3 DECEMBER 1870, Page 3

A correspondent at Tours tells a good story of M.

Gambetta. His colleague, Glais-Bizoin, recently had a fit either of cold de- pression or hot constitutionalism, insisted that an Assembly should be summoned, and declared that he would go to Versailles and there pray for an armistice. The worthy man, who is slightly eccentric, chooses to wear a white hat, and on his expressing his resolve to M. Gambetta, was met and suppressed by the quiet remark, " Well, you can't possibly go in that hat." Frenchmen can take hints, and M. Glais-Bizoin, seeing at once that he would be arrested if he did go, stopped in Tours, and bought a black hat instead. M. Gambetta has not brought all the Generals of the Republic into order to be bothered by M. Glais-Bizoin.