The Parisians have in no way lost their heads. There
was -a momentary effort to lynch Emile Henri, but it was defeated by the police, and he will be tried in the ordinary way. The 'Minister of the Interior, M. Raynal, declared on Tuesday that the Government did not need, and would not ask for, new powers. They would trust entirely to vigilance and firmness, 'bnt they found it necessary to abrogate the liberty hitherto -enjoyed in cemeteries, and to treat them as public places. No -demonstrations would henceforward be allowed, nor would -wreaths in future be placed upon the grave of a man like Valliant The Prefect of Police is inclined to carry out this -decree very strictly, prohibiting even "the silent glorifying of crime" at Anarchists' graves, and is endeavouring to enlist the sympathy of the ordinary police by special honours to the captors of Emile Henri. Poisson, who showed great daring, has received the Legion of Honour, and other policemen have obtained medals and gifts of money. That is right enough ; but, unfortunatny, the Anarchists can distribute their Legion of Honour too, in the shape of worship for a successful bomb- thrower,—and there are men who think this kind of decoration a compensation for the guillotine. We question, as we argue elsewhere, whether, in an age of newspapers and telegrams, there are means of preventing the evil notoriety in which most criminals delight. The crime itself writes their names on the memories of the passers-by.
