The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-26 00:00:00

TROUBLES AT LILLE.

The story of a slight emeute reaches us from Lille. It
broke out in a little estaminet in consequence of an
inflammatory harangue by M. Losson, a citizen who is
known as the author of a brochure on the education of
princes, dedicated to tho Prince Imperial and one of the
editors of a democratic paper recently published at Lille.
A procession was resolved upon after his speech, of
which the text was, " Let us swear to die
for our country," and the mob, growing as it
went, proceeded to the Prefecture, where the Prefect,
M. Legrand, and the Commissioner of National
Defence, M. Testetin were loudly called for. Shouts of
"Down with Testetin 1" "Down with Bourbaki 1" were
raised. The gates of the prefecture were broken open,
and some of the ringleaders forced themselves into the
court. The Prefect, however, advanced to meet the in-
truders, and seized two himself. The others slipped back
outside the railings. M. Testetin nailed out the National
Guard, and several arrests were made. M. Losson, the
prime mover of the affair, was not forthcoming. The
disturbance, which happly never assumed a serious aspect,
was soon suppressed.

Prisoners brought into Corny from Metz state that a
pretence ofiregular rations existed in the fortress until the
17th. The rations then became exhausted, and nothing but
horseflesh was to be had.
A Berlin paper publishes a declaration signed by a large
number of members of the popular party, in which they
declare their adhesion to the protest voted at ICOnigsberg
in the meeting of the Democrats, addressed by Dr. Jacoby,
which produced his arrest.
Gravelotte is the most pestilential battle-field. Every
grave-heap has beside it an eccentric tombstone in the
shape of a barrel of chloride of lime ; but notwithstanding
this disinfectant the taint in the air is unmistakeable and
indescribably foetid.
It is announced in the Liberte that the French Govern.
ment is on the point of quitting Tours, being unwilling to
incur the charge of embarrassing the movements of the
Army of the Loire from motives of self-preservation.
Bordeaux has been definitely fixed upon as the city to
which the seat of Government will be removed.

Those of the French prisoners in Germany who belong
to Alsace and German Lorraine are to be separated from
the rest, formed into companies, and employed in agri-
cultural occupations, where they are to be treated with all
possible consideration. This is another indication of the
determination of Prussia to insist on the cession of these
provinces.

Them_ is no truth in the report_that_on_and_ after3loll,"
day next the Port of Calais will be closed.

There is scarcely any crime.in Paris at present. The
new guardians of the public peace enjoy a sinecure.

With the exception of cereals, the Delegate Govern-
ment at Tours has permitted the exportation of goods to
Switzerland, hitherto prohibited.
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The Echo du Partement publishes a telegram from
Luxemburg, announcing that on Saturday a column of
2,000 men with two guns left Thionville en route for
Verdun, in order to relieve the troops blockaded in the
latter place.

A Russian courier, bearing despatches from the Czar,
has passed through Frankfort, en route for the Prussian

head-quarters.

There is one recent change in the policy of the German
authorities ominous of their contempt for their enemies•
They publish in ostentatious fulness the chief changes in
their army's staff, enabling any reader to judge indirectly'
of important objects to be attained.—Pall Malt Gazette.
General Bourbaki is not one of the mere Court general
of the Second Empire, but has won his grades throughout
by hard service. He was especially popular with the
army in his capacity as a brigadier of Zouaves in 1859,
when these since-condemned troops touched the zenith of
their reputation.

A number of German soldiers, who are cured of their
wounds or the maladies they contracted during the cam-
paign, have again directed their steps toward the theatre
of the war. The other day a train took 3,000 of thou
towards Paris. Besides this the German papers state
that many of the Landwehr have been summoned to rejoin
the army.

Some German papers state that the Intendance of the
Prussian army have not renewed their orders for prod'
sioning the forces, which expired on the 20th of October;
and ask if the head-quarters have determined to keep to
the system of requisitions from the enemy, or whether the
first may be regarded as the presage of approaching peace?

Everything is in confusion at Marseilles. The order,
of the Government are systematically disobeyed. The
suspension of the Gazette du Midi is maintained, in spite
of the decree of the Government, which authorises that
newspaper to recommence its publication. The civic
guard has made its reappearance in arms, in spite of the
order which pronounced its dissolution.

Prince Frederick Charles, who has been suffering seri-
ously from dysentery, is still far from fully rcovered, but
he is able to sit his horse, and he has never devolved his
functions of commander in-chief on any substitute. This
leader has an insuperable objection to the presence of
special correspondents. He tolerates only those who are
furnished with the King's mandate.
General Trochu has refused to employ lighted petroleum
as an engine of war, saying it would only provoke cruel
reprisals on the part of the Prussians. This was the only
new invention accepted by' the War Committee out of
some 2,000-impracticable suggestions made to them. The
Greek-fire fusees exploded in the hands of the examiners,
and it is decided to keep to cannon and mitrailleuses, but
to have plenty of them.

The Sildelentsche Presse declares that the organisation of
the Freeshooters of France need not call forth so much
indignation on the part of the German authorities. It add
that if the chances of war had gone against Germany, and
that country had been invaded, its inhabitants would have
done exactly what the French have dono. The peasants
would have risen, and, if possible, have prepared for
France a second Moscow, and the nation, far from blaming
these acts, would have recompensed them.
The Progres de la Cote d'Or states that 150 freeshooters
who left for Dijon, in the Vosges, a few days since, have
been forced to return, not by the Prussians, but by the
peasantry, who refused to give them anything to eat,
begging them to retreat or they would get them all
massacred. The women of the place actually denounced
an ambush they had planned to surprise the Prussians,
and the alarm being given to the enemy, who were greatly
superior in numbers, they were forced to retreat.
Angel de Miranda, Prim's former agent, has been
arrested at Versailles. He pretended to be Secretary of
the Spanish Legation, but was really Vice-President of
the Spanish Financial Commission in Paris, intrusted
with the payment of the interest on the External Debt•
He likewise officiated as a contributor to the Gaulois, and
was found at Versailles in the capacity of a spy.
pocket book filled with military notes of the German pod'
tions was found on him.

There is a great deal of pillage in the neighbourhood a
St. Germain. "As to the lower classes, they appear W
have made up their minds that, once the Prussian armies
are out of France, the golden ago will have come for then,
and their class. Here, in St. Germain, it is difficult to
get any work done. 'We are not going to work,' say the
owners ; 'we shall have plenty to eat and drink when the
cursed Prussians are gone."
A profitable traffic is done by the inhabitants of Givonne
and Bouillon. Large consignments of worthless old arra
are sent to them which are disposed of to tourists as
trophies of the battle of Sedan. The story is told of an
Englishman who bought a flint-lock pistol to take it home.
as he said, as a proof of the carelessness of the French
Administration, which in 1870 still used the arms of the
First Empire.
The German armies made 1,000 French prisoners at
Weissemburg, 2,500 at Spicheren, 6,000 at Woerth, 1,0
after those two battles in Saarguenaines, Hagenau, and
Lichtenburg, 2,000 at Vionville, 3,000 at Gravelotte, 850
in Vitry le Francais, 2,856 at Beaumont, 84,450 by the
capitulation of Sedan—in all, 104,443 ;to which must
-be added 2,080 at Laon, 2,240 in Toul, and 15,347 ill
Strasburg, which brings the total number of French Prl
soners unwounded, without counting those recently take°
in the Vosges, at Orleans, and at Soissons, to 3,51
officers and 123,700 soldiers.
The Staatsanzeiger dwells on the importance of the
capture of Orleans to the Prussians, and says that from WI
position on the right bank of the Loire it is an important
point gained for the army round Paris. The strategical
value of the town consists in the central railway ling
which abound there. Besides this consideration, the en-
virons of Orleans possess material consequence, the town
can afford shelter to the troops in the event of the pro.
longation of the campaign, and the country to the north
of Orleans is the granary of Paris, and la Seance is a most
fertile spot which can furnish supplies to the army round
Paris. It will not, therefore, be necessary for the Ger
mans to send provisions for their troops in that direction.

A MODEL COLONEL.—Some days back a colonel
was placed at the head of a regiment being formed in
central town—at Nevers, if we have been rightly in"
formed. The officers spent their time in the caf6s
the soldiers in• like manner went to the cabs'
nets, every one coming into barracks when be
liked, and paying little attention to the beat of the drum;
as to exercise, little or nothing was done. This cannot
last,' said the colonel, and for the next day he commanded
a long drill in person; a march occupied the afternoon.
On the succeeding day they had a long march, and after
soup the soldiers were again called to drill. Murmur°
soon broke out, and threats were uttered, of which the
colonel was informed, and on the third day, after a long
and tiresome drill, he came alone into the boa-rack yard. All
old soldier, who had spoken a good deal and had drunk some'
what at the canteen, came up to make complaints, and
doing so employed an insolent gesture. The colonel yell
coolly drew a pistol from his pocket and blew out the
man's brains • he then had the rappel beaten, and stand-
ing beside the'
corpse, he said, ' You are 3,000 here, and
I am alone ; you can murder me, but you will kill n,
bravo man, who has punished a coward and traitor.
The response was, Vivo le colonel I' and from that
moment order and discipline were restored. —Le .Francatis•
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