The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-08 00:00:00

THE IRISH PRESS ON THE SITUATION.

The Irish Times considers France cannot be unaccount-
able for the rashness and folly of Napoleoh, whose power
she thrice established. The question is one of terms of
compensation. Money compensation would, if asked for,
speedily end the war ; but the cession of territory could
not be carried out without a lengthened protraction.
Freeman's Jonrnal says the Ministry are right in refusing
to yield one sod of French soil. If the Prussians persist
in demanding Alsace and Lorraine, a battle under the
walls of Paris is inevitable. The Mail says, if General
Trochu fights like MacMahon, he will find himself in a
similar dilemma.

MURDER OF AN AGENT IN lEELAND.—(By Tele-
graph.)—Cork, Wednesday Night.—lntelligence has been
received here that an under-agent on the Marquis of
Waterford's estate has been found murdered near Dun-
garvan, having been shot through the breast. No furthe
particulars have yet been ascertained.

CONVICTION FOR MURDER IN SCOTLAND.--We
learn, by telegraph, that at the Perth Circuit Court yes-
terday, George Chalmers was, by a majority, found guilty
of the murder of an old man named John Miller, a toll-
keeper, at Blackhill, Perthshire, on the 21st December
last. He was sentenced to death, and his execution is
fixed to take place at Perth on the 4th October.

THE MAILS FOR INDlA.—Notice has been re-
ceived from the French Post-office, that the next
mail for India, &c., will, in order to avoid Paris, be sent
by way of Amiens, Rouen, and Tours to Marseilles, which
will cause a delay of twenty-four hours. As the least incon-
venient arrangement for the public, the mail will be
despatched from London on Friday night, as usual, and
the packet will await its arrival at Marseilles. A longer
delay than twenty-four hours would be caused by sending
the. Indian mail through Germany, and thence to
Brindisi.

THE DISCIPLINE OP THE FRENCH ARMY. —I
have spoken to many of the French officers who are pas-
sing throligh Belgium, on their way to other parts of
France as prisoners on parole—for the Prussians oblige
them all to go that way—respecting the loss of the battle
of Sedan, and they one and all, without a single excep.
tion, say that, not only have they been throughout
the campaign infamously handled by their Generals, but
that the men have been from the very commencement of
the war almost impossible to command. Vague Repub-
lican ideas, and ultra Socialist opinions, seem to have been
sown and grown up in their ranks. In several of
the regiments the . soldiers have again and again
flatly refused to obey their officers, and have
more than once threatened them with personal violence.
It was hoped that, as the war proceeded, this spirit, so
unusual in the French army, would have died out—the
more so as it was confined to a few corps. But it seems
to have spread, and to have become more and more
violent after every defeat. The Republican
papers of Paris are, .so the officers say, the
cause of this evil, and to them, and those who
pull the wires of political puppets for their own use, the
defeat of the French army may in a great measure be
attributed. I confess that some of the revelations made
by regimental officers—by men whose wounds and muti-
lations bore testimony that they at any rate had borne
their share of hard knocks—quite startled me, and re-
' minded me of much that was brought to light in the Ben-
gal army after the great mutiny of 1857.—Correspondent
of Telegraph.