As for the villages round them, they are, I presume, shelled merely in order to make them untenable.
The Government appears now as anxious to find others to share responsibility with it as heretofore it has been averse to any division of power.

The Mayors of the city are to meet with their deputies once a week at the Hotel de Ville to express their opinions respecting municipal matters, and once a week at the Ministry of the Interior to discuss the political situation.

As there are twenty mayors and forty adjuncts, they, when together, are almost numerous enough to form a species of Parliament.

The all important food question remains _in statu quo_.

It is, however, beginning to be hinted in semi-official organs, that perhaps the bread will have to be rationed; I may be wrong, but I am inclined to think that the population will not submit to this.
Government makes no statement with respect to the amount of corn in store.