A few days ago a messenger was reported to have got through the Prussian lines with news of a French victory.

The next day a Saxon officer was said, with his last breath, to have confided to his doctor that Frederick Charles had been defeated.
Yesterday Jules Favre told the mayor that there was a report that Chanzy had gained a victory.

Everything now depends upon what Chanzy is doing, and, for all we know, he may have ceased to exist for the last week.
A census which has just been made of the population within the lines, makes the number, exclusive of the Line, Mobiles, and sailors, 2,000,500.

No attempt has yet been made to ration the bread, but it is to be mixed with oats and rice.

The mayor of this quarter says that in this arrondissement--the richest in Paris--he is certain that there is food for two months.