The weary, dreary Civil War round Paris has dragged on
through the week, but the general result may be summed up in few words. The loyal troops have taken Asnieres, have advanced within a few hundred paces of the enceinte, and have inflicted severe losses on the Communists ; but have not entered Paris, where the Reds are preparing for a desperate resistance in the streets. M. Thiers praises General Montandon, who, he says, is " everywhere in this affair," and the soldiery praise Colonel Davoust, grandson of the victor of Jena, who took Chateau Becon by a rush, but the fighting generally is of little interest. The soldiers obey orders, but do not often display dash ; while the Reds run away in one village like sheep, and fight in another like Covenanters. On the whole, the Communists are worse off than they were last Saturday ; but they are preparing for a siege, and laying in a great stock of provisions.
