The French Chambers reassembled on Thursday, but no message was
received from Government, which has given no sign beyond calling out the Reserves of 1865 and 1866 for "drill," and the Reserves of '61, '62, '63, and '64 for "inspection," horsing 200 batteries of irtillery, increasing the bounty for sailors, and causing the Constitutionnel to state that Luxemburg would, if consulted, "vote with enthusiasm for reunion to France ;" that the Emperor has, nevertheless, laid aside his claim, that the question has thus become European, but that France, though desiring peace, "does not fear war, if—which God forbid !—she should be unjustly pro- voked into it." Emperors, it must not be forgotten, always are " unjustly provoked" to war, particularly when their subjects urge them not to give way, as is at present the case in France. There all classes seem to have made up their minds that Prussia is "insolent," and to believe that France, if she fights, is certain of victory.
