The question of the municipal elections will lie dormant for a few days, but I see no evidence that those who were in favour of it have altered their minds.

As far as yesterday's proceedings were concerned, they only go to prove the fact, which no one ever doubted, that the bourgeoisie and their adherents are ready to support the Government, but they have also proved to my mind conclusively that the working men as a body have entirely lost all confidence in the men at the head of affairs.
On the pure merits of the question, I think that the working men have reason on their side.

They know clearly what they want--to make sorties and to endeavour to destroy the enemy's works; if this fails--to make provisions last as long as possible by a system of rationing--and then to destroy Paris rather than surrender it.

The Government and their adherents are waiters on Providence, and, except that they have some vague idea that the Army of the Loire will perform impossibilities, they are contented to live on from day to day, and to hope that something will happen to avert the inevitable catastrophe.

I can understand a military dictatorship in a besieged capital, and I can understand a small elected council acting with revolutionary energy; but what I cannot understand is a military governor who fears to enforce military discipline, and a dozen respectable lawyers and orators, whose sole idea of Government is, as Blanqui truly says, to issue decrees and proclamations, and to make speeches.