The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-05 00:00:00

bombardment have been made. The major portion of
garrison of Montmddy has joined the army of Lille, !!'
the defence of the town is mainly intrusted to the NE
tional Guards. It is almost the same in respect t°
Longwy. Up to the present time Longwy remains free'
The streets and the upper rooms of the houses are deeply
strewn with sand, in order to lessen the effects of she'i
The road from Longwy to Arlon is occupied by an wrg,
terrupted procession of vehicles of all descriptions,
criminately laden with furniture, bedding, boxes Pi,
visions, children, and old people, and accompanied b'
droves of cattle."

A Versailles letter says that the girdle of barricades cell:
structed under the superintendence of M. Rochefort Ints
the Paris streets had been removed. The writer Ogg°,
that there was some fear of their being used by the eitirew:
of the Socialist quarter. More likely is it that they 111
been removed because there is not the slightest chalice CI
g
their being required against the Germans. Either ret
will surrender through starvation or the siege "-
raised.

A letter from the South of France, dated November 26i
states that the construction of cannon is in full activitY At
Toulon and Marseilles. Upwards of a dozen manufacture,!
in the last mentioned city have been tried upon the strsild
to the admiration of the inhabitants, who are proud of t
new manufacture, which has only been practised durin.
the last month. Besides cannon, mitrailleuses arc beilt
produced in considerable numbers, and every village feed
bound to subscribe for at least one of those weaposoe;a
while class and other subscriptions are daily being rats
to provide further additions to the national defences.

Herr Wachenhusen, of the Cologne Gazette, referring
the feeble opposition encountered by the Grand Duke °
Macklenburg's division, says :—" Our army requires fl°
more laurels in this campaign, and it would therefore
foolish to exaggerate the enemy's importance. The fir.
man soldier advances against this enemy with seer!,
He gives the battery the first word, and then goes inw
the contest with an open contempt for the enenir
with ill humour, I must add, for he knows be rat/
expect a bullet from every thicket and earthsval"
but will seldom meet a face to face and honourable re
sistance."

The devastation around Paris is extreme. W°o4sm
which, for time out of mind, have been the delight of
Parisians, are hewn down remorselessly, until trees P,"
prostrate over many and many an acre where the inkabl'
tants of the great capital were accustomed to seek Olt
day recreation. Ladies' boudoirs are occupied by trooPelt
soldiers cook their rations in saloons, and dry tile
I-
heaps r
washed linen on gilded balconies. Broken bottles lie I-
heaps about pleasure grounds, and rags, bones, broke
pots and saucepans, old clothes, and such refuse are Will/.
one may expect to find in elaborately ornamented garclev
kiosques.
A peculiar kind of warfare is being carried on before
the fortress of Bitche in the north-eastern corner of I.o°.
raine. The place being all but impregnable, yet te°
insignificant to repay the trouble of a siege, the cell
engaged in its observation has entered into an agreeing',
with the garrison in accordance with which not a shot
fired by either party. The country people of the neigh
bourhood are even allowed to go to and fro and take P.
visions into the fort, which is known to be supplied 1137,
all necessaries for a long time. On more than on'
occasion the out posts have met in friendly intercourse'
General Trochu has issued a severe order against a`
outpost communications with the Prussians. It aPPet4
that the officers of a Bavarian corps in front of St. I)e.rii
invited some French officers to breakfast ; the invitaP°-
was accepted, and by all accounts the party had a ye",
pleasant time of it. In the evening the French office
returned to their post and the usual outpost work reel'
menced. General Trochu knows his countrymen lit:
and shrewdly suspects that the Germans were not wholly
disinterested in inviting to breakfast gentlemen so ready
to enter into conversation over a friendly glass as the COlv
fiding French.
A French journal saps that the recent war is attribliti
able to the ambitious designs of the Empress for one
her nieces. The daughter of the late Duchess of Aibs
was proposed as a suitable match for the Prince Leopold
of Hohenzollern, and the crown of Spain was to be give,/l
in the form of dowry. Thus Madame de Montijo wool
have become, at the end of her life, the mother-in-10v °
the two most powerful Catholic Sovereigns. After the
revelations of Marshal MacMahon with respect to the
preponderating influence of the Empress at the decisis'e
moment of the war, it is thought not improbable that tai
projected alliance of Hohenzollern and Montijo
have been devised.

Two Protestant clergymen have appeared before Pro'
sian tribunals this week. At Hildesheim, in Hanover'
Herr Burgdorf was tried on the charge of harills
shewn disloyalty to the King of Prussia
libelled Count Bismarck. Part of the evidence ago.'"
him was a sermon in which he described the war I,
a heavenly chastisement, and referred to the of
position of Hanover under the late dynast)? °.:l
especially fortunate. The Consistory censured him,
warned him against such extravagances, while the legs
authorities of the Government, putting aside the charge °f
treason, prosecuted him on the ground above-men,
tioned, and demanded a punishment of two month'
imprisonment for his ill-advised sermon and con
versations. He was, however, acquitted. Another
minister, Herr Grote, notorious for his extreme hostilitl
to Prussia, has been prosecuted for attempted briberP
He had been sentenced, in his absence, to a year's imprison:
ment for several Press offences, but had thought, after tv't
amnesty, that he might return home. On learning,
Hanover, that the police were on his track, he crept absu_A
from place to place, seeking an outlet, but was recognise"
and arrested at Kreiensen. He had compromising lOter:
in his possession, and in order, as was alleged, to corrat
the policeman who escorted him, he pulled 35 thalers so,
of his pocket, and asked " Would you like these 't
Hence the charge against him. He was acquitted, bil
has now to undergo his original sentence.

AFFAIRS AT METZ.—AII ambulance surgeon noW
in Belgium, has written to a frieud in Nanntes concervwD"
his experience of things. He says their life at Metz so'
most painful, especially at last. Thgre were 22,000 01„,,
1-
and wounded, and nothing to givefthem for suppo_rt,';
account of the faulty regulations of the Intendance. '7O
saw that there was plenty of provisions among the S t 3„
stores, and there was conclusive evidence that Metz
basely given up by Bazaine. The correspondent says th
when he can shew the papers which Bazaine overlooked'
his friend will be surprised at their contents. He
nounced that the famous General Boyer was convilicia
that Rouen, Havre, and other towns of the North, woo.
willingly receive the enemy, and had asked for Pruss,'!!l,
garrisons and that the civil war raging in Paris was fearf
A still more disgraceful thing was that while the army
Metz was eager to make a sortie at any price, the Marsh 0
distributed among them some imaginary plans of the
Prussian works which seemed so formidable that tt
boldest hesitated to compromise the fate of the army an
out any chance of extricating it. "We have since seed
these famous works," adds the writer, " and we coil,'
have taken them twenty times had we tried to do sceg
The Marshal maintained also that the Prussian army WA
350,000 strong, and we surrendered 173,000 Frew.'"
prisoners to 130,000 Prussians."
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF AN OUTLAW'S EFFECTS. —.L. -1013
Court of Vice-Chancellor Malins, a petition was presenL,
for the appropriation of the effects of a bankrupt, Iola."'
having been guilty of contempt of court, had been oevo
lawed. The Vice-Chancellor stated that there was ~11,
law applicable to the distribution of an outlaw's estate
the whole was founded on tradition, and the pro Pen
went to the Crown, who did not retain it themselves, P
distriluted it among the creditors, with a preference t tolt
the creditor who gave the information which led to th
outlawry.

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