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before him, and really excites his contempt. He marvels
that Bazaine has ventured to make such statements
public when he must know they would be seen by
those who' really know the facts. The French officer
who wrote in contradiction from Lubeck, tells
the actual truth. Another officer, just escapead
from captivity, declares that Bazaine based
ll
his calculations on the anticipation that Paris would not
hold out a fortnight. He thought that then he would
command the only army France had left, and maintaining
his position in Metz while Paris gave up, he
would cut his way through, march to the capital,
and became the arbiter of the destinies of France. Paris
did not surrender, and he began negotiations with
the Prussians who duped him, promising that he should
march out with arms and baggage for the South
of France. They offered him one thing after
another ; and, finally, when he had eaten his last horse,
led him on to the disgraceful capitulation. Even then he
might have held out another fortnight, had he not feared
displeasing the Prussians !

NEWS FROM LYONS.
LYoNs, January 6.

The news which we receive here from the East is con
flitting, but the French troops, according to the latest
intelligence, have certainly resumed the offensive, and a
battle is imminent at Montbeliard, where the Germans
are mustering strongly. Werder has joined Zastrow and
Treskow. There is a report of a letter from the Ministry
at Bordeaux to the southern prefects, urging on the
training and the sending out of the mobilised troops. A
circular of the War Minister recommends a strict super-
vision over the railway stations. One letter has certainly
been received from Ministerial quarters. It is addressed
by M. Gambetta himself to M. Henon, who read it to the
Municipal Council. M. Gambetta regrets being com-
pelled to leave Lyons, and warmly applauds the
efforts and sacrifices which the citizens have
made, and declares that they set an example
to other districts which he is making every exertion to
stimulate into action.
One of the papers mentions a report of a great battle
going on between Bourbaki's army and Werder and
Treskow's corps, but there is no confirmation of this rumour.
The Prussians it is said no longer call this part of the
country the ate d'Or but the Me de Fey
having met with a resistance they did not at all expect,
, and having suffered great losses. A decree has been issued
by the Prefect of the Haut-Rhin authorising the issue of
, bonds during the investment of Belfort. The bonds,
E which are called siege bonds, will be of the value of sf.
and of 20f.

FRENCH PRISONERS IN GERMANY.
A letter from Cassel to the General German Gazette gives
some terrible details respecting the passage of the French
prisoners of war through that town. " Some hundreds
prisoners from Orleans," says this correspondent, " passed
yesterday through our town. Their melancholy condition
wouldnotpermitof their beingtaken further, and their de-
parture was delayed until late in the evening. Theirjourney
to Cassel had lasted seventeen days, and neither the pri-
soners nor their escort were in a state to go another
league, owing to the cold, for all this time they had been
in open cars. Last night, says a Bavarian belonging
to the landwehr, who formed part of the escort, was a
terrible one in every respect. The rain fell on them in
torrents, and they were up to their ankles in water, the
cars having no outlet. Later on, it began to freeze, and
glazed frost formed under the train, which
produced a terrible accident at the Gerstingen
station. A Turco in getting out fell, and was
crushed between the wheels, his limbs having lost all
elasticity by the sufferings of the journey. The Bavarian
added that he believed all would have perished if the
journey had been much longer. Many of the prisoners
after having warm drinks, fell into a kind of stupor which
lasted along while. They were lodged in the barracks and food
given to them. The 3rd Zouaves are numerous. They
had taken part in the Orleans fighting on arriving from
Oran. They were hardly clothed, and many of them
walked with bare feet through the snow, weeping and
shivering with cold. It is doubtful if so many as 30 or 40
of them will be able to reach Stettin.

The German residents at Marseilles have sent an address
to the King of Prussia entreating him to put a stop to the
horrid war which is now raging.
According to a communication from a Bavarian captain
of artillery before Belfort, the place is so torn by pro-
jectiles that it resembles a cobweb. The capitulation is
not far distant.
The Tours correspondent of the Standard says that
Bourbaki has passed through Chagny to Besancon with
three corps d'armee, and is being followed, it is believed,
by 50,000 of Prince Frederick Charles's men.
Almost all the correspondents in the German lines be-
fore Paris believes that the forts have ceased firing of
their own accord. They have not been " silenced" in the
proper acceptation ofthe term.
The 76th Regiment, raised at Hamburg, has been most
severely handled. Its loss in killed, wounded, and
missing was more than seven hundred, so that it was
found necessary to send reinforcements to fill up the

vacancies.
Different French versions of the German losses at
Bapaume fix the number at 9,000, 7,000, and half the
latter total. The Germans admit a loss of 1,000. Study-
ing the campaign in the North is, it will be seen, highly
encouraging and profitable work.
A letter from Cologne to the Journal de Liege says
that the Fusiliers and the 2nd Regiment of the Guard
have been detached from the Army of Paris to march to
Soissons, in order to prevent the forces of the North from
advancing from that side.
A paragraph in the A ord states that the first Prussian
shell thrown into Paris fell oh Thursday, the 15th of
December, near Point du Jour, inside the enceinte, and
that the battery which had thrown it was reduced
to silence by the naval gunners of Issy and Mont
Vabirien.

The Impartial du Nord has received information from
Peronne which says that that the place has suffered a
siege, and that for days the cannon was constantly heard.
Peronne did not surrender, but the village of St. Rada.
quede at a short distance, was burned down. The Prus.
sians raised the siege for the purpose, it was presumed, of
reinfaciiii the army of Manteuffel.
Garibaldi has written from Autun to say that he never
so much wished himself thirty years younger. The present
war is the most important of his life, and he rejoices at
the chances of success which are opening for the Republic.
He never doubted its final triumph, and he now sees
additional grounds for confidence. The spirit of the
people is strengthened, and men of all ages display a
wonderful degree of enthusiasm in taking to arms.
The Garibaldian officers who have been taken prisoners
are to be sent to Konigsberg, and only the Frenchmen
among them are to be allowed the privileges conceded to
other persons of the same rank. The Italians, Spaniards,.
Greeks, and Poles will be lodged in the barracks and
closely watched. They will, in other words, be treated
as privates. A large number of prisoners are to be quar-
tered in East Prussia.
Twelve thousand Alsatian volunteers have joined the
French armies since their country was taken possession of
by the Germans, and others are daily coming in. They
escape by night, they make their way over the mountains,
they pass through Switzerland, weary, hungry, footsore,
and even shoeless, to take their places in the ranks and to
fight for France and for rescue from the rulers to whom
they will never willingly submit.
A German official at Soissons has accidentally dis -
covered a secret post, by which despatches, letters, and
newspapers have been regularly transmitted from Tours
and Bordeaux to the north of France. Happening to
enter the kitchen of a livery-stable keeper, named Ballet,
whose house had been engaged by the German postal
authorities, he noticed five packages, and on opening them
found a large number of despatches, newspapers, and
balloon letters. Ballet alleged that he had received the
packages from an unknown traveller.
The commandant of. Phalsburg, Colonel Taillant, writes
the following letter to the Liberte of L'Herault :—" The
French journals have repeated, copying foreign papers,
that Phalsburg has capitulated. Phalsburg has not
capitulated. After having repulsed two attacks in force,
endured four bombardments, when we saw that provisions
were about to fail we drowned our powder, broke
the 11,000 guns in our soldiers' hands, and spiked our 65
cannon in the arsenal, and broke up the carriages. On the
day when bread failed we opened our gates, informing the
Prussians that we had destroyed all our matdriel of war,
and that we asked nothing. This is certainly not a capi-
tulation."
Acoounts from Rouen and Amiens confirm what has
before been said of the wretched condition of these towns.
At Rouen each day witnesses disturbances between the
soldiers and the workmen. Cannons are pointed in all
directions, and the Prussians are afraid to shew
themselves in the most populous parts of the
town. At Amiens there is less disturbance,
but the people are even more wretched. Some
discipline is maintained in the town, though not so much
as prevailed at first. In the neighbouring villages the
greatest desolation is apparent. The inhabitants are de-
prived of eyerythius thilt odd be carried off, and they

wander about without resources. In some places, where
the superior officers were not present, the soldiers gave
way to excesses which are not generally laid to the charge
of the German armies.
The " Besieged Resident " who contributes from Paris
to the Daily News, is in Germany the most popular
English writer on the war. Almost the whole German
press are in the habit of translating the more racy passages
of his diary; and in the beerhouses of Germany the people
are so eager for his accounts of the mood the Parisians are
in, that usually somebody is compelled to read the letters
aloud, The causes of this popularity are not difficult to
discover. The " Besieged Resident's" representation of
life in Paris under the siege are the most unfavourable
that come from the capital. They are absurd specimens
of Philistineism.
Speaking of GeneralChanzy and his army, a correspon-
dent of the Times says :—He is is a fine looking man, in
the prime and vigour of life, and a spare muscular frame,
an erect and soldier-like bearing, and a frank resolute
character. His army, scattered in cantonments, I had
not time to visit ; but the men have passed through a
month calculated to turn recruits into veterans. Those
whom I saw in Le Mans were in excellent condition ; and
I was assured on the best authority that the account of
the army which recently appeared in the columns of
one of your contemperaries had no other basis than a
chance meeting with a rear-guard, and with stragglers
exhausted by the fatigues of the work they had gone
through.

A lady of Soissons has sent to a Belgian paper an
account of the sufferings of the wounded during the un-
fortunate days of the conflicts in the environs of Paris.
She says that to appreciate it one must see the depths of
distress in which these soldiers remain during several
days. They are placed in empty houses, and are often
left alone for a considerable time, nearly dying from cold
and hunger. Charity has done much, but much still re-
mains to do. It is encouraging to witness the eagerness
which has been displayed by different nations to join in
the good work of succouring the distressed. Belgium has
contributed greatly to the noble deeds, and it is to be
hoped that more will be done to promote the welfare of
those who so greatly require assistance.
A correspondent of the Times gives some important
information respecting the armies of. Chanzy and Bour-
baki. The two parts of the French army have been in
communication by railway along the Valley of the Cher,
and it is known that the railway has been very active
lately. I gather from French sources that Bourbaki,
with the 18th Corps, has moved further towards Lyons
that Martineau, with the 15th Corps, three
days ago at Vierzon, near Bourges, about due south of
Orleans ; that travellers coming to Orleans from the
south were turned out of their way at Vierzon, and
forced to take a round in the westerly direction ; and
that Chanzy, with the 16th, 17th, and 21st Corps, con-
fronts the German army on the Loir. The 19th and
20th Corps remain to be accounted for. The 19th
is probably with Bourbaki ; of the 20th we know

nothing.
GERMAN 64 SAVING."—A correspondent writes ;
I see reference is made to the French troops being badly
shod. The Germans are keenly alive to the advantages of
a good boot. You must go very soon indeed to a battle-
field after the fighting is over if you want to see a body
with boots on. The Prussian soldiers are ever on the
look-out to renew their foot-gear when defective, and not
very scrupulous as to the means of doing so. When
asked where they got their new boots, they say they
" saved " them. This word is becoming a recognised
equivalent for " convey " in the sense given to it by
Ancient Pistol. An officer, seeing a soldier with a fine
gold watch and chain, asked the man where he got it.
"I ' saved ' it, Herr Hauptmann." "Who from ? "
retorted the officer, well knowing what "saved " meant.
"A French peasant, Herr Hauptman." " And what did
he say? " "He cried very much," was the reply.
A Belgian paper publishes a sad incident which
has just taken place at Brussels in the quarter where the
French female emigrants reside. Great excitement was
produced by the arrival of the postman with letters from
Paris, and among those who received communications
were Mesdames A and B, intimate friends, who occupied
the same apartments. By a curious coincidence the
husbands of both ladies had been killed during the same
sortie, and mutual friends had written to each lady re-
questing her to inform her friend of her sad loss. Each
lady saw the other's consternation, and believed her news
had been forestalled, so that it was some time before they
became awate of their individual misfortunes. The sad
event has produced a painful impression on all in the im-
mediate vicinity.
FRENCH DETERMINATION.—Much has been said
about the secret longing of the French for peace, that the
Republican Government was carrying on war quite on its
own responsibility, against the wish of the people, &c.
Here is what a representative of the Times has to say on
this subject :—The journey to Le Mans and back, as
well as the latter part of my sojourn here afforded me
opportunities of mixing with a considerable number
of French people of the middle classes, and of hear-
ing their sentiments about the war. I found among
them almost absolute unanimity. There is to be •
no peace until the last German has been expelled from
French territory; and no sacrifice of money or of life is to
be weighed in the balance against the object to be at-
tained. They all said that the turn of the tide had
come, and that the Germans, who might have ob-
tained honourable, or even glorious terms,
cost. after
Sedan, must now be driven out at any
They speak of the system of pillage carried on
by the invaders, of the burning of farms son
by of the
villages under frivolous pretexts,
exe-
cution of Franc-Tireurs in cold blood after engage-
ments, with a certain calm bitterness that bodes no
good to those who have provoked it, and that might
well be the precursor of a retribution that would
know no pity. They regard their enemies as a
people mad with the pride that goeth before
destruction, and hurrying to the certainty of eventual
defeat. The soldier of the line returning to his regiment
convalescent after sickness, the merchant taken from his
desk and his accounts into te ranks of the new levies,
the young fellow of a mohre adventurous turn, whose
chassepot and plumed hat proclaimed him a Franc-Tireur,
the provision merchant who had a contract for
feeding the army, the few ladies to be encountered in rail-
way carriages or waiting-rooms, all held the same language
or expressed the same ideas.
THE TRIAL OF THE GERMAN BANKERS.—ThO
Berlin correspondent of the Times gives an account of the
trial of four German bankers on a charge of high treason.
The crime alleged against them was that, being German
subjects, they subscribed for a French loan while their
country was at war with France. The gentlemen thus
accused were Herren George Gitterbock, of Berlin, Kulp
and St. Goar, of Frankfort-on-the Maine, and G. IL
Levita, of Antwerp. From the evidence it appeared that
the prisoners had telegraphed to London for scrip, thereby
supplying irrefragable proof of their offence, and at the
same time clearly chewing they had not reflected on the
culpable nature of the act. Instead, however, of basing
their defence upon this latter circumstance, counsel pre-
ferred bringing forward excuses which, while they did not
remove the guilt, were calculated to veil the fact that it
had been incurred by mere inadvertence. Herr Giiter.
bock stated that he had subscribed, not for himself,
for M. Soria a banker at Florence, who then happened
to be at Berlin ; Herr Levita subscribed for the banker
Habicht, of New York, then sojourning at Frankfort;
Herr Kulp did not subscribe at all, but merely meant to
purchase scrip subscribed by others, which clearly does
not implicate him under the law; while Herr St, Go
insists that he only inquired about the scrip, but neither
subscribed for nor purchased any. The court, regarding
these excuses as disproved by the wording of their tel
grams, found the prisoners guilty. Herr Gitterbock, wh°
had ordered the largest sum, £17,000, was sentenced td
two years' imprisonment in a fortress. Kulp, who ha
telegraphed for £4,000, was let off with nine months 4
probably because he stated that he was a naturalise;
French subject. Herren St. Goar and Levita? who haa,
asked respectively for £lO,OOO and £5,000, got six month°
each.

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BIRTHS. the
On the Bth inst., at 4, Cleveland-gardens, Ilycie-parg
wife of George Lee, Esq., of a son. a, O.
On the. Bth inst., at Airlie Lodge, Surbiton; Mrs- T.
Bryant, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
On the sth inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Oct:3l
the youngest son of the late B. W. Horne Esq., c'' tile
Russell square, and Mereworth, Kent, to 'llarrf.,,et9oo.
second daughter of John Rowland Gibson, F.-L"'•
Eng., of 10, Russell-square, W.C. of
On the sth inst., at Danbury, Robert Ottley, U6qi'deo
Wilmslow Park, Cheshire, to Caroline Matilda, e too"
gore
daughter of I. N. Stevenson, Esq., of Ilayne,
hampstea,d, Devon.

DEATHS.- VIA
On the 7th inst., at Kippington, Sevenoaks, John
Smith, Esq., ate M.P. for Chichester, aged 68. ockt
On the 6th inst., at 83, Camden-road, Abel Shirlat
aged 65.

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