The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-24 00:00:00

AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS.

The steamer Ville de Paris has arrived at Brest from
New York, having on board 120 American volunteers
and a number of guns and warlike provisions- The
volunteers, on their landing, waited on the Vice-Admiral,
who informed them that there was nothing for them to
do unless they entered the marine infantry. They were
afterwards told that if they went to the Mairie the next
day they would be divided among different regiments. The
volunteers were indignant at this treatment when
they had left their homes to offer assistance to
France. Instead of being cordially welcomed they
were repulsed in all directions, and left without food or
shelter. A protest is said to be in course of signature
against the unheard-of conduct of the authorities in re-
fusing the assistance of those' who are willing to fight.
The American volunteers have stated that if there were
better means of transport between the United States and
France an enormous number of Americans would come
over, for thirty thousand men are willing to render assist-
ance to France.

St. Quentin has been occupied by the Prussians, after a
short cannonade.

Cannon of long range are being embarked at Toulon to
complete the defences of the fortifications of Lyons.
The Moniteur Beige denies that the Government has
received any communication from Germany demanding
the adoption of restrictive measures towards the Press.
The Neufchatel correspondent of the Etoile Beige says
that the intelligence of the arrival of Garibaldi in France
to take part in the war fell like a thunderclap in Switzer-
land, and that already numbers of young men were leav-
ing Le Tessin for Besancon to join the hero of Caprera.
An official notification published in Paris states that
General Burnside had no recognised capacity ; he came to
the capital on his own responsibility, and bore no letter
from Count Bismarck, nor even a verbal message.
The Siecle says the only town in the Seine Infdrieure
that has taken adequate measures for the reception of
the enemy is Havre. That town has, unaided, fortified,
provisioned, equipped, and armed itself ; it has procured
the best fire-arms from England and America, paid for by
means of a-loan of 1,300,000 f, raised in four days.
General Blumenthal has expressed to Colonel Lindsay
his decided dislike to flags of truce and to the " red cross."
" We must put an end to it," he said; "we cannot tell who
wear it, and there are spies everywhere, The new device
is to dress as clergymen (priests). The Polish soldiers will
not fire on clergymen."

The pleasures of life in a besieged town were forcibly
exemplified a few days since at M. Jules Favre's dinner
table. Throe chops came up for seven people. No one
liked to take them, and, consequently, they were left for
the servants ; while the party in the dining room con-
tented themselves with demolishing a ham.
The free-shooters of the Garde Mobile of Nantes fell
suddenly, in the environs of Villejuif, on a squadron of
the enemy at the time when they were resting beside their
horses. Roused in a fright, the Prussians seized their
carabines and fired. The free-shooters responded, and
killed several returning to Paris with 20 prisoners and 15
horses.

The New Freie Presse of Vienna says that Count Bis-
marck has made advances to Austria, as he is convinced
of the hostility of Russia, and the necessity of preparing
for a struggle with that power. The Czar is friendly to
Prussia, but nobody else in the Muscovite Empire is. The
vast bulk of the people and of men in power are sympa-
thetic with Francs. The Czar is so impressed with this
fact that he wrote twice to King William, urging him not
to claim any territory from France.
It is said at Nemours that the Bavarians committed
some unjustifiable acts at Jouy le Chatol. An informer
having told them that guns were hid in the cemetery, the
soldiers, on the order of the Bavarian officer, armed them-
selvci with pikes, and ransacked the cemetery in all
directions, Coffins were unburied and bro4en to pieces,

and corpses were stripped of their coverings, and left
exposed on the ground. These fearful investigations onlY
brought to light four guns. The town was called upon to
furnish £2OO and contributions of all kinds.
Private letters received in Brussels froth Prussian corres-
pondents, say that a commercial crisis is wasting the re-
sources of Germany, and that the people are indignant at
the unnecessary continuation of the war.
M. Gambetta decreed the dissolution of the Civil Guard
of Marseilles, and this decree reached the Prefect of the
Bouches du Rhone on the 13th, but four days later it had
not been published, and the Guard rem9,ined installed in
the barracks where they had placed themselves.

Disturbances have occurred at Tirare. A mob at the
Hotel de Ville stopped suitors gaing in to the magistrate,
and handled them roughly, declaring there was no other
justice than the justice of the people.
The Semaphore of Marseilles publishes a letter from
General Uhrich, in which he indignantly rejects the
accusation of treason against the Republican Government
and declares that further defence of Strasburg was im-
possible. The state of the defenders was aggravated by
the burning of 35,000 metallic fusees in the citadel, which
loss was irreparable.
A pretended teronant has been executed at Besanvo•
He took the name of Lutz, the teronant whose balloon
decended in the midst of the Prussians. The Germans, so
runs the story, put another man in the balloon as a spy.
How he got to Besancon nobody knows ; but he has met,
we are told, his due reward.

Forty-seven police commissaires have been removed and
replaced by functionaries who are devoted to the Repub-
lic. A hundred and fifty employs of the Prefecture of
Police have been removed.

News from Lille says the subscriptions to the loan of
fifteen millions, voted by the Conseils G6ndraux of four
departments, are very languishing, and a pressing appeal
has produced no effect.. It is, however, remarked that in
no other part of France are there so many men of fortune
and especially so many millionaires.
A large number of diplomatists in Paris have signed a
protest against Count Bismarck's refusal to allow them to
communicate with their respective Governments, except
by means of open despatches, making no allusion to the
war. They urge that .on such conditions they will be
unable to communicate with their Governments at aIL

The disturbances at St. Malo on account of the loading
of food by English vessels have been quelled. The ships
load as usual. The South-Western Company's steamship
Alice, which arrived at Southampton at eleven o'clock on
Thursday night from St. Malo, brought. over a very large
freight, including 3,445 packages of butter, 4,204 cases of
eggs, 626 packages of fruit, 81 cases of preserves, 81 cases
of sardines, 36 sacks of seed, 29 bales of rags, and
sundries.

The Prefect of the Landes has issued a decree deposing
M. Delaroy, the provisional governor of the cominune of
Laglorieuse, from his office. The Republican Govern-
ment, whose first qualification is honesty, cannot, says
the Prefect, maintain the salaried agents of the shameful
secret police of the ex-Emperor. M. Delaroy, besides the
monopoly of the judicial announcements conferred on him
by the Empire, which amounted to 10,000 f. or 12,000 f-,
annually received from the secret funds, as editor of the
Journal des Landes, an annual sum of 600 f., for which he
gave quarterly receipts.

The Hamburger Nachrichten reports that on the 12th of
October the French fleet captured a North German
schooner and a brig. Both vessels were taken in tow, and,
accompanied in the evening by the whole squadron,
drew off in a westerly direction. During the night a
violent south-easterly wind sprung up, and forced the
fleet to make for the open sea. On the afternoon of the
13th October the French men of war lay about thirty
miles north-west of Heligoland, as also the brig captured
on the 12th instant., but the schooner was nowhere to be
seen. It had been taken into a French port, and the brig
soon followed it.

Much that is unfavourable has been said of the condi-
tion of Lyons, but a correspondent of the Standard given
excellent news of the army inside. A review lately held
went off in excellent style. " Every day fresh recruits
come pouring in by hundreds at a time. I have half a
dozen times in the day been up to the station for one rea-
son or another, and never yet have found it in any other
condition than absolutely flooded with new arrivals.
Every day almost, recruits who have undergone their
training pass out by trainsful to the field. The supply of
men is enormous, and their spirit, so far as the enemy is
concerned, excellent ; arms and ammunition alone have to
be supplied, and the former are now at last beginning to
come in with tolerably satisfactory rapidity." The ford-
fications are very strong.

A patriotic French soldier, now interned at Magde-
burg, had, on the field of Sedan, attempted to save
the colourband of the 49th 'French Infantry
Regiment from falling into the victor's hands, by
concealing it under his uniform. He had managed to
hide it from his captors until a few days back, when, on
account of some suspicion, he was searched and the band
found on him. It measures about three feet in length
and four inches in breadth ; it is nicely embroidered,
and bears the Emperor's initials in gold letters at one
end.

The Spectator says :—The defeat of the Army before
Orleans and occupation of Orleans, bad as it was, was
certainly not what the Prussians said,—whose telegraphic
accounts of military proceedings are less and less to be
trusted, a defeat of the whole Army of the Loire. It aP.
pears from the report of General de is. Motte Rouge that,
having plenty of guns, but no gunners, he thought it
would be pure madness to give battle, and therefore
ordered forward a force of 3,500 men to support the force
already under General Reyan, and cover the retreat of his
main body across the Loire. The General in command
got his whole army to the south side of the Loire without
the loss of a single gun ; and the latest accounts of that
army from English correspondents shew that it is grow-
ing in force, and especially in the strength of its artillery,
every day.
A curious episode took place on the occasion of the
Prussian attack on Argenteuil. Two battalions of Mobiles
protected the approach to Argenteuil, and the commander
of this small corps had recourse to an original stratagem
to deceive the enemy. The Mobiles were placed by the
vines on the road which leads to the forts, and when the
Prussians appeared the commandant made the men put
their caps on the vine branches, and then go out on their
hands and knees in the direction leading to the right. The
Prussians, deceived by the appearance of things, kept up
a vigorous fire on the vines, while the French troops
threw themselves on the flank and rear of the enemy, who
were driven under the forts where they sustained serious
losses and were compelled to retreat into the woods and
behind the hills.

Among the papers found at the Tuileries was a letter of
Count Persigny's, which proves the exxistence of the
Cabinet Noir. It is addressed to the Emperor, and the
Count said that he had received revelations on the subject
of the service of the Cabinet Noir from the head of that
bureau. He could not tell his superiors what the man
had said, and therefore he begged the Emperor on his
return to Paris to give him an audience, but not at Cora-
peigne, added the Count, because that made too much
excitement in the Government. Another letter from
Pietri states that Count Persigny had been seen iu
restaraunt at Paris shaking hands with Giais-Bizoin, and
hud been heard to utter alarming sentiments respecting
public affairs. An extract from another letter of Count
Pecsigny foretell the fate of the Empire. and blames
Napoleon for persisting in keeping the command of the
army in spite of his ignorance of military affairs and his
repeated defeats.
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