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SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M. LATEST INTELLIGENC E. THE WAR. AN ITALIAN REPUBLIC PRO- CLAIMED AT NICE. PRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES. INTERVENTION DECLINED. THE INTERVENTION OF M. TRIERS. ITALIAN PROCLAMATION TO THE ROMANS. AN ITALIAN REPUBLIC PRO- CLAIMED AT NICE. The Times' Berlin correspondent telegraphs the following :—" A rebellion has broken out at Nice and Mentone. The French authorities have been deposed, and the political p r i so n ers r ele ase d. Italian Republic was proclaimed. The Italian ultimatum by the Pope con tained these terms:—' The Pope to retain the sove reignty over the Leonine portion of Rome, and the ec clesiastical institutions of all Rome. The income of the Pope, the Cardinals, and all the Papal officers and officials to continue uncurtailed, The Papal debt to be guaranteed. Envoys to the Pope a nd Cardinals to retain their present immunities, even if not residing in the Leonine city. All nations to be freely admitted to the Leonine city. The Catholic clergy in all Italy to be freed from Government supervision. The Italian military, mu nicipal, and entail laws to- be modified as regards 'tome." , According to a telegram published by the Daily NHS, the proposals made by Count San Martino to the Pope were almost identical with those which appeared acceptable to Rome in 1861 and later. The reasons now assigned for the rejection of these renewed proposals would equally effect all Constitu t4onal Governments as well as Italy. THE CAPITULATION OF SEDAN. The Times correspondent, in a telegram from Berlin, says :—" Count Bismarck has drawn up a S te port to the King respecting the capitulation of Se dan. In it he says that the Emperor Napoleon, in hi s interview with himself, requested that the entire Belgi um. army might be permitted to withdraw to Napoleon also complained that pub li c opinion h ad forced this war upon him very much against his will. The conduct of all the French Generals formost dignified, and they .thanked the King 'Or the manner in which he evinced his sense of the valour displayed by the French army in releasing their : :) Seers on parole. Another son of General Roon, t he Minister of War, has died of his wounds. , S ome Socialists at Brunswick have issued an address, extolling the French Republican Govern- Inca and making inviduous remarks on German mo narchial institutions. They were immediately arrested 4 .r.,, 44 sent to the f o rtress of Loetze n , on the Russian i i.c3n tier. All the papers demand btringent reprisals ? r the treachery at Laon. General Wimpffen ar- Il ved at Stuttgardt on the 9th of September. Seve al Prussian regiments are now armed with Chasse -13(48 taken at Sedan. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] THE PRUSSIAN APPROACII. PARIS, SEPT. 13. General Trochu held a grand review t6-day. The Minister of the Interior publishes the follow ing war items : " The bridge at Creil, on the Oise, was blown Ill) Yesterday evening, and all the other bridges will 811ccessively suffer the same fate. "The Uhlans, who were yesterday at Nogent anr-Seine, announced that they would return to-day and bombard the town should the bridge at Nogent be blow n up. " 8,000 Prussians, most of them pioneers, are at Present at Chalons. Commnnication still exists 'With Troyes. "The White Curiassiers are at Chauny, and in the neighbourhood, awaiting the arrival of the army to attack Soissons and La Fere. " There are 2,500 Bavarians at Vaucouleurs, and 2 )000 at Void." TOURS, SEPT. 13. , M. Cremieux, the Minister of Justice, has ad dressed a proclamation to France, in which he 13a Y 8 that, as the ene m y i s marc hi ng on P ar i s, th e Government of the National Defence, pre eeeupied by the task of saving the capital, ba s charged him to un d e rtak e th e adminis tration of the non-invaded departments with the aid of a delegate from each Ministry. In conse nellee) M. Cremieux appeals to the patriotism of he population to raise against the foreign invader . ) . 111111 eonquerable barrier and he concludes by in -04,1ng the memory of 1792 to expel from the Re- A2liblican soil an enemy whom an odious and in -I:aPable Government has permitted to invade it. _ THE EXPLOSION AT LAON. PARIS, SEPT. 13. li- telegr am f rom S a i n t Q uen ti n s t a t es th a t th e tta lu le of the catastrophe at Laon is still unknown. ePrefect has been made prisoner, and has the taken bef o re G e n e ral Vo n M o ltke at Craonne. e ""landed French General is kept guarded at the RE POPE AND THE KING OF ITALY. ROME, SEPT. 12. Th t - e official Giornale di Boma publishes an extract to It" the letter addressed by King Victor Emmanuel is i tile. Pope, and appends the following remark : de t i would be useless to add that the Pope has e ' ar ed against all the propositions of King Victor Emanuel." ROME, SEPT. 13. b T he Pee, who was to have gone to Malta on -1. ," an English vessel, decided yesterday to remain 4 th'e Vatican. His Floiiness has called together I ,7enThers o f the Diplomatic Body, in order to It a C) ,, tl:ne ` Ea ll t before them against the entry of the "troops, who are now within a few miles of FLORENCE SEPT. 12. 8413 711° °Pinione o. this evening says that a crowd le arning in th e s t ree t s of Rome on Sunday on h i i ling the n ews o f th e entry of the Italian troops ,_r Pcntificial territory. The police did not 4terf ere. Si bpi, ti o „ . (3 r Lanza rec e ived this morning a deputa hi `-` Qom the Roman refugees in Florence requesting th: to convey to the King tri e expression of g r atitude for the deliverance of the Roman ilts3vinces. THE FRENCH FLEET. 'th e HAMBURG, SEPT. 13. • .F rench m natitents pf Heligoland report the last ship to have left Heligoland on the llth nily. IHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 187( inst. The German fleet froni Jande was off Heligo land on the afternoon of the same day. The ship Nicholas, which bad been captured by the French, has stranded on a sandbank. The crew, including the French marines who were in possession, were saved. The captured ship Jo hannes is also stranded, and both vessels will pro bably become wrecks. FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES. PARIS, SEPT. 13: The Electeur Letre says that Mr. Washburne de manded an authorisatien from his Government to intervene semi-officially between the belligerents, to which the American Government replied, that in view of the disposition of Prussia all steps in that connection were useless, as Count von Bismarck declined at the present moment all intervention. PARIS, SEPT. 13. At the demonstration made before the American Legation, last night, Mr. Washburne is stated to have said :—" Like you 1 believe that the two great Republics ought to remain united before monarchical Europe. Under the actual circumstances you have specially gained the support of the United States, but in consequence of our re lations with other Powers and of the great distance between us, my personal opinion is that you must reckon more upon moral than active support." The speecb was greeted with loud cheers. BERLIN, SEPT. 13 On reliable authority it is stated that the news, originally published in a Prague newspaper of the American Minister having' made proposals relative to, the intervention of the Washington Government, is declared to be without foundation. Equally avoid of truth is the rumour that the United States had offered their good offices. nst. to the 6th Cavalry Division. After th e conclusion of the _capitulation the 4th Company of the 4th Rifle Battalion occupied the citadel. As the last man of the Mobile Guards left the citadel, ,the enemy, in contravention of the capitulation, blew up the powder magazine, causing great destruc tion both in the town and fortress. Duke William of Mecklenburg Schwerin was bruised, and 95 riflemen and 300 Mobile Guards were either killed or wounded." • THE GERMANS AND THE RE PUBLIC. The delegates of the German sections of the International have published a manifesto congratu lating the French on the Republic. This great event, they say, demands a new attitude from Germany, who ought to cease hostilities. The criminal author of the war should be given up to the justice of the Republic. The German workmen protest against the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, and greet " the Social Universal Re public." The two official organs of Berlin consider the change of Government in France will have no effect on the military situation. Bismark's organ is silent. The German Press is greatly excited against Belgium which it accuses of showing too much sympathy to the wound d and captive French. he Belgian journals seem annoyed by these attacks, and refute the charges brought against them. AFFAIRS IN ROME. (PROM OUR CLWN CORRESPONDENT.) '• ROME, SEPTEMBER 8. The alarm of yesterday continued till about four o'clock in the afternoon, when dispatches from M. de Charette were received at the War Office, stating that he had not been attacked, and orders were at once given to the Zouaves to remain till further notice at Viterbo. The Pincio, the Vatican, and the railway stations were all strongly fortified, and every moment we expected to hear that the order to march had been given ; the chap lains, the ambulance volunteers, and the surgeons had received-notice to be ready, and the officers had hastily made their preparations for action, when the counter order arrived. In the course of the day telegrams of a reassuring nature were received at the Vatican from General Trochu, Jules Favre, and Marshal Palikao, who takes command of the Army of Legion ; and the Florence train arriving in the evening from Corence reported the march of the Italian troops as arrested for the moment. It is, however, reported this morning that bands of Garilaaldians are beginning to appear upon the frontier, and that this means may be used as an extreme one for provoking the action of the regular troops, especially as Geneials Bixio and Caseuz, being ex-Garibaldian generals, it would be difficult for them not to support their old comrades. The Count of Caserta has left Rome to return to Ger many. He has left his youngest brother here, and is going to bring back his wife, by the advice of the Pope, with whom he had a long interview before leaving, and in which he is said to have conveyed to his Holiness the assurance that Prussia would protect his rights and those of the dispossessed Princes after the war. The King of Naples is in the Prussian camp, or was so the other day. He returns in November to the Farnese Palace. Very serious accounts of the Emperor Napoleon's health have been received at the Palazzo Bonaparte. I have just seen a letter from one of the French prisoners at Zonigsberg. He says that he and his fellow officers are treated with the greatest kindness and courtesy by the authorities and the population. At the Prussian Em bassy last night it was stated that the Crown Prince had telegraphed to his mother that the siege of Paris was not expected to last above six days, and I have just read a letter from a resident frieni of my own there who con siders a long defence impossible on account of the enor mous extent of ground to be defended. M. de Le Ferronays (late of the Legion of Antibes), and nephew of the Hon. Mrs. Craven, is said to be among the dead of the 18th August. He was married last year to a daughter of the Duc des Ceers, a young and most beautiful woman, and was recalled recently from the Pope's service to serve in his old regiment in France. MISSION OF M. TRIERS. ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 12. The Journal de St Petersbourg, in an article on the mission of M. Thiers, says : "It is to be hoped that at the conclusion of his mission M. Thiers will be able to inculcate into France convictions as to what solution will be most favourable to her. To effect this it will be necessary for M. Thiers to relinquish many of his own tendencies and convictions. This would be a great example to France, where the influence of M. Thiers, as this mission proves, is now greater than ever. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA • DEMANDING PEACE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Paris Journal says the Czar has sent this letter to the King of Prussia : "My dear uncle, I desire peace. Three hundred thousand men of my army wait your reply on the banks of the, Vistula." Some Russians, about ' o leave Paris for fear of the siege, have remained in consequence. The Gaulois states that, in reply to England's demand for an armistice, Bismarck said that he hoped to see it granted by his sovereign. Garibaldi has been informed that his presence in France would be inopportune. The last train for Lyons left Paris yesterday afternoon. To-day a grand review of the National Guard will take place by the President of the Government of the National Defence. The review will be hold on the Boulevards by the Place de Bastille. 20,000 PRUSSIAN TROOPS AT PROVINS. PARIS, SEPT. 13. The following official war news is published to day : Uhlans arrived at Provins (Department et Marne) at noon yesterday, and announced that 20,000 Prussian troops would reach there to-day. Prussian troops have arrived at Carlefont (De partment Oise.) Uhlans are reported at Tracy and Laval. LORD LYONSREFUSINGTO QUIT PARIS. PARIS, SEPT. 13. The Official Journal, of to-day, contains a decree declaring that the town of Toul has deserved well of the country. • Another decree delegates to M. Cremieux, Minister of Justice, the duty of representing the Government at Tours. Baron de Malaret, the French ambassador at Florence, is recalled, and M. Kenard, formerly Minister, is entrusted with an extraordinary mission to the King of Italy. The Government has declared that all willing men, without exception, engaged in Foreign Service shall be ordered to return to France immediately. The Government of Portugal have recognised the Republic. _ Yesterday M. Thiers left for London, and M. Cremieux for Tours. Lord Lyons, Chevalier Nigra, and Senor Olozaga have declared that they will not leave Paris. The steamer Ganges sailed from Marseilles yesterday for Civita Vecchia, to bring home the Pontifical Zouaves and other soldiers in the service of the Pope. A fresh demonstration in honour of the American Legation took place in Paris last night. A great demonstration, headed by M. Esquiros, has also been made before the American Consulate at Marseilles. ITALIAN PROCLAMATION TO THE ROMANS. FLORENCE, SEPT. 12 (Evening). The brigade Savona, passing through Papal territory, met with an enthusiastic reception at Aprano. General Bixio's camp was last night at Monte fiascone, the garrison of the place having with drawn without striking a blow. Italian troops occupy the town of Bagnorea, where 20 Zouaves and officers surrendered. The Italian troops are marching forward. The Papal troops have cut the railway between Ceccano and Frosinone. FLORENCE, SEPT, 12 (Evening). General Cadorna has issued a proclamation, addressed to the Romans, assuring them that he does not bring war, but peace and order, and will leave the administration to them. He says . " The independence of the Holy See will not be violated." At Messina, Catania, and all other towns, en thusiastic demonstrations have taken place, the people shouting everywhere, " Viva it Re." The Commander of the native Papal forces has been arrested because he refused to fight. Several other communes arc taking part in the insurrection THE EXPLOSION AT LAON. (GERMAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.) RHETMS, SEPT. 13. The following is the official report of the explosion at Laon " The town of Laon surrendered on the 9th (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (By Cable.) NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 12. The Inman royal mail steamer City of Brooklyn ar rived here at midnight on Sunday. Gold closed at 1133 ; the highest quotation during the day was 1131 ; the lowest 113 a. Ster ling exchange on London, 109 a ; United States Five-twenty Bonds, 1882, 1124 ; ditto, 1885, 111 t; ditto, 1867,1108 ; ditto, Ten-Forty Bonds, 106 a ; Illinois shares, 1351; Erie, 23}. Cotton : Middling Upland, 193. Petro leum : Standard, white, 26 ; flour, extra state, 5 dols. 10e. to 5 dols. 30c. The Inman steamer Etna arrived here to-day. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 13. The Republicans have carried the State of Maine by a reduced majority, electing Mr. Perham as Governor, and all the five members for Congress. They have also carried the Wyoming terrifory, electing a Congressional delegate. The United States press now almost unanimously express sympathy with the French Republic. BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 12. The Cunard steamer Tripoli arrived here at three a.m. to-day. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE IMPERIAL VISITORS TO HASTINGS. The Empress and the Prince Imperial are still at the Marine Hotel, Hastings. Twenty-three horses, two car riages, and the livery servant belonging to the Imperial household arrived by special train yesterday. The Prince has found objects of special interest among the fishing boats and the fishery. Rumours of the Empress having taken a mansion in the locality are absolutely un true. It is not yet settled how long the Imperial family will remain in the neighbourhood. LATER. We learn on good authority that arrangements are being made at the Imperial Hotel, Torquay, for the tem porary reception of the Empress Eugenie, and the splendid villa in Torre Abbey Park has been engaged for her, and is being fitted up for the purpose. It is stated that the selection of Torquay as a place of residence is mainly due to its comparative proximity to Cherbourg, the conveni ence of which will be experienced by such influential Imperialists as may desire to visit the ex-Empress. FAT4L RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WIGAN. At a quarter to twelve yesterday morning the express from Liverpool to Manchester on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway due at Wigan at 11.40 ran off the rails in the centre of the up-Holland tunnel, four miles from Wigan. The cause of the accident is not known ; but it is believed that a rail was out of its place. Two persons were killed, neither of whom have yet been identified. One had a ticket for Rochdale, the other for Oldham. A ship's captain named Jackson and an artisan from Liverpool are also seriously hurt. The traffic was stopped for some time, and seriously im peded for several hours. The engine was thrown against the side of the tunnel, so as to do much damage to it. The dead bodies were found beneath the first carriage --a third class. LORD SANDON, M.P., ON GENERAL POLITICS. Lord Sandon delivered a speech yesterday at the half yearly meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. He criticised the Government for introducing their Indian Budget so late in the session, and demanded that next year a full and fair discussion on the budget should be arranged to take place early. His lordship also dwelt upon the necessity of improvements in the Con sular service. The army was just now occupying attention, and there was a predisposition to panic on its inefficiencies every now and again. H e thought it important that a speedy, and com plete re-organisation of the army, with a view to the pre vention of periodical panics, should take place. Per sonally he rather leant towards the adoption of a system exacting more personal service from the men of the coun try of all ranks. The Chamber passed a resolution re commending an addition to the resolutions of the Con gress of Paris, exempting from seizure the private pro perty of subjects and citizens of a belligerent. PROPOSED FENIAN ATTACK UPON A BANK. Amongst the papers found in the apartments of Adams, the Fenian, where a large seizure of arms were made on Friday, was a plan for surprising the local branch of the Bank of Ireland after business hours, and carrying away the cash. Men were to have been stationed about the bank, and shortly after three o'clock, when the customers and most of the officials had left, an armed party were to enter and over power the remaining clerks, seize the specie in the bank and vaults, and decamp. All the arrangements were most carefully planned. The bank has since been closely watched by the police. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WIGAN. The foreman of the platelayers employed in Upholland tunnel has been taken into custody charged with causing the death of the two persons in the accident yesterday morning. The line is not yet cleared. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. The fortieth annual meeting of the British Association commences at Liverpool to-day, when Professor Stokes will vacate the presidential chair in favour of Professor Huxley, whose inaugural address is anticipated with great interest. Preparations for the comfort and con venience of the numerous visitors have been devised on a liberal scale by the authorities and inhabitants of this hospitable town. The arrangements, too, for the business portion of the proceedings have been carefully organised. Though the sale of members' and associates' tickets has been brisk, it is not thought that the forthcoming gathering will be a very large one. The general committee meets to-morrow at one, for the election of officers and other routine business. The President's address will be delivered in the evening in the Philhar monic Hall. Several soirdes will be held during the meet ing, and there will also be various excursions. On Mon day the next place to be visited by the Association will be decided upon. Professor Huxley and many of the more distinguished members are already arrived, and an in teresting ceremony takes place to-morrow afternoon, namely, the unveiling of a statue of the Premier, which has been placed in St. George's Hall. The Mayor will perform the ceremony, and a large gathering of distin guished visitors is expected. MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. At Shawell, near Lutterworth, on Monday afternoon, a woman, named Maria Ann Harrison. took her daughter of the same name, aged 10 months, in her arms, and. leaving her house, went to a pond a short distance from it, into which she jumped with her cheld. The mother was rescued, but the child was drowned. The murderess is believed to be insane. ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN PARIS. As the Prussians draw nearer—and this morning they are said to be at Lagny, only six leagues off—the anxiety becomes more intense to know whether Europe can and will do anything to procure peace and avert from Paris the horrors of war. No an swer has yet been received to the communication transmitted through our Government to the Prus sian Head-Quarters, but it is considered that not much time has yet been lost, and a reply is reckoned on for to-morrow. There is an earnest desire, and some little hope, that it may prove such as may admit of negotiations and an armistice. Give up territory this Government dares not and cannot do, but short of that it' will be found very ductile. Money, the Baltic fleet, even a colony—should Prussia, the naval Power of the future, covet a West Indian station —may be granted, and also, I believe, Metz and Strasburg would be razed, could that humiliating condi tion not be avoided. The Government, perhaps, doubt whether it can depend upon an energetic resistance to the invader in the provinces —whether they will make all the sacrifices and efforts necessary to carry on the war after the capital should have fallen ; and, if not, of what avail to 'expose Paris to the horrors of a siege ? The garricon may be resolute enough ; the newly arrived pro vincial Gardes Mobile are stout fellows, and are working hard to learn how to handle the chassepots with which they are being rapidly supplied ; but will the best riflemen be of avail against an enemy whose artillery carries three or four miles. It has been estimated by competent judges that the large Krupp guns will send their projectiles from the heights of Meudon to the Arch of Triumph. It remains to be seen what resistance the detached forts can offer, and how far they can protect the city from bombardment. There are reports of very animated discussions, not to say dissensions, in the Council of Government ; but their origin is unknown. M. Favre has announced change of decision as regards leaving Paris, which it had been settled he should do. He remains here instead of going to Tours, so that it now seems as if no Minister were going there, unless, !indeed, be be the Minister of War, who can hardly direct levies and organization if besieged in Paris. Secretaries or delegates of the Government will go to Tours. These changes seem to have had some effect upon the plans of the Diplomatic Body, which was expected to accompany M. Favre, but which now prolongs its stay here, and will probably do so until after the place has been summoned. Lord Lyons to-day sends away the married secretaries be longing to his embassy, but remains himself with the others, proposing to leave only on the eve of fire being opened upon Paris. The other foreign Ambassadors and Ministers are likely to do the same. They will doubtless have no difficulty in getting a passage through the Prussian lines. Private persons who do not leave to-day may very probably find it difficult to go,. away at all. —Times Paris Correspondent. The Paris correspondent of the Telegraph, in a letter dated Monday, says :—" The edict has come at last. At five o'clock this sfternoen we read our fate. Hundreds now are standing before kiosk, and pillar, and blank wall, reading the clear, clean print which pro nounces Paris a beleaguered city. They cannot believe it. They read and turn, and come back again to look. There is indeed matter for reflection in these few simple words which I quote Seeing that the enemy may be momentarily expected under the walls of Paris, the Committee of Defence give notice that, on the morning of the 15th inst.'—Thursday next, mind you—' at six o'clock, the gates will be closed, and neither ingress nor egress permitted to any person without the written authority of the Home-office.' The shops are closed almost at nightfall. The jewellers expose only a long row of empty cases, from the shape of which you may guess what eccentric treasures had reposed there in happier times. In the Palais Royal shutters are up over half the windows, and a half of what remains show nothing but empty shelves. The streets are like a poppy field, topped with scarlet kepis, the roads bristle with long line of bayonets. To-morrow General Trochu is to hold a great review of the garrison of Paris. Never in the Emperor's palmiest days was such a mass assembled as will answer to his summons—and never since 1722 have such uninformed battalions filed past the standard. To-day General Ripley, the defender of Charleston in the great American war, has arrived here. He travelled, so they say, by the last train that may reach us from Calais for many a day. To-morrow General Ripley will have an interview with the Committee of Defence, to whom he will explain his views and the resuit of his experience at Charleston. general Sheridan may yet have the opportunity of studying the tactics of a former foe, from whom the chances of war kept him apart in the great con test. Of course this is a momentous time for inventors. The most amazing and incredible machines are offered to the Government every day. Since General Trochu and his officers naturally wish to test the proffered boon be fore accepting it, there is a terrible outcry amongst the Archimedes of the period. We have not any news, ex cepting those meagre items which have been already telegraphed to you. The enemy is closing round upon us. It is an easy walk from the spot where lam writing to his outposts. The moon which shines so brightly through my window is silvering his camp. It cannot be more still than the city spread beneath me. There is no more singing in Paris ; even the Marseillaise is hushed to-day. From time to time, when passing through the sunny streets, I have heard it raised by some shrill, childish voice, ignorant of the meaning of its song. But the long files of the Mobiles pass by in silence, keeping time only to the tattle of an ill-beat drum. None hail them on their passage. The ' shadow of a dreadful fate hangs over us. Heavy thoughts are in all men's minds ; and Paris is dumb, grave, and stern." Mn. Romucx.--Mr. Roebuck has just success fully undergone an operation which it is hoped may result in the restoration of his sight, which has for some time been failing him.—Sheffield Telegraph. A. Colchester correspondent telegraphs that Mr. John Gurdon Rebow, senior member for Colchester, has for the last few days been dangerously ill at his country seat, Wivenhoe-park, near Colchester, but last evening his medical attendants were enabled to say that the worst symptoms had abated, and hopes are expressed that the hon. gentleman will recover. M. Wasseige, representative for Namur, has been nominated Minister of Public Works. He is one of the leaders of the clerical party. The Ministry is now complete. ARRIVAL OF M. TRIERS IN LONDON. M. Thiers reached Charing-cross at a quarter past six yesterday morning. The hon. gentleman was accompanied by five ladies. The transport of the passengers and luggage required four cabs, which were driven in the first instance to Claridge's Hotel, where accommodation was not to be obtained. One or two other hotels were subsequently tried with no better success, and eventually M. Thiers drovo to the French Embassy. At one o'clock M. Thiers was visited at the embassy by Earl Granville, and at a later hour the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone also made a call. TIIE EDUCATION BILL. A pastoral from the Right Rev. Dr. Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool; was read in the Roman Catholic churches under his jurisdiction en Sunday, in which, referring to the new Education Act, he says : "The withdrawal of the children in the large towns from the streets and the gutter cannot fail to be for their interests, while the cleanliness, order, punctuality, and discipline enforced in the school must greatly improve them; but we are not sanguine that vine will be diminished or sobriety increased. A knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic may smarten a lad for business, and make a girl more companionable at home, but it will not do much towards bettering their morals or saving them from the degradation of vice. However, the bill has become law, and will as time advances be made more and more stringent, is accordance with those liberal notions that, ignoring family ties and parental rights, make a man the slave of the • State, and, by centralising government, deprive Eng lishmen of those traditional privileges which have made them a nation of freemen. Despotism does not cease to be despotism because it is exercised by a Liberal 'Government. should not be so, but history teaches us that it is so. This bill places the Catholics of England in a position of peculiar hardship, and involves us in difficulties of which our fellow-citizens have little or no share. Wherever Catholics have no schools at all, or the accommodation provided is inadequate to their wants, then the bill provides for the constitution of school boards, which shall be empowered to levy rates, and to enforce the attendance of children be tween the ages of five and thirteen years, uo matter to what religious denomination they may. belong. Although it is provided that no religious cate chism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught in the school, yet the Protestant version of the Sacred Scriptures may be read and commented upon by the teacher, be he Jew or Gentile, believer or unbeliever ; and an adroit teacher will know how to make his words reach the ears of Catholic children, even though they are not forced to form part of his class. Everyone who recognises in the Bible the inspired one of God must regret the degradation and pro fanation to which it will be exposed by being used as a class book. In the hands of thoughtless children it cannot escape the common fate that awaits all used-up school books. Mahommedans reverently put aside every scrap of paper bearing the name of God ; but Parliamentary Christians are willing to expose it to the sorriest end, pro vided they can force it on an unwilling people." BANKRUPTS. In London. Bingley, Peregrine Taylor, Charing-cross Hotel, Strand, Oct. 29, at 11. Brady, George, Roden Lodge, Barking, Essex, solicitor, Sept. 26, at 11k. Cheyne, John, late of Watergate-street, Chester, wine merchant, Sept. 29, at 111. Donald, William, Poultry, City, restaurant keeper, Sept. 29, at 12. Guild, William, and Chapman, Edward, Finsbury-circus, City, merchants, Sept. 26, at 12. PASSENGER SHIPS.—In the new Act on Passenger Ships, permission is given to the Secretary of State to direct that naval and military stores may be carried in passenger ships for the public service. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders exhibitors, and others, on the 13th instant, was 4,011. The Charing Cross Theatre will shortly re-open under the management of Mr. Charles H. Ross, and among the novelties to be produced is what he calls " A Realism," in three acts, by the author of " Clam ;" and "A Mock Tragedy," with fantastic dresses and live scenery, of which the action takes place 'in Carthage, a thousand years ago, and partly in King William-street, Charing Cross, the day after to-morrow. BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE METROPOLIS.- We understand that a requisition is in course of signature inviting Mr. Charles Reed, M.P. for Hackney, to offer himself as a candidate for the chairmanship of the Board for the Metropolitan District, to be elected in November next. The cattle plague has made its appearance at Soeterwoude, a village in the neighbourhood of Leyden, the centre of the Dutch cattle district. The Government ha sat once imposed restrictions on the importation of cattle from Germany, and all the beasts destined for England are oarefully inspected before being shipped. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AT HASTINGS.—A pr vate letter from a Scotch lady at Hastings says : —"ln harmony with the fallen fortunes of the poor little Prince, there has been almost an uninterrupted series of storms ever since his arrival here, so that I suppose he has been confined much within doors. On Thursday morning, however, the sun broke forth, and I set out to walk to wards the market. A crowd around the door of the Marine Hotel reminded me of the foreign inmate, and I mingled with the mob just long enough to gain the ear of a solitary policeman who was vainly dndeavouring to keep clear the egress from the house, I asked him why he did not disperse these idle unfeeling gazers. He said he had no power to do so. I darted into the bank close by, hoping to see Mr. --, and to plead for the inter ference of his brother the Mayor. But Mr. was in Scotland, and, full of virtuous indignation, I returned home. In the afternoon another gleam of fine weather once more allowed pedestrians to go out. Though intently occupied in reading a newspaper, a dark shadow made me look up, again to behold a stream of persons, consisting of rabble, children, ladies with parasols, and some men, the last from time to time making bows. We observed the small boy, accompanied by two gentlemen, and observed him take off his hat almost down to the ground. I only identified the laddy's ' back, and it is not an erect one. He stoops, most likely, from delicacy of health. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE WAR.—Last evening a meeting of " gen tl emen an d wor ki ng men friendly to the cause of liberty and peace," was held at the Arundel Hall, Arundel-street, Strand, for the purpose, as the circular convening it stated, of congratulating the French people on the establishment of their Republic, and of requesting the English Government to use its friendly influence to put a stop to hostilities. The meeting was but sparsely attended. The chair was taken by Mr. R. M. Latham, of the Labour Representation League, whose name was to the circular. The first resolution was moved by Mr. G. Howell. It con gratulated the French people on the establishment of a Republic, and called on the English Govern ment officially to recognise it. Mr. George Potter, in seconding it, claimed for the people the right to deter mine their own form of government. He avowed himself a Republican, and said when the time came for the estab lishment of a republic here it would be established. Mr. Lynn pointed out that as yet there was not a Republic, but only a Provisional Government in France. The reso lution was carried. The next resolution, which was moved by Mr. Applegarth, calling on the English Government to exert itself to stay hostilities, and depre cating the dismemberment of France, was provocative of much discussion. Dr. Congreve asked if it meant peace or war, and declared that only war would bring " the drunken German statesmen " to reason. Most of the speakers, including Mr. Baxter Langley, however, strongly deprecated war ; and eventually a division took place on an amendment by Mr. Galbraith, that under no circumstances would the meeting sanction armed interference ; an d th e amen d me nt was lost and the original resolution carried by 42 to 35. Towards the close of the meeting the discussion degenerated into personal squabbling, b u t a reso l ut i on i n favour of international arbitration to prevent war was carried, and a committee was appointed to get up a public demonstration. [ADvEnTisEmENT.]—Holloway's Pills.—Nothing better. —After all that has been talked or written about the removal of nervous infirmities, ample experience has fully demonstrated that these invaluable Pills exert a greater and more beneficial influence over these multiform and disheartening disorders than any other medicine. The action of Holloway's Pills is thoroughly consonant with reason. They completely relieve the blood, both head and stomach of all faulty functions, expel all oppressive accumulations from the bowels, and purify both solids and fluids. With the blood perfect and all poisons purged from the system regularity must prevail throughout the body, aches and pains must cease, healthful energy must supplant weariness, and shaky nerves must regain their wholesome tone. OUR COTEMPORARIES--This Morning THE TERMS OF PEACE, The Times, in noticing the arrival Of M. Thiers, says : —" The nature of the message he bears from the Govern ment of Defence gives no hope that his mission will conduce to the speedy re-establishment of peace. Disaster has not yet led the Govern ment of France to see the truth apart from the delusions of national vanity. Blow after blow has been struck at France, and at this moment the forces of her enemies are before the walls of Paris, and yet it does not appear that a single Frenchman has been led to suspect that there is anything in the cha racter of his nation to explain this terrible visitation. Cremieux declares, in the address he has just issued from Tours, than "an odious and incapable Government has permitted an enemy to invade France ;" and this explanrtion clearly satisfies the popular conscience. It is forgotten that the war was one of aggression on the part of France. Paris remembers nothing of the cries " A Berlin." The people do not dream that they approved an attempt to inflict upon peaceful Germans the calamities they now suffer themselves. They only know that the invader is in France. They cherish as their first article of faith the belief that France must be saved from all loss in the interest of the world, which would suffer irremediable injury were her greatness diminished. This alone can explain the mission of M. Thiers, and it demonstrates the hopeless ness of a speedy termination of the war. The Telegraph has reason to believe that the terms which M. Thiers is empowered to submit are of the fol lowing purport :—He has instructions to represent thathis country not only wishes, but most ardently desires, to put an end to hostilities. She is prepared to pay a heavy indemnity in money, corresponding to the proved expenses and losses of Germany, possibly up to the sum total of one hundred millions sterling. She will con sent, under certain conditions, to surrender the half of her fleet to the victors, and to dismantle the fortresses of Metz and Strasburg. These things she will do to atone for her fault ; but she will not yield one inch of Alsace and Lorraine. Rather than that she will defend Paris to the last extremity; and, when Paris is laid in ruins, she will carry on the war to the bitter end from town to town throughout the land. Such is an outline of the instructions confided to M. Thiers, in order that he might urge the British Cabinet to favour a speedy settlement, as he will sub sequently urge the Governments of Russia and Austria. Of course, M. Thiers does not fail to point out that the present ruling men in Paris are moderates, and may preserve an ordered society and acceptable foreign relations, while, if they be driven to ruin by the war, their places might be taken by a violent faction, in which case France would be abandoned to wild counsels and a most desperate Administration. The submission thus prof fered by the defeated nation is very marked, and the Telegraph can only hope that the motives of wisdom and generosity may be mingled in the minds of the victors with those sterner designs which have hitherto deterred negotiation. The Standard, commenting upon the mission of M. Thiers, says :—" The neutral Powers know by this time what conditions of peace France is prepared to submit to. M. Thiers has not let the grass grow under his feet, and the telegraph has informed the Courts of Vienna and St. Petersburg of the substance of the declaration he made to Lord Granville yesterday afternoon. Practically, the Ambassador Ex traordinary of the new Republic could tell the Govern ments to which he is accredited very little that they were not already aware of. But he has given formal and official expression to the views of his Government, and. what is much more, he has asked them to interpose and endeavour to negociate a peace which the Republic can accept. That is the real importance of M. Thiers' mission. He has come to London, not to say that the Republic desires to be at peace with the world, or explain and vindicate its origin, but to ask the neutral Powers to endeavour to negociate a peace which, being concluded on the basis of the almost unbroken suc cesses of Prussia, shall give that Power all the satisfac tion it can wisely ask, and shall yet be a peace that France can accept with the desire and the determination to keep it. It is an appeal ad misericordiam that he makes. True, he admits the unfortunate condition in which his country stands ; but he declares, on the other hand, that France will .resist to the last rather than submit to con ditions which could only be imposed in the intention of degrading her. What he asks is, that the great Powers of Europe—that England, to whom France has long been a cordial ally—that Austria and Russia, should exert their influence to put an end to a struggle by which France may indeed appear to be the chief sufferer, but in the results of which Europe is most deeply interested, and the continuance of which will be very much at her cost. In reference to M. Thiers' mission to England, the Manchester Examiner remarks that in the present position of affairs the best terms procurable for France are those which might be obtained by a frank appeal to the magnanimity of the King and the political sagacity of Count Bismarck. France went in to win or lose heavily, and she has lost. The inference is unpalatable, but it is inexorable and not unjust. All we oan do is to put in on her behalf representa tions of a friend and to employ our good offices in mitigating the terms upon which the victor may insist. In these efforts our best reliance will be placed upon the political sagacity of the statesman who repre sents the diplomacy of Germany, and the Examiner is not without hope that a calm review of the state of affairs will show him the prudence as well as the glory of magnanimity. THE DANGER OF A NEW " QUESTION." The Daily News earnestly hopes that whatever may be the issue of the present war, it is not destined to create, for the danger and torment of Europe, an entirely new question. Let it, as it must, be queath its legacy of debt and sorrow ; but, if pos sible, let it not leave to Europe that " heritage of woe," an Alsace Question or a Lorraine Ques tion. We had lately got rid of some of these tormentors. The Hungarian Question is, it may be hoped, decided for ever. It may be—we would not speak too hopefully, but it may be—that the Danubian Principalities and Schleswig-Holstein have done their worst. The Roman Question is at this moment approaching its final settlement. It will be a hard thing for distressed Europe if out of the graves of these buried nuisances should arise the grisly spectres of the Question of Alsace and the Ques tion of Lorraine. We have said more than once that in our view Germany is entitled to just such security as shall seem calculated on a rational judgment to guarantee her against another war of aggression. But in estimating the value of any proposed securities it ought to be made a matter of the gravest con sideration whether the immediate and apparent security is not fraught with possible disturbance and danger for the future. The wooden horse was taken within the walls of Troy, in order to add to the security of the city, and it carried within it new and fiercer elements of confusion. Nothing seems more likeiy than that the Republican Government of France will have, in addition to all its other troubles, some consider able vexation arising from the state of feeling in Savoy and Nice, those provinces which, in opposition to all the public opinion of Europe, were annexed, as an additional strength and security, to the French Empire. In fact, the French Empire, and other Powers as well, proceeded too commonly in estimating their strength upon a principle as false as if King William of Prussia were now to reckon his French prisoners as part of the effective strength of his army. Take in any war a new province ; gird it with your custom-houses, and your sentinels, and your Imperial or Royal arms and emblems ; and then count your State as the stronger by so many millions and so many miles. The thing looks well enough for a while, and in the new editions of the geographies of the aggrandised State does really seem a good deal firmer and stronger than she was be fore. But an hour of stress and danger comes ; and then it appears hat after all the State in its new possession had but aken a prisoner who has from the first been acting as a spy, and a temptation to the enemy from without, and would be only too glad now to lead him a more active assistance. THE ROMAN QUESTION. The Manchester Courier observes that if the Pope chooses to remain at Rome probably no objection would be made. But he will have to do so simply as the head of a free Church in a free State. All Royal power will be taken from him, and that without interference on his be half in any quarter. Prussia will certainly not interfere. France is too weak, and Austria is practically separated from the Church by the Infallibility dogma. If the Papal States are not annexed to Italy, they will become the head quarters of a B'epublic, from whose tender mercies the Pope would be in constant danger of revolution and dis memberment. at L y DI )f the oh 3 vices. 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