The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-29 00:00:00

RESS. --- WEDNEsDO• l t to a close thi nder the Pre si ecided that t he ea r, and ft wa. of e Congress uerij o f il- the ge Sir W r i lllw d port was re e 3 d justo conclucl • resolutions wJere in their seval— of the Congrs..B.: 3 ViSit tO d character, bIY cloys b e en a a the number II train to is p e ction u f he t er t a ined 139 w of the Puke CPAINAIEN lied the Pala! ;ainment is II; :ellence. It ~ d Antiquiti es ' views of til ° Emerald Isl e ; dancing, an : 3WS t h e pic tures of Belis.s s de, the Giant, c k and rulw i l ing 10 1 9 w „ nl ee 3131 'the cir wing been O_ o f scenes Luof d, the Lak"te. p l ace s of ill, rtion of ti e . ;e to the °-`__` i n so)!! renes, with the ral Ld a n umber ful ballads, a li o , rta i nm ent a t. tate and effee best entertaiej netropolfe , ai i ly successful. r IN T i ' to the state of who wo so -fi° °r e second at 11r. BO' reet, BisflePsci on well, 311 d of her hush d er , ems to 'wo n to pacify :f s not aware t very ra inil o e f Ltpurp e ose .„. Lt without so )N FlR 5 ' the in hsl) ' - ' fir'' A w i n g to - bs t.ensive u facturi llg nan The & wt" sater t ontact ; and itores,s and nuraer;‘, ession, 1) . ! very serious' ry, addressed 3 address 'egard to the l id that th ere machinery' t of vierf: no increal ion like t A h ;ed. Uebeueel; I had t r his coed i ! t to say tu'd )ve a Pr °v f ie p o sitioD the preseiliu the suPPY O E n regard t, sought it vvt; led over to ) obey, a n d inees Wow t ntry did n° d. Mr. C ar of a reseF v _ t : organisat!,7e that iu,s' i ta h re and Ord on a N"'B,o - vfr w Lon o f the to soldier in hi s 'ries ever alts a wooaell ant Ba ir ievolent " e betto r°. dent new • a litY c49'11 we w ith g Arict"o; enture lu i r ed by rovenlent our Boy' Ler (down . Mister; s ev er ° So now' Vlien he yen froU oten l Pr fabn: Lovelty. Alitrail pities in have., it ,tS to 7 , i s l of take the we ll be Favre Favr e offer to act, one od, but t . The , r y and i'aPal no use, Po es j,, , but LATEST INTELLIGENCE SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M. THE WAR. SURRENDER OF STRASBURG. THE PREPARATIONS IN PARIS AND LYONS. REPORTED EVACUATION OF ORLEANS BY THE PRUSSIANS. T HE FUTURE OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE, S URRENDER OF STRASBURG. DARMSTADT, SEPT. 27. „ k ocording to intelligence from Ludwigshafen Strasburg surrendered this evening at 5 o'clock. (OFFICIAL GERMAN DESPATCHES.). MUNDOLSHEIM, SEPT. 28 (2 A.M.) T he capitul a ti on o f St ras b u rg has been concluded With Lieutenant-Colonel Leszynski. 451 officers and c i 7, °° o men, including the National Guard, laid "n 1 their arms. At 8 a.m. the gates will be occu pied by our army. BERLIN, SEPT. 28 (7 P.M.) By the subjection of Strasburg there will be a eollBl derable force at the disposal of the authorities f °I. Cl earing Upper Alsace of the Franc-tireurs. (DAILY NEWS' TELEGRAM.) CARLSRUHE, SEPT. 28, (2 x.M.) General Werder announces the surrender 44 Strasbourg at two this morning. Seven teen thousand men, including National Guards, ancl four hundred and fifty-one officers, laid down.their arms at eight o'clock, and the g a tes were occupied by German soldiers. It is ioreported that the inhabitants of the city, driven h d esperation, succeeded yesterday evening in ri c4a ting the white flag on the Cathedral, but that ` l°ve rnor Uhrich ordered its removal. It is be lieved that he was compelled to surrender by the Pressure of the inhabitants and the garrison. Grea t rejoicing here. This capitulation is regarded t a triumph of the Baden troops. A salute is being 4 1: 1 ) and the bells are ringing. FERRIERES, SEPT. 27, (11 P.M.) Iat TRE RING TO THE QUEEN.- Strasburg 5 p.m. to-day.—WILHELM. Gr eat rejoicings followed the above announcement at Berlin. • PRUSSIA AND FRANCE: BERLIN, SEPT. 28, (6 t zhe semi- o ffi c i a l P rov i nc i a l C orres p on d e nt of d a e vening says:--" France no longer hopes to t rige the defeat into victory. All continuance of ( 1 0 ,1 7 ," is in vain, and therefore the bloodshed is "`"Y wanton. Count Bismarck has announced theti conditions which Germany decidedly must de oftted• Let France beware lest finally the conditions k P e ace be m ore onerous . All G erman y welcomes herto eartily the town of Strasburg, now won back ,7 ItE PORTED WITHDRAWAL OF THE GERMANS FROM ORLEANS. TOURS, WEDNESDAY (9.30 P.M.) o ce i h t ie reported here that the German troops who t o , p — Pled Orleans are in full retreat from that city 151 ,:: a rds Paris. The country is said to be com- CIY free f rom th e enem y f rom Pithi v i ers t o Male hee:bee) and even beyond that town. News has 48 ' 11 received from Paris to-day by balloon ; I have 4 3 ! et no detail s , b u t th e t e n o ur of the i n telligence -44 erstood to be excellent-7 elegraph Telegram. SORTIE FROM METZ. SAARBRUCK, &PT. 28, (8.35 P.m.) 80 11 4 ; Btr ° ll s column of French Infantry attempted a endere yesterday with cavalry and artillery, ti cover of the fire of Forts Quelen Bottes, occupied La Grange and Colomby, 1 1 1 .. ad vanced as far as Ars Le Queney. The i ttk i° Bl an troops, wtth artillery, were here in force 1, 4 ri d rove back the French with loss. They burnt bt it :: l.4 'lge and Colomby. Several villages are p rh , l lg from ,the Fren c h and P r ussian fire. The TC 4 an loss was sma ll, i nc l u di ng 100 pri s oners. French carried off their dead. t h alk enstein is ad v ancing with a large army upon 11 4is tis • The siege guns from Strasburg are going to 9 ) . 041 : A. cavalry brigade has gone.—Times Tele- BAR PREPARATIONS IN PARIS AND LYONS. A 1 TOURS, SEPT. 27. that letter from P ar i s d a t e d th e 25th i ns t. s t a t es et ettc p i t'eat enthusiasm prevails in the capital. The 44 41; 1114 8 and good conduct of the Garde Mobile are 44 it The construction' of a system of barri of es is a ctively proceeding,under the superintendence TL. Rochefort and Flourens. 1 141 % , 11 companies of the National Guard at Lyons 'usearded the red flag, and have resumed the colou r. he a e O4 municipal authorities of that town have issued all calatory address, recommending union among Parti es. la r 4 4d a g e body of Paris Franc-tireurs is in Tours, left the'lnsiderale force of cavary and 6 town in b t l infantry have he direction of Orleans. THE SIEGE OF MEZIERES. ''Qui P repay BOUILLON, SEPT. 28, 6.30 P.M. Nezi„tions are being made for strictly besieging Ila v - t ' eB . Additional troops have arrived, and guns A/ 1 : e el). placed in position to bombard the town. .e gram s tice of 48 h ours h as b een granted.—Times Tg E PRUSSIAN CORVETTE HERTHA. (.„ , some BERLIN, SEPT. 28, (7 P.M.) Ile waPapers have announced an engagement th e Ei r ell the corvette Hertha and a French ship, and eß , lll king of the former in the Red Sea. tg a ff ordin g to authentic information, this 'report l'art4' llr .e invention. The Hertha since her de ll., ° 'Or Asiatic waters has never been near the cq sa Tti /z POLITICAL REORGANISA TION OF GERMANY. _ ------- • - II„ r BERLIN, SEPT. 28, (7 r.u.) h eiz° belb ruc k is reported to have concluded his I tav:, 4 iati °4 at Muni c h f or th e c l oser un i on o f .A . C' with North Germany. Fed ale-Lorraine4 is to be placed as, a German tr4tit'e Prov ince, under ,the immediate adininis kelate°4 of Federal authorities, and will be repre :lle 'b izt , t , h e German Parliament by a commission. actedi —4ultants will not, for the present, be sub ikthid t° the i:nilitary burdens borne by the re 'el' ° f Germany. -M D --- . FRONTIER OF LUXEM BURG. Ni ce ,_ ESCH, SEPT. 28, (3 P.m.) 41 10 4 al 'ut ' a week preceding last Sunday . large eity 1:4 ef provisions were accumulated in the r o f. Luxemburg and Bettembourg, ostensibly qtrihn'uliportation ' l to Saambruck for the ---`ll armies. 011 tl4e night 'of the IEIE.. LQNDQIN;; , 24th, at one o'clock, the displaced rails on the Luxemburg-Thionville line,. French side, were replaced, and the accumulated provisions-410u; rice, coffee, and sugar—loaded in sixty waggons of ten tons eaoh, and drawn by two locomotives,. were sent from Bettembourg into Thionville sta- . tion, where the French garrison received them on Sunday morning. The German troops, lying south and west of Thionville, obtained knowledge of the matter, and made an attack on the station, endeavourin; to destroy the goods, or at least prevent their unloading, by cannonade. In this attempt they were unsuccessful, as the station, lying on the west side of Thionville, was protected by the guns of the battery at Malgrange. The whole affair was managed by the French Eastern Rail Way Company, who own the line in question. They had induced the Luxem burg douaniers to discontinue the night guard at Bettembourg, the frontier station, by re presenting that the broken condition of the railroad made the precaution superfluous. The Customs authorities are making a report on the matter, which may cause the expulsion of the French railway officials. On Sunday the Germans re-ex tended their lines, which had been contracted, thus again blockading Thionville. Yesterday the Belgian Chamber of Deputies re solved that the entire frontier be absolutely closed against all quadrupeds and vehicles, and all merchandise, which can possibly introduce the cattle plague infection. Troops ale to be quar tered in all frontier villages, with instructions to cause all rural travellers to be disinfected by fumigation before passing inward; not even am bulance trains to be allowed to return. The recent rumours about Bazaine's offer to capitulate are entirely without foundation. Bazaine had informed the Government in Paris that the Emperor had placed him at his post, and that he should hold it to the last.—Daily News Telegram. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AT WILHELMSHOHE. WILHELMSHOHE, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The rumour of Count Palikao being or baying been here is unfounded. Napoleon rode on horseback this afternoon.— Times Telegram. MARSHAL AP - MAHON. WIESBADEN, SEPT. 28. Marshal MacMahon, accompanied by his wife, arrived here to-day at noon. Government that -as the - 4new constitution of Ger many may not. -be in perfect harmony ,with the treaty•of Prague, it would be well in arranging this matter with Austrfa, _after the war is over, to make it Austria..' i ;nte'leit to give the German Bund her full sympathy. The Breslauer Zeitung, and other journals, speak strongly in favour of an alliance between the Ger man Bund and Austria as the best security for peace. • It is positively hirdentsble , to see men -of the highest position and intelligence, men influenced by the mostin terise feelings of patriotism, who 'have "sacrificed their' properties and are prepared to 'sacrifice their lives for the good or supposed good of their country, kept even still in utter ignorance of facts which were known and published by you weeks agc in England. It will be considered hardly credible, but it is nevertheless positively true, that this very day I have seen such men eagerly de vouring the text of General de Winapffen's final address to the army concerning the capitulation. The address is, of course, in French ; but it certainly bears the impress of having been re-translated from English, and the probability is that it has finallly reached the inhabitants of those regions through your columns or those of some of your contem poraries. Indeed, the better classes all over these districts complain most bitterly that they receive their first news through the English newspapers, and, with a feeling most unaccountable, on the part of persons of penetration and general intelli gence, they seem to look on this rather as a cause of offence than as a reason for gratitude. If it be true that nations are immortal—though we have known some in stances of their being annihilated—it follows that this nation will continue to exist in some form or otter after the war, and it may be assumed that the next quarter of a century will be occupied mainly in the reorganisation. Let us at least hope that, after the reconstruction of the army, the navy, and the hundred thousand minor de partments which constitute France, some one will think of reorganising the press, which more than any other has shewn itself to be below the mark. It is hardly too much to say that had there been no press at all in these provinces, and nothing but thd Government de- 1 ptchts to spread intelligence, the people could not have .been more imperfectly informed. A press which lags behind so far as _to allow all kinds of vague rumours to precede it when grave events are passing is almost utterly useless ; but what shall be said of a press which has shown itself to be wanting in fair ness, firmness, and all the qualities which in England are justly considered the special attributes of journalism ? The educated portion of the community here say that their press has been carried away by every idle rumour, and more especially by every worthless evidence of so-called popular feeling, "misjudging everything which has passed before their very eyes, and mistaking even the feeblest and most fleeting passions of the crowd for the strong, enduring opinion of all classes. My informants, who are, and always have been, firm Republicans at heart, and who do not hesitate to state that the downfall of the Empire is a matter for congratulation, say openly that they deplore the tone of their press concerning the Emperor and Empress. According to these local papers, all that the Emperor has done for France is forgotten, and in his hour of trial there is no pity, no word of sympathy for him. The mob of Paris are made to say that, if they could only get hold of the Em press they would drag her through the streets until she was dead—the poor Empress, who, when her people wcre snffering from cholera, thought nothing of imperilling her life to give them consolation.—Correspondent of the Tele graph at Havre. THE FRENCH FLEET. A. telegram from. Dover says that the French fleet, consisting of thirteen ironclads, all first class ships, passed that place at 5.30 p.m., yesterday, from the eastward, bound west. THE ITALIANS IN ROME. FLORENCE, SEPT. 27 (AFTERNOON). It is announced by the Italie that Monsignor Pericoli is now in Florence, charged with a special mission from the Pope to the Italian Government, The departure of General La Mamora to the Eternal City has been delayed until the pldbiscite in the Roman provinces shall have been carried out.—Tele graph 7 &gram. DEFENCE OF LYONS AND MAR SEILLES. CALAIS, SEPT. 28. The Union Nationale of Moupellier says that the total number of enrolments in France amount to nearly a million. The Salut of Lyons says the armament of its forts is nearly completed, and the city placed in a state of formidable defence. Earthworks have been erected to check the enemy's progress. The defence of Langres will be persisted in. The town is provisioned for three months. • In case the enemy contemplate attacking Mar seilles the defence will be made in the straight de files of the Rhone between Lyons and Valence. A. tunnel is also being constructed to prevent the enemy destroying the railroad communication in the defiles. The peasants and the troops are prepared for an heroic resistance. The organisation of the Garde Mobile, however, progresses slowly. At Lille, on Tuesday, orders were issued to appre hend as deserters all Mobiles not answering the call within three days. Mauberge is being put in a state of 'defence, the fortifications repaired and earthworks are being erected. At Cambrai 5,000 people are prepared to fight ihe Prussians. CAPTURED FRENCH WAR MATERIAL. BRUSSELS, TUESDAY NIGHT. For the last three days the war material taken from the French in Belgium has been arriving at Poix to be forwarded to Gaud. Large numbers of travellers leave daily for Sedan. ANTWERP, TUESDAY. Nine French prisoners, Francs-Tireurs, were escorted through the town to-day by gendarmes and taken to Fort Boosbeck, having been arrested for breaking the limits of the patrol. RECALL OF THE BELGIAN MILITIA. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 28. The railway service beyond Momignies, in the province of Hainault, is completely interrupted. A rumour is current that the militiamen who had been sent back to their homes will be again called out for service. FIGHTING EAST OF METZ. BERLIN, SEPT. 27, 10.54 p.m. Fighting of considerable magnitude took place on September 22 and 23, east of Metz. The First Corps and Thirteenth Division were engaged. No ground gained by the French. Montniedy reported taken. The Semi-Official North German Gazette censures the United States for their recognition of the French Republic. Advices from Constantinople report the North German corvette Bertha sunk in the Red Sea, in an engagement with three French men-of-war. UNITY OF GERMANY. BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. The South German States will enter the Confede ration upon the basis of the existing Federal Con stitution, with some modifications. A GERMAN CORVETTE SUNK. Advic, s from Constantinople, by way of Berlin, report the North German corvette Bertha sunk in the Red Sea, in an engagement with three French men-of-war. AUSTRIA AND THE GERMAN BUND. BERLIN, TUESDAY. Although Austria evidently aims at a strict observance of neutrality during the war, there are symptoms in the semi-official Austrian press that the Government contemplates more cordial relations with the German Bund than those which have hitherto existed. According to a semi-official journal, Bavaria, sup ported by axon r, has suggested to the Pruasiau THE YELLOW FEVER. The panic produced in Barcelona by the yellow fever is indescribable. A third of the population haS emigrated, and the shops which were deserted by customers are closed. The heaqs of the mer e intile and industrial establishments have diminished the hours of work of their employs. The attacks are increasing in frequenCy, and the termination is in most cases fatal: According to the official report the cases of yellow fever on the 24th were in the Arre pentidas, 17 ; in Bareeloneta, 23 ; in Barcelona, 12. The deaths in the Arrepentidas were 4 ; in Bar celoneta, 10 ; in the capital, 10.. Three new cases had appeared in the town of Gracia. On the previous day there were 35 cases and 24 deaths. TIIE THRONE OF SPAIN. The Epoca calls attention to the fact that all the candidates for the throne of Spain recently brought forward have been princes of German origin. This, it adds, seems to indicate that the Spanish Govern ment now views the matter differently from what it did when the issue of the campaign seemed doubtful. SERVIA. KRAGUYEVATS, SEPTEMBER 28. The Skuptochina was opened to-day by the Council of Regency. The speech which was read from the Throne congratu lated the country upon the progress made by it in pro sperity, and the favourable position of its finances. The measures which have been taken for strengthening the artay'and arming the national forces were dilated upon, and an announcement was made that Servian foreign relations had been placed on a satisfactory footing, and that negotiations for freedom of commerce had been successfully carried on. AMERICA. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 28. The Inman steamships City of Washington and City of Baltimore arrived out to-day. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1141. The highest quotation during the day was 1141, the lowest 1131. Ster ling exchange on London, 1091. Five-Twenty United States Bonds (1882) 112/ ; ditto (1885), 1111 ; ditto (1867), 1101 ; Ten-Forties (1867) 1061; Illinois, 1351; Erie, 221. Cotton—Middling Upland, 161 c. Petroleum, Standard White, 26c. Flour—Extra State, $5 30c. to $5 50c. Corn, new, 91c. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report the receipts of cotton during the last four days have been 24,000 bales. Export to Great Britain, 8,000 bales ; to France and to the Continent, none. Middling upland Bd., cost and freight per steamer. QUEBEC, SEPTEMBER 28. The Allan steamship Hibernian has arrived here. BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 27. The extra Cunard steamship, Samaria, arrived out to day. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS. THE WHALE FISHERY. Yesterday telegrams were received in Dundee an nouncing great success at the whale fishing by the Dundee vessels. It is reported that the Erik, of London, has arrived at Shetland with 190 tons of oil, and that she may be expected in Dundee in a day or two. Captain Walker, of Erik, reports that the other five Dundee ves sels had an average on the 7th September last, of 1,000 tons each. Such a success has not been attained for many years. The total valuelof " catch" will be about £56,000. ASSAULT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE A passenger in an excursion train on Tuesday, returning from Alton Towers to the Potteries, Staffordshire, having as it is alleged, insulted the wife of another passenger, named Brownhill, a clerk, the latter immediately struck him on the head with a stick, which, it is thought, was loaded, by the quantity of blood which flowed from the wound. On the arrival of the train at Oakamoor, the injured man, who was unknown, was removed insensible, in which state he has since remained. His death is hourly expected. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. On Tuesday evening an accident occurred to a shooting party, whereby Charles Jones, a keeper to Mr. Kerr, of Itton Court, Chepstow, was shot by a gentleman named Richards. It appears that as Captain Cowburn and his friend Mr. Richards, with other gentlemen, were sitting down to luncheon, one of the party cried out, " There is a rabbit running." On jumping up to fire, the gun went off, and the charge lodged in the keeper's leg. He died this morning. Richard Weaver, the Revivalist preacher, has with drawn his appeal against the decision of the Macclesfield magistrates, who ordered him to contribute towards the support of the illegitimate child of Sarah Leah, his do mestic servant. Mr. Tom Hohler has arrived in London. " Elizabeth Garrett, M.D," writes to the Times in wonder at the refusal of women's help at the seat of war. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIOAL EXIILIBITINON, AGRI CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others_ on the 28th instant was 8,450. _ CRYSTAL PALACE.—One shilling day, Wednesday, 24th, 1870.—Admission by season tickets, 2,148; do. on payment, 2,722. Total visitors, 4,870. EXHIBITION OF FIINGL—The experiment of hold ing a Fungi exhibition proved so successful and interesting last year, that the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have resolved on repeating the same, and announce a show of edible and poisonous fungi, to take place on Wednesday, October sth, when the following prizes will be offered, viz.:—Collection of edible fungi, open, £2, and £1; do. edible and poisonous fungi, arranged separately (prize offered by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq.), £5. ANOTHER SUICIDJ4I FROM CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—Last night another suicide took place from Clifton Suspension Bridge. The body of a man was seen to fall into the water, but it was carried away by the tide before a boat could be launched. As the tide was flow ing, however, it may yet be recovered for identification. This makes the fourth suicide which has taken place from this noble bridge in four years. THE NEW SHERlFFS.—Yesterday, Mr. Alderman Owden and Mr. Robert Jones, the new sheriffs for Lon don and Middlesex, assumed the duties of their office by making the customary declarations at a special Court of Aldermen held at Guildhall. When the new sheriffs were called to the front of the hustings, the sheriffs who were about to retire from office took off their chains and put them on the necks of their successors. The new under sheriffs then subscribed the formal declarations, and so the brief ceremony ended. The sheriffs subsequently met the governors of the City gaols, and received the keys of these institutions. THE EXPORTATION OF ARMS.—Mr. J. D. Good man, of the Small Arms Factory, has addressed the following letter to the Birmingham Gazette :-.`" I am anxious A to ask your permissio n t o supp l ement t h e infor mation I gave on the subject of the exportation of arms in the letter which appeared in your columns of the 22nd instant. What I then wrote related solely to breech loading arms. The orders up to that day were imperative that none but breech-loaders would be accepted, and I could form no idea that any other instructions would be given. The supply of breech-loaders was no doubt ex hausted sooner the purchases had been led to anticipate by the deceptive statements which had been made public. Last week new orders were in consequence issued, and every muzzle-loading Enfield rifle which could be found in the Birmingham workshops, ready for despatch, was purchased. On Thursday last seven thousand were for*arded from Birmingham. At the same time twelve thousand were procured in London. None were purchased but those ready for despatch the same day. There may probably remain, in various stages of completion, two to three thousand more. When these are gone, the existing stock of rifles available for im mediate delivery, whether breech-loading or muzzle-load ing, will be exhausted. I have thought it necessary to give you this further information to prevent exaggerated statements with reference to this new demand for arms, which I had not anticipated when I last addressed you." SEPTEMBF 29, 48711., THE FRENCH PRESS. FROM PARIS TO TOURS IN A B ILLOON. Jules .Durof gives the following narrative of his j . ourney from Paris to Tours in a balloon. He ascended at eight o'clock on the morning of the 23rd, in the Place Saint Pierre, Montmartre. The wind was therfblowing with some violence from the east, and carried the balloon in the direc tion of the Arc de Triomphe. When over this point, being then 3,000 metres above the earth, he was seen by the enemy. AL Duruof soon discovered that active pre parations were being made for his destruction. The Prussians appeared to him like a swarm of ants busily engaged about an ant-hill. Their motions he, of course, interpreted as preparations to fire upon him. Nor was he left long in doubt. He had scarcely got beyond the for tified enceinte when the enemy began to fire projectiles at him from some of their cannon, which had been placed in a perpendicular position. The balls came towards the boat of the b . alloon, but at some distance, and then fell to the earth. Some ascended so high as to cause slight vibrations in the balloon. The cannons hav ing failed, the Prussians then tried their rifles ; but these were just as unsuccessful. The enemy, however, had considerable patience, and did not give up firing at the aeronaut until he reached Mantes. During this part of his journey he remarked clouds of smoke and heard the noise of guns. This led , him to believe that fighting was going on around Mont Valerien, and.in'that part of the valley of the Seine. He could see distinctly that the Prussian army on this spot was formed of seven lines, flanked by large bodies of cavalry. As the wind still blew from the east the balloon followed the course of the river. At eleven o'clock M. Duruof considered that he was far enough from Paris to venture on descend ing. The balloon fell in a park ; and the aeronaut, having got out of his boat, was received at the Château Cra cowille, which is a short distance from Evreux, This chateau belongs to Admiral La Ronciere le Noury, who is at present in command of the forts of Paris. Information of the arrival of the balloon was for warded to the Prefect of the Eure. He came and received the aeronaut, who was supplied with a regular commission from the Director-General of the Post-office. M. Duruof had carried with him three sacks, weighing 125 kilogrammes, and containing a number of despatches. Some of these were from the Minister of War, or other members of the Government. M. Duruof had been ordered not to give up the dispatches to any one but a General or a Prefect. He was directed to destroy them rather than allow them to go into the hands of any other person. Having rested himself for a few hours at Evreux, the aeronaut took the train to Tours, where he arrived safely on Saturday morning. M. Duruof states that the conditions offered by Count Bismarck had been posted on the walls of Paris for three days, and had given the strongest impetus to the spirit of patriotism in the breasts of the defenders of the capital. From him also information has been received that the Prussians, after having taken pos sossion of the redoubt above Saint Cloud, had been dis lodged from this position by the cannon of Mont Vale rien. All the houses in the pretty park at Montretout, as well as those in its vicinity, are now a heap of ruins. The affair at Bourget had been of a character at once very successful and very dramatic. Sheltered behind a house which the French had neglected to demolish, the Prussians had raised a redoubt of bricks. An attack was made at night on this point. Aided by the electric light given by Bazin's machine, some of the Breton Gardes Mobiles had . thrown themselves upon the enemy. The cannon of the neighbouring fort, meanwhile, thundered against the redoubt, and the house which protected it. Dazzled by the light, which at the same time left their aggressors in darkness, and surprised by this rude attack, the Prussians had been routed, and left behind in the hands of the Gardes Mobiles 500 prisoners. M. Duruof also asserts that the besiegers remain at a great distance from the ramparts. The Gardes Sedentaires, who are doing duty on the ramparts, and are very anxious to get the enemy within gunshot, cannot catch sight of the Prussians, so far are they away. During the last few days, the National Guards have fired, but without ill results, on the French lancers, mistaking them for Uhlans. Paris has assumed a resolute attitude and a martial appearance. Everywhere in it there reigns silence, broken only by the noise of the cannon, which never cease to thunder, day or night. The shops are closed at ten o'clock at night, after which hour no citizen can, without a special order, leave his house. A word about the hero of this extraordinary voyage.. He is a young man, about nineteen years of age, and belongs to the Garde Sedentaire. He intends to return to Paris as he came out of it. Others have, it is said, offered to follow the example set by M. Duruof. THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, The court resumed at nine o'clock. Captain A plin, of the Inconstant, examined, said : On the night of the 6th a general order was given to keep steam up for use if required. This was an order made by Colombo lights from the Lord Warden. Received a report from the officer of the middle watch that the next ahead was out of sight. I had heard there was a limit from which the Captain could not recover herself. I had read it in lectures given by the Society of Naval Architects on stability, and believed it. The Incon stant could recover from a lurch of 45 degrees. I believe that arose from her having a high freeboard. Lieutenant Hondecourt, who was officer in the middle watch on board the Inconstant, said at 12.30 only the Lord Warden was in sight. The weather was squally, with a rough short sea. Lieutenant Scudamore saw the Captain about &ye - points beyond the Inconstant's beam. The Incon stant was under treble reefed topsails the same as the Captain. The Inconstant heeled 25 degrees. Is she had heeled 15 more he believed she would have lost some spars and sails. He believed that in a breeze the same as that in question the Captain could carry more sail than the Inconstant. Charles Beales, signalman of the Inconstant, last saw the Captain at 12.15. She was then a little off the port bow. The Bristol was in sight at the same time. H. saw the Lord Warden at 12.30. Knew her by the Admi ral's light. Lieutenant Crawford, of the Bellerophon, was middle watch. If his vessel had been in a trough of sea she would not have suffered. When witness took charge of the middle-watch only the Monarch was in sight. After the evidence about the weather Lieutenant Rice, of the Director-General's Naval Ordnance Office, was examined. He said he reported as to the Captain to Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy. Wit ness went in the Monarch in company with the Captain. The report he made was from practical experi ence. In making it he was guided by these considera tions—Of the low freeboard of the Captain, the size of her masts and spars, and the distribution of weights. A heel of about 9 degrees was the Captain's maximum stabi lity. He conversed with many officers on the subject, but could not say who agreed - with him. Captains Burgoyne and Sheepshanks did. Ile knew the Captain was got with difficulty to heel of 7 degrees. On the 12th of May, when under treble reefed topsails, she heeled eight to 10 degrees, and he recorded a lurch of twenty-one degrees. Witness did not think of her being fitted witb tripod, instead of the usual lower rigging; and the Captain's weights had been so placed as to give a very high centre of gravity, and thus place the metre centre too near that point. If the metre centre was at the same point with the centre of gravity the ship was liable to turn up or down ; but if the metre point was above the centre of gravity the ship would turn bottom up. On the 12th of May witness was on board the Captain, when she appeared to stand up well under heavy canvas, with the exception of several lurches. The ship was not using steam at the time, but had treble reefed topsails and courses not set. He had apprehensions for her if pressed with canvas, and he recorded that opinion. He could not say at what point the Captain would go to instability. Righting would not be much impeded by the hurricane deck if heeling fifteen degrees when blowing hard. He always thought that by shortening sail in blowing weather there was difficulty in working ropes, but not much in letting go to save the ship. He told Captain Burgoyne that the ship was unsile at a certain point. Captain Burgoyne treated the matter as a joke. As an Admiralty official he could not say if the Captain's stability had ever been questioned. He con sidered, in the event of stability being questioned, that those who gave command of the ship should be the parties responsible. Witness gave an answer to this question with considerable reluctance. Captain Booker had been to sea 24 years. He had had command of the Scorpion for one year. Was little under sail. She was safe under steam in any weather, F rom ex perience of low-freeboard turret ships he should say if square sails had been taken off the Captain, and she had been placed under steam with her bow in the sea, she would have been safe. He thought a low free board ship not as safe in a hurricane as other ships, even if skilfully handled. The heaviest roll the Scorpion made was from 20 to 25 degrees. He was not satisfied with the Scorpion, as her screw would not revolve unless going four 'mots. Her sail power appeared to be small if she had all her weights on board. He did not consider her fit to face an ordinary Atlantic gale with a heavy sea, He attributed her un safeness to be, if the coals were all exlopded, in keeping her head to the sea. It was probable that if a heavy sea struck the f unne l cas i ng i t wou ld b e carried away, and the ship be in great danger. He never feared the Scorpion capsizing whatever else might occur. _ _ Lieutenant Bruce, of the Hercules, when relieved of the watch, could see the Agincourt, Warrior, Minotaur, Northumberland and Monarch. Other evjdence, as to weather, was given and the cdutt adjourned. It is expocted that highly. important evidence will be given on Thursday and FridaY OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Diorning THE FALL OF STRASBURG The Times says the defence of Strasburg and of Toul has been heroic, but they have fallen, and their fall portends the immediate 'slit-render of the • other fortified places in the North-east of France which have hitherto baffled the enemy. With such facts before us, it is impossible not to deplore anew the resolution of the Provisional Government to refuse the terms of the armistice offered by Count Bismark to M. Jules Favre. Had the Government of Defence consented to surrender• Strasburg, Toul, and Verdun, they would have secured an armistice sufficient to permit the election of members to a Constituent Assembly throughout France, and the meeting of the members at Tours with authority to speak and act on behalf of the country. If an attempt were again made to negotiate an armistice, the cession of Mont Val6rien would probably be in sisted upon as the price of the interval of pea • ce, whether the Constituent Assembly were appointed to meet at Paris or at Tours. The Provisional Government had their opportunity. They could not rise to the stoicism necessary to grasp it, and it is gone—gone past recall. Paris may resist, and pro bably will resist, until the lastmoment—until, as at Stras burg, resistance is no longer possible. ' It is, in fact, the especial misery of the situation that resistance must apparently thus be prolonged. Is there, then, no hope for France? Must she fight on until she falls through mere exhaustion, and then be fain to accept whatever terms a victorious king shall dictate from his Head-Quarters at the Tuileries ? It would seem to be even so. There is but one way of escaping fr nn this melancholy neces sity, and the possibility of securing it is so slender that it can be named only with doubt and hesitation. The sole hope of avoiding the worst lies in the possibility that Germany may be induced to take less now than would be insisted upon at the end. Germany might consent to forego something to gain an immediate settlement, might yield some respect to the feelings and pride of France ; or friendly nations interceding for the fallen might urge upon her the wisdom of a mercy that would be twice blessed. In commenting upon the fall of the Great French for tress, the Daily News observes that the place may have been treated less harshly than the laws of war are held to justify; but the public finds little consolation in that thought, and this siege has led many to ask whether it can be right deliberately to make a town inhabited by thousands of families a focus of war. When the iron hail fell upon Toul, admiration for the valour and fortitude of its defenders was the only feeling excited ; but Strasburg was a great city full of non-belligerents, of women and children, to whom every ball 'or bomb might carry death. Day after day has the shower of shot- and shell fallen upon the doomed city, week after week have the garri son had to watch on the ramparts against surprise, to labour at the bastions which the enemy was battering down, to issue forth to find the besiegers in the trenches and destroy their works. But notwithstanding all their efforts, the enemy came nearer and nearer, bun owing like a mole to subvert with sap and mine those walls which for generations have been regarded as the bulwark of North-Eastern France. At length, after many a brave man had fallen in 9 the hand-to-hand conflict in the trenches, the wall was gained, the opening was made, and an army waited but a word to spring in at the breach. The battalions which were to mph through the gap had actually been se lected by ballot, when happily, General Uhrich, the Governor of Strasbourg, had the courage to declare that his soldiers, unable to do more for the city or for France, had done enough for their own honour. He sur rendered, and thus proved himself a braver man than if from a selfish regard .for his own reputation he had sacri ficed the lives of others in a contest which had no longer an adequate object. The Yorkshire Post says considering that the garrison of Strasburg could not possibly have held out above a day or two longer, the demand of Count Bismarck for its surrender would seem to have been a necessary preliminary to any cessation of hostilities. But M. Favre tells the world that he could only express his indignation at the proposal. M. Favre, however, has not had long to wait for the opportunity of indulging his indignation, •as he has scarcely had time to pen the record of his own incompetence and egotism before Strasbourg has surrendered. France now instead of stretching her grasp further over the Rhine provinces, must withdraw from all contact with the Germans' noble river. Strasbourg, with the district that adjoins her, will revert to her former owners. " WAR TO THE KNIFE." The correspondent of the Standard at Rouen says : - The appeal of the Government summoning the country to "war to the'knife " has met with a ready response in Nor. inandy. The municipalities of Rouen and Havre have each vottrd a million of francs for the purpose of arming all who d'o not belong to the National Guardor the Mobile. At Havre the money is to be raised by loan. The idea which seems to obtain here is that the people of all the de partments once armed should converge on Paris and crush the Prussians beneath the weight of numbers. Your accomplished diarist of the war will tell you what is likely to be the consequence of so disorderly an on slaught. To be useful, in my humble opinion, these new levies should be militarily organised, and subjected to btrict discipline, and then indeed it would go hard with the Prussians. But until there is unity of direction, firmness, decision, order, and systematic action all the efforts of the country, all the sacri fices which there is a disposition cheerfully to submit to, are not likely to be crowned with success. One of the consequences of this general arming, however, will be to check the raids of small parties of Prussian horse. Anything short of an advance in force into Normandy would lead to the invaders being cut off in detail. Anarchy continues to prevail at Lyons. The demagogues who have established themselves in authority in that city have arrested the Procureur de la R4publique, one M. Andrieux, a nominee of M. Cremidix. The day before yesterday they sent a kind of embassy to the Government at Tours, which, instead of having them instantly arrested, consented to parley with them, and came to an understanding that " the red flag should continue to be hoisted on the Hotel de Ville, until the Constituent Assembly shall have decided what the national colours are to be." If there be an army at Lyons, as we are told there is, how is it that its commander does not put an end .to the terrorism established by half a dozen fanatics in the second city in France. Lyons is virtually in the hands of the mob, and all the respectable inhabitants of the city are anxiously await ing their release. The fools, fanatics, and worse, who rule there far more despotically than the late Government in its most despotic mood, are playing into the hands of Prussia ; for even an invader would be welcome who would effectually re-establish order. There is great cause to apprehend that the political saturnalia of Lyons is but a forerunner of what may be expected in Paris. ELOPEMENT.—A stirring event has just happened at Llandudno. Mr. Lee, MP. for Kidderminster, with his family, and Miss Byrch, sister of Mrs. Lee, have been sojourning at Llandudno about a fortnight, and it seems that Mr. Lloyd, a young wine and spirit merchant (whose place of business was near to the lodgings of Mr. and Mrs. Lee), and Miss Byrch had struck up a mutual attachment which resulted in a determination to elope, the suitor not being sanguine of obtaining the consent of the lady's friends to the match. Accordingly Friday last was fixed, and Mr. Lloyd, having obtained a special licence, was married by the rector of Llandudno at the parish chnrch at'an early hour. On leaving the church it was arranged that Miss Byrch (now Mrs. Lloyd), should take a walk on the road to Conway, where she was to be picked up in a carriage by her husband. Accordingly they drove to a fishing village on the Conway called Treffriew, when the carriage was sent back to Llandudno, and dinner was ordered. In the meantime, they walked out together, but never returned, having; as it would appear, discovered that the lady's friends were in pursuit. The fact of the marriage was made known to • the lady's friends very shortly after the parties had left the church, and they traced the fugitives to Treffriew, but here they lost all traces of them. On Saturday bills were put out offering £5O reward for information leading to the dis covery of the whereabouts of the young lady, who was alleged to have been " decoyed" from her friends. On Tuesday, however, this offer was withdrawn. Up to yesterday they had not been traced. It is said the lady has a large fortune in her own right. THE LATE ALPINE ACCIDENT.--The congrega tion in the village of G-ourock, on the Clyde, whose pastor perished the other day in the terrible catastrophe on Mont Blanc, have done a kindly deed' in connection with the funeral services held in their church last Sunday. A collection was made on behalf of the widows and orphans of the guides and porters who accompanied the party of travellers of which Mr. McCorkindale was a member. The morning villagers contributed for this purpose the handsome sum of £4O. It now appears, from a letter written by the widow of one of the guides, that the party perished while descending the mountain. They were seen to arrive at the summit, and then to descend as far as the Bosse Dromadaire, where they were caught in the storm, and whence they were seen to disappear in a whirlwind of snow. The weather was frightful, and the wind lifted the snow with terrible fury. Mr. McCorkindale, though a young man, was the last of seven brothers, all of whose deaths were sudden. One of these brothers was Captain McCorkindale, of the British India Company's steamer Cheduba, whicif foundered in a cyclone in the Indian seas about two years ago. FRAUD UPON THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —Another exposure of the recently-diicovered fraud upon the Great Eastern . Railway Company by their employes, took place before the Lord Mayor, at the Man sion House, yesterday, when two ticket collectors, named Rutterford and Trengold, were charged with a similar offence to that of which several men were convicted a few days since at the Old Bailey. Mr. Straight, the new M.P. for Shrewsbury, prosecuted.. From the evidence ad duced it appeared that both on the 16th and 18th of July, Detective Russell, of the Metropolitan police, saw a man ' named Parsonage, whom he had been previously instructed to watch, proceed to the Stepney station, where the pri soner Trengold was on duty as collector, and whom he passed without exhibiting a ticket, repeating the process at Fenchurch-street, where Rutterford was stationed. From this Mr. Straight contended that the whole of the men were in league with each other, numerous instances of a similar character h av i ng occurred. On the applica tion of Mr. Straight, the Lord Mayor granted an ad journment to the 6th proximo, for the production of additional evidence.. THE FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. The Telegrciph remarks that without impugning the veracity of the French envoy, it suspects that he natu rally exagerates to some extent the initiative which he declares himself to have taken in qeclining the armistice. He assures the Parisians that the cession of Tod, Strasburg, and Verdun or Phals burg, was demanded as the requisite condition of a fort night's truce on the 20th instant. On the 23rd Tout sur rendered, and on the 27th the gallant defenders of Strasburg laid down their arms. Nor is it likely that, if the Prussians choose to push on the attack with vigour, either Phalsburg or Verdun will be held by French garrisons at the date fixed for the expiry of the proposed armistice. On the other hand, the refusal of M. l'avre and his colleagues to purchase a truce at the cost of a surrender which they must have known to be inevitable is not unreasonable from the French aspect of the question. The trutL is' that although the negotiations nominally failed on the collateral issue whether the garrison of Strasbourg should be allowed to march out with tho honours of war, the failure really took place because the representatives of Prussia and France could find no common ground for the conclusion of peace. We are afraid, continues the Telegraph, that the time is fast coming when France will be com pelled to admit that the loss of ALslce and Lorraine is not too dear a price to pay for peace. But, until that time has arrived—until• that conviction has been brought home to the public mind—her Government would be untrue to it duty if it accepted terms which indirectly involved the abandonment of the provinces for whose recovery France is still prepared to fight to "the bitter end." THE TIDE OF PRUSSIAN VICTORY. The tide of Prussian victory, remarks the Standavd, which had appeared for a few days to have experienced a check, has broken with fresh force over unhappy France. Strasburg has surrendered, and the roads from South Germany to Paris and to the south of France are opened up. Paris itself is invested much more closely than those who believed in the strength of its fortifications had imagined; Orleans is occupied by the enemy, and Tours is threatened. But these successes of the German arms, important as they are, count for little in comparison with the glosses which private and inde pendent accounts supply to the official stories of popular enthusiasm. We are told that the soldiers of the regular army are undisciplined and insubordinate. We hear that the • Garde Mobile prefers discussion to fighting-, and thinks it better to denounce and arrest a general than follow him into battle; and, worst of all, that in every part of France in which its own strength or tha cowardice of the rest of the population allows it to assume supremacy, the Republican mob— utterly wanting in patriotism as in every noble, generous, and honest sentiment—" exploits " the misfortunes of France for the gratification of the meanest and basest passions. No doubt there is as much exaggera tion in these sinister reports as in the dithyrambic procla mations and decrees of the Government of National De fence. It is necessary to distinguish. There are individuals who, under pretence of patriotism and love of liberty, seek the gratification of the most contemptible desires, and by their conduct prepare a welcome for the Prussians in the districts in which they rule and rob. But, on the other hand, in th ose par t s o f t h e coun t ry i n which the social and democratic Republic has no par tisans' in which the blatant demagogues who hurried in crowds from Leicester-square and the other repairer of this class when the Republic was proclaimed in Paris, and whom the Government of the National Defence was compelled, from the vice of its origin, to pro fess to welcome, find no adherents, an earnest spirit of patriotism has been exhibited, and an army able to meet the Prussians could be found if only there were time. THE POLICY OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT, The Manchester Examiner, in discussing the continental policy of the ofG ove u r s n in m g ent ih s e a i y r s t ii h ifl ey ne h n a c v e e ilnostthn: n single opportunity of peace, w h e never there was the sli g ht es t chance of a useful result ; and although th e i nfluential deputation which recently had an interview with the Premier seemed to hold a contrary opinion, they not only failed to make it good ,but did not even point out iu any tangible or practical way what they think the Government have done which they ought not to have done, or have omitted to do which they ought to have done. Their great fault is that they have understood better than those who find fault with them what non-intervention really implied, and have perceived that it imposes restraint upon speech as well as action. They have felt that, however flattering it might be to our national vanityf or soothing to our national sense of self importance, to send forth a series of didactic dispatches or minatory protests, we should in the end render ourselves odious or contemptible by thrusting unasked and untimely advice upon the belligerent Powers, or by stating, in a dogmatic and authoritative manner, view s We Were not prepared to support by a Dui army i n the field.