We are intensely indignant at this term; we consider it so cold-blooded.

It is like a doctor standing by a man on the rack, and feeling his pulse to see how many more turns of the screw he can bear.
All the forts outside are still holding their own against the Prussian batteries.

Issy has had as yet the greatest amount of attention paid to it by the besiegers.

There is a battery at Meudon which seems never to tire of throwing shells into it.

It is said, however, that the enemy is endeavouring to establish breaching guns at a closer range, in order to make his balls strike the ground and then bound into the fort--a mode of firing which was very successful at Strasburg.
The sensation news of to-day is that Faidherbe has driven Manteuffel across the Belgian frontier, and that Frederick Charles, who always seems to come to life after being killed, has been recalled from Orleans to Paris.