The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-22 00:00:00

THE HA.NOVERIAN LEGION.

Endeavours are being made in France to reorganise a
corps from the members of the Hanoverian Legion who
have remained on French territory. Negotiations for that
purpose are being carried on with a Hanoverian named
Voss, at Chartres.
Two French men-of-war were off Borcum, an island off
the coast of Hanover, on Thursday.
GERMAN ENTHUSIASM.

In Wednesday's sitting of the Reichstag Dr. Simeon
announced that the Germans in St. Louis and Baltimore
have subscribed 1,000,000 doli. for the wounded soldiers
and the widows of those who shall fall in battle. The
Government bill demanding a credit of 120,000,000 of
thalers for military purposes was read a third time.

PARIS EXPECTANT.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

Positive fact being wanting here, we are overwhelmed
with fables. The public has sunk from boiling ex-
citement into a condition of rapidly-living expectation—.
a state of feeling remarkably propitious for the hatching
and believing of strange stories. Sometimes the canards
take one direction, sometimes another, but at
a crisis like this we are never without a
supply of some kind. They begin with more or
less probable inventions, then inventions stretched beyond
the limits of probability, and finally the gullible public is
prepared to swallow anything, and the most audacious
lies meet with a certain degree of credence, and produce
a certain effect. Yesterday it was battles and skirmishes
that satiated the appetite of Paris ; to-day, alliance and
combination projects have taken their turn. Denmark would
not remain out of the fight. The neutrality of
Belgium could never outlast the campaign. After
all, the South German States were not quite
so thoroughly " Deutsch" as had been represented ;
if . they fought for Prussia at all, we might be
sure that they would do so only in a very half-hearted
manner. Austria might remain out a little while, but the
remembrances of 1866 would infallibly bring her over to
France in the end. Such were some of the more rational
productions emanating from the heated mind of this
imaginative city. But these tame sources of excitement
did not long suffice. Soon we were favoured with extra-
vagances about Russia, Spain, and Italy, and finally left
off with the intelligence that the Turk was fitting out his
navy for the express benefit of France, and that perfidious
Albion was getting ready to annex Egypt whilst the
French were engaged on the Rhine. Yes, even these
stories were not disdained. It will be a relief, in a sense,
to get news of actual hostilities ; it will, at any rate, save
a good many persons here from the sin of excessive
lying.

Meantime there is really no justification for this insen-
sate haste for action. The preparations for an irruption
into Germany are progressing so rapidly that in all
probability this campaign will be remarkable for the
promptitude with which it was begun. Great armies are
not brought face to face with each other without an infinity
of labour. In general so slow a work is this that if
serious news comes from the Rhine by the beginning or
the middle of next week things will have been brought to a
head with singular quickness. Compare recent wars. In 1859
the first note of conflict was sounded on New Year's Day
by the famous speech of the Emperor, and preparations
were made thenceforth with extreme rapidity. On the
20th of April Austria addressed to Piedmont the ulti-
matum, the rejection of which determined the war; and
yet it was not until the 20th of May that the first engage-