Paris continues perfectly tranquil, and the Government proceeds with little
intemption in its new course of military domination. The state of siege in which Paris was declared to be on Thursday sennight, still continues;. nor is there any present prospect of a change.. A writer in the Courier of last night labours to prove that the people are very well pleased notwithstanding. It may be so, but they must never talk of constitutions and charters again. They must forego all claim to principle. It is now mani- fest, that their only objection to illegality is founded on their dislike to him that commits it. Louis PHILIP has done all that CHARLES threatened, yet Louis PHILIP is huzzaed and blessed, and CHARLES was hooted and expelled. The Government, with a view to procure ready evidence for the courts-martial, saw .fit to issue an ordinance calling on all medical men to give information touching any wounded patients they might be called to attend upon, under a penalty of 300 francs. The ordinance was justified by a law passed in the seventeenth centurv ! The nzedecins refused compliance, even with the pros- pect el .:a military tribunal before their eyes; and the Government has seen fit to retract its edict.
There was a rumour that two hundred prisoners had been pri- vately shot on the Plains of Grenelle, at midnight; but this has been contradicted. The courts-martial are, it seems, close courts, and the prisoners are not allowed access to counsel. And yet this most infamous mockery of law and justice the Parisians suffer and applaud, because it is practised against Republicans and the poor. We must recall our panegyrics on the fight of the Three Days. The preient -doings bring the whole of its motives and execution into question. • The killed and wounded in the insurrection of Tuesday and W.ednesday have not been and never will be ascertained. The - kiss of the National Guard and of the Line is stated at 500. Of the insurgents, it is said only 100 fell. The whole number of the latter is described in some accounts as not more than 500; and yet there are said to have been about 1,500 arrests; and 200 cases are announced for trial. Domiciliary visits in search of arms and in- surgents are made daily. The correspondent of the Courier, to whom we have alluded, says no. one has any reason to fear these visits, or to find . fault with them, who has nothing concealed. Pleasant rogue ! There was a grand review on Sunday, which went off with sin- gular - edat. The King was everywhere received with enthusiasm. Three of the Deputies have absconded, to avoid being tried by a military tribunal. They have done wisely. The troubles in La Vend■Se continue, but they have ceased to attract attention - the Chouans only fight to be beaten. The wandering Duchess is one day said to be on her way to Alsace ; another, to have put to sea ; a third, to be resolved to die along with her friends. As for dying, we suspect she has as little appe- tite as most people. If she be taken, she will probably be shot by accident.
The most amusing part of this tragi-comedy is the issue of a number of ordinances, signed by the Duchess DE BERRI, pretend- ing to act as Regent, in the name of }Imlay the Fifth ! One of these repeals the droits reunis on wines, and reduces the tax on. salt. We could almost believe that it was some patriot in disguise who published such a paper, and thus insinuated an improvement greater than any the Opposition have yet dreamed of. If the Duchess and her little senate really pass their time in these trifles, their hostilities need not be dreaded.
