The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 11.45 A.M. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WAR. LATEST FROM. BAZAINE. Prns - •iiau official journals confess the great diffi „ellitY of redu c i ng B aza i ne . At l eas t twenty -f our thousand horses were shut up in Metz, and may s erve for food. Moreover the garrison had several !tenths' provisions. Howezer, the con s umptio & o f lie rses for food has materially lessened the chance of a lleeesful sortie. AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN CON FEDERATION. Important statements are circulating in the Ger man Press r es p ec ti ng a pro b a bl e close alliance be t/leen Austri a an d th e new C on f e d era ti on Which will be formed. It is thought that Austria will be inclined to this 6 2_ 11111 e, both w ith th e v i ew o f ge tti ng suppor t r i Mt'the Constitutional diffic u lti es ra i se d by th e ~° l2e mians and of strengthenin g h er p os iti on aga i ns t ""sais. Prussia, on her side, has now no interests op 1138ed to those of Austria. The journals of the two ;71ntries, lately so hostile, have become very friendly. 8 Cologne Gazette, for example, praises Count el lst as a friend of peace, though a few months a go no term s cou ld b e h ars h enoug h t o emp l oy a gainst the Austrian Chancellor. TIDE ATTACK ON PARIS. The lat es t i n f ormat i on from Tours states that the la attack, intend t o ma k e H avre th e fi rs t po i n t o f and w ith th at v i ew they have advanced into N ° ll3 :landy. Ten thousand soldiers of the "jail army are expected to return with of the next few days. A large troop Garibaldians have arrived at Chamb6ry. The oe abitants of the departments have determined to 411 in their power to cut off the Prussian supplies. S TEPS FOR THE EMPEROR'S RETURN TO FRANCE. BRUSSELS, OCT. 7. to. : 11 1 letter appears in the Journal de Bruxelles, tbdAni g that negotiations have been opened be treu the Emperor Napoleon and Germany, with .e : iroplied approval of Russia and Austria, to the t ret that after the capture of Paris, provided a e . governing power should be confided to tiose ilectionable to the first-mentioned Powers, the t t i l le Peror should be restored to power in France, and °Pe to his supremacy in Rome. The commu kb°l 'which is published under reserve, further vo 4B that Pri nce N a p o l eon i s i n E ng l an d endea it till ug to further th e ab ov e arrangemen t, an d t h at th. w , aB bY his counsel that the King of Italy entered Itoraan States. FIGHTING IN THE VOSGES. 4,, kB "ere conflict took place yesterday between 8 ,0 1 and Bruyeres. The Prussians were between ei t c er and 10,000 in force. No advantage resulted to Party. General Dupr6 was wounded. ~jThe Prussians were repulsed yesterday by the 401 1a1 Guard near Gisors. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. VERSAILLES, OCT. 7, (5.8 A.m.) te General B urns id e, w h o returned f rom P ar i s yes 11,1'claY) reports th a t th e p o p u l a ti on are ca l m , an d th e tearance of the city is as tisual. Th e General saw M. Favre. 0. 4. he General is awaiting Count Bismarck, who is rted here to-day. b a ,, h e Convocation of a Constituent Assembly pro tit."/ would not be opposed by the Prussian autho lee•---Times' Telegram The BERLIN, OCT. 7 (11.40 A.ar.) Prailway bridges between La Ferte and Meaux 111 g been restored, the Germans can now bring hi t heir artillery park, weighing 5,000 tons. Trains metday and night. A few days ago a train 4,With an accident near Vitry la Ville, the rails ; i ng been maliciously loosened. The locomotive k ill three vans were smashed, and several persona b : lle d. Four Frenchmen have been arrested on sus- Thee redoubt at Pierrefitto, north of St. Denis, ttB been evacuated by the French. The redoubt of p ol °lubes, north of Val6rien, is still occupied. Two te i e nehmen have been shot before Pari s f o r c u tti ng x e gl: aPb wires. g Francis of Naples and C ou nt Trani, no t the to remain at Rome after its occupation by b o „ It alians, will remove to Munich. They have Cgbt the Chateau of Garothahausen, in Upper •kt i , te ll been ascertained that the bombs of the oce l leh mortars placed on the heights of Villejuif, h ot u P ie d on the 12th of September, will endanger ° My the forts, but Paris itself.—Tintes Telegram. 111 E CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. TOURS, THURSDAY NIGHT. AZ" Republi can can did a t es f or th e C ons tit uen t h e - 7 1 blY in the D e p ar t men t o f I L dre et Loire will a coh ' u les Favre, M. Cremieux, M. Wilson, Leon eetinlll 111 . Nioche, and M. Riviere. At a public t c g lately held here by the Republicans !ilia a g it ate for_ the removal of all Imperialist toN e e t iena rie B , more especially the Mayor and his speed - 1 u") M. Cremieux delivered a conciliatory re„ - ,") urging that the necessity of the hour was the al l * ( f ls e of the invaders. Union alone made strength, to d th , e adherence of every one should be accepted ap i , e -r i lve the enemy from the country, and an :, 41a de to the courage of all. Legitimists, all : - "" a its ) and Imperialists no longer existed ; up o - n el 'e Frenchmen, asking to be permitted to fall 8 37in i ,„, t , he Prussians. Notwithstanding the strong kt o r""'Y manifested for M. Cremieux and his well viue", t oliublican character, he was unable to con the e 418 bearers, w h o were fi rm in their demand for At a te , 3314 a1 of all former adherents of the Empire. th e - c. , l 7 ° tller meeting M. Cremieux announced that Iltl e ;°.,!ernment d e l e g a ti o n would not leave Tours jhe th e City was seriously menaced. We B jecie reproach e s the Government for its ughep neBB and the admission of the hypothesis e of co I nParing such a policy with the acts of the t, toi ' c ans of 93, and says a Dictatorship might to, el ' a ted, but weakness would not be submitted ARREST OF M. JACOBY. COLOGNE, OCT. 7. r . J ar , 4 -4 tit „ -° "Y) who is still con fined in the fortress of h as addressed a letter to Count Bismarck, bai l ;Vg the c i rcumstances and complain i ng of the Tee,e of his arrest. N o re ply has been received. entehr. g N'erinan Pres s are sangu i n e of the Prussians / e ar ,. In Paris on th e 18th of Octo b er, th e anniver of tbe battle of Leipsic. -- DISCO VERY OF TREASURE AT STRASBURG. Ten • . STRASBURG, WEDNESDAY. b million francs which had been concealed have e en found by the Germans in the Bank of France. -oniplete tranquillity prevails. tUI the heavy artillery is en route for Paris, ing its usual cism, enters Le day. The Lai Life," by Issues of the roblems now with them er of Joseph Lightful con- Mr. George ployment of Few More ady spoken s himself to to suit all e pictures of melodramas metropolis, side, are an to enlighten ow the other ca, a paper sermon, a the history is month. notice of fence which be most ex- Lis intimate a readable llustration, npanied by " Sketches ltke . The lan army is gland dur excitement his country of War in ad of Paris Debts," is ,aining and in " Ferny r. Among " Desert of phs." The s said to be lguist, the 1 its usual Wind," is se. "My ry natural are attrac :omprehen- )amp " are h are more the "Lady the author :st," being 8," a story carried on le talented met," and remaining s his series r narrating re is a paper discourses icle which the Daily L Bothmer, le articles, considered " Common in's Gram- STAGE. m to thin Lbandoned ie by way they are ces. Mr. ,sday from ir. When Membered xd at the name he N.-E. L. en about will not s are now , und fully le to the to Japan ceived at in Japan ,mpanies, ,nd men. -commis ds, of the d of the lymouth Division 1, which ie officers wy, and company privates. has been he Juno, Captain talion to iving an ,t which present, French Pekin, 00. It goes to t more horrible closing slowly ig neces• I appear ed since of the 3 leaders Show of of the ast of a ms been day by ace and know among -foreign f it do er the Even ich to ig them nd for ing the greater Foreign war at mist, at :troops lnd in really r of in n as a ad dis ensive ers in ich at C. B. ilitary ,th on the ; been two- THE AFFAIR AT TOURY. TOURS, OCT. 7. The affair at Toury was much more important than was at first supposed. There were 4,000 or 5,000 of the enemy's cavalry engaged, instead of 500, as General Reyan at first erroneously stated. There are no Germans now in the Loiret.—Daily News Telegram. FRENCH TROOPS AT LYONS. BRUSSELS, OCT. 7. A large number of the discontented soldiers at the camp of Beverloo have been sent in detachments to Antwerp, Liege, and other places. The movement of troops towards Hainault continues. The Lyons correspondent of the Independance Beige says that there . are 30,000 troops under the walls of Lyons, and that support will be received from Marseilles and Toulon. ENGAGEMENT WITH THE MOBILE GUARDS. A telegram from the head-quarters of the Prus sians announces that an engagement took place on the sth between a division of cavalry and nearly 2,000 of the Mobile Guards, when the latter were driven from the position they occupied near Montfort. THE FIGHT AT TOURY. It now appears that the number of Prussians en gaged at Toury numbered 5,000. They have evacuated their position at that point, and retired upon Etampes. Three thousand Germans have arrived at Rambouillet. LARGE ARRIVAL OF TROOPS AND ARMS' AT TOURS. TOURS, OCT. 6 A circular, dated the 4th inst., addressed by the Secretary-General of the War Department to the military authorities, the chiefs of the National Guard, and the Francs-Tireurs, calls attentibn to the regulations laid down in the decree of the 2d instant, for the institution of courts martial to replace the councils of war, and orders the immediate and vigorous execution of the decree. An official rectification of the decree convoking the Constituent Assembly fixes the number of Deputies to be elected at 753 instead of 750. All Legislative enactments relative to the elections, passed subsequent to the law of the 15th of March, 1859, are repealed. An article in the Moniteur of to-day urges greater activity on the part of the military authorities for the purpose of checking the audacity of Prussian incursions, and to oppose a serious obstacle to their further advance. The 77th Regiment arrived here thin after ;loon. A balloon is now visible over Tours, which is supposed to bring despatches from Paris. General La Motte Rouge, the Commander of the Army of the Loire, bas arrived at Tours. Large quantities of arms are constantly arriving. THE PRINCE OF WURTEMBURG SHOT. LILLE, THURSDAY NIGHT. The Echo du Nord publishes the following state ment of a person who had arrived at Evreux from Versailles. The Crown Prince of Wurtemburg, whilst going to visit the Lanterne de Diogene, in the park of St. Cloud, received two shots fired by Frane-tireurs, breaking his jaw in pieces. He now lies in a desperate condition. The same informant states that the Park of St. Cloud and the forest of Ville d'Avray swarm with skilful marksmen, who intercept the communication between St. Cloud and Versailles, and cause the Prussians considerable loss. A meeting has been held in the Concert Hall in Lille to ratify the nomination of a committee of defence to be placed at the disposal of the Com missary-General. The committee sit daily at the Town Hall, enrolling Volunteers, and purchasing arms. An electoral committee, authorised to make arrange ments for the elections to the Constituent Assembly has also been chosen. INDIA. (By Telegraph.) CALCUTTA, OCT. 3 (3.26 P.M.) According to intelligence received from Cabul on the 25th of August, Yakoob Khan was near Can dabar, attempting to enter the city. An army was proceeding to march against him, but a reconciliation is probable. [CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.] DEVONSHIRE AND THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS BILL. An influential country meeting, the Sheriff presiding, was held at Exeter yesterday afternoon to consider the application of the Endowed Schools Act to Devonshire. The Earl of Devon moved a resolution affirming the ad visability of taking into consideration the general require ments of the county when considering the employment of the educational endowments available in the county. This was seconded by the Earl of Portsmouth and carried. The Bishop of Exeter proposed that the education organi sation of the county, as far as endowed schools were concerned, should consist of different grades so connected together by exhibitions that the progress of a deserving scholar from a school of a lower grade to one of a higher might lie provided for and facilitated. Sir John Duck worth seconded the resolution. Sir Stafford Northcote said that, in dealing with the educational endowments of the county, a substantial portion should be applied for the [purpose of female education. The resolution was carried. An open and generous policy was advocated in dealing with endowments, but a hope was expressed that localisation would not be lost sight of. Sir John Cole ridge said the endowments of Devon ought to be confined . to Devonshire schools, but not to Devonshire men. Mr. Fitch, assistant commissioner, said there was no intention to sweep all endowments into a common fund, and dis tribute them equally throughout the country. THE FORTHCOMING CHURCH CONGRESS. The arrangements for the Church Congress at South ampton, which commences on Tuesday, are approaching completion. The hall at the rear of High-street will seat 2,400 persons. The Bishop of Winchester will preside, and deliver the inaugural address. There will be each day three sermons of three hours each, including a working men's meeting, whereat the Bishops of Winchester and Peterborough and the Earl of Shaftesbury will take part. Before the inaugural address of the president on Tuesday there will be two services, at which the Bishops of Oxford and Salisbury will preside. Papers will be read by the Bishop of Madras and Sir Barker Freere upon foreign missionary efforts, and among other papers will also be read on the duty of the Church in the present phase of national education as toTmiddle class education, lay representation in Church Ritual, and Christian unity, having special reference to the reunion of Nonconformists to the Church. M. Beresford Hope, M.P., Chancellor Massingberd, Canon Gregory, Archdeacon Freeman, Earl Nelson, Mr. Russell Gurney, &c., are expected to be among the speakers. MR. CECIL RAIKES, M.P., AND THE SWANSEA CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION. Last night Mr. Cecil Raikes, M.P. for Chester, and Chairman of the Council of the National Union of Con servative and Constitutional Association, addressed the members of the Swansea Constitutional Association. The chair was taken by Mr. Rowel Gwyn, and there was alarge attendance of members. The speaker touched upon the various political and social topics of the day, and urged the universal formation of associations whose object w to promulgate constitutional principles. BEDFORDSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Bedfordshire Agricultural Society's Show took place yesterday at Biggleswade, which little town was en fete. The show was a good one, but hardly so large as that held last year at Bedford. There was a good entry of hunters and of stock. The members' dinner, too, was held in the afternoon M the Town LW, Colonel Liudwll presided. Colonel Gilpin and other county and borough members were present. MINERS' AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION. The conference of this body yesterday considered the cased of men on strike. West Yorkshire, not being in the Union, all, that could be done in the case of Mr. Bower's men, was to recommend it to the sympathy and support of the district. In the case of Silverdale, North Stafford shire, it was decided to recommend a return to work if a competent engineer be appointed, and if not that the men should be supported. THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAX, OCIIOBER 8, 870 GENERAL CLUSERET The Paris correspondent of the Standard, writing from Rouen on the 6th inst., remarks :—Your special corre spondent at Lyons will have told you how, after enduring the harlequin tricks of the Radical mounl;ebanks, who, for six weeks, had been trying to organise a reign of terror in the second city of the country; the National Guard had rebelled, and with scant assistance from the prefect —one M. Challemel-Lacour, whose subsequent behaviour leads to a supposition of his being an accomplice of " General " Cluseret and Co.—kicked the would-be dictators out of the Hotel de Ville. Cluseret was ordered to be arrested, but he was allowed to escape, and is, I believe, now at Marseilles, where he is trying to get up a row. The very day before the upset of the faction to will: 11 he belongs this so-called General Cluseret had been appointed by the ringleader, a bricklayer called Saigne, " Comm ander-in-C hiefof the Revolutionary Armies of the South." He returned thanks for his appointment in a speech, which is a gem in its way :—" Citoyens,—l feel really confused at the great honour done me by the people of Lyons. I will respond to its appeal. I accept the great, the noble mission which I hold from its confidence. I will save the Republic. You have just proclaimed me —unanimously—Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the South. Thanks. Oh, thanks ! Citoyens, .my friends, Citoyens, whom I love, thanks once more for having put yourfateinto my hands. Yes, you will be happy. I shall secure your happiness. I will know how to crush all obstacles thereto—the shackles of tyranny. Forward, I say, my friends, let us go ahead I As a preliminary measure of public safe V, I propose the immediate dis , missal of all the officers in the army—(bravo, bravo, from the roughs who formed the audience). I propose, also, the immediate arrest of the general in command at Lyons, and the whole of his staff—as having caused the misfortunes of the people. Follow me ! Let us go to the Croix itousse and seize on the traitor." (Bravo, bravo). Before this " measure of public safety " could be carried ont, the " general " and his ragged following were dispersed, and the Prefect installed himself at the Hotel de Ville in their stead. But, after allowing General Cluseret to escape, this Prefect, M. Challemel-Lacour, proceeded to act upon the hint of General Clu seret, and ordered the arrest of General Mazure, who submitted to this indignity with J. degree of readiness which I must say makes me feel very sceptical respecting the existence of an " Army of Lyons," This arrest has had serious consequences. It has led to the resignation by Admiral Pouriohon, the one member of the Tours Go vernment who was able to organise the army, of his post as Minister of War ad interim—and his place has been sup plied by—M. Cremieux, with a committee of civilians! The French are ever the same—M. Cremieux and a ward acting as " Minister of War " reminds me strongly of Beaumarchais's pungent epigram—" Il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qu'on choisit." We have no news from Paris. The wind has unfortunately shifted to the west, which would send balloons into the region occupied by the enemy. The idea of using the river does not seem to have, occurred to any one yet. The Prussians yesterday morning were at Blaru, close to Vernon, and a force of cavalry and infantry have left Rouen to meet them. A gunboat has arrived here from Cherbourg. She is ten times too large for river service. Her name is L'Etendard, about three hundred tons. She is schooner rigged, with striped masts, and is altogether meant for cruising at sea. She has a screw engine, and a dispro portionately small funnel ; her armament consists of one huge iron breech-loader (a . 50-pounder, or thereabouts) mounted on a platform, and protected against musketry by an iron fender; two carronades on pivots, a little abaft the gangway ; and a 4-pounder stern-chaser. This latter and the carronades are brass. I cannot conceive why she was sent here, for she cannot use her gun against an enemy occupying the Case Ste. Cathe rine or the Mont Riboudet. The popular belief is that in the event of the Prussians coming she will be employed in conveying the specie in the bank to a safe place. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One shilling day, Friday, Oct. 6th, 1870.—Admission by season tickets, 1,473; do. on payment, 1,457. Total visitors, 2,930. HEAVY SENTENCE ON A STOCKBROKER.—At the Glasgow Circuit Court, on Wednesday, Samuel Watson Dempster was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for having forged and uttered four bills of exchange for sums amounting to 2554, in name of Niven and Rintoul, coach builders, Greenock; Caird and Co., shipbuilders, Greenock ; Lang and Melvin, coschbuilders, Alserdeen ; and H. Murray and Co., shipbuilders, Port Glasgow. There were twelve charges libelled against panel, who had been transacting business as a stockbroker. A commanding officer of volunteers, commenting on Lord Elcho's last letter (an abstract of which we have published) deprecates the difference between the volun teers and' the militia. " If," he says, " volunteers con tinue to exist, they must be much less volunteers than heretofore, and all class distinction between them and the army and reserve forces should be utterly discountenanced, and, as far as possiblo, put an end to. Our object should be to associate all ranks and classes in the pursuit of mili tary training and efficiency." LETTERS FOR PARIS.—In consequence of the risk attending the transmission of letters for Paris, under present circumstances, the French Post Office have begged that no registered letters for Paris may be sent. The French Post Office will, however, take charge of all ordi nary letters, and do their utmost to send them into Paris on the first favourable opportunity. Postmasters will, therefore, be instructed not to receive for registration any letters addressed to Paris. ELOPEMENT IN SOUTH WALES.—Duriug the past few days rumours of a painful character have found cur rency in the district of Swansea, which subsequent events have proved to be too true. About ten days ago the owner of considerable property in the Swansea Valley, having reason to believe that an intimacy of too close a nature existed between his wife and her coachman (which had long been the talk of the neighbourhood), dis charged both the coachman and the footman, after which he himself left for London. On Saturday last his wife, who was left behind, was missing, and it has since been ascertained that she has joined the coachman, with whom she is now cohabiting. The most distressing part of the sad story remains to be told. There were four daughters of the family, one of whom is married. The other three, the youngest of whom is about 19 years of age, were stay ing at Folkestone on a visit, being attended by the maid of the mother. On hearing the startling intelligence of the elopement, her system received such a shock that she died in a few hours afterwards. The recreant wife is not more than 40 years of age, and was a woman of remark ably prepossessing appearance. Her husband iS apwards of 70 years of age. The affair has created quite a sensa tion in the neighbourhood, in which the family held a high position. SUICIDE AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.— Last evening Mr. W. J. Payne held an inquest, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, respecting the death of Dr. Augustus Matthiesson, aged 39 years. Mr. Henry Matthiesson deposed that he was a merchant, residing at Furnival's-inn. The deceased was his brother. He was an M.D., and the Professor of Chemistry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Witness had not seen him for six months. On Thursday, by appointment, witness was to have dined with him. In consequence of that appoint. ment witness went to the hospital at a quarter to 5 o'clock in the evening, and upon doing so, proceeded to the pri vate room of the laboratory, and found it locked. The door was opened by means of a key. The chemical assis taut of the deceased was present at the time, and he went into the private room connected with the laboratory. They found the deceased sitting upon an arm chair, and he looked as if asleep. The chair was near a table, upon which was a glass. The room had a peculiar smell in it. The deceased was dead. A doctor was then sent for. The deceased was a very excitable man. Alfred Burns, labo ratory boy, said that the deceased came to the hospital at half-past nine 'o'clock on Thursday morning. He asked witness for the keys of the cellar in which the chemicals were kept. When he came out of the cellar he had a phial in his hand. He afterwards went into his private room and kept walking about. In the afternoon witness found the door locked. Mr. W. W. Baker, lecturer on phy siology at the hospital, deposed that he was called to the deceased when . he was found dead in his room. He had then been dead four hours. There was a " test glass " tightly corked on the table near the corpse. It was labelled " Urate of ammonia." The deceased was a man of high character and world wide reputation. There could be no foundation what ever for any charge of indecent assault brought against him. Dr. S. J. Gee, assistant doctor, said that the' deceased was a very sensitive man. He had 13 high moral character. He would feel keenly any charge brought against him. Witness had made a post-mortem examination of the body, and he had found that the de ceased had poisoned himself with prussic acid. Mr. W. H. Cross, clerk of the hospital, said that he found in a drawer in the deceased's private room a letter as follows : " I have been charged with an indecent assault on a lad, and although innocent, yet it blights all my future pros pects,,and.therefore I have resolved to resign all." The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity." THE TAKING OF ROME. The following letter has been sent to the Tablet :-- The Military Prison, Genoa, Sept 25th. Your humble servants the English Zouaves to the num ber of 78, are incarcerated in this prison, under the pre tence of being sent to England. When we shall get out I don't know, so I resign myself to my fate, and rejoicing that I am in prison for the glorious cause, I write yOru an account of the last eventful week. 1 arrived at Civita Vecchia on the 17th (Saturday), and found that the city had capitulated a few hours before. Three hundred Zouaves prisoners (among them Walter Marshall whom I went to see). In the course of the day, two other gentle men arrived by sea, determined also to get to Rome and join the Zouaves. So on Sunday morning the 18th, we started from Civita "Vecchia with the firm resolve to get into Rome at all hazards. (My two companions being Mr. T—, an American, and Mr. 0--, of the Middle Temple.) We took a carriage, and arrived at Paolo that day, where we were stopped by the Italian troops under General Bixio, We had to sleep altogether 'in a little dirty room, the whole place being full of Pied montese. The next morning (Monday) we again started for Rome in our carriage, and arrived at an " Osteria," ten miles from Rome, where we were again stopped. However, by leaving our luggage in the carriage, we r ~,: suaded the Italian authorities that we should return, and so gained permission to go forward a little distance on foot When we were fairly out of sight, we left the road, and flew across country to Rome, leaving our baggage, &c., to the Piedmontese. We reached the Porta Angelica at 4 p.m., after a very tiring walk, and Deo gratias, the yellow and white flag was still waving. No time was lost in enrolling our names in the Zouaves, and that evening was spent in looking for our company (Captain Parry's), which was no easy matter to find. At last we heard that it was stationed in a vineyard, to the left of the Porta San Paolo. We joined our company as full privates on Tuesday mornings and the bombardment began on that day at five a.m. The Mater Omnium Ecclesiarum, the glorious St John Lateran, was struck by more than 100 balls. At the Porta Pia, two companies of Zouaves kept at bay 10,000 Piedmontese, for four hours, and killed many. At last, when the churches were beginning to suffer, the Diplo matic body determined to go to the Italian committee and remonstrate, so the white flag was hoisted for an armistice. And now comes the bad part—General Zappi, who was in command of that part of Rome, took advan tage of this armistice to let in a number of Piedmontese troops, and then declared that the City had surrendered ; he galloped about from place to place, ordering that resistance should cease, and the troops bewildered, in almost every place obeyed his orders. Thus was Rome taken by treachery, and the name of Zapp will rank with Judas for ever ! During the night the Pontifical troops kept possession of the part of Rome across the Tiber, and while the Corso, &c., was filled with mobs who wreckedthe houses of Lancilotti and others, killing eight persons, and doing other damage, we spent the night in the Piazza di S. Pietro, and all was quiet. At 10 o'clock next day we marched out with all the honours of war. Thus I said farewell to Rome, without having had time to re-visit any church or to see any one, Now I must end my letter. For in the confusion in which all around me is, I have only been able to write down a few notes ; when we meet you shall have the whole long sad story. —Orate pro Rom. Th 6 coins that were found, with other mementoes, by the workmen who discovered the foundation stone of the old Blackfriars-bridge a few days since have been presented by the Metropolitan Board of Works to the cor poration of the City of London. Sir R. Murchison has offerel £G,OOO towards the endowment of a separate chair of Geology and Minera logy in the University of Edinburgh, on condition that the Government will supplement the gift by granting a similar sum.—Nature. Mr. Underwood, an English gentleman who lately purchased at a bargain price the Glandore iron mines in the county Cork, has discovered a deposit of rich copper ore. Many of the samples have been assayed up to 57 per cent. of copper ; besides, there are large hills and rocks of felspar, containing, when dressed, 15 per cent. of sulphate of copper ore. The Dublin journals contain an advertisement from the Civil Service Commissioners of an "open competition" for the county surveyorship of Westmeath, which is to be held in TJublin Castle on the Bth of November and fol lowing days. These situations are highly prized in Ireland, and the opening of such valuable appointments to general competition gives the highest satisfaction. MAzzaYl IN PRlSON.—Signor Aurelio Saffi has written a letter, which appears in the Diritto, in which he gives some extracts from communications received from Mazzini in prison. The prisoner is permitted to write to his friends, but his letters are inspected by the autho rities. He informs his friend Saffi that he is tolerably well in health, and that he is treated with the greatest courtesy. THE REPORTED MURDERS IN PARIS.—No inter ligence has been received at the American Embassy with regard to the strange story in circulation concerning the murder of three Imperialists in Paris, " amongst them a certain viscount, well known and universally popular in this country." Mr. G. Chance, the newly-appointed magistrate, on Thursday visited Lambeth Police-court, to which he has been attached, and will shortly take his seat. He was called to the Bar in 1846, and went the Oxford circuit. Mr. Ellison and Mr. Chance will now be the magistrates for Lambeth Police-court. A vacancy has occurred at Worship-street Police-court, on the removal of Mr. Ellison to Lambeth Police-court. A vessel containing a cargo of ambulance waggons, horses, appliances, medicines, and comforts, chartered by the Society for the Aid of the Sick and Wounded in the War, will leave the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to-day. During the past few days horses and large quantities of goods have been sent down from London by the society, for embarkation. Amongst the appliances manufactured in the Royal Arsenal, and purchased by the society from Government, are twelve general service waggons and twelve English ambulances, harness, water-barrels, stretchers on wheels, &c., which will be used in removing the sick and wounded from the battle-field to hospitals for treatment. On every waggon and package is painted a red cross on a white ground. EMBEZZLEMENT OF £3,000 AND WHOLESALE FORGERIES. —Extraordinary revelations have just been made in connection with one of the very many women's clubs now flourishing in Sheffield. The club has been esta blished several years, and its business has been conducted by a secretary. When the principals, of whom there are three, met a fortnight ago, a letter was read from the secre tary in which he stated that he had misappropriated the week's, receipts, but that the money should be forthcoming at their next meeting. As nothing more was seen of him, his bookq and the notes held as securities by the club were examined, and it has been found that the majority of the notes are forgeries, and that the payments upon them had been made by the secretary himself. A number of the persons whose names are attached to the notes have been waited upon, and they have pronounced the signatures to be forgeries. The defalcations, which extend over four or five years, amount to about £3,000. There is reason to believe that two other persons are implicated in the trans action, and all three have absconded. THE DROUGHT IN THE FEN DISTB IC TS. — Throughout the whole of South Lincolnshire the country is in a tearful state from the absence of rain. Pasture cannot be said to exist, many a farmer of experience declaring that the cattle have been pining for weeks. All the green crops are suffering from the smother fly. This tiny creature floats in the air, causing a continual annoyance to the pedestrian. They assemble in myriads on all green crops, upon which they appear to derive sustenance. In a few weeks they cause a terrible stench, the tops of the roots rotting in a very short time. The inhabitants about the fens are suffering severely. Water, drawn from a few fresh-water rivers, is hawked about and greedily purchased. In some towns, such as Bourne, the natural springs are in great request. The water consumed by many of the poorer clas4es is simply unfit in every way for human consumption, and it will not be surprising to hear of disease and death being prevalent in many of the towns. This is something extra ordinary when it is considered that during winter and the spring these districts are completely flooded for miles with good water. Under these circumssances even the war is of minor importance to the rural population, who cannot help themselves in the matter. SALMON ANGLING IN SCOTLAND.—AIthough the water has fallen rather low, good fishing has been had on some of the Scotch rivers, and should the weather con tinue at all favourable, some fine sport will no doubt be had before the close season commences. Several fine salmon and grilse have been landed on the Spey during the past week. The sport at Gor- Jon Castle has been particularly good, fifty-three salmon and grilse having been brought to land in five days. Of this number the Duke of Richmond captured eight salmon—the largest weighing 281 b.—and three grilse. Lord Francis Gordon Lennox killed three salmon, includ ing one of 301 b., and a grilse. Lady Frances Gordon Lennox took two. salmon weighing respectively 101 b. and 241 b. and a grilse Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, Lady Alexander Gordon Lennox, Lady F. Montague, Lady Dyke, the Earl of March, Sir Reginald Graham, and several others, have also been out and have had good sport. On the other stations of the Spey several salmon and grilse have been taken. CACAOINE.—CacOa nibs on the removal of the oil fall nto powder, and this powder is cacioine. Cacaoine contains neither sugar nor any other admixture whatever. Cacioine makes one of the lightest, thinnest of warm drinks, and is the most de sirable of all for use in the later hours of the day. Cacioine, by reason of the ingenious method by which the oil Is removed, pre serves all the fine natural flavour of cacao nibs. —Prepared only by James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, 112, Great Rus. sell-street ; 170, Piccadilly ; and 4S, Threadneedle-s breet ;at their Works for Dietetic Preparations, Euston-road.—ADVT. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning The Times says the appeals of the Government, the exhortations of the Prefects, the joint efforts of the Mu nicipal Corporations, and, finally, the appearance in the field of the Army of the Loire, and of their forces organised in the north and west, may breathe a new spirit into the vast body of the French nation, and make it "rise like one man " to the utter extermination of the hated invader. The Prussians, however, are not likely to underrate their enemies, or to remit their vigi lance and activity. They will not be much affected by what is called their " defeat " at Toury, as they are not elated by the reports of daily encounters in which success has become for them almost a matter of course. Still they will not easily be lulled into a treacherous security : they will be aware of the necessity of recovering lost ground, of testing the real strength of these new armies which 'have mustered up courage to meet them in the field. The French have often astonished the world by their rapid transition from the ex tremes of gloomy depression to those of the wildest elation. No •effort of patriotic devotion, however. will enable them to meet their victorious enemy in an equal encounter in the open field. It will take many months before the Army of the Loire will be able to withstand the shock of the highly disciplined troops against whom Bazaine and MacMahon's veterans never seemed to have any chance. But the Germans may have to meet their enemies in unequal encounters. They cannot always fight in the open field. Their position round a fortress measuring several scores of miles in circumference exposes them to a variety of attacks, which nothing but the most unremitting watchful ness will enable them to foil at all points. They have to deal with a foe maddened by the sense of deep humilia tion, panting for revenge, shrinking from none of those deeds that belong even to brigandage, and are deemed incompatible with the usages of modern warfare. THE METRIC SYSTEM. A meeting of merchants and tradesmen was held in Liverpool yesterday, at which it was decided to establish a depot where the metric weights may be seen and purchased. The opinion of those present was that Government should after due notice make the metric system compulsory. SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE REGISTRATION. At the Registration Court of the southern division of the County of Leicester, the revising barrister, Mr. G. L. Browne, gave an important decision in reference to one hundred and fifty voters, residents in St. Margaret's Parish, Leicester. Mr. Fowler, on behalf of the Conservatives, raised a general objection to any person possessing a county vote, who has his free hold mortgaged to a Freehold Land or Building Society, on the ground that such persons did not possess the legiti mate qualification of a freehold of the clear annual value of forty shillings. It was further argued that such free holders, during the period of their annual payments to the society to which they had mortgaged their freeholds, had not a possession nece, - -sary to clear the annual value of forty shillings. Their payments yearly swallowed up the value of the property (even in the cases of freeholds of real value, of from £4OO to £600). The revising barrister felt bound by the case of Beamish v. Stokes, decided by the late Chief Justice in the Court of Common Pleas, to disqualify the 150 persons objected to, and did so reluctantly. As in recent cases, the Courts had shown some disposition to take a more equitable view of the position of such persons. BRUTAL MURDER. A woman named Cape, who keeps the Post-office, to which is attached a provision store, at Castledermot, near Carlow, was brutally murdered on Thursday by a shopman in her employ. The deceased was a widow, and had re fused the addresses of the murderer, who attacked her with a bacon knife. She was fearfully cut about the head, throat, and bosom, and, in trying to protect her mother, a daughter of the deceased had four of her fingers cut off. The man was apprehended at once, and declared that it was his intention to ki,ll the deceased, and afterwards destroy himself. Mr. Standish, of Standish Hall, in the county of Dur ham, who has been staying with his brother-in-law at Thurso Castle, went out with his dog and gun on Wednes day afternoon, and has not since been heard of. It is feared that he has become the victim of some fatal calamity. • THE SIEGE OF PARIS. It appears that only a considerable portion, and not the whole, of the Prussian siege train has as yet arrived at Paris. The remainder may, however, be expected to arrive at any moment, and then artillery will be used on a greater scale than has ever before been known. We hear that six regiments of artillery, each of 72 guns, has left Germany for Paris. This would give a total of 432 guns, or three times the number contained in an ordinary Prussian siege train. It is difficult to believe that these guns, ammunition in proportion, and miscel laneous stores and provisions for the besiegers, can be transported at the same time. Now, there seems every likelihood of the Prussian foraging parties being somewhat restrained in their excursions. The infe rence, therefore, is that the commissariat will be in difficulties, and that it will be necessary to push on the siege with vigour. Consequently, it is probable that next week will be fruitful in im portant news, copiously diluted with falsehoods. So much speculation as to the effect of a bombardment has already taken place that we shall not endeavour to add to the theories, but wait patiently till the reality shall occur. We are glad to meet with one wholesome symptom in Paris. General Trochu is sagacious enough to perceive that it is sometimes good to speak the truth, and his account of the action of the 30th is a very honest seeming document. The French, it would appear, did at first succeed in driving in the Prussians, but on the arrival of the reserves of the latter General Vinoy ordered the retreat of his corps, it having never been intended to make more than a reconnaissance. The retreat was made in good order, and the conduct of the troops seems to have been good. The French acknowledge heavy losses in this affair. With regard to the interior of Paris there is already some ner vousness about food. It appears from the correspondent of the Daily News that though beef and mutton are cheap-- owing to the establishment by Government of a fixed ' price—yet that the supply is not quite equal to the demand. As to all the luxuries of the table, such as fish, vegetables, &c., they are becoming very dear. Bread is, however, cheap, and as long as that is the case there is no fear of starvation. From all we can gather we ven ture to assert that Paris can, as regards food, hold out till the end of the year without suffering actual famine. Order is being re-established in Paris, and the attitude of the troops is satisfactory. Some disgust is, however, felt at the fact that there is a daily increasing number of young men who avoid military service by attaching themselves to some ambulance. Next to the want of discipline has been the want of proper arms. Matters ap pear to be a little better now in this respect than they were a week or two ago. The Journal Officiel announces that all the Mobiles have now been provided with Chasse pots, and that 280,000 firearms of sorts, chiefly Taba tieres, have been served out to the Garde Nationale, and 20,000 to the Francs-tireurs ; 10,000 being kept in store. From these figures we may conclude that the strength of the garrison of Paris is at all events pot under 400,000 men. Some of the much talked of barricades have already been constructed and are reported ro be very strong ; but some individuals, animated by that most objectionable quality, zeal, have given some annoyance to the barricade committee by constructing barricades in places where not only would they be useless, but even productive of harm. It is said that a most murderous missile is being prepared at Paris. It is called the Satan Fus4e, and consists of a shell filled with petroleum and exploded with a time fuze. The French authorities look on this new means of destruction as so fearful that they have determined not to employ it unless the enemy make use of similar missiles. The Prussians are reported to be most busy with the spade. Roads and streets are barricaded, houses are loop-holed, and double and sometimes triple rows of rifle pits are constructed. Nor are the besiegers less active in collecting provisions. Corn is being brought in and thrashed, potatoes are being dug up, and grapes are being gathered. They will soon want all they have stored. The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says that the French are equally active. He himself saw men of the Garde Mobile coming out in the direction of Argen teuil with wheelbarrows, which were soon laden with potatoes. The French are also adding to their earthworks, particularly about Fort Valerien. We heard a few days ago that a certain German Prince greatly enjoyed the wine of Champagne, and that venturing near the outposts while under the influence of his habitual tonic he had been wounded. A Lombard telegram now informs us that the Crown Prince of Wurtemburg, going to visit the Lanterne de Diogene in the park of St. Cloud, was fired at by two Franc-bireurs, and ha: his jaw smashed. It is said that he is in a very dangerous state. This luckless individual must be the thirsty prince before alluded to. The same Lombard telegram informs us that the park of St. Cloud and the forest of Ville d'Avray swarm with skilful marksmen. who intercept the communication between St. Cloud and Versailles, in. flitting considerable injury on the Prussians. The Prus sian Guard, we learn, has taken up a position between the Ourcq Canal and the Northern Railway some where about St. Germain. We fancy the intention of this movement is to afford close support to the troops in front of St. Denis. St. Germain. at present. appears to be held almost entirely by the Stsa 'Cavalry division. Some mention has been made of an American gentleman who entered Paris a few 'days ago as bearer of despatches from his Government, and returned as soon as his task was accomplished. It was suggested by one writer that the individual in ques tion was Mr. Motley. It now turns out that it was General Burnside.—Stanclard. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI CULTURAL, HALL, ISLINGTON. —The number of visi tors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors and others, on the 7th inst, was 4,656. BISMARCK'S REPLY TO M. FAVRE'S REPORT. Count Bismarck is evidently determined, says the Daily News, that the public opinion of Europe shall be completely informed of the views and intentions of the German Go vernments in prosecuting the war. Having replied to M. Favre's report of their celebrated interview, he has now replied to the proclamation based upon it, which was sent out by the Government Delegation at Tours. M. Bismarck takes that rather high-flying proclamation in its most severely literal sense, and treats the statement that he had told M. Favre that Prussia meant to reduce France to a second-rate Power, as though the world had really believed he had made it. The world, however, believed no such thing. European opinion gave the Chancellor far too much credit for diplomatic ability and astuteness to believe that even if he had such an intention he would blurt it out to M. Favre on the very threshhold of negotiations. The French Delega tion put their own interpretation on M. Bismarck's atti tude, and then put into his mouth words which express the meaning they believed to be revealed by his acts. They argued, as Frenchmen do, that as Prussia meant to take territory from France, Prussia meant to lower the position of France in. Europe; and as he had avowed a determination to have territory, they said he had expressed the intention to make France a second-rate Power. Probably the very interpretation of the words second rate as applied to the position of France bear a different mean ing to them from that which they bore to the rest of the world. Their argument was that if France is reduced only to the level of other first-rate Powers, so as to be only one among them, and not the first of all ; if she is to be beaten, dictated to, and dismembered by a stronger Power, it is evident that she is no longer first, but is second. It is quite true that even as she was before only first among equals, so she would now be only second among equall. But Frenchmen owned no equals for France upon the Continent ; her primacy was absolute, and hence her reduction to a secondary position would be absolute too. It is not the amount of territory which Prussia proposes to take from France that French men object to, it is the sacrifice of any territory at all. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. The Telegraph is of opinion that the Prussians will commence operations against the forts. They have un doubtedly pieces by the dozen which could throw shot and shell into Paris itself from more than one spot already occupied ; but it would be wild, long-range firing ; and the programme of the siege naturally divides itself into, first, the capture of one or more outlying fortresses, and after that the bombard ment or assault of the ramparts. It is probable that the invaders have employed the interval of comparative silence in gathering round the doomed outworks materials for a perfect feu d'enfer. So deplorable a calamity as the destruction of the beautiful metropolis and the decimation of its in habitants must be averted. The instincts of manhood cannot tolerate the crimson logic which argues the necessity of so awful a procedure. There live the poor women, tender children, old men, and peaceful persons by hundreds of thousands—people who could not get away, whose only possible home is in Paris, who had nothing to do with the Rhine or the war. Are these to die ? Are death and fire to hail upon their garrets and back yards ? And, beside these, are the million and a half of unarmed citizens to be ex posed to massacre, and the endless treasures of the city to be reduced to ashes ! If Paris will not yield, it must be stormed, and must take its chance in that awful hour; but we hope (says the Telegraph) that the Germans do not intend to bombard the inhabitants in order to make the soldiers surrender. The be siegers may plead that they cannot dispense with the mighty cry for peace which the Paris bourgeois would raise after the first few bouquets of shells had burst about Passy and Grenelle. They may bid humanity turn and count the dead and dying of the Fatherland, and judge whether the war should be indefinitely prolonged for the sake of the very few non-combatants who are killed in a general bombardment. But Civilisation calls upon be siegers and besieged alike to come to terms before this shocking sight is seen. Nothing can reconcile her to the spectacle of Paris itself in flames, repeating upon a terrific scale the hideous experience of Strasburg. THE ATTACK UPON PARIS. For a few days longer, observes the Standard, the German armies will content themselves with the invest ment of Paris. The attack is postponed until all the siege artillery set free by the surrender of Toul and Strasburg can be placed in position, and it can be made, as the German accounts phrase it, with overpowering strength. A date is even fixed—with what warrant we cannot tell—for the commencement of the bombardment, and a term assigned—a very short one— to the endurance of the besieged. The King of Prussia, so the tale runs, means to spare Germany anniversaries. The capture of Paris is to be celebrated in the Fatherland at the same time as the battle of Leipsic. That battle commenced on the 16th of October, and lasted three days. The attack upon Paris, therefore, is to commence on the 16th, and to end on the 19th at tho latest, in the surrender or occupation of the French capital. We should not be disposed to attribute to King William such expectations or intentions, and we only repeat the story because it puts with some clearness the extent of the respite allowed Paris, and—what we wish to lay stress upon—the time, the precious time, which the other Powers of Europe still have, and ought to employ, to prevent an attach which, whatever its end, must cause devastation and slaughter which will remain an eternal reproach to the vaunted civilisation and humanity of the nineteenth century. The bombardment of Paris will certainly not commence for a week. In that week, if there were the will to interpose, the Governments of the neutral Powers might possibly succeed in bringing about some peace and preventing a wholesale slaughter and ruin which are not likely to have the slightest effect in accelerating the termi nation of the struggle. Grant that the attempt may appear almost hopeless, it ought to be made. If England, Russia, Austria, and Italy could concert together to remain neutral and enter into formal engagements to that effect, they surely ought to be able to concert together to enforce upon Prussia moderation, and to urge upon France a fair recognition of her position, assuming she should not be ready to admit the dangers of a continuance of the war. Why cannot some combined action be taken in that direction ? Why should the Powers of Europe crouch under the menaces of German newspapers and English newspapers inspired by German officials ? .SILVER. CRADLE FO n THE MAYORESS OF CHESTER . —The Mayoress of Chester, Mrs. F% A. Dickson, in ac, cordance with an old custom, has been presented with a silver cradle, she having given birth to a I.•ny during the mayoralty of her husband. The cradle was subscribed for by the citizens, and it way, presented to Mrs. Dickson on behalf of the donors by the Marquis of Westminster at a large public meeting, held in the Town-hall. Mr. Dickson's is the first mayoralty during which the old custom has been observed at Chester. A commanding officer of volunteers, commenting on Lord Elcho's last letter (an abstract of which we have published) deprecates the difference between the volun- teers and the militia. " If," he says, " volunteers con tinue to exist, they must be much less volunteers -than heretofore, and all class distinction between them and the army and reserve forces should be utterly discountenanced, and, as far as possiblo, put an end to. Our object should be to associate all ranks and classes in the pursuit of min tary training and efficiency." lation 'ante.