ends. "Is it
not too bad of him that he will pretend not to understand French?" said
an old lady to me. "He looks like a fiend," said another lady, looking
up at the good-natured face of the stolid military gaoler. The contrast
between the shrieking, gesticulating, excited French, and the calm,
cool, indifferent air of the German, was a curious one. It was typical
of that between the two races. Having reached Paris, I consigned poor
old long Rosinante to his fate--the knackers, and, with my leg of mutton
under my arm, walked down the Boulevard. I was mobbed, positively
mobbed. "Sir," said one man, "allow me to smell it." With my usual
generosity I did so. How I reached my hotel with my precious burthen in
safety is a perfect mystery. N.B. The mutton was for a friend of mine;
Gretchen was a pious fraud; all being fair in love and war.

In the quarter in which I live I find that the rations have neither been
increased nor diminished. They still remain at 3-5ths lb. of bread, and
1-25th lb. of meat per diem. In some other districts a little beef has
been distributed. Some flour has come in from Orleans, and it is
expected that in the course of a few days the bread will cease to be
made of the peas, potatoes, and oats which we now eat. In the
restaurants, beef--real beef--is to be obtained for little more than
three times its normal price. Fish, too, in considerable quantities has
been introduced by some enterprising speculator. The two delegates,
also, of the Lord Mayor's Relief Fund have arrived with provisions, &c.
This evening they are to telegraph to London for more. These gentlemen
are somewhat at sea with respect to what is wanted, and by what means it
is to be distributed. One of them did me the honour to consult me this
afternoon on these two points. With respect to the first, I recommended
him to take the advice of Mr. Herbert--to whose energy it is due that
during the siege above one thousand English have not been starved--and
of the Archbishop of Paris, who is a man of sterling benevolence, with a
minimum of sectarianism. With respect to the latter, I recommended
Liebig, milk, and bacon. The great point appears to me to be that the
relief should be bestowed on the right persons. The women and children
have been the greatest sufferers of late. The mortality is still very
great among them; not because they are absolutely without food, for the
rations are distributed to all; but because they are in want of
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