, 1870-09-06
SEQ little in the French character to justify
TIFF pARYsIAN NOR.

l'arlS is airoauS- indef rel6u OF terror.
Though bloodshed ii its streets has not
yet begun, the city.is drifting rapidly into
the control OF mob, whose supremacy for
one week would lie an evil ten.fold more
TO be dreaded than the Prussian invasion.
A crowd Of 100, o,aoo Parisians surrounded
tho Corps. Icgislatif and the residence OF
General Troclfu during the debate on the
resolution tu continnc the WAT. When tAc
stormy discussion ended in a, unanimous
vote Of "de6ance," the same mob
pazadcd through the streets, howl
ing in triumph at having rashly resolved.
on paper. to resist to the death an enomy
that, in the field, is numerically aud physi-
ca1ly irresistible. This Paris mob will do
no fighting against the Pn'ssians. But it
has cocrce.l the Corps Legislatif to resolve
to fight when il knows TINT SUCCESS ty
fighting is simply impossible.
From the fact that n. Theirs, the only
cool-leaded 1tenclmaa in public life, il
nov, the special object Of the threats OF
this mob, NO infer that be has dared to tell
the Corps Legislatif that France is at pres
cnt incapable Of effective resistance. His
l fe was in danger six weeks ago for de-
clazipg that France was not prepared for
wnr. The same mob who proposed to sac
rifice him then for telling one unwc!comc
trtth, now shout for his bloud because he
nttcrs another.
The salvation OF Paris frum horrors
greater than those of war seems to depend
uu the prompt arrival Of the Fr,ssiau
osmy Il will take bat few hours for the
street 1ufians, vaga,,onds, rroietalres,
thieves, and pther parties, Interested in
getting up great riot, to advance from
tearing down the imperial arms, nAarrl-
ing by Thousands through the Tuileries,
and shouting *tDeash to TAicrs." to bu-
gin the work of plundcr aud murder, of
vhich these are only The preliminary warm
ines.
That nothing hut Partisan mob violence
could hive induced the Corps Legislatf to
vote Tor continuing the .~at. must lse evi-
dent 10 every French representative who
has my data, however crude, for esti-
mating the French losses. In the opening
battles OF Wei*senburg, Worth, and Ha-
guenau, the French lost almost totally the
tina as1ny OF MacAfuhon. estimated at l30,-
tAj0 men; aud thu most moderate estimate
Of DazGneis losses, before Metz, would
amount 10 $4,000 morn MacAahop, at
Sedan, surrendered 120,eoo men. princi~
pally new troops, with oil their aims,
including, at least, COO g,ns,
and 100000 small arms. In
the cooping up Of Bazaine, at least
so, 600 men nre rendered useless In tho
garrispns, excluding that of Paris, some
Go,0o. must Le withheld from active ser
gice, and not less than 0,0oa have been
dispersed and allowed to desert during tbs
thirty battles of the campaign. These
figures amount to grand total Of 51U,tFN,
men utterly lost to the French
for Tho present wrr. Their arms
ure lost. 1t il known that. OF
the Inst army hastily gathered by Mac
lAlou, many thousands were never Uni
formed OF armed The correspondents
who overlooked tho BATTLES ut Sedan ssw
these unases of rpw troops stunding idle
| and Withheld from the action. They could
| ea., Int could not Gylt. The troops
| around Paris, and any new armies that can
he raised, will hs still less efficient.
Every inte,ligen, Frenc1,man must see,
therefore, that, except a few regulars ut
pAris, the entire French army il now Aora
dt combat. In fact, the unanimous vote
of tho French Legislature for war Judi
Gates only TINT the government is over
awed by the mob. Uuder these circunl-
stances, TIE prayer Of ths better Glasses Of
tho people of Paris must be that the Pr.,s-
SLAMS will march into the city at ouce.