per annum, and it must be remembered that in this return those who die in the public hospitals, or of the direct effect of the war, are not included.
Small-pox is about stationary, bronchitis and pneumonia largely on the increase.
Bourbaki, we are told to-day, is at Freiburg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

The latest German papers announce that Mezieres has fallen, and it seems to occur to no one that Gambetta's last pigeon despatch informed us that the siege of this place had been raised.

_La Liberte_ thus sums up the situation:--"Nancy menaced; Belfort freed; Baden invaded; Hamburg about to be bombarded.

This is the reply of France to the bombardment of Paris.

The hour has arrived; the Prussians brought to bay, hope to find refuge in Paris.