We are by no means satisfied with the news which has reached us through the English papers up to the 3rd. Thus the _Liberte_, after giving extracts from numbers of the _Pall Mall Gazette_, the _Daily News_, the _Daily Telegraph_, the _Sun_, the _Times_, and the _Standard_, accompanies them with the following reflections:--"We feel bound to protest in favour of the English press against the assertions of those who would judge the opinions of a great liberal nation by the wretched specimens which are under our eyes. Heaven be praised. The civilized world is not so degenerate that the ignoble conduct of Prussia fails to elicit universal reprobation." We have had two more pigeons, but Gambetta either cannot or will not let us know anything of importance. These two messengers confirm the news of the "victory of Orleans," and inform us that public opinion is daily pronouncing in favour of France, and that the condition of affairs in the provinces is most satisfactory. Such is the universal distrust felt now for any intelligence which emanates from an official source, that if Gambetta were to send us in an account of a new victory to-morrow, and if all his colleagues here were to swear to its truth, we should be in a wild state of enthusiasm for a few hours, and then disbelieve the whole story. Small-pox is on the increase. The deaths last week from this disease amounted to 419; the general mortality to 1885--a number far above the average. The medical men complain of the amount of raw spirits which is drunk--particularly at the ramparts, and ascribe much of the ill health to this cause. By the bye, the question of the treason of Bazaine turns with us upon what your correspondent at Saarbruck meant by the word "stores," which he says were discovered in Metz. If munitions of war, we say that Bazaine was a hero; if food, that he was a traitor.