The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-13 00:00:00

THIS EVENING'S NEWS. THE WAR. (CENTRAL PRESS TELERGRAM.) THE FRENCH RETREAT. Telegrams just received from the German side represent the French as still retreating, and eves as crossing the Moselle. The Pbalsbourg passes of the Vosges are occupied by the Prussians, and the small fortress of Dichtenberg has capitulated. Lutzelstein has also been abandoned by the French. Large stores of provisions have fallen into the Prussian hands. The German cavalry follow, harassing the retreating army. THE NEXT VICTORY ASSURED TO THE FRENCH. PARIS, Friday Evening. General Loumain takes command-in-chief of the army of Paris. Marshal Canrobert has returned to Chalons. The Minister of War has just announced to the Depu ties that his information enables him to affirm that the Preach army is sure to win the next victory. He further informed them that in lees than four days two fresh corp s de armee of 35,000 each will be in front of the enemy. The Belgian papers which arrived to-day have been seized. It is presumed they contain something about the move of the eneir*. THE DEFENCES OF STRASBOURG. The following proclamation was posted up some days ago on the walls of Strasbourg : " Disquieting rumours and panics have involuntarily or by design spread during the last few days in our brave city. Some individuals have been bold enough to express the thought that the place would surrender without btriking a blow. " We protest energetically, in the name of the courage ous French population, against such cowardly and criminal defection. " The ramparts are armed with 400 cannon. The garrison is composed of 11,000 men, without counting the National Sedentary 'Guard. "If Strasbourg is attacked, Strasbourg will defend itself so long as a soldier, a biscuit, or a cartouche remains. " The good may reassure themselves ; as to the others, they have only to go away. " General of Division, Commandant Superior, Ulrich, Prefect of the Lower Rhine, " BARON PRON." OCCUPATION OF PHALZBURG. GERMAN ACCOUNT. ST. AVOLD, August 12 (Noon.)—The town and the passes of Phalzburg across the Vosges mountains are in our possession. The fortress of Bitsche, which is merely held by a gar rison of 300 men of the Mobile Guard, is being kept under observation by a company of our troops. The Prussian cavalry has advanced to the vicinity of Luneville. THE GERMAN ARMY. The Correspondence of Berlin enumerates the German troops now in the field as follow :—Confederation of the North, infantry, 550,000 ; cavalyry, 53,000 ; artillery 1,200 guns ; infantry recruits, 187,000 ; cavalry; 10,000 ; artillery, 234 ; landwehr infantry, 205,000 ; cavalry, 10,000 ; total for the Confederation of the North, 994,000 men, 1.680 pieces of artillery, and 193,000 horses. Adding to these the troops of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Baden, there is a force of 1,124,000. The first French gun was captured by a Berlin soldier. It has been sent to that place covered with roses. He who took the first of the two eagles which remain in the hands of the Prussians will assuredly be a rich man, great sums of money having beeu collected as a reward for that feat of arms. Great indignation exists at Mayence and in the country round on account of the report that the French, being unable to hold Saarbruck, burnt it with red-hot shot and shell, which as it was unfortified is justly considered to have been a piece of wanton aggression. The Courrier de la Moselle of the 9th says :—" On Mon day there were between 80,000 and 100,000 French around St. Avoid. They began to retreat at four o'clock in the morning, and by one there was not a single soldier to be seen. I find a strong impression, says the Paris correspondent of the Times, on the minds of many people, even of some who know the Empeior well, that he would not survive defeat. I spoke for some time to-day with one of Napo leon's personal friends, who has known him for half his life, has never accepted anything from him, and whom I believe to be sincerely attached to him, as are many of those who have known him intimately, and have had opportuni ties of appreciating his kindness of heart and amiable qualities, The gentleman in question evidently thought it consistent with the Emperor's character to throw away his life in the hour of crowning defeat. How often has it been said that Napoleon I. shouldhave fallen at Waterloo. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. DESTROYING A LIST OF VOTERS.—Richard Wright, a coachman, living in Devonshire-mews, was charged before Mr. Knox at the Marlborough-street Police Court, with wilfully destroying the list of voters for St. James's, placed on the door of St. James's Church. Frederick Green, beadle at St. James's, proved that the list of voters, which was the property of the overseers, was placed on the door of St. James's Church by Warren, another beadle, by order of the Vestry. Police-constable Bartholomew, 129 C, proved seeing the prisoner pull down part of the list, and on asking him why he did so he replied that he wanted to read it, and that it was put there for the public to take down. Mr. Knox, after referring to the Act of the 6th Vic., cap 18, section 25, which gives the Magis trate the power of inflicting a fine, not lower than 1 08., and not exceeding 40s. for the, offence, fined the pri soner 10s., or seven days. CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS.—Mr. Richard Nobbs, cab proprietor, of No. 7, Lancaster-mews, Notting-hill, appeared before Mr. Knox, at the above court, to answer a summons taken out by the Royal Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, for working a horse in an unfit state. A man in the defendant's employ was a few days ago charged with working the horse and fined, and a summons ordered to be taken against the defendant for sending the horse out. After hearing the evidence of the chief officer of the society, and Mr. Cherry, veterinary surgeon, to the effect that the horse at the time was unfit for work, Mr. Knox fined the defendant 40s. and costs. BRUTAL ASSAULT.-A dock labourer named Richard Bowshell was brought before Mr. Lushington at the Thames Police-court charged with stealing 51bs. of coffee in the St. Katherine Dock, and savagely assaulting Robert Turner, a dock constable. The constable, who was in a very weakly condition from the effects of the blows and loss of blood, had his head covered with surgi cal bandages. He had been subjected to most brutal treatment. He stated that yesterday afternoon the pri soner was leaving the St. Katherine Dock by the Tower Hill gateway, and he appeared very bulky and desirous of escaping observation. He stopped him, and found concealed under his clothes a large bag, containing raw coffee. He took it from him, and a confederate of the prisoner cut the bag, and the coffee was spilled on the ground. At the same time the prisoner knocked him down, and when down kicked him about the head and body in a savage manner. A mob of about 150 ruffians and blackguards immediately assembled and endeavoured to rescue the prisoner, and would have succeeded but for the prompt interference of a police constable. He was beaten, scratched, and kicked until he was disabled, but he retained the prisoner and the greater portion of the stolen coffee. The prisoner had been at work on a fillip from which coffee had been delivered all day. George Barke, 114 H, was on duty in the Tower of London, and heard cries of murder and help. He opened the Tower gate and went to the assistance of Turner, who was on the stones and bleeding profusely. The prisoner was kicking him, and he was surrounded by the greatest ruffians and thieves in the district. He succeeded in bringing the pri soner away from the tirong of wretches who would have killed him if he had not arrived in time. The prisoner, in defence, admitted stealing the coffee, but denied assaulting the constable. Mr. Lushington said the constable was doing his duty properly, and there was no doubt the prisoner had savagely Gild brutally assaulted and wounded him. The prisoner was one of the most desperate scoundrels that ever came before him, and his punishment must be severe in proportion to the ferocity of the assault. He sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. DISGRACEFUL ASSAULT BY A GENTLEMAN.—A gentle man who gave the name at the station of John Diver, but now said his name was Wood, of 8, Neville-street, Bromp ton, was charged before Mr. Selfe at the Westminster Police Court with the following' disgraceful and unpro voked assault upon Wm. Aseott. tailor, of 32, Eccleston street, Pimlico. The complainant, a respectable looking THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEMNCI, AUG UST 13, 187(). man, said that on the previous evening he was in the Gros venor Arms, Buckingham Palace-road, when the defen dant entered and behaved in a rude and insulting man ner, flourishing a cane about and shamming drunk. De fendant and others at the bar cleared out, expecting some mischief, when defendant placed himself in front of him, and put his stick up in a fencing attitude. Defendant begged him to desist, as he feared he would do some mischief, when the defendant struck at him, and the cane cutting his lip entered his throat and passed into his windpipe, severely injuring him. Defendant expressed no sorrow for what he had done, refused his card, and was given into custody. Defendant said he was drunk and didn't remember it. Complainant said he was sober enough to run away when the police came after him. Mr. Selfe remanded him till Thursday, and he was locked up. Consequently a lady attended, and stating that defendant was her husband asked that he might be admitted to bail. Mr. Selfe said he should not have dealt so summarily with the . prisoner had he expressed the smallest compunction. He had committed what might be a most dangerous assault, and it would go hard with him if he did not at the least make him most handsome compensation. He would take one surety in £5O for defendant's reappearance. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON THE WAR Sir Robert Collier addressed a crowded meeting of the elem. tors of Plymouth on Friday, at the Mechanics' ,Institute with a view to his election after the acceptance of the Recordership of Bristol, which he declared himself willing to resign if the acceptance were unsatisfactory to his con stituents. The war he regarded as the greatest calamity that has befallen Europe for generations ; the greatest discouragement to those who believed in the influence of progress and enlightenment. It was lamentable that thousanda should be thus sacrificed because two great persons had quarrelled. Ho believed the English Go vernment would interfere in the interests of peace as soon as possible. Meanwhile the steps which had been taken to vindicate the treaty engagements and honour of this country with regard to Belgium approved themselves to men of all parties, and would obtain the desired end. He did not believe England would come into the quar rel. But if she did he would quote the authority of Lord Derby to show that she was never better prepared. Next in importance to the new treaty guaranteeing the integrity of Belgium he placed the new Foreign Enlistment Act, on which he had exercised all his skill to make it perfect. It was impossible to pass a law which no one could break, but he believed this measure would be effective. He denied utterly the charge that he had been culpable in the matter of the Alabama. A t the close of the learned Attorney-General's address a vote of confidence was proposed ; to which an amend ment was moved, thanking Sir Robert for past services, but expressing regret that whilst holding the lucrative post of Attorney-General he should have taken the Re cordership of Bristol, and denouncing the financial policy of the Government as in many instances mean, dishonest, and cruel. The amendment was carried by a small majo rity. The Western Morning News, is authorised to State that in consequence of the above adverse resolution the Attorney General, if re-elected on Monday (to-day), which there is no doubt he will, he will resign the Recor dership of Bristol, the acceptance of which has necessi tated his present appeal to his constituents. THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST ANNIVERSARY AT DERRY. The anniversary of the relief of Derry was celebrated on Friday with some singular attendant circumstances. The freedom to fight• was entirely taken away ; and what with real soldiers and military-looking policemen the city had the appearance of a besieged place. Every street was guarded, some by cavalry, others by infantry, and the rest by policemen. The gates of the city were occu pied by constabulary, and on the walls bodies of troops were stationed. During the morning fresh contingents, in addition to those which came in last night, arrived in town, and early in the day cannons were discharged from some unknown quarter, which gave rise to great excite ment, as the city is proclaimed. About ten o'clock an Orange procession, wearing party colours and carrying flags, and accompanied by four bands, was formed on the walls. It numbered about three thousand, and paraded the principal streets inside the walls, cheering and dis coursing party music. At this time the Catholics were congregating in the Corn M arket, where they were ad dressed by the editor of a Belfast paper. At about ball past eleven, to the number of seven thousand, they formed in procession, and waving partycolours and carrying banners they proceeded to make a circuit of the streets. At Bishop's Gate they were refused admission inside the walls by the authorities, and on this a most determined attempt was made to force the gates. The mob were charged by the Carabineers and constabulary, who displayed great for bearance, and were ultimately kept back. One cavalry officer and a processionist were hurt, and a flag torn. At this time Orangemen and Catholics were not more than one hundred yards apart, the military holding possession of the gate, which is about ten feet wide. The magis trates issued.ordersclosing the public-hous es, and forbidding all bands to parade the streets after six o'clock. The people were also ordered home after that hour. One man is dead from, it is said, the thrust of a cavalry officer, and others are more seriously injured than was at first reported. A later telegram says :—There was considerable rioting in several parts of the city, and several charges had to be made upon the mobs by the cavalry and the police. Con tingents of the Orange and Catholic parties met on the bridge, and a desperate affray ensued. Shots were ex changed. Some omnibuses in which the Orangemen took refuge were wrecked. The Riot Act was read several times, and up to eight o'clock forty persons were known to have been mere or lees seriously injured. Up to nine o'clock the 12th had passed without disturb ance in Enniskillen. A large and enthusiastic gathering of the Orange party, with colours and flags, paraded through the town, and massed themselves in a field, when addresses in accordance with the principles of the lodges were delivered. Throughout the day frequent cheers were given for the Prussian army and King William, ants for the downfall of the Emperor. BA'ITIAC UF \WERTH. A special correspondent of the Telegraph, writes on Sanday, August 7, from the' bivouac at Woerth :—Ac• circling to the unanimous verdict of- both officers and surgeons, Koniggratz WAS mere child's play when com pared to the battle of Woerth—a name by which I think the great struggle will be known in history. A glance at the heights was sufficient for me to fully comprehend the difficulties which the Germans had to encounter, and which they so victoriously overcame. The hills are very steep, and their slopes are for the most part covered with vineyards, while their summits are well wooded. Here, in a circle, lay the main body of the French for two os three hours, their troops having also occupied the val ley of Woerth in front of them. The Germans advanced from the much lower heights between Soultry and Woerth, which were a'so partly occupied by the French lank. Between three and four o'clock our troops com menced the battle, and drove the enemy out of Woerth, forcing them to retreat to the opposite heights. The Prussians, while pursuing the French through the valley, were exposed to a hailstorm of bullets, bat neither the musketry nor the cannonade of the enemy, although it caused the loss of many brave soldiers, worked as much havoc as it was at first feared had been the'case. The most sanguinary portion of the strife commenced at the foot of the heights. In the vineyards the Zonaves and Turcos had taken up their position, and they possessed the twofold advantage, over the impetuous advance of the Germans, of being under cover, and of being in a position to take good aim at their foes—the Germans at the same time being entirely exposed, and compelled to fire at chance. Two, three, and in some places even four times, were our men repulsed. Twice, indeed, did the French succeed in recapturing Woerth At one time they looked upon victory as so certain that they ordered two regi ments of Cuirassiers to the attack, thinking at once to complete their triumph. It must have been a wonderful sight as these troops suddenly sprang from their hiding-place into the valley. The Prussian artillery, however, were equal to the occasion. Two salvoes, and the whole of the proud cavalry corps were either writhing on the ground, or seeking safety by the wildest flight back to the woods. The confusion was so great that the infantry also was included in the flight, retiring back upon the heights. The battle then became fiercer than ever, and, after a struggle that lasted for fifteen hours, it ended decisively in favour of the Germans. Our army consisted, on the left flank and in the centre, of troops of the sth and 11th Corps d'armee, and of some regiments of the 6th PrOssian Corps d'armee, both from Wurtem berg and Baden. The right wing consisted of Bavarians, who, through their . timely intervention by means of a " clever flank movement " (to employ the words of the Crown Prince), did much towards the successful issue of the day. with regard to the valour displayed by the German troops there is but one opinion : through out they have shown themselves to the most brilliant advantage. Our terrible loss, which amounts to 6,000 killed and wounded—l take the lowest estimate—suffi ciently proves the contempt for death shown by the Germans. A glance at the conquered positions of the enemy would seem to show that even this ter rible number is by contrast almost small. The loss of the enemy will probably be found to amount to about 12,000 killed and wounded and 6,000 prisoners. I • saw the latter taken away from here, and the procession lasted nearly half an hour. More than half of the prisoners consisted of Turcos and Zouaves ; and one is seized with imlignation at the bare idea of such wild hordes having been chosen to be the first to attack - our Fatherland. Our soldiers have evinced great rage at having had to fight with such enemies. Many enormities are attributed to them. It is certain that a Zouave fired upon an ambulance atten dant after the latter had bound up his wounds. Still snore frightful acts are narrated by the inhabitants of Woerth and the vicinity. • Willingly would I regard these stories as fables, but unfortunately I have with my own eyes seen a wretched lad, aged not snore than sixteen, who first robbed a wounded Prussian soldier, and after wards gouged out his eye,s. One miscreant, lying with a broken head on a waggon, openly boasted that wounded men had had their tongues cut out. There is no doubt that when the Germans were repulsed from Woerth for the second time eeveral•civilians fired upon our troops, and for this reason the town has been visited with all the rigours of a conquered place. The houses are for the meet part destroyed, and thereby many an innocent ono may have suffered with the guilty. The matter is e ven worse at Freachweiler—at which village, for a considerable period during the continuance of the fight, the head-quarters of the French were placed, and which had to bear the brunt of the fighting during the retreat. Up to this time I have not been able to visit personal►y more than a small portion of the battle-field. The dead lie about by hundreds in the vineyards, mostly Zouaves and Turcos, of whom certainly one half have been destroyed. Now, four-and-twenty hours after the fight, the wounded are being continually brought in to the field hospitals. To-day, also, several hundred additional prisoners who had concealed themselves in the woeds were capturest Alas ! the German forces also lost, on the various lines of retreat which they mere necessitated to follow, some prisoners, but their number cannot be large. General von Bose, the Commander of the 11th Army Corps, is severely, b u t not dangerously, wounded ; and his son has a wound in the arm. Among the trophies our troops have taken two eagles, thirty cannons, and six mitrailleuses. The latter, which our soldiers call Sprutzkanonen (literally, "squirt cannons "), excite great and general interest. With regard to the effects, they are all but unanimous in saying that the mitrailleiftle is not more destructive in any case than Writing the next day, Monday, the correspondent adds :—" After a more extended survey of the field of battle than I was able to make yesterday, the conviction has been forced upon me that the battle of Saturday was far more bloody than I believed when I first wrote. The impression which I derived from this survey I hope to send you -in a detailed sketch in my next. At present I am hardly in the position to do it ; there is no quiet spot at hand, and I am chilled all over with last night's bivouac, which I passed during a torrent of rain under a railway waggon, and wrapped in a soldier's cloak. I therefore limit myself now to brief notes. The wretches of whose outrages I have already informed you, have met their reward—one-and-twenty of them have been shot by order of a court-martial. The troops which bivouacked last night on the field of battle have to-day moved towards the high grounds. The Crown Prince is following from Soulz. Fresh regiments are continuously marching hither from the South. The dead are not yet buried. For this reason the villagers have been publicly called upon to come to the field and assist in finding the bodies and burying the dead. Notwithstanding the cooler weather which we have Marl, the atmosphere all round is pervaded with the stench of corpses. The women and girls in the town have been summoned to the town hall to attend to the washing of the linen and bandages. Provisions are not to be had in the place for money. Every bakery is in possession of a guard, and all the bread baked is taken for the wounded. Almost every house which could in any way be so used is an hospital. The many thousands these contain can hardly receive even the most necessary attention. Wo are in want both of bandages and refresh ments." MacMahon had at least 50,000 men in line at the commencement of the attack at seven a.m. ; while in the afternoon, in time to cover the retreat, a division of De Failly's Fifth Corps—making other 10,000 men—arrived at Niederbronn. Thus, by the Mar shal's own account, he delivered battle with his centre corps—minus the loss of some 3,000 men at Weissenburg --with a division of the Seventh Cops in line, a division of the Fifth Corps to cover the retreat, and a division of Cuirassiers, not belonging to his own corps, to take a bril liant part in the bittle. On Monday we reckoned that MacMahon had placed about 60,000 men on the heights; and the computation is entirely borne out by his own admissions, which, falsifying repeated assertions from head-quarters, shows that be had really six divisions in the field. The battle seems to have been won by a powerful attack on the left, followed up by a feint on the centre, and, as the day closed in, by a tremendous onset on the right, supported by sixty pieces of artillery massed on the heights of Gonstett. Marshal MacMahon says nothing about his losses of guns and eagles, but his report makes it sufficiently clear that he was by no means so vastly outnumbered as the French affirm. Outnumbered, and met with equal gallantry by their Prussian foes, the French right was at length, after many hours of hard lighting, borne back. The action had com menced at seven in the morning; at four in the afternoon the retreat began. It was commenced from the beaten right in rear of the left, which covered their movement. At Niederbronn L'Esparre's division of Do Failly's corps had arrived, and held the defile for a time against the Bavarians till nightfall ; and with such suc cess that whereas the retreat was really on Saverne south wards, the Prussians believed it to be north-westerly upon Bitsche. Heavy as were MacMahon's losses, there is reason to suppose those of the Prussians were equally severe. But some portion of the French troops ap pears to have been cut off, for there were doubtless great numbers of unwounded prisoners taken, besides the guns mitrailleuses, and eagles. That MacMahon's corps was terribly demoralised after the fight M. Texier's account places beyond question—that it fought splendidly during the day is only to give the greater credit to the determination of its enemy. We esti mate the French troops engaged during the day at about 50,000, subsequently covered in their retreat by 10,000 of De Failly's corps. The Prussians had at least three corps engaged, and these would not contain less than 105,000 troops. It is not to be wondered at, then, that M`Mahon was beaten and routed, but it still remains matter for astonishment that he was so placed that an attack upon him by such vastly superior forces was possible.—Telegraph. THE RESULTS OF THE LATE FIGHTING. More important, however, than the advantage imme diately obtained was the impression Produced upon the hostile forces. The telegrams leave no doubt that, aban doning all hope of being able to reform their troops at once, and fight again in close proximity to the fields they had been compelled to evacuate, the French Generals fell back further west then could have been expected. At will be remembered, Gmeral MacMahon, w ith General Abel Douay under him, occupied-the centre and north of Alsace: On his left lank, near Bitsche, was arrayed the corps of General Failly, by the side of which, proceeding i:i the same direction from east to west, we had General Frossard watching Saar:muck ; and still further west Marshal Bazaine near Metz. Douay was defeated at Weissenburg, MacMahon at Woerth, Frossard at Spicheren. After this it would have been the most natural move for MacMahon to march west, for Frossard to gc, east, and, meeting at Bitsche, mutually relieve each other and Failly as well. Instead of this, MacMahon never ventured sufficiently north to be able to operate in the direction of Bitsche, but crossed the Vosges straight to Saverne, thus moving away from Failly and Frossard. Of the latter two, Frossard made for the south-west, while position is unknown. He has either been involved in General Frossard's retreat, or is still in his former position awaiting the approach of the Crown Prince from the east, and that of Prince Frederic Charles from the north. Having only three or four divisions, and having already suffered some diminution by the attempt he made to extricate MacMahon, it is probable that this General too will have given way before the invading hosts. On this assumption we are justified in regarding the whole of Northern Alsace as evacuated by its original occupants, and the theatre of war removed from the banks of the Rhine and Saar to the country between the Saar and Moselle. —Times' Correspondent with the Prussian Arezy. WAR NOTES. PRUSSIAN ORGANISATION. We marched, or rather came by rail, to a town still nearer the frontier, passing, among many others, the Fusilier Regiment of the Guard. It had poured with rain for the preceding eight hours, mid the men, whose only covering had been their cloaks, were wet through, but they seemed utterly indifferent to may discomfort. I watched the process of encampment on their arrival, which, compared with the elaborate arrangement I have elsewhere seen, was simplicity itself. There were two battalions, on paper 1,000 strong, although at the present time somewhat decreaSed by that curse of the infantry soldier—in-fitting boots. After they had piled arms and placed their knapsacks and helmets on them, they simply marched to the rear of their arms and lay down in their cloaks. Of course, there were parties detailed on the usual camp duties, but with these exceptions each man was in his bedroom in a moment. The officers, meanwhile looked out for the dryest ditch, a rather difficult task to find, and this, with a few sods thrown in and a waterproof blanket, comprised their billet for the night. There was a village close by, but on no pretence whatever are they allowed to differ in 'any way from their men. There were also masses of cavalry, and some troops of artillery, one of which, a chestnut troop, had better horses than any I have seen. There is one thing, however, about their artillery that I think bad, and that is their gear, which is unwieldy in the highest degree. In the first place, the traces are so hopelesslylong that half the draught power of the horses is lost ; the tackle is of the very roughest manufacture. Then again the gun carriages are all fitted with poles, whicloon checking the wheelers, owing to the play the pin of the tumbril has, fly up nearly to the horses' heads, and when on level ground are below their knees. They have six horses to each gun, in the same manner that ours in England are horsed. A great advantage I have for- gotten to mention seems to me to lie in the carts of the country, which are four-wheeled, with either wicker work or poles at intervals forming the sides ; they, together with two horses and a man, are hired by Govern ment for the war, and are, owing to their lightness, in valuable for either baggage or forage,—Times' Correspon dent with army of Prince Frederic Charles. THE WOUNDED.—The true nature of a battle is to be discovered not from an inspection of the lists of prisoners or of trophies, but from the lists which state the numbers of the killed and wounded. At first there was much vagueness as to the losses sustained on both sides. The telegrams and tidings from the field said that the vic tories had been bloody. Even yet the exact details are not forthcoming: It is impossible to learn even approxi mately how many fell. But it is quite certain that the German loss has been proportionately enormous, and it is unlikely that the loss on the other side has been smaller. Day and night the wounded have been arriving at Mannheim. This afternoon all the beds in the hos pitals were occupied. These contain about one thousand men. The field hospitals are also full. In consequence of this hundreds of wounded men have to be sent on to Frankfort, where there is said to be accommodation for five thousand. Long strings of stretchers on which lay wounded soldiers and officers have been passing through the streets. So great is the slaughter in excess of what had been anticipated that the arrangements made have proved insufficient. Men have lain for twenty-four hours on the field of battle before they were discovered and cared for.—Daity News Correspondent. FRENCH PRISONERS,—The German soldiers who ascompanied the prisoners were enthusiastic with regard to the bravery with which the French had fought, after the Gaisberg had been stormed. They pointed out four teen men, belonging to the 74th Regiment of the Line, who were the whole remainder of the regiment left stand ing on the battlefield, but who refused to surrender, and who, deprived of ammunition, kept on fighting at the point of the bayonet. As the Prussians did not like to kill them, they rushed at last in a body upon them, and threw them down wrestling. " Nous aeons cherche la mort," said one of them to me, " Comme notrc colonel, conme noire genfral, dont voilti le cheval." The train had brought the horse of General Douay. " Ask him," said a Prussian private, " why he thinks they were overpowered." That was a sagacious question, and the reply of the intelligent and well-bred Frenchman told the tale of the whole war. It was—" We were too weak in number. , We had (on an advanced post) neither cavalry nor sufficient artillery with Us,' and finally we had no more munition." " That is the thing," said the Prussian, " ask him how many cartridges he had got." " Eighty" was the Frenchman's reply. " Now tell him that I, who had only sixty, had forty-five left when I took him ; and tell him that the strength di an army consists of men and of car tridges, and that firing away cartridges it just the same as losing a man. They did very serious damage to us at the beginning—our regiment lost 600 men ; but at the ex pense of such a number of shots that we knew they were more weakened than we were." When this was explained to the Frenchman he said: " I . knew it too, but too late. We never before have fought against such troops as yours. We must not any longer sldrraish,_ as we have been aeons. timed to."—Cl9rrmatiden o of the PON New at.Serlirt. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning. FHE MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The markets for Stocks and Shares exhibit a firm ap pearance, and the tendency is still upwards. Consols are now 911 to 911 for money, and 911 to 911 for account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 to 911 ; New Three per Cents., 911 to 911 ; India Five per Cents., 1091 ; ditto Four per Cents., 1001; ditto 4 Bonds., par ; Metropolitan Board of Works, 31 per Cent. Stock, 981. In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of 1865 -are 90; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864, 84 to 841; ditto of 1868, 701 to 711 ; Spanish of 186', 25 to 251; ditto of 1869, 241 to 25i ; ditto Quicksilver, 70 to 71; Peru vian, 85 to 84k; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 42 to 421; ditto of 1869, 53 to 542 ; and Five per Cent. Italian of 1865, 77. The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 651 ; Great Eastern 301 to 321; London and Brighton, 35i to 841 ; Caledonian, 73 to 73k; South-Eastern, 691; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, ;41; Great Northern, 1171 to 118 ; ditto (A), 121} ; North Eastern, 1361 ; London and North-Western, :1251 ; Midland, 1251 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1281 ; Great Western, 651. Canada Six per Cents. are quoted 1021 ; New South Wales Five per Cents., 100 to 992 ; New Zealand Five per Cents., 971 to 99 ; Queensland, 106; Victoria Five per Cents., 1001; and ditto Six'per Cents., 1111. Anglo Mediterranean, 12 13k ; British Indian Exten• sion 5/ to 51 ; Falmouth, 9 to 5-16 ; British Indian Submarine, 64. In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 13 to 14; Anglo- Austrian, 18 premium ; Chartered Mercantile, 27 ; Consolidated,l 1 prem ; Imperial Ottoman, 11/ ; London and County, 50U ; London and,Westminster, 59/ 60 ; Lon donVoint Stock, 331; and Union of London, 37i 40. In Aiiscellaneaus Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted 141; Viceroy of Egypt 7 per cent. Mortgage Loan, 721; National Discount Company, 101 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 41. _ _ . In the foreign exchanges the suspension of specie pay ments in France led to a heavy advance in the rates for Paris. The decline in silver caused a diminished demand for bills upon Amsterdam and Hamburg, and the quota tions were in favour of buyers. The directors of the Anglo-American Telegraph Com pany have resolved to pay, on the 15th of September, an interim dividend of 2 per cent. for the quarter ended the 31st ult. _. .._... A telegram from Bombay states that at a meeting yes terday of the shareholders of the New Bank of Bombay the directors! report was adopted, and a dividend declared accordingly. The last suspension of payments by the Bank of France occurred on the 16th of March, 1848, just after the de thronement of Louis Phillipe and the declaration of a Re public. So different was the scale of financial transactions at that period from those of the present day that the amount of 'notes in circulation was only £11,000,000, while the bullion was only £2,400,000. The amount of extra issue required was then small, as the country was not ex posed to war, and there was consequently little or ho dis count upon it ; but a resumption was not effected until the autumn of 1850, when the note circulation stood at about £20,000,000, and a stock of £18,000,000 bullion had been accumulated. Information is not clear with regard to the time to be allowed in France before bills can be protested. According to some it was 30 days, according to others 90 or 1000 days. A similar measure was adopted in the revo lutionary periods of 1830 and 1848, and in both cases when the extended day for payment arrived the several obliga tions were discharged with universal punctuality, It is stated that the service of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company is not likely to be removed from Southampton to Liverpool till the expira tion of about nine months, by which time the navigation of the Suez Canal, with the aid of fresh capital, will doubtless be greatly improved. Meanwhile much of the cotton intended for transmisAion from India by the steam ers of the company is forwarded by other vessels, under a contract between the owners and the company. When the Peninsular and Oriental steamers are despatched direct to Liverpool, via the Canal, this arrangement will of course cease. The effect of the transfer will be very prejudicial to Southampton, the prosperity of which for many years past has greatly depended upon the company, and the passengers carried by its vessels. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Anglo- American Telegraph Company it was resolved to pay on the 15th of September next an interim dividend of 2 per cent. for the quarter ending the 31st of July last. The half-yearly meeting of the Submarine Telegraph Company will be held on the 23d inst. to declare a divi dend. THE "MUTUAL BETTING " MACHINE. John Lyshon and Charles Tollett, Birmingham betting men, have been charged at Wolverhampton with having played at the races in that town with a certain instrument of gaming. The defendants stood on the course on Wednesday with a " Pari-Mutuel," or mechanical betting machine. This is a case, the upper surface of which is perforated with holes covered with glass. By the hide of each hole is a number corresponding with the number of a horse upon the race card. When a person backs a horse for, say hall-a-crown, the owner of the case touches a handle, and in a hole beneath the glass appears a number, showing the number of half-crowns which have up to that time been laid on the particular horse backed. The same movement of the handle shows in another position upon the case the number of bets upon each horse that is being backed for the race about to come off. When the race is over the money laid upon each horse is added to gether, and is divided among those who backed the horse that won—the defendants first deducting 10 per cent. for the use of the case. The defence was that the " instru ment of gaming" mentioned in the Act of Parliament (the 31 and 32 Victoria) was one upon which alone de pended the issue of the bet. But the " mutual betting " machine had nothing to do with the issue of the bet ; it merely recorded the amount for which each horse had been backed, and was in fact nothing more than a bettting book upon a large scale. The magistrates considered it a means of gaming, and sent the defendants to prison for seven days with hard labour ; but a case was granted, and bail accepted. Alfred Bevis and Robert Dunn, Jun., London betting men, were charged with a similar offence, and remanded for a fortnight. THIS MORNING'S NEWS. SPANISH AMNESTY. A general amnesty for all political offenders since the revolution has been published. This has caused popular satisfaction, as it applies to both Republicans and Car lists. The Igualdad announces that the Republican deputies have requested Signor Zorilla to convoke immediately the Cortes, in order to propose the revision of Article 33 of the Constitution, which stipulates the monarchical form of government. The same paper also announces that the Republican Directory will publish a manifesto. THE BANK OF FRANCE. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending on Thursday, shows the following changes as compared with that of last week : INCREASE. Francs. Bills discounted Notes Treasury Balance... • 3,900,000 DECREASE. Cash in hand Private accounts Advances _. 68,333,000 12,750,000 900,000 . CRYSTAL PALACE.—Flotow's opera, "Martha," will be played this afternoon by Mr. Perren's Opera Com pany, for the first time, with Mr. W. Parkinson, Miss Blanche Cole, and Mr. Aynsley Cook in the principal parts. The gardens of Rockhills will be open for pro menade, and the Great War Map will be on view. THE FRENCH FLEET. The steamer Wakefield, which arrived from Hamburg on Friday, on Thursday morning passed eight French irenclads and three despatch boats, steering E.s.E, thirty-five miles from theElhe lightship. It was supposed that they were going to Cuxhaven, where there are one small ironclad and three Prussian gunboats. The Wake field reports a fear that Hamburg will be attsvled, and the navigation of the Elbe stopped. THE TWELTH ON THE MOORS. Large numbers of sportsmen have taken up their quarters in the Highland for the grouse shooting, which commenced on Friday. The crop of birds has not been so large for years. Broods were very early indeed, rather too early, for they have become so wild and strong of wing as to be hardly approachable. The number of birds in nests averaged from eight to twelve. SMZURE OF ARMS. On Friday the police searched the cart of a man named Roche, a carrier, plying between Kinsale and Cork, and found in it eight new Enfield rifles, Tower marked. The man could not account for possession of the arms, and professed not to know they were in the cart. He is de tained, pending the investigation. The rifles were going to Kinsale. SHOCKING SCENE AT A FUNERAL. On Friday afternoon a private of the sth Northampton shire Volunteers was buried with military honours at North ampton. Prior to the cortege starting from the deceased's residence the coffin on being removed out of a window of the third storey of the house, slipped, and decended into the street ; the lid flew open, and the corpse fell out of the coffin, and was of course exposed to the view of a numerous crowd, amidst the shrieks of the women and children. The corpse and coffin were at once taken into the house, and the coffin being repaired the funeral took place. DARING CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD. A charge of conspiracy to 'defraud upon a large scale was tried at the Manchester As4izes on Friday. Thomas Gibson and Arthur Yeomans, as promoters of the North Caradon Mine, were indicted for fraudulently representing a mine of that name to be a great success, when in point of fact there was no such mine in operation. - Another man, named Wadge, was involved in the case ; but the police have not been able to find him. His letters to Gibson, however, were produced, . and they contain minute instructions for carrying on the swindle. In the immediate perils of the work Mr. Wadge does not seem to have cared to participate. His letters are dated SDllle from Paris, others from Ontario, and he informs his friends that he has no intention of visiting England. " You may believe that I have no wish to set foot in an English port." The Atlantic cable was used between the parties when Wadge was in America. A cash book was produced, showing that £2,054 had been received for shares in this non-existent Cornish mine. Not one penny of that money went in mining; and £l,BOO was divided y between them. Ground in Cornwall seems never to hr ye been broken. The case was not ooiaclnded. THE CHOLERA IN THE EAST. The Liverpool Customs officials have been instructed to place in quarantine all vessels arriving from the Black Sea and the Dardanelles, in consequence of the prevalence of epidemic cholera. The same regulations will be ob served at Queenstown and Eakuoutli. Tt boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Univer sities servants was rowed on Friday on the Isis in the form of a time race, when Cambridge was victorious by two seconds, after a splendid race. The foot and mouth disease and pleura-neumonia con tinue to spread to an alarming extent in Staffordshire. During the current week ending on Friday seventy nine cazes of foot and mouth disease, and four of pleuro neznonia have occurred. ITALY. In Thursday's sitting of the Senate the Minister for Foreign Affairs, replying to Senor Scialoja, posi tively declared that the rumours of threatening ar maments or concentration of troops on the Italian fron tier by a friendly Power were totally devoid of foundation. He added, the good relations which we entertain with Austria, and the closer ties between the neutral Powers in the present conflict, are proofs that such rumours are almolutely base. STRATEGY OF THE CAMPAIGN. Half-a-dozen miles to the north-west of Hagenau— over a range of heights about three miles long, with Woerth lying at the foot of their northern slope, Freschweiler on their summit, Reishoffen and Niederbronn on their reverse slope—passes the road from Weissenburg, by Soulz, which falls at Reiehoffen into the route from lia,genau to Bitsche, alongside of which, up the Valley of the Zinzel, runs the railroad. MaeMahon's object was to cover the roads which connect the eastern with the western slopes of the mountains as well as the Strasburg-Bitsche railway fand for that purpose he posted his three sound divisions along the heights over looking Woerth, stretching frem a thick wood above Niederbronn through the hamlet of Neunwiller, in front of Freschweiler and Elsae hausen, to the eastern end of the heights, above the village of Morsbronn—and opposite to the well-marked height of Gonstctt, beyond the Surbach or Bibersbach stream, which runs through Worth in front of the French position. By his own account he had in line of battle his own first, third, and fourth divisions, respectively Tinder Generals Ducrot, Raoult, and De Sartigne ; comprising the 13th, Bth, and Ist battalions of Chasseurs a Pied, the 18th, 9Gth, 45th, 3Gth, 48th, 56th, and s7th Regiments of the Line, the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd Turcos, and the 2nd and 3rd Zouaves. Behind his centre, between Freschweiler and Elashausen stood the ~ -enutins of Aber Donny's division—the second —consisting 4 the 16th battalion of Chasseurs, the 50th, 74th, and of the Line, and the Ist Zouaves; sadly thinned, .adeed, by the losses and captures of Weissen- Jurg. His right wing, on the veege of the, heights just above the skirts of the great Haguenan forest, was supported by General Dumesnil's division of the Seventh Corps, which had joined him eaily on the preceding day, while the Bth and 9th v_ila:;:,,ierv, under General Michel, also supported the and a brigade of light cavalry—the 3rd Hussars 11th Lancers—with a slivision of Cuirassiers appa t• .at! V brwrou e(I aim') it in the 7th Chips d'Arinde, 'were hi I,lr of the centre, between Fresehweiler and .aeishoif en. BY this aquaggatippA it 19141,41122kihdi THE POSITION AT METZ. Considering the great numerical superiority o the Prussians, the Times has no hope that the French army at Metz can achieve more than a partial success in a pitched battle before the walls of that fortress. The truth with respect to her army, in fact, shines through the hundred artifices resorted to in order to conceal it. The spirit of the troops is admirable, we are told, yet a retreat to Chalons would he resolved upon if it could only be attempted with safety. The disorder in the Commissariat has ceased ; provisions arrive, we are told, in profusion, yet officers and men are put upon short rations. Every day that passes renders the position of the French at Metz less tenable ; yet diminishes their hope of extricating themselves from it. Count Pali kao talks glibly of a " revenge ;" but the Emperor and Marshal Bazaine at Metz must think first of safety. If the Asmy of the Rhine can neither fight nor retire— , and this we begin to believe is the truth of the matter— the levy en masse decreed by the Chamber, the arming cf the National Guard, and any amount of loans and paper currency, are not likely to effect much towards improv ing the untoward position of affairs. THE ARMY. The Standard will not accept the assurances which have been published respecting the condition of the army. It is absurd to tell us that the men we have are in a more efficient condition than before—that the cadres of our re giments are all existing, and that we have simply to fill them up to bring our army to the proper strength. By the same rule we should _be justified in dis missing every man not absolutely necessary to make up a cadre, retaining only the colonel, the officers, and non-commissioned officers of each regiment. But at present it is men that we want, and not skeletons of regi ments. We can always increase the number of cadres ; we cannot always obtain when we want them trained and efficient soldiers. First collect your regiments at home, and then reduce them to the smallest possible quantity—this is the patent Ministerial plan for an efficient and economical national armament. For such a purely skeleton army, whose power is in the number, not of men, but of cadres, Mr. Cardwell should be a very competent Minister. But for a working, suffi cient national army—for an army fit to undertake the duty of protecting the national interests, and maintaining the national honour—for an army which shall be a proper expression of the political and material greatness of Eng land, Mr. Cardwell, with his store of old precedents and feeble assurances, with his references to Waterloo, and his imaginary breech-loaders, is about as proper a repre sentative as Mr. Ayrton is of British art, or Mr. Bright of British statesmanship. THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. The Telegraph finds that the new French Cabinet is not a brilliant one. It does not look like a Cabinet that can save France in this hour of supreme need. What the country required was a Ministry who should represent the whole nati >rt. From every part of the Empire came the cry that the strife of party must be hushed until the invader should be driven over the frontier, and the disasters of Woerth and Forbach be avenged. A feeling of shame shot through France on Tuesday when it heard that the Chamber of Deputies had become a scene of riot, in which the Cabinet was invited to shoot the leaders of the Left through the head, and fists were shaken in the faces of the Ministers. Nevertheless circumstances did not permit the absolute extinction of party quarrels. Had the country been thus at one, a Ministry might have been chosen without regard to party opinions, repre senting the nation in the broadest term. The mem bers of such a Government would have been the ablest men in the Senate and the Corps Legis latif—M. Rouher and M. de Forcade la Roquette, M. Thiers and Count Daru, M. Buffet and M. Picard, M. Jules Favre and M. Gambetta. So constituted the Ministers would have represented Imperialism, Orleanism, and Republicanism. But whether it would have been as serviceable to the dynasty is open to doubt ; and hence, perhaps, the Empress had no choice. She could not have accepted the aid of Jules Favre after he had proposed that the Emperor should abdicate ; nor could she have invited the counsels of M. Thiers, if it be true that he has publicly pronounced the Empire to be impossible, and has proclaimed the creation of a Republic to be inevitable. Hence, at a moment of tremendous peril, the Empress Regent may have been fored to place her sole trust in the sworn allies of her husband's dynasty. History will record the result. THE LULL IN THE STORM. The Daily News says it is to be borne in mind that under the circumstances in which the Germans were summoned to war, receiving a declaration of hostilities which they could not have looked for, and being called to defend their own territory, they could not reasonably be expected to be prepared at once to follow up the repulse of their enemy by pursuit. A week ago we all thought it very much that they should keep the French at bay, and the blow at Weissenburg was thought to be somewhat auda cious. It is true that travellers have told us of the ad mirable regularity with which all the movements of the war were conducted in Prussia ; but now the service subsidiary to an army, those which concern its transport and provisioning, have to adapt themselves to a new state of things. The Germans have no longer the advantage of their own railway system, and their con tracts and requisitions have to be made. Whether the first and second armies have entered France in their full strength is uncertain ; but improbable. Supposing each of them, however, to have 40,000 men less than its complement, and, the army of the Lower. Rhine to be in the same situation, would give King Wil liam the command of an army of 300,000 men. The Siècle says that Marshal Bazaine has not more than 130,000 men under him at Metz. The News does not see how he could have so many, unless Cam-obert has heavily reinforced him from Nancy. A very few days, however, perhaps hours, must practi cally decide the French commander's resolution. Perhaps it is already in execution ; perhaps the next telegram will tell us that Marshal Bazame has taken up a new strate gical position on the Meuse, which promises great advan tages to France, and will hasten the revenge which Count Palikao has assured the Corps I,6gislatis " near and certain." FRENCH BLUNDERING. When the Times looks at the actual condition of France, and compares it with the opening of the war, it is fairly bewildered at the contrast between promise and per formance. It may be urged that the Emperor himself was more modest in his anticipations than his courtiers and followers, and this is true, but the Emperor spoke only of obstacles that might retard, but could never arrest, still less reverse, the course of ad vancing victory. " The war we are now commencing," he told his soldiers, " will be long and severe," but what reason did he suggest for this grave apprehension ? The war was to be long because it would be fought in a part of Germany " teeming with fortresses and obsta cles," although it would pe found that nothing was too difficult for soldiers tried in the four quarters of the globe. The Emperor never doubted, any more than the most confident flaneur on the Boulevards, that before a fortnight had passed he would be investing Mayence, with the Bavarian Palatinate subdued behind him. The army was promised the sight of the glorious memorials of their fathers, as they advanced beyond the frontiers of France into the enemy's country. But it is plain that there are obstacles the courage of the French army, great as it is, cannot overcome. Without administration, and without generalship, mere courage can avail nothing. Friend and foe alike agree in praising the devotion of the French soldiery; they are ready for any effort and will encounter any difficulties, but friend and fOe also agree in what is, in fact, the necessary com plement of their first declaration, that the leadership of the French army in the present campaign has been such as to destroy all the effect the dash of the troops should have produced. A single illustration may show how bad is the administration of the French army, and, unfor tunately, nothing is wanted to prove the bad strategy of its leaders. It is announced from Metz that the supplies are running short ; that, in spite of every exertion, there is an insufficiency, and a reduction has been made in the rations of officers and men. To be in Metz on the defensive is in itself a portent, but to be in Mets with the whole reserves of France in the rear, and not to have enough to serve out the regular rations to the army, denotes a mismanagement no hypothesis can explain. LORD CLA.RENDON'S WILL. The will of the Right Hon. George William Frederick Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.8., P.C., late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was proved in Lon don by his eldest surviving son, the Right Hon. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and his sons -in -I.tw, the Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley, M.P., and Baron Skelmersdale, the joint acting executors. 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