"I have been for three weeks in a fort," said the aide-de-camp of one of the commanders of a southern fort, "every day we have made reconnaissances, and I have not seen one single Prussian." From what I learn, on good authority, the political situation is this.
The Government consists mainly of Orleanists.

When they assumed the direction of public affairs, they hoped to interest either Austria or Russia in the cause of France.

They were, therefore, very careful to avoid as much as possible any Republican propagandism either at home or abroad.

Little by little they have discovered that if France is to be saved it must be by herself.

Some of them, however, still hanker after a Russian intervention, and do not wish to weaken M.Thiers' prospects of success at St.Petersburg.They have, however, been obliged to yield to the Republicanism of the Parisian "men of action," and they have gradually drifted into a Government charged not only with the defence of the country, but also with the establishment of a Republic.