The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-07 00:00:00

INSIDE PARIS

guns.

A volunteer, very severely wounded, was amongst the
prisoners taken by the Germans in one of the late fights
before the capital. This man had behaved with great '
bravery. His face was torn by a shot or bayonet thrurt,
and his clothes were riddled with bullets. The report of
his evidence, as given by Dr. Russell, is remarkable. He
describes the National Guards as being animated by the
best spirit. They are anxious to take part in sorties and
to share in the labours of the outer defence, but at
present they are employed in the internal garrison of
Paris and as reserves, and, divided into regiments and
subjected to military drill and discipline, are acquiring
real excellence as soldiers. The Mobiles, volunteers, and
sailors man, the forts and trenches, and form, the
active army. They never visit the city. When
relieved they are marched off to, buildings in the
suburbs or to the railway stations of the Chemin de Fer
de Ceinture, and sleep in the railway vans packed closely
in straw, with blankets and bedding in sufficient quantity.
As to provisions, there is for the military plenty to fight
upon ; rations of fresh meat—horse or butchers' meat—
are served out twice or thrice a week, 150 grammes to
each man, about one-third of a pound, with abundance
of bread, vegetables, coffee, rice, and wine. The poor
civilians may and no, doubt do suffer much, but the fight-
ing men have quite food enough to keep them in strength
and health, as on the days when fresh meat is not served
they get a larger ration of salt beef, pork, fish, or some
such substitute. The men, he said, were quite cheerful
and contented, but a real soldier of that type, who is
something of a patriot Frenchman too, may err in attri-
buting to all his countrymen his own fine qualities.
The refusal of Prussia to make peace after the fall of th
Emperor at Sedan has, he declared, called thousands of
Frenchmen to the ranks who never would have stirred to
take part in a war which they regarded as the affair of a
dynasty. "It was the Emperor's war," said he ; " now
it is the war of the French people." The Daily News
correspondent says that fifty prisoners, taken in a sortie
in the North, looked fresh, strong, and healthy, without
any appearance of privation.

BATTLE OF BEAUNE-LA-ROLANDE•
An official report on the important engagement in
which, on the
.24th of November, Prince Frederick
Charles first checked the advance of the Loire army, hi'
been drawn up by General Voights Rhetz. The 10th
Corps has had a serious engagement with the enemy, and
has beaten back three divisions of the Army of the
Loire, comprising the corps of General Michel, which
came from Autun, by rail, to Gien on the Loire, to attack
ns, into the woods of Orleans. Wedell's brigade hid
taken up a position on the 23rd near Beaune, and 105
sunported by six squadrons of Hessian cavalry. On the
24th the brigades of Lehmann and Valentini—the latter
accompanied by all the artillery of the 10th Corps'
marched by two-different roads to Montargis, and thence
by way of Ladon and Corbeilles to Beaune, where the
corps d'armee was concentrated. The enemy advancea
from the woods in three strong columns to attack our left
wing, nis force consisting of about 31,000 men, whilst we
could only dispose of about 12,000. He had already occu-
pied Ladon and Maizieres on the south road in onside
rable force,and now advanced upon Beaune,Bois•Comn►nn,
arid St. Loup. While our artillery hastened towartin
Beaune the brigade of Valentini advanced rapidly by Avg
of Jaranitti, on the southern road, to the assistance of the
brigade of Lehmann, which carried Laden 'after a son•
guinary struggle, and the united brigades afterwards
succeeded in taking Maizieres. At the junction of the
roads from Bellegarde to Aury, and from Beaune to
Laden, the fighting was renewed with great vigour, but
the enemy was repulsed at this point also in the directiOn
of Bellegarde, and the two brigades reached Beaune
towards evening, where they found the 10th corp 3
reassembled and in communication with the 3rd Aria
Corps. These engagments lasted the whole of the days
having commenced in the morning. The last detach-
ments of our tro?.ps did not reach Beaune before nighifall.

Havre is almost bereft of its male population from 20 to
40 years of age. Married men, and even widowers with
children, must all go to the war.
Tourists are very numerous in the neighbourhood of
Sedan. The Belgian peasantry make a good harvest of
the relics which they sell.

The Belgian papers announce that in consequence of tho
movements of several Prussian corps upon the frontiers,
the garrison of Charleroi has been ordered to hold itself is
readiness to march.

Most of the French who fought at Amiens were armed
with Remingtons which accounts for the unexpected
distance whence their bullets came whistling amongst the
German staff.

Another New York steamer arrived at Havre on SW
turday week with a heavy cargo of rifles, cannon, and
mitrailleuses. One correspondent says she brought 40C!

It is asserted that General Trochu is altogether or
p)sed to the departure of any balloon from Paris in the
daytime, and they will leave in future at midnight 01:
at two a.m.

Discipline is not so well maintained in the French aria
of the West as in that of the Loire. A Mobile was seem
a few days ago to strike his officer in the face for a rebuke
of no great severity.
A depot will be formed at Juliers, exclusively for 0011
French prisoners as are natives of Alsace or Lorraine,
and speak the German language, political cousiderationo
rendering it desirable that the position of these prisonero
should be improved as far as possible.

The North German Gazette comments upon the resist
ance offered by the peasants in France. "Every house:
becomes a petty fortress, every blouse a Freeshooter.
Draconic severities, says the semi-official paper, must b
put in force to check these practices.
_

Means, it is said, have been found for communicating
between Paris and Tours by signals invented by chemises
The advantage of this new system, of which no partial'
Lars are given, is that it is impossible for the Prussians 0
obtain a clue to the hieroglyphics.

It is reported that the adieux of M.M. de KetratrY
and Carre-Kerisonet to their troops, given circumstan-
tinily by telegram, were purely imaginary, and that in
reality the affair of resigning the command went off very
badly.
M. Gambetta does not rely upon himself for success I°
military organisation. He is guided by a young engineer
whose real name is Wieczwinski—but who, being born ill
France, and a naturalised Frenchman, takes his
mother's name, De Serre. This officer is barely twenty'
six years of age, and only passed through the Ecole Polr
technique some four years ago.
A letter from Rome states that the Pope now walks ill
the Raphael Gallery instead of in the gardens. His suite
is scanty in number, but he is invariably accompanied bY
Cardinal Bonaparte, whom the ex-Emperor has desired
not to leave him. In consequence of this the Cardinal has
left his magnificent palace at the Piazza Venetia in order
to occupy an apartment in the Vatican.
The Gazette de Prance states that a Prussian General
having caused four unarmed National Guards to be shot
at Neuville-sur-Yonne, the Government at Tours delibe-
rated upon the measures it should adopt, and it was de'
termined that an energetic protest should be presented ta
the neutral Powers against such wanton and barbarous
acts.
An emeute occurred lately at the Halles Centrales is
Paris, caused by the indignation provoked by a sudden
and great rise in prices. Horsemeat sausages were offered
at 9f. per kilogramme and horseflesh black puddings °D
7f. A crowd of women who sought to make purchase°
protested against these prices, but failing to convince the
vendors they pelted them with their own sausages. Th°
National Guard had to be called in.

The Prussian 211ontteur Officiel, published at Versailles,
in its number of the Ist of December, contains a notice
from the Saxon Minister of War that two French officers,
whose names are given, have broken their parole, and
have fled from Dresden, where they were held as prisoners
of war. The same paper also publishes the names of tell
French officers, who have broken faith and escaped fro°
Hirschberg in Silesia. 'These officers are all of the rank
of either captains or lieutenants.
The Germans have of late been complaining strongly of
the export of munitions of war from Switzerland to France'
and the federal authorities have at length interfered. 00
the 29th a long train from Aarau, Lucerne, and Chill'
reached Lausanne, consisting of a number of trucks
labelled " iron bars, machines, silk, old iron ware, teas,
metallic cartridge-boxes, locks," and addressed to twe
inhabitants of Lausanne. The actual contents were 4,20°
muskets, 112,500 cartridges, and 630,000 percussion caps
The cantonal police sequestrated them. •
The Revell, of Paris, comments on the fact that all the
higher posts in the present French Government are nevi
filled up by members of the Paris Bar, and it gives statis-
tics shewing that no other country is ruled to such 011
extent by the long robe. There are six barristers
in the Government of National Defence, viz.,—Picard'
Crdmieux, Arago, Favre, Ferry, and Gambetta, and their
four secretaries are of the same profession. Six of to
Ministers, nine of the higher ministerial officials, the
police prefect and his general secretary, twenty-four of the
commissioners despatched to the departments with extra'
ordinary military and political powers, the whole of
the newly-formed Council of State, the eight men at the
head of the Paris Municipal Government, ten of the
sanitary and food commissioners, six members of the Wel
Department, six diplomatists, and five finance officials,
are also advocates. A Paris journal may well say--"We
have certainly a Government of ' Defence,' for it consists
of barristers."
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