Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-09
FRANCE

PARIS, August S.-The remainder
of the Garde National has been in.
cOrporated with the Garde Mobile
The two corps will be organized into q
single body at once.
The JotiTaW O6icieL says that the rela-
tions Of France with other powers are
satisfactory, aud that late events have
developed rather than weakened this
feeling.
PARIS, August SIT is said, pri-
vately, that the Emperor is ill at
Chalons, and Drs. Nelaton and Ricord
have gone to attend him.
The British foreign Office has an
imperative demand from Prussia that
England shall stop shipments of coal
to France or abandon the pretense of
neutrality.
1t is believed at Antwerp that the
war will end in a week.
A Brussels dispatch says the Kings
speech from the throne confirms the
statement that France and Prussia
have given a written pledge to OBJ
serve the neutrality of Belgium.
The condition of Paris is believed
to be dangerous.
Ronher and Schneider.
The Globe says the Prussian envoy
insists on criminal proceedings against
British pilots serving French war yes
sells. The Trinity house refused this
demand.
PARIS, August 8.-The Journal Off
cieI contains the following dispatches
Metz, August 1870 p.m.-In the
battle of Saturday, near Reishoffen,
McMahOn's Chief of Staff, General
Colson, was shot by the Marshal's
side. General Rault is among the
missing. Our artillery lost heavily.
Metz is preparing for a vigorous de-
fense. An imperial decree has ap-
peared, convoking the Senate and
Corps Legislatit tomorrow"
The report of the Minister was 20.
proved by the Empress and publ shed
in the official journal.
The Minister says existing circum-
slances oblige us to provide for the de-
tense of the capital and to garrison it
with fresh troops, allowing all those
which the Emperor keeps under his
orders to contend in the open country
with the enemy, who emboldened by
his first success, will make a
point of marching on Paris.
But Paris will not be taken un-
unawares, neither will the strong arm
nor devotion of her inhabitants be
wanting. The National Guard
is to defend the ramparts
which it has helped to rem
der unassailable. Forty thousand men
taken from its ranks and added to the
present garrison will be more than
enough to make an active and vigor-
Gus defense against an enemy occupy
ing an extended front. The defense of
Paris will be assured, but there is a
point not less essential: 1t is the ne
cessity of filling up the void in our
army. With the help of the marine
troops, with the regiments still at our
disposal, of France and Algeria,
with the Fourth battalion, with
our hundred regiments, including
those members who belong to the
Garde Mobile and with a portion of
our reserve corps, we may easily put
in the field 10000 men; besides this,
the call for class of 1869 will give us
sixty thousand men, who, in one
month, will become real soldiers.
But for this struggle we can also
employ the entire National and Mo-
bile Gardes, and the companies of
Frencfercurs, who are everywhere
asking to be organized. Here we
have four hundred thousand, and
finally counting in the Garde Nation
al, France can then arm two mil
lion defenders. Their arms are ready,
and million still in reserve.
A decree is issued ordering the
Garde National of Paris to be detailed
for the defense of the capital and that
the Notifications be placed in a condi-
ton to resist an attack. a
A project of law will be presented
in the Chambers Incorporating a ma.
tional and mobile gar1e.
PARIS, August 8.-The funeral of
M. Provost Paradol will take place
to-day.
The Figaro is filed with a protest
against the suppression of army COR
respondence.
Cramer, agent of the Wolff tele-
graphic agency, barely escaped from
a mob in Rue Vivienne. They were
seeking him in the belief that he was
Prussian spy.
The Corps Legislatif is summoned
to meet on Thursday. Possibly the
meeting may be fastened.