NEWS OF TILE WEEK.
MHE wine revolt in the South of France has ended in blood- 1 shed and street-fighting. On Wednesday Dr. Ferroul and other subordinate leaders were arrested, and efforts have been made to capture M. Marcelin Albert, the so-called " redeemer of the South," but up till now without success. The arrests and attempted arrests were answered by the raising of street barricades, and by attacks upon the soldiers and gendarmes. The town of Narbonne has been the chief centre of disturbance, and on Thursday night there were repeated cavalry charges, in which the troopers used their revolvers and the gendarmerie and infantry were forced to ' fire with ball- cartridge. The total number of deaths cannot, as almost always happens in the case of street-rioting, be ascertained; but the news on Friday afternoon seems to indicate that at least three persons were killed and eighteen wounded.
Clemenceau, answering interpellations as to the rioting on Thursday evening, showed great firmness, and expressed his determination to preserve order at all costs. He hinted that many of those who provoked the riot at Montpellier were young men belonging to the anti-Republican party. The tone of some of the members of the Right in the Chamber certainly seems to encourage the notion that a section of the reactionaries find cause for satisfaction in the revolt.
