The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-27 00:00:00

ECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 11.45 A. M . LATEST INTELLIGENCE. rr FIE WAR. STATE OF AFFAIRS IN PARIS. Prom the l a t es t c h ance commun i 3a ti on s from Paris it would appear that some difficulty has arisen i n ct the capital, but only on the part of the extreme and comparatively insignificant faction. The rin body o f the population rema i ns fi rm t o it s , of seditious and g i ves no suppor t to the posters ° Bedi tious placards, who are undeniably trouble - So t „ al e) but n o t t o any very ser i ous ex tent. The escaped travellers," who bring such alarming accounts, would not be likely to underrate the gra vity of the position from which they fled. It seems certain from a letter in the Cologne Gazette that th e commun i ca ti o n from Bazaine, Which is said to have contained proposals for a sur `vllder, A referred only to some minor matter. 1 the beginnin g of the siege of Strasburg, General Ulrich was told that permission would be B :fr allted ) if asked, for women, children, and TOY persons to leave the fortress. General co eli, to the offer of this boon, replied that be not pick and choose amongst 80,000 persons. NEW FRENCH DECEMBER TROUBLES IN PARIS, NEW FRENCH DECLARATION. REPORTED TROUBLES IN PARIS. FRENCH SUCCESSES NEAR METZ. APPROACHING FALL OF STRASBURG. DE CLARATION AGAINST THE CESSION OF TERRITORY. TOURS, MONDAY (NOON). : 118 Ministers of the Provisional Government °renkain in Paris have declared, in a new pro anlation, that not an inch of territory nor a atone of the fortresses shall be given up to Ger ..uan Y. Ca dres for four new companies are to be created in e 11 depot of regiments of infantry, and two in each de pot of battali ons o f Chasseurs-h-pied. G e neral Trochu has issued a proclamation , in ith, 4101 ,„ Ich he decrees the punishment of death on all , e 'era who a b an d on their posts in presence of the 'enemy , who refuse to obey orders to march against m e enema, or who pillage or destroy munitions of .:- This p roc l ama tion has been caused by the con duct of th e Z ouaves w ho fled in the combat at the heights of Ch a tillon, to the south of Paris, on th e t 20 th inst. Great havoc is said to have been on tha t °neasion caused in the enemy's ranks by the fire °ln th e f orts. a i Rochefort and M. Flourens are organising a %I%t e m of barricades in Paris. The Mobile Guards are now reported to be armed with guns of - great -power and new construction. — Telegraph 7 elegram. 11 EPORTED TROUBLES IN PARIS. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 26,' (4.50 P.M.) a T ravelle rs esca p e d from Paris report complete * redlY in that city. Day and night guns are b e . The Zouaves who ran away in action had el l executed in the oper , streets,—Daily 11 ews eiegr am. F RENCHMEN NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE FRANCE. ta L loyd's agent at Calais sends the following infor tiati" :—" The police received instructions last 1 4 4 not t o allow any Frenchman to embark, W hether he was provided with a passport or not." TAE FIGHTING BEFORE METZ. t th e special correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette o hs from Namur , te g r ap p dated Sunday, as follows: % l i g h ting was going on near Metz, on Friday from Ile in the morning till late at night, but the a mours are so contradictory that it is impossible to ic l e ertain the truth about it. It is positive, however, k a t the P russ i an b arrac k camps at Mezieres and Qlehniont have been burned, and that parties of el kan infantry were drawn within reach of the de s of Thionville, and were received with shells. The garrison of Thionville has also captured a train co Provisio ns 100 carr i ages s trong. It appears that el niunications between Thionville and Hayanges, t.,, tu lerly in the hands of the Prussians, are restored. uand People have arrived thence at Luxemburg. THE SIEGE OF METZ. BEFORE METZ, SEPT. 26. Nothing is knows here of any offer to capitulate 'III the part of Marshal J3azaine. BERLIN, SEPT. 26, ( 9 PAL) fo A ccording to advices from the German army be ;e Metz, a Prussian officer, who had a parley with ardial Bazaine a few days ago with the object of Putting an end to the practice of fi r i ng upon out trs, was informed by the Marshal that he sought t 0 Preserve the fortress and the army under his lilltand for the service of the Emperor Napoleon, and that h e h a d no thi n g to do with the Republic eat abl i B hed in Paris.—Daily News Telegram. BERLIN, SEPT. 26, (8.7 p.m.) Count de Palikao has arrived at Wilhelwshohe. o f '8 credibly reported that to a Prussian of ° jai, who went to Metz under a flag truce to stop picket shooting, Marshal to aza ine frankly declared that he was striving s ere the army and fortress for the Emperor, and dp at he knew nothing of the Republic. M. Favre of see the King. The headquarters of the : (11 " , Prince of Saxony and the Fourth Army 11 4 13 s are at Grand Tremblay, ten miles north of lis.—Daily News Telegram. 'II E SIEGE OF STRASBURG. OARLSRIME, SEPT. 26, (11.55.) Were the Swiss delegates left Strasburg they "et'e told by Governor Uhrich that it was im -1)(j:ls1ble he could hold out much longer, and t hat the en d must come soo n. He said he had ge.ne through several campaigns, and had served ~t h e Climes, but had never witnessed nor under rib so torrible siege. The municipality had : so lved, w: th. th e o,overnor's permission, to tl: 3 p d depu't,ation 'to Pftris to represent h i :, conditi on ,of affairs, And to request u nctions. m. Valentin, the new Repub licank Prefect, and M. Englehart, the new 01,7. ° l ') had e. cattle been pclrmii:teci to enter the City. th in g to the rigorous _measures of the authorities, localised within the plague has been 1 . 0 its t p B °f forty further spread • parishes,„ and it is believed that no w effectually 'te'vented, in Alsace It is st tati P r oposed to establish an ad interim ,Adulini oceu°l' ill those French departments wh ich are per Pled by the German armies, but are not to be permanently held by Germany. The -Grand Duke ONDAY• oert Bay/ - practical associates 1, he said, 'in towns Personal all con generally nunicipa I d to saw- r engineer 3 simple h . weak power. 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Heavy work was got through during last night. The breach has been enlarged. Daily News Telegram. THE GERMANS BEFORE PARIS. (OFFICIAL GERMAN DESPATCHES.) FERRIERES, SEPT. 25. With the exception of a few unimportant out post skirmishes before Paris nothing new has taken place. VERSAILLES, SEPT. 25. The Third Army has taken up its position before Paris. Nothing serious has been attempted by the enemy. Three gunboats have appeared upon the Seine. Everywhere ' entrenclunc.:t3 and barricades are observable. PRUSSIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, FERRIERES, SEPT. 26 Every preparation is being made for a prolonged stay of the Royal head-quarters in this place. Three telegraph lines have been erected here to keep up communication between the German armies. M. Jules Favre during his stay here conferred only with Count Bismarck, and not with Count Moltke at all. NARROW ESCAPE OF CAPTAIN JOHNSTON. NAMUR, SEPT. 26. Le Francais of Sept. 21 says: " This morning, about eleven o'clock, Captain Johnston, British Government courier, was seized by the mob on the .Faubourg St. Honore. He made immediate request to be conducted to be Embassy, where, on arriving in the courtyard, the concierge de clared that Captain Johnston had been for twenty-five years Queen's messenger. The mob refused to be satisfied with this explanation, de nouncing Captain Johnston as a spy paid by the British Government to furnish information to the Prussians. The mob by this time had largely in creased in numbers, and without further ceremony conducted Captain Johnston to the military post of the Elyge. On arriving there, - the officer in charge was enabled, not without difficulty, to calm and disperse the enraged crowd. Captain Johnston had the previous day been arrested at St. Germain-en- Laye by the Prussian troops, and had only just reached Paris." THE FRENCH PRISONERS IN GERMANY. WIESBADEN, SEPT. 26. A house has been taken here for the reception of Marshal MacMahon. DRESDEN, SEPT. 25. Thousands of prisoners are passing through here on their way to Silesia. Many of them belonged to MaeMahon's army, and are loud in their expressions of contempt for Napoleon and the surrender of Sedan. The popular majority in Saxony are in favour of the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine. THE TREATMENT OF THE WOUNDED. BERLIN, SEPT. 26 (8 P Herr Tethamo, of the Jobanniter Corps, has pub lished a statement defending the inhabitants of Bel gium, and especially those of Bouillon, against the attacks of the German press in regard to their treat ment of German wounded. ITALY AND ROME. ROME, i\ION DAY (11 A. 31.) Perfect order prevails here. The promenade of the Pincio is enormously crowded. Madame Bonaparte, who is a nun in the • Convent of the Sacred Heart, sent for her acquaint ance, General Masi, the Commandant in _Rome, to claim his protection in the event of any unpleasant demonstrations against the Imperial family of France; but the General, who at once hastened to the Con vent, succeeded in perfectly reassuring the Princess. Many carriages have been passing along, conveying Monsignori and Cardinals to the Vatican. The Italian troops, as they passed, rendered them honour by presenting anus. The Holy Father is at once astonished and satisfied with the behaviour of the Royal troops since the entered the City; and he will drive to-morrow through the streets of Rome.-7e/egraph. ROME, SEPT. 26. The promenade of the Corso, and the Pincian Hill, are enormously crowded. Thousands have collected round the bands to hear the military MUSIC. The Pope having expressed a desire to take a drive, the Cardinals observed thit it was too soon to do so at present. Cardinal Patrizzi has openly expressed the opinion that he never saw more religious troops than the Italian. Rome is governed by the Communal Council. Both foreigners and Romans arc struck by the fact that the transition from the old to the new system should have occurred with tio little disturbance of order. FLORENCE, SEPT. 22, (7.15 p.m.) The losses sustained by ti,e Italian troops in the fight before Rome are 22 killed, including 3 officers, and 117 wounded, including 5 officers 9,300 prisoners were taken—namely, 4,800 native troops and 4,500 foreigners ; making a total of 10,700 with those taken previously. In consequence of the disturbances in the Leo nine City caused by the attitude of the population towards the Pontifical gendarmes, the Pope has requested General Cadorna to send troops thither to maintain order. General Cadorna complied with • this request. SKIRMISH WITH CAVALRY. ORLEANS, SEPT. 25 (Evening). A. series of cavalry skirmishes has occurred at Bazoches and i% nter.ay. It is stated that Prince Albert occupies Bazoches with 24 squadron of cavalry and 23 guns. EQUIPMENT OF VOLUNTEERS. (OFFICIAL.) HAVRE, SEPT. 25. The Municipal Council of Havre, indignant at the demands of the Prussians, voted this evening that a call shoUld be made for tha emohnent of Volunteers, who would be armed and equipt.cd by the Municipality, which would also take care of their families, for which purpose a loan of one million francs was to be raised. Great enthusiasm prevails, and also a determina tion to drive out the enemy or perish. DEFENCE OF ORLEANS AND TOURS. TOURS, bunday Night Orleans will be defended by Frencl; cavalry Tours will have to depend for f esistaneo upon the patriotism of the citizens. The enemy has not reappeared iu force in the Haute-Marne. Advices have been received that the garrison of Thionville continue to make vigorous forties. 4mike de C r irardin has left for La Vendee. AMIENS, SUNDAY NIGHT. The Prefect of the Department of the Somme has iTsucci an a Yre - ss to the inhabitants, stating that, all hopes of peace having disappeared, there remains but one duty for Frenchmen —namely, war to the knife. All men must rise and chase the enemy who pollutes the soil of - France, and wishes to dismember her. A general rising, and valour equal to that displayed in 1792, can alone save the country. The address concludes : " Arise citizens, enrol under the flags of the Re public, and show Prussia that she will fln.l a tomb where she hoped to complete the abasement and ruin of France." TOURS, SUNDAY NIGHT, The courtier Who arrived here yesterday from Paris is expected to be the last that will be enabled to leave the city. The Prefects of the Departments of the West have formed a kind of confederation for organizing the national defences. _ The Council of •Calvados has voted an appropria tion of 3,000,000 f. for the purchase of arms and for the defence of the country. EXCITEMENT IN BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Sunday night The grave intelligence of the failure of petit negotiatiions produced great excitement here, and large crowds of people assembled on the Place de la Monnaie, discussing the condition of affairs. A band of workmen paraded the city last night singing the Marseillaise, anal were answered by some isolated cries of " Vive la France." No disturbances took place. _ . . • - General Sebieder has died in Brussels, and his body has been sent to Germany. REBUILDING THE CITADEL OF LAON. The Prussians have set all the workmen at Laon to work in rebuilding the citadel which was blown up. General Skerremin is still quartered as a prisoner at the hospital here. ENGAGEMENT NEAR MANTES. ROUEN, Saturday. There was an engagement yesterday near Mantes. The Prussians have burnt a village because the inhabitants had fired upon and killed three .Prussians. . The feeling of indignation is general. rising, and but one cry is heard from all, or Lliberty 1" Rouen " Death BAVARIA IN DANGER. The negotiations respecting the entry of Bavaria into the new Germanic Confederation are becoming somewhat animated. The Catholic party now in power, who are very jealous of Bavarian independ ence, are desirous of exacting special condition favour of their country. They wish for a Bavarian Secretary of Legation to be at tached to the North German Embassies, for a direct share in peace negotiations, and likewise i❑ the declaration of war. The Bavarian Liberals, on the other hand, sea in these exceptional privileges a source of danger. They urge that such conditions will lead to diSputes with the rest of the Bund, and may involve Bavaria in something like the fate of Hanover. The tone of the German Press is now much more pacifically inclined. The Cologne Gazette hints indirectly at the advisability of coming to terms by attributing the war chiefly, if not entirely, to the late Government. It says the Paris Press at first treated the Hohenzollern candidature as harmless, and no public opinion pronounced for war, until the French Government had pushed on its demands, and rendet ed an outbreak inevitable. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SEPT. 26 (1 P.m.) In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Reichs rath the motion of Herr Rechbaner, that the election of the President should be postponed until the arrival of the Bohemian Deputies, was rejected by 68 against 67 votes. Herr Alayrhofer criticised the course the Government had pursued in Bohemia, and the di-missal of two Go vernors for supporting Herr Rechbaner's motion in their character as Deputies of the Reichsrath. His speech was received with applause by the Left and the galleries. After the rejection of Herr Rechbaner's motion, the election of the President was proceeded with, each mem ber being summoned by name to give his vote. No party in the• House abstained from voting, and Herr Hopffen was elected President by a great majority, and Herr Vidulich and Count Kuenburg Vice-Presidents. The draft of the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne was moved by her Pascotini, and adopted by a majority of one. Herr Rechbaner then rose, he said, in the name of all those who are faithful to the Constitution, and he de clared that those in behalf of whom he spoke could not duly enter upon the consideration of the bills which were to be brought before the Reichsrath so long as the Govern ment had not exhausted all possible means for obtaining the presence of the Bohemian Deputies He therefore submitted a resolution, which he asked should be declared urgent, calling upon the Government to bring about the adjournment of the Reichsrath. The demand for " urgency" was rejected. The next sitting will be held to-day, the order of the day being the second reading the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne. BELGIUM, BRUSSELS, SEPT. 26 (EVENING) In to-day's sitting of the Senate, M. de Solvyns pro tested against the attack made by Italy upon the Pope. He sought to compare the position of the Roman States, subjected to the right of the strongest to the position in which Belgium might find herself under certain circum stances ; and he asked whether the Government had taken steps to peotect the return of the Belgians in the service of the Pope to their native country. Baron D'Anethan, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, re plied that Belgium, as a neutral State, was obliged to act with prudence, but that nevertheless instructions had been sent to the Belgian Consuls in the Pontificial States to afford protection to the Belgian troops. He added that no Belgians were reported to have been killed in the fight ing which had taken place at the gates of Rome, though a few had been slightly wounded. M. Reyntjens protested against the comparison in stituted between Belgium and the Roman States. His speech gave rise to loud protests from the Senator of the Right, in which however the members of the Government did not join. It is stated that not a single Englishman is taking part this year in the Belgian rifle-shooting competitions. and it is noted that very few of our countrymen tcfe present even as spectators. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling day, Monday, September 24, 1870. Admission by season tickets, 1,666 : do. on payment, 3,148 ; total visitors, 4,814. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.- - The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others, on the 26th inst., was 5,518. His Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal has arrived at the Great Western Hotel, Birmingham. He is accompanied by Prince Ali Kudr, Prince Soleimar Kudr, Mr. E. Haviland Burke, M.P., Colonel F. P. Layard, Mr. W. D. Fox,and Master C. Fox. two Indian gentlemen, and a numerous suite. Mr. Jefferson Davis arrived in Glasgow on Friday by the Belfast steamer, after enjoying a short tour in Ireland. In the course of the day be paid a visit to the new University buildings. Mr. Davis left on Saturday morning for London. BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC.—A supplement to the London Gazette, published last night, notifies that Earl Granville has received from her Majesty's Ambas sador at Tours the copy of an official note of the 21st instant, from the French Foreign Department, announc ing that the blockade of the German ports in the Baltic Sea has been completely raised by the French squadron. • THE 110 ME SECRETARY IN GLASGO)N (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) Yesterday the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.P. for Renfrewshire, addressed a crowded meeting of his con stituents in the Trades Hall, Glasgow. Mr. Wakefield was called to the chair, and among those on the platform were Mr. G. Anderson, M.P., Mr. C. Irving, M.P., Mr. H. Campbell, M.P., Mr. Lefevre, M.P., Sir Charles Trevelyan, Lady Trevelyan and daughter, and the Hon. Mrs. Bruce. Mr. Bruce, in presenting himself, was enthusiastically welcomed. After some preliminary remarks, in the course of which he mentioned that he had been called to the first Cabinet of the recess on Friday. he referred to the three subjects which, when last he had the honour of addres,ing them, he told them would occupy the attention of Parliament, namely the pacification of Ireland, national education, and economy. The promise as to the first had been fulfilled, while the Scotch Educa tion Bill had not been carried. Probably the measure would not suffer as to the delay which had occurred. As to the third question, reduction had been made to the extent of four millions. Adverting to those measures which had particular reference to his own department he had been blamed because he was unable to carry those bills with which he was associated. In regard to the licence system and trades unions it was obviously impossible to carry those measures if the English Educa tion Bill and the Irish Land Bill were to be carried. HoWever, he had publicly pledged, in the presence of the Prime Minister, that both these bills should be introduced at the earliest opportunity next session. He also hoped that next session would not pass without a good education bill being passed for Scotland, and the means facilitated for the transfer and acqui sition of land. He expressed his satisfaction that he had been the means of directing inquiry into the truck system. He hoped the commission appointed would discover the truth in this matter, and that it would be in his power to present to Parliament a measure which would have the effect of doing away with what seemed to hith little short of a national disgrace. Mr. Bruce then referred to the unhappy war between France and Prussia. In the course of his remarks on this subject he said there is little danger of Germany not fulfilling her long cherished wish for unity, but in doing so she had brought about a state of things in France which I am sure all of us look upon not only with the greatest possible interest, but with the greatest possible sympathy. The old feeling of national hatred towards France has long since died away, and whatever we may think of the policy of France, I am sure there is but one feeling at . this moment towards that country, and that is that her wounds may be healed as soon as possible, and that her humiliations may not be greater than the circumstances of the case have rendered but too inevitable. Any re marks upon the terms upon which peace could be made would be premature to enter upon, but I cannot abstain from expressing an earnest hope that they shall be so moderate as not to sow the seeds of future war. The Germans are now excited by the prodigious losses they have undergone. The army of Germany is so composed that fathers of families are forced to serve in the army, and every member of the whole German society is obliged to take his part in this sanguinary war. In consequence there is hardly a family in Germany that is not suffering now from the unprovoked aggression of France. It is natural, therefore, it is almost inevitable, that they should not, be inclined to any moderate and reasonable counsel. But 1 have the greatest confidence in the wisdom of Germany. There is no people more in structed ; no people who have studied more deeply than they. There is no people more instructed in the philosophy of history; and if they take time for reflection, they will see, in the growth which threatens Europe, there are signs of danger to themselves. After commenting on the fate of the Empress, and of the kingdoms which have attempted military preponderance, he said we have been told that the scenes which have been withessed in Europe are those which ought to inspire the greatest alarm for the safety of this country ; but I am one of those who cannot in the present state of things see • such pressing danger as sud denly to change our system, or cause us to rush into a 'rash resolution. Where lies the danger of invasion to England ? Certainly not from France. France has enough to do for many years to 'come to repair the injuries she has received during the present war. Is it from Prussia ? Undoubtedly we could hardly meet them on equal terms in the field, but how is Prussia to transport her army to this country, and how is she to reinforce it with all that ponderous material of war with out whfch no army can move. The thing hardly requires arguing, and therefore while we should turn to account the experience gained during the last few weeks, enough time is before us to enable us to act cautiously and provi dently. It may be necessary to reconsider the question; and to put our defences upon a more permanent footing, and he admitted that arrangements should be made by which we could depend upon our volunteers in case of in vasion. If no such arrangement could be made, it was not without consideration, and after every expe diency had been tried that we should do away with a force raised under such remarkable circumstances, and so creditable to the patriotism of this country as the Volunteer force. A vote of thanks was accorded to the right hon. gentleman. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE BISHOP OF OXFORD ON EpUCATION. At the meeting of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Society, held yesterday, at Wells, the bishop of the diocese Presiding, the Bishop of Oxford, speaking on the Educa tion Bill, said: " The present moment was one of the deepest interest, and would be so considered by posterity. We were now entering upon a great national syst,m of education. England had never before attempted to take in hand as a nation the business of education. People twenty-five years ago, when Government very tentatively began a national system of education, cried out against it. Churchmen were indignant ; Dis senters still more so. It was commonly said it was a most wicked thing for the State to meddle with education, but everybody had since gone round and declared that it was the one thing to be done, and that Parliament must educate the country. Nine-tenths of the people wanted religious education, but, shame to say, we were not agreed as to "what teaching religion meant ; hence Government had no alternative but to bring in a general measure to do as little harm to religion as possible, and that difficult problem had been only solved by Mr. Forster. Church men must make the best use of the measure and not inter pose little jealousies. Up to the present time we had had a great deal of educational politics, but very little of educa tion, and it was our business to work this Act in Vie interest of education not of educational politics. If we did so he had every hope that the measure would turn out well. If this was not done the alternative was a secular bill within five years." The Bishop of Bath and \Vella spoke of the encouraging efforts being made in his diocese to provide for carrying out the Act without the interven tion of school boards. ELOPEMENT AT LLANDUDNO. A young tradesman at Llandudno, a wine and spirit merchant, nas eloped with a lady visitor from Kidder minster, aged sixteen, the niece of an M.P. She has been staying at Llandudno with her guardians for the last three or four weeks. It is stated that she N,vill be entitled to considerable property in her own right when she comes of age. Warrants have been issued for the apprehension of the couple, and the police are energetically tracing them. Telegrams have been sent in every direction. .£5O reward is offered for their discovery. THE PERMISSIVE LIQUOR BILL. A meeting, which filled the Newcastle Town Hall to overflowing, was held last evening under the presidency of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., on the subject of the Per missive' Prohibitory Liquor Traffic Bill. Amongst the speakers were Sir John Bowring, Mr. William Saunders, Mr. Steintheil, Mr, Raper, and Professor Leone Levi. Resolutions were unanimously and with much enthusiasm passed, affirming the principle of prohibition, and urged the Government to at once introduce the measure pro inised by them dealing with the sale of intoxicating liquors, it being distinctly understood that the measure would not be satisfactory unless it contained the element of permissive prohibition. Earl Granville has received an official note from the French Foreign Department announcing that the blockade of the German ports in the Baltic Sea has been completely raised by the French squadron. _ _ Ihe sympathisers in Birmingham with the Irish National movement, at a meeting on Saturday, formed a branch in that town of an Association, the object of which is to secure a separate Parliament to Ireland. Messrs. John Round and Son, silver-platers, &C., of Sheffield, have been compelled to call a meeting of their creditors, which will be held at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, on October 10. The liabilities are said to be something like £35,000, but it is anticipated that a divi dend in full can be paid ultimately. Sir Lydston Newman having determined to give up breeding horses, his entire stud of brood mares and foals„ _yearlings, and stallions was brought to the hammer by Messrs. Tattersall, at East Acton Stud Farm, on Saturday 2 • and there being no reserve except in on e instance—the stallion Sundeelah—everything was sold with the exception of this horse and Crater, for which there was no bid. Prices ruled very low, the fifty lots sold making only 2,400 guineas, or an average of 48 guineas. THE SIEGE OF PARIS, The Havre correspondent of the Standard, writing on the 25th instant, says : As regards the defence of Paris one item in the telegrams which have tardily reached us is unfavourable. It is ominous to find that the Prussians have got hold of the heights of St. Cloud, in eluding the unfinished ' redoubt at Montretout. These heights -and the redoubt are only partly com manded ! , y the fire from the southern bastion of Mont Valerien, and the ground facilitates the con struction of regular approaches to it, whilst the road from Paris to Versailles, which is deeply en cased between the heights of St. Cloud on the one hand and the hills of Bellevue on the other, forms a natural covered way, along which the Prussians can bring .up their guns unmolested save by vertical fire from the fort. To throw bombs from Mont Valerien into the Sevres road-La ditance of upwards of 4,000 metres—would require very precise firing indeed over the town of St. Cloud, the palace, and the hill immediately beyond it on the Sevres side. That has ever been the weak point of the defence of Paris, and hex: y batteries planted on the platform known as the the " Lanterne de Demosthenes "—(not Diogenes as the vulgar call it)—must render Mont Valerien very difficult to hold, and have a demoralising effect on Paris, the fortifications of the enceinte con tinue at Auteuil and Point du Jour being within range. On the other hand, the fire from Mont Valerein will be very troublesome to the besiegers, and they are singularly exposed to be attacked by sorties from the Porte de Vangirard ; batteries planted on the race course of the Bois de Boulogne can also rain shells in the Sevres road close to the river and the slope of the hills of St. Cloud. A tremendous artillery duel is likely to take place on these familiar spots ; bnt if it be true that.the Prussians hold Sevres and St: Cloud, it must be conceded that they have a tremendous advantage in their position. From the fortifications at the Point du Jour to the bridge of Sevres there are no more than 300 metres ; from the same point to the bridge of St. Cloud there are about 500 metres more, everything points to the probability of the real attack of Paris being made on the south-west, the central point of the Prussian attack being the heights of Bellevue, the heights of St. Cloud forming their left, and the heights of Meudon their right attack. Whether it can be baffled depends upon the number of troops which General Trochu can rely on for sorties, and on the supply of artillery at his command. When I left Paris the number of heavy guns mounted on field carriages, so .as to be easily moved to any given point, was very considerable. As to the amount of regulars, it could not fall short of fifty thousand' men, and the Mobiles, if they have received such train ing as to qualify them to operate in the open, would give him a force of 100,000 men more, whose physique was f ar superior to that of most linesmen. But with all this, if it be true that the Prussians hold Sevres and St. Cloud another blunder has been committed which common care might have prevented. It was not likely that the Prussians would expose themselves to the guns of Mont Valerien in the plain of Nanterre, when the heights and mounds from Versailles and ht. Germain enabled them to occupy a position level with it, and only exposed to the .fire of one of its flanks. It was to prevent this that redoubts were ordered to be built at Montretout and Meudon, but though commenced long ago they do appear to have been left in an unfinished state and to have been utterly undefended. It is a pity that the stragglers and Mobiles, who spent their time in drinking and shouting the " Marseillaise " in Paris, should not have been made useful in complstivg these indispensable works. Havre to-day is boiling over with patriotic indigna tion ; but here again, as in Paris and Rouen, I have to note, with much regret, that the men are not kept under that strict discipline which events have shown to be the one thing wanting in the French army. Sobriety, silence, respect for their officers, and passive obedience—all these soldierly virtues would render the French matchless in the field. The French soldiers, and the French Mobiles especially, are woefully deficient in all of them. The Prussians are advancing in two columns on Rouen, by Poutoise and by Montes. This movement may, however, be a feint. Their movement against Tours is more serious, as the delegation of the Provisional Govern ment is preparing to remove to Pau I There was a riot at Blois on Friday, on the departure of a regiment quartered there. The inhabitants tried to prevent its going, objecting that the departure of the regulars would leave the town utterly defenceless, and at the mercy of any half-squadron of Uhlans. The troops left, neverthe less, to take care of MM. Cremieux, Glais Bizoin, and Admiral Fourichon, at Tours. DISCIPLINE IN TA E FRENCH ARMY. The correspondent of the Telegraph at Tours writes as follows :—" On Wednesday, for three successive hours, an artillery train filed along the Rue Royal, the principal street of Tours, on the way, I believe, from Lyons, to some destination which is, of course, kept secret ; and yesterday a commis sariat train, which took about three-quarters of an hour to pass a given point, passed in the same direction, The sight would have been instructive to those who are deluded by ' the pomp and circumstance of glorious war.' Real war presents little pomp, but abundance of squalor, dirt, rags, and all manner of unsightliness. The horses of the artillery and the commissariat waggons were lean, shaggy, hungry looking, tired, and covered with dust. The men by whom they were driven and accompanied were pictures of recklessness, and of the effects which spring from the want of cold water. Some rode their steeds in the usual fashion ; others sat sideways on the heavily accoutered waggon-horses, gravely smoking their short, black pipes ; while others lay at full length on bundles of hay in the military carts. Some wore great coats, and others had on jackets which they did not seem to have put off for a fortnight. Bayonets, sabres, carbines, Chassepots were car ried in half a dozen fashions—hung at the saddle-bow, tied to the side of the waggon, slung around the neck, or carried upside down, with a picturesque disregard of military instructions. In deed, they all looked like a horde of peasants, dressed in the cast-off clothes of soldiers, and careless about everything but food and sleep. War is two serious a thing to be compatible with devotion to pipeclay, or the barber, or even the bath. But discipline is the very soul of war, and the strange lack of discipline among the troops is the subject of some cora meat. Yesterday I witnessed a scene which would have shocked an English officer. A mounted corporal ordered the first driver of a string of artillery waggons to stop ; the man, who seemed to be slightly intoxicated, accompanied his act of obedience with what sounded like a curse ; al last the result was what your French neighbours call an ' altercation,' and then the corporal rode off as if nothing was the matter. Next the mutinous driver began to quarrel with a comrade. In French fashion, they made faces at each other, shook their fists, placed themselves in the French equivalent for a pugilistic attitude (shade of Tom Sayers ! what ignorance of the noble art of self-defence !) and, but for the diplomatic mediation and forcible inter vention of their comrades, they would hays come to blows half-a-dozen times. More than once they fervently shook hands, and seemed to swear eternal friendship and then, drawing back again, they ' squared' at each other, and dared each other to come on. The scene was amusingly French in its wealth of gesticulation and speech, in its twin manifestations of hatred and love. But it lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour in the principal promenade, before the win dows of the chief hotel, and ' within sight of the Palace of Justice. No officer, commissioned or non commissioned, put a stop to the quarrel nor, indeed, was any officer to be seen. And, from an Englishman who left Paris on Saturday night by the last train that issued from the capital, I barn that the lack of discipline among the troops which throng such thoroughfares as the Rue de Itivoli is astounding. The soldiers lie about the streets anywhere, and in any fashion, apparently uncared for, and far from convinced of the fact that in prompt obedience to command the soldier should see the first of laws. The Empire, which was supposed to be the very symbol of order, has in reality left the Republic a legacy of what hears too close a likeness to anarchy." STAMPED PENNY ENVELOPES.-011 and alter the Ist October stamped penny envelopes will be sold to the public for 2s. 2d. per packet of 24 envelopes. It is stated that £1,000,000 has been discoverer in the vaults of the Bank of Bengal, in bonds and securities belonging to the Nawab Nazim of Bengal. The money was deposited thirteen years ago for investment, and, had been overlooked ; and now the interest at six per cent. is equal to another million. A German writer, Eugene Richter, has been calculat ing the expenses of the war which Germany can demand from France. He reckons them under several heads, such as the reconstruction of Kehl, the indemnity for the blockade, compensation for the families of men in service. compensation for the invalids, for the expelled Germans, for the Landwehr, and the State expenses. Altogether, he brings the amount to 276,000,000 thalers, or 1,425,000,000 f. This would be double the amount which France paid in 1815 to the Allies, which was 700,000,000 f. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning THE SIEGE OF PARIS. The Times says that whatever may be the opinions of those who speculate on the course of the war at a safe ta,nce from the centres of action, it would seem that the German commanders do not presume upon a speedy capture of Paris. The capital may, indeed, be soon taken ; but it may also resist to the end, and' the end may be distant, and General Moltke and Count Bis marck have decided that it is wise to settle down at the work before them as if it would last some time. General Trochu has been indefatigable, and he has been zealously seconded by the other members of the Government and by the temper of the people. -The arsenals of Brest, of Toulon, and of Cherbourg have yielded their heaviest guns to the service of the capital ; the stock of ammunition, which was at one time thought to have been insufficient, is said to have been largely increased ; gunners from the navy have been added to the regular artillery service ; the National Guard has been sedulously drilled, and the Mobiles called up from the provinces. The accumulation of provisions appears ample to withstand a prolonged siege. The defence of Paris would be less hopeless than it now appears if there were any possibility of organizing a force in the Departments which could distract the attention of the besieging army. The new Prefects appear determined to do all they can to rouse the people subjected to their administrative control to a sense of the danger of France, but all the evidence leads to the conclusion that if the conditions of the siege are to be altered in any respect it will be by an increase in the strength of the besieging army. THE PRUSSIAN TERMS OF PEACE. • The Daily News, commenting upon the conditions of peace proposed by Bismarck, remarks : Common sense recognition of the ways of human nature, historical precedent, and every appro priate consideration, will compel us to admit that much a conqueror did not act haughtily when he offered a truce on such conditions as those which the French Government indignantly rejected. We now put out of consideration altogether the moral aspects of the question. Let us forget for the moment that tl-e war was forced on Germany ; that she was not merely bullied and browbeaten and challenged, but at last actually seized by the throat and compelled to fight. Let us forget that the majorfty of the present rulers of France condemned and denounced this war in its inception as a crime, and that Jules Favre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, repeated in the second Circular the utterances of Jules Favre, leader of Opposition, and re newecl his condemnation of the policy which forced Germany into the field. History will assuredly take good account of these facts ; but let us for the moment consent to put them aside. No matter how the wl,r began, or who was the aggressor. The fact is that one of the belligerents ha 3 won a series of victories almost unparalleled in warfare, and is pressing on with a stead fast purpose towards a fixed end. The tide of battle may possibly turn ; he may lose all that he has won. Nothing is impossible, unless its bare statement involves irreconcilable contradic tion. But nothing, humanly speaking, looks less likely than that France can retrieve herself in this struggle. The German is almost absolutely master of the situation. The one only thing which would give a chance to his enemies and involve a danger to himself would be delay. If, then, he offers an armistice in the interests of peace, can any one wonder that he insists ' upon conditions which shall not leave all the advantages of the interval absolutely on the side of his enemies ? Any one who cares to estimate the change which has come over the spirit of warfare during the present cen tury, and the degree of influence which public opinion exercises over the proudest conquerors, may be helped towards an accurate judgment by comparing the terms of armistice offered by Germany to France with those which Napoleon the Great would have vouchsafed to any pros trate enemy. COUNT BISMARCK'S CIRCULARS. The Telegraph remarks that to judge from the language of Count Bismarck's circular no doubt can be entertained as to the determination of Prussia to exact from France a ceseion of territory. It is worthy of note that in these documents, as in all the utterances of the German Government, there is no direct talk of the proposed annexation of Alsace and Lorraine ; but the intent is somewhat disingenuously avowed under the plea that the fortresses of Metz and Strasburg are essential to the safety of Germany. Now, a mere glance at the map is sufficient to shew, that if these French strongholds are handed over to Prussia, the districts lying between them— that is, the major portion of Alsace and Lorraine—must' be added to Germany. The Power which holds Metz and Strasburg must perforce hold the adjacent country ; and the reason why Count Bismarck dwells exclusively upon the strategical value of these positions, and says nothing about the provinces of which they form the ' key, is, doubtless, became he is well. aware that the direct proposition to seize upon French provinces is distasteful to the meal instincts, not only of the neutral Powers, but of a not contemptible party in Germany itself. It is difficult to reconcile CoUnt Bismarck's lad essecl desire for a durable peace with his determination to seize Alsace and Lorraine. Even under the woe t favourable circumstances, many a long year will chine before France, crippled, disheartened, and impoverished as she is by this fatal cam paign, can be in a position to risk again the desperate chances of a war with Germany. But as the years go by, the feeling of irritation against Prussia, instead of fading away with the lapse of time, will be continually embittered and envenomed by the spectacle of French provinces kept in subjection by Prussian troops. COUNT BISMARCK'S CIRCULAR NOTES. The circular notes addressed by Count Bismarck to the diplomatic agents of the North German Confederation demonstrate, observes the Standard, in the clearest and sharpest manner, that impossibility of any termina tion to the war except upon the basis of a treaty signed respectively after the capture of Paris or upon the expulsion of the Prussians from France upon which we have so strenuously insisted. M, Jules Favre could not been apprised of the language em ployed by the Cinweellor of the North German Confede ration in these manifestoes intended for home consump tion, although labelled for export, or he would never have wasted a couple of days at Ferrieres. Count Bismarck's circulars are not merely an indictment against the French nation, as responsible for the war, they are a denunciation of the French nation as incapable of ob serving the faith of treaties, ur to express the count's meaning of the 2na/adroit language of his organs, of the French people . as wild beasts, who must be caged and beaten to keep them in order. Had M. Favre read the l n agraphs in which Count Bismarck describes and demunc:s the French nation, he certainly would never have sued for peace from the author of these injurious and insulting expressions, and we must express our strong ol•inion that, assured as Count Bismarck may feel of victory, he has made, in the composition and publication of these despatches — great as is the enthusiasm they will provoke throughout Germany—a very mischievous blunder. The utter want of proportion between the mcaaures he insists upon, and the arguments by which he justifies them is, perhaps, the least objection to his circulars. Yet that is not an unimportant one. To insist that no peace can satisfy France ; to assert that the first care of tho French people, after any termination of the war un favourable to them, will be to prepare to revenge the check Germany has given to their vanity, and lust of conquest, is, practically, to declare that no peace can be made which does not break np altogether the power of France. COMMUNICATION WITH PARis.—Major Byng Hall and Captain Perceval Robbins, Queen's Messengers, passed through Rouen, with important despatches for Lord Lyons at Tours, and, we are able to state, found this route, via Calais and Amiens, quite open, and the best and safest to the south-west of France. A. Brussels correspondent writes :—Duprez, the celebrated ex-tenor of the Grand Opera, is now at. Brussels preparing the representation of his opera of " Jeanne d'Arc." A cantata, "La derniere Nuit de Faust;" by M. Emile Mathieu, which was performed for the first time on Sunday, has been very well received. It is a composition of sustained effect. A new oratorio, music by Benoit and words by Kreuzhoff, entitled " Hymne h la Paix," will be performed in about a fort night at the Theatre d e l a Monnaie ; 200 singers and 400 mus icians are to take part in IL Mdlle. Block will be the contralto, Mdlle. Sasa the soprano, and Signor Asie s i th e baritone. MITRAILLEUSES.—SOIII6 short time since Lien, tenant-Colonel Palmer, of Nazing, offered her Majes9trs: Secretary of State for War to raise a body of Volunteen. to work a battery, or a half battery, of Aarailleusett, This offer was respectfully declined; 1314 it , is understood that the right hon. gentleman contemplates following the example of his Majesty the Emperor 'of Russia, and to. cause a lightly-constructed mitrailleuse to be attached every company of infantry in her Majesty's service, one to each of the gaols throughout the country for its., defence in the time of need.—Tintes.