The New York herald., 1870-08-16

Mob law prevails Anybody in blouse does what
he likes.
the military trains are encountered with enormous
quantities. OF Officers baggage aud the supply trains
are delayed.
Three trains have arrived from Metz filled with
the Emperor's personal outfit, carriages, cooks,
BEDS sofas and other luXuries. The soldiers in the
meantime, are on half ratIons.
special correspondence from Paris Sunday
evening, says public feeling Is more and more hos.
tile TO the Emperor. II is openly said In the cafes
railway trains and public places that come what
may the Emperor will again be seen in Paris.
| The people express this opinion with energy not
| now fearing the nlouchards. The spies themselves
must report that the opinion is becoming universal.
| But NO surrender is the general cry among all
classes They call the Emperor an '1mbecile, and
his generals courtiers and traiors but the strong
est antmperiasts say that OF course the enemy
| must be driven out OF France, and are under the
fun impression that the nation can and VIII
conquer.
The opinion Ndttonaie vcntured 10 say that after
what passed in the Chamber yesterday there Is
already change OF government; that the Corps
| Legisatf s virtually Committee OF Public safety
and that the power Is transferred from the Tueres
| TO the Palas de BOURBON.
speclai correspondent from Hamburg writes,
| Frday:-The Cherbourg stories about the lombard
| ment OF Wilnelmshaven and the capture OF two
Prussian gunboats is false and equally impossible
are the French plans for bombarding Hamburg.
stettln and Koenigsberg. which the feet cannot
approach while Kie is perfectly defended. It is
believed here that the French accounts are pub
lshed for an effect in Germany
| The Grand Duke OF Mecklenburg- Sc hwcrn has
| been appointed commander OF the Tenth CORPS with
! his headquarters In Hamburg
greatly doubt the reported retreat OF the French
main army from Metz upon Chalons to avoid battle.
| The published telegrams 70 that eject seem Intended
| TO mslead
| special correspondent a, Chalons, French on.
| Ger and not likely TO he deceived about the move.
ments Of the French army writes Friday mid.
night
Everything Is being pushed forward to Metz
| A telegram this evening from Canrobert, at Metz,
says:-The army ia quite ready and a decisive bat
| tic will be fought on Monday or Tuesday at the
! latest. My informant Is an employe In the Military
Bureau, who copied the telegram. But believed
| at Chaons the Prnssians have other plans than an
attack Metz in 'front.'" In postscript on Satnr.
| day morning the same correspondent adds-"All the
reserve Infantry Is starting this moment for Metz
| What has been sent back from Metz is baggage not
| troops.
"A specIai correspondent teiegrapnb MONDAY noon
| nom Luxembourg 1.-THE sound OF cannon from
Metz has been heard all the morning. Orders have
been issued to stop all trains to Metz or Saarbruck
| No communication by the road Is permtted.n The
| same correspondent writes Saturday -
Every foreigner without distinction is ordered TO
leave Metz by Thursday Arrests of correspondents
| continue necessarily.
| Mr.. Cameron, representing Scotch paper, was in
imminent danger of being shot, and was only saved
| by a joint address Of all the correspondents to the
! Emperor. The French are exasperated to the last
| degree and there Is no safety for any one except
| those actually with the star At the above meeting
| papers except passports.
| The Luxembourg Notifications are rapidly being
| demolished, and laborers are being sent from Saar
| bruck and elsewhere The mines have been fred In
| every direction and the walls overthrown, but a
long time VIII be needed to MAKE the fortress inde
| fensible.
A delayed letter from a special correspondent
with the Prussan headquarters describes an inter.
| view with Bismarck at Mayence, Saturday week
| Bismarck said, 1--WE are much obliged to the
French for leaving US time to get the whole
| army on the Rhine and thence to the frontier
| In few Gays work will begin" Speaking
| OF the Germans in America. Bismarck acknowl.
edged, in warm terms, the sympathy expressed
there. From these and other letters 1t Is clear the
Prussans stop or delay all correspondence from the
| 'front.'
on the French side the campaign against Journal
lists has been more successful than against the
Prussans.