The object of the sortie was to blow up a bridge over the Seine, and to rouse the courage of the Parisians by obtaining a marked success at a point where the Prussians were not supposed to be in force.

Neither end was attained, and consequently we are greatly depressed.

Count Bismarck has not condescended to send a reply to the Corps Diplomatique, requesting to be allowed to establish postal communication with their Governments, much to the disgust of that estimable body.
The result of the pryings of the Government into the papers of their predecessors has as yet only disclosed the facts, that most of the conspiracies against the Empire were got up by the police, and that the Emperor bribed porters and postmen to open letters.

His main object seems to have been to get hold of the letters of his Ministers to their mistresses.

The fourth livraison of the Tuileries papers contains the report of a spy on the doings of the Russian Military Attache.