The _Figaro_, in fact, hints that in all probability peace will be signed at Berlin at no very distant date.

The _Gaulois_, a comparatively sensible newspaper, thus deals with this aerial voyage:--"As the balloon passed above the Prussian armies, amid the clouds and the birds, the old William probably turned to Bismarck and asked, 'What is that black point in the sky ?' 'It is a Minister,' replied Bismarck; 'it is the heroic Gambetta, on his way to the Loire.

In Paris he named prefects; on the Loire he will assemble battalions.' Favourable winds wafted the balloon on her course; perhaps Gambetta landed at Cahors, his natal town, perhaps somewhere else--perhaps in the arms of Cremieux, that aged lion.

To-morrow the provinces will resound with his voice, which will mingle with the rattling of arms and the sound of drums.

Like a trumpet, it will peal along the Loire, inflaming hearts, forming battalions, and causing the manes of St.Just and Desmoulins to rise from their graves." Yesterday a battalion of the National Guard was drawn up before the Hotel de Ville, but there was no demonstration of the Ultras.