In Paris, the event of the week, discussed with evident
feel- ings of flattered pride, is the union of England with France in the Italian mediation : but the most serious interest still turns upon the report of the Committee of Assembly on the insurrec- tionary movements of May and June. The report is avowedly incomplete, and is to be followed by another on the provincial re- lations of the insurrectionary parties ; and it is marked by some reserves : but still it is distinguished among state documents for its outspoken, broad, and historic treatment of current events. It seriously implicates three of the late officials—Louis Blanc, Ledru- Rollin, and Caussidiere. That men should have engaged in an armed movement is neither surprising nor shocking ; the das- tardly cruelty of the rebels in June does reflect some discredit on all their side ; but that which is most repulsive, is the effrontery and duplicity which could make men professing to act on the most exalted motives occupy office and intrigue against their col- leagues and the very principles that placed them in power. The report convicts such men of the lowest of political vices—mean- ness : if they are guilty, they are proclaimed as men for ever dis- qualified from serving their country.
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