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Show There are said to be two governments govern-ments in Paris, one military the other provisional, and the latter satisfies nobody, no-body, but is accepted and tolerated by everybody. The new English ironclad turret ship Hotspur has just concluded a Miceefs-ful Miceefs-ful trial trip, which was watched with much interest, owing to the recent loss of the Captain. James Brooks, of the ways and means committee, says the reduction in taxes is not so much by thirty or forty millions as the Democrats would have made if in power; and the reduction reduc-tion in tariff has been in thc interest of capital rather than of labor. The district attorney of Philadelphia has been instructed from the treasury department to appeal all cases involved in the late decision of Judge Strong to the Supreme Court of the United States. The French design to concentrate all the young regiments in their southern towns in one place, and to defend no open towns in the north, but only those which are strongly fortified. When well drilled the southern army will march on Paris against the Prussians. Prus-sians. The Paris association of working-men working-men demanded of the government the transl'er of the police to the municipal government, thc abrogation of every law and decree interfering with absolute abso-lute freedom of speech or press, and a levy en masse of all Frenchmen without with-out exception for the national defence. The government refused. - |