of the danger; and so long as they can help it they have no intention to increase that per-centage.

As for the 1,500 cannon, they have not yet been made; but many of them have already been named.

One is to be called the "Jules Favre," one the "Populace," "We already hear them thunder, and see the Prussians decimated," says the _Temps_, and its editor is not the first person who has counted his chickens before they are hatched.
All yesterday afternoon and evening the Fort of Issy, and the battery of the Bois de Boulogne, fired heavily on Brinborion and Meudon, with what result no one knows.

Yesterday morning the _Combat_ announced that Marshal Bazaine was treating for the surrender of Metz in the name of Napoleon.

The Government was interviewed, and denied the fact.