I am very curious to discover what is thought of Paris by the world.

There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

If really by holding out for several months the situation can be altered for the better, the Parisians are right to do so, but if the Government is only humbugging them with false intelligence, if they are simply destroying their own villages in the neighbourhood, and exhausting their resources within the town, whilst a Prussian army is living at the cost of their country, it seems to me that they are acting like silly schoolboys rather than wise men, and that there really is something in the sneer of Bismarck that the Deputies of Paris are determined, _coute qui coute_, to preserve the power with which the hazards of a revolution invested them.
The newspapers this morning are full of articles lauding M.Jules Favre's circular, and reviling the proposals of Bismarck.

The following extract from the _Liberte_ will serve as an example of their usual tone:--"A word of gratitude to the great citizen, to Jules Favre.

Let him know that his honest, eloquent, and brave words give us strength, dry our tears, and cure our wounds.