The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-12 00:00:00

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It I entered• have never glance of may have g too much discovered to my own• i n man ner. is evidentlY ited PrMet, god of Strati a me any in state of the ►nd suffering Alsace, and 'ready given Jess for rile . ard to other e operations on made by is reasons sufricient to. been one of 3d that this of omit %317 ier choice id his ctaee , repared for to his oW .ench natioD 'e taking la e annoyance authoritie s information Calling the him to giv e t shook inY is result of ny unluctcY ne bumpkin stamp hint of a net Lorted Irish diality a nd ions in Ire-, Monday ) the Coto' resting that t system 0 ; entries ity to slici' Board ° I er was re . _ ioolmaster • the office ass teacher, culty in 0 1 ' b age 31. 1 3" failed t ° ow French; 'ever %void° nion sch o ° l le to e nable to the Rev- M.P., and onsider it a an objec' .o t s ucceed . his suntracr t a W ife get Ylin -street , . k id roars 01 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M. THE WAR. BATTLE NEAR ORLEANS DEFEAT OF THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. RUMOURED DISSENSIONS IN THE GOVERNMENT. THE DEFENCE OF NORMANDY. DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH AT ARTHENAY. A telegram dated Monday has been fowarded to the French Minister of War by the Commander in - Chief of the 13th Corps. It says :—" This morning, at about half-past nine o'clock, A ltbenay, where the Brigade Londuerne and several companies of Chasseurs were encamped w as attacked by considerable forces and occupied by t he enemy. General Reyan went immediately to the support of the brigade with five regimets, four battalions, and an 8-pounder battery. After a resistance, which lasted till 2.30 p.m., our troops were driven back to the forest, which I still occupy, and Will defend at any price. In this engagement the enemy' s forces were superior to ours in infantry, Cavalry, and especially in artillery." BERLIN, Ocr. 11. A. corps detached by the Crown Prince, under General von der Tann, on the 10th inst., defeated a Portion of the Loire army near Orleans. One thou -snd prisoners and three guns were taken. The eue in fled in confusion.—Times Telegram. DISSENSIONS IN THE GOVERN- MEN T, Ile Manchester Examiner's correspondent tele graphs that there is great dissension in the Pro 7ional Government, and vehement discussions Isee ttr between Gambetta, Glais-Bizoin, and , ‘ 46 mieux, with regard to the elections and army M ministration. Bizoin and Cremieux are decidedly c) PPosed to the postponement of the elections, and l et it be understood that they must be held on the 15 th October. TIIE DEFENCE OF NORMANDY. LILLE, OCT. 10 (NIGHT.) The Minister of War has ordered that the engage lent of stokers and the execution of further orders for the fleet shall be suspended. A battery of artillery of the lire, with caissons, an d an escort of effective men, has left for Busigny, e n route for St. Quentin. The Council of the Department of the North has d ecided that Amiens shall be defended. The Prus s i ans a r e evac uati n g several places, with the apparent intention of strengthening the move /client against Rouen. General Michel is in command at Orleans. The Municipality of Elbeeuf have organised a , Fiter Viee of couriers between Pont do l'Arche and "`"°tAriers, to obtain information concerning the march of the Prussians. ' The Journal du Havre says that Havre is pre pared to go to the defence of the department, but Previously demands the removal of M. Estancelin a nd the General in command, and that the defence of N 'erinandy be entrusted to a young man of energy, c apable of deceiving the Republic. The Govern znent at Tours and the • Council of Rouen have th anked M. Estancelin for the manner in which he has fulfilled the duties entrusted to him. I tECONSTRUCTION OF THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION. BERLIN, OCTOBER 11. Baden, Wurtemburg, and Southern Hess) have " r „ l grlified th e i r i ntent i on to j o i n th e N or th G erman Confederacy and ratify its constitution with some :light modifications. The King of Bavaria still holds sa c k . , The messeng e r w h o t oo k Bo u rbaki to England I :Officially permitted to pass through the Prussian e s• lip to to-day about twenty villages have be en burnt, and 150 peasants shot for carrying on 'llicit warfare against Germans.—Times Telegram. STRASBURG UNDER REPAIR. BERLIN, Oc T. 11. The fortifications of Strasburg are being rapidly I. °Pnired. All the masons, carpenters, and labourers e f the town are impressed at high wages. The t prisoners taken at Bazaine's last great sortie e elare that his soldiers forced him to choose be wean another attempt to escape or to surrender. Paris, heavy guns of the navy have been sent to 11 . 8 . Military topographers have boon despatched 01 A Berlin t o surve y a ll th e b a ttle-fi e ld s of the ca u 'Paign.— Tim es Telegram. ENGAGEMENT AT DREUX. 0 „ 11 Y way of Chartres, intelligence has arrived that fit e evening of the 9th 200 Prussian cavalry, two cannon and some infantry, arrived at t lsell x• An engagement ensued, in which they e t a•ized great loss, and were compelled to surrender r, provisions acquired by their requisition at G ARIBALDI IN THE VOSGES. TOURS, MONDAY, 5.50 p.m. Gambetta is to be Minister of War. Orders hav e ib been gi ven f or General Mazure to be set at fo et tY at Lyons. General Bourbaki has been sent t fr omßelgium to give an explanation to the G,, b "'vert:Tient. The services of Count Palikao would a ccepted with pleasure by the French army and he G overnment. A battalion of Pontifical Zonaves of `,.., (3 be formed, and will march under the command olonel Charette. The destination of. General Garibaldi is not yet t h eei ded, e but it is possible that he will operate against Prussians in the Vosges. SEIZURE OF ARMS. CALAIS, TUESDAY. 12 11 e Custom llcuse authorities hive seized 65 ft—i'ges from England, addressed Blucker, Pre ore Epernay, on suspicion that the contents were de ended for the Prussians. Telegrams have been l ia - d i Velled to detain a portion of the goods which , r been already sent forward. lab r , lle A Police of Antwerp have seized on board the etti r Antelope, I , which had cleared for Havre, several , x e s of arms and munitions of war. p r . b e five franc pieces bearing the effigy of the eueb Republic are already in circulation. LO SS OF ARMS AT STRASRURG. BERLIN, OCT. 11, 10 A.M. 6 itk addition to 1,100 cannon, 12,000 chassepots, 'o ° O cwt. o f ammun i t i on, an d 50 l ocomo ti ves were ea r lr ed in Str a sb urg . tal Y IS about to address a circular note to the si: e r B ) Proposi ng t h a t a ll St a tes having Catholic p, J e e e ts shall co n t r ib u t e t owar ds the civil list of the up. THE BONAPARTIST RESTORA- TION. ~ The Ger man Ministerial papers of Monday pub 118hed a statement, according to which the Prussian Government cannot acknowledge the present Pro visional Government in France as sufficiently endowed with authority ; but at the same time they disavow all plans for bringing about a Bonapartist restoration. TB it, SUN, L ON DOT, WEND ES DA V, OCTOB 12, 1870. illness of three days. His lordship was uncle of the preset Duke of Northumberland. THE LIMERICK HARBOUR:;COMMISSIONERS AND THE DOCK LABOURERS. The Limerick Harbour Commissioners have resolved to employ a permanent staff of workmen to load and unload the vessels in the port, in order to relieve the mercantile community of the tyranny of the labourers, who they think have gained complete control over the trade by com bination, intimidation, and demand of extravagant rates of wages. Messrs. Spaight and Russell, large shippers, stated that it would be impoesible to carry on a competi tion with Cork and Waterford, if the labourers were allowed to levy black mail as they were doing. Aldermen Tinsley and Quinlivan, while opposed to the measure on principle, admitted its necessity, THE ARMY OF THE RHONE. The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Besan con on the 7th inst. says :—I wrote you from Lyons that the arrest of General Mazure by order of the prefect, in whose hands all power, military and civil, was concen trated by order of the Government at Tours, would not turn out seriously. Allow me now to recall that opinion. It is turning out very serious, not indeed, for General Mazure, who will only suffer a brief, if unpleasant detention, but for France. We all - know Sidney Smith's saying of Lord Russell that he would at a moment's notice take the command of the Channel Fleet, or perform an operation of lithotomy. This state of mind is characteristic of your ardent Liberals everywhere. They always believe themselves capa ble of anything—and so they are in one sense. At Paris, General Trochu is so much master of the sit!ation that, aided by the common sense of M. Jules Favre, he is able to keep his Radical colleagues in some sort of order ; but in the departments it is different. M. Cremieux and M. Glais-Bizoin are certainly working very hard ; but do they consider them selves, or their civilian colleagues, capable of heading an army in the field? One would really think so by the way in which they have conferred on M. Challemel-Latour —an excellent official in civil affairs—supreme power over the Army of the Rhone. But more than this, he is supreme dictator in his depart ment. Neither of the Napoleons ever exercised power given them by the nation with more confidence in them selves than M. Challemel-Latour. He has for some days had an order from Tours to release General Mazure. His answer is to remove him from the Hotel de Ville to an ordinary prison. In consequence Admiral Fourichon, who was administering both the War and the Marine Departments, has resigned the former. He knows what will come of putting supreme military power into the hands of a civilian. But now, as I hear, it is not only at Lyons that this system is to operate. Here, everywhere, generals are, to be subject to the orders of the local prefects, who may pretty well remove them at pleasure. What can any reasonable man think of such doings ? Is it not equal to adding 100,000 men to the Prussian army ? One could try to understand it if the prefects were men of military training. As it is they are very often mere political hucksters whom the Radical section of the Go vernment wished to reward. Ido not say this of M. Ordinaire, the prefect of Doubs, who has kindly served me in every way in his power, which was not much indeed. He is a modest and diffident man, who is frank and willing to accept the judgment of those who are better informed than himself ; but I cannot include in this exception either of the other Prefects of Jura and Haute Saone, which with Doubs make up the old Franche Comt6, or any half dozen of the prefects north of Lyons. They all shew a tendency, encouraged at Tours, to dominate the military authorities. What General Trochu will say about this, when he comes to know it, is easily guessed. Meanwhile, I can see that it is paralysing the efforts of France here in the south east. I have been north of this for a few hours yester day; and I must not say all I have seen. But this much I may say—there is at present really no attempt to stop the free progress towards Lyons, probably by way of Dijon, of the Badois column which took posses sion of Altkirch yesterday morning. General Cambriel, commanding at Belfort, and senior of the officer in com mand here—who is, I hope, more able than he is civil waits for a movement from Lyons. That movement will not be made for some days to come; meanwhile it seems to be thought enough that Belfort and Besancon should be taken care of, leaving the district to look after itself. The district will consequently suffer the fate of Alsace, and Lyons will not be defended where it clearly ought to be defended—on the spurs of the Jura mountains, and in the valleys of the Doubs, where the vines have just been despoiled of their luscious burthen to make wine apparently for tho Baden troops to drink, and where the vine leaves begin to assume the ruddy hue that may only by a few days anticipate the blood with which they will be sprinkled. I was led to believe at Lyons that the headquarters of the army of the Rhone, with a considerable portion of its strength, would be found at Besancon. It is not so. The Army of the Rhone has no commander except the no doubt clever politician and able administrator, but certainly amateur soldier, who holds the prefecture of Lyons. The 12,000 troops that I saw on Sunday at Bourges, " leaving for Besancon," have not got here yet, and are not coming at present. There are several regiments of regulars here— I must not say how many—and a few Mobiles and Fram- Tireurs. The National Garde is in good force, and on going to one's hotel in the evening one has the honour of being received by Monsieur the landlord in the full costume of a captain in that distinguished body. But when one looks for the headquarters of Besancon, and finds the house of the commandant of the place, and learns from him that no such thing as the Quartier General spoken of at Lyons exists, except in the fond imagination of the Lyonnais, really one begins to despair ; everything seems at sixes and sevens, and the most positive information received from one official quarter at Bourges, and another at Lyons, turns' out to be pure delusion ,or worse. BELGIAN FEELING TOWARDS FRANCE. The Brussels correspondent of the Telegraph writes as follows :—" The change in public opinion here since the fall of the Empire is so visible that I cannot help cal ling your attention to the fact. Two widely circulated Brussels papers, conspicuous for their hostility to the ex-Emperor, have become so entnusiastic in support of the French that the impartial tone becoming the press of a neutral country has given place to violent abuse of the fallen dy nasty, and exaggerated adulation of the Republican Government. It is true that the writers affect to separate the Emperor, his Cabinet and Parlia ment, from the French nation ; but every day re veals fresh proofs, if any were necessary, that the war was undertaken with the co-operation of the people ; and Count Bismarck has officially recorded his opinion that the Emperor's assertion as to the fatal war having been forced upon him by an irresistible pressure from without, was a statement which might possibly not be without foundation. Perhaps the distressed con dition of France, and the beleaguered situation of its beautiful capital, may have contribused to awaken a feeling of sympathy and commisseration which, independently of any other consideration, may account for the altered tone of certain organs in the Belgian press. My experience compels me to state that the educated classes in this country have been, from the outbreak of hostilities, favourable to Ger many ; not only from their appreciation of the aggressive character of the war on the the part of France, but from their conviction that the independence of Belgium might be imperilled by the triumph of its southern neighbour. The publica tion of the famous Benedetti partition treaty con tributed in no small degree to confirm these alarms. Whatever may be the opinions of the intellec tual classes, it can hardly be a matter of surprise that the masses are in general more favourably disposed towards France. This can be accounted for by the simi larity of language and habits, and, in the Flemish popu lation—to say nothing of clerical influences—by the recollections of the events of 1814, when the Prussians, exasperated by protracted insults and humiliation, displayed in some instances a haughty and insolent attitude when they invaded the Belgian provinces, then forming part of the French Empire. As to the half educated classes, it is notorious that the extracts from Parisian journals, and the productions of the French drama supply the daily intellectual nourishment of those who read at all or frequent the theatres. Nevertheless, to thinking minds there is some danger in these pre dilections in favour of France. No one can foresee what the ultimate issue of the war may be. The resto ration of the Empire, unlikely as it may appear, has been seriously talked of as among the possible contingencies of the crisis through which Europe is passing; and more than one intelligent Belgian, whose alarms, I trust, may be ascribed to excessive patriotic susceptibilities, is not without anxiety lest these imprudent predilections should be interpreted as symptoms favourable to a sacrifice of Bel gian territory. as a compensation to France for the sacri fices which that country may have to make to indemnify her victorious enemy. Such an arrangement, it is feared, would be even more probable were the restoration of the Empire to enter into the final settlement of the crisis. On no railway in England is there such a throng of passengers as on the Metropolitan. Train follows train in quick succession, and it would seem that the carrying powers of the company are taxed to the utmost to provide accommodation for those who wish to avail themselves of it. Yet it is found to be advisable to reduce the passenger fares to the extent of about one-third. What an example this to other companies running trains in the metropolitan and suburban districts ! Half-empty car riages are the result of the high tariff; and persons who would willingly occupy houses near the lines are deterred by the addition of heavy fares to their rentals ; and in that manner the companies deprive themselves of a vast increase to their revenue. In this, as in other matters, the Metropolitan shews the way to effect a beneficial improvement Figaro. THE FRENCH FLEET, A French fleet passed Dover yesterday, con sisting of 12 ironclads, all first-class. The ships came from the west, and aro bound eastward, A NEW COMMAND OFFERED TO BAZAINE. The French papers mostly argue in favour of an advance upon Metz by the armies now forming. They admit that no force which is likely to be col lected within an available time can combat the host round Paris ; but they urge that the new levies might easily co-operate with Bazaine meeting the army of Prince Frederick Charles. The Liberia contains an important statement respecting Bazaine. It is to the effect that the Provisional Ministry have *offered the. Marshal the command-in-chief of the French armies if he will recognize and sustain the Republic, or at least consent to let the Constituent Assembly decide for itself on the form of Govern ment. ITALY AND FRANCE. The assumption that Italy would take advantage of the present difficulties of France to reclaim Savoy and Nice has not as yet found much con firmation. Several leading citizens of Nice protest againQt such an ungenerous idea. An Italian deputy, who is now at Tours writes that not one of the Ministers now governing his country counten ances such a project. He asserts this as matter of certainty, and adds that he is not one of the Ministerial party, and therefore has no interest in crediting them with magnanimous motives. THE NEW UNITED STATES LOAN. A preliminary Government circular has been pub lished at Washington relating to the issue of the New National Loan, under the provisions of the Funding Act, approved on July 18th, 1870. It recites the pro visions of the Act, and announces that a deposit of 2 per cent. wiil be required with all proposals of subscription. ROME. ROME, OCT. 9, 1 P.M. General Della Mannora arrives to-morrow morn ing with a Council of Lieutenancy of Under Secretaries of State. For the Interior, Giacomelli ; for the Finances, Brischi ; for Instruction and Works, Bonacci. Fresh trains of Prussian wounded have arrived in Brussels. Five-frano pieces bearing the effigy of the French Republic are already in circulation. L'Etoile Beige says that Sedan is garrisoned by four battalions of Rhenish Landwehr, under the command of an officer of the line, who exacts most severe discipline, by which the greatest order in the town is established. The Gazette de Frankfort says that colossal bombs, destined for the head-quarters of the Prusian army before Paris have passed through Frankfort. They absorb 1401bs. of powder. - (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) MR. TREVELYAN, M.P., ON MILITARY AFFAIRS. Mr. G. 0. Trevelvan, M.P., for the Border Burghs, addressed the electors at Selkirk yesterday. He said the present was no time for the advanced Liberal party to be silent. Unfortunately that party had very little to say upon army questions, and appeared to imagine them out of its province. The military system of England had fallen into such a plight that it was contemptible to all foreign observers, and would speedily be in a hopeless condition unless the people took into their. own hands military questions as they had done questions of Parliamentary Reform and religious equality. If ever England was engaged in a war to the knife with a first-class Power the result would certainly be disastrous for her. As long as the Com mander-in-Chief was opposed by constitution and training to army reform, the tendency to reform would be kept in check. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had a great knowledge of military duties and a high public spirit, but his ideas were not in accordance with the age. Mr. Trevelyan also spoke against the purchase system. SHIPMENT OF WAR MATERIAL AND FOOD FROM LIVERPOOL. Food supplies and war material are being shipped to a large amount from Liverpool, it is conjectured, for France. CONGREGATIONAL UNION SESSION. The aggregate meeting commenced yesterday at Sher well chapel, Plymouth. A large concourse of persons was present including several h'mdred ministers and delegates. The introductory address was delivered by the Rev. J. C. Harrison, of London, the president. He urged that in this highly cultivated age, with an increasing hesitation to communicate religious feeling even to friends, it was desirable that some modification in the present mode of admission to Church fellowship should take place. It was necessary that the Church should have some well defined basis of belief. Christianity in principle was not liberty to think what one pleased, any more than Christianity in practice was liberty to do what ono liked. No man should wish in thought to be freer than truth or in action to be freer than right. He feared that in pri vate study . was now neglected, and in preaching sensation was preferred to edification. He appealed to young men of ability to give themselves personally to the work of the Ministry, and urged the importance of maintaining strict Church discipline. Turning to the subject of the war, he expressed the conviction, which was loudly applauded, that the Prussian successes resulted from the general soundess of the national character. A Christian brother in Paris had addressed a remonstrance to the Congrega tional Church,[for want of sympathy. They replied— " Brother, we lament your suffering, but still deplore that France prefers guided lies to wholesome truth." Delegates from Scotland and Belgium having been for mally welcomed, the Rev. H. Simon, of London, read a paper on " Religion in Individual Social Business," and the Rev. Mr. Hutcheson gave an address on " Religious Life ;" after which a pr'tracted discussion ensued, and it was resolved to have the address printed. MR. EDMOND BEALES AS A COUNTY COURT JUDGE. Mr. Edmond Beales took his seat as a Judge of the Cambridgeshire County Court at Ely yesterday, and great interest was manifested in the proceedings, as it was expected he would have to try a charge of assault pre ferred against a resident M.P. The case was, however, not heard, the action being settled by the payment of the amount of damages sued for. Mr. William Marshall, as the senior advocate, expressed the condolence of the professional men engaged in the Court with the family of the late judge, Mr. Collyer, and congratulated Mr. Beales on his appointment to the judicial chair. His Honour suitably responded. MR. DISRAELI ON THE COTSWOLDS. The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli arrived on a visit to Earl Bathurst at Oakley Park,Cirencester, on Mon day evening. Being market and fair day the town was crowded. The Cirencester Chamber of Agriculture ad jdurned its business and proceeded to the railway station, attended by large numbers of persons, to give the right honourable gentleman a hearty greeting. Mr. Disraeli was accompanied by Vis countess Beaconsfield. The reception was as enthusi astic as it was unexpected, and the distinguished visitors were evidently gratified. They will stay at Oakley Park, where Lord Bathurst is entertaining a select circle of guests, for the remainder of the week. DEATH OF LORD CHARLES PERCY Lord Charles Bertie Percy, of Guy's Cliff, Warwick shire, died at Alnwick Castle, on Monday morning, after an FOUNDERING OF A BARQUE. The barque "Nelson," of South Shields, 549 tons, registered, Captain Laurence Henderson, bound from Aguilas, Spain, to the Tyne, with a cargo of lead and grass, struck at two o'clock on Friday afternoon last, on the Seven Stones, near Scilly, and foundered almost immediately. Five of the crew got into the jolly boat before the vessel sank, and they after wards picked up five of their companions, including the mate, who were in the water. The captain, his nephew Laurence Matthews, and an able seaman named William Moon, were drowned. The men in the jolly boat, after rowing about for some hours, sighted the Seven Stones lightship; they pulled to her, were taken on board, and treated with great kindness, having lost everything. The lightship signalled to Scilly, and a pilot went and took the survivors on board, and landed them at Penzance about six o'clock yesterday morning. The ship is said to be insured. THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. The foot and mouth disease is spreading with increased rapidity in the neighbourhood of Frome and other parts of Somerset. From the Ist to the 10th of October 50 fresh outbreaks occurred in Frome petty sessional district alone, 15 of which were reported on the latter day. Pro fessor Brown, of the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council Office, has visited Bath, Frome, Wells, and Glastonbury to make inquiries respecting the order of the disease in these localities.. THE CHURCH CONGRESS AT SOUTH AMPTON. The Church Congress commenced yesterday at South ampton, when special services were held at two of the churches, the Bishops of Salisbury and Oxford being the preachers. The Bishop of Oxford to3k for his text the 3d verse of the 4th chapter of Ephesians. He dwelt upon the importance of unity, and lamented the lack of it in the Church. At this moment the Church of England was in imminent peril, not because her endowments and honours were regarded with jealousy, nor because the day might come when the dignity enjoyed for a thousand years would be lightly set aside for her members, could endure these losses in triumph. The peril consisted in this that the children of the Church were not all of one growth, and the rivalries among us made him tremble for the future of the Church, and sometimes to despair of her escape. He urged greater love of unity, and believed the assembling in Congress as they did tended to this end. The Bishop of Salisbury preached on the evidences of the truth of the Gospel. The Congress was opened by the Bishop of Winchester, the president. About 1,500 persons were present. The inaugural address of the Right Rev. President occupied about forty minutes. He defined the objects of the Congress, which he said was to increase the practical efficiency of that branch of the Church universal, by securing fuller understanding and greater readiness in the use of the various parts of the existing machinery, by increasing (the result of mutual consultation) the number of their instruments, by in creasing the elasticity of their system, and, above all, gaining, as the result of free personal intercourses larger, more trusting, and more loving co operation among clergy and laity. The present intellec tual activity might cause a great gain if directed aright, but without proper guidance it might lead to fatal convulsions. Deep thinkers and profound divines were not enough unless the gifts possessed were applied to meet the wants of the present time. Old answers to old difficulties would no more meet new objections than old firearms would be effective in modern battles. It was only by maintaining essential truths and charity on matters not fundamental they could hope to hold their own ground as the Church of a great and free people. Against carelessness, vice, irreligion, and unbelief the Church might do everything if but united. Another of the men injured by the explosion at Aber crombie Pit, near Aberdeen, has diod, making the fifth victim of this accident. The application of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool to have a salaried priest attached to the Liver pool Workhouse was discussed by the select vestry yester day when, by a majority of two, the request was refused. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Knos, Anders, Muscovy-ct., Tower-hill, commission merchant. Rhodes, James, Addison-rd., Kensington, gentleman. BANKRUPTS. (To Surrender in London). Lebahn, Charles Falck, Essex-rd., Islington, publisher, Oct. 24, at 12, Ponsonby, Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper, Mount-st., Grosvenor-sq., Oct. 24, at 111. Rutherford, John, Cullum-st., City, merchant, Oct. 24, at 11. ' Washington, Alfred Adams, and Dane, Thomas, Tower st.-buildings, City, teadealers, Oct. 24, at 11. Winchelsea, Earl of, Victoria-st., Westminster, Oct. 27, at 11. Field-Marshal Sir J. Fox Burgoyne, G.C.8., is rapidly recovering from his recent severe illness. The Right Hon. the First Lord of the Admiralty, who returned from Switzerland on Monday evening, resumed his duties at the Admiralty yesterday. The right hon. gentleman's health has greatly improved. FOREIGN OFFICE, Oct. 11.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Senor Carlos Andres Carrol as Consul in St. Helena for the United States of Venezuela. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. T. W. Faulkner as Vice-Consul in the Isle of Wight, to resides at Cowes, for his Majesty the King of the Hellenes.—Gazette. WHITEHALL, OCT. B. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Sir John Young, Bart., G. C. B. , G. C. M. G., Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Prince Edward, and the heirs male , of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Lisgar, of Lisgar and Bailieborough, in the county of Cavan. Gazette. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI CULTURAL, HALL, ISLINGTON. —The number of visi tors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors and others, on the 11th inst. was 3,366. THE REVISION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE.—The third session of the New Testament Company commenced 3 esterday, and will be continued until Friday next, inclu sive. The meeting took place, as on former occasions, in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster. There was a full attendance of the revisers, excepting the Bishop of Winchester, the chairman, whose place was filled by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The details of the revision. cannot, of course, be noticed in a short paragraph like this ; but it is understood that satisfactory progress was made, and an excellent feeling prevailed among the revisers. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—Last night, at six o'clock, the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Perth from Inverness by special train. After dinner in the refreshment-rooms at Perth, the Royal party left by the ordinary train for Larbert, which was about half an hour late. From Lar bert their Royal Highnesses proceeded to Edinburgh by a special North British train, the journey, 28i miles, being performed in 38 minutes, without stopping. The train, which arrived at the Haymarket station, Edinburgh, at 10 minutes past 10, was accompanied by Mr. Mason, general manager, and Mr. M`Laren, general superinten dent of the North British Railway. The special train con• sisted of ten carriages, including two saloons. The. Prince and Princess on alighting were received by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and several magistrates, Lord Dalhousie, Mr. Stirling, (chairman,) and other directors of the North British Railway, • the Master of the Merchant Company, and others. Their Royal Highnesses were loudly cheered on their arrival, and after wards, on reaching the Douglas Hotel, they appeared at one of the windows of the hotel, and bowed their acknow edgmeuts. ME FIGHTING AT ARTHENAY AND CHERIZY. On the 10th instant, at about half-past nine in the morn ing, a cavalry brigade and several companies of Foot Chasseurs, forming the extreme advanced guard of the army of the Loire, was attacked by a very superior force of all arms detached from the army of the Crown Prince7ofi,Prussia,t;.and under the command of General Von der Tann. At the first onset the French were driven out of the place. On this General Rey an hastened up with a reinforcement of five regiments of cavalry, four battalions of infantry, and a battery of 8-puuders. A sharp action took place, but at 2.30 p.m. the French were driven ,into the forest to the south of Arthenay, and eventually fled towards Orleans, pursued by the Prussian cavalry. The number of killed and wounded on either side is not stated, but the Prussians assert that they captured a thousand prisoners and three guns. We are very much inclined to think that the French, owing to a defective intelligence department, and to a want of proper outposts and patrol arrangements, have been again surprised, otherwise we can hardly suppose that they would quietly have awaited the attack of a superior force, but would, on the contrary, have fallen back towards Orleans, and on their supports. They seem to have fought well, for in spite of the superior numbers of the Prussians, the action lasted five hours. It is evident, however, that in the end the French suffered a complete and crushing defeat, or they would not have lost 1,000 prisoners and three guns. We have yet to learn what loss the Prussians suffered. In our opinion the French have committed a great mistake in sending beyond the Loire any troops beyond mere flying columns composed of cavalry and horse artillery, with orders not to commit themselves to any serious engagement, but to confine themselves to the check ing of weak foraging parties. The true objec tive point of the army of the Loire is, as we have pointed out, not Paris, but Metz, and every secondary should be sacrificed to the principal object. We were at first under the impression that General Reyan's command was merely employed in masking. the move ments of the main body of the army of the Loire, but it would appear that we gave the French military authorities credit for more sagacity than they possess. From Chartres we learn that on the 10th a Prussian force, consisting of six squadrons of cavalry, two regiments—six battalions—of infantry, and a battery of artillery, made an attack on Cherizy, near Dreux. The inhabitants, who had constructed barricades, succeeded, after five hours' fighting in repulsing the attack, but the Prussians continued to hold positions near the place, and a portion of Cherizy was set on fire. — Standard. ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA AT VERSAILLES. The correspondent of the Daily News, writing on the evening of the sth inst., thus describes the arrival of the King of Prussia at Versailles : —His Majesty King William has arrived at Versailles, and has driven straight to the Prefecture. It is there that his quarters are to be established, whilst the Crown Prince will remain for the present at a chateau in the outskirts of the town, called Les Ombrages. The stately palace of the old r4ginie will continue to fly the red cross flag,!ancl to have wonnded soldierson their trucklebeds gazing up at its famous battle pieces. All the officers of the Crown Prince's staff have assembled to receive the King, and the Prince himself has been out upon the road to mee t him, and the French inhabitants have crowded' eagerly together to see the man who took Napoleon prisoner. Thus is the last stage of the journey from the frontier accomplished, save that short and doubtful frag ment which will take shape as the entry to Paris. For fighting or for negotiating, for a long siege, or a speedy triumph, the veteran of 1815 is again at Versailles in 1870. The afternoon drew on until the evening shadows were spread across the broad alleys of Versailles. The crowd before the Prefecture was on tiptoe at each rumble of carriage wheels over the stones of the side streets, whence the King should emerge. There happened to be no more firing from the French forts, and if there had been, it would scarcely have attracted notice, for as five o'clock approached all questionings about minor news seemed to come to an end. The soldiers who formed the guard of honour stood rigid as statutes, the staff officers glanced ever and anon at their watches, and the gendarmerie of the Prince's headquarters was busy in keeping the people back. Five o'clock passed, and some travelling carriages covered with dust trotted briskly on to the Avenue de Paris. They were part of the King's es tablishment, but not the looked-for arrival. Wheu they had entered the court-yard of the Prefecture, all eyes were again turned to the opposite side of the avenue. The light wa.s waning, and the palace-hospital stood out against the yellow glow in the western sky, with a great Prussian standard, black and white, hoisted beside the red flag of the " International Society." The uniforms of the infantry had assumed a dull, indistinguishable hue, only their brass-topped hel mets chewing clearly forth. We feared that it might grow dark enough to hide the effect of the scene : but no, the daylight was just saved. Loud cheering was heard in the side street and across the avenue. The soldiers cheered, the townsfolk remained silent, trying hard to catch a glimpse of King William. There appeared an open carriage. with postillions, and four horses, coming forward at a round pace. It crossed the avenue. It dashed up to the front of the Prefecture. We could see his Majesty and the Crown Prince seated in it side by side. They were begrimed with dust from the journey, but seemed to be in excellent spirits. As to the King, he bears his weight of years so lightly that it is difficult to be lieve that he served in the old war. He was an active, up right man, descending from the carriage almost !as quickly as his son, and stepping briskly to greet the staff of the Prince. For a few minutes the townfolk over came all restraint and ran helter skelter in among the Prussian officers. What a strange thing is curiosity I I admit that most of those who ran were young lads and women. But this King was the man they had been taught to fear as their deadliest enemy. These tall ; strong Prussians were terrible to them when first they appeared ; and here was a rush into the lion's mouth, as it were. Before the King had bowed and spoken to a dozen officers he was surrounded by a staff of mingled militaires and dingy young Republicans. Now you might have stumbled aiiinst a Prussian cuiras sier, whose white tunic gleamed in the twilight ; or against the English military attache, in scarlet uniform ; the tall Bavarian General, in blue and silver. The next instant you might well nigh trample upon an urchin of seven, with features innocent of soap. It was not the least interesting part of King William's arrival that it shewed how little the townsfolk feared his soldiery. Of course the least violence would have scared these in truders away, but the gendarmie told them that they " must move on," with the tone of a London policeman in his very best humour. ATTENTIVE RELATIVES. There can be little doubt that it would be a great charity to establish an institution to serve as a refuge for elderly people in weak health who have a small competence of their own, and are accordingly subjected to every kind of torture which the ingenuity of attentive relations can inflict upon them. Relations, as a rule, never trouble themselves about the existence of any member of their family if he is an utterly penniless pauper, because the sight of his distress is too painful for them to see; but their hearts are really so warm by nature that a very slight spark will suffice to kindle the flame of affection within their bosoms. It is not only the sickly millionaire but even the poor old worn-out Chelsea pensioner, who is followed to the grave by an officious crowd of loving relatives. Major-General Hutt, in his evidence before the Committee on Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals, which appears in their report just issued, speaking of the pensioners in Chelsea Hospital whom it would be impossible to remove, says there are now eighty-seven in the infirmary, some of them perfectly paralysed and otherwise disabled. General Hutt says : —" When men of this class have got pen sions they are preyed upon by their relatives. Many a man comes into the hospital to seek refuge from his re lations. A man came to me, and begged to be taken into the hospital. I said to him, You have got a good pension.' He said , 'Pray ake me in, and do not let anything which you hear prevent me from being taken in.' I said, It rests entirely with you.' A day or two afterwards I got half-a-dozen letters about this man, from people calling themselves his relatives, and they said that they were bro ken-hearted at this poor old man coming to the . hospital, and that it was the freak of the moment, that he had had a quarrel. I sent to him and he said; For God's sake, sir, take me in,' and he was accordingly taken in. It is only a few weeks ago that a poor old man of eighty years of age dragged his limbs from Hampshire and begged to be taken in. His ante cedents were very g.ood. I said to him, Certainly you shall come in. We cannot take you in at this moment, because there are some days to run before your out-pension expires.' I gave him a few shillings, and sent him to the w o rkh o us e until he should come in ; but two or three days afterwards some of his relatives came and dragged him back again, and he never came in." It is wonderful that, when so much tenderness can be purchased for a few sixpences, so little of it is given away gratuitously. —. Pall Mall Gazette. Mrs. Cope, of Castledermot, who was nearly mur dered the other day by her rejected suitor, is recovering, although her wounds were of a frightful description. OT. a COTEM 7 OII4RIES---This hion.-dug ~--- - _ TITE FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF Fit kNeE. The Times says the siege of Paris is at present the central operation of the War, and it is likely to remain so for sonic weeks or even months to come. Paris is of one mind in its warlike resolution. The capital reflects the political disorganization of the nation. It numbers votaries of at least five different ways of settling the future Con stitution of the country, but they • are all united in the common determination to resist the demands of Count Bismarck as reported by M. l'avm. Under such circumstances, it has come to be silently confessed by the German army that the hopes, once enter tained, of reducing the city by mere invest ment must be abandoned. Since the fall of the Empire the tendency in France has been for each Department to set up for itself, and decentralization has .been strongly promoted by the political suppression of the centre of the nation. Every week the war is pro longed must increase this movement, and it is not a fanciful suggestion that the fall of Paris two ,or three months hence might leave upon the hands of King William the necessity of first subduing and then re casting the rest of the country. This is a task from which the most iron resolution may pardonably shrink. The German King - and his Ministers must treat with the Government that exists, or modified as it may be by an Assembly chosen under its auspices, and it is the special force of the dilemma in which they are placed that, if Paris be bombarded and taken, they will most probably destroy by the operation the only Power with which they can negotiate. FRANCE LEADERLES. The Telegraph remarks that a nation which, in material wealth and power of brain, ranks with the richest known to hiStory is devoting all its energy, all its fertility of design, and all its recources to one object—that of beating back the invaders from 'its soil. Yet, for the moment, France seems powerless. Her fortress s fall one by one ; her best armies are destroyed on the field of battle, or they throw down their arms in despair; her natural gaiety is eclipsed by persistent disaster, so that she wears the look of a nation in mourning. Nevertheless, in spite of the long aeries of dark reverses, she does not despair or dream of yielding. The Northern States of America found themselves in a plight which many Euro pean critics thought bad enough, when the troops fled from Bull's-run, and when Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the other Confederate chiefs, went here, there, and every where, doing pretty much what they liked. But the people of the Northern States had been accustomed to act for themselves ; their system of self-government had developed in crowd of men the power to organise and to rule. At the season of need such individuals come to the front ; and so, in the blackest night of her disaster, the North felt sure that she would finally win, and she kept " pegging away." France has no such resource. Her heroes, if they come at all, must come from the clouds. Possibly the man may be found in M. Gambetta, who is the life and soul of the Provisional Govern ment. France is so far from exhaustion that- her resources in men and money have not been sensibly diminished ; if not buoyed up by high hopes of victory, she exhibits no sign of a wish for a humiliating peace ; and hence he were either a very bold or a very ignorant observer who should confidently affirm that M. Gambetta, or some administrator of capacity, is powerless to arrest the ruin which might seem to threaten the nation. THE LAST GERMAN MANIFESTO. Can one regard, asks the Standard, the communication relative to the consequences of a prolongation of the war made to foreign .Powers in the name of the " Com mander of the German Army "—King William I. of Prussia—as truthfully expressing the intentions and conveying the calculations of his Majesty and his councillors, civil and military ? We should like to answer the question in the negative, and there would be some justification for such a conclusion. There is an amount of absurdity underlying the cold-blooded ferocity of this astonishing document which compelled a doubt, in the first instance, as to its authenticity, now removed, and which suggests that it can only be an attempt to frighten France into surrender, or Europe into an intervention which Count Bernstorff would consider " benevolent." But the game would not have been worth the candle. Count Bismarck would not, merely for such a forlorn hope, have branded himself and his Royal master with the ineffaceable stigma of a cruelty so enormous and so wanton that no parallel can be found for it even in those darkest of ages, when cruelty was almost esteemed a virtue. No, we must believe that Count Bismarck has said what he and his master think and hope. We must believe —we wished for their own sake, for the sake of Germany, we could doubt it—that their memorandum tells the truth, that they are confident that any considerable prolongation of the siege of, Paris will have for its inevitable consequence the starvation of hundreds of thousands of human beings, and that, seeing this clearly, perfectly certain of the un exampled destruction of human life which it will entail, they intend to prosecute this siege merely to gratify at once a criminal ambition and the worst passions of an ex cited people. The Daily News observes that, so far as probabilities go, Count Bi'smarek depicts too truly the consequences of a persistence in war on the part of the French people. Victorious Germany will not offer them better terms than are now at their disposal. If they are to have a more favourable peace they must conquer it. Au what is their chance of conquering it? In the judgment of nearly all observers the Prussian Memorandum does not paint it t Jounfavourably. It may be painful to France to surrender Alsace and Lorraine ; it may be impolitic —because as a reversion to the bad traditions of times more barbarous than the present—and unnecessary to the security of Germany to insist on the cession. But if the demand is made, and cannot be resisted, why not face the fact ? It seems clear that Alsace and Lorraine can be kept by France only through being reconquered by her. Does any sane Frenchman believe that the thing is possible ? There is often a truer courage in recognition of, and submission to, the inevitable, than in fruitless struggles against it. THE SIEGE OP PARIS. The Manchester Courier observes that the German army is on the eve of doing a thing which will imperil the reputation in future ages of the entire Teu tonic civilization. Victorious in the most hardly-contested and dearly won battles which history records, themselves in the possession of territory of their enemies, the invaders of those who would have been invaders, they are deter mined not to quit Frame without doing all in their power to mutilate Paris. Those who sympathised most warmly with the Prussian cause at the commencement of the war cannot but protest against the ruthless extremity of their present course. FRENCH APATHY. Die Manchester Examiner, commenting on M. Gam betta's proclamation, speaks despondently of the success ful defence of Paris, and says the people are certainly not indifferent as to the misfortunes of their country, but if not apathetic, they are at all events inactive. The mag nitude of the blow seems to have struck them with para lysis. There is no warlike enthusiasm, no concert between the departments, no disposition to organise on a large scale, with the view to serious achievements. There is in some sense arming everywhere, but the movement is spasmodic, every town acting for itself, and the inhabi tants shewing no great eagerness to venture beyond municipal limits. What may b e accomplished eventually outside Paris is yet to be ascertained. What is certain is that there are as yet no indications of such large and combined movements, nor of the enthusiasm capable of originating and sustaining them which alone can suc ceed in rescuing Paris from the grip of its besiegers. A memorial has been addressed to the Council of the Senate at Cambridge, calling attention to the ex tremely small stipend at present attached to the Profes sorship of Arabic, which is now vacant. The Marquis of Kildare has been gazetted as Chancellor of the Queen's University of Ireland, in suc cession to the late Earl of Clarendon. The meeting of the Convocation of the University was held yesterday at Dublin Castle. TIIE PROSECUTION OF MR. BENNETT, THE VICAR OF FRoME.—On Monday last Mr. Bennett, the Vicar of Frome, was served with an inhibition to appear before the Judicial Committee in the case of Shephard v. Bennett. On an appeal from the Arches Court Mr. Bennett was acquitted of the alleged charges of heresy in his writings, and the Church Association has appealed through the promoter to the Judicial Committee to obtain a reversal of the judgmrnt of Sir E. Phillimore. THE STATE OF PARIS.--Letters which have been received from Paris, dated so recently as the 6th instant, supply full information as to the state of the capital on that day. The accounts given arc satisfactory. The city was quiet, the people were calm and reso lute, and all the troops appeared to be animated by the best spirit. It is asserted that there was no anxiety as to the supply of provisions, and that the confidence of the Parisians in their power to resist an assault is as yet undiminished.