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

GETTING INTO PARIS.

To pass from the exterior through the German lines
into Paris is a feat.so difficult that only one instance of it
fs known. His adventures are described in the Journal
des Debals. On Saturday, the lath of October, one of the
couriers charged with taking letters to the provinces and
bringing back replies, managed by crawling along on all-
fours to pass the Prussian posts established between
Stains and Dugny. His destination was Amiens, and he
made for this town by almost invariably following the line
of the northern Railway. He arrived at Amiens in safety,
and on Monday, the 24th, set out again. He arrived
without any noteworthy incidents at Louvres, where the
Prussians have a park of artillery, about 1,400 men, and
as many horses. After several useless attempts on the
26th, 27th, and 28th to force the Prussian lines, he
decided on the 29th at all risks to enter Paris.
Having left Louvres, he arrived at Goussainville,
and, there met the ambulance carts which the
Prussians were sending out of Pierrefitte and Gonesse as
a measure of precaution. It was the day of the occupa-
tion of Le Bourget by the French troops. On the 30th
he was perceived at Moulinneuf, between Stains and
Dugny, at about half-past six in the morning, by two
Prussian sentinels who called to him and told him to stop.
Without calculating the danger to which he was exposing
himself, for he could not swim, our courier threw
himself into the little river Rouillon and hid himself in
the water up to his neck. He remained thus an hour and
a half, during which time one of the two Prussians sought
for him everywhere, poking among the weeds with a pole
and endeavouring even to pass the river on a plank, which
was happily too short, while the other with loaded gun kept
watch at the point where he had disappeared. At length
the two Prussians, doubtlessthinking him drowned, gave up
their search and went away. He then quitted his hiding-
place, struggled through the artichokes and crossed two
other streams, after which he threw himself without
hesitation into the marshes between Le Bourget and La
Courneuve, knee-deep in water. Having crossed the rail-
road from Paris to Soissons and passed over the Plaine
des Vertus, wet to the skin, shivering with cold,
harassed with fatigue and excitement, he at length sue.
ceeded in entering Paris by the Porte de Flandre.

A letter from Bitsche to the Frankfort Journal states
that the commanders on both sides have agreed to suspend
hostilities in and about that fortress.
The North German Consul of Rio Grande del Sol
sends word that in a naval combat between a German
frigate and two French gun-boats, the latter were de-
feated.

An intercepted Paris letter says that the entire press,
the Jacobin organs of course excepted, are unanimously
demanding the convention of a Constituent Assembly.
The Government has entered on the consideration of the
question, but is divided.
The Tours correspondent of the Standard says the
difference in the training and conduct of the French
troops is surprising. " There is 10) longer that' neglect of
the military salute of soldiers to their officers which so
Much struck ino upon my lit arrival . here. 1 have not

seen a drunken soldier in the streets for upwards of
month. As I see them standing about in the stage])
yard, with their arms piled, waiting for a train—waiting,
perhaps, for three or four hours—the difference is still
more strikirig. Never, indeed, at any time do I remember
to have seen French troops so quiet, so steady, and gO
generally well behaved as they are now."
It is said that after the evacuation of Dijon there was
found in the room of a Prussian officer of high rank a list
of the contributions to be imposed on Lyons when cW
tured, which amounted to 400 million francs. This new;
has greatly increased the spirit of resistance at Lyons, and
the depression which followed Sedan is no longer visible.
A young man Who would not join the army would be
scouted.
The Allyeineinc Zeitung says :—" At Baden an incident
has made a great sensation. The Duchess of Hamilton,
daughter of the late Grand Duchess Stephanie, and there;
fore related to Napoleon, had hitherto been a member el
the ladies' society for the relief of the wounded. Since her
last visit to Wilhelmsiihe she has seceded from the society'
and withdrawn her subscription irom it. She never made'
indeed, any secret of her French sympathies, and she
diligently supplied the French wounded in the b°s'
pit6ls with French newspapers, but people scarcely eN-'
pected such conduct on the part of the offspring of 3
German princely house."

The correspondents find it impossible to get near the
army of the Loire. One of them says :—" I have bon
over to Orleans to-day and tried to get to the front, the
brass 'upon my visage being my only passport ; but barely
three miles outside the town I was encountered by
patrol, who politely reconducted me, with a quiet ado,'
nition to get out of Orleang within twelve hours." The
military authorities in the district have given warning
that any 'newspaper correspondent giving any information
as to the strength or whereabouts of the French army will
be tried by court-martial as in collusion with the enenlY
which, of course, means a pleasant excursion to the chain?,
de manoeuvre at daybreak, accompanied by a corporal
twelve men.

The Bavarians pay great attention to the material siii‘3
of life, and with their anxiety for the menage they are a
terror to the French peasant. In a village lies, perhaPlo
already a battalion of North German troops. All is still
and quiet in the peasants' cottages. The soldiers are
polishing their boots, stand in the open kitchens, and wash
their shirts, or peel their potatoes. A Bavarian coition'
comes along the road, and suddenly there is a great cony
motion in the village. The hens cackle, the cocks Cull'
the ducks and geese cry out for help. A few minute!,
afterwards all is again still, but no cock crows, no duck
quacks any more. The inhabitants wring their hands over
the cut-off heads of their fowls, which the column ila!
left behind. "All hope abandon," I exclaim whenever .1
come through a village in which I see the Bavarians
cantoned. Their philosophy, however, is the right ouel,
and I expressly guard myself against the suspicion 01
meaning any disparagement. The Bavarians are th,e,
true war philosophers. "A la guerre comme ala guerf..6
People should not begin a war if they do not like its 416'
advantages. German Correspondent.

THE SOUTH or FnANcE.—A correspondent in the
south of France says that Toulon has stripped its arsenal
and part of its fleet of cannon, but is working hard to
replace them, and there is no ground for uneasiness. Will
is really alarming the people of Toulon is an epidemic °
smallpox of extraordinary malignity. Marseilles and the
Greek colony are rivalling each other in supplying the
Free Shooters with mitrailleuses, but the Greek citizen
have won the race by the generosity of their gifts. They
are not numerous, but they are very rich, and have reaPe i
large profits this year from the importation of grail"'
The Radical paper, the Egalite, opened a sib'
scription to pay for a mitrailleuse of a 0°97
kind, both light and economical, which had bee°
given to the Marseilles Freeshooters. A Greek merchant,
M. Zalfiropoulo, at once paid for another mitrailloos°'
and one of his friends gave the principal amount for A
third, while four Greeks joined together to pay for tb
fourth. A telegraphic message states that the
ex-French officer, Cluseret, who styles himself ella
American general, has been arrested, like his, frier'
Train. He is said to be implicated in the attack n lire'
fect Gent, and got into difficulties with military author";
ties in Algeria ; but all this has to be cleared up
working mason has been arrested as the would-be as"
sassin of M. Gent. He was chosen by lot, in a meeting
of twenty-five accomplices, to fire at the prefect when
he arrived. He refused at first to do so, but was told 11°
would himself be shot. After committing the crime
took flight, but was taken ill, and when discovered was "g
in bed. The correctional tribunal of Marseilles invite
those persons who sent the despatches intercepted by the
Civil Guard to come to the office to have their money
returned.

A. GERMAN VOICE FOIL PEACES—The Tagespressc
of Frankfort has protested against the manner in which
Prussia has prosecuted the war in France. It is iadig'
nant at the reports which have been made concerning the
sentiments of the inhabitants of Frankfort. It admits
that at first they were led astray by the representir
'dons of the promoters of the war, and sent their
sons readily to defend the threatened soil of Germany'
It complains that no stop is put to the carnage, even after
the incontestable superiority of the German arms 1135
been shewn, and no possible apprehension can be enter-
tained of Germany ever being invaded by France.
declares the opinion prevails throughout Germany, ,4"
even in Prussia, that the Spanish intrigue was design 7,
for the purpose of bringing about this war, which apPer,
to be the continuation of the criminal act of 180?.:
The abuse which has been made of the power of then
defensive forces by the German military authorities b
given rise to great indignation in many quarters. Th`
people murmur as each fresh train leaves for France;
which train they feel sure will return with an additionol
number of carriages filled with wounded and mutilated
soldiers. On many occasions some force 11,3'5„,
been employed to effect the entrance of tw't
soldiers into the trains leaving for the st
of war. It was stated that illuminations
given at Frankfort in honour of the German victories, but
these only took place by order of the police. The arti,"
concludes by declaring that if this carnage does not speed
cease, the world will soon hear of the hostile feelings viluc,
are rapidly extending from one end of Germany to t>l
other, and which will prove to King. William that ,1,1;
will be safer to remain in France than to return ""
Germany.