The French troops now occupied successively Mater and Beja, but signs were not wanting of rocks ahead. The Bey’s circular announcing the “re- establishment of friendly relations with France” was received with derision all over the interior. When the injunction “to receive the French like brothers” was proclaimed at the Enfida, the Arabs declared they “would have nothing to do with the slayers of the Sheikhia,” and the few remaining employés of the _Société Marseillaise_ took refuge in Tunis under an escort of Mr. Levy’s tenants. About the same time England met the just reward of her credulity. On the 19th and 23d May the Maltese ships “Nuova Stella” and “Santa Maria” were boarded and searched by the Commander of the French gunboat “Léopard” off the Tunisian coast. A week later another evidence of the still smouldering flame of Arab discontent was afforded by the murder of M. Seguin, the correspondent of the _Télégraphe_ at Beja. On the 28th May, M. Seguin was walking a short distance outside the town when he was suddenly set upon by an Arab fanatic, who, quitting a group of natives on the road, rushed upon him and felled him to the ground with a heavy stone. Seguin, who was a small, thin man, attempted to defend himself with a dagger which he drew, but his assailant snatched it from his hand and inflicted no less than eight fearful wounds about his head, chest, and stomach before he could be dragged from the body of his victim. Seguin bore his sufferings with much courage, and died in great agony at six o’clock the next morning. His assassin was a deserter from the 2d Regiment of Algerian Native Infantry—commonly called Turcos—and is said to be a native of Morocco. I afterwards learned that M. Seguin was not more than thirty- two years of age, and was a brilliant scholar; he had been a pupil of the Ecole Normale, and his career might have been a very successful one but for the extreme violence of his political sympathies and antipathies. He joined the Commune heart and soul, and acted as Private Secretary to Rossel during his occupancy of the War Office. M. Seguin contrived to escape, or he would most probably have met with the fate of his chief. As it was, he left his country until the amnesty, earning his living by giving lessons. About a year before his death he published a very remarkable book describing the military forces of the various European Powers, and estimating the probable results of the next trial of strength between France and Germany. The title of the work is “La Prochaine Guerre.” But the next war was in Tunis, and M. Seguin himself was one of its earliest victims.