28 OCTOBER 1882, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ON Friday afternoon, a kind of panic appeared to prevail in Lyons, the respectable classes expecting, it is said, an out- break of the Socialist kind. The report requires confirmation, but information of great uneasiness in .Paris, for which there is no apparent, cause whatever, reached the City. Its origin appears to have been the appearance of incendiary placards in Paris and Lyons, accompanied by a wide diffusion of threatening letters.