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"„ ( 1 did not of Parlif iloeot 4 tbout " - es on We'‘le' in a New ••.° Lite Tyraa lli v . appears t ° in the wal l .. .erica tha t ' f el, n for his o° l ico Dr. Sli e ,' ye Dickens, phi a_.._...__.. ulof , L, AUG. 361 5 . e . 0 3eatrica, b ib Glassalt S i o Prince Ar t of h e honour rier' 'tester ti° n fi „ c ell on the `4: - ,-,lo' hat our (, 11 Yoa rnittee ryn 3ranville , vor s of t o . l ' o ° ,;" s many = D y ebusiues' E r ie Worce s . c d id he reP A I involv e td, Afillil,lcl; mown, sv'" Job igli Sir s',. ie soldier ,;0' .s (snider ," sian wst FIFTH EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 2.15 P.M. LATEST INTELLIGENCE THE WAR. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE BATTLE AT SEDAN, DESPATCH OF KING WILLIAM TO QUEEN AUGUSTA. THE FRENCH DRIVEN BACK. FIVE VILLAGES IN FLAMES. DESPATCH OF THE KING TO THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA. ON THE BATTLE FTET.D OF SEDAN, SEPT. Ist (4.15 p.m.) The King to her Majesty the Queen Augusta, in Berlin : " Since 7.30 this morning a battle, victoriously progressing, is taking place round Sedan. The Royal Guard, the 4th, sth, 11th, and 12th Army Corps, and the Bavarian Corps are engaged. The enemy has been almost entirely driven - back into the town. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 2, 7.34 A.M. The Independance Beige publishes a telegram dated Bouillon, Thursday, which only arrived at two o'clock this morning, stating that a tremendous and evidently decisive battle was being fought since five o'clock that morning, between Mouzon and Sedan. The fight was still going on, and the result was not yet decided. The belligerents appear to maintain their respective positions. The Prussians, however, have advanced and occupied the chapel at Givonne. The villages of Bazeille, Balan, Remilly, Willer, and Serner were in flames. Numbers of dead bodies were in the River Meuse. TUESDAY'S FIGHTING. FRENCH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. PARIS, SEPT. 2. The Official Journal of to-day publishes the fol lowing :—" lu default of official accounts, which are still absolutely wanting, telegraphic despatches from Belgium, dated the 30th ult., 4.10, and which have a strong air of probability, announce that a series of engagements took place on the 30th ult., which lasted from eight a.m. to eight p.m. between Marshal MacMahon and the enemy. ;Our troops, who had left the wooded heights of Stonne, which were at ence occupied by the Prussians were attacked and at first had to retreat. From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. they vigorously resumed the offensive. As the night set in they repassed the Meuse to reform toward Don Chery on the Mezieres-road. In the various move ments of that day our troops unfortunately suffered severely. Tne Prussians on the other side burnt Mouzon, and killed a portion of the inhabitants. Our troops did also considerable damage to the enemy. The infantry of the marine distinguished themselves at Pradigee both in bravery and skill. On the following day, the 31st ult., at seven a.m., the Prussians resumed the attack on the left bank of the Meuse. and an engagement commenced between the Douzy and Don Chery. Having been drawn in by Marshal MacMahon into an angle formed by the ramparts of Sedan and the heights of the left banks of the river, they suffered vory eorious losses, and withdreit at noon towards the town of Mouzon. After several useless attempts to re-cross the Meuse, Marshal MacMahon passed, on the 31st morning, the Meuse at Mouzon. (This fact is in flat contradiction to the despatch of the King of Prussia, which announces that he repulsed the troops of Marshal MacMahon across the Meuse.) It was supposed that a fresh engagement would take place yesterday (Thursday). General Uhrich, the Commandant of Strasbourg, announces to-day that, notwithstanding the bom. bardment, the town will hold out against every attack. PARIS NEWS OF WAR. REPORTED VICTORIES OF MAC , AIATION AND BAZAINE. DEFEAT OF FRENCL REAR, GUARD. PARIS, SEPT. 1 (Evening). No official intelligence has been puLl ished to-day. Nevertheless, the evening papers unanimously assert that serious fighting has been proceeding during the last three days. A rumour was current yesterday that the victory of Marshal Bazaine on the 26th of last month near Courcelles on the road to St. Avoid has been positively re-affirmed. The Peuple Francais states that MacMahon's rearguard, under General De Failly, was attacked by Prussian troops of the Royal Guard on the day before yesterday, and that the result was favourable to the latter, although with heavy losses. Other accounts say that General De Failly was surprised by the enemy It is stated that Mac Mahon assumed the offensive Yesterday, destroyed the Prussian left wing, and forced the Crown Prince to fall back upon Clermontq la the Argonne hills. Bazaine is said not to have been engaged since the 26th of last month. Railway communication has been established be- tWeen Rheims and Epernay. No confirmation # however, has been received respecting the report that Prussian forces are still between Epernay and Chalons, marching towards Paris, REPORTED FRENCH SUCCESSES. THE PRUSSIANS DEFEATED BY MACATAHON. ]3AZAINE DRIVING THE PRUS SIANS TOWARDS SEDAN. TRE BATTLES OF BEAUMONT AND CARIGNAN. REPORTED FRENCH SUG CESSES. , BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 1. According to reports received here a fresh battle commenced to-day in the direction of Sedan, Marshal Alaci\lahon occupies a strong position. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 1, 8.45 P.M. The Belgian newspapers of this evening publish the following telegrams from BOUILLON, AUGUST 31. Fighting. commenced at nine o'clock this morning at Bazeilles ; the French are said to have captured thirty stuns. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1870. BOUILLON, SEPTEMBER 1, MORNING. The firing continues. - Marshal MacMahon is reported between Douzy and Bazeilleo, and the Prus. eians between Romilly Pont M auz i n and Balan. _ _ _ _ Marshal Bazaine is said to be driving the Prus. sians towards Sedan. The French are encamped a' La Chapelle and Gironne. No positive result has vet been received. PA KIS, SEPTEMBEIt I, 6.50 p.➢f. This evening's newspapers state that on the 26th ult. Marshal Bazaine achieved a substantial success over Prince Frederick Charles's cavalry ; that on the 30th the Prussians obtained au advantage over General de Failly's corps, but that yesterday Marshal MacMahon gained an important victory. [The correspondent of the Standard, telegraphing from Florenville at half-past two o'clock yesterday, says:—" Last night the French were repulsed. Several mitrailleuses were taken. Eleavy losses on either side on the Sedan road. At ten o'clock in the morning of August 31 the Prussians entered Carig nan. A great combat was still going on last night between Argmigny and Douzy. The fighting was furious.l THE POSITION OF MACMAHON'S ARMY. (FRENCH ACCOUNT.) PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1, 3.10 p.m. The following intelligence has been received from Mezieres, dated yesterday evening : " According to the reports sent in here, the fight ing which took place yesterday on the Meuse was renewed to-day. No details have yet come to hand as to the final result, but it is considered certain that Marshal MacMahen, who has two strongholds as his bases, namely, Mezieres and Sedan, is able to retire at any time upon whichever of these two for tresses he may prefer. The enemy's forces being still very numerous, our generals are compelled, from prudential motives, to remain in the vicinity of for towns, in order to occupy the enemy." THE BATTLES AT NOUART AND BEAUMONT. _ VARENNES, AUGUST 31. The results of yesterday's victory over Marshal MacMahon's army only become known gradually, in consequence of the great extent of the battle field. Up to the present it is ascertained that some 20 cannon, 11 mitrailleuses, and about 7,000 prisoners have fallen into our hands. VARENNES, SEP. 1, 9.20 a.m. The endeavour of Marshal MaeMahon to • relieve Metz has been thoroughly frustrated by the opera& tions of the last few days and the battle of the 30th inst. More than 20 guns were captured in the battle, and the loss of the enemy has been extraordinarily great. On our side the losses have been compara tively small. In the morning the Prussian Lancers and Hussars, the latter on foot, captured two villages in the neighbourhood of Sedan, which were occupied by a strong force of infantry. THE EMPRESS REFUSES TO LEAVE PARIS. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1. It is believed that all the Members of the Corps Diplomatique have decided to remain in Paris even in the event of a siege ; nor will the Empress leave the city. THREATS OF RETALIATION. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1, 6.45 P.M. In to-day's sitting of the Senate, Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, an• nounced that he had forwarded a note to the Foreign Powers denouncing the conduct of the Prussians with regard to the ambulances, and threatening to withdraw from the Convention of Geneva if the Prus sians continued their present proceedings. His Excel• lency also stated that he had sent another note, in reply to Count Bismarck's despatch, relative to the Corps of Franco-Tireurs and Mobile Guards, in which the French Government declares that if Prussia persists in refusing to consider them as regular soldiers, France will adopt the same course with regard to the Landwehr and Landaturm. In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body, M. Jules Favre presented a petition signed by 2,000 Al. satians resident in Paris, protesting against the savage conduct of the Prussians, and asking to be sent to relieve Strasburg. THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE. MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1. The two Burgomasters, and the Presidents of the ten District Corporations of Munich, have announced the adhesion of this capital to the recent manifesto of Berlin merchants with regard to the conditions of peace. At the same time, an address in the same sense was telegraphed to King Louis. EXCITEMENT IN BELGIUM. FLIGHT OF FRENCH CITIZENS. FROM THE BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT OF THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE." BRUSSELS, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Great emotion was caused here this afternoon' when the news spread that our Government had received a despatch from Bouillon announcing that MacMahon's army was being driven nearer and nearer the Belgian frontier. All the troops, which had arrived only yesterday from Antwerp, were at once sent off to the frontier. General Chazal's head quarters were last at Grumont, and those of the Count of Flanders are now at Philippeville. The forces at their disposal must amount to about 60,000 men. From Florenville:in Belgium the burning French villages are seen, and the entry of the Prussians into Carignan is announced. The Belgian forces are throwing skirmishers all along the frontier line. The retiring French aro said to burn all the villages they pass through in order to , cover their flight. The whole of the country adjacent to France as far as Brussels is full of French fugitives. Sauve qui pent seems to be the order of the day among the wealthier classes. The courage of the French armies, notwithstanding their reverses, cannot be doubted, but civic courage seems to be sadly wanting. Last night the Imperial Court jeweller arrived here with his family and some thirty large boxes containing his raoet precise woods. TELEGRAM FROM THE EMPEROR TO THE EMPRESS. The Globe correspondent at Paris sends the fol lowing, dated late last night, and says that he has " reason to know it to be absolutely true":— " A gigantic battle has been fought since yes terday morning somewhere in the vicinity of Argonne. The Empress received a despatch yesterday afternoon, which I will give you as it came : [' Tout va a nierveille. Tons nOS plans reussissent. Je ne doute pas d'nne victoire eclatantel. This despatch has not yet appeared in any French paper, but it is genuine nevertheless." (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) 2,500 HOUSES AND 6 CHURCHES DESTROYED BY FIRE. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 31. The evening journals announce that fires have occurred at Samsun, destroying 2,500 houses, including six churches. At Yeindje, in Macedonia, fires have also taken place, destroying 85 houses. Hall Pasha left yesterday rid France for England. AMERICA. (By Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK. SEPT. 1. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Cork arrived out yesterday. Gold closed at 1161 ; the highest quotation during the day was 1161, the lowest 1161. Sterling excliangeon L•n don, 1091 f; United States 5-20 Bonds, 1882, 1131; ditto, 1885, 1121 ; ditto, 1867, 1101; United States 10-40 Bonds, 1867, 106; Illinois Shares, 1361; Erie, 221. Cotton, middling upland, 191. Petroleum, standard white, 261. Flour, extra State, $5 60c. to $5 80c. Corn, new, $8 4c. NATIONAL DEBT OF AMERICA. (By Atlantic Cable.) WASHINGTON, SEPT. I. According to the monthly statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, published to-day, the National Debt of the United States amounts to $2,495,500,000, being a decrease $13,500,000 since the 7st of August. The cash in the Treasury amounts to $102,500000 in coin, and $37,000,000 in currency. CANADA. (By Atlantic Cable.) TORONTO, SEPT. 1. A despatch from the special correspondent of the Toronto Globe announces the safe arrival of Colonel Wolsey and the regular troops engaged in the Red River Expedi tion at Fort Garry on the 24th ult. Riel and his chief followers fled just before the troops arrived, The fort was entered by the troops without opposition, the Union Jack hoisted, and a royal salute fired. Mr. Donald Smith has taken possession of the Hudson, Bay Company's property. Warrants for the arrest of Riel and others have been applied for by private persons, and it is gipected that they will try to escape from the settlement. James Ross, Riel's Chief Justice, had previously fled, and has already arrived in Canada. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day chews the following changes as compared with that of last week : Commercial Bills Notes ... Advances ... Treasury balance ... DECREASE. INCREASE. Francs. 41,333,000 ... .. 21,625,000 900,000 5,100,000 Current accounts Cash in hand ... ... ... 37,625,000 ... ... 24,500,000 THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1, 3.30 P.M. The Bourse has been excited, but closed firmer. The final quotation of Rentes was 60f. 5c., or 20c, lower than yesterday. THE BANK OF HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 1. The Bank of Holland has reduced the rate of discount 'rom 6 per cent. to 51 per cent. ALARMING CONDITION OF THE EMPEROR. Communications received from a source worthy of the highest confidence assure us that the statements which have appeared this week as to the debilitated and doubt state of • the Emperor's health are well founded. We learn from this source that Mr. Prescott Hewett, of St. George's Hospital, has visited the Emperor professionally. The consequenceeof the painful and wearing vesical and prostatic affections of the Emperor, added to the fatigues and trials, bodily and mental, to which he has been sub jected during the recent campaign, have been such that at any moment very startling announcements might be made.—British Medical Joufnal. THE INFALLIBILITY OF I'HE POPE. COLOGNE, SEPTEMBER 1. The Cologne Gazeite contains the following : TUBINGEN, AUGUST 30. According to authentic information Bishop Hefele, of Rothenburg, is firmly determined under no circumstances to submit to the decisions of the (Ecumenical Council respecting the infallibility of the Pope. His chapter and the theological faculty of this city unanimously support him in this matter. NURNBERG, AUGUST 29. At a meeting of the Catholic professors of theology held here on the 24th instant a decided protest was agreed upon for publication against the absolute power and per sonal infallibility of the Pope. WURTEMBURG. STUTTGARDT, SEPTEMBER 1. The King of Wurtemburg has relieved Herr von Varn buhler of his functions as President of the Ministry and of the Privy Council, his Majesty at the same time ex pressing his acknowledgments of Herr von Varnbuhler's distinguished services. He is provisionally succeeded by Count Taube. SPAIN. MADRID, Ammo , 31, EVENING. The Correapondencia of this evening says that the centre of the Carlist movement is in the South of Navarre. Carberilla Ugate has 800 men with him from Navarre and the province of Alava. The Liberal party in the Basque Provinces are organising Militia. A. rumour is current that a priest has been taken, arms in hand, and shot.Slt is also asserted that the canon of the Chapter of Vittoria is at the head of a band of insur gents. The troops are actively pursuing them. The Carlists who were incarcerated at Saint Jean de Luz (France) have effected their escape. INDIA. (By British Indian Submarine Cable.) CALCUTTA, SEPTEDIBER 1. It is confidently asserted that the Viceroy has nomi nated Mr. Bayley, the Home Secretary, to the Lieu tenant-Governorship of Bengal. It is reliably reported that Allahabad is in a disturbed state, and that the authorities are taking many precau tionary measures. COMMERCIAL. —Four per Cent. Government Securities, 97k; Five per Cent. ditto, 106 x; Five-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 113 i, MAIL NEWS. GREENCASTLE, SEPTAMB3II 1. The steamer Europa, of the Anchor line, from New York, arrived in Lough Foyle at 11.20 a.m. to-day. She landed passengers, and proceeded immediately for Liver pool. The Canadian Mail steamship St. Andrew arrived in Lough Foyle to-day, embarked passengers, and proceeded for Quebec at 11.15 a.m. LIVERPOOL, SEPTIMRER 1. The West India and Pacific Company's Royal Mail steamer Darien has arrived here. Her news is unim portant. GIBRALTAR, SEPTEMBER 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, from Southampton on the 27th August, arrived at 10 p.m. yesterday, and leaves at 9 a.ru, to-day for Alexandria. All well. QUEENSTOWN, SEPTEMBER 1. The Guion steamship Minnesota arrived here from Liverpool at 3 p.m. to-day, and having embarked passen gers she sailed for New York at 3.30 p.m. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) IRISH HOME GOVERNMENT. A very large and influential meeting in favour of the Home Government movement was held yesterday after noon in Dublin. Several resolutions were proposed and adopted, amongst which was one declaring that every day's experience forcibly impressed upon the Irish people the conviction that the Imperial Parliament is unequal to the task of adequately legislating in detail for the varied local requir ments of the three kingdoms, and that the interests of Ireland are especially misunderstood, disre garded, or sacrificed in that great assembly. AID FOR THE WOUNDED. The amount received in Bristol for the war fund reaches £1,500. An influential meeting, with the object of aiding the wounded in the war, was held last evening, at the Town Hall, Christchurch. The Mayor presided, and was sup ported by the clergy and magistrates of the town. Reso lutions were carried expressing the sympathy of the meet ing with the sufferers, and appointing a committee to collect subscriptions of money and material to be for warded to the National Society. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The attendance at the Birmingham Musical Festival yesterday numbered 2,325 as against 2,228 at the last festival. The receipts were nearly £3,000 as against £2,700. At the evening concert 1,614 persons were pre sent, the number on the last occasion being 2,436. The receipts were £941 as against £1,571. THE DEFENCELESS STATE OF LIVERPOOL. The inhabitants of Liverpool are still uneasy about the defenceless state of the port. At the meeting of the Mersey Dock Board yesterday, it was resolved that the Chairman should again write to the Home Secretary, calling upon him to take measures for efficiently pro tecting the borough from a seaward attack. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN HUNTS. The foot and mouth disease has broken out on the West Common, Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire. More than one hundred and fifty cattle are suffering from the com plaint on the Port Holm, in the same county. THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION. General Lindsay telegraphed, under date of the Ist of September, to the Secretary of State for War that the Red River Expedition entered Fort Garry unopposed on the 24th of August. Reil had quitted the fort just before. The Regulars left on the 29th of August. The Expedition was welcomed by the inhabitants. All wall. 1 1 HE MONEY MARKET AxD '0 1111 ERCIAL INTELLIG ENCE. CITY. Two o'CLocx. The demand on the Stock Exchange for money has no t .. been ncreased by th e re d uc tion in the B an k rate, b ut rela , ely higher te rms are o bt a i ne d i n t h e general market, 31 t 1 being the price of three months' acceptances. BotltEnglish and Foreign Government Bonds have a dull appiaranoe.-. From the reduction of yesterday Consols have not yet recovered ; formoneythey are now 91i to 92k; and 92 to 92i for the 4th of October; New and Reduced, are sog to 91 ex div; Exchequer Bills par to ss. prem ; and Bank of England Stock, 233 to 235. India Five per Cents., 110 to 1101 ; ditto Four per Cents., 100.2 tololf ; and ditto Bonds, 10s. to 15s. prem. Foreign Government Securities are quiet, at last night's prices. Beyond a decline .of / in Lombarda-Venetian, there is no change. The present prices are :—ltalian, 49/ to 50 ; Lombardo-Venetian, 15 to 14 ; Spanish (1867), 261 to 27i ; ditto (1869), 251 to 26 ; ditto Quick silver, 72 to 74 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 421 to 43 ; ditto (1869), 54/ to 54 ; Egyptian, 74 to 75 ; Peruvian, 85 to 87 ; Argentine, 89 to 90 ; Brazilian. 89 to 10 ex div. ; Greek, 8 to 10; Honduras, 78 to 89; Japan, 96 to 98 ; Mexican, 14 to 14/ ; Portuguese, 28 to 29 ; and Russian (1870), 83/ to 841. The Queen Bee, from Otago, New Zealand, has brought £9,916. Telegrams from Lisbon mention that the Marquis d'Avila has accepted the post of Finance Minister under the new Government formed by the Bishop of Vizeu and the Marquis Sada, Bandeira. The Marquis d'Avila is re puted one of the most able statesmen in Portugal, and the confidence created by his appointment has caused Portu guese bonds on the Lisbon Exchange to advance. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Straith, Ripley, and Co., cotton and indigo brokers, an approxi mate statement of affairs was submitted, showing, in round numbers, unsecured claims to the extent of £20,000, and available assets of the estimated value of about £5,000. A resolution was unanimously adopted for winding up the estate under inspection. The Indiarubber, Guttapercha, and Telegraph Works Company (Limited) have received the order for the manufacture of the new cable which the Government have arranged to lay between Dublin and Holyhead. It is to consist of seven separate conductors, which will give a greatly increased power of transmission and will be submerged in the course of the present year. The, directors of the London Bank of Mexico and South America (Limited) have decided to recommend to the meeting of shareholders on the 20th inst. a dividend of 8 per cent. per annum. The directors of the Oude and Rohilkund Railway Company, in consequence of numerous applications from shareholders for an extension of the period allowed for taking up the new shares, are about to issue a circular stating that deposits on these shares will be received up to the 29th instant, on payment of one month's back interest. It is stated that Mr. Alderman Curtis, of Manchester, has been elected chairman of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal Company, in place of Mr. Charles King Anderson. Mr. W. Waddell, the liquidator of the Guinea Walls end Colliery Company (Limited), has declared a further dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound (making together 10s. in the pound). Messrs. Louis Cohen and Sons have notified that the definitive bonds of the Turkish 1869 loan have been ready for two months, and that holders are requested to ex change their scrip for them. MARKETS (This DAY.) MARK-LANE. Heaviness has been the feature of the grain trade at Mark-lane to-day. The supplies have been quite an ave rage, and in excess of requirements. The receipts of English wheat have been good, and a fair supply has been received from abroad. 3 The demand has been inactive at Monday's reduced quotations. Moderate supplies of barley have been on offer. Sales have progreSsed quietly, at about late rates. Malt has been dull, on former terms. Oats have been dealt in to a fair extent, at previous quotations; the supply has been good. Beans and peas have been quiet and unaltered. Flour has sold slowly, at Monday's prices. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This DAY.) ASSAULTS AND DAMAGE AT A CAFE.-Mr. John A. Liddiard, architect, of No. 47, Westbourne Park, was charged before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough Street Police-court, with being drunk, and breaking some cups and saucers at the Cafe Regence, Tichborne Street, and also with assaulting Mr. Victor Houssin, the manager, and William Prangmere, a waiter, and also with tearing the coat of the latter. Mr. Houssin said the defendant was requested at closing time to leave the house, when he refused to go. Shortly after, however, he got up to go, and while doing so pushed over a marble-top table and broke some cups and saucers ; and on his preventing his leaving he knocked him down, and also a waiter who came to his assistance. In answer to Mr. Knox, witness said the defendant was a little tipsy. William Trangmer, waiter at the Cafe Regence, gave similar evidence, and deposed to having been assaulted by the defendant on going to Mr. Houssin's assistance, and having his coat damaged to the amount of 10s. Sergeant Wells, 15 C, said the defendant was under the influence of liquor at the time. The de fendant said he pushed against the table by accident. Mr. Knox—The defendant having agreed to pay for the da mage, and Mr. Houssin having stated that he was not much hurt, fined the defendant 40s. for the assault. Mr Lockwood, of No. 4, Nottingham-terrace, Notting-hill, surveyor, was charged with being drunk, behaving in a disorderly manner, and assaulting Joseph Mallaon, porter at the Café Regence. Richard Kerr, 202, C, said that on going to the Café Royal that morning about half-past one he found the defendant trying to enter, and the porter trying to keep him out. The defendant, who was under the influence of drink, seized the porter by the arm, and tore his shirt, and climbed up the shutters and looked in, and he then took him into custody Joseph Mallaon, the porter, said that on the defendant trying to enter the café he told him he was too late, and the defendant then seized hold of him and tore his shirt, the damage being about ss. The defendant said he was waiting for a friend in the cafe, and merely looked in at the window over the shutters, when he was taken into custody. Mr. Knox ordered the defendant to pay 55., and as he considered the assault a very slight one, fined him 10s. or seven days. GROSS CRUELTY TO A HORSE IN A NIGHT CAB.—Richd. Watts, a hackney carriage driver, No. 3,624, was sum moned at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at the Westminster Police-court, for cruelly torturing a horse. A constable stated that at 11 o'clock at night on the 18th ult., he was at the King's Road entrance of Cyemorne, and saw the defendant driving a cab belonging to Joseph FeHingham, of Church Street, Chelsea ; on setting down the fare, the officer examined the horse, and found it in an emaciated condition, lame in both hind legs, greased heels, and much swollen, and several sores on the back. Mr. Wilkinson, veterinary surgeon, proved that the horse was suffering from farcy in both hind legs, sores on the back, and in fact so thoroughly weak and wretched that it was beyond all doubt totally unfit for work. As the horse had been destroyed a fine of 15s. was inflicted. CHILD MURDER AT NEWCASTLE A young woman named Mary Robson, residing with her widowed mother in Grosvenor-street, Gateshead, was delivered of a child on Wednesday. Unnoticed by any one, she seized the child and threw it out of the window into the street below, where it died. She afterwards ex pressed sorrow, and now lies in a precarious state. She is considered weak-minded. THE BATTLE OF TUESDAY. The following letter, from a correspondent d the Standard, is a somewhat confused collection of details ; but in the want of proper information about the great events of the weekevery detail is of interest. It is dated from Vaux, which on Tuesday was MacMahon's head quarters :—As you will have already seen by my tele grams, which I hope have reached you in due time, my assurance that fighting was going on at a distance, not far from the little engagement I had witnessed on Sunday morning on the railway line at Chau vancy, was perfectly correct. Soon after I had written a few lines I started for the Belgian frontier, and, after a night's rest, I have continued'my journey without other guide whatever than the noise of the cannonade I had heard; and following the neutral frontier to avoid the Prussian eclaireurs, I passed Florenville (Belgian frontier) last night, and arrived late in the evening at Carignan (Ardennes). Carignan, a little frontier town on the railway line from Sedan to Montmedy, is situate at about 16 miles from this last town, but at least 30 by the road I have followed. In the evening the greater part of Marshal MacMahon's army had arrived and were camping at Vaux, two miles from the town ; they came from Ramour, Mouzon, and Moulins; the Emperor has also arrived this morning from the same direc tion. A few of his aides-de-camp and household have been busy this morning in making arrange ments for the stay of his Majesty. I have met here several of my old acquaintances of Metz, but not one officer from the head-quarters of the Army of the Rhine ; and whets I ask for them the same invariable answer is given —we have heard nothing since the 18th ; and I am told that I left just in good time. Al though I give you these few words as the result of a mere conversation (en passant), and although it would be perhaps premature to give them too much weight, you must not forget that they come from officers on the Emperor's staff. About the different partial engagements which have taken place, I can only add what I know positively for the present. On Thursday hat some fighting too plaoe between Rethel and Stenay ; Sunday, near Buzancy (important it would seem) ; Monday (yesterday), near Mouzon, in the direction of Ramour ; and this morning, time ten o'clock, between Mouzon and Moulins, at about four miles from Vaux and six from Carignan. The country around Carignan and Vaux is very uneven and elevated. A large plateau, where is situated the farm of Labahiville, com mands a view of the encampment and of the meadows between Mouzon and Moulins, which are five miles further on. At ten o'clock this morning I visited the camp at Vaux ; there and a few miles around are assembled about 100,000 men, part of the same that I saw at Chalons and Rheims. I have not seen the marshal, and inquiries I was making have been cut short by the noise of the cannonade in the direction of Moulins ; I have at once made for the most elevated point, and have found myself at the farm of Labahiville, where the Emperor himself and his staff have been since the morning. It appears that a corps of 30,000 men is engaged between Moulins and Mouzon. Cannonading is well heard, and movements of large bodies are distinguished now and then in the middle of the smoke and of artillery fire. In the meantime the troops of the camp close to as are not moving, and seem simply on the qui five, while the convoys and carriages are at hand. It would be madness to ask for any explanation, or any details. I am lucky enough to be here, and my best policy is the greatest discretion. lam told that the object of the fighting is to drive a large Prussian body from the en campment, but I confess I cannot see it, and I cannot either understand the present position of the French army. I am told, also, that the junction with Marshal Bazaine will be soon accomplished ; but when I look at my maps, when I look at the line of territory occupied by the Prussians ; when I think that to' avoid their scouts I am obliged to come from Montmedy by turning round the Belgian fronti2r, I cannot come to this conclusion. I left at four o'clock for a house near Carignan to write my letter and telegram ; they must start at once for Florenville, and I must leave till to-morrow further news. I have just met a detachment of infantry going to Lamouilly, near Chauvancy, for retaking or protecting the railway line from the enemy. THE EMPRESS AND THE CAPITAL. Apart from the progress of the war and military events expected, which engross most people's minds to the exclu ajon of every other topic, the great question of the day in diplomatic and political circles is that of the Empress and her Government—are they, or are they not, to remain in Varis in the event of a siege ? As you have already beentold, the Empress is bent upon remaining, and hitherto the Ministers apparently have not opposed her decision with sufficient energy to shake it. A plan propOied was that part of the Ministers should remain here, and that some of the others, especially those of War and the Interior, should establish themselves at Tours, or any other town that might seem more convenient, and thence continue to organize and direct the defence .)f the country. But to this plan strong objections presented themselves. Under the old absolutist regime, the Emperor might have done whatever he liked in this way. Supposing he had chosen to remain in Paris during a siege he might have given full powers to persons in his confidence, have appointed them Lieutenant-Governors or Vice-Emperors of the other parts of France. But the country has now a Constitution which precludes such an arrangement. The Sovereign or the Regent (as at the present moment) must have the Ministers near them, and must sign the decrees the latter countersi 6 n. A vote of the Chamber is requisite to confer " extraordinary powers." If the Empress is bent on re. maining in Paris she must keep the Ministers with her. The inconveniences of such a course and its probably disastrous consequences for France have been already pointed out, Moreover, for the Empress personally it would hardly be a safe one to adopt. Paris is being armed—not only-its forts and ramparts, but its population also, to an extent at which some of the middle-classes begin to shake•their heads. " Every citizen," says the law of the 29th of August, published in to-day's Journal Qciel , "is considered to form part of the National Guard who sport• taneously presents himself for the defence of the territory, with such arms as he oan obtain, and wearing one of the distinctive signs of that body," &c. This is likely to place arms in the hands of numbers of men very ill-affected to the dynasty. Supposing the Prussians round Paris and fighting going on, nothing would be easier than to get up one of those cries so readily listened to by an excited population, and often only too hastily acted upon—a cry of treachery, for instance, of negotiations for a surrender in which the Government was alleged to be engaged. Might not this suffice to rouse revolutionary passions and to take an armed mob to the Tuileries I—Timer' Patie CorreVondent SUPPOSED MURDER BY AN ITALIAN AT CAMBER WELL. Considerable interest was manifested on Wednesday night in the neighbourhood of Camberwell on it being currently reported that an aged man had been murdered by an Italian in a fit of jealousy. As far as the facts could be ascertained, which there is every reason to be lieve are authentic, it appeared that an Italian named John Bonbenno, who was in the employ of a Mr. Smith, a framemaker, of the Strand,!and living at 32, Claren don-street, Wyndham-road, Camberwell, last night went home, and not finding his wife there, he went in search of her, and at length traced her to the Castle public-house, in the Camberwell-road, where she was in one of the compai tments with the deceased. As soon as Bon benno saw his wife, he struck her a violent blow in the face with his clenched fist, and the result of his violence was a pair of black eyes; and she then left the place. It did not attract particularly the attention of the persons at the back of the bar, but some time afterwards 'the old gentleman, whose name is Lewis, and who lived in Crown Court, Liquorpond-street, Gray's-Inn road, was found crouched up in a corner.' At first' it was imagined that he had fallen asleep, but on a closer examination it was found that he was quite dead, with several marks of violence about his head and other parts of his person. An alarm was given, and Police-constable William Harrison was called in, and with assistance lifted the dead body from the floor. Medi cal assistance was promptly procured, but life was pro nounced quite extinct. On searching the deceased's clothes, a gold watch and chain. a miniature gold locket, contain ing the portrait of a lady, a piece of coral attached to a gold chain, 10s. 30. in money, a pocket-book were found, and a pair of spectacles. Deceased was about 68 years of age. The body was at once conveyed to the Camberwell Workhouee, and a search was made for Bonbenno, but he was not to be found. Intelligence of the event, however, was immediately telegraphed from the Carter-street police-station, and Bonbenno was found in the neighbourhood of Holborn, and taken into custody on the charge of killing and slaying the deceased. CRYSTAL PALACE.—(One Shilling Day. Thurs day, September I .)—Admission by season tickets, 5,823 ; ditto on payment, 24,386; total visitors, 30,209. CACAOINE.—Cacao nibs, on-the removal of the oil, fall into powder, and this powder is cacgoine. CacAoine con tains neither sugar nor any other admixture whatever. Cacaoine makes one of the lightest, thinnest of warm drinks, and i s th e mos t d es i ra bl e o f all for use in the later hours of the day. Cacioine, by reason of the in genious method by which the oil is removed, preserves all the fine natural flavour of cacao nibs. —Prepared only by James Epps and Co., Homoitopathic Chemists, 112, Great Russell-street ; no, Piccadilly ; and 48, Thread needle-stteet ; at their Works for Dietetic Preparations, Euston-road.—ADvT. OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning THE DIFFICULTIES OF FRANCE. The Times &dares that the present generation has seen nothing that can be compared with She position of the French nation at this hour. Unhappy France ! It is as if the accumulated evils of twenty 'years had burst at once upon her. The first and most urgent need of the nation is a man who can take the helm and weather the storm. We look about, and what is the result of the quest ? The melancholy truth is revealed that France has not been in the way of rearing statesmen for the better part of a generation. She has been governed by one man, who has preferred to use as his instruments supple officials ; and whereas we all looked forward to a period of trouble and commotion when he should quit his post, even if the accident should happen at a time of profound tranquillity, we find our selves in the midst of a crisis of unequalled difficulty, and he who has been, and in name still is, master remains silent, as if he had vanished from the world. The Empire has had other aims besides the prohibition of Parliamentary Government. It has sought to divert the Press from the consideration of national politics, and the country is deprived of cultivated and intelligent cirisicism, as well as of responsible statesmen. Even local self government does not exist to serve as the germ for the re organisation of the nation, France requires to be freed from the presence of the foreigner, and to be re-edified from her foundations, and no one appears equal to either of these colossal tasks. As we look from our vantage ground cf safety upon the horrible confusion of the present moment, and the gigantic labours that must be immediately undertaken, we are overborne with sym pathy for the unhappy nation. A people of so many virtues, gifted beyond all other races with vivacity, swift ness of intelligence, and emotional energy —a people which has carried into the lowest ranks of life the education of social civility, threatens to become once more politically bankrupt. What element is it that is wanting in the national character that produces this recurrent catas trophe? If it be the passion for military display and predominance, may we hope that the fearful experience of this war will uproot it for ever, and give France stable happiness and Europe stable peace ? THE DEMAND FOR TERRITORY. The Standard says that if the annexation of Alsace Is to form a condition sine qua non of peace, the war must go on till France is not only beaten, but paralysed and dis armed ; for never, while she can maintain an army in the field, will she consent to the dismemberment of her territory. The prolongation of the war by such demands would be a matter cf the deepest regret. Already it has lasted too long; lasted until both sides are becoming ferocious and unscrupulous ; till Prussia strains the right of belligerency to the uttermost, and France is all but frenzied with hate and rage ; till the neutrality of Bel gium is in hourly peril ; till the lower classes of the French people, demoralised by panic and suspicion, threaten the owners of property, as enemies of their country, with another Jacquerie or another Revolution and Reign of Terror. The bombardment of the town of Strasburg may be a measure allowed by the laws of war, but it is one repugnant to humanity. In the American war the North certainly fired shells at the town of Charleston, as its troops burnt and sacked defenceless villages; but both acts were regarded as out rages on the feeling of the age, and proofs of the hor rible savagery engendered by three years of internecine war. In like manner, the fact that the Germans have chosen to direct their fire on the dwellings of citizens rather than on the fortifications, in the avowed hope that the sufferings inflicted on their countrymen and country women will compel the garrison to surrender, may be justified by military law ; but it is a fact on which history will pass judgment, and of which its perpetrators assuredly will not be proud here after. It proves how great is the danger that a pro tracted war should degenerate into brutal outrage and cruel reprisals. It has helped to endear Strasburg to the heart of France and to embitter the neighbouring coun try against Germany; it has awakened in. the French Chamber a passionate burst of feeling, and a resolve that, come what may, Strasburg and Alsace shall remain French ; and has rendered it simply impossible that they should ever become sincerely and loyally German. FRANCE DEFEATED. The Telegraph, speaking of the last Prussian victory, remarks that a substantial chance for the Imperial eagles lay with the divisions of MacMahon ; but every fresh item of intelligence confirms the impression that those divisions have been so broken and discomfited as to render the remains of them incapable of offering further serious resistance. If we turn our eyes to Metz, we see there a body of perhaps 100,000 soldiers, thrice defeated, and closely imprisoned under the guns of their for tress, which is full of " useless mouths," and of wounded and dying men, among whom stalk famine and disease. There are two courses between which Marshal Bazaine may choose, when the enemy sends him French messengers, to tell the truth about the rout of MacMahon. He may collect his starving troops to make one more desperate rush against the ring of steel around him ; or he may surrender where he stands, and thus spare a perfectly fruitless effu sion of blood. When the Marshal knows that the victories upon the Meuse have made his relief and his escape alike impossible, it must be hoped that he will not sacrifice the gallant regiments under his command to a mere point of pride. It is an hour of most bitter trial for the proud and beautiful metropolis—a " day of awakening" to all those grim truths which her rulers have hidden from her. Those who have talked know by this time how Germans can fight ; it waits now to see whether they can be as noble in their day of con quest as they have been self-respecting and honest on the line of march and valiant in the field of battle. THE DEFEAT OF MACMAHON. The Daily News remarks that it is difficult even for lookers-on to realize the full meaning of these stupendous events. It may almost be said that France has no longer an army. Paris has been denuded of troops as far as Imperial fears would allow, in order to swell the forces of the General who was first to relieve Metz and liberate Bazaine, and then to combine with the liberated arm y i n making the Ger mans rue the temerity . with which they were pushing on for Paris. Paris has, in fact, depended on MacMahon. The Ministry, who knew his real position, and have vigorously pushed on the preparation for the defence of Paris, may or may not have hoped much from him; but it may fairly be doubted whether even they or M. Thiers have ever really believed that Paris would be called on to defend itself against attack. The invincibility of France has become a superstition, and, like all superstition, is believed in altogether apart from reason or evidence. The Prussians could not possibly get to Paris. The soil would devour them . ; the populations on the way would hover round them and slay them in detail ; the army of MacMahon would burst upon them and cut them off ; Bazaine would plunge among them and scatter them to the winds. Up to yesterday Paris believed firmly in MacMahon, and had not given up hope of Bazaine, and tnay perhaps believe in them still. But if one fact in this war is more certain than another, it is that neither of these Generals will lead an army to the succour of the capital. So far as Paris is concerned they are out of the field. There may be a new army gathering at Lyons, there may be raw f orces mus t er i ng behind the Loire, but there is nothing whatever that can withstand a single German regiment anywhere between them and the fortifications of Paris. MccMahon did .succeed in diverting their march ; but they turned aside to crush him, and having done it, they will resume their progress to the capital. Paris must now make up its mind either to defend itself or yield to the mere summons of .the foe. The Manchester Examiner says that MacMahon may incur the risk of another battle ; perhaps more than one is probable enough, since he has no other alternative between fighting and surrender. His only chance of escape is to fight his way through ; and how despe rate that is must strike every one. The road to Paris is no longer open to him. Were he to attempt to reach it by way of Laon his pragress would certainly be barred by the Crown Prince, who has established his headquarters at Grandpre. The reports of the strength of the French army are vague, not to say conflicting. That the greatest portion of it was hastily organised is certain, and if the rumours from the Belgian frontier are trustworthy, the numbers of fugitives seeking the shelter of neutral territory is very great. THE BRITISH ARMS. The Manchester Courier, in an article on the condition of the British army, says it needs but a few moments' reflection to bring home to every mind the fact that at the present time when England's dangers are greater than they have been since the day of the news of the Indian mutiny was made public her powers of defence are smaller than ever. THE IRISH PRESS. The Irish Times considers the Prussians as the high waymen of Europe, and says that the dismemberment of Frame by the annexation of her provinces would reduce her to a third-rate power, and such an event should not for a moment be contemplated by the neutral powers of Europe. The same paper says the question of home rule for Ireland has now been fairly started, and cannot be ignored by any government or party. The Morning Mail regards the home government meeting as the expression of the desire of the Nationalists 'and Conservatives to act in concert, and considers the move ment full of hope. Other Conservative journals express the same opinion. The Freeman attaches no importance to the movement Two MIIRDERS.—A few days ago a woman named Mrs. Mitchell was found lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the door passage within her own house, No. 65, New Church-street, Southwark. She was evidently dying from wounds on the head, probably inflicted with a broom which was lying by her. The woman, how ever attributed her injuries to having been pushed down stairs by her husband. The surgeon stated that the skull was fractured with a blow such as the broom would pro duce. Th• inquest was adjourned. Mitchell, the hus band, has absconded. Another murder, which is also attributed to jealousy, was the subject of an inquiry in Southwark yesterday by the coroner. The prin cipal witness was a woman named Emma James, who had lived with the one-armed man Bailey as his wife, and left him on account of his illusage. She then entered into a similar connection with George Meyer, a porter at the Borough Market. Bailey became ac quainted with the fact ; came to the house where they were living, and having picked a quarrel wits - 'yer, stabbed him fatally in the abdomen. The = , ed a verdict of "Wilful Murder."