The Pays," journal of the Empire," edited by M. de
Cassagnac, publishes a document received by post, and supposed to emanate from " the Revolutionary Commune of Paris." It declares that " France is exhausted ; to the Coup d'Etat she owes her slavery ; to the wars of Mexico and Rome her disgrace ; to the progressive loans her ruin ; to the military law her death." She is " servant- of-all-work of a sickly tyrant, the laughingstock of the world, buffeted on one cheek by America, on the other by Prussia ;" her throne "creaks under the weight of robberies, totters on the heap of carcasses, of perjuries, of Mexican bonds, and such like heaps of sand," and so on, and so on. For all these reasons the Commune recommends assassination as the remedy, declaring that "not much is wanting to kill one man," and asking are " French- men lower than the Servians ?" The effusion is believed in Paris to be the work of the police, anxious to alarm the citizens with the Red Spectre ; but it reads to us like a real manifesto brandied by police agents. They would not have called the Emperor a " sickly tyrant," or declared that "nothing was free under the Empire except vice."
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