The Central Committee has published no distinct programme. It asserts,
however, that the Assembly has no title, having been elected only to conclude peace ; that Paris has been insulted by the removal of the Legislature, that the city is entitled to Com- munal independence,—independence meaning the suppression of the police, the abolition of the gendarmerie, and the withdrawal of all military garrison. It styles itself the organ of the Federal Union of the National Guards, and has despatched delegates to the cities to rouse the population, a movement believed to have (ailed, though there is a bad rumour from Lyons. The Committee Es covering Paris with barricades, and has at its disposal perhaps
60,000 men, with some 50 pieces of cannon ; but it is already in want of money, and will shortly be in want of food. Reports of an " accommodation " with the Government are frequent, and the Committee, though it excuses the murders, takes pains to declare it did not order them, but as yet all points to a bloody struggle in the streets. The Committee has obtained the services of General Cremer, one of Gambetta's officers, now in command of the enceinte.
