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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1870.

PARIS is certainly skilled in rwolutious. Practice
in that, as in other things, makes perfect. A trans-
formation so complete as the one just now.effectedin
the whole of the political institutions of a .great
country, has never been carried out with such as-
tonishing equanimity, so to speak, as the one which
has within the last few hours in the French capital
replaced the , imperial system of eighteen
years with the thoroughly democratic machinery
and organisation of a Republican Provisional
Government. This, moreover, with a victorious
army rapidly ' advancing upon the metropolis, after
having receive() the capitulation of an enormous
army of defence. Happily, the sword of the
dictatorship is in strong hands. General TitocHu,
it is felt by one and all, is the very man for the
emergency. Added to which the popular leaders who
have been grouped together suddenly upon the
spur of the moment in the form of an ultra-
Democratic Cabinet, are the ablest men of the extreme
party ; men like GAMBETTA and JULES FAVRE—
unassociated with mere shallow-pated firebrand
demagogues like M. ROCHEFORI of the Lanterne
notoriety, lately of St. Pelagie, or with men of
sinister reputation like Louis BLANC and LEDRU
ROLLIN. Only the abler veterans of. the old demo-
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c atic party, such men as GARNIER PAGES and
tEMTEUX have been chosen as colleagues of the
- ounger men among popular leaders, about the
youixtiest and ablest of whom is certainly N.
GAMETTA. The task before the Provisional
G4ernment is certainly one of a very onerous cha-

meter, and laden too with an enormous responsibility.
With the national standard - draggled in the dust,
with the powerful and resplendent army of
defence swept out of the national calchlations, with
vitally important outposts like those of Plialsburg and
Strasbourg still subjected to a cruel and appalling
bombardment, with the prestige of the arms and
of the diplomacy of France at one and the
same time frightfully compromised—the rulers of
forty million Frenchmen have suddenly to bring
together anew army, to lift up anew the tarnished
standards of the country, to secure the safety of the
capital now very imminently imperilled, and to do
all this with the enemy nearly at the
gates flushed with a score of magnificent
and terrible victories. There is a talk, more-
over, at this time, of peace, of an armistice, of
diplomatic negotiations tending towards the
satisfactory settlement of all difficulties be-
tween the belligerents. But the measures to that
effect come neither from Paris nor Berlin. They
are springing -up, here and there, among observant
neutrals. The wish is, of course, father to the
thought. Nothing in the way of a pacific settle-
ment has as yet been adventured upon by any one
practically. At this moment we cannot but fear
that the hope of a pacification, or of a temporary
pacification is in every way premature. The
thought of it is hardly less than a hallucination.
The Prussian, or rather the German armies have by
this time got such a way upon them that
they can hardly be brought to a stand
very readily or rapidly at the instance of any
negotiation, however influential or authoritative.
Besides, France generally, Paris especially, has be-
come infuriated, has vowed vengeance= against the
invaders who have been subjected here to such as-
tounding and terrible humiliations. The defences of
Paris are prepared. The people have sworn an oath
that the capital shall not be delivered up, that the
German invaders of France shall to the last man be
driven back from the walls of Paris and across the
northern and eastern frontiers of France into the
Rhenish provinces, and into the Baden portion of
the Germanic Confederation. Will that oath—can
it—be kept ? Or will France— must she—be fore-
sworn ? A comparatively short time will indicate.

THE ARGUMENT AGAINST TIIE EMPIRE.

L'Empereur est mort; Vim la Republique! Such
is the cry which resounds throughout France..
Physically dead the EMPEROR, indeed, is not. He
" was not able to die at the head of his army," he
told his captor. Why he was not able, why he did
not fulfil his promise mort ou vainqueur,
does not appear, and we will not ask. But
for all purposes of GovernMent he is dead,
and his dynasty is dead with him. The shout which
Paris has raised, which has been re-echoed in many
of the large cities, and will, we doubt not, be eaug,,t
up even by the peasants who have these last six
weeks been lamenting the Plebiscite that has brought
to them disaster most terrible, ruin most complete, is
not akin to the proclamation that used, to
be made in the old days of the Bourbons,
from the window at Versailles. It is no
longer a proclamation of continuity, king
hollowing King because the King never dies. It is
the announcement of revolution, of as complete an
overthrow as ever betel even a French Sovereign.
The EMPEROR, and not only the EMPEROR, but the
Empire, is gone. It is scarcely possible that it can
return. Twice has it been tried; first the Empire which
wasiucessant war, then the Empire which declared that
it was peace ; and both ,times it has brought
the enemies of France conquerovs up to• the very
gates of her capita]. The sun of Austerlitz
wAs eclipsed by the storm of Waterloo: Midsummer
day at Solferino has been obliterated by the 2nd
September at Sedan. Paris may be worth a mass,
as HENRI QUATRE declared, but) even Napoleonised,
beautified, Paris is not worth a March 31,1814, or that
day not yet named, but close at hand, when the
foreigner shall again dictate peace in the Tuileries.
So complete an overthrow forces us to seek fur an
explanation of it. 0: May 8 nearly eight millions'o!'
votes were recorded la havour of the .E.NLYSILOIL and