For reasons which we have endeavoured to explain elsewhere, the
manifesto has been received by the Parisian revolutionists with cries of rage. It is regarded as an act of treachery, and some of those who signed it, such men as Pelletan and Bancel, have been received in a public meeting of the party with menaces and hootings. M. Pelletan was called a Judas, refused a hearing, and with some difficulty escaped from his friends ; while M. Bancel was denounced as a traitor, and rudely ordered to keep silence. M. Raspail has announced that he stands firm to the programme, the Rappel and Refome are lashing the people up to frenzy, and on Friday it was still believed that the old Socialist would march to the Chamber at the head of 20,000 workmen. If that resolu- tion is carried out, the most trivial incident may produce a bloody struggle, and it is difficult to resist an impression that an imeute is near at hand. It is quite possible that the Emperor desires one, in order to show France what it is from which he protects her ; but if so, he is playing for stakes frightful even for him. There is not a force in politics so dangerous or so uncontrollable as Paris in insurrection, and unless we are greatly mistaken, her temper is rising fast.
