The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-22 00:00:00

No NEWS.

Balloon communication with Paris has again ceased
for a few days. The weather may be unfavourable,
the Germans may be more successful in bagging this
game, or the French Government may not desire any
intelligence to get outside. In the latest papers
received a growing desire for peace is evinced by the
more moderate writers. The Soir hOlds that longer
resistance is impossible, and proposes that M.
Favre, who has irrevocably pronounced against
ceding Alsace and Lorraine, be superseded
by M. About. The Daats is very earnest.
"Let us then act as reasonable people, let
us make a painful, but temporary sacrifice, and when
by peace we regain our freedom of action let us with
energy and patriotism set to work to redeem our lost
dignity. Let us by our moral energy, our patriotism,
and our determination become again what we
formerly were, and this we shall do, especially if
the transitory disgrace which the Imperial Govern-
ment has brought upon us serves as a salutary lesson."
'fit the same time there is plenty of • warlike writing
in the Paris journals. Of military movements we
hear nothing. For the last three weeks or so, the
great garrison has remained quite inactive. It is
supposed that General Trochn is preparing his great
coup.

A POSSIBLE, SCHEME.

The silence which has descended on the Paris
garrison at present envelops all the French armies.
Their leaders have effectually taken a lesson from
their opponents in this respect. M. Gambetta keeps
all news of military movements out of the papers,
and the English correspondents flounder about in
evident uncertainty both as to the numbers and
positions of the Republican forces. What is the
Loire Army doing, is a question which nobody has
yet answered. It has nut been lighting since the
10th, for the combat at Motu, described by King

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William as a French repulse " all along the line,"
turns out to have been a very partial affair. The tele-
grams from Tours say that the Loire army is awaiting
the Germans in an entrenched camp at
Orleans ; but it is likely that D'Aurelles is
doing something quite different from what the Tours
telegrams represent him to be doing. Moreover, to
wait at Orleans would be suicide. It is sug-
gested in several quarters,amongst others, by the acute
diarist of the Standard, that the French General,
leaving a small force opposed to the Duke
of Mecklenburg to mask the movement, is
hurrying up to the north with the intention of
assailing the Germans before Paris on the western or
north-western front. If this plan succeeded, the
army of the Loire, Bourbaki's army of the North (at
least 60,000 strong), and Trochu's force,
would all fall upon the weakest point of
the besiegers' lines, whilst Prince Frederic Charles
and the Duke of Mecklenburg were wild goose-
chasing about Orleans. If such a plan were carried
through, the German position would become very un-
comfortable. But in order to succeed it is necessary
first, that the French should have attempted it, of
which there is no positive news, and that the Ger-
mans should be kept in ignorance of the design until
Bourbaki and D'Aurelles had well nigh marched to the
required point.