The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-31 00:00:00

performed it, assisted by the Prussian doctor Kraus, for
the Prussians in the meanwhile had occupied Sarrtigue-
mines, and the French surgeon was passed from TJhlan to
Uhlan, pistol in hand, to the wounded man's bed. After his
death the lady I have referred to exerted herself to get him
buried with military honours, which was done. The
Society of Johannistes is increased. After the disastrous
day of the 18th the wounded remained forty-eight hours
in the villages and farms, where almost everything was
wanting. A hundred young men from Hesse then arrived
at the head of long trains of carts, and a general move-
ment was made. In one of these farms a woman, it is
said, took out the eyes of a wounded Prussian officer. She
was hung by his compatriots.

LATER,

The news is encouraging. MaclVlahon is in a strong
position, and his artillery is numerous. We pass from dis-
pair to hope with incredible rapidity. All the trains are
stopped excepting by Givet. I must go through Belgium,
and for that I want a passport. The enemy is said to be
at Bethel. There are scouts on all the hills to give the
first alarm.

P.S.—The French army has left Vouziers, and the
Prussians have arrived there. They have burned the
village of Falaize, and killed two men. All Vouziers is
coming here.—" Georges Jeannerod" in Le Temps.

A CORRESPONDENT'S ADVENTURES:,,
M. Gustave Isambert, who has been missing some
time, writes as follows :

" RETHEL, AUG. 23,

" I was going to-day by the train which usually leaves
at half-past one, and I took my ticket for Sedan. At half-
past three the train was not yet ready for Rheims, when
suddenly a train entered the station, and all the travellers
prepared to start. False alarm ! It was an Imperial
train, with the Prince Imperial, some forty Cent-Gardes,
and a host of valets in green livery. While the pre-
cocious hero of Saarbruck walks on the quay
a crowd of curious spectators, amounting nearly
to the third or fourth part of the whole population of
Rethel, comes to the station. 'This crowd is the sight for
me, and I watch it quietly, when presently a fair young
man touches me on the arm, and says, ' You do not
belong to Rethel." No, I do not,' but I pull out a heap
of letters. ' All these do not contain your description.'
I am accordingly put in the hands of a sergeant, who
marches me from door to door to various persons who
have relations with Rheims to see if they know me.
My sergeant walks me quietly about. One
of the citizens says that without having had
direct dealings with me, he has met me fifty times in
Rheims, and saw me the night before with some neutral
friends. I thought myself secure, but the commissary of
police carries me off to the prison. I am searched,
luckily for me, for finding the papers I had exhibited at
the station, lam taken to the Hotel de Ville, where
the municipal council is holding an extraordinary session,
and where several councillors, old subscribers of the
Indipendant Ratoe,s, come up to speak to me without
seeming to doubt my identity. Afterwards I am taken
back to the Palais de Justice, which in the morning I had
been examining, thinking its fortress-like appearance par-
ticularly appropriate under the circumstances, and I was
soon after released, with the apologies of the Procureur-
Impdrial. At Rethel there is little news of the war, but
they say some Prussian riflemen have been seen in
Vouziers."

A subsequent letter from the same writer, dated Bethel
August 28, tells that on going to the station to leave for
Reims he was again arrested by the police agents, taken
all through the town to the sub-prefecture, where the
Prince Imperial was lodged, 'and given in charge to the
pompiers, or firemen, who treated him kindly, and offered
him a choice of their wretched beds. Towards dawn the
next morning, the report spread that the French army was
r coming, and MacMahon would be there in Uwe e hours. The
prisoner was told that he would be taken to prison, Eli he
could not be released until fie arrival of the Marshal.
However, at about eleven o'clock he tract taken beltore
General Stoffel, the Prevost General, who, evidently, Ives
convinced he was a very dangerous mark and would not
give him an opportunity for making explanations of any
kind. After a great deal of talk on one side the autho-
rities of Rethel were desired to detain the unlucky journa-
list as long as possible, so as to prevent him from
doing any. mischief, that is to say, he was to be
kept a week. During this week he led a dreary existence
enough, not being able to obtain writing materials, though
whether from the orders of the authorities or the careless-
ness of his gaolers he could not tell. While he was in
prison he heard troops continually passing. When he
came out he heard on all sides of the Prussian invasion
A grand proclamation from the major was read on the
evening of the 28th, announcing the immediate arrival of
the Prussians, and advising the people, in the absence of
arms, to avoid all signs of resistance.

The German railways are already announcing pleasure
trips from Berlin and Dresden to Paris. The cost is to be,
for a return ticket available for a month, 20 thalers third
class, and 25 thalers second class.

The Figaro says that a number elderly ladies came to
the Mairie to ask if dogs, cats, parrots, and canaries came
under the head of the "useless mouths" which were
ordered to leave the city. They were told in reply that
these creatures could not be so considered, as in case of
need they might be eaten. It appears that the venerable
ladies were not particularly gratified with this announce-
ment. They departed, passing uncomplimentary remarks
upon Bismarck.

The Soir says :—" They were talking in a group of
deputies of a high personage who will be compelled to pass
into posterity. Some one said, 'lt is impossible to deny
that he was at one time possessed of superior abilities, but
now he does not appear to be himself any longer.'
Come then,' said M. Thiers, he ; superior abilities !
never in his life ! Shall I tell you the truth ? Well it is
a great incapacity unknown."

The correspondents are getting into more trouble.
Those of the Times and Independance Beige stationed at
Paris are be expelled : the very name of the Times has
become odious to Frenchmen. Mr. Austin, of the Times
is imprisoned at Rheims ; Mr. Sidney Hall, of the
Graphic, is undergoing the same hard fate at Nancy; and
Mr. Holdsworth, of the Daily News, has been brought
back from Soissons under a guard to Paris.
The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
writes :—" The health of the Emperor continues to
decline. Fatigue, hardship, and disappointment have
made havoc of what remained of his debilitated constitu-
tion. In addition to the physicians ordinarily in attend-
ance, more than one eminent practitioner has been sum-
moned to visit him from England. From what I hear
I should not be surprised at any announcement regarding
him."

The Receiver-General of Chalons arrived on Saturday
morning in Paris with his strong boy., containing 276,000,
after having had a narrow escape. The approach of a
party of Uhlans being signalised, that functionary imme-
diately ordered three horses to be harnessed to a tilbury,
in which he placed the money, and then, mountin3 the
box, he drove off at full speed, so that the marauders, on
arriving a few minutes after, found no funds. Themoney
has been paid into the Bank of France.
The following letter was found in the stiffened hand of
a French captain killed at Woerth :—" My Dear Papa,
—Since thou departed I cease not to think of thee. lam
so sad at not being able to see thee and embrace thee
every morning. But I hope God will preserve thee in
health, and that thou shalt soon return to embrace thy
little girl. lam very good, in order to console mamma
for thy absence. Adieu, well beloved papa. I embrace
thee very tenderly. Thy daughter who loves thee, MAR-
GUERITE."

The Manchester Examiner prints the following extract
from a private letter, written, it states by a gentleman
in Berlin, who has unusual means of studying the political
sentiments of the upper classes in that capital :—" The best
terms of peace for France that are now talked of are
liberal pecuniary indemnification for the war, and the
expenses of an army of occupation until a stable and
peaceable government is assured to the Empire ; the entire
separation of France from the Rhine at all points, and
the re-annexation of all the old German-speaking pro-
vinces to the Fatherland. Nothing but disaster to the
German arms can seriously modify this programme,
am told."

The Café Meyerbeer, at the Rend-point of the Champs
Elysees, the proprietor of which is a Prussian, became
a few evenings back a scene of tumultuous excitement.
Several free-m2rksmen were seated in front of the house,
waiting for the passage of the battalion. On hearing
the trumpet they rose to greet their comrades, swearing
at the same time to exterminate all the Prussians. The
master of the café, irritated by this enthusiam, exclaimed,
" You are blockheads ; in three daye the Prussians will
be in Paris, and I have engaged to provide them a dinner
of 150 covers." These words produced a great commotion ;