Death is busy with the French heroes of 1870. Gambetta
was still unburied when, on the 4th inst., General Chanzy sud- denly expired from apoplexy at Chilons, where he held a divisional command. He was hardly fifty, and might have expected ten more years of active life. Though selected by Gambetta for command, and willing to accept a Republic, General Chanzy is believed to have had strong monarchical and especially Orleanist proclivities, doubting whether a Republic would ever secure public order. He was watched with some suspicion, and there was a great desire to shunt him into civil life, as Governor-General of Algeria, or as an Ambassador. Nevertheless, the Government, recollecting his share in the National Defence, ordered him a public funeral. The Parisians ask whether Prince Bismarck has bribed Death, that Skobeleff, Gambetta, and Chanzy should all pass away before himself.
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