The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-29 00:00:00

" WAR TO THE KNIFE."

The correspondent of the Standard at Rouen says : -
The appeal of the Government summoning the country to
"war to the'knife " has met with a ready response in Nor.
inandy. The municipalities of Rouen and Havre have
each vottrd a million of francs for the purpose of arming
all who d'o not belong to the National Guardor the Mobile.
At Havre the money is to be raised by loan. The idea
which seems to obtain here is that the people of all the de-
partments once armed should converge on Paris and
crush the Prussians beneath the weight of numbers.
Your accomplished diarist of the war will tell you what
is likely to be the consequence of so disorderly an on-
slaught. To be useful, in my humble opinion, these new
levies should be militarily organised, and subjected to
btrict discipline, and then indeed it would go hard with
the Prussians. But until there is unity of direction,
firmness, decision, order, and systematic action
all the efforts of the country, all the sacri-
fices which there is a disposition cheerfully to
submit to, are not likely to be crowned with
success. One of the consequences of this general arming,
however, will be to check the raids of small parties of
Prussian horse. Anything short of an advance in force
into Normandy would lead to the invaders being cut off
in detail. Anarchy continues to prevail at Lyons.
The demagogues who have established themselves in
authority in that city have arrested the Procureur de
la R4publique, one M. Andrieux, a nominee of M.
Cremidix. The day before yesterday they sent a kind
of embassy to the Government at Tours, which, instead
of having them instantly arrested, consented to
parley with them, and came to an understanding
that " the red flag should continue to be hoisted on the
Hotel de Ville, until the Constituent Assembly
shall have decided what the national colours are to be."
If there be an army at Lyons, as we are told
there is, how is it that its commander does not
put an end .to the terrorism established by
half a dozen fanatics in the second city in France.
Lyons is virtually in the hands of the mob, and all
the respectable inhabitants of the city are anxiously await-
ing their release. The fools, fanatics, and worse, who rule
there far more despotically than the late Government in
its most despotic mood, are playing into the hands of
Prussia ; for even an invader would be welcome who
would effectually re-establish order. There is great cause
to apprehend that the political saturnalia of Lyons is but
a forerunner of what may be expected in Paris.

ELOPEMENT.—A stirring event has just happened
at Llandudno. Mr. Lee, MP. for Kidderminster, with his
family, and Miss Byrch, sister of Mrs. Lee, have been
sojourning at Llandudno about a fortnight, and it seems
that Mr. Lloyd, a young wine and spirit merchant (whose
place of business was near to the lodgings of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee), and Miss Byrch had struck up a mutual attachment
which resulted in a determination to elope, the suitor not
being sanguine of obtaining the consent of the lady's friends
to the match. Accordingly Friday last was fixed, and Mr.
Lloyd, having obtained a special licence, was married by the
rector of Llandudno at the parish chnrch at'an early hour.
On leaving the church it was arranged that Miss
Byrch (now Mrs. Lloyd), should take a walk on
the road to Conway, where she was to be picked
up in a carriage by her husband. Accordingly they
drove to a fishing village on the Conway called Treffriew,
when the carriage was sent back to Llandudno,
and dinner was ordered. In the meantime, they
walked out together, but never returned, having; as it
would appear, discovered that the lady's friends were in
pursuit. The fact of the marriage was made known
to • the lady's friends very shortly after the
parties had left the church, and they traced
the fugitives to Treffriew, but here they lost all
traces of them. On Saturday bills were put out
offering £5O reward for information leading to the dis-
covery of the whereabouts of the young lady, who was
alleged to have been " decoyed" from her friends. On
Tuesday, however, this offer was withdrawn. Up to
yesterday they had not been traced. It is said the lady
has a large fortune in her own right.
THE LATE ALPINE ACCIDENT.--The congrega-
tion in the village of G-ourock, on the Clyde, whose pastor
perished the other day in the terrible catastrophe on Mont
Blanc, have done a kindly deed' in connection with the
funeral services held in their church last Sunday. A
collection was made on behalf of the widows and orphans
of the guides and porters who accompanied the party of
travellers of which Mr. McCorkindale was a member.
The morning villagers contributed for this purpose
the handsome sum of £4O. It now appears,
from a letter written by the widow of one of
the guides, that the party perished while descending the
mountain. They were seen to arrive at the summit, and
then to descend as far as the Bosse Dromadaire, where
they were caught in the storm, and whence they were
seen to disappear in a whirlwind of snow. The weather
was frightful, and the wind lifted the snow with terrible
fury. Mr. McCorkindale, though a young man, was the
last of seven brothers, all of whose deaths were sudden.
One of these brothers was Captain McCorkindale, of the
British India Company's steamer Cheduba, whicif
foundered in a cyclone in the Indian seas about two
years ago.

FRAUD UPON THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY.—Another exposure of the recently-diicovered
fraud upon the Great Eastern. Railway Company by their
employes, took place before the Lord Mayor, at the Man-
sion House, yesterday, when two ticket collectors, named
Rutterford and Trengold, were charged with a similar
offence to that of which several men were convicted a few
days since at the Old Bailey. Mr. Straight, the new
M.P. for Shrewsbury, prosecuted.. From the evidence ad-
duced it appeared that both on the 16th and 18th of July,
Detective Russell, of the Metropolitan police, saw a man
' named Parsonage, whom he had been previously instructed
to watch, proceed to the Stepney station, where the pri-
soner Trengold was on duty as collector, and whom he
passed without exhibiting a ticket, repeating the process
at Fenchurch-street, where Rutterford was stationed.
From this Mr. Straight contended that the whole of the
men were in league with each other, numerous instances
of a similar character having occurred. On the applica-
tion of Mr. Straight, the Lord Mayor granted an ad-
journment to the 6th proximo, for the production of
additional evidence..