The majority of the working men no doubt entertain extreme Socialist ideas, but any one of them who declined to make any distinction between his property and that of his richer neighbours would be very roughly handled.

So long as the Government sticks to its policy of no surrender, it will be supported by the faubourgs; if, however, it attempts to capitulate upon humiliating terms, it will be ejected from the Hotel de Ville.

A sharp bombardment may, perhaps, make a change in public opinion, but I can only speak of the opinion of to-day.

The Government declares that it can never run short of ammunition; but it seems to me that we cannot fire off powder and projectiles eternally, and that one of these mornings we shall be told that we must capitulate, as there is no more ammunition.

Americans who are here, complain very much of the Parisians for not using the spade more than they do.
Earthworks, which played so large a part in the defence both of Sebastopol and Richmond, are unknown at Paris.