The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-22
The Danger of Paris.
The Crown Prince Approaches.
English and italian Mediation
The French Without Arms.
FROM EUROPE.
=. The situation mt Metz.

New YORK, Aug. 22.-F. Gallalrdet, In MS
despatch from Paris to this mornings
Courier des Etats- Unjs, says:-It is with
much difficulty that can obtain positive in
formation concerning the situation of affairs
IN the neighborhood of Metz. Marshal
Bazaine still insists on the necessity of
silence.
Mistaken Policy of the French Officials.
This is wrong, in my opinion, for the
anxiety which prevails in Paris, in spite of
the categoric declarations of the Minister of
War, is prejudicial to the national cause.
The bourgeois are tmid and distrustful, and
think there would be no motive to conceal
other than unfavorable news; and their dis
content is fed by the not very reassuring des-
patches which reach us from Brussels and
London;
Bnzaiue's Dispatches Not Made Public
have myself seen the latest de-
spatches from Bazaine. He declares posi-
lively that he is the victor, and that his
strategic movement has been accomplished
with success, but is attended with serious
losses. Why not give publicity to this des-
patch, and reassure unquiet spirits? The
enemy could not gain from it any useful in
formation.
Naive Opinion of n French Correspondent.
To sum up believe that the incessant
eopbats of the last seven days have been
favorable to us, but that they have not yet
brought about decisive results.
One Fact is Certain,
the army of the Prince Royal of Prussia
continues its march on Paris. Yesterday it
was st Vitry-le-Francais, and if we may
believe report which has reached the Corps
Legslatif, it has the appearance of moving
70 turn the camp at Chalons and fall upon
the capital.
THE Emperor and MscNahoB
are at Chalons. They have too great re-
venge to take to permit any movement not
likely to be successful.
The Siege of Paris.
Meanwhile measures are being taken by
General Trochu which indicate that we are
on the point of being besieged Yesterday
he issued a proclamation calling upon all de-
tenders of the capital to rally to his support,
and declaring that the hour of danger had
arrived. 1T is for Paris to prove to the
world, he added, "that long years of pros
perity have weakened neither her nor her
patriotism.
dressed the seamen and marines who are de-
Tending the forts in an order of the day
making an appeal to the glorious memories
of Sebastopol.
The Garde Nationale.
The armament of the National Guard is
complete. Yesterday more than fifty thou
sand guns were distributed, and Chevreau de-
clared to the Chambers that in a few days
hundred thousand National Guards would be
under arms.
Grain Is Arriving
in great quantities, and the city is provisioned
for more than eight months. All this GER
tainly indicates that if we are threatened with
a siege we are certainly prepared to sustain it,
The Parisians In Good Spirits.
The people of Paris are in excellent spirits
and full of patriotism. They will rise in this
crisis to the height of the situation.
The Siege Of strasburg.
PARIS, Aug. 22.-Late advices have been
received here from Ernstein, town near
Strasburg. The Prussian army besieging
strasburg had caused the people of Ernstein
to change the course of the little river Ill, in
that neighborhood, in order to stop the sup
ply of water for the city. The Prussians had
appointed Mayor for Erpstein. The gene