The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-16 00:00:00

THE RUSSIANS AND JULES FAVRE.

The Journal of St. Petersburg, in the article on the
9th of September, already mentioned by telegraph, re-
ferred to the circular of Jules Favre as the event of the day.
It points out that M. Jules Favre had disregarded the sug-
gestions of the Paris press with respect to the intervention
of Europe, and explained the state of things with clear-
ness. With respect to the passage of the circular, in
which M. Jules Favre says that the Government of the
National Defence. will not yield an inch of French terri-
tory, nor a stone of its fortresses, the St. Petersburg
Journal says that such a view of the question is
a mistaken one. If the conclusion of peace
be retarded for the sake of retaining intact
some fortresses, those who followed such a course
would themselves be liable to the imputation which M.
Jules Favre had cast on the King of Prussia, and would
bear before the world and before history a terrible respon-
sibility. It asks why the French Government does not of
its own accord give up those fortresses which have been
destroyed by the enemy's fire, and afford a proof of their
desire to put an end to the military rivalry between the
nations. The German nation did not interfere with the
French people until they were mejiaced by them, and
the two great nations should know no other rivalry than
the glorious one of works of peace. Sacrifices must be
made before any arrangement can 'be come to, and
patriotism does not compel people to push their
defence beyond certain limits. The possession
of these fortresses has not preserved Paris from
being exposed to a siege, and their maintenance
should not be made a sine qua non. Germany will not be
persuaded into making a peace without having received
some durable testimony to the manner in which she#has
carried on a war to which she was provoked, and which
has cost her so dear. M. Jules Favre believes the honour
of France to be concerned in his refusal to give anything
up, but may not Germany fear that she may be accused
of drawing back from the siege of Paris where all . the
French troops are assembled, and look upon the peace
proposed on such terms as a defiance in the same manner
that M. Jules Favre looks upon the continuation of the
war now that the Emperor is fallen as a defiance ? The
circular concludes with the expression of a hope that the
cause of right and justice may triumph; but the St
Peters burgh Journal says that in the month of July it was
not at all clearly shewn that the cause of right and justice
was that which was sustained by the Imperial Govern-
ment and by France. In any case it is to be trusted that
the influence of Europe will be exerted, and that a term
will be put to the horrors of a war which has lasted lon
enough already.

AFFAIRS IN LYONS.

Lyons appears at present to have a revolution within a

revolution, and, having been the first city in France to pro-
claim the d6chdance, its citizens are apparently unwilling
to acknowledge the control of the Provisional
Government. The accounts which reach us from
several different quarters agree in representing the state
of things as most unsatisfactory, and even dangerous. The

red flag still floats over the Hotel-de-Ville, and the coin-
, mittee which sits there assumes a degree of
arbitrary power which creates some alarm in the
town, especially in view of the fact that the commmunica-
tions with the capital are cut off. It is said that all the
branches of the International are repairing to Lyons,
where they receive arms from the municipality, and it is
suggested that this has some connection with some
mysterious red crosses, which mark sundry houses.
The worst part of the story is that under
this new Republic the police exercise inquisi-
torial functions, the arrests are continual, and on
very slight pretexts, while respectable residents in the city
have their persons and houses searched, on what grounds
are not very apparent. The carriage of the Archbishop
himself was stopped, and he was asked to get out that it
might be searched, while the Jesuit Establishment in the
Rue St. H6lbne was ransacked for arms and treasures,

the vases of the sacristy were carried off,
and the Jesuit Fathers themselves led to prison between
two bayonets. No one can leave the town without
going through formalities unknown before, and luggage is
strictly scrutinised. The religious establishments seem
to be especially the objects of suspicion, and a detach-
ment of National Guards were stationed at the African
Mission. One of the young priests had just died, and the
funeral was fixed for the Bth. The coffin was opened and
searched to ascertain if arms or money were concealed.
A group of cynics insulted the corpse and a voice cried,
"Who knows whether he is not shamming death to cheat

us ?" The friends and associates of the 'deceased
who could not prevent this painful scene, prepared when
it was over, to follow the coffin. They were roughly stopped
and only the brother of the deceased was permitted
after much entreaty to go. Two National Guards accom-
panied him to the cemetery, and hurried him back, leaving
him scarcely time to say a De Pro fundis by his brother's
grave. It is no wonder. Lyons is beginning to ask whence
comes the authority of the committee.

A formidable siege artillery has been sent to Toul and
Paris.

The principal German Cabinets are making preparations
!or establishing a common Government and Parliament
'or all Germany.

The Vienna Presse says that it was owing to the exer-
tions of Prince Metternich that the Ex-Empress Eugdnie
was saved from the Tuileries.

Herr you Twardowsky, who has acted as Secretary to

the Prussian Embassy in England during the last two
years, was killed by a rifle shot at Sedan, on the famous
first of September.
The Kreuz Zeitung states that, by order of the Minister
of War, the French prisoners are to be supplied with
white bread instead of the ammunition bread which is
generally served out to the Prussian soldiers. It appears
that the French cannot digest the black bread.

A French paper has the following :—" The other
Napoleon used to say that within 50 years Europe would
be Republican or Cossack. He made a mistake. Thanks
to his fatal influence, it will be Prussian, and that is