The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-23 00:00:00

THE FRENCH GARDE MOBILE.

The Garde Mobile is called out in all the departments
of the country. All alike must serve ;no substitutes are
allowed. This service will take a great number of the
young men of Calais from their business occupations, and
will seriously affect commercial establishments. In one
instance the two partners of a lace factory and their clerks
were called out and had to march to join their respective
corps. The Calais route to Brussels and Germany is still
open throughout.

PRUSSIANS CROSSING THE SAAR.
A telegram received from Mertzig states that several
Squadrons of cavalry crossedthe Saar on Thursday morning
on a reconnoitring expedition on French territory. There
were
signs of an immediate advance of the main body of
the army.
THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT.

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In the North German Parliament on Thursday the Loan
/31 was passed. Count Bismark then thanked the
members, in the King's name, for the rapidity and
Unanimity with which they had voted the supplies ;
and the House adjourned until the 31st December, 1870
Dr. Simeon addressed a few words to the House,
and said ,—" The labours of the representatives of the
People are for the present at an end, and the work of
arms will now take its course. May the blessing of the
Almighty God descend upon our people in this holy war
Long live King William, Commander-in-Chief of the
German Army !"

THE PRUSSO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.
The France and the Peuple Francaice state that the
Prussians will occupy the line from Coblentz to the
Rhine, and that their movements generally indicate de-
fensive plans.

A meeting of the Americans in Paris was held here to
to form a committee to act with the International Sanitary
Association and the French Volunteer Association for the
succour of the wounded. Dr. Thomas Evans, the chair-
man, subscribed 10,000 fr.
The French journals protest against the proposal to•
neutralise the Baltic.

General Douay died yesterday of apoplexy while on his
Way to assume the command of his army corps at Belfort.
Dr. Bamberg, the Consul-General of the North German
Confederation, left Paris yesterday.
The Peuple Francine possitively contradicts the rumours
of a Prusso-Russian alliance, and says that the feeling of
the Czar towards France is perfectly friendly.
The French Minister still remains at Baden.

THE PRUSSIAN MINISTER AND THE
PRESS.

Count Eulenburg, Prussian Minister of the Interior,
has sent the following circular to all the journals in that
ldngdom :—" I respectfully request all editors to abstain
from inserting or publishing,'after this day, any commu-
nication, however insignificant it may appear to them,
relative to the movements of the troops."

AUSTRIA AND BAVARIA,
The papers publish advices from Munich, according to
which the Austrian Government had asked the Bavarian
Cabinet for an explanation in reference to the stopping of
railway communication between Passau and the Lake of
Constance. The Austrian Government requests the ab-
rogation of those measures which prejudice the general
commercial interests of Austria, especially those which
shall have reference to the Lake of Constance.

NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS WITH

THE FRENCH ARMY.
The Official Journal repeats the order of Major-General
Lebceuf that no journalist will be admitted to the head-
quarters of the army of the Rhine or any other corps.
A service of news will be organised at the outset of the
eataPaign. The French Ambassador Prince de la
To d'Auyorgue has arrived in Paris by way of Italy.