The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-10 00:00:00

SPECIAL EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 P.M. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE WAR. PROCLAMATION OF M. GAMBETTA. The Minister o f th e i n t er i or , w h o h as esca p e d f rom P aris c in a ball oon , h as i ssue d f rom T ours a proclama 'Oil to the citizens of the departments. This some- What remarkable production is dated Sunday, and NHS th us :___ BY order of the Republica n G overnmen t, - I ha ve 'eft Paris to convey to you the hopes of the Parisian People, and the instructions and orders of those who accepted -the mission of delivering France from the fer eigner. " For seventeen days Paris has been invested, and °fr ere the spectacle of two millions of men who. for fieltting all differences to range thems e l v es around e Republic an fl ag , w ill di sappo i nt t h e expec t at i on f the the invader, who reckoned upon civil discord. Revolution found Paris without cannon and Without arms. Now 400,000 National Guards are 4rlle (1 ) 100,000 Mobiles have been summoned ; :i;1" 60 ,000 regular troops are assembled. h e fou n d r i es cast cannon, t h e women ma k e oue million car t r id ges d a il y . Th e N a ti ona l Gu ard bp hav e t wo m i tra ill euses f or eac h b atta li on. esipeces are being made for sorties agai n st th e esi ege i s. The forts are manned by marines, and Z e furnish e d w ith marve ll ous art ill ery , serve d b y s. e first gunners in the world. Up till now. their (3 e a 3 prevented the enemy from establishing the sm allest wor k . The enceinte, which on the 4th !Kelliher had only 500 cannons, has now 3,800, v p i k t h 400 rounds of ammunition for each. 'e casting of projectiles continues , with vigour. 6,;!'verY one is at the post assigned to him for t ihee'• The enceinte is uninterruptedly covered by d ,, a e .National Guard, who from morning till night 1 for the war with patriotism and steadiness. aily. e experien ce o f th ese i m p rov i se d so ldi ers i ncreases u d " Behind th e ence i n t e th ere i s a thi r d li ne o f ;tenee, formed of barricades, behind which the arisians are found to defend the Republic—the With of street fi g hti n g. All this has been executed ent husias m calmness and order by the concurrence and of all. It is not a vain illusion that 44 7„ i 8 impregnable. It cannot be captured nor 4 1111 sed. T wo o th er means remain to the Prus 4.N—sedition an d fa m i ne . B u t se diti on w ill no t 8e nor f am i ne e i t h er. P ar i s b y p l ac i ng h erse l f 0 2 4 rati ons has enough to defy the enemy for long months, thanks to the provisions which have been 11 7 et uulated, and will bear restraint and scarcity with t h e, constancy i n o rd e r to afford her brothers in e,pe e partments time to gather." I t procla ma ti on th en p rocee d s t o s t a t e th a t th e A r e Pu blic requires the co-operation of all citizens. au xue Was the chief want, but this is being rapidly I. Plie d) rifles being obtained from all parts of the "orid. " Yi r e must bring to bear all our resources, which off e 'intuense ; we must make the provinces shake the ir torpor, react ag a i ns t f o oli s h pani cs , n t o 'ul 3l 3 , our partisans, offer traps and ambushes 1 1 , h : ar ass the e nem y, an d i naugura t e a na ti ona l 411 the Republic demands the co-operation of e,ll It Will utilise the courage of all its citizens, t o 13 . 1 °Y the capabilities of each, and, according its a traditional policy, will make young m e n d c : ie fs• Heaven itself will cease to favour our e t l. ,:f sa ries• The Autumn rains will come, and th e - I"necl and h e ld i n c h ec k by the capital, far from their laolneq, and troubled and anxious for the future, 414 P russians will be decimated one by one by our 8 ' by hunger, and by Nature." --- uARATIONS FOR DEFENCE. LILLE, SUNDAY NIGHT. th e G „ ell eral Estancelin has issued a strong address to iational Guard of the Seine-Inf6rieure, Calva :oB2./v iSlanches, calling upon every man of courage t,:elie la his rifle and oppose the enemy's advance. t e !Y tree should am b us h a mar k sman . All G ar d es a at jesales Se'dentaires should present themselves p di 413 chief places of their arrondissements, from ti to elle e they will be d es p a t c h e d t o R ouen . Th e I t 6 for words has passed. "To arms and to lito he railway f rom C re il t o B eauva i s b as b een re fry r ed to expe dit e th e t ransm i ss i on o f prov i s i ons , 0 111 Beauvais to Chantilly. h r avellers.from Versailles report famine prevalent ta -(311 g the inhabitants. The property of the pea. lose or devastated, and having nothing further () %e or risk, they are represented as determined ri tes ist the Pru s sians to the death. )61 1111 t Ernest de Grivel has quitted the Chateau p r -I lite, and placed himself at the head of a band of 4I e 8-Tir eurs. 1 , e h he F rancs-Tireurs of the Vosges are armed with 41 1 :sepots made in Spain. Cases of arms from Z 1 are daily ar r i v i ng a t T our s. gr e „ l 'Yous military preparations are actively pro teliilag and reg i ments of a ll arms re- f orm i ng. T he Nit4 t t 6 of Ile-barbe are being strongly fortified, and 111, 44 : Of defence aro proposed to be erected on Ci rßire. Fordifications have been raised i o 4 1 ' 673 Fort Brotteaux and the Rhone, shutting th oh r ailway from Perracho to Geneva. Three Of ' W e ‘ lal ici Workmen are employed in erecting a line art hworks for the protection of the city, and loa°Plauled 114 of many of the private houses have been . ,-- 111SMARCK AND NAPOLEON. rlh e BERLIN, MONDAY. Ilia tallan Government censures Garibaldi for conduct with regard to France. L ei ` e u e fall of Metz and of Paris will, it is expected o f : ta ke some weeks. Of r-11" von Bismarck has disavowed any intention elatering the Buonaparta dynasty. E ATTACK ON LYONS. BERLIN, SUNDAY (2 a.m.) O tir Fo urteenth o urteenth Army Corps, under General 1.1 4 el., is marching against the French army of L ean Which i s at present b e t ween B e lf or t an d Nes, RETURN OF GENERAL BURNSIDE. Ge ne , VERSAILLES, OCT. 9 (5.30 p.m.) Wi tt r at Burnside returned to Paris yesterday. d, spattgeu st ein came out the day before, with (,- 40,t0 o hheihla for Tours. C o lonel Lind s ay arrived to-day. has dispensed with the contribution of 0 1:)° A. demanded f rom V ersa ill es . Pr ; nt Bismar c k i n f orme d th e Mayo r that the Fleet. au authorities were willing to facilitate the of Parm orderel')ll: s t o the Assembly, but that the Government d them not be held. NEWS BY BALLOON. k 1 ett • e r In 14. . by balloon mail from our correspondent ki 4 6 4 : 18, speaks of growing discord between the del e ,;` e i f fi in the besieged capital, and the T04,7-'3ll administering the provinces from th at ` B * It i s even announced as decided of th AL Orenuieux will be replaced, as well as many Of 1: e le ading officials at Tours. Of the vast body - 04 ati enta . th ou ._ Guards mid, r arms only ninety-five 1 1.4 ::d are provided with breech-loaders. The rest 11 1.° ea Pons of vari ous ki n d s constructe d upon old 41 041 8. So many rifles h been served out that Y 10,0U0 remain in stock ave —a number • barely suffi cient to replace those that may be lost or injured. Our correspondent estimates that, on the 26th of September, the store of food iu Paris would last not more than six weeks. t 30TH. he Pope's ie Pltbis be taken. eaded by Mgr. De most i even events situation, and pur aid have has been as usual. stributed Dssible to will be. cupy the ) prevent itributed a " No " Marino, L the Re- Ling pro- ic. The ith those a to the come to its of the ssary for thou en- 'roni the and all ,es, and L hope of efoundly lies will rider the his way public nd their .om day dverpool De La .tat, one I fear, trn that d more that he Ld much s perpe- could retire to is ex is quite tnd san- Garibal ainly be I no ono revolu- r public now not nnected disor- Lba,ssies, 341 there course Roman bable it two or mostly unable ich ap- Per- er, will as it is not last o not %rnent. right's overy, The s been ages of been ory has .g that GO,OOO lapsed rs was Rane- report cutive Com vative Le ter- Sept., joined tale to THE NEW CONFEDERATION, The Wurternburg Government has determined to support Bavaria in her denian3s for individual freedom of action in the new Confederation. THE SORTIES FROM METZ. The Times publishes the following telegram from its own correspondent SAARBRUCK, OCT. 8 (6.5 P.M.) On Friday great sorties were made from Metz. Bazaine was apparently trying to cut his way out by Thionville to Luxemburg. The attack was made from Ladon, Champs Grandes, and Petites Dapes, and other villages north of Fort St. Eloy. The Prussians lost their first line, two Landwehr regi ments being terribly cut up. The villages were afterwards taken by storm. Two feigned attacks were made without effect. Forty thousand French were engaged. The Prussians lost nearly a thou sand men, the French twice that number. CORNY, NEAR METZ, OCT. 8. The enemy yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, attacked the Division Kummer near Woippy. A serious action occurred, which was continued tid after nightfall. The enemy were repulsed every where. On our side the Division Kummer, the 9th Infantry Brigade, and parts of the 10th Corps were engaged. The French Guards were under fire. Simultaneously the enemy on the right bank of the Moselle sent several Divisions against the Ist and 10th Corps. There was a heavy cannonade. The losses in the Division Kummer and the 10th Corps amounted to 500 men in the 3rd Corps to 150. SAARBRUCK, Ocr. 9. The Commissariat moved from Courcelles to Herny for fear of being cut off by Bazaine. An attempt was made yesterday by the Prussians to blow up by night the Chateau de la Grange unsuc cessfully. Bazaine made a sortie on the division of von Kummer. The Prussians were driven back. Kummer re-attacked on being supported by the 10th Army Corps, and the French were driven into Metz. The losses were heavy on both sides. Kummer repulsed sorties on the 22nd and 23rd of September near iGrimont. Prince Frederick Charles is quite well again. THE BATTLE IN THE VOSGES. The engagement in the Vosges, reported by General Degenfeld from Etival, is the one of which an imperfect account from a French source was pub lished on Saturday. The French official account con tained the statement:—" There was no decisive read; on either side. We maintained our positions." The German account contains statements exactly the opposite of these. The scene of the battle is more precisely indicated in the, German than it was in the French account. Etival, the headquarters of the German General, St. Remy, and Nompatelize are just to the north of the Foret de Montagne, and the town of St. Die on the Upper Meurthe, thus in the eastern portion of the department of the Vosges. The French corps, which is stated upon the reports of prisoners to have num bered 14,000 men, consisted partly of troops of the line and partly of Gardes Mobile. The Ger man General represents his own force at about 7,000. The French report had estimated it at 8,000 or 10,000. Each had two batteries of artillery, but the Germans appear to have had two squadrons of dragoons. The French were under General Pet hevin, who had come up from the south ; the German troops were Badeuers, and this was the first battle the Baden division had fought as an inde pendent force. The villages of St. Remy and Nom patilize and the wood of Jumelles were carried at he point of the bayonet. The battle ended in a victory for the Germans, who took 60 officers and 600 prisoners unwounded. Their own loss was 20 officers and 410 men killed and wounded : that of the French is estimated at about three times that number. The Germans bivouacked on the field of battle. PRUSSIAN REPULSE AT ST, QUENTIN. A telegram from Lille states that the Prussians have suffered a defeat at St. Quentin. The work men erected a barricade and fought with such deter mination that the enemy had to retreat with some Loss. AMIENS, OCT. 9 (AFTERNOON.) A gallant affair has taken place at St. Quentin, where a thousand of the Gardes Mobiles have re pulsed twice their number of the enemy, killing many Prussians and taking some prisoners. Teleyr aph Telep am. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. BERLIN, OCT. 9. The South German Sovereigns will be invited to the Royal Headquarters before Paris, to discuss their reunion with the North German Confederacy. The troops before Phalsbourg have been increased to four battalions, and provided with heavy guns from Strasburg. The Tours Government begins to prepare the French for the cession of territory. The Paris Liberte approves a communication, which, it says, it has received from Tours, and which includes a slight correction of the frontier near Wissembourg in favour of Germany. The French construct fresh earthworks between Vity and Villejuif, and opposite Meudon, near Isle Seguin, and in front of Montrouge. The Germans complete their redoubts in Jerome Napoleon's park at Meudon, and on Brinborion-hill, near Sevres The latter threaten Auteuil, Passy, and Grenelle.— Times Telegram. THE DEPARTURE OF TROOPS FROM TOURS. TOURS, OCT. 7 (NIGHT). The greater part of the troops which left here on Wednesday night and Thursday returned last night and to-day. Whatever might have been the duty upon which they were hastily despatched, it is certain they did not meet with the enemy. Several fresh regiments have arrived 'to-day, some of which are composed of fairly disciplined men, and the whole body appeared to be in excellent spirits. A new camp has also been termed. There was a grand parade of the troops to-day. It was noticed that there was a great want of regimental officers, and this, 1 undcr:tand, has been the prin cipal cause of the delay in the organisation of new armies. Five huudred Papal Zouaves also marched into Tours to-day. Judging by their appearance, I should say they are not a very formidable body of warriors. A large numbet of them are mere children—boys scarcely out of their teens. How ever, they declare themselves anxious to meet the enemy.— Telegraph Telegram. THE' REMOVAL OF THE DELE GATION FROM TOURS. TOURS, OCT. 8 (A.FTERNooN.) Heavy rain has fallen here all the morning. A Council of Ministers has been summoned for five o'clock this afternoon it is understood for the purpose of considering the propriety of removing the seat of the Government Delegation to Bordeaux, on the ground that Tours would not afford sufficient accommodation for the meeting of the Constituent Assembly. The Foreign Ambassa dors in this city have already sent attachOs to Bor- Beaux, in order to prepare for their reception. Telegraph Telegram. THE FIGHT AT GISORS. ROUEN, OCT. 8. The Prussian attack in the direction of Gisors and Gournay is believed to have been a feint to cover a more important movement for the destruc tion of the rai!ways in Normandy south of the Seine. LILLE, OCT. 8 (NiGnT). A battalion of the Gardes Mobile garrisoned at Lille hats been despatched to Busigny to watch the Prussian movements. Lively cannonading has been heard at Aigleville, on the road to Paris. The Prussians who occupied Gisors are falling back on Bezu St. Eloi. A Prussian detachment of hussars is at Bezu. A petition has been drawn up at Amiens, and numerously signed, urging that, in view of the in convenience of carrying out elections for the Con stituent Assembly in face of the enemy, the Govern ment be empowered to carry on the war or make peace, and that the elections be postponed until the Constituent Assembly, elected by universal suffrage, can be convoked in Paris. The A ational asserts that 18,000 Prussians have during the week been put hors de combat under the walls of 'Paris. All the locomotives upon the rail roads are being furnished with breast-plates, render ing them shot-proof. OCCUPATION OF ABLIS BY THE PRUSSIANS. • CALAIS, OCT. 9. A proclamation is posted here : "The Prussians entered Ablis on Thursday, cut the telegraph wires, destroyed the railway, and pillaged the guard house." ARRIVAL OF GARIBALDI AT TOURS. TOURS, OCT. 9 (MORNING). Garibaldi has arrived, and the Francs-tireurs have just given him an ovation at the Prefecture. He made a short speech to the men, in which he told them that he had come among them to fight for, the holy republic. M. THIERS'S MISSION. VIENNA, OCT. 9. M. Thiers arrived this morning. He conferred with Count Bemt upwards of two hours. I'lie reception was most friendly. An interview with the Emperor is highly probable. Russia and Austria assured him alike of their great sympathies for France, and their anxious desires for the restoration of peace, but also of the absolute impracticability of intervening. M. Thiers proceeds hence to Florence in a few days.—Standard Telegram. THE FRANCO-AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS. The Phare de la Loire says the Franco-American volunteers who arrived at Brest from New York in the steamer Lafayette had left on foot for Rennes, having previously announced that the authorities refused to provide them with food or shelter. AMERICA AND THE WAR. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9. The President has issued a proclamation denying the use of American harbours or waters to armed vessels of either European belligerent for preparing hostile expeditions, or as points of observation upon opponents' vessels ; and ordering that no armeb ship shall remain more thou 24 hours in any American harbours, excepting under stress of weattler, for provisions or repairs. The proclama tion requires that 24 hours' delay in the departure of an armed ship shall be enforced where an oppo nent's vessel had left. It also limits the amount of supplies to be furnished. The proclamation - has been occasioned by the conduot of French cruisers watching German vessels at New York.—Times Telegram. THE ROMAN PLEBISCITE FLORENCE, OCT. 9. The Itoman deputation, composed of thirty gentlemen, after accepting a municipal breakfast at Pisa, arrived at Florence at half-past three on Saturday afternoon. They met with a most en.. thusiastic recepiton. The National Guards and soldiers lined the streets, which were adorned with flags and festoons of tricolor hangings. Dense crowds of people applauded the deputation during their progress, crying " Evviva Italy, and King Victor Emmanuel !" One of the King's Aide-de-Camp and two Masters of the Ceremonies represented the •Court at the station. The municipal councillors, headed by the Syndic Peruzzi, received the deputation, and accompanied it to the Hotel New York. This evening a banquet at the Cascines takes place.—Tclegraph T elegram. The Cologne Gazette of Saturday treats the whole story of the death of the Duke of Nassau as a myth. A St. Petersburg telegram says, " the re• formation of the Cossacks of the Don into regulars has com menced, although the Cossacks themselves are opposed to it, for next year they will have to furnish 60,000 men for a three years' service iu the regular army." The Pesther Lloyd professes to have good authority for stating that a circular despatch of Prince Gortchakoff, sent off within the last few days, demands the removal of the restrictions on the navigation of the Black Sea, on the ground that Russia requires ships of war there for the military command of the Caucasus. SUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 18 -(t. -31-ERMANY AND BRi Cl 6 ti NE UTRAT TTY. The following extracts are taken from a note sent by Count Bernstorff to Earl Granville in reply to his com munication of the 15th September on the subject of British neutrality : " Prussia House, Oct. 8, 1870, "My Lord—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 15th ultimo, in reply to my memorandum of the 30th August concerning British neutrality. I have left it un. answered for a time, because for the moment hopes of peace appeared to offer, and as I should have much pre. , ferred to discontinue the controversy altogether. These hopes having, however, I sincerely regret, diappeared far the present,' cannot but reply to your Excellency's note." Count Bernstorff speaks of the origin of the correspon dence, and says :—" Your Excellency had, it is true, promised that as soon as I could adduce proofs of a certain vessel being hired by or for a French Government, id order to be used as a storeship in its service, the case should receive consideration. Notwithstanding this promise, your Excellency declined, according to my request of the 19th of August ; to proceed against the 'vessels Hypathia and Norseman Merely on the ground that these vessels had sailed before the Foreign Enlistment Act had come into operation. The two other points, however, proved by undeniable evi dence—namely, that both vessels had sailed under British flag after conclusion of the sale, and that, even up to the Bth ultimo, the transfer of the property to the Frencn owners had not been entered on the ship's books, while the sale had taken place about the middle of the month of July—have been passed over in silence by your Excellency, although the twofold violation of the international law and of the English law had been clearly established. "The notes, in which I had submitted to your Excellency several cases which had become known of contemplated or alrady accomplished open and clandestine consignments of arms and ammunition to France, in order to afford an opportunity to her Brittanic Majesty's Government of preventing them or obiviating the further exclusion of the mischief, met with the same fate. Your Excellency had assured me, in the replies to my communications on the subject that they shonld receive attention, or that they should be taken into immediate consideration, or that in quiries should be made at once. But none of your Ex cellency's notes contained a positive statement to the effect that her Britannic Majesty's Government regarded the traffic in contraband of war compatible with their neutrality, and that they could not interfere. On the contrary, it has been repeatedly left to me to search after particular cases with the means at my disposal, in order to bring them under the notice of her Majesty's Govern ment. "I should have been glad, indeed, if your Excellency had, by a categorical official declaration, placed me in a position to release the consular agents of the North Ger man Confederation in the United Kingdom from the laborious and unpleasant task of controlling this illegiti mate traffic. "Your Excellency will especially please to recollect that, subsequent to the indiscretion of Count Palikao, which created a great sensation, not only in Germany, but also in this country, your Excellency, far from de claring the despatch of 40,000 breechloaders for the French army to be compatible with strict neutrality, stated that it would be impossible to interfere unless I ad duced positive proofs that such consignments had really taken place. At least your Excellency's notes of the 25th and 26th of August, in reply to my note of the 25th, justified such conclusion on my part. "After waiting in vain for the promulgation of an ' Order in Council,' or for any official announcement on the part of her Brittanic Majesty's Government, or for instructions to the police, customs, and harbour au• thorities of the United Kingdom, but having meanwhile ascertained, by means of reliable communications, that the consignments announced by Count Palikao were being actively carried on, I embodied my views of the political bearing of the question in the memorandum, in order to chew distinctly to the British Cabinet, in a most unofficial form, the impression necessarily created in Germany by the toleration of the export of arms to France. " It is true your Excellency, on the sth ult., in reply to my note of the 2nd ult., informed me that some of the packages in a certain truck on a railway pointed out by sae contained bacon. But besides the possibility of other packages which had not been opened having contained arms, and of my having been misinformed only in regard to the particular number of the railway truck, I could c c,ontrario draw the conclusion from your Excellency's communication that her Brittanic Majesty's Government would have complied with my request if those packages had contained arms instead of bacon. In your note of the 13th ultimo, while acknow ledging the correctness of a large number of cases pointed out by me, your Excellency declared that the traffic which had been quite openly carried on was legiti mate, and that the Customs authorities had no power to stop it. Had her Majesty's Government from the com mencement of the discussion taken this standing ground, they would certainly not have induced me to institute the above inquiries, and far less would they have had rea son to subject the correctness - of my informations to a prac tical test. " I therefore consider myself justified in concluding that her Britannic Majesty's Government, since the receipt of my memorandum, has materially changed the position previously occupied in regard of our complaints. "I now have the honour to 'fer to your Excellency's note of the 15th ult., and must agin by contradicting the supposition that I had expressed a desire on the part of my Government that the attitude of Great Britain to wards Germany in this war should be that of a ' benevo lent neutrality.' On the contrary, as a. repeated and careful examination of my arguments in their mutual connection will convince your Excellency, I have on the one hand merely given expression to my satisfaction that public opinion had ranged itself on our side in this war, wantonly thrust upon us, and had, on the other hand, combined with it the reflection how difficult it is to recon cile the faith in the practical value of public opinion with the neutrality policy actually pursued by her Brittanic Majesty's Government. " I have by no means asked, and far less claimed on our part, that England should transgress the bounds of a strict neutrality in our favour, and to the detriment of France. But I have asserted, and in the face of the ex periences of the last few weeks, as well as in consequence of your Excellency's note of the 15th ult., must main tain my assertion, that the neutrality of England, while, as I am most willing to admit, intended to be impartial, in its practical effects assumes the form of a neutrality which is benevolent and partial towards France. "Your Excellency admits that the export of arms and ammunition to France has latterly assumed larger propor tions than had hitherto appeared credible. I have the honour to remark that, according to my information, which may be partly tested upon oath if this should appear desirable, the number of firearms shipped from England to France since my memorandum of the 30th ult. is treble and fourfold the number of 40.000 an nounced by Count Palikao ; and that a number of manu factories, especially in Birmingham and London, are working day and night for French agents and their men of straw. lam in possession of authenticated copies of contracts concluded between the French Government and English contractors. "Since, however, as already alluded to, her Britannic Majesty's Government, relinquishing its former standing ground, does not doubt the actual legitimacy of these consignments of arms, but disputes the validity of our complaints concerning the toleration of these facts from a judicial and political point of view, I shall now proceed to an enumeration of the arguments contained in your Excellency's note of the 15th ult. " According to your Excellency's own admission, the Ex ecutive has the power to prohibit the export of contraband of war. But you state the practice is to make use of this right only in the interest of England, as in the case of self-defence. A letter of the Duke of Wellington to Mr. Canning, dated 30th August, 1825, and reprinted in a London newspaper immediately after the indiscretion of Count Palikao, refutes this assumption, proving that England, as a neutral, has repeatedly prohibited the export of arms by an ' Order in Council,' according to the usual practice, as the renowned Duke says. In ono part of this letter the words occur : I am afraid, then, that the world will not entirely acquit us of at least not doing our utmost to prevent this breach of neutrality of which the Porte will accuse us.' " Practice, consequently, is in itself not opposed to the adoption of a measure desired by us for the prohibition of the sale of arms to our enemy. But the law allows Government a certain latitude of consideration to make use of their power according to circumstances. Your Excellency is, however, of opinion that the present Customs' system would require a radical reform, in order to prevent the export of contraband of war. But I think the very fact of such laxity tends to show that, for the purpose of rendering an Order in Council' effectual, no new organisation would be required, but simply more stringent instructions for the Customs' and Harbour authorities, reminding them of the existing regulations. "I hope to be able to prove, by the following passages in English statutes, that her Britannic Majesty's Govern ment have at their disposal, in case they should wish to avail themselves of them, the means to put a stop to thin traffic without the necessity of introducing a new machinery of officials for the purpose. "By the 150th section of chapter 107, The Customs donaolidation Act, 1853' (16 and 17 Viet.), it is enacted that—' The fotoWilis foods' may, by proclamation or Order in Council, be prohibited; either to be exported or carried coastwise : Arms, ammunitiot; and gunpowder, &e. ; and if any goods so prohibited shall be eXported from the United Kingdom, or carried coastwise] cu. by water borne to be so exported, they shall be forfeited./ " Section 125 of the same Act enacts :---` That the ex porter of British manufactures, or his agents, has to de clare, in a shipping bill, the marks, numbers, description of packages, and the quantity, quality, and description of goods about to be shipped for exportation.' " Section 5 of the 122nd chapter of the 17th and 18th Victoria (1854) enacts That, on the entry at the Cus toms of arms and ammuntion of war, whether for home use, exportation, or in transit ; the number of articles of each description as denOminated in Table A (swords, bayonets, muskets, rifles, carbines, cannons ; mortars, &c.) shall be stated in the import, export, or transit entry.' " The passage; therefore, in your Excellency's note, that such export is not forbidden by our municipal law,' can but have the meaning that a positive declaration is still required on the part of her Brittanic Majesty's Govern ment before the power with which it is invested comes into operation. " The seat:4ld passage of the quoted enactment proves that the means for an efficient control have likewise been provided by the law itself. It is truo the intention must exist to supply the remedy. That, however, the action of her Majesty's Government does not always remain the same under all circumstances, I may be permitted to prove by two instructions issued to the Customs' authorities of the United Kingdom on the 2nd June, 1848, and the Bth September, 1870, respectively, " The first originated at the time of the Danish-German complications, when Sir Charles Trevelyan, one of the secretaries to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, informed the Commissioners of Customs in a Treasury minute that 'in transmitting to them copies of a letter received by their lordships from the Voroigu Office, and of its enclosures, from the Danish Minister to this Court ; he has been commanded by their lordships to desire that if the Commissioners shall be satisfied that any army or warlike stores are embarked to be sent from this country for the purpose of being employ ed in hostilities against the Danish Government, they will give instruo. tions to their officers to prevent their exportation taking place.' In pursuance of this order of the Lords of the Treasury, the Commissioners of the Customs issued direc tions to their officers of the several departments in the port of London, and to all the collectors and comptrollers of all the ports throughout the kingdom, to take care that the same be duly obeyed, with instructions to make a ' special report to the Board of any circumstances that may arise fit for their cognisance.' " On the other hand, the present instructions, notwith standing my continued complaints since the middle of July, in this year, are as follows : " `The Examining Officers, Custom House, " 'London, Sept. 8, 1870. " In pursuance of instructions from the Lords Com missioners of her Majesty's Treasiiry, the Board directs you, when it is supposed that arms and ammunition are being exported, to ascertain the fact ; and, if so, what is the nature of the arms and ammunitions, and in what quantities, by whom, and to what destination they are to be shipped ; but you are not in any case to delay the ship ment longer than is sufficient to obtain the above par ticulars. A report to be made to the Board in each case. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " 'J. B. HAL " The Collector at " This contrast in the treatment of analogous cases is self-evident, and calls for no comment on my part. I think that I am entitled to contend that they prove con clusively how easy it would have been for her Britannic Majesty's Government to render the control which has been ordered for their own information effective, also with regard to my complaints, without damaging the usual and legitimate trade of the country. " I had on a former occasion taken the liberty to propose to your Excellency still another remedy. "This measure would consist in demanding securities that articles cleared for a neutral port should really be delivered there. Your Excellency considers this proposal impracticable. I beg permission, however, to quote a passage from a French law of the 14th July, 1860—`Law concerning the manufacture and sale of arms for war purposes '—which has been reprinted in the appendix to the ' Report of the Neutrality Law Commissioners of 1867.' "It says, at page 48 of the Report, under the head of Title 11., No 9' The export of arms or pieces of arms for warfare is free, under the conditions laid down by the law or by the regulations of the administrative autho rities. " ' An Imperial decree, may, however, forbid this ex portation beyond the frontiers for a fixed destination and limited period. " ' The Custom-house officers through which the ex port may take place arc named by decrees for the pur pose. " ' When the export is prohibited for certain points of destination, the exporters must, under the penalties im posed by Article 4 of Section iii. of the law of 22nd August, 1791, certify the arrival of the arms at a legiti mate point of destination by means of bonds, which on departure are delivered to them by the Customs authori ties, and cancelled on arrival at the port of destination by the consular agents of France.' "My proposal, therefore, if it has not the merit of originality, enjoys at least the advantage of being recognised as practicable by the French Legislature. " Notwithstanding a careful study of the quoted ' Report of the Neutrality Laws Commissioners,' I have not been able to find the proof in it that this Commission had come to the decision that a prohibition of the export of arms and ammunition was, indeed, impracticable or impolitic. "The second objection of your Excellency to the legiti macy of our complaints is the alleged wrong on the part of Prussia during the Crimean War. I do not wish to recur to the greater or less degree of analogy between both the cases in question, as a continuation of this controversy, especially before the public, might create feelings in one or other of the two nations which I am most anxious to avoid. However that may be, and even if the most complete analogy existed and had been acknowledged by me, I still could not refrain from upholding the alternative that, if the complaints of England against Prussia at the time of the Crimean war were warranted, those of Germany against England at the present time are at least equally well-followed. " As regards your Excellency's arguments, by which the dilemma is to be obviated, I wish to make a single reply. " It is evident that the justice of former complaints against us is deduced from a concession made by Prussia to England and her allies, in excess of its strict obligations as a neutral, while our present grievances are stated to be unfounded, because England has not made concessions of any kind in excess of its bare duties of neutrality, and merely concedes to us a right of complaint in so far as the violation of English law is concerned. "If I should at all draw a conclusion from this line of argument, it could only be that Prussia did, at that time more in principle for the observation of neutrality than England does at • present ; and therefore evinced at that time more than a friendly neutrality towards England than the latter now observes towards us ; and that therefore the complaints of England were then less warranted than ours now are. As regards the practical observation of the existing laws and regulations, I shall not revert to the numerous complaints of England on acount of alleged transport of arms through Prussia, of which I have still a perfect recollection, and which at the time were proved un founded. " On the other hand, I must draw attention to the infrac tions of British law, as shewn above, even in its present state, in order to prove that our complaints certainly have, in this respect also, a foundation based on facts. " In addition, I cannot refrain from opposing the prin ciple involved in your Excellency's argument. For lam of opinion that the right of the belligerent Powers to com plain about the attitude of a neutral State does not so much originate in its accidental municipal law as in the international law, with which it is the duty of every Go vernment to bring its own laws into harmony. " The present controversy simply centres in the quez tion whether the refusal of her Majesty's Government to prohibit the export of arms is not at variance with the still unaltered general rules of international law regarding the duties of neutrals towards belligerents, and with the laws of this country, not yet repealed by the Legislature, for the better fulfilment of these duties ? That such is the case I believe I have proved by the existing facts and the laws themselves. "Your Excellency remarks that rrance has suffered only defeats, while Germany, on the other hand, exhibits uninterrupted successes, and you connect therewith the reflection that it would be contrary to the feelings of her Britannic Majesty's Government now to change a line of policy entered upon at a time when they could not know which side would be favoured by the fortune of wt.. " In the first instance, I should wish to raise tue oujec tion hereto that the Government of her Britannic Majesty brought the new Foreign Enlistment 41st before Parliament after the outbreak of the war, and that when advocating the bill they emphatically declared that the laws hitherto in force would not be altered thereby,, but merely supplemented, _ " If, hON'Vever, it cannot be doubtful, on the one hand, that in existing circumstances the new law is only bene ficial to France, rendering it impossible for Germany to get ships which she needed most urgently—while, on the other hand, the Executive now refuses to apply the old laws for the prevention of export of arms and ammunition to France, and hereby the United Kingdom becomes a great arsenal for our enemy—the new law assumes, in a/twelve/10e of this, a character as regards Germany which, if 1c hostile, is practically malevolent; but this, as I have the satisfaction to know, and as is provedby the Parliamentary debate 3, 'rem not the intention 01 the Legislature. " I further have the honour to remark that our com plaints of the manner in which the English neutrality laws are being administered date from a time when 1 , 16 had not yet gained any victories, and that they were in nowise first raised by my memorandum of the 30th August. Moreover, at the time the memorandum was penned, France still possessed two powerful armies, while her fleets commanded the Baltic and North •Sea so that it could not possibly be a matter of indifference to us whether England, by the exercise of her neutrality-, materially increased the advantages which France derived from our want of control of the sea. "But even under the present circumstances the German people would not easily be persuaded that it was wanting in chivalry because it complains that, by an unrestricted export of arms, the enemy, who had been overcome only by its own great sacrifice, is furnished with the means of prolonging a struggle which, even if its final re sult should not thereby be materially affected, still, in any case, must lead to more bloodshed and more sacrifices for both belligerents. Even the most eloquent defender of the position taken by her Britannic Majesty's Government will not succeed in the eyes of Germany in bringing such 9, neutrality policy into harmony with the considerations of humanity and the wishes for peace so frequently advocated by England. "As for the hope expressed by your Excellency that the German people will, in a cooler moment, judge less severely the attitude of the Government of Great Britain in this question than now in the heat of action, I regret that, in consequence of your Excellency's note of the 15t, ult., added to the knowledge that our enemy is being daily equipped with British arms, I cannot share it. " Should this state of things continue, I could only look forward to the soothing influence which the nume rous and aetual proofs of sympathy given by the English people, and the manifold testimonies of public opinion in favour of Germany and its good right, may have upon the feelings of the German nation.—l have the honour, &c., (Signed) "BERNSTORFP. " His Excellency the Earl Granville. &c." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE NEWMARKET RACES—TiIIs DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NEWMARkET, Monday, 1.30 p.m. BETTING AT THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS. CESAREWITCH. 100 to , 12 agst Wheatear (taken) 10 to 1 aot Annie Wood (taken) 12 to 1 agst Hawthornden (taken) 12 to 1 agst Flibustier (taken) 12 to 1 agst Rattlepate (offered—afser 1000 to 80 had been taken) 20 to 1 agst Falkland (taken) 200 to 11 agst Typhoeus (taken) 33 to 1 agst Nero (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Ryshworth (taken) 33 to 1 agst Sister to Cherie (taken) 33 to 1 agst Not Out York 1000 to 40 agst Cardinal York (taken) 1000 to 40 agst Barford (offere4l) 40 to 1 agst Tabouret (taken) 50 to 1 agst Exciseman (taken) 50 to 1 agst Dairymaid (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Cinderella (taken) 100 to 1 agst Recorder (offered) 100 to 1 agst Arlington (offered) 20 to 1 agst Mr. l3rayley's lot (offered) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 100 to 1 agst Tabouret (offered—after 33 to 1 had been taken) PRODUCE STAKES. Sunflower c ANDICAP PLATE, Ramaquin Porphyre Gourbi ... W.O. Five ran. PLATE OF 100 SOVS. Somno... Glacus... Corbeille Nineteen ran. BETTING ON THE COURSE. CESAREWITCH. 1000 to 60 agst Faraway (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ryshworth (taken) CITY B Ern G.—Tins DAY. 7to 1 agst Wheatear (offered-8 to 1 taken) 9to 1 agst Annie Wood (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Hawthornden (offered-stoke 10 to 1) 100 to 8 agst Rattlepate (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Flibustier (offered-100 to 7 taken) 100 to 6 agst Typhoens (taken and offered) THE MONEY MARKET CITY, Two o'CLcoK. Business to-day on the Stock Exchange was quiet, but the tendency seemed to be to improve. Consols aro without change at 921 to 92i for delivery, and 92 7-16 to 92 9-16 for account. Railway Stocks and Foreign Bonds are quiet. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 91 to 91f. In Foreign Stocks, Italian have improved the present quotation being 54a to 543 ; and Turkish are lower, at 43 / 1 to 43g. The Manchester Examiner says :—" On 'Change the suspension of Messrs. Martin, Tennant. and Co., of Lon don and Bombay, was currently reported." New York advices mention a meeting of the creditors of Francis Skinner and Co., at which the statement sub mitted shewed liabilities to the amount of £860,000, due chiefly to banks and .manufacturing companies. A com mittee of inspection was appointed to examine the assets and report at an early date. In anticipation of the meeting to be held on the 19th inst., the directors of the Land Mortgage Bank of India have issued their report. The current revenue of 1869 was sufficient to meet all charges and leave a surplus of £1,504. All the financial requirements of the undertaking to June, 1871, have been fully provided for, and no call is necessary or contemplated. It is still thought that the gross losses in respect of principal will fall within the sum at which they were estimated in 186 S, viz., £172,000. The directors propose to reduce the borrowing powers of the bank on its debentures from £8,000,000, the amount now authorised by the articles of association, to a gross sum of £1,000,000, inclusive of the debentures now current. An extraordinary meeting of the Royal Sardinian Rail way Company is called for the 18th inst., " fo- the purpose of taking into consideration the provisions of the Conven tion made with the Italian Government." The ordinary general meeting of the Queensland Sheep Investment Company will be held on the 18th inst. AFFAIRS AT PEKIN, We have received from the Foreign Office this afternoon the following lamination :—" A telegram has been received from Mr. Wade, dated the 20th of September, and stating that all wr as quiet at Pekin and Tien-tsin." TEE CONVICT MAII,GAILET WATERS.—Down to last night no commutation had been received trom the Home Office holding out any prospect that the capital sentence passed upon Margaret Waters would be oom muted. if not reprieved, the unhappy woman will be axe cuted to-morrow morning. The Broad Arrow says Major-General Pears, the Military Secretary at the India Office, will early this week call upon some five hundred retired officers of the Indian Army to state whether they will be willing to serve with the Reserve Forces in this country. CRYSTAL PALACE. — HaIf-a-Crown day, Saturday Oct. Bth, 1870.—Admission by season tickets, 4,398 ; do. On payment, 990. Total visitors, 5,388. . . BALLOON POST.—The bag of Postal Cards de spatched by Magnesium Balloon at the Crystal PHlaco Firework Display, last Thursday, was picked up at Acrise Farm, near Folkestone, and the Cards posted at llythe reaching their destination by first delivery on Saturday. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXIIIBITION.—iIe visit of Mr. Gladstone has been the source of the highest gratification to many of the exhibitors. Mr. John Jeffery's, the patentee and exhibitor of the crescent studs and solitaires, has been signally fortunate in being com plimented on the ingenuity of his invention. Not only has the Prince of Wales accepted a suite of the crescent studs, but Mr. Gladstone also has done Mr. Jefferys the honour of accepting a suite in fine and beautifully polished silver as a souvenier of his visit to the exhibition. Mr. Jefferys has received a highly complimentary communi cation from Mr. Gurdon, the private secretary to the Premier, thanking him for his present ; and also congra tulating him on his ingenious and very useful invention. POLICE INTELLIGENC L—Tms I)AY. UNPROVOKED ASSAULT. —Dennis O'Brien, a respectable looking middle-aged man, who refused his address, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with assaulting Mr. E. Styles, dentist, of No. 58, Albany-Street, Regent's Park. From the evidence of the complainant it appeared that on Saturday night he was walking along Regent street when the prisoner walked up to him, stood opposite him, and struck him a blow in the eye and knocked him down, and on his getting up knocked him down a second time, and he then gave him into cus tody. The prisoner said he only ran against the com plainant accidentally. Abel Dickins, 17 'C R said the prisoner was drunk and the complainant sober. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner £5, or two months' n de fault, stating that he supposed the prisoner being an Irishman he could not help it. AN UNDUTIFUL SON.—William . Samuel Chesterton, a years, was charged at the Thames Police cboonyrtagedl3 with stealing three blankets and two sheets, the property of his father, a carpenter of the same name, of No. 13, Hereford-place, Commercial-road, Stepney. Before Mr. Odell, the chief usher, had tendered the book to the prosecutor, Mr. Paget said : This is your own son ? Mr. Chesterton : It is, sir. Mr. Paget : But surely you are not going to prosecute him? Mr. Chesterton said he had no alternative. The boy had robbed him repeatedly, and neglected all The advantages he had offered for his future welfare. Mr. Paget : Now think of it. Don't prosecute your own son if you can help it. Let the boy stand down and see his father. A few minutes afterwards the buy was again placed in the dock, and the father having withdrawn from the prosecution, his son was discharged. ipts. 12 7 2 1 14 3 7 0 lb 11 19 3 15 2 ion of s. 9d. , was ) (ex mints hare- sday, sheet Ell be elect uted den dey, act