NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A LL kinds of rumours have been in circulation this week 11. about a project of M. Thiers to hasten the evacuation 'of French territory. According to the demi-official telegrams, the last payment is not to be made till the end of 1874, "but this is not a direct contradiction of the reports current. According to these a loan of £40,000,000 will be raised :and paid at once, and a syndicate of bankers, with the Rothschilds at their head, will guarantee the payment of the .remaining /80,000,000 by December, 1874. The guarantee is to be accepted as cash, and the Germans to retire from all occupied places except Belfort, which will be held till the guarantee is realised. All that is certain, however, is that M. Thiers has pro- posed to certain great bankers a very large operation which will hasten the retirement of Germany from France.
