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Show THE SITUATION IV FRANCE. . The condition o; Trance to-day is terrible. In proclaiming a republic, ghe has chosen the men worst qualified to preside over her destinies. Roche-fort, Roche-fort, Keratry, Gauibetti, and others of the Robespierre and Marat stripe, now hold the foremost place in France. They are extremists of (he very worst class, men who care more for the gratification grat-ification of personal feeling and ambition ambi-tion than for the welfare of the country. coun-try. Thiers is not named among those who form the provisional government. He, the wisest of them all, who point-put point-put the madness cf the war; who showed show-ed how Germany was ready and Franca was not ; who best understood why Napoleon Na-poleon plunged into so wild an enterprise enter-prise he is unnamed among those to whom the destinies of France are intrusted. in-trusted. Neighboring monarchies have complimented com-plimented France on the establishment of a republic, but there is evidently little honesty in their so doing. There is danger to every crowned head in Europe in the step France lias taken. Every nation on that continent has the elements of republicanism in it. Russia Rus-sia has her Poland ; Austria her Dalmatian Dal-matian provinces: Italy her Mazzinists; England her Fenians ; Spain her republicans re-publicans and Carlists all, in fact, only waiting a chance to provoke war and bloodshed. In view of the present grave situation situa-tion of affairs in Europe, the action of France is doubly grave. The brain that for over twenty years has controlled control-led the fiery and impetuous people of that bright land, has yielded its power and has been discarded by the nation. Tae most unreasoning, most extreme and most desperate of the leading sprits of the nation now hold the helm of state. Republicanism will not long hold in Paris, but it may hold long enough to make Europe a scene" of anarchy and a sea of bloodshed. We can only watch and wait for future developments, as the wires bring us word of paising events. Bat to-diy the situation in Europe is graver than it has bec-n for half a century not even forgetting the memorable ' '43," when revolution made itself fe'.t from the Asiatic frontier to the Atlantic. |