The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-24 00:00:00

Pitt SUN, LONDON, THURSDAI, NOVEMBER 24, 1810.

bread of life has hitherto been supposed
to be frivolity and idle amusement, with
their theatres closed, with their gossiping
newspapers suppressed or transplanted, with
leisure a thing of the past, and gaiety impossible for
them, have deliberately settled down to the grim
work of warlike defence, without one thought of
surrender, and with, a resolve visible' on all hands,
but not expressed) of preferring death and bombard-
ment to capitulation. Two months having thus
slipped by, however, are two months to the bad for
Paris, and to the good for Germany.. Maintain
the investment sullieiently long, and Paris, With all
its heroistn, must perforce succumb before .the
deadliest foe of all, starvation. Whatever provisions
may have been stored up within the walls. of Paris
must, in the-lapse of time, be C'onsumed. Within
those walls thero are two millions of inhabitants,
the rationing of whom clay by clay involves an alarm-
,
ing consumption of the stores collected together in the
capital before the siege commenced. The period at
which those stores of provision must by necessity be
consumed is a simple matter of calculation. Ensure
to the beleaguring force that requisite interval, and
the pine of the war is played out to its bitter end
without firing a single shot. Count Titssraßcic
kr.ows this perfectly well, and so does Count
MOLTKE, and so does the pious King WturzLit,
and so do those chivalrous Princes who are
now, in reward for their recent campaigning,
both German and Russian Field-Marshals.
The Prussian victor has but to wait, has' but to bide
his time patiently, and the terms of the future treaty
closing. the present war will be dated from the
Palace of the Tuileries, and not simply from the
Palace of Versailles. All this is quite legibly upon the
cards—lF provincial France does not come mean-
while to the rescue—lF the siege is not raised by a
successful sortie from within by General Tnocnu, or
by a successful surprise from Without by General
D'AnnEats PALAWNF.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

day we were taught, he argued, that standing armies
were only provocOiVes of war, and it was plain to
statisticians that the armed peace of Europe which
during twenty years had cost four hundred
millions a year had "maintained peace "
by five bloody and desolating wars, entailing an
enormous sacrifice of life, and probably 1,000 mil-
lions of money. Mr. Richard, who urged his views
before a very favourable audience, advised them to
seek fora system Aainternational arbitration, by which
all difforendes- might be arranged withod an appeal
to the sword.
TAB SCARdItt OF MEAfi:

As the approach of winter draws nearer the animal
food question most press. itself on the public salon,
tion. As, however, our cattle have been seriously
affected all through the year by a tedious and hor-
rible diseate, and as, moreover, the supplies of
German pork and sausages will no doubt through the
war find their way into other channels than English
ones, it will behove every meat-eater—anal who
among Britons is not one f--,-to consider most 'care-
fully how he is to plice wholesome moat on his
table, or how the poor especially are to
be provided for, during the cold months.
It is a wise movement under' all cit.;
cumstances that the Australian meat problem
is again reco►mnended for our soltitiOn by Dr.
Letheby and others as one embracing means whereby
dinners for all, of succulent and nourishing food,
may be provided without much cost or trouble. We
aro told that prejudice and ignorance only prevent
this article of diet from being imported in much
larger quantities than it is from Australia.