The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-05 00:00:00

THE STRONG FAITH OF PVRIS.

The following communication from the correspondent
of the Standad. dated Sept. 2nd, proves how strong was
the belief at Paris in the ultimate success of the French
arms :—" I send you only a few lines to-night as it is
utterly impossibh4 to make head or tail out of the conflict-
ing reports that are in circulation. A mere glance at a
map is quite sufficient to enable anyone who has traced the
movements of the belligerents during the campaign, to arrive
at the conclusion that MacMahon is in a fair way of being
driven back on Lille, Valenciennes, Avernes, and
Manhenge, if he be not blockaded in Sedan or driven up
in the cul de sac between Fromy and Givet. But people
here won't hear of his being beaten. The folly of his
march on the Meuse is set down as deep strategy;
sober, serious people, who in ordinary times are not
liable to a suspicion of their intellect being disordered,
gravely tell us that MacMahon's being driven back to
Sedan is part and parcel of a deep plan ; that he has got
them into a trap, &c., &c. The dispatches published in
the London papers have all been published, but have not
succeeded in bringing home to the public a sense of the
reality. At the very utmost they admit that the corps
of General de Failly may have been defeated
on the .30th, but they firmly believe that
MacMahon turned the tables upon them on the
31st. It is understood that the fighting was
resumed yesterday, when the corps of General Vinoy
probably came into action to cover MacMahon's re-
treat. But we have no reliable information whatever to
go upon, and in the present temper of the people I can
understand the Government should feel some ner-
vousness about disclosing the real state of affairs.
The Government made no communication to the
Chamber to-day, but Count Palikao made a state-
ment in one of the committees which is significant
enough. He said :—" Up to this time all the advantage is
on our side; but it is impossible to say that in this series of
engagements more or less serious we have won a victory.
We can only claim a victory when the enemy
shall have been driven over the border. All
the engagements which have taken place have, on
the whole, turned out in our favour. But it cannot be said
that there has been a great battle. The hilly ground on
which the two.armies are moving renders a general action
impracticable. I repeat that the French army is in a
good position, but I do not think that this would justify
an official communication to the Chamber." There is
not, I submit, much comfort to be got out of this ;
and it must be borne in mind that all the news of
M`Mahon's movements have been received via Belgium.
Among other canards circulated by the French
press a peculiarly silly one deserves notice, viz., that the
King of Prussia has gone mad at Varennes. This
absurd story is gloated over, and it is not Prudent to
contradict it publicly. The Prince Imperial, litho seems
sadly out of place in the midst of the scenes of blood
and carnage which are going on in 'the forests of the
Ardennes, has been removed to Avernes. Here in Paris
the preparations fora possible siege are being actively con-
tinued. In the fields of Courcelles, inside the fortifica-
tions, they are running up wooden 'shanties for ambu-
lances—the houses within a hundred yards of the glacis are
being pulled down. We are told (but I confess I don't
believe it) that 100,000 Mobiles are; to be brought into
town to " assist in the defence," and an army of reserve
is being actively organised. A fractional fall in Rente—
nothing doing. ,
In a letter, dated Saturday midnight, the Paris corres-
pondent of the Telegraph thus states the condition of the
city. The Boulevards are crammed with an angry
populace to-night ; something of the truth which you
know has leaked out. Cries which the Govern-
ment must still describe as treasonable fill the
air. , The people only ask an object on which to turn
their wrath. That object is not forthcoming. The
Empress is away, so is the Emperor, and so the
Prince Imperial. No man so mad as to accuse
the actual Ministry. Whoever be in fault,
Count Palikao has done his best. He has indeed
made regiments " spring out of the earth," to use
his own words. What can the people do ? As I' write,
after midnight, I hear a roar of furious voices, and the
tramp of ten thousand feet. They raise discordant ,
shouts. Some propose to march on the Tuilleries ;
others ask for the Minister of War, whom they have
already seen to little purpose ; they know not how
to express their passionate indignation. Were the Em-
press here I can tell you what would happen, but she is
safe at St. Cloud. And I suppose they will wear away
the night in impotent fury, as they have hitherto done.
It is terrible to see a people so maddened, and with just
cause, but so helpless."
Speaking of the preparations made to resist or to aid in
resisting the victorious Prussians, the correspondent con-
tinues :—" Amongst the temporary retrogressions which ,
this war has brought about I may mention the re-establish-
ment of the ancient telegraph. This age did not expect to
see the funny old machines which used to crown every
height again erected. But war will have it so. At this mo-
ment they are setting up the big white pests again, with
its monstrous arms of particolour, all round Paris
and on the southern routes. We may shortly expect bon-
fires and smoke signals—the' fiery cross itself, perhaps.
The forts round Paris have been hastily united by sub-
terranean wires, but the Generals'will have to depend for
their exterior information upon the antiquated machines.
Though why it should be supposed that the Prussians
will spare these new-old signal-posts when they ruth-
lessly cut down the modern wires I don't profess
to know. One would think, also, that false news
might be sent by them with even less danger of detection
than by the regular telegraph. But science is invited to
do her best to restore the balance of things. The Minister
of Public Instruction has summoned a curious committee
to aid the military authorities in defending Paris. All
the chemists of renown have been convened by circular
to concoct new and fearful substances—to devise strange
machinery. They will also deliberate upon schemes sent
into the War Department, and carry out necessary experi-
ments.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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100 to 7 agst Lord Hawthorn (offered)
100 to 6 agst Blandford (offered)
100 to 6 agst Good Hope (offered)
100 to 6 agst Judge (taken)
25 to 1 agst. Sars4.eld (taken)
ST. LEGER.
2to 1 agst Kingcraft (taken and offered)

11 to 2 agst Macgregor'Coffered—take 6to 1
11 to 2 agst Palmerston (offered)
100 to 8 agst Captivator (offered)
25 to 1 agst Tabernacle (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Wheatear (offered)
1000 to 20 agst The Boy (offered)

CESAREWITCH.
1000 to 20 on the field (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Tabernacle (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Mahonia (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Blandford (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Sarsfield (taken)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
1000 to 20 agst Tabernacle (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Blandford (offered)

The Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone return
to Carlton-house-terraceon Monday (to-day) from Walmer
Castle.

WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1870.
—AGRICULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON, September 3.—The
number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders,
exhibitors, and others, on the 3rd inst., was 10,082, and
for the week ending same day, 47,067.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The autumn flower show
bakes place to-morrow, Wednesday, and Thursday. A
very large number of blooms of every variety of dahlias,
astus, gladioli, hollyhock, and verbenas will be exhibited.
In the afternoon Donizetti's opera " L'Elisire d'Amore "
will be played. On Thursday (the last day of the flower
show) the blowing up of the Bridge of Kehl, and other
grand pyrotechnic devices, will be repeated, and an opera
will be played in the afternoon.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL.—
We have reason to believe that General Sir John Penne-
father, G.C.8., will be appointed to the Governorship of
Chelsea Hospital, in succession to Field-Marshal Sir
Alexander Woodford. The name of Field-Marshal Sir
William Gomm, G.C.8., has also been mentioned for the
appointment.—United Service Gazette.

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OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning

THE REVOLUTION IN PARIS.

The Times observes that the volcano has burst. The
surrender of the Emperor and the capitulation
of MacMahon's army could not stand alone.
Such tidings wouid make the earth , open, and the
earth has opened in Paris. A revolution has begun.
All the dearest feelings of a Frenchman's heart were
wounded by the catastrophe of Sedan. The head of the
State a prisoner, 80,000 French soldiers capitulating, and
all without a note of warning that could have led
the nation to anticipate such tremendous disasters.
The Ministers, partly perhaps from prudence, partly
perhaps, because they still clung to the hope that all
might not be lost, told only half the truth on Saturday,
and ieserved their full confession till yesterday morning.
Even then some hours passed before Paris, stunned
and bewildered, mastered the whole truth. Paris
yesterday recalled the Paris of February, 1848,
and the Paris of 1792. The people rushed upon the
Palais Bourbon at the hour when the Deputies proposed
to hold their afternoon sitting. The National Guard,
which had filled the Place de la Concorde and
the quays and bridges since the morning, frater-
nized with the crowds as in former days, and
the Chamber was filled with the surging multi-
tude. The revolution would have broken out on
Saturday had Paris then known all the truth.
Count Palikao seized the first moment after the
opening of the Chamber to make a statement, but
he announced only the defeat of MacMahon and
the defeat of Bazaine, and the indefinite postpone-
ment of the intended junction of the Marshals.
Short as it was of the whole truth, this announce-
ment, bursting upon a deluded people, thrilled Paris to
the core. . A vast multitude marched to the Tuileries,
shouting " DepositiOn, Deposition !" and demanded of
General Trochu that he should assume the government
of the country. The General refused to accept an invi-
tation so made, and again refused when a second and
larger multitude pressed him, and his courage saved
France from an immediate Revolution. The throng
sought, ineffectually, some Republican Deputies, and then
dispersed. The great, the fatal, the complete truth was
reserved until they separated and the mass of Paris slept.
The Daily News says France, after a moment of stupor
and consternation, has arisen and shaken off the last rags
of the Napoleonic dynasty, and has pronounced her own
liberation. Army and people of one accord have refused
any longer to be the dupes and victims of a mock
regency, a false representative assembly, and of the agents
and instruments of the national corruption and degrada-
tion. The Second Empire is no more. France regains
possession of herself and the sympathies of Europe.
If, faithful to the voice of the Fathers of
the First Constituent Assembly of 'B9, and to the im-
mortal principles which have been so long defaced
and parodied; if in the plenitude of her reconquered free-
dom, she repudiates aggression and conquest, and all the
flagitious policy of an arbitrary and lawless will ; if she
proclaims that only defensive wars are just ; if she ab-
jures all the errors and crimes of 1792, and preserves
herself from anarchy and [terrorism, a new and more
glorious career of peaceful supremacy awaits her. The
News hopes that there will be no hesitation or delay in
establishing a secure and durable order of things, founded
on the true will of the true nation, which will secure to
regenerated France, and to all Europe, the blessings of
liberty and peace.
The Telegraph says it was evident that some radical
change would be the result of the disaster on the Meuse.
The honourable close of the Emperor's campaigning
might, indeed, as it seemed, have somewhat redeemed,
in the eyes of the Parisians, the tremendous sin
of failure ; but for France that is a sin which
seldom or never is forgiven, whatever acts of heroism or
self-denial are done to expiate it. The very terms in
which, according to the King of Prussia, the Emperor
made his surrender—neither as a soldier in command of any
part of his army, nor as a Sovereign with power to treat
for peace or take any part in public affairs—almost
seemed to invite, as certainly they facilitated the esta-
blishment in France of a state of political affairs which
should know the Napoleons no more.

The Morning Post believes that the proclamation of the
Republic is the most deplorable admission of weakness that
France can make. MM. Gambetta, Pelletan, Fa vre,
Ferry, Cremieux, Picard, and the rest can hardly consti-
tute a serious Government—one that will win the support of
friendly States, or inspire the foe with respect for the
attitude of France. A Republic in France weans a
threatened revolution in Spain and Italy, means
the alienation of possible allies, the distrust of
reasonable and well - governed States. Nothing
could be more dangerous in this supreme hour
than confiding to ardent, inexperienced, and desperate
theorists the serious interests lof a great country. The
rural population is far from sharing the opinions
of the Parisian mob. It may thus occur that civil
war may be added to the horrors of foreign invasion.
Whatever happens, the double question is now proposed
to us— How to save France from the conqueor? and how
to save her from herself ?