M. Thiers is evidently disinclined to trust his Assembly. He
%as already found it necessary to say he will never do anything -contrary to its sovereignty, and he is, we suspect, dallying with the Montmartre insurgents, from a fear that if he crushes them the Assembly will avow its sentiments and create a monarchy at -once. The Assembly is already unpopular, being accused of dis- -order, love of debate, and monarchical preferences, and certainly its deliberations are not dignified. As yet, however, the parties have-not leaders, and are coerced by the belief that if M. Thiers resigned there would be no one to conduct the negotiations with the Germans, or to raise the necessary resources, or to hold the Reds in check. Failing a feeble man of 74, there is literally no man in France to whom the majority could turn with a certainty of ob- taining guidance of any kind. They would go with a rush for monarchy, in order to be protected against themselves.
