From Our Own Correspondent, Paris, Dec, 12. The Government has returned from Bordeaux, temporarily, on the forty-fourth anniversary of the day on which the Government of which Gambetta was the leading spirit found it necessary to retire from Paris to Bordeaux, by' balloon.
The contrast between the situation date in 1870 and is highly encourag. ing to the French. On December 11, 1570, Paris had been besieged for eighty-three days and there was only enough flour for a week's supply of bread and about. a fortnight's stock of other provisions. The bombardment the city was imminent. Mets had been surrendered and Rouen, Lo Mans, Orleans and Dijon were in the hands of the Germans. Children were dying in hundreds in Paris for want of milk and old people for lack of fuel. The city was without light and the country without hope.
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