Strasburg is suffering fearfully from the siege, and even the
roof of the Cathedral has been set on fire, though the fire was promptly extinguished. General Uhrich, who commands the place, is making a thoroughly heroic defence, though it has appar- ently been stained by the cruelty of a needless bombardment of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, an open city, of which the Germans make no use for military operations. The inhabitants of Strasburg have pressed on General Uhrich the surrender of the place,—with no result at all,—except, indeed, as one account states, that the General shot the member of the deputation who threatened him with an internal rising if he would still hold out. Yet he has had to apply to the besiegers for lint and bandages for six hundred wounded citizens of Strasburg, which were immediately sent. The Baden Army that is besieging the city is very impatient at the delay which keeps it from going to the front ; but rumour says that Strasburg will be in that part of Alsace to be annexed to Baden, so that they are, as it were, conquering their own pro- perty. On the other hand, it is asserted that the Grand Duke of Baden objects to any extension of his rule, and that Alsace, if annexed and when annexed, will be governed, like Schleswig- Holstein, as part of Prussia.
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