NEWS OF THE WEEK.
"UP to Friday night the hope of peace was still but faint ; and
as nearly as we can gather, affairs stood thus. The Repub- lican Government, recognizing the defeat of the Army of France, is willing to make great concessions, to pay a large indemnity, to cede ironclads, and to dismantle permanently all fortifications between Germany and the line of the Moselle, but is determined not to make any territorial cession. The King, on the other hand, whether resolved to claim such cession or not, is apparently resolved not to announce his final resolution until he has been admitted into Paris, and resists mediation with some acerbity. Negotiations, therefore, are sterile, and will probably remain so until the Germans and French have tested the strength of Paris, and the resolution of the people to endure all rather than surrender any portion of the soil of France.
