The self-imposed martyrdom of M. Saluces is driving near. The Hi h Court, asthe Senate styled when acting in its judicial exp: 4 ity, is to meet on the 24 h of June, and in the meantime the conspirator 's azuishing in a comfortable dungeon in the Sunté prison. He is evidently doomed to undergo many disappointments. First of all, the Government left him alone when he badly wanted to be imprisoned, ind when he was at length arrested two days azo, he thought the authorities might hive left him his liberty until the eve of the trial, Clearly, however, it was better to make sure of him. Otherwise he might have decamped at the last minute and left the Hizh Court without any prisoner to try, which would have been a decidedly atinoying waste of time, the machinery of this tribunal being somewhat. rusty and impossible to set in motion without. great effort. Perhaps the sentence will be another disappointment, but anyway the prisoner will have an opportunity of slying the Republican tézime a bit of his mind, and that will do him good.
'The mauver of his arrest was far tragical, Ib was carried out by a mei police official, M_ Hamad, the' assistant perintendent of the detective department, rd, accompanied by two M. Han of his men, called at the consi. house nit past seven o'eluck in the avenin:
and was (old that Monsieur lo ud Madame la Comtesse were out Int would certainly return for dinnes Barnard accordingly sat down and waited. The Count and Countess arrived quarter of an hour afterwards and airs, unconscious of th n. 'The minion of the law them and announead that he had come to arrest M. de Lur-Saluces. The spirater nervously said he had no' expected this so soon, M. Barnard made no reply, Then the Count asked if he mizht break the news to his wife and was allowed to do so, the police official following him into an adjoining room and witnessing the affecting interview. I now occurred to the Count that it was dinner time. He and the detective waiked the dining room and the Count ate a hearty meal, while the visitor looked on, Finally the criminal embraced his wife, wrote a note to his legal adviser, lit a cigarette and went away in " four-wheeled cab to durance vile." All this is a great improve. ment, on the old style of dealing with traitors, In the olden days they seldom smrendered, andthe powers that were always clapped them into prison as soon as they could get hold of them. thought nec"sary to hour, hut we have chunsed all that. No wonder it is ey sidered 2" ty conspire against the Republic a treason, Doing mildly exciting and not even uncom: fortable, ought to beevme more and more popular.
Statistioians being persons of a methodical, and prad hardly surprising ths of facts and figure. year's Neves pahhs variety of do thenzht alteseth out of aby seeing that fragments of come Eshihition buildings still ember ground, Che total number of visitors was, it seems, 50,853,938, of wh om more than eight and a-half millions entered through the great gateway in the Place de Concorde. "On the average, one hundred thousand exi" indds were deposited at the Farivus entrances every day, and the arrivals by sunibns, tramear and beat no man has attempted ty count. Inside the palisade, the means ut transport were comparatively neglected; the electric railway conveyed only 23 million passengers and the moving sidewalk 6} millions, There was an unprecedented absence of cum merely 478 thefts and one att-rupted mur der. Accidents, on the other hand, were rather plentiful. They numbered 447, of which 16 were fatal. Shore were 10 ex)lo-sions and19 fires. Thepoticehadtodeal with 109 drunkards (noseveu one per day!), si dogs which had male their way in without tickets, 33 men who persisted in smoking inside the galleries, and 20 visitors who had lost themselves and could not remember where they lived. Nearly forty thousand articles were brought to. the lust property offices, and less than a third of them were claimed. Appalling quanti i i -e brought into P; mext, 6,090,000 brace of poult and game. 15.000 tons ut salt-water ud 186 million eggs.
7th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.