The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-12 00:00:00

A FRENCHMAN'S REPLY TO MAX MULLER.

A Frenchman has written to the Times in reply to
Herr Max :Miller's letter on France and Prussia. He
thinks the miserable projet de traito is a worn out
subject, and there is no reliable evidence to shew to
whose fertile brain Europe is indebted for the idea.
He says that since 1866 Prussia recognised war to
be inevitable, and she obtained her information from
various sources, so that in the end the Ministers of
King William knew the actual position of France
much better than Napoleon and his Cabinet. Herr
von Bismarck, no doubt, induced Benedetti to
draw up the famous treaty, in order that
the other nations of Europe might be influenced by
it to the prejudice of France and the advantage of
Prussia. It was not brought to light until after
the declaration of war, and was reserved by Prussia
for a fitting moment, to enable her to say to Eng-
land, Holland and Belgium,—" Espouse my cause,
have no sympathy for France. See, have I not
saved thee from being devoured F" If he has not
shown that the projet de &alto was concocted by
Bismarck, the Frenchman thinks it ought not to be
cast in the teeth of France, as one of her misdeeds.
His aim is to preserve the goal feeling between
Fiance and England. They are neighbours, near
ones, and at any rate he is convinced that English-
men will not be forced into seeing only through Ger-
man spectacles. They will watch the signs of the
times, and choose their allies well and wisely.

THE "SIANDARD" AND THE THREE M.P.'S.
The Standard apologists to Sir Charles Dilke and

Mr. Auberon Herbert for not earlier inserting their high, and has an average thickness of 11 feet 6 inches.
It ii strengthened every 10 feet by buttresses, letter of protest. It will be remembered that the
which are carried 7 feet into the ground of the
Standard severely censured the three English mem-
parapet. It is constructed of rough stone and hers of Parliament who joined the War Hospital
mortar, and is covered with a facing of millstone, Corps at the seat of war. The substance of their
complaint was that the travellers finding they could
and surmounted with a slab of free-stone. The
not carry out; their design of a holiday excursion to
fortified enceinte is more than twenty miles in length,
and presents ninety-four fronts, twenty-six upon the battle-fields without difficulty, joined
the a volunteer party, who donned. the red
left, and sixty-four upon the right bank of the Seine,
cross on white ground with the idea
It includes about 20,000 acres. The military road of " getting on" in their journey rather than of
planted with trees,
within the fortifications is formed Van uninterrupted The Standard attri-
assistin, the wounded.
bates the mistake complained of to their own col-
line of macadganised bouleva.rds,
and bearing the names of the Marshals of the First leagues! version of the story; tlut while readily
Empire. There are 15 barracks upon this line connected acknowledging that the three travellers took no
not only with each other, but with detached forts, so financial advantage of their philanthropic uniform, it
that there is a permanent communication between reiterates its reproaches against theirtrifling with so se-
the outer and the inner line of defence. Such is the rious an errand. If they went abroad and " donned the
city Which is now about to be beleaguered, if indeed red cross" with a serious purpose, how comes it, that