He says, "Everywhere the people are rising; the Government of the National Defence is universally acclaimed." The Papal Nuncio is going to try to get through on Thursday.

He says he is anxious about the Pope--no wonder.
_October 12th._ "What is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not wait for an answer; the Parisians of 1870 are as indifferent about truth as this unjust Roman judge was.

It is strange that their own want of veracity does not lead them to doubt that of others; they are alike credulous and mendacious.

A man comes into a cafe, he relates every detail of an action in which he says he was engaged the day before; the action has never taken place, but every one believes him; one of the auditors then perhaps says that he has passed the night in a fort, and that its guns destroyed a battery which the enemy was erecting; the fort has never fired a shot, but the first speaker goes off convinced that a battery has been dismounted.

For my part I have given up placing the least faith in anything I hear or read.