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Nearly _three hundred years ago, however, Paris was besieged, was formally beleaguered—had eventually to capitulate: , This was in 1589, in the famous contest between HENRY IV, and the League. HENRY, drawing near Paris, was confronted by the hostile forces led by the Due DE MAYENNE, who tried to bar his road to the capital. The opposing armies met in battle array near Dreux, on the plains of Ivry. There the chivalrous monarch disdained to prepare, in any way, for the possibility of being worsted, "No retreat," said he, " h'it the battlefield." Before the shock of arms came, the confronting hosts offered up prayers to the GOD of Battles. Bare headed, HENRY IV. advanced o❑ horseback, in the presence of his soldiers, crying aloud—" Lord ! you know my thoughts. If it be advantageous for my people that I should reign, favour my cause and protect my arms !" Turning, then, to the warriors who had greeted the utterance of these noble words with acclamations, he called aloud to them—" My children ; If stan dards should fail you, follow my white plume, you will always find it in the road to honour." Hence the white plume of HENRY IV. at Ivry is familiar to the captivated imagination of the world ever since as among the most heroic crests fluttering above the crash of war— And thus he earned a prouder name than herald ever gave, The foremost of the foremost, and the bravest of the brave ! Victorious there on the fuughten field, the King marched on to Paris in defiance of the forces of the League both vithin and without its defences. The City at his instance was blockaded. Famine and pestilence and mortality were soon the terrible consequence. Chivalrous almost to eccentricity, HENRY himself secretly sent provisions to the besieged. Eventually Paris fell not before the arms of the King but be fore his abjuration of Protestantism. "It is worth a mass," was his remark. And on the 25th of July, at St. Denis, HENRY IV., placing his hands between those of the Archbishop of BOURGES publicly pro nounced his profession of faith as a Catholic. Him self intoning T e Dsum, immediately afterwards his voice was drowned in shouts of Vive le Roi from those assembled in the Cathedral. Subsequently came a three months' truce, and at last during the night of the 22nd of March in the following year Paris quietly surrendered. The gates were opened, the portcullises raised, the drawbridge lowered, and the troops in solemn silence marched in and took possession of the capital. It was on the last day of March, in 1814, that the ex-King JOSEPH resolved upon the then capitulation. While NAPOLEON was yet hastening to the service of the metropolis of France the allies entered it, having been admitted by treachery. The news, reached the EMPEROR on the following day, the Ist of April, and immediately on learning what had occurred he fell back on Fontainebleau. NAPOLEON still retained under his banners 50,000 of his veterans. Desertion, however, rapidly followed upon desertion among the Marshals and other dignitaries of the Imperial Court, the result being NAPOLEON'S first abdication. It was on the 20th of March, 1815, that he arrived from Elba at the Tuileries. A hundred da3 s afterwards came the second BOURBON Restoration. On the 3rd of July a military convention was formally signed between FoucHE and DAvousT on the part of France, and WELLINGTON and BLUCHER on the part of the Allies. On the 7th, the Allied forces occupied Paris once more, and on the Bth Lours XVIII. again entered the capital as Sovereign. Thus has history since then, again and again, repeated itself; in 1830, in 1848, in 1870, at Paris in a series of giddy gyrations. The round is not yet, this last time, completed. It remains to be seen how promptly the surrounding nations will recog nise, as they did in 1848, the full and free right of the French nation to select their own form of govern ment. TOPICS OF TEE DAY. thonyl►t the power of Engl►►nd was endangered by the great Indian nituiny, and the sentiments of France were at that time completely in harmony with his-o\\n. • THE IRISH SYMPATHY FOR FRANCE, The feelins of sympat by for France is perhaps more widespread eni fervent in Ireland than it will be in the other portions of the kingdom. A story is told of an Irish nertrsboy, who on Saturday last even allowed his partiality for France imprudently to interfere with the prospects of his calling by shouting out, "Sixth edition, another Prussian victory, another pack of lies." Sympathy in Ireland, however, must not be supposed to be a pertinacious or dogged one. From the opening of the war the people have beet reminded of French help in the famine years and of the benevolence of the Empress in bestowing vuluable gifts to almost every Catholic bazaar held for charitable purposes in ,Dublin. There has also been awakened a pity for the losing side, which is not an uncommon characteristic of Irish character, how ever blameable that side may have been in getting into its trouble. Lastly, the remnant of the Papal Brigade who fought valiantly with the Imperial soldiers against the Italian Forces, and the survivors of the Crimean campaign, yield their sympathy. They recollect with gratification days in camp and struggles in action with a French neighbour. memories which are never forgotten, and which moreover when told at Irish cottage firesides help to extend the veneration that is felt for the country that has so helped to preserve the strength of the Holy Father, and to stretch forth the hand of cordial friendship to Spain, Ireland, and other nations, whose people have upheld the principles of that faith, which among one half of the population of the sister island at least is believed to be the key- . note of their life and of their labours. From all these sources the feeling for .France and France alone has been generated, and there is no greater evidence of the universality of this sympathetic tendency than in the fact that, while hundreds of pounds have been collected among the Irish for French sufferers in the war, not one hundred pounds has been contributed in that country for the Germans. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. 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In Leicester-square and its neighbourhood, where the French inhabitants of the metropolis chiefly reside, the excite ment reached its climax. The greatest indignation was expressed at the surrender of the Emperor and the army of MacMahon, and the general feeling was strongly in favour of a resolute resistance. They protested against any peace propositions being dis cussed while the Prussians were on French soil. The Germans were, of course, as exulting as the French were indignant or depressed ; and the Irish who loudly proclaimed their readiness to fight for the French complicated matters still further. Pre cautions were adopted to prevent a collision between the rival nationalities. The news also created the greatest excitement in Liverpool, though at first it was received with in credulity. When the official Prussian report was posted the price of cotton advanced id. per lb. At Manchester the enthusiasm was very great, and the peace party were confident that bloodshed would now be stayed. In Birmingham great doubts were at first telt, even at the North German consulate, as to whether the news could possibly be true. When a telegram from London sot this right the war flag of Germany was hoisted on the consulate, and the ex citement grew intense. Everywhere the Germans rejoiced, and in Liverpool, where they are numerous and influential, they were especially jubilant. Alto gether the excitement throughout the country, even before the reception of the fall of the dynasty in France, is described as unequalled in the present generation. GUIZOT ON THE WAR. M. Guizot has written to an English friend on the war. He says that it is too late to talk about the origin of the war, because they must all be engrossed with its possible consequences. The Prussians loudly proclaim that they mean to take back Alsace and Lorraine, and already exercise the rights of sovereiturty over them. "Ask," says M. Guizot, " the first honest German whom you meet if this is not one of those acts of victorious ambition which pledges a nation to a struggle indefinitely prolonged, a struggle which can only be terminated by one of those disasters that a nation never accepts; one that if it experiences it never forgives." M. Guizot is not seriously uneasy as to the result of the struggle. He considers the French were to blame in being unprepared at first, but thinks they may yet retrieve their pos . tion. He is very anxious Gat this opinion which expresses the feeling uppermost in men's minds should be known in England. He has devoted his whcle political life to ►maintaining the bonds of friendship between France and England, and it is with sorrow, not unmixed with surprise, that t sees ninny Englishmen so openly hostile to France. in 1657 he was deeply grieved when he , Q s s 7 ' fir r „I , . m iry kJ , o.v. IIE 11 fit '1 .1 Es T 37. BALMORAL, SEpT. 3. In the morning the Queen went out, aecompanied by Princess Beatrice. In the afternoon the • Queen drove out, attended by Lady Churchill and the Hon. Mrs. H. Ponsonby. Prince Arthur went out deerstalking. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her Ma jesty The Marquis of Stafford, Lord Halifax, and Lieut.- General Sir Hastings Doyle had the honour of diuir.g with. the Queen and the Royal family. THE TIENTSIN MASSACRE. The British Chaplain at Shanghai writes to the Times on the subject of the "ghastly tragedy" Tientsin. He declares that it is no exaggeration to say that since Cawnpore no such deed of blood has been committed, the murder of the Sisters of Mercy being an outrage on humanity itself'. He has had opportunities of seeing their work, and is filled with horror and indignation at their cruel fate. He thinks that the Tientsin massacre shows that the Chinese are not free from superstition, and also that the Chinese Government are most untrust worthy. Chung How. knew three or Mur days before that a massacre was intended, and yet he took no steps to prevent it. It is true that the bravos of Tientsin committed the murders, but disciplined troops were present at the time, who protected the shops from pillage, but did not seek to save the foreigners. As for the future Mr. Butcher thinks that the best course to pursue will be to promote the general improvement of the country acid to insist that the troops should protect the foreign missionary while hie is doing g ood. Another \lifter to the Times thinks that the recent massacre of French Missionaries and Sisters of. Mercy at Tien-Wn, however frightful in its atrocity, is but the legitimate consequence of a long course of wrongdoing and aggressive action on the part of the French authorities and missionaries combined. He considers it a great mistake to interfere with the internal affairs and administration of the empire, as by such means we render all recourse to foreign skill and science for the development of China impossible, and retard the development of those means by which Russia and other States have advanced by rapid strides from barbarism to civilisation. THREATENED MUTINY IN INDIA. Serious news has been received from India, and unless there is some exaggeration in it there is every reason to apprehend that great discontent has arisen in the place where the rebellion broke out thirteen years ago. A native regiment has laid down its arms because a comrade has been shot for insubordi nation. This is a significant statement, because in the first place the authorities would not have con demned the Sepoy if he had not been guilty of a great offence, and next_ it is evident that the whole regiment so far shared in his guilt that they resorted to most extreme measures to show their sympathy with his fate, and their indignation against those who condemned him. Allahabad is a dangerous place for such symptoms to manifest themselves, and those who were familiar with the sad occurrences ot 1857 will recognise the importance of the intelligence. It is the centre of bigotry and the stronghold ot the fanaticism of race and creed which imparted so peculiar a character to the mutiny. The authorities ought to lose no time in adopting every precaution to prevent past horrors being renewed. The most effectual means would be to disarm, in the promptest manner, any regiment which has shewn the least symptoms of disaffection. ROME THE CAPITAL OF ITALY. It has long been evident that the extraordinary events now occurring in France would materially influence the position of the Roman question, and it now appears that the looked-for crisis is at hand. A. few nights since the Gazetta d' Italia, of Florence, published a startling circular informing all those whose terms of lease for apartments, and shops, or other establishments, . were about to expire, that it had been decided in one of the latest Councils of Ministers that the immediate and material transfer of the government from the provisional capital to Rome should take place before the end of September. The Govern ment, while announcing the impending event, exone rated itself from any indemnity which might be de manded in consequence of the transfer by those who cannot skew they have a right to it on account of the preceding transfer from Turin to Florence. All newspapers were requested to publish the notice, which fell on Florence like a thun derbolt. Everyone sought the Gazetta office and extravagant sums were offered for a copy. The visit of Prince Napoleon to Florence, his proposed departure and subsequent change of mind, had pre viously produced great perplexity, but the notice in the G azetta was the climax. The feeling in Florence is described as being one of panic and uncertainty. No one knows how to act, where to go, or what to do. Unless the Roman question is shortly solved the consequences will be disastrous. Florence will feei the transfer of the capital much more than Turin, though even there the removal excited riot ar.d disturbance in 1864. micr, - t eigg .4:04%*'1' LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1870. ANOTHER transformation scene at Paris ! About midnight, between Saturday and Sunday, at an ex traordinary sitting of the Corps L6gislatif the frightful intelligence, suppressed for hcurs, was announced by the Minister of War, General the Count DE PALIKAO. According to his promise, that he would speak the plain truth right out, the responsible Minister made a clean breast of it. And thereupon came the last and crown ing, or, strictly speaking, discrowning, scene of trans formation. The Napoleon dynasty was abolished ; a Republic was proclaimed; a Provisional Government formed. The Dictatorship was temporarily placed in the strong right hand of the Governor of Paris, General TROCHU, under the title of President. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs was confided to the most gifted member of the Left, M. JULES FAVRE. The Ministry of the Interior was apportioned to the LEDRU ROLLIN of the emergency—M. GAMBETTA. Two of the veteran members of the fa,nous LAMARTINE Government of 1848, the Demo cratic Cabinet of the Trots Mois au Pouvoir, are, by a strange turning round of events, again installed in power as members of the present Provisional Government meaning M. GARNIER-PAGES and M. CREMIEUX, again Minister of Justice. It was M. CREMIEUX to whom Lord BROUGHAM applied, asking to be naturalised as a citizen of France—au incident suggestive of one of JOHN LEECH'S most famous political cartoons, in which the noble and learned Lord was represented in every imaginable guise as a Citizen of the World. The ex-Chancellor and his caricaturist are both gone long ago to their graves, and here is M. CILEMIEUX two-and-twenty years afterwards, again Minister of Justice in a suddenly improvised Re publican Provisional Government ! After flourishing in great splendour for eighteen years, the French Empire has again disappeared. NAPOLEON the GREAT had reigned under one title or another for fourteen or fifteen years, but it was only after - a series of stupendous struggles to subvert the enormous fabric of his Government by the various powers of Europe, combined together in coalition after coalition, that his downfall was effected. Confronted by the united armies of England, and Prussia, and Austria, and Russia, to say nothing of lesser Powers in great numbers and variety, the Master at one time of the chief part of the Continent tins only eventually' borne down, after displaying prodigies of valour in the - most wonderful of all his campaigns, strategically. He roso again to supreme power through his miraculous reconquest of France on his return from Elba--and was then finally subdued by the united strength of the Allied Powers again directed against him in their final coalition. With the Second Empire it has been altogether otherwise. NAPOLEON 111. in seven weeks has had the Imperial sceptre torn from his grasp, and his Imperial army, led by the most dauntless of his Marshals, shattered into fragments and rolled in the dust, not by a coalition of Powers,. but by a single Power, and that the least of the great Powers until yesterday. Prussia has come, and seen, and conquered. Flying from victory to victory, the black eagle has closed this astonishing series of conquests by a triple discharge of thunderbolts from its talons at Sedan—Sedan at once, for the Second Empire, its Pavia, its Ulm, and its Fontainebleau. It was more overwhelming to the vanquished than the Battle of Spurs. It was more disastrous than MACK'S capitulation. It was more precipitate, and there fore less dignified, than either of the Great NAPOLEON'S abdications. NAPOLEON 111. falls almost without a sign, without an utterance. He has been like a dumb man all through the campaign —at any rate during the latter portion of it he has been entirely dumbfounded. Once or twice, it is true, ho has broken this otherwise uninterrupted silence; but he has done so by uttering words that it seems more respectful to his mis fortunes, now, that the world should, if possible cover with oblivion. The " baptism of fire," for example, at Saarbriick. The " Dead or Victorious" mot at Metz. One cannot, moreover, but recall to re membrance much earlier expressions of the Em- PEROR'S that it is almost painful now to think of, reading them, as we do now, by the light of recent events and in the glare of the new Paris- Revolution. Such - a phrase, for instance, as that one, kept long dangling before France, about " Crowning the Edifice." The utter collapse of the whole Edifice, under the recent Crowning of it with Constitutionalism, is assuredly something pitiable. The manner in which the catas trophe has been so rapidly brought about is difficult still in any adequate way to realise. As the closing incidents of this last astounding bouleversement, Marshal MACMAHON is reported to be dead from his wounds ; Marshal CAN ROBERT is numbered among the wounded ; the EMPEROR NAPOLEON is on his road to Wil lielmshohe, near Cassel—the EMPRESS EUGENIE is on her way through Braine-le-Comte to rejoin her Impe rial husband at his newly-selected place of retire -111107,t the PRINCE IMPERIAL, it is rep o rted, i s 1 lying ill at Naniur—amid in the meanwhile the victorious KING with the CROWN PRINCES of PRUSSIA and SAXONY at the head of their united forces, we find spoken of in one of our latest telegrams as in full , march upon Paris. ALREADY Paris has been several to nes.assailed by hostile armies ; again and again it has capitulated. Thrice within the present century it has yielded itself up to a force advancing against it and claiming possession of it as the capital of the fair and -beauti ful country thus signally reconquored. 'Nice Paris was entered in triumph by the allied •armies—tisot TIIE BATTLE OF SEDAN. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.). We have received from our correspondent at the Ger man headquarters the following account of Thursday's battle, of which he was an eye-witness : Cheveuge, near Sedan, 4 a.m., Sept. 2. _ Having witnessed the great battle of yesterday from a hill above the village of Cheveuge beside the King and his staff, I describe to you what I saw myself. Above Cheveuge rises a hill, from which a magnificent view, not only of the town of Sedan, but of the whole valley of the Meuse for many miles, is to be obtAined. The battle began about 6 a.m., and the King left the village of Vendres, where he had slept, at 7.30 a.m. for the scene of action. I arrived there about half an hour after his Majesty. A more splendid panorama than that which stretched for miles beneath us it would be impossible to imagine. The hill on which the King, Bismarck, Von Roon, General Moltke and a numerous staff (including Generals Sheridan and Forsyth, in the uniform of the United States) stood is about three miles from the town of Sedan, which lies on the Meuse some thousand feet below. On our left, about half a mile off, was another eminence, crowned by a château, in front of which the Crown Prince and his staff were placed. On our left, in the valley beim% , were heavy masses of Prussian cavalry out of range of the French guns. Still farther to the left were the Wurtembergers, in reserve, in case the doomed and hemmed-in French army should attempt to break out in that direction. About half a mile in front of the cavalry ran the Meuse, the broken railway bridge forming a most conspicuous point de mire . from our hill. On the m right bank—the French side, I m ay say—the Prussians had a battery of six guns, which did them great service during the first six hours of the action. Beyond this battery was a large village, named Floing, all on fire by the French shells early in the day. The Prussian line extended for miles beyond the village, as far ar the great woods of Conde and Sedan, which run to the Belgian frontier, only some ten miles from where we stood, and form part of the great forest of Ardennes. To the right—our right—of the Prussian Ene, and dis tant about three miles, lay Sedan ; but between Floing and Sedan there is first a plain and then a low hill running out as a promontory into the plain. Right of this hill lies Sedan, its buildings and old-fashioned fortifications plainly visible to the naked eye. We could easily distinguish not only the fortifications, but all the larger buildings, a new looking stone church with a handsome Gothic spire, being conspicuous. To the right or east of this were large barracks close to the Meuse, and beyond these again on old castle, I believe the arsenal of Sedan. Above this château to the north-eastward was the citadel. Above Sedan is the wood of La Garenne, and in the faubourgs between these woods and the town itself were the French troops in masses, some of the columns apparently inactive all day. On the east of the town was a tolerably open space for about three or four miles, and then a gentle rise on which the French batteries were placed ; beyond them were large woods, in front of which were the Saxons under Prince Albert, the heirito the throne. Behind the Saxons were the Prussian Guards in reserve, at first to prevent the French attempting to cut their way out to Carignan and Montmedy. Between the Saxons and ourselves, and south-east of Sedan on both sides the Meuse, were the two Bavarian corps, their left flank extending to our hill, and joining the two Prussian corps on the west and south-west of the beleaguered town. On the immediate right of our hill was the large wood of La Marfee, famous for a battle in the wars of the League. Between this and Sedan the ground sloped away, forming a plateau half way down to the river, which was occupied by the Bavarian batteries, thundering all day at our feet. The inumber of the Prussian troops engaged was esti mated by General Moltke at 240,000, and that of the French at 100,000. We know that MacMahon had with him on Tuesday 120,000—i. e. four corps—his own ; that lately commanded by General de Failly, now under General Lebrun; that of Felix Douay, brother of General Abel Douay, who fell at Wissembourg ; and a fourth corps principally composod of Gardes Mobiles. MacMahon being wounded, General Wimpffen commanded in chief on the French side. The commander-in-chief of the Germans was Von Moltke, with the Crown Prince and Prince Albert of Saxony immediately next in command. There was hardly any manoeuvring at all during the day. The Prussian, Bavarian, and Saxon army corps formed a crescent round the town, with its horns towards the Bel gian frontier. About twelve o'clock this crescent became a circle, the junction between the Prussians on the left and the Saxons on the right being effected near the road to Bouillon, not far from La Chapel e. This circle grew ever smaller and smaller, until at length its circumference was inside the outworks of Sedan itself. There had been a few stray cannon shots fired as soon as it was light, but the real battle did not begin until six o'clock, becoming a sharp artillery fight at nine, when the batteries had on each side got within easy range, and the shells began to do real mischief. At 11.55 the musketry fire in the valley behind Sedan, which had begun about 11.25 became tremendously lively, being one continued rattle, only broken by the loud growling of the mitrailleurs, which played with deadly effect on the advancing Saxon and Bavarian columns. General Sheridan, who was standing by me at the time, told me that he never remembered to have heard such well-sustained and long-continued small-arm fire. It made itself heard above the roar of the batteries at our feet. At twelve precisely the Prussian battery— six guns—on the slope above the broken railway bridge over the Meuse near La Villette had silenced two bat teries of French guns at the foot of the hill already mentioned, near the village of Floing. At ten minutes past twelve the French infantry, no longer supported by their artillery, was com pelled to retire from Floing, and soon afterwards the junction between the Saxons and Prussians behind Sedan was announced to us b y General Von Roon, eagerly peering through a large telescope, as being safely completed. From this moment the result of the battle was as good as foregone, the French being completely sur rounded and brought to bay. At 12.25 we were all astonished to see clouds of retreating French infantry on the hill between Floing and Sedan, a Prussian battery in front of St. Menges making good practice with percussion shell among the retreating ranks. The whole hill for a quarter of an hour was literally covered with " Frenchmen running rapidly." Shortly after we saw the first Prussian skirmishers on the crest of the La Garenne hill above Torcy. They did not seem in strength, and General Sheridan standing beside me exclaimed, •'Ah ! the beggars are too weak, they can never hold that position against all those French." The General's prophecy soon proved correct, for the French advancing at least six to one, the Prussians were forced to retire down the hill to seek reinforcements from the columns which were hurrying to their support. In five minutes they came back again, this time in greater force, but still terribly inferior to the huge French columns." " Good heavens ! the French Cuirassiers are going to charge them," said General Sheridan; and sure enough the regiment of Cuirassiers, their helmets and breastplatee flashing in the September sun, form up in sections of aqua drons and dash down on the Prussian scattered skirmishers. Without deigning to form line—squares are never used by the Prussians—the infantry received the Cuirassiers with a most tremendous " schnell-feuer " (quick fire), at about 108 yards, loading and firing as fast as possible into the dense squadrons. Over went men and horses by hun dreds, and the regiment was compelled to retire much faster, it seemed to me, than it came. The moment the Cuirassiers turned bridle the plucky Prussians actually dashed in hot pursuit after them at the double. Such a thing has not often been recorded in the annals of war. The French infantry then came forward in turn and attacked the Prussians, who waited quietly under a most rapid fire of Chassepots until their enemies got within about 100 yards, when they gave them such a dose of lead that the infantry soon folloWed the cavalry to the " place from whence they came "—that is, behind a ridge some 600 yards on the way to Sedan, where the tiralleurs could not hit them. The great object of the Prussians was gained, as they were not dispossessed of the crest of the hill, and it was fair betting that they would do all that in them lay,to get some artillery up to help them before Napoleon 111. was much nearer his deposition. "There will be a h— of a fight for that crest," says Sheri dan, peering through his field-glass at the hill, which was not three miles from where we stood, with the full fire on it from behind us. At half-past one the French cavalry, this time I fancy a regiment of Carabiniers, made another attempt to dislodge the Prussian; who were being reinforced every minute. Something-must have at this point been very wrong with the French infantry, for instead of attacking the Prus sians—whom they still outnumbered by at least two to one—they remained in column on the hill seeing their only hope of retrieving the day vanishing before their eyes without stirring. -The cavalry then tried to do a little Balaklava business, but without the success of the immortal six hundred. We took the guns in the Balaklava valley. Down came the cuirassiers once more, this time riding straight for the two field-pieces. But before they had got within 200 yards of the guns the Prussians formed line as if on parade, and waiting till they were within fifty yards, gave them a volley which seemed to us to destroy almost the whole of the leading squadron, and so actually block up the way to the guns for the next one following. After this last charge, which was as complete a failure—although most gallantly conceived and executed , —as the two preceding ones, the infantry fell back rapidly towards Sedan, and in an instant the whole hill was covered by swarms of Prussian tirailleurs, who appeared to rise from the ground. ' After the last desperate char.;e of the French cavalry, General Sheridan remarked to me, " I never saw anything so reckless, so utterly foolish, as that last charge—i;, v, sheer murder." At 2.5 p.m. the French totally abandonded the hill be tween Torcy and Sedan, and fell back on the faubourg of Caral, just outside the ramparts of the town. " Now the battle is lost for the French," says General Sheridan to the L;reat delight of the Prussian officers. One would • al most have fancied that the French had heard his words, for they had hardly been uttered before there was a lull in the firing all along the line, or rather circle, as it has now become. Count Bismarck took advantage of this to come and have a talk with his English and American friends. I was anxious to know what the Federal Chancellor had done about the threatened neutrality of Belgium, and my curl. ,;sity was soon gratified. " I h ave told the Belgian Minister of War," said Count Bismarck, " that so long as the Belgian troops do their utmost to disarm any number of French soldiers who may cross the frontier, will strictly respect the neutrality of Belgium, but if, on the contrary, the Belgians, either through neglig e n ce or:, inability, do n o t di sarm andi capture every man in French uniform who sets his foot in their country, we shall at once follow the enemy into neutral territory with our troops, considering that the French have been the first to violate the R..le;ia,n soil. I have been down to have a look at the Belgian troops near the frontier," added Herr von Bismarck " and confess they do not inspire me with a veryhigh opi nion of their martial ardour or discipline. 'Why, when they have their great coats on one can see a great deal of pa'etot but hardly any soldier." I asked his Excellency whether he thought the Emperor was at Sedan. " Oh, no," was the reply, " Napoleon is not very wise; but he is not quite so foolish as to put himself in Sedan just now. For once in his life Count Bismarck was wrong. • At 2.45 the King came by where I was standing, saying he thought the French were goin g to try and break out just beneath us, in front of the 2d Bavarian corps. At ten minutes to four General Sheridan told me that Napo leon and " Loulu" were in 'Sedan. No one, however, be lieved this. On receipt of the Emperor's most astounding letter there was a brief consultation_ bet Ween the King, the Crown Prince (who had come from his hill on the arrival of the flag of truce), Bismarck, Moltke and Von Room After a few minutes' conversation the King sat down on a rush-bottomed chair and wrote a note on another chair, held on a table by two aides-de-camp, to the Emperor, begging him to come next morning to the King of Prussia's headquarters at Vendres. While this note was writing Count Bismarck came up to Generals Sheridan, Forsyth, and myself, and heartily shook our hands. "Let me congratulate you most sincerely, Count," said General Sheridan. "I can only compare the surrender of Napoleon to that of Gene ral Lee at Appomatox Court-house." When the King had written his letter he himself handed it to General Reilly, who stood bare-headed to re' ceive it, the Italian and Crimean medals glittering on his breast in the last rays of the setting sun. Queen Victoria's image and superscription have not often been seen on the uniforms of men capitulating without conditions. At 7.40 the general left for the beleagured town, escorted by the Uhlans, and the duster which had served as a flag of truce was offered to me as a relic of this most memorable day. But seeing that the said duster had a very strong family resemblance to most other dusters, I declined the proffered relic. Then there was a general demand for something to drink, a nd Count Bismarck's aide-de-camp produced two bottles of Belgian beer, one of which his Excellency shared with Generals Sheridan, Forsyth, and myself, saying that he drank to the nearer union of the three great Teuton peoples. PROPOSED CONGRESS ON CONTINENTAL QUESTIONS. The special correspondent of the Echo telegraphs from Berlin on Monday—" Count Beust invited Russia to pro pose a Congress of Powers with reference to the condition of France and of the Eastern question. It is said upon good authority that Prussia will refuse to take any part in such a congress. SPEECH OF COUNT BISMARCK. When it became known in the German camp that the Emperor had surrendered there were loud cries for Count Bismarck. In reply to,the congratulations which were ad dressed to him, he said, "Gentlemen, I have done nothing to obtain the success of this war. Address yourselves, to the King and Von Moltke. I have done nothing ; but wait for one moment. I have done one thing—l have so acted that the Southern States of Germany have aided us with all their power ; and it is to them, and our brave Bavarians and Wurtemburgers that we owe the results of this day." THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. M. Jules Favre (Foreign Affairs) is one of the most distinguished members of the new Ministry. He was born in 1809, took part, being then a law-student, in the Revolution of 1830, was Secretary-General at the MinistrY of the Interior at the Revolution of February 1848, soon after entered the Chamber. and was for a short time Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The coup d'etat drove him for a time from public life, to which he did not return till 1858, when he again appeared in the Chamber, and has since been the recognised leader of the Democratic party. M. Picard (Finance) is the well-known advocate and deputy. He was born in 1821, and is a decided Democrat. M. Jules Simon (Public Instruction), born in 1814, is a moderate Republican, whose reputation is perhaps more literary than political. He devotes himself to education and social questions. M.'Ldon Gambetta (Minister of the Interior), is already well known as a rising advocate and politician. He be' longs to a Genoese family, and is thirty-two years of age• It was as. counsel for some of the accused in the prosecu tions consequent on the Baudin subscription in 1868 that he first distinguished himself in public. He is a man of considerable ability and eloquence, and a Republican Of the most advanced kind. M. Cremieux (Justice), born 1796, was Minister of Justice in 1848, and a staunch member of the Democratic Left, though for a moment he seemed to be disposed to trust Louis Napoleon. 'General Le Flo (War Minister) was born 1804, served in Algeria, and owed his generalship to the Government of 1848, when he had a seat in Parliament. M. Lavertujon (Secretary-General), born 1827, ig 9 Democratic journalist. M. Fourichon (Marine), captain in the French navy► was born in 1809, and has been since 1864 President o; the Council of Naval Works. M.. Dorian (Public Works), a deputy and rich iron master ; born in 1814. M. Magnin (Agriculture), born 1824, also an ironma,ster and landed proprietor. THE COLONIES AND THE ENGLISII GOVERNMENT. IMPORTANT REPRESENTATION FROM TO AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. The Melbourne Argus, of July 16, just received England, states that the Internation 11 Conference, which met in Melbourne on the 20th of June, and broke up 011 the sth of July, agreed to press certain questions upon the attention of the Imperial Government. Her MajestY'n Government is asked in the first place to remove 01 prohibitions against' international free trade, interposec; by Imperial enactment. In effect the representatives 01 New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania request that those colonies should be recognise i i by the Home Government as a geographical mart for purposes of Customs revenue. Three of the four colonic' represented at the Conference signified their adhesion to the doctrines of free trade in the broadest and most liber n sense, and their determination to consent to no uniform tariff for the whole group, which was not founded upon OP, basis. (The dissentient colony was Victoria which the .4)1 describes as the most influential and most' unenlightened of those represented at the Conference.) Another subjec" , pressed upon the attention of the Home Government is the extension of its protection to the Fiji Islands. Their geogra' phical position, it is alleged, is such as to render it highly in° pedient that they should pass under the guardianship °1 a foreign flag. They already constitute a commercin s appanage of Australia. They are being settled W Australian colonists, and cultivated by Australia n capital, and if adequate measures are take n for the protection of both, there seems no reasocei to doubt that a great future is before these islands, an that they may prove as valuable to Australia as Java t 1 the Netherlands. Another application to the Imp.,.eri authorities is to permit the minting of silver coin in J-` 4 ° `I South Wales and Victoria, or to cause a periodic?, supply of fresh coin to be furnished to the mints to Sydney and Melbourne. Finally, as the burden an responsibility of providing for the military defend of the colonies has been thrown entirely upon themselvn g ' the Conference thinks it desi ra bl e to p ress upon w e i attention of her Majesty's Government the duty „°/ providing at all ti mes , an d es p ec i a lly i n time " e war, for the naval defence and protection of the coast-I.? of Australia and th e ex t ens i ve B r iti s h commerce on 3 "; waters, and to express the confidence with which t h Colonial Governments believe this obligation will be r e ' cognised and admitted by the Imperial Government. It is stated that M. Marius, the actor, who ma de so favourable an impression during his engagement V' th M. Herve at the Lyceum Theatre, has been killed bef° ro Metz while serving with the French army. 7'b e PRUSSIAN SPIES HUNTED DOWN AT PARIS. passion for the hunting down real or supposed Prussia spies continues unabated in Paris. On Thursday eigh t, about 10 o'clock, according to the.Liberte, a young reap; wearing the uniform of an officer of Chasseurs, was arrest e on the Boulevard Montmartre, his foreign accent havi 9 ; betrayed him. He was taken to the police-station, and W with difficulty preserved from the anger of a crowd el; posed of many hundreds of per sons , w h o soug ht t o exec u Ag speedy justice upon him. At the police-office it Wc e alleged to have been proved that he was a spy. On t v. previous evening a young man of distinguished apP ,e` ante, mounted on a fi ne h orse , was r idi ng i n th e ChaT e de Mars. Suddenly the horse, startled by a roll of t' d drums, made a bolt, and the rider, being nearly unseats,' dropped a letter from his pocket. A soldier picked it ni o 'l and found that it was written in German. A ea " Prussian spy !" was raised, and the equestrian ",j arrested. Upon being conveyed to the police-station Ity l; interrogated it is said to have become evident that • public suspicion was well-founded. On Friday eveal l another Prussian spy, disguised a$ a woman, was arres t at the Buttes Montmartre. NAPOLEON AND lIIS ADVISERS.—Accordiu "" a letter in the Band of Berne "An eminent sta g tegt „i . advised the Emperor at Rheims to throw 11 self at the head of a cavalry regiment on the bayonets. The Emperor pulled his moustache phleg, tically and replied, It would be very grand f or —hist°;:is am not, however, at such a depth as the people in P„ o t suppose. On my return I shall demand a reckoning , ; 1 . , 0 give one, and shall fix the responsibility.' In the EniPer a re opinion, however, General Lebocuf and his associat.,:ty by no means the guilty parties ; the responsn'or rests with the Left of the Chamber and with the -`, O O liamentary extravagances of 011ivier. In this tn" must the criminals who reduced the military budge ,. u w th ' the standing army be sought. The Palikao Cabinet , tro pi the Bonapartist Right, since Rouher's return ,No Rheims have accordingly laboured in this direction. 'to rinperialists, with blind confidence, count upon an diately approaching victory, whereupon the Chanaber ei der be at once dismissed, even though President Sall'„ of should in that case refuse obedience. The clial:. 0 1, opinion in France, however, ig so radical and univ iB that even the victorious Napoleon would be cenviu c ..; s ive a few months of his powerlessness. In the army ( 15 '; o se songs about him are sung, and the bonds of discipl ine terribly relaxed," Ad Prefe c aPpea had ci ThE Natio Th, th e 1 With there Gr( Germ Yeater Clerni decor; It 1 Gerra Victor THE EUROPEAN WAR. A. SECOND EDITION of THE SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. 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