The scene in the Rue de Chabrol continues unchanged M.
Guerin and his fourteen companions have now held out for nearly three weeks in defiance of the police and gendarme, who camp round the house and isolate it, but do not enter The infantry who at first supported the police have been withdrawn. The sewers are stopped, the water and gas are cut off, and no communication is allowed with the besieged except through the besiegers, but no assault is made. End-. leas explanations are offered of the patience of the Govern- ment, one of which, that the Dac d'Orleans II in the house, is obviously false; and little efforts by butchers and fishwives to relieve the garrison are reported or invented ; but nothing dramatic has occurred. We have given elsewhere what seems to us the most probable theory of the official hesitation, which is, in brief, that the Government believe Paris to be in a mood in which auy act of violence may produce an explosion. M. Guerin, formerly a tripe-seller, is a great favourite of the butcher fraternity, who, it is said, love a riot now as they did in the days of the Fronde.
