The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-17 00:00:00

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L imoges is row spoken of as.likely to become the /'h e seat of Government in place of Tours. 1 e French j ourna l s ur g e th a t this change should be ma de with all possible speed. Not only are the Ge rmans hi , corning dangerously near to Tours, but the "abltant s of the distrid arc so selfish and un- Patri etic that th e y will make no effort to aid the natio nal defence. D ISORGANISATION IN TOURS DISTRICT. The o , recent defeats of the French at and about it have produced great disorder and confusion t ; t he dist r i c t . S o comp l e t e i s the disorganisation th iat the Tours papers of Saturday confessed enuelveB unable to publish anything respect ilF events i n O r leans during the previous thirty hours—though Orleans is only 70 miles off. Some journals express a desire that General Trochu or B hould l eave P ar i s i n a balloon, and come to a nise the d e p ar t m e n ts. Paris, it is said, contains ilig e4t Y of leaders—the provinces apparently none. SCARCITY OF FOOD BEFORE .PARIS. _, Lette rs f ound on Pruss i an pr i soners s t a t e th a t the ' 4 ort in the Period of bad weather has done much injury Ge rman camp b e f ore P ar i s . Th e difficulties of ie °b taining provisions are very great, though there te n o absolute want. Letters in the Vienna papers Ge P t ! 3 sent the food supply as far from abundant. The man leaders are seriously concerned with this Dteblem. CA PITULATION OF SOISSONS. j,i , k tele gram, dated O ct. l6 t h , says th a t S o i ssons h as e°t capitulated, after four days' obstinate defence al the guns of the fortress. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. BERLIN, OCT. 15. to th e armies investing Paris have been and are l i , e ' vi ng heavy reinforcements, consisting of Land ,b4) of the G uar d s h ere t o f ore b e f ore Strasburg, and A t of e b ulk of th e new ly-f orme d thirteenth corps, here b ° re bef ore T on i . Th ese re i n f orcemen t s p rocee d b y lr of Meaux. The Baden Division is marching ferwaY of Troyes, and also the Reserve corps th: 1 7,, c1 in Silesia, which is to be designated 1 00,6(1 %lteenth corps. AltogetLer there are about 7 ,7 pi" fourteenth corps, under General Werder, is uf v , 4 , ll eing from Upper Alsace against the Army el ,""e Rhone, forming at Lyons and Besancon. t° rt is to be masked. ( oreat indig na ti on i s f e lt h ere a t th e wan t on r netion o f th e P a l ace o f St. Cl ou d. Th e Ger tun 8L tried, but in vain, to save it. IA•, 1 " e troops before Paris are not suffering from 1 1 °f Provisions. The operations against the city e u een delayed by Count Bismarck's desire to "e 4 51.t" vent • if att, i _ I t>possible, the shelling of the city. An is expected next week. •BERLIN, OCT. 10. pis G en eral Bur ns id e h as re t urne d f rom hi s secon d t o it t° Paris and gone to Bruss e ls. He expects eB F O to Versailles again, and proceed to Tours, if Q o lr ed. Ho took some suggestions to Paris from blebßis marc k as to t h e terms of an arm i st i ce, th e C ount thought reasonable under present ajolini st ances. These suggestions made no impres- The Government in Paris is determined to Itt lfe fightin g Mr. Washburne means to remain 11 Paris. • General Sheridan has left the German head 'Juan ers, and gone to Brussels, a sure sign that the 1 7tion of P ar i s i s no t i mm i nen t . I, e arn, on good au th or ity, th a t th e c ity w ill no t ° shelled. that the The Paris d en ti s t E vans h as b een h ere . H e s t a tes Empress, after leaving the Tuileries, passed e night at hi s h ouse . H e t oo k h er i n hi s ca rr iage Engmiles to the coast, and accompanied her to nd. 1 1 , 4 4 ° American ex-diplomatist in Paris, in good re ens with the Government there, submits as a f; ll , t ion the proposition that Lorraine and Alsace, o tte :ouLuxemburg, should be given to Belgium ; their ttality guaranteed by the European Powers, and tth i ' e --- lds out hopes of the consent of France to the el4e.Daily hopes LYONS, OCT. 13. An keti °tiler attempt wa s ma d e l as t n i g ht t o ge t pos es'o4 of the P re f ec t ure and the author i ty. I t was st rated by the NatiOnal Guard and proved an The city tranquil. ri ,' r e failur e . is q. , i be Sta n d ard publishes a telegram from Rouen,. at ing th a t t h e National Guard of Paris have retaken P russian positions, amongst them St. Cloud end On. THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS. In OCTOBER 16. Par fir e d the night of the 11th the th r ee fi rs t shots were the Prussian redoubt a t B e ll ev u e against TT' ue Gall ery They hit F or t V anvres . of Battles and the apartments of Quartorze, in the Palace of Versailles, have eoen. transformed into hospitals in anticipation of 11)in g events. 811 the French bombarded the Palau of St. Cloud -r: " the 10th, a grenade burst in the bedroom , "POieo n T ., smashed the grand looking-glasses, iitt,,,,fibattered the walls. N i .. . 11 e cattle plague has extended to the interior of ri; Where horses are butchered. IRE ALLEGED FRENCH SUCCESSES. qu afffacial report has been issued from the head tett, recently th e of the Prussian army denying the truth of published successes of the French in vent Paris. The statements, it says, are obj ect and only set afloat with the _ Ject of raising the depressed spirits of the French 1 4th villeil,le, 4 ,Our troops occupy exactly the positions Ragetnents th e leh eY obtained on the 19th September. On and 15th inst. there were small outpost en betore Paris. THE SIEGE OF METZ. SAARBRUCK, OCT. 1G (10.30 P.M.) ajile r ifle -pits and Trenches before Metz are finished it' the batteries mounted with 12-pounders, throw 1414-Pounder shells. to re trench fire incessantly. tiAarlineB 0 Parlementaire bas come from Metz to Prince a fi i : i nto the camps. kti ewn gone to the King. The result is not esblitt are fiocliing in. D esert eo te '9 Jest returned from several outposts. The issariat is e xce ll ent. i l B r epidemics are ge tti ng worse. T he r i n i erpes t agng. The Prussians are getting under shelter.— Times. The Prussians re• THE MISSION OF M. TRIERS. • BERLIN, OCT. 15. Upon M. Thiers suggesting a Congress at PeterS burg, he was given to understand that Russia, to take part in it, must be able to count upon the revision of the Treaty .of 1856. Meanwhile, he was referred to the prudence of King William. At Vienna M. • Thiers represented the European supremacy of • Gerenany as the necessary consequence of French defeat. Since his departure the semi-official organs of the Vienna Cabinet advocate the most intimate alliance between Austria and Germany. The inspired circles at Berlin meet these overtures by allusions to Austria's hostile atti tude and armaments at the beginning of the present campaign. TIIE FRENCH SQUADRON. The French squadron is back in the North Ses, accompanied by flat-bottomed boats. It seems bent on mischief. Several English and German ships were wrecked off Jalide in consequence of the sudden removal of buoys. Among the prisoners taken near Orleans were many of a novel corps called " partisans," forming a body guard of the Tours Government. Three more Russian officers, Colonel Zetteler, Captain Doppelmeyer, and Prince Meschtcherski, have been sent to the Prussian Head-Quarters, where there is not one Austrian. Like the Federal war loan the Bavarian military loan is exhausted. The Bavarian expenditure is pro visionally covered out of the late military loan. RELEASE OF MAZZINI, GAETA, OCT. 15. Mazzini has bee❑ set at liberty. Ile leaves his prison to-night, GARIBALDI AT BESANCON. Garibaldi arrived at Besancon yesterday, and was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the autho- The National Guard turned out in his onour ; and alter acknowledging the warmth of is reception, General Garibaldi left to make a minute inspection of the country around. The forces which will operate under Garibaldi's command will be composed of Italian, Spanish, American, Polish, and Hungarian Volunteers, with a portion of the Pontifical Zouaves. rities. ADVANCE ON BOURGES, TOURS, OCT. 15. The Prussian force, in the department of Loiret, appears to be moving towards Bourges. A corps of Francs-Tireurs from Bordeaux has arrived at Tours to act as scouts. Uhlans have been_seen at Croisy La llaye, near the forest of Lyons. At Breteuil the Prussians seized all plate and valuables, and burnt several houses in the suburbs. At Lyons a steam mitrailleuse has been tried at 1,200 metres with great success. The bombardment of Neu 131 eisach proceeds. The place is well provisioned, and the defenders are determined to hold out to the last. BOMBARDMENT OF SOISSONS. BERLIN, OCT. 14. The regular siege of Soissons commenced on the 12th, of Verdun on the 13th inst. Both places have a numerous and well-handled artillery. THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. CLOUD. BERLIN, OCT 14. The semi-official and independent evening papers denounce the bombardment of the Pa!ace of St. Cloud as vandalism, committed by the very parties that protest against the bombardment of the fortress of Paris. The cattle plague before Metz and Paris has ex tended to sheep. The Moskow-Smolensk Railway, being the first section of the Moscow-Warsaw line, has been opened. PROCLAMATION OF M. GAMBETTA. The following is the full text of M. Gambetta's proclamation to the inhabitants of Tours:— "It is with an unspeakable expression of joy that I hasten to make known to you the encouraging news received from Paris by a balloon which left the capital on the 12th inst. "At Paris the people, more and more heroic, prepare the salvation of France by the admirable order which they maintain in the city, and by the privations which the inhabitants cheerfully impose upon themselves. A detail which is not the least vulgar in the gravity of the situation in which we are placed,is that horseflesh is being eaten at the beginning of the siege, the living flocks of cattle being reserved for the last days. " In their impatience behind the ramparts the National Guard have expressed a wish to be led against the enemy, and here is the bulletin of their first victory :—Along the whole belt which has been placed round the city, the Prussians have been dis lodged from the positions they occupied during the last three weeks. On the north, in the direction of Saint Denis, they have been driven back beyond Stains, Pierrefitte, and Dugny. On the east Dobigny, Joinville le Pont, Cretuil, and the Plateau d'Avron have been re-taken. " To the South the Germans have been driven out out of Bas Meudon and St. Cloud, being forced to retire to Versailles. " I told you a few days ago that Paris is impregnable. Behold, it now becomes the assailant " Such admirable examples cannot leave the depart ments insensible. Let us all redouble our work and energies, as we are henceforth sure that Paris will do her duty until the end. Let us do ours." GENERAL BOURBAKI AT TOURS General Bourbaki arrived at Tours on Friday evening, and was received by M. Cremieux. An enthusiastic demonstration took place in his honour at the railway station. Tours is greatly agitated by the news of the vic ries before Paris. THE THRONE OF SPAIN. FLORENCE, FRIDAY NIGHT. A report is current, and generally credited, that Prince Amadeus of Italy has accepted the offer of the crown of Spain, with the consent of King Victor Emmanuel. The following telegram has also been received : ROME, OCT. 13, 4.45 p.m. Orders have been issued to arm Ventimiglia and other frontier fortresses. Rumours gain consistency that Prince Amadeus has accepted the Spanish crown. GREAT EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAGAZINE. ALEXANDRIA, OcT. 16. A Government powder magazine at Coomeldick exploded this morning, causing considerable da mage, and killing several natives. No Europeans were killed. Many houses were destroyed, among them those of Messrs. Harris and Wilson. No Eng lish insurance company is interested except the Sun, for £5OO. The English doctor who accompanies the Baker expedition is reported to be dead. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others, on the 15th Oct., was 8,559, and for the week ending same day 25,287. CRYSTAL PALACE.--Half-a-Crown day, Saturday, Oct. 15th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets, 4,818; ditto on payment. 870 ; total visitors, 5,688. The death. of General Lee has caused deep and univer sal grief throughout the South. The legislative bodies, courts, and trade boards were adjourned, and business was generally suspended on receipt of the news. Scores of dwellings throughout the South are draped in mourning. The Legislature of Greorgia has resolved to attend the funeral in a body. TH if, SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1870_ (CENTRAL PRESS TELEG RAMS. THE ACCIDENT ON THE TYNE, Fwo more deaths have taken place, the result of the accident to a vessel in the process of completion at Low Walker on the Tyne, making six up to the present time. The injuries to several more of the men are assuming a very serious aspect. The inquest on the bodies was opened on Saturday afternoon at Walker. The bodies were viewed and identified ; the position of the ship was also examined. The only evidence taken was that of identifica tion, and the inquest was adjourned to Monday the 24th inst. Had the ship lurched to the side the consequences would have been much more disastrous, as it would have caused several more ships that were near to have fallen above their workmen. SUFFOCATED IN A BREWERY. On Saturday night a man fell into a beer vat, in n brewery in South Shields, and was suffocated. GAMBETTA'S PROCLA.M4TION. The special correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Tours October 14, gives the following account of the reception of Gambetta's proclamation : " Whatever might have been the news to-night from other parts of France—however stirring or impor tant—the astounding despatch from Paris, pla carded about by the care of M. Gambetta, would have utterly smothered it. You will have received the tidings by this time, and will have weighed and commented upon them with the help of light from the other side, long before my word reach you. I have no opinion at all to give as to the probability of the news, but I can tell you how it was received here. I was walking down the Rue Royale, when the dis patch was first posted at the office of the Indre et Loire journal, Instantly there was a shout, a crush, a running from every direction. A dozen .people read the writing aloud, and then all the motley concourse broke into short, loud, interrupted bursts of patriotic song. Your neigh bour on the right struck up a bar of the Mar seillaise,' then abruptly ceased, to join the chorus of the Girondins ' on your other hand. Mean time the Girondin minstrel, contesting in politeness, had taken up the refrain of the Marseillaise. Then both stopped to harangue a breathless Mobile, who was kick ing at your shins from behind. In another moment a fraction of the crowd swept away, and went, linked in broken chorus, up the street ; whilst a panting swarm of new corners darted into its place. I find that intelligent and experienced persons receive the blessed message with deep distrust. The ignorant and thoughtless people will not hear a single expression of doubt, and cannot comprehend it if they hear. Is it not printed there, before your eyes, that a ' balloonist ' who left Paris on the 12th in. scant brought word of a general victory over the Prus sians, in which those unholy kites were driven back to Versailles? It is printed, beyond doubt; and that is enough. Should the unwary point out, whilst cautiously abstaining from malevolent interference, that no date is given for the engagement, that an airy lightness pervades the whole despatch, he will instantly be snapped up by persons of the French persuasion—and, if a man averse to screaming tones and reckless unreason, he will retire from the wordy storm. But not the less are the prudent surfeited and sick with false reports. It will need almost the very proof of sight and feeling to con vince them. Troops are still pouring in on the one side and out on the other. A long column of at least two thousand youths, clad in blouses and un- armed, filed down from the station this morning. To-night a body almost as numerous, not one-half of whom were in uniform, though all were armed, left by a special train about six o'clock. With them were two squadrons of Dragoons. Tours is more empty now than I have ever seen it. There are a good many Francs tireurs from Marseilles and Bordeaux lounging about, who, so far as I have seen, behave quite properly. Both public prints and private stories complain of bad discipline and downright violence on the part of troops quartered in this city. I feel sure that such conduct is vastly exceptional. I have seen scarcely any drunken soldiers ; and while men keep sober they are not likely to commit very gross offences. In the lower class of cafés beyond the station, which are much haunted, I observe, by France-tireurs, some disorder may not be unfrequent ; and the road 4 about the camp may be not as safe as Piccadilly at noontide. But, on the whole, these soldiers must be admitted to behave exceptionally well. Some robberies, and even violence, may have taken place here or there, but I have not seen any cause to believe that a sufficient ground exists for the somewhat strong language of some French journals. With regard to the conduct of the soldiers—the regulars I mean—before the enemy, there is probably much more justification for the bitterest strictures. THE PAPAL ZOITAVES, Arrangements were made in Liverpool, on Saturday, by the Roman Catholic residents in that town for billet ting the Papal Zouaves. A local correspondent says, many of the men were the " observed of all observers" at some of the Roman Catholic chapels. COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. A collision occurred on the Midland Railway, near Gloucester Station, on Saturday night, between the pas senger train• from Birmingham and the North and a Great Western goods train. The passenger train, which is due at Gloucester at eight o'clock, ran into the van of the goods train which was passing into a siding about half a mile from Gloucester Station. The train kept on the rails ; but about twenty of the passengers were cut and bruised, two of them having fractured noses, though none are fatally injured. The train was delayed only a quarter of an hour. SERIOUS AFFAIR IN DERBY. On Saturday night last an occurrence took place in Derby, which ha terminated fatally to a soda-water manufacturer named William Ragg. It appears that a misunderstanding arose as to the ownership of seine bottles between the deceased and a young man named Walter Burroughs, whose father is also a soda-water manufacturer. Burroughs was alleged to have struck the head of Ragg with a whip-stock. As Ragg was on the way to the police station he fell down insensible, and died very shortly after. A post-mortem examination has been held on the body, and the inquest will be held to-day. THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. The foot and mouth disease has reappeared in Cam bridgeshire, and is prevalent in the districts adjoining Huntingdonshire. THREE COURTS MARTIAL. Three courts martial were held on board the Royal Ade laide at Devonport, on Saturday. Mr. James Hicks, first-class boatswain, serving in the Indus, was charged with drunkenness to an extent incapacitating him for the performance of his duty. He pleaded guilty, but having strong recommendations in his favour, was adjudged to be dismissed from the service without previous imprison ment. Mr. James William Cox, second first-class boat swain, serving in the Audacious, was charged with having been three days' absent without leave. He also pleaded guilty, but having seen meritorious service, was only ad judged to be dismissed from the ship. The third prisoner Mr. John Bishop, second class boatswain, serving in the Implacable, was tried for drunkenness on board his ship. He denied the charge, which was supported by a surgeon, master-at-arms, and a gunner of the ship, but refuted by a lieutenant, two corporals a captain of the maintop, and a quartermaster. Most of these witnesses not only con sidered the accused sober, but deposed that he had had no means of obtaining intoxicating- liquors. He was, however, found guilty, ordered to forfeit seniority, and dismissed his ship. SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OFFICER. An inquest was held on Saturday night, at Plymouth Citadel, on the body of Capt. Andrew Henry, Royal Artillery, who, while sitting at supper on the previous night, surrounded by his family and some brother officers, suddenly put his hand to his head, changed colour, and fell down dead. The evidence shewed that apoplexy was the cause. The deceased had distinguished,himself in the Crimea, and had been promoted to his present rank and decorated with medals far gallantry at Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman. He was also awarded the Victoria Cross for great bravery at Inkerman, where he defended a battery, after having received twelve bayonet wounds. THE READING GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Reading Grammar School, the foundation stone of which was laid by the Prince of Wales a short time ago, is making rapid progress, and it is thought that a portion of it will be ready for occupation at the beginning of the summer. It is hoped, and indeed is generally believed in the town that the Queen will consent to be present on the occasion of the opening. IMPORTANT REVISING DECISION. Mr. Francis, revising barrister, held an adjourned court for the revision of the voters' lists fcr the City of Rochester,at the Guildhall on Saturday. A claim was made by Mr. Hayward, who appeared for the Conservatives, for a gentleman named Fletcher, who occupied a farm: house in the city. His house was rated to the owner conjointly with other building land, Mr. Fletcher's name not appearing on the list. The barrister said that no de cision had yet been given on the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act of 1869, but under the 19th section he ruled that the omission of Mr. Fletcher's name on the part of the overseers, was an omission within the meaning of the section, and he should allow the claim. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BIRKENHEAD. Early on Saturday morning a destructive fire broke out in the fitting and rigging rooms of Messrs. Laird Brothers ship-builders, Birkenhead ; and there being at first a grea scarcity of water, considerable damage was done before the fire was subdued. The fitting and rigging rooms were completely gutted, and a large quantity of rope jute, to gether with some valuable machinery was destroyed. The damages have been estimated at £lO,OOO, and it is feared that nearly 1,000 persons will be temporari;y thrown out of work. Later inquiries show that the damage from the fire at Messrs. Laird's shipbuilding works, Birkenhead, is not so large as was at first supposed, though it amounts to about £4,000, but is covered by insurance. RAILWAY COLLISION. A goods train from Newcastle came into collision with a goods train from York on Saturday at Easkelf, near Thirsk, on the North Eastern Railway. About twelve or thirteen trucks were thrown about the lice. Much damage was done, and the traffic was stopped for several hours. A thick fog prevailed at the time. CHILD MURDER AT HERTFORD. An inquest was held, at Hertford, on the body of a female infant, found ill the river Rib, wrapped in a part of an old apron. The medical testimony went to prove that the child was born alive, and that it had a separate existence. The body had been in the water about a week. A verdict of Wilful Murder was returned by the jury The police have some clue, and it is expected that the perpetrator of the murder will shortly be in custody. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Mr. George Edward Baker,B. A., late Demy of Magdalen College, was elected a Fellow of that College on Saturday. Christ Church election is now proceeding. Michaelmas Term commenced on Saturday, and it is expected will be a very full one. GREAT FIRE NE AR CORK. The large flour mills belonging to F. J. Shaw, Kill napp, near Cork, were entirely destroyed by fire, between 1 and 5 o'clock on Saturday morning. The mills contained a large store of grain, and were in full work. The loss is considerable, and a great number of persons are thrown out of employment. The mills were worked by water and steam. The cause of the fire is unknown. Mr. Shaf to Whitworth, Park, Durham, who was re cently charged with damaging a first class carriage on the South-Eastern Railway, but who failed to appear in answer to the summons, was apprehended whilst shoot ing on his estate yesterday. He was conveyed to Dover for examination at an early hour this morning. CRYSTAL PALACE.—There will be a Display of Fireworks at the Palace to-morrow, commencing at half past seven o'clock. The Arc de l'Etoile Device—so popular at the Fireworks Displays last season—will be revived, and, in addition, there will be the Strasburg Tow , and other attractive Pyrotechnics. The Opera of " M i tana" will be played in the afternoon, with Miss Edith Wynne in the title role. THE BATTLE OF ORLEANS. Details of the battle of Orleans seem to be very difficult to come at, but both the railway and the telegraph wires having been cut very little information has managed to get through the gap. " From what I can gather," says the correspondent of the Telegraph, in his letter dated October 14th, "it would seem that Bourges received news of the events of Monday very much earlier than this city. Troops were im mediately despatched from that place towards Orleans, and reached the scene of action about midnight ; scarcely any of the regiments were drawn up before the dawn of Tuesday. When the two detachments united they were full forty thousand strong. About the order of the battle I can give you no hint at all ; my informants are not military men, and, indeed, appear to have been too much excited to notice movements. All that they seem distinctly to have comprehended was the gradual closing in of the Prussian troops, and the retire ment, slow at first, but growing more precipitate each moment, of the defenders. By two o'clock it was a rout of the Weissenburg character—a shameless sauve qui peat. Which class of soldiers, linesmen or Mobiles, first gave the signal for flight, is disputed. My information goes, that in Monday's combat the Mobiles were seized with panic, but that yesterday (Tuesday) the regulars frankly refused to fight at all, and loafed about the town in gangs, while the Mobiles, National Guards, and Papal Zouaves nobly attempted to withstand the enemy. By three o'clock Orleans was invested on three sides, the railway, on which already trains had ceased to run, was out, and the open country towards the east was covered with fugitives. Shells were falling in the suburbs, and several houses had already taken fire when my informants left. Not oven such broad outlines of the engagement do the authorities supply. I do not believe that they possess any information. If a battle could be in progress all day long, only sixty miles away, the Government first warned of the event a 4 nine o'clock in the evening—as it is said to have been the case with Monday's fight—anything in the way of ignorance is probable. The telegraph wires were out at Meung at half-past one in the day, although a brief despatch published is dated from Orleans, 3 p.m.' At about that time the station-master at Meung caused it to be known, not by means of the tele graph apparently, that the enemy was in sight. From the same moment, excepting the very unsatisfactory and sus picious report from ' Orleans, 3 p.m." a veil fell over the battle-field. What we know is on the report of the fug;- tives. They describe the panic as being terrible, the rout sitter and complete; but I have met with none who stayed to witness the effect of the Prussian shells, or who know whether the city has been actually occupied. There was no force to prevent au occupation if it were desired. Late last night and early this morning a large proportion of the troops still quartered here were despatched eastward, though their exact destination is not easily to be found out. Some say it was Chiteaudun, where the two thousand cavalry of whose approach we heard last night have, within twelve hours, after the manner so usual with Prussians, swelled to a corps d'armee. Others believe—and these are the greater num ber—that the Government is determined to expend its last man in avenging the two defeats of Orleans. I cannot yet tell you which of the stories is correct, nor give any facts at all about the combat said to be going on all day at Chateaudun. We have not heard of any troops there, but Mobiles and National Guards are scattered round everywhere. Besides, chaos is so firmly esta blished again, that one would not be surprised to hear of some corps d'armtSe which had been completely for gotten." THE BRIGHTON COACH.—" The old coaching days I" How fondly memory looks back into mild lang syne, when as boys we rattled to and from school on the old Highfiyer. And what a coach that was I nine miles an hour from end to end. Was there another like it in the kingdom ? Certainly not. And then the coachman and the guard : where could their equals be found for civility, joviality, and skill ? Nowhere. How we who lived in country towns turned out to see the coach come in, and what an event that was ! And what delightful travelling it was, perched up above the hedges on a fine balmy brisk day, with a pleasant companion or two, a good cigar, and a cheerful stopping-place every twelve miles or so. Ah it was a delicious style of travelling, to be sure ; and dis tance even lends enchantment to the view of that night when it rained and froze alternately, and the horses skated to the nearest post house and stopped there, or when the snowdrift lay so deep that we had to be dug out, and so on. All this is no doubt doubly pleasant to look back to ; but it is doubtful whether we should like to be a couple of days or so getting down to the West, or could with equan imity put up nowadays with the skating and digging-out aforesaid. Thinking of these far-off times, one is almost startled to read the announcement that the Brighton coach has ceased to run for the rest of the season. The Brighton coach ! An antediluvian curiosity, surely. Ages ago even, the Brighton age comes back upon our memory as something past and gone for ever. Still, there is a coach that runs all through the summer to and from Brighton and London, thoikh many of our readers may not be aware of it ; and, if we may judge from the announcement of the proprietor, it would seem to answer fairly, and the trade by it appears to be increasing. Having tried a journey to Brighton by it, we can safely say that, if the traveller is nothurried we do not know a more agreeable mode of transit to Brighton than to take a seat at Hatchett's on top of the coach, and trundle along during the pleasantest part of a summer day through a delightful country. Experto IN ORMANDY INVADED. ROUEN, OCT. 13. Twenty thousand armed men have left this city during the past eight or ten days en route for—they won't tat where. What service they will do, wherever they may go, is of course matter of conjecture; so say the wise acres ; if, indeed, these proverbially disparaging critic 3 do not directly insist on the worthlessness of half disciplined yeomanry. If one may believe his own eyes, and judge according to appearances, these new troops will do yeoman's service if properly put into action. The muster, on the place fronting the Hotel de Ville, of the men to be sent forward on Tuesday night, must have been encouraging to those who so anxiously watched their coming, and so devoutly wished God speed to their going. Well equipped in the smart uniform of the Garde Nationale, they took their places in line and passed inspection with much of the enthusiasm of the young recruits, yet with the seriousness of fathers of families, whose hearths and homes, workshops and count ing -looms, had to be left without their accustomed heads, last a worse fate should come upon them. Indeed, I almost fancied—as I looked from the windows of the Town Hall, and saw them marshalled before the statue Of the great Napoleon that these quondam holiday soldiers had more of the traditional martial air than even the regulars themselves, and that the bellicose reputation of modern Frenchmen owes not a little of its strength to the readiness with which the bourgeois dons warlike bearing with warlike gear. Every man was erect and alert throughout the brief review, exhibiting nothing of that slouching habitual to most undrilled men put into soldier's clothes. Now and then a man was to be seen in the ranks clad in a blouse, owing to the inability of the steward to furnish wedding garments to all who were bidden. Some slight differences, too, might be noticed in the minor make-up of the more regularly accoutred — especially in the matter of baggage, which generally seemed too heavy. Blankets were evidently left to individual tastes; and were of all sorts, sizes, and shapes. Particularly dapper were the officers, with gold-adorned sleeves and em broidered caps. That these are selected by their men is one of the reasons often cited by the Germans for disparaging the whole body. Superiors thus appointed are apt to lack the experience of actual warfare ; men gathered from civil life not beng inclined to call one to rule over them who will introduce the harsh distinctions between privates and officers. The present system of officering the volunteers is unquestionably re sponsible for some of the blame and the complaints concerning inefficient leadership. The great want, accord ing to the refrain of conversation in the cafés and editorial utterances, is a leader. Will not some new Roche arise to repel the invader—some new and unam bitious Napoleon appear to carry the eagle victoriously to the farthest frontier ? This is the appealing lament on every hand. A deliverer is looked for and expected, until the deferred hope almost mikes _ _ ... the heart sick. Substantial success will win for any one to whose honour it falls enthusiastic support; and a brilliant victory would rally round its hero a host so buoyant with having found a country's saviour, as to be all but invincible. One by one the French Generals have been robbed of the halo that encircled their names, till Troche and Bazaine alone remain. If the former hold his own, they will be con tent with him. " Bazaine," say the talkers here about " must be relieved. He is our only remaining general ; if he were with us, to organise us and lead us, all would go well again. We must get him out." Fear is, however, felt lest the Mar. shal might not quite agree to all, or any, of the political chances since his immurement. To counteract this, and do away with all apprehension lest the cost of releasing the besieged garrison and its commander might be only a terrific outlay in the purchase of a poli tical " white elephant," special pains are taken, both by the newspapers and by the people, to prove, if not Bazaine's anti-Imperialist tendencies, his indifference to the fate of the late Sovereign, and his devotion to France. Some of the prophets predict that the saviour of France will be a young man—half superstitiously adding, that its most glorious defenders have been young. Age is, in the eyes of these persons, if not a reproach, a serious prejudice ; for example, his years, though he is by no means an old man, have greatly impaired confidence in General Gudin, now in command at this point; and his early removal is probable. Greater vigilance is now maintained than a week ago, when no one appeared to think of arresting persons on suspicion in the street. Among the troops, numbering over 3,000, which left the other day, I met a young American from New Orleans who has been naturalised to fight with the French. He said that the boldest rider and best swordsman in the regiment is an American, and that more than two hundred of his countrymen are in the ranks of the Francs-tireurs.— Telegraph-. AFFAIRS IN PARIS. The Independance Beige publishes a communication from its correspondent at Paris, dated the third of October. It states that the fall of Toul and Strasburg has naturally depressed the minds of the people, and there was a rumour of evil tidings from Tours of a Constituent Assembly which was to be formed with the aid of M. Cremieux that would monopolise everything for France to the exclusion of Paris. This originated from a report of M. Cremieux's which was wanting in peecision, and a reply from the Government to the effect that the facts must be better arranged. General Burnside, the American, had returned from the Prussian Headquarters, where he had seen the King and Count Bismarck, and it was believed that he brought a message from Bismarck to M. Favre insisting on the surrender of Paris. It was not supposed that any member of the Government would accede to this demand on the bases which were laid down by the Count, and no one would dare to make such a proposition publicly. The Liberte announces the discovery of 1,000 cannons at Vin cennes, and at last 800 were found, but they were of old models, which needed transformation. Five hundred of them will, it is expected, beready by the time the Prussians obtain their materials for the siege, which will be about the Bth ; they count upon entering Paris on the 20th. The correspondent believes that the blockade is more likely to continue, and even if the premeditated attack should be carried out he does not think that the besiegers will have it all their own way. A new commandant has been placed on the fort of Mont Valerien, who is an excellent artillery officer. In all directions, the number of volunteers ex seeds the number of men called for. Many steps have been taken to afford relief to the poor, and all rents now duo have been put off for a period of three months. Several literary pensions have been suppressed, and all those bestowed by the Emperor have been abolished. A long list was found among the papers in the Tuileries. It has been resolved to place a bronze statue of Strasburg on the site of the present one. THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS LOUlSE.—Although no precise date has yet been announced for the mar riage of her Royal Highness Princess Louise with Lord Lorne, it is understood that the nuptials will probably be celebrated about the first week in February at Windsor Castle. THE ROYAL MAIIRIAOE.—it is expected that Par liament will be asked to present the Princess Louise on her marriage with the Marquis of Lorne, with the same dowry as that granted to the Princess Helena on her marriage to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Hol stein, namely £30,000, and an annuity of £G,ooo. —The Observer. FRENCH POLICE IN LONDON.-- With reference to a report stated to have been addressed to the Emperor of the French on the secret police of the Empire, and to have been drawn up with a special reference to the efficiency of M. Collet-Megret, Director - General. of the Secret Police, which report affirms that in London two agents were maintained one of whom belonged to the metropolitan police, we have authority to say that not only can no foundation be found for such a statement, but that M. Collet-Megret was removed from his office in June 1857, so that the report referred to must have been made upwards of thirteen years ago. The Infante Don Au,gusto of Portugal has been named Constable of the Kingdom. Land and Water states that in all probably Mr. Chaplin will resign the mastership of the Burton Hunt at the close of the forthcoming season. The Narragansett Club in New England has pro duced a bulky fourth volume, being a reprint of Roger "The Bloody Tenent yet more Bloody." A BOON FOR LADlES.—Fligbly as sewing machines are prized, there is one great fault to which they are addicted—they make a great noise while doing the work ; a noise so great that for a worker herself to talk at the same time is out of the ques tion. We need not say how trying this must be to a lady. To be not only prevented from talking, but also from listening to the gossip of those around her—the very thought of such a thing is unendurable. Well, an inventor has come to their rescue with a SILENT SEWING MACHINE ; and as it comprises all the appliances and devicesfor varied work with which all the best sewing machines are provided, and several in addition, and e xercises them all so NOISELESSLY that the ladies may g ossi p even in whispers, and the infant or invalid sleep on in peace, we expect that most of the old machines will ere long be heard, or heard of, no more, and that "LA SILENCIEUSE," the Silent Sewing Machine (at Messrs. POLLACK, SCHMIDT, and Co.', 210 A, REGENT-STREET, LONDON, W.), will quietly take their place, as the universal domestic helper.—" Investment Circular And Financial Record," September 7, 1870. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning GARIBALDI IN FRANCE. The Times, referring to the presence of Garibaldi at Besancon, says :—At this place, as we learn, Garibaldi has put himself at the head of all the irregular forces, and will thus lead the Army of Lyons. We have already ex pressed our conviction that the presence of Garibaldi in France bodes no good to the country, and we have now evidence that his mere name has awakened strong feelings of indignation and di. crust among the Bretons, the Picards, and other Western and Northern people on whose earnestness and steadiness France might de pend for her stoutest defenders. It is not, we re peat, by guerrilla war that France can hope to rid her self of the Germans. Her wars must be fought by armies, and armies must be led by generals. Bour baki's appointment to the Army of the Loire is cer tainly a step in the right direction, though it is question able whether any commander can restore the courage of an army which has just sustained a double defeat, or whether his presence will make up for that deficiency in cavalry and artillery to which, as much as to bad general ship, those defeats were owing. It would be rash to hope that such an army, even under Bourbaki, will recover strength sufficient to recross the Loire and rescue Orleans, at least for a month. And within a month who can say what may have become of Paris, and what may have become of Metz ? The Germans arc already too strong for the French in the field, and fortified places fall into their hands one by one, even before all the railway lines are cleared and their heavy artillery can be brought into action. It is only too easy to imagine what will be the course of the war when mate rial obstacles of that nature are removed, and when the forces that are scatterrd here and there on a variety of minor enterprises can combine in one effort for the attain ment of their main object. THE FALL OF BOISSONS. The Daily News remarks that the fall of Soissons has been accomplished according to what has now become the understood formula of German procedure before a forti fied city. First they " bounced" it, then they pelted it with field artillery, and next they invested it and repulsed several sorties. At length, when all these measures had failed, they took the trouble to bring up their great guns, and then, as at Toul, the place was reduced in a few days. Soissons was summoned to surrender when the Crown Prince of Saxony's army passed it a few weeks ago, and its commandant returned a fiery reply, with the customary allusion to the last man con suming the last biscuit. The place was gallantly de fended, and it has been judiciously surrendered. There was no rampart fighting ; the defence was kept up as long as the artillery could maintain it ; and then a capitu lation put an end to a resistance which had no longer an object. Hitherto this campaign has afforded no instance of a stronghold being taken by storm. Soissons is the most important fortress which the Germans hold in the north of France. Its capture gives them a strong position, where they will no doubt establish magazines and depots, and from which they can carry on operations against the departments north-west of Paris. The very short time that has sufficed for its reduction, although it was a regular fortress, may be expected to have its influence with the authorities of those open towns in its neighbourhood which the Germans are proposing to visits The solicitude of the German Commanders for the acquisition of fortified places does not promise an early termination of the war. The capitulation of Soissons in 1814 precipitated the fall of Napoleon, but the Great Emperor had not an army at Paris sheltered by fortifications. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. The Telegraph, speaking of the non-election of the Con stituent Assembly, says :—Whatever else may be the defects of the national character, it is assuredly not wanting in patriotic passion ; and at the present moment the one desire, with Frenchmen of every province and party, is to preserve the integrity of their country. If, therefore, elections had been now held, we believe the instinct of every department would have been to return men pledged to the support of the existing Government until the close of the war. Thus, if the Constituent Assembly had met, the Government would have acquired the inestim able advantage of being recognised, both abroad and at home, as the accepted Executive of the Republic. It is true that Paris and the provinces occupied by the Prussian forces would have been virtually unrepresented ; but, then, no one doubts that Paris, Alsace, Lorraine, and Champagne are eager to uphold the integrity of France ; and, therefore, an Assembly returned by the provinces outside the actual seat of war would have been able to speak with as much weight on the issue of resistance or concession as a body in which the whole of the country was directly represented. We entirely disbelieve Count Bismarck's theory that any such Assembly would sue for terms of peace at present; but if that should prove to be the temper of the delegates, it would only show that Paris was not entitled to speak in the name of the entire na tion. Unfortunately, in France itself the adjournment of the elections will not be ascribed to any official fear lest a freely-elected Chamber should fail to support the war, but to a suspicion that such a body would not look favourably on the Republic as a permanent system of Government. And a belief that the Committee of Public Defence have for bidden the meeting of the Chamber because they are afraid of some anti-Republican de monstration on its part, is calculated to damp very seriously the national enthusiasm for the war. Down to this time exhibitions of patriotic feeling on the part of the provinces have abounded, but there has been no national uprising. What is wanted is, some power to concentrate all the vast energies of the nation into one direction—some recognised con stituted authority, which would say, "We act in the name and interests of no party, no faction, no dynasty, but in the name of France." THE UNION OF THE GERMAN STATES. The Standard says the union of all the German States in a Federation, of which the King of Prussia will be the chief, and in which the majority of the nation, or the rulers who speak in the name of that majority, shall deter mine its policy, is the common object bf all the Govern ments and of the mass of the people. But how is the end to be attained. How are the southern kingdoms to be brought into such a Federation ? There are two ways, each of which has its advocates. They may enter the existing North German Confederation, accepting all its institutions, and taking just the position in it relatively to their population, &c., as the present members do ; or, after having obtained certain changes in that constitu tion which give them a privileged position, allowing them to retain some portion of the sovereignty the original members of the Confederation have surrendered, or attributing to them a voice and vote in the Federal Council, if not in the Parliament, larger than that which, as a question of arithmetic, they would be entitled to demand. On the other hand, they may agree with the Government of the North German Confederation upon the outlines of the constitution of a new Federal State, and that constitution having been submitted to a Parfiament elected ad hoc from the South as well as the North, might be proclaimed as the constitution of united Germany. The great bulk of the people of the South and all the Radicals of the North would prefer the latter process. It would soothe the feelings of the former to see Prussia profess to dissolve into Germany, and they have the same itching as the Radicals of the North for the dis cussion and declaration of fundamental rights. The con stitution of the North German Parliament satisfies no theoretical Radical, and must appear a very maimed and paltry-charter to any practical Liberal. It is a com promise not only between the ambition of Prussia and the instinct of self-preservation in the smaller States, but between universal suffrage and divine right, between the claims of a people to govern themselves and decide what shall be the policy pursued in their name, and a King and his Ministers who have made up their minds to keep that power in their own hands. Well, the Prussian Radicals would like to substitute for this document a beautiful new constitution, in which all the great principles of civil and religious, or rather irreligious liberty are sonorously expressed, and all those sureties are taken for their protection which are unnecessary when a nation knows what free dom is, and possesses the virtues which are needed to prize and preserve it, and which where that sense of freedom is wanting are worth nothing at all. It needless to dwell upon the objections to this scheme, the least of which is that it would waste much time, because it cannot be supposed that the Prus sian Government would assent to it. The other plan, therefore, of an entrance of the South German States into the North German Confederation, which might then drop the " North" from its title, is that which will most probably be adopted, and the real question is as to the naagnitudeofthec and especiallyoncessionsPrussi to a will make to the two Southern kingdoms, me T et h in e gs p h l a o ‘ u .e gh he in en g h se el as d o d n ur i i s ng tt t o h w e p a a t st it w s e h ek eig i h n t m , and parts of the kingdom. Messrs. Ransome have even more than ever kept up the great reputation in which their ploughs are deservedly held, local men during this short time having won no less than four All-England prizes, whilst four silver cups have been awarded to farmers' sons for the best work with these implements. Messrs. Ran. some's own man, Barker, did a splendid piece of work at the Severn Valley meeting ; the furrows were cut and laid with the greatest precision, and the fine, rich soil showed what a good implement, properly handled, would do. At the young and thriving agricultural society's meeting at Bourn, Lincolnshire, on Thursday, Barker again won the prize with a very fine piece of work, defeated the cele brated Blunt with his Howard plough, as well as Messrs. Cooke's man. It is worthy of especial note that, at the Awliscombe meeting, the only two of Messrs. Ransome's ploughs in the field won the two All-England prizes for crume work and deep ploughing.—Morning Post.