NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE accounts transmitted from Paris of the monetary crisis there are not very intelligible, but this much at least is clear. Paper ihas been issued so fast that its value, as compared with coin, has begun to fluctuate, and goods cannot be paid for in bills drawn on Paris because the merchant does not know what he is to get. More- -over, a considerable part of the silver coin has been actually sent to Germany, and another portion hoarded, so that there is a :scarcity of small change most detrimental to business. The 'Government is averse to issuing small notes, but it is believed that the pressure will before long be irresistible. The monetary crisis aggravates difficulties already serious, for works of reconstruction are suspended, trade is dull, and foreigners will not visit Paris till security is more perfect, so that thousands of workmen are now .:standing out of employ, and threatening riots, which are, however, under the state of siege, out of the question.
