New-York tribune., 1870-11-29
VAR NOTES.

A German, writing from Metz, says: "Let
nobody expect to win the sympathes Of these people
for generations to They hate us more intensely
German only an iron rule win be possible here. Every
forbearance and mdness would be misunderstood' anu
good deeds would fall on stony ground.
The French papers announce that the Prus-
sian War Department has issued orders that their
French prisoners shall be furnished with Winter cloth
ing, of which immense quantity was found In Sras-
bourg The prisoners confined In the forresses OF Ses
crs private soldiers permitted to reside IN pr
vste houses II their education and conduct be such as 10
justify such privilege.
GravelOtte, recent visitor says, is q scene of
indescrlbabe desolaton. The nights occupied by the
French still srewn with accoutermens and clothes;
the fields deeply rutted with the wheels OF artillery
s9s spa buried and am CHss hs is
had only to the ground from which the Germans
drove the French to understand that troops which could
hold such position could out their way out
OF Metz.
The commssariat of the German forces be-
fore Paris is very efficiently organized. Every army
corps Ave provision columns consisting OF 100 wagons
800 horses. 400 men, and 10 officers In addition TO all
these there horses men. and wagons for Held pa
kerry certain number Of surplus horses to be used
In case need. The G0 wagons supposed 10 carry
provisions for every man The corps for three days and
they empted they return to the rear TO pc sgaa
repenished the maya which estaDsneu at
convenient points and kept going partly by wagons
and horses hired, "requisOned" in the country and
The first-class Army Reserve Of the British
army Is receiving numerous recruits 1t is formed of
soldiers who have served their term OF enlistment and
voluntarily Join for five years, during which time they
will receive 4d day, and be allowed to reside where
they please In the United Kingdom following their usual
ayocaons The order states that they are liable to be
recalled TO their places In the army in case OF hnm
nent national danger or OF great emergency ana 10
serve for six months after peace Is proclaimed II mar
ried their wives and families will bo maintained by the
State during their absence on service ana every man
4 will his former rank In the army.
The regimental bands in the Prussian army
have something else to do beside making music for the
men to march to- When battle begins they are ordered
to fall to the and keep guard the knapsacks OF
their respective regiments The only allowed as @ them C
consideration we ore better able to appreciate the
ns e sa y the
tain Of luggage intrused to their three French
ciny doubtless %aH em on nteh
our martial musicians did not wait for chaienge Dat
sailed forth and captured the whole band and triumph
antly took their prisoners into camp.
DR.. Jules Guerin recently laid before the
Academy OF Sciences at Paris two schemes for maintain
ing telegraphic communication between Paris and the
provinces by means OF balloons The first consists in
sending up q captive balloon and paying out tele-
latter reaches the ground The intermediate portions OF
series Of small balloons attached to it at distance
from each other. The second plan Is wire incosed In
with gas would constitute . kind OF tubular balloon,
which would, the former be paid out by cap
tive balloon and would follow the free balloon until the
latter reached the desired destination.
The fact seems to bel almost ignored that if
Prussia wished she might fit out prvateers to cruise the
high seas greatly annoy the French in the waters
they frequent and she might also send ont
men-owar to capture French merchant ships, but she
principle, abstained from doing either OF these
two things, she wishes to help abolish the Gus
tom Now, at Mo9ins In France there are held as & prs
the time Of seizure were engaged in peaceful cang.
and most OF them were Oi so n
papers, complaining that they and their comrades are
through the their to prison, the whole popu-
lace came out and pelted them with mud and stones;
and of the p0puace even pulled on their wooden
shoes to throw at these unfortunate sailors
The energetic measures of the engineer corps
for defense of Pars thus stated by The London
Engineer: engineers of the bridges and hghroads
and the mining engineers have contributed largely to
e work Of defense They directed the earthworks and
O., rrctions for closing Of the gates OF Paris the
mp stOn OF the bitches and glacis the establishment
new batteries and the clearing of the outer military
work often spots thirty leagues distant from Paris
eiied the defenscs Of St Denis and turned the waters
II the Ourcq into the bitches of the fortcaOns, and
CO. 'rncted many the redoubts. They
ID ding in the completion Of the second and inner Oh
OF the city of which the circular railroad forms
ms base. In addition to this, third enceinte Is being
formed which, among other things the place
an almost nsurmounablo barrier In eighteen days the
corps OF TIE bridges ana nSoads % ~ ne nary r"ad
thew also but hnts for so 900 Gardes Mobiles and con-
strcted two dams the Seine socka 10 on the river
and On inoombnstibe dam any floating fire, be-
side many other important WORKS, incudng large IRON
plated MAJ gazine for petroleum and ammunition.
The commercial interests imperiled, in case
England should become involved in shown by
parliamentary return recently Issued AT the end OF the
year 1869 there remaining on the register
Of tho United Kingdom, including the Channel Islands
24ls7 sailing vessels Of i.7G5S tuns, and 2,972 steam
vessels of sl8 s67 tuns these numbers compared with
those for the end OF the year 1863 show an increase OF
I6O tns the tunnage, but decrease OF IL 929
show at the end OF lSC9 47 sailing vessels Of 13s6
tuns and 5GG steam vessels OF 62975 tuIs, being an IN
crease 6O in tho sailing tunnage, and of 83l
tuns in the steam tunnage The total Tor the Brltlsh
empire therefore, at the end OF 1862 1884 sailing
vessels Of 6,15l36 tuns, and 3,53S steam vessels OF
0 32 tuns being an increase OF 5i In the steam
tunnage but Of O7 9OS tuns in the sailing u-
mage The grand total OF sailing vessels ana steam YES
sells the registers Of the empire at the end OF 1869 was
end of decreas OF 2Gj in the number OF vessels,
and of 53C7 tuns in the tnnnage The image ON the
register OF the port Of London at the or the year
1869 1,05s9 tuns, much a. 267o5H being steam
tunnage; at Liverpool 14S4973 tuns, 1919 being steam
tmnage; Clyde ports, b35,i9O tuns, 1Z0o being steam
tnnage Tyne poIt 39132 uns 400l7 bel steam tul-
mage; Sunderland 2 0j6 tuns, 3CgS being steam tun-
mage; Hull, 10 S04 tuDs, 67,3l7 being steam tunnage;
Aberdeen lCB 4s tuns, $3.50 being steam tdnage; Can
ada, with Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island,
shows the register s. 90 tuns 1920 being steam
tunnage; Australia New Zealand 2o5,To tuns, 2939
steam tunnage. OF the whole mercantile tunage of the
British empire at the close OF the 1902 5e vessels
4739l tuns vessels not exceeding 81 uns, and
2O75 vessels OF 60957 tuns were vessels exceeding so
In the year 1860 l0l2 vessels OF 36S6G tuns were
placed the registers Of ports OF the United Kingdom
vessels OF I23203 tuns 10s2 vessels Of 29 29
sold and transferred in the year. OF
wrecked, and 81 OF S6V tuns were broken up.
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LOUIS BLANC AND LOUIS NAPOLEON