An affair called the Baudin affair is exciting great interest
in Paris. Baudin was a Deputy, killed on a barricade on December 3, 1851, resisting the coup de'lat, and the Republicans have opened subscriptions to provide him a monument. The Liberal papers publish these subscriptions, and are to be prosecuted for exciting hatred and contempt of the Government. The journalists say this is not legal, fifty-three barristers coincide in the opinion, and the lists are issued daily, the Government on its side bringing actions. The trial is considered a sort of duel, and will be watched by all Paris with an interest which the Republicans hope will deepen till a popular movement becomes possible. They, of course, care nothing about M. Baudin, a worthy but obscure person, forgotten for seventeen years, but they care much for the chance of a victory over the Government.
