The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-06
THE NEW G GOVERNMENT IN PARIS

THE NE W 90 OPERNMENI L IN PHRIS.
The members of the new Provisional Govern
ment formed in France truly say, in their
first address to the people, that they are
placed mot in power but in peril. "
They are backed up by the Pari-
sian populace, and by securing the CO.
operation of General Trochu they will
have the support of all the military forces
the capital and the remnant of the French
army, and for the moment no power may
prove strong enough to dispute their newly
created authority. But they are in great
''peril, nevertheless, from domestic as we'll
AZ foreign foes. 1t was only SIN all minority
of the Corps Legislatif, apparently, that
favored the new movement, while the Senate
manifested a disposition to oppose it unani-
mously. The Provisional Government. in
view of the danger of opposition from these
quarters, DEGREES that "the Corps Legislatf
be dissolved and the Senate abolished" All
the old authority, therefore, is swept away,
the parliamentary supporters of the empire
perishing with the empire itself, while the
republic is called into existence by purely
revolutionary movement. Whether the men
who have been so suddenly deposed will
peacefully submit to the late decree remains
to be seen, but that they will intrigue and
conspire against their new masters can
scarcely be doubted and thus at the outset
internal perils are encountered.
On the other hand the new government
claims that il is ''before all a government for
the national defenfe." The popular feeling
which called it into existence and which sus-
tains it demands that invasion shall be re-
PEELED, and in response to this demand assu-
RANGES are held out that great popular up
rising will yet avenge the country and carve
out q road to victory,
II such difficulties can be surmounted and
such promises can be redeemed, there must
indeed be power in the mere name of re-
publicanism to reanimate the soul of France,
and to work out magical results.
The military virtue of the new system will
soon be tested. The invading armies have
already commenced forced marches upon the
capital. In view of the victories they have
already achieved, it seems like madness for
Paris to attempt resistance. And yet all
hearts there are apparently resolved on vic
tory or death. The loss of army after army
and battle after battle has not yet intimidated
them. The dictates of prudence are for the
moment overruled. No man dares to talk of
discreditable peace, and Paris is apparently
as eager to measure military strength with
the invaders as if they had given no proofs of
irresistible prowess.
What is to be the result of this extraordi-
nary complication? Are the Germans about
to gain crowning triumph over the most
strongly fortified city in the world, and TO
end the war without having suffered single
reverse, or have the long-continued and ex-
pensive preparations for the defense of the
capital at last made it impregnable? Is there
something more than French buster in the
desperate resolutions that are so loudly pro-
claimed, andis there still possibility that
by protracting the campaign into the fall
months and obtaining time to recuperate,
France may yet regain, under the banner of a
republic, all the prestige she has lost under
the flag of the Empire9
The events of the next few weeks-perhaps
of tho next few days-will answer many, if
not ali, Of these questions, and on the answer
hang the destinies of the empire