"It is wrong to believe that Rome can be, in a few days, rescued from the state of defence in which it has been placed by the _foreigners who occupy it_. Even if the possibility of success in an attack by main force were demonstrated, with the use of all the means authorized by war, other considerations should prescribe the greatest circumspection to our general-in-chief. In reality, the order to attack, which was sent to Gen. Oudinot, contains an express recommendation to adopt the most complete measures to avoid the exposure of the monuments of the city, which are now placed under the safeguard of France. Considerations of humanity are no less in the plans of our generals, who in no case will confound the Roman population with the bands of adventurers who ruin and oppress it. For all these reasons, the besieging forces will confine themselves to the attack of exterior works, and of positions from which the city and the monuments can not receive any injury." [Remarks on the preceding extract from the _Constitutionnel_, by the editors of the _Monitore Romano_.] "This, it cannot be denied, is an ingenious expedient to justify the slowness of the _brilliant successes_ of Oudinot under the walls of Rome. It is not a posthumous expedient, but a witty one, invented _after the act_. The General had first to think how to let his bomb-shells by hundreds fall, not upon the _foreigners_ who defend Rome, but upon the heads of the harmless population whom he has come to _protect_. He must think first how to ruin the edifices of Raffaelle, the Aurora of Guido, the temple of Fortuna Virilis, and, only yesterday, the most beautiful fresco of Poussin, in the palace Costaguli, now irreparably lost, because it has never been copied or engraved. "But this does not prevent the Roman monuments from being placed _under the safeguard_ of the French arms! This did not prevent them from having within their scope the defence of the liberty of the people, oppressed by foreigners! Hypocrites and wretches! you do not possess even the brutal frankness of Austria!" The following brief notices of events in Paris, published in the same number of the _Monitore Romano_, convey striking hints of the condition to which Louis Napoleon was reducing France, while his army was attempting to overthrow the Roman Republic, and fabricating excuses for his ill success. _Paris_, June 15th.—The members of the Legislative Assembly under trial for revolutionary proceedings exceeds twenty; and the list is not yet complete, (Ledru Rolin was at the head of these.)