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

SPECIAL EDITION.

SUN OFVICE, 7 P.M.

LATEST I NTELLI GEN CE.

THE . WAR.

THE FRENOH LEVY EN MASSE.
LILLE, November 7.

It is estimated that the effect of the decree of the
Government for a levy en masse will be that France
Ilill number three millions of armed defenders,
Possessing a powerful artillery up to this time un-
exampled.
The Government at Tours has received intelligence
of a general fermentation amoT4 the inhabitants of
the territory actually occupied by the Prussians in
the east of France.
The Mayor of Lyons has issued the following
proclamation

" The Municipal Council, inspired by necessity,
decrees as follows :

" Rather than submit to the shame of surrender,
Lyons will be defended until complete annihilation;
Women, children, and aged persons only will be
allowed to leave. Cowards in face of the enemy
Inn be considered as deserters."

THE FRENCH REPULSED AT BELFORT.
General Triskow reports to Head-quarters at
ersailles, that on the 6th he repulsed several
attacks between Colmar and Belfort. In an engage-
Ment with the Mobile Guards at Roigemont, the
French lost five officers and 103 men.

PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL GARIBALDI.
The following Proclamation has been issued by
General Garibaldi :
htilitia of the Army of the Vosges !—The cosmopolitan
nucleus that the French Republic is rallying in her
°Qat, composed of men chosen in the elite of nations,
represents humanitarian future, and upon the banner of this
noble group you can read the motto of a free people, which
will soon be the watchword of the human family, "All for
0115, one for all" Egotism governs the world, and autocracy
combats certainly in the French Republic the germ of the
lights of man, which it abhors ; genius of evil, it makes
ev.erY effort for its preservation.
„ And the people ? Modern Republics like ancient Car-
rage swim in gold and sybaritism, whilst despots shake
"ands amidst the darkness they enjoy, and profit by the
misfortune of a brother people. Helvetia, believing her-
self 'weak, holds down her head, and covers, with the holy
flag of William Tell, her money chests and her banks.
Grant, who by a single sign of his finger could have
despatched the soldiers of Prim home to Madrid, permits
peaceably an entire population belonging to the grand
t
'aMily of Washington to be massacred and to be destroyed,
ftod barely allows the great Republic to utter a word of
43111Pathy for the valiant sons of Lafayette.
„ And thou, proud and classic ground, refuge of the exile,
hou who has first proclaimed the emancipation of races,
atid who to-day enjoyest the triumph of thy courageous
initiative, wilt thou leave alone in its gigantic struggle
that sister nation which, like thee, marches, and will
march, in the van of human progress ?
In the heroic struggle which France is sustaining there
can only be found the debris of an army of brave men,
Which the most stupid of tyrants conducted to defeat.
•unt the nation is there ! risen like one man, she will
cause the old autocrat soon to repent of his determination
to continue his butchery of men.
What a noble mission therefore is ours ! 'Sons of liberty,
Oite of all people. Oh, no ! I would not change my title
°f militiaman of the Republic for a crown.
Apostles of peace and of the fraternity of peoples, we
are compelled to fight, and we shall fight with the proud
e°2ladousness of justice, whilst consecrating the formula
the illustrious Chenier "Republicans are men, and
slaves are children."
Your courage I do not doubt ; all I ask of you is
coolness and discipline—indispensable in war.
G. GARIBALDI.