The Sun. — 1871-02-07 (London, England)

GARIBALDI.  The works at Montmedy and Roeroi are to be  blown up. Mr. Wasliburne, American Minister at Paris, i& looking much emaciated. During the whole period of the siege only five suicides were committed in Paris. Two of the cases were soldiers, and one was a woman. Rats were frequently eaten towards the close of the siege of Paris. The dogs and cats had well-nigh disap peared. Two lists of candidates for the Constituent Assembly have been issued at Lille. The Monarchical list is as follows : —Thiers, Plichon, Lambrecht, Rolle, Bernard, Brame, Des Rohours, and the Count de Melun. The Republican list is Testelin, Pere Legrand Cadet, Beghein, and -Make. A mixed list is also announced.  The ludependance Beige publishes a letter from Lyons, dated the Ist inst„ which says that one of the causes of Bourbaki's failure was the non-fulfilment of contracts entered into by an army contractor, who absconded with a large sum of money. The new designations of the German Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, and the Crown Princess have been officially determined. Reports and letters to the latter are to bear the address : "To her Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Princess of the German Empire, and Crown Princess of Plussia, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland." A Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says there has been great excitement at Frohsdorf, the residence of Count Chambord. Many visitors have been seen there, especially since the capitulation of Paris seemed impending. Couriers with despatches come and go twice a days and the telegraph station has never received so many telegrams as now. The Count has laid aside his usual gloom, is particularly cheerful, and readY  to leave at any moment. Of the Paris forts, Is:y has been most seriously da" maged. It was pounded by the German batteries at a distance of 800 yards, the barracks were ground to pow" der, and the earth-covered bombproofs were penetrated to a great depth, though not through. The embrasures were seriously damaged, but the guns not dismounted. TIIB external defences were not seriously injured, and the stockades and other obstacles on the glacis were intact' Fort Vanvres, the next fort to Issy on the south, log suffered less than Fort Issy. The candidates for the election to the Constituent A°. sembly in the department of the Sarthe are as follow V The Marquis de Talhouet, La Rochefoucault, De Juigne' the father-in-law of Talhouet ; Busson Duviviers, seiner g6neral ; Haentlenf, landed proprietor ; Caillaol engineer ; Gasselin, late Mayor of Fresnay ; and Bernal' Datviel, consenter g4n6ral. All the above are Conserv°. tive candidates, and some are Legitimists. Mane/tester Guardian 2 eleg rant. News from Le Mans of a few days back, says the ',lac: was full of loathsome diseases; smallpox seemed to rag" in every third house, if, at least, the manuscript en. nouncements to that effect posted on the doors could 11 believed. People declared they had given up the use it linen, as the washerwomen of the place had.all so roallL customers infected with smallpox that all bed shel: passing through their hands became pestilential ; a° worst of all, the town was becoming quite exhaustet of provisions—mutton, potatoes, rice, sugar, had disor peared entirely. Fort Rosny is considered by one of the ablest Sit%l engineers to be superbly defended. The number of 01,4 was ninety-three. On the glacis are large quantities fougasses or small mines, and the interior of the fort extensively mined. The casemates are perfectly see: and so are the lower storeys of the barracks, which been covered over to a depth of five or six feet with. en:j mous beams of timber. The upper storey has been ,b deal damaged. In neither Rosny or Nogent is a a 6j117.0battery seriously damaged. The gunners were well rip tected by rope screens or mantlets, placed saddlevii° the guns. Herr Wickede, of the Cologne Gazette, on maklild journey from Nancy to Belfort, observed a great differele, between France proper and Alsace ; Nancy, for exall!, of being thoroughly French, while Strasburg, in sP";ito French varnish, appearing to him at bottom 000, German. Ho expects the Alsatians, by dint a e toe love, and patience, will become again in no long .0 German, but the " national French " differ too iraterigooil in modes of thought and action ever to beconl° 00 Germans. He strongly deprecates the annexation' of alleged strategical grounds, of the really French pot .if Lorraine and a small part of Burgundy—i.e., Of l':•;11v 2,000,000 genuine Frenchmen, believing that this ,tri° be a second Venetia, from the burden of which has happily been relieved. • A correspondent thinks that Mont Valerien nog I he, been advantageously attacked by regular siege aPPI.:‘,4:IOI though, owing to its position, it could not be 5"-e 00°. " The slope of the actual hill on which the works ge vise strutted is so steep, that a besieging force at tiket by would be inside, and consequently sheltered from, iti of fire. Before arriving at this secure posit'i°llbe t(,!' is a laterally level plateau, of no great extent, ,t° the versed ; but it is much intersected at right alq7lolo°oo line of attack, by shallow ravines and gullies, wlue much facilitate the running of parallels and the fo, and 00'0 of covered ways. Beyond this plateau the goni.,gioeeld so rapidly again, that the operations of the e,'"woric. could not be seen from the front until they 113° their way over the crest of the hill."