ussian,
Monsieur A---- J----, who has inhabited Paris for ten years, and is
consequently Parisian, has given me the following information, of which
I took hasty note:--

"At half-past one o'clock to-day a group, of which I made one, was
formed in the place of the New Opera-house. We numbered scarcely
twenty persons, and we had a flag on which was inscribed, 'Meeting
of the Friends of Order.' This flag was carried by a soldier of the
line, an employe, it is said, of the house of Siraudin, the great
confectioners. We marched along the boulevards as far as the Rue de
Richelieu; windows were opened as we passed, and the people cried,
'_Vive l'Ordre! Vive l'Assemblee Nationale! A bas la Commune!_' Few
as we were at starting our numbers soon grew to three hundred, to
five hundred, to a thousand. Our troop followed the Rue de
Richelieu, increasing as it went. At the Place de la Bourse a
captain at the head of his National Guards tried to stop us. We
continued our course, the company saluted our flag as, we passed,
and the drums beat to arms. After having traversed, still increasing
in numbers, the streets which surround the Bourse, we returned to
the boulevards, where the most lively enthusiasm burst out around
us. We halted opposite the Rue Drouot. The _mairie_ of the Ninth
Arrondissement was occupied by a battalion attached to the Central
Committee--the 229th, I believe. Although there was some danger of a
collision, we made our way into the street, resolved to do our duty,
which was to protest against the interference with order and the
disregard for established laws; but no resistance was opposed to us.
The National Guards came out in front of the door of the _mairie_
and presented arms to us, and we were about to continue our way,
when some one remarked that our flag, on which, as I have already
said, were the woods 'Meeting of the Friends of Order,' might expose
us to the danger of being taken for '_reactionnaires_,' and that we
ought to add the words '_Vive la Republique!_' Those who headed the
manifestation came to a halt, and a few of them went into a cafe,
and there wrote the words on the flag with chalk. We then resumed
our march, following the widest and most frequented paths, and were
received with acclamations everywhere. A quarter of an hour later we
arrived at the Rue de la Paix an