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The German press fully appreciates the difficulties of assaulting P ar i s. O ne j ourna l a dmits that a erins u army superior in number to the French ' defenders of the capital cannot be brought up. The N ew Free Press of Vienna is assured by a military atith °ritY that the German forces in France have _a total reaching a little over half a m illi on. Dedu cting those required for surrounding Metz, besie ging other fortresses, and in keeping open the r of communication, it is hardly possible that three hundred thousand can be found to sur ?cud the wa ll s o f th e cap it a l. Th e Vi enna P resse I ris that th e f ormat i on o f arm i es i n th e sou th of ance is unquestionably going on, and that if Paris hold out for a month the besiegers will be seriously hara ssed from without. The Prussian papers It success. speak of difficulties, but are confident success. They continue to demand Alsace is said that some of the German Generals ar e in favour of peace on moderate terms. T hey hold th at a s i ege o f cons id era bl e l eng th, w ith risk t. . of great l oss th r o u gh bad weather, will rather brief i4li nish the prestige of the hitherto brilliantly campaign. HOPES OF PEACE. PARIS, TUESDAY. t r he news from Lyons is satisfactory, and speedy ngnilit q is hoped for. The unanimity of the ~,•Parisian press in blaming the conduct of the Pro enal Government has produced the best effect. The Municipal elections will it is expected com plete the work of pacification. The members of the several religious communities Lyons of have asked permission to leave France, Which has been granted them. ITALY AND ROME. A tel egram f rom Fl orence to th e W an d erer , a etril an paper, states that the Italian Government Itaed, after th e occu p a ti on of Ro m e, to convoke an c ja n Parliament on universal suffrage. The ° ' ° 9 ll e Gazette has been informed that the Italian t uber will soon be convoked to vote the budget, ak e a plebi sc it e o f th e R oman people, a n d arrange e 7eut ually for the translation of the capital to Rome. -"-enotti Garibaldi, whose arrival in France was 44 ° 11 nced, has not yet left Italy. --- Don Carlos has arrived at St. Petersburg with What obj • ect is not known, but the Russian Govern- Ill s °lit is not favourable to his pretensions to the D a nish Throne. ENGAGEMENT AT WISSONS. GREAT PRUSSIAN LOSSES. • TRE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. lIITSSIAN PROTEST AGAINST I RE DEMANDS OF PRUSSIA. THE NEGOTIATIONS. TOURS, SEPT. 20 (4.0 P.M.) Th e hopes o f a pacific arrangement are not yet 0 uaildoned, although both sides are vigorously pro secuting their military operations. A. favourable e sult i s expected from the mission of M. Jules F 4 ,„lrre to the King's head-quarters. b i ut B stated that Prussia will grant no armistice, Wishes the conditions of peace to be fixed litiultaneously with the cessation of hostilities. DE PARTURE OF M. TRIERS FOR VIENNA AND ST. PETERS BURG. TOURS, SEPT. 20. thitt• ;Thiers, who arrived here last tight, has left r,_ fling for Vienna and St. Petersburg. The il ' i 7lBtitutionnel says he is satisfied with the result of te mission to London, and he expects a favourable w ee Ptinn at St. Petersburg. He states that opinion than Much more favourable to France when he left te n When h e arr i ve d in London. Lord Lyons f r SideB in the Ch a t e a u de Rigney, three kilometres o T ours.—Daily News Telegram. THE PRUSSIAN REPULSE. ORLEANS, SEPT. 20. travell ers say that the engagement w hi c h t oo k pie yesterd ay a t Wi ssons were o f a ser i ous char the ter ) and that cons id era bl e l o sses were inflicted on Prussians by so me masked batteries in the. " oods. t o T h il e following details have been received relating ilia engagement at Wissons It is asserted that 25,000 French soldiers, 7: 63 ed in th e rear o f th e M on tlh er y T ower , a ttacked ' 0 0 0 Prussian s . The latter were mowed down by th e Fren c h art ill ery, an d su ff ere d cons id era ble loss. Th ey recrossed the river, in order to fall back upon othe r Army Corps." THE PEOPLE RISING EN MASSE. PARIS, SEPT. 19. it‘s ßeport s f rom Montpellier, Nice, St. Etienne, Lille, t ;' ) 1 1 various p ar t s o f B r itta ny , re p resen t th e p eo ple be rising en ?nasse. Nj °ll °u) Cognac, Angouleme, and Nantes have th " e u sums from 150,000 to 800,000 francs each for e Purchase of arms. I RE SIEGE OF STRASBURG. St CARLSRUHE, SEPT. 2Q. I have just returned from the works before -aaul lt . g• On the left bank of the Rhine the fortificationshostile are now closely encompassed by d °Bt ile batteries, which keep up a very heavy and es t till etive fire. Th e re t urn fi r e is intermittent Yet 1 so metimes powerful. The city is nearly 4 th wa Ys shroud e d i n smo k e . Th e grea t er p ar t of e fortifications is a shapeless mass of ruins. A pract icable br eac h h as b een e ff ecte d, and it is believed thatq,,, the place can b e t a k en an y d a y by s torm, if ner al Werder would risk the loss of at least two ise l .; "B4lld men . The broad and deep moat is the most de -1)11 s obstacle. P reparat i ons are b e i ng ma d e to „ t litt °Y the inner magazines with nitro-glycerine tt'eVectiles, to be laun c h e d f rom b a lloons. The field th e g t aph is carried into the third parallel. All 14 ' lie ge works are now in telegraphic cora "nieation with headquarters and with each oth er. Ne M ulhausen i s occup i e d b y t h e G ermans. h e °le °I Upper Alsace, except Belfort, Schelestadt, übreisach, and one or two other places, h in their }laud s. Th e ztr cattle-plague is raging in Vicomty and fronnd Wiessenburg, but Lower Alsace is still free it. The peasants say it is a greater curse than "r•—Daily News Telegram. DIVISIONS IN PARIS. general PARIS, SEPT. 20. Clnseret, a writer in the Marseillaise, \s7ho has been disowned 131;' M. Rochefort and by th e People, c ont i nues to post placards throughout 4 it 3 7) Qucicaliouring to cause a CliTi4Con amongst the citizens and to establish a secret Government. Resolutions have been passed at Lyons that in case of Paris capitulating the right to. surrender will not be recognised, but that the people will defend their country to the last man. Four thousand additional Gardes Mobiles have arrived from the West of France. A committee, composed of M. Estancelin, Count Keratry, and M. Jules Claretie, has been ap pointed to classify the correspondence of the Emperor and Empress, which will shortly be published. The Gas Company have announced that, in view of the danger of explosion likely to result from the bombardment, they will not continue their supply beyond a few days. The Paris papers assess the personal income of the Emperor and Empress at 200 million francs. THE PRUSSIANS IN ALSACE. BERLIN, SEPT. 20. -The Prussian Civil Governor of Alsace has issued a proclamation to the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish clergy. It declares that all are to retain their present rights and stipenis. The Church will not be interfered with by the State, but ecclesiastics preaching, speaking, or acting against existing authorities will be punished by military law. Semi-official communiques have been published, contradicting the statement of some English cor respondents at the seat of war to the effect that Count Bismarck attributed the victory of Sedan to the Bavarians and Wurtemburgers. He merely said he was proud that Saxons, Bavarians, and Wurtemburgers had not only fought ou the Prus sian side, but also had so greatly contributed to the victory. This explanation bas been well received by the Saxon semi-official Press. Bavaria has sent a battery of new mitrailleuses of Bavarian invention to the army. It fires 350 bullets per minute.— . 7imes Telegram. RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS. BERLIN, SEPT. 20. Ihe Russian garrisons in Poland and Volhynia are being reinforced. Seven divisions of infantry have been sent to the province of Kieff to line the Galician frontier. A military commission has been appointed at St. Petersburg to create a medical reserve force of 1,000 surgeons. • The Vicar of the Archdiocese of Freiburg having proclaimed the Infallibility and other votes of Council, the Baden Government has prohibited these decrees from being carried out, so far as they are incompatible with the existing laws of the State.- 7 Imes Telegram. I.IIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ' 21, 1876 GENERAL RISING IN CHINA AGAINST FOREIGNERS. (REUTER'S TELDIRAIR.) (By Bri ish Indian Cable.) HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 1. The anti-foreign feeling increases in intensity hroughout China, and a general rising against foreigners is expected. Great apprehension is every where felt. Native troops are being collected. Mr. Wade still remains at Pekin. The Erench Minister had declared that he would haul down his flag if the heads of the Mandarins concurred in the massacre at Tientsin were riqt given up before the 31st August. THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. VIENNA, SEPT. 20 (EVENING). . It is announced that the Emperor of the Brazils is expected to visit Europe on the termination of the present war, and that his Majesty will make a long stay in the Austrian capital. INDIA. (BY INDO-EITROPEAN LINE.) CALCUTTA, SEPT. 20. Inconsequence of unfavourable weatheri inTrirhoot the estimates of the indigo crop have been reduced. AMERICA. (BY FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 19. The steamers lowa and Columbia, of the Anchor line, arrived out yesterday. NEW YORK, SEPT. 20. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report, the receipts of cotton during the last four days have been 16,000 bales ; export to Great Britain, 5,000 bales ; and to France and the Continent, none. Middling Upland, Bg, cost and freight per steamer. Gold closed at 1131. The highest quotation during the day was. 1131, the lowest 113 g. Ster ling exchange on London, 1091. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1882, 112 i ; ditto (1885), 112 h ; ditto (1867), 1101 ; Ten-Forties, 1061 ; Illinois, 1351- ; Erie, 23. Cotton—Middling Upland, 18k. Petroleum, Standard White, 25k. Flour—Extra State, $5 40c. to 5$ 60c. Corn, New, 87c. BOSTON, SEPT. 20. The extra Cunard steamer Palmyra arrived out at 8 a.m. to-day. QUEBEC, SEPT. 19. The Allan steamer Scandinavian has arrived out. AMERICAN MAIL. QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 20. The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of London, from New York, with full mails, and 739,729 dollars in specie, arrived here at 10.30 a.m. to-day, and having landed mails and passengers, she proceeded immediately for Liverpool. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE EX-EMPRESS AT HASTINGS. The duration of the stay of the Empress and the Prince Imperial at Hastings is still undetermined. It is denied on the best authority that she is leaving Hastings because of the offensive inquisitiveness of the public. The Empress and the Prince Imperial take daily walking exercise on the parades and over the adjacent hills, and do not experience the least annoyance. On Monday after noon they and their attendants enjoyed a very pleasant ride to Fairlight, a romantic spot, much frequented by visitors to Hastings. The Empress has expressed her self much pleased with the neighbouihood. EXTRA PARLIAMENTARY UTTERANCES. The members for West Gloucester, Colonel Kingscote and Mr. S. Marting, addressed 1,400 of their constituents who had been invited by them to a dinner under a marquee at the Speech House in Dean Forest, yesterday afternbon. The two members, speaking of the Liberal Government, claimed for it the passing of three great measures, the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill, the Land Bill, and the Education Bill, and for the Liberals generally all the best measures of national progress which had become law during the last forty years. They also advanced, amid great applause, the equitable enclosure of the Forest of Dean. Mr. Marting shewed that after the payment of official expenses the Forest of Dean yielded no more than £5OO to the National Exchequer. Mr. Winterbotham, M.P. for Stroud, also in an eloquent speech related the experience of his recent visit to the continental battle fields. He told graphically of the horrors which he had witnessed ; praised the German army ; and declared his belief that the era of pro fessional soldiers was at an end. Speaking of the Educ . ation Bill, he said the diffusion of education must greatly facilitate manufactures and social progress. He condemned the enclosure of open spaces generally, as tending to enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor, and remarked that for this reason the Radical party in the House of Commons had strenuously opposed measures having that aim, but with reference to Dean Forest, which was twenty-two thousand acres in extent, he admitted that the enclosure of it must be a great benefit to all classes. A FACTION PARTY. The Paris correspondent of the Indep . endoorte Belo says that the general spirit of the Parisian popu lation is good, but that unfortunately a circum stance has occurred to cause division in the National Guard, and to employ it in other thoughts than those appertaining to the great duty in which it Is engaged.. General Chusaret and others, signitaries to the abominable number of the Marseillaise, disavowed by M. Rochefort and disliked by the people, continue to make manifestoes which provoke disunion among the citizens, and tend to establish a sort of occult govern ment in contradiction with that which honest men might approve. These men, whose only influence was derived from that of M. Rochefort,are doing a most unpatriotic work. Their opinions have no political worth, as he has denounced them ; yet this isolated set of demagogues frighten the timid shopkeepers, some of whom go so far as to say that they would rather have the Prussians among them than fall into the power of these communists. THE STATE OP ROME. FLORENCE, SEPT. 19, 5.30 P.M. There is to be a demonstration here to-morrow on the anniversary of the battle of Mentana. The Roman citizens are reported to be eagerly awaiting the Italian troops, .avoiding idle and compromising demonstrations meanwhile. The Papal Zouaves are said to be full of fight, and a bombastic proclamation from General Kanzler, Minister of War, is published in the Roman offi cial Journal. No authentic telegraphic news from Rome this evening. Garibaldi remains at Caprera, in order to avoid the anti-French movement at Nice.—Daily News 7 elsgram. THE DISTURBANCES AT NICE AND MENTONE. NICE, SEPT. 19. Contrary to the despatches of some newspapers, perfect tranquillity prevails at Nice and Mentone and throughout the whole department. Visitors are beginning to arrive, and the season is commencing favourably. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, SEPT. 19 (9.30 P.m.) Reports of Austro-Prussian rapprochments are entirely without foundation. The Emperor told a Czech address deputation yesterday that the immediate election of deputies to the Reicttsrath is absolutely necessary. The Lower Chamber voted adjournment to-day until Monday next, by a constitutional majority of one. This morning another new house scaffolding broke down here, burying 11 men and women. All were dreadfully injured, but none are dead. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 20 (Evening). The Journal dc Bruxelles of this evening publishes an article in which it insists upon the services ren dered by Belgium to the German wounded and the Germans expelled from France. It refutes the state ments made by the German press of bad treatment an I inhospitable proceedings having been shown to wards them by the Belgian people, and concludes as follows :—" We await from the straightforwardness of the German newspapers a formal retractation on these points. Should those papers decline to put the facts in their true light, we shall be entitled to accuse them of malice, and to denounce to Europe their openly aggressive intentions towards Bel gium." RUSSIA PREPARING FOR WAR BERLIN, MONDAY, 7.25 p.m. Russia is preparing for war. She will protest against the annexation of Lorraine to Germany. FIGHTING ROUND PARIS. PARIS, SEPT. 19. Firing was heard during a portion of last night in the direction of Clamart and Aleudon. Almost all the troops are outside Paris i❑ order to harass the enemy, and the ramparts are manned by the National Guard. Everywhere an excellent spirit prevails. Some trifling engagements took place yesterday in the direction of Fort Ivry and the plains of Chatillon . Strong detachments of Prussian infantry and cavalry are announced at Clamart and Creteil. Prince Albert, of Prussia, has occupied Nangis with cavalry. A body of 1,500 Prussians are constructing a Vridge near Villeneuve St. George's. The Crown Prince is advancing towards Fontaine bleau, and the Prussians have crossed the Seine at Choisy le Roi.' A PRUSSIAN REPULSE. ORLEANS, SEPT. 16. Advices from Dourdan state that a Prussian corps, the exact strength of which was unknown, appeared in the plains between Champlain and Wissons, but was repulsed, and forced to retire on Montlhery and Arpajon. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. TOURS, SEPT. 20. A collision took place at four o'clock this morning at Plessis, near Tours, between two trains. 11 persons were killed, and 25 injured. Among the former was M. Duval, the Editor of the Debats. THE GERMAN ARMY IN CHAMPAGNE.—A letter from Epernay, received in London yesterday, mentions the arrival of th• Germans in that town. The behaviour of the troops was orderly and conside rate. Their requisitions were— at Epernay, 200,000 francs (28,000), with rations (paid at two hours' notice) ; at Chalons, 1,000,000 francs (224,300) ; at Rheims, 3,000,000 francs (2120,000), of 'which one million francs (X 40,000) was paid by the chief partner (who is himself a German) in the celebrated Rheims house of the " Widow Cliquot," the other two millions of francs being Paid by the city,—Daily 2410, BAPTIST CONFERENCE. The Baptist Union Conference continues its sitting at Cambridge. The Missionary Conference yesterday lasted for five hours, and the representatives of the press were not admitted. Several committee meetings have been held preparatory to the actual business of the Union, to-morrow and Thursday. A very large meeting was held last night at the Guildhall in connection with the foreign missionary operations of the society. Mr. Joseph Tritton, of London, presided, and eloquent addresses were delivered by the Rev. Dr. Price, of Wales, 3. C. Pike, Mr. S. R. Stevenson, Luton, and S. W. Handford, Bolton. The meeting was most enthusiastic. THE LOSS OF THE_ VESSEL IN YARMOUTH ROADS. The name of the vessel run down and lost in Yarmouth Roads on Sunday morning was the schooner Annie Kirstine, Captain Neilson, from Lynn, for Chichester, with oil cake. The steamer is the James Southorn, bound for London, with coals. The schooner sank almost im mediately after being struck; but fortunately the crew, four or five hands, managed to get on board the steamer. MURDER 1N LEICESTERSHIRE. A murder was committed on Monday night at Barrow-on- Soar, eleven miles from Leicester. About half-past eight o'clock Monday night, Thomas Knight, carrier from Bar row to borough, on returning home, went into the Lime kiln beerhouse, where he met 'with a framework knitter, named George Perkins, who at once began quarreling with Knight, in consequence of the latter accusing him of being a thief. Perkins at once set upon Knight, and a scuffle took place upon the floor. Perkins was pulled off, and Knight left to go home ; but was fol lowed by Perkins, who again commenced beating him, knocked him down, and kicked him about the head several times. He was at length taken away from Knight, who was carriad home, where he died. Perkins was afterwards found by Policeman Moore in the closet of the Limekiln beerhouse. When charged he said it was all through malice ; it served him right, but he could not help it, he was so enraged. It was done, and could not be undone ;he did not intend to kill him. The prisoner was removed to Loughborough police-station and charged with the murder. The inquest will be held at Barrow to day. Yesterday morning a terrible accident occurred at Bel mont Crescent, Hillhead, Glasgow, where one of a range of houses, which was about four storeys in height, gave way as the workmen were descending the scaffold. Eleven men were buried in the ruins: The accident is attributed to insufficient building. Five or six lives have been lost. Others are not expected to recover. The death is announced of Mr. Arthur Way, formerly Conservative member for Bath, and uncle to Sir Greville Smyth, of Ashton Court, near Bristol, whose vast estates he managed lip to last week. He was much respected by the tenantry. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The representations of the. Tower of Strasburg Cathedral and the blowing up of the Bridge of Kehl, which were so successful at the last - fire work fete, will be repeated in to-morrow's display. Gounod's new opera, " The Pet Dove," will be played in the afternoon, and a military band will perform French and German war songs, Sic., in the evening. W IFE MURDER AT GREENWICH.—John Tantenny, who killed his wife at Greenwich on Saturday night, yes terday surrendered himself to the police. He declares that the occurrence was accidental, and that he did not intend to strike her with the knife, which .he threw in a passion at his son. A. coroner's jury has returned a verdict of manslaughter against him, and he stands remanded. FRENCH ESCAPED PRISONERS. The Inde'pendance Be'ge publishes a letter from Rouen, in which the writer comments on the number of wounded soldiers, of escaped prisoners, and of officers who signed the capitulation of Sedan, who are gathered in the Norman town. The escaped prisoners are more and more numerous. The train by which he travelled bore 200, and from what he learned he estimates the number who escaped from the Uhlans before all the prisoners of Sedan were safely lodged in Germany, at 20,000. Twenty thousand escaped, he exclaims, that is something, but alas, thousands remain. If the incapacity of our generals required proof, this enormous mass of soldiers who were obliged to lay down their arms without fighting, taken in a mouse-trap which the most ignorant could have avoided, would be sufficient to establish it. Precautions are being taken to protect Havre, where there are immense stores, and works have been undertaken at Beauvais to arrest the progress of the enemy should he attempt to make a reconnaissance in that direction. PROVINCIAL FRANCE. The correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Rouen, says :—" It is not safe for a stranger to say much about the enemy. The people of Rouen, it is true, are not so excitable as those of their countrymen who have already felt the sting of war ; but they prick up their ears unpleasantly at the sound of a foreign accent, and yesterday, during their Sunday leisure, the crowd on the Boulevards betrayed an excitement which was more interesting than pleasant. In - f i le course of the day, the gendarmes made three captures of what they con ceived to be Prussian spies. One turned out to be not a Prussian, but a vagabond who had got loose from prison, and was looking, not for information, but for food. In the evening a crowd collected in the Place de ['Hotel de Ville round a vehicle guarded by two g - endarmes, and containing three prisoners. The cap tives were dressed as workmen ; they spoke with a foreign accent; they had no passports. So of course they were Prussian spies, and they were at once gut off from all communication with Bismarck by being shut up in the town gaol. An hour later, the crowd in the Place had the felicity of surrounding a second vehicle, containing two other captives, who, of course, were also Prussian spies, and were also locked up for the night. Even in Rouen, however, there seems to be some doubt respecting the guilt of those two, for it is now whispered that they are not spies, but only schoolmasters, who came from the neighbourhood :f the town ; so I fancy they will not be shot. "'hey may thank their stars that they did not fall into the hands of the wildly excited crowd which surged along tho Quai Napoleon last night, and which threatened at one time to sack a café. The riot was caused by the war, as everything un usual is just now. At present the stragglers 'from the army of Sedan are, of course, petted chil iren ; they are treated to cigars and beer, absinthe, and the flattery of eagerly listening ears ; and, tieing favoured with the special guardianship of the mob, they do not always confine their requests, or rather their demands, within the bounds of' • moderation. I am told the war mobs of Rouen are orderly in comparison with those of the eastern counties. Last night an English man explained to me why he shrank away from the mob with nervous horror by a recital of the comforting fact lat he had already been three times arrested as a Prus sian spy, and that one night he had heard some French men debating, below the prison window, the interesting pestion, not whether, but why he was to be shot." DEFEAT OF THE PRUSSIANS. Several telegrams have reached us giving an account of skirmishes to the south of Paris. The most important of these affairs took place at Monthlery. A telegram from Orleans, dated September 20, states that " 25,000 French soldiers massed in rear of the Monthlery tower attacked 15,000 Prussians. The latter were mowed down by the French artillery, and suffered eonsiderable loss. They recrossed the river in order to fall back upon another army corps." A previous telegram from Orleans, dated 10th Sept., states that a Prussian corps, strength unknown, appeared on the plains between Champlain and Wissons, but was repulsed and forced to retire on Monthlery and Arpajon. Again, another telegram, dated Orleans, Sept. 20, states that travellers assert that the engagements which took place on the 19th at Wissons were of a serious nature, and that the Prussians suffered heavily from masked batteries placed in the woods. A fourth tele gram from Rouen, dated Sept. 20, 9.25 a.m., in forms us that a small engagement took place at Visors Wissons ?—and that the Prussians were re pulsed at Monthlery and Arpajon. Now, the question arises, were there two engagements—one, a small one, at Wissons, and the other, a more serious affair, at Monthlery ; or are the two one and the same, the im portance of the action not having been at first fully known at Paris? Wissons is a small village about seven and a half miles from the enceinte, due south of Fort Montrouge, and Monthlery about seven miles further on in the same direction. Champlain is about two miles from Wissons, on the road to Monthlery and Arpajon. Now we know that General Vinoy, at the head of his corps, which is estimated at 25,000 men, is afield, and 25,000 is given in the telegrams as the strength of the French force engaged. This estimate is, therefore, in all pro bability correct. Now, an engagement in which the contending parties number respectively 25,000 and 15,000 men, and in which the Prussians " were mowed down " by the French artillery, cannot be termed " a small engagement." Napoleon would have called it "an affair of advanced posts of the first magnitude." We, therefore, are inclined to think that two affairs tock place on the 19th —one, a trifling skirmish at Wissons ; the other, a more serious affair, seven miles distant from the latter place, at Month lery. Whether there were two engagements or only one is, however, of not much importance ; and one thing seems cer tain, namely, that an affair of some importance has taken place about 14 miles from Paris, and that the Prussians have been worsted. We are told that the Prussians at the close of the engagement recrossed the river. The troops engaged on their side were probably a portion of the army of the Crown Prince, who is reported to be advancing towards Fontainebleau, and it is to be presumed that on their defeat they recrossed the Seine at Corbeil. The importance of this success to the French cannot be too highly estimated. With the exception of the little pas ade affair at Saarbruck, it is the only occasion in which they have been victorious, and we are much mis taken if the morale of the French troops, which sadly wanted raising, is not improved by their good fortune to an extent that may largely influence the result of the campaign. Neither are the present and tangible advan tages to be despised, for the investment of Paris will be delayed, and the Prussians will be compelled to concen trate instead of dispersing their army, now that they per ceive that their foe is no longer to be despised. The result of concentration will be increased freedom of com munication with the rest of France for Paris, and augmented difficulty of subsistence for the Prussians. We learn that 1,500 Prussians were on the 19th constructing a bridge across the Seine at Villeneuve St. George, and that tho Prussians have crossed the Seine at Choisy le Roi. Ville neuve is about seven miles from the enceinte, and Choisy is about two miles lower down the river. Several skirmishesin addition to those we have mentioned are stated to have taken place, but the accounts are so meagre and the results so unimportant that we do nu more than allude to them. It is stated that there were strong Prussian detachments at Creteil and Clamart, but these must have been, we think, mere scouting parties, which were no doubt cleared ont by General Vinoy before the action at Monthlery. We learn that all the troops—the regular troops—are outside Paris, so we may expect, especially after the success of the 19th, to hear of man , sharp affairs of advanced posts —Standard. MR. GEORGE HUDSON.—A year ago the trustees appointed by the subscibers to the Hudson Annuity Fuse invested a sum of £4OOO, which purchased a life annuit3, for the ex-Railway King of £5 20 . It is now announced that a further sum of £B5O, has been placed making th annuity .2635 per annum. This is strictly reserved for Mr. Hudson's personal benefit, and is amply secure° against any claims of litigants. Mr. Hudson is in excel lent health and resides in London. KING WILLIAM'S POLICY TO THE EMPEROR AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE. A letter to a Belgian paper makes some comments on the inconsistent manner in' which King William has be haved with respect to the Emperor Napoleon and the people over whom he formerly ruled. King William denounced to his Parliament those who governed France Inon who turned to their own advantage the just but susceptible sentiments of a great people, and y. t we may well be surprised at the different treatment he bestows on those who formed the scheme, and those who were its victims. To the personage who was at the head of the plotters,King William sends cooks, and to the French, who were plotted against, he sends balls, abuses, and bombs. We may admit that it was the French who provoked the arrival of those halls and abuses, and that Germany was in a state of legitimate defence; but compassion for the man who receives cooks while France receives nothing but munitions of war, cannot easily be awakened. He who wished for the war to take place is at his ease in a fine castle, well fed, well 'looked after, and cour teously treated, , while those whom the war has bereft of children, houses and fields, still feel on their throats the foot of the stranger. This is an acknowledged fact, and yet we are called upon to mourn for the fate of the man who las made a prudent journey to Wilhelm shohe, and found there everything to make life enjoyable. We reserve our sadness for those who the war is crushing and molesting, but as for the Emperor, who commenced on the second of December and did not finish at Sedan, we see in such a fugitive not even a conquered man in this sovereign en voyage, not even a prisoner, and, above all, no great mis fortune to bewail when we look upon his unfinished crimes. FRENCH SOLDIERS. A great sensation was caused in Rouen by the '"- anent that Bazaine and Canrobert had broken loose from Metz, and were on their way to Paris to annihilate the army of General itloltke with 7,000 men. In the railway carriages, the cafes, and the streets, the news produced the greatest enthusiasm. Officers who had been at Sedan invited strangers to celebrate the coming victories of France by drinking petits verres. Nay, so circumstantial an account of Bazaine's progress passed from mouth to mouth that yesterday a portion of his army was said to have reached Amiens, and to be on the way to Rouen. Accordingly a crowd of people went to the railway station to await the arrival of the men who were to save France. But the train brought no such heroes ; and now it is found that Bazaine is still shut up in Metz, and that Paris must rely on her own arms. Yesterday afternoon, when the frag ments of several regiments passed through the streets on the way to the train for Angers, it still seemed to half believe that the men had come from Metz ; and, although that was a delusion, the soldiers had the look of men who had seen service, and who could endure more. All were young, lithe, wiry fellows, many being mere boys, and none seeming to be over thirty. To a physiologist their look of ner vous energy, rather than of physical strength, would,. I fancy, have explained why the French soldiers are the finest in the world at a dashing assault, and why they are among the worst at every task demanding patient, monotonous, stupid endurance. The French system developes the individual powers of the soldier, giving free play to his actions rather than turning him into a machine. Prussian critics assert that, in consequence, the French soldiers fight like an armed mob. And it is certainly true that they march with an amazing con tempt for military form. They keep neither step nor line, but dash along at a swinging, careless pace. Yesterday some had cigars in their mouth, others had newspapers pushed into their breasts, and two men had laughingly given their Chassepots to two urchins, who had shouldered the ponderous fusils, and were running by the side of the columa in a breathless attempt to keep up with the swift sharp tramp. Thus does young France learn the sweetness of la gloire, which leads to military dictatorships, and Sedans, and revolutions. The bronzed, tired, perspiring, dust-stained young soldiers could, I fancy, have made some pungent commentaries on la gloire.- -Correspondent of the Telegraph at .R,ouen- THE EMPEROR AT WILHELMSHOHE. A correspondent of the Times sends the following respecting the captive Emperor :—The hospitality once shewn to Prince Louis Napoleon in England seems likely to be repeated towards the dethroned Napoleon 111., for the Duchess had hardly departed when Lady Cowley arrived. It is a touching proof of the fact that the esteem which Lord Cowley enjoyed for so mnny years at the Tuileries as the Ambassador of:the Court of St. James's, and the close friendship which consequently sprang up between his own and the Imperial family have not vanished or been obliterated by the misfortune which has now befallen the Napoleonic dynasty. In her emergency the Empress Eugenie appeals to the friend ship of Lady Cowley, and the latter con sents at once to be a messenger between the wife and the husband, so distant from each other. The Countess came early in the morning, and having alighted at the hotel, she went at once on her mission to Napoleon. What a heart-stirring meeting it must have been ! After remaining at the Palace for several hours her ladyship returned to the hotel, and, having partaken of a hurried dinner, returned on her noble errand by the Frankfort train, unmindful of the fatigues of a wearisome journey. As to the present life of the Emperor, it is marked by the same uniformity I have mentioned already in my former letter. Re is taking his regular walks In the close vicinity of the Palace. Only once last week he had a two hours' drive by a road leading through the neighbouring villages Kirchditmold and Harleshausen, re turning by way of the Rasen-All4e, a r3ad formerly kept for the exclusive use of the Elector, and connecting Wil helmshohe with the hunting castle of Wilhelmsthal, five miles distant. The party consisted of nine, all of them being French, Raimbaud, mounted on horseback, riding in front, and Comte Davillier at the side of the carriage. The Emperor with the rest was seated on a char-a-banc, drawn by four horses. To amend his equipage a few days ago a Royal carriage was sent over from Berlin, together with a team of six beautiful black horses. Inside the palace there are many memorial signs of the past. In the billiard-room stands the identical billiard table of his Royal uncle, as also the cues with the initials "J. N." engraved upon them. Leaving the ante-room, where the rules of the game, printed in French, are still hanging, he may enter the front vesti bule, and, looking down on the lovely valley before him, his eyes may chance to rest upon an inscription on the glass panel, cut with a diamond ring by some attendant of King Jerome, " Vive le Roi I" with the retort underneath, " Le Roi est disparu, vive l'Electeur !" SOMETHING IN • A NAME.—Baron Moltke, a Danish nobleman,recently attached to the Danish Embassy at• Paris, was assaulted at Grouville last week when about to embark for Jersey. His name having become known to the populace:they immediately concluded that he was aPrussian, and it was asserted that he was a relative of the general of that name. He was surrounded and seriously threatened, and, but for the interference of the authorities, would have been ill-treated. Foiled in this attempt, the mob endeavoured to prevent the shipment of the baron's horses six in number, and it was only after some considerable trouble that the embarkation was effected. Comma.—Mr. Commissioner Kerr has had before him, at the Central Criminal Court, London, no fewer than seventeen cases in which the persons were charged with offences against the Mint, revealing the vast extent to which the counterfeiting of coin is carried on in this country. Two were found not guilty, and the remainder were sentenced as follows :—William Johnson (28), bricklayer, uttering counterfeit coin, five years' penal servitude ; George Rumball (22), potman, uttering, twelve months' hard labour ; Ellen Carpenter (18), spinster, uttering, six months' hard labour; George Jones (18), labourer, uttering, five years' penal servi tude ; Oliver Neil (33), labourer, having counterfeit coin in his possession after a conviction, five years' penal servitude ; Mary Ann Ward (39), widow, uttering, nine months' bard labour ; Wm. Jackson, alias Davis (24), carpenter, feloniously possessing a machine for making counterfeit coin, five years' penal servitude ; William Batcheldon (40), labourer, uttering, five years' penal servitude ; Adam Mach (32), porter, uttering, five years' penal servitude ; Julia Hart (23), spinster, uttering, five y ea rs' penal ,sevitude ; Wm. Smith (17), printer, uttering, six months' hard labour. MAILS FOR PORTIMAL.--ln consequence of the delay which now takes place in sending through France the mails for Portugal, temporary arrangements have been made for forwarding mails to Portugal via Southampton by the packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, sailing every Saturday with Indian mails, which, by per mission of the directors, will call off Lisbon for the pur pose. Mails for Portugal will continue to be forwarded by the ordinary route through France, between Saturday night and Wednesday night inclusive, but all correspon dence (not specially addressed via France) posted or received in London between Thursday morning and Satur day morning will be forwarded by packe t to Lisbon. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning PROSPECTS OP PEACE. The Times says it may be taken as certain that, if a peremptory and inflexible feeling had been manifested by either negotiator, the mission of M. Jules Favre would have before this terminated. We should have been told almost as soon as the news reached us of his having gone to the Head quarters of the King that he had returned to Paris with the tidings that nothing remained but to buckle on the ar mour of defence. The negotiation remains open, and there is, therefore, hope, and not yet decreas ing hope. If M. Favre remains at Meaux, the explanation of his continued presence may be that the Chancellor finds it necessary to consult the King, Baron von Moltke, and the rest of the. Cabinet, as well as the representatives of Baden and Bavaria, at every stage of the negotiation. We know that, though the opinions of the Germans at home preponderate largely in favour of one solution of the contest, those who dissent from its policy are sufficiently numerous and more important in position than in numbers. It is a good sign, too, that the German people are showing a perfect consciousness of the onerous character of the enterprise that now lies before their armies. They e.O not doubt the success of their champions, and they are warranted in their faith by what they have already achieved, and by a survey of the comparative forces they can bring into the field and France can oppose to them ; but the conviction of ultimate triumph is not inconsistent with a recognition of the arduous nature of the work to be performed. ALLEGED GERMAN BARBARISM. The Daily News remarks that when the Schleswig 1-1-1-tein war was opening and there was yet some talk of E uoa,nd taking arms against the two great German Powers, Punch had a cartoon which aptly illustrated the condition of British feeling and knowledge as re garded Germany. An English soldier and sailor of the magnificent conventional pattern were depicted eyeing with utter contempt and disgust a couple of loutish, awkward German soldiers, with lank hair on their heads and long pipes in their mouths. The sailor says to his com rade, "'Well, Bill, they can't expect us to fight such fellows as those, but we'll kick them, of course, with plea sure." Such was the absurd and discreditable ignorance which then existed in England, and this cartoon quite fairly represented the British Philistine's notions of the German army. Since then facts which no Philistinism of skull could resist have considerably changed the public estimate of the German's warlike capacity ; and we are pretty sure to have no more sarcastic pleasantries on that subj ect at all events. But it' seems by no means certain that the public mind is much better informed now than it was then on the place in civilization and freedom which the Germans justly claim to have attained. We read every day letters in the public papers from Englishmen—English Liberals some of them, who oue'ht to be better informed—the object of which would seem to be to prove that the Germans in the field are no better than the hordes of Attila or Alaric ; and that the Germans at home are plunged in the -depths of the most barbarous feudalism. Now, this sort of stuff is pardonable, perhaps, in excited Frenchmen, such as the eminent journalist who, the other day, said the Ger mans were destroying, like Redskin savages, the libraries they could not read. Allowing for the nationality, the excusable excitement, and the characteristic igno rance of all foreign countries which may be observed in Frenchmen generally, one could understand how an enemy in arms might thus speak of a people who rank far beyond any other European race in education. But it is less excusable when sober Englishmen, uninfluenced by ;he war pussion, go about telling each other, and all who listen, that the Germans are the slaves of feudal kings and . __. ^ustoms, that caste is as rigid in Germany as in llin lostan, and that liberty is absolutely unknown from the Rhine to the Vistula. THE CHANCES OF PEACE. Commenting on the visit of M. Favre to the Prussian camp, the Telegraph remarks that the deepest anxiety has all along been concentrated on the question of soil ; in fact, there is now no other question. France will give all but territory, and Germany is said to care only for territory. The ominous silence preserved by the King and his councillors casts some doubt, but not much, upon the matter ; for if there was little thought at first of annexation, the prodigious success of the German arms, the stout resistance offered by Metz and Strasburg, and their demonstrated excellence as bases of attack, have made it too likely that " Metz and Strasburg " are now the minima of the victors' programme. Suppose Count Bismarck has plainly told his visitor that Germany means to have Metz and Strasburg coute qui coute. not is the true point to deal with for those who wish for peace, and it is conceivable that an arrangement might not be utterly hopeless even then. It might suit the present Government, as well as the victors, to take the opinion of the country upon the double question of " Peace " and the " Republic," or ` War " and the " Revolution." If M. Favre does not or will not submit the proposal of mutilation to his country, then the last hope is that Count Bismarck may have an alternative plan, failing which there can be nothing for it but a renewal of bloodshed at awful cost to both countries to terminate, possibly, in the paralysis of France and her surrender at discretion. THE INTERVIEW BETWEEN BISMARCK AND M. JULES FAVRE. Baseless, observes the Standard, as any expectations of immediate peace built upon the consent of Count Bis marck to receive M. Jules Favre appear in the light of the latest declarations of the two Ministers, the result of the interview has been looked for with the live liest interest, and the very fact that it was to take place has given confidence to those who, hoping against hope, yet trust Paris may be spared a siege, and France and Germany be rescued from a mur derous and seemingly endless combat. We can share none of these hopes, and indulge in none of these illusions. We have not received any statement, officious or official, as to the result of the interview. We do not even know at this moment whether it has taken place, but believing Count Bismarck to be a man of his word, who only declares his intentions when he has made up his mind as to what he shall do, and givinE M. Jules Favre also credit for the honesty and patriotism which he is too fond of claiming for the particular sect of Republicans of which he is the prophet, we cannot con ceive the possibility of the visit of the French Foreign Minister to Meaux resulting in anything more substantial than his introduction to the Chancellcr of the North Ger man Confederation. Count Bismarck has said, with the frankness which distinguishes him, a frankness which is not the less commendable that it is singularly politic, that Germany must settle once for all with the neighbour who has been always seeking to remove her landmarks, and whose aggressive spirit has kept her for centuries in alarm and almost in terrified inaction. He is tc e sensible a man to attach the slightest impottance, except so far as they may represent a force of public opinion that must be considered, to the argu ments of the professorial politicians who demand Alsace and Lorraine, upon grounds which, if worth any thing, would justify them in asking for the whole of Burg..ndy, for Provence, and, in consistency with which, they should swallow up Belgium—quite as integral a part of Germany as the three bishoprics, and to a much later time nominally a portion, or rather a member of the Empire. THE CESSION OF TEERITORY. The Manchester Examiner says it is difficult to believe that any territorial guarantee which would be exacted would surpass in strength the lesson which France has l earned in the course of the present war. The idea of invading Germany, of interfering in its domestic affairs, or of extending the frontier of France along the Rhine, must henceforth be abandoned as the idlest of vain illusions. For all practical ends the work of Germany is complete. Possibly more may be successfully exacted, but there are risks ahead the extent of which no one can pretend to foresee. France is not yet conquered. The spirit of the people is not yet crushed. The siege of Paris may prove a harder task than heads heated with ♦ictory may imagine. France is the France of yore, even the fall of Paris will not bring about the surrender of Alsace avid Lorraine ; and any Go,, ~-:nr2 Int that should sign the cession of those provinces would sign its downfall with the sane pen. The unspeakable calamities that will follow a policy of dismemberment throws by anticipation the gravest responsibilities upon those who may resolve upon it in pursuit of ends which can be fully secured at a, smaller cost. The m ilitary hospitals exhibit some singular cases to the surgeons. One man was struck by a ball in the head, which lodged in the internal arch between the skull and the brain. He is well in health, can eat, drink, and sleep well, but cannot move about, as if he does he feels the ball rolling in his head. Another was struck in the forehead, but the ball did not penetrate the head, going round it, and making a circle as if by an Indian's scalping knife. A third, whose brain was reached by the bullet, partially lost his memory, and has forgotten all his nouns. If he wants his gun he is obliged to ask for it by a paraphrae6. AV RE. I