The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-01 00:00:00

BELGIUM AND ROME.

The Brussels correspondent of the Manchester Exami-
ner, writing on Wednesday, says :—" The Catholic party
in Belgium is very dissatisfied with the present Ministry
for not formally protesting against the occupation of
Rome by the Italian troops. The Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in answer to an interpolation on
the subject, said it was Belgium's duty to
maintain the best relations with all Powers, and to do this
it must abstain from all imprudent and inopportune
interference in the affairs and acts of those Powers. This
prudent language from a member of the Catholic Ministry
is highly commended by the Radical Liberal party.

The relapsing fever still occupies of the energies
of the Liverpool Poor-law authorities. There are now
nearly 1,200 patients under treatment, shelving an increase
of 80 during the week.

THE LATE LORD WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY.—
The will and codicil of the Right Hon. Alberic Drummond,
Lord Willoughby de Eresby, Hereditary Great Chamber-
lain of England, who died on the 26th of August last, were
proved-on the 28th inst. by the executors and trustees,
Thomas,Chambre, of the Western Circuit, Clerk of Arraigns,
and John Wilson Nicholson, of No. 48, Lime-street, London.
The will is dated the 11th of August last, and the codicil
the 16th of the same month. The personalty is sworn
under 270,000 and the will and codicil (which are very
short) bequeath only two legacies, one of which is to the
deceased's coachman, an old and vatued servant, and the
residuary estate is to be administered according to law.
MORE WAR CORRESPONDENCE.—A third series
of diplomatic papers relating to the war between France
and Prussia has been issued. It takes up the history
of events immediately after the declaration of
war by France, and is largely occupied with the question
of securing the neutrality of Luxembourg and Belgium,•
and with the objections raised by the Prussian Govern-
ment to the export of coal, horses, and arms from England,
Of these acts Count Bismarck complained to Lord A.
Loftus, so early as the 30th of July, that they " were not
the acts of a friendly Government, nor were theyy, indeed,
in conformity with the position of strict neutrality taken
by England towards the two belligerents." Lord Gran-
ville replied on the 3rd'of August ; and on the 11th of the
same month he issued to the English representatives
abroad a circular, which closes the correspondence, reca-
pitulating the arguments employed in his despatch to Lord
A. Loftus.

DANGER TO KING WILLIAM AND BISMARCK.—
The Cotogne Gazette says :—" A well-meant address to
his Majesty is being circulated in Berlin begging the King
no longer to expose himself to the dangers and hardships of
the war in.the way he has hitherto done. We may take
this opportunity of mentioning that we are warned against
attempts on the lives of members of the Royal family. We
trust that every precaution will be taken against such
frightful outbreaks of French fanaticism." A correspondent
of the same paper says :—" Count Bismarck has lately
worn the uniform of an infahtry officer. The general
hatred is concentrated on his head. He alone, it is
thought, is the cause of the war; he it was who enticed
the Emperor into it, and is therefore responsible for all
its misery. Before Paris nobody wishes ill to the King,
but Down with Bismarck !' has been already written on
the door of the house where he resides. A cook at
Rheims, who was a good, mild creature, and has passed
the age of the passions, had nothing against the King or
against the Prussians, but she affirmed, with flashing
eyes, that if she met with Bismarck she would stab him
with her kitchen knife."

•
GENERAL STEINMETZ'S RETIREMENT. -- That
General von Steinmetz is a good soldier not even his
worst enemy can deny • but that he is often failing in the
courtly demeanour and behaviour of a gentleman is a fact
that even his best friends have not failed to admit. It is,
perhaps, his unfortunate bluffness carried a little
ct l'outrance that has caused hilt' to be removed from the
command of the Ist Army, and placed, as it were, upon
the shelf. His unfortunate misunderstanding with other
generals of superior rank and position to 'his
own are facts so well known that I need not repeat
them ; but certain it is that the stern, unbending nature
of the old soldier has caused him to be removed from a
position which gave him the opportunity of making him-
self obnoxious in high quarters. To General von Stein-
metz must be attributed the credit of many of the brilliant
and resolute attacks which have led to Prussian victory in
the present war ; but he had a fault of attacking some-
what too ra?hly, and permitting his battalions to ad-
vance too far unsupported. To mention one instance
only—the advance of Spicheren, and the storming
of those terrible heights, were entrusted to three
regiments, 9,000 men without supports, who were at first
compelled to retire from sheer loss ; and had not the 2nd
Line been very handy, the carnage would have been still
more severe. General von Steinmetz would not, how-
ever, wait until that second line was formed, but ordered
the advance immediately. Where, however, there has
been danger, or that the Prussian army have received a
check, the first man in the breach or at his post, through
good or evil report, has been General von Steinmetz. He
leaves the First Army commanding the respect of every
one—the friendship of but few.—Correspondent of the
Telegraph.

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