The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-18 00:00:00

FRESH MEAT EXHAUSTED IN PARIS.

In a letter dated Royal Headquarters, Versailles, No-
vember 12, the special correspondent of the Telegraph
says:—Yesterday was a sad day for the Farasians. It
initiated a new phase of the privations inflicted upon
them by the German investment of their persecuted city,
and brought them one step—a gigantic stride, rather—
nearer to that capitulation which they themselves are be-
ginning to regard as inevitable. The rations of fresh meat
hitherto punctually issued by the authorities, were
stopped yesterday ; and salaison, or salted meat, was sub-
stituted in their stead. This significant token of approach-
ing hardship has not failed to elicit from the organs of
public opinion a violent protest against the prolongation
of the • defence; accompanied by an exhausted Jer-
miad, addressed to the soi-disant Government, in
which its members are pulled to pieces with the
scathing irony and cruel logic which are so pecu-
liarly characteristic of exasperated French /itterateurs.
I never doubted for a moment that, so soon as real want
made itself felt in the ranks of the middle classes, a
vigorous reaction would take place in favour of " submis-
sion to destiny ;" and, sure enough, the Figaro - which has

hitherto, so to speak, been written with a civic dagger
imbrued in Prussian blood—which has published
more foul-mouthed vituperations, has expectorated
more frantic exhortations,burlesque in their extravagance,
which has propagated more lies'than any other Parisian
newspaper—has now, convinced by the irresistible
eloquence of salt junk, turned sharply round upon the
Committee of Defence, denied its gods, swallowed
its own words in preference to pickled horse,
and turned the stream of its abuse from the
Prussians to its own countrymen, splashing all kinds of
Frenchmen with an equal douche of bitter condemnation.
Figaro urging capitulation ! Figaro preaching morals !
Figaro vilifying the defenders of Paris, and by inference,
if not directly, exalting the virtues and qualities of
France's enemies ! It is incredible—or it would
be so, but that the worker of the apparent miracle
stands revealed in the first few lines of the second leader
printed in yesterday's issue of the paper—" ii n'y a plus
de viande fraiche! Had the Journal des Debuts, or even
the Cinistieutionnel, come to And Ocimated our.

render, one would not have been so much surprised ; but
the Figaro—the Prussian-eater, the gore-quaffer, the
suggester of plans for the annihilation of German
armies through the patriotic self-abandonment of female
patriots—the preacher of resistance to the death, to the
last paving stone, to the last bottle of petroleum—the:
prophet of carnage, to whom the poniard and the bowl
seem to come as handy as the pen and the inkstand !
Well, wonders never will cease.

General der Tann is said to bey greatly enraged at hiS
defeat, and swears to return to Orleans.
German reports of the late battle on the Loire admit
that the French fired much better than usual.

A despatch from Besancon states that from the 9th
inst. the trains have ceased to run between Besancon,
Dole, Belfort, and Mouchard.

It is rumoured that a general (name not given) has been
dismissed fur incapacity, in making a false movement ea
November 9th, which prevented the certain capture d
5,000 Bavarians.

•
A commission of Judges of Instruction is now sitting;
in Tours to collect evidence against Marshal Bazaine. °ll'
the 12th an officer newly arrived from Metz was under 0
amination for four hours.

When the news of the recent victory of the French
Orleans became known on the Vienna Exchange there INTO'
a grand manifestation of sympathy for the victors, which
lasted fully ten minutes, during which time all busine'3s.
transactions were interrupted.
Forty-seven Milans are reported to have arrived at Die;
mours on the 13th, where they were surprised and capture°
by Mobile Guards of the Seine-et-Marne the same night'
after a fight lasting one hour.
The plan of removing some of the sick and wounded
from Metz to Berlin has been abandoned on ac-
count of the prevalence of typhus, smallpox, hospital
fever, and other contagious maladies.

It is asserted that M. Jules Simon, Minister of Publl°
Instruction, has officially informed M. Arago, Maire of
Paris, that he is about to propose to a public meeting 1/
project for erecting a statue to Baudin.
There has been an excieng chase' off the Norfolk coaA
between a French ironclad and a Prussian merchant
vessel. The Frenchman fired 25 shots at the Prussia°
which, however, got clear off, and made for the north.
The battalion of Franc-tireurs of the Sarthe, whose
commandant has been dismissed for want of energy before
the enemy, has just been dissolved and disarmed by tee:
orders of the superior general commandant of the forces eI
the West.

Count Moltke's reported illness proves to be without
serious foundation. The general has had a slight cold'
accompanied by some symptoms of fever. He has, how-
ever, never missed a military council nor otherwise been
withheld from the performance of any of his duties.

Intelligence has been received per Brazil mail that the--
French advice steamer Le Curieux had captured the Ger-
man barque Wanderer, bound from Liverpool for Rosario-
The master of the prize, Captain Ernst Hiemann, and the
crew were taken in Le Curieux to Bahia, and sent to
Europe in the Gironde. The barque was expected at
Bahia.

The French recruiting sergeants will probably woo
have completed their voyage round the world ; they are
trying her luck in almost every country of the globe,.
Among the later arrivals there to defend the "holy soil of
France " there are some 200 Albanese, who arrived 01
Marseilles, armed with their long rifles and daggers, encl.
clad in their fantastic national costume.

On Wednesday information was received at Gres
Grimsby of the capture of the North German Lloyd's'
steamers Hansa and Leipsic. The Hansa had 78 passen-
gers when captured and the Leipsic 20. The French have'
also captured and burnt the bark Juno, of Dantsic. The'
English bark Red Cross Knight, of Swansea, for Val'
paraiso. was fired at three times by the French fleet near
Heligoland. She shewed her ensign and was then ordered
for England.

Commandant Leperche, the aide-de-camp of General
Bourbaki, was unwilling to agree to the capitulation of
Metz. He assembled some officers and soldiers, and lea
them out to cut a passage through the ranks of the enemy
In all probability some of these brave men would have got
through had not treasonabl9 information betrayed them
to the enemy. Commandant Leperche took refuge
in Aux-sur-Moselle, but two days afterwards his retreat
was betrayed, and he was taken to one of the prisons of
Fort Plappeville.

The Daily News Versailles correspondent says it is cer-
tain that if Paris be. taken instead of surrendered on
terms agreed upon between King William and the present
Provisional Government, that Government will hence-
forward be considered by the Germans as non-existing,
and they will themselves install another Provisional G°-
vernment, preparing the re-establishment of the EmPire
by means of the captive army. The Senate and the L
gislative Body are at hand for the purpose.

The francs-tireurs of Lisieux took part in the action at
Saint Laurent des Bois, near Marchenoir. They three
times repulsed the enemy, and killed a captain of Prus-
sian cavalry. The wife of one of the francs-tireurs
happened to be on the spot when the engagement began-
She did not like remaining a passive spectator of it, and
asked for a revolver, with which she played her part 111
the affair. The revolver was afterwards given to her by
the Commander Lienard as an acknowledgment of her
bravery, and she took it home to Liseux with a prayer-
book and cartridge-box found upon the Prussian captain.

The recent telegram from Arlon stating that the born'
bardment of Thionville had commenced on the 12t11
instant would seem to be incorrect. A private letter froze
Metz, dated the 14th, says : " Yesterday I understwa
that a farce was to be enacted here—that Thionville
was to be bombarded for an hour and then surrender 1.19
mutual consent. It did not come off, but they are going
to begin on the 20th. All the French materiel is being
taken from Metz for the investment of Thionville. and I
fancy that it cannot hold out long." The fact of the bolo'
bardment having commenced is also contradicted by 5
Metz journal, Le Messin, of the 14th.

Emile de Girardin, formerly editor of the Liberte, 110
addressed a letter to M. Gambetta, in which he says that
after the capitulation of Sedan he proposed to the MinistrY
as the wisest course the restoration of the Constitution of
1848, the election of a President of the Republic, and the
nomination of a Legislative Assembly. He now proposes
that one of the diplomatic body should go to Tours to pro-
pose an armistice for four days, without any conditions*
during which time the Constitution of November, 1848°
might be revived, and a President elected; During those
four days Paris and the departments must have full free'
dom of correspondence.

More evidence of the mismanagement under the Buy
pire is coming to light. For a long time every one Wow
dered, but no one knew, where the immense number of
Chassepots, said to have been in store when the war broke
out, could have gone. It now turns out that the Chasse.
pots not only existed, but are turning up here and therels
wonderfully large numbers, from the most unlikely places.
At the small fort of La Fere, in the north, no fewer than
20,000—one correspondent says 60,000—0 f those rifles have
been found, together with the materiel for an entire army
corps. In the same fort no fewer than five complete
batteries of field artillery were discovered. These stores
have been of infinite service to General Bourbaki.

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BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., at Larkbeare, Exeter, the wife of J. C.
Bowing, Esq., of a son.
On the 15th inst., at Cheadle, Cheshire, The wife of Capt.
T. H. Sykes, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.j
On the 15th inst., at Bournemouth, John 0. Vandeleur•
4th Battalion Rifle Brigade, of Ballinacourty, eldest son
of the late Colonel Vandeleur, 10th Hussars, to Frede
rica Jane, fourth daughter of the late Charles William
Beauclerck, of Winchfleld House, Hants.
On the 15th inst., at Saint John's, Brixton, James IL
Young, Esq., of The Gardens, Peckham, to Georg/Da
Sophia Catherine, the eldest daughter of the Rev. pr.
Mansfield, vicar.

DEATHS.
On the 15th inst., at Highfield House, Roupell-park,
Streatham, William Nicholas Rogers, Esq., aged 39..
On the 15th inst., Dennis Cutler, of the Broadway, Ron'
mersmith, aged 67.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, °I
No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at
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