Either 2Eolus, or Trochu, or Von Moltke seems to have
stopped the Paris balloons. The latest news we have from the interior of Paris is of the 19th inst., ten days old, and represents all as quiet and the sole occupation drill. The contract time for the delivery of the new field-pieces has expired safely, and it is to be pre- sumed that the Government is preparing for some grand coup. Nothing appears to have reached Tours either, and for one week Paris has been as isolated as a separate planet. The latest news it appears to have received from the outside is a letter from Gambetta reporting the continued resistance of Metz and the rising in the provinces, on both of which points he was hopeful. Curiously enough, the Prussians suspect that some communication exists between Versailles and Paris, and are perpetually trying to dis- cover it. The underground telegraph between Metz and Strasburg escaped notice for some weeks, and was even then revealed by an accident.
