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The future is quite dim, but Garibaldi has written from

Caprera advising the Commune to appoint a Dictator, and this advice will probably be accepted, after the great review in the Champ de Mars ordered for Sunday. It is not impossible that the Assembly on its side will pursue a similar course, either re- moving M. Thiers in favour of a stronger man, or proclaiming a Lieutenant-General of the kingdom. The Germans, for their part, are as yet silent, Prince Bismarck merely threatening in the Reichstag that if he intervenes in order to compel the observance of the Treaty, the intervention will be as decided as the war has been. Orders, however, are said to have been issued to keep 200,000 men in readiness for a march on Paris, where it must not be forgotten the Germans still hold St. Denis.

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