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 modified the composition of its Executive Committee, which was to consist in the future of a delegate from each of the nine Commissions. The decree said nothing in regard to the duration of the Committee—declaring that the body was to exercise its powers provisionally. The following were the delegates named:

Delegate of War—. Finance—. Subsistence—. Exterior Relations—. Labor and Exchange—. Justice—. Public Service—. Information—. General Surety—.

The Commune also reminded its members that they were bound to attend the sittings with exactitude. If prevented, they were to send notice to the President, or give a satisfactory explanation on the next occasion.

In addition to the four journals already named as suppressed by the Commune, twelve others were stopped, thus depriving some six or seven thousand persons directly or indirectly connected therewith of their daily bread.

A committee of practical jewelers met to-day at the Ministry of Finance to examine and estimate the value of a number of sapphires and fine pearls found in the cellars of that building. Among other things, there were two pearls as large as pigeons' eggs, and, in the opinion of all present, worth several millions of francs; also an inestimable collection of sapphires, which were to be sold at auction in France or England.

Throughout the whole day of the 21st the cannonade and the rattle of the mitrailleuses continued in the vicinity of Asnières and Neuilly. The musketry, however, was