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SUN OFFICE, A.M. THE WAN. CAPITULATION OF METZ. HOMBURG, October 27. The King telegraphs to Queen Augusta m follows `This morning the army of Marshal Bazaine and the fortress of Metz capitulated with 150,000 prisoners, including 20,000 sick and wounded. "This afternoon the army and the garrison will laY down their arms " This is one of the most important events of the inonth. " Providence be thanked ! " (Signed) WILHELM." ESCH, October 26. Five days ago General Coffinibre, the Commandant of the c ity and fortress of Metz, informed Marshal Lazaine, who commanded the army encamped outside, that he could supply no more provisions, and that they must shift for themselves. There- Upon Marshal Bazaine ordered his outposts to cease 'ring on the German pickets, and tacitly allowed his men to desert in groups of a dozen or two, Which were accepted by the German out posts as prisoners. Larger bodies were refused acceptance. On the afternoon of the 24th reliable i nformation came from Metz by a civilian spy that an eruption en masse during the night was to be made °ll . Gravelotte. As Bazaine's offers to capitulate W ith his army alone had been repeatedly and Peremptorily refused, the movement was to be made without hope of saving any portion cf the organised t rceps, but simply to enable these superfluous eaters co get behind the German lines and force the enemy t° tae them prison3r s. By these means the for tress might have been enabled to hold out a little longer with the small garrison remaining. At seven o'clock in the evening, however, ziazaine had succeeded in convincing Coffiniere that t he necessary effusion of blood would be too dear Price to pay for a few weeks' prolongation of resist ce• • A messenger was sent to Frince Frederick Charles intimating the intention of the fortress t ° capitulate. This was the first proposition 31/t made which included both the fortress and 4, wle outside army. Accordingly, at midnight, the German troops, which had been massed silently toward Gravelotte, received orders to retire to their cacamps. At 1 p.m. yesterday, General Changarnier, 1 plenipotentiary, spent an hour with the Prince. e went away from the interview much dis ‘nrbed, and afterwards, in excusing some forgetful- Il es' of which notice had been taken, said, "No W onder, the Prince was so severem By arrange bient at this meeting, General Stickles and Colonel von Herznurg, the Chief of the Staff 4114 Quartermaster-General of the Prince's 4113 1, rode to Freseaty, a chateau three miles ',Lie south of Metz, and just within the German lines. The two French commanders, ; 41 gether with Humbert, second in command in he fortress, had been taken there by the Prussian fe lt' Postchaise. The meeting lasted from six o'clock t 0 seven o'clock in the evening, and resulted in but a Partial agreement. The points still in dispute W ere to be discussed again to-day at noon. No doubt 11184 3 that the delay in the surrender of Metz, d aused by this disagreement, will be but of short unration, as everything seems to indicate that it is r educed to extremities. On this supposition the Second Corps received 14 arching orders for Paris yesterday at noon, and was °ll its way early in the evening. VIE SIEGE OF PARIS. VERSAILLES, October 25. The German batteries will be ready in a few days bombard. The action on the 21st seems to have been a neater e ff ort on the French side than was supposed, ( they are now stated to have sent out 65 battalions a nd 12 batteries along their front. Thiers is expected here immediately. Many Germans of distinction have arrived here already. bazaine has been informed he can only have the 841 ze terms as Sedan. Two th ousan d sick and wounded French and P russian s are at Versailles and its vicinity. BERLIN, October 27. t F ort V anvres an d Montrouge have been consider n.°l3' strengthened by earth thrown upon the walls eight feet high. Vanvres, Montrouge, and Bicetre eve been connected by a continuous line of strong earthworks. ti The inhabitants of Versailles having assumed a el lacing attitude during the last sortie from Mont v alerian it has been announced that any civilian leaving his house while a fight is going on in the ne ighbourhood will be shot. Twenty inhabitants of Bougival who assisted the s allYing party have been executed. During the sortie the ramparts of Mont Val6rien W ere crowded with ladies. __ • The anti-German governors of the Russian Baltic Provinces are superseded by officials of less pro 110Iniced politics. ADVANCE ON LE MANS. ROUEN, October 26. The Prussians are reported to be advancing in f ' l ce en Le Mans. t , ' The object of the concentration of the Prussian c'ops at Rheims has not yet been developed. ENGAGEMENT NEAR JOSNES. • RouEN, October 27. There h as b een an engagemen t i n th e -valley of the t °ir e) near Josnes. The enemy had five or six killed, 0 and °f %horn was an o fficer. They loft one wounded o ne prisoner behind. On our side we only had on wounded. e °flreelles ha s b e an burnt by the enemy. Several pr F 1188 ian scouts have been ronted near Gien by the rate,tireurs of Niverne. THE FRENCH PRISONERS. BnussnLs, October 27. T he 2,400 French made prisoners at Schelestadt h a ye been sent to the fortress of Rastadt. General Bourbaki is about to establish his head quarters at Rouen. 4 credit of e i g ht m illi on f rancs has been especially et apart for the army of Bretagne. The Inclependance Belga says that 30,000 of the Prus sian troops o c c upi n g the frontier of the pr0 ..14" ..1 4 " of Pose n are a b ou t t o b e sen t to the theatre of war. It is stat e d th a t t h e P russ i ans b e f ore Paris are au out to try the Bavarian field cannon revolver. THE TREATY OF PEACE. „ i t IS rumoured in certain quarters at Tours that e following treaty of peace has been pro tsed, by England, Russia, and Austria to the "° Delligerents : fo r` 1 . No cessi on o f t err itory, but the razing of the tific atious of Metz a n d Strasbourg. " 2. Two thousand million francs to be paid as ind eit • „ nay of war by France to Prussia. 3 . Peace to be ensured by the collective guarantee ux the n eutrals above mentioned. " _ ai is furth er rumoured that Pruss i a h as agree d t o A gn, and th at i t will be submitted to the Constituent 4813 "i* about to be elected in France. DETERMINED RESISTANCE IN FRANCE. M. Gambetta has just addressed from Tours a Ministerial circular to the Prefects and Sub-Prefects, requesting them to inform the Mayors of their respec tive Communes that.resistlnce to the enemy is more than ever the order of the day, that every one must do his duty, and that the examples set by Chateaudun and other towns should be followed ; that it was abso lutely necessary - that each town should pay its debt to the Natiould Defence, and that towns surrender ing to the Germans without resistance would be denounced to the country through the columns of the Mon u).. OCCUPATION OF DREUX. Two thous! , , , A Prussians, with artillery, are re ported to be at Dreux. St. Remy is also occupied by the Germans. GERMAN LEVIES. The Prussians have imposed contributions of 50,000 francs on Montdidier, and about the same amount has been demanded from St. Quentin. SERIOUS ASPECT OF AFFAIRS IN CHINA. The latest advices from Hong Kong state that a day for the massacre of foreigners at almost every treaty port, Canton included, has been predicted. The massing of troops continued, and the evidence of the intended resistance to foreigners has ben strengthened. The Canton community had called the attention of the consuls to the insolence displayed by the Chinese, and had declared that they expects(' pro tection. [CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.] THE ANNEXATION OF THE PONTIFICAL STATES. The Corporation of Limerick yesterday adopted a long protest against the annexation of the. Pontifical States to the Italian Kingdom. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. Embezzlement by commercial travellers has lately been rife in Liverpool. Yesterday Daniel Cahill, a traveller in the service of Messrs. Raines and Company, wholesale druggists, of Liverpool, was charged with embezzling £7O from his employers, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. COMMITTAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Charles and Henry Parry, the ironfounders upon whose premises a boiler in a dangerously bad con dition exploded recently, and caused two deaths, were committed for manslaughter by the Liver pool magistrates yesterday, Evidence was given to the effect that the boiler must have been in a highly defec tive state from the first, and that a proper examination of it would have prevented the accident. MISS RYE'S EMIGRATION SCHEME. Miss Rye left Liverpool yesterday afternoon in the Allan steamer Peruvian, for Canada, with one hundred girls and one boy. Forty-five girls are from London and forty-two from LiverpooL The rest from various parts. RUMOURED BURNING OF TWO GERMAN SHJPS BY A FRENCH VESSEL. A rumour is current in Shields, and for which our correspon dent says there appears to be good foundation, that on Wednesday a French vessel burned two German vessels at sea, about 100 miles east of the Tyne. (LATER TELEGRAM.) The report of the burning of two German ships in the North Sea by a French vessel, is supported by such evi dence as to leave no doubt of its truth. The captain of the Swedish barque The Carolina, which has arrived in the Tyne from Uddeval, states that, while making the passage across the North Sea, he was stopped by a French war steamer, whose officers boarded his vessel; but when they learnt his nationality they allowed him to proceed unmolested. Shortly afterwards he saw the French steamer seize two German merchant vessels and burn them. The captain of a ship which has arrived at Leith from Copenhagen gives confirmatory evidence of the attack. ARCHDEACON CHAPMAN ON THE EDUCATION ACT. At the meeting of the West Suffolk Chamber of Agri culture, at Bury St. Edmund's, yesterday, Archdeacon Chapman introduced the subject of the Education Act. He urged strongly the necessity of using every means to avoid the appointment of school boards, on the grounds that great expense would be incurred, that religious men would not serve on them, and that purely secular education would follow. He announced that the Archidiaconal Education Society had agreed to give £1,500 towards supplementary local efforts to bring existing schools to the required standard, and to build new schools. A sugges tion was made, and favourably received, that voluntary school boards should be established, to combine the advan tages of school boards without the disadvantages of rating. A desire was expressed that powers of compelling at tendance should be given to such boards. Resolutions were carried that every effort should be made to provide efficient and suitable education in every parish before January Ist, and to avoid the establishment of school boards. UNIVERSITY CHURCH PATRONAGE. The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University gives notice that the presentation to the rectory of Handsworth, with the curacy of Gleadless, now vacant, has lapsed to the University in consequence of the disqualification of the patron, who is a Roman Catholic. The election by mem bers of the Senate will take place on Wednesday, Novem ber 16th. This will most likely be the last election of the kind, as the Syndicate has prepared a report on the subject. This report chews that more excitement is occa sioned at these elections than at a parliamentary election, and the subject will be discussed in the Arts' School o Saturday. The proposal is that a council of six shall be appointed to manage the Church patronage of the Uni versity. CONFERRING OF DEGREES. THE CAPITULATION OF METZ, Metz has fallen at last, not to our surprise. The pious King of Prussia telegraphs to the Queen that Bazaine and 150,000 prisoners, including 20,000 sick and wounded, have capitulated, and is good enough to thank Provi dence for his good fortune. The first question for which one naturally seeks an answer is, do the 150,000 prisoners include women, children, and non-combatants'? The second question which suggests itself is, why did Bazaine surrender? We do not care to go deeply into the matter until after the receipt of fuller information than we now possess ; still we cannot restrain a few fleeting thoughts on the subject. Did the capitulation take place for civil or for military reasons? The military arguments did not seem to be conclusively in favour of a capitulation. Bread was raid to be out—that which had been served lately had been largely made of bran and reduced in quantity ; salt was absent—scurvy had consequently ensued; the sheep and oxen had been devoured, and disease raged. On the other hand, horseflesh and potatoes remained, and the be siergera also suffered seriously from fever and dysentery, and the garrison consisted, if we may venture to believe the word of the King of Prussia, of 130,000 effective men. It is with difficulty that we can bring ourselves to believe that an army of that strength, its ranks filled fer the most part with trained and veteran soldiers, the very pick of the French forces, should surrender to an army which was, at the utmost, only 50 per cent. stronger. Marshal Bazaine has done good service to his country in detaining for upwards of two months troops half as nu merous again as his own, still, looking at the matter from a merely military point of view, the denouement of the gallant defence is not satisfactory. It is surely fair to judge the French according to their own standard ; and taking as such the conduct of their troops in the Peninsular war, we do not consider that the successes of the latter have in any of the siegeS which have taken place in this campaign displayed the tenacity which their country expected and had a right to expect from them. As the Yankees say, there has been a great deal of tall-talk, but the number of bis cuits in the captured fortresses intervening between the last consumed and the last in store would suffice to victual a corps d'armee for a year. The defiance of the enemy on his first appearance before a fortress has been bold enough, and the defence, up to a certain point, has been gallant and enterprising ; but that certain point being arrived at, a remarkable collapse has taken place. it would really seem as if the motives by which the French troops have been actuated were only superficial, and that the instant a real severe strain on the moral forces took place French energy gave way. Their resolution has been like their own cham pagne, which sparkles and effervesces at first, but soon becomes flat. We fear there can be little doubt but that the whole nation is demoralised and requires edu cation. Now the education of nation is not the affair of a day, but requires, under the most, favour, able circumstance, at least a generation. To re turn to Metz ; what effect will its surrender have on the war? Making every reasonable deduction for losses by sickness and sorties, and the troops required to hold Metz, the capitulation of Marshal Bazaine will set free at least 120,000 Prussians for active operations in the field. We shrewdly suspect that a portion of this force is urgently wanted at Paris, but allowing that half is retained for service in the open field, 60,000 men added to Werder's forces in the Vosges, or despatched against Bourbaki, will roll the line of defence either in the south or the north back to the very extremities of France, unless a supreme effort be at once made. What, then, will be the plan of operations of the French now that the left arm--Parris being the right arm—of France has been crippled ? A pitched battle before Besancon. or Lille fought a week hence could only result in another crushing disaster. What, then, should the French do ? if General Werder can be crushed within the next few days by General Cambriels, strengthened by reinforcements from Lyons, or if the army of the Loire can annihilate Von der Tann before he can fall back on the Crown Prince, a valuable respite will be obtained ; but we doubt whether either the army of the Rhone or that of the Loire is prepared to act with the promptitude and energy re quired. As to Bourbaki, he will be in no position to strike a serious blow for another fortnight. What, then, we ask, should the French plan be ? in our opinion, the war should be carried on in a strictly defensive manner at present. Armies should be collected in the south, the south-west, the west, and the north, and organised at spots safe from the attacks of the enemy. In front of each army should be a screen of irregular troops under a skilful officer, responsible to no one but the commander of the army he covers. Every town and village on the enemy's line of advance should carefully be 'fortified, and should receive a commandant and engineer officer. Every road and bridge, the destruction of which would impede the progress of the Prussians, sirmld be destroyed ; and, as in Portugal, during one part of the Peninsula war, provisions, means of transport, &c., should be removed from every spot within thirty miles of the enemy, or should be destroyed. A zone of desolation should surround the army besieging Paris, and the efforts of the French should be directed to flying at the throat of Prussian cummunieation by harass ing convoys between the Rhine and Meaux. The number of Franc-tireurs should not be unlimited, and they should be org,aniseu in regular bands under picked officers, each band independent, but under the general control of the commander-in-chief or the nearest army. Every Mobile, every mobilised Na tional Guard. every regular soldier, should be massed_ and to the Sedentary National Guard, aided by the nearest corps of Franc-tireurs, should the defence of towns and villages be left. All these should be fortified, and not merely with that Republican imbecility, a barricade. Works capable of resisting field artillery can be easily thrown up, and obstacles such as abattis and inundations can quickly be constructed. There is a deficiency of guns, but this evil can be partially remedied by making stone fougasses and mines in advance of the works. The whole population being bound to take arms, every village ought within twenty-four hours to be placed in such a state of defence as to be able to hold out against anything under a division for at least one day.—Standurd. At a congregation held at Cambridge, the following degrees were conferred :—D.D., jure dignitatus, Charles Merival (John's), Dean of Ely; M.A., Roscoe Hawthorn (Trinity), Reginald Mothershead Hulbert (Caius), Henry Martin (Clare), Baring Baring Gould (Edmond), Vincent Pigott (John's), Heaton Rossall (Corpus), G. H. de Clare Sheddert (Trinity Hall), Edwin Evers, William Inchbald (Catherine's), John Henry Hind (Christ's). M.A. in absence :—R. C. Baker (Trinity). U. C. Finlay (Trinity). L.L.M :—Lyttleton Steward, Winslow Downing. SUICIDE OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER Metz fell yesterday, after a blockade which has lasted just seventy days from the date of the decisive battle of Gravelotte—the 18th of August. The surrender of Bazaine was emphatically a foregone con clusion; for at no time, even the time of his first investment, was there any force iu the field sufficient to overcome the resistance of the Crown Prince's army, and extricate the brave but luckless Marshal. From the first—nay, even earlier than the first, if the phrase may be allowed—we have looked on Metz as only an Ulm deferred; the battle of the 16th August made it clear that Bazaine was cut off from military communi cation with Paris, and that, since he had failed to cut his way through to Verdun, his alternative was star vation or surrender. Along with Marshal Bazaiue, Mar shal Canrobert, and Marshal Lebceuf, General Frossard, General Decaen, and General Ladinirault, 150,000 men were yesterday afternoon to lay down their arms—includ ing the garrison of the fortress ; and of this number no fewer than 20,000 are said to be sick and wounded. Since the garrison could not have numbered less than 25,000 or 30,000 men, the remanent strength of the Army of the the Rhine would appear to be about 120,000 or 125,000 men—very near the figure at which it was calcu lated just after the battle of Gray elotte. It consists of four Corps : the Second, once under General Frossard, which suffered so heavily at Spicheren and Forbach ; the Third, originally under Bazaine himself, but subsequently transferred to General Decaen ; the Fourth, under General Ladmirault ; and the Imperial Guard, commanded until very recently by General Bourbaki. By the surrender of Metz, besides sundry divisions of Land wehr, seven German Corps d'Armee aro set free for service elsewhere—the First, Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth ; their collec tive strength, allowing for all losses during tie battles and the blockade, amounting with the Landwehr, probably to not less than 180,000. For some days a part of this force must remain about Metz, to see to the evacuation of the vast body of prisoners, and occupy the for tress. But there is nothing to prevent 100,000 men from being at once moved into Central Fiance ; and in that case things will go hard with the Arwies of the Loire and of Lyons, and with the good people of Rouen and Amiens—unless the striking event of yesterday should Iconvince the Provisional Government that the last chance has vanished.—Telegraph. At eight a.m. yesterday morning a commercial traveller, named George Campbell, apparently about fifty years old was found dead in his bedroom at the Clinton Arms Hotel, Newark, with his head nearly severed from his body. Two razors were found, and there is no doubt that he committed suicide. He travelled for Messrs. Fey, the proprietors of an Irish poplin house at Dublin. When he arrived at the Clinton Arms on Wednesday afternoon he complained of extreme nervousness, and asked for a back bedroom. A. correspoudent of the Standard traces the pedi gree of the late General Lee with the object of proving that he descended from an old English family of note and reputation. - The other day an enterprising Englishman presented himself to M. Glais-Bizoin, and offered to supply the Government with two hundred thousand Remington rifles. He stated that he had these arms in stock, and would dispose of them at a very moderate price. "So you have purchased these arms from Mr. Remington ?" inquired M. Glais-Bizoin. " Oh, yes ; some time back," was the reply. The bell was rung, and the servant told to beg that a gentleman who was outside the door would walk in, when who should this be but Mr. Remington him self 1 The man who had cheap Remingtom to eels imme. diately took hie leave, THE sUN, LONDON, FRIDAI, ocroBER 28, t 876 If. , ;*';''''' . - -•: '''' e e i r v , l , N , r . ..tst-,..... •k..,,, , ~ y, ~frit ~.,_,,,.....„.. : , i a t i; , .-.- - -,..z. , - , - , ,,, ,--- irtn --..::=--•z.:+,•,,-% _ ~ • II E It MAJESTY. BALMOItAL, OCT. 25. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove to the Glassalt Shiel. The Marchioness of Ely was in attendance. Prince Leopold went out driving. UTTERING FICTITIOUS CHEQUES• At the Coventry Police-court yesterday, a fashionably dressed young woman, who gave the name of Isoline Maria Margaret Moranner, was charged with uttering fictitious cheques. She had obtained a cheque-book from Lloyd's Banking Company, a short time since, on the strength of her declared intention of opening an account with the firm in Coventry. A number of the cheques are missing, and on the counterfoil of one £4OO is set down; She had also opened negotiations for the building of a a factory in the above city ; and had otherwise imposed on a number of people. The prisoner was remanded. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Thursday, Oct. 27, 1870. No. of visitors by season ticket, 4,708 ; do. on payment, 8,574; total visitors, 13,282. The French troops in the Vosges district do not accom plish any very great deeds, but the women cannot be blamed for not doing their best to help. In the neigh bourhood of Belfort they have gone forth to battle, armed with hatchets and knives, according to the Constitutionnel, and at other places they have stoned the Germans. It does not appear, however, that they have killed anybody, for, if they had, we should have been informed of it, ROYAL VISIT TO THE EX-EMPRESS. _ Ye3terday evening the Prince and Princess of Wales went to Chislehurst, and paid a visit to the ex-Empress of the French and the Prince Imperial. Their Royal Highnesses drove up to the Charing-cross station of the South-Eastern Railway at half-past two o'clock, in a private carriage and pair, and left for Chislehurst by . the ordinary 2.35 train. A saloon carriage was provided for the Royal passengers, who, on their arrival at the station, were - received by the Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Sydney, and drove at once to Camden House. Their Royal High nesses remained about an hour and half, and arrived in town from Chislehurst at five o'clock, when the same private carriage was in waiting at one of the passenger platforms of the Charing-cross Station. Their Royal Highnesses both came to and departed from Charing-cross Station without exciting any public notice. THE IRISH CHURI-211. The Church Commissioners have met this week to hear appeals from orders pronounced by one of them. One was a cause in which the Rev. Mr. Evans, curate of Derryvillan, at Irvinestown, in the diocese of Clogher, had been lately dismissed by his rector, the Rev. R. Verschoyle, who was appointed to the living two years ago, and then agreed to continue the services of Mr. Evans as permanent curate, at a salary of £lOO. The effect of the dismissal would be to deprive the curate of his annuity under the Church Act, and his allegation was that the motive was to augment the rector's own claims, while the rector alleged that he had good and sufficient reason. The Com missioners declared the Rev. Mr. Evans a permanent curate, and entitled to his annuity. In a croup of other cases the question raised was as to the right of the appel lants to be allowed compensation for the loss of surplus fees for certified copies of baptisms and for marriages, which they were deprived of the right to impose in future. The court will sit to hear arguments upon tha point. At the opening of the Church Convention on Wednes day, the Vice-Chancellor presented a petition from the diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, signed by six lord-lieu tenants of counties, 37 clergymen, and 40 magistrates, besides a large number of male adults. It protested against any change in the doctrine or discipline of the Church, as laid down in the Book of Common Prayer, and any interpretation of the formularies which would alter their present comprehensive character. The petition was laid on the table without discussion. Master Brooke then proposed a resolution, which gave rise to a discussion that lasted the entire day. It was for the appointment of a committee of 24 to con sider the propriety or prudence of instituting a revision of the Prayer-book. The demand was based upon a memorial presented the other day, and signed by 3,811 persons of all orders and ranks. RETURN OF THE CAPE MAIL STEAMER, DISABLED. The Union Company's outward Cape Royal mail steam ship Briton, Captain George Vyvyan, R.N.R., put back into Plymouth Sound on Wednesday night, disabled. She left Plymouth at four p.m. on Tuesday, and had proceeded about fifty miles, when she broke a piston-rod, and had to bear up for that port. The weather was too severe to attempt any repairs at sea. The damage will be repaired at Plymouth.— Western Morning News. ALLEGED BREACH OF PROMISE. DAMAGES LAID AT ONE THOUSAND POUNDS. On Wednesday morning an action in the Queen's Bench was opened before Mr. Under Sheriff Burchell and a jury, "Clarkson v. Eisenburg," at the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, to assess the amount of compensation for a breach of promise of marriage. The damages were laid at £l,OOO, and the defendant had allowed judgment to go by default_ Mr. Ser geant Sleigh (with whom was Mr. Gates) appeared for the plaintiff, Jane Clarkson, and Mr. Phillips for the defendant, Sydney Eisenburg, who had gone by the name, it IV OA said, of Sydney John Howard Eisenburg. The learned Serjeant opened the case as one of a serious cha racter from the conduct of the defendant, who, after six years' courtship, had, in May last, married a Lancashire lady with property, and after he had obtained considerable advances from the plaintiff. There were a great many letters from the defendant, and he would read some extracts. The learned serjeant then read portions from 1864, when he spoke of his yacht. He commenced . with "My dear Miss Clarkson, and in other letters be called her his " Dearest," and implored God's blessings on her, and concluded with " Amen." The plaintiff was the daughter of a tobacconist and betting-house keeper in the Edgware-road. The defendant also betted, and was a chiropodist. Money had been advanced to a large extent, and only in way last, when he could not get any more money, he married another lady with means. Tne plaintiff was called. Her father was nearly blind, and she attended to his shop and betting speculations. In 1864 she became acquainted with the defendant, who came into the shop. She had supplied him with money, and in the whole upwards of £l,BOO. She had been obliged to pass through the Court of Bankruptcy. She did not know of any other engagement until his marriage in May last at Birkenhead. She kept up an acquaintance with his mother, and was to be introduced to another gentleman, but at the pro posed interview he was served with a writ in the present action.—The plaintiff was cross-examined as to the ad vances, and it was said that the action was not for money, but for breach of promise. The defendant's father was a Jew. The case has not concluded. THE CRUISE OF THE VALOROUS.—The Valorous, 12, paddle frigate, which has just returned to England from the North America station with Admiral Wellesley and suite on board, was last commissioned at DevOnport in November, 1869, by Captain F. S. Tremlett, and after visiting Kingstown and afterward towing the late unfor tunate Captain from Birkenhead to Spithead, Captain Edward Hardinge was on March 8, 1870, appointed to supersede Captain Tremlett in her command, and she left England on the 16th, and on tho 26th, was at Madeira. She arrived at Halifax May 24 from Bermuda, and afterwards visited Newfoundldnd, Gaspe, Prince Edward's Island, and on Oct ober 8 a g ain left Halifax for England. A KENTUCKY DIFFICULTY SETTLED,—American papers state that five men, who had had adifficulty a fort night before, met in Columbus on the 9th of October and proceeded to settle matters in a free fight, with the fol lowing result :—Smith Gibson was stabbed twice, and died instantly ; George Gibson was stabbed and dangerously wounded ; Austin had his skull fractured by a club, and will probably die ; Conrail was shot and wounded so dan gerously that there is little hope of his recovery ; Brock man was stabbed and terribly beaten, but he was taken to his home in the country, and the result of his injuries will probably never be known. The desperate nature of the encounter is shewn by the fact that all those engaged were hors de combat in three minutes from the commencement of the affray. Loss OF A VESSEL AND FIVE LlVES.—Another lamentable shipping disaster was reported in Liverpool, which like many others lately has been attended with a serious loss of life. The Amelia, of Swansea, which was bound from Bilboa to Swansea, with a cargo of ore, after leaving the former port, encountered fearful weather, the seas frequently washing completely over her. On the morning of the 14th instant the weather was exceedingly stormy, in the course of which the vessel strained very much, and eventually broke in two amidships and foundered about twenty minutes afterwards off Santoria„ a place between Bilboa and Santander. The crew had only just time to lower the two boats and leave the vessel before she went down. One of the boats with four of the seamen in it was shortly afterwards struck by a sea and capsized and the four men drowned. The boat was washed ashore the next day near Santoria. The second boat, containing the captain, the chief officer, two seamen, and a boy, was beached near Santolia, but whilst the men were endeavouring to land through the heavy surf, the boy was washed away by a heavy sea and drowned. CANADIAN SILVERINE.--This is the name given to a new and very beautiful amalgam by the Messrs. Pyke, of Ely-place, who gained such a great celebrity by their Abyssinian gold jewellery. The Canadian Silverine bids fair to outrival their former production, as it so closely resembles sterling silver as to defy detection. In order that the new metal may appear before the public in the shape of bracelets, brooches, earrings, lockets, shirt studs, and other articles of personal adornment, the most exquisite shapes and forms have been adopted ; all the old conventional patterns have been thrown aside, and designs of the most artistic character have been chosen. ' The Silverine is most appropriately named, as it pos -1 sesses all the quality of the sterling metal, it takes a bril liant polish which it permanently retains, and it is cer tain that when the general public become aware of the novel production, and that articles manufactured in it may be obtained at loss than half that charged for silver, its sale will become immense, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET RACES.--T unSDAY. SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOVS. Thunder W. O. NURSERY HANDICAP. Melurge • Lozenge dam colt 1 2 3 Fifteen ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS Rose of Athol Croxteth Starlight Four ran. HOME-BRED SWEEPSTAKES. Albert Victor Ripponden Cunctator Five ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. The Wren Palmyra Penguin Seven ran. TROY STAKES. Noblesse Queen of the Gipsies Loetitia Five ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. .3 Finesse colt Cheesewring N0rf01k........ The winner was disqualified, and Cheesewring gets the stakes. £5O PLATE. Newsman Gruelthorpe 2 Belphegor 3 Twelve ran: • FREE HANDICAP. Agility Falkland Sornette Five ran. SUBSCRIPTION PLATE. Violet Clos Vougeot . Rockery. Ten ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Vex Wild Flower Reindeer Fifteen ran. TWO-YR-OLD SWEEPSTAKES. 1 • eeeeee ••••• 2 Camenbert Dancing Girl Repose Five ran. MATCH. Asterope Moorlands •• BETTING ON THE COURSE. DERBY. 1000 to 90 agst Albert Victor (taken three times) LIVERPOOL CUP. 20 to 1 agst Flibustier (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mount Pleasant (taken) 25 to 1 agst Blandford (taken) 25 to 1 agst Rosicrucian (offered) 33 to 1 each agst Exciseman, Green Riband, and Islam CITY BETTING.—THunsDAY. LIVERPOOL CUP. 100 to 7 agst Rosicrucian (offered-100 to 6 taken) 100 to 6 agst Alaric (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Cardinal York (taken) 20 to 1 agst Syrian (taken) 25 to 1 agst Barford (taken) 25 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (taken) 33 to 1 agst Green Riband (taken) 33 to 1 agst Shilling-a-Dozen (taken) Very little doing. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning THE CAPITULATION - OF METZ. The Times, in commenting on the important event, says : We hardly venture yet to hope that the fall of Metz may sober the over-excited imagination of the French people. All we see distinctly is that France is perish ing by a delusion - a wilful, suicidal deception. While here in England we are all looking forward with anxiety to the results of pacific negotiation at Versailles, the people at Tours seem inclined to resent our interference as gratuitous and officious, and warn us, almost in a tone of menace, that " France cannot admit ;hat foreign Powers should contemplate exacting from her ;he smallest cession of territory," and declares that ' war to the knife is the only thing to give France a signal revenge, a glorious peace, and an immortal Re yublic." Neutrals will not take offence at these natural though lamentable outbursts of despair. Our only cou- cern is for the grievous harm the French are doing to themselves. The Neutral Powers are moved in this matter by a sincere sympathy for a nation over whelmed by an intolerable and, in some re- spects, an undeserved calamity ; but they must act, after all, mainly in the interests of peace and humanity, and they feel that their tender of friendly offices would be unavailing were they to pledge themselves beforehand to admit the claims of either party. We may Lope now that the surrender at Metz will aid the work of the peacemakers by forcing upon France the wholesome, however bitter, conviction that the fortune of wax has irrevocably pronounced against her. We are all interested in obtaining the best possible terms in her favour. We are all anxious that she should fall on her feet on this as she has done on so many other calamitous occasions. But she must understand that she cannot have war and peace at the same time. A few Freeshooter bands will not , obtain for her those terms which MacMahon and Bazaine's 2 armies failed to secure. The 'Standard doubts whether the capitulation of Metz will dispose the Government of the National Defence to the cession of Alsace and Lorraine. The ppace Prussia, iusists.upou is one which no Frenchman with hope of playing a part in the government of his country could sign, and which France will never forgive any French man who may sign. M. Jules Favre, and his col leagues, in subscribing to such a peace, would sign their own death warrant. So, says the Standard, the war will probably go on, and assume every day a crueller character—will become the struggle of a people reduced t o d es p era tion again 4 invaders who, whatever their justi fication for the invasion, have desolated France, and in their devastating course struck even harder the peaceful iuhabitants, with whom the war was at first unpopular, THE OPERA COMIQUE. Under this title another new theatre will open its doors to the public to-morrow evening. It is situated in Holy well-street, and makes the fifth building of that class erected in the neighbourhood of the Strand within the last two years. The house has been constructed entirely from the designs and under the supervision of Mr. F. H. Fowler, the architect of the Queen's, Gaiety, and other theatres. Though situated in Holywell - street, the principal entrance is from the Strand (immediately facing the Strand Theatre), from whence a spacious tunnel leads to the interior of the building, on a level with the dress circle, where it forms a junction with the second entrance from Holywell-street, and there are also two more entrances in Wych-street, making four in all. The general appearance of the interior differs in many respects from some of our pre sent theatres, the Genoese-Italian style being the promi nent feature. Throughout the decorations and in the architectural composition there is a liberal—we might almost say lavish—use of high art; inasmuch as the lunettes round the upper circle contain allegorical paintings emblematical of music, science, art, &c. The prevailing colour in the drapery is blue with gold, while the columns are principally white and gold, relieved With other tints. One great feature in the arrangement of the auditorium is the absence of any pit, the whole of the space behind the orchestra being devoted to stalls, and throughout the entire management of the front of the house there seems to be a direct contradiction to the latest idea of Mr. Boucicault, viz., that of a low-priced house offering a high-class entertainment, the admission to the stalls being 7s. 6d., the balcony stalls 55., while beyond this we have the dress circle and the family circle. To commence their campaign the management have secured the services of Mdlle. Dejazet, and the whole of her com pany, from the Theatre Dejazet, Paris, who will appear to-morrow evening in " Un soir neigeiat Lefores St. Gervais," by Victorien Sandon, and " Les forfaits de pipermans." In concluding our notice of this new aspi rant for public favour, we can only say that there has been no expense spared to produce what is without doubt the handsomest theatre in London, and from the line of entertainment promised we anticipate a great success for the Opera Comique. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. -YESTERDAY. Louis Gustave Drox, 38, watelnnaker, a native of Switzerland, was charged with throwing a quantity of aquafortis upon Harriet Drox, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. The prosecutrix was the wife of the prisoner, and they had been married for eighteen years at the time the occurrence took place. Owing, however, to the cruel treatment of the prisoner, the prosecutrix had applied to the Divorce Court, and obtained a decree of judicial separation, on the 10th of June this year. The prisoner appeared to have constantly waylaid the prosecutrix and annoyed her after she had obtained the decree, and she never went out without having some one to accom pany her. On the 2nd of October she had been to Dr. Cumming's Church, in Covent-garden, and when she came out she saw the prisoner, and he went up :to her, and she saw him drop his hand, and at the same moment she smelt a strong smell, and found that her dress had been burned, and there was no doubt that the prisoner had thrown a quantity of aquafortis, an ingredient which he was in the habit of using in his trade as a watch maker, upon the clothes of the prosecutrix, but fortu nately no part of her person was burnt. The prisoner was found guilty of a common assault, and sentenced to eight months' hard labour. The Italian Government is said to have determined that a strict neutrality shall be maintained, and has con sequently given orders that the authorities should prevent • the departure of those who are suspected of rendering assistance to France during the war. Many of the German papers represent that the condi tion of the tmoops before Metz is satisfactory; but such is not the view of the Weser Gazette. That journal says that the cold of the evenings, with the constant rain, has produced great havoc. Flannel waistcoats, woollen coverings, and all needful medicines are sent, but the devastation proceeds. THE CHARGE AGAINST A COUNT.—To the Editor of the Sen.—l must request your kindly correcting the following errors in your number of 26th inst., which errors otherwise might be prejudicial to my reputation. In the 11th line—these bills were signed—" T. Arthur, and Co." (to be) Thomas Arthur and Co. (in full), 29, Rue Taitbout. 13th line—of T. Arthur, and Co., the agents, &c., (to be) John Arthur, and Co., the agents, &c. In the 17th line— " but in the absence of a material witness the Lord Mayor dismissed the case,"—this is perfectly incorrect, and begs you to refer to any paper you please of the 15th Sept., and you will find there never was question of witness wanting. Your reporter has conbunded this item with the application made on the 20th September, at the Old Bailey, by the prosecution "to postpone preferring bills of indictment," on the grounds of wanting a witness from Paris. This application was refused. I wish the truth inserted—as was stated before the Recorder—viz., in the 17th line, after the words " Mansion House," the fol lowing—" Where the case was fully investigated before the Lord Mayor, and dismissed." Relying on your kindly having these corrections inserted, I am, &c., TIMM AliTHUite than the army which hailed it so enthusiastically. The capitulation of Metz, the capitulation of Paris, will nut hinder this worse catastrophe. We may expect such acts of devilry as will prove that human nature is much the same as in those old days upon which we have been wont to look back with so much Pharisaic self-congratulation, and will make anything like friendship between the two nations impossible for generations. There is, indeed, one chance of escape from this terrible catastrophe, but it is almost as visionary as the other one that France would accept a peace wrenching from her Alsace and Lorraine. The Prussian Government may content itself with the destruction of Metz and Strasburg as for- tresses—they are now in his hand to destroy ; and with certain sacrifices, pecuniary and otherwise, of France. The thing is not, of course, . impossible, but it is iu the highest degree improbable in finitely more improbable now that Metz has sur rendered and the last regular army of France has ceased to exist. Indeed, it would be extremely unsafe for the King and his Minister to exhibit such a moderation now, even if they were disposed to consider it politic; The ordinary lierman mind will now hold that France has lost all power of resistance, and will demand that no con sideration shall be shown for her feelings. The Tel says the most urgent question asked by all who read the news this morning will be, How far, and in what way, does the fall of Metz make for peace? The event comes most opportunely, to impress on the minds of the men who are charged with the destinies of France the hopelessness of further war. Seven German corps, numbering, after all the losses of the siege, not fewer than 160,000 men, are set free for operations in Central and Southern France. Nothing that has yet been effected against the besiegers by the ill-trained and imperfectly organised troops of the Paris garrison has shown that more troops are needed around the city. Nothing that has been accomplished by the Armies of the Loire, of the East, and of the orth, need make the German leaders suppc se that the troops of Von der Tann, Von Werder, and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, are insufficient to prevent the enemy from molesting the besiegers, or even to break up all hostile resistance outside the fortresses. The German troops engaged in active operations away from Paris already number at least 90,000. Add to these the 160,000 made available by the fall of Metz, and we have 250,000 tried soldiers, who can either join the army around Paris, or follow the feeble assem blages of hostile troops into the furthest corners of France. If the eyes of the Provisional Government are not obstinately closed to the facts—if their judgment is not irrevocably thwarted by the memory of their arrogant declarations—they must ac knowledge that in a military sense France i, con quered. And the appeal to the moral forces of the country, if it drew forth but a weak and partial re sponse when the great sieges detained all but a fraction of the invading armies, is much less likely to prove effective now—when the only army left to France is marched beyond the Rhine as prisoners of war, when the bulwark of the north-eastern frontier is in Ger man hands, when a quar.er of a million of men are free to march through the length and breadth of the land, overthrowing its armies, occupying its cities, draining its resources. Without some hope of success, and without a country suitable for its operations, no people is very likely to undertake a guerilla warfare ; and, whatever a few hot-headed youths here and there may do, the people who have something to lose may, without lack of patrioti m, now confess defeat. We cannot but think that, if the surrender of Metz had been timed to happen exactly when it did, it could not have fallen out more opportunely. It takes away from the Provisional Government the sole valid excuse for maintaining that, in the military point of view, any solid hope of success is left to France. The capitulation, observes the Daily News, appears to have taken place yesterday morning, and of course in cludes both the army and the fortress. The prisoners— in number 130,000—0 r 150,000, if we reckon the sick and wounded, include the whole of the Imperial Guard, General liourbaki's splendid corps, the flower of the French army ; Ladmirault's entire army corps ; Frossard's army corps; the corps which was Bazaine's before he took the chief command ; and a part of Canrobert's corps. Marshals Bazaine, Canrobert, and Lebceuf aro included in the sur render. The war materiel taken must be in immense quantity, for Metz was one of the largest military arsenals iu the world. Prince Frederick Charles has the honour of capturing a fortress which the Emperor Charles V. could not take after a ten- months' siege. What he will probably think of more consequence than the capture of Marshals, or even the possession of the enemy's strongest fortress, is the liberation of his own splendid army of from 150,000 to 200,000 men for service wherever they may be required. Where may not those troops goy Where are the forces that can oppose their march ? Well may King William thank Providence for the success of his arms in this campaign, which is unequalled in modern times. As he recog nises a superior Power, let us hope that the recol lection will render him moderate in those moments when his sovereign resolution will either end this war or consign a million of his fellow-creatures to pro tracted agony. The Manchester Examiner observes that it remains to be seen whether the announcement of this great catas• trophe will have the effect of weakening the tenacity of the French diplomatists, inducing them to look more favourably upon the demands preferred by Bismarck. It ought to have that effect, and in any case its influence on public feeling throughout France will be immense. How the French in the provinces feel on learning that their great fortress is in the hands of the Germans, and that Bazaine and his army of one hundred and fifty thousand strong are on their way to German prisons! Another element must hereafter enter into their calculations. The army hitherto detained before Metz will now be free to march elsewhere to occupy the line of the Loire, to sweep the departments of the South, and to threaten the ports from Havre to Tou lon. The truth is France lies powerless in the arms of her mighty antagonist, and the conflict has reached the stage which presents but one alternative—peace on the best terms that can be obtained, or protracted agony tend ing to social dissolution. Herr Carl Vogt, the distinguished German professor,who has already given his opinion strongly against the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, has written a second letter to the Topes-Presse of Vienna, in which he enlarges on the origin of the war, and, contrary to the generally-received opinion, denies that France is especially warlike, and satirically remarks that Prussia, while loudly professing her desire for peace, always unfortunately takes the course which I ends in war.