The New York herald., 1870-11-24
LATER NEWS FROM PARIS.
Provisions Failing---The Troops
DemOralized.
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Views CT General L. ochu on the
Situation.
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General Condition Of Affairs in
The City.

Ment Scnrce-Tbe Mcrtality-- The TrOGpS de-
moralized-Anr onncement Of the Recaptmro
Of Orleans-Feeaing Over the News-carricr
piacon Byaii-Trorhu on the Situnfion-IIis
Opinion on the DeJcnce-The Future.
LONDON, Nov. %, 1870.
There are dispatches from q correspondent at
Paris from the sth up to the 10Th. In that OF the
10th ne says,-
MEAT sCARCE-TuF MORTALITY.
IN my district there was no distribution OF meat
for four days and In the ncxt district my friends
are dining on cats, rats and guinea pigs. The num-
Der OF deaths is lsoo weekly, Of which $50 from
smallpox.
THE TRooPs DEMoRALIzED.
On the 18Th Trochu announced to his friends that
preparations for sortie were nearly complete. bnt
The troops are areadially demoralized.
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE REcAPTURE OF ORLEANS.
on the 18th Favre published Gambetta's despatch
announcing the recapture OF Orleans, and in ad-
dition said:-We are soon going to join hands with
our brethren OF the departm ents and with them de-
liver the country.
THE FEELING OVER THE NEWS.
The news is not fully beheyed, for all Gambetta's
communications are discredlted The S ecie thought
Il. though intrnsically unimportant, yet OF good
omen. The Journal OWctel declares Paris may
soon hope for aid from that victorious command
cooperating with the armies OF the east and west
CARRIER PIGEON MML-AN ARRIVAL.
The f;st number OF new telegraphic newspaper,
containing private messages printed and MICROSCOPE
cally photographed containing two hundred and
lwentysix dispatches on surface OF twelve
eentimetres square, reached Paris yesterday
by pigeon, with intelligence from every
part of France and abroad; but the
pigeon service is extremely uncertain. Out Of 200
taken away by balloons only thirty have returned.
The government announced officially on the 18th
that no news had been received for fortnight pre-
vious
TKocuU ON THE SITUATION.
Trochu publishes IN the Journal o0ciel long ad-
dress, dated the 14h inst, to the citizens National
Guards, army and Mobile Guards. He says
Europe is astonshed AT the spectacle Paris affords.
The enemy is astonished at having been held two
months before Paris. Paris was ready TO yield
20 the general European feeling and to
abandon its impacable resolve and to dlsorganize
France had an armistice been accepted on French
terms. The fatal 3lst of October compromised the
utuation restoring the Prussan hopes and breaking
or the negotiations. Since then the enemy strives
to SOW divisons among us by introducing false
Intelligence through their outposts"
HIS OPINION or THE DEFEEcE
Trochu rectes the efforts made for Defence and
thinks that never in history did an invaded people
or a peseged city make such vigorous resistance.
This he says TO enlighen those who believe 1t pos
Sibe to 40 more than has been done or TO take the
offensive with masses insunlclently organized or
lnadequately armed. We have done what we could,
not what we would.
THE FUTURE
The future, however, demands still greater effort,
Tor time presses 1t would not be worthy Of France
II the world could not understand that the people
and army OF Paris after energetic preparation for
ali sacrifices, should not go even further than they
have already, and suffer and fight until suffering
and fighting are no longer possible. II we
triumph we deserve well OF our country; II we
fall, we leave to Prussa-as in replacing the first
empire, in all the pride OF conquest and In the
midst Of vio.ence-the task, impossible to accom-
plsh, OF giving peace and government TO the pco-
pie and country, and an inheritance OF curses and
hatred, under which Prussia in turn must fall.
HORSE AND ASS MEAT.
After the 16th the flesh Of the hcrse mule and ass
was regulated by q tariff like beef, and rations
thereof were issued by the government. The people
bear their privations well thus far. Charcoal Ii
now eight times the usual price, and the consump
tion OF gas after IN the evening is forbidden.
POLITICS.
Pyat is released and his comrades soon will be
AragO resigned the Mayoraliy on the 18th. julie!
Favre succeeds MIN as the government delegate
fulfilling all the functions Of the Mayor The Offices
OF Mayor and Prefecture are abolished nomnally,
but in reality they still exist. They are, however
nnder the direct control Of the government Of Ma
nonal Defence and the result is confusion and gen
eral diss atisfactlon
BAD MANAGEMENT.
One district has received its rat.3Bs fortnight
sooner than an adjoining district, and the ratons
have varied In different districts from nifty to hun
dred and fifty grammes. This week, however ali
are reduced TO forty grammes. To-day and yester
day distribution was made OF equipments and ma.
terial for the new modified companies OF the Ma
tional Guard, in preparation to the long expected
sortIe. y :. u. $50
NEWSPAPER APPEAL. 10 TIE GOVERNMENT.
Numerous extracts from various papers were re-
ceyed by the same balloon. The Journal De Parts
published on the iih and the Ga,tots reprinted on
the 18th, strong aGbeal to the government, the
substance Of which IL the folowing:-You know
your army of relief is a phantom. The provinces
cannot come to the help OF Paris. You ought
to confess the truth Yon know equally Il Y mpos-
slbe TO cut through the Prusslan lines SO that the
garrison may reach the Loire to get provisions. For
such sortie you must win great battle, which,
with your present army, you can never do.
Rocheforte writes In lie Rappel, in answer to the
queSllOn WnetneT ne hau Tediiy reslRncus-ics, VI
the 1st OF November, and nave now thought OF with
drawing my resignation. Louis Blanc publishes an
address to the defenders or Paris congratulatlng
them on the failure Of the armistice. They cannot
and ought not to treat with the enemy while it is
occupy ing the French soil,
No Constituent Assembly to be Summoned
Scene in the Subusbs-Prussinn Batteries
Battle Imnlinent-Military Matters.
LONDON, Nov. 23-Evening.
correspondent, writing from Paris by balloon
on the nth inst, says
NO CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY TO BE SUMMONED.
Ali thoughts OF summoning Constituent Assem-
bly, have been abandoned. The victory at Orleans
turned the heads OF the people, and for few days
Paris was relieved. The radicals dread the Meeting