10 JUNE 1871, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE summary executions in Paris have ceased, the bodies of the condemned are being burned, the gates are thrown open, and the city has resumed to a great extent its normal appearance. Great numbers of persons are, however, arrested every day and sent to the ports, whence, after some brief formula of a trial, they are to 'be transported to New Caledonia. Twenty thousand men and women are to be thus despatched, M. Thiess thus showing himself 'ready to outdo the Emperor in severity. It is stated that Paris, -though quiet, is still simmering with fury, while Lyons, Marseilles, and Toulouse are full of excited sympathizers with the Commune, but the Army appears for the present to be master of them all.
