On Wednesday the Times published a telegram and an article
announcing that M. Jules Fevre had offered to the Emperor at Versailles terms of capitulation for Paris. These, it was stated, included permission for the garrison to march out with all the honours of war, which the Times interpreted to mean as free men, and not prisoners. No confirmation of the news arrived on t t day, and a report was spread that M. Jules Favre was comi to London. Even yet there is uncertainty that the news waS correct, the German chiefs concealing all details of the negotiations, pro- bably with a view to dramatic effect in Germany. The balance of evidence tends to show, however, that Jules Fevre reached Versailles on Tuesday to open negotiations for the surrender of Paris,—not for-peae,e ;—that he then returned to the city to con- sult his colleagues, and that he is now in Versailles again. No- thing whatever of the German terms is known, but it is probable they will resemble those of Metz, and orders have been issued to pre- pare in Germany for 300,000 more prisoners. This will bring the total number up to 600,000 men, nearly as many. as the levee en masse in Belgium.
