The Minister of the Interior placards the walls with idle proclamations, and arrests Bonapartists.

Innocent neutrals are mobbed as Prussian spies, and the only prisoners that we see are French soldiers on their way to be shot for cowardice.

Nothing is really done to force the Prussians to raise the siege, although the defenders exceed in number the besiegers.

How can all this end?
In a given time provisions and ammunition will be exhausted, and a capitulation must ensue.

I wish with all my heart that the hosts of Germany may meet with the same fate as befell the army of Sennacherib; but they are not likely to be killed or forced to retreat by speeches, pacts with death, sentimental appeals, and exaggerated abuse.
The _Temps_ calculates that our loss on Friday amounted to about 500 wounded and 400 killed.