The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-27 00:00:00

THE 1)

ROPE

CAVALRY.

THE EXTRAORDINARY PROJECTED
TREATY.

According to information from an official source the
project of the treaty is a summary of pourparlers which
took place after the Treaty of Prague between Count
Bismarck and M. Benedetti. It is, moreover, officially
declared that the Emperor never approved the pro-
ject.

The North German Gazette of Tuesday says :—"We
learn that explanations will immediately be made on the
part of Prussia with regard to the draft of a treaty
published by the Times, and showing the offers made by
France to Prussia.

The correspondent of the Telegraph says the treaty was
proposed to France by Prussia. n Grammont will
utterly deny that France ever thought of the annexation
of Belgium. The King of Prussia was the first to
urge Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern to accept the
Throne of Spain.

The French papers contain no reference to this
treaty. It was, however, telegraphed to Brussels,
and is printed in extenso in the Independanee Beige and the
Nord, both of which discuss it at some length. Both the
Brussels papers doubt the authenticity of the document.
The Pall Mall Gazette has reasons of its own for believing
in the authenticity of this document. "In view,
therefore, both of the improbabilities attaching to
the opposite theory, and of the positive evidence in favour
of the draft treaty, we shall not hesitate to avow our be-
lief that it either is, or shortly will be sufficiently authen-
ticated to leave the English Government no choice but
to regard it as genuine. Such an issue of the
matter will be of immense moment to the
policy of England. It is not too much to say
that this sudden lifting of the veil from the projects
conceived so lately by Napoleon 111. ought to go far to
convert our attitude to one of armed neutrality. We shall
not pretend to raise any lamentations over this collapse
of a cordiality in which we have never been very firm be-
lievers, and so long as France makes no attempt to put her
designs against Belgium into execution, the fact that we
have been mistaken in our estimate of the Emperor's
good intentions towards ourselves need make no differ-
ence in our conduct towards the two combatants. But
the knowledge that such designs have been cherished forces
us to look forward to their possible revival, and to take
care that no precautions are neglected which may enable i
us to meet such a revival with the promptitude and deci
sion for which it will unmistakably call."

AUSTRIA AND THE WAR.
The Austrian Government, according to the correspon-
dent of the Telegraph, will propose a loan of twelve
millions of florins to raise the army to the ordinary peace
establishment.

PRUSSIAN PLANS.
The semi-official Provincial Correspondence of last even-
ing contains the following :—" The vigorous armaments
which have been carried on, and which are now complete
throughout Germany, have served to dissipate day by day
the apprehension lest the French should temporarily
achieve an easy success in consequence of their having
been in advance of us in their rpreparations for war. A
well-founded confidence now prevails that the leaders of
our armies will succeed in sparing German territory as
far as possible from the direct burthens and inconve-
niences of the war preparations."

THE EMPEROR.
Several of the French papers announce that the Em-
peror has left for the army incognito. It is even reported
in Paris that he has gone away secretly to join the Baltic
fleet, and that while the Prussians are awaiting him on
the Rhine he means to raise Denmark, and enter Berlin
in time for his fete of the 15th August.

THE HOHENZOL LER N CANDIDATURE.
The Due de Gramont declares that the language used
dy him in the French Chamber on the 6th inst. was due
to the severity of the wound which had been inflicted by
the Hohenzollern candidature. Ministers could only re-
tain the confidence of the country by requiring serious
guarantees for the future.

The Duc says further : "When the French Charge
d'Affaires called upon Herr von Thile, the latter re-
plied that the Prussian Government ignored every-
thing. We were therefore forced to request M. Benedetti
to speak directly with the King. We are not responsible
for the voluntary absence of Count Bismarck and the
obligations we were under of following up the discus-
cussion at Ems instead of at Berlin. The Prussian
Cabinet say that the question of the Hohenzollern can-
didature was never treated on with M. Benedetti. This
is ambiguous. It is true subsequent to the recent
acceptance of the candidature by Prince Leopold,
but false as regards the anterior negotiations." The
Duc de Gramont cites a despatch, dated 31st of March,
1869, addressed by M. Benedetti to the Marquis de
Lavalette, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, giving an
account of an interview he had with Herr von Thile, in
which he (M. Benedetti) expressed a desire to be pre-
cisely informed relative to the views of the Prussian-
Cabinet on the Hohenzollern candidature, for communi
cation to the French Government. Herr von Thile de-
clared that there was not, and could not be, any question
of the candidature of the Prince of Hohenzollern to the
Crown of Spain.

FIGHT BETWEEN PRUSSIAN AND FRENCH

An official despatch from General Lebceuf announces
that General Berins had beaten a reconnoitring force of
the enemy before Niederbronn (Bas-Rhin). One
Bavarian officer was killed and two were taken prisoners.
The Paris papers state that an English officer was
among the Bavarian prisoners captured near Nieder-
bronn. It is believed that he was not present as a com-
batant, but merely as a looker-on.