Even were I able to obtain the publications of France and Germany by way of Vienna, the road is so circuitous, that you would have them later than others who contrive to smuggle them across the North Sea.

Every London newspaper that retails its daily sixpennyworth of false reports, publishes the French, the Hamburgh, the Vienna, the Frankfort, and other journals, full as soon as we receive any of them here.

This is the case at all times; at present it is much worse.

We are entirely insulated.

The Russians block up the usual road through Bucharest, and the Servians prevent the passage of couriers through Bosnia.