NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2580, 25 May 1871, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

One of the stems told of the Par's siege is that Baron Rothschild, tiring of rat, vainly offered 100 dollars for a pheasant. He was forced to take 50 sparrows instead, for a pot-pie, at two dollars each. The immediate financial future of France is, of course, obscure According to all accounts, immense efforts will be made to pay the indemnity rapidly, and so get rid of the Germans. It is believed that the first milliard will be raised in a month, and that the remainder will be collected in .about 18 months more, the cities and communes pledging their credit as well as I ranee. Ihe indemnity has not alarmed ’Change, where all French securities have gone up ; but it has created a small panic among merchants, •who have borrowed 44 millions of the Bank, placing moat of it to deposit account, and causing the directors to raise the Bank rate to 3 per cent. It will go higher yet, as the peace, besides creating a great demand for cash on French account, will set French industry free. The Emperor of Germany has addressed the following telegram to Czar Alexander, and the Czar has published it with his reply. The telegram, which is dated 27th February, states the terms of peace, and concludes ; *.‘We have thus arrived at the end of the glorious and bloody war which has been forced upon us by the frivolityof the hj rench, Prussia will never forget that she owes it to you that the war did not enter upon extreme dimensions. May G,. d bless you for it. Yours till death.” Th,e Czar, in his reply, says :“ I share your joy.” It should not be forgotten that the writers stand to each other in the relation of uncle and nephew, but the words employed suggest alliance as well as relationship. There is a promise in “Prussia will never forget,” and the nature of that promise may yet bo revealed in the East. The Principalities are ruled by a Hohenzollern very weary of his throne.