The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-09 00:00:00

CATTLE MARKET.

DONCASTER, SATURDAY.—AIthough there were only limited
supplies of beasts and sheep on sale the business doing was
small. There was a good show of pigs, Which changed hands
quietly at about late rat%

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—Opening re-
port : This market opens quietly to-day, with a drooping
tendency. Sales, probably 10,000 bales.
CORK BUTTER MARKET, SATURDAY.—Ordinary firsts,
1465., seconds 1375., thirds 120 s. fourths 1065., fifths 985., sixths
635. 200 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts 1525.,
seconds 1465., thirds 130 s. 20 firkins in the market.

iHr SUN►, LO,NDoN MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1811.

exonerated, with the exception of General Desvaux, who
throughout demanded that a last effort should be made to
save the honour of the army. In conclusion, General
Deligny protests against the idea of a Bonapartist resto-
ration, which he declares to be preposterous, as the offi-
cers and soldiers of the army of Metz would never con-
sent to support it.

young man took a gentle expression in death ; around
him were the grave faces of our soldiers, who in solemn
silence leant upon their weapons. Through the high
trees came a glimmering light ; they stretched their
mighty branches over us, as if they would conceal with
their protecting arms man's cruel deeds from the eyes of
the unseen God. In his breast-pocket we found several
letters from his old mother, and the portrait of a young
lady —probably his sweetheart. His address was in his
pocket-book. I took possession of the different articles,
cut off a lock of his hair, and sent the things as soon as
I possibly could to his mother, a lady of position in
Lyons. She, poor soul, perhaps little foreboded that
her son
-lay cold and stiff under the tall trees, and that

.tand was raised to prepare him a last resting-place.
THE CHARGE AGAINST GENERAL TRO CHU.—
An article which appeared the other morning in the
Siec/c has excited great attention at Bordeaux. It
gives bold expression to the doubts which have long been
entertained as to the capacity, and even the loyalty,
of General Trochu, to whose absolute command-
in-chief the defence of Paris has been confided.
"In conversation on the boulevard people naturally
speak with less reticence than the newspapers, and those
who do not attribute Trochu's ill success to incapacity
openly charge him with criminal intentions. They say
the Governor of Paris only seeks to save appearances,
and executes mock battles and mock sorties in order to
exhaust his ammunition, and then one fine day, when the
Mobiles have no longer a cartridge to put in their Chasse-
pots, he will capitulate, making terms with the King of
Prussia for the restoration of the Comte de Paris, who,
everybody knows, is the King's great-nephew. We are
loath to attribute dark projects to the citizen whose first
proclamations, as Paris must remember, were extremely
frank and loyal. But we do not hesitate at all to say
that we seek evidence of the capacity of this general.
Competent military men reproach him with many short-
comings, and assure us that he alone has made more mis-
takes than all the marshals of the empire put together.
Ist. Against the most elementary rules of the military
art he assembled in a place about to be besieged all the
disposable forces of the country. 2nd. He neglected to
send into the provinces a single military organiser or ad-
ministrator. 3rd. While well knowing that there was
nobody in the provinces capable of directing war opera-
tion, he left us for many months without any plan what-
ever. 4th. Instead of going resolutely forward, as the
circumstances and the plan agreed upon imperatively
commanded he made platonic sorties on November 30 and
December 2, leaving the, exterior army, which he had
left at the enemy's discretion, in a ridiculous position.
sth. And finally, he has now again made a sortie in the
style of Bazaine. Everybody must now feel the neces-
sity of adopting a new system. The provinces are
organised and in line of battle. On two different points
it is ready to aid Paris. Let Paris now do its duty.
Heroism does not consist in a feigned resistance. The
thing to do is to walk through the enemy and penetrate
into the provinces. That is the ardent desire of Paris,
as well as the provinces. The provinces now send their
desires to Paris. Let Paris enforce its will."
THE PROVINCIAL ARMIES OF FRANC E . —A.
Frenchman writing from Bordeaux on the last day of 1870
declares the military situation of France to have im-
proved. " Our provincial armies," he says " which
were dispersed after the affair at Orleans on
the 4th of December are now reformed. There
was but one, there are now two, and in dividing them
they have doubled, for reinforcements came in from all
parts. The army of Brittany has joined that part of the
Army of the Loire which General Chanzy rallied towards
Mans. The army gathered at Cherbourg to protect the
town against an attack by land also supports Chanzy
now that the Prussians are falling back towards
Paris. At the same time the other corps of
the army of the Loire, to which Gardes Mobilise& from
all parts are attaching themselves, has rallied under
Bourbaki's orders. There are 200,000 men on this side and
200,000 on that. All these troops are not experienced,
and some defections may occur, but experience proves
that recruits who recoil at the first fire behave very well
the second time. And how could itbe otherwise ? How could
it be expected that men drawn from the plough, from the
counter, from the lawyer's desk, to be sent into the midst
of fire, could face without flinching that Prussian
mitrailleuse, which pours shot like hail, and which must
be waited for immovably? Nevertheless those bat-
talions of Mobiles, which fled at the first en-
counter, flinging away their guns and their knapsacks
to run the faster, stood their ground admirably the second
time. The situation then has improved since the rout
at Orleans. At that time our forces were so scattered
that they were powerless to arrest the enemy's progress.
They were able to come to Blois, to Tours, to Poitiers
like an inundation. They could do, in short, what they
liked. A month ago we had Paris on one side, block-
aded, but resolute, and on the other the Army of the
Loire. To-clay we have still Paris no less resolute, and two
armies, one on the west and one on the east, ready to take
the field ; three stakes instead of two, without counting
the Army of the North under Faidherbe. The December
just over, then, leaves us stronger than November, and
how much stronger than September, at the fall of the
Empire ! If Paris, which is the key of the whole, holds
out another month, the chances are in favour of her deli-
erance.'