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A ble now-a- here upon the line of he music all but -MA, M9lO )me exag ,rted into through wdust of ar flaps, inciples of equivoque, ted—these fined glass, Chese have Comedy Murphy, Jonson, e Elliston, d a swarm hose old tic effect blight of , may at lecture and te, and are 4r. Percy id gracious )ccasion to managers , upon the lramatists. tamest and nt of fresh re welcome, dm: Doe. 12. ipanied by went out. Chancellor I the Roya ruing. urghe have fled on the t the river. Company's down near the tender, 1. Several ompell Id to state of the 3E. -- The id manager .the recent t Brockley in Elswick ht by train ed of four The pall ay (the two 3 company), hieatre), and it were Mr• Mr. W. H. and other ;ed in the ion : " Fre , - 870. Aged, as also pre e, who io t a visit to hid ITCOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 2.30 P.M. LATEsT INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. (BY TIILY:GILAPII via TEHERAN.) CALCUTTA, December 12 11 I•-t Government sanctions ,the arming of three 1 1 rote Bengal regiments with. Snifflers. The Com-1 ';allder-in-Chief selects the I st battalion of the sth llsilier s , at Peshawur, the I st battalion 11 t h, at „ 41orar, and the 41st at Mooltan. Anothe r regiment will be armed at Mail -. By o Pil it is expected that Sniders will be in the hands every British soldier in India. 'Colonel Baigree and Doctor Ringer have selected 48 ite Well adapted for troops in Central India, 120 r tes from Jubbulpore, 30 from the Great India n p eninsular Railway. L e r akoob Khan's position remains unaltered. lie ' 4B __plundered 100 Beloochistan and Affghan camels. The urrachee and Chinsurah depots are to be a bolished, saving £B,OOO yearly. k The troops for the Punjab will be sent by rail vid Illahabad instead of the Indu9. t Tea i ssue d to the troops will in future be two- Lrds Indian. Hitherto it has been half Indian and 4 alf Chinese. The amount required for army purposes is e 2 130,000 yearly ; the saving 3 pie per pound at the Present quotations. CHINA. (Per Grant's North China Despatch, viii Kiachts.) TLENTsIN, Nov. 28. There are grave disturbances in Hunan. inunan, qy Henan, a province of China, bounded 114t tlY by the Yang-tse-Kiang River, which enters the 44 near Shanghai.) c) CCUPITION OF LUXEMBURG. VZBNNA, December 13. The proceedings of Prussia with respect to the (/ enpation of the Luxemburg has produced the greatest excitement here. All the newspapers con demn the proceedings. The New Free Press Il lintes• the arguments adduced in the Prussian N ote, and designates the policy as arro g ant. The 2 ages Presse upon the signitaries of the L uxemburg Neutrality Treaty together to rise a gainst such a contemptuous policy, which makes 'ialueless all rights secured by treaty. THE WAIL FRENCH REPULSE AT BLOIS VERSAILLES, December 11. Detachments of the 9th Army Corps encountered °ll the 9th, at Mont Livault, in the vicinity of Blois, a hostile division, whose attack was decidedly t epulsed. The left wing of the corps at the same time -drove t he enemy back on Chambord, a Hessian battalion e aPturing five guns. The 3rd Army Corps pursuei the enemy defeated Oe the Bth at Nevoy as far as Briare. near Orleans there has becin a very brilliant at t"ek on the part of the let and OthUhlan Regiments, under General von Bernhardi. 11 1 this attack they defeat° I two battalions, I llrprised three squadrons, and finally captured another battery of four guns, and this all in a heath. A- squadron of the 4th Hussar Regiment has likewise taken a battery by concealing themselves in 44 ambush, and when the battery was firing they 4411 10 d upon it from the rear and carried it off. The guns arrived yesterday at Versailles. 'he inhabitants of Versailles have persuaded t hemselves that they are sent from Sedan, il l order to represent them as trophies taken at Orleans. LATEST FROM TOURS. Touns, December 10 (Night). The news received hero from the Army of the Loire continues to be of a favourable charac ter. F ighting has beenlreported at Benugency and Meuny, but the result is not yet decisive. The command of t he Army of the Loire has been divided between General Bourbaki on the right, and G eneral o hanzy on the left—D'Aurelles de Paladino 1 ‘ 4 ,, i fing retired. The o ffi cials connected with It he Government, and the archives of the Administration, have been removed to Bor deaux. M. Cremieux has already proceeded to that city -7, M. Gambotta, however, has joinbd the A rm y the Loire. The removal of the capital was not occasioned by a ny military necessity. The change, indeed, gives to the army in the field greater latitude and liberty of nleveraent ; but the direct reasons for the change were much more political than strategical. At present Tours is in perfect security and safety ; and reinforceme n t s are daily sent through the town to the army in the field. MESSAGES FROXIGA.MBETTA. - A communication has been received at Tours from Gambetta, who has been inspecting the Head- Quarters of General Chanzy. He states that he found everything perfectly maintained, owing to the firmness and indomitable energy of General Chanzy. Ke had not only maintained his positions for the last three days, but repulsed the masses of Prince F rederick Charles, inflicting the severest losses on th em. Fighting had been carried on since the 28th ult., and the veracity of General Moltke's assertion that t he Army of the Loire was annihilated might be a ppreciated at its proper value when it was seen t hat one half of the army which had alone up to „_ til e present been engaged, was su ffi cient to hold in 'ftlE the veteran troops of Prince Frederick Charles. Th e Government at Bordeaux has _received a I ntrsage from the Minister. He said General C hauzy's efforts up to the present had been crowned ' w ith success ; he was protecting the line of the Loire without ceding an inch of ground. The position of t hings he (Gambetta) said was sufficiently satisfac tory to allow of his leaving, and he says he is now on ?la Way to Bourges, to see what could be obtained t rona the Second Army. REPORTED FIGHTING AT LAON. LILLE, December 12. A. rumour is generally prevalent here that fighting goin g on at Laon. THE PROPOSALS OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, BERLIN, December 12 (4.18' p.m.) It is doubtful whether any proposals of the wr ench Government will be entertained by t h e u . ft et tlian Government while it continues to employ Barral and many other officers who have 'roken their parole. An o ffi cial report from Versailles says that the re ads along the French line of retreat on the Lo ire are strewn for miles with rifles and other articles W oer e qui t pment as was the case after the battle of h. THE EMPIRE OF GERMANY. BERLIN, December 12. 2° - morrow the deputation of the Federal Parlia -lent which is to offer the Crown of Germany to linig William leaves for Versailles, It is headed rtiE SUN, LONDON, TAtTEsp/of►inCEMßErt, 1870 TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED AND TWENTY INJURED. - , -(4.IErkTRAL paws- ) A railway accident, by which fourteen pergons were killed and about twenty injured, occurred last evening on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, at Stair-. foot, near Barnsley: A . number of waggons becoming de tached from - the other portion of the goods train, ran down a steep incline, and came into collision with a pas. senger train standing in the station. Amongst the dead are William Allerton, John Thompson West Melton, John Spofforth, and a mechanic 'Jawed Richmond, of Chapelton, near Sheffield. Seven other men and three women are not identified. The.persqns injured, as far as t'hey have been recovered, have been removed to the Barnsley Hospital: Large fires have been lighted on the line to enable the officials and others summoned to the scene of the accident to carry on the work of extricating such of the dead and dying as still lie under the &Ws. Most of the sufferers - are supposed to belong to the South Yorkshire district. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. BARNSLEY, Monday Night. On the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincobashire Rail way to-night, shortly after six, a number of goods , trucks, which wore' being shunted at a siding in Barnsley, got low, and ran down an in cline to Stairfoot, two miles distant, and ran into a passenger train, from Barnsley to Sheffield, which had just drawn up to the platform, smashing the freak van and two of the passenger carriages into pieces, and tear ing up the line for some, distance, Fourteen passengers were killed and upwards of 20 were seriously injured. The dead and dying were taken to the Cross Keys and Keel Inn close by. Up to 10 o'clock lined not clear. .It is feared the number 4 the dead will be increased. At the time the accident happened a tea meeting was being held within a few yards of the station, to celebrate' the opening of communication between the Old and New Oaks Collieries. TIIE GALES. )4IPWRECKS AND LIF4OAT. the , u - la on Friday at Tynemonth, the ste:uner Eagle went :;:Lore in the morning, .her crew being ( 1,-efi the! Shields lifeboat. Later in the day the schooner Sathuel Bernard, of Boston capsized off the Bar, and all on botird• were unhappily lost. About two hours afterwards the argue City of Bristol was driven ashore on the Long By means of-the rocket apparatus, however, her saved. At - 10 o'clock the same night Am elia. ' Norway, on tlif by President Simson, the same who, as Speaker of the Frankfort Parliament of 18-18, made the same offer, but in vain, to King William's brother and predecessor. • ITALY AND THE POPE. FLORENCE, December 12. A bill has been approved in the 'Chamber con verting into law the decree of the 9th relativp to the acceptance of the Roman plebiscite. The amend ments have been negatived. A second project guarantees the Pope his sove re't, rights, leaves him his guards, an income of 3,255,0001 r., and the Vatican, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Castel Gandolfo and dependen cies, and exempts theth from taxes and common law jurisdiction. The same immunity is extended to any tem porary presidency of the Pope, or Conclave, or Council. . The Pope's correspondence is to be free. Even in pursuit of criminals, neither visits nor searches are to be allowed. The Pope is to be free to establish at the Vatican a post and telegraph office, choosing his own officials. The Papal despatches, cuurierH, and telegrams are to be conveyed as these of foreign Governments Councils will require no preliminary permission for meeting. The Pope may prefer to benefices without Royal permission. The oath of the Bishops to the King, the Royal placet, and Exequatur are abolished. The Seminaries and other Catholic institutions will derive their authority from the Holy See alone, without any interference from the Italian scholastic authorities REPORTED RESIGNATION OF GENERAL GARIBALDI. FLORENCE, December 11 (Night). It is rumoured in this city that General Garibaldi has resigned his command in the French Army of the Vosges, and is about to return to Italy. The resolution taken by the General appears to have been caused by tho fact that his co-operation has not been received with the best goodwill by the French populations ; and ho is not disposed to continue any longer a useless and thankless resist ance.— Telegraph. NEUTRALITY OF LUXEMBURG. BRUSSELS, December 12 (7 p.m.) The Luxemburg affitir day by day assumes an aspect and a magnitude which makes everybody here most anxious. It is understood that the an nexation of the Duchy by Prussia is already a foregone conclusion. But it is believed that the. Grand Ducal Government can reckon on the support of England in an appeal to the King- Grand-Duke to refute point by point the accusations embodied in the Note of Count Bismarck. At the same time, an opportunity would be taken to affirm anew the strong desire of the population to remain free and independent. According to my information, the Prussian blow is to follow very hard on the heels of the Prussian word. It is said to-night that a German army corps will immediately occupy the Grand Duchy of Luxem burg; the reason assigned for the act being that it is a military necessity. • France, it is said, receives active and valuable and from the Luxemburg terri tory by the furnishing of supplies to the Francs thews, while many hundreds of French prisoners of war are said to have made their escape through the proximity of the so-called neutral territory. I am informed, on good authoritd, that the, troops destined to resume possession of Lux emburg will come straight from Germany—and thus no diminution in the forces already in the field against the French will be caused. There are rumours here—and I think you may depend upon them, for they come through authoritative quarters —that the King of Holland is aware of the intention of Prussia, and that nothing which is done will be done without his prior knowledge, if not oven his stipulated consent. —Telegraph. THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE FESTH, December 11. It is still uncertain whether France will take part in the Conference, as she is inclined to make her participations in the deliberations conditional upon steps being taken by the Powers to assist in getting together a Constituent Assembly, for which an armistice is thought indispensable. The French Margo d'Affaires in Pesth is endeavouring to secure the good offices of the Government. The Government is willing to co-operate, but will not take the initiative. The Cabinet thinks it would be a mistake to mix up the two questions. The usually trustworthy correspondent of Pester Lloyd, writing from Odessa on November 28, estimates the Russian troops on the frontier of Austria and the Black Sea at over 300,000 men, and declares that there are six frigates at Nikolaieff, besides thirty masked gunboats belonging to the Government. Austrian official circles, nevertheless, are confident that the Congress will be held.—Daily New& From Constantinople news comes that a formi dable revolt had broken out among the pilgrims, or Hedjas, and that an expeditionary corps has been sent to put down the rebellion. The Ministerial crisis at the Hague had been for a moment suspended by the acceptance of the resig nation of the Minister Itoest van Liraburg. His successor was. Van Mullen. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) BANQUET TO MR. ASIIBURY. At a meeting convened by the Mayor of Brighton, and held in that town yesterday, it was resolved to invite Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the yacht Cambria, to a public banquet on the 4th January, in recognition of the gallant way in which he upheld the honour of British yachtsmen in the late Atlantic race between his own yacht and the Dauntless. THE WITTON EXPLOSION. The inquest on the seventeen bodies killed on the spot at Whitton was opened yesterday by Mr. Edwin Hooper, coroner for South Staffordshire. Only eight have been identified. The proceedings were only formally opened, the coroner intimating his intention to ask Government for a properly qualified person to assist him in the investigation. The inquest on the bodies at the hospital will be opened by dies Bit Davies, the borough coroner, to-day. Two more deaths, the result of the explosions occurred yesterday. Alcock, a married woman , 45 years of age, and Mary Ann Burcott, aged 20, having succumbed to the effects of the injuries received. The funerals of the seventeen will take place to-day. They will be interred in separate graves, the whole of the expenses being borne by Messrs. Ludlow, the proprietors of the manufactory. THE ASSAULT ON AN OFFICER. Mr, John Grey Porter and the five men who assisted him in the late outrage upon Captain Poynter were yes terday committed for trial by the Enniskillen magistrates. Captain Poynter, who had been gagged and tied, conveyed a considerable distance in a boat, and then severely beaten, and had the hair on his head and face cut off, denied that there was any ground for the suspicion enter tained by the defendant in reference to his conduct with his wife. While he was being beaten Mr. Porter said that was the way English officers should be treated, and Cap tain Poynter replied if he had not acted in so cowardly a way, he would have given him an opportunity of placing nil ounce of lead in his head. Bail was taken for the ap pearance of the defendant, Mr. Porter, and the men who assisted in perpetrating the outrage. MANSLAUGHTER , A woman named Eleanor Gill, the wife of a boatman, was committed for trial yesterday, by the Bolton comer, for manslaughter at Aspull, between Bolton and Wigan. She went to her husband's boat with an infant child, she being drunk at the time ; and the infant was found Buffo. cated on the floor of the cabin. LATER TELEGRAM. The statement that fourteen deaths had resulted from the Barnsley railway accident, appears to have been in accurate. Up to ten o'clock, this day, only 12 deaths had. takeh place ; but two of the injured, Mr. Beaumont, of Wombwell, and Mr. Aatsliffe, of Manchester, are not ex pected to recover, Two other passengers are also in such a dongerous state as to make it doubtful, whether they will live many hours. The inquest for the identification of the bodies IN:11 open to-day. THE MONEY MARKET CITY, Two o'CLooK7 The settlement In the Stock Exchange commenced this 'morning, and, as usual, occupied most attention. The market is dull ; the news from abroad being looked upon as unfavourable. Consols are quoted 91 for money, and 914 to 92 for the account. Foreign Stocks have fallen. Turkish opened A lower, .but now they are lower. Italian have declined 1, and Spanish, French, and Peruvian, I to It is understood that the North German five per cent. loan will be introduced to-morrow by the London Joint Stock Bank, and that, out of the 27,500,000 contracted for the portion offered in London will be. 23,000,000. As its usual with war loans, it is expected that the instalmentss will be promptly called up. The Neue Frci Presse states that the opinions indicated by the Austrian Finance Minister with reference to the deficit in the Budget show that the only feasible means of covering it will be by the issue of Austrian rentes. The sum mentioned is between 4Q and 50 million florins, find is contemplated to entrust the raising of it to a local committee. --------- With regard to the cprrent liabilities of Turkey the Levant Herald states :—" We have reason to believe that a loan is on the point of being concluded with the special object of making provision for and punctually discharging those liabilities. It is understood that the Imperial Ottoman Bank and several leading bankers will take portions ; the amount is 22,300,000, and the rate of inte rest, exclusive of commission, 14 per cent. per annum." It is stated that since the whole of the American tele graphic corresponience has been thrown on the French Cable, 9,500 words have been transmitted by i,t daily exclusive of service messages. Berger, Spence, and Co.'s weekly report says :—No change of consequence has occurred in the chemical market since our last, There is a steady consumptive. trade for most descriptions and full value rule. Caustic soda is a little more lively, and in soda .crystals an active demand for export is to be noted, although the home demand remains about the same as last week. Soda ash and bleaching powder are unchanged. The general export trade has been vev good, and for this season of the year may be deemed exceedingly satisfactory. Shipments of soda ash and caustic soda for the United States are large, but those of bleaching powder have somewhat deened. Scotch pig iron maintains its value, and Cleveland is firmer. Tin has been officia'ly advanced, and lead remains very firm. In spelter the tendency is upwards. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tuis DAY. ROBBERY BY A NEWLY-ENGAGED SHOP ASSISTANT, Mary Ann Shirry, shopwoman, in the employ of Mr. James M‘Darby, laceman, &c., of No. 31, Oxford-street, was brought up at the Marlborough-street Police-court before Mr. Lushington, charged with stealing gloves, lace and a quantity of other articles of the value of £lO, the property of her employer. Mr. J. Alsop, appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutor said that in consequence of some information he received yesterday, he called the prisoner, who was in his employ as an assistant upstairs, and asked her what her real name was, and she replied, " Shirry." He then asked her if she had any other name, and she made no answer. He then put some more questions to her, and asked to see her boxes, and on her opening them he found in them goods of different kinds of the yelpe of about £lO, and she admitted having taken them from his shop, but Laid she intended to put them back. He then gave her in charge. James Middleton, local constable, of Hanway-street, said he was called to the prosecutor's, and prisoner given into his charge for.robbing the prosecutor, and on going to her room the prosecutor found a quantity of his property in her boxes. Aften being cautioned the prisoner said she. had taken the, things, was sorry for it, and did not know what had induced her to do it. In reply to Mr. Alsop, the witness said he did not hear the pri soner say she intended to put • the things back. Mr. M'Darhy wished the prisoner to be leniently dealt with as he had ascertained she was the mother of one or two children. In reply to Mr. Lushington, the prosecutor said the prisoner had been in his employ only three weeks, and he had a character with her, but not from her last employer. Mr. Alsop asked for a remand as he bad only just been instructed. Inspector Harnett, E Division, said he had been informed that the prisoner got the situation through an advertisement in the Christian Times, and that she gave a false name. Mr. Lushington remanded the prisoner that the inspector might make inquiries. SCENE IN A GAY HOUSE.—John Gone, of 159, Lupus street, Pimlico, was brought up at the Westminster Police-court, charged on three summonses with assault. Mr. W. D. Smyth, who prosecuted; said the defendant kept a house, commonly called " gay," and had young women there wha received the visits of gentlemen. A Miss Gordon, who was under the protection of a gentle man, took apartments at the defendant's house, and being ill. had a young girl staying with her and a !servant. Some dispute arose after two days, in consequence of the defendant's wife attempting to cheat Miss Gordon out of seven shillings, and during • the absence of Misa Gordon, the defendant got into her parlour window and ejected the servant► When Miss Gordon and her friend returned home they were both violently ejected by the defendant and turned out of doors at half-past one in the morning in a drench ing lain, after only being in the house two days; when a gentleman and the police came to their assistance, the gentleman was violently assaulted and the police threatened. A lame defence was set up, and-it was dentendecl that the servant and friend were not allowed in the house, but Miss Gordon, who was the lodger, was not denied admit tance. The gentleman was the father of one of the parties, and in pulling him out they all fell down together. Mr. Woolrych was of opinion that the assault was violent and uncalled for, and fined the defendant 545. •in all, or six weeks. The money was paid. " THE CITY DIARY AND ALMANAC'," published by W. H. & L. Collingridge, of the " City Press," has again made its appearance. In addition to the matter ordinarily given in a diary for the desk, it contains a large mass of official information with regard to the City not to be found in any other publication, the whole being carefully compiled and well arranged foy reference. It is 'a complete guide to the various business offices of the Corporation and City generally. There is ample space for daily entries, upon good paper ; and the blotting-paper with which the diary is interleaved, is a very useful feature. It is strongly half-bound, and the price only one crew werb arigantine 6tavanger, struck Sanal, and became ital Wreck. Twelve rockets were fired, lout all attunipts al that Way to save these on hoard proved unanecessful, the distance from the shore being too great. The Pomfret and Goole lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was, however, brought overland by the vier Works, launched, and proceeded- to the wreck ; but the wind and sea were so heavy that she was driven away, the rope which held her being parted like a thread, such was the force of the sea, and the same result attended a second and third trial. Her gallant crew, however, persevered, and their noble efforts were ultimately crowned with success, for on the fourth attempt they were enabled to rescue the - whole of the shipwrecked crew, who were landed in safety amidst the .cheers of the .spectators shore. On the same evening the fishing smack Robert Hellyer, of Hull, was in distress on the breakers exhibiting.signal lights. The Chapel lifeboat Prodsend, of the Lifeboat SccietY, was quickly launched, through a very heavy sea, to the assistance of the vessel, and gaVe :the crew,: who Were ignorant of their exact situation, information of their position. About three o'clock on Saturday morn ing the same vessel came ashore at Chapel, and the crew ...of the lifeboat were mustered, end with great difficulty they launched the boat Again, and after a hard struggle got four out of five of the vessel's crew into the lifeboat. .The sea was terAfic, but the 'lifeboat...men would not for sake the man left on' board. They therefore remained alongside until the tide fell, when his position was rendered comparatively safe. The behaviour of the lifeboat crew is spoken of in the highest terms. The ship Clara has been reported at Lowestoft dere lict. She was from Stockholm for Lisbon, and her crew consisted of five hands. Nothing has been heard of. them, and it is suptosed that they have perished. Photographs of the master and a female have been found in the cabin. fLIE PRISONERS FROM THE LOIRE ARMY. 3' s ; Writing from Corbel, December 7, the special corre pendent of the Daily News at the headquarters of the Crown Prince of Prussia thus comments on the defeats of the Loire Army :'—There is no disguising the weight of the blow which has fallen on the newly-organised French forces. Without leaving the neighbour hood of the beleaguered capital for so long • a ride as it. would 'be to Orleans, I have cut into the stream of prisoners and wounded that is setting steadily hack from the southern battle-fields. The pri souers and wounded cross the Seine at Corbeil, and pass on towards the railway at Lagny. They crowd this little town with an unusual throng. Cast night the churches were full-of captured Frenchmen, and a 'loud diicussion was going forward at nine or ten at night as to where some Prussian officers should be lodged who had come in sorely hurt. More and more of both classes of travellers-- both sufficiently dismal classes, though the wounded seem the happier of the two—will enter Corbeil during the next few days. The series of engagements, from the middle of November to the 'present time, between th 2 Army of the Loire and the combined German armies neer Prince Frederick Charles and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, has left France almost in the position of three months ago. She has a better garrison in Paris, but then there is a strong hostile force in the heart of the country. The series of engage ments above referred to has shaken the Army of the Loire to pieces.. The. Germans speak of . some of the fighting they have had as very severe ; but it is clear that it is like .the efforts of a desperate man, ignorant of fencing, to resist a well-trained antagonist by sheer force of will. The Mobiles have not been able to deal with troops so much more skilful than them aelves. Why, take the more matter of shooting, and remem ber that these Mobiles have been 'armed with breech loaders long since their training began, and the training Is but a few weeks old. Remember that the Germans have been carefully taught to fire to the best advantage for years past. It is a curious glimpse of Mobile organization to study the views of the prisoners on the reason of their ill success. Most of them attribute what has happened to an utter want of supplies at critical moments, and to the ignorance of the officers in military affairs. They all declare that these officers of Gardes Mobiles did their duty manfully, so far as leading their men into fire went, but that they could not lead them out of fire in good order when the line fell back. That is as much as to say, that the discipline was not brought ,to a , proper point. The officers were followed if they were known and liked, particularly if they hailed from the same town or village as most cf their men. A stranger from another regiment, cr, still worse, a Line officer coming among the Mobiles, would scarcely have been listened to at all. It is sad work to see prisoners go by when those prisoners are one's own people ; and the little town of Corbel must feel the bitter weather to be doubly dreary in defeat. There have been questions of bread for the prisoners, and of soup for the prisoners, M. le Make has had to take note of their presence. What does not come before him in war time? M. le commandant de la place—a German officer, of course—has had to' see to their safe keeping, and the townsfolk have run out to give them little comforts, as the column is formed for departure. It is a change from the gay march torelieve Paris, which these lads had hoped to •make. There, in the snow-sprinkled street, are the prisoners, surrounded by guards. Anyone can step up and speak to them, and many of the women press scraps of bread, or fruit, or cigars, into their hands. The lads seem active and tough, but their position has' taken all the fire and gaiety nut of them, and they are Very young for such work. Most of those in the column are under twenty hero are linesmen and Mobiles, but more of the former than the latter. They were taken, 'they say, by the troops of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. All was silent along the south of Paris yesterday, save for a few French cannon shot from the forts. the roads were like iron, and the air very keen.. No sign appeared of a forward movement by the garrison, which keeps itg footing beyond the Marne a' Chamuigny. A GIFT TO KING WILLIAM. The special correspondent of the Tel,raph seeds the following from Berlin, December 12 (5 p.m.) r—Aecording to a. letter from King William to Queen Augusta—bear ing no date—of which an extract has been published here a very brilliant cavalry charge was executed near Orleans, the Ist and 6th Lillian Regiments, under General Bernhardt, riding down • two entire battalions, scattering three squadrons of horse, capturing a battery of four guns, and all this in 'a single breath. A squadron of the 4th Hussar Regiment also captured a battery concealed in the thickets ; they rode into the battery from behind while it was firing, and the guns were taken intact as they stood. They arrived yesterday at Versailles, where the inhabitants sought to persuade themselves that the guns had been brought from Sedan to be exhibited as trophies of the Orleans victory. I enn enabled to add ono or two details of this interesting incident. The battery, which was one of horse artillery—artillery votante—was. brought to Ver sailles by Captain Baron von Witzleben, of the Ist Cuirassiers ; and the guns were cleverly captured by Captain von Wartensleben, who commanded the squa dron of the 4th Hussars. Just at the edge of the Forest of Orleans, the battery was posted behind a strong earth work, and was actively engaged in pounding away at the assailing Germans. Count von Wartens leben drew off his squadron to the flank, made a long detour at the gallop over frozen ploughed fields, stole quietly into the wood behind the gunners, and rode down upon the battery. The French had time only to swing round a single piece, against the intruding troopers ; and the sergeant in command of this gun was sabred by . the gallant commander of the squadron himself. The Count brought in the whole battery—officers, men, horses and pieces--in perfect order just as if ho had been marching past on parade. Baron von Witzleben, who had ridden one hundred and twenty miles in twenty-three hours to join the Army of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, volun teered to take charge of the captured battery to Versailles; and he actually brought the guns to headquarters without any escort whatever beyond his own orderly. The King, when inspecting the battery, paid Baron von Witzleben a handsome compliment for his achievement. Among the guns captured in the entrenched camp of Orleans were two, twenty-four-pounders—a fact which showe t the really formidable character of the French fortifications. I hear from Versailles that Baron Von Witzleben describes their position as being neither more nor less than an extemporised fortress. The works were bastion-faced, with ditches in front ; and such defences could have been held by a small force of determined men against ten times their number. The French, however, after a half-hour's fair fight on the 4th instant, made no attempt whatever to hold their ground ; they fled in a kind of panic, or surrendered themselves by whole. battalions. Not fewer than seventeen thousand prisoners, I believe, have already been made and sent eastwards. The Uhlans of the 4th Cavalry Division — Prince Albrecht's—rode down and simply annihilated the Spahis who had come from Africa and had made their ddbut in front of Orleans. Among the prisoners of the irregular • corps—the eclaireurs of the Loire, of Brittany, &c.—Baron von Witzleben found one Duke, several Marquises, and a number of gentle men of high position, all serving as ' privates. He was told by a captain of one of those amateur corps that he lost 90 out of 135 men; and on the field the dead French lay in the proportion of seven to every dead German. Not more than about 40,000 Germans were in action ; but about double that number were in re serve, although they never had occasion to fire a shot. The Bavarians behaved extremely well During the action -the 10th Army Corps received orders to return to its quarters, as its services were not needed—much to the disappointment of officers and men. The cold on the day bf the battle was terrific. The Grand Duke of Mecklen- Virg, I am told, performed wonders, and deserves the 'very highest credit. THE FRENCH Anars.—The Gernitns speak of the French guns as being well served but badly maucouvred, and' say that a much larger average of shells explode now than formerly. The foreign rifles in the hands of the French are described as very effective •arrnh. They have bought weapons abroad quite as good as their lost Chassepbts, and if they only knew how to use them, would do great execution. But the fire is rapid without being sufficiently superintended by the officers, and much ammunition is thrown away. The hardest fight of the recent series is said to have been that with the left of Prince Frederick Charles on November 27, near Beaune, though the resistance at the Orleans Railway station on the afternoon of December 4—when the whole defence was breaking up—was very obstinate. There is altogether nothing to be ashamed of in the ill-fortune of a newly-organised force opposed to skilful veterans. But the second capture of Orleans reads us a lesson which cannot be too carefully read. Arming volunteers in haste with weapons that are new to them, calling out pensioners and militi am en to be massed into an army without sufficient means of transport or sufficient trained officers to weld the mass, is in. France a last desperate measure. The Army of the Loire was brought into the field, because France was in extremity. But for us to rely on beginning a war with much the same drawbacks would be madness. Above all, we must foster a military train that khan be . capable of taking into itself and regulatiof the vast re sources of transport which wO itossess.—Datly News Cor respondent, THE BOMB ARDMEN f OF PARIS. The correspondent of the Telegraph sends from Brussels, December 12 :—A trusty messenger has just comeirom from Versailles,, and has brought intelligence of the latest aspect of affairs at head-quarters. Count Nostitz was the officer who carried the despatch to General Trochu on the 6th inst., with a flag of truce. The despatch did not contain a formal summons to surrender, but put the whole case, as affecting the military operations in the field, very strongly. The, batteries are completed, and are furnished with traverses, shields, and everything netessary to receive three hundred biege pieces. One night was calculated as sufficient time to transport these heavy guns from the parks at Villa Cou blay and Sevran to their respective - positions, tp mount them, and to unmask . the batteries. Within a week, it was asserted on the Bth, a concentrated fir© was to be opened from eighty batteries on the forts and on Pails itself. The prospect is looked upon as very. serious. The King him self comes regretfully to this conclusion, but, it is said,.he is forced to consider his soldiers, who begin to complain that the Parisians are be* spared at their expense, and urge him to put an end to an unbearable period of slispenso. Ills Majesty also feels that is a greater cruelty to starve a couple of hun dred thousand eon combatants than to .kill a certain number by shelling the city. He is, again, much irritated by Ow folly of the Parisians in holding out when their last hope of relief from the forces in the field is destroyed the more, so as General Trochu himself declared publicly some time ago that 4 .Paris could not protract her resist ance unless the provinces came to her aid." In the next place, he is constantly being urged to take extreme tine,- sures by those upon whose judgment he places the greatest reliance. Despite these facts, his Majesty 'has held out until now, but he is believed to be 'yielding. His eistei's death deeply affected him, The Crown Prince, whobroke the news, had taken the precautiuns that the telegram announcing the royal lady's decease, which had been expected for several days, should not reach the Kinn by any other hands than his own. The interview between the King and the Crown Prince took place on the morn ing of the 7th, at eight o'clock. No one was• present besides the father said son. THE PRUSSIAN ADVANCE ON HAVRE. The correspondent of the Standard at HaVre thus writes under date December 10 i—The "enemy is close to Havre." Last night shots were exchanged at the outposts, and in pursuance of " precise orders " General Briaud, his staff, and a portion of the troops prepared to " replier " themselves in Choourg. To facilitate that "strategic" movement a huge transport, the Hermione, arrived in harbour yesterday morning, and a number of Mobiles were .shipped on board. The people of Havre, like those of most great mercantile communities, possess a more than average quantity of backbone and common sense. Hawing witnessed for the two previous days the transport to the town by water of a force considerably exceeding 30,000 men, they felt not unnaturally indignant at this—as it apiteured,to them---• desertion. They came to the conclusion that to bring eo many men with gime and horses from Pont Andemer end Hohfleur on Tuesday, Wednesdny, and Thursday, and to ship them off again on Friday (when the enemy was only eight leagues off), to take them .to Cherbourg, from whence the Prussians, are 'Upwards of forty leaguesi appeared like running away. In consequence there wast a detionstration in front of the hotel where General Briaud had his headquartere, to` protest against his leaving, and another on the quay to prevent the shipping of some field guns, and of the troops and Mobiles which the gallant commander tneant to take with him. In some cities of my acquaintance this " demonstra tion" would have grown into £ riot, but it proved ano4ne enough. • A drunken Franc-tireur fired off a revolver, and the crowd, scared at the sound, immedi ately dispersed. A little later the municipality waited on the general, and asked him notto go, but he replied that he had precise orders, and^ had no choice in the matter. These " precise " orders aid not, hewever, affect the troops under the general's command, us a procla mation informs us that he had landed figain most. of the troops he meant to take with him. I do not know, and if I did I could not say so, how far this official assertion is in conformity with fact. But General Briaud left last night, and the huge transport Ilermione followed him by this morning's tide. A great number of troops and Mobiles have gone to the outposts. The town council of Havre have issued a proclamation informing the inhabitants that they had the enemy before them, the sea behind them, and that they had only to choose between victory and death, &c. The people of ilavre have, Trona what I have seen of them, claims not to be treated in the theatrical style which their administrators seem to affect. In spite of their being deserted by General Briaud, they do not despond, and now pin their faith on Commandant Moschez, of the rnavy. There are plenty of troops at the outposts—the forts are well mannned.. The gunboats and floating batteries in har bour will, I presume, take up a position in the river so as to sweep the road from Harfleur, and if men, muskets, ships, and guns are anything, " the Germans taking Haevre " is likely to prove as incorrect as many other Radical predictions. I will not say that I have a high opinion of many of the Mobiles, but the people of ; Havre thQmselvee, and espe cially the seafaring population, seem to me eletsrroined•to hold out ; and the sturdy fishermen of Dieppe, Treport, St.. Wen; en Vaux, and Fecamp have come over here in - .their fishing boa% well armed and accoutred, and from what I.lcnow of them I fancy they will not follow the prevalent system, and `.replier" themselves. without striking a bloW. The French merchantmen in harbour have been awl are going out as fast as the tide will allow them, and the town itself wears a strangely deserted appearance.. This is hardly to be wondered at, as the conduct of the Government in retreating from Tours to Bordeaux has led business people to anticipate an utter collapse. This Tours Delegation has been called the Government de la dentenee Nationale. If it be at all anxious to prove that it does not deserve that oppro brious epithet, it has but one course loft it, not to sacrifice the country by continuing further a struggle, the issue of which is nod but too clear to the most sincere and ardent well-wishers to France. The Prussians are now in possession of Metz, Strasburg, Orleans, Laon, A, - niens, and Rouen. Their troops are all over Normandy ; they hold 'Abbeville and Dieppe, and are about to storm Havre. France has fou g ht in a way that fullyliretrieves her honour, and the victorious Power is as exhausted as herself. Is it not time for England to interfexe, and meet the wishes of both belligerents by issuing a fiat that this useless war must now ,cease ~~ CO ifeIMPORARIL S---This Morning THE SIEGE OF PARIS, The Time. 3 says: It wants but two or three of ninety days .since the investment of Paris was completed. Who could have believed that Paris would have endured so long and still remain untaken ? We venture to say that in the early days of September, after the capitula tion of Sedan, when .111etz was scaled up, and there was no regular army left in the field, no one,. friend or foe, contemplated it as possible that Paris Would hold out for three months against the beleaieering ei P.my curl still show no signs that it was so much:Lai pre paring to submit. We were all satisfied that it must yield hlug before. If the forces of the besiegers did not reduce it to subjection, the explosive passions of its own inhabi tants, the first touch of privation affecting the comfort of a 1,,,np1e accustomed to sacrifice all their thoughts to the pursuit of pleasure, would make it impossible to main tain the defence. If prudence and wisdom did not induce a surrender, harsh necessity would. Paris must give in. To the , surprise of all, to the surprise of the besiegers most of all, Paris has falsified these prophecies. The people of Germany are dissatisfied, we are told, that the city has not been taken. The soldiers themselves are disappointed at not being able to spend Christmas at home. Their friends go further, and murmur that there must be some fault at Head-Quarters to 'account for this unexpected delay. The military prosecution of the siege liar, it is said, been neglected for political reasons, the exact nature of which is not precisely defined. The King has been too humane. COunt Bismarck has had other • aims to which he has subordinated the capture of Paris. There must be some motive; the German is well assured, to explain the fact, in itself so inexplicable, that Paris has been nearly ninety days besieged, and is still defiant. Why is not Paris taken Is it that the Ger mans have neglected to use their strength, or that Paris has discovered some new and strange strength of its own? THE OCCUPATION OF DIEPPE. The Telegraph says :) There is something incongruous about the notion of Dieppe being occupied by a Ger man army. The hotels where the numerous visitors congregated during the summer season, the Casino where the balls used to be held, the bathing houses along the beach, must all be thronged by uninvited and unwelcome guests. The town goes to sleep throughout tho winter; but this Christmas it has had a cruel wakening. If there was a spot on the Continent which might fairly have been reckoned free from the risk of invasian by land, it would have been one of the Normandy seaports. A retreat by sea is, indeed, open to these fugitives from the Prussians ; but the sea route involves a return to England, and between a Prussian Uhlan and a sheriff's officer it may be difficult to decide which alternative is the least repulsive. However, most of the English denizens of Dieppe and its sister ports of refuge have had ample experience in the art of shifting for themselves. The real cruelty of the occupation falls upon the towns folk. Fancy Folkstone occupied by a foreign army, and its lodging-houses taken up for soldiers' quarters, and you can realise what must be the condition of :the good people of Dieppe. It was a very loyal town in the old Imperialist days; and some ten years ago, on the /occasion of the Fete Napoldon, an enthusiastic official ascribed the beauty of the weather on the fete day to the beneficent influence of the Em pero Napoleon, who had always brought happiness to his god town of Dieppe. We wonder whether the say ing was recollected when the Prussian dragoons gallopped into the town, clanking their swords as they drew up on the last stage of their long journey from " Rock to Sea." INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS. The Standard, in commenting on the Luxemburg ques tion, says : The apologists of Russian repudiation have another opportunity of enlightening a perverse genera tion respecting the true theory of international obligations, a new subject for the exercise of an ingenuity which must move the admira tion even of these who still obstinately W et ng to old fashioned notions of truth and honour. Ai The case of Russia le comparatively feeble and uninaresting, and rests much less absolutely upon the principles laid down by the new school of jurists. Russia had a strong case ; Prussia had none. Russia was asserting her national dignity; Prus sia is invading the national independence of another State. Russia repudiated a treaty that had already lasted four teen years ; that whiola Prussia' has now. denounced has not lasted one-fifth of that period. The defence of Count Von Bismarck and his master must, therefore, rest exclusively upon the general doctrine of the non-obligation of treaties, and in proportion as it is in itself, apart from that doctrine, indefensible, offensive, and insulting to the common sense and common feeling of Europe, ft affords to theorists a more effective illustration of their own principles, and a most excellent opportunity of shewing their truth and wisdom. The case of Prussia, as against Luxemburg, is utterly rotten. It is the old story—the lamb has troubled the stream at which the wolf is drinking. Aa regards the other parties to the treaty. Prussia does irot even pretend to have a case. It is for them to con sider how they will meet so wanton a challenge. so contemptuous a defiance. England, perhaps, cannot be expected to act alone ; but if any one pf the neutral Powers is willing to support her, it will be an everlasting cause of shame if she do not assert against Prussia the binding force of the Treat; of 1867. In the meantime the future Emperor of Germany has given to Europe a fair specimen 'of his Imperial policy. Henceforth those who rely on the pacific and ,purely de fensive tendencies of the Germanic Empire, cannot com plain that Prtissia has deceived them, when —as will surely happen—they shall find that they have deceived themselves. We shave fair warning what sort of respect for law and treaties is to be expected from the Supreme Government of tho great, peaceful, honest, and law-abiding German nation. I PRUSSIA AND THE NEUTRALITY OF LUXEMBURG. The Daily IRws remarks : The accusations brought against Luxemburg by 'Prussia arc, on the face of them, frivolous. They afford no basis what ever for the withdrawal of Prussia from the Treaty of London. They are as obviously more excuses as were the complaints brought forward by Prince Gortschakoff when ho announced the abrogation of the Treaty of Paris. If Prussia claims the Duchy as a member of the new Federation, and if she renounces the guarantee of 1867, in order to put Federal or Prussian troops into the great fortress which must be rebuilt for the purpose, it will not be to punish Luxemburg for having, , according to the allega tion, favoured French prisoners. It will be because she sees an opportunity of aggrandising herself at the expense of an innocent but weak neighbour, with no other sacrifice than the sacrifice of her honour. But until the shameful project is avowed, we will not believe that it is entertained, or wilrbe carried out. The absurdity of the Treaty, which was at the time looked upon as a marvel of diplomacy, will, in such a case, become suffi deafly clear . A collective guarantee such as was then entered into, means an arrangement by which a number of Powers bird themselves to preserve a certain condition of things until any one of the Powers finds it convenient to alter it. England is free from all obliga tions towards Luxemburg' the moment that Prussia de clares the Treaty ruptured. This may be satisfactory to England, but will not afford much consolation to the Luxemburgeois. The first section of the Pimlico, Peckham, and Greenwich Street Tramway, viz., from Blackheath-hill to New-cross, will be opened for traffic this morning. The Act was only passed in August last, and a second section, of the line, viz., from East Greenwich to Deptford, where it will join the section opened yesterday, will be ready for traffic by the end of this month. These lines will be immediately extended towards the City and West end, in accordance with the Company's Act, whereby they are already authorised to Dome to tho south side of Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges, and to cross the! Thames to the north side to Victoria Station, Pimlico. Extensions are now being applied for to cross the Thames also at London, Blackfriars, Waterloo, and Westminster Bridges, thereby bringing these lines into direct com munication with the City, Strand, and Westminster. DEATH OF MB, TOOGOOD, F,R.C.S. --The death of Mr. Jonathan Toogood is announced, at the age of 87. 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