The French Generals are determined to retain the right of
describing their own share in this war. Permission to send correspondents into camp has been refused, one general threaten- ing to hang any he might find. On the other hand, the Prussian Court has invited correspondents from England, but the British Government, from fear of Napoleon, has declined to allow officers of the Army to accept such posts. The papers, however, will be well served by the civilians, and we are nearly independent of French telegraphs. The line through Belgium will be open for some time, and when that fails telegrams from Germany can be sent either through Norway or through Con- stantinople to Alexandria, and thence by the cable to England. The extreme inexpediency of allowing the Prussians a monopoly of English sympathy was strongly pointed out to M. 011ivier ; but he has no more power over Geueral Lebceuf, now Major- General of the Army of the Rhine, than one of his own clerks, and the French Generals will not bear criticism except from their superiors, and not much from them.
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