There has been rie UOWS from France this week, except
that the Alsace Cleatoms' Treaty is not yet signed, that M. Pouyer- Qaartier has gone to Berlin to try and remove the difficulties which exist ; that at Lyons, General Bourbaki has adopted strong measures to repress the riots against German residents,—on the stringent demand of the German Government to that effect,— and that people have been talking of Napoleonist reaction be- cause they have had nothing else to talk about. The elections for the Conseils d'Etat seem likely to pass off very torpidly, and to show a vast number of " abstentions " from the poll. The great calamity in France is that there are hardly any causes, Radical or Conservative, in which the people at large take any real interest, and hardly any leaders in whom they feel the least trust, if any at all for whom they feel the least enthusiasm or love.
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