The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-09 00:00:00

GARIBALDI IN THE SOUTH.

A letter from Lyons gives an account of Garibaldi's
last expedition. This account is from French sources.
After having driven the Germans to the walls of Dijon,
Garibaldi made a feint of pausing to rest his troops,
reckoning on surprising the enemy during the
night. He sent one of his freeshooters to poignard
a Baden sentinel who was at the head of the
faubourg, he being ready to follow with his 1,200 mon.
The freeshooter was discovered ; a shot gave the alarm to
the garrison, who came out en masse, supported by a
large detachment which had just arrived. Instead
of surprising the enemy, the Garibaldians were
themselves surprised, and a retreat was necessary.
The German forces were numerous, and they were
seconded by a powerful artillery. Fortunately for the
French. part of this army went towards Nuits, where it
encountered the free shooters of the Vosges, and Gari-
baldi could, therefore, deal more easily with the
remainder, at Arnay le Duc and at Autun, where he re-
sumed the offensive. He dislodged the enemy from two
positions at Autun, and it is said that having called round
him his several companies of Freeshooters dispersed in
the environs, he will soon be able to put bis first plan into
execution. The day after Garibaldi's attempt, and while
the result of the pursuit was still unknown, there was
great agitation in the Prussian garrison at Dijon. All the
houses were closed by military order. General Werder
and all his officers prepared for departure, and reconnais-
sances were sent for some distance along the road to
Langres, which seemed to be chosen as' the line of retreat.
The following order of the day was issued by Garibaldi
respecting the affair at Chatillon-sur-Seine : —" The free-
shooters of the Vosges, the Chasseurs of Isere, the Chasseurs
of the Alps, of Havre, and of Dole, who, under the com-
mand of the Staff-Captain Riceiotti Garibaldi, took part
in the affair of Chatillon, have deserved well of the Re-
public. Numbering 400, they assailed 800 enemies, routed
them, made 167 prisoners, including 11 officers, took from
them 62 horses, with their_ bridles, and four carriages
with arms and munitions, and the post cart. Ido not
speak of the dead left on the battle field. Ours only left
three dead and twelve wounded. I await instructions for
• the promotion of the officers and soldiers who distinguished
themselves in this brilliant affair. I recommend the
prisoners to French generosity, and I warn our enemies
not to force us to reprisals by acts opposed to individual
right.

" G. GARIBALDI."

A double movement of General Werder and one part
of his troops is tidked of towards Paris, while the French
corps at Chany, reinforced by troops from Lyons, has
received orders to march on Besancon, BeHort and
the Haut-Rhin. The Prussians had fortified them-
selves at Veson and Gray, but have abandoned those
works. During several days battalions of soldiers
have passed through Lyons whose caps bear the numbers
of different regiments of the line. They are composed
partly of prisoners escaped from Metz and partly of the
fragments of those regiments which were decimated at the
opening of the campaign. All these soldiers shew great
anxiety to have their revenge. While Ricciotti Garibaldi
moved to join his father and co-operate against Dijon, a
Prussian column coming from Chaumont reoccupied Cha-
tillon-sur-Seine, and avenged themselves terribly on the
unfortunate town. It was first pillaged by 1,000 men,
then by a corps of 8,000. They loaded several waggons
with plunder, and sent them to Chaumont. What tbey
could not remove they destroyed, breaking the furniture,
and tearing the stuffs with their bayonets. The shop
fronts were demolished, the houses of absentees sacked
and fired. Among the properties fired was the
magnificent chateau and model farm built at
the beginning of the century by Marshal Mar-
mont, Duke of Ragusa, whose renown is to
day effaced by the infamy of Bazaine. The master of the
Hotel de la Cote d'Or, where the thirteen Prussian offi-
cers were taken prisoners by the French, was burnt in the
firing of his house, although he had nothing whatever to
do with the capture. The Prussians left 1,200 men at
Chatillon, but still do not seem secure. The garrison is
encamped at the station, and retains two hundred inha-
bitants of the town as hostages. The resentment of the
people is very great in the district. Garibaldi still holds
his ground at Autun against the Prussians, who have
been obliged to retreat in waiting for reinforce-
ments. Garibaldi has been joined by a body
of fifteen hundred freeshooters, who had fallen
back on Creuzot. Every day fresh detachments of young
Alsatians arrive at Lyons. It was at first thought acci-
dental, but it has now become an emigration en mane.
They are being formed into special battalions, to be called
the Alsace Battalions. They all shew a very bitter
feeling against Prussia, and if King William persists in
his projects of annexation, he had better reopeople Alsace
from Pomerania or Brandenburg.

PRUSSIAN DESIGNS ON—LUXEMBURG.
We learn, says the Pall Mall Gazette, on good authoritY,
that the irrepressible German Chancellor is negotiating at
the Hague for the cession to Prussia of the strip of terri-
tory for whose possession a war nearly broke out in 1867•
These negotiations, we understand, are already so far
advanced that at Berlin they are considered as good as
completed, and the Prussian authorities are pre-
paring to take formal possession of Luxemburg
at the same time as of Strasburg and Metz. Luxemburg
is only a small territory of forty-six square miles, with
200,000 inhabitants, but its people have recently testified
their attachment to their present rulers by numerous
addresses ; it contains the site of one of the strong for-
tresses in. Europe— which, according to the testimony of
Prussian military engineers could be rebuilt in a few
months ; and it is. only three years since
its neutrality was guaranteed by the great Powers.
For the conquest of Alsace and Lorraine, however much
it may be condemned by public opinion in the neutral
States, Prussia may plead that this is a matter in which
they have no right to interfere ; but such a danger to
Europe, and so flagrant a violation of international law,
as would be the annexation by Prussia of Luxemburg, is
a different matter.

The servants of Marseilles have joined together to
present the National Guard of the Mobiles with a mitrail-
leuse, to which the name of the "Faithful Servant" has
been given.
The French Minister of War purchases most of 1115
cavalry horses in England and elsewhere. About 30 or
40 arrive at the French ports in every steamer from this
country.

Of the Berlin speculators who have made purchases for
the supply of Paris after the surrender, one has 5,000 live
sheep. He is constantly bewailing the obstinacy of the
Parisians, as, while they hold out, the sheep are eating
him up.

The correspondent and agent of a Brussels paper, who
has lived in that city for many years, has just been
arrested by order of the President of Police. He 3.5
accused of having distributed the paper referred to among
the French officers who are prisoners when it contained
the greatest calumnies against the German army.

With so little cavalry in a campaign like the
present, in which cavalry is so essentially needed, it is
no wonder that the French are continually having
their positions turned and their Mobiles surrounded. The
scarceity of horses in France does not permit the re-orgau-
ization of many of the decimated cavalry regiments,
though riders enough could be found to reconstitute
many.
It is reported from Essen, in Prussia, that a cannon of
a new kind has been sent out from the Krupp manufac-
tory, adapted for a special purpose. It is a cannon of cast
steel of an inch and a half thickness, and about five feet in
length; it rests on a pivot, and can turn and fire in all direc-
tions. Its object is to fire on the balloons leaving Paris.
The range and the precision of this light weapon are said
to be most extraordinary.
A Dieppe paper says that the English mail has passel
through there on account of the interrupted communica-
tion with Amiens. The Newhaven steamer, which
brought the mail, had on board an Englishman who had
heard that the siege of Paris was raised, and had started
to be the first of his countrymen to enter the city. He
took the railway from Dieppe to Rouen, and resolved to
proceed to Paris in spite of all obstacles.

The Dutch papers discuss the question as to whether
the Government is justified in giving up those French
soldiers who have escaped from Prussian prisons to the
Low Countries. Many journals deny that the authori-
ties have a right to deliver up these men to the Germang,
and as many instances of this kind have appeared of late,
it is probable that when the Chamber meets the question
will be brought before it.
The Goveinment of the National Defence has issued
two important decrees respecting cereal crops. The first
furnishes the Commissary of Algeria with a Provisional
credit of 1,200,000 francs, to purchase, at convenient sear
sons in the different markets of Algeria, cereals for sowing
and provisioning. The second decree extends to Algerian
ports the decree of last October, which forbids the
export of cereals from French territory to foreign
countries.
At Conlie, although nearly all the Mobiles recently
there encamped have moved forward to Yore-1-Evtique,
where there are, it is said, 100,000 men, in
in order to defend Le Mans in case of a Prussian s&
vance, there are still several thousand men, fresh arrivals,
who are being rapidly organised. Upwards of 2,000
workmen directed by military engineers, are engaged 10
carrying on the works of defence, which are now becoming
most formidable.