Yesterday evening on the Boulevards there were groups discussing "the traitors." Some said that General Schmitz had been arrested; others that he ought to be arrested.

A patriot observed to me that all foreigners in Paris ought, as a precautionary measure, to be extirpated.

"Parbleu," I replied, and you may depend upon it I rolled my eyes and shrugged my shoulders in true Gallic fashion.

This morning General Trochu has published a proclamation, denouncing all attacks upon his staff, and making himself responsible for its members.

It is an honest, manly protest, and by far the best document which this prolific writer has issued for some time.