Extracts from Our Paris Letter.

Thames Star, Volume XIIV, Issue 4471, 4 May 1883, Page 2

Extracts from Our Paris Letter.

French ministers as a rule are timid, hence why the resolution, rigor, # and foresight of the Cabinet to crush the manifestations of the Anarchists,- merit the highest praise. The determination to employ the " preparations," if order had been threatened, has had its due effect; not that the Anarchists persem ere feared, but gatherings in the street of,the idle and the curious, might, if tolerated, hare provoked a collision. Having maintained order in the streets, the more difficult task remains, that of securing order in ideas, and which is not less essential. Confidence has to be re-established, and the,Woi;k, of pacification taken in hand. Sterile agitations in Parliament must be discouiiten* anced. The country wants repose, facilities for work, laws to promote social wellbeing, and not revision of constitutions. The outrage at London certainly fortified the 'Government: Hereto dekrwiththe anarchists. Opinion is unanimous, that since all States are a prer a coupon danger they ought to coalesce and form a moral Zollverein to extirpate the creatures of destruction the moment they proceed from oratory and writing :to acts.* "The ■expounding of chimeras in. the reunions only cover their, professors ■ with?, ridicule, and have no effect on opinion. But when the speakers of both sexe3 proceed to march to gut bakers' shops and block the streets, their arrest is necessary simply as nuisances. The police have secured some of the leading addle-pates, who are more in need of keepers than of gaolers. Louise Michel, who daily boasted her readiness to rush in where angels fear to tread, has had to hide. The police can have the old gal when they please, but compelling her to abscond server their ends better, as covering her with ridicule. An eye is kept on her, for " madness in great ones should not unwatch'd goi" There is more of confusion, more of things being at sixs and sevens in France than of the situation being fundamentally out of joint. Special organs and compromised partizans naturally see matters through the glass darkly. , But public opinion in all the legislative and local elections which continually take place, reveals no abandonment of the existing regime despite blunders and intolerance committed by its administration. 'Tis true there is nothing that the naked eye can discern to replace the Republic, save words! words! words! And the majority rally to the present form of Government, not on account of its name, but from the experienced conviction that each citizen with his bulletine of votes, has. a weapou more potent than a rifle, and which keeps sovereign power in the . people's own hands. Thus there is a kind'of mutual protecting society against being dragged into foreign wars. This end achieved, home questions are viewed somewhat as leather and prenello. The French authorities are how studying the repeating rifle as adopted by Germany. The only drawback is the difficulty ,of keeping up a supply of am« munition on the battle field. The uniform of the infantry will undergo the changes of a darker shade in color, and greater freedom for movement.