The New York herald., 1871-02-28
Strenuous Efforts OF Theirs to
Save Metz.
He Offers $720,O00,000 fol-
the City.
TslscaAMs TO TINE NEW YORK HERALD.


God l inform you that the preliminaries Of
peace have been signed. The Bordeaux AS
sembly must yet ratify them.
WILHELM.
They Were Accepted-The Reds Demand
the Surrender Of Napoleon.
LONDON, Feb. 27, 1871.
have received the following despatch from
the New YORK HERALD correspondent at
Versailles, dated on Saturday night last.
Your correspondent says
PEACE.
Peace has been virtually concluded. The
ratification of NJ Thiers' engagements by the
Consultative Commission of the National AS
sembly has probably arrived here already,
and is in the hands of the Emperor William.
TEE TERMS.
By the negotiations Germany gains all the
points she has contended for. She retains
Metz and the German army enters Paris.
of nominally two milliards Of thalers
($l, $40, 900, ,00O), but actually of not more
than one and a quarter milliard of thalers
$4,000, 900, ,OoO).
THE CONDITION OF FRANCE.
When the official report of the conditions
agreed upon by Theirs, Favre and Bismarck
was submitted to the Consultative Commits
sion Of the National Assembly, the actual
condition of France-political financial, COM
mercial and military-materially aided M.
Thiers in achieving his momentous task. His
exhibit of the affairs of the country revealed
state of disaster so terrible as to crush all
aspirations for further resistance. The sec
night, drawing out the terms and arranging
for the indemnity
QUEER DEMAND.
The French radicals demand, as set-off
for concluding treaty of peace, that Ger
many surrender the ex-Emperor Napoleon to
the French government for trial. They also
demand the surrender of the Generaissimo of
the Army of the Rhine.
Bordeaux Informed-The Terms-Tryiug to
save NIetz-An Offer to Syvap--i3ismarcis's
Cruel Tcrms-Eoreign Intervention-Grea
Enthu stasm in Berlin.
LONDON, Feb. 81, 1871.
am enabled to report the following in
teligence from France to the NEW YORK
HERALD -
BORDEAUX INFORMED.
A telegram from Bordeaux dated yester-
day reports that an official despatch from
| Paris to the government states that the pre-
| liminaries Of peace have been signed.
| M. Theirs was expected to arrive in Bordeaux
to-day Monday).
THE PEACE TERMS
! A despatch from Paris Of to-day's date says
that the preliminaries of peace were signed
| yesterday at half-past five o'clock P. NJ.
]! France cedes Alsace and Metz. Belfort is
retained. The war indemnity is fixed at five
millards Of francs, for the payment Of which
three years time is granted, the Germans to
hold the fortresses until it is paid.
| The armistice is prolonged week. The
Germans enter Paris Immediately.
| TRYING TO SAVE METZ.
| II is stated that M. Theirs offered on thu
part Of France another milliard of thalers to
be allowed to keep Metz, but that Coun
| Bismarck refused the Offer
OFFER TO SWAP.
The London Telegraph Of to-day has q de-
spatch from Versailles of the 26tb, which saws
NJ. Theirs proposed the purchase of Luxem.
bourg by France and to transfer it TO Germany
if Metz were restored to France.
BIsMAEcK's CRUEL TERMS.
The Journal des Df5ass, of Paris, com
ments on the cruel terms of peace imposed or
France, and says Theirs and Favre wer,
/. several times on the point of breaking OF
negotiations at the risk of tho resumption 0
hostilities, and yielded only to dire necessity
Bismarck at first demanded an indemnity 0
| ten milliards Of francs, and it was reduced {,
the sum finally agreed upon only by the mos
| strenuous exertions.
| FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
The Cologne Gazette says the signature o