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Show FOREIGN. By Cable. London, 20. The special correspondent corres-pondent of the New York Tribune at iMetz, on Sunday night, sent the following: fol-lowing: "I left llageman on the 20th, taking train by the line which leads past Bitcbe and Saraguires to JletE. Along this line warlike preparations ol every kind are to be seen. We passed field batteries part completed at the different shunting places until we got tired of looking at them. We saw more than one single party of horsemen, horse-men, and one whole regiment walking along the highway which ran parallel with the rails. The regiment seemed in the highest spirits, as they waived their hands 3nd spurred their jaded steeds into a trot. Arrived at Vaseges in the afternoon. This ranee of hills, which takes its rise near Belfour, runs parallel with the Rhine until it stoops down to the lowlands about Cobleutz and Mayence, where the Strsburg, Bitche and Metz lines pierce the range. The Vaseges have always been considered con-sidered the second line of defense of France on the east. After winding tor some time thronrh a defile we arrived at Eitche, a small fortified ulaee. Ye uassed caniD alter camp, many of them small; but everything every-thing evidenced that they were the out-laying parts of a huge force. From Bitche to Saraguries, is al out twenty miles, aud throughout this distance the line constantly approaches within a few miles of the frontier. Eetween Bitche and Saraguries the Humbert of the French evidently inspired them with confidence; but beyond the lutter post, it was clear the line which, as it leads from Metz to Eitehe is just now of extraordinary importance, wa-carci'ully wa-carci'ully picketed. ( f course 1 only saw a portion of the precautions precau-tions taken, but I could ubrerve that at important point-, sueh as where roads crossed the line, there are camps of cavalry and artillery combined, evidently evi-dently placed to Fuppurt the v id' 'tie1-and 'tie1-and pickets which are watching the frontier from furprise. V hen we rot about o1.1 miles west of Saragurie-s, the aspect of a'Tairs became tamer, and we did not see a camp ofb.ner thua once ia ten miles. A portion of the Frcn.-h riilroad-is riilroad-is sup-plied with coal from the l'n-sian l'n-sian ra:n. which it i- fearclthe l'ru--ians will j'l before aban dotiinr. Hat one f'-ature Hnick me a' op.'pi :uo-;-by its ab-ence. There wa but lifle show of bririrne or 1 tTLei -'' animal-. 1 iw ;.s'i none c!' trk Irov-is of i-;ifle which i:ii-ht have ljen expected to be ;en wtb a larsre army. London. 27. A lartre f-.t:t K' n.'.r,-port n.'.r,-port ves-els will gowith the Cherb V.irj fieet. With the tran-p-ons there will go a duikctou f.'Milla w;tb batterie-anJ batterie-anJ r'-ib-'at' to opera? oi the t ar.d r: er.-. The militarj- cip'-'bti"!. of the Baltic will compri-i two Afri-.ar divisions, including the r-.'iij::it. o! ' Zouaves and rahii snC ' of 'b' : Cha-e ;-- d'Afrirt". |