Steam mills have been put up, but they work slowly; and whatever may be the amount of corn yet in store, it is almost impossible to grind enough of it to meet the daily requirements.
A good deal of discussion is going on as to the time which it will take to revictual Paris; it is thought that it can be done in seven days, but I do not myself see how it is to be done in anything like this time.

One of the principal English bankers here has, I understand, sent an agent by balloon to buy boats of small draught in England, in order to bring provisions up the Seine.

As a speculation, I should imagine that the best plan would be to amass them on the Belgian or Luxemburg frontier.
About two-thirds of the population will be without means to buy food, even if the food were at their doors.

Trade and industry will not revive for some time; they will consequently be entirely dependent upon the State for their means of subsistence.

Even if work is offered to them, many of them not be able at once to reassume their habits of daily industry; the Bohemian life which they have led for the last four months, and which they are still leading, is against it.