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 women and children—fired at those who were in the streets, and at those who were at the windows of houses. As there is nothing in London corresponding to this Paris Boulevards, I can only attempt to give those who have not seen the Paris Boulevards some idea of the proceeding of one regiment which I am about to place before them by saying that it was somewhat as if a regiment of Life Guards or Horse Guards were suddenly led into Trafalgar Square, and the Colonel at the head of the regiment was heard to say "we are going to sweep away everything." If what happened in the Paris Boulevards had been done in Trafalgar Square, and in the streets leading from Trafalgar Square to Westminster Abbey, the man who did it would probably—long before the expiration of the twenty years during which the author of the coup d'état of December, 1851, reigned in France—have had to walk out of the same window at Whitehall, from which a man walked somewhat more than two hundred years before to the scaffold for having murdered large numbers of Englishmen, as this Corsican, or of whatever race or nation of mankind he came, murdered large numbers of French men, women, and children.

The present Paris correspondent of The Daily