NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Emperor of the French has pardoned everybody who has done nothing. By a decree of August 14, countersigned by all his Ministers, he releases all persons under sentence for political offences, press offences, offences against the combination laws, or the laws which restrict the right of meeting, and all deserters of both services. The decree was carried out at once. The journalists walked rejoicing out of Ste. Pelagie ; some dozen or so of printers recovered their liberty ; Reds swarmed back to Paris from Brussels and Geneva, and even the 1,700 innocent persons condemned to toil in Cayenne are expected home. " There are no exceptions." The decree "is countersigned." It is the " beginning of a new era," and consequently we expect to hear that the Duc d'Aumale has been permitted to reside in Paris, that the Comte de Paris holds receptions in the Faubourg, and that the property of the Orleans family, taken away for political reasons, has been restored. Awaiting that completion of the amnesty, we have only to record that Paris seems for once sincerely pleased. It is a large measure, but just think for a moment what the people sentenced to Cayenne have endured, and for what? For opposing the man who is lauded to the skies for graciously forgiving their sufferings?
