Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-11-24
From Our Regular Correspondent
Paris Letter,
PARIS, France, Nov. 9, &

fARIS, france, NOV. y, on.
The government by this time have car
red out their threat of expeling the
unauthorized congregations almost, if not
entirely, throughout the length and
breadth of France. In Paris there were
only eleven unauthorized monasteries re-
manning; these have all been closed to-
day. The monks were expelled from
their homes in sixty three departments
yesterday, and as the work has been
vigorously continued to day, it is probable
that at this hour all the recalcitrant con-
gregations have been dispersed. In Paris
the unpleasant business has been done
without very great disturbance, and mt all
events the Parisians may congratulate
themselves on their streets presenting
none of those scenes of rioting which
have to be deplored in several provincial
towns. No man has been killed, as at
Lyons; no revolvers have been fired, us ut
Amiens; nor has any officer, as at Bour-
yes, taken upon himself to horsewhip a
bystander for crying out "EUent les De-
cretSp' The man who was stabbed at
Lyons died without being able to identify
his assailant; and, to show how high
religious party spirit runs here, l may
mention that II moderately republican
Newspaper, la France, edited by NJ de
Girardin, the Nestor of French journalist,
deems itself justified in taunling with
cowardice the young man who, at Lyons,
drew sword from his cane in defence OF
q threatened monk. He is hidden to
prove his Christianity by delivering him.
self up and making himself martyr, il
only to show that he is not royalst
rather than a clerical. If no such scene.
have occurred in Paris, it is not becaus,
the agents o: the government have no
: resisted outrance.
The mot d odore having evidently beer
given from headquarters. precisely the
same system of resistance has heen pur
sued in Paris as in the provinces. Door
) have been bolled and barred; the police
have been parleyed with through quichet
as though they were ENJOYS of an enem,
besieging fortress; barbados have beer
erected in the interior of the inconsistencies
the cells have been locked, the tocsin ha
been sounded; halls and passages hav,
oeen filled with notable clericals, and thu
I
chapels with black-robed women, who, u
they were driven out, chung to the rail-
and intoned hymn to the Virgin, Will,
the monks themselves, after excommuni
eating the police inspectors, have had t,
be turned bodily out of DOORS In on
word, all the dramatic effects which tn
Roman Catholic church has at such ampl
Command have been employed to len,
dignity to what Is, in itself, ridiculous
and reality to what the actors must hav,
c known to be hallow sham.
y All the non authorized male congre
n cations throughout the country have nov
been expelled. with the exception of tn
trappists and the carthusians. 1t /
stated that Lord Lyons has made an ap
f plication for Equalization on behalf of tn
q English passionists in Paris and the En-
glish benedictines at Douai, and that tn
: minister of the interior has granted then
!. a temporary authorization. The tota
{; number of arrests in Paris this mornip,
amounts to about sixty, of which only
third are maintained, comprising those o
y many of the influential friends of tn
y. religious orders, who were found in tn,
= monasteries and who refused to leav,
except by force.