Thiers as Chief of the Executive--Negotiations respecting a new Anglo-French Commercial Treaty--Return of the Princes--Embarrassment caused by the Comte de Chambord--Question of voting in the House of Lords--Thiers elected President--State of parties in France--Irritation in Germany against Thiers--Diplomatic incident at Constantinople--Signature of Anglo-French Commercial Treaty--Death of the Emperor Napoleon--Lord Odo Russell on Bismarck's policy--Fall of Thiers--Bismarck and Arnim 1 MacMahon as President of the Republic--Franco-German relations--Bismarck's confidences to Lord Odo Russell--Political confusion in France--The war scare of 1875--Rumoured intention of Khedive to sell his Suez…
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