The manifestation, if it occurs, will not get further than the Boulevards.

General Trochu is in no fear from Mayor Mothe, but he must understand that the moment for action has arrived.

His proclamation has only imperfectly replied to the apprehensions of Paris.
A capitulation, the very idea of which the Government recoils from, and which would only become possible when cold, hunger, and a bombardment have made further resistance impossible, besieges the minds of all, and presses all the hearts which beat for a resistance _a outrance_ in a vice of steel.

Trochu should reply to these agonies no longer by proclamations, but by acts." _January 4th._ It is said, I know not with what truth, that there always are, on an average, 5000 families who are in destitute circumstances, because their chiefs never would play out their trumps at whist until it became too late to use them effectively.

If Trochu really was under the impression that he had trumps in his hand good enough to enable him to win the game he is playing against the Prussians, he has kept them back so long that they are worthless.