Several members of the Government, I hear, intend to leave shortly in balloons, and Trochu, as military Governor of Paris, will be left to his own devices.

He himself says that he never will sign a capitulation, and it is suggested that when there is no more food, the Prussians shall be allowed to enter without opposition, without any terms having been previously agreed to.

The Parisians are now contending for their supremacy over the provinces, and they seem to think that if they only hold out until famine obliges them to give in, that supremacy will not hereafter be disputed.
It is impossible to give precise data respecting the store of provisions now in Paris, nor even were I able would it be fair to do so.

As a matter of private opinion, however, I do not think that it will be possible to prolong the resistance beyond the first week in January at the latest.

Last Sunday there were incipient bread-riots.