The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-16 00:00:00

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A. reply, it is said, has been received by the Go- Irciernment from Count Rismarck to the note of Lord Granville which accompanied the communication 'fro m M. Jules Favre. The answer is not evasive, "tit raises a question which the Provisional Govern kent of France will have to consider. BAZAINE'S CONDITION AT METZ. German acco unts of the condition of Marshal t az aine at Metz report that his troops are far eB . B demoralized than MacMahon's. Disci hne is still maintained. The men have fought bra vely in the late sorties (the last of which took Place on the 3d of September) and their t en se of military honour remains unimpaired. at there is no hope that this brave force can effect o ll elr escape. The losses have been enormous ell nan surrounding o lines have been greatly "" r engthened ; necessaries of;every kind are wanting, a nd disease makes fearful havoc in the ranks. UNITY OF GERMANY. BERLIN, TUESDAY. 6 3 , 1 1 413 y numerously attended meetings have been in Munich, which passed resolutions in the lowingfol sense :—" That as Germany, united as never bef ore, had fought her battles and beaten the enemy Without:; alli es , s h e w ould a lso conclude a peace with -2t the interferenee of neutrals. Only a peace Whi ch brings the French to a consciousness of their def eat can be lasting ; and a false generosity would be Weakness, encouraging new attempts. The re etl'e 7 of Alsace and Lorraine is the only guarantee against that French hankering after German terri -17 Which has displayed itself under every new G ; ov ernment. As the Germans went united to the a al., 8 0 shall peace also find them united, by the 4eeession of the South German States and the e gnisiti on o f l ong -l os t te rr itories. The German G~must Comprehend the entire power of the an people. One people, one army, one Diet, ht ile German constituon are the guarantees of ti ng peace for Germany and Europe. (RE UTZUS TELZGRAM2.) OCCUPATION OF COLMAR BY THE PRUSSIANS. 3 0,000 PRUSSIANS AT CREPY. PARIS, SEPT. 15. 4 decree p u bli s h e d to-day suspends the functions 01 t he Councillors of State. All the re p resen t a tives of Foreign Powers have Infor med the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that they Will remain in Paris. t , A- circular of the Minister of the Interior orders Prefects in all the French Communes to organise Gsr de Nationale Sedentaire. General Trochu has issued an order of the day, in w hich he says th a t th e number o f men required to Ti r d aily service on the ramparts will be 70,000. e says that the enceinte of Paris defended by the verte vering efforts of public spirit and 300,000 rifles is inaccessible. T he ti foll ow i ng war news • h as b een r e c e ived this eittning from the Departments : —Thirty Prussian I s a g ° °nS appeared yesterday morning before 4t ee nt-eur-Seine, but retreated before the energetic t b lt ude of the population. They were expected, ° lvever, to return soon.- yesterday the Prussians occupied Colmar. Co mmunication with Mulhouse is interrupted. S ome preparations are being made for the passage 4.,, the Rhine at Neubonrg. p A desp a t c h f rom Melun announces that several lotifisian Corps belonging to the army of the Crown ' b rinee of Prussia were in the neighbourhood of N antes Nangis). Another despatch from Senlis announces that ; 0 ,000 Prussians were at Crepy, in Valois, and tr °ng advanced guards at Nanteuil and Plessis. 4 : 11 e Gaulois believes that the negotiations with the Powers in favour of peace will have a good F RENCH PRISONERS ESCAPING TO PARIS. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 15. the lhe 9th and 10th classes, the substitutes, and a n married Militia men of all other classes are ~1 5, wed to return to their homes. d e 'he Etoile Beige announces from Virton that Prussians and prisoners, who have escaped from the r sla ns, continue to arrive in great numbers in WSeh ee A. large force have reached Marbehun, o th -liee they proceeded to Paris. Three Belgian 1 30 ,: 13 , a nies are at Virton, and patrol the neigh da'4lcod. Many Frenchmen are arrested every d are sent to be interned at Beverloo. THE MARCH ON ROME. FLORENCE, SEPT. 15. ielhe a O pinione of to-day says that Prince Odesca llat.l, t the head of the inhabitants, had hoisted the eiti., l°ll4l flag at the Castle of Bracciano. Armed . I ` la ells are marching towards Boni& tie s b e s ame journal denies that diplomatic difficul jtai:'ave arisen i n connec tio n w ith the entry of the 'lan troops into Rome. ITALY AND THE POPE. of fer „ Ro man correspondent says the ultimatum th e -" to the Pope by the Count di San Martino, Italian Envoy, was threefold : 11 %1a rl he Pope s h ou ld accep t an It a li a n garrison in 2 . and in the pro v i n ces. Qt y . ' h e foreign P a p a l t ro ops should garrison I ta Vee c hi a. 3 of Rome.l/41.011 Recasoli should be appointed Preject days Was offered to the Pope on the 9th, and five leave g jen him to c ons id er it. The Pope will not —4°lll e, but remain passive making a protest. tov Tie'l4-PARTIST RESTORATION. of a ndependance Belge says There is some . talk U na c maPartist restoration through the mterven pre of the Prussians, and with the consent of the Ilevbeill .Chambers, which were dissolved by the be e r , l 4 ; t en of the 4th of September. This is to o n t ried by the signature of a treaty of peace e ba se of the territorial cessions exacted by ernaany. The .-k A to ~,' ustrian Government is said to be about "gnise the French Republic. greatest distress prevails in Sedan, and there is so much scarcity of bread that. at Brussels a committee has been organised for the relief of the sufferers, called the Bread Committee. Trains will be sent to Sedan with bread and provisions, and the wounded •will be brought to the hospitals of the Belgian capital. A telegram in the Times, dated Berlin, Sept. 14, says :—lmmediately after the treachery at Laon the bombardment of Metz, which had been generously countermanded, was begun. During the night nine thousand grenades were fired. At Cologne, Wesel, and Spandau thousands of tents are pitched for the French prisoners. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) RETURN OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. (By British Indian Submarine Cable.) BOMBAY," SEPT. 15. A letter has been received from H.M.S. Galatea, which states that H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, after visiting the Fiji Islands will sail for England in January, 1871, nailing at the Falkland Islands and Monte Video. INDIAN HEAVY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPTEMBER 15. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, with the above mail; has arrived this morning. She brings sixty passengers, £93,870 in specie, and up wards of 2,000 packages of cargo. Her Majesty's steamer Redpole picked up on Sunday portions of the wreck of the British gunboat Trinculo, which was totally lost on the night of September 5 off Estepona through a collission with the Spanish steamer Moratin. MAIL NEWS. QUEENSTOWN, SEPTEMBER 15. The Guion United States mail steamer Nevada, from Liverpool, arrived here this morning. She embarked passengers and the latest despatches, and proceeded immediately for New York. All well. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL. An inquiry was opened yesterday at the Town Hall, Tamworth, before Mr. Dewes, district coroner, on the bodies of Father Healey, Roman Catholic priest ; Samuel Taylor, engine driver; and William Davis, stoker, who were killed in the acsident to the Irish mail on Wednes day morning. Mr. Blenkinsop, solicitor to the London and North-Western Railway, Euston, appeared for the company, assisted by Mr. Shaw, solicitor, Tamworth ; Mr. Argyle, solicitor, Tamworth, watched the case for Evans, the pointsman, who is in the custody of the police. The jury, after being sworn, visited the place of the acci dent, and were shown the various workings of the signals and points at the station. The bodies having been identi fied, evidence was taken as to the facts connected with the accident.—George Foster, a porter on the Midland Railway, was at the scene of the accident at a quarter past four, and assisted in getting the body of Mr. Healey out of the water. It lay between the engine and the buttress of the bridge.—James Higgings, pointsman on the south side of the station, said that Evans was engaged as pointsman on the opposite side of the station. The Irish mail was due at fifty-seven minutes past three, and Evans gave him notice of its ap proach, and he locked the points for the main line. He did not perceive that the train was on the siding until the assistant station-master. Stafford called to him, and then it was too late to alter them, as the train had then got half way along the siding.—Frederick Ruffe was at the scene of the accident at half-past four. He saw the body of Mr. Healey ; both thighs were broken, and he was injured on the head. He was quite dead. He also saw the body of Taylor, whose right leg was broken and his right thigh lacerated. He had otherwise received contusions on the head and was bruised across the chest. Davis was not recovered from the water for two or three hours.—Henry Stafford, assistant station master, saw. the Irish mail ap proach and pass into the siding. It was travelling about twenty-five miles an hour. He shouted to the pointsman Higgings to turn the train on to the main line, but he had not time to do it, and it passed up the coal siding and went down the embankment.—The inquest was adjourned until Saturday week. THE UPHOLLAND (WIGAN) RAILWAY ACCIDENT. The inquest into the cause of the railway accident in the Upholland Tunnel, Wigan, closed yesterday. The ury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Ball, the foreman platelayer. The evidence showed that he had broken the Company's regulations by taking out rails in the tunnel within 15 minutes of the express being due, and without having a back signalman half a mile away. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A GUNNER OF THE ROYAL NAVY. An adjnnrned inquest was held at Stonehouse yesterday afternoon concerning the death , of Samuel Shattock, a gunner in the Royal Marine Artillery. Deceased was working the atter port gun of the Inconstant last Friday morning, when she was on her way to Plymouth, and while doing so the gun fetched away,throwing the men off, and no one being there to stop its course, Shattock was knocked down and killed instantaneously. Questions were asked with the view of ascertaining if the gun should be worked when the ship was heeling over to sixteen de grees. Captain Aplin, late captain of the Inconstant, who ordered the men to go to general quarters, was examined at length, and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, adding that they were of opinion that the captain had not used sufficient discretion in going to quarters in such weather. CHILD MURDER BY A FARMER'S WIFE. An inquest was held yesterday at Shawell, near Lutter worth, on the body of Mary Ann Harrison, aged eleven months, who was murdered by her mother on Monday. It seems that the accused, who is the wife of Edward Harrison, a farmer, had been indisposed since the birth of the child. During Monday afternoon she left the house with the child, and was soon afterwards found in a pond on the farm. The pond contained about two feet of mud and one of water, and the accused was lying full length with the child under her. When extricatod the child was dead, and had evidently been quickly suffocated. A verdict of Wilful Murder was returned. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT THE TORQUAY HARBOUR WORKS. At seven o'clock yesterday morning the " traveller " by which blocks of stone are lowered into the sea, at the ex treme end of the new breakwater at Torquay, toppled over, carrying with it a portion of the stag ing, and some of the workmen. Two of the latter named Strawbridge and Veale were drowned, and two others were much so injured as to necessitate their removal to the infirmary. The bodies of the two men were recovered an hour after the accident. FATAL YACHTING ACCIDENT. Intelligence has been received at Innesfarre, Lower Lough Erne, that a yacht named the Wasp has capsized, and that Mr. Charles Echlin, the secretary of the Lough Erne Yacht Club, and three others were drowned. The occurrence was witnessed from Rosford House, but no attempt could be made to rescue the unfortunate party. Search is being made for the bodies. THE FLOODS IN THE NORTH-WEST OF SCOTLAND. The greatest damage byithe floods on the West Coast of Scotland is in the district of Tongue. In that neigh bourhood the destruction is very serious. No lives are lost, but the parish minister and some of the small tenantry suffer very seriously. The roads were torn up, several bridges are swept away, and cattle were thrown into the stream. The Duke of Sutherland has ordered a special inquiry into the damage. Communication with the district is entirely suspended by the ordinary routes and cannot be resumed until the roads and bridges are repaired. WRECK OF A SHIELDS BRIG. A televram has just been received in Shields from Lloyd's agent at Amsterdam stating that the ship Har mony,. of North Shields, has been wrecked under Eg: mond, and that the crew were all drowned. The Har mony was a brig of 251 tons. She was built at White haven in 1812. It is supposed the crew numbered from eight to ten hands, THE BRECON ELECTION PETITION. Mr. Justice Byles delivered judgment at Brecon yester daymorning, as to the costs of the Brecon election petition, which he had dismissed on the previous day. Costs, he said must follow the event, and be paid by the petitioners. His certificate to the speaker would be that there was no direct legal evidence that corrupt practices had prevailed extensively at the election to which the petition related ; nor was there reason to suppose that the withdrawal of the petition arose front collusion between the petitioner and the respowlent in order to shut out the possibility of an eleetionecommission. THE CAMBRIA IN AMERICA. The Cambria, it is stated, is at present under engage ments to sail with the Idler, Phantom, America, and Madeline, and the owner is confident of her superiority at sea to any American yacht. He has challenged any schooner yacht in America to race her in a ten knot breeze at the close of those matches, the course for all to be twenty miles from Sandy Hook and back, to to sailed under any British or New York club. Mr Ashbury will, at the close of the yachting season in America, go for a cruise in the West Indies, THE SUN, • LONDOS; FRIDAY, SEPTMVIBER 'l6, tB7O. MR. DISRAELI AT MIGHENDEn [CENTRAL' PRESS TELEGRAM.] Harvest thanksgiving services were held at the Church of St. Michael's, Hughenden, yesterday. The sermon was preached by the Rev. F. Ashpitel, rector of Great Hampden, and the offertory was devoted tp the fund for the relief of the sick and wounded in the war. After the service the first exhibition of the Hughenden Horticultural Society for the encouragement of cottage gardening was held in the park adjoining the church, in close proximity to the mansion ; and at three o'clock Mr. Disraeli, who was accompanied by Viscountess Beaconfield, distributed the prizes to the successful competitors. The weather was beautifully fine, and there was a large assemblage of spectators, for :whose pleasure the band of the Royal Bucks King's Own Militia performed several choice • selections of music. Mr. Disraeli, in distributing the prizes, said : I am very glad to meet you on :this occasion,'my good :friends and , neighbours, and this is an anniversary which I hope may often occur. But when iehappens again our meeting to day will be distinguished from any other anniversary, be cause this is the first exhibition of the Horticultural Society at Hughenden ; and, therefore, as this is our first exhibition, I _hope those who are present will be not too critical, but will remember that we have had to labour this year under very great disadvantages. In the first place, it is always a great disadvantage to commence anything, as a first trial is never so successful as a second experiment ; and, in the second place, we have had to contend this season with one of the most severe droughts that has over prevailed in this country, and no part of England, probably, has suffered much more than our county and this neighbourhood. When there is a drought those districts in which light soils prevail necessarily suffer most ; but it is not merely in our valleys that there has been a severe stress, as upon all the table lands which crown our hills in the Chiltern the stress has been such as it is very difficult to find language to describe. I can truly say that water on the Chiltern hills has been more precious than wine, and I am quite sure there are many around us who have had personal experience of the ex treme severity of the season. We must all feel how much must have been suffered from this visitation of nature, and, therefore, you must remember that what has been produced has been produced under circumstances of immense difficulty. I think the competitors may, under those circumstances, be proud of what they have placed under the tent. There are flowers and roots there which would distinguish any exhibition, but we must not for get the circumstances of difficulty under which they were produced this year. On this occasion I do not like to be entirely silent as to the principles upon which institutions of this End are founded. In my mind they are of the most beneficial character. One of the wisest men that ever lived said that God Almighty first made a garden, and indeed it is one of the choicest productions of human exertion. (Hear, hear.) Now that is perfectly felt I am sure by many that are present ; they like the sight of fair flowers and succulent roots, and they know well that in cultivating gardens they not only add to the pleasure but to the comfort and convenience of their lives. (Hear, hear.) I am proud to say that in this parish there is scarcely a cottage without a garden. Cer tainly I hope that in any place where I have any influence no such unfortunate circumstance as cottages without gardens can occur. But gardens are not only plentiful here, for they are skilfully cultivated. There is nothing more dreary than a cottage without a garden. I like to see sweet flowers in a garden, and the pleasure is not by any means diminished by having a bee-hive in a sunny corner. (Hear, hear.) Now, in all the difficulties we have had to struggle under and encounter in consequence of the peculiarity of the season, there is one matter I am very glad to see, and that is that on this occasion there are nearly two hundred exhibitors, a circumstance which proves how completely this institution has taken root in the feelings of the population. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, on the whole I think I may congratulate you upon what you nave done, and I have now the agreeable office of distributing the prizes which the committee, to whom I am much indebted, have awarded to those who have most distinguished themselves in the competition. After the successful exhibitors had received their prizes a hearty vote of thanks was awarded Mr. Disraeli and Lady Beaconsfield for the active interest they had evinced in the society. Mr. Disraeli appropriately acknowledged the compli ment, and explained that the credit of the experiment was mainly due to the vicar of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Blagdon. Dancing and other amusements were afterwards indulged in, Mr. Disraeli and his lady participating in the festivity. TRADE AND WAGES IN BIRMINGHAM. At a meeting of the ironmasters at Birmingham yes terday, a memorial of the ironworkers for an advance of wages was considered. It was unanimously resolved that as the iron trade was even less prosperous than before the war, the application could not be entertained. The gene ral opinion was that had the workmen not been stirred by agitators from the north they would not have put the memorial forward. A portion of Messrs. Wheeler and Faulkner's fruit pre serving manufactory, ;Stockport, fell yesterday. James Tierney, block printer, was killed, and two others were injured. Several others had a narrow escape. THE EMPRESS AND THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. Our Hastings correspondent tele&aphs that there is no truth in the statement that the Empress and the Prince Imperial passed through Exeter on their way to Torquay. At present it is quite undecided how long they will remain at Hastings, and they have no intention of going to Torquay. The health of the Empress has improved since her arrival at Hastings. On Wednesday her Majesty was able to take walking exercise for several hours accompanied by Madame Le Breton. The Empress proceeded overthe 'West Hill toward the village of Halton, where the air is very bracing, and charming views of sea and land can be ob tained. The Prince is in excellent health, and takes a long walk usually before breakfast. The Empress was walking on the Marine Parade be fore breakfast on Wednesday morning. The horses have not been' out of the stables except for exercise; the Empress, in fact, has not entered a carriage since her arrival at the Marine Hotel. Our Torquay correspondent_ also telegraphs that the Empress has not arrived there, and that the re port of her having arrived arose from a mistake. The lady and boy who . were taken for the imperial family were the wife and son of Colonel Alcock. It is, however, true that a villa named Neukhatel is being prepared for " a distinguished party of foreigners," who these foreigners are being kept secret. THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. The following information bai been received at the Admiralty : Admiral Sir A. Milne was off Ushant yesterday morning (14th September). He left Corcubion on the afternoon of the 10th. No further intelligence relative to the Captain bad been obtained. H.M.S. Monarch would remain a week longer at Corcubion. ILLNESS OF ➢IR. OHILDERS. It is stated that in consequence of the loss of his second son, who was drowned in the Captain, Mr. Childers, at present in Germany, has had a return of the com plaint from which he had been suffering a short time ago, and which prevented him from attending his par liamentary duties during a portion of the last session. Echo. COMMUNICATION WITH PARIS. By telegrams received at the Post-office on Wednesday night, it was stated that direct communication with Paris was stopped, and that arrangements had been made for sending the French mails, until further orders, via Rouen and Amiens, by which a delay of twelve hours would be incurred. Yesterday morning, accordingly, the usual mails from Paris and France generally, due on the pre vious evening, were received. WORKMEN'S INTBRNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders exhibitors, and others, on the 15th instant, was 5,439. A SPLENDID MAP OF PARIS has just been issued by Mr. Wyld, the Royal Geographer. It Is brilliantly coloured, and includes all the important items in regard to the forts and fortifications. It is fully up to time, and worthy of the publisher's reputation. A Greenwich waterman has picked up the body of the Rev. Mr. Hind, curate of Christ Church, Gravesend, who was drowned in the accident to the boat of the Chi chester training-ship last week. The body was found floating a little below the Royal Arsenal. ACCIDENT TO SIR R. ANSTRUTHER, M.P.—On Wednesday afternoon, Sir Robert Anstruther, M.P., while shooting along with a party at Balcaskie, near Anstruther, Fifeshire, had a narrow escape. He was in the act of withdrawing a cartridge from the gun of one of the gentlemen of the party, when the charge suddenly exploded. He was a good deal scorched about the face and head, and one of his fingers was much injured by the explosion. A MISSING REGIMENT.—When Gen.. Whimpffen after the capitulation of Sedan and of the army, announced to his officers the alternative in which they were placed, to choose between imprisonment in Prussia or not to fight against the enemy during the present war in case they should recover their liberty, an immense majority of those officers made their option for captivity, with all its consequences. At that solemn and melan choly appeal, when officers had to bring their own men, battalion after battalion, to give up their arms into the hands of the victorious enemy, many brave hearts flinched, heads which never bowed to grape-shot were then bowed by despair and the agony of humiliation. Some others, unable to bear the disgrace, disappeared with the remains of their regiments, amongst them the intrepid Colonel de Galiffet, the hero of Africa and Mexico, who cut his way through the enemy with his brave Chasseurs d'Afrique ; it is the same regiment which furnished two squadrons of French cavalry at the celebrated British charge at Balaklava. Nothing has been heard since the battle of Sedan of that brave regi ment of hunters of Africa, or of their colonel. Has he been able to rejoin Bazaine ? Has he succeeded in re treating to some safe spot ? It is not yet known. The only fact'remaining certain is his disappearance with his brave men when the word capitulation was pronounced. Correspondent of the Standard. DIE ALLEGED PLOT TO ROB THE BANK OF IRE LAND.—There is at present in circulation in the city a statement of an extraordinary kind, which does not seem to be without foundation, although the precise accuracy of the rumour is not equally certain. It is stated that amongst other things discovered in the rooms where the large seizure of arms and ammunition were recently made, in the South Main-street, was a document disclosing a plan for either robbing or blowing up (or both) the Bank of Ireland in this city. The document is said to contain a diagram of the interior of the building with points marked at which men were to be posted. and a regular scheme of operations laid down. The principal, if not the sole object, is believed to have been the abstraction of a large stock of cash which is in the establishment, for the pur poses not only of its own transactions, but of that of other banks in the city, which deposit their cash there at the close of the day's business. It is understood to have been intended to watch the bank until all the officers, save one or two, had left at the afternoon hour for closing, and then, at a given signal, for a party of sufficient strength to enter. one, two, or three at a time, with as much appearance of business as could be assumed. The officers remaining in the bank might easily be • disposed of, and the task of removing the cash be then accomplished in a quiet manner, so as to prevent all alarm. A vehicle in waiting near at hand might then convey it away to its destination. What subsequent steps were to be taken for preventing detection of the thieves, and the place to which the booty was to be removed, are purely matters of surmise. No date is stated to have been attached to the plan, and it may have been a thing contemplated in the past or pro jected for the future. At any rate, the discovery of the plot is considered opportune,'and has created no little ex citement, chiefly amongst the employes of the bank itself. The matter is, we believe, engaging the attention of the authorities, and precautions have been taken to preclude the possibility of carrying out the plot. Its execution, while no such purpose was suspected, is thought to have been not at all unlikely to be successful.—Cork Examiner. THE INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. The great match between the Tyne crew and the crew which won the prize offered to oarsmen of all nations at the Paris Exhibition took place yesterday at Montreal. In anticipation of the contest the New York Times made the following remarks :—The members of the Tyne crew are all veteran rowers, though all under thirty-five years of age. Renforth, the stroke, is the champion oarsman of England ; Taylor and Winship are the champion pair ; and Martin is well known as a sculler. These Englishmen bring their boat with them, and row in much the same style as the Oxford men did in their match with Harvard—a long, swinging sweep, with a quick recover. The St. John's men do not row as long a stroke as the Tyne crew ; and as the course is a long 'one—six miles—it is quite possible that the rowing championship may be transferred to England. Whatever may be the result of the coming race, there is very little doubt that the English have reduced rowing much more to a science than we have, as was clearly demonstrated in the Oxford and Harvard race. Our boys in that contest certainly laboured under many disadvantages, but it was the superior science of the Oxford men that carried the day in the end. It is noticeable that the boat in which the Tyne crew will probably row is steered by the bowoar, after the American fashion. After their race with the " Paris crew," the English boatmen will be willing to row against some well known American sculler. Walter Brown won a race when he was in England, and a match between him and Ren forth would be an interesting event, as would pair -oar contests between Renforth and Taylor for England, and Brown and Tyler, or Coulter, for America. THE HEALTH OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The correspondent of the Manchester Examiner says To great a change has taken place in the appearance of Napoleon that he is hardly recognisable. His face is swollen and of bilious colour. He is dark about the eyes, which seem to have no speculation in them. His gait is forced and mechanical in a word his whole appearance is such as to produce a painful feeling in the beholders. He goes to bed late and rises early. The windows of his bed chamber are often seen lighted at midnight, and before dawn he is observed walking in the garden." The correspondent of the Telegraph says the daily life of the Emperor Napoleon proceeds with its customary regu larity. In the forenoon, between eight and ten, after an early breakfast, he may be seen as a quiet-looking elderly gentleman in civilian attire—for he has laid aside his regimentals—taking his constitutional in an enjoyable manner. At two o'clock is the luncheon hour, and the dinner is at eight, when covers are laid for sixteen persons. The Governor of Cassel, Graf Monts, and the commander of Wilhelmshohe, Captain von Dupenbrock-Gruiter, commanding the squadron of hussars stationed at the place, have seats at the Imperial table reserved for them, Of which they can avail themselves daily. All the servants engaged in the kitchen, as well as those whose business it is to wait at table, have been sent from Berlin. The house steward, under whose supervision all Irmsehold details are ar ranged, is also from the Prusisan capital. The Emperor receives all the outward deference and respect which Royal etiquette demands. There is no apparent personal surveillance exercised towards him. He moves about at his own pleasure, and mostly without an attendant to remind him of his position. DIEING AT SEA.—The Scotsman says consider able excitement was created on Tuesday by the report of guns heard at sea, north from St. Abb's Head, and it was rumoured that a fight was going on between some French and German war vessels. The heights about Eysmouth were visited, but no vessel could be seen, though the firing continued. From the rapidity of the firing and number of shots heard. it had all the appearance of a return fire ; but no particulars of any kind have come to hand, and no confirmation of an engdgement having taken place has been received. NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BUCKSTONE AND THE HAYMARKET COMPANY.—An accident of a serious nature occurred to the Glasgow mail train a few days ago. A. number of trucks were being shunted about a mile from Preston, in order to allow the mail to pass. But before this could be done the express dashed up, and, coming in contact with the last truck, nearly left the metals. For tunately, the speed had been slackened, and the force of the collision was thereby considerably lessened. As it was, the whole of the steps were torn off the passenger train, and considerable damage done. The company of the Haymarket Theatre were travelling to Manchester, a.nd so greatly was the carriage in which they were jour neying damaged that they had to be transferred to another upon arriving at Preston. Beyond a severe shaking, how ever, they sustained no injury. A. WORD IN SEASON WITH COUNT BISMARCK. A correspondent of the Daily News with the German armies sends a report of a casual conversation with the Chancellor of the North German Confederation. The following extract will be found interesting:— "We spoke about the future form of Govern ment in France, and he told me that news had just been rect:;ed that a Republic had been declared at Paris. 'We don't want to interfere in the domestic affairs of France,' he said ; but our people think we must have those German provinces that they took away from us many years ago, and we must at least render them powerless to menace us by the same road that they have done for the last 20 years. We must have Metz and Strasburg ; we ask no more than that, and that is necessary to our own safety.' I told him that I had often wondered at the patience of the Prussians. 'We are a very patient people,' he replied. ' They have been telling us that if we would not fight they would compel us to do so ; but we are like the father of a family who, after suffering many insults, at last consents th fight a duel, but only on condition that the struggle shall be decisive and final.' " THE PROGRESS OF THE PRUSSIANS. Communication with Lyons by railway has been suspended on account of the appearance of a party of IThlans at Montereau, a town situated at the confluence of the- Yonne and the Seine, and on the Paris and Lyons Railway. Montereau is about forty miles from Paris, in a south-easterly direction. The TJhlans above mentioned had a skirmish with some Francs-tireurs, and were 'driven off, with a loss of ten killed and a like number wounded. The railway bridge at Corbeil, be tween Melun and Paris, has been blown up by the French. Proceeding a little further north from Montereau we learn that official intelligence has been received by the French Government to the effect that on the 13th a second regiment of Uhlans passed through Provins, and marched towards Nangis, Courtecroux, and Vieux Champagne, which last two places are villages a little to the north of the Provins and Melun road. At Melun and Saguy we learn that Prussian scouts appeared on the 12th. Telegraphic communication with Meaux is cut off, probably by the French themselves. The Prussians are reported to be in force at Coul miers, which is about forty miles from Paris on the Sezanne road. The Prussians are reported to be advancing by Montreuil, a small place a little to the south of the Troyes and Bar ser Aube Railway, and about half-way between these two places ; by Crespy on the Villers Cotterets and Senlis road, and by Compiegne on the junction of the roads from La Fere and Soissons to Clermont, at which latter place a detachment appeared a few days ago. We also know that they are ad vancing by Epernay, Chateau Thierry, an La Pert& We may, therefore, conclude that their right column will ap proach Paris by the road which runs from Compiegne by Clermont and Beaumont to St. Denis, their left column by he Montereau and Melun road, the remaining column s marching by Sezanne, La Ferte, Villiers Cotterets, and Senlis. Whether they will cross the Seine or not we will consider presently. Information has arrived to the effect that 2,500 Bavarians are at Vancoulers, and 2,000 at Void. Vancoulers is situated on the Meuse, where the road from Toul to Joinville crosses it, and only a few miles from the frontier ; and Void is a small place a little to the north of Vancoulers. From the fact of these troops being Bava rians, we imagine that they must be the escort of the siege train, which we last heard of as close to Toul. That for tress still holds out. We were told the other day that this gallant little town had been attacked furiously for sixteen hours on the 10th, and that the Prussians suffered a cost of 10,000 men. A more recent official account declares that the bombardment lasted only nine hours, and makes no mention of the 10,000 Prussian casualties, thus confirming our opinion, expressed at the time, that we might strike off a cypher from the number of Prussians asserted to be killed and wounded. Toul has, however, whatever may be the number of Prussians killed, done her share of the work by hindering the passage of the Prussian siege train. It is stated that if the town is not soon captured a fresh road will have to be constructed or a circuitous route followed. We may assume from the Bavarians being at Vaucoulenrs and Void that the siege train has, in despair of the speedy fall of Toul, been taken by a circuitous route, and that it has already reached the Meuse, and is and this time within 160 miles by road of Paris. This distance, however, is by no means a measure of the time required to bring it up, for it is probable that at Commercy it will be embarked on the railway. A Prussian siege train consists ordinarily of 142 pieces, many of them of such weight that it is doubtful whether they can be transported by the ordinary rolling stock. Granting, however, that this difficulty can be overcome, the process of transporting so many and such heavy guns, with all their appurtenances, and ammunition, must be a very slow one. We do not be lieve that they could proceed at a greater rate than ten miles an hour, or that the whole of them could reach the environs of Paris, considering the difficulty of preparing and loading the trucks, in less than ten days. It will be necessary, moreover, to echelon strong detachments of troops all along the railway as guards, and when their guns have arrived near Paris many thousands of horses and much time and labour will be required to place them in posi tion. If, therefore, even the siege train was at Vaucouleurs on the 13th, it would be at least a fortnight from that date before the first lot of heavy guns could be placed in battery. The fire consequently of anything but field pieces will not in all human probability be opened on the forts before the 27th. As to the field guns, they could do nothing against the heavy pieces mounted on the ramparts of the forts. We may sum up the progress of the army of the siege by saying that the different columns.are closing up, and that by the 16th or 17th they will be concentrated within sight of the outer defences of Paris, and that about the 23rd the real business of the siege will begin.—Standard. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Paris, says :—" I am inclined to think that the siege of Paris will prove a far more protracted affair than appears to be supposed by those who believe, with Alphonse Karr, that Paris would surrender rather than do without green peas. Your special correspondent will probably describe the appearance of the National Guard reviewed to-day by General Trochu. Whether they are the sort of men the general would like to lead into the field is a question I will not enter upon, but I have no doubt they are quite able to hold their own behind the protec tion of fortifications, and their numbers fairly surprise me. There could not have been less than 150,000 men present. The battalions consist of eight companies, and most of the companies were two hundred strong. They received Trochu enthusiastically ; there were a good many cries of Vive la Republique !' but a good many more of Wive la France !' and unanimous shouts of ' A bas la Prusse 1' General Trochu rode rapidly along the front of the battalions, giving a quick searching glance at the men ; he looked extremely stern. Several of the battalions are commanded by retired rear-admirals and old naval officers. Most of them wisely did their duty on foot, but one of these gallant veterans had hoisted himsel on a raw-boned horse, on which his per formances strongly reminded me of Commodore Trunnion. The men, I have said, were very loud in expressing their determination to fight, and after this day's display the sense of amour propre, which is the predominating feeling among the Parisians, would prevent the easy surrender which is antici pated in some quarters, where the power of an idea, even though that idea be a vain one, over the French mind is utterly ignored. The Mobiles continue to come in in shoals. They are being supplied with kit and uniforms with a rapidity which reflects the highest credit on the Government. Of course their drill may not be perfect, but they are stouter fellows than are to be met within anyaverage regiment of the line,and unquestionably march infinitely better. There are 100,000 of them, formed into four divisions. Of their appear ance, however, even in their present semi -uniformed condition, no commander need be ashamed. The Prussians appear to be moving, no t on, but round Paris. The official announcement given yesterday of their being at Noisy le Sec, about five miles from Paris, was not true. The news was telegraphed by Admiral Soisset, who commands the fort there, but he reported that the bridge had been cut, not at Noisy le Sec, but at Noisy le Grand, a town in Seine-et-Marne, twenty-seven miles off. To-day we hear of the bridge at Corbeil having been blown up (no doubt by the French), and that the bridge of Creil (thirty-one miles from Paris) has shared the same fate. The northern line, therefore, now only communi cates with Belgium and Calais vid Pontoise and Pont St. Ouen, and when these bridges go, probably to-night, after the mail train which carries this letter has passed over them, there will remain but a precarious communica tion between Paris and London vid Rouen. The old Norman city is expected to be visited by Count Bis marck's requisitionaries,' and I hear that in consequence there is a perfect panic 'all along the coast." SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE DIFFICULTIES OF PEACE. The Times remarks that the ignorance of the French as to the feelings and temper of Germany, add the un willingness of all parties and classes to confess that any one but the scapegoat Emperor is responsible for the present war, form the first great obstacle to peace. Yet there is hope that a day or two, could a day or two be secured, would do much to remove this hindrance. War is a wonderful instructor, and if it has not at once taught Frenchmen that others have rights as well as themselves, it has taught them that others have powers which must be respected. There are difficulties on the German side also. The Germans are clearly warranted in insisting upon a sufficient safeguard against outbreaks of this mischievous disposition of lheir neighbours ; but they are not at pre sent likely to see very clearly what is the best safe guard on which they should insist. A little time would enable the King and Count Bismarck to overcome with ease what we doubt not they will overcome in any case, the unmeasured demand s o f p o p u l ar feel ing in Germany, and to reconcile the German na tion to guarantees which are apparently more moderate, but really more trustworthy. If there is a real desire in Paris to treat for peace, and a readiness to submit to the just penalties France must pay for her wanton attack on Germany, these is yet . a hope that peace may be secured. The time for action is too short as it is to allow of more than the faintest hope that Paris may be spared the devasta tion of a siege, and the true patriot would sacrifice all personal and party ends if by promptly using the time that is left he could avert this terrible calamity. THE TERMS OF PEACE. The Telegraph asks if Metz and Strasbourg, Phalsbourg and Bitene, were made into open places, would not Ger many be stronger by avoiding future difficulties with recalcitrant Alsatians and Lotharingians than by reversing the axiom which she enforced at Holstein, and by dismembering France ? Nor, after all, though the guilty aggression of France gives her victors all but unlimited claims, is it exclusively a question for German statesmen. Even they must, in the end, submit to the supreme power of civili-ed opinion ; the new order which they impose must be in harmony with morality, or it will fall to nought ; it must be shaped by nobler thoughts than those of vengeance and pride, or it will not stand. To-slay they are arbiters of the situation; but Europe, in turn, will be arbitress of the conduct„and what she demands—representing Christianity and humanity—is that there shall come forth from this horrible war, to reconcile it to our patience and our conscience, the grounds of an universal peace, of a repose for the agitated, despairing, bleeding race. Well, then, will the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine insure such [a blessed consummation, or will immortals and not, on the contrary, stamp hatred as and render troubles in Europe chronic ? Germany must answer that question to the satisfaction of Europe before she makes Teuton towns of Metz and Strasburg. The victors themselves are not so great or so potent to-day that they can deride the agony of a land like France, can disregard the affinities of 2,000,000 of her people, and cut their pound of flesh from nearest her heart, blood and all. They demand compensation and guarantees from the aggressive nation which has condemned Europe, through all these past years, to th e i n t o l era bl e b ur d en f warlike preparations. So far they do justly; and we say that France must turn to them, not to the neutral Powers, to be forgiven. But Europe has also demands upon the victor ; it asks, and, after the close of the war, in the deliberate calm of peace, it will expect conditions of a genuine and lasting disarmament as the issue of such successes. The Manchester Courier hopes the neutral Powers will intervene to secure for M. Thiers a patient hearing from the Prussian Government, and obtain for France terms not disgracefully humiliating. Warmly though such consummation may be desired, it is almost hopeless under present circumstances. It is to be feared that the war must proceed, and the next news will probably be that the siege of Paris has commenced in earnest. The Irish Times cannot think German statesmen have any serious intention of annexing Alsace and Lorraine. They cannot desire possession of a French Poland. If they were to insist on dismantling Metz and the surrender of Strasburg as a Prussian Gibraltar, few would call this an unreasonable use of the right of con quest. The Freeman's Journal says the conditions sketched in Berlin are not only unreasonable,but largely partake of the preposterous, while those shadowed forth in the Paris organs are equally untenable and absurd. THE MISSION OF M. THIERS. The Daily News, in commentingupon the mission of M. Thiers to England, says :—The irony of Fate it surely is which has brought M. Thiers to England to seek our good offices in obtaining for his country favourable terms of peace from Germany. Not to go far back into his career as a statesman, not to make any allu sion to his influence as a teacher of history,kwe cart hardly forget how bitterly M. Thiers assailed the Emperor Napoleon's Government in 1866 because it had not done something towards the reduction and dismemberment of Prussia. M. Thiers then insisted over and over again that the interest of France demanded a policy which should keep Germany divided and weak ; and he declared a little prematurely, as it now turns out, that, in allowing the consolidation of Germany, the Emperor's Government had left itself no other blunder to commit. It would be cruel, perhaps, now to point out to M. Thiers that, according to his own political theory, Ger many ought to insist on weakening and dividing France ; that if the principle of reasonable self-preservation compelled France to prevent Germany from becoming strong, surely the same principle would justify Germany in endeavouring to reduce the strength of France. Germany, however, may be expected to have magnanimity enough not to act towards France in the spirit which M. Tlaisrs would have had France display towards Germany. M. Thiers is not France ; and, in ady case, "tu l'as voulu, Georges Dandin," would hardly be a statesmanlike way of dis posing of a great national question. For our selves we sincerely hope that the German statesmen and people may be able to see their way towards accepting conditions of peace which shall not involve annexations of territory. The Standard says that in the absence of any trust worthy information as to the object of M. Thiers' visit to London it is idle to speculate on the chances of his suc cess. It is difficult to suppose that M. Thiers has been sent over by M. Jules Favre merely to ask the recognition of the British Government for the French Republic. The Republic must have other cares just now than to trouble itself about its formal diplomatic character, and M. Thiers, as one of those who protested against the manner in which the recent coup d'etat was effected, could hardly have been selected as its apologist to the Court of St. James. The vete ran Orleanist statesman and Bonapartist historian, though he has acted with the Republican party for some time past, has never been considered as identified with Republican principles. Under ordinary circumstances he would not be a very apt representative of a party which has declared that it had no share in the war. M. Thiers' only objection to the war was that it was made at the wrong time. He has contributed as much as any one else to foster that unhappy spirit of restlessness and of jealousy to which the present calamities of France are mainly due. He has been one of the chief apostles of chauvinisme, and he has no right to detach himself from that unfortunate policy which has brought the third Napoleon to his ruin. In some respects, however, the very character which M. Thiers has earned in the past fits him pecu liarly to be an ambassador of peace. Whether he is an apt representative of the Republic or not, he is not without claims to speak on behalf of that France which certainly as much as the Emperor is responsible for the present war. We may be sure that the proposals of which M. Thiers is the bearer involve the very uttermost concessions which France is prepared to make in order to rid her soil of the foreign invader, and to spare Paris the horrors of a siege. We do not yet know what is the pre cise nature of those proposals, but it is probable that the preliminary rumours as to their character are substantially correct. France is ready to concede all for which Germany took up arms, and to compen sate the latter for the costs of the war. We believe that France is prepared to go further, and to give up to Prussia one-half of her iron-clad fleet. She may even con sent, in order to show her sincerity for peace, to dismantle the fortresses of Metz and Strasburg. The terms are hard for a proud nation to concede, and they are such as two months ago would have been considered beyond the wildest dreams of even M. de Bismarck's ambition. They satisfy all the most ardent longings of the German heart. They ensure a large sum of money to the visitors. They give them at least the shell of a navy, and they secure the safety of the Rhine border in future. ITALY AND ROME. Referring to the Roman question the Manchester Ex aminer observes that compromises which were possible some years ago are out of dat e now. F or V i ctor Emmanuel, especially, the only safe course is a bold and straightfor ward one. He must do for Italy and Rome all that a Re public would do on pain of bringing down his own throne. His waning popularity has been restored in a moment by the march of this army on the Papal States. He cannot afford the reaction which would ensue if, through an y unwort h y t i m idit y or short-sighted subtlety of policy, he should now stop short of the com plete and final crowning of the Italian edifice. The new ship Kron Prinz Freiderich Wilhelm, 2,240 tons, built by Messrs. Caird and Co. for the North German Lloyd's steam-packet service, was launched at Greenock. The tonnage of the new ship is 2,240, her length is 300 feet, the breadth of her beam is 39 feet, and her depth 32 feet. TWO LADIES LOST ON THE SCOTCH,HILLS.-011 Saturday last, two young ladies left Ardsheal House, near Ballachulish, in company with the lessee, Captain Price, for a shooting excursion on the hill of Acharn, Duror. Late in the evening, they had mistaken the beat the captain took, and wandered through the hill, where they continued to walk about all night, exposed to the cold, without food or shelter. A number of men assembled, and at once commenced a thorough and sys tematic search of the hill which surrounds the farm. As the searchers were making their way in an extended line through the heather, a faint moaning sound was heard and the barking of a little dog. Proceeding in the direc tion of the sound, they found the two ladies seated upon the wet ground, moaning to themselves, being apparently ' utterly exhausted with their previous wandering.—North British Mail. Nv. 0. lent _co .....' __...,. derS , aided' SUP" tiOrtg a Dina inga.