4 MAY 1872, Page 2

It is believed in the City that M. Thiers has

obtained assurances, that if the indemnity were paid France would be evacuated, and that a very heavy French loan is at hand. The time is unfavour- able for such an operation, if foreign countries are to be asked to assist ; but there is no fixing a limit to the sum which could be raised in France itself, where the peasantry, so far from being

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