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The latest rumours about the situation are that the Germans

are concentrating to march on Paris and storm it, that is, to lose `20,000 men in doing M. Thiers' work ; that the Assembly is dis- contented with M. Thiers, which is probable ; and that it proposes the moment Paris falls to declare the Comte de Chambord King rof France. We have given elsewhere some reasons for thinking the Bourbon one of the most formidable of the Pretenders, but for the immediate future the name rising highest is that of M. Grevy, President of the Chamber. He is fifty-eight, a determined Republican, and though little known out of France, has given proof of statesmanlike capacity. Except M. Rouher, he is per- haps the one man in France who thoroughly understands how to direct a majority in an Assembly.

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