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Show Great Army Protesting , Against-the High m Prices, Paris, Aug. 20. Pj-qces3ibnB of women, some of them numbering 2,000 are marching this evening Ih "northern France, protesting against the high prices of provisions. At "Lillo, Cam-bral, Cam-bral, Doual, Valenciennes, pethune,; Lens and at many smaller places, a species of anarchy prevails' because the pollpe arc insufficient, to protect tho dealers qf food fiom tho destructive destruc-tive Impulses of the manifstants; The processions at some "1 of the northern departments are marching from village to village running over farms and damaging dairies find vegetable veg-etable gardens tp indicate their sense of grievance As each village is desconded "on, the ranks of the manifestant; arc steadily augmented and occasional incidents in-cidents are reported of tronfllcts between. be-tween. the marauders and farmers, armed "with pitchforks. |