Daring the week one great effort at compromise has been
made. The moderate party in the capital, the party which, distrusting the Reds, is still irritated by the "peasant government" of the last twenty years, has formed a Republican League and proposed terms to Versailles. The Government is to allow Paris the con- trol of her own police, her own finance, her own :clerical organization, and her own system of education, to place the garrison of the city in the hands of her National Guard, and to allow no troops to enter her walls. All functionaries and magistrates are to be elective. On the other hand; Paris is to furnish its con- tingent to the Army. M. Thiers at first rejected these terms, offering only an amnesty, and a continuance for some time of pay to the National Guards ; but in a circular of the 12th inst. he promises also an elective municipal representation and free manage- meat of civic affairs. As; however, he had just before compelled the Assembly, by a threat of resignation, to allow the Govern-
went to appoint the mayors in all towns with more than 20,000 inhabitants, this offer is considered insincere, and for the present negotiation may be said to have failed.
