The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-13 00:00:00

THE IMPERIAL PRISONER.

The Princes Ney and Murat are with the Emperor At
Wilhelmshohe, also several Generals, including Reihe,
who brought the Emperor's letter of surrender to Xing
William. The Princes Murat has put up at one of the
hotels. A telegraph and post-office has been opened at
the Castle. The household of the Emperor consists of
about 130 persons who are boarded at the hotel;
but the cooks whom Queen Augusta sent are In
the Castle. The Emperor has complained bitterly
of the treatment which he received in his way through
Belgium. He declares that it shewed great thoughtless-
ness. Speaking of the German troops he says that he
wished to " render all h )mage to their bravery and disci-
pline. Their discipline is without parallel and is surpassed
only by. their courage. Nothing can resist them, and
they will enter Paris, for Paris does not know how to
keep them out." The Emperor does not shew the smallest
sign of regret at what he has done. During lii
journey from Bouillon to Verviers he sighed very
much ; but whenever he spoke to any one he
put on an air of cheerfulness. Altogether he
exhibits the aspect of a man who is glad that he 109
escaped from a great danger. At the last minute before
surrendering it was his intention to put himself at the
head of a troop and cut his -way through the Bavarialls,
but the German artillery fire was too hot for him to
carry out this intention. Throughout the French
army the Emperor was universally despised-
After the battle of Sedan no one would hear
his name mentioned. The officers were especially
bitter, and would not listen to what had become of hica•
Some surprise is felt that so many French officers have
been allowed to return to France on condition of not
bearing arms during the present war. They say that thel,
have only to change their names, and they will be su,
right. They excuse this faithlessness on the ground
that King , William no longer keeps his promises of
making war only against the Emperor, a promise which
the King never made.

A oorrespondent of the Times vouches for the truth of
a story that 30,000 Prussian needle-guns have bees
discovered, stowed away in the warehouse of the Eastern
Railway at Paris. Who sent them, and how they Pt
there, has not yet been discovered. Another story, which
may be true, but which is probably false, is that of the
existence of a subterranean passage, with one entrance
beyond the fortifications and another in Paris itself. The
letter conveying this information to the authorities sale
that the writer has it from one of the masons employed is
the work, who offers to come to Paris with a safe conduct,
he being a German. The subterranean passage is said to
have been the work of six years, and to have been dug by
German workmen on high pay, who were always taken to
and from their work blindfolded.
A contract has been made for the delivery of 1,500 tons
of coat at the French settlement of Maho on the Malabar
Coast. It is said that the coal is to be used in supplying
French men-of-war cruising in these seas in search of

German vessels. But the German Consul at BombnY
has objected to the coal leaving the port, and the decision

rests with Government.

The Berlin papers charge M. Jules Favre with iliac"
curacy in stating in his recent circular that the King
of Prussia declared the war to be with the dynastl
and not with the French people. His Majesty's words
were that he was making war with the French
diers and not with the citizens ; and the Allgenteille
Zietung remarks that if it becomes a war against the
French people it would be the fault of the new Govern'
ment, who desires to make the entire population soldiers
The same paper, as a commentary on the Republican re'
pudiation of aggressive tendencies, quotes M. Chevalier,
who in 1859 referred to "the 'Rhine frontier, which
Europe, blinded by passion, took from us," and it states
that, in Ledru Rollin's circle in London the opinion wa°
that France must have the Rhine, in order that the cal+
tal might be more in the centre of the country. The late
Count Montalembeit, moreover, said, " If Louis Napoleon
takes the Rhine I shall think no better of him, but I will
never again open my 'mouth against him."
M. Alexandre Dumas fits has written the following
letter to the Journal de Rouen :—" I read in your impres-
sion of yesterday that some boxes belonging to the Frill'
cess Mathilde, containing 51 millions, have been seized at
Dieppe. For more than ten years I have had the honour
of being received by the Princess. Ido not know whether
or not the boxes seized contained 51 millions in gold
or silver, but I believe not. Persons who have 50
millions to send abroad are not clumsy enough to pack it
up in boxes, knowing well that there are no railvial
porters strong enough to lift such cases ; but I venture to
declare, without other information beyond my ten years'
observation, that if the boxes which were seized did con'
tain anything which France had a right to claim, those
boxes did not belong to the Princess Mathilde. If the
Princess quits our country, be assured that she will
leave much to it and will take nothing froul
it." The Journal de Rouen, in reply to this
letter, repeats that when an embargo had been placed upon
the baggage of the Princess two great cases, containing
property valued at 50 millions, were found in a special
waggon. These were sent back to Paris, but the ne%
day several other packages belonging to the Prince°
arrived, in which were found some pictures of great
value which had disappeared from the Louvre collection.
The account of these events given by the Vigie of Dieppe
contains no reference to any such discoveries as those just
mentioned.

The Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige 3t-
tributes the slowness of the English Government
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offering mediation to the influence of Queen Victoria•
The same writer mentions a rumour to the effect that her
Majesty urged as one of the conditions of peace that the
King and the Crown Prince of Prussia should make
triumphal entry into Paris.

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