Three of these companies are together to form a mobilised battalion, and to elect their commander.
The _Journal Officiel_ contains two long reports upon the works of defence which have been executed since the commencement of the siege.
They give the number of guns on each bastion, and the number of rounds to each gun, the number of cartridges, and the amount of powder in store.

Unless these reports be patriotic fictions, it seems strange to publish them in the newspapers, as they must inevitably fall into the hands of the Prussians.

Be this as it may, I do not feel at liberty to quote from them.

General Ducrot publishes a letter protesting against a statement of the German journals that he escaped from Pont-a-Mousson when on parole.

He asserts that his safe-conduct had been given up, and that he consequently was free to get away if he could.