By one o'clock all the bakers had closed their shops in the outer faubourg.

There had been a run upon them, because a decree had been issued in the morning forbidding flour to be sold, and requisitioning all the biscuits in stock.

Government immediately placarded a declaration that bread was not going to be requisitioned, and the explanation of the morning's decree is that flour and not corn has run short, but that new steam-mills are being erected to meet the difficulty.

_La Verite_, a newspaper usually well informed, says that for some days past the flour which had been stored in the town by M.Clement Duvernois has been exhausted, and that we are now living on the corn and meal which was introduced at the last moment from the neighbouring departments.

It gives the following calculation of our resources--flour three weeks, corn three months, salt meat fifteen days, horse two months.