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The Captain, a turret ship, was one of the combined Mediterranean and Channel squadrons. She had a crew of about 500 men. She foundered during a heavy gale, off Cape Finisterre, Spain, during Tuesday night or early on Wednesday morning. No traces of her or her ill-fated crew have been found except pieces of wreck ; but the particulars which have been received leave no doubt that not a soul escaped. THE WAR. (ILEUTBR'S TELEGRAMS.) SOCIALI-Al - IN FRANCE. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 8. The Narseillaise re-appeared to-day, with the heading of " Vivo la Republique Democratique, et Sociale," and publishes a letter from M. Rochefort, announcing that lie can take no part in the editorship of the illarseillw'se, while a member of the Govern ment. An article in the same paper, signed Grousset, is publiAed, in which the writer expresses his dissatis faction at the conduct of the Government, and says that the majority of the members are strongly sus pected by the Socialist democracy, and that the name of Rochefort alone inspires confidence. The - MarBeillaise demands acts from the Govern ment. RITSSIA AND THE REPUBLIC, ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 9. The .Tpurnalde St. Petersbourg of to-day discusses M. Jules Favre's circular in an article of which the following is an extract : " The French Government carries the Praetorian virtue too far when, even for the sake of a peace that would put an end to a war of exterpation, it refuses to saorsilice fortresses that have not prevented Paris being exposed to a siege. " Germany has seen that M. Jules Favre was not able to prevent war when the nation enthusiastically sanctioned it, and he will now probably require a lasting guarantee for the results of her heroin victories. "In conclusion we must say we do not understand how right and justice can now be said to be on the side of France, when M. Jules Favre maintained the opposite a month ago. " We trust Europe will possess sufficient influence to secure a lasting peace. THE KING AND THE REPUBLIC. BERLIN, SEPT. 9, MO A.M. The Paris Committee of Defence has summoned the King of Prussia to evacuate French territory without loss of time. After confidential exchange of opinion between . the principal German Governments, it seems probable that Alsace and Lorraine, if annexed, will be placed under he central Government of Germany, without being headed over to any one German So4vereign Vreßarations are making to send the overland mail by Brhrdlsi, Tyra,, and Ostend, in case the nrepCid railway franc ig disturbed. Cotint Itteapiitz art.l General, Roon, Prussian Ministers of Cliontruerco and War, have each lett a sot) in the field. The German losses at Woertli are now officially ascertained as being above 8,000: — Times. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. SUPPORT TO THE REPUBLIC. PARIS, SEPT. 8. A. placard has been posted up in Paris to-day signed by MM. Blanqui, Lacambre, Pridon Brothers, Villeneuve, Regnard, Levrand, and Pilh es, which says that in the presence.of the enemy there must be no more parties, no more divergences of opinion. All opposition and all contradiction must disap pear before the common danger. Accursed be he who should now seek his own selfish ends or hold back. The undersigned put aside all private opinion, and offer the Provisional Government tho most energetic and most absolute support, without reserve or condition, except the maintenance of the Republic. The undersigned have resolved to be buried beneath the ruins rather than sign a peace dis honouring or dismembering France. TREATMENT OF GERMANS. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 9. 'The Moniteur Belga of to-day says :—" The German journals complain of the manner in which the Germans exiled from France and the wounded German soldiers have been received in Belgium. An inquiry has been ordered to arrive at the truth of this. Belgium feels more than ever pleased at the friendly relations she has beon able to establish with neigh bouring Powers, and therefore the reproach on this subject which has been addressed to the Belgian Government cannot be justified, since Belgium offers with the same readiness and without dis tinction of the flog her sympathetic hospitality to all who are suffering and in trouble. PRUSSIANS EXPLORING-PARIS. The Manchester Examiner publishes the following telegram : PARIS, THURSDAY. Last night two men of the Prussian cavalry in full uniform, hub wearing the overcoat common to both artnies, were eaptured in the Rue Dauphine. These scouts entered with Vinoy's troops, and were all day exploring the city. They cannot be shot, being in full uniform. The Prussians are near—expected to be in the environs to-morrow. THE PROPOSALS OF PEACE. All efforts at mediation on the part of the neutral Powers are as yet ineffectual, though the whole of the diplomatists in Paris have had long interviews with M. Julys Farve. According to the Independ ance Beige the obstacle has asisen from the British Cabinet, which considers it useless to pro pose to the - King of Prussia an arrangement on the basis of the territorial integrity of France, which it believes he would peremptorily refuse. This is a S ine qua Mt with the French Government and People. RUSSIA AND THE TREATY OF PARIS. The Constitutionne2 affirms that Russia tak advantage of the confused qtate of affairs i Europe, and demand, if not the abrogation of the Paris Treaty of 1856, at least a considerable modifi- Cation of its clauses. The Llaykl de l'esth makes Sieutiqn. - te dimuistapoo . and a latter . frani • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, sEPTEMBER 9, 1870. The Cunard steamer Russia arrived out at 10 a.m. to day. The Inman steamer City of London, and the Cruion steamer Manhattan, also arrived out. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 8. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. Yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock, a sad accident Constantinople givei some interesting details on the subject. General Ignatieff, in the name of the St. Petersburg Cabinet, de manded from the Porte a revision of the Conven tion of 1856. The Porte replied that the Treaty of Paris, being the colleCtive work of all the great Powers, the Ottoman Government alone could not modify it. This news, if true, is regarded as menac ing-the tranquillity of Europe. THE ITALIAN TROOPS IN ROME. he Korth-Eastern Coaresponcknce publishes a dispatch from Vienna whi3h says that the Italian troops will immediately enter Rome.. A. despatch from Berne states that the Italian Government has signified to the Federal Council that it has determined upon the. military occupation of the Roman States. (WIUTBree TELQRAIffi.) THE DIPLOMATIC BODY IN PARIS. PARIS, SEPTEhiIIER 8, 6.5 P.M. The Pairie of this evening mentions a rumour tha the members of the Diplomatic Body had a confer ence to-day, and that, if they. 'arrive at an under standing, they will proceed in a body to the head quarters of the King of Prussia. M. Rochefort has written a letter repudiating the ideas contained in an article against the Government in the Manselllaise, signed " Cluseret." A. number ofGardelLobile, bearing - Adierican and French flags, gave the Minister of the United States an ovation. [The Times' Berlin correspondent telegraphs the following :—" There is reason to think that the pro clamation of a Republic in France and the deter mined attitude of Prussia has shaken the intention of Russia to propose the convocation of a Congress. The Austrian War Office, after learning the capture of Napoleon, has suspended the purchase of horses. The prisoners taken and surrendered at Sedan, in number 100,009, will be sent to North and South German forliesses, and their transport has begun. Strasburg is now invested by 60,000 men. Only women and children will be permitted by the Germans to leave the town in future. The Botanical Gardens are converted into a cemetery."] THE NEW AMBASSADORS. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 8, 7.20 a.m. The Prussians are reported at Crespy, near Laon, The Committee for the Defence of Paris is actively at work. The Stecle asserts that MM. Louis Blanc, Ledru Rollin, and Dugraisse, will leave shortly for London, Washington, and Berne respectively, as ambassadors of the French Republic. The Lib.rte believes that the Government will revoke its decision recalling M. Mosbourg from the post of Envoy Extraordinary at Vienna. INDEMNITY FOR LOSSES. BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 8, EVENING. The official Staatsanzeiger of this evening says : " The statement that the Chancellery of the Con federation of North Germany has already prepared a statement of the claims for indemnity to be put forward on account of captured German merchant vessels is entirely unfounded." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. BERLIN. SEPTEMBBE 8, EVBNING. The official Staatzanzeiger of this evening says : "According to reliable information, the state ments, namely, of eye-witnesses, the Emperor Napo leon, at the battle of Sedan, exposed himself to our fire in such a manner that his intentio❑ was indubi tably to seek death." • THE BELGIAN FRONTIER. BRUSSELS, SIIFT. 8, Evening. Bands of marauders, coming from France, have pillaged several farms in the neighbourhood of Alou6cron. The troops have been instruoted to put a atop to t heir depredations. SPANISH SYMPATHIES. MADRID. SEPT. 8. The Republican Directory have issued a manifesto to the French people, drawn up by Senor Emile Castelar. The manifesto says :—" The peoples of the present century desire to prevent the return of the I arbarous age of conquests, nor will they ever agree to a decrease, however little, of the territory of France, that common patrimony of universal liberty." An important manifestation will take place on Thursday in honour of the French Republic, and it is expected tc be of a very enthusiastic and sig►►ifi cant character. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 8. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day chews the following changes as compared with the previous return Notes INOREA9B. Franc& ... ... ... 15,000,000 DECREASE. Current accounts ... 68,000,000 Treasury balance 40,610,000 Cash ... ... ... 36,000,000 Commercial Bills ... ... 12,610,000 Advances ... ... 300,000 PRUSSIA THREATENING A FORCED FRENCH LOAN. The London Figaro says :—" We are is receipt of information which we should hesitate to publish except that it is authoritatively authenticated. The leading Paris bankers have been notified by their agents that Prussia intends to raise a forced loan of £60,000,000 sterling. The Prussian Government will not become security for this amount, but will give the bankers an order on the French Govern ment. The £/50,000,000 sterling will be treated as part of the indemnity money." SIEGE OF STRASBURG. The Daily News' correspondent at Carlsruhe says —" Upon being informed of the important events which had taken place at Sedan, General Uhrich proposed to surrender Strasburg provided his forces were permitted to march out with all the honours of war. The German commander refused these terms, insisting upon an unconditional sur render, The bombardment is now being continued with incre aged rigour, but the assault is not ex pected to take place in less than a fortnight. The fire is entirely concentrated on the fortification. Troops have been despatched to occupy the Upper Rhine districts, and to stop attacks on trains coming from Basle." The Echo publishes the following telegram, received from its own correspondent, dated Sept. 8 (Eight a.m.)—Arms have been obtained for 90,000 fresh troops, who will be raised at once. The police have been dismissed by an edict of Count Keratry, who has ordered the formation of a new corps without .swords. Paris is perfectly quiet. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] SPAIN. MADRID, SEPTEMBER 6. The Permanent Committee have resolved to convoke the Cortes. The Impareial announces that the province of Barcelona will be placed in quarantine. Senor Ochoa has refaced a telegraphic summons to pro ceed to Madrid on the ground that be had placed himself at the .116*i of the Oarlist rueveuient, , , ‘. The Republican State Convention of New York has nominated M. Gerard Woodford as candidate for governor. It has also passed resolutions congratulating Germany on her recent victories, and prance on the overthrow of the Empire, and expressing a hope that a Republic will be established in Germany. AUSTRALIA. (13y-British Ihdian Cable.) ADELAIDE, AUGUST 14. The South Australian Government are rapidly pushing forward the overland telegraph line northward, to Join the submarine cable with India. INDIA. (By British Indian Cable.) CALCUTTA, SEPTEMBER 8. The Government statement of the finances shew surplus of £61,000 sterling. MR. FORSYTH'S EXPEDITION. , (By Indo-European Telegraph.) CALCUTTA, SEPTEEBER 8. News has been received of Mr. Forsyth's expedition to the 4th of August, which was progressing satisfactorily. The authorities much facilitate its object. (IJENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AT IT AST,llips. Tho Picinee Imperial is still at the Marine Hotel, Hastings; and since his arrival there has been visited by several distinguished persons from London. The Prince appears to be in good health. He has employed his time to some considerable extent in visiting places of interest in the locality. He appears in public, walking on the Esplanade repeatedly. Happily he is not pursued by vulgar and offensive curiosity. He acknowledges politely the salutes made to him. The Mayor of Hastings has had an interview with him, and was courteously received. It is a somewhat singular coincidence that many years ago, when Napoleon, the father, was a refugee in this country, he visited for a short time, at Pelham Cottage, which imme diately adjoins the Marine Hotel, now occupied by his son. The chamber in which the father slept is separated by only the partition wall from that in which the son sleeps. • INQUEST ON THE MAN FOUND SHOT AT DUNGARVAN. The inquest on the body of the man, Patrick Fitzgerald, found shot through the lungs, at Dungarvan on Tuesday, was held on Wednesday, but the evidence threw little or no light on the occurrence. It was proved that three men named Foley, Walsh, and Power, were friends of the deceased, and were with him shortly before his body was discovered. Power and Foley were discharged by the Coroner, but re-arrested by the police, pending the magisterial investigation, at the close of which they were admitted to bail. It is now thought that the four men were Fenians, and that Fitzgerald was accidentally shot while they were handling revolvers. AID TO THE SICK AND WOUNED IN THE WAR. At a town's meeting held in Leeds yesterday, the Mayor presiding, it was agreed, on the motion of the vicar of Leeds, seconded by Mr. Alderman Carter, M.P., to raise a fund in Leeds to be contributed to the National Society in Aid of the Sick and Wounded in the War. Nearly £5OO has already been subscribed. occurred in the river Thames, off Woolwich. The Chichester, having her station at Greenthithe,Js a well known asylum in which homeless and destitute boys, rescued from the streets of London, are brought up and trained for the sea, being draughted off,when theyreach the proper age and have made sufficient progress, into the Royal Navy or the merchant service. Yesterday morning the ship's pinnace left the Chichester for Woolwich, in charge of Mr. W. T. Roach, the boatswain, having on board eighteen of the lads who were to be examined on board the Fisgard, the flagship at Woolwich Dockyard, as to their fitness for her Majesty's service. There were also in the boat a clergyman, named Hind, from Gravesend, sup posed to belong to the Thames mission, and a lad in his charge named H. Keating, whom he was also bringing to the Fisgard. All went well till a few minutes before the accident. The boat was under sail, beatiag up against wind and tide, having foresail, mainsail, and jib set, Roach, the boatswain, who was steering, states that when off the Royal Arsenal Pier, the screw steamer Cormorant, a vessel of about 500 tons burden, bound from London lot Cork, ran into the boat, and cut her completely in two under her bows. He says that one portion of the wreck went on the port side of the steamer, and the other to the starboard, and that the steamer had so much way on her that she went for a considerable distance before she rendered any assistance. Thirteen out of the twenty-one were picked up by watermen's boats, and the Queen of the Orwell, on her passage from London for Ipswich, reversed her engines and lowered a boat to assist in rescuing the immersed lads. The Nymph, belonging to the Woolwich Steam Packet Company, also left Wool wich Town Pier to render assistance. The clergyman, the youth who was with him, and six of the Chichester boys' were drowned. ' One of those rescued was so seriously injured by the collision that he was taken on shore for surgical advice. The boatswain and eleven lads were taken on board the Fisgard, where they received every kindness from Staff Commander Inglis, R.N., Mr. Webb, boatswain, and other officers and the crew of the ship, who provided them with dry clothing and necessary refreshment. Subsequently two of the lads turned up at the Royal Gun Factories in the Royal Arsenal. It appears they had clung to the sail of the boat after the collision, and were afterwards rescued by some men em ployed in the Arsenal, in an exhausted condition. They were taken into the gun factories, supplied with restora tives, and, having had their clothing dried, were for warded on to the Fisgard. Drags and creepers were sent to the scene of the accident, and a number of boats were engaged searching for the bodies up to a late hour last night. Four of the Chichester boys drowned were named William Whyatt, Alfred Read, William Bell, and George Lowings, and they were all about 16 years of age. The accident is said to have been caused by the sailing vessel having missed stay, but, no doubt, the facts will be fully elicited at the inquest. As the Cormorant passed the Chichester at Erith she informed those on board of the accident, in addition to which Staff Commander Inglis conveyed the sad news to the commander of the Chi chester by telegraph. Two of the bodies were picked up last evening at half past eight o'clock, and were taken to the Barge House, North Woolwich, to await the inquest. THE OPERA OOMIQUE. The above is the name of the latest addition to the list of new theatres that have been built in London during the last few months. The new theatre occupies a portion of the site of Lyon's Inn; it adjoins that belonging to Mr. Sefton Parry, and when completed it will, without doubt, be one of the most elegant places of amusement in the metropolis. In its cqnstruetion the greatest care has been taken to secure a good view of the stage from all parts of the house, and the architect has admirably succeeded. The front of the stagesis a trifle .larger than the Princess's and the shape of the interior is that known as the fiat horse-shoe. The arrangement of the auditorium will he found to partaks of the greatsst novelty, and-the accommodation made foil visitors far exceeds that now crfferecl. to the publie in any theatre in the metropolis. There are no less flair four good entrances to the heuse, viz., one in the Strand, two in Wych-street, and the other in Holywell-street ; the staircases are fireproof, and, hi case of emergency, the entire audience could leave the ttieatre in less than five minutes. The decorations, when completed, will be found to embrace everything that taste and luxury could suggest s and the proprietors may well anticipate a great success for their undertaking. The entertainments to be given will-be of ikrAature altogether new to London, and they will be sup• ported by artistes of the highest class in the profession. The new theatre is announced for openincr at the end of the present month. FIRE AT THE HOLBORN AMPHITHEATRE. Only four fires occurred during the last 24 hours, namely, up to six a.m. this morning, and out of that number only the following two were deserving of notice : One was at the Royal Amphitheatre, High Holborn, and was caused by some one throwing a light through the fanlight of the stables at the back of the theatre. Fortunately, owing to the timely aid afforded, the flames were confined to the destruction 9f a quantity of straw, and damage to the stall boards. It is unknown whether Mr. Charman, the proprietor of the theatre, was insured or not. The fire took place from some unknown cause in the extensive premises of Mr. J. B. Green, a carpenter and builder, No. 18, Catherine-street, City-road. In the course of a few' minutes the stores on the ground floor presented a general mass of flames, and although the engines of the Metropolitan Brigade were remarkably early in arriving the flames had taken possession of the upper portions of the building. The firemen and London Salvage Corps managed by great perseverance to confine the flames to Mr. Green's premises, which were for the most part destroyed. POLIOE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. DRUNK, FURIOUS DRIVING, AND DAISIAGE.—James Ponsford, a wine carman, was brought before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough Police-court, charged with being drunk, and furiously driving a horse and cart, and ho was further charged with injuring a horse, the property of Mr. Joseph S. Kegg. Police-constable William Fish, 5 C R, stated that on the previous night he was at the corner of Warwick-street, when he saw the prisoner com ing along Glasshouse-street at a furious rate, followed by a number of persons calling out "Stop him, stop him !" He did so, and asked him what was the matter, when he replied, " It's all right, constable ;" but thinking it was not all right, he detained him, and directly after he found out that he had run against a horse and severely injured it. From the manner in which the prisoner was driving it was a mercy no one was run over. It was afterwards discovered that he had driven against a cab, and greatly injured the horse. The prisoner, who denied being in fault, but admitted that he had been drinking, was remanded. JUVENILE DELINQUBNCY.—Mary Ann McMahon, a girl 13 years old, was charged, at Westminster Police-court, with stealing £7 15s. 5d., the monies of Fanny Wilson. Mrs. Wilson said she was a widow, and was taking care of a house at 71, King's Road, Chelsea, and between Wednesday night and Thursday at two she lost the money from a box in the kitchen ; the prisoner was minding the children, and knew where the money was kept. Prisoner's mother here fainted, and had to be removed from the court. When able to be brought into court again the prosecutrix wished to withdraw the charge, and, in consideration of the prisoner not having stolen anything before, and the nwther going to Ireland with her, Mr. Arnold allowed her to be discharged. Ihe Premier left town yesterday for Clumber Park, Notts, and returns to-morrow. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Thurs day, September 8, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets, 5,298; ditto on payments, 15,160 ; total visitors, 20,458. THE FIRE IN EXMOUTH-STREET.—The inquest on Edward Mobbs, a lad 13 years of age, who lost his life at a fire in Clerkenwell on the 31st ult., was resumed yes terday. The poor little fellow was aroused when the alarm was given, but is supposed to have been overcome by the smoke ; and when it was found that he had not escaped it was impossible to rescue him. The jury re turned a verdict of `• Accidental death," adding that they did not consider there was sufficient protection of life in the old and densely-populated districts of Clerken well. SUICIDE. --A shocking suicide, evidently the result of betting, occurred on Wednesday night after Warwick races. The Great Western Railway passes by the race course, and towards eight o'clock the dead body of a respectably-dressed man, about forty years of age, was found lying beside the rails, the head being almost severed from the trunk. His pockets contained only lid., a Racing Calendar, and a marked card of the day's races. The only clue to his identity is the entry in his pocket-book of several addresses, to which the police have written. DUNVILLE and Co., Be!fist, are the largest holders of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommeuded by the medical profession in preference to French brand - . Sup plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE Co.' Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast or at tllet Lopdon OfEct-E, 4, Reactor! Buil , Ul l ,•s Strain 1, W.Q •1 , CAPTAIN JEANNEROD ON THE WAR. Captain Jeannerod, the able correspondent of the Temps, whose graphic descriptions of the campaign have !xeited so much interest in London and Paris, sends the following account of the great military and imperial catastrophe of last week : SEDAN, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. Words are useless, are they not ? I must content inyielf with saying what, is. I begin my melancholy ci tal as soon as I can, and as I can. I shall continue it il! the same fashion, and it must reach you how and when it can. A Prisoner with the army and.with the inhabitants of daft, I hope to leave this afternoon, and to arrive this evening.at Eouillon, in Belgium, from whence I shall send you L..: letter. lam told that the Prussians have shown themselves willing to oblige those Aenc.h officers who wish to communicate with their families, but I shall only use the regular service in Belgium. Yesterday evening our unfortunate army terminated its evacuation. At the same moment. as the last corps left by the gate of Mozietes Prussians entered by that of I3alou or Montmedy. The population, although thoroughly French, could not restrain a somewhat un worthy curiosity. I saw some of them even approach the intruders, offer their services, and extol the Prussian dis cipline at the expense of the Preach. Such sights are painful, but more painful still is that this superior dis cipline is a fact. In this and following letters I shall speak freely of the 'state of our army, and of the causes which have produced this state of things. We must draw from this list Of disasters a severe but salutary lesson. On Tuesday mornifig we, left Charleville, meaning to stay only one day euroute,not doubting that Mac:Mitliterri would pass Argonne. M. Geilion-Daughar and I intended to take the railway to Montmedy, keeping near the Belgian frontier, for I expected a manceuvre on the part of the Crown Prince cutting off the French com munications with Paris. We breakfasted quietly at Sedan, where the most encouraging rumours were circulating, and the junction of MacMahon and Bazaine was considered certain. The day passed tranquilly, but in the evening the scene changed and disasters begun. In the shadow, in the midst of the forges, with which the place was full, groups of silent soldiers 'attracted our attention. They were questioned, but did not reply, or murmured of treason. The groups increased, and were joined by cavalry of all ranks, the horses weary, the soldiers de pressed. An officer passing called out, "It was very unlucky just now, but all will go . right directly." What did it all mean ? Soon the dreadful reality was known. While we were indulging our hopes the sanguinary and unfortunate conflict had taken place. Thanks to the neglect and incapacity of certain leaders, which amounted throughout the campaign to treason, we were again surprised on the march, beaten, and crushed. Our corps cut off one after the other, thrown back on the left bank of the Meuse, and our artillery lost its cannons. This artillery arrived but a few days since, and we watched it start with so much hope. Nothing returned of it but horses whose harness had been broken or cut by the imprecations of the cavahy. The crowd stopped and surrounded one of the men, and forced him to speak. He belonged to Failly's corps, and this name, ill-fated from the outset of the war, told us What we might expect. As usual, they had marched without any precautions, without scouts, and advanced into the woody depths of Argonne as if they were on the high road of Neuilly. All at once at Beaumont, at the bottom (if the valley, a cannonade and a formidable discharge of musketry poured forth, from an invisible ambuscade, into the middle of our ranks. Overwhelmed by this surpOse, our encumbered columns fell back in disorder, after a murderous struggle under a rain Of iron and fire. The break up extended all along - the Meuse, as far as Mouzon, where one part of the corps of Dourty and Lebrun were engaged. It was the first of thiS rout that we saw arrive. Everyone was complaining. The soldiers of the regi ments which had suffered most said they had been led to a massacre, others reproached them with cowardice. An artillery office; in the middle of some 500 persons, told bow the guns were put in the batteries under a terrible fire, and how ; when they reached the woods, which they could not pass through, they were skiked and,abandoned. At htst they reached Mouzon. There was MacMahon. He flings himself before the troops. " What, you fly ?" he said. They answered that they could not do otherwise, and they wept. Our emotion on hearing the news was also great. During our sleepless night a thousand noises in the streets confirmed the sad — tidings. Voicee of men, varying'their tones from grief to anger, ascended, amid the noise of horses'. The street full of fugitives, with wounded bodies, pale faces, forced to sleep on the pavement. Officers and generals arrived in their thin, Mae fahon himself was said to be there. It was a veri table defeat. In the bureau of the hotel a general of brigade was seated, wrapped in his cloak, who replied, with tears in his eyes, to the citizens who passed. Then came the Emperor and his gilded carriages, which no one troubled themselves even to look at with anger under this overwhelming affliction. And I—What was I to dot Should I leave ? But how could I leave just when there was something to be learned; and, on the other hand, if I stayed, could ma , letters pass, and into what useless risks might I not be running? You know now that the desire for information carried the day ; and, convinced as I am that my recital may be of service, I rejoice at my resolution. But at midday there was no longer a choice. The voiturier of Charleville, who had brought us, had left in the night, and it was useless to dream of finding another, and already distant echoes told us that the scouts of the enemy already held all the roads. In fact, this rapid advance was bewildering. The evening before we were certainly dreaming of victory, and now, at the lapse of a few hours, we are blockaded. The very suburbs in which we walked yesterday are interdicted. I had been so often and go un fortunately confirmed in my apprehensions by events, no longer believed in a favourable result. The fable of Bazaine (for I cannot give another name to the hopes which interested or credulous people have indulged in during the last three days)—this fable, I repeat, had no effect upon me. In vain the Emperor in a proclamation posted during the evening assured the people that the army of Mctz was reconstructed. These vague words could not conceal the falsehood. The same proclamation says in cenalusion " and if there arp cowards military law and public contempt will give them their deserts." This was an allusion to what was said of the regiments who fled. Truth compels me to add that the report could not altogether be denied.' But it must not be sup posed that there was any real lack of courage on the part of our soldiers. I believe the exclusive capacity for good or evil is rare in this world. Characters arc exceptional circumstances, are eve`rything. The same man will act in the most opposite fashions, according us he is led. Was it not to this fact we owed the bitter spectacle before us. Badly led, deprived• of part of his means of action by the fault of his chief, che?ishing against them evtravagant and unbounded, but not unnatural, suspicions, the soldier was no longer the soldier of other times, An army needs a united effort, especially under such serious circumstances, and there were too many different elements in ours for this. I passed part of this day and the next on the clock, from which I could distinguish all the surrounding , country as far as . the wood of Margee, celetrated in other times by the battle of 1641, more sorrowfully to be celebrated in the future by that of September 1, 1870. Nothing, however, was to be seen but some Prussian batteries. Every minute we could see smoke and hear a report, telling us of a fight going on, we could not tell where. The village of Bazeilles was burning in two or three places, and the stone bridge of the Meuse was well guarded in front of us. The blockade continued, the station was burning, and an ambulance train, which endeavoured to leave, was fired upon. All the drawbridges of the gates of Sedan were in the air. I busied myself hi collecting what details I could, and I rejoice to bear testimony of the courage of our men. I was told etwtain Sibilla, whose corps I forget, fell, crying to his company " En avant ! My friends, avenge me." Another wounded would not be removed, while a young officer, who had a large private fortune, persisted in marching, notwithstand ing the advice of his physicians, and found his death on the field. Lieut.-Colonel 11Ienzian remained three hours on horseback after he had received a ball in his foot, and did not dismount until all was overcome, and he was overcome with sorrow. It was he who seeing the standard bearer kille,d, seized the flag, and planted himself in the centre of the lines, rallying his regiment under the enemy's fire.] The Prussians as usual were under the wood. It wa,s necessary to ascend a hill of 500 metres without seeing them, while receiving their balls, and once in the under wood the , men were shot a t fifty p aces , w ith t er rible slaughter, Were they the Prussians or the German cony tingents ? I do not know but our officers say they did not recognise the boasted superiority of aim of the North German troops. Their infantry is very inferior to ours. They have triumphed by means of a countless and admirably served artillery. Everything that requires knowledge and management Is with us in arrears. But the soldier who represents the living force of the nation is always first with us. Their artillery is magnificent. They bad, it is said, a thousand pieces. This may be an exaggeration, but it is a fact that 0119 1,4 t of Septembefuoth4 else was to be'seen- The mils, the borders of the woods, all the surrounding posi , tions, were lined with it, and while, owing to want of ammunition, (I shall refer subsequently to this unheard-of fact), we were obliged to manceuvre our firing, they poured upon us a terrible and; ceaseless fire, against which neither cavalry nor infantry could stand. And what an aim ! Scarcely were their batteries in position when the first shot was fired—a little too high perhaps ; the second a little too low; the third exactly in the ranks. At tionzon, where one division of the Lebrun corps crossed the Meuse, the projectiles arrived with incredible preci sion on the narrow space covered by the column. The unfortunate town, which twenty four hours before received our troops with enthusiasm, thinking itself saved from Prussian depredations, was pitilessly bom barded. Only ruins are left. But I will give you hereafter the history of Sedan and its environs, and try to make you understand the com pound of savagery and discipline which appears to cha racterise the 'armies who haVe thrown themselves upon our soil. I have finished this latter, begun at Sedan, at Bouillon, in Belgium, where I arrived were out Morally and physically. I have had no news from Paris for a week, but I am told the Imperial Government has ceased t exist. The Emperor, escorted by a Prussian squadron, left yeqenlay morning. The little town is full of fugi• Lives and wJunded. GEORGES JEANNEROD. ------- OUR COTEMPORiRIES—This Morning THE WEST SURREY ELECTION.-THE NOMINATION. The nomination for the West Surrey election took place at the Town-hall, Guildford, yesterday. Mr. Lee Steere was the only candidate. He was proposed by the Hon. Francis Scott, seconded by General Wood, and declared duly elected. In returning thanks for his election, Mr. Steere said he had not sought the honour himself ;it had been thrust upon him. He avowed him self &Liberal Conservative, but stated he should not blindly follow his party. The defences of the country he believed to be in a most defective condition, and he should vote for a large increase in both the army and navy. A brief reference to the war concluded the speech. The proceedings were of the quietest character ; the hall was not one quarter full. -,t SEIZURE OF ARMS. Last evening the Cork police discovered forty breech loading rifles and bayonets, of approved construction, and in capital condition, together with a bag containing 1,300 cartridges, in the room of a man named Adams. Though the lodger himself escaped, the owner of the house was arrested. TEM GREAT DUTCH TIN SALR. The gross* Dutoh tin sale will take place at Rotterdam on October I. The quantity to be sold is given as 80,000 slabs. This, however, is noi, the wdiole stock on haml, which appubobas newt to 120,000 slabs. SUICIDE ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, On Wednesday night the body of a respectably dressed man, of middle age, was discovered at the Warwick station on the rails. The body was frightfully mutilated, a train having passed over it. Nothing is known of the unfortunate man, or the cause that induced him to commit the rash aot. THE FIRE AT FALMOUTH. The fire at Falmouth yesterday morning was more serious than was at first supposed. Besides the great destruction of property one life was lost. The body of the daughter of Mr. Cooke, butcher, eight years of age, has been discovered. It was hoped she had escaped, as Captain Goine having been informed that she was in her bedroom, rushed through the flames to rescue her and returned saying she was not there. Insurances were effected in the General, Sun, and Alliance Offices. rHE MONEY MARKET AND COMM ERCIAL INTEL LI G ENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Stock Markets are still quiet as regards business, pending the receipt of the definite news which it is expected must come to hand as soon as the German hosts appear before Paris. But the ten- dency is good. Italian opened firmer by pe cent. upon the reassuring statement as to the orde existing in Italy, but there have since been sales, and reaction has taken place which leaves the price lower than last night. In Railways, Great Northern are again higher. Constols stand at 914 92 for money, and 92 92} for the Account. Although the gold taken to the Bank last week was £576,000, the increase shown in the return last evening is only £359,936. As was the case last week, a consider able amount must therefore have passed into the home circulation, partly, perhaps, for harvest purposes, but chiefly from the expenditure consequent on the autumn recess. Still the position of the Bank shows a further considerable increase of strength, the pro portion of reserve to liabilities being now 48 per cent. As regards both bullion and reserve, the present totals are larger than those of the corresponding date of last year, when the rate of discount was down at 2i per cent., but the liabilities were then unusually low, and the reserve represented, therefore, a proportion of 54 per cent. The Liverpool jovlitat of Commerce states :—" Mel bourne advices by the present mail report the suspension of Messrs. John M`Gee and Co., wholesale grocers, &e. A meeting of creditors had been held, when the statement showed liabilities, £47,954 (with contingent liabilities, 231,715), of which about £14,000 due to the bank was secured. The assets were returned at £44,970, showing a deficiency of £2,984. Under the assignment it was after wards' agreed to accept an offer of 10s. net for the entire estate." The Cape Copper Company have despatches per Himalaya. Spectakel report describes continued good progress in laying open productive ground, and speaks well of the future prospects of the mine. Return for June 110 tons. The directors of the Rathkeale and Newcastle Railway are inviting tenders for their mortgage debentures, amounting to £16,000, at 6 per cent., for three years, which are a first mortgage charge on the undertaking, for the purpose of paying off the first mortgage loan for that amount. The hall-yearly meeting of the Mercantile Bank of Sydney was held at Sydney on the 15th of July last, when the report showed a net profit of £17,458 for the year end ing June 30, from which a dividend of 10 per cent., and a bonus of 2 per cent, were declared. DANGERS OF THE SIEGE. The Times remarks that the men of 1848 have gore back with the Utopias of that miserable period. Long years of exile have been thrown away upon them as utterly as they ever.were on those incorrigible Bourbons who " never learnt and never forgot anything." From the very first moment General Trochu assumed the com mand of Paris lie warned the citizens that, while he under took to fight the foreign enemy outside the walls, they would have to guard against the domestic enemies within. Yet, when Trochu put forth the proclamation, France • had still what had been, and was still considered, a strong Government, and Paris and the other cities an all prying and dficient pollee. Now all that repressive system is at an end, and the irresponsible classes are every where "masters of the situation." Order, it is said, has hitherto Leen acmirably preserved, as it generally is during the "honeymoon of a Revolution." Perhaps there n-ny be no real danger, but the mere apprehension of it must needs damp the ardour of true patriotism and paralyze its exertions. It is as a house divided against itself that Parisian society undertakes to resist the in vader._ In the midst of the frantic cries by which the new Republican era was ushered in on Sunday there was a " hurrah for commerce !" hut all the trade and induc t] y of Paii.3 is at a standstill, and the retail dealers, who all eady think it FO hard to have to shut up their shops, cannot look forward without horror to the chance of having them sacked. Their hatred of the Prussian invader can scarcely be as deep as their dread of the armed mob that is to be arrayed agdinst th(m. Paris would not be the first city in which the entrance of a foreign enemy was liailechas a deliverance from a clime:A:lc fee, nor would such a pheno menon be without a 1 -'2 ececlo)t in I'aris The Te/ebraph avers that to a surety the worst of the discontented class,whese rhame is legion, mean now to have that revenge on the Empire, on order, and on pros perity, which was deferred at the proclamation of the . gepublic. The hideous threats now used openly in the streets exemplify wide-spread ideas—there will be violence, pillage, ruin, and horrors of all kinds, we fear, to which the slaughter of the siege will be, as it were, the happier side. Badly provided with men and munitions, and shutting up in her twenty miles of rampart such elements of crime and such savage passions as sloth and luxury have bequeathed, Paris is mad—she is suicidal—ifs he allows this siege to begin. Yet, so long as she raves out"the doc trine that all other countries except France must pay for unsuccessful wars with loss of soil, Euxope cannot save her from the terrible experiences which are impending. All that can be done is, at this last moment, to' warn her Against the deadly dangers which she shuts inside her walls, at the hour when she closes her gates and finally defies the Germans. The last and greatest self-deceit of all is to imagine that a place like Paris can reproduce the com pact heroism of Fiaragos:a or Strasbourg. It is too vast, too vatious, and, alas in many dark spots, too wicked. That terrible power, the "mob of Paris" iS now an armed mob ; it ban bad its Revolution, but not its estit'atipn ; and, when the "respectables" are busiest on the defences, " Hell will break loose." TIIE NEW GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. The Daily 1l czes thinks M. Jules Favre and the numbers of the Provisional Government for the defence if France merit the sympathy and the com n.h.eratic nof Europe. They have been called to power in a crisis which they did nothing to create, but all they could to prevent, and they are altogether unable to control it. The irony of their situation is such as their most ingenious opponent could not have devised for them. The Republic is the heir of the Empire, and the &us of the fathers are visited on the children. Liberated France cannot shake herself free from the past, the evil deeds of the Empire came home to the Republic, and Jules ram and Cremieux must complete-what Louis Napoleon and the Due de Gramont began. A war that they have denounced in its origin as iniquitously unjust has fallen into their hands, and they can neither carry it on with any hope of success, nor end it with credit. They are too sincerely liberal, and too thoroughly impressed with the hu mane ideas of the age, not to regard the war as unholy ; _ _ they are too closely pledged to its continuance and too characteristically French, to be able to make amends for it and to end it. The Republic is unfortunate in its origin. It has not been adopted from any love of freedom, but from hate of Germany. It was not created i)y a groat burst of righteous indignation against oppres sion, but by a spasm of anger at an Emperor who had promised to conquer Germany, but who had let Ger many conquer France. Such a Republic finds its 'WAG sympathies aralysed mid its real strength fettered. It has the whole sympathy of Liberal Europe on its but cannot take the step which would call that sym pathy out. It cannot repudiate the war, because it will not and dare not accept the position in which the war has placed it. TUE ATTITUDE OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. The Stehdard calls attention to the policy of the Go vernment as follows :—ls it not time for England to ask, where is the Briti Government, and what is it doing? Is there arty tue governing us at all during these days of war and revolution ? While Europe is in the throes of a mighty convulsion ; while dynasties are falling an.': mpiros being shaken-- whi•e the battle on which hat !lie most momentous is raging upon our neighbont nd when no one knows how soon our own count.; lie dragged into the fight—what is the attitude of the appointed guardians of England? Are they ready and alert at their respective stations? Are they keel ing watch over the treasure which is theirs to guard? Are they preparing for the danger which may come? Is there any sign of their pre sent—of :heir prudent vigilance—of their intelligent fore sight ? Every one will admit that the occasion demands the &ninon° qualities cf statesmanship. Now, if ever, is the time for our rulers to prove that they are equal to the duties of their post. The day for petty vestry routine for parochial administration—for the. conventional work of ordinary British Liberalism—is past. We have to sus pend the lopping of the upas tree and other fancy timber business. History is making itself in Europe at a rapid pace, and England, as a part of Europe, cannot escape its share of the responsibility. We were told that we are blessed with a statesman of the "old Roman type" at the head of our affairs. Well, then, here is the very opportunity for which the old Roman muse have been pining. The old Romang, so far as we have understood them, were a people with a remarkable aptitude for bear: iug themselves creditably in time of danger. The old Romanis were careful to prepare themselves in peace for the burdens of war. The old Romans were enabled to make their Imperial life extend 1 their most distant extremities. The old R(,mans, while frugal of their resources, spared nothing to maintain the safety, the dignity, and the glory of the empire. We cannot say that we have ourselves detected any likeness to the . old Romans itt the gentlemen who are now taking their pleasure in office as the British Govern ment, but this may be prejutlice. At the present moment, when we look around for , our old Roraima, we find them employed in a manner which, though doubt less classical, smacks rather of Rome in her day than Turns im her strength. Our Romans are' of thaksohool which thOught it (Area to see, from the shore, the toil of those es-Lo were labouring with the winds and waves. 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