The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-08 00:00:00

humane disposition. It is an affair very frequently
of the nerves, and not of the heart, and a too obstrusive
and self-conscious piety represents in many cases so much
deducted from a sound and practical morality. It is the veil
beneath which crooked designs and arrogant self-seeking
hide their real character from the mind and temper which
foster them. The military party, with the King at their
head, carried the day; and the war, the further prosecu-
tion of which was condemned alike by the statesmanship
of Bismarck and the conscience of the Crown Prince,
went on.

LYONS AND THE CAPITULATION.
LYONS, February 3.
The news of the capitulation of Paris has produced a
profound impression here. All through the South the
military preparations are being actively pushed
forward, and the mobilised legions are being sent
off in all directions. The Municipal Council has
just voted considerable sum for the purchase of muni-
tions of war, and for the manufacture of cartridges. M.
Rouc is expected on a special mission from Gambetta,
and, decidedly, the feeling of the people, as well as of
the local authorities, is in favour of prolonged resistance.
The following proclamation has been posted on the walls
of the town : —"Citizens,—Evil fortune still hangs over
us, and makes us pay dearly for the errors committed
during Llie twenty years of the Empire. An armistice of
twenty-one days has been concluded, with whose terms
we are not yet acquainted. News from foreign
sources acquaint ns that the armistice results
from the capitulation of Paris. This would indeed
be a great misfortune, but France exists else-
where than at Paris. We must remember that an
armistice is a suspension of hostilities, and not a treaty
of peace. Let us be firm and energetic, and above all
things united ; let us maintain the spirit with which
great misfortunes should be met, and we shall
yet find that the resources of France can afford the means
for preserving our country from perishing. The Municipal
Council has resolved, in connection with the representation
of the Central Power, to adopt measures for the
preservation of the material honour of France
and the Republic. Lyons by its protest, by the
calmness of its attitude and the energy of its support,
will facilitate the accomplishment of this task, so dear to
all French hearts ! Vive la France ! Vive la Repub-
lique ! "
Young Count von Moltke, who was taken prisoner at
Le Mans, has been sent to Clermont-Ferrand.
News from Brittany says that M. de Cathelineau
has been entrusted by General Chanzy with the
military organisation of the west. He has just issued
a vigorous proclamation, denouncing the barbarities of
the enemy, and calling upon the whole population to
rise and aid him. Providence has given them
extraordinary means of defence in their hedges
and fosses, behind which old men and young
children become valiant defenders. There has been a
rumour that General Clinchant effected an arrangement
with Manteuffel, but this is altogether false, for the army
retreated fighting the whole way. A deputation of citizens
presented themselves at the Hotel de Ville, and submitted
to the Municipal Council a programme which included
war a outrance, a Government at Lyons, the nomination
of a convention and a commission of 30 members,
who must authorise all arrests. The Council re-
plied that as to the first three propositions they
had themselves submitted them to the Bordeaux
delegation, by whom they were well received, and they
hoped to see them carried into effect. The town is gene-
rally tranquil, notwithstanding the gravity of the
crisis ; but the clubs have held some stormy
meetings. We must soon expect to feel the
influence of the electoral agitation. At Dijon
four candidates have been chosen. They are
Garibaldi, Magnin, Dubois, and Jules Clarion. The pro-
gramme put forward is " The Republic one and
indivisible ; not an inch of our territory."
Garibaldi is likely also to be returned at Lyons.
A central committee of resistance has been formed here
by some private citizens.
Bourbaki's death is again denied. He is now at Bescan-
con. The person who died in an hotel and was taken for
n, was a simple colonel of infantry.

THE SITUATION AT MARSEILLES.
The news of the capitulation of Paris was only made,
known in Marseilles by slow degrees, and with great
caution. On receiving it in a private telegram from Lon-
don, the Prefecture stopped the transmission of the
intelligence, and communicated it to the Government
at Bordeaux, The latter professed no knowledge of
it, and did not believe it. M. Gent published
the answer the next day, and said he had asked for fresh
information. When the news was confirmed by another
telegram from London, which announced the surrender
of the forts to the Prussians, the Prefect requested the
papers not to publish it, because he expected to
receive an official explanation. At last, on the 31st
the dispatch which had been kept was published in a de-
mocratic paper. The people were sad and dispirited, but
refrained from making imprudent demonstrations. The
Radical journals protested against the elections, declaring
that they would return a majority of Reactionists, Bona-
partists, and Bismarckians. The prefect seemed
to share their doubts, for he sent in his
resignation, declaring that he would serve
under Garibaldi, the General who would not
recognise the armistice. This was an erroneous supposi-
tion, for a dispatch from Garibaldi stated that he would
have carried out the provisions of the armistice, only
Manteuffel informed him that the three departments
of the Jura, Doubs, and the Cote d'Or, were excluded
from it. The resignation of the prefect has since been
withdrawn.

ELECTORAL MOVEMENT AT LILLE.
The IncUpendance Beige, strongly anti-Bonapartist,
says :—The electoral business is carried on after a certain
fashion at Lille. The so-called National Committee, which
was formed here in October, had already prepared a list
of candidates in which figured many opponents to the
Government policy. Among the 28 names put down, were
six old official candidates of the Empire. In consideration of
the brief space allotted for preparation, it was determined
that the existing arrangements should not be altered
before the Bth of February. The decree of the Bordeaux
Delegation was received, which prohibited the can-
didature of old official candidates. The committee
were unwilling to oppose the Goveanment decree,
and greatly to their regret put aside the " ineligible " can-
didates, and supplied their places by others, among whom
appeared General Changarnier, which was an extra-
ordinary thing, as the General had made known his wish
to be on a Republican list. Scarcely had the new list
appeared when the decree of Paris was made known
which did not sanction the exclusive measures
of the Bordeaux Government. The ci-devant
officials declared that they should be reinstated,
because the Paris decree was paramount. The Committee
shared their opinion, and set aside the candidates they had
selected in the second instance. This cavalier
mode of dealing with a man like General
Changarnier was considered highly inconsistent, and
the eagerness with which the so-called National Corn.
mittee returned to the previous arrangements was looked
upon as significant of its Bonapartist sympathies and its
latent desire to revive the old system of official candida-
tures in the forthcoming Assembly.

The distress in Germany through the war is so great 0
that large numbers of people are emigrating to Belgium.
M. Auspach, the burgomaster of Brussels, has started for
Paris with a train of provisions for the distressed Belgians
who are in that city. These provisions were supplied by
the Committee for the assistance of the Belgians, which
was established under the auspices of the Government,
and also by the Bread Committee.
General Trochu, in a letter declining to offer himself as
a candidate for the National Assembly, foreshadows his
speedy retirement from political life : " I only consented
to retain the Presidency of the Government because it was
my duty to bear with my colleagues all the weight of our
common responsibility. lam about to be discharged
from it, and my part must finish with the events which
gave it rise."
The Swiss Federal Council has issued a long series of
regulations for the supervision, accommodation, and pay
of the interned French troops. The officers are to pro-
vide their own food and lodging, the superior officers
being allowed for this purpose 6f. and subalterns 4f. per
day. The privates are to have gof a pound of meat and
lilb. of bread daily, and vegetables will be supplied them
at a charge of ten centimes, which they will pay out of
their allowance of 25 centimes per day..
A British officer pays a high compliment to Bourbaki's
dash and enterprise in the Crimean war. At Inkermann
he made a splendid charge in company with de Wimpfen,
another gallant but ill-fated officer. " With admiration I
remarked the chivalrous bearing and serene intrepidity of
Bourbaki—as was said of Gouvion St. Cyr, " toujours h
cheval hla tete des troupes." Both in person and in act
he presented the beau ideal of a French general. He should
have lived 70 years ago. Napoleon I. would have rejoiced
in him."
The young Duke of Bavaria who was shot by a Franc-
tireur the other day, at Broglie, was heir presumptive to
the Throne of Bavaria, his brother, the present King
Louis, being unmarried. Prince Otto Wilhelm Leopold