Paris has been disquieted by the circulation of a bulletin
or manifesto, purporting to emanate from the ultra-democratic "Cen- tral Committee of Resistance," provocative of an immediate insur- rection. The subsequent appearance of a bulletin, actually ema- nating from the society, not less outrageous and repulsive than the first, but prudently postponing for a year all recourse to vio- lence, has assuaged the fears of the citizens, but raised the ques- tion, by whom and to what end was the first-mentioned document circulated ? Not unnaturally, suspicion attaches to the Govern- ment, which has of late been rather ostentatiously accumulating stores of arms and ammunition and concentrating troops ; impu- tations of the employment of " agens provocateurs" are freely cir- culated. An interview between M. Persigny and General Changer- nier, combined with the appearance of an unauthenticated report of the conference, has given rise to rumours of the progress of Legi- timist reaction, that unsettle men's minds. The Executive Go- vernment have also contrived to get into a new difficulty by ad- vancing a claim for large arrears of pay in the name of Jerome Bonaparte, which the President has found it advisable to with- draw. Uneasiness with regard to the future seems to be decidedly increasing throughout France.
The Portuguese revolution, or insurrection, has been resuscitated when apparently on the eve of expiring through inanition. Sal- denim, when on his way to embark at Vigo, was recalled by the insurgent troops and inhabitants of Oporto.
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