Rochefort has resigned his seat in the Government, on the ground that he consented to the election of the Commune.

The general feeling among the shopkeepers seems to be to accept an armistice on almost any terms, because they hope that it will lead to peace.

We will take our revenge, they say, in two years.

A threat which simply means that if the French army can fight then, they will again shout "_a Berlin_!" M.Thiers is still at Versailles.

There appears to be a tacit truce, but none knows precisely what is going on.
A friend of mine saw General Trochu yesterday on business, and he tells me that this worthy man was then so utterly prostrated, that he did not even refer to the business which he had come to transact.