New-York tribune., 1870-09-15

German scholars are accompanying their army IN
order to search the libraries Of Cathedral towns for
documents relative to medieval history.
A correspondent writes from Sedan that on the
morning after the last battle, when the bugle
sounded coo rderless horses gaoped to the rendez-
vous
WHAT THE PRUSSIANS WILL FIND Al PAfflS'
THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FORTiFlCAllONS
OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR Defense.
IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
PARIS Sept. 2.-The alarm created by the MIN
iseria week ago, that the Prslans had
resumed their advance upon Paris, suggested the prop
oston to remove seat Of Government into the prov
inces Although invested with no official authority, IL
seems certain that the report rested upon Ministerial
decision to be acted upon in of need The Cabinet
has no sinecure at time and although its debera-
tions are secret many facts leak outn consequence OF
the mpossbity of retcence when subordinate omclas
have 10 be employed to set investigation on foot or 10
the way particular changes There Is no doubt
whatever that, at q recent meeting or the Councu,
the question was seriously discussed whether In the
event OF the Prurians beseging the metropolis, the
great administrations which together constitute the ma
chnery of government should not be removed from the
scene of action At that time the Crown Princes army
was 80 rapidly approaching Paris that, upon an urgency
vote the resolution adopted TO constitute certain
provincial cities OF administrations should the
Justify the alternative Bourges, being the great
center Of the military establishments OF France was
fixed upon the Of the Ministry Of War OF Foreign
Affairs, and the Corps Dplomatique, while Tours
would become that OF the Ministry or the In
eror and OF the Treasury 1t considered desirable
not TO separate the Corps Dipomaque from the Foreign
Affairs order not 10 nerpose difficulties Of intercourse
with heads OF the Department The Ministers of the
Marine and the Colonies, of Justice, OF Public Works OF
Commerce, and Public Instruction, would remain In
IN
in the acceptance OF the Palace of Jean Ceur-oered by
the municipality of BOurges-fOr the official residence Of
War Minister and the Hotel OF the Prefecture for
that Of the Foreign Minister. Both edfces have his
torica assocationsthe former in connection with the
striking incidents in the of the remarkable
man who inhabited IL the latter, the seat OF the
tribunals Of Bourges before the great revolution In one
Of the vast halls of palace the assembly OF the clergy
under Charles held at which the pragmatic
tiOn draed-the original germ OF universal suffrage
Since the Cabinet came to the decision already advered
10, the military aspect Of affairs has altered;
the Pussans have halted in their advance even retro
graded and for the present nothing is heard Of the
project Should the necessity arise however there
doubt the projected transfers will be forthwith carried
ont.
When the French metropolis had its boundary
wall at the commencement of the Rue du Faubourg St
Honore and its fosses in the Rue Montmarre, Vauban
projected and designed great system Of forts and de-
extending and applying It to the Paris of his day When
NJ Theirs and LOss Philippe concluded TO fortify the
city, the line OF the exterior Boulevards not five
minutes easy walk from the spot where these lines are
penning and the ruphal Arch outside of the Porte
de POcoi de NeuiHy The intermediate space, and all
round Paris, filed up by pleasant marketgardens,
the Park and Palace OF Moneeaux, by green fields and
open patches and by only occasional houses The Bag-
noles were suburb ertrd inOs where people went on
Sundays land fastdays 10 tppe Gin ordtndire or the
compound which did duty such, at six sous q
ltre without any inconvenience 10 the head,
but much another department Of the frame anf here
too at the hundredand-one restaurants or gargohes
were sold stews alleged to be made of rabbit aud hare,
but in which the head nor tho origin of
the tail OF the duadruped whose disguised made
the sayory mess. For years Paris within the fortfca-
tons meant the Paris with the exterior bouevards OF
1885, when the Baste, and the Porte St. Antene it
was then written, stood in close proximity the end Of
the basion Of that vaOus fortress and prison reach
ing to the spot where stands the column of July.
IL was bold scheme TO fortify the Paris Of 1910 II
now stands, but the possibility OF incursOn OF Prus
slams never entered into the minds Of its orgnators,
nor OF their Had this been the case Paris
would have been pushed to the iuner
side of the wall OF decentralization e'oeinte
continue and might then have been
spared the sad spectacle OF destruction
and ruin now pre- the In connection with
this subject Gen. Toohu has spared such portions OF the
Bois Boulone did not impede artillery practice
from the rsmparts, bnt the demolition OF all houses
within the military is proceeding rapidly. Most
tourists will remember the chapel erected upon the spot
where the late Duke OF orleans breathed his hast In 1s2
after his terrific fall out OF his carriage n has almost
disappeared under the pckax and the crowbar OF the
special corps workmen demoshers II is said that the
will be restored and that the blocks Of stone
OF which IL was constructed have all been numbered and
set aside for this purpose The neghbOrhood Of Mont
rouge yaugirard Issy and Grenele presents heap OF
ruins The houses knocked down in this neghborhOod
we're OF no great value but not those in the vicinity OF
the Bo de Boulogne The propretors will not receive any
indemnity as condition OF sale TO them that In the
event OF q war the engineering department could com
pei them at days notice to demollsh the buildings
upon the land sold This rule, however, does not apply
20 the OF house property already erected within
the zone when the forthcations projected Gen.