Reports of German interference have been rife throughout the week.
The only official account of their intentions is, however, contained in a speech delivered by Jules Fevre to the Assembly on Wednesday. He informed the members that the German Chan- cellor saw in the disorders evidence that the Convention would not be fulfilled, and had resolved if they were not suppressed to treat Paris as an enemy, bombarding her from the forts still occupied. M. Jules Fevre had replied that the movement would be sup- pressed, if not to-day or to-morrow, still immediately. The reading of the despatch caused immense excitement, but M. Fevre followed it by a statement that from a confidential letter he had received he understood the measures announced to be only threats, so that the wretched sacrifice of dignity involved in reading the letter was made without effect. It does not seem probable that the Emperor will sanction an interference for which he has no ground, which would cost him thousands of men, and which might call Gambetta from his retirement to renew the war. M. Thiers must do his own work, er resign his authority to stronger hands.
