The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-02 00:00:00

THE LYONS TRAGEDY.

The inquiry into the assassination of M. Arnaud at
Lyons is being pushed vigorously forward. The ruge
d'instr uction, has appealed, through the press, to all citi-
zens who are able to recognise any of the individuals who
passed the sentence of death on Arnaud, or who
formed part of the procession who took him to the
place of execution, for assistance. A young man has
been arrested, whc, it is said, gave the fatal blow.
Among the women in prison is the dreadful virago
Baucale, who was always the bearer of the red flag at the
manifestations of the Rotunda and the Salle Valentine.
One of the men arrested was a working weaver named
Charvel, who resisted the guard, and received a
pistol shot, of which he • died. The widow
of Arnaud has with much dignity refused the subscrip-
tions made for her and her children by the National
Guard. M. Arnaud's name is down on the list seized at
the Prefecture on September 4th as " a dangerous
Republican, and one to be supervised." The
Arnaud affair has caused the Government great
uneasiness, and has given rise to several com-
munications between Gambetta and his Bordeaux
colleagues. On the 21st he wrote saying that he had done
all he could for a prompt and striking repression of the
crime committed the previous day. The repression he
says must be exemplary. Gambetta will it is thought
prolong his stay at Lyons. He has presided at a meeting
of the municipal council, and has received the staff and
officers of the National Guard.

One of the Paris balloons which recently fell in Bel-
gium is stated by the Patric to have conveyed a lady.
She is a widow, 70 years of age; her name is Madame

Roussel.

The Allgemeine Zeitung says that General Werder's corps
is receiving considerable reinforcements of Line and Land-
wehr men, and several Prussian regiments are making
forced marches towards it.

The system of improvising field entrenchments is now
being adopted by the French in Paris. It was remarked
at the late sortie as a novelty that considerable bodies of
men, carrying pickaxes and shovels, accompanied the
troops.

The German custom of celebrating copper, silver, and
golden weddings is generally known, but a diamond wed-
ding, the 60th anniversary, is of rare occurrence. It has
just, however, been observed by Field-Marshal Count
Wrangel, the oldest soldier in the Prussian army. On the
26th December, 1810, the then Lieutenant Wrangel mar-
ried Fraulein Bulow. The age of the venerable pair is
not stated.

Game is to be had in Paris supplied by the Bavarians,
who exchange the products of the chase for tobacCo. A
kid is worth three pounds of tobacco, a hare twenty-five
loudres, a pheasant one hundred small Bordeaux cigars.
These exchanges took place during several days at Bour-
get. It is said that the Jardins des Plantes and the ‘ardin
d'Acclimitation are far from being depopulated. Only
such animals as there were duplicates of have been con-
sumed.

The Journal de Lisieux remarks on the spectacle now
presented by many churches in Normandy. The two at
Pont Audemer are occupied by 4,000 ill-fed and ill-clad
French troops. At Honfleur, 1,400 Mobiles sleep on the
flagstones of St. Leonard's Church, and in St. Catherine's
are 1,500 in so exhausted a state that three or four have
died under the porch. At Lisieux 15,000 men, worn out
with hunger and cold, have just arrived, 1,000 of whom
are lodged fn the three churches.
A letter from Chaumont in the Altgemeine Zeitung says :
—" Before the small fortress of Langres, which is ener-
getically defended by 4,000 Frenchmen, mostly escaped
soldiers of the former regiments of the Line, there have
been warm skirmishes, in which we have always come off
victorious and repulsed the sorties of the garrison, but
which always caused us losses. Favoured by the moun-
tainous region, more numerous bands of Francs-Tireurs
are in the Upper Marne department than in any other of
the occupied districts, and such bands even venture into
the vicinity of Chaumont, so that the garrison here has
constantly to be on the qui vine.
A writer in the Defense Nationale of the 19th, a copy of

which was found in the balloon captured in Bavaria.
states that he had been horrified at the sight of the long
lines of ill-dressed women and children collected before
the butchers' shops, shivering in the pelting rain and
chilling wind. The tears and entreaties of the poor peo-
ple were heartrending, and the crowds before the national
canteens appeared still more wretched, all being in rags,
He contrasts their wretched diet with the comparatively
sumptuous fare offered by the restaurants, and urges that
in a besieged city all citizens have an equal claim to life.
Lady Emily Pigot, who has lately returned from Metz,
reports that the amount of suffering there is not to be
described, and that men are dying of cold and hunger.
r She is not desirous to check the flow of charity at home,
but thinks there are those among us who can afford to
give to both their own countrymen and to foreigners out
of their abundanCe. She intends to return to France to
establish a private ambulance in the neighbourhood of
Orleans, or, if not possible in that direction, near Paris.
She will be assisted by an English doctor and his wife,
and asks for money, provisiOns, chloroform, and warm
clothing to assist her in her charitable enterprise.
A soldier of the Landwehr who has fought in thirteen
battles writes from Beaugency, on the Loire, to his wife,
saying that they had suffered greatly, and their fatigues
and privations of late have been indescribable. They
were worse than at Woerth, Sedan, and Orleans. Their
artillery would not work, as the interior of the cannons
was burnt from firing too much. The cold was extreme,
and they were nearly frozen. The heavy work
they had undergone had worn out their clothes, and they
had scarcely enough to cover them. His shoes let in
water, and he could not get any others. The people took
refuge in the cellars with their children, as all the houses
were burned. The dead were sown together as thickly as
a peasant would sow peas, and the wounded were often
obliged to pass the night where they fell.

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