New-York tribune., 1870-09-07

| ueateu 10 drink. From the aspect OF rafs
one could suppose that news of great victory
had been received. Such perfect unanimity L
never witnessed. As it is Sunday, the men
are walking about with their wives and chill
dren in holiday dress. The National Guards
are marching home along the Boulevards as
though they had come from a review. The
windows and sidewalks are lined with people
cheering them. It is felt by all that that the
surrender of the Chief of the State must be
repudiated by the nation, that it had been re-
| pudiated, and that the dishonor falls conse-
quently on the man and not on France.
EUGENE THINKS NAPOLEON COWARD.
hear that last night the general opinion
among politicians was that if Prussia will
grant fair terms of peace they ought not to be
rejected. The difficulty is, however, to find
statesman who will incur the odum OF urging
peace. 1t has been suggested that an anony-
nous ministry of nobOdes should be formed
who would make treaty and then disappear.
was told this morning by gentleman at
tached to the Court that the Empress is indlg-
nant with the Emperor. She says that he is
coward and never should have been taken
alive. My friend tells me that as far as is
yet known at the Tuileries he behaved with
an absolute want of dignity; that he recon-
mended Gen. Wimpffen to surrender, and that
he himself appeared to be 30 afraid of his own
troops avenging their disasters on him, that
| he seemed to have but one thought-tO get
safe away within the Prussian lines.
PLANS FOR PROCURING PEACE.
Now is the moment for England to earn the
eternal gratitude of France by bringing all
her moral influence to bear in order to induce
| the Prussians to make peace on terms which
a gallant, high-spirited nation can accept.
do hope that Lord Granville will, without
consulting the Journalists of the Foreign
| Office, at once use every effort to bring the
war to an end and to obtain for France rea-
sonable terms.
There have been few fights between the
police and the Gardes Mobiles, who have
mraculously reappeared, and who regard SER
gents de mlle as their natural enemies
One of the gates of the Tuileries
Garden WIS forced since / left
the Place de la COncorde. A. few:
Imperial employees who were foolish enough
to appear in gorgeous uniforms, have been
pelted, but the whole revolution has been
accomplished with far less tumult or dis
turbance than an election in many free and
| enlightened constituencies at home. Paris,
| so sad and melancholy of late, is in wild
| ecstacy of Joy. These wonderful Parisians are
like school boys who have just barred out
! their master, and not one in a thousand re-
members that q Prussian army is advancing
on them.
DRILLING THE HOME GUARD.
| / went out yesterday to see the Gdrde Ma
tiondl S6dentaire go through their exercises.
1t is composed of the married men who, on one
plea or another, have escaped the conscEipticH
and the Garde Mobile, among the the middI.
classes. Some of them had full uniforms but
most of them had only either a military cap
OF a red stripe down their trowsers. They
drill in squads in all the open places morning
and evening. When the drill is over, they
stack their arms, which are carried
away. Each man appeared to me to
be brimming over with good intentions,
but to have some private theory of his own as
to how arms are to be handled. The squads
saw are in every sense of the word awkward
squads. Citizens cannot be converted into
soldiers in a day, and France is now paying
the penalty of that dstrust on the part of her
ruler, who has for so many years forbidden
the use of arms to his subjects. NJ. Guizot
once aptly described his countrymen as
race of administrators and admins
tered. So long as an organized force can hold
the field France viii be able to resist
but once let the organized forces of the coun-
| try be completely vanquished there is not the
! slightest chance of what is called the nation
! rising as one man. The walls of Paris will be
the last ditch. NJ. Haussman, in his report
to the Senate, puts down the number of
regular troops at 100000, and to this he
adds 10000 recruits of the cOnscriptiOn of
1s70 allowing for losses in the field
| should be glad to know where except on
paper these warriors on. A story is current in
Paris which would account for the difference
between the paper and the effective force of
| the army, and which to certain extent ex-
plains why the Emperor rushed into war, al
though he knew that he was unprepared for it.
WHY THE ARMY WAS DEFICIENT.
OF late years his civil list has not been large
enough TO provide for the lavish expense of
his court his largesse to his adherents, and
the secret service money which was required
to keen up the love of Imperialism among his
subjects. About f2,OOO,OOO sterling were there
fore yearly taken from the Ministry of War
and handed over to him. the larceny was con-
ceaIed by stores figuring on the accounts which
never had been bought, and "looting" the
money which was paid into the Military Treas.
ury by those who were drawn for the con-
scription to enable the Government to buy
substitutes. Regiments nOminally 2,O00 strong
only had an effective force of 1850. The
money for the substitute and the supposed
yearly cost of substitute were appropriated
| to the civil list.
When the Emperor was obliged a few
months ago, to yield to the cry for Parlia-
mentary government, he knew that the next