The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-07 00:00:00

AGENC I under the ris at Wool" ish to coin ;ration they of State for lorse power, considerable sing favour e hull of the 11 shortly be Ites will be o being. Pr cr Rl, the inner e turret, the 11 be of the examination d February► it twenty or the Mersey ecretary of Livereo e War Pe" in all—Were i Thursday' nanufactur e • harf in store [and harbour the war Yee (flirt, North' tant. The ;, practising ock at Xer Gulf. Sh e ut the 1001 3sistant - C on• ffice, Whit' her power of ed, all being ship heeleo 300 tons of behig empti e Admiralty ,t something ship. The tant•Genera l ol3nel E. G. a of his tervi ig the Aria Iwich will be r-General J. seeds Major nand of the anticipated Dra- I the 20, to England April next. red suddenly , 1865. The 1861. ,on or about )toPortland. -homefronl 3mouth Gar' giment : the Bermuda , 94th, upon iso in Ire' -om India in 1 Regiment. Navy wh° nation were f surgeon. i of the new ybe madt:. 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It ;e against Lad awarded cl for a new' excessive. ,d consulted :hough both rge, still he the verdict. f —they ha . d .e with their FOR TJIE meet with rs of Lori deration of Ile Markets porium has f Deptford arepared to to erect 'es yard. he aposition 0f i promise t ietary sense Es. —ln the .s, an lin .eference to a represen areholders. Le holder of lure, it was ated Land ultimately rvision of £lO per Jeaffresou Lis liability, 'erred from sent. The Ls liable to Ling to dis • however, he transfer Ln from his Kinahan premises, ! , ,t, leading .ket-street, its famous y cream of qtly pure, c brandY , vell•known ortation at ssrs. Baas, nn Wines SPECIAL EDITION. SUN OFYICE, 7 P.E. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WAR. CATITWL.&TION OF FORT MORTIER. Intelligence hasjbeen received from Breisach that Fort Mortier has succumbed to the attack of the Germans. The capitulation took place last night (Sunday). The besiegers took 220 prisoners and five guns. THE GERMANS IN LORRAINE. The Governor-General of Lorraine has issued an order to th e M a y ors , c alli n g upon them to furnish hats of all persons who, according to French laws, are liable to serve in the army, and also those under 46 Years of age. A fine of 50f. a day is to be in flicted on the relatives of those who secretly leave the place. RUPTURE OF THE ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS, A despatch, dated Royal Head-quarters, Ter aailes, Sunday, Nov. 6, announces that M. Thiers has received instructions from Paris to break off the n egotiations for an armistice, and to leave the Ger man bead-quarters. VERSAILLES, Nov. 5, 2.30 p.m. M. Thiers received permission to go to the out ,Meta at Sevres this morning in order to see M. M. Govery, who acts as his secretary, went into 'aria yesterday. At 2 o'clock to-day M. Thiers had not returned. At Versailles a balloon with despatches was cap tilred yesterday. It i s positively stated that a telegram has been eeut to Berlin announcing that it is probable that t he Reicharath will be assembled at Versailles. 10.18 p.m. U. Thiers returned to-day from the Sevres out 11°4, WI where he met M. Jules Favre, and had a long Allterview. lie went at 8 a.m. and did not return till past 4 o'clock. The forts fired on Sevres during his visit. The German Chancellor will not accede to the proposal of admitting food into Paris during the 40 days' Armistice for holding the elections. The Pr ovisional Government Government will not agree to the Ar -Btice unless food be admitted into Paris. So the e ase now stands. The official paper to-night hints at the possi bility of the Reichsrath being assembled at Ver sailles. ORDER FOR THE ARREST OF MARSHAL BAZAINE, TOURS, Sunday (2.55 p.m) M. (lambetta has telegraphed to the prefects to tt 'reSt Ma r shal Bazaine or any of his staff wherever , i eY find them, and send them to Tours under good MOVEMENTS OF GARIBALDI. TOURS, November 6, Midnight. ,The Tours Government have issued the following A considerable number of the enemy's troupe are said to be in the Haute Saoue and in the east of the Cote d'Or. 4,000 Prussians at Nuits with Garibaldi's Corps stopped yesterday the rrd to St. Jean de Losne. At Auxonne, near azei, there is a corps of the enemy with strong art illery. The enemy has made no advance in t ° iret nor in the Seine et Marne. Nothing new in the direction of Andelys." TITE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN PARIS. The official results of the voting at the Hotel de Ville is announced to be 321,373 ayes, and 63,585 i s• The votes from two or three communes and theB army are still to be received. This result is con_ red to preserve the proportion of the figures 1" - pounced this morning. AD VANCE OF 80,000 GERMAN TROOPS ON AMIENS AND ROUEN. AMIENS, November 6 (11 p.m.) A ccording to statements made by the news voaPers of B eauva i s , which speak not ou their l " authority, but on information derived from sa inellaan sources, 80,000 soldiers, formerly compos e, the blockading army around Metz, have been I , e `ached, u n d er the separate command of General uUt nteuffel, for the special purpose of occupying the T.eat towns of north-western France. The famous t : e quisitionist" of Frankfort will pay his first visits k uliens and Rouen. BATTLE ON THE SAONE. Intelligence has been received at Tours from Dole, dat ed November 5, stating that a serious engagement f k place on that day, on the Saint Jean de Losne3 ad) towards Auxonne. The enemy had cannon " mitrailleuses, but had, nevertheless, gained no found at seven p.m. The Francs-tireurs prevented Pie e enemy from crossing the Saone. Four thousand ans occupy Nuits, with artillery. IHE BOMBARDMENT. Th e Berlin Staats Anzeiger of the 6th says the ca pitulation of Metz has rendered Paris and France Wo rse tha n b e f ore . All the preparations for the bom bardment, of the capital have, during the six Wee ks' inve s t men t, s o far progressed that only the grog'sba commands are now required for the com 'lleeraeLt of the attack. B OMBARDMENT OF FORT MORTIER. Fo rt , , Morti er con tinues to be vigorously born -1:10n1 w by the Germans. On the sth an attempted le as made, but it ended in a repulse. CAPTURE OF TWO BALLOONS. b e _ balloons, containing five passengers, have at!ullee."l, captured by the Germans and taken to Ver- REPORT ON THE FRENCH LOAN. To URS, Sunday. M. de Roussy, delegate o tof the Ministry of Finance, has submitted to the Government the following:— By decree of October 25th, 1870, the Government autho rised a public subscription with the view of realising a loan of 250,000,000 francs contracted in England. On the same date instructions and notices were sent to the agents of the Treasury, but on account of the interruptions caused by the war they were only received in 310 arrondissements out of 371, and Paris was unable to participate in the subscription. The subscription was opened on Thursday, October 27th, and closed October 29th. The subscriptions amounted to 93,921,000, represented by-139,577 obligations of francs 500 ; 4,273 obligations of francs, 2,500 ; 528 obligations of francs 12,500; 274 obligations of francs 25,000. Simul-, taneously with the call made upon capitalists by the Government to provide for the requirements of the National Defence Loans for the same object were isssued by a large number of the Departments and Communes, the first instalment of the loan, of 50,000,000 francs, falling due October 31st, was promptly paid. The preceding results may be considered as a proof of the resources of the country, and a testimony of the confidence in the credit of the State. (Signed) ITALY AND ROME. Dz ROUBSY. FLOUENCE, November 2. Some of the evening papers here state that dis sensions exist in the Cabinet, and that a Minis terial crisis is imminent. From reliable informa tion, it is positively asserted that such rumours are, for the present at least, destitute of founda tion. The Minister of Finance has received an im portant report from Signor Giacomelli, Councillor of the Lieutenancy - of Rome. The question die cussed in the document is the possibility of an early transfer to Rome of the seat of government. A. Commission of Engineers, which had been appointed expressly states that all preparations for this purpose could be completed by July, 1871. Signor Minghetti, the Italian Minister at Vienna, has asked ,for leave of absence, probably because he is desirous to be present at the general election in Italy. RESIGNATION OF ROCHEFORL TOURS, November 5. ' % owi ng to a disagreement with his colleagues on fo e subject of the municipal elections, M. Roche titt has resigned, and no official acts have been sue d by him since the 20th ult. It • tee la stated that during title disturbance whith ently took place in Paris, M. Flourens and . ooha i nlPporters w ere extremely violent in their t a V i ct• M. Flourens addressed the people from the sitt te at which the members of the Government were b e and proposed that a new Government should se arrested M. Felix Pyat, M. Maurice Joly, and of of the National Guard have heen . P r 4 ,,,rding to the Patric, 80,000 Mobiles from the Ine".vinces have dete r mined to support the Govern 'lt, and resist the imposition of the Commune. Tprp -- -- REORGANISATION OF GERMANY. BERLIN, November 0. Cd: ur ternberg, B a d en , and Hesse Darmstadt have o tritely weed to accept the present North German te uustit u ti on, and to enter the Union. Bavaria ci tiBe a) and insists on a separate treaty with North sore an Y, reserving military and diplomatic it eiguty. before th e Ring of Prussia refuses to leave the army p ro - ' e Peace is concluded. or an armistice signed, the hooDusition that the North German Parliament should 64ii ; 1 ita session in the middle of this month at Ver -4eB is being seriously entertained. THE CONDUOT OF BAZAINE. The Paris Official Journal of October 31st, in an nouncing the surrender of Metz, says that Marshal Bazaine and his army were forced to surrender after heroic efforts which the want of provisions and ammunitions prevented them from continuing any longer. Paris would show herself worthy of these brave soldiers, and would be encouraged by their example, and by the hope of avenging them. No nharge of treason or treachery against Marshal Bazaine would appear to be made in this article. In contrast with the announcement of the official journal of Paris is a long report which appears in the official journal of Tours, the Moniteur Universal of the 4th. It is addressed to the Government of the National Defence by "E. de Valcourt, an officer attached to the headquarters of the Army of the Rhine," and takes the form of an indictment against Marshal Bazaine. The substance of the charges brought against the Marshal is that he acted throughout with the sole object of remaining master of the political situation in France, and that he surrendered the town and fortress of Metz and the French army with the view of furthering his own ambitious ends. IMPORTANT FROM CHINA. We have been favoured by Messrs. Morgan, Brothers with the following copy of a telegram re ceived from their correspondent : " SHANGHAI, Oct. 19. " Four gunboats, of 10 guns, aro launched here The Chinese aro importing large quantities of powder, arms, and cannon." (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) COLLISION AT SEA. The Kestrel, a Hull steam vessel, from Rotter dam, was in collision near Helvort, about one o'clock yesterday morning, with a steamer, supposed to be the Aurora, of London. The bulwarks of the Kes trel stove in. The other vessel sunk, and the crow went on shore. The Kestrel arrived at Hull this morning. THE REPRESENTATION OF NEWPORT. It is announced that Mr. William N. Massey, late Finance Minister of India, will come forward as a Liberal candidate for Newport, Isle of Wight. TESTIMONIAL TO A CONSERVATIVE LEADER. Mr. G. Thoyts, chairman of the Berks county magis; trates, and for many years chairman of the Conservative Committee of Reading, has been presented with a life size portrait of himself, by Mr. Horsley. The presenta tion was made in return for valuable services rendered to the Conservative party during the past few years. The presentation, at the request of Mr. Thoyts, was made without any ostentation, at the Great Western Hotel Reading ; and among those present were Mr. Richard Benyon, M.P., Sir Charles Russell, Viscount Barrington, and a number of the gentry of the county. In the course of the speeches which followed, which were eulogistic, a hope was expressed that Sir Charles Russell, who was at one time the third Conservative member, might be soon replaced in that position in Berkshire. ft AL 1N VIN OIBLE. The new ironclad, the Invincible, was tested on Satur day at Keyham Dockyard, with a view to ascertain the centre of gravity. It was found that with 300 tons of ballast in her water compartments, and 60 tons of iron ballast introduced on deck, she was 5 degrees out of the perpendicular. This is a slightly less heel than the Captain had at her trial with 80 tons of iron ballast on deck, but without water ballast in her compartments. The Invincible when under steam without sails in very moderate weather last week is stated to have rolled to 18 degrees. ATTACK WITH A SCYTHE. At the Leicester County Police-court, on Saturday, Joseph Burdett was committed for trial for cutting and wounding Henry Carter, his father-in-law, at Glenfield, on Wednesday night. A dispute had arisen between the parties respecting the possession of a house ; the accused went to prosecutor's house on the night in question for his things, and on receiving his scythe, he attacked! Carter with it, cutting him on the head. READING GRAMMAR SCHOOL. It is expected that the arrangements for the opening of the Reading Grammar School, and the anticipated vieit of her Majesty the Queen, will be fully discussed at a dinner, given by the High Steward of Reading, to the members of the Corporation of that town to-day. The Empress Eugenie has returned to Chisle burst. The Empress and the Prince Imperial attended mass at the Roman Catholic Church of Chislehurst yesthr day. Both appeared to be in excellent health. TRAMWAYS.—The Tramway Company i 8 beginning a competition with the railway and omnibus proprietors in favour of the working classes. There is to be hence forth a daily service of " workmen's carriages " from Brixton and the Westminster-road—three miles for one penny. BELGIUM. A correspondent writes :—" The Belgian Chambers will be opened next week without a speech from the Throne. The Belgian regments of in fantry are reduced to 1,950 men, so that the class of 1866 may be sent to their homes. A committee has been appointed to seek out in what way the bread furnished to the troops can be improved." Recruits being at present required for the Royal Artillery, the Secretary for War will (says the Broad Arrow) be prepared to grant free releases to any men be longing to the Militia Artillery Reaerve, who may, with the consent of their commanding officers, volunteer and be attested and approved gunners. OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.—Two men have been arrested in the county Westmeath on the charge of attempting to murder Mr. Fox, who was fired at near Clara, in the King's county, on Sunday last.—A young man natked Mackey, in the prime of life, is likely to die from the blow of a stone received in a faction quarrel. He was at Newport fair, and met people named Ryan ; atones were used, and one struck Mackey's forehead. Several persons are arrested. rim SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, .1870. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE =DISTURBANCES IN PARIS. The Tours correspondent of the Daily:aas, writing on the 3rd instant, says.,:—This morning I met a group of old Centre Left Deputies, who told me that there was a revolution in Paris, which had been followed by a revolu tion in Lyons and Marseilles ; that Gustave Flourens was Dictator in Paris; and that General Taochu and all the other members of the Paris Government were in prison. There was considerable founda tion for all this startling news, which, however, was not the latest. Flourens was not the con queror, but the conquered, and the Government of which General Trochu is the President still sits in the Hotel de Ville. It appears that about half-past one in the afternoon of October 31 crowds assembled in front of the Hotel de Ville. Although there was a drizzling persistent rain, groups, continually swelling, wexe formed on the Quai Pelletier, in the Avenue Victoria, and in the Rue Rivoli. Many Companies of the National Guard appeared, some unarmed, and some bearing the butts of their rifles aloft, in token that their attitude was pacific. Presently cries were raised of "No armistice," " Down with Thiers," " Down with Trochu," " Resistance to death," "Vive Blanqui," " Vive Pyat," " Vive la Rdpublique," " Vive la Commune." The manifestation appeared to be made in favour of the revolutionary idea of government by the Commune. Nothing, however, very decisive or intel lie-ibis occurred till about half-past two, when a member of the National Guard fired a pistol in the air. Three or four other shots followed, but they were meant only to excite alarm, and nobody was hurt. They sufficed, however, and no wonder, to produce a panic. Men, women, and children fled in wild confusion, and the shopkeepers in the Rue Rivoli rapidly put up their shutters. About this time M. Gustave Flourens, on horse back, made his appearance before the Hotel de Ville at the head of the Belleville battalion of the National Guard. One of his officers got upon his horse's crupper, and read a proclamation, signed, I presume, by Flourens himself, decreeing a " levy en masse," and au immediate election of the Commune. At this juncture General Trochu made his appearance, and addressed the turbulent crowd to the following effect :—"Citizens,—Will you hear a soldier? (Yes.) It is in vain that you suspect my patriotism, which would lead me to die for the Republic. I found Paris without auy defence. It might have been invaded without difficulty. I have devoted my efforts to render Paris impregnable, and now it is. •(Cries of "The Commune.') No enemy, however powerful, can • now get into Paris. (Interruption.) Do you not see that to defend ourselves we require all our undivided resources? If our armies have been con - quered, the reason is that they had not the necessary means for conquering ; they were short of artillery. We are using the greatest efforts to ensure a triumph. We have collected forces capable of meeting the enemy." (Interruption.) At five minutes to two, General Trochu, pushed about by a crowd, which was swollen by the 6th company of the 107th battalion, preceded by its flag, was obliged, in spite of strenuous efforts on the part of Major d'Auvergne, commanding the Fitiisterre Mobiles, to leave the platform and take refuge upstairs. After him M. Jules Simon attempted to obtain a hearing, but without success. The members of Government were followed up the stairs by a mob of Flourens' partisans, who for some hours held General Trochu and several of his colleagues prisoners. I now give the latest news in the words of the D) bats :—Towards nine o'clock the rumour ran that General Trochu was free. The news was hailed with acclamations on the Boulevards. In the Place Vendome there were cries of " Vive Trochu 1" " Down with the Commune !" '• Down with Blanqui 1" for a whole hour together. The satisfaction augmented when the rappel was heard, and it was reported that Pelletan and Picard were with Trochu. Ten u'c•ock.—lt is stated that MM. Leflo, Tamisier, and Jules Favro, and a certain number of National U uards are still detained prisoners at the Hotel de Vile. M. Roger (du Nord) is Commander-in-chief of the National Guard. Eleven o'clock.—Battalions of the National Guard, with drums beating, are marching on -she Hotel de Vile, and mean to surround it. The 106th Battalion, with D.I. Jules Ferry at its head, was the first to arrive. Three in the Morning.—The National Guards are re turning home. General Trochu has returned to the Louvre, accompanied by Jules Favre, Gamier. Pages, and General Ducrot. They were received with cuthusiastie acclamations. It appears that towards half-past eleven, when the National Guard and Garde Mobile had completely invested the Hotel de Ville, the rioters declared from one of the windows that if any attack were made, they would at once shoot the members of the Government—MM. Jules Favre, Jules Simon, and Gamier Pages—wham they held prisoners. They were answered that eighty prisoners of their own party in the hands of the National Guard were a sufficient hostage to she w that this was a vain menace. Presently the National Guard and Mobiles entered the Hotel de Ville and cleared it without difficulty." What became of Major Gustave Flourens, who will have been lucky if General Trochu has not shot him, does not appear. In the evening, and while the state of affairs at the Hotel-de-Ville was uncertain, s great meeting of National Guards was held in the building of the Bourse. A citizen, Roquebrune by name, moved a resolution to the effect that a Jodie of 200,000 men should be made every other day, and then he said the Prussians would be iestroyed in a fortnight, as the besieged could always :hoose the weakest point of the circle around them. His reasoning, simple though the principle of it is, did not convince the auditory, who cried out frequently, " Where is your artillery, and where are your generals ?" The Tours Government is quite satisfied this afternoon that its colleagues in Paris hold their own ; but M. Gambetta does not seem able to assert his authority either in Lyons or Marseilles. M. Thiers after all went to Versailles before going to Paris, but only be cause the Prussian authorities insisted upon his passports being vised at the King's headquarters. He adhered to his resolution not to enter upon business until he conferred with the Paris Government. Count Bismarck got in his way as if by accident, but all that M. Thiers said was: "I can only say to day that I have nothing to say to you." Count Moltke received M. Thiers with much courtesy, and said to him, " Although almost every flag of truce costs us a life, I have much pleasure in giving you a guard of four officers." TATTERSALL'B—Tmg EVENING. LIVERPOOL CUP. 11 to 2 agst Rosicrucian (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst Blandford (taken and offered) 7to 1 agst Cardinal York (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Musket (offered-10 to 1 taken and wanted) 10 to 1 agst Barford (offered-12 to 1 taken) 11 to 1 agst Syrian (offered—take 100 to 8) 100 to 7 agst Exciseman (taken and offered 100 to 6 agst Flibustier_ (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Cecil (offered —take 18 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (offered) 25 to 1 agst Marie (offered) 33 to 1 agst Fleets (aken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Indian Ocean (offered) 500 to 10 agst Miss Hervine (taken and offered) • 800 to 100 agst Musket with a start (offered) DERBY. 9to 1 agst King of the Forest (taken) 10 to 1 agst Albert Victor (taken) 100 to 8 agst General (taken) CITY BETTING.—This DAY. ' LIVERPOOL CUP. 6to 1 agst Cardinal York (offered-100 to 15 taken) 100 to 15 agst Blandford (offered) 7to 1 agst Rosicrucian (taken) 10 to 1 agst Syrian (offered-100 to 8 taken) 10 to 1 agst Musket offered-100 to S taken) 100 to 8 agst Barford (taken) 100 to 6 agst Exciseman (taken) 100 to 6 agst Flibustier (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Cecil (offered-20 to 1 taken) 20 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (offered—take 25 to 1) 25 to 1 agst Mario (offered) 25 to 1 agst Heraut d'Armes (offered) 40 to 1 agst Our Mary Ann (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Taraban (taken) 500 to 10 agst Fleets (taken and offered) 1000,to 20 agst Miss Hervine (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Islam (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Ware Hare (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Ploughboy (wanted) 1000'to 10 agst Starter (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Judge (offered) 1000 to 5 agst Adonis (offered) THE MONEY MARKET, CITY, Two o'CLooc. The rupture of the negotiations for an armistice has created great alarm on the Stock Exchange. There is a decline of + to I per cent. in Government Securities, Consols being 92/ to 93. The French Loan has improved since the opening, the price now being 1 to 2 prem. Turkish Five per Cents. are 11 lower, at 46 to 461 ; and Italian 1, at 551 to 55k. The decline in Spanish is about g. The directors of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company (Limited) have announced an interim dividend of 2 per cent. on the consolidated stock of the company for the quarter ended the 31st ult. Complaints multiply against the Post-office in relation to the mode in which its new regulations are being carried out. Nine-tenths of the postal annoyances experienced from time to time might be obviated if an amount of dis cretion were exercised such as would be used by any or dinary business firm. For, instance, the new or newly enforced rule exacting a fine of threepence on all cir culars " closed against inspection,'• by the stamp having been affixed partly on the wrapper, and partly on its contents, might, it is suggested, have been waived at first by stamping on the outside a notice that all documents with postage labels thus affixed are liable to be charged as letters, and that on and after such a date the fine would be strictly levied. An example of a much more serious form of annoyance, and one that fre quently leads to commercial loss and inconvenience through a similar want of consideration, has for a long time past been cited with regard to the communication with the River Plate and other countries with which we have no postal treaties. In many of these cases the rates are of a varied and complex character, and if the writer happens not to have placed the proper number of stamps upon his letter it is returned to him a day or two afterward, and he then has to wait a fortnight or a month for another mail. In this way important despatches, bearing a heavy amount of postage stamps upon them, are not infrequently in terrupted through a deficiency of a few pence, and, as there are no telegraphic menus of intercourse with th' countries in question, the mischief cannot be remedied. If, as has been recommended, the Post-office were in all such case where the writers are persons with an•address in the London Directory to forward the letters to their destination, and to apply afterwards for the unpaid balance, together with a small fine for the trouble oc casioned, they would avoid creating irritation and gain that popularity which always results from acts of simple courtesy. The Manchester Examiner states :—" The suspension is announced of Messrs. N. S. Lougee and Co., merchants, Bradford, with liabilities of from £50,000 to £60,000, con sequent on the failure of Messrs. Garrett, Clark, and Co., of New York." THE DISTURBANCE IN MARSEILLES. The manifestation on the news of the capitulation o' Metz becoming known began in the high streets above the Canebiere about twelve o'clock on Monday (31st)-.. where and when it will end who can guess 1 At Old hour a long procession made its appearance, winding down towards the harbour. It consisted of some five or six thousand men, all of the working class, with a black standard in their midst. The} marched in silence, whilst all who lined the roadway stood bareheaded, as at a funeral. A few hundreds of the " Francs-tireurs of Death," in their bogey costume, brought up the rear. The procession marched to the Prefecture, where all the gates and doors were locked. They demanded M. Esquiros, who refused ,to appear. From thence thence they went to the Hotel de Ville, forced the doors —as some say got inside, and occupied the municipal offices. Thus installed, the mob, without form or election, voted themselves magistrates of the public safety, and declared a secret siance, Who the members were and are nobody knows, not even their own party. What passed has not yet leaked out, but I have very good authority for stating that a forced contribution—no loan, but a downright seizure—of twenty per cent. upon all personal and real property was proposed and agreed to. M. Esquiros made his appearance in the Council Chamber, and, although still refusing the title. of Prefect which Government had taken from him, and the Civic Guard would restore he accepted the presidency of the Commune Council. In this position he ordered the immediate seizure of the chantiers and workshops of the Memories irapiriales, approved the reinforcement of the lately abolished Garde Civique by an increase of three companies, and signed an order forbidding entrance or exit from the city without special leave. Rumour tells of many and more desperate measures carried in this strange séance; but these, I think, you may rely upon. Of course, the legal authorities of the town could not sit calmly under so flagrant an invasion of their rights. For a while panic reigned among them, and, besides, they had no place of rendezvous. But towards three o'clock a number of municipal counsellors assembled, with the Mayor and a great proporti 1' officcl both of the army and the National ( . clpech, the Prefect, is said to have refused all action. The Mayor, however, supported by the military, did not despair of the situation. After a short consultation, the word was given, and, for the first time these eighty years, the alarm beat of the drum was heard in Marseilles' streets. I cannot say what a strange emotion was created in the town by that startling roll. The drummers went out from the Hotel de Ville, each to his own quarter. Few of them were in uniform. Throwing on the kdpi, and girding themselves with the IA aad white band of their drum, they saillied out. Ina moment all the city was quivering with rapid echoes. Through every street and lane the solitary mes senger strode swiftly, never ceasing to rattle his alarm, note. As he passed, from every door men POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAT. THE CONDUCT or A PARENT.—William Hockington, a boy 10 years of age, was charged, at the Westminster Police-court, with begging. Police-constable Abel White, B Detective, said that batween 6 and 7 on Saturday even ing he was in the King's Head, Chelsea, when he saw the defendant and his brother, a boy about seven years old, go up to several gentlemen and beg of them while they presented lucifer matches. They both of them took the money to their father, who was standing at a public house door. When defendant saw witness coming towards him, he took to his heels. He was followed and captured. Some boxes of lucifer matches were found upon him, but no money. It being stated that the father of the boy was in court, Mr. Woolrych called him, and enquired vhy he sent his boy out to beg. Father : He went of his own accord. Mr. Woolrych : You took the money f Father : No, I did not. Mr. Woolrych Hark'ye, man, you are liable to be sent to prison as a rogue and vaga bond. You sent this boy out to beg, and you took the money from him. The father ; I did not take any. Police-constable : I saw the two boys give him the money. Mr. Woolrych (to the father) : You hear that. You are bringing up your children in a most disgraceful way. Yon are teaching them habits which will be ruinous to them. It is shocking to see children brought up to practices of this sort. I tell you are liable to be sent to prison for this conduct. The boy had nothing to say to the charge. Mr. Woolrych : This is most destructive to the boy's future prospects. I shall send him to a refor matory for five years, and make an order upon you to pay 2s. per week towards his maintenance. GUY FAWKES' DAY IN THE METROPOLIS.—TweIve boys and two adults were charged before Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police-court, with discharging fireworks in the public streets on Saturday night, in commemoration of Guy Fawkes' Day, and they were mulcted in various penal ties according to age. The anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot was observed in a peculiar manner in the district. Large figures representing Prince Frederick Charles, the Pope, the Emperor Napoleon, Margaret Waters, the baby farmer ; Archbishop Manning, and the arch-con spirator Guy Fawkes, with labels indicating who they were, paraded the streets followed by bands of dis cordant music and noisy boys, continually shouting. The most popular figures were those of the " Pope Guy," as he was familiarly called by the juvenile population, and Mrs. Waters, who were burnt in effigy in the evening amidst a panoramic display of fireworks. Similar figures have been paraded in the district this morning, amidst noisy demonstrations, and there will be no doubt another pyrotechnic display of squibs and crackers. The persons who get up these exhibitions find them very profitable at this season of the year. • STABBING.—SERIOUS CASE.—At the Marlborough-street Police-court to-day Edward Searly, a shoemaker, of No. 39, Saville-street, Marylebone, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with stabbing with a knife James Kennock. The injured man was not present, and the officer in charge of the case said that on enquiring at the hospital that morning he was informed that he was in a dangerous state. From the evidence it appeared that on Saturday night the prisoner and Kennock had a fight, and they both fell and were much injured, and some time after a person in the house in which they both resided heard a noise, and on going to ascertain the cause saw the prisoner strike Kennock, who said he was stabbed with something like a knife. Kennock was then taken to the hospital, where it was found that he had been stabbed in the abdomen. The prisoner, whose head was bandaged, and who appeared to have been much injured, put no questions, neither did he make any state ment. He was remanded. CILYSTAL PAL kCE.—llalf-cro wn Day ; Saturday, Nov. 5, 1870. Number of visitors by season tickets, 5,141; ditto on payment, 871 ; total visitors, 6,012. THE PONTIFICAL ZOIJAVES.—We are authorised to give a full contradiction , to the'charges made against the Italian Government by five English Pontifical Zeuaves in a letter published in the Times of the 18th ult., with respect to the treatment they pretend to have undergone after the capitulation of Rome on the 20th of September.— Times. hurried Out, with arms and belt in hand, arransing their equipinents as they ran. All the windows were thrown open and stuffed with on-lookers. Their trumpets'....g out along the Carebiere ; the citizen soldiers, as they hastened by, grew into larger and larger groups, took order, and got into step. Rattle and tramp and clang all over the city ! By the time I reached the main thoroughfare it was blocked with armed men marching in rank. Within ten minutes of the first drum-tap, there were twenty thouiand National Guards defiling towards the Hotel de Ville, amidst a deafening cry of " Vive la Republique 1" Against such a demonstration the Civic Guard and all the other revolu tionary powers could make no stand—not for the moment, certainly. They retired somewhat confusedly as the heads of the a fenging columns defiled into the squares. But we fear that to-morrow may see worse things. For the present all is quiet again, and the National Guards dispersed, ex cepting a small garrison for the Hotel de Ville and the Mairie. At the stations which I have just visited there is great confusion. Civic Guards, as drunk as men can be, 101 l against the ticket offices, and brutally refuse to allow any passengers to go, native or foreign, without M. Esquiro's written order. There are hundreds of people supplicating these brutes, who are literally too drunk to understand what is said to them. Poor France ! As to the ignorance of these people about what actually has taken place, hear this story, which is printed by respectable journals here, and believed by nine people in ten of all ranks When Bazaine treacherously proposed to Changarnier the surrender of Metz, the Republican hero professed to agree. He suffered the Marshal to sign his terms, and to march out the first 50,000 men, who were all participators in his guilt. When the town was rid of them, Changarnier suddenly closed the gates, fired on the traitors, killed them all, then sallied out and cut his way to Thion vile I THE FIGHT AT LE BOURGET. In his communication from the Prussian head-quarters at Versailles, under date November 1, the special corres pondent of the Telegraph gives the following account of tue engagement :—ln the affair at Le Bourget on Sunday last—a bitter fight that has cost the Prussian army one of i s best officers —the French troops displayed much more steadiness and resolution than they have hitherto exhibited in any contest under the walls of Paris. Le Bourget is a hamlet situated on a small rivulet that runs into the Seine, and lies in the middle of a considerable plain. It is about equidistant from St. Denis, Aulnay, and Sevran, and midway between the French and Prussian outposts. The rivulet in question had been dammed up by the enemy, so that the country immediately environing the village was flooded. A company of Prussian Guards occupied Le Bourget, their view being to prevent the French from throwing up earthworks there, d la Todleben, and making it avail able for an experiment in what is aptly called " offensive engineering." On Saturday last the French sallied in force, drove the company out of its position, and took Le Bourget. The incident was at once reported to head nuarters, and early on Sunday morning General von Moltke communicated to the general commanding the 2nd Division of Guards the order to re take Le Bourget at any cost. The French had not been idle with their prize, for during the few hours they held it they had traced the lines of important earthworks, and commenced throwing them up. At 11 a.m. on Sun day morning, immediately after receiving Von Moltke's orders, General von Budritzki attacked at the head of seven battalions—about 6,000 men—and encoun tered au unusually obstinate resistance. The French had crenelated and loopholed every available wall, and were forced out of their extemporised stronghold only by a desperate effort, having held the Guards at bay for a considerable time. At the moment when the fight was at its hottest, and the Prussians seemed to be getting a little the worst of the day, General Budritzki and Colonel Kanetz, grasping the standards of the two regiments engaged (Konigin Augusta and Konigin Elizabeth), put themselves at the head of their men—who, cheering loudly, swept the French clear out of the village, and drove them back to within a short distance of St. Denis. Two Colonels commanding regiments were killed Count von Waldersee ( Konigin Augusta ), and Colonel Zaluskowski (Konigin Elizabeth) ; with one captain (Compagnie chef), Count von Keller, son of the King's klofmarschall. Count von Waldersee, wounded severely in one of the battles before Metz, and especially mentioned in the King's telegram to the Queen on that occasion, had recovered from his hurts, and lately rejoined his regiment. He is deeply deplored by a large circle of friends, amongst whom are the members of the Royal Family. Count Keller was a young officer of high promise. Besides these fatal casualties, thirty officers were put hors de combat. About as many French officers and 1,2 , .)0 men, were captured by the victorious Guards—who, however, suffered heavily. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) MR MELLY, M.P., ON EDUCATION. The distribution of prizes of the North Staffordshire Ironmasters' and Manufacturers' Educational Association took place at Stoke•on-Trent on Saturday. After Mr. Melly, M.P., had distributed the prizes, he said he appealed to all, of every age and every station, to ladies as well as gentlemen (for the influence of the former is even much greater than the latter), to leave no stone un turned, until at the proper time a Council of Education is placed in power, which will enforce the attendance of every child at the National Schools of the district, unless that council is satisfied that the children are being properly educated elsewhere. This is a subject upon which I wish tc;lay before you one or two arguments, not because those arguments are new, for all arguments on this subject have been preached by many preachers ; but because, as the decision rests with you, you should be armed with any weapon you may have been able to pick up in other fields. I would also propose to you this pro position : is it fair or right that we should subscribe or be taxed for the creation of schools which are not to be used, in the playgrounds of which grass is to grow, and in which the masters and mistresses provided by law are to sit without duty or occupation. I ask you, secondly, whether it is fair that you should as ratepayers be bound to maintain in workhouses or in prisons those children when grown to man's estate who by the education provision you have endeavoured to withdraw from so terrible a fate. I cannot conceive that I shall have any difficulty in bringing to bear on this a local argument under the compulsory clauses of the Factory Act, adopted in the trade of your district. You enforce the attendance at school of children employed in your manufactories, and therefore you are placed in this absurd and illogical position : that if a child is learning the duties involved in intelligent and industrious labour, if he is learning lessons of obedience and order in the factory, he shall go to school ; but if he is learning the lessons of disorder, profligacy, drunkenness, and crime in the gutters of your towns, he shall not go to school ? Is it possible to conceive a proposition so illogical and unjust ? I am told this law deals with the liberty of the subject ; of all bugbears commend me to the liberty of the subject ; those wbo uphold that bugbear wish for unrestrained license. The right hon. gentleman argued for compulsory education in the interests of the parent; child, the State, and Heaven. REPRESENTATION OF NEWPORT (ISLE OF WIGHT). The Liberal candidate for Newport (Isle of Wight) has not yet been definitively settled upon, but it is now generally expected .that the Right Hon. Milner Gibson will contest the vacancy in the Liberal interest. Mr. Kennard is the Conservative candidate. MR. ALBERT PELL,_M.P„_ON THE FOREIGN CATTLE BILL. At the meeting of the Leicestershire Chamber of Agri culture, on Saturday afternoon, it was unanimously re solved, on the motion of'Mr. Albert Pell, M.P., that this chamber expresses the hope that her Majesty's Govern ment will not hesitate, with reference to the establish ment of a metropolitan foreign cattle market—already too long delayed—to enforce the provisions of the Cattle Diseases Animals Act of 1868. In the course- of his speech Mr. Pell complained of the foreign cattle market not having been made before ; and he feared that unless pressure was brought to bear on the corporation of London it would not be completed by the time prescribed by the Act, and that the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, who are a powerful body, would go to the House of Commons for an extension of time. It was also resolved that all foreign cattle should be slaughtered at waterside markets, to be established at all ports of debarcation, and that the Metropolitan Markets be opened as before the introduction of the cattle plague, such resolution not to include home-bred stock, which must be subject to quarantine, and not be pitched in any market. MURDER IN WEST CORNWALL. A murder was committed on Friday night at Redruth. A miner, named Rickard, had an altercation with some other miners, at a public house in that town. After leaving the house he was stabbed so severely in the hip that he died within ten minutes of receiving the injury. Two miners, named Hoskins and Allen, are in custody charged with the murder, • OUR pOTEMPORAIZIE,S—This Idorning RUPTURE OF THE ARIIISTICE NEGOTIATION 3. The Times says : There is no armistice. The stipula tions of the two belligerent Powers have proved abso t lutely irreconcileable, and the negotiations for a trucg were definitely broken off yesterday afternoon. All the hopes that have been raised of a suspension of hosti lities which might prove the prelude to a lasting peace are thus dashed to the ground. There can be no excuse for harbouring any longer delusions as to the future. There is nothing to relieve its blackness. No glimmer of light is anywhere apparent. The Pro- . visional Government has taken a fresh pledgc to abide by its former declarations. " The Government has sworn not to yield one inch of territory, and will remain faithful to this engagement." This was the speech of M. Fevre in response to the congratula tions of the National Guard of Paris on the result of the vote of confidence; and if anyone thinks M. Favre spoke for himself alone he will be disabused when he finds the proclamation of the whole Ministry declaring, " The Government of the National Defence has absolutely nothing to change in the policy which it has proclaimed in the face of the world." This is the resolution of the Government, and, as far as any evidence goes, of France. On the other hand, the Germans do not deceive themselves about the future. They have been disappointed in finding Paris stubborn, but they now calculate, with an arithmetical precision which is most significant, that Paris can hold out for 65 days from the Ist of November before capitulating through starvation. If it does not fall before through bombardment, it will fall on the 3rd of January because it is at the end of its provisions. Meanwhile. the invaders are ready to do and suffer all things. They have been fired at night and day for a month without a chance of re turning a shot, and the affair of Le Bourget showed that while victory may be certain it may be costly. But they do not hesitate. They do not even shrink from the anticipation of horrors such as their countrymen suffered about Met; where huts flooded with water and rifle pits which had become ponds laid low 500 a day, many from typhus. They are prepared for all this. Paris must fall: - Pestilence and slaughter may strike down besiegers and besieged. Villages may be burnt in France, and families left fatherless in Germany, and little children learn by ineffaceable lessons through the Christmas of 1870 the Gospel of Hatred and Revenge. It matters not. Two inflexible wills are in collision, and it is thus, and thus only, that it can be discovered which has strength enough to grind the other to powder. The Daily News thinks that under the circumstances it need occasion no great surprise that the negotiations for an armistice have failed, and remarks :—ln all the French accounts of those negotiations which have been published it has been assumed as a matter of course that the re victualling of Paris would be allowed; and in the state ment published in the Journal Officiel this understanding is stated in the most absolute form as a condition without which the armistice would not be assented to. In this official statement it is explicitly declared that the " armis tice is subordinate to conditions which the Government of National Defence had previously demanded on the occa sion of the interview at Ferrieres—the re-victualling, and the vote by the whole of France." This was a very serious statement, because, in the form in which it was made, it constituted a pledge given to Paris by the Government. The date of the declaration is not well ascertained, but inasmuch as it was telegraphed from Tours on the sth, it.is not improbable that it was pub. lished in Paris on the 3rd, and formulated the opinion upon which the Government gained its very large ma jority in the voting on that day. This promise of the French Government, it may be feared, narrowed its liberty of negotiation to a serious extent. It will be remembered that the German journals unanimously asserted that Count Bismarck would refuse to permit the supply even of a limited amount of food to Paris during the armistice. From the French point of view, an armistice which should leave the Prussians to apply the pressure of want throughout its dura tion might well seem illusory and pernicious ; but the Germans have something to say on the other side about the loss of twenty-five days, for which nothing but the certainty of peace could compensate them. A concession on this point, however, would not quite have decided the establishment of an Armistice. The French ' demanded not only liberty to re-victual Paris, but to introduce fuel into the capital, and to re-victual other towns against which the Germans were prosecuting war like operations. These subjects presented no great difficulty in themselves, but so far as they went they showed the tendency of points of difference to multiply. The Telegraph says : Peace finally refused, and by the besieged Government at Paris I The intelligence looks too terrible, too wild to be true ; yet it comes to us with only too much certainty. And it does but close a wild story of confusion within the last few days which forms one of the most startling episodes in that living romance of history. The feud between the extreme Re publicans and the Government, which had gone on increasing in bitterness ever since the investment of the capital, had broken out at last into open warfare. It still is the calamity of France, as it has so often proved at the most critical periods of her history, that her publics men, however patriotic, cannot make up their minds to sacrifice party ascendancy or personal repute to the, interests of the nation ; and for that reason they now not only strove to cast the decision upon the broader shoulders of an Assembly, but in the meantime they could not abandon the distinction to be gained by subserving the popular passion of the hour. Already we know the catastrophe. Even yet, indeed, we would fain cling to the hope that some new light may break upon the doomed people; but we cannot be deaf to the fatal announce ment which has actually reached us—that M. Thiers has received instructions to break off the negotiations for an armistice, and at once to leave the Prussian head-quarters. Terrible as the war has been thus far, who dares at such a moment to look steadily into the inevitable future? THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEFENCE. The Standard says the attempt of the extreme revolu tionary party to possess itself of power seems to have con firmed and considerably strengthened the authority of the Government of the National Defence. The suppression, of an effort so well planned, and in the first in- • stance attended with such complete success, .in a' few hours, without bloodshed, and without the aid of regular or professional soldiers, was in itself a great triumph for the Government ane for that cause of order which by a strange irony of fate it repre sented. The popular vote upon the question whether Paris would support the Government is worth even more. It seems to have been taken freely and fairly enough, for the numbers of the " Noes" are by no means inconside rable ; and assuming it to speak the feeling of the great city, we must conclude that nine-tenths of the popula tion repudiate the " Reds," and desire to see General Trochu and M. Favre continue the work they have undertaken of defending Paris as long as defence is possible. and of resisting the enemy throughout France until resin tance appears hopeless. The Government of the National Defence gets by this vote the simulacrum at least of a legal title. Hitherto it has represented nothing but some battalions of National Guards—several crowds com posed mainly of the men who voted "no confidence" on Thursday. Its illegal assumption of power had not been excused by any popular vote. Outside of Paris General Trochu and his colleagues had not the faintest right to claim obedience inside Paris ; their best claim lay in the tacit acceptance of their Government to be inferred from the absence of any attempt to overthrow it. But now they may at least pretend that they are chosen rulers of the capital, and under present circum stances Paris has a title she never possessed before to ask of the provinces the provisional acceptance of a Govern ment of her appointment. Count Bismarck's prudery will be satisfied. The German Minister has hitherto re fused to deal with the Government of the National Defence except in the most distant manner, on the ground that it had no mandate from the nation—the will of the people, as expressed in a plebiscite or in the election to a Constituent Assembly, being for the count, somewhat I°A.:, in life, the one thing to be regarded. Finding that the finances of the Middlesex Hospi tal are in an unsatisfactory state, Sir Edward R. Jodrell has sent to the secretary a cheque for £l,OOO, and an inti mation that his subscription will be increased from 10 to 20 guineas per annum. On Friday night Professor Huxley delivered the first of the second series of " Science Lectures for the People," at the Huhne Town Hall , on the subject of "Coral Reefs." The hall was crowded, and many work ing men who were anxious to hear the lecture were unable to find even standing room. THE LATE MURDER IN IRELAND.--Three men have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Murphy, the bailiff. They are sons of a tenant on Captain Lidswell's estate. They were brought up before the resident magistrate, and remanded for further examination. Murphy has left a idow and four children. It is stated that he was genertilly respected, and his murder has excited a feeling of horror in the locality. The barometer has again risen. Pressure is remarkably uniform. Temperature has fallen somewhat except in the English Channel, where there is scarcely any change. Light west breezes prevail in Scotland ; north-west airs over the North Sea, drawing to north east in the Channel and west of France, and very variable airs in Ireland. The sky is clear in the east of Scotland, cloudy elsewhere, with fog in many parts of the kingdom. The sea is calm.