The rations are different in each arrondissement, as the Mayor of each tries to get hold of all he can, and some are more successful than others.

These differences cause great dissatisfaction.
The feeling to-day seems to be that if Trochu wishes to avoid riots, he must make a sortie very shortly.
The _Gaulois_ says:-- "How sad has been our New Year's-day! Among ourselves we may own it, although we have bravely supported it, like men of sense, determined to hold good against bad fortune, and to laugh in the face of misery.

It is hard not to have had the baby brought to our bedside in the morning; not to have seen him clap his hands with pleasure on receiving some toy; not to have pressed the hands of those we love best, and not to have embraced them and been able to say--'The year which has passed has had its joys and its sorrows, sun and shadow--but what matters it?
We have shared them together.

The year which is commencing cannot bring with it any sorrows that by remaining united we shall not be able to support ?' Most of us breakfasted this morning--the New Year's breakfast, usually so gay--alone and solitary; a few smoky logs our only companions.

There are sorrows which no philosophy can console.