The Commune is doing the work of a regular Government,
and like regular Governments, finds discipline essential to military success. It has abolished the Battalions, which were too separate, one battalion being composed of workmen and another of shop- keepers, and ordered each of the twenty arrondissements to supply a legion, nominally of 15,000, really of 10,000 men. Each is commanded by a Colonel, and has in it a Council of War, with. power of death for military offences, insubordination included. The men are all paid, the line receiving fifteenpence a day and the artillerymen half-a-crown, besides rations of bread, soup, and rough wine. The sub-officers, mostly linesmen, receive two shillings a day, and large promises are made of pensions to the widows and children of all who fall. We do not, however, notice the most inspiriting of all forms of payment,—the " blood-money" given in the British Army for severe wounds.
