Year: 1870

But little of interest has transpired during the
past week and the bellgerents are no nearer a
peace now than they were fortnight ago. The
Bismarck -Favre conference appears to have re-
suited in very little good, owing to the fact that
the Paris authorities will not sanction any reas-
enable terms The Paris mob have already done
considerable damage both to person and property
in that city, and everything appears to be tu-
multi and confusion within French lines. 1t is
seriously thought that the Favre Ministry will
soon go by the board, and in that event it is hard
to tell what will happen next. In the meantime
the Germans forces have Paris completely sur
rounded and all communication between that
city and the outside world is reported to be cut
off, except by way of Berlin Our readers will
probably get good idea how matters stand and
the miserable dissensons among the French peo-
pie from perusal of the following article from
the Sacramento Union:


week or two sooner than we expected it the
Paris mob inhamed by the tinkering statesman
ship of such impractcables as Victor and Charles
Hugo, has turned hand 30 the assistance of the
Germans who are beleaguering the city The
extent of moral and physical damage done so far
is not made known at the moment we write this.
We only know that the African troops who be-
haved so cowardly before the enemy in the late
battle at Meudon woods, outside of the walls
and whom it was proposed TO shoot for coward
! ice, have been brought over to the side of the
counter revolationists in numbers sufficient to
cause n sharp conflict with the better sort o
French soldiers commanded by Trochu and
that the environs of the city in the south and
east have been laid in ruins. This is but the
beginning. The end is not hard to forecast
The Favre government has no hold upon any
class The shop-keepers can have no confidence
in its ability to conclude peace that will satisfy
the King of Prussia, because it started out by
planting itself upon the theory that the Republic
is not responsible in damages for the acts of thu
Empire, which is wholly inadmissable by thu
Germans. The " Reds" never satisfied fol
Il single hour after the first excitement which
followed the overflow of the Regency and thu
Imperial Cabinet. Lyons, Marseiles and tht
other large cities Of the south and southwest


are clearly in aiation with the extremists anC
the signs that the Favre Ministry will go by
the board very shortly. What next2 is a diff


cult question to answer. The best to be expected
is at least resolve to sacrifice Paris useessly


and in the course of events within the city, ther,
is danger of another reign of prescription an(
the guillotine, from which the sole hope of re


lief now visible is the German army, with what


ever terms of peace it may please Bismarck tC
offer. These mad leaders of the mob are the
men who stand in the way of peace. But fol
them Favre might have taken the only course
which can Induce the recognition of the Repub


lie by Germany and guarantee the least chance
of its existence as permanent government. j


the Empire is restored or the Orleanists, these
are the men who will make the restoration nee


essary, both to secure order in Paris and any


thing like justice to the Germans.