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The latest accounts received, dated 19th inst., report a repulse

of the Versailles troops before the Muette gate, and indicate that the Commune is becoming more and more determined. It has seized the Revue Des Deux Mondes, spared even by the Imperial Government, ordered that no new newspaper shall appear during the war, placed the journalists under martial law, directed that all 'drunkards and prostitutes be arrested, and ordered that all offi- cers who disobey the decrees of the Committee of Public Safety, that is, of the War Minister Delescluze, be tried by court-martial. All this points to apprehension of immediate attack, to be aided

by risings among the National Guards themselves, but there is no sign yet of any competent chief.

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