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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1761, 25 August 1874, Page 2

Tro escape of Marshal Bazaine from the Itle of Marguerite is not altogether startling. At the timt of his deportation

to the place of his enforced captivity it was considered not at all improbable that means would bo taken-to facilitate hii escape, which, it would,, appear, has been effected through tlio contrivance of his wife, who was permiited by the French Government to share his confinement. The escape will not tend to simplify the administration oftho French Government, for the escaped Marshal will now be at liberty to assist in the manoeuvres for the restoration of that empire to whose fall his faults or his misfortune* contributed. The degraded Marshal will certainly hare little sympathy with the Government which compassed his downfall, and it will not be surprising to learn that the first use made of his liberty has been to try and set himself right with that portion of the French people whose sympathies are in common with his own. With a Parliament so divided in opinion as that which at present directs the destinies of France, Marshal Bazame's escape is menacing. It is not likely, that he I has escaped, from captivity to lead a life of inactivity.