The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-15 00:00:00

informed directly of what had been decided on.;
evidence of this, he mentioned the several proposals nu"_,
on certain days by the various commandants of the OT,
d'armSe, whom he named, and quoted also the resolutiQP"
taken in consequence.
Cathelineau and his volunteers took a brilliant Tort ill
the action at Orleans.
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An extensive emigration is going on from No.,nop
France into Belgium. The advance of the Germans "

Lille and other places is the cause of this exodus.
The mortality during the siege of Strasburg everglaoA
80 a day. Immediately after the capitulation it 10'
20. It is now 10.
Marshal Canrobert, with his staff, left Cas"
Saturday for Stuttgart. Marshal Lebceuf will ell°
depart for Bonn.
During the past week or ten days about 30011°1.
have- been shipped at Southampton by the B°lleti3
Western Company's steamers for Honfleur, St. Mato'

Havre.
The official paper at M6zieres urges the assassinationej°f
the Germans, remarking that if each of the 60,000 enr°il
Francs-tireurs shot a Prussian a day there would in te&
days he none left. The diffieulty is for each of the 6
to accomplish this moderate daily allowance.
One French gentleman who was settled in Monte Vicie°
has come to France, and organised a body of freesheeter:o,
He has introduced a South American weapon—the 1115 01
Each man of his company is to be armed with one
these instruments for use against the Germans.
Some of the French peasantry, to save themselves fri:
spoliation, denounce to the Prussians those who reB
Prussians say their hands are full of letters of delltinct
tion. They are themselves disgusted, and announce "
when peace is made they shall give up the names. t
The Echo du IVord reports that Generals Ladclif4l,
and Jeanningros have succeeded in escaping from
and are now at large in Lorraine, but closely pursce,“
the German troops. This report needs confirrce'flo
The arrival of General Ladmirault at a German town
recently announced in a German paper.
Lady Pigott, wife of Sir Robert Pigott, Be•P"-"Le
Branches Park, Newmarket, has arrived at Metz, Vie,
her services have been gratefully accepted by the gin
men on the medical staff. She at once commenced Acr;io
duties among the sick and wounded. Lady Pigott is
excellent linguist, and her aid is, therefore, does
valuable.
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During the German occupation of Orleans
women of the city spent their time in visiting
prisoners, and and assisting in the hospitals. .The
sian leaders had thanked them for the care of tem,
wounded. The Bishop of Orleans had Pet the O°P-(j
example, and was always ready to give assistance to
consolation.
The Emperor of Russia recently sent a letter
uncle, the King of Prussia, which excited some sPec:46
tion both in French and German political circles. it:-ro,
stated by some to have simply asked leave for M. rr
to pass through the German lines into Paris, but is isll,,w
said to have merely expressed a wish for the speedy rev'
ration of peace.
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The bestowal by the Czar of the third of the Order,
St. George on General Steinmetz is explained in the
lowing manner :—The Russian Emperor sent the deco ',;
tion to the King, asking him to confer it on the reAt''i
deserving officer in his army. The King thereupon 6,:d
it to General Steinmetz, with a highly complimeebD
letter. Steinmetz was recently deprived of his colmrli°-
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of the Second Army. He now gets a Russian OLYFF
consolation.
A correspondent of the Elberfeld Gazette says that ha
has learned from a reliable source that it is beginilitt,
be considered needful for Germany to annex a larger I'ol
tion of France than Alsace and Lorraine. His inforlo%
told him that it would be needful to take also the ter:
tory extending from Givet to Sedan, as well aethe easte
portion of Lorraine. If this line of frontier were 01001311!
Germany would be increased by an area of about%
square miles, and by a population of two millions an
quarter. What is the German Fatherland?
The Economie of Tournai states that for many 6:3
past the trains from Brussels to Lille have conveY,
numerous French soldiers who had succeeded in escePail`
from Metz and who sought to return to France.
them were many officers, who, having signed no eng%
ment to the contrary, are free to resume services with '4'
French army. These travellers assume the most extr9l°,
;
dinary disguises in order to escape capture by the
mans, and one colonel was noticed in the working dress°
a journeyman stonemason.
Fort Mortier, at Neu Breisach, became a complete tailid
before the surrender. The entrances to the casemates
the gate were choked up. The utensils, beds, carPt°l
&c., were everywhere scattered about. Of the seven gni
of the fort, six were made unserviceable by the hest
fire ; only one grenade cannon remained uninjured-
iron mortar gun-carriage had been tut in two by a hotel).
Cartridges and bombs were lying in the wells, and th_ j°tv
sands of splinters of grenades and bombs were disPe7ie
in all directions. Strangely enough, in an open Ai'
were nine oxen and three sheep quite unscathed.

In September, 1869, the direct British trade with elgera
man ports found occupation for shipping amounting
279,634 tons, while that with Holland was 121,666 t 0
In the present year the figures, were 76,915 and 164,17;
the trade with German ports thus diminishing
203,000, and that with Holland increasing by 42,000 t 0
This, according to the Cologne Gazette, shews the mode,:
tion of the claims to compensation from France for Wit,
losses which have been prepared. No compensati°ll
demanded for the general stoppage of trade caused bY title/a
blockade and the removal of buoys ; this being conside o;
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in the same light as the losses sustained by all branehn,
nt
industry. The claims are restricted to compensation
vessels captured.

A Prussian soldier, writing from Metz on the D 8
says :—" At Ars Laquenexy is a camp for prisoners. 1110;
first of them looked on us very sourly, but a moreel_,
bread, however small, brightened up most of their fav%
According to their own account they bad of late only
third of a ration of bread and a little horseflesh withell
salt. The allowance to the prisoners is the same as toe
own aimy, and yet the distress is very great. Straw is!:
longer to be had for our own troops, and the poor Frew'
soldiers have to lie under their narrow canvas tents /11tile
mire. Several dropped down dead on the march the fi:.
day, and after the first night's camping out there Were
110 deaths. Our patrols could with extreme diffietl9l
keep the prisoners within the limits of the camp. All e". 4
out for bread.

The re-lighting of lighthouses off the North Gerit
rivers has been countermanded. Up to Friday, and fo
several previous days, it was reported at Grimsby that vo
German fleet were preventing all ships, both outward and
homeward bound, from passing Cuxhaven, and that v""
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Germania, with a cargo of sheep, had been compelled
go back to Hamburg. The Elbe was telegraphed open vn
Saturday, and the screw steamer Wakefield was to lete,vi
Grimsby on Saturday night for Hamburg as usual. ie,,„
out of the thirteen steamers running from GrimsbY'
Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Dieppe are doll
weekly service, and five are laid up, chiefly owing to ni
stoppage of the trade at Dieppe. The Hamburg
Dutch and Belgian commerce was never so brisk; cad
landed at Grimsby are now slaughtered immediately, an
have never since the Privy Council orders were isfAled
been sent inland.

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