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Evening Star, Issue 3513, 27 May 1874, Page 2

We are sorry to gee by the American telegrams that there is great jjistress among the laboring classes in Paris. If thia were the case in London, past experience us to hope for the best. The difficulty would, no doubt, be somehow got over, but

the Parisians have ever shown themselves incapable of long enduring serious privations, except in those cases where the national slory has been concerned r great misery among the lower class has often been the prelude to serious outbreaks of popular fury. We shall bo much surprised, if the distress referred to continue, if it do not prove a more serious danger to Macmahon’s Government than any to which it has been hitherto exposed. It is to be regretted, too, that the French Communists should have escaped just at this juncture, as it is only too certain that if they arrive in France at the moment when the distress has produced the inevitable discontent, Paris will be literally in a blaze, and France will have to go through another revolution. We hope that our prophecy may prove to he false : it would be an unspeakable misfortune for Franca, just recovering from the fearful trials to which she has been eubj'.-ctcd, to have her new-born liberty and order strangled in their cradle by confusion and anarchy