All that he can expect from the Parisians is a "moral support." _December 9th._ Nothing new.

If the Government has received any news from without, it carefully conceals it.

A peasant, the newspapers say, has made his way through the Prussian lines, and has brought the information that the armies of the Loire and of Bourbaki are close to Fontainebleau.

The cry is still that we will resist to the last, and for the moment every one seems to have forgotten that in a few weeks our provisions will all have been consumed.

If we wait to treat until our last crust has been eaten, the pinch will come after the capitulation; for with the railroads and the high roads broken up, and the surrounding country devastated, a fortnight at least must elapse before supplies, in any quantity, can be thrown into the town.
I hear that the Prussian officers who were (says the _Journal Officiel_) insulted in a cafe, have been exchanged.