The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-19 00:00:00

Yes ar, on SPECIAL EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 P.M. LAT EST I WEL Li GEN C 'ME WA IL SHELLING OF CHATEAUDUN, T c Prussians, shortly after noon on the 18 th, °l ninkneed shelling the town,.but the result is not yet known. OPERATIONS IN EPINAL. 4General Wetder has sent in a report to the Royal e a - quarters, at Versailles, in which he says, " The ene my in my front withdrew on our approach in a IBorderly manner to Belfort and to Dijon." 500 t nred Mobile Guards succeeded in escaping near Chat eau a Thierry on the 16th inst., during an attack b Y F rancs-tireurs. R PULSE OF A FRENCH SORTIE. General Pilsach also reports that on the 12th he " 4v e 3,000 Mobile Guards from Breteuil. A sortie 0, s everal French battalions was repulsed on the i` 4t h by the outposts ; and on the following day the ene my, n whilst entrenching at Villejuif, was driven 4l t by the field artillery. THE CAPTURE OF SOISSONS, number of soldiers who escaped, and who have a wed at Lille,report that the population demanded capitulation, although there were still , 50,000 roe u nde of ammunition for the artillery. PRUSSO-BONAPARTIST CON _ SPIRACY. The Echo du Nord ' denounces a Prusso-Bona rattist conspiracy, the head-quarters of which, it g ays, t ar e a t J erse y, w ith affiliated branches in tb ° . nd oo and ramifications in France. The object of C onspiracy is said to be to impede the national defe nce, and thus procure the triumph of Prussia, am I; a Bonapartist restoration in favour of the Prince — P en ial, with the Empress as Regent. COUNT BERNSTORFF AND ENGLAND. els Cologne Gazette says :—" The recall of Count h rostorff from London is as little thought of as t i at of Herr von Balan from Brussels. The inten aallY-circulated rumour of their recall proves that the y fill th e i r posts admirably, and carefully watch that the duties of neutrality are fulfilla It is not the fault o f C oun t B erns t or ff if his warnings as to thei naener in which England is true to her neutral °ve um appear sometimes unpleasant to the English ''ent." EXPLOSION NEAR SEDAN. BOUILLON, OCT. 16. Ye sterday, at a few minutes before five o'clock in the the : v eiling, an ammunition waggon blew up near o e . uhate au o f S e d an . Th e explosion made a noise W hlel l was heard for miles around, and caused Ill erise consternation. As soon as it occurred all the gates of the town were closed, and the bridges of Iv t he fortifications were drawn up. The guard eil er e withdrawn from the gates and marched to t he ~,,a ' t eau . Three Bavarian soldiers were kill ed, and ae ,a l horses were also wounded, It is believed the dent was caused by fire from the pipe of a man filtoking. MISSION OF M. THIERS. VIENNA, OCT. 18. I , l t is stated in well-informed circles here that M. h i t em proposes on his return to Tours to pronounce e i wa ills elf decisively in favour a the immediate con °ll of peace by the Provisional Government. FLORENCE, OCT. 18. 1 % 1 . Thiers left today for Tours. Tlie Opinione states that he had been met here lth cordial sympathy. PROPOSED TRANSFER OF LUXEMBURG. There can now be no doubt that Prussia is pre- Pared to buy, and the King of Holland t o sell, the bra nd duchy Luxemburg. It is understood that 4 enmmunication will soon be addressed to the eutral Powers respecting the abrogation of the raty concluded at London in 1867 , whereby the The “Lu xemb ur g question" of that year was settled e German papers speak of relaxing the terms of dace in consideration of Luxemburg ; but it is not all clear that the territorial clauses of the German 'elnand s w i ll be lessened. THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. t The Government at Tours will not retreat to : cle anx or Limoges until the chance of another tl e is tried. Gambetta's influence has been fol. beneficial in somewhat calming the panic which lar °wed the defeats of last week ; but part of the regu havtrneps remain unmanageable. Several companies d ank and disbanded. At Tours many men were seen b at , n , k and abusing their officers immediately after the iltiot 7 at Orleans. Some of the ringleaders will be 4%. The Government intends to bring over from atir, "le , a 8 many officers as possible in order to 4tri r o P t lY the present great want. The disaffection oP gßt the Arab population appears to have been .rated. THE PRUSSIANS AT ORLEANS. BERLIN, OCT. 18. hal A f t , (lrl eans, on the 11th, 35,000 Frenchmen, one feugh ` e ' l.lll arls, the rest Papal Zouaves and Mobiles , vr t I against nearly as many Germans. The Af -,"e1:4, were in vineyards, rifle-pits, and earth - works . ei b i t hours' d e fence, the French retreated so pre brici a '° l 3T that they omitted blowing up the Loire g e s , Which they had previously undermined. A l l, th° engagement near Etival with the Lyons eh. tea 3 ,800 G erman s ' defeated 8,000 French, L Y regulars, w ith s ome Mobiles. the 41'6 transports of provisions have been sent to th e i, Ger inans from the Orleannais and Normandy, th e co vevance having been greatly facilitated by au alp ate of Soissons, which gives the Germans Ina art undamaged railway up to the gates of s. THE RUMOURS OF PEACE. BRUSSELS, OCT. 18. rtl A. o ciano,.. ' - ` 6B Pondent of the Etoile Belye says that the s buil dl . have taken possession of all the public tore the in Orleans, including the Bank, the Pref ec ;Lue Alairie, an d th e res id en ce of the Bishop bisho ° l ' Dupanloup remains in charge of the ti es : l ' l ' l c) with the sanction of the German authori a Al • Pereira, the Prefect of the Loiret, is held Pri soner. Th. Prussians have reduced their reqnisition net Orlea ns from four to two milions, but with cert...,P•l'ejlidiee to other requisitions and the pillage of stores,l3 eur 6 si nel de Fertd is entirely deserted—not a 11E4 envren 6 11 ,, (3 , n llB6 is Open, a n d a ll the inhabitants have Ie railway i s on l y open as f ar as La Motte . Nett) • Pear— ) g 18 know n h ere o f the rumour o f re n e wed os7 ne gotiations publi s h e d i n l as t even ing's London vers in the form of .a despatch purporting to come brubeels, the following Lay, October aged, and by ght think we 70 economise Id, cafés and pect. 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To -rather un nothing else that there months. bundant, at est quality. look deci neat ; and, Lg smaller as In yester- on the pot 'o credit the balls, re iot seriously, ering for the and women papers and begging, is ?loying the t of work f the Seine astonished —indeed, I )ffice where leave their licants, ail ?rospect of it give a 7tified by a to support imple, con- El hood in riped with Each fair arms will ambulance d ' Ama to be, well ae Mobile ons of the arise to tta, who i received ied, bear appeared Tidier, and tween bal ut, uncer the outer wise is due resent un- oing their aches en- to Depart is possible ,s, sisters, y of cora for their 3m Paris. umber of g aw a y ng mes f sadness cl faces of .00n; for g full of Prussian many of w many f, before oon there Clamart. aid, been I confess an false. bulances, cleanli- There them a who had .ccording s father's n soldier intention Dille, but her fired us hope to injure ;sing the aodea of r regular entirely by born 1t of de to the spirit of ith men ies from :autions pave present- replaced all ex g to tho :lessarily oj ectiles, imorous e other elves to re there dmitted d by an rdinary Even r from 1 itself e some know I Titer of for his Emit are .dinary, nenon ? actually he very locus— roperly ussians Paris what is Paris a the be ilainest t sight hu can tion is LiTison I most least ceuvre • non ii the ,er his THE BOMBARDMENT. VERSAILLES, OCT. 17. Fresh troops (Landwohr) are arriving, .and gun are being rapidly got into position. Nevertheless it is not likely the bombardment will begin for ten days or a fottnight. THE MESSAGE FROM BAZAINE, General Boyer has arrived at Versailles, and had an interview with Bismarck. The Count imme diately afterwards proceeded to the residence of the King. ATTACK ON MONTDIDIER. A despatch from Amiens anounces that trio Prus sians attacked Montdidier on the 17th, and, after taking over 150 Mobile Guards prisoners, made a requisition of 50,000 f. on the town, and took the mayor and one of the richest bankers as hostages for the same. OCCUPATION OF VESOUL. The Prussians on the 18th occupied Vesoul, in the Haute &One. REPORTED REPULSE AT VERDUN. A traveller arrived at Lille yesterday from the neighbourhood of Verdun asserts that the garrison in a recent sortie put 800 of the enemy hors de combat. The same person also says that the Prus, sians three days afterwards attempted an assault but failed and lost 1,800 men. THE FIGHTING AT PARIS. The correspondent of the Standard at Rouen, says on the 18th : The secretary of General Trochu, arriving in Bel gium by balloon from Paris, passed through Rouen yesterday evening, and he states that on Friday, the 14th instant, some very serious engagements took place near Paris. The Prussians lost three thousand men, and were obliged to request an armistice of 48 hours in order to bury their dead. Seventy thousand Gardes Nationales took part in the action. THE STORM ON THE SCOTCH COAST. WICK, OCT. 10. We have had a terrible storm of north-easterly wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, since last night. Fragments of wreck, believed to be long to a Norwegian vessel, are coming ashore, including staves, battens, a skiff; pump, and other articles belonging to a dismasted vessel which was in the offing yesterday. It has been ascertained that the vessel wrecked is the schooner Enichoden, of Drammen, with wood, from Christinia, for Fra serburg. All the crew are lost, except a boy, who was most miraculously saved by climbing up the rocks at the south side of Wick. The vessel is a total wreck, and the cargo scattered along the whole coast. WRECK ON THE SUFFOLK COAST. LOWESTOFT, WEDNESDAY MORNING. Mr. John Henderson, the Chief Officer of Coast guard, reports that the lifeboat Detitia, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched last evening to the stranded brig Glenora, of Scar borough, 241 tons, Simpson, master ; bound from Shields to Rochester with a cargo of coals. Fortu nately the lifeboat was instrumental in rescuing the crew of seven men, and in landing them in safety. IRELAND. DUBLIN, OCT. 19. Three men, named O'Sullivan, Murphy, and Bullen, were brought up at the Cork police-court yesterday, the first charged with having the previous night fired a revolver at Mr. Bull, Deputy-Clerk of the Peace, and the other prisoners with assault and with assisting O'Sullivan. Shortly before midnight Mr. Bull was passing along Patrick-street, when a shot was fired. lie turned round and gave chase, but was set upon by the supposed accompliCes of the assailant; a desperate fight followed, and the police arrested the three prisoners. They were remanded. The Church Convention reassembled to-day. The Primate pressed the representative bodies to report on the Government Charter and on Finance. The resolutions were considered and adopted. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND HIS CRITICS. The Bishop of Manchester, speaking at a meeting held in his diocese last evening, defended himself from the attacks which had been made upon him in the London and provincial newspapers in consequence of some remarks he had recently made as to the troubles now afflicting France. He said he had been charged with offering a gross insult to our poor French neighbours in comparing Paris to Sodom and Gomorrha, but he had done nothing of the kind. He had simply made the innocent remark that the vices of a nation had something to do with its degeneracy, and that the story of Sodom and Go morrha had repeated itself in history again and again. He did not say this by way of unkind reproach to France, but for the purpose of pointing out that we in England were borrowing some examples from France, which we ought not to do, and the remark was made in older that we might be setting our own house in order. The Daily Telegraph, which a .few days ago had published a, rather sharp criticism for his benefit on Monday in a - leading article, repeated exactly his sentiments,saying that when one looked at the proflgacy, the luxury, and the dissipation of the great cities of France, he was tempted to exclaim that it was the wickedness of France that had shattered its Government, crushed its best armies, and imperilled the safety of the nation. It wa s quite right that we should look first at our own faults at home, but it was also legitimate to take warning from what we believed to be the faults of our neialbours. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN SCOTLAND. Last night a ball was given at Polmaise Castle, Stir lingshire, in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales The castle was splendidly decorated for the occasion, there in addition to the numerous guests, and was a large company consisting of the nobility and gentry of the surrounding country. His Royal Highness leaves for London to-day. SUICIDE OF AN OFFICER. captain Henry Ley, North Devon Hussars, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself in the saddle room attached to the stables of his mansion, at Marwood, near Barnstaple. It is somewhat remarkable that his father shot himself in the same house. -- - EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BANK CASHIER. At the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions, yesterday, Henry Walter Bunn, cashier at a bank in Abergavenny, pleaded guilty to embezzling £1,179, the pro perty of the bank directors. Prisoner, who is very respectably connected, had speculated in horse racing, and thus lost the money, the whole of the defal cations occurring in one week. After an eloquent appeal by his counsel prisoner was sentenced to six months' im prisonment. DISTURBANCE AT CORK. The three men who were arrested in connection with the asssult made upon Mr. Bull, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, in Patrick-street, Cork, on Monday night, were examined at the police-office yesterday. Robert O'Sullivan was charged with having fired a revolver at Mr. Bull, and the two other men, Buller and Murphy, with aiding O'Sullivan and committing an assault when Mr. Bull attacked the man who had fired the pistol. The police found a breech-loading - revolver cartridge upon O'Sullivan. The prisoners were remanded. At the magistrates meeting yesterday in Dorchester, it was reported that the Dorset Mendicity Society, during the last nine months, had decreased vagrancy in the county by 2,400 over the same period in last year, or 30' rer cent. lE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 187 C. MONEY MARKET. ___J__ niT Y. Two o'OLocx. The Stock Markets opened firm, but prices are now ss active. Consols are quoted at 92 7-1 G for money, and 2 fur the account. New and Reduced Three per Cents. re 91 to 91i. Spanish and Turkish have advanced ; _ _ . • - Italian and Egyptian, I. Italian Five per Cents. of 1861 are 55 to 651 ; Spanish Three per Cents. of 8867, 291, to Nil; Turkish Five per Cents. 42 to 43g ; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1868, 77.t0 77k. Railways are quiet. . The proposed Montevidean Loan has been withdrawn, upon the advices by the River Plate mail showing that the present Government of !the Uruguayan Republic are threatened with violent oveithrow by the Blanco or Federal party, who have been for some time in arms againSt them. There is no reason to believe that the change would interfere with the financial engagements of the country, but, the politics of that region being little understood here, it would be 'inadvisable for Messrs. Thompson, Bonar, and Co. to take . the responsibility of receiving subscriptions until a definite order of affairs shall have been established. Meanwhile the commerce of the Republic must continue to suffer from the wane of a sound currency basis, which it was the object of the loan to afford. It is understood that of the German Five per Cent. War Loan of 100 millions of thalers, introduced some weeks back at the price of 88, the portion subscribed by the public was 60 millions, that 20 millions were with drawn by the Government, and that the remaining 20 millions have been taken by a combination of bankers at 95g. The advices from Buenos Ayres by the present mail bring the satisfactory news of the suppression of the revolutionary movements in the province of Entre Bios, . which had been in progress ever since the assassination of General Urquiza in April last. The forces of Lopez Jordan, the leader of the out break, had been completely routed by the National troops, and there was every probability that with this event the tendency to Gaucho disturbances would be finally suppressed throughout the country, which in all parts is rapidly assuming a European cha racter. The intelligence of the war on this side had in terfered with the financial arrangements of thesGovern ment, and they had consequently found it necessary to ask an authorisation from Congress for the sale of the 17,000 shares they possess in the Central Argentine Rail way. The schedule of the Public Debt of the United States, issued on the Ist inst., shows a fresh reduction in the total since the Ist of September of £1;801,500, making a decrease under the Grant Administration of £35,709,500 since March, 1866. In the matter of the Nevada Freehold Property Trust, Mr. James Ford has. been appointed provisional liqui dator. MARKETS.—Tius DAY. MARK LANE. • The Corn Exchange was fairly attended by millers, and the tone of the market was firm ; neverthless the business transacted was on a very moderate scale. The show of English wheat on offer was small, but the ar-. rivals from abroad were large. Sales in both red and white produced were effected steadily, and the advanced rates of Monday last were thoroughly maintained. Barley was in moderate supply and request for fine malting samples ; grinding qualities experienced a cautious sale, but prices were unchanged. The malt trade was not active, but prices ruled firm, There were large supplies of oats on the stands. The trade was dull at Monday's reduced quotations. Beans and peas were in fair request at fully previous currencies. Flour was in quiet demand, but firm in value. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE GLOUCESTER RACES.--Tins I)AY Referee Clationette... Cowboy' , Houghton-- Moula f (BF ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CITY II ANDICAP. Four ran. NURSERY lIANDICIP, Azalea Scintilla Fantine Metaphor Seven ran. WELTER PL ATE Eight ran, E LSO RA C Es—THis DAY (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NURSERY HANDICAP. Triton Mount Blair . ...... Last Word Nine ran. BORDER HANDICAP, The Bobby Paganini Maid of Mickley CITY BETTING.-- lily DAY. 2 3 2 3 CAMBRIDGESHIRE'. 7 to 1 agst Not Out (taken to £500) 15 to 2 agst Adonis (offered-8 to 1 taken freely) Bto 1 agst Podesta (offered-100 to 12 taken and wanted) 12 to 1 agst Barford (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Albany (offered-14 to 1 taken) 100 to 6 agst Frivolity (taken and wanted) 20 to 1 agst Vandenhoff (offered—take 25 tot ; 200 to 7 and 300 to 10 laid previously) 20 to 1 agst Queen of Hearts (offered— 25 to 1 taken and wanted) 25 to 1 agst Rafale (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Vintner (offered) 30 to 1 agst Green Riband (offered—take : loo to 3) 1000 to 30 : agst Fichu (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Dark Cloud (taken and offered) 1000 to 20 agst Cymbal (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Stanley (offered) 66 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (taken) 100 to 1 agst Thunderstorm (taken) 1000 1 o 8 eve, Ryshworth (taken and offered) 500 to 4 agst Exciseman (taken) 2000 to 60 agst Stanley and Exciseman coupled TREATMENT OF THE PRUSSIANS AT VERSAILLES. Writing from the headquarters of the Prussians, the correspondent of the Telegraph says : "The conduct of the people of Versailles towards the Prussian troops and commanders, if not cordial, is at least respectful and un aggressive. I cannot say the same for that of the sur rounding country. The fact is, that France seems determined to exhaust every means of annoying and harassing, if she cannot defeat, her enemy. And this spirit seems to be now on the in - crease. The Francs-tireurs are becoming bolder and more numerous ; and, no doubt, they occasionally inflict losses on the Germans. Nor is this all. Notwith standing the severity with which the invaders treat sn ch offences, the peasants do not cease to fire upon the Prus sians whenever an occasion offers. The affair at Ablis the other day, shews what the state of feeling is among the inhabitants of some of the French villages. There the fourth squadron of the 16th Schleswig Holstein Hussars were quartered ; but while sleeping in fancied security at night, they were set upon, and before they could recover themselves 100 of their num ber were slain. The survivors assert that the Francs tireurs by whom they were attacked were aided by the villagers, and that the whole affair was a well-arranged plot. If so, the inhabitants of Ablis have paid a severe penalty; for the village has been burned to the ground. Nor is it the ignorant peasants alone who thus attack the Prussians. A day or two ago a priest was brought here under arrest. He is said to have fired on a cavalry patrol at Meudon, and to have killed a dragoon. It is, I hear, the intention of the authori ties to make an exemple of this ecclesiastic. He is first to be put in the pillory, before he under goes the still heavier sentence which the military tribunals will doubtless pass upon him. In Saint Germain and other places, also, the spirit of the peasantry is very dangerous; the inhabitants, it is said, who by remaining quiet during the day escape observation, at night steal away into the woods to join the ranks of the Francs tireurs. Altogether, the state of the French population in the rear of the army is somewhat threatening ; and I expect before long to hear of some terrible reprisals on the part of the Germans for the annoyance and losses, trivial but terribly irritating, which they constantly suffer." RUMOURED NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE CAPITULATION OF. METZ. Important intelligence regarding Metz reaches us from Berlin, under date October 18th. It states that on the 14th, General Boyer, first aide-de-camp of Marshal Baz , dne, arrived at Versailles, accompanied by a Prussian officer ; that General Boyer had an immediate inter view with Von Bismarck, who, at its close, pro ceeded to the King's quarters. We shall, probably, not be long left in doubt as to the meaning of this incident. It is possible that it may be the result of some Bonaparte intrigue, in which case Marshal Bazaine—not considered a very reliable man—would be guilty of gross and unpar donable treason to his country, and no less gross and un pardonable folly. It may be that the Marshal wishes to ascertain the real state of affairs in France before de ciding on his own course of action. It may be that he seeks to gain time by amusing the Prussians with nego tiations. Again, and this is the most probable surmise, the Marshal may be reduced to extremities and is anxious to obtain good terms of surrender. If he does surrender, it will be as if a limb had been lopped off from France, nor can we discover that he is yet in that situation which would render a capitulation justifiable. The troops are, it is true, compelled to subsist in a great measure on horseflesh, and are in want of salt, but are many degrees removed from famine. The Marshal can obtain cover for the greatest portion of his army in the city, while the investing army are exp , sed to all the rigours of the climate. Fui-ther, he has 100,000 armed men at his disposal, and by a merely passive attitude, chequered only by occasional sorties, he can and does detain more than double his own numbers from the siege of Paris or the subjugation of the provinces. If he has any thoughts of surrender, he should bethink him of the glorious precedent for an obstinate resistance under pres sure of actual famine afforded by Massena, at Genoa, in 1800. We should not, however, be surprised to hear of a capitulation, for it seems to be now the fashion. to neglect all the rules of military honour, to ignore the obligations imposed by the past glories of the French army, and to, capitulate as soon as it becomes inconvenient to hold out. Strasburg, in spite of all that has been said—and, up to a certain point, justly said—of the heroic resistance, is an instance of what we assert; and Soissons, with the bombastic declaration of the commandant about a defence to the last, is another. —Standard. GA MBETTA AND THE SPECIAL COE RESPONDENTS. The correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Tours under date of the 16th, thus relates the interview he had with M. Gambetta on the occasion of a refusal to forward certain information —" I was ushered into a, very hand,some room, noteworthy for its striking lack of furniture. A dozen gentlemen were dozing or whispering on a divan along the wall, and two or three secretariei were writing for their lives. In another instant I was shewn into M. Gauabetta's cabinet. Perhaps an apartment thirty feet by twenty five should not so be called. It is a light, pleasant room, looking upon the garden. By the open window, on the right, half hidden by an ancient bedstead with the most gorgeous yellow silk hangings, sat the Minister himself—at a table covered, of course, with papers. He is a dark, powerfully-built man, with a very large head. His long hair, not unconscious of a grey strand, hangs over a forehead lofty and massive. I must not describe a living gentleman's face minutely. The countenance of M. Gambetta is certainly one of great power and de termination, if not handsome in feature. But those who have heard him spoken of as the ' young tribune of Marseilles,' and all the rest, would be rather surprised to mark his bodily presence. He spoke with great courtesy, but perfect firmness. This despatch,' he said, taking my unfortunate telegram from the table, ' I might have received from the General whose name you mention. You will see I do not mean to deny that it is true—absolutely true. For that reason I cannot suffer it to be sent. Even to the number of our men and guns, you are correctly informed. Had that despatch been printed in London, it is impossible to say what the result might have been.' I replied that the bureau of the telegraph passed what it pleased, and suppressed what it liked; that the acceptance of such a responsibility by the bureau seemed to absolve me from any point of honour in the transmission of news ; and I added, that I should not have thought of putting in a sealed letter the facts which I did not hesitate to send in an open despatch, could they have reached you for publication in as short a time. M. Gam betta answered that the question for him was the safety of France. He desired to know from what source I ob tained the secret information which, as the Inspector told him, the correspondent of The Daily Telegraph had several times addressed to •London. Finally, with great politeness, but with greater firmness, he pointed out that the Government could not possibly allow its plans or dispositions to be told ; that the control department of the telegraph refused to accept or understand the respon sibility I put upon it ; and that, in point of fact, he must demand my word of honour never henceforward to men tion movements of troops or intentions of the military authorities by telegram —never to allude to them at all, excepting they were faits accomplis. Of course, the pro mise was given forthwith. But I made a more vigorous stand when it came to letters ; pointing out that the mail took at least two days, and that, in regard to the facts at this moment in question, to write about them to-day could not possibly do misctief to the operations designed, while it would enable English readers much more easily to follow the great events which will doubt less, by the time my letters reach then, ha've taken place. I regret to say that M. Gambetta• seemed to care mighty little whether English readers under stood or not. He refused to draw any distinction what- ever between letters and telegrams. Perhaps I cannot prevent your getting information;' he said ; but I demand that you impart it neither by one means nor another.' So, since there was no help for it, I gave my word and left, after thanking M. Gambetta for the pleasant tone in which his warning had been given." WIZEN IS THE BOMBARDMENT TO BEGIN ? The Times correspondent inside Paris, in his letter of the 15th, says the monotony of the operations of the siege is beginning to tell upon the Parisians. Day after day the military bulletin simply notifies reconnaissances in one or more directions, when, after the exchange of a few shots with the advanced posts of the enemy, the French troops usually retire with an insignificant loss in killed and wounded, and the throwing of -occasional shells by one or other of the advanced forts into the enemy's works. Nov and then it is varied, as on Thursday, with the report of a positive engagement, in which the losses mount up on both sides, but these occa sions are few and far between. The Prussians shewed promptitude enough in investing Paris, as, contrary to all expectation, within a day or two after their presence had been signalled some thirty miles distant they had shut up a couple of millions of human beings like so many birds n a cage; owing to this, every one believed they would be equally rapid in their movements with regard to the siege itself, and would long before this have begun the bombardment. To-day people have almost given over reading the military reports, for they present such a sameness, and ask each other with a feeling akin to impatience, " Whenever is this threatened bombardment going to begin?" The topic serves us as a subject of conversation, just as the weather with you in England, for since the wind has shifted round to the east, and our " ballons-poste " have resumed their service, and Major Flourens and his battalions have given over invading the Hotel de Ville, and we are furnished with our ration cards, entitling us to something like an ounce and a half of solid meat — exclusive of all bone, mind—per diem, we have really nothing left us to talk about, and the papers have little else to write about. In presence of this one all-absorbing topic minor matters are hardly taken note of. Even the de struction by fire of the Palace of Saint Cloud the day before yesterday through a shell thrown into it by Fort Valerien received little notice. Had it been a shell thrown by the Prussians into the most insignificant quarter of Paris, the affair would certainly not have been treated with the same amount of indifference. On the night of Tuesday, the 11th of October, half Paris lay awake, listening for the anticipated cannonade, but hap pily listening in vain. Wednesday's papers informed us that the bombardment had been postponed, that various Prussian prisoners who had been captured the day before at different points had all agreed in stating that owing to something or other not being ready, it had been decided to put off the bombardment, which had been originally fixed for the 10th, they said, for a couple of days, and they warned their captors to look out for it that very day,—namely, Wednesday. Accord ingly, all that venturesome class of individuals existing in every community, betook themselves to Point du Jour, Auteuil, Passy, and other points of the fortifications, and to the Trocadero, the Arc de Triomphe, and, in fact, everywhere where it is believed a good view could be obtained, and paid from half a franc to a franc to look for a moment or two through a telescope at the Prussian batteries on the heights on the other aide of the Seine, if not at the anticipated shower of Prussian shot and shelL Those who waited all day were rewarded for their patience by the sight of a puff of smoke, followed by a dull rumbling noise, whenever Mont Valtirian threw a shell into the enemy's works. In the stillness of the evening the distant roar of cannon was continually heard, and people, thinking the bombardment had at length opened, sought after the next morning's papers with' eagerness, only to learn froln them; however, that there 'had been a brisk cannonade on the part of Mont Valdrien on the evening before, but not so much as a single shot fired from a Prussian battery. They announced, however, that as the next day, Friday, was the anniversary of the battle of Jena it was no doubt for this occasion the Prus sians were reserving their fire. On Thursday there was an engagement, which may be said to have assumed the proportions of a battle, between the French and Prussians at Clamart, Chatillon, and Bagneux, and one shell from Mont Val6rien demolished the Lantern of Diogenes in the Park of St. Cloud, while another pene trated the palace itself, which was supposed to be occupied by the Prussians, and immediately set fire to it, reducing it, after a conflagration which lasted many hours, to a perfect ruin. The day following—the anniversary of the battle of Jena—passed over peaceably, and so has to-day, and the Paris newspapers have now given over speculating when the bombardment will begin. INCENDIARY FIRE.— On Saturday evening the ricks in the homestead of Mr. Robert Hooper, Little Cheverell, near Devizes, Wiltshire, were discovered to he on fire in several places at once. Eight large ricks, with extensive barns and outhouses, were quickly consumed. The evening was quiet, and the rains of the previous week had damped the thatch of the houses in the neigh bourhood, or the destruction would have been much more extensive, the absence of water and any efficient engines, rendering opposition to the flames of little avail. CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN lIIELAND.—Tha C 8113.• monial of opening the academical session of the Catholic University at Dublin took place on Saturday in the church attached to that institution. There was a very large and fashionable congregation assembled, who, from the usual interest they manifested in the sacred function, were (says the Freeman) evidently anxious to attach to it a good deal of political significance. The rector, Dr. Woodlock, delivered an address on the occasion which had brought them together. He dwelt long and eloquently on the principle that science and religion could not be separated, and in .conclniion 'proceeded to.show that, the datholic Church had always promoted the cultivation of the arts and sciences, OUR COTErVEPOIZARIES---This Morning ARLES-DIIFOUR'S ADDRESS. The Tines, aster commenting upon the appeal of M. Arles-Dufour to the people of Great Britain hus concludes: —We have indicated on more than one occasion terms of peace that might have been accepted by both belligerents, and the suggestions we have made have been supported by neutral opinion abroad. But the French Government is isolated in Paris, and it has never clearly appeared to what lengths it is willing to go in the way of concession ; and the German Government is at Versailles, and must not be confounded with the delegation that remains at Berlin. Coun sels of peace under such circumstances have neces sarily been offered under greats disadvantage, and it has been impossible to tell whether or not they would be ineffectual. There is at this moment a rumour that a basis of negotiation has been settled, even if a definite Peace has not been agreedupon, but the evidence in support of the statement is vague, and with the heartiest wishes that it may be well-founded, we cannot accept it as a fact. We wish we could answer M. Arles-Dufour by the assurance that Peace wes accomplished, but we fear he must wait under further discouragement before that happy consummation can be reached. It is pitiable that he and such as he should have toiled during long lives to bring about the reign of Peace, and should find in their later years that the spirit of war is appa- Jently more firmly enthroned than ever. No harder trial can be conceived for a faith that believes in the progress of humanity through suceeding generationt. As we watch the course of the war we seem to see its baleful genius brutalizing the temper and corrupting the patriotism of both belligerents. Yet we will not bate one jot of hope that the evil counsels to whose ascendency this terrible spectacle is due will pass away, and the principles of freedom and Peace will supplant the animosities and craving after domination that now threaten to become rampant. THE OLYMPIC THEATRE. A new musical piece, by a new writer, Mr. Arthur Wood, has been placed upon the stage of the Olympic Theatre. Its chief characteristic is its brevity, which, it may be stated, on the first evening qui , e astonished the audience. The outlines of the story of Paul and Virginia are represented in a rapid, and, were it not for the songs and scenery, in an unpleasantly realistic and succinct manner. The only remarkable innovation is a dance by ten little Indian's, who, though additionally interesting by their difference of size, fail to sing the song that has made the number Ten, as applied to Indian boys, so famous. The 'smallest of the litth, fellows performs his part in so intelligent a way as to call forth an encore for a dance that is kept time to by clappings from empty cocoa nuts. Mrs. Liston's pourtrayal of Paul is creditable, as indeed all her usual impersonations are. Her graceful form and tasteful style of dress, as well as her clear voice and opportune movements upon the stage, tend in this new extravaganza, as much as in any old one, to gain her many friends. Mr. Belmore is excellent as Virginia. His dress and performance at different stages of the piece is a mixture of what might be expected from a burlesque Ophelia and a Marguerite com bined. In spite of the long raven hair and the " gushing" gestures of countenance assumed by this very best of London comedians, the memory of Daniel I'eggotty," a part Mr. Behnore sustains in the early part of the evening, cannot be forgotten by the audience when he is once more on the stage in the character of Virginia. The melancholy interest raised by Mr. Belmore in the former character, and, rendered especially peculiar by his own soft eyes and mournful tone of voice, is not removed by all his versatility and fun shown in the after piece. Paul and Virginia is embellished by some very beauti ful oriental scenery. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —'1 ms DAY. SHOCKING CASE.—Stephen Casaya, a French jeweller, living at No. 6, Carpenter-street, Grosvenor-square, was charg«l before Mr,. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with indecently assaulting a boy named Thomas Mill Spence, about 11 years of age, residing in the same house. From the evidence of the boy it appeared that he had permission from his widowed mother to go and sit with the prisoner in his room, the prisoner stating that he was lonely ; and after being :n the room a short time, the prisoner gave him an apple, and then placed a bottle to his mouth, and he became insensible, and while in that state the prisoner abused him in a manner unfit for publication. A medical gentieman residing in Mount-street, Grovenor-square, gave evidence in support of the charge, adding that he found the boy in a very excited state, threatening to cut his throat, tossing about on the bed, and tearing his hair. The boy's mother, a respectable-looking woman, said that while in the lower part of the house she heard a fall and a cry of distress, and on going upstairs found her boy lying on the landing by the front door in a half delirious state, tearing his hair and scratching his face, and totally unable to give her any explanation of what had occurred. She sent for a doctor and found out what had occurred, and when she heard it such was her in dignation that had sho had a pistol she would have shot the prisoner, who had grossly deceived her and others, as he had always assumed such quiet and courteous manners, and led persons'to believe he was a most respect able man. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prisoner whether he wished to say anything. The prisoner, who at first pre tended he could not speak English, but subsequently spoke it very well, denied the charge. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial. MUSIC LICENCES IN POPLAR.— SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF A BEER-SHOP KEEPER. Mr. Edward E. Mofflin, a printer, of No. 328, High-street, Poplar, waited upon Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, to seek redress from the persecution of a beerhouse keeper, named Fitch, of No. 330 in the same street opposite, who applied to the Middlesex magistrates at the Sessions House last week for a music licence. Mr. Mofilin said he successfully opposed the grant ing of a music license to his neighbour, and the consequence was that he had been subjected to a most gross persecu tion. Mr, Fitch had caused a large board to be projected over the foot way at right angles with his house, with the words '` Beware of the Informer," and an index printed thereon. The index was pointed towards Mr. Moffiin's house opposite, and it caused numerous persons to stop and discuss the question of music licenses. He had been subjected to repeated insults, both at home and abroad, and called an informer and other opprobrious epithets. Fitch had pointed him out to others, and called out, " That is the man, that is the informer." He had lived nine years in High-street, Poplar, and Fitch only three. He had opposed the granting of a music license on public grounds, and would so again. Mr. Paget said the applicant ought not to have been persecuted and insulted, and he directed Walton, an officer of the court, to wait on Fitch and point to him the impolicy an:l ille gality of the course he was pursuing towards his neigh bour. If it was not immediately diScontinutd a sunnnonB would be granted against the offenier. Mr. Malin thanked the magistrate, and retired with the officer. ' Tier Majesty's Ministers are shortly t reassemble in town. The Premier is expected the week after next, Lord Granville being already here. CRYSTAL IPALAcE.Oue Shilling day, Tuesday, Oct. I:gth, 1870.—Minission,.4 by season tickets, 4,217 ; ditto on payment, 7,667 ; total visitors, 11,884.. OPENING OF THE SUTLEJ BRIDGE. The following telegram, dated 17th October, has been received by the chairman of the Scinde and Delhi Railway Company in London, from the agent of the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi Railway Company at Lohore:— Sutlej Bridge ;opened 15th October by Maharajah of Puttiallah with great show, celebrating unbroken railway cemmnnication between Lahore, Calcutta, and Bombay. RE AUSTRALIAN kJOLOPII.W3. — ris 46 - wiruci demand for labour in the Australian colonies, the state of the case, as given by the Emigration Commis sioners, is as follows :--In New South Wales no money has been voted towards immigration since January, 1867, and a bill for the promotion of immigration in troduced by the Government in October last was lost without a division on the second reading. In Queensland an Act recently passed lessens the inducement to the in troduction of immigrants by discontinuing the issue of land orders to shippers who provide them with passages. In Victoria scarcely any but female domestic servants and persons whose friends in the colony pay for passage warrants obtain passages.. In South Australia the funds set apart by law for immigration, which in June, 1863, amounted to £360,000, and cannot now be less than half a million, have in great measure been appropriated to another service, and bills have been three times passed by the Assembly, but rejected by the Council, to.make that appropriation finaL In New Zealand, the province of Can terbury offers free passages to female servants, and assisted passages to some classes of labourers, and in Hawke Bay settlers can secure assisted passages for their friends on guaranteeing repayment of the expense within two years. In the other provinces no assistance is given. It can hardly be said—the Commissioners add - under these circum stances that the Australian colonies shew any desire for general immigration, or would be likely to co-operate with the Home Government in paying the expense of passages . , Oren if the Home Government felt Jutstit - W(1 in contri liuting a portion 'of that expense out of the Imperial Trp . ar Bury. • THE REPORTED FRENCH SUCCESSES AT PARIS. Although, remarks the Standard. the stories arriving via balloon and telegraph of French successes before Pails on the 13th and 14th bear an a,spe,ct of truthfulness, which has usually been wanting to the bulletins of the Republic as much as to those of the Empire, it would be unwise to assume any considerable French gains, and absurd to attempt to appreciate at all closely their influence upon the course of the siege, until we learn some further details, and hear what version the Prussians have to give of the conflicts of the two days. But, profoundly distrustful as we ne cessarily are of French reports of victories, there certainly seems good reason to believe that the garrison of Paris has engaged in a sortie or two, in which, whatever the cause—greater numbers or the cover of the forts—the advantage has clearly been on its side. Assuming this, and we can hardly assume less, there is a real and large gain to be besieged. The great body of the troops engaged on the French side in these affairs were, as we are informed, comparatively raw soldiers — National and Mobile Guards, that is to say just the class upon whom successes of the kind would have the most inspiriting and beneficial effect. It must not be for gotten that the chief of General Trochu's tasks is to make an army out of the heterogeneous mass of soldiers whom he commands, and that if he could succeed in accom plishing that task, he might confidently undertake to drive the Prussians from Paris. He has men enough, nobody doubts, if they were only soldiers, and the question—the forlorn hope, to all appearance, of France—is, " can he, if the siege only lasts some weeks longer, turn these citizens and naturally insubordinate soldiers into a well-dis ciplined and well-equipped army?" We offer no opinion here upon that point ; but certainly the exercise of the Nationals and the Mobiles in a few success ful sorties will greatly aid him to achieve that result, will restore confidence to the inhabitants of the capital, and strengthen the authority of the general himself. Taking the successes of the two days to be but small affairs in an immediately military point of view, they promise to have a great political effect. The Daily News asks, can no method be devised to bring to bear both on Germany and France the public apinion of the world ? Humanity is getting tired of a struggle which seems to continue in mere needless autrage of its claims and its rights. As hopes of peace rise for a moment on the horizon and then set in the gloom of some fresh conflict, there is gradually rising from the whole heart of Europe a cry of —Hold. The war has changed its character. The well earned victory of Germany and the well-deserved defeat A France have gone to their extremes, and there is a wide and growing impression that France has suffered to the full ; that the calamities of the nation have been almost in excess of its sins, and hat Germany has done . enough for honour, for safety—even for vengeance. But Europe has no officia 3rgan for the expression of this collective opinion, though :hat it is the collective opinion is becoming more and more evident every day. A rather curious sign of the irift of English opinion and sympathy has just been riven in the tone of two articles on the war in the two quarterly organs which have a kind 3f antiquarian representative character as belonging the two great parties in the State. Count Bismarck nay probably estimate the importance of the Edin burgh and Quarterly Reviews more highly than it is estimated in England, but •as the steady g•oiug, deliberate exponents of matured convictions, they nay at least be allowed to possess a - little, even now, 3f their ancient value in indicating the course opinion ia.s taken. The articles approach the subject from dif ferent points of view. The Quarterly exhibits that strange phenomenon which the Tory press has exhibited all through the war, of sympathy with Revolutionary France, Lad intense dislike of the most truly Tory Sovereign tad the most thoroughly Tory statesman now existing in Europe. The Edinburgh, on the contrary, is almost as much in sympathy with Prussia as the Quarterly is Lgainst her; and while the Tory organ charges all the fault of the war on the violence, the aggressiveness, and the anul , ition of Prussian statesmen and the Prussian Crown, the Liberal organ lays the sin of the original aggression at the door of the real aggressor. THE FATE OF PARIS, The Telegraph, in discus Sing the reported failure of the peace negociations, says:— so long :is Metz and Paris hold out against the German armies, France will not believe herself to be utterly crushed ; and, until she is utterly crushed, she will =ever consent to surrender her' Rhenish Provinces. Not one of her political parties, whether Legitimist, Orleanist, Bonapartist, or Republican, would venture to whisper such humiliating counsel. If, to use an expressive English word, - she has " pluck " enough to face defeat after defeat, in the hope that the tide will turn when her troops are organised, it is possi ble, although terribly improbable, that she may still gain a success ; and such a result might so change the political position as to prevent Count' Bismarck from exacting the full measure of. his stern conditions. Again, peace is loudly demanded by a small but thong party in the Fatherland, constituting, in elevation of moral tone, the flower of the German people. That party protests against the forcible annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, and is hostile to the prolongation Df the war, when Germany could any day obtain peace upon such terms as, at the beginning of the struggle, did not enter into the wildest dreams of her statesmen. As the contest is prolonged and the weight of the struggle presses harder on Germany, the Peace party may gather new power, and become indirectly an ally of France. Thus resistance is not altogether hopeless, although misfortunes are accumulating more thickly than France has much to gain from delay, and her enemy has everything to lose. The best friends of the gallant nation will, however, deSire that she may have the wisdom to recognise the limits beyond which resistance is hopeless, and further unavailing gallantry will only em bitter her fate. ever. DROLL BALLOON ACCIDENT.—Apropos Of bal loons, I must not forget a droll accident that happened to one of them some days ago. A balloon, taking Govern men despatches, and three passengers, started from the Orleans railway station towards midday. The aeronaut expressed his doubts as to the ad visability of starting, the weather not being favourable; but his objections were overruled by the voyagers —two Americans, I believe. Up they went, in high spirits at the prospect of the airy little trip before them. But alas for the fallibility of human hopes ! the little trip ended ignominiously by a sudden descend into a pond just outside Paris, and uncomfortably near the Prussian camp. How the accident hap. pened has not been clearly shown. Fortunately the despatches were uninjured, and our travellers, after remaining three mortal hours up to their necks in water, swam ashore under cover of the night, and so es caped being taken by the Prussians. They reappeared in Paris some hours later, escorted by two Franc tireurs, and, after satisfactorily identifying themselves, were allowed to depart in peace ; inwardly regretting, I have no doubt, that they had not been a little less headstrong. The balloon-makers must wish the siege to be perpetual, I should think ; for they are doing a roaring trade—each balloon that starts brings them 5,000 francs, out of which they have to pay the aeronaut—TVegrqrhe ntain• ft on 0 the en tc