(November 23, Order of the Paris Commune, closing the churches.)--In relation to the terror the constitutional priests were under, I merely give the following extracts (Archives Nationales, F7,31167): "Citizen Pontard, bishop of the department of Dordogne, lodging in the house of citizen Bourbon, No.

66 faubourg Saint-Honore, on being informed that there was an article in a newspaper called "le Republican" stating that a meeting of priests had been held in the said house, declares that he had no knowledge of it; that all the officers in charge of the apartments are in harmony with the Revolution; that, if he had had occasion to suspect such a circumstance, he would have move out immediately, and that if any motive can possibly be detected in such a report it is his proposed marriage with the niece of citizen Caminade, an excellent patriot and captain of the 9th company of the Champs-Elysees section, a marriage which puts an end to fanaticism in his department, unless this be done by the ordination of a priest a la sans-culotte which he had done yesterday in the chapel, another act in harmony with the Revolution.

It is well to add, perhaps, that one of his cures now in Paris has called on him, and that he came to request him to second his marriage.

The name of the said cure is Greffier Sauvage; he is still in Paris, and is preparing to be married the same time as himself.

Aside from these motives, which may have given rise to some talk, citizen Pontard sees no cause whatever for suspicion.