NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IT is reported and believed in Paris that the Monarchists have secured their majority for the Comte de Chambord, he having in a letter, criticised elsewhere, repudiated privilege and the restoration of the ancien re-gime ; that the Assembly is to meet on the 13th inst., all the Secretaries being ordered up ; and that the Comte is about to visit Geneva, to be ready for the earliest sum- mons. The White Flag apparently is not to be given up, but if any resistance is made is, according to M. Veuillot, to take the colour of blood, and keep it. M. Thiers has gone to Paris, to be ready for all contingencies, and everywhere the Radicals are excited and uneasy. It is believed that the moment the vote is carried and transmitted to the King, he will appoint Marshal Maclia.hon Lieutenant-General, with absolute powers, and travel up to Paris as rapidly as he can. These rumours look most serious, but there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, and these Bourbons usually make it. They have, however, one advantage this time. Paris, their grand enemy, instead of quietly winning over her garrison, has allowed a silly spirit of revenge to tempt her into assassinating individual sous-officiers, the very men Whose fraternisation would have enabled her to put her veto on the coup (Fatal. So far as appearances go, only Marshal IfacMahon, or the Comte himself, who is going to issue another manifesto, can now prevent France from destroying her third Republic.
