We print in another column an important communication. At the
end of a chatty letter about the tone of Paris, "R. II. IL," who we need not say is no "interviewing reporter," gives us M. Gambetta's programme, hot from his own mouth, and with his own consent. It may not of course be true, though Gambetta is no trickster, but it contains at least the view he desires to give to the world. It is briefly, that the Republicans' game is won in France ; that the army, some great officers excepted, is heartily Republican ; that the peasantry is Republican ; that the Assembly, therefore, will be Republican, and that consequently he, a Repub- lican before all things, will strike no coup d'citat, but wait the in- evitable end. Nor will he call. on France to renew the war with Germany. That may come, nay, must come ; but it must be pre- ceded by thorough reorganization, civil and military, and then be postponed until some new combination in Europe gives France once more her opportunity. Ali this is dependant, of course, on Germany not irritating France to madness by interfering in her private affairs.
