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London, England, 1870-12-23 00:00:00

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North, while the French general has at the most 40k;
the greater part of whom are undrilled recruits andl°."
armed. feta
The Pomo- Zeitumg says that officers exempt „0
service on account of age are invited to place thetase"
at the service of the country.
It is stated that eighteen battalions of the Geri°
reserve are to be employed in the occupation of str,
burg, Metz, and g:hionville. of
The Nice papers lately reported twenty centiinetrego
snow to be lying in the streets of that usually' o°,ll ,
city. Such a sight had not been seen there since Febru
1853.
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On the 14th inst. twenty enormous mortal's I,°-40
through Cassel on the way to Paris, a,ccompanied 17f1.
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men to serve them, and a large quantity of alllllll—
amounting to 1,000 charges for each. They 113 v,
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constructed and mounted under• the direction of Cape
Collet, who is in charge of the expedition, which
expected to reach Paris in a week.
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A letter from ToUrs, copied from the Frellcum; to
into the Frankfurter Zeitung, a paper favoull the
the Republican cause of France, says that aftoer
recent battles near Orleans, the Arab Cavalry of '"4"rl:'
0111•
cut off the heads of German soldiers, and that 5 11
ber of those horsemen rode into town with 3 CC'S e 6.
or so of those ` war trophies " hanging from their 53"

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bows.
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The almoner of the French Army, Count Pgroo
Roman Catholic priest, has obtained leave from the es,
of Prussia, with whom he had an interview at -Verdi')
to visit the French prisoners in Germany. ",,,sor
accordingly, in company with his chaplain, a Ge—there
speaking Alsatian, proceeded to Berlin, and havirgrooe
obtained the necessary credentials from tne Ws„.,r.„,vot
and Bishop Namezanowski, the Catholic Field P", 061
of the Prussian Army, he has commenced his r. f°ll
visits at Custrin.
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The Cross Gazette says :—" Southern Champage-och
centre whence come the Franc-tireurs who do so
mischief to our soldiers, and are introducing into the the
an element of violence which it did not possess st of
beginning. The problem of sweeping the countlitbe
keeping the communications open, and preservill, thetelegraph, is not one easy of solution in the face °J'ars,
aid which towns and villages give to the Franc-611 4A
especially in the Haute Marne, while the well-oecil,
and well-situated fortress of Langres supports theor
corps and comes to their aid in expeditions and aul
cades."
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GERMAN LOSSES. --Herr Wickede, of the c07„,3
Gazette, writes :—" No sorties have been undertwe
during the past week from Paris. The former hot fig
caused great losses to both armies. About 1,000 Wuritteher
bergers, 2,000 Saxons, and
,1,200 Prussians are eijog
killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The French
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is not easily calculated, as they were enabled to c3O,
'back the greater portion of their wounded into the tf° d
According to the number of killed which our troops 10,toe
upon the field of battle, they must have lost at 'OO
from ten to eleven thousand men. The fighting or
carried on on both sides with the greatest bittern, 0,
and the French especially fought with a deter Oho
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tion that has not before been shewn by them. tio
results achieved during the past week against of
Army of the Loire have been of a highly satisfact:l4
nature. Notwithstanding the resistance of despair, the
really brilliant bravery, which we will not dellYo
French in this war, the Army of the Loire has "-of
beaten by us over and over again in a series bit
engagements more or less important, without its beinque
to boast of a single success worth mentioning. It is die
these victories have cost us many bloody sacrifices. , '''„fi,
Bavarian Corps has lost in killed and wounded and „VI
soners 123 officers, and 2,000 men. The 17th 1n13.74;
Division has lost alone in killed and wounded 3,000 Itire
the 22nd Division has also had considerable losses, as P-cler
the cavalry and the 3rd and 9th Hanoverian Corps 111341
Prince Frederick Charles. On the whole we may reons
our losses up to the lothDecember, in recapturing Orlell
and driving back the Army of Loire, at 10,000 raeu,hot
killed, wounded, and prisoners. It is -true during "0,4
time we have taken 18,000 prisoners, and ninety galsa.
from the enemy, besides four well-armed gun-boats, ''''
have killed and wounded at least from 7,000 to 8,000 mein"

THE FRANCO-IRISH AMBULANCE.
The Dublin committee of this body has received. 2,,
port from Surgeon Maguire, who is in command
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detachment of the ambulance accompanying the di4llo
of Francs - Tireurs under General Mocquard,
which he states that—At Buchy, Dr. Cren:lier'
with three students and a waggon, were under 'fire
the whole time, and carried off and attended to t 11:
wounded of the division. The next morning Iv,'
received orders to quit Rouen with the troops, as the to,";i
had surrendered. ' Dr. Cremier, with two waggons at
staff, left at 11 a.m. ; I, with J. Ryan, remained to 0'
Mr. Conolly, who is sick at Rouen. On our return fill
the hospital we learned that the Prussians had arrive
We immediately started to join the ambulance, 10
were arrested by the Prussians. After
detained nearly three days, we were present„
with a sort of pass, which ' was disputed 'Yr
a Prussian officer whom we met about a mile from the,iii
outposts. He endeavoured to arrest us, but we succeed'`
in making our escape from him by riding twenty-sae:l_
miles without a halt. While in Rouen we were trest,rei,
most lincourteously. While having dinner at the /I°'
d'Angleterre, some Prussian officers came in and 113€15.
removed from the public saloon before we had finis', cl
dining; again, my horse was turned out of his stable 1.0
kept in the open air all night.

THE DEFENCE OF LoNDox.—lf there be ally'
truth in the rumour that official orders have been given
for the preparation of a scheme for the defence of Leudot
it must be admitted that the action, of Government 71
neitht.r rash nor preceipitate. Ten years have doll,/
since the commissioners appointed to inquire into t
defences of the country presented their report, and
not yet forgotten that the following was one of the tan,
pregnant passages in that report. " There can be 11,
for 4
doubt," say the commissioners, " that the main objey
of an enemy invading the country would be to push ,
the capital, in the hope that, if he succeeded in obtainim"
a command of it, such'a disaster would result in our bort,
ing him off upon any terms he might think it expedieli
to exact." As this opinion was shared by the most
petent authorities, it was a matter of surprise a„I3
regret that the defence of Loudon had not been speciaq
brought under the attention of the commissioners ;
the omission was in some measure remedied by the f f
discussion which the subject received at the hands
General Shaw Kennedy, Sir Joshua Jebb, and oth,r"
writers. General Kennedy proposed to secure the safe'
of the metropolis by erecting a number of small forts,
each of them about 200 yards square, at intervals of
mile, upon a circle having a five-mile radius rol
London. He calculated that for the defence of these fort
265,000 men would be required, and for field operatiol
an additional force of 250,000. It is needless to observe
that we are at present a very long way frog
having at our disposal the necessary half million
soldiers. Sir Joshua Jebb's plan was wider in
range, and consisted in fortifying with field woriv
extending for some 60 miles along high ground frol
Maidstone to Reading. But it had the obvious deice.,
of being only a partial defence of London, which will',
be as much exposed to attack upon the north and east
sides as before. In the Cornhill Magazine another projeco
was brought forward. The writer suggested that th
principal eminences round London—Shooter's Hill, Nor
wood, Wimbledon, Harrow, Mill Hill, and Enfield
should be crowned with large and substantial fora °.
tions, and that smaller intermediate forts should 1:f
erected at intervals between the heights. This is,.
course, very similar to the plan which has been ado
around Paris. Another scheme, proposed in a parapW.,,e
by a " General Officer," was the formation of two or iia°'
entrenched camps at the distance of a day's march, fro°
London. These would form bases from which trool°
might be pushed forward to impede tilt adxtunce of 01
enemy, and rallying points in case of check. There is °f
any rate an abundance of alternative schemes, and out 19
them we trust the War Office may be able to select 0110
which will ensure the final settlement of this long-impelly
ing question.—Pall Mall Gazette.

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