Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-02-25


AFFAIRS IN EURopE-From files of the Sacra-
mento Union, received during the past week, we
make the following extracts
The Germans have, it is said, levied fines
amounting to S., 200, 900 on the Department of
the Seine Inferieure, from the outside of Paris
to Dieppe. On the leth inst, the Emperor of
Germany, at the head of his army, is to march
through Paris, and if the French accept the prof
fered terms of peace (known only to Favre, Bis
marck and the Emperor) then the Emperor will
in few days return to Berlin, while his armies
will occupy parts of France till the indemnity is
paid.
The abundance of provisions recently sent to
Paris has caused prices to fall to a low figure.
The Provisional rulers are accused of vile spec
uiations whilst in office in the matter of con-
tracts.
There are rumors of an expected uprising in
Paris. Since the mob there has filled its belly
with the ample supplies sent in by the Germans
and the English, they protest against the march
of the German army through the capital and
threaten resistance.
The armistice has been officially extended one
week-that is to the 26th of this month.
1t is now believed that two-thirds of the Ma
tional Assembly elect Monarchsts. The
Orleanists claim majority over all. The Bona
partists are very weak.
Warlike preparations going on in the south
of France induce Bismarck to cut short his ex-
tension of the armistice to only five days. The
capitulation of Belfort is complete. dispatch
from Bordeaux says a caucus Of the majority of
the National Assembly on the night of the 18th
settled upon a Provisional Government with
Theirs as President, Favre as Prime Minister,
the Duke of de Chartres as Minister of Foreign
Affairs, with Simon, Picard and Buffet awarded
other cabinet positions. After peace is declared
the Assembly and Provisional Government will
adjourn to Paris and there make a constitC-
of France. Grievy was elected President of the
Assembly, receiving 519 out of 538 votes cast.
On the 9Th of March the Emperor of Germany,
accompanied by the Sovereigns of the States
which compose the Empire, is to make his grand
entry into Berlin, where arrangements are max
ing to receive him in a style becoming so great
an event as the creation of the German Empire.
French prisoners in Germany are petitioning
the National Assembly to submit the question
whether France shall be monarchy or a repub-
lie to vote of the people.
We have this as the latest statement of the
terms of peace which Germany will accept: The
cesson sof Alsace and Lorraine, with part of
the Department of Doubs, one and a-half million
thalers moneyed indemnity, France to keep her
feet and colonies intact, Germany to keep all
the war material her armies have captured. I'VE
think for one and a-half million, the dispatch
should read one hundred and fifty million tha-
lers.
The election of Theirs as Chief executive OF
France has been officially communicated to the
State Department at Washington. Favre re-
mains Prime Minister.
There is violent movement in the National
Assembly against the cession of Alsace and Lor-
raine. 1t threatens a renewal of the war or a
revolution in France against the Government
that consents to cession. 1t is said the Paris
delegates will withdraw in case the cession is
agreed to.
England has formally recognized the new
Government of France.
The German authorities have notified Napo-
leon that he must not again overstep the prv-
leges of a prisoner by issuing any protest or
proclamation, or taking part in the politics of
France. This is because of his late impudent
letter to the French people, which was intended
to weaken their confidence in any form of gov
ernment that may be established, unless it is the
Empire or Regency.