The expulsion of the Germans from Paris, decreed last week
by the Legislative Body, has been to some extent carried out. It is said that it was a humane precaution, Paris being too excited to tolerate foreigners ; and undoubtedly Germans have been menaced, many " spies" have been shot, and one poor workman has been killed with spades. About half the German residents have left Paris, of course to their immense loss ; and the official papers of Germany threaten revenge, though it will not, they say, take the form of expelling Frenchmen from Germany. The ex- pulsion is entirely without precedent, unless it be in Napoleon's detention of the English in Verdun; but it is not, we imagine, contrary to the principles of international law. Every nation maintains an Alien Act, and we have once or twice used it severely in Ireland.
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