The correspondent of the Daily News at the Saxon head-
quarters did a gallant act in calmly riding into Paris the moment the convention for its surrender was signed, undismayed by the hate of the Parisians for English correspondents at German head- quarters,—of whom he believed himself one of the most un- popular,—and, as rumour asserts, without even any local know- ledge of Paris to aid him in his escape if attacked. He was the first to send us an account of Paris after the siege, and a very graphic account of Paris it was,— Paris curious even to see such a substance as ham,—Paris sobered into complete crimelessness, — Paris bewildered into a sort of innocent wonder. " I put my trust," says the correspondent, with a grave kind of humour, "in the aspect of preternatural stolidity with which Nature has gifted me." Had not Paris been in an allotropic condition, this trust might have been a mistaken one. But as it was, the gallantry of the act was not ill-rewarded.
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