immacu,
late Jupiter know little of printed personalities
! and if there be anybody who INDUCES IN them, DO
soon finds himself q cdput lHpinam, against whom
men of every class and party are willing to raise
their cudgel" And of course, the imaginary cudgei
is England The transition TO the actual pistol bull
| LET of Bonaparte in France is easy; especially
when this French personality with which Victor
| Mir had nothing on earth TO do IS ialse
| and nstigated by the vilest motives" The cceh-
trio Prince" has been stung it seems beyond en-
durance by the lampoons of the MdrseilldIse" Ihen
having suggested every possible excuse for the muir
der The Times remarks that it is not yet in position
70 give an opinion on the tragic affair and that the
degree of culpability which belongs TO the homicide
remains 10 be ascertained" On the following day it
| seems TO have thought il had gone too lar ana
betrays an inclination TO throw overheard the tin0o
as an unworthy member of the family. On FRIDAY IL
swings round again. choosing N. Rochefort as Tue
special object of its attack, and char9'ns MN
with cowardice. charge which the most
hostile of Partisan journals would scout as
ridiculous NJ Rochefort has fought dues
enough TO be able to refuse to hght no
likes, which is the Last test of mans reputation
in Paris; but this fact. which cannot he unknown
70 The Times is not enough shelter HIM from It's
railing Rochcfort is enemy to the L"pefor-''
is safe to say anything of HIM Only TWO days ago
-. ,., thia nanny country MAYER lndulgNl ~ peI-