though M. Etienne Arago has been made Prefect of the
Seine, an office as important as any Ministry ; and the Count de Keratry Prefect of Police, perhaps the most important office in Paris, whose criminals and roughs consider the hour theirs. M. Esquires, however, has been appointed Prefect of Lyons, and the general course seems to be to take the leading Opposition journalist of the department, and make him Prefect. For the rest, the Government busies itself mainly with the defence, and M. Jules Favre has issued a circular to the French representatives at all Courts declaring that although the Republicans resisted the war " at the risk of their popularity," and although their hearts bleed at the sight of these massacres, they "will not cede an inch of territory or a stone of their fortresses ;" will not yield even if left alone, but will urge Paris to resist. "After the forts we have the ramparts, after the ramparts we have the barricades." Paris can hold out for three months, and conquer ; and "if she succumbed, France would avenge her !"
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