The New York herald., 1871-03-22
Paris and Fraucc-What Ncxf s-The
"Reds" or tho Empirc S-Annrchy or
N0sDOainua Q

''reds' has disappeared. Within the city's
walls they have unqualified ''liberty, equality
and fraternity" as they understand these
things, which means unbounded license,
debauchery and spoliation. Fresh barricades
have been erected the omnibuses have
stopped running traffic has ceased only
the cefas and drinking shops remain open;
the Police Commissioners have been arrested
again the fshwomen are in arms. General
Chanzy was so malreated by the mob that he
had to be sent to the hospital; the insurgents
have seized the funds of the city
in the Hotel de Vile and the Mayoral-
ties all the approaches to the city are
defended by the Nationals against the
national government the Jacobin juutas are
issuing numerous manifestoes they will shoot
even NJ Theirs if they catch him people are
leaving the city by thousands, citizens and
strangers, and so on, to the end of tae chapter
Of this most astounding and alarming red
republican Paris revolution. The only thing
respected or promised respect from the revo-
lutionary Central Committee is the treaty Of
peace with Germany, which they promise to
respect for the sake OF the republic, or, in other
words, because they have learned to entertain
a wholesome fear of the German armies
Such is the state of things in Paris. The
capital of France is under the control of
bowling mob, tAe elements of which have
nothing to lose and much to gain from the
overthrow of law, order and the rights of
property. These sub;erranean savages and
sans cutottes, brought to the surface, have
ordered an election in the several communes
to-day for new city administration, and no
doubt they viii carry it through to their
complete satisfaction. Meantime the National
Assembly and the executive government
of the nation, chosen by it, or from its
authority by NJ. Theirs as head of the State,
and the diplomatic corps are at Versailles
under the protection Of an army of twenty,
thirty or forty thousand men, commanded by
General Vinoy. Versailles resembles a camp;
but M. Theirs is hopeful and the Assembly is
firm. At its meeting on the Goth the ''reds"
belonging to the body were all absent. This
signifies, we apprehend, that their utimatum
is the overthrow of the Theirs government,
including the Assembly, and the substitution
of Jacobin establishment on the platform of
the guilotine.
The Assembly, on the other hand, in the
resolution adopted providing for the appoint
ment of committee to consider the condition
of France, and the necessity of placing the
Departments of the Seine and the Seine-et-
Oise in state of siege, has taken the proper
course for the exigency. The Paris 'reds,"
again, have called upon their partisans in the
provinces to act promptly; and it il possible
that in Lyons, Marselles, Bordeaux and Lille
where they are numerous enough to be auda-
brethren in Paris, and take possession in each
case of the city and all the public funds and
arms they can lay their hand, upon. In short,
this reign Of the reds in Paris must be speedily
suppressed, or anarchy, with all the horrors
of civil war, will soon prevail from the north
to the south of France, and law and order will
be limited 0 the Rhine provinces taken pos
session of by Germany, and to the champagne
districts, held as material guarantee by
the German armies for the payment of that in
demnity. Here we see the sagacity of Bis
marck and Won Moltke in the securities they
have exacted for the payment of said indem-
nifty within the stipulated time The money
must be forthcoming when due, or those cham
pagne districts will be apt to share the fate
Of Alsace aud the Vosges, of Strasbourg and
Metz.
There can be no doubt that if the Emperor
William were to say the word the Napoleonic
empire, under the protection of the French i'm
perial army from Germany, would be at once
reinstated. But the Emperor William does not
appear to be in the least degree concerned about
these revolutionary discords in France. Louis
Napoleon probably expects in month or two
to be recalled to the Tuieries as the only
alternative to France against general reign
of anarchy and political, industrial and
social ruin. The ssreds" in Paris are GER
tainly making better vindcation for
the empire than any that Napoleon
has given since he set out on that
disastrous journey to Berlin. 1t appears, too,
that the prisoners OF Metz and Sedan are offer
ing their services to the Theirs government,
which, even through NJ. Theirs, would seem to
offer chance for Napoleon. But those SOL
diers can do nothing else under the circum-
stances. Still, between Napoleon, Theirs and
those French imperial troops, there may be an
opening for the restoration of the empire
through another coup d'ftat but the odds
against such an experiment are SO very dis
couraging that we think it will hardly be
attempted.
The Germans, we are convinced, are per-
fecty indifferent concerning these internal dis
orders in France. They do not care whether
law and order are completely re-established
in or are completely driven out Of France.
Empire, monarchy or republic, anarchy or