NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Reds of Paris have revolted at last, and were on Friday evening in full possession of the capital. The train has 'been laid for weeks, the battalions of National Guards from the working quarters—whom we have elsewhere called the Red Battalions—having retained their cannon and arms in spite of -orders. The train was fired by M. Thiers, who on Saturday published a proclamation warning the men of Montmartre that if -their cannon were not surrendered he must have recourse to force, and followed it up by sending General Vinoy to execute the threat. The cannon were seized, but the Red Battalions marched to recover them ; the Moderate Battalions gave no aid to the General, and the troops fraternized with the insurgents. Only the gendarmerie remained faithful, and were dispersed with bullets. The move- ' rent spread all over Paris, everywhere the troops engaged threw down their arms, and before evening a Central Committee of work- men, headed by Assi, the leader of the strike of last year at Creuzot, was installed as government. M. Thiers ordered all the .ministries and officials of the Bank to withdraw to Versailles, with 'the troops who remained faithful ; and there he has remained ever -since, collecting troops from the provinces, but otherwise tempor- izing. Meanwhile, the Committee have occupied Mont Valerien and the Southern forts, have taken Vincennes, and have begun to levy requisitions.
