The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-06 00:00:00

THE NECESSITY FOR PEACE.

The Telegraph, avers that at this hour the momentous
question for humanity, and that by which History will
judge the men who have suddenly assumed the reins of
power, is, whether they will accept from the deposed
Emperor the fatal legacy of the • war, or will realise
the situation, and give their bleeding country peace.
Although commissioned to defend Paris to the
"bitter end," General Trochu is the one man in all
France who thoroughly understands the helpless
failure of her organised defences, and the prodigious.
strength of the German arms. His colleagues,
without exception, are men who spoke out at
the beginning against the mad war declared by
the Due de Gramont, and who can have, therefore,
Ito wish so strong as that it should end, if only it could
end, without ruin to the new order of things, and without
intolerable shame to the country. Even Rochefort, now
borne in triumph from his prison, was dead against
the war. The peasants who voted " yes " were
earnestly against it. It was purely an Imperial-
istic policy, risked in the interest of the -dynasty
which has wrecked it ; and therefore that which the
French Republic will inherit, if it consent to administer
to the estate of the ruined Emperor, must be its shame
and not its purpose—a wild hope of revenge, and not a
programme of serious diplomacy. It is a simple
fact, that in the few days or hours that must
elapse before a hostile shot is fired upon Paris, peace
has an opportunity which the whole world urges France
to seize, and it is in the name of humanity, in the name
of civilisation, in the name of the great prospects of a free
Government, and in the name also of the truest wisdom
and the noblest honour both of France and Germany,
that the people of both countries are implored to put an
end forthwith to this dreadful war.

M. Louis BL c.—Louis Blanc left Brighton
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock for Paris.
At the sale of Count Lagrange's sporting stud yes-
terday the famous horse Gladiateur realised the high
price of 5,800 guineas.

MR. PRESCOTT HEwErr.—Mr. Prescott Hewett
asks us to state, in correction of a report contained in a
medical contemporary, that he has not visited profes-
sionally His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon.
THE TRAGEDY AT BATH; Mr. H. C. Hopkins,
writing in the British Medical Journal concerning the std
case of Miss Prankard, who is now in the Bath United
Hospital, says that she has been wounded by two bullets,
one entering the face on either side in front of the ear.
Both are now lodged in the bones of the upper part of
the mouth or of the nostril. Up to the present time she
has progressed very favourably, but no attempt has yet
been made to remove the bullets.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE MODEL PRISON,
HOLLOWAY.—On Saturday, at the Model Convict Prison,
Holloway, while some of the prisoners were engaged in
works now going on there for the enlargement of the
Prison, an arch gave way, and buried some of them beneath
it. Assistance was at once rendered to extricate them as
soon as possible. One of the prisoners expired almost
directly on being got out, the others are now lying in the
infirmary of the prison, and it is feared other deaths may
take place. At the time of the accident a prisoner named
Webb jurttped from off a scaffold a distance of 30 feet.

- -
THE WOUNDS OF MACMAHON.—THE ALLEGED
SHOOTING OF DE FAILLY.-A shell burst under Marshal
MacMahon's horse, instantly killing the animal, and
seriously wounding its rider in the right leg. Marshal
MacMahon was carried to the rear, where he lies grieve-
ment blesse ; but, whether he lives or dies, he was, at any
rate, spared the humiliation of signing a capitulation
entailing consequences of such magnitude as, during the
long and stormy history of France, have never before
been paralleled. Almost simultaneously with the grievous
wound of MacMahon, General de Failly fell dead, shot,
as L'Eleeteur Libre avers, through the head by his own
hand, but, as I have reason to believe from better infor•
illation, killed by his own men.—George Augustus Sala.

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THE WAR.

THE REVOLUTION IN PARIS

PARIS, SUNDAY.
We live in strange times. Each day has its own sensa-
tion. We had- not recovered from the overwhelniing
news from the seat of war when we heard at our doors the
ominous murmurs of " D4cheance !" " Vive la France !"
"Vive la 116publique !" In truth, it is no wonder that
the long irritated people, maddened by the continual de-
feats of their army, which was so long the admiration
of Europe and the boast of France, incensed by the
knowledge that they have been treated as children and
kept in the dark on what concerned them most closely, or
- rather have been deluded. by promises of victory and
triumph which the promisers must have known to be
illusory, should take their hffairs into their own hands,
and elamour for a change; not of names, but of the
whole system. the lash few days have been
fruitful in events, but this Saturday and Sunday
have epitomised marry a long volume of history. On
Saturday, for the first time, the veil was fully withdrawn
and in place of the news which Count Palikao had told us
he was keeping back for strategic reasons, but, which, if
known, would illuminate Paris, came the startling
announcement of the total collapse of Mac-
Mahon's army, UV° capture of the Emperors the
surrender of the whole force, the wounding of
the General himself, and, in fine, fire complete and disas-
trous defeat of the army on which the hopes and expecte,
tions of France have been for many weeks centred.. For
once the Ministers have spoken truth. A great misfortune
has befallen the country, and the people who have so
obstinately persisted inmaintaining that Prussiawas at her
last resources, and that the cry " ABerlin " would speedily
be raised with fresh vigour, are painfully undeceived.
Happily France is really a great nation in spite of all
mistakes and boastings. Her people have risen to the
emergency with a fortitude and a dignity worthy of them.
They manifest no panic, only grave and deep-seated anger
against those who have so unjustifiably misled them,
into a war for which thay were ill-prepared, although the
duty of preparation rested with those who provoked
the combat. The emotion produced in. Paris when the
disastrous rumours which were current were officially con.
firmed was very great, and spread from the Chamber to
the people. As soon as the intelligence had been corn.
municated to the Deputies, M. Sehneider,, the President,
proposed the adjournment, for the Ministers themselves had
not, he said, had time to deliberate, and every one re-
ouired time to reflect on the situation. M. Jules Favre
in a few brief words agreed to this, but de-
clared that his party demanded the deposition
of the Bonaparte dynasty and the establishment of an
Executive Committee invested with the powers requisite
for repelling the invader, General Trochu remaining in
charge of the capital. This proposal was listened to in
profound silence, only broken by the voice of M. Pinard.
who said, "We have not the power to pronounce the
deposition." The sitting broke up with no further ex-
pression of opinion.
Scarcely had the echo of the disastrous news com-
municated to the Chamber died out, when groups
might be seen forming everywhere in the streets.
A band of from 1,1500 to 2,000 persons marched on the
Boulevards des Italiens, Montmartre, and Poissonniere,
uttering various cries. At the head of these men, among
whom were Gardes Mobiles sharpshooters, walked a group
of individuals carrying eight flags. About sixty sergeants
de vile suddenly appeared on the scene, and rushed on the
band, and in a short space of time the streets were
deserted. Between nine and ten a band of three or four
hundred persons went before the hotel of the Governor of
Paris crying out "Vive Trochu !" The boulevards pre-
sented the same appearance as on previous
evenings, and on all sides the disastrous news
of Sedan formed the chief topic of conversation.
When one of the crowds was passing the station of the
National Guard in the Rue Rivoli they paused to cheer it
Trustily amid cries for the dEcheance. Further on they
reached the gate af the former Minister of State, where
the Governor of Paris now resides, and would not rest
until the General himself appeared. He was pale, with
tears in his eyes, but was full of fire and energy neverthe-
less. " You asked for me, gentlemen," he said
calmly. " Here I am. What do you- want of me ?"
" We want news," cried a voice.
"Gentlemen," replied the General, " it is a disaster un-
paralleled in history !"
" Proclaim the deposition ?" cried several.
"Gentlemen, lam a soldier. I have taken au.oath.
To break that oath would be a breach of honour. The
Chamber must answer you."
This speech was loudly cheered, and the cry, "Do the
Chamber !" was raised.
Later in the evening the same band, which
had considerably increased in numbers, passed by the
bridge of La Concorde, and called for Gambetta.
Gambetta appeared and harangued the crowd for some
fifteen minutes, advising them to be calm and confident.
" Gentlemen," he said, "at the moment when the head of the
state has fallen into captivity, let us shew by our digni-
fied attitude that all the imputations they have charged
against our party were nothing but odious calumnies. At
this time there can only be one thought—the people—
but the people must rise and repel the foreigner, who is
intoxicated with his triumphs. Let us shew Europe and
the world that Patriotism and Revolution can be synonyv
mous terms. Paris holds in its hands not only the for-
tunes of the country, but the fortunes of the French
Revolution." He was interrupted by cries of "Vive Gam-
betta," but resumed—" No, gentlemen ! Do not cry Vive
Gambetta,' or vim any man. There should be but one
aspiratiori from French hearts at this moment—' Vive la
France !'" And as the extremities of the crowd shouted
for the deposition, Gambetta -continued, " I am going to
rejoin my colleagues? I swear to you that to-morrow
shall not pass without our having adopted resolutions,
manly and worthy of the nation. But we must not ap-
pear to act under pressure from without, I ask you to
retire, and to leave the environs of the Corps L6g,islatif
free." The crowd, on being, further pacified by the as-
surance that an extraordinary sitting of the Chamber
would be held at midnight, . retreated peaceably,
appointing a midnight rendezvous outside the Palais
Bourbon.

At half-past eleven some 200 or 300 curious spectators
gathered about the doors of the Corps L6gislatif. A
cordon of sergents de ville kept the gates on the side of
the quays; those on the Place de Bourgogne being kept
locked. Four or five persons led by M. Driolle succeeded
in getting into the court of the Palais. They were met
by General Lebreton, of the Corps Ldgislatif, who took
the porter roughly to task. "M. Dr&lle is nobody
here !" he exclaimed. " There is no sitting. It is
only a meeting, not a regular sitting, and you have
done wrong in admitting strangers." Several jour-
nalists who, as a matter of course, were of the party, pro-
tested, but there was no mollifying the general, and they
wore compelled to retreat At this moment two squad-
rons of the Paris Guard came up with some foot soldiers,
and took up their stations. All over the Esplanade des
Invalides and the Champs Elyse& could be seen the
throngs of eager watchers awaiting the issue of the sitting.
"Not yot ! not yet ! It is not yet time," they were
saying openly. At one o'clock bands of unarmed citizens
marched through the boulevards, exclaiming, " Vive la
France ! The nation is not lost."

' The nation, in point of fact, is discovering its real
strength in this hour of humiliation, and Paris is no
longer the brilliant butterfly, but the stern self respecting
guardian of the national honour. "The Prussians are not
yet at Paris-," one hears on every side, and this morning
the workmen of the neighbourhood crowned the monu-
ment representing Strasburg, which stands in the Place
de la Concorde. This display was loudly cheered by the
passers by, and, in fact, the day of illusions, of apathy,
of false security is over. The few Prussians remaining in
Paris were roughly expelled, some, indeed, being incar-
cerated in the prison of La Roquette, and thelong delayed
and long-desired permission was given to the Parisian ar-
mourers to sell the chassepots to the National Guard. All day
the excitement has been indescribable, and the troops have
been stationed round the 'Tuileries and the Corps
L4gislatif. The whereabouts of the Empress and of the
Prince Imperial is not distinctly known. The Indepe e-
dance Beige states that the young Prince is at present in
Belgium, as the guest of Prince Chimay, but this state-
ment is contradicted. As for the Empress, she is said by
'the Patrie not' to be at the Tuileries, but that is all.
She seems to have preserved more presence of mind than
the Emperor, and has, it is said, written to Prince Napo-
leon to ask him to return, but he has refused. There was a talk
of a petition being presented to the Corps L4gislatif,
asking-that the Prince be deprived of his title and rank,
of his State allowance, and his seat in the Senate. This,
however, was prior to the eventful Saturday. Happily
as yet perfect good humour seems to prevail, the people
being apparently pacified by the ready concessions to
their wishes. Great anxiety is, felt. All th