NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Daily Telegraph on Thursday published an article, and on Friday a letter, avowedly inspired by the German Government. Their writers affirm that the revival of France is regarded in 'Germany with a dissatisfaction amounting to alarm, that M. 'Thiers' language is considered almost menacing, and that within a fortnight explanations will be demanded from the Government at Versailles. It is hinted that should these explanations not be -satisfactory the war will recommence, and France, if defeated, reduced to her dimensions under Louis XI.,—dimensions, we may observe, greater than those of Prussia before Sadowa. We pre- isume these threats are only put forward to influence opinion in France, as, otherwise, they would not have been forwarded to an English newspaper; but it is obvious that there is some uneasiness at Berlin, where, as in England, it is believed that M. Thiers has not given up the hope of recovering Alsace and Lor- mine. This hope, indeed, has been explicitly mentioned by M. ,Gambetta in a speech at Angers, where he said that France "had seither lost nor ceded" her two provinces. As we have tried -elsewhere to show, the probabilities of peace depend entirely upon M. Thiers, whose power, of course, will be enormously increased in France by all these indications of alarm.
