The Anarchists have planned, but not carried out, another 'terrible
explosion in Paris. On Thursday afternoon, a man, believed to be a Belgian Anarchist, named Pawel, ascended -the steps of the Madeleine, and tried to enter the great door. Meeting a beadle however, who looked formidable, he tried a. aide door, holding before him, under his coat, as is supposed from his wounds, a bomb filled with chlorate and nails. As this kind of bomb explodes by percussion, it is evident that he meant to throw it ; and as the worshippers were just gathering for a sermon, he would have succeeded in killing or mutilating at least a score of pious ladies. He had, however, .omitted the spring of the door from his calculations ; it banged against his bomb, and he fell back, outside the church, with his entrails blown out, and died in a few moments. One leaf of the door was tern off, but as men of this sort iknow a little chemistry, he must have known that his bomb would not shatter the heavy masonry of the Madeleine. He intended, in fact, to slaughter the worshippers, not to destroy the building. As Providence has passed and executed a capital sentence on the man, there is, of course, nothing further to be done ; but the incident will provoke, and justify, still greater energy in the efforts of the police, which are clearly directed towards ascertaining accurately the names and habitats of all Anarchists in France. The moment a real massacre has hardened public opinion suffi- ciently, they will be shipped in a single night en masse for Cayenne. We have repeatedly pointed out this danger to sane Anarchists ; but they are stumbling into it blindfold, attracted, it would seem, by sheer love of the excitement of crime. Not one of their attempts has had the slightest effect upon society, except to make it abhor the doctrine of Anarchy.
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