NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PARIS has fallen. The rumours of last Friday week were correct, and on the 28th of January M. Jules Fevre signed a written agreement with Count Bismarck covering a good deal more ground than the mere surrender of Paris. By the terms of this document, which contains fifteen clauses, the Government of the National Defence surrendered all the Paris forts, with their materiel of war, disarmed the enceinte, and gave up the soldiers' arms, and submitted to a municipal requisition of eight millions sterling. On the other hand, the Germans per- mitted the National Guard to retain their arms, " for the preservation of order," and refrained from demanding en- trance into the city. The French authorities fiirther consented to a general armistice to begin in Paris at once, and in the Depart- ments on February 1. A line of demarcation between the armies was marked out, but the three departments occupied by Boar- baki's army and its assailants were reserved till further informa- tion had been received. The agreement was immediately tele- graphed over France, was carried out with military regularity in the forts, and has been accepted by every General within French territory, the Army of the East excluded.
