Some say that there is not enough for two weeks, others that there is enough for two months' consumption; M.Dorien assured a friend of mine yesterday that, to the best of his belief, there is enough to carry us into March.

Landlords and tenants are as much at loggerheads here as they are in Ireland; the Government has issued three decrees to regulate the question.

By the first is suspended all judicial proceedings on the part of landlords for their rent; by the second, it granted a delay of three months to all persons unable to pay the October term; by the third, it required all those who wished to profit by the second to make a declaration of inability to pay before a magistrate.
To-day a fourth decree has been issued, again suspending the October term, and making the three previous decrees applicable to the January term, but giving to landlords a right to dispute the truth of the allegation of poverty on the part of their tenants; the question is a very serious one, for on the payment of rent depends directly or indirectly the means of livelihood of half the nation.

Thus the landlords say that if the tenants do not pay them they cannot pay the interest of the mortgages on their properties.

If this interest be not paid, however, the shareholders of the Credit Foncier and other great mortgage banks get nothing.