The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-18 00:00:00

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THE WAIL FAILURE OF GENERAL BURN- SIDE'S NEGOTIATION, A telegram has been received from Berlin, dated Tuesday morning, stating that the American General Bur:Aide, believing in the consent of Count Bis tparek, has proposed at Paris the terms of an equitable armistice, to which the reply of the Pro visional Government by M. Favre has been that France prefers the continuance of the war. MOVEMENT OF IVaZZINI. FLORENCE, OCT. 15. The King has left Florence. Mazzini has arrived. The Parliament, which meets on the 18th of November, will be dissolved after voting the Roman annexation and disposing of the Budget and general elections. The Coupons due in January on the Pontifical Loan will be met by the Italian Government. OCT. 17. lazzini leaves for Rome. 'Mere had a long conversation with Visconti, but Without any result. The Pope has sent an encyclical, announcing the tillapension of the Council in the present situation of Rome. The Official Gazette publishes a decree, introduc ing at Rome the Italian financial legislation from the Ist of November. ENGLAND AND FRANCE. The following address has been i.sued to the English people from Mr. Arles Dufour, Vice-Presi dent of the International Peace League : TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. LYONS, 12th OCTOBER, 1870. " I, a simple Citizen, venture to make an appeal to t he sympathies of the English people on behalf of 44 unfortunate, but faithful ally, whose feeling of b rotherhood has been cemented on the field of battle "ad developed in the fields of labour. "To justify the boldness of this appeal, I call to r enienabrance my constant though modest participa. li en in all the steps of economical and pacific Progress accomplished by England from the time C ommerce. Minister Huskisson down to the Treaty of 'nmmerce. I invoke, also, the friendship with which I have b een and still am honoured by the illustrious men Wno have directed and secured the realisation of this Progress, and with whom I have worked to found the great and holy International League of Peace. ti. " Great people, lift up your powerful and sympa thetic voice to enlighten the civilised world on the cruelty and danger of ruthlessly pursuing a war rieb, according to the words of the conqueror F rance, was directed not against the people of 'ranee, but against the man who was to blame for Provoking it. i "Re who was tb blame has fallen, and yet the war 8 carried on more pitilessly than ever against this good and brave people. It is continued by the con reror in the name of God. To bring it to an end r anee does not ask you to shed your blood in re rrnembsance o f th e bl oo d she gave for you in the Cr imea, but she asks for your active sympathy, such , s ' a fortunate brother should at-least give to a brother In trouble. "Awake, stir up those of your Ministers whom our disaster s have been so slow to move. Tell them that a day may come when misfortune may be knocking at your doors, and when you will regret the friend, h ula faithful a lly w hom you allowed to be crushed. I 3411,11 3 r pray that so cruel a day may never dawn on reat Britain and its noble people. AILLEs-DuFoult. Vice - President of the International and Permanent League of Peace, President of the Lyons Committee of Succour for the Victims of the War. EXPECTED BATTLE AT LA FERTE. It is anticipated that a battle will be fought at La erte St. Aubin, perhaps to-day. It is at this place that the French forces of the Loire are concentrated. The town itself is utterly deserted by the inhabi tantß. Large reinforcements of troops are pouring into it. At Orleans the Germans have taken posses ton of all the public establishments—the Bank, the Post -office, &e. The Prefect is virtually a prisoner, and even Bishop I)upanloup is not allowed to leave his Palace. BELGIUM AND GERMANY. The sympathy of the Belgian Liberal press for Vance has produced complaints from the German Government. These representations seem to "Are produced some effect. The Catholic Liberal have published articles urging their Itaheral contemporaries, who are " the offenders," to cease their protests against the an nexation of Alsace and Lorraine, and the official 40 . niteur of Brussels has reproduced these articles, as i f the Government were of opinion, too, that the i a Z i ceptibilities of Germany ought to be consulted. e result is a vehement press quarrel on the subject. , 4 he Independance Beige is indignant at thee© at press. to restrict the liberty of the n t THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. TOURS, OCT. 17. will The F renc h army i s b e i ng re i n f orce d every day on battl e left b an k o f t h e L o i re . It i s e xpected that a battle take place on Tuesday at La Fertd St. Attbin, General B our b a ki arrived at Blois yesterday e 764 ing, and took the command of the army. T he Prussians destroyed the railway bridge at the all e . r gelley, and then left the village, having crossed Loire in several places. OCCUPATION OF SOISSONS, BERLIN, OCT. 17. The following is an official despatch : "VEiNIZEL, Om 16. " )- daY the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg en tered Soissons at the head of the Pomeranian, Hes -1,11, and Magdeburg Artillery, the Schleswig En re"B) eight Prussian Landwehr battalions, and the alb er etacit Horse. The investment of Soissons s ated three w ee ks : the bombardment four days 1 3 11 , r l osses were small. Four thousand prisoners and guns were taken." in Strasburg a shot was fired from a house on a 0 rnasian patrol. All the inhabitants were turned ut of the house, and the men placed before a n milita ry tribunal. All the houses were searched for Alll"eeforth a ll th e pe titi ons t o the authorities of E 'ace must be in German. THE WOUNDED, VERSAILLES, OCT. 16. wi C olonel Lindsuy arrived hero yesterday from Paris, f ler ° he gave £20,000 for the hospitals, and leaves °r London to-morrow. The I st Regiment of the Landwehr of the Guard Iv ' 3r e inspect e d b y th e ki ng t o -d a y. ,t• Cloud is a t o t a l ru i n , th e pictures and tapestry " burnt ; the bust of Napoleon and some books were saved. the Anglo-American Ambulance left to-day for Orleans, Where there are 3,000 wounded, both r d elic A ll and Germans. General Boyer, Bazaine's L laltarck (1 . " -°anip, arrived f rom M e t z , and saw Count GARIBALDI'S COMMAND. CALAIS, MONDAY. The Journal d'Aniiens says that the young men from 17 to N years of age have demanded to be in corporated in the National Guard. La Liberte states that the Prussians are devasting, burning, and spreading terror throughout the villages in the en virons of Orleans, and that more than 300 peasants have been shot. 7he same journal states that the International French Ambulances are about to be dissolved. La Pattie says that Garibaldi's command will ex tend from Strasburg to Paris. OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH. It is believed that the arm) which besieged Sois sons, and which is estimated at 22,000 men, with powerful artillery, will next attack the strong places in the North of France. NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. In Brussels, yesterday, it was generally believed that a serious effort was being made afresh in favour of peace, based upon the cession of Alsace and the annexation of Luxemburg to Germany ; and that preparations are beir . g made for an interview between Count Bismarck and M. Jules Favre to- TERRIBLE HURRICANE ON THE COAST OF CUBA. TWO THOUSAND LIVES LOST. Adi ices have been received in New York from Ifavamiah which state that a terrific hurricane had taken place. Great damage has been done in Matanzas, Cardenas, and 'the adjacent country. It is also reported that 2,000 livcs are lost. The damage to shipping is not great. The insurrection at Martinique Las been finally suppressed. THE MONEY MARKET. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The peace negotiations have had a fauourable effect upon the Stock Exchange. Foreign Government Bonds are firmer, and there is an advance of to in Spanish, Turkish, Italian, and Egyptian. Consuls are a shade higher, being 921 for immediate delivery, and 92i to 921 for November 3rd. Italian Fives, 1861, are 55 to 55,1 ; Spanish Three per Cents. of 1567, 24 to 291-; ditto of 1869, 28e to 24 ; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 431 to 43:1 ; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1868, 76 to 77k. The Crown agents for the colonies have invited tenders on Thursday next for bills of exchange for £25,000 on the Government of Ceylon. The quotations from Berlin shew great steadiness, and, notwithstanding the approaching introduction of a new loat?. of £11,600,000, the one recently introduced is main tained at about 10 premium. An instalment of 15 per cent. falls due on Thursday next on the Peruvian Loan for £11,920,000, introduced here in June last by Messrs. J. H. Schroder and Co. At the Dutch Trading Company's sale of coffee, fixed for the 26th instant, 111,700 bales of Java, and 4,400 bales of Padang will be offered. • A petition for the winding up of the Universal Private Telegraph Company (Limited) is to be heard before the Master of. the Rolls on the sth of November. Berger, Spence, and Co.'s •weekly report says for certain chemicals there is a fair demand. The large export trade to the States does not in the least decrease; on the other hand, there appears to be, if anything, an increase in the quantity of chemicals sent from Liverpool during the past fortnight. There has been great activity in ship ments for the North, and it is anticipated they will be stopped, as usual, about the end of October. For minerals there has been an excellent demand—Hematite especially ruling very firm. In metals we have to report a fair business doing in Scotch and Cleveland pig iron, at present prices. Pig irons were in good demand. Copper is in better request, at the reduced rates. Spclter remains dull, but there are symptoms of improvement in lead. 'FOE SUN, LONDON, TtTESDAY, OCTOBERS 18, 187(t THE ARMY OF THE LOIRE. The correspondent of the Standard writing from Tours on the 15th inst. says :—From Orleans nothing official has been communicated since the defeats of Monday and Tuesday, and even the only details known for the present at Tours are the ones I brought myself. It is said in Government circles that the army of the Loire is continuing a great strategic movement, and ever at a late hour last night I received the assuranc 4 that the operations were so far successful. I left Blois in the morning. I was at a comparatively short distance from the army, and the only indications I did notice were important reinforcements conveyed by rail to the headquarters. General Bourbaki started at a late hour yesterday to join the army, and I expect the supreme command will be put in his able hands. Few generals enjoy more popularity than Bourbaki. In Africa, in the Crimea, and in his last command of the Imperial Guard at Borny, Gravelotte, Mars la Tour, &c., he has achieved exploits which have rendered his reputation for skill, bravery, and organisa tion without equal in the French army, and it is to be hoped that the influence of his name, the measure of discipline lie will take, will produce an efficacious change amongst the demoralised troops, and restore confi dence. It is quite time, indeed, to finish with the lame excuses of the regular troops abandoning their positions, sometimes at the first attack of the Prus sians ;. first, they pretend the enemy is in overwhelming numbers, then that their artillery is more powerful, and reach a longer range ; that their marksmen are superior, &c. An answer would be easy .to their late pretensions, and their new general will not fail to tell them, if the cannons of the enemy reach further on than yours, march on them ; if their artillery are better. marksmen, try to emulate them ; death at your post sooner than to abandon it, and then you will deserve those appellations of heroic soldiers which have been won by your comrades at Weissenburg, Reischoffen, Forbach, Gravelotte; &c. The task of General Bourbaki is a heavy one, but he will succeed if he is left all power of action wanted in such desperate cases, if the Government of the National Defence does not interfere with his ope rations and thwart his movements. The report of Gene ral Reyan on the two engagements has been published to day. He adds very little. In fact, ho tells much less than my letter of yesterday, and the outline of it confirms in all points the bad news I have related. The general acknowledges the defection of the regular troops in presence of the enemy, and the heroic courage of the Mobiles and other volunteer corps. It is said that great excesses have been committed in the city of Orleans by the Germans, and that they have asked a requisition of eight millions of francs, that they have plundered several stores, &c. Let us hope these rumours are exaggerated. A fact remains certain, that when I left Meung on Wednesday morning the Uhlans were operating at La Chapelle, at Saint-Cry-en-Val, on the left bank of the Loire ; their daring is great, for the isolated vanguards might have been easily cut off from their corpS d'armee by the destruction of the bridges of Orleans and Jargeau. On another side Beaugency has been since occupied by Prussian cavalry. And some of their eclaireurs have arrived at Avron, Jauy, Le Pothier, and Ligny. In the ltouen direction the enemy, in a corps d'arm6e 20,000 men strong, under the command of Princes Albrecht and Hohenlohe, is occupying at Gisors and Magny, and has attacked the French outposts at Ecouis. An encounter of cavalry has taken place, resulting in a few killed and wounded. It is quite clear that notwithstanding the great success near Paris, as proclaimed by the Government, the different columns continue their advance in Normandy as well as those on the south. NORTHERN FRANCE AND TILE INVASION. change ssit situation 16, of says: The special correspond en t o f th e T e legraph, i n a l e tt e r dated An in the, Octobern :—en"emAy as As yet there is hisno threatened attack on Amiens. The Saxon force at Breteuil has fallen back on Laon, and St. Quentin has not yet been visited a second time by the enemy since the victory by the Gardes Mobiles the other day. There is now no more singing of pa triotic songs in the streets. The town is full of troops but they are all silent, and preparing for earnest work. A great change in the spirit of the people—and by that word I mean the gentry and merchants of the Depart ment quite as much as their workmen—has undoubtedly taken place. Activity has succeeded to apathy, and among all there is a stern determination to defend every inch of ground in the North. This remarkable transition in feeling has in some measure been brought about by the victory at St. Quentin, but more still from utter despair at the present situation in France. Men say matters have now got so bad that they cannot very well be worse, and, in sheer desperation, they determine to do or to die for their country. The defeat of the Army of the Loire may also have had something to do with the resolution of which I speak—for a misfortune is often as potent a cause of stern valour as a victory. Then, again, no help from without has reached the country, nor does there seem to be any hope of obtaining even the intervention of other countries. The increased discipline of the Mobiles has also contributed to this determination to fight the quarrel out to the bitter end; and a very bitter end it will be, unless the other Powers in Europe interfere. In all the towns of the North, the resistance made to the enemy will be formidable, and in many it will be even desperate. Such, at any rate, is the temper of this part of the country at the time I write. As I said. before, many fresh troops have arrived in Amiens ; but it would not be honest for me to record how many there are, or how they are composed. In a late letter I spoke of the annoy awe of many Frenchmen at the arrival of Garibaldi in France. No doubt the reception that leader received at Tours has greatly irritated a vast number of the best men in the country. But even this matter they aro content to waive for the present, so as to act together for the defence of France. The violent wickedness of the people of Lyons—who have turned 20,000 poor children into the streets without instruction, in order that the members of the Municipal Council may have the su preme pleasure of insulting the Catholic religion by order ing the Brothers of the Christian School into the ranks is overlooked for the present. In a word, Frenchmen seem for the moment to have forgotten everything except the great work they have in hand : that of beating back if they possibly can—the enemy whenever he attacks. Whether they will remain firm in this temper it is impossible to say, but I confess there appears to be every chance of it. Last week several minor mat ters seemed likely to shake the union which was being cemented between all shades of political and religious views. To-day men seem determined, first cf all, to conquer the enemy, and then—not before -- to see to settling their own form of govern ment. And there is about them far more earnestness of purpose, with far more work and far less talk, than I have yet seen since this unhappy war broke out. That France has still got men enough to form as large armies as she has lost, is evident from the crowd of con scripts passing through this town to the West, for the purpose of joining their respective depots. What she now wants is a military chief who can organise an administration for the army, as Avell as command it in the field. All that Paris is fighting for—all that these Northern Departments are arming for—is that Alsace and Lor raine may not be taken from France. Rather than allow that to be, the people of this country will fight on to the very last; and even if Paris were to fall to morrow we should be no nearer the end than we are now." THE BAR.—If we had but a single event to speak of in connection with the personnel of the bar as it was last tern, and as it will be next, we should feel justified in making it subject of remark. But, unfortunately, there has been another agent at work besides promotion. Death has removed, with a most impartial hand, young men rather than their elders, no less than four members of the junior bar having been cut off in the outset of their career. The one remarkable fact, however, will be the absence of Mr. Mellish. Few who were not constantly in attendance on the sittings of the courts can understand the magnitude of the vacuum which has been caused in the ranks of the common law working bar by his elevation to the equity bench. In time to come, the regulation period having elapsed when posterity can decently award distinction, his magnificent ability will probably be recog nised in a manner which we can hardly appreciate, and it is of course impossible now to conjecture to what extent he will add as a judge to the remarkable monument to his skill and learning which he raised while at the bar. He will be missed in all the courts of appeal. Each separate common law court will feel sensibly that. its greatest practitioner is gone, whilst the equity courts will see once more on the bench the legal genius and power of intellect which were by no means strange to their bars. Of the lesser lights, as we have said, four have been too soon extinguished by death. We will name them all--Mr. Bacon, a son of the vice-chancellor, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Duckworth, and Mr. Butler Rigby. The latter name was familiar to the public ; having few edu cational advantages, Mr. Rigby nevertheless, by industry and perseverance, succeeded in obtaining a very fair share of court practice ' and his absence will not be unobserve d in Westminster Hall. If Mr. Macnamara should by iil health be precluded from practising, which in the interest of the profession we sincerely hope will not be the case, the courts will lose a familiar face, and the assistance of high legal attaintments. The police appointments, as they now stand, will not affect the condition of the working bar.—Lam Timm THE RECENT ENGAGEMENTS. The following is the official German report upon the recent encounters with the Loire and Lyons armies : " Versailles, Oct. 10. "Recent events throw light upon the forces at the dis posal of the French Government over and above those enclosed in Paiis, Metz, and some other fortresses. Several marches south-west of Strasburg the Corps d'Arm6e under the command of General von Werdei fell in with a body of troops whose composition proved that the production of fresh regular forces need be no longer feared in France. It had been organised some weeks since at Langres, and belonged to the Southern Army. The recruits had come from the Haute Marne, Saone and Yonne, Cote d'Or, and the country near Dijon. If at all capable of playing a part in the war, it ought to . have marched north, and endeavoured to relieve Stras 'burg while there was time ; but consisting chiefly of Mo biles, it could not venture on so independent a step, and contented itself with troubling our Southern communica tions between Alsace and Paris. Its greatest exploit was an attempt to surprise Nancy, which, however, was so easily foiled by one Landwehr battalion that we could not even boast of having had an engagement. Such were the troops General von Werder (with General von Degen feld under him as chief of the Baden division) attacked near Epinal. He put 2,000 hors de combat, ourselves losing less than one-eighth of this number. This has probably disposed of the Southern army for a little while. "Farther west, the Bavarian First Corps, reinforced by one Prussian Division of infantry and two Prussian cavalry Divisions, under the command of General von der Tann, assumed an energetic offensive against the hosts congre gating on the Loire. Some time ago, when we had completed the investment of Paris, two Prussian cavalry divisions, among them Prince Albrecht's, had been des patched to patrol the country south of the capital, in the direction of Etampes, Pithiviers, and Orleans. They had had many skirmishes with Francs-Tireurs, who abounded in that neighbourhood, and though unable to resist our attack in any one single instance, yet clung to their hiding places in the woods, and were apparently intent upon organizing a guerrilla war. These Francs-Tireurs came from the Seine and the Southern Departments. " When our cavalry had penetrated as far as the forest of Orleans the Crown Prince ordered General von der rann, who had his headquarters at Longjumeau, to pro ceed in the direction of that city, and further on to Tours, the seat of the Provisional Government. With General von der Tann's corps marched the 22nd Division of the 11th Prussian Corps, as also our two cavalry divisions. This force arrived on the 7th at Arpajon, and on the Bth reached Etampes, by Etrechy. At Etampes the van were engaged by the enemy, who, seemingly shewing fight, caused our troops to prepare for battle. Our infantry marched through a ravine in the direction of Angerville, with cavalry on both sides. Had the enemy remained in their former position we should have outflanked and might have seriously injured them by this movement; but on getting near Angerville, where the defile widens into a vast pla teau, we found that the French had retreated on learning the approach of a considerable force. Only the village of Monnerville, south of Etampes and Angerville, was still occupied by a small rear-guard. On this occasion we became acquainted with a new description of troops, called the Partisans, forming a sort of body-guard to the Government at Tours. In the account-books they had with them their pay and other emoluments from the Republican authorities were accurately stated. They were mostly men above 40, or youngsters between 16 and 18 ; those between these two extremes having been previously draughted into the Mobiles. Directly we got to Etampes and Angerville the Partisans remaining in those towns were either taken prisoners or ran away. They were indeed unable to defend themselves, being totally ignorant of everything military, and moreover, armed with Minid rifles, which cannot compete wit modern weapons. In reply to our questions, they said they knew nothing of the service, and altogether represented their situation as pitiable. The peasants would not give them anything to eat, nor even direct them to find their way across the country. The fear of the Germans was so universal in those parts that everybody shunned intercourse with the indigenous troops. The costume of the Partisans consists in a short black coat, black trousers, gaiters, and a red sash round the waist. They wear hats with broad brims, those of the captains being about four times as large as those worn by the privates- The commander-in-chief of the body taken prisoners at Angerville was a private gentle. man from Nantes. Most of them had the words, ' Parti sans de Gers' on their hats. The Department de Gers being above 400 miles south of Paris, and only 150 miles north of the Pyrenees, their presence in the Orleannois would seem to prove that the central Depaitnients are already drained of most of the people that can be induced to join. " Since then Orleans has been taken ay General von der Tann. It is one of the wealthiest cities in France. The region north of it, the so-called Beauce, is certainly the most fertile district we have as yet entered. It provides Paris with enormous quantities of excellent wheat, ground by the steam and water mills in the province. It also abounds in oats (which will be a great acquisition for our cavalry), and produces grapes and every variety of fruit in such plenty that, in addition to supplying Paris, its choice articles are exported to foreign countries. The possession of the Beauce will sensibly diminish the number of our provision trains from Germany. "The occupation of Orleans is also important from a strategical point of view. Situate on the right bank of the Loire, and being the point of junction for the Central Railway, and the lines from Nantes, Bordeaux, and Toulouse, it protects our army from attack from the south, and all but prevents our enemies in the north holding communications with the south. By blow ing up a single arch of the two magnificent bridges over the Loire, each of which has cost 2,000,000 f., we render it difficult for a southern enemy to penetrate north, the next two bridges, at Jargeau and Beaugency, not being strong enough for artillery to pass over. Glen, higher up the river, is already ours, and the Sologne, which is the name of the country lower down, beyond Blois, is so barren and destitute o roads that it serves as a natural safeguard from that side. Orleans is known for the pacific disposition of its inhabitants, and has large barracks and otter buildings, which will be useful should the campaign be prolonged." morrow. According to the Echo du Parlenzent of Saturday the statement that General Boyer, first aide-de-camp to Marshal Bazaine, had left Metz for Versailles to negotiate for the capitulation of that fortress, appears to be authentic. News also comes from Calais that M. Laurier, secretary of Mr. Gambetta, arrived there from Tours on Monday, and left in the mail packet La France, en route direct to London. The Manchester Examiner's Berlin correspondent confirms the statement that an officer had been des patched by Marshal Bazaine to the headquarters of King William, to negotiate for the capitulation of Metz. The result of the mission is not yet known. The besieging force is reported to have completed their rifle pits and trenches and to have mounted batteries with twelve-pounder guns, which throw . twenty-four pounder shells. METZ. EPERNAY, OCT. 13. After the recent battle before Metz a French Parliamentaire had an interview with Prince Frederick Charles, and, no definite result having ensued, he proceeded by special train to the Head-quarters of the King. He passed through Nancy and Epernay yesterday, It is stated that within the past fortnight 100,000 stand of arms have reached the French army from America. THE SPANISH THRONE, The candidature of the Duke of Aosta for the Spanish Throne is supported by General Cialdiui. The negotiations have not yet taken any official shape, they have not got beyond the preliminary pourparlers phage ; but the project is one not at all unlikely to be attended with results. The candi dature of this Prince has been mentioned before ; but the obstacles which induced his father, King Victor Emmanuel, to discountenance it no longer exist. There is now, for example, no anxiety about the succession to the Italian Crown. RUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT. 17. The Russian War Office have issued a decree respecting the purchase of reserve horses for the cavalry, artillery, and Staff officers. Tho director of the Russian Press Department has been deposed for permitting attacks on King William to be published. CHINA. The latest news from Hongkong, up to September 29th, states that there has been another outrage against foreigners at Kingkiang, No lives were lost. Missionaries have been threatened, and the necessity for immediate protection is felt everywhere. The delay in exacting retribution for the massacre at Tien-tsin is much commented on. ALLEGED ATROCITIES BY TIIPI PRUSSIANS. The correspondent of the Daily News at Tours says : " Private letters from the neighbourhood of Orleans speak of many atrocities committed by the Prussians. They are accused of having shot 300 peasants in cold blood. Count de la Pevine, commanding a battalion of Mobiles, is said to have been traitorously shot by some troops who reversed their arms to lead him to suppose they had left off fighting. Voves, and a number of surrounding villages, have been either sacked or burned. The Liberty asserts that Orleans was only saved from pillage and most abominable vio lence, " which the officers had authorised," by the intervention of Bishop Dupanloup. The Prussians gave out in Orleans (I do not know whether this is meant to form an item in the list of their atrocities) that they would be in Tours in a week. With all this the Bishop is said to be a prisoner in his own pa. lace, just as M. Pereira, the mayor, is a prisoner in hi' mansion." (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) RAILWAY COLLISION. A collision between a passenger and a goods train took place last night on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire Eailway, near Oughty Bridge, about six miles from Sheffield. Details are noi at present to hand, but it is believed no one has been very seriously injured. The traffic on the line is suspended. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN SCOTLAND. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales went out shooting on Lower Polmaire Estate on Satur day, and killed one hundred head of game. Yester day his Royal Highness shot over Loachadam estate, and had again excellent sport. The Duchess of Montrose, Lord Ronald Graham, and others, have joined the party at Polmaire Castle. A ball will be given at the Castle this evening, to which the neighbouring nobility have been invited. SHIPPING CASUALTIES. Yesterday the crew of the schooner Nympn, of Abe rystwith, were landed at Yarmouth. Their vessel, which was bound from Runcorn to Harlingen, was caught in the late gales when about forty miles off Yarmouth, and sprung a leak. The water gained upon her rapidly, and scarcely had the crew left in their boat when she went down. They were subsequently picked up by a smack. A Yarmouth lugger, laden with herrings, foundered on Sunday about ten miles off that port, the crew being saved by the life lugger Stonewall Jackson. A VALUABLE LIBRARY DECLINED. Two years ago the Earl of Lichfield, as Lord• Lieutenant of Staffordshire, announced that Mrs: W. Salt, in ac cordance with her late husband's wishes, had placed Mr. Salt's library at the disposal of the county, on certain conditions, the principal being that a suitable building should be provided, and that a librariau should be ap pointed. The library cost the deceased gentleman over £30,000. His Lordship, after endeavouring to arouse the interest of the county in various ways, yesterday, at the Qnarter Sessions, announced that he had advised Mrs. Salt to give the library to the British Museum. ATTEMPT TO SHOOT IN CORK. As Mr. Bull, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, was walking through Patrick-street, Cork, between 11 and I'2 o'clock last night, he was fired at with a revolver by one of three persons who stood close to the footway. Mr. Bull rushed at his assailant and struck him with a stick. The three men then attacked him severely. Some persons coming to his aid, a general melde ensued, during which the man who fired the shot escaped, but the police arrested his companions. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. The Dean of Christchurch has yesterday morning given notice that Messrs. Johnson Parsons, of Bruton Grammer School; and Joseph Scott, of Glasgow University, had been elected to exhibitions at Christchurch. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—THis DAT. A FURY.—Susan Brown, aged 34 years, was brought up before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, charged with breaking her husband's leg, and also with violently assaulting her son Charles, a boy about 12 years of age, while ho was endeavouring to protect his father from his mother's violence. The woman, who is a person of ungovernable temper, and has been living with her family on Market-hill, Shadwell, was drinking heavily yesterday, and came home intoxicated. Her husband endeavoured to get her to bed, and in return she attacked him, beat him savagely with a poker and broke his leg. He was taken to the Lo4don Hospital. The boy was also beaten and much injured by his dissipated and brutal mother. She was remanded for a week. A DISHONEST SERVANT.—Edward Webber, aged 24 years, of No. 14, Russel-street, Bow-common-lane, was brought up at the above court, charged before Mr. Paget, with stealing four dozen boxes of lucifer matches, value is. 6d., the property of Mr. Richard Martin, his employer, of Paul's Works, Bow Common. • The prose cutor is a tallow chandler and lucifer box maker. The prisoner, a carman in his employ, was in the practice of delivering goods to customers and receiving the money for them. He was ordered to deliver three gross of lucifer snatches in boxes to an oilman in the Harrow-road, Paddington, and he told the oilman there were 3i gross made up for him. They were accepted, and paid for. The prisoner only accounted to his master for three gross. He appropriated the price of half a gross to his own use. This case was clearly made out, and Lamb, a detective of the K Division, said there were many others against him. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week. ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A LIFE-GUARDSMAN. John Lloyd, a trooper in the 12th Life-Guards, was charged at the Westminster Police-court with stealing 45...7d. and a purse from the person of Ellen Wear, a prostitute. Prosecutrix said she lived at the Brewery Castle, George street, Chelsea. This morning, at two o'clock, she left a friend, who went into the Alexandra Hotel'; he gave her some silver, and she put it in lar purse. Directly she had left her friend the prisoner accosted her, and forced his company on her ; w en t some distance with her, and left her. She missed her purse, and he denied taking it, and threatened to knock her down. She prevented him going into barracks, and gave him in charge. John James, 293 B, said he met the prisoner and prosecutrix at three o'clock, and she charged him with the theft. He strictly denied it, and only sd. was found on him. Mr. Woolrych said the case should be supported by further evidence, and he dis charged the prisoner. ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—CAUTION TO SERVANTS. —A young man who, when taken into custody refused his name, butinow gave that of Francis Bernard, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street Police court, with stealing a dressing case, containing jewellery and other articles, an umbrella, &c., the property of Mr. Alfred James Howe, a gentleman residing at No. 18, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Mr. A. J. Howe stated that on the 17th Sept. the prisoner rang his bell and sent the servant up for a pair of boots, which he said he had come for, making use of -the name of some boot maker, and while the servant was upstairs he went off with a dressing bag and other articles—the articles having been placed in the hall as he was leaving town. In reply to Mr. Tyrwhitt the prosecutor said the property was of the value of £l5O. The prisoner asked what time in the day it occurred, and on being told one o'clock, he said he should be able to shew that he could not have been there at the time. Jessie Chesney, a young woman, said the prisoner called and asked for a pair of boots, and while she was gone upstairs he went away with a dressing bag and other articles, the property of Mr. Howe. Thomas Pickels, a detective officer, said that shortly after one o'clock that morning he was with Detective Beechy in Windmill-street. He said to prisoner, " Frank, you must come along with me for going to Dover-street and getting a bag." The prisoner said he knew nothing about it, and that he had made a mistake ; and at the station he said, " You want a case very bad to take me," and refused his name and address. He also said he could not have been the person who committed the robbery, as at the time he was under remand. The prisoner said he did not say under remand, and he said be was under recognisance for bet ting at the Knightsbridge Exchange. Mr. Tyrwhitt se manded the prisoner at the request of Pickels, who said he believed there would be other charges against him. ROBBERY.—Jane Gardner, a smartly-dressed young unfortunate, was brought up at the above court, charged with stealing the sum of £8 10s., from Robert Parris, upholsterer, War., Herts. From the evidence of the prosecutor, a young man, it appeared that having been robbed by the prisoner on a former occasion, and having lost sight of her, he again on coming out of the Alhambra, met her, when he accused her of robbing him of £8 10s. The prisoner was remanded for a week. It is stated that the Government are about to pro secute such of the promoters of the Irish Ambulance Corps as are British subjects. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Otte Shilling day, Monday, Oct. 17th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets, 1,176; ditto on payment, 1,305 ; total visitors, 2,481. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. -- The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others, on the 17th Oct., was 5,249. WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE, 45, GREAT ORMOND STREET. History Classes.—This evening (Tuesday) Mr. Walter Braithwaite, 8.A., will commence a course on the French Revolution of 1789. To-morrow (Wednesday) Mr. Langton Sanford will deliver the first lecture of a course on Charles I. and the Grand Revolution. A. new Australian passenger steamer, " The Queen of the Thames," was put on her trial trip at Greenwich on Friday. Rumours have been floating about for the last fort night about a petition against the return of Mr. Douglas Straight for the borough of Shrewsbury. A scrutiny was first suggested on the grqund that the Conservative party had polled some of their runners, but as this course di:t not promise much success, charges of alleged bribery have been raked up, and on Friday a petition against AI r. Straight's return was sent up. —Birnangliam Gazette. Barometrical depression has advanced over the north-west of our islands, and readings have decreased rapidly on all coasts—nearly an inch in the north. Tem perature, which had risen considerably on Sunday, has again fallen, but is rather uniform. At Ardrossan and Shields the gale still holds from west and north west. Rain has been general and heavy, especially in the west. The sky has cleared, but the amout of cloud is variable, and rain still falls at Holyhead and Valentia. The sea is rough in the west and the north-west. Moderate elsewhere. THE CATTLE PLAGUE AT METZ. The correspondent of the Daily News, writing from be fore Metz, on the 12th inst., remarks :—" I am sorry to have to inform you of the increased and fearful prevalence of the cattle plague among the vast herds of cattle which have been accumulated in our rear for the supply of the Prussian troops. The plains between Itemilly anti Bazancourt, and around the latter village, are strewn with the dead. Whole herds have perished. Isolation is impracticable, nor is it possible to keep fresh arrivals off the ground infected by their pre decessors. The orders are imperative that the animals which have died of this mysterious pestilence shall be buried as soon as possible, just as they have fallen. From personal observation, however, I can state that this order is not always corn plied with, and its enforcement must be almost impossible where the herds cover so large an area of ground, and the supervision must necessarily be perfunctory. Many a hide is taken off these dead bullocks before they aro buried, and, I have reason to believe, find their way into the bottoms of the waggons belonging to the horde of carriers, market-tenders, and what not, that come over the frontier toward Saarlouis, Triers, and Luxemburg. If the people, therefore, knowingly admit the unclean thing within their borders, their blood be on their own heads. Probably the hides are smuggled into the tanneries with out the cognisance of the authorities. But the question is ono of deep interest for Britain. No doubt the regulations for the import of live cattle from the Con tinent arc framed so as to be effectual aga,Thst the admis sion of disease. But Leadenhall and Bermondsey need be told that consignments of wet hides' occasionally come over from Continental ports, and it is no impossible thing that some of the surreptitious windfalls from Bazancourt and Remilly may find their way into these parcels. The loss from the ravages of this disease, I may mention, does not fall up6n the Prussian Government, but upon the great Berlin firm of Laclimaun and Sons, who contract with Government for alinoet the whole of the stores supplied to the army. They are perhaps the largest contractors in the NI orld. By the terms of their contract for cattle, the animals are not considered as delivered till they have been accepted by the Indentateur at the place of consumption, and thus the risk of loss during the journey is borne by the con tractor. In this case the loss must be something stupen dous; let one hope that Messrs. Lachmann in recompense make a tolerably good thing out of the rice, sugar, flour, meal, and other stores for which they also hold the contracts." Mr. Wilkie Coiling is now engaged in adapting his work of "No Name " for representation. It has been ac cepted by Messrs. Webster and Chatterton, for early pro duction in November, at the Princess's Theatre. An American ex-diplomatist in Paris, ;n good relations with the Government there, submits as a solu tion the proposition that Lorraine and Alsace, with Luxemburg, should be given to Belgium ; their neutrality guaranteed by the European Powers, and he holds out aopar of the consent of France to the scheme. The volunteer arms are being sent from all parts of the western district to Birmingham, for conversion to the Snider principle. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning POLITICAL PROSPECTS OP FRANCE. The Tunes, in an article on the present position of affairs of France and Germany, asks what would be the prospects of France if peace were now suddenly made, and then goes on to observe :—The political prospects of France, left to herself and freed from the uniting influence of losses that must be avenged at the earliest opportunity, t.re scarcely promising. The parties into which the nation is divided are now content to postpone their mutual con flicts for the sake of resisting the common enemy of all, and yet this patriotic resolution is enforced with difficulty. The elements of disorder refuse to disappear in Paris ; Lyons is visited with periodical convulsions ; Marseilles is unquiet, while some of the agricultural Departments are astatcd by the followers of Henri V., and the bourgeoisie look to the House of Orleans as the ultimate refuge from anarchy. If the war ceased, these factions would at once burst into action. It may be bald that such a prospect presents nothing that is disquieting, for we have our parties, and their contentions do not threaten the sta bility of our domestic order. But it is too evident that the politicians of France have not yet learnt to accept the vote of the people as the ultimate authority of the law, and to spend their energies iu influencing its suffrages by argu ment. A Red Republican is always prepared to establish his theories by force, and even milder politicians are persuaded that they cannot be outvoted except by treachery and fraud, which must be counteracted by ener getic measures. The withdrawal of the enemy from Franco would be the signal for the uprising of political parties. Wo hope and believe that the nation would prove able to work out the task of reconstruction in peace in spite of the prece dents of 1792 and 1848 ; yet we cannot but fear. This much, however, is certain—whatever might be the form of government ultimately established in France, if France were allowed to devote herself to the construction of another Constitution, the whole energies of the people would be absorbed in this domestic task for some years to come, if the war did not leave a bitterness behind it which admitted of no thought but that of revenge. PEACE RUMOURS. Whatever value, observes the Daily News, may bo attributed to the rumours of peace negotiations which reach us from Brussels, it is obvious at leas't that they step in at a very peculiar crisis in the history of the war. The state of affairs in Franco has now got beyond the sphere 'of military calculation. With the dispersal of the Army of the Loire, the Germans may be said to have encountered and beaten all the opposition forces about which any definite statistics could be had. Generals von Moltke and von Roan have successfully carried out their programme, and probably wait at this moment for the capture of Paris, and the surrender of Met; as the climax of their planned campaign. Outside and beyond these calculations, nevertheless, the Germans are confronted by an unkno wn quantity. No man can tell what strength or will of resistance rests with the French people. That is a problem which it is impos siple to solve ; and yet on the practical solution of it, should - these rumoured peace negotiations be broken off, depend the fortunes of the war, and the terrible contingencies which hang about a prolongation of the struggle. There is no general on the Prussian staff —or on any other staff—who can say whether the Franco of 1870 is about to shew herself the France of 1792, or tho France of 1814. REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. The Daily Telegraph discusses the question " What has France gained by Revolution," and says :—See what the history of France has been for the last eighty years, and then let the most heated partisan of pure Revolutionary ideas judge for himself if the French system has answered. Where there is civic violence, where there is bloodshed in the streets, there will inevitably be reaction, and when that stage has been reached, then steps iu the soldier with his sword. Men mast sleep o' nights, and will obey any one who will give them comparative security. The soldier once paramount, foreign war and caste distinctions follow in his train. Embarked in the fatal career of conquest, let a nation carry things ever so proudly for a time, reverses, defeat, invasion, humiliation must, in the long run, be its lot. To say so much •is merely to recite in a single sentence the history of France for the last eighty years. Assume for a moment that the heroes of the great Revolution of 1786 had en deavoured to attain their ends in a more peaceful way, and that the French had been as much a law abiding people as they have been notoriously the reverse, who can doubt that the history of that nation would have formed a magnificent page iu the annals of the human race ? With their quick synipathies, with their bright intelligence, with their artistic faculties, they could have attained to any height they desired. Feudal privileges and absurdities would equally have been swept away. Frenchmen wonld have been to a far higher degree than they are at present in the enjoyment of that " equality they so dearly love. A G erma n army would not have been encamped round Paris, nor a Prussian sovereign in occupation of the State rooms at Versailles. It would be equally true to say that the violence with which the outbreak of the great Revolu tion was stained has been as destructive to the moral habits as it has been to the political rights of the nation ; and hence it is that France is, as it were, falling to pieces before our eyes. The process of regeneration will be sharp and tedious ; but we have nu doubt that, taught by bitter experience, the nation will see at last that obedience to law is the only safe course for a people which desires to retain its place in the foremost rank. REDUCTION OP FRANCE TO A SECOND-RATE POWER. The Standard commenting on the announcement from tours, that the delegate of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has issued two circulars, the first in date combat ing Count Bismarck's arguments, and establishing that Liberal France never opposed the unity of Germany ; the second, showing that the Government of Berlin really desires to reduce France to the rank of a second-rate Power, observes : The demonstration of the intentions of the Government of Prussia to reduce France to the rank of a second-rate Power is quite superfluous. The fact of that intention is too clear to all Frenchmen, and a circular or a memorandum intended to establish it is a work of supe rerogation and of waste so far as France is concerned. No loubt there are politicians in England who pretend that France would remain a great and perfectly inde pendent Power, with a large German army at Met; and who repeat calculations as to population and square miles supplied them by German newspapers, whilst forgetting or being ignorant of the purpose with which these same papers advocate the disintegration of France. But no eloquence of M. Jules Favre or his locum tenens would convince those who desire to see France dismembered that she would suffer by it, and none is needed to convince impartial observers that the terms of peace Prussia proposes would reduce France to the rank of a second-rate Power. What is to be the end if G ermany has its own way is plain enough. Frenchmen, who are chiefly concerned, see it clearly. All foreign observers with look at the question im partially see it quite as distinctly ; and it is, therefore, to be regretted that, at a time when talk is thoroughly out of place, the Provisional Government should have issued a circular which could be of no possible utility, and which, so far as it can have any influence, dis tracts the attention of the nation from the work it has to do. GERMAN UNITY. The Manchester Examiner, in an article on German Unity, thinks that Bismarck, in his endeavour to obtain that object, is in danger of being foiled by his own wea pons. The German victories have been almost too deci sive ; they have extinguished that fear of France which was so useful as a means of political coercion. Moreover, the large and almost disproportionate share of fighting has been done by the South German troops. The re sult is that the people of Bavaria and Wurtemburg feel themselves rather stronger in the back than formerly, and less disposed than ever to stoop at the order of Bismarck. They want Germany for the Germans, not for the House of Hohenzollern, and are disposed to insist upon terms which, though quite compatible . with the national idea, would scatter to the wind the policy which, has been so artfully constructed at Berlin. The efficacy of camp meetings on the coloured mind is put beyond the shadow of a doubt by the con templation of the results achieved in a recent "exhort" near Nashville. A thoughtless son of Afric delighted the ebon companion of his joys and sorrows by " experi encing religiOn" and turning from the frequent follies of jig dancing and other plantation extravagances. For a time the repentant Christian faithfully adhered to his duty and eschewed rigidly the vanities of the dance, without a lapse of " jigging said piping," but finally weak human nature fell befoic the allurements of a barbecue. Sambo's baptized feet, when the fiddle struck up, twisted and jerked till they ached with sinful hankering after one more breakdown. Finally, when the spirit and the flesh could no longer stand temptation., he fled to the woods beyond the reach of the music, and " wrestled," as he said, " with the old Adam in them legs about all night."—Ncw York Tribune.