The former, in obedience to orders from the Foreign Office, is only waiting for a reply from Count Bismarck to his letter asking for a pass to leave us.

Whether the numerous English who remain here are then to look to Mr.Washburne or to the porter for protection, I have been unable to discover.
M.Felix Pyat has been let out of prison.

He says that he rather prefers being there than at liberty, for in his cell he can "forget that he is in a town inhabited by cowards," and devote himself to the works of M.
Louis Blanc, which he calls the "Bibles of democracy." Although Trochu is neither a great general nor a great statesman, he is a gentleman.

I am therefore surprised that he allows obscene caricatures of the Empress to be publicly sold in the streets and exhibited in the kiosks.

During the time that she occupied the throne in this most scandal-loving town, no scandal was ever whispered against her.