of rice, and this, with the chocolate and Liebig which he has in hand will last him for about three weeks.

If the siege goes on longer it is difficult to know how all these poor people will live.
Funds are not absolutely wanting, but it is doubtful whether even with money it will be possible to buy anything beyond bread, if that.

Mr.
Herbert thinks that it would be most desirable to send, if possible, a provision of portable food, such as Liebig's extract of meat, as near to Paris as possible; so that, whenever the siege ceases, it may at once be brought into the town, as otherwise it is very probable that many of these English will die of starvation before food can reach them.

It does seem to me perfectly monstrous that for years we should have, in addition to an Embassy, kept a Consul here, and that he should have been allowed to go off on leave to some watering place at the very moment at which his services were most required.

When the Embassy left, a sort of deputy-consul remained here; but with a perfect ingenuity of stupidity, the Foreign-office officials ordered this gentleman to withdraw with Mr.
Wodehouse, the secretary.