Paris is full of rumours about M. Gambetta. According to
the Debuts, the Figaro, the Parisian correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, and, though guardedly, the correspondent of the Times, he contemplates a coup d'elat against the Government and the Assembly, to be carried out by the soldiers of the new army, who are terribly discontented. The bruit is almost as strong as in 1851, and the M. Thiers is implored to interfere before it is too late. If M. Gambetta contemplated such a blow, it is towards the American form of government, a free executive and a free Assembly, that he would probably look ; but we suspect much of all this gossip is intended only to discredit him. The soldiers gave their votes for him, but officers of the old Army command in Paris and Lyons, the Germans are still in France, and failure might bring on irreparable misfortunes. Still, note the way in which, out of every discussion, in the Press, in the streets, in the Assembly, this single figure, the bourgeois Cavour, always emerges. And note also that Gambetta knows of dictatorships which were not Ceasarist.
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