"What do you think they are saying of us in England ?" is a question which I am asked not less than a hundred times every day.

My interrogator usually goes on to say, that it is impossible that the heroism of the population has not elicited the admiration of the world.
It seems to me that if Paris submits to a blockade for another month, she will have done her duty by France; but I cannot for the life of me see that as yet she has done anything to entitle her to boast of having set the world an example of valour.
Yesterday, it appears by the official report, there was a reconnaissance in force under General Ducrot in the direction of Bougival and Rucil.
The Mobiles, we are told, behaved well, but the loss on either side was insignificant.

Our amateur strategists are divided as to the expediency of taking Versailles, with the whole Prussian quartier-general, or reopening communications with the provinces by the way of Orleans.

The relative advantages of these two schemes is hotly debated in the newspapers and the pothouses.

A more practical suggestion to form mobilised regiments of National Guards by taking the most active men from the existing battalions is being seriously considered by the Government.