16 AUGUST 1873, Page 2

M. de Broglie has refused to mitigate Rochefort's dreadful sentence

of transportation to New Caledonia, where the prisoners, as shown by the Melbourne Argus, die by hundreds of scurvy. The sentence is death by torture, and then the Legitimists, if one of them is shot in a street riot, fill the air with their cries of horror. What had Rochefort ever done that Swift did not do every week, and it was all to help the Broglies to their present posi- tion? But for him the baldheaded Dukes would all be in their chateaux, the subjects of a Bonaparte, powerless relics of a regime which, let them hope what they like from a momentary panic in France, has passed away for ever. They will, if they win, have just time to prove that France in 1789 had reason to abhor their rule.