We are asked our opinion respecting it.

Before answering, we feel an irresistible impulse to take off our hat and to cry 'Vive la France.'" The _Electeur Libre_ is still more enraptured with the situation.

It particularly admires the petroleum lamp, so different, it says, to those orgies of light, which under the tyrant, in the form of gas, gave a fictitious vitality to Paris.

The _Combat_ points out that no fires have broken out since September 4--a coincidence which is ascribed to the existence since that date of a Republican form of government.

I recommend this curious phenomenon to insurance companies.
The newspapers, one and all, are furious, because they hear that the Prussians contest our two victories at Villiers.