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 direction of a house inhabited by his mother, the poor woman was killed by the bursting of a shell. He was condemned to capital punishment.

If the instrument is thus condemned, the leaders will not remain unpunished; and the men who ruled over Paris with a rod of iron, only at the last to deliver up the unhappy city to fire and blood—the men who obliged the poor soldiers, after five months' rude imprisonment in hated Germany, to turn from the firesides waiting to receive them and take up arms against their fellow-countrymen—the men who brought desolation and mourning to so many homes which had been filled with joy at the safe return of their sons and brothers from the Prussian war—these men will surely meet the reward of their crimes, and give to the world a terrible example.

Colonel Rossel, whose career was both brief and sanguinary, Captain of Engineers in the French Army, Colonel under Gambetta, Chief of Staff under Cluseret, Delegate of War, President of the Military Court, and Commander of the Commune Forces, was condemned to military degradation and death by the Versailles Court-Martial, September 7th. The savage and heartless Ferré and would-be Dictator Lullier were sentenced to the same fate.

Trinquet and Urbain were condemned to imprisonment for life. Assi, Grousset, Billioray, Régère, Verdure and Ferrat, to deportation and confinement in a fortress. Jourde and Rastorel to transportation.

Courbet was condemned to six months' imprisonment, Clement to three months; Decamp and Parent were acquitted.

, Thursday, Sept 21, 1871.

M. Rochefort's trial has concluded, and he has been sentenced by the Court-Martial to transportation to a penal colony for life.