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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1870.

M. ROCHEFORT 18 in the very nick of time re-

leased from durance. The barracks of Paris are
emptied of the soldiery. Every arm of the service
that could be spared has been sent to the front. The
mob is clamorous for arms, and in spite of the prohi-
bition of Marshal BARAGUAY D'HILLIEES is per-
petually swarming in larger and larger numbers
in the streets and boulevards clamorous

for Chassepots. The waves are rising, and of course
the stormy petrels are about. There are
disturbances at this moment in the French
capital so profound that Paris is moved to
the very depths, and of course the scum rises to the
surface. The result would be the same inevitably
in any huge metropolis. It is especially thus among
the Parisians. They are passed masters of revolution.
And at the present moment it happens all that the armed
defenders of the Imperial regime, are far removed
from Paris doing their very utmost to defend the
northern frontier. At the head of the State is a
woman who is no more of a French woman than was
MARIE ANTOINETTE. At the head of the Ministry
there was until yesterday afternoon a poli-
tical chief, who notoriously neither poSsesses
an iron will, nor a resolutely consistent policy. The
most illustrious orator in the Legislative Body has
chiefly distinguished himself very recently by denounc-
ing the war, which has since then, immediately after his
denouncement of it, been opened thus disastrously.
For everyone who detests the imperial rule, the
actual crisis is certainly most temptingly opportune.
For everyone who loves to strike a man
when he is down, now is the opportunity.
That the avowed foes of the EMPEROR
are ready, nay eager, to seize that opportunity
is but natural. They act according to their instincts.
Hardly, however, in the same way, is it natural that
friends, that allies, that outsiders, that those who are
mere neutral spectators, should evidence a like solici-
tude to add, if it be in any way possible, to the already
all but overwhelming difficulties of the French
Ministers, of the EMPRESS REGENT, and of the
Sovereign himself, now with a disturbed capital at
his back, and before him a rapidly-advancing and
triumphant foe. The French should at the least be
left to their own counsels at this juncture of supreme
difficulty. To urge upon them any incentive to a
revolutionary outbreak is, at a moment like
this, nothing less than criminal on the
part of a looker on. France has to deal
with the invader first of all. That is her one
instant consideration. Later on it will be her place—
not ours—to take into consideration the course
pursued by those to whom she has entrusted her politi-
cal destinies. Although it bore the aspect of a mere
party manoeuvre when M. OLLIVIER and his
colleagues told their country men that party diffierences
of every kind must now be sunk in the one simple
object of repelling the attack of the invading army

—it is after all the common sense of the whole
position. When that supreme difficulty has been
dealt with, then France can deal with that other
matter of her internal Government.

THE two armies have enjoyed a few days rest
after the hard work of Saturday. It was a terrible
day, and would have satisfied the campaigners of the
last century for at least three months, but when the
fate of a sovereign round whom the politics of
Europe have centred for the last twenty years hangs
upon the issue of the next battle, no wonder the
public are impatient at the interval. They had to
wait an unexpected time before the first blow was
struck, and now that the question at issue is nothing
more nor less than the collapse of the Empire, it is
but natural that a truly painful anxiety to know
the end should reign throughout all Europe.
The EMPEROR, however, is right glad to
get this breathing time. No price could be too
great to pay for a few more days of grace. The
battles of Forbach and Worth left his army in such
a disorganised condition that had the Prussians felt
themselves able to continue their onward march, as
in 1866, the war, and the Emperor's reign,
must have finished then and there. Two
defeats, inflicted upon small portions of
the whole French host, could not, indeed, with
good management, have exercised any decisive in-
fluence. But the EMPEROR'S corps, after a fortnight's
"concentration," lay scattered over a hundred miles of
country ; they were badly posted and unable to co-
operate ; so that five hours' endurance of fierce attack
on the part of one section brought no help from the
rest. Of course the two defeats did not improve this
state of affairs. Though efforts to concentrate were
being made, the different bodies of French troops
remained far apart on Tuesday night, the largest
being at Metz, and the others at Nancy and Saverne.
These three places represent a semi-circle
about one hundred miles long. So reckless
was the EMPEROR'S strategy that the task of
getting the Imperial legions within manageable
distance of each other has been slow and dangerous.
Had the Prussians advanced immediately after
Forbach and Worth, no concentrated strength could
have met their superior- numbers. As at those two
battles, the scattered French must have been
outnumbered at every point.

The causes which produced this unwonted hesita-

tion on the part of MOLTXE and his lieutenants may
be defined with tolerable certainty. It is absurd to
suppose that the losses in the two battles could check
the triumphant march of 400,000 victorious com-
batants. The Prussians have waited because they
had not collected a sufficient supply of men
and stores on the frontier. It is obvious that

they gave the French greater credit for ability and
energy than they have displayed, The Germans