4 MARCH 1871, page 15

Letter From A French Ex-prefect.

[The writer of the following letter, who for many years resided in England, was made Prefect of his own department in September last, and resigned with Gambetta. Its tone is, of......

Poetry.

THE ROSE OF LIBERTY.* Do roses bloom, roses bloom In lost Bazeilles, Where shrilled a terrible human wail In the blasting blaze of a living tomb ? 'There they bloom, In lost......