Nothing appears to have changed in Paris during the week.
The Ministry is entirely master of the situation, refuses news, and defies the Liberals to call in the people. The National Guard has been armed with muskets, which had been sold to a contractor, but not taken away; great numbers of cattle and sheep have been collected in the Bois de Boulogne, without, however, too Math fodder for them ; and enormous stores of bacon, flour, coffee, and, we presume, though nobody says so, of firewood, have been laid in. Firewood would be the difficulty in a siege, for men cannot live in health on uncooked flour. The fortifications are mounted with immense numbers of marine guns, considerable bodies of troops are still in the city, and the tone of the people appears to be thoroughly resolute. It is, however, believed that they know as yet nothing of the position of their armies, and certain that the most earnest efforts are made to keep them in ignorance.
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