3 OCTOBER 1874, Page 1

M. Thiers made a remarkable speech to the inhabitants of

Grenoble last Sunday, in answer to a complimentary address from them. He declared that he could never have put down the Commune except in the name of the Republic, so determined were the other great cities of France to help Paris against any Monarchical conspiracy got up under the mask of a love of Order. He pointed out that a Mon- archical restoration must have been impossible in his hands, since it had proved to be impossible in the hands of those who took office on purpose to bring it about if it were anyway pos- sible. And he exhorted the people of Grenoble as French citizens, since it was impossible to set up a durable throne, to make the best they could of the situation, by setting up instead a durable Republic. So far was Europe from feeling the suspicion and dread of such a Republic which she would have felt in 1815, that Europe had done all in its power to strengthen him (M. Thiers) as Chief of the Republic. Europe misunderstands France no longer. She has no wish to interfere in her internal affairs, but honestly wishes to see that form of Government established which is likely to be most stable ; and in France only one could be stable, namely, the one which even the adherents of the Monarchy have been forced, against their will, to accept. Nothing could be better sense. And, moreover, it is sense that is making its way in France.