The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-03 00:00:00

THE PRUSSIANS IN ORLEANS.

The Prussians, according to a French account, are not
so unlerous.in the province. of Orleans as was at first
supposed. ',The travellers who brought the first accounts were
so overwhelmed with fright that they exaggerated the
facts. The pririciil
,force seems to be at Malesherbes
with the aitilterY and fthe Cavalry. At Pithiviers Only 23
Uhlans have been seen; while in the town -of Orleans it
self the Prussian scouts ' have not been visible, but
the panic is.'neeitheless 'great. The 'railway companies
have exerted' themselves to despatch all their
Carriages' and locomotives away from the town for fear
they should fall into the' eilemy'S hands, and long empty
trains might be seen passing over the bridge of Vierzon.
The PoSt-office, too, lias removed all its property, closed
its offices, and given notice it will undertake no more
letters without the town. The Public Receipt Office and
the Bank have removed their establishthents and sus-
pended all payments. The 'anxiety -felt by the peOple
was very great, and was not lessened by the destruction
of the bridge of Orleans, which has produced great in-
convenience, and was declared by many to have been an
unuecssary measure.

The French are turning the Germans out of Algiers,
All the Belgian towns are full,of French families flyinr
from France. . .

It is announced that several of the leading. agitators at
Lyons, including General Cluseret, have been arrested.
'According to the Berlin correspondent of the Times' hun-
dreds of peasants daily apply to German pickets; request-
ing to be let out of Paris, but are refused,
Not far from 102 mitrailleuses have fallen into the pos-
session of the Germans. This leaves but 42 in the hands
of the original owners and inventors.
A disturbance has taken place at Amiens, arising from
an innkeeper refusing to receive a wounded sOldier. The
mob surrounded his house, broke the Windows,. and were
with difficulty pacified.
A brave boy of Berlin had accompanied a Prussian
cavalry regiment on its march to Filaide; and had not
even left the corps when they made a. Charge, until lie
found it impossible to keep pace with them ; then he
attached himself to an infantry regiment following in
the rear. The poor little fellow wad wounded by three
bullets. •

In one of the Be!gian hospitals were seine' Bavariang 'who
were severely wounded ; one of them refused to undergo
amputation,. declaring that he. would rather die;. and in
fact he did die shortly afterwards. Some minutes before
his death he.was asked if he had anything to say, "write
to my mother," he replied, "ind tell hc!re thdt I died as a
brave soldier." He expired without. having uttered a
groan, though the sufferings he had endured were
fearful. . .

The correspondent of the lidlpendenee Beige complains
of the lack of patriotism and 'the extortionate temper of
the inhabitants of Tour's. Their' rapacity, he -sayi,- is
outrageous. They are ten tithes worse than they were at
the time of Prince Pierre Borraparte's trial. They were
Oyu lad enough, and shewecl.theniselyes
,to be strong
partisans of that warlike Prince, whose loaded weapons
were always at hand' in life, but have not been
very Active since the opening of the campaign.
. • A telegram, direct from :Strasburg; of Friday's dates
says that several French officers wh6mere made prisoner,on the surrender of .the'town have, beenallpwed.'to leave,
'for S~vitzerlaiid On' foarele. Geneial is among the
nuMber. ' all ;-'natives of,
Alsace,. are being sent to their lhothes:- A 'great' mimber
of foreigners are already flocking to: Strasburg,' but it .is
at present difficult to enter the:town.

The North German Gazette,. in pointing out the impor-
tance of Fort Mont Valerien, says :—The fort rises at its
inferior enceinte 125 metres abOve the level of the sea and
45 metres above the surrounding terrain ; but the heights
of the village of Garches, at a distance of only 2,000
metres from the fort, rise to 155 metres, and command
therefore, by some metres, the, most elevated portions of
the fort. This inconvenience, and the isolation of the fort,
weaken considerably the importance of the fine works, and
its value as a fortress.

In a letter from a Gernian soldier in the "Tageblati.
read When one has .seen -the dreadful wOunds Yq,
many of one's comrades one feels doubly thankful to'. the
Creator for having escaped unscathed ; and yet I confess that
the second time, at Sedan, I raced the bullets much more
calmly and coolly fliaialle first time. IdO not know how
it is, but one wholliforgdts the danger one is in, and
thinks only of thjelect of one's own bullets, rejoicing,
like a child, at the sight of the enemy falling like skittles,
and having scarcely a compassionate glance to spare for
the comrade falling by one's side. One ceases to be a
human being and turns into a brute, a complete
brute."

A German soldier, in a letter to the Elbefelder Gazette,
gives a very unfavourable account of the treatment of
prisoners by the French. B e says :—" I was taken pri-
soner on the 16th of August at Mars-la-Tour, with 734
othe Prussians, and conducted to Metz. We were robbed
of everything—money, watches, and tobacco—by our
escort, and treated like cattle, not like men. In Metz we
had to sleep in the casemates on the ground. We suffered
excessively from hunger, and such of us as had been able
to conceal a little money were charged 2 francs 8 sous for
a pound of bacon, and enormous prices for bread. It is
impossible to form an idea of what we suffered till we
were exchanged."
It is stated that a Berlin police-officer in the Prussian
camp, being present at the capitulation of Sedan, with
many others that were equally eager to witness the sight
of fallen greatness, pressed up as close as he could to the
chair on which the Emperor was seated in the open air.
On his Majesty's rising, with a swiftness, acquired pro-
bably in his official practice among Berlin 'crowds and
roughs, he pounced upon the chair, and, preising a
napoleon in the footman's hand who stood behind the
Emperor, he carried off his trophy, which will probably
after a period of. years be sold at ten times as many
pounds as it cost the enterprising police-officer francs.

The official lists of the killed and wounded occasionally
contain names which ought to be omitted. A few days
ago a German soldier, named Joseph Tenfele, the son of
a village burgermeister, was inserted in the list as one of
the killed. The whole village was filled with great grief
in consequence of this bereavement to the leading inhabi-
tant. A very solemn funeral service was held, accompa-
nied by formalities of some little pomp. This took place
in the morning, and to the astonishment of the inhabitants
the dead man walked safe, and very nearly sound, into
the village the same afternoon. The appearance in the
list of dead was soon explained. In one of the engage-
ments round Sedan, Tenfele was driven with several of
his companions into a deep gravel pit, where he received
several severe contusions and lay cut off from his bat-
talion. He was given out as dead, but made his way to
a field hospital where he was reported unfit for service in
the war. He arrived at home just after the funeral ser-
vice had been concluded.

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