He says that between the first and the second of these two ultimatums there is a vast difference, and he exhorts the Government to stand by the first, but not to refuse peace if it can be obtained by the dismantling of Metz and Strasburg.

The _Temps_ of this evening takes the same view of the proclamation.

The ultra Republican journals, on the other hand, support the policy of the Government.

M.Felix Pyat, in his organ, _Le Combat_, urges war to the death, and proposes that we should at once have Spartan banquets, at which rich and poor should fare alike.

A proposal has been made to start a national subscription for a musket of honour to be given to the man who shoots the King of Prussia.