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Show SCRAPS OF THE WAR. Many of the pieces of artillery on the ' Paris iortifijatiocs are of ancient date, ' and are marked with two L s icteria-; ced, surmounted ly a royal crown, and bear such names as "i'Esiie.'' "leE.e- i tour." "ie l'esire." rrctab'y cut cf compliment to Lou's XVIII. Other j guns of a later date have bee a chris- , tencd'TEstravararit,'' "ie Freluquet," j "ie Brouiiion," ie. j The advisability of buruic; the dead j bodies on the field of batue is being j argued in Paris, and severaijs-aggests-.ons ; have been made for turning slaughter- j ed soldiers to some account, rather j than permit their remains to taint the air and breed pestilence. One savant reminds his audience that, after experiments experi-ments made in India, it was found that one deceased hero produced two hundred cubic metres of esceLeut gas. A crime of the most atrocious character char-acter has just been committed in the Denartment of the Pordone. which is far away from the sea: of war, and where such a savage act as that perpetrated perpe-trated is wholly without excuse. It appears that the peasants of the department de-partment suspected an inoffensive young man named Alain de Moneys of having Prussian sympathies. perhaps of being a Prussian spy. Blind with rage, some twenty ruffians set upon him, slaughtered him, mutilated his body, and before life was extinct, heaped green wood over him, and finished fin-ished their horrid task with the aid of fire. A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette Ga-zette states, as the result of his conversations conver-sations with "several well-informed Danish politicians," that the neutrality of the Danish Government is mainly attributable to tne innuence oi tne Cabinet of St. Petersburg. Both the Emperor Alexander and Prince Gort-chakoff Gort-chakoff have exerted themslves to the utmost at Copenhagen with this object. The action of Prince GortchakoS in the matter was beset with serious difri-cuities, difri-cuities, for his opponents of the influential" influ-ential" old Russian" party make no secret of their sympathies with France. When the Czarowitz, who is generally believed to belong to this party, came to Copenhagen, the hopes of the war party among the Danes revived, but it soon appeared that, whatever might be his private feelings in the matter, he showed no disposition to modify the policy of the Russian Cabinet. |