If the statement made so circumstantially by the Times' corre-
spondent in Paris be true, that M. Timaschef, the Russian Minister of the Interior, privately qualified the congratulations he had formerly addressed to M. Thiers, and warned him that if M. Gambetta made France a focus of revolution, it would be necessary for external powers "to smother the flames,"— then there is already something like a new Holy Alliance formed, which must have owed its origin, we suppose, to the meeting of Emperors at Berlin. Have these monarchs Teally not learned enough by the great French Revolution to be aware that the invasion of France at that time stimulated instead of controlling the democratic fury of the people ? Of course these powers, if united, can crush France again when they please, but to crush the spirit of revolution there they must -occupy and rule the country, for the mere threat, to say nothing of the attempt to execute it, would do more to fan the revolutionary spirit than a thousand Gambettas. But probably the significance sof M. Timaschef's remarks has been greatly exaggerated.
