Paris. The deputies address the Commune.

Seven days after the proclamation of general liberty, on 11 February, the three deputies of Saint-Domingue presented themselves before the General Council of the Commune, and there each delivered a speech expressing the feelings of affection and esteem that the virtues and courage of the people and magistrates of Paris had inspired in them. Mills, the deputy of color, said: “It is to the progress of the mind that the people of Paris have fostered that we owe the happy regeneration which first made us citizens, and which has at last restored to our brothers the name of men in exchange for that of slaves.” . . . . . . . . . Mars Belley, the Black deputy, exclaimed: “I was a slave in my childhood. It is thirty-six years since I became free by my own industry; I bought myself. Since then, in the course of my life, I have felt myself worthy to be French. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .