Heaven be praised.

The civilized world is not so degenerate that the ignoble conduct of Prussia fails to elicit universal reprobation." We have had two more pigeons, but Gambetta either cannot or will not let us know anything of importance.
These two messengers confirm the news of the "victory of Orleans," and inform us that public opinion is daily pronouncing in favour of France, and that the condition of affairs in the provinces is most satisfactory.
Such is the universal distrust felt now for any intelligence which emanates from an official source, that if Gambetta were to send us in an account of a new victory to-morrow, and if all his colleagues here were to swear to its truth, we should be in a wild state of enthusiasm for a few hours, and then disbelieve the whole story.
Small-pox is on the increase.

The deaths last week from this disease amounted to 419; the general mortality to 1885--a number far above the average.

The medical men complain of the amount of raw spirits which is drunk--particularly at the ramparts, and ascribe much of the ill health to this cause.
By the bye, the question of the treason of Bazaine turns with us upon what your correspondent at Saarbruck meant by the word "stores," which he says were discovered in Metz.

If munitions of war, we say that Bazaine was a hero; if food, that he was a traitor.
If sieges were likely to occur frequently, the whole system of ambulances, as against military hospitals, would have to be ventilated.
There are in Paris two hundred and forty-three ambulances, and when the siege commenced, such was the anxiety to obtain a _blesse_, that when a sortie took place, those who brought them in were offered bribes to take them to some house over which the flag of Geneva waved.