The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-03 00:00:00

1-i Z . 5 if 61.41Ai C7l-EACE. SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M. WAR,. THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN ARMISTICE. VERSAILLES, November 1 (11 p.m). M. Thiers returned from Paris last night with Powers from the Government there to treat for an arnaiitiee on the basis proposed by England. Ile had a long interview with Count Bismarck to-day, a nd expressos himself quite satisfied with his l eeeption. M. Thiers also has had an audience of the King of Prussia, which lasted three hours. Count Bismarck paid M. Thiers a return visit this ev en i ng. M. Thiers has communicated with the Tours G overnment. Meantime operations go on actively. The Prussian Guard (Queen Augusta's Regi raent) stormed Le Bourget, near St. Denis, on the 30th, and took 30 officers and 1,200 men Prisoners. Colonel Walderste was killed, and 25 officers kid 400 men were put hors de combat on the Berman side. FRENCH DEFEAT AT GRAY. BERLIN, November 2. The following official telegrams have bcoa received : " VERSAILLES, October 31. " Fifty-three 'eagles and standards were surren dered at Metz. "il. Thiers returned to-day at noon from Paris. " General Werder's vanguard on the 27th of October encountered the enemy near Gray, and Put them to flight, capturing 15 officers and 500 44 VERSAILLES, NOV. 1. "The Jad Division of Infantry Guards lost on the 3 0th of October 84 officers and 449 men• _ . "There was heavy firing from Fort Valerian on the 31st of October and the lst of November, with out causing any loss." THE CAPITULATION OF METZ. SAARBRUCK, Nov. 2. The Prussians have found in the magazines, arsenals, and forts of Metz all hinds of stores, inclu ding ample provisions for the maintenance of a sufli cleat garrison till March next. THE ARMY OF GARIBALDI. DOLE (JURA), Nov. 1. A. cavalry corps, numbering 1,500 men, passed to-day near Geniis, at which place we made a rocon 4aissance yesterday. Italian volunteers, mostly Genoese, are joining Garibaldi's forces. The spirit ° f the men is excellent. The Prussians having taken Dijon after an engage ment lasting eight hours, have demanded half a Million of francs for the purpose of maintaining 0,000 men. Their present object is to advance upon Lyon,. MOVEMENTS OF THE GERMAN FORCES. BERLIN, November 2. The First Army, under General Manteuffel, with the exception of the Seventh Corps, goes north. It will occupy Normandy, Picardy, and Brittany, keep ing up connection with the Fourth army of the Crown Prince of Saxony. It will also reduce Verdun and Mezieres. The 7th Corps will garrison Metz and the forts, and reduce Thionville. The Second Army, except the 2ud Corps, which Proceeds to Paris, will go South, establishing connec tion on the left with General Warder, and on the r;ght with General von der Tann. PROVISIONS IN PARIS. According to reports received yesterday at the Germ an Head-quarters at Versailles, it is said that the Parisians have only supplies of meat to last for twelve days. THE ATTACK. ON DIJON. ROUEN, November 1. The following particulars have been received of the attack on Dijon : "The Prussians numbered batween 10,000 and 12 ,000. The fighting at the entrance to the town and in the Faubourgs lasted from nine in the Iterning till 4.30 in the afternoon. The French troops were composed of Regulars, Mobiles, and National Gardes Sddentaires. As soon as the bom bardment commenced the French commandant, Seeing further resistance would be ineffectual, ordeied a retreat." An official report bas been published of a suocess ful sortie of the garrison of Verdun on the 20th of October, during which they drove in the Prussian outposts and spiked 26 large guns. •, Colciyil(; Gazette, condemned Gam betta and Cambric's to death as traitors, and have resolved to separate Marseilles from France, and to constitute an independent Republic, raider the name of the Valley of the Rhone. TROCHE'S SCHEME FOR RAISING THE SIEGE OF PARIS. The North German Correspondent, a semi-official Berlin journal, says : "The Provisional Government still cherish the hope of organising armies in the north, the west; and the south ; and when everything is ready, Trochu is to cut his way through the besieging army with the force he has formed and disciplined in Paris, and the united armies of France are 'to raise the siege of the capital. The investing army has not lost sight of the possi bility of some such attempt on the part of Troehu, and so the south and south-west of Paris—more especially to the left bank of . the Seine, the points chiefly open to attack—have been guarded by the whole army of the Crown Prince, which has lately been strengthened by the Landwehr of the Guard. Nor will the Provisional Government succeed in gain ing the time they desire. It would be a cruel mercy to grant it them. In 180 an armstice was not concluded until the preliminaries of peace had been accepted by Austria. France, unfortunately for herself, is not yet willing to accept the consequences of her defeat." BOMBARDMENT OF NEUBREISAOH. The Prussian siege guns opened fire against Noubreisacli and Fort Mortier early yesterday Morning. RETURN OF THE EMPRESS. Tho Empressleft Wilhelnishohe and pawed through Cassel yesterday. T ilt; ALLEGED BONAPARTIST INTRIGUES. ROUEN, Tuesday. The .Imtrnal du Ham attributes the fall of Metz to the Bonapartist intrigues fomented by Prussia, and asserts that the Emperor Napoleon upon receiving the intelligence at Wilhelmehohe of the proclamation of a French Republic, turned to the Prussian officers and said " Now you and I have the same enemy, and be is carrying out his hideous programme by corruption and venality." (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) TUE SUFFICIENCY OF THE GERMAN ARMY. It is stated by the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in a second edition to-day that orders have been sent from head-quarters that no wore troops are to be forwarded to supply the losses jo the Bavarian Army Corps. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. BERLIN, November 2. In a circular dated Qctober 28, to Count Berns-1 thrli; in reply to the despatch of Earl Gran- vile of the 20th ultimo, Count Bismarck says : " While it is perfectly clear that Germany, after the experiences she has had, cannot take the initiative in any negotiations, we shall most willingly receive every proposal which may be addressed to us from the French side, and which flay lead to peace negotiations, and we shall examine them with a serious desire for the re-estab libhment of peace. b EMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE GOVERN- MENT AT TOURS. TOURS, Tuesday, 4 p.m. There has been a great manifestation in front of the Prefecture. The crowd demands the die missal of M. 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P, wen presen,. b e :tted with , ec i t was rece%o nt fearing, t r would rsii 7001 d qui ( i` r 'i, the coat , o , has bee's COUNTO 7iug3 I U col :inf.; trade 1101'-'2l. e lowest b ac k situ- - ; find tile° g t ewer-stree t, with pove r ,t situated . paid. aey in rePo l t / De become 0 , Le Barral e d ly dilapid t 'p ::upation. d i e I:saops . of„te ever r?, - holia.a2o of lover In anot;g all suffe r/ o' houses ::Lltnost enil of these,, f u ver-str icl ` ther, suffer her v clO ft- E SUN, LONDO:N, THURSDAA; NOVEMB.Eft 3, CAPITULATION OF METZ. ,The correspondent of the Daily News at Metz, writing or the 29th October, furnishes the following particulars respecting the surrender of that fortress : At twelve o'clock yesterday forenoon each of the out lying fortresses was taken possession of by two battalions of Prussian infantry, a squadron of cavalry, one heavy battery without tumbrils, 100 artillerymen with the com plement of officers, and an engineer detachment. The following is the apportionment of the force of occupation. The troops occupying St. Quentin were found by 15th Infantry Division. Plappeville „ „ 3rd Army Corps. St. Julien Ist Army Corps. Queleu If IP Bth Army Corps. St. Privat „ „ Hessian Division. At the same hour a battalion of the 7th Army Corps marched forward, and took possession of La Porte Serpenoise, one of ' the gates of Metz, and another battalion from the same corps occupied the Porte Moselle. Two hours before the occupation of the fortress, I should observe there were sent forward from each of the occupying detachments an artillery officer and a small body of under officers, accompanied by engineers, to take over the powder magazines and the respective forts, and they sent Out the report to the effect that all was in order before the troops were allowed to march in. This precaution was no doubt dictated by a recollection of the catastrophe at Laon. THE FRENCH LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS. At one o'clock yesterday it was ordered that the French army should formally lay down its arms. There was no set ceremony, yet the affair was imposing from its very simplicity. It was conducted in detail, each corps laying down its arms in theneighbourhood of its own station. I saw the 3rd Army Corps—that of Lebceuf —disarm itself. The Marshal himself came first, a scowl upon his swarthy features. He wheeled to one side, and stood by the single Prussian-officer whose duty it was to superintend the stack ing of the arms. Regiment after regiment, the men defiled past, piling their arms in great heaps at the word of com mand from their own officers, who gave their parole, and were allowed to retain their swords. This applies to most. There were, however, some who declined to accept the terms, and who preferred going with their men into captivity in Prussia. These laid down their swords as the men did their Chassepots, building quite a little heap of them to the right of the great stacks of rifles. The disarmed French troops then returned into their bivouacs, which they occupied for one night more, before quitting for other bivouacs, round which shall stand Prussian sentries. For this last night they preserved a semblance of freedom. The Prussians left them to themselves. Except in the forts and at the two gates I have mentioned, not a spiked he. - - _ met was to be seen nearer Metz than had been seen before. The feldwachts were mounted as usual, the re plies were established, and the troops stood fast as ever in their long and weary watch around Metz. THE FRENCH TROOPS SURRENDERED TO THE PRUSSIANS. This morning the Frenchmen came forth and rendered themselves to their captors—corps by corps, and under , the command of their own officers. The Si x th Corps (Caurobert's) came from its bivouac by Woippy to Laden champs, where on the 7th so many of its members had stained the soil with their blood. Their prison-bivouac is on the plain in the rear of the wrecked and burnt village. The Seventh Corps, that of Ladmirault, came out over the ridge between St. Quentin and Plappeville, and found quarters, inhospitable, enough, I fear, on the bleak plateau of St. Maurice. The Imperial Guard marched down to Longeville, crossed the railway bridge at Tournebride, passed on to Frescati to the left, and found their bivouac in the plain between Orly and Auguy. The garrison of Meti itself, consisting of about 20,000 men, chiefly Mobile Guards, marched by Le Sablon, past the ruined vil lage of Magny, and so forward to the outskirts of St. Thiebault. The Second Corps (Froissard's), with Laveau cenfied's division, and the 4th brigade came out past La Posette on the great Strasburg chaussee, and found their bivouac behind the village of Gila. The Third Corps (that of Leboeuf) came out among us of the Ist Prussian Army Corps along the chaussee leading to Saarlouis. Each corps, as it marched out, was received by the Prussian troops covering tho respective section of the environment. They were led by their own officers, who formally handed over their men to the Prussian officers, and then those of them who had given their parole were at liberty to quit the ranks and return to Metz. The men under the command of their under-officers were then marched out to the bivouac places, which had previously been partly prepared, wood for fires having been collected and a supply of provisions being ready for distribution. SURRENDER OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD Writing from the Headquarters of the German Army before Metz on the 29th, the correspondent of the Tele graph thus details the surrender of the Imperial Guard as prisoners of war :—Eagerly every eye was strained in the direction of the bridge which with a single arch spans the railway, to catch the first glimpse of the red trousers ; but nothing was to be seen, and the rain descended in torrents—the heavier showers wetting all to the skin. Presently the scream of a railway engine, pushing before it a single first-class car riage along that line of railway that had so often proved the scene of outpost fights, came into view. The carriage contained Marshal Bazaine and staff, going to the resi dence of his Royal Highness, also to surrender them selves. Slowly the moments dragged on, still no appearance of the French advanced guard. It was now whizpered that the officers had lost all con trol over their men ; that there was no discipline ; and that this was the reason they had been compelled to give up their arms before marching out of Metz. But a greater libel against the discipline of the French Guard was never circulated. The Prussian troops piled arms, and stood at ease, some waited and speculated, and watched the inhabitants of Metz as they straggled along the road in detached parties. At three p.m., 'an aide-de-camp came galloping up to say that the troops were coming ; the soldiers stood to their arms, and pre - sently, over the railway bridge, appeared the long-waited for prisoners. Riding at the head of the first detachment was the Town Major, a Colonel in the French Army, attended by a mounted orderly in full uniform wearing his sword. Approaching General Franseky, he took off his cap, and reported the arrival of the ' Guard to surrender themselves prisoners of war. I was not near enough to hear all he said ; but he was evidently so much affected that he could scarcely give utterance to a word. General Frankseky replied courteously—his Royal Highness being some forty yards off, to the rig The first regiment then marched by ; they were the Hussars of the Guard. The colonel of the regi ment, riding up to General Franseky and saluting , handed to him the effective strength of his regiment; then he rode off, followed by his officers, all still wearing their swords. The Empress's Dragoons came next; then a regiment of Chasseurs de la Garde ; then the artillery. As each regiment approached; the commanding officers went through the same formula, presenting ' the " states" of their regiments. I never saw more perfect order, or a more quiet, soldier-like demeanour, than that exhibited by this splendid body of men, as they marched past in perfect silence. Not a word was spoken. All that could be heard was the measured tread of thousands of feet, as they splashed along the muddy road. The officers, some of them with tears in their eyes, some with haughty and bold countenances, silently shook hands with their soldiers; for the order was, that so soon as the officers had marched their regiments to the quarters assigned for their bivouac, they were to ride back to Metz, and there await further orders. Im mediately following the above-mentioned regiments came the Guards Grenadier Regiment, so well known to Englishmen—so familiar at the gates of the Louvre, at the Palace of the Tuileries, and before the principal buildings of Paris. Poor fellows—how I pited them as, with a steady, soldier - like demeanour, they strode past, as if they were going to a field day, and not to prison ! The Prussian officers gazed with wonder and surprise upon this fine body of men, most of them between 19 and 23 years of age ; and as regi ment after regiment, to the number of at least 30,000, filed past, our soldiers whispered to one art other how fortu nate it was that they had no longer to fight against such men. During the whole time that the melancholy proces sion went by, not a man opened his lips, either in the French or the Prussian ranks, except . to speak in a whisper. VICTORIA. —A Melbourne letter states that one of the longest and most inclement winters ever known in the colony of Victoria culminated recently in an almost continuous deluge of rain, which, causing heavy floods throughout the country, worked destruction and ruin in every direction. From Melbourne to the Murray, and from east to west, comes the same sad tale. Rivers and creeks overflowing their banks into the neighbouring farms and vineyards ; district:; covered by water; bridges and roads and fences damaged or destroyed; crops washed out of the ground, and farmers ruined. Melbourne itself on one day presented a scene the like of which has never been seen since the year 1856. Some of the lower lying streets were for several hours converted into little rivers. 870 THE SURRENDER OF INIETZ. BRUSSELS, November 2 (Afternoon). As yet, it is not possible to get into Metz. Things do not seem to go on quite smoothly in that town since Bazaine's surrender. At least L'Echo du Luxembourg and L'Echo du Nord affirm that on Sunday a battle took place within the maiden fortress itself, the garrison of which refused to acknowledge the capitulation made in its name. To speak my own convictions, I should say you ought to hesitate before putting faith in this rumour. An officer who escaped from Metz has ear nestly assured me that, in each of the sorties made by the army of Bazaine during the months of September and October not including, evidently, the great outbreak of August 31st and September Ist, in which Bazaine endeavoured to reach a hand towards MacMahon—there were never more than 15,000 or 20,000 French soldiers actually engaged with/ the enemy ; that the sallying troops were never fairl3) supported from the fortress itself, and by the army round its walls ; and that, though they won advantages, they were never able to pursue them. For a long time, he said, a sourd hostility against Bazaine reigned throughout the ranks of his army, and even amongst the evil population of the fortress. The Marshal, It is affirmed, kept a couple of mitrailleuses planted in front of his private residence. While the Chief of the Army of the Rhine is thus taunted with cowardice and incapacity, every homage is rendered to the courage of General Ladmirault and Marshal Leboauf. The last, it is said, more than once thrust himself in advance of the French troops, and braved the German fire in the attempt to meet death.—Correspondent cit the Telegraph. THE FRENCH NAVY. The French gunboat Le Curieux, on the Brazilian station, captured in the early part of last month the barque Wanderer and the ship Alum. The Wanderer had a prize crew placed on board her to navigate her to the River Plate, and the Alma was taken into Bahia. The crews of both vessels wore kopt on board Lo Curieux. The French despatch vessel Guichan arrived at Sydney, New South Wales early in September, and left that port on the 7th to look out for prizes. The French corvette Lamothe Piquet arrived at Valparaiso on the 17th September, from Payta, having made several captures of North German vessels. • Many of the German and Prussian vessels which are captured by the French cruisers are destroyed at sea, and the crews taken on board the capturing vessel. THE THRONE OF SPAIN. FLORENCE, Nov. 1 (Evening). The Duke of Aosta, who is now in this city, has had interviewp with the Spanish Minister. It ap pears that as soon as the Cortos have agreed to his candidacy a deputation of that body will be sent here immediately, to offer him the crown officially. After that, the Prince and Princess will :proceed to Spain, and their journey probably take place about the new year. CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY. FLORENCE, October 31. The plan of the Italian Government regarding the future relations between the Church and the State will be published shortly, and will form the Minis terial programme at the approaching general elec tions, which are now definitely fixed to be held on the 30th of November. Count Visconti-Venosta will forward this plan to the foreign Governments, together with a letter explanatory of its provisions. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) MR. KENNAWAY, M.P., ON THE DEFENCES OF ENGLAND. Mr. Kennaway, member for East Devon, speaking at Woodbury yesterday, contended that, notwithstanding Mr. Cardwell's assertions, the military organisation of this country was imperfect. The report of the volunteer movement proved that the military spirit in the country was still alive. That spirit must and could be utilised without a heavy expenditure. A general system was wanted, by which the army, militia, and volunteers might be combined in a great whole, each part of which should know and be able to perform its duty. This was the great question of the day, and the present was a favour able opportunity for settling it, for the people were never more determined that the country should be put iu a proper state of defence, even though it should be neces sary to recognise and act upon the principle that it was the duty of every man to render military service to his country. It had been ascertained thatthere were only three rifled guns for coast defence between Portsmouth and Dover. The continental war had been an artillery duel, and breechloaders had won. The English Government must provide an efficient artillery service. CHURCH EDUCATION IN HERTS. A great county meeting in aid of Church education was held at the Shire Hall, Hertford, yesterday, under the presidency of the Bishop of Rochester, supported by, the Marquis of Salisbury, Earl Brownlow, Mr. Abel Smith, M.P., and a large number of the clergy and gentry of the county. The following resolutions were - urtanimously carried : —Proposed by Mr. Abel Smith, seconded by Earl Brownlow : That the passage of the Elementary Education Bill formed a crisis which calls for the hearty co-operation of all Church men to secure an education based on the principles of the Church of England. Proposed by the Marquis of Salisbury, and seconded by Archdeacon Grant : That, having regard to the urgency of such a crisis, this meeting recommends that a fund be raised for the purpose of building , and enlarging schools in connection with the Church of England, where deficiencies are reported to exist. Proposed by Mr. Robert Dimsdale, M.P., and seconded by Canon Gee : That the fund so raised be administered by the agency of the existing Diocesan Boards of Education in Herts, through a Provisional Board, to be specially appointed for the purpose. MURDER IN IRELAND. A man, named Murphy, a small farmer who acted as bailiff to Captain Lidwell, of Dromore, has been murdered, near Templemore, Tipperary. 11. Id. S. INVINCIBLE. The Admiralty have ordered the Invincible, 14 guns, armour-plated, to be brought into Keyham basin, to have the position of centre of gravity ascertained, the 300 tons of ballast which she carries remaining in her. This will be the first time that a trial has been made to determine the centre of graNity in vessels of this class, which in cludes the Duke, the Vanguard, and the Audacious. RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS IN FRANCE. A meeting, presided over by the Mayor, was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, last night, in aid of the funds being raised by the Society of Friends for the relief of the distress in north-eastern France. A reso lution was passed approving of the movement. Mr. G. Dixon, M.P., was one of the speakers. A large sum was subscribed. J SHOOTING ACCIDENT. While Mr. Charles Mark Palmer, member of a large iron ship-building company at Jarrow, on the Tyne, was shooting on his estate in Yorkshire, yesterday, his gun, falling to the ground, burst, and the charge entered his thigh, wounding him severely. Mr. Palmer unsuccessfully contested the borough of South Shields at the last general election. CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. The entries for the Cambridge local examinations, which commence on December 12, are 2,605 in number. The London entries are 495 in number, Manchester 122, Sheffield 70, Leeds 110, and Liverpool, 139. Blackheath, Donington, Harrowgate, Malvern, and Weston-super- Mare are new centres. IRON PLATES FOR THE DEVASTATION. The first of the iron armour-plates for the Devastation, which is being built at Portsmouth, was fixed yesterday to the port side of the hull. The dimensions are as follows ;—Length, 14ft. ; width, 4ft. UPI.; thickness, lft. It weighs over 4 tons 14cwt. THE ELECTION AT COLCHESTER NOMINATION. The nomination of candidates for the position of mem bers for Colchester, took place in that town yesterday morning in front of the Town Hall. Mr. B. Langley who had previously given up the contest had left for London ; so only two names wore put to the electors. Colonel Lear mouth was proposed by Mr. C. H. Hawkins, and seconded by Mr. S. May ; Mr. John B. Harvey proposed and Mr. 'W. R. Havens, seconded, Sir Henry Storks. The show of hunch was declared in favour of the Colonel, Sir Henry demanded a poll, The assembly was noisy but orderly. THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS. --- A letter, dated from Head-quarters at Versailles Oct. 1 28th, says : In military matters there is not much news. Two batteries have been completed in front of Ville Coublac, where the groat park of artillery is situated. The doge guns have arrived at that place, and can be put in position as soon as it is necessary to do so. None of the guns will be moved until all the batteries are ready, and until the whole siege train has arrived. When all is prepared, the batteries will be armed simul taneously, and probably in a single night. Recruiting has been pressed forward vigorously at home, and in almost another fortnight 84,000 men will be available to fill up the graps and restore to their original strength the regiments in the field. Unless an armistice be concluded, of which I have little hope, the attack on the southern forts will, in all probability, be commenced on the 6th proximo.—Telegraph,. THE WRECK OF THE CAMBRIA. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) The corpse of a lady, attired in a jacket and red flannel petticoat, with gold rings in her ears, and a gold chain round her neck, supposed to be one of the passengers of the steamship Cambria, has been washed ashore on Rathlin Island, in the north of Ireland. The following telegram has been addressed by the In specting Commissioner at Moville, Carn Division, Ire land, to the Secretary of the Admiralty : " 24`Laughlin, a fisherman of Inatrahull station, in the presence of the Receiver of Wrecks, this day, affirms that the wreck of the Cambria lies five miles north of Instrahull, with three and a half fathoms of water over her. The vessel is on her side. If it be low tide (?) navigation isdan.- gerous." The words in italics denote the supposed meaning of the words in telegram, "if time." CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. A special court was held yesterday for the purpose of fixing the days for holding the sessions for the ensuing year. The following days were appointed :-1870, Mon day, November 21; Monday, December 12; 1871, Monday January 9 ; Monday, -January 30 : Monday, February 27 ; Monday, April 3 ; Monday, May 1; Monday, Juno 5; Monday, July 10; Monday, August 14; Monday, September 18 ; and Monday, October 23.—The prisoner John Ferdinando, who'was convicted on Friday, and fined £3O for publishing a libel, was brought up, and the amount of the fine having been paid, he entered into the recognisances required of him in addition, and he was discharged. ANOTHER IRISH MURDER. A Dublin correspondent telegraphs that Patrick Murphy, land bailiff to Captain Lidwell, was murdered near Templemore yesterday morning. He was found lying on the road insensible, and soon died. He had been beaten to death with stones. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE - • The cadet training screw-ship Trafalgar, Captain T. S. Lethbridge, has left Spithead for her cruise with naval cadets. The screw troopship Himalaya, Capt. E. Madden left Portsmouth on Tiiesday, with troops for Jamaica, 'Bar bardoes, and Bermuda. The War Department steam transport Lord Panmure, has arrived at Devonport from Woolwich with 550 tons of Ordnance stores for the magazines at Bull Point and the Gun Wharf, Plymouth. The armour-plated screw turret -ship Monarch, Captain Aneysley, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour on Tues day morning, and anchored at Spithead, to receive her ammunition. She will at once join the Channel Squadron at Portland. The City of Brussels, chartered by Government to convey troops to India, was to h ave arrived at Woolwich on Tuesday, but intimation has been received that the inspector of troopships has condemned part of the machinery, and that she will not be ready for three weeks. Rear-Admiral J. A. Paynter, in a letter addressed to the Secretary of State for War, sketches a plan for raising and drilling a national force of Volunteer Artillery, exercised upon the system adopted in her Majesty's navy for marine field guns. These guns, which are Armstrong 6 or 9-pounders, weighing from 3 to 6 cwt., are worked on a light field carriage on limber, carrying about 20 rounds of ammunition, are drawn and worked with great facility by the inen themselves, no horses being ever used ; can be carried, if necessary, across hedges and ditches ; and thus be placed in position's which it would be impossible, from the natu ral obstacles of the ground, for artillery moved by horses to approach. Admiral Paynter's object is to arm the kingdom with artillery of this description, every town having its battery, every village its gun, manned by thoroughly trained volunteer artillerymen. The Abyssinia, breastwork monitor, 1,849 tons, 200- horse power of engines carrying two double-gun turrets, and driven by twin screws, built for the defence of Bom bay, was put through her' final trial of machinery and speed on Friday over the measured mile off the Maplin Sands, previous to her sailing for Bombay. The ship's draught of water was 13ft. 7m. forward, and 14ft. Bin. aft, giving a mean draught of 14ft. 11 2 in. At her load line the ship will float at 15ft. forward and aft, with the main deck having a freeboard of 3ft. A strong wind prevailed off the sands during the time the ship was being tried, and a lumpy sea was running, but the results were considered very satisfactory, the ship under full boiler power, without being pressed in any way or the power of her engines brought out to their full extent, averaging as a mean of six runs made over the measured mile 9'600 knots per hour. Under half boiler-power she realised a mean speed of 7.827 knots. The Abyssinia is one of three vessels of the low freeboard Monitor type that have been built for the defence of our colonial harbours, the Magdala being the second vessel, also for the defence of Bombay, and the Cerberus, which has at last sailed from Plymouth for Melbourne, being the third. CRYSTAL PAL kCE.—OneShilling Day; Wednesday Nov. 2, 1870. Number of visitors by season tickets, 1,502 ; ditto on payment, 691; total visitors, 2,193. CRYSTAL PALACE. Auber's charming opera, "Fra Diavolo," will be played under the direction of Mr. Perren, this afternoon, for the first time. Miss Blanche Cole and Mr. Parkinson take the principal parts. 'Martha" will be played next week, and "Der Freis chutz" in the following week. MURDER OF A SISTER OF CHARITY.—A. very sad affair has ocourred—perhaps the only serious offence that has disgraced the much-tried Paris since its investment. From the opening of the siege, the Sisters of Charity of the Hospital Cochin have distributed every day, to all poor persons who called on them, milk for infants and the sick. A woman who lives in the neighbourhood did not come for her usual supply the other day until a very late hour. She was informed by the Sisters that by this time very little milk was left, but that they would give her all they could spare. Her vessel was taken from her, and afterwards returned three-quarters full. The woman be came angry and insolent, and upbraided the nuns for not keeping for her a proper allowance, as she came regularly every day. She went off, threatening with lively menaces the sister whose duty it was to distribute the milk among the poor. Next day she came back at the ordinary time, and seemed angrier even than before, shouting, "I must pay off that nun !" On the third day sEe contrived to insinuate herself—perhaps not too gently —iuto 'the passage that leads into the kitchen of the Sisters; and then, snatching a flesh-knife from a table, she waylaid her charitable foe. When the Sister had ' finished the distribution of food and returned to the kitchen, the woman plunged the knife into her breast, the effect being to injure fatally one of her lungs. For three or four days the poor nun lingered; on the fifth she died. —Paris CorresponacnO of 6144 Telegraph. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER .RA.CES.-WEDNESDAY. • VISITORS' PLATE. Cygnet g ... Magclala Alin Caudle ran. STAND PLATE Consternation.... The Admiral High Church Four ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Snowden Sophie . Bellone Ten ran. MATCH. Victress Topsy FREE HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE. Jack Miss Dodson Vivandicre Eight ran. CROFT SELLING HURDLE RACE. Royal Princess i Cobalt • . Pistache Eight ran. The race objected to, it being alleged that all had gone the wrong course. The Severn Bank Stakes has been postponed until to morrow, owing to a very heavy fog setting in. CITY BETTING.-YESTERDAY. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 70 to 40 aget Alaric (offered -200 to 100 taken) 4to 1 agst Captivator (taken and offered) sto 1 agst Vintner (taken) 6to 1 agst Tit Bit (taken and offered-200 to 30 laid once) LIVERPOOL CUP. oto 1 agst Rosicrucian (taken and offered) 100 to 9 agst Blandford (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Ataxic (offered) 100 to 8 aget Syrian (taken and offered) 100 to 8 aget Barforcl (taken and offered) 13 to 1 agst Cardinal York (offered) 100 to 7 agst Flibustier (taken) 100 to 7 agsi Exciseman (taken) 20 to 1 agst Bonny Swell (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Miss Hervine (taken) 25 to 1 agst Our Mary Ann (offered) 200 to 7 agst Taraban (offered-30 to 1 taken) 500 to 15 agst Fleets (taken and offered) 1000 to 30 agst Miss Theo (offered) 40 to 1 agst White Slave (offered) 1000 to 20 agst My Uncle (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Westley (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Duke of Beaufort (offered—lut l o to 15 (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Indian Oceau (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Lumley (offered) 1000 to 15 asst Filou (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Ploughboy (taken) 1000 to 10 aget Islam (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Ware Hare (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Brennus (offered) 700 to 200 agst W. Day's and J. Dawson's lots (taken) t 1000 o 30 agst Brayle' lot (offered —take 400 to 10) 7to 2 agst Rosicrucian and Alaric coupled (offered-4 to 1 taken) ACOEPTANCES FOI AUTUId THE LIVERPOOL :N CUP. Age st lb Roaicrucian ... 5 9 0 Cardinal York ... 4 8 6 Starter ... ... 4 7 12 Good Hope.— ... 4 7 12 Adonis ... ... 3 7 10 Cecil... ..• „. 5 7 9 Lumley ... 4 7 4 Judge ... 4 7 4 Flibustier 3 7 2 Brenn us ... 4 7 2 Taraban 6 7 0 Our Mary Ann ... 5 6 12 Miss Theo ... ... 4 6 12 Bonny Swell 3 6 11 Vestminster ... 4 6 10 Duke of Beaufort... 4 6 10 Ploughboy... ... 4 6 10 Musket ... 3 6 10 Age st lb Miss Hervino ... 5 6 8 Syrian ... ... 36 8 White Slave 3 6 8 Fleets ... ... 4 6 8 Heraut d'Armes 3 6 8 Ea - rfo - ri 3 6 7 Filiou 3 6 6 Islam ... 4 6 6 Performer ... 3 6 4 Exciseman ... 3 6 4 Alaric ... 3 6 4 Blandford ... 3 6 4 My Uncle 5 6 4 Westley ... 3 6 0 Nero ... ... 35 10 Ware Hare 3 5 10 Indian Ocean ... 3 510 FORT GARRY We regret to find the following telegram, which has been received at Toronto, in the New York papers, delivered yesterday :—Adviees have reached here from Fort Garry, the Bth October, vg4 St. Cloud the 20th, that the small-pox is committing fearful ravages i n the West ; that the Indians are dying in thousands, and the plains are covered with painted corpses, and that the stench is dreadful. The Government proposes to send a medical man there. All was quiet at Fort Garry. THE EARTHQUAKE IN CANADA• The recent shock of the earthquake in Canada was so great in Montreal that bells were rung in the public build ings, and judges precipitately left their rooms in the Court House. Chimney tops were thrown down in Quebec, and the spire in St. Paul's Church, Toronto. was seen to sway back and forward. Throughout the Dominion the shock was quite distinct. FRENCH HELP TO ENGLISH SAILORS. We have received the following from the Board of Trade :—" The British schooner Mathilde, with a crew of five hands, exclusive of the master and two passengers, and a full cargo, left Mahauovo on the 15 th of Ju ne, and meeting with bad weather and contrary winds, struck the next day on the southern portion of Fougo Island, to the south of T amatave. U p on the consul at Tamatave hearing of the wreck of the Mathilde, he at once despatched two large canoes, with twelve natives each, and provisions to Fougo Island. One, however, was forced to pit" back, and the consul, considering that the other would in all probability have to do the same, applied (through the French vice consul) to Captain Horveno, of the French barque Marie, for assistance. Captain Horveno at once put to sea and reached Fougo Island on the 23rd, when the shipwrecked parties were taken on board and were landed at Tama tave on the 26th. For these services the Board of Trade have awarded Captain Horveno a binocular glass, and a sum of £lO to the crew of the canoe, which, after six days, ultimately succeeded in reaching Fougo Standard. Schlestadt not having been informed of the adjourn ment of the election to the Constituent Assembly, has voted with almost complete unanimity for the members of the Government and for democratic candidates. Mr. Maguire, M.P., has a novel nearly ready for the press, entitled, " Why Not ?" The honourable i gentleman has also n a forward state for publication a revised edition of " The Pontificate of Pius the Ninth," which will embrace the most recent episodes in the event ful life of the head of the Christian world. It will be dedicated to Henry Edward, Archbishop of West minster. Dr. Lee, Archdeacon of Dublin, is one of the clergymen who has resigned a place in the General Con vention, in consequence of the resolution to appoint a Revision of. the Prayer Book Committee. He protests against the resolution. " denying the moral competence of a body, of which laymen form a part, to legislate r especting matters pertaining to doctrine or discipline." Since Tuesday the barometer has continued to rise at our south-eastern stations, and is now very high in England. Temperature has decreased in the east, but risen elsewhere, mostly in Scotland. The wind has veered to the southward on all but our south-east coasts, but is at present light or moderate. The sky has become over cast in the south of Ireland, but in other places the amount of cloud varies, and a great deal of fog and mist prevails. The sea is moderate on our cast coast, calm elsewhere. THE ENTRY INTO VERSAILLES.—When tle 15th Brigade of Prussian cavalry forced its way into Versailles 1,200 of the Gardes Mobiles surrendered after a feeble resistance. Only one officer and about fifty men defended themselves valiantly, and ensconced themselves in the Synagogue, situate at the end of the Boulevard Eugenie. Having barricaded the doors they fired from the windows. After half an hour's struggle the troopers succeeded in entering the temple. Step by step did the Freneb retreat, fighting all the while, until they came to the recess where the oly Ark stood. Through the firing the doors of the richly ornamente officeredrceptacle were shattered to pieces, and the French nd some of his men took refuge in the furthest part of the ark. The officer, pierced by four bullets, fell down at the side of the ark, his head resting on one of the scrolls which had fallen to the ground, likewise riddled with balls. The A Cabinet Council was held yesterday in Synagogue itself is almost entirely destroyed.—Jewish Downing-street. The Ministers present were—The Viscount Halifax Chronicle. Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan- ROMANTIC AFFAIR IN BRUSSELS.—An attempted murder and suicide took place on Sunday evening at Brus- cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, eels. A lady, who stated that she was a Hungarian coon- the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, Earl Granville, the tess, hired an apartment on the second floor in a house in the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Kimberley, the Rue Montague de la Ceur. Some three or four days Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. G. J. ago she was joined by a certain marquis, a man of 45 1 Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, the Right Hon. C. years of age, stout and tall. The marquis and conntessl Fortescue, and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster. seemed to adore each other, and were, in fact, much ! /I IN AFRICA.--The claims of the attached. On Sunday evening they went THE Cnunc out about five I advocated by o'clock to dine, and returned together about nine o'clock. Church in South A frica were on Tuesday What then transpired is unknown, but several reports I the Bishop of Capetown. He stated that there were were heard in the apartment of these two lovers. On I six bishops la bourin g in the province, independently of opening the door the countess and the mar q uis were ! the mission at Zanzibar. He was very anxious to discovered bathed in blood. The police, who were im- ! sec ure a bishop for Transvaal, and also a bish op for mediately informed of what had taken place , haste ned with some surgeons to the apartment. The countess ! Kaffraria. He was also anxious to obtain a sub-division had received a bullet in the breast, but, being stout, and of his own diocese, by the erection of a bishopric at G eorg e. He wished to revive communications with the Church of Abyssinia, but not by aggressivethe ball being badly aimed from a small p ocket re volver, it had not entered very deeply into the flesh. decaying and no mortal wound had been caused. The mar- meat's. quis had fired six shots in the region o f his heart. From inquiries it appears that, led away by an BALLOON POST.—The first bag of post cards col lected from visitors at the last Crystal Palace fireworks attack of jealousy, he attempted to murd er his mistress near Hythe. The second has not up and then commit suicide. No hope is ent ertained for the „ is_ marquis, who in his delirium confesses a most violent ! apiay w as found passion for his victim. He stated, among other things, to the present time been heard of, but it is thought that that after havino - fired at the countess an d seein g her fall it mu s t have either fallen into the sea or crossed the apparently dead at his feet, he fired several shuts at his channel to France, as upon a former occasion. On Wed own heart ; some of the shots, however, missed fire, but, e say next (- r. roc sbenefit firework display) d M B k' wounded as he was, he again loaded his revo lver so as to life, balloons will be despatched with post cards as before , make an end to his COTE THE PROPOSED PEACE, 'his Morning The Times says : There is a gleam of hope. Negotiations have once more begun, and this tim4 it is M. Thiers, and not M. Jules Favre, who represents France in treating with Count Bismarck. We hail with boundless satisfac tion any promise of a peaceful settlement of the war, and sincerely rejoice 3 that our ghoiny anti cipations have . not been realised. Count Bismarck and M. Thierii have had a first interview and a second interview since the latter has core out of Paris. The indefatigable Or:cauist • has de clared himself quite satisfied with his reception by the Chancellor, and the. Chancellor shows that he is at least willing to entertain the idea of nego tiating. M. Thiers is, moreover, said to have full powers from the Government of Defence .to treat for an armistice on the basis proposed by our Ministry. It may be a hasty, but it is a pleasing deduction from all this that a truce is at hand. And if a Truce, it will be added, then permanent peace also. The armistice was projected for the purpose of con veining a Constituent Assembly, but it would never be accepted unless there was an apparent intention on the part of both the belligerents to recede from the irreconcilable positions they have hitherto held. A cessation of war, followed by more strenuous hostilities than ever, would be a mockery of human hopes for which, indeed, history affords precedents, but which we trust never to see repeated. The Telegraph, in discussing the probabilities of the success of M. Thiers'a mission, and the effect of M. Gam betta and General Bourbaki's proceedings, concludes its • remarks as follows :—Finally comes the element of resistance which is more important than all the others combined—Paris. So long as Paris remains micAptured: France will not believe resistance to be hopeless, and he t were a rash prophet who, should predict how long the captital may hold. We have still to see how the inhabitants will endure those horrors of bombard ment which are now at hand. Nor do we know whether the city is provisioned for one month or for three. AlthoUgh we hear that meat is failing, or has failed already, we learn, on the other hand, that there is an abundant supply of bread and wine, and that the defen sive works are stronger than ever. Meanwhile, the French are buoyed up by the fact that a strategist of such eminence as General Trochu does not despair of success, and that COunt Moltke himself has recognised the great difficulty of capturing Paris. To Germany there remains a conviction that her success will be as complete in the future as it has been in the past ; to France there remain only, the possibilities of'the unforeseen. .But France will yield only at the dictate of despair, and there is no reason to ' believe that she will listen to the counsels of the grim monitor until the gates of the capital shall be thrown open to the legions of Prussia. THE FALL OF METZ There is something, the Daily News remarks, in the fate of Metz which, after all, illustrates the old opinion of the French character. French soldiers are still greater in vigour than they are in endur ance, and more brilliant in a dashing attack than they are in a patient defence. It is the same with France herself. France bears the intoxication of victory, but cannot bear the depression of defeat. It is to this feature in the national character that we must attribute the strange delusions French men have fostered during this war. Their resolve not to accept defeat takes the shape of refusing to admit that they have been defeated. Our corre spondent inside Paris, writing, of course, without know ing of the fall of Metz, represents the Parisians as still confident of victory, and indignant with England for sug gesting an armistice and hinting at peace when the tide of battle is turning and France is actually nearer entering Berlin than Germany is to entering Paris. There was the same unwillingness in Metz to believe in the disasters of France; and we cannot but hope that when Paris fully knows its position, it may be disposed to come forward to terms. Frenchmen, however, will never believe that Metz was fairly lost .and fairly won. There is perhaps enough that has been suspicious and secret in Bazaine's procedure to foster suspicion, though not, as we believe, enough to give any countenance to M. Gambetta's charges ; and which the full history of these immense transactions comes to be written, it will probably be found that it was not the generals who betrayed the army, but the army which betrayed the ; Igenerals. The defeat at Metz was both moral and material. Bazaine, after a brilliant and prolonged defence, yielded to physical and moral n ecessit y , to famine and L . demoralisation. THE GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE AND MAZZINI. The Standard thinks the utter and hopeless feeble ness of the Government of National Defence is the worst sign of the day for France. Her armies may well be slow to encounter the enemy when the most precious fruits of their victory will be the establish ment of a Gambettl Dictatorship, with Mazzini as chief adviser. At a time when all the energies of the people should be concentrated upon the one object of expelling the Germans from the French soil, when military skill and experience are the gifts chiefly in re quest, it must be beyond measure disgusting to every true Frenchman to find that the policy of the Government is one which drives men like Generals Bourbaki and Cam briels from the public service, and replaces them by foreign adventurers or by civilians whose only qualification .is their devotion to Republican principles. The days of 1792, so often invoked, seem indeed likely to be realised in part. If we, observes the Standard, have not the patriotic spirit which produced a Roche and a Marceau for the war, we haVe the confusion, the demo ralisation, and the anarchy of the Republic at home. We have the same cry of treason against every general of distinguished position who is unfortu. nate or who is betrayed. But in 1792 and 1793 the Republic at least never hesitated to prefer the interests of the country to those of its own. At the present day we have a Republic which thinks of nothing but its own ex istence—which appears to believe that all mankind are wrapped up in the cause of its sucCessful development, which substitutes for France its own empty name and its feeble presence. It is this which makes us despair of the French condition—which turns away from the French cause a great deal of the sympathy which should be its due. How can any one feel deeply for a cause which is represented by M. G-ambetta, and which has now M. Mazzini for one of its sponsors? Even the bitterest enemies of the Empire might well ask themselves, in what respect the Republic is an improvement upon the Government whichis so violently displaced ! Is it more virtuous, more truthful, or more self-sacrificing? Has it succeded any better in the conduct of national affairs ? Is it wiser in counsel, bolder in the field? If the Empire had its Sedan, is not the Republic responsible for Metz? Having filched the sceptre from the appointed hands, what have the Republicans done which the Imperialists could not do ? France, humbled and di9- graced before the world, will not fail to ask herself this question. THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. The Manchester Courier says: At present there is little chance of the placid ending to the trouble., of the French people. If they had but a definite Government with some thing like power at its back and something like national support of its acts, they would have little to fear. As it is they have neither ; they have a Govern. meat self elected, and a people who care nothing for, and have no faith in, their administration; and they have a nation at war with itself, and discontented with everything the Government can do or the military force accomplish. In such a state of things it is impos sible to say there is the smallest hope of peace, until a great change shall have co►ne about, and equally to say the Government is doing anything to mend matters, though it publish proclamations, such as that of Gambetta, by the score.