The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-09 00:00:00

the Tuileries.
Returning to 'the consideration of the scared,
-but not as yet utterly dispersed Corps lAigis-
lati4 we find that attar they had received from M.
MAnraL the formal decision of the committee in
favour of M. Timins' proposition, they separated
for a while to assemble again, a little more
formally, later on upon Sunday evening.
Neither President nor Vice-President being there, M.
TRIERS presided. Delegates, in this instance, having
been deputed to wait upon the members of the
Council than known to be sitting at the hotel
de Ville; M. Timms opened this last and
extraordinaty sitting of the now deceased Corps
Ldgislatif, by announcing that M. JuLns
PAYEE and M. JULES SIMON were hi

attendance for the purpose of replying to
the conciliatory communication the conclave at the

Hotel de Ville had received through the medium o
the delegates of the committee. Those two im-

portant members of the Provisional Governnien.

were thereupon introduced. M. JULES FAVRE was,
as a matter of course, the spokesman, and what he
had to announce everybody knew pretty well by
instinct beforehand. The Past was Past. A Dynasty
was dead. purely temporary government had been

self-created, calling itself a Ministry of Defence.' The

enemy had to be expelled from France—that was
all their progrannue! Propositions were made by
several excited Deputies to the effect that the Legis-
lative Body before separating should enter its protest
against the violence to which it had been subjected.
To what purpose ? asked M. Tarns as President.

All he could do himself was to wish sue

tees to the Government of the emergency. "Seals
had been placed on the door of thb Chamber," ex-
claimed Count DAR U. "Is there anything more seri° us
than the seals on persons ?" asked M. TRIERS, adding
with pathetic dignity, "Dave I not been in prison at
Mazas ? You do not hear me complain of it." The
enemy was there almost at the gates of Paris. That
was all they had to take into consideration. Until
the Germans have been driven across the frontiers,
even the consideration of the political suture of
Franco is postponed.

"Iv is magnificent, but it is not war," said a
French officer awe-struck at the sight of the Light
Brigade charging through the Valley of Death atßala-
Maya. "It is magnificent, but it is not diplomacy,'
we ma 3 say of the manifesto which M. JULES FAVEE
has addressed through the diplomatic representatives
of France, to the world. "We will not cede either
an inch of our territory or a stone of our
fortresses," says the Foreign Minister of
the Third Republic, and yet at the moment
he wrote one army had been captured,
another was hopelessly beleaguered, and a third was
falling back before the advancing and victorious foe.
There is an heroic sound in the words, but they will
not bear analysis. Criticised, they turn out to be
foolish brag. The arguments put forward to support
them prove to be wholly illogical and unsustain-
able. Because we—the Liberal leaders of France—
did not wish for war two months ago, therefore
Prussia ought, now that we have become the
rulers of France, to make peace with us
on the terms of surrendering all the advantages
which she has gained. If she will not do that, says
FAvrw, we will fight to the last, with "the firm
confidence that our cause, which is that of Right
and Justice, will triumph in the end." How can a
muse which is asserted to have been unrighteous
and unjust at the outset, be rendered righteous and
just by the fact that the conduct of it has passed into
other hands? It is true,a M.FAvaft says, that at the be-
ginning of the war King NVILLiAm declared that he did
not will' to fight against the French people but only
against French soldiers. Yet he never meant tkat
he would be content to lay down his arms without
imposing terms, directly the French people found

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1870,

" THE most illustrious of all the Paris Deputies"—
M. MIERS —has condoned the violation of the
sanctity of the national legislature upon the occasion
of the irruption of the mob into the Corps L6gis-
latif. The attitude assumed by the great author-
orator-statesman in this supreme emergency was one
worthy of his historic reputation. Immediately after
the Legislative Body had been compelled to abandon
their Hall to the populace on Sunday last, they
assembled together in an informal meeting in another
part of the building. They then had announced to
them by one of the deputies, M. MARTEL, what had
been the decision of the committee in regard to the
three propositions which had been referred to it in
the names of their respective proposers—that is to
say, of M. Timms, of M. FAVRII, and of the Count
PALIKAO. By a majority the committee had de-
cided in favour of M. TmEns' proposition. They
had slightly modified it, but, to all intents and
purposes, it was, even after that modification, his
and no other's. It ran thus :—" Considering the
abeyance of authority, the Chamber appoints a
Commission of Government and National defence.
This Commission is composed of five members,
chosen by the Corps Legislatif. It will appoint the
Ministers. As soon as circumstances will permit,
the nation shall be called upon by a Constituent
Assembly to pronounce on the form of government."
Meanwhile,' oblivious of the Committee, or dis-
daining its delegated authority, the mob, martialled
by the leaders of the Left, that is by the Chiefs
of the minority had created a new governing power
altogether. A Republican regime had been re-estab-
lished. The Presidency of it had been offered to and
accepted by General Tnoctly, already having not his
foot in the stirrup but himself in the saddle, and the
good sword of Paris slung at his thigh. To make
assurance doubly sure, moreover, General
TIiOCLIU at once took up his abode in the Palace of