Except close in by the ramparts, there was no excitement.
Almost the whole of the portion of the town on the left bank of the Seine is now under fire; but even should it be seriously bombarded, I doubt if the effect will be at all commensurate with the expense of powder and projectiles.

When shells fall over a very large area, the odds against each separate person being hit by them are so large that no one thinks that--happen what may to others--he will be wounded.
_January 11th._ The spy mania, which raged with such intensity at the commencement of the siege, has again broken out.

Every day persons are arrested because they are supposed, by lighted candles and other mysterious devices, to be in communication with the enemy.

Sergeant Hoff, who used to kill his couple of brace of Germans every day, and who disappeared after Champigny, it is now said was a spy; and instead of mourning over his wife, who had been slain by the Prussians, kept a mistress in splendour, like a fine gentleman.

Foreigners are looked upon suspiciously in the streets.