Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-26
Iy.ER VIEWS.

Dispatches from tho seat of war indicate
continued fighting, with sangunary re-
suits on both sides. A great battle occurred
on Thursday of last week, near Metz in
which the Prussians gained important ad-
vantages, but Mt immense cost. The French
loss during the first week OF active hostili-
ties is estimated at $4,000 men, killed and
wounded, while that of the Prussians cam
not be less than double that number.
The surrender of the French fortresses
on the Rhine, Saar and Mosele, is now
merely question of time. Phalsburg has
already fallen. Strasburg, Bitche, Metz
Thionville are invested by large armies,
and are cut off from supplies and succor.
The dispatches of NJ Gailardet of the
New York Courier show that there is a
general expectation in Paris that the issues
of the war will be decided under the walls
of that city. He represents the people of
| Paris unanimous in favor of expelling the
| invaders and says any one suspected Of
treason would suffer popular violence. The
measures of defense go on vigorously.
The N. Y. Tribune says: 1t seems quite
absurd now for anybody to argue that the
present war will be a long war. The de-
structio on of the last twenty days has been
so terrific, and the successes of the Ger
mans have been so great, that 1t is impossi-
BILE to believe that the struggle can be car
ried on for years, or even for months. The
military power of France has been serious
ly broken in the ten defeats which the
French army has suffered. Gen. Trochu
has doubtless assembled n great mass of
inexperienced troops at Chalons and Paris !;
but even though these bodies be more nu-
merous than the armies under Bazaine
and MacMahon, they are less formidable.
If the Prussians are able to offer the enemy
n day or two more of such sanguinary work
as was carried on last week, the army OF
France will be ruined.
There are indications that the neutral
powers, alarmed at the great military PROV
ess of Prussia are combining to put an end
to the war. Queen Victoria is said TO have
written to King William, urging him to
accept peace proposals from France and the
question Of Intervention by England is
soon to be considered by the cabinet. The
Russian envoy at Vienna has been sent to
Paris on a special mission which is sup
posed to have a bearing on the question OF
peace. Public opinion in Paris is repre-
scented as opposed TO peace till the invader
is driven from the soil.
Speaking of the appointment of Gen
eral Trochu TO the military command OF
Paris as one of the boldest steps yet taken
by Napoleon, the n. Y. World says: Gen.
Trochu is man of great military genius
and ability, who has been kept as far in
the back ground as his surprising abilities
would permit; because he has never given
his cordial support to the imperial govern
ment. He is neither a republican nor Q
royalist as such, but soldier who under
stands the principles of liberty sufficiently
to regard them as the sole foundation in
modern times of durable national strength
This the people Of Paris know. They look
upon him in the present crisis of the nation
, and the government as they looked upor
Cavagnac in the tremendous days OF June
| 1885, when Il provisrons' 1<kvernment fa
weaker and more incapable than the gov
eminent ofNapoleon trelbbled and hesitat
ed before an enemy More terrible thai
many Crown Princes an II king williams
In the event Of new disase ors to the Frencl
army, Trochu would pIost certainly pass
from the military goVcrument of Paris tc
the head of the nation. In the event Of
victory over the invaders, he will become
the irresistible standard bearer of "A really
free and responsible administration of the
| government