Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Crime

    Responding to the French reaction to a recent attempt to assassinate Emperor Napoleon III, reports that an 'imperial decree has just appeared in Paris for the creation of the five great military commands, whose duties are to extend over the preservation of order, and the annihilation of liberty, in the British Empire'. Asserts that the five military divisions will cover Leicester Square, Soho, Birmingham, Guernsey, and Jersey, and that they will communicate with the Ministry of Police in Paris by telegraph.