The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-12 00:00:00

THE " RED " PRINCE.

Prince Frederick Charles, says the correspondent of the
Telegraph at Versailles, has taken his " double first " as a
general by his splendid conduct of the campaign against
Aurelles de Paladine, and has astonished even his most
ardent admirers by displaying in the highest degree a
quality for which even they scarcely gave him sufficient
credit, namely, caution. Those who are best acquainted
with his fiery character and impatience of half-
measures had been holding their breaths for more than a
week. Tormented by a sort of hopeful apprehension, they
had anxiously awaited from hour to hour the news that
the Royal Field-Marshal had, more suo, recklessly dashed
at his foes whenever he found them, and that he had
either well-nigh annihilated them or suffered
a terrible reverse. The consequences of the
latter alternative might have been the raking,
of this siege, and the retreat of the German
armies to Lorraine. To the manifest surprise of a great
many experienced officers who have carefully watched the
Prince's military career from its very inception upwards,
nothing in the least resembling precipitation has charac-
terised his proceedings from the momenthe took command
of the allied forces' told off to account for the Army
of the Loire. he had to deal with opponents
occupying positions of great strength, and pecu-
liarly difficult to reconnoitre by reason of
their being covered along the whole extent of
their line by enormous woods. He, therefore, felt for
the enemy patiently, day after day, until he ascertained
the disposition of their forces so accurately as to enable
him to concentrate his own right upon the smaller end of
the Bois d'Orleans, without fear that Aurelles de
Paladine, breaking out on the left, might succeed in fight-
ing his way up the Fontainebleau road. When once the
Prince had made up his mind, he acted with the
promptitude that especially distinguishes him ; and
of the result you are now enabled to judge. You will
understand, of course, that the reason prompting H.R.H.
not to effect a junction with the Grand Duke until the
end of last week, was the doubtful attitude of the
French ; neither one General nor the other could
accurately ascertain whether the Bros of the French
force was massed to the eastward, with a
view to operating in the direction of Chartres,
Dreux, Evreux, &c., or to the westward, purposing to
advance on Fontainebleau, Melun, and Etames. It was
necessary that either commander, in default of sure
information respecting the French dispositions, should
be prepared to sustain the shock of the whole Loire
Army which might at any moment have been
hurled against the right or left wing of the allies.
Prudence was therefore the order of the day,
until, as usual, the magnificent cavalry had cleared
up the doubts of the Red Prince to his entire
satisfaction. Once assured of the enemy's where-
abouts, he moved his troops over from left to
right, joined the Grand Duke, and began to
hammer at the Loire Army in the manner that
is dear to his heart, until he broke, routed, and drove them
before him like sheep over the river, his adventurous
horsemen pursuing them even across the broad stream
that will now probably serve till the end of the war as a
frontier between Germany in arms and the southern
moiety of France.

There was a trial of preserved meat from Rosario,
iii the Argentine Republic, in London, on Wednesday,
with, it is stated, satisfactory results. The preparation
was effected by immersion in a solution of bisulphate of
lime, according to the process of Messrs. Medlock and
Bailey, of the Horseley Fields Chymical Works, Wolver-
hampton, and the meat was sealed up in a cask in the
presence of Mr. Hutchinson, the British Consul at
Rosario, on the 10th of August last, and brought by him
to this country. It had, therefore, been kept four months,
and had made a passage across the line, yet was found
perfectly fresh, not only in quality, but in appearance,
and was deemed by the persons present at the trial equal
to any good ordinary home beef.

A. young boatman, named George Harding, was
tried at the Glamorganshire Assizes, on Thursday, for
the wilful murder of Edward Daley, another boatman,
at Cardiff. The prisoner and the deceased had met at
the Custom-house Hotel. An altercation ensued between
them as to which of them was "the best man." The
prisoner got intV a boat lying at the quay side. The
prisoner dared the deceased to come on board at his
peril, upon which the deceased did jump into the boat.
A struggle here took place, and while the deceased was
restinc, on the side of the boat after a cessation of their
struggle for one or two minutes, the prisoner rushed at
him and threw him into the water, and he was drowned.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. The
judge said that, had the verdict been one of murder, he
should not have said it was a wrong one. He sentenced
the prisoner to twenty years' penal servitude.
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