NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ALL Europe has been affected by a crime committed in Paris on Saturday. The Chamber was sitting at 4 o'clock discussing languidly the validation of an election, when a slight explosion was heard in the air. The Ablk Lemire, a Socialist Deputy, staggered forward covered with blood; some twenty Deputies were seen to be wounded, and forty strangers, men and women, in the different galleries. An Anarchist named Vaillant, who had obtained an order under a false name, had thrown a bomb filled with explosives and horseshoe-nails, which was intended to explode in front of the President's seat. An impatient movement in the shoulder of a lady upon whom he had pressed had however deflected the shell, which struck the edge of the gallery and exploded in rnid-air, the nails therefore spending themselves chiefly on the strangers. The doors were instantly shut, andall, Deputies and strangers alike, imprisoned pending inquiry. The Pre- sident, M. Dupuy, behaved admirably, calling on the Deputies in a calm voice to proceed with business ; and the Deputies 'obeying at once. tbe debate continued. The wounded, among whom was Vaillant himself, were at once attended to, and all strangers severely interrogated, at first without success ; but afterwards, in the hospital. Valliant confessed, declaring that be was sick of boargeois Government and wanted to be rid of the Deputies. He is a journeyman worker in morocco, known VI have been repeatedly convicted of theft, and to have been an active propagandist of Socialism and Anarchy. It is a singular incident of the crime, according to the Daily News, that M. Guesde, the Socialist leader in the Chamber, had a young son in the gallery, who was temporarily struck deaf and dumb by the explosion.
