The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-09
rnrNcu RHpuBn.cIKsIN VIEW roRK
What they Think mud What they arc Doing
How the Emperor swiudlcd the Nation,
mud low his EnbOrdimniaa neceiN We him.


In the present crisis Of affairs in France the
sentiments AMI action OF the French residents In
New York are unusually valuable, from the fact that
these residents are chiefly men VINO were expelled
FROM me- By the ooaD T;tdt Of Napoleon In De-
c,mber, 1851, and they know personally the indi.
vluas into whose grasp the destines Of France are
fallen.
\ Sun reporter had an interview with t,c leading
members ~ the French socicties In tie city yester
day, and receive Interesting items OF information
which acre recorded. Their views are not rose
colorei, nor does their patriotism prevent them
from seeing the horribly dangerous position Of
France. The curiity OF the late Emperor and his
creatures, they assert. has lie the country almost
deionceless. Tie men who surrounded Napoleon
were horse leeches. who csied continually give,
Give aud he led diem ron the vital resources OF
the nation. When foreign exnediti,n was posi-
blc-in the Crlmea. In China In Italy IN Me,icn--he
aud his followers Dipped their hands in the treasury
without fear Of detection. But 10 pcculate from the
civil lie, VAS next to impossible. so the stcalinks
cslne from tne national it'cuces.
But Napoleon, though he knew that he and his
crea ures were rnbbing the nation, never suspected
that the subordnates were PLAYING ne same game.
WI en- ono hundred cannon were placed to the credit
OF France. he knew that only sovenij Eve la been
paid Tor, and lie supposed that tleto ~ere seventy
FIVE; hut the under Ting reculae'. and behold there
we're only uily. In the com issatiai, In the ord
gross frauds prevailed. That gimc has been sopued
nnN, hut % c magEncs eouIin hite TODD, and tie
arstfAN no HllcrF. The Russians have taken
nine hundred guns, Hnl 10 replace greyons loss
is "a question Of time. But Mol.ke presses onward
steadily, AMI great city Ike Paris cannot be de-
tended long a. the fifteen hundred thousand inhab-
| iisn's mu-t Oe Eel. siIl, II Paris can be held for
two months even, the least saHguine believe ,h1t
the Prussia ns will be iotci, aud viii perhaps be
| a. uiLfdtod.
The plan Of defence elaborated BY the Provisional
Government IL To avoid CO mhat. In tie felt but to
attack unccasingl, the long Prussian line " commu-
nication This Is the more feasible, a the Germans
have rained no fortified place 10 strengthen their
| line. An army OF fifteen Thousand men has been
gathered q l., ons: another irmy numerous /, II
Versatile : lrotner Is NJ Bordeaux; ami ,tl an
| other Is forming in Nor mandy and Breagnc. With
In two wcntis oyer million Frcnchnen viii be in
arms. There Is no want VI men. The great acN L.
Of artls. A. fast the arsena'S turn them
ihcy ere mace ard distributed. Tut Paris the chief
locu ~ Of the shows. must inevitably be closed in
law days, The port, are all IN tie nanI- ol the
French, and their great reliance must he on foreign
weapons. For this end the New York French nre
WI rking with the greatest entus asm and liberia ty
The Bouspartist French merchant gives freely as
ue old Republican or The Orransi, and all ami
IN tied oY the same stirit Anmaios their rothets
In France, TO make peace II possible by giving
| nry and ships, but 10 surrender not one incn Of
| French soil