NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Anarchists have created a scare in Paris. The officers of justice can scarcely find lodgings, proprietors believing that they are specially marked ; the outer doors in good houses are shut, an entire innovation ; and numbers of foreigners are leaving Paris. Urgency has been voted for a Bill making the blowing-up of public buildings or houses, even if empty, capital ; and thirty-two foreign Anarchists have been sent over the frontier. The French Anarchists are " shadowed " night and day, and their reputed leader, Ravachol, has at length been arrested. Sauce- pans full of dynamite, and some bombs, were found in his lodgings, and as he is " wanted " for a private murder, his shrift will probably be short. There is talk even of a Law of Public Safety, and of an international agreement declaring all Anarchists pirates ; while M. de Cassagnac coolly tells the public that they will find they want a master, and instead of renouncing Monarchy, he shall wait. M. de ICerittry, formerly Prefect of Police, says the Anarchists should be treated "like mad dogs," and the arrest of them all would probably be justi- fied by opinion. It is probable that the actual crimes are committed by very few men ; but Parisian bourgeois always believe that they are "sleeping above a volcano," and every scoundrel with a grudge is increasing the panic by writing threatening letters. The Anarchists meanwhile are jubilantly explaining their doctrine, which is simply, that if you want a fine forest, you must cut down all grown trees, and trust to Nature for better ones. Do men advance in wisdom ?
