The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-11 00:00:00

FRENCH REFUGEES IN l 1 GLAND.

The Globe says :—" The honour of London is concerned
to _put a stop to an infamous practice of which, we are
ashamed to say, some scoundrels have lately been guilty.
Everybody knows that a great number of poor refugees are
daily arriving from France, and it will be easily undei-
stood that a very large proportion of them are
of that sex whose strength would be of the least
use, at present, to their own country, i.e.: poor women
who have been governesses, or, perhaps, milliners semp-
stresses, and women-servants. It is scarcely credible, but
it is true, that there is an organised system on the
part of certain blackguard Englishmen to await
the arrival in the docks of the vessels brine:-
.

ing these unfortunate refugees, and endea-
vour to decoy them in the moment of distress
when just landed upon a strange shore, into infamous
houses. These facts were publicly stated by Mr. White,
chaplain of the Savoy and of the House of Commons, in
his sermon at the sermon at the Savoy Chapel on Sunday.
A movement is on foot as letters in the newspapers have
shown to organise some proNision for the refugees at
once upon their arrival. A committee has been
former, and several ladies, amongst them the
Dowager Lady Lothian, have opened their houses. Many
other measures of relief are being taken, and public meet-
ings, both in the City and at the West-end, are contem-
plated in the course of a few days. We are confident that
all classes in the metropolis and the country will be eager
to vindicate the hospitality of England from the foul slur
which has been cast upon it."

THE SIEGE AND THE POPULACE OF PARIS
It is fifty-five years, last July, since the environs of
Paris have experienced the annoyances and horrors of a
hostile invasion. Few, except those who were children
then, will recall the threatened siege of Paris in 1815, and
the approach of the English and Prussian armies during
the summer of that eventful year. But if any of our
readers have the curiosity to compare the two inva-
sions, let them take up any stirring narra-
tion of the Waterloo campaign such, for
instance, as the witty and vivid journal of
the British General Mercer, just published—and
they will find the same localities, and even the same for-
tifications, figuring in those histories, as now form the
subject of each day's telegrams. Then, as now, we hear
of Garges and Stains, and Pierrefitte and St. Denis, and
Aubervilliers, on the north of the city ; or of Colombes or
North Val4rien, on the West; or Meudon, Sceaux, and
Clamart, on the south ; or of Charenton, Nogent, and
Bondy, on the east. Then, as now, the Prussian soldiers
were occupying the pretty villas and gardens which
beautify the outskirts of Paris ; but then, they were
smarting under the effects of years of exaction and "requi-
sitions " of the French armies, and they demolished,
soiled, and ruined every pretty house, chateau, or garden
they crossed or entered in their march. The Prussian
advance, and the bivouacs around the French capital,
were marked by trampled fields and gardens, broken
furniture, and gutted houses. Then it was
known, as it is now, that heights such as St. Denis, Mont-
martre, and Mont Valdrien, were the keys to the works
which Napoleon I. had erected or commenced around the
city. But in 1815 peaceful deputations of
citizens and women and children came forth to wel-
come the King restored, and Prussians and English were
hailed as deliverers. No shot was fired and no works
were assailed. Now, something more real and terrible is
threatening the brilliant capital. A line of "iron and
fire" surrounds it ; and day by day the German pickets
and infantry creep nearer and nearer to it. The siege
of a city of two millions of inhabitants is an event un-
known in modern history. As a dramatic incident
alone, it has no counterpart in recent annals .
But when one reflects what Paris contains,
and what a siege will naturally develop, the
merely dramatic character of this great event fades away
before the frightful misery, anarchy, and crime that are
sure to appear. PariS has, at the lowest computation,
' thirty thousand proletaires—les misgrables—the most vil-
lainous, abandoned, murderous rascals and thieves that
any large city ever contained. They live nsually from
hand to mouth. Their food is from other men's property
They prowl about in th owest dens of the city, and come
forth, like birds of pr ,at night, or'when the carrion of
society is open to tnern. They are kept down usually
by the iron hand -r the law. What will they do in a siege,
when every gendarme, even, is called to the bastions—
when every house is open, and the very lights in the streets
are extinguished? Then there are 'hundreds of thousands
of ouvriers, who honestly believe that the property of the
State and of the rich is as much theirs as their own. A e
they likely to starve when the houses on the Boulevards
are crowded with food, and the depots of the
city and Government are full? There are
also th us ands of Red Republicans who detest
Trochu and despise the moderate Republicans—
who want a "social and democratic Republic" at any
cost. There are also Imperialists who lived on the spoils
of the Empire and who hate the new rdgime. And
strongest of all is the great middle classes—the bourgeoisie
—who fear the thieves and the "Reds" more than they
do the Prussians. Besides all these elements of anarchy
are the fearful multitude of honest and suffering poor
who could not leave the city, and have no provision for
the future. How long is Paris with such a population
likely to hold out against the best army of modern times
thundering at her gates ?—New York Times

A N w PETER THE HERMIT.—A letter from
Cahors says that France requires more preachers like
Father Joachin, a Capuchin monk, who preached at St
Barthdlemy the other Sunday. He produced a great
effect by his patriotic language, which was ardent and
elevated in its style. Putting aside ordinary considera-
tions, he only spoke of the country, the Prussians, and
the sacred duty which devolved upon all to run 'imme-
diately to arms. This new Peter the Hermit electrified
his audience by his simple yet powerful eloquence. The
writer of the letter was presented to the Father, who said
that he came from Brittany and La Vendoe,
which he had passed through in stirring up the
people in the name of the country. He spoke with admi-
ration of the enthusiasm which had prevailed in those
parts. He lately preached in the open air before twelve
thousand people, who were animated with love for France
and fury against Prussia. He said that he could not
resist the impulse he felt to march at the head of the com-
batants, but that he regretted not to be able to use his
gun, to which the other replied that he might follow the
example of Bishop Adhemar, who to avoid shedding blood
crushed his enemies under a heap of arms.

EMBEZZLEMENT OF £3,000 AND WHOLESALE
FORGERlES.—Extraordinary revelations have just been
made in connection with one of the very many women's
clubs now flourishing in Sheffield. The club has been esta-
blished several years, and its business has been conducted
by a secretary. When the principals, of whom there are
three, met a fortnight ago, a letter was read from the
secretary, in which he stated that he had misappropriated
the week's receipts, but that the money should be forth-
coming at their next meeting. As nothing more was seen
of him, his books and the notes held as security by the
club were examined, and it has been found that the ma-
jority of the notes are forgeries, and that the payments
upon them had been made by the secretary himself. A
number of the persons whose names are attached to the
notes have been waited upon, and they have pronounced
the signatures to be forgeries. The defalcations, which
extend over four or five years, amount to about £3,000.
There is reason to believe that two other persons are im-
plicated in the transaction, and all three have absconded.

THE Loss OF HER MAJESTY'S -SHIP TRINCULO.

—With reference to the court-martial which assembled
on board her Majesty's ship Royal Oak to inquire into
the loss of her Majesty's ship Trinculo, we are enabled to
give the actual finding of the court, which was as follows :
—" The court is of opinion that the loss of her Majesty's
late gun boat Trinculo was caused by the bad look
out kept on board the Spanish steamer Moratin, and by
her putting her helm to starboard instead of to port. The
Court is of opinion that no blame whatever' attaches to
Lieutenant the Hon, Francis George Crofton or any of
the surviving officers and crew of the late gunboat Trin-
culo for their conduct on the occasion of the
loss, as it appears to the satisfaction of the
court that Lieutenant the Hon. Francis George
Crofton and his officers and crew did everything in
their power to save the lives of the ship's company,
who appear to have been in the highest state of dicipline,
and behaved in a most creditable manner; the only
men not saved were, in the opinion of the court, killed
on the spot in the collision ; and the court doth in
consequence thereof adjudge the said Lieutenant the Hon.
Francis George Crofton and the remaining officers and
the remaining officers and ship's company of her Majesty's
late gun boat Trinculo to be fully acquitted, and the said
Lieutenant the Hon. Francis George Crofton, officers and
ship's company are hereby severally and respectively
fully acquitted accordingly." The President also told the
officers and ship's company that under God's Providence,
through their own cool conduct and high state of disci-
pline, and their good captain, their lives were saved.—
Gibraltar Chronicle.

LITERATURE

Claude. By Lady Blake. Three Vols. Hurst and

Blackett.

Lady Blake is improving as a novel-writer. " Claud
is one of the best stories we have seen from her pen. I is
very interesting, and the mystification of the reader
indeed complete. At the same time it may be objected
that the probabilities are.not in favour of the denouenzent
of the tale, neither can we regard the over chivalrous self-
sacrifice of Claude, as coming within the bounds of duty.
The different characters are for the mosfpart well described.
The fair heroine, who is the narrator of the history, is
herself very attractive and interesting. The weak-minded
step-mother, and the strong-minded aunt, who prides her-
self upon her frankness to say the most unpleasant
truths, are capitally drawn ; so is also the over-zealous
puritanical damsel who believes herself to be actuated
alone by charitable motives pur et simple. Some of the
characters are a little exaggerated, but despite occasional
shortcomings, we are inclined to regard " Claude " as one
of the best works of its authoress.

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