The New York herald., 1871-03-27

Latest Phase Of the Rouge X ebelIion in
Frnnce-Has the Versailles Government
Backed Downs
1t Is difficult matter to decide whether the
dispatches from Paris, which we publish this
morning, indicate backdown on the part of
the Versailles government or a maintenance of
the insurrecti0nary attitude Of the red repub-
licans; but 1t looks very much as If M. Theirs
has yielded. The gist Of the news is to the
effect that the insurgent committee, Paris
Deputies to the National Assembly and the re-
instated Mayors had issued q proclamation
agreeing to the holding of the communal cleo
tons. These were held yesterday, in accord
ance with the agreement, and, whether the
vote was light or heavy, the persons elected
will, we presume, be installed into Office to-
have gained their point. That they regard
themselves az victors in this struggle with
the government will be seen in the fact
that the insurgent Central Republican Com
mittee yesterday resigned their functions
and yielded to the newly elected municipal
authorize them TO elect a commander of the
National Guards, and they will become
absolute masters of the situation. Was the
election held yesterday authorized by the gov
ernment of NJ. Theirs? Ii it was, what will
be the effect upon the people of the provinces,
who regard the reds with aversion? We are
inclined to believe that if NJ. Thiers has con-
sented to q compromise with the Paris mob he
has made fatal blunder. He will have trans
ferred the responsibility Of the recent bloody
slaughter from their shoulders to his, because
he could have prevented the uprising by yield
ing to the demands of the insurgents at the
very start. Compromise now is a confession
Of weakness and an incentive to yet further
demands. Already the insurgent official jour-
nal has published an article which declares il
rights that an army shall be organized COM
posed exclusively of the National Guards
Probably NJ. Theirs will urge, in defence of
his course, that compromise (lf he has compro-
mised) was necessary to avert the effusion
Of blood. We grant it but what real benefits
u
expense of stability? For is it not evident
that if the government finds itself compelled to
parley with insurgents now, it will find it more
difficult than ever to consolidate its power
when confronted by the more serious dangers,
so highly probable, of revolutionary move
ments in behalf Of the Bonaparte dynasty !?
We must not forget that in his recent letter to
NJ. Grfyy, Napoleon closed by declaring that
he would submit to the will Of the people freely
expressed, and to that alone Whether NJ
Theirs disbands or reorganizes the four hun
dred thousand imperial soldiers now on their
return from Germany they still constitute a
revolutionary element in France, which he will
find it more difficult than the Paris mob to deal
with.
In commenting on the probable compromise
we still bear in mind the declarations of the
iEsurgent committee, as made by them
yesterday. They assert that they organized
originally because they had obtained ''oyer-
whelming evidence that NJ Theirs was con-
spring with Bismarck to overthrow the re-
public. They charge Theirs with causing the
IcNOt Wy dttaChiHS MoutiuaTtTe, uVOW tncir
purpose to establish communal republic.
declare all the acts of the Versailles govern
ment null and void and threaten to execute
Generals Ducrot and Trochu, if they catch
those officers. If we are to accept these
declarations as embodying the determination
Of the Paris insurgents, they destroy the sup
position that compromise has been effected.
At the same time it must be said that
they do not agree with the report that
the insurgents have evacuated certain points
in the city held by them, and the renewed
confidence felt by the people that conflict
has been averted. In addition the restoration
Of order in Lyons and the arrest in Havre of
Lavalle!te and other insurgent agents are
events unfayorable for the cause of the Paris
rebels, who cannot hope for final success,
unless aided by uprisngs in the principal
cities
From the general tenor of the dispatches
we must conclude that the situation in France
continues muddled. N. Thicrs' government
and the insurgent Republican Committee
seem oiike wayering and irresolute. Iudead.