I give this letter to a friend who will get it into the balloon, and go off to the Trocadero, to see how things are getting on.
The Solferino Tower on the Buttes Montmartre has been pulled down.

No one is to be allowed to hoist the Geneva flag unless the house contains at least six beds for wounded.

We have now a bread as well as a meat maximum.
_September 24th._ We are as despondent to-day as we were jubilant yesterday.

The success at the front seems to have dwindled down to an insignificant artillery combat.

The _Electeur Libre_ gives the following account of it.