M. There and the Assembly are again at variance, this
time about the question of indemnity to the districts ravaged by the war. The majority of the Assembly maintain that persons in- jured by the war have a right to full indemnity, and indignantly reject a grant, as being merely alms. M. Buffet was immensely applauded when he made this point, so much so that M. Thieve told the Assembly it was full of unreasonable passions, that he must protect the Treasury, and that the right to claim would cost France £40,000,000 sterling. A compromise was at last arrived at, by which the poor are to be paid and the rich not ; but it has left a very bitter feeling in the Assembly.' M. Thiers seems to be right, for why should a man of Champagne be paid for having his house burned, while a Lyonnese is not paid for losing his trade ; but compensation would tend to encourage the peasantry to resist.
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