The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 8, 1871. THE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 107, 8 May 1871, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 8, 1871. THE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

o The appetite of the French for bloodshed appears to have been sharpened rather than allayed by the events of the last eight months. Not satisfied with the flower of the nation destroyed by thousands and tens of thousands by Prussian bullets, they have now commenced lighting among themselves, and we are told that a single battle between the insurgents and the Government troopß re- , suited in a loss of 12,000 men killed, wpunded, and missing. It is truly a nation divided against /itself, and by the latest advices it wouW appear that Paris Was experiencing anotner Reign of Terror •which is only likely tojjkcut short by the occupation of the city oyTrussian troops. The telegrams arie\ jjo fragmentary and „ contradictory; th'ayMs exceedingly, difficult to understand the real position of affairs j this, however, is quite "clear, that ; ' 'ihe Republican form of Government;* as at .'Ppresent: constituted fails to meet with approval of the masses, aud that the nation* has yet to pass through a terrible ordeal

before the existing state of anarchy gives place to one of peace aud quietude. It is rumored, and the rumor appears to have about it an air of probability, that the disturbances are fostered, if they were not created, by the friends of Louis Napoleon with the idea that, as on previous occasions, so at the present time, the deeper the sea of blood through which he has to wade the more will he be in his element, and the greater his chance of success in any attempt he may once more make to land himself on the Imperial throne. Whether or not France will be willing to reward his recent heroic, though unsuccessful, endeavors to die on the field of battle by once iriore hailing him as Emperor, remains yet to be seen. New Zealand, it appears, is now fairly committed to the huge borrowing scheme propounded in the last session of the Assembly, Mr. Yogel having succeeded in raising a million and a quarter upon moderately easy terms. It only remains now for our representatives to enter with spirit into the scramble which must inevitably take place, and to take care that Nelson has ensured to her that amount of prosperity which may fairly bo looked for during the time that the money is being spent. When the loans are expeuded, and our reminiscences of them are pleasantly kept alive by the half-yearly demands for interest — but we must not look too far into the future, for no colonial statesman would be guilty of such -an act. of folly in these days, if he wished for popularity. " Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," is an excellent motto, and one that is frequently adopted by those who do not give in their adhesion to the whole of the doctrines of the New Testament.