The P/ibiscite was followed by rioting in Paris, rioting due,
we imagine, mainly to two causes. The Reds are very bitter over a quasi-popular defeat, anti, they think they have at last some chance of enlisting the soldiery. As yet nothing serious has occurred. Revolutionists in Paris, if in grim earnest, would occupy the narrow streets near and opposite the Tuileries, barricade them, and meet the Chassepot with the revolver ; failing, of course, if the troops held firm, but dying, after their manner, like born soldiers. The mode of action in this case has been to build absurd barricades of omnibuses in broad streets like the Boule- vard du Temple, fire a shot or two, and then run away, the object being to draw the fire of the troops, and amid the consequent explosion of fury to organize an insurrection. Hitherto these immoral tactics have failed, and the Revolutionists have made the mistake of irritating the troops, who are kept out for days in the cold and rain. Note, however, that the crowds gather near the barracks, that the first shout always heard is " Vice /a tigne I" and that the Government is still most reluctant to appeal to the Chassepot, dreading the explosion a massacre is almost sure to produce.
