The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-08 00:00:00

visited the scene of all these exploits. What &vast.
tion, what disorder presented themselves ! Everywhere
the marks of muddy feet ; windows and looking'
glasses smashed ; paintings lacerated ; hanginug,
torn ; furniture broken. We were informed I",i'
one of the principal functionarics of the guild
ing that the damage done amounted to no less t.
80,0001. In addition numerous robberies were corawitrieuj
uniforms, office accessories, clothes, &c., have dißt
peared. Fortunately the safe was guarded. Such are tu°
first results of this Commune, which many shout out for,
not knowing what it means."

THE SORTIE THAT DID NOT COME OFF'
Yesterday a-sortie in force from Mont Val6rien WO eV
petted, as the French were known to have been COncerlisi
trating troops there for the last few days. Gene
Blumenthal gave all the orders to his subordinates wt.!
in the morning ; but there was no sortie came. From
Cloud and Meudon battalion after battalion could be see':
marching up to Mont Val6rien, and it was estimated tit
by one o'clock there must have been more th5D
50,000 men sent from Paris to.that place. As there i 9
possibility of seeing what is going on from the Versaill°
side in case of a sortie, I came over here, from whence
fine view is to be had of the northern side of Val6rielli
and the hill between it and the woods of Buzenvall.
along the road thre were signs of preparation, and 'vile-
I got into St. Germain I found the two regiment;
of Landwehr under arms in the street, with artillery
ambulance waggons ready behind them. In the "Ps:.
terre" or public garden behind the far-famed terrace
the recently arrived English ambulance, also horsed en,
ready. It had been inspected in the forenoon by Ins Pen
Strohmeyer, who had expressed himself well satisfied W:
all he saw. Unfortunately he confined himself to a merew;
spection of the waggons-and their contents, and did °lle
ask for the men to be " put through the facinged
The terrace itself was crowded with St. Germainites
stray Prussian officers off duty, all eagerly looking at goo
Mont Val6rien in front. With the glass we could see
masses of troops about a quarter of a mile outside the
fort on the slope above Rueil and Alaimo-le°
Mounted officers were galloping to and fro ill/
every direction, carrying orders, I suppose ; and,
so, there must have been a great many of them to gi‘-e'
for the horsemen were both numerous and bustling'
Altogether, about three o'clock it did look very much !II
if the French meant coming out, as they did on the
21st ult. But after we had watched them for 510,"
an hour, the dark masses began to move slowly bA
to the fort, and about four an aide-de-camp came f°l33
headquarters to say that the French were VW/
back to Paris, and that the landwehr could go back ti3t
quarters. It is beyond conception what the movement
meant on the part of the French, as one would think ti°
such movements were calculated greatly to discourage
any troops. I was talking to some of the landwehr 101,1
about it in the evening, and one man said, "Ah, tha
it 6
what you never see our generals do ; we never me:
a yard without there is a reason for it ; and
even when we do not know why we have to march, "
are always certain that we are not being tired for nothins'
and therefore go cheerfully to work." Last night frin3)
two till four there was heavy firing from Mont Valerie',,
on the German working parties in Bougival and near
Malmaison. From the windows of the Pavillon ea
Henri IV. one could not only see the flashes of the
guns, but seethe course of the shells through the air, as 00
were fired with old-fashioned fuses. The French are certainji,4l
improving in shell firing, for out of more than thirty ellem-
I counted only two which I did not hear burst, and till
that did burst nearly all seemed to do so at the rii'
time. The night before last more than 300 shells We;
fired into Boug,ival, and now as I write an occasion I
boom tells of another.—Pall Ha Gazette CorreePandell
at St. Germain, Nov. 3.

The studio and residence of Mdlle. Rosa Bonheur et
Fontainebleau, have been spared, by order of the Crol
Prince of Prussia. A similar order has been given for th.
protection of M. Edouard Frere at Ecouen.
By General Moltke's letter of thanks in reply to rO.lll
addresses sent to him it appears that he was celebrate
his seventy-first and not his seventieth birthday as Ili°

stated first. ta
The Mobiles who have fled from Dijon to Lyons sto-d
that the National Guards at Dijon would not fight, an
that the inhabitants welcomed the arrival of the enellO.
The Duke of Gramont has written a letter contradict')
ing certain statements respecting the negotiations wilic
immediately preceded the war. These contradiction'
however, posstss no historical interest or importance.
A recent visitor to Gravelotte writes :—" It is a awn
of indescribable desolation. The heights occupied by tw",
French are still strewn with accoutrements and clothes'
the fields are deeply rutted with the wheels of artillerf
and dotted over with little mounds where the dead are
buried, and the whole is a perfect quagmire of mud."
The announcement that General Bourbaki had resign,ei
semis to be a mistake. The correspondent of the Skew/tit;
visited him at Lille, and very much astonished did ri
gallant officer look when " the news " was communicate.'
to him.
It is said that the duties and cares of the Englil
Ambulance at Versailles, which equals a squadron v'
horse, and has a full establishment of surgeons, fa:
centred on one Frenchman, kindly provided for their tleti
by a newspaper correspondent, who, treating himself tP.O
battue in the Emperor's preserves, delivered an err Ail
charge and pelleted a beater's fingers.
The Government of the National Defence has stld.
pressed the Imperial Guard, and placed the officers an.
soldiers of the ex-Guard on the same pay as the line °Ps
active service. The Government has also decreed tbii
for the future the decoration of the Legion of 110100
shall be exclusively reserved as a reward for military
vices, and for acts of bravery and self-devotion aceoln.
plished in the enemy's presence.
According to Voss's Gazette, the German soldiers noW
France and fit for service, number 690,000, while there
are 160,000 horses. The daily requirements of these
forces are 225,000 loayes .of bread, 185 oxen, 400 cwt. °A
bacon, 540 cwt. of rice, 160,000 quarts of brandy, 11Ii;
40 cwt. of coffee, 68,000 cwt. of hay, and large quantiro°-
of oats and straw.
"Excellent accounts " are said to have been receivoi
from Count die Keratry's camp at Coulie in Brittany
The camp has been regularly entrenched, and is defencle;
by heavy naval guns. It will form a point d' app f°
operations against the enemy. Perfect order and diseld.
pline prevail. Count de Keratry is very popular, °3,4
displays great activity and powers of organisation. 31°1
applications have been received from officers of the reel'
lar army. The force is also well supplied with field Oa,
lery. Count de K4ratry has received very liberal 511"
scriptions from the inhabitants of Brittany.
The following respecting the health of the Galli
troops was written from Nancy to the official paper f
Stuttgard by a Wurtemburg official :—" The condition °
the troops before Metz is, alas ! far from satisfaetet
Dysentery and, latterly, typhus are raging lament-0'
among them. 600,800, and even 1,000 men in a daY
sent away from the over - crowded hospitals I
the lines. Those only who cannot be carried fartlief
without peril are left here at Nancy. All the rest, 3°`;
a shorter or longer rest, go on, some of them
very miserable plight, to Germany by way of Wisselaci
bcurg. The hospitals here are in fine roomy buildings, and
well supplied ; perhaps sometimes a little short of ice an
medicines."

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