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Xin g William B ERLIN , October. 30, Afternoon. has telegraphed as follows to Queen 4 ugusta, now at Homburg, under date of Saturday last "The great fact that both the hostile armies 'which confronted us in July last are now made pri a°Hers of war has induced me to create Fr itz and Friedrich Karl yesterday Field Marshals—the first event of the kind in our House." The Ring has raised General Moltke to the dig °lV of a Count. " REMILLY, October 28. " Prince Frederick Charles, at Metz, October 27, t° Xing William : " Four thousand French officers in Metz pray Your Majesty to permit them to keep their swords." i g HomßunG, October 28. " Queen Augusta to Prince Frederick Charles : " I send my sincere congratulations to you and Your brave troops. Your splendid success has ularked an era in this memorable war. I beg that You will send the details of the surrender." To-day Prince Frederick Charles entered Metz With drums beating and colours flying. No strangers are as yet allowed to enter the town. Perhaps to luorrow permission will be given. Metz is now uninterrupted communication betw een Alets and the German lines via Saarbruck. It is reported that 3,000 guns and forty millions of f rancs have been taken in Metz. Great quantities of provisions have been sent to the town from Saarbruck and Luxemburg. Metz will b e open to the public to-day. In consequence of General Ducrot and others h aving violated their parole the French officers are t° be treated in the same manner as the commot. Belcher,. CASSEL, October 28. In the Palace at Wilhemshohe all are in great s uspense, eagerly awaiting news respecting the c onditions of the capitulation of Metz. Some c onsternation is apparent. Pietri, the late police prefect, arrived this after noon from Switzerland. The Emperor walked out to-day. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. TAE FINAL SUMMONS TO SURRENDER. BERLIN, October 29. E fforts are making to induce the French Govern kent to accept the German terms proposed after the fa ll of Metz. The prisoners taken at the last sortie from Paris state that the troops in the city receive only twice a Week half a pound of meat. The army investing Metz consisted of seven Prus sian corps, one Prussian Landwehr Division, and the Hessian Division, in all 220,000. Of these less than , 2 , 0 ) 0 00 will garrison Metz, the rest being destir.ed for field operations. According to an official report of General Hartman several hundred women and children from Paris ap- Peared at the German outposts betweenMontrouge and ticetre, on the 24th instant. Being told that they Would be fired upon unless they returned forthwith, th ey replied that they preferred death to their t aieerable life inside the city. They were permitted to cross the German lines. Paris will probably be finally summoned to sur render in a day or two, and if it refuses to do so it Will be immediately bombarded. On the 22d inst. the first train ran from Chalons t ° Paris by way of Soissons, the line having been completely repaired. The trains stop at Sevran, near St. Denis. FRENCH PRISONERS IN GERMANY. - - At present the number of French prisoners is four karahals, 140 Generals, 10,000 officers, and 32 3,000 rank and file. According to `the New Prussian Gazette the last i iillzunons to surrender Paris was to be sent to the c ity on Saturday. If refused the bombardment Was to commence at the beginning of the present Week. M. GAMBETTA'S CIRCULAR. M. Gambetta has issued a circular to the Prefects, Which he says that a rumour of the capitulation c't Metz has been circulated, and it is right they should know the opinion of the Government on the subject. Such an event can only be the result of erime, the authors of which should be put beyond the pale of the law. "In these days of infamous e apitulations," says M. Gambetta in conclusion, " there is one thing that must not capitulate, and that is the French Republic." M. TRIERS AND HIS MISSION. A despatch, dated Friday, from the German h eadquarters at Versailles, states that M. Thiers had been for three days in possession of a safe con duct to that place, with permission to travel thence t o Paris ; but that he insists upon going by way of Orleans. TUE REPORTED FIGHTING IN PARIS. By letters which have arrived in Brussels and left Pads in a balloon on the morning of the 27th, it is denied that any fighting took place in the city on the 26th. Perfect union prevails among all classes of the population. THE ARMY OF THE SOUTH. ROUEN, October 29. It is reported here that, according to advices received from Lyons, the Army of the South, detailed to march to the defence of Paris, will 111111 Ther 200,000 men, of which 70,000 are regulars. PRUSSIAN REPULSE. AMIENS, Oct. 29. About 1,200 Germans arrived yesterday at Formerie T°iee), to break up the railway between Amiens and lien, but they were repulsed after a severe engage ment with the Garde Mobile. The French had six , led and thirty wounded. The Prussians lost enty killed, fifty wounded, and one gun. The ‘'terrnans in the retreat set fire to the village with Petroleum. THE DEFENCE OF VERDUN. LILLE, Friday Night. Not a soldier remains at St. Quentin. The Prus -14418 have installed a municipal commission of Paroled prisoners. The enemy announced that they Would shortly return to 'besiege various places in t he north, commencing with Cambrai. The Echo du Nord says the Prussians are making "1 c . . I sors a centre of operations, and that their obje "Ive point of attack is Rouen. -A, deputation of the women of Verdun have pre sented an address to the Commandant declaring, notwithstanding their sufferings and that the town b e in ruins, they desire resistance may be maintained lo ng as there is a defender or a stone left upright ,THE FRENCH FLEET. BREMEN, October 28 (Evening.) qp , j„,""ue Senate of this town has received telegraphic l°l'lmation from Belgium, according to which 12 eftch men-of-war, with 800 men on board, have 1-311 likirk to-day in a northerly direction. ITALY AND THE ARMISTICE. FLORENCE, October 25 (Evening). A uthoritativ e re p or t s rece i ve d .here announce th at one of the principal conditions proposed by Lord Granville, and agreed upon by the other neutral powers, as a basis for an armistice, is the immediate election of a Constituent Assembly, in order to secure the negotiation of a definitive The prospect of peace was most grateful to peace. tho Vatican. THE ITALIAN LAW IN ROME. FLORENCE, October 2G The Italian laws with regard to the Press have been introduced at Rome with important modifi catations. In the first place, attacks and insults directed against the Pope and the Envoys of foreign Powers to the Holy See are assimilated to those against the King and Envoys accredited by him. In the second place, the provisions of the penal laws against the Press are inapplicable to printed document emanating from the Pope or from the Ecclesiastical offices established for the exercise of the spiritual power. A preceding decree assimilates the person of the Pope to that of the King, as re gards the crime of high treason. The Official Gazette intimates to all Garibaldian Volunteers that they lose their right of citizenship in Italy by taking military service abroad. RUSSIA. BERLIN, October 29. The Czar of Russia has sanctioned the new regu lations for accelerating the mobilization of his army. They provide for the calling in of 427,297 men, 170,000 of whom come from Poland and the provinces of mixed nationality belonging to ancient Poland. CHINA. FOREIGN OFFICE, OCt. 30. Telegrams dated Pekin, October 16, have been received from Mr. Wade, via Kiachta, stating that the decree on the Tien-tsin case had been published; that 20 Chinese were to be executed immediately, and two magistrates exiled ; that Tien-tsin was quite safe ; that Newchang, perhaps, was unsafe, from famine and brigands ; and that he had urged the Chinese Government, and also the Admiral, to take precautions. THE I I'ALO-INDIAN MAIL. BRINDISI, October 25 (Evening). The first outward Indian: mail despatched viel Brindisi left here for Alexandria this morning at six o'clock, and was celebrated this evening by a grand banquet. The Minister of Public Works presided, and the Syndic and other local authorities were present. The arrangements for the transmission of the mails by way of Brindisi are succeeding admirably. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE PRINCE OF WALES AT WINDSOR. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur arrived at Windsor, at eleven o'clock on Saturday, and were received at the Great Western Station by Prince Christian, accompanied by Lord Clonmell and Lieutenant Picard. The Royal party drove to Windsor Forest for their first day's pheasant shooting this season, in the Royal preserves. MURDER IN IRELAND. At Lahinch, County Clare, on Saturday, a man named Terence O'Coghlen, shot a lad named Thomas Mulhivy with a double barrelled gun, killing him on the spot. The murder was committed in.the main street of the village. Mulhivy was one of a number of lads who had been in the habit of teasing O'Coghlen. The latter was at once arrested. MURDER AT BRADFORD. On Saturday night, a disturbance having occurred in the taproom of the Pack Horse Inn, Bradford, an Irish man, named John Riley, was ejected by the landlord, assisted by an occasional waiter, named Thomas Leach. Patrick Riley, a forgeman, brother of the man ejected, coming up at the time, killed Leach, by stabbing him in in the heart. He was arrested this morning, and a clasp knife, stained with blood, was found in his possession. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH PATRONAGE. A meeting of the senate was held In the Arts School at Cambridge on Saturday, for the purpose of discussing the recommendation of the syndicate, in regard to the presentation of livings, which fall into the hands of Roman Catholics, and which necessarily lapse into the hands of the University ; and are now appointed by the resident and non-resident members of the Senate. Mr. Clarke, the Vice-Master of Trinity College, and late public orator, expressed his opinion that the University should petition Parliament to be relieved of the power of exer cising such an act of injustice towards Roman Catholics. He said all other persons, Dissenters and Jews alike, presented to livings, and there was no just reason why Roman Catholics should be deprived of the privilege. CHARGE OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER. One of the most active officers in the Harrogate police force was apprehended on Saturday and charged with rob bing a visitor in a street in that townbetween one and two o'clock in the morning. A considerable sum of money was found on the officer, and it is stated that the prose cutor has strong evidence against him. CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY. FLORENCE, October 27. The conditions on which the Italian Cabinet is prepared to regulate the relations between Church and State in Italy will form the subject of a Bill to be laid before the Chambers at their assembling. The principal among these conditions are the following : _ 1. All the existing political functions of the Papal Go vernment to be abolished. 2. The Pope to remain invested with ecicesiastical rights, and, as the Chief of Catholicism, to be entitled to receive the honour and the liberty due to a Sovereign. He will be free to select his own personal staff and court, which must depend on him exclusively. 3. Territorial immunity to be secured to the Sovereign Pontiff, and his freedom and independence in matters con cerning the interests of the Church, whether at home or abroad, to be guaranteed. 4. All Prelates or ecclesiastical orders residing within the Holy See, whether congregated there for Councils or for other purpeses, to enjoy absolute freedom. 5. With a view to establish for the Holy Father free communication with the interior and with foreign nations, a special postal and telegraphic service to be placed at his disposaL 6. Representatives of foreign Powers at the Holy See to possess the same privileges as they enjoy at other Courts. 7. Papal Legates, missionaries, and couriers to be treated as the representatives of a friendly Power. 8. The Pontiff to be free to publish his decisions, whatever they may be, whenever and wherever he may choose. 9. The Italian Government to defray the expenses of the Papal Court, and assume the past Pontifical debts, passing to the Italian State the charges thereto belonging. 10. With a view to tranquillise Catholics and foreign Powers, the Italian Government agrees to sanction, by an international compact, these guarantees for the liberty of the Church and the independence of the Pope. The general principle pervading these proposals is the desire of the Italian Government to honour the Pope as a Sovereign and e. friend. The Cabinet, especially Visoonti-Venosta, are animated in their delibe rations by a wish to prove to Europe their intention to respect the sovereignty of the Pontiff, while taking firm ground upon the essential principle of " free Church in a free State— Correspondent of the Telegraph. Summonses were issued on Saturday for a Cabinet Council, to be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street on Wednesday next. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HaIf-a-Crown Day, Saturday Oct. 29, 1870. Number of visitors by season tickets, 981 ditto on payment, 1,018; total visitors, 5,140. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The last popular fete of the season takes place this day, which is also the last day for general excursions. The amusements comprise an operetta, athletics, comic singing, pantomic and other ballets, clowning, &c. To-morrow Mr. G. W. Martin's concert of war songs, by 4,000 voices, will be repeated for the last time, commencing at eight o'clock. " Martha" will be played by the opera company in the afternoon. Fifty new sketches from the seat of war have been added to the collection of war pictures, and caused considerable interest on Saturday. DE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1870. MURDER IN SALFORD. Another case of wife murder has occurred in Salford, Francis M'Evoy, a builder, and occupying a good position, having murdered his wife on Saturday morning. The de ceased woman had been suffering from gastric fever for someT weeks, and during the last few days APlilvoy, a man of steady habits, had been drinkiug heavily. On Saturday morning a quarrel took place between them, and the husband struck the wife a violent blow—whether with an instrument or not has not yet been ascertained — which rendered her insensible, and she died shortly after wards. Up to a late hour last night M'Evoy had not been arrested. A GENTLEMAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING; A thunderstorm passed over the neighbourhood of New port Pagnel, Bucks, on Wednesday, and lamentable cir cumstance occurred in connection with it. About two o'clock in the afternoon Captain Henry Miller . Powell, of the 57th Regiment, went out shooting with his brother, Captain Frederick Powell (sons of William Powell, Esq., of Westbury House). They had not been out - very long before they started on their return home, and when they were crossing a field belonging to Mr. Fairey, at the back of the Abb y , they were overtaken by the storm. Captain Henry was struck down by the lightning and instantly killed. Cap tain Frederick almost miraculously escaped, his coat only I ein e ,c , singed ; a dog, however, which was walking at the -ide of the latter gentlemen was killed. MURDER OF AN EMINENT GEOGRAPHER. Sir Roderick Murchison writes to a contemporary as follows :—"‘ It is my painful duty to announce that the distinguished traveller, Mr. George Hayward, to whom the 'Founders' Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society was awarded at the last anniversary of that body, was assassinated, and his property plundered, about the beginning of l%st August by the followers of the chief Meer Wate Khan of Yassim. The details of this lamentable catastrophe will be laid before the Royal Geographical Society at its first meeting, on the 15th of November, when I will endeavour to do all justice to the memory of so enterprising and accomplished an explorer of wild eastern mountains, and whose brilliant and hitherto suc cessful career was unhappily terminated when he was on the point of reaching the lofty Pamir Steppe, which he had engaged to visit and describe." MR. THOMAS HUGHES IN AMERICA. Mr. Thomas Hughes, M-P., who has been for a few weeks travelling in the United States, on the evening of October if made an address in Boston, his subject being " John to Jonathan," and the occasion, the opening in that city of what is known as " the fraternity course of lectures." The address was devoted to a statement of English feeling towards America, and Mr. Hughes said he could not conceal from himself the existence in America of a feeling towards England deeply painful to an English man. He proclaimed his attachment to his own land, and thought the Americans misjudged her. The aris tocracy and commercial classes, he admitted, were againt America; the first because the United States had been a constant protest against privilege, and the others because trade hated disturb ance. Mr. Hughes traced the course of action of the warm friends of the Union in England, and described their anxiety when movements for the recogni tion of the Confederacy were made in Parliament, and their exultation when these movements were de feated. The Proclamation of Neutrality, he said, was urged by Mr. • Forster and other warm friends of America, who pressed it, as they supposed, in ' American interest, desiring to legitimatize the cap tures by the Federal blockading squadron, and to put British merchants who lost their ships at once. out of court. England, he said, was in favour of the arbitra tion of the Alabama claims, and this he considered the true method of settlement. She was willing to pay all damages thus assessed without a murmur. In conclusion, he hoped.for renewed and permanent friendship between the two countries. The address of Mr. Hughes was ex tensively commented upon and generally commended by the American press. THE REPUBLICANS AND PEACE. The correspondent of the Daily News, in a letter from Tours, under date Oct. 26, writes : What will take place if, as I fear, are again badly beaten on the Loire ? As I expected, the Republicans won't hear of peace. The Government know very well that if they make peace under a reverse, those who have put them up will knock them down again without any scruple. Yet it is difficult to see what they really expect to do. If they win the next battle—and nothing is impossible— all may go well, for the French troops will thus take a little courage. But we have yet to gain that battle, and I am arguing in the much more probable hy pothesis that they lose it. That battle then being lost and the troops scattered in the way they were at Reichshoffen, what will become of the Government. We shall immediately have all kinds of strife and contentions. What took place after Sedan with the Imperial Government, will perhaps take place with this. But this Government will, no doubt, dispute its seat with those who may attempt to dis lodge it. At the same time the Prussians will be running over France more than they are now. As yet it is only one-. third of France which is ruined, and out of that third most of the rich people have fled, taking their money with them, which they are spending here and in the uninvaded parts of the country. In the invaded parts there is misery, no money but paper money, local_ banks have stopped payment, everything is at a standstill and ruined; but here there is nothing of the sort. Here, and in all the South, there is abundance of money, abun dance of food, tradespeople are coining money ; that is why they do not realise what will probably come upon them ere long. Here, I think, everybody who possesses anything would be quite ready to make peace.. In the South, where they are farther off from the immediate perils they are perhaps more enthusiastic for war; but, on the whole, all thinking, and all substantial people, are for peace. It is the Republican 4 who swear they will not make peace, it is the Republicans who (in a word) only exist through this war, who declare " Not an inch of ground or a stone of the fortresses shall be surrendered." As for the army, I tell you it sighs for peace at any price. We are verging towards such a chaos of conflicting parties, that it is im possible to form any idea of what this country is to become. I think the Government are in a terrible fright about the Army of the Loire. They have propped up the hopes of their party so much upon it, that if it were to fail, the consequence would be terrible 1 WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ExIIIBITION, AGRI CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others, on the 29th inst., was 8,037. The Bishop of Winchester has nominated the Rev. Canon Gregory to be Rural Dean of Camberwell. INGRATITUDE. — it is said that Captain R.A. E. Scott, RN., has been placed upon the retired list with out any reward being given him for the signal benefits he has conferred upon the navy by his inventions of gun carriages, &c. The Orchestra states that Mr. Sothern's brother in-law, the Rev. Thomas Cowan, of Everton, Liverpool, has died suddenly from heart disease. It ma y be remem bered that Mr. othem comes from a Liverpool family ; that his father was the head of one of the merchant firms that of Messrs. Sothern, Bromilow and Company. Mr. Sothern himself was born and educated in Liverpool. ACCIDENT TO MR. R. EYKYN, R. Eykyn, M.P. for Windsor, sustained an accident in the hunting-field on Friday. A horse standing near the hon. gentleman suddenly lashed out, kicking him severely in the leg. He was removed to his town residence in Upper Grosvenor-street, and is now under medical attendance. It is hoped that the accident is not of a serious nature. Mr. John Gorrie, of the Scotch Bar, who was a member of the editorial staff of the Morning Star (Lon don) up to the time of the decease of that journal, and who since then has held the office of Substitute to the Procureur and Advocate-General for the Island of Mau ritius has just been raised to the Mauritius Bench. The appointment is stated to have been made by the Colonial Secretary on the recommendation of the local authorities. Mr. Gorrie, who was educated at the University of Edin burgh, was admitted a member of the Scotch Faculty of Advocates in 1856. His salary as Substitute to the Procureur-G6neral of the Mauritius was £720, while a puisne judgeship of the Supreme Court is worth £1,200 per annum. The Bonn Gazette announces that Professor Tyn dall has sent to a friend in Bonn £5O for the wounded. In the letter accompanying the gift he expresses his regret at the desperate position of France, but acknowledges that it has been incurred through her guilt. He also quotes the following sentence from a letter addressed to him by Mr. Carlyle with respect to the war It is such an instance of Michael versus Satan as I have never read in all history before." THE MANAGEMENT OF BUILDING SOCIETIES.—Some disclosures of importance in relation to this subject have been made in the Chambers of Vice-Chancellor Bacon. An application was made for the appointment of an officer for the liquidation of the Durham County Permanent Benefit Building Society. It transpired that, although the rules clearly made it illegal, the directors had invested £23,000 in the purchase of a freehold estate at. Middles borough, Yorkshire, as well as borrowed money to the ex tent of £35,000. The real object of the society was to ad vance money to members and shareholders to facilitate the acquirement of house property; but in consequence of the independent speculations of the directors, the society had become so involved as to be quite insolvent. Another medium adopted for procuring money was the establish ment of a penny bank ;. and it was stated that the direc tors had no pecuniary Interest whatever in the society, being merely paid officers. The appointment was deferred for a fortnight, so as to ensure the selection of an independent person for investigating the affairs of the society. LOSS OF A FISHING BOAT.—While the herring boat Jim, Clovelly, North Devon, was riding to her nets on Friday morning, in a heavy sea, the weather being squally at the time, she suddenly foundered, and her crew of two men, father and son, were left clinging to her spars and oars. The lifeboat Alexander and Matilda Boetefeur, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was immediately launched, and proceeded towards the two men, who were about three miles from Clovelly. In the meantime a man named John Whitefield, who was also fishing in the vicinity, had observed the accident, and he in the most praiseworthy manner at once cut away his own nets, and proceeded to the spot, and succeeded in rescuing the father, who was afterwards transferred to the lifeboat, brought rapidly ashore, and on account of this prompt proceeding, the medical man was enabled to rescuscitate him. The younger man had unfortunately disappeared before he could be succoured by either of the boats. PROPOSED MONUMENT TO CAPTAINS COLES AND BURGOYNE, R.N.—lt is proposed by the under-mentioned captains, as a token of their esteem for their lamented brother officers Coles and Burgoyne, that every captain on the Active list shall subscribe one guinea to erect a private memorial, the style of which and the place of erec tion to be hereafter settled :—Charles Murray Aynsley, Elphinstone D'O. D'A. Aplin, William Armytage, Henry H. Beamish, Henry Boys, Thomas Brandreth, William C. Chamberlain, Thomas Cochrane, John E. Commerell, V.C., Charles Fellowes, Hon. Fitzgerald A. Foley, Lord Gilford, Hon Henry . Glyn, George Hancock, James G. Goodenough, William N. W. Hewett, V.C. ; Henry S. Hillyar t C. 8., St. George C. D'Arcy Irvine, H.S.H. Prince Leinengen, G.C.8., Charles H. May, Sherard Osborn, C. 8., F.R S., Edward B. Rice, A.D.C., Augustus C. Strode, Francis W. Sullivan, C. 8., and Fre deric W. Wilson. THE GERMAN VENGEANCE AT ABLIS. A private letter to a German local paper from a cavalry soldier gives a full account of the details of the affair at Ablis on the Bth of October, and of the vengeance exacted, which was of the severest order. It seems that the squadron of Schleswig-Holstein Hussars, ninety six strong,' which , had occupied the little town, turned, in to rest without any special measures for security there being an outpost of Bavarian troops just beyond the place in the direction of the supposed enemy. About 3 a.m. this post was driven off by a night attack ; and the Francs-tireurs poured into the town on three sides at once and commenced their attack on the Hussars. The signal was given to boot and saddle, but many were shot down in the attempt to get to their horses, and the half of the squadron who escaped did so chiefly by fleeing individually and gaining the covert of some adjacent woods. Some of the fugitives made their way after daybreak to Rambouillet, twelve miles off, where lay their brigade with a party of Bavarian rifles, and the whole moved forward at once to avenge a disgrace which they conceived could only have befallen them with the full assistance of the inhabitants of the place. On arriving at Ablis and reoccupying it without resistance, it was• found that the bodies of the slain had been all removed. From this it was at once taken for granted that they had been carried off to claim a reward which the German soldiers fully believe to have been offered by the French Government for every one of their comrades slain by Francs-tireurs. Much more probably, as we conclude, they were removed by the frightened inhabitants in order to get rid of the traces of an affair so dangerous to them. Be this as it may, the scene of vengeance which followed was as terrible as anything in modern war. " Women, children, and grey beards were spared," says the eye-witness, one of the avengers .himself ; " but the men of the place " (which contained 740 inhabitants before the war) " were all shot or cut down without mercy." Then " the word was given to plunder and destroy," and, after the soldiers had taken all they could, houses, barns, stacks, and all that would take fire were set into one grand conflagration, which lasted till night. "My pen can hardly describe the transaction," concludes'the narrator. THE PRUSSIANS AT ROUEN. The Prussians are concentrating their forces near Gisors, with the evident intention of marching on Rouen, though, possibly, with the view of throwing the French off their guard, they keep their troops in motion. The French on their side, are taking active precautions, and a change has been made in the chief command, which has been transferred to Colonel de Lusay from General Gudin. The former has distinguished himself on several occasions during the present war, and his appointment to the chief command has been very well received, There has been some talk about the French taking the offensive, but their complete ignorance with regard to the enemy's movements as usual interfered. The spy system, so useful to Prussia has entirely failed France. In stead of, knowing exactly the strength of the Prussian force in such a place, the French military authorities are absolutely ignorant of what goes on in the invaded districts. The Prussian spy service is on the other hand admirable. A few days since there were eight hundred Prussians at Audelys. They had piled up their guns, unsaddled their horses, and left their cannons without horses, while the men dispersed themselves among the cabarets or in the houses. A quick witted resident in the neighbour hood perceiving that 200 Frenchmen might easily take the whole body prisoner hastened to give the information to a body of Free Shooters in the neighbourhood, whose com mandant instantly got his men together and marched rapidly on Audelys. They were scarcely en route, however, when the Prussian. Colonel, who was taking his ease at the Prefecture received a note telling him of the movement of the Free-shooters. He at once mustered his men and evacuated the town ten minutes before the freeshooters reached it. There was a skirmish between Uhlans and Freeshooters near Gisors which was sufficiently remarkable. The Prussians at first had but 25 men, but in the twinkling of an eye they were reinforced to the number of 800, while the Freeshooters were only 100. The Prussians wished to surround a wood, but the Freeshooters concentrated themselves there, and would not let them approach. The Captain, M. Gamier shewed great courage. Pressed closely by the Prussians, he intrenched himself in the house of a forester, but he was exposed to the firg of the musketry. The Prussian officer, thinking he was lost, advaved, crying " Sur render." M. Gamier, for answer, discharged his revolver and laid him dead at his feet. Escaping, he was fired at from all directions, but was only slightly wounded in the hand. The Official Journal of Paris has published an order of the General-in-Chief; which confers the rank of sergeant on a corporal of a marching regiment of Zouaves, who swam across the Seine, under the Prussian fire, to rescue a messenger of the army. This unfortunate man had taken refuge on the island of Marande, as his boat had been destroyed' by the enemy's shots. The corporal found a cask on the bank, and placing the messenger in it he drew it in safety to the shore. The Libert6 advises the commandants at depots, and the colonels of marching regiments, to keep a sharp look out, because a well-informed person coming from Belgium, has said that the Prussians have bought a number of certificates belonging to soldiers who were prisoners in Belgium, and that, in consequence, several spies have passed into France on the pretext of being French soldiers. The Courier du Havre says that on the 21st some Uhlans returned to Etrepagnay and demanded a fresh requisition from the mayor. The latter replied that the canton was too poor to furnish it. The Uhlans left, and returned next day to the number of 300 with two pieces of artillery. They pillaged some warehouses and insisted on being supplied with 4,000 francs, 100 bags of oats, forage, and straw. The required stores were got together with the greatest difficulty. - A Vienna correspondent, says that the Dutch Govern ment proposes in a confidential manner, to sell the Grand Duchy, and Count Bismarck, mysterious always, pro poses to buy it. The king justifies his proposal, by the fact that Luxemburg must enter into a customs alliance with one of its neighbours, and it chooses the Zollverein because Begium and France are out of the question. The King of Prussia, says that a foreign country cannot be received into the Zollverein ; and hence the necessity for a cession to take place. Count Bismarck intimates that he can dispense with the consent of the population to the cession, and their votes need not be taken on the questi A FRENCH REFUGEE.—At the Mansion House, Edouard Xorier, an elderly Frenchman, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with obtaining I money by false pretences from the French Refugee Aid Society, in King-street, Cheapside. It appeared from the evidence, of Mr. Bennoch, the secretary to the society, that about a fortnight ago the defendant called upon him, and represented that he was in great distress, and had only just been turned out of Paris as a " bouche inutile," or useless mouth, and, upon his signing the paper, witness gave him half-a crown, and told him to call again, and that in quiries would be made about him. The result of these inquiries was that it was discovered that the defendant had been in this country for several years, and that he got his living by imposing - upon the charitable. A passport was found upon the prisoner, by the dates upon which it appeared that he had been in Paris within a comparatively recent period. This was explained by Mr. Bennoch stating that the defendant appeared to have con trived to get to Paris occasionally, and obtain vises to his passport, and was thus enabled the better to carry out his fraud. Mr. Bennoch also said that a great many genuine cases of the most painful distress came before the society, and it was necessary to prevent any imposition from being practised. The Lord Mayor sentenced the prisoner to two months' hard labour. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE NEWMARKET RACES-SATURDAY. Gaston Callipolis f Clos Vougeot, £lOO PLATE, Fifteen ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Miss Hervine Duke of Beaufort Theodore Eight ran. MATCH. Patience Gruelthorpe SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOUS, Ismael Newsman Blonde .. Seven ran PLATE OF 50 SOVS, Queen of the May Gantelet Eole II Eleven ran. HOUGHTON HANDICAP. Lady Sophia ... Countryman .. . ... Friponnier..... ...... Twenty ran. MATCH. Andorra Sir George SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. .Kate filly Quizzles MATCH. Eole against Toucque3—Off. SWEEPSTAKES OF . 10 SOVS, ....'1 .... 2 .... 3 Newsman Satinstoe..... Nightjar. Four ran. MATCH, Lavandiere Peasant Girl SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS Ismael Woodford Camera. Seven ran, MATCH. Lictor Vex Rain pouring down incessantly all day. No betting on 'uture events. CITY BETTING.—SATunD AY. LIVERPOOL CUP. 1800 to 200 agst Rosicrucian (taken) 100 to 8 agst Alarie (taken) 100 to 7 agst Syrian (taken) 100 to 7 agst Barford (taken) 100 to 6 agst Blandford (taken) 100 to 6 agst Cardinal York (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Miss Hervine (offered) 200 to 2 agst Green Riband (taken) LITRERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE. The A thenceum says :—We inteLd to commence shortly a series of sketches, under the general title of " Dramatists of the Present Day."—We understand that the " Diary of a Besieged Resident," which appears in the Daily News is from the pen of Mr. Labouchere, the late member for Middlesex.—The Germans have sent Dr. Holder, of Carlsruhe, to see if he can recover any fragments of the great Strasburg Library that they have burnt. As might be anticipated, the work of destruction had been effec tually performed.—A recent visitor to Harris's community on Lake Erie, of which Mr. Lawrence Oli phant is a member, # found them erecting a railway tavern and excavating wine - Th% romance dialect of South Tyrol is being ilhistrated by Mr. Christopher Schneller. The first part of his work has lately appeared at Gera.—The State of Salvador in Central America is seized with a vigorous reformatory movement. Education is declared to be compulsory, but we fear schools are few and far between; nevertheless, parents and masters of apprentices, who neglect to attend to the education of their children are to be fined 10s. for " each offence," whatever that may mean. In this moral excitement all raffles are declared to be illegal, except those for the benefit of the clergy.-- Another attempt will be made next year to revive the " Ancient Concerts," which will have Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief, and Mr. Barnby as conductor. —" War " is, we understand, the title of the comedy by Mr. Robertson in preparation at the St. James's Theatre.—Mr. Holman Hunt, who is still in Jerusalem, has made good progress with the picture which has for some time past occupied his attention. Hi, health is re-established. He will probably visit England for a short time in a few months.—Musical doings at the Antipodes are not uninteresting. It is curious to learn that at the Melbourne Theatre Royal, the impresario has the spirit to import an opera from Italy without its having gone through the ordeal of being tried either in Paris or London. The " lone "of Enrico Petrella, a composer whose works have been numerous, is based on Lord Lytton's romance, " The Last Days of Pompeii." " The music never flags, writes a local critic ; "it is never tame or inexpressive; in its southern warmth and strong local colour the music is thoroughly racy of the Neapolitan soil. The overture and instrumentation are full of strong contrasts." Verdi's "Sicilian Vespers," also produced at Melbourne, does not seem to have pleased so much as Petrella's " lone." Signora Barratti, the prima donna, is proclaimed by some of her Australian admirers to be a second Grisi ; at all events, Barratti arouses the enthu siasm of her auditory, especially in " Norma." She is young. Signor Neri, the tenor, does not please. Madame Escott, who is well known in the English provinces, has realised a fortune by her singing in Australia. Mention is made of an American tenor, Mr. Squires, as achieving a high position. ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—A performance was:given a the Theatre, St. George's Hall, on Friday night, by the Thbtis Dramatic Club. The proceeds were intended for a charitable purpose. The entertainment commenced with the farce of " Wanted, 1,000 Milliners ;" Messrs. Fred. Gay and R. Horsley Woods sustaining the characters of Joe Baggs and Tom Lepton respectively. The efforts of these two gentlemen, combined with those of Mr. Fred. G. Irving as Angelica Tod, an ancient milliner's apprentice, contrived to make the farce a successful performance, roars of laughter following their droll eccentricities. They were ably supported by b di. a- do ze n young lalies as milliners, whose playing w e as also worthy of admiration. The farce was fol lowed by the well-known melodrama of " Robert Macaire," the part of Macaire being impersonated by Mr. T. Balfour (late of the Amphitheatre, Leeds). Mr. Frederick G. Irving made Pierre, the fussy waiter, very amusing ; and Mr. Graham also played Dumont in an original style, he having a peculiar faculty of placing his head, arms, hands, and legs in most extraordinary positions. Miss Marion Herbert as Marie was quiet and unassuming, as consistent with the part ; and Miss E. Cliffe, in the character of the lady-like Clementine, secured for her acting many expressions of praise. The enter tainment concluded with the Strand comedy-farce of " Our Domestics." A large and distinguished audience was present. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The Ex hibition buildings, South Kensington, are making rapid, progress towards completion. The painters and deco rators have finished their work in the fine-arts gallery, and Messrs. Minton, Taylor and Co. have commenced laying the encaustic tiling on the floors. The walls of the galleries are painted in distemper, a pale green, relieved by a broad band of chocolate under the cornice and by skirting, which is also chocolate. The ceiling is ordinary distemper. In the lower part of the building, which has just been taken possession of by the painters, the same colours will be employed, and with some ex ceptions, the same style of decoration will be used. A dado, sft. high, of chocolate colour, will run round the entire court, and the girders which support the fine-art galleries above will be pannelled in the same colours. The colour of the tiles for the flooring is dark red. The French supplementary gallery, or annexe, forms three sides of a square, and has direct communication with the exhibition buildings. The court-yard, or interior of the square, is to be laid out as a garden, and used for refreshment purposes. It is proposed to open up to the view of per sons in this courtyard the gardens of the Horticultural Society.—Builder. HEALTH OF THE NAVY.—Prefacing the statis tical report of the health of the navy for the year 1868, Mr. A. E. Mackay, Deputy- Inspector of Hospital and Fleets, says : " In the ratio of cases entered on the sick - list, and in the death - rate, this year contrasts favourably with the proceding ; but there was an increase in the ratio of inval iding, which was mainly attributable to the peculiar nature of the duties imposed upon the squadron in the East Indies in connection with the Abyssinian Expedition. Since the Contagious Diseases Act came into operation, on the home station there has been a steady progressive decrease in the ratio of cases of those diseases against which it is directed, from 104'2 per 1,000 in 1863 to 53' per 1,000 in 1868. The system of transferring the ships composing the squadron on the West Coast of Africa to other stations, after a limited period of service, has been attended with the best results. Compared with the pre ceding year, there was a decrease in the death-rate on that station equal to 14.1 per 1,000 of force. There was a decrease in the death-rates on all the stations, with the exception of the home and South-east Coast of America, on the former of which the increase was only '1 per 1,000, but in the latter it was 1 . 4 per 1,000. Compared with an average of the total force taken for ten years, there was a decrease in the ratio of cases equal to 196'5, of in validing to 1.9, and of mortality to 5'6 per 1,000. The total death-rate was B'9 per 1,000, being the lowest ratio of mortality which has occurred in the service afloat since these returns were first published annually in 1856. The death-rate from disease alone was only 6'5 per 1,000." CUR COTIZIPORARIZS—This MorLin, M. GAMBETTA AND MARSHAL BAZAINE. The Times discusses M. Gambetta's condemnation of Marshal Bazain e, and asks : Cduld Bazaine break _ _ through the Prussians at Metz, and can Trochu do so at Paris? The answer should not be given incon- giderately. An army shuts itself _up in a. fortress, or seeks - the shelter of its guns, when it is no longer sufficiently strong to keep the field. The three great efforts of Bazaihe on the 14th, 16th and 18th of August were in reality sorties. The Marshal tried then to cut his way through the enemy's ranks, and, having failed, it was hopeless for him to renew the Attempt. Henceforth the beleagueied army might indeed be able, and was bound, in self-preservation, to make frequent sorties ; but these could only be meant to harass the besiegers, to meet his advances, destroy his works, spike or dismount his cannon, thus preventing the invest ment becoming a close siege and putting off a bombard ment or an assault. But, in order that a garrison, no matter how large, which has been driven in because it was not a match for the besieger may be able to break through his lines, it is necessary that something should happen during the siege to alter their mutual relations. The be sieged army may, indeed, be numerically as strong as that of the besieger ; it may be numerically stronger, but the question is whether the causes which originally shut it in have ceased to be effective. Had, for instance, the German armies under Steinmetz and Prince Frederick Charles been so exhausted by famine or thinned by disease as to lose their efficiency, a new appeal to arms might have been successful. But there is hardly any doubt that, while all the losses of the German armies could be promptly repaired, the distress within the forts of Metz daily increased, and became at last intoler able. By enduring to the last, and giving full employ ment to 250,000 Germans, Bazaine did his country a more important service then he would have done by constantly renewing a contest in which life would have ag..p.in and again been overpowered ; but in that very service ho reduced his army to such a state of exhaustion that it was at last incapable of anything but surrender. M. Gambetta has surpassed himself, remarks the Daily News, in publishing a proclamation which is worse than mendacious. We may look upon his sinister references to criminal capitulations as prophetic of a wide-spread clamour against Marshal Bazaine. If there is one fact in all her re cent experiences of which France may be proud, it is that, at the beginning of the war, her soldiers fought bravely against superior numbers ; and that she has since had more than one General who has done his best to retrieve her misfortunes, and shown himself a courageous and able officer in these efforts. Is it prudent, is it humane, is it honourable .to turn upon those men whenever they have succumbed to circumstances, and hound them with a cry of perfidy ? There are ignorant persons all ever the world who imagLe that a man who differs from them is a fool, that a general who does not work miracles for them is a traitor. But is it not deplor able that one of the handful of politicians who now hold the honour of France in their keeping—one of the leaders to whom France, in her distress and need, is com pelled to look for guidance—should betray the gross and unreasonable projudice, the angry and savage suspicion which fire the brain of the uninstructed peasant? M. Gambetta, in his proclamation of the 29th, treats the capitulation of Metz as a rumour, but seems even in that case anxious to be beforehand with popular judgment. In the same breath in which he acknowledges he has no information about the fall of Metz, he declares that such an event can only be the result of crime. We are glad to believe that the accusations brought against Ulrich were not supported by the great mass of the people, and that the spirited reply of that General touched responsive chords in the better h6art of France. But with the Chief Minister outside Paris openly lead ing the chorus, we need not be surprised if the whole nation begins to charge Bazaine with being a traitor. The Standard thinks M. Gambetta's circular leaves very little room for the fond belief expressed in many quarters that the capitulation of Metz will convince the French of the hopelessness of further resistance, and, con sequently, of the wickedness of making it. The Minister of the Interior not only declares that this disaster will nut overcome the resolution of the Government to resist to the last, but even denounces the surrender, although quite ignorant of the circumstances under which it was made, as a crime, the authors of which should be put out of the pale of the law. This denunciation is very childish as well as unjust, but there is no reason to doubt that it correctly expresses the feeling, we will not say of France, but of that party which is now predominant in the country. For the extreme Republican faction every defeat sustained by France is the work traitors, whilst the resolution to continue the struggle the last rather than cede territory is common at present to all parties, and is likely to continue so until after peace has been made, for the good reason that the party which should profess other opinions would court its own destruction as a party, and the exile or imprisonment of its leading members. M. Gambetta could, of course, have had no communication with his colleagues in Paris before he wrote this circular, but they are not likely to disown it. The fall of Metz may have a very important influence on the fate of Paris, but it is a great mistake to suppose that peace must precede or immediately follow the sur render of the capital. General Trochu may come to the conclusion that Metz in the hands of the Germans, and the hundred and fifty thousand men watching it free to be employed against the armies forming on the Loire and in the south, all chance of relief is over, whilst it may appear to him to be equally vain to hope, now that the communications of the besiegers with Germany are so fully secured, that they may first become tired of starvation rations and wintry weather. Having come to that reso lution, he may treat with the King of Prussia for the surrender of the capital. But that he would treat for peace at the same time is very improbable, anxious as the Prussians would be for him to do so. ENGLISH NEUTRALITY. The Telegraph, in commenting upon Earl Granville's reply to Count Bernstorff relative to English neutrality, says international law has laid down certain rules which may occasionally bear hard on a belligerent, but which do nevertheless embody an intelligible prin ciple, dealing equality in the long run to all alike. At a particular stage one of the belligerents requires one of the neutrals to suspend the law in its favour. If the demand were yielded, in what position would the other belligerent and all the other neu trals stand? Would not all be entitled to complain—the neutrals that unsettlement had been introduced into all their relations, the belligerent that an accepted law had been infringed to his injury ? Would such a result be beneficial to the relations between independent States, or tend to harmonise the policies of those directly affected by the change ? It may be convenient for Prussia that we should instantaneously alter our traditional customs for her ad vantage and for the injury of her foe; but what of France? Would she not have a real grievance, and could we give a plausible answer to her accusations ? These are points which, for our own sake, we must bear closely in view, and they carry us irresistibly to one conclusion. If the duties of neutrals to belligerents are to be altered, it must be by general consent, and through a delibe rate remodelling of the whole system of interna tional law, not by haphazard innovations which destroy the very character of neutrality. Such an alteration must take place during peace, not amid the play of the passions evoked by war ; and, when accepted, the new law must be honestly observed by each State; not rejected when anger, or caprice, or the for tune of war may tempt to a disavowal of the great prin ciples involved. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT.—The Gazette of Friday evening publishes Orders in Council, defining the parts of Plymouth and Shoreham within which foreign cattle may be landed for slaughter. The North Devon Herald reports that considerable progress has been made in the construction of the Devon and Sdmerset Railway, which is now almost completed between Wiveliscombe and Taunton, and that a portion will be opened for traffic in a few weeks. The promoters also announce their intention of proceeding vigorously with the remainder of the line, the second section of which, from Barnstaple to Southmolton, must be ready according to the contractors' agreement, by February, 1870, and the third and last division by the following June. LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. —Yesterday evening Mr. Hepworth Dixon received a deputation from the Maryle bone Electoral Association, who came to offer him their undivided support in the pending election for the School Board. The deputation, which was received by Dr. Richardson and other members of Mr. Dixon's executive committee, consisted of Mr. Henry Spencer, secretary ; Mr. Groves, and Mr. Morgan. After a lengthy discus- sion, measures were decided on by the association to secure the return of Mr. Hepworth Dixon. The general committee numbers already over 300 ratepayers, including many Fellows of the Royal Society, Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, Justices of the Peace, Royal Academecians, &c., &c. Mr. Hepworth Dixon has issued an address, in which he takes his stand on compulsory education, Bible reading, and a thorough use of all the powers provided in the Act.