"Where do you come from ?"--"From Limoges."-- "Why are you here ?"--"I don't know; they drove me away from my home."-- "What are you ?"--"A maker of wooden shoes." [1] The _Bulletin des Lois_ publishes the following decree, dated the 27th of March:-- "Considering the law of May 10, 1838, which classes the ordinary expenses of the provincial prisons with those to be included in the departmental budgets: "Whereas this is not the nature of the expenses occasioned by the arrests resulting from the events of December; "Whereas the facts which have caused these arrests to multiply are connected with _a plot against the safety of the state_, the suppression of which concerned society at large, and therefore it is just to discharge out of the public funds the excess of expenditure resulting from the _extraordinary increase_ in the number of prisoners; "It is decreed that:-- "An extraordinary credit of 250,000f.

be opened, at the Ministry of the Interior, on the revenue of 1851, to be applied to the liquidation of the expenses resulting from the arrests consequent on the events of December." [2] "Digne, January 5, 1852.
"The Colonel commanding the state of siege in the department of the Basses-Alpes "Decrees:-- "Within the course of ten days the property of the fugitives from the law _will be sequestrated_, and administered by the director of public lands in the Basses-Alpes, according to civil and military laws, etc.

FRIRION." Ten similar decrees, emanating from the commanders of states of siege, might be quoted.

The first of the malefactors who committed this crime of confiscating property, and who set the example of arrests of this sort, is named Eynard.

He is a general.