The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-13 00:00:00

THE GERMAN ARMY IN FRANCE.

The Official Staatsanzeioer announces that those articles
which are admitted free of duty into the States comprised
in the Customs Union of Germany will also be admitted
free of duty into those portions of France now occupied by
the German army.

PRUSSIAN TREATMENT OF FRENCH
PRISONERS.

The Queen of Prussia is personally devoting special
care to the French wounded. She has caused
shirts and other small articles to be distributed
among the French officers. Refreshments, cigars,
&c., are distributed among the French prisoners, as well
as among the Prussian troops passing through Berlin, by
the ladies' committee. German ladies may be seen at the
railway stations acting as secretaries to the prisoners de-
sirous of writing home.

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IN BELGIUM.
In yesterday's sitting of the Belgian Chamber of Repre-
sentatives, the Minister of Finance laid on the table
Several bills demanding a credit of 15,000,000 francs for the
maintenance of the army on its present footing; another
3f 2,250,000 f. for the armament of Termonde and
Antwerp ; and one of five hundred thousand francs for
the Armament of the Civic Guard. He also brought for-
ward bills prohibiting the export and transmit of different
la-mr aud war material. The Minister of War presented
a bil, for authorising the constitution of the cadres of the
army on a war footing.

G ENERAI, SHERIDAN WITH THE
PRUSSIAN ARMY.

General Sheridan, of the United States army, arrived
in Hanover yesterday, and proceeded to Berlin to witness
;lic campaign at the Prussian head-quarters.

THE BATTLE OF WOE RTH.
NANCY, WEDNESDAY.

At length we are in possession of some details respect-
ing the battle of Worth—an engagement which none but
the troops appear to have witnessed, which nobody seems
able toproperlydescribe, and which, hitherto, hasremained
without even afixed name. It is odd that we should bekept
in the dark so long about a battle of the first importance, and
one that deserves to live in history, but so it is. As to
the name of the combat, the French prefer Reischhoffen,
or Freischwiller ; the Germans are unanimous in calling
it Worth, and as the victors ought to have the privilege
of choosing the name of their triumph, Worth let it be.
We are but just in receipt of Marshal MacMahon's re •
port to the Emperor, though it was written on Sunday
at Saverne, the first place at which MacMahon halted.
The Marshal says that on Saturday last the First Army
Corps, after being obliged to evacuate Weissenburg in
consequence of the defeat on the preceding Thursday, took
up a position about Freischwiller, in order to defend the road
from Strasbourg to Bitsche, and the principal communi-
cations between the two slopes of the Vosges. This
position was occupied by the first corps and part of the
seventh, Dumesnil's division. The first division of the
first corps was placed with its right in advance of
Freischwiller, and the left in the direction of Reischoffen,
resting on a wood which adjoins that village. The
first brigade of the third division occupied a slope which
runs eastwards from Freischwiller, and terminates at
Gersdorff: the second brigade had its left on Freisch-
wilier, and its right at the village of Elsashausen. The
fourth division was posted to the right of the third, the
first brigade facing Gonstedt, its second being opposite
to the village of Marsbronn, which it was unable to
occupy through the want of sufficient force.
In addition the Dnmesnil division of the 7th
corps was placed behind the fourth division. The zeserve
force consisted of the second division and parts of others.
It will not be easy to understand these positions without
the aid of a minute map, but it may be stated in general
that these villages form a semi-circle from west to east.
Freischwiller and Reischhoffen being on the west, and
Gersdorff on the east, the position resting on the river
Sauerbach. Having taken up his position, the Marshal
proceeds to describe what happened. He says :—" At
seven o'clock in the morning the enemy made his appear-
ance in advance of the heights of Gersdorff, and com-
menced the action by a cannonade,soon followed by a lively
fire of tirailleurs against the Ist and 3d divisions. This
attack was serious enough to oblige the first division
to make a change of front in advance on its
right wing so as to prevent the enemy from turning the
general position. A little later the enemy augmented
considerably the number of his batteries, and opened a fire