They certainly have not yet given the slightest evidence of military capacity, except by criticising what has been done by others.
Now, at last, however, Trochu will have an opportunity to carry out his famous plan, by which he asserts that he will raise the blockade in fourteen days, and of which he has given the fullest details in his will.

Ridicule kills in France--and since this eminent General, as an evidence that he had a plan, appealed to the will which he had deposited with his lawyer, he lost all influence.

I need not say that this influence has not been restored by the absurd arrest to which he was subjected by Messrs.

Flourens and Blanqui.
_November 6th._ So we have declined the armistice.

The Government deliberated exactly five minutes over the question.