The latest news strikes us as very favourable to the
Parisian prospect of defence. General Trochu is overcoming his grand difficulty, want of equipments. According to his own letter to the Mayor of Paris, and to an invaluable letter of 10th October in the Daily News, he has "found," or manufactured enough breech-loaders—of two kinds, we fear, and possibly of three—for all his Mobiles, all his regulars, and four-tenths of the National Guard, if willing to go to the front ; in all, for 210,000 men. He has muzzle-loading rifles for about 110,000 more ; and M. Dorian, Commissary of Arms, himself the greatest arm manufacturer in France, is rapidly manufacturing the balance required, or say, 150,000 more. He is, moreover, founding brass, or rather bronze, breech-loader field-pieces, and shells for them, quite "as fast as is desirable." He has 8,000 omnibus-horses accustomed to heavy loads, and a splendid space in the ruined banliene for effective drill. As we understand the facts, he is so nearly ready that he is forming his reserve field regiments from the National Guard.
