I should say that there are not more than 40,000 horses now in Paris.

The _Petites Voitures_ (Cab) Company has 8,000, and offered to sell them to the Government a few days ago, but that proposal was declined.

As regards salt meat, the Government keep secret the amount.

It cannot, however, be very great, because it is only derived from animals which have been killed since the siege commenced.
The stock of flour, we are told, is practically unlimited, and as no attempt is made to prevent its waste in pasty and fancy cakes, the authorities are acting apparently on this assumption.
The health of Paris is far from satisfactory, and when the winter weather regularly sets in there will be much sickness.

No one is absolutely starving, but many are without sufficient nourishment.