The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-07 00:00:00

EFFORTS IN ENGLAND.

The total sum raised in England by the fund for
the relief of the distress in Paris amounted to
about .E 45,000 up to Saturday. On that day the
Food Committee despatched a second cargo of
provisions, of the value of about £B,OOO, to Paris,
rid Calais and Boulogne, in charge of responsible
and duly authorised persons, and a third consignment of
all kinds of food, to the extent of £lO,OOO, will be made in
a day or two. The supplies of provisions which are now
being sent from Liverpool to France aro rapidly
increasing in quantity. Seven hundred tons of provisions
have already been sent to the North of France, and large
quantities have been shipped to St. Nazaire and Bordeaux
on speculative account. The Cunard steamer Stromboli,
which sailed from Liverpool for Havre on Friday last
took out an immense quantity of pickled beef and pork,
preserved and cooked meat, biscuits, navy bread, &c., and
the La Fontaine, which left on Saturday for
Bordeaux, was full of supplies. The quantity of
Provisions leaving Liverpool by steamers for the
French ports is not, however, to be accepted as the
supplies which are being forwarded to the French
ports. The London and North-Western Railway Com-
PanY's goods traffic has, ever since the announcement
of the armistice, undergone a vast increase, and thousands
of barrels of pickled beef and pork have been and are being
forwa:rded direct to the southern parts of this country for
shipment to Havre and Cherbourg, as the expense thus
incurred by two transferments is repaid by the speedy lam Id
ing of the provisions in France. The passage from
Liverpool to Havre at the best of seasons takes about
four days, whereas by sending the supplies through to
Dover, and some of the other southern ports, the time
occupied is generally not more than 24 hours at the out-
side. For several days past large quantities of packed
biscuits have been sent from Belfast to Liverpool, and
thence by railroad to Dover, en route to France. So far
as breadstuffs are concerned, Liverpool is not behiudhand,
as some of the principal ship bread•baking establishments
are engaged day and night in making what is known as
"cabin broad" for France.

BURNING- OF A FRENCH CAPTAIN ALIVE.
The Siecle publishes a letter from Dijon, dated January
16th, giving a fresh account of the terrible story of the
burning alive of a wounded captain of Free-shooters, and
an order of Garibaldi's on the subject . The Chateau de
Pouilly is about four kilometres from Dijon, on the right ,
of the road to Longres. During the fight cn the. 24th the
Army of the Vosges carried thither some of their
wounded. During a Prussian charge, the 61st Regiment
of King William gained temporary 'possession of this
position, which, however, they were compelled to evacuate
on the approach of a Garibaldian corps. Before abandon-
ing it the soldiers committed the most brutal acts,
striking the wounded with the butt-ands of their muskets,
and actually burning one of the Franc-tireurs alive. The
first news of this barbarous act was given by a wounded
man, the Marcella' des logic Roquebert. " I would not,
I could not at first believe it," says the correspon-
dent of the 'V&A& " I made further inquiries ;
they continued it. I weht to see. The officer of Francs-
tireurs, a young man of from 25 to 30 years, was killed at
the foot of the staircase; opposite the entrance door. His
feet were bound to the balusters, and combus-
tible goods piled up and fired. His body
was a cinder for about two centimetres up, the
other parts, burnt, blackened, and contracted,