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The Regalia and • the French Crown have been &posited with the Bank of France. [The Pall Mall Gazatte understands that Lord Lyons had a long interview on Monday with M. Jules Favre, who communicated his views as to the terms of peace which might be accepted by France, but without committing the Provisional Government to formal proposals.] PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL TROCHU. PARIS, SErr. 7. General Trochu has issued a proclamation, dated yesterday, in which he says :—The enemy is march ing on Parisi. The defence of the capital is assured. Instructions have been given to organise defence in the neighbouring departments. The Government reckons upon the courage and pa triotism of all. VICTOR HUGO'S ADDRESS. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 7. Upon his arrival at the railway station Victor Hugo thanked the crowd, who received him enthusiastically. He said—" I have returned simultaneously with the Republic, in order to defend Paris, the capital of civilization, which must not be violated by a savage invasion." "Paris will triumph by the union of all souls, and by effacing all resentments. 46 By fraternity only will liberty be saved !" ARRIVAL OF GENERAL VINOY'S ARMY.' PARIS, SEPTEMBER C. Official reports announce that the Prussians have not yet appeared at Laon. General It inoy arrived at Paris at 4 p.m. yesterday by the Northern Rail way, with 13 trains of artillery, 11 of cavalry, and 14 of infantry. The whole of the carriages of the Northern Railway will return immediately to bring back the rest of the troops of General Vinoy. ONWARD MARCH OF THE PRUSSIANS. P IRIS, SEPT. 6 (Evening). According to advices received by the Minister of the Interior, the enemy continues his march upon Paris. Our troops withdraw towards the capital. The Government and the people display equal activity in the preparations for defence. The elec tion of officers of the National Guard is proceeding. Arms are being distributed, and cadres are being formed. Throughout the whole extent of France the' Itepublic has been enthusiastically received. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 0, 7.15 P.M. The Ministry communicates the following intelli gence " The Commandant at Mezieres reports the Prus slims to be marching on Soisson. " Notwithstanding the rumours which have been current, the Prussians have not hitherto appeared in the Department of the Aube. " A despatch has been received from Mullhouse, announcing that the passage of the Rhine by the enemy has been prevented by the splendid resist ance of Franc-Tireurs and National Guards. 44 The French wounded lying at Sedan have, during the temporary armistice, been transported to places in the North of France." PARIS, SEPTEMBER 7, 4.30 P.M. The presence of the enemy is not reported in any Part of the Department of the Seine, or in the neigh bourhood. Everything is quiet. OCCUPATION OF RHETMS BY THE PRUSSIANS. (OFFICIAL PRUSSIAN DESPATCH). RH EMS, SEPTEMBER 5, 9.15 P.M. General Monig entered Rheims to-day, the sth of September. BOMBARDMENT OF MONTMEDY (FRENCH ACCOUNT.) VIRTON SEPT. 6. The bombardment of Montmedy has ceased. A portion of the town is destroyed. The Prussians have changed their position. It is believed that they have left the environs of the town and rejoined their Corps. [The correspondent of the ,Pall Mall Gazette says, --"I have just come from the battle-field of Sedan. The whole German camp has been raised this morning, and the armies are now marching quickly on Paris. There is great want of food and forage. Most of the dead have been buried, but so badly—just on the surface of the ground and little more than sprinkled with earth—that the air is highly poisoned with the horrible exhalations. Fever has already broken out among the population and French troops, and even the Germans, though harrying off, have not escaped the taint.") [The ManchesterGuarclian publishes the following telegram, dated Luxemburg, Tuesday :—"We have had news of the condition of the French army in Metz. The soldiers are starving, and there are no means of getting provisions. Beef was selling last week at 10f. a pound. More than 1,000 Itrraed peasants who bad attacked a Prussian train 61 1 the night of the 31st ult. were captured by a 3avarian regiment near Sommanthe."] ARMING OF THE CITIZENS. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 6, Evening. A. Department Committee has been installed at the Prefecture. Several thousand muskets, which ' 4 ere discovered in the Arsenal, have been dis tributed amongst the National Guard and the work- Men of this city. beveral members of the secret police have been Paced under arrest, but all sergeants-de-vine have disappeared. The Prefect and his family left last night incog nito. M, Esquires is expected to-morrow to make his formal entry into this city. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDNY, SEPTEMBER 8,187 a Governor Holden, of North Carolina, is mustering out the white militia and recruiting the negroeo. There is a marked increase of sympathy with France since the Republic was declared. The National steamship Italy arrived here at G this morning. AMERICAN MAILS. QUEENSTOWN, SEPTEMBER 7. The Innw.n Royal Mail steamer City of Washington, from New York, arrived here at 3.15 a.m. to-day, with 150,000 dols. is specie, and a large number of paisengers. Having land k d the mails and passengers she proceeded immediately for Liverpool, all well. By arrangement with the United States Government the steamer of the Inman line brings the full mails to this country, viz, the London, Continental, Scotch, &C. G-REENCASTLE, SEPTEMBER 7, The Anchor Line steamer Cambria, from New York,, arrived at Lough Foyle at 6.30 p.m. to-day, and having landed passengers, proceeded for Glasgow. The Caledonia, of the Anchor Line, from New York, arrived at Lough Foyle at 5 a.m. to-day. She landed passengers, and proceeded for Glasgow at 6.30 a.m. INDIA. (By British Indian Cable.) CALCUTTA, SEPTEMBER 6 (Evening). The Goverment, in reply to the memorial of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, has intimated that an im mediate reduction of the income tax is impossible, but that a reduction is probable in March next. BOMBAY, SEPTEMBER 0. Piece goods firm. Cotton very firm. Exchange on London :—Bank Bills, Is. 104 d. ; Four per Cent. Govern ment Securities, 971 ; Five per Cent, ditto, 107*; Five and-a-Half per Ccnt. ditto, 1131. (By Indo-European Telegraph.) CALCUTTA, SEPTEMBER 7. It is reported that in several districts of Bengal the floods have considerably damaged the crops. HOMEWARD AUSTRALIAN AN]) CHINA MAILS. GALLE, SEPTEMBER 5. The mail steamer Malta, with the homeward Austra lian mails, has arrived here. She brings 126,000 ounces of gold, and £45,625 in sovereigns. MESSINA, SEPTEMBER 6. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta passed Messina at nine o'clock this evening, en route for Marseilles. OUTWARD INDIAN MAIL. MALTA, SEPTEMBER 6. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah left at 9 p.m. to-day for Southampton, where she may be expected about the 15th instant. The Ceylon, from Southampton 27th ult., arrived at 5 a.m., and left at 7 p.m. on the sth instant for Alexan dria. OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. QUEENSTQWN, SEPTAMM 7. The Cunard Royel Mail steamer Palmyra arrived here from Liverpool at 9.30 a.m. to-day, and having embarked mails, passengers, and telegrams, proceeded for Boston, on receipt of the former, at 4.30 p.m (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. A letter appears in to-day's lifanchester Examiner from a correspondent, who, returning from the seat of war, crossed from Ostend in the steamer with the Prince Im perial, who, he says, cried a little on first coming on board, but was quite bright before the boat left her moorings. His conversation was of the description naturally to be expected from a lad of his age of fair ability and good education. He was not aware that the Emperor was a prisoner, and those who accompanied him were in great fear that some accidental allusion might be made to the fact. From what the writer saw of the young prince he believed he would have born the truth as well as the uncertainty he must have felt concerning the fate of his father. • - MASS FOR THE FRENCH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE WAR. Yesterday morning High Mass and the Office for the Dead were celebrated in the Roman Catholic Cathe• dral, Killarney, for the French soldiers killed in the war. The Bishop, Dr. Moriarty, preached. A large number of priests took part in the services, and the spacious church was crowded. On the receipt yester day of the report that Marshal MacMahon was dead signs of mourning were exhibited by most of the Catholic inhabitants of the town. NATIONAL MANIFESTO. THE FRENCH CIRCULAR. (REUTER'S tELEGRAMS.) fi PARIS, SEPTEMBER 7, 11.35 A.M. The following is the full text of a Circular, addressed to the French Diplomatic Agents abroad, by the Vice- President of the Government of the National Defence, and Minister of Foreign Affairs : " Sir, —The events which have just taken place in Paris explain themselves so well, by the inexorable language of facts, that it is useless to insist at length on their mean ing and bearing. In ceding to an irresistible impulse i t which had been but too long restrained, the population of Paris has obeyed a necessitf superior to that of its own safety ; it did not wish to perish with the criminal Government which was leading France to her ruin ; it has not pronounced the deposition of Napoleon 111. and of his dynasty; it has registered it in the name of Right, Justice, - and Public Safety, • and the sentence was so well ratified beforehand by the conscience of all that no one even'among the most noisy defenders of the Power that was falling raised his voice to uphold it. It - collapsed of itself, under the weight of its faults, and amid the acclamations of an immense people, without a single drop of blood being shed, without any one individual being deprived of his personal liberty ; and we have been able to see—a thing unheard of in history ! —the citizens, upon whom the popular voice conferred the perilous mandate to fight and to conquer, not thinking for a moment of their political adversaries, who but the day before threatened them with execution. It is by refusing to their adversaries the honour of being subject to any sort of repre,ion that they have shewn them their blindness and their impotence. Order has not been dis turbed for a single moment. Our confidence in the wis dom and patriotism of the National Guard, and of the whole population, permits us to affirm that 'it will not be disturbed. Rescued from the shame and the danger of a Government which has proved itself a traitor to all its duties, each one now comprehends that the first act of the national sovereignty at last reconquered must be one of self-control, the seeking for strength in respect for right. Moreover, time must not be lost ; the enemies are at our gates,; we have but one thought—namely, their expulsion from our territory. But this obligation, which we resolutely accept, we did not impose upon France. She would not be in her present position if our voice had been listened to. We have energetically defended, even at the cost of our popularity, the policy of peace. We still maintain the same opinion with increasing conviction. Our heart breaks at the sight of these human massacres, wherein is sacrificed the flower of two nations that a little good sense and a great deal of liberty would have preserved from such frightful catastrophes. We cannot find any expression capable of rendering our admiration for our heroic Army sacrificed by the incapacity of the supremo commanders, but shewing itself greater in its defeats than in the most brilliant victory, for, in spite of the , knowledge of faults which compromised its safety, the army has immolated itself with sublime heroism in the face of certain death, redeeming thus the honour of France from the stain cast upon her by her Govern ment. All honour to the army ! The nation looks toward it with open arms ! The Imperial power wished to divide them ; misfortune and duty join them in a solemn embrace, sealed by patriotism and liberty. This alliance renders us invincible. Ready for every emer gency, we look with calmness on the position of affairs, made what it is, not by us, but by others. The position I will explain in a few words, and I submit it to the judg ment of my country and of Europe. We loudly condemned the war, and while protesting our respect for the rights of peoples, we asked that Germany should be left mistress of her own destinies. We Wished that liberty should be at the same time our common tie and our common shield. We were convinced that these moral forces would for ever insure peace; but, as a sanction, we claimed an arm for every citizen, a civil organisation, and the election of leaders. Then we should have remained invincible on our own soil. The Government of the Emperor, which had long since separated its interests from those of the country, opposed that policy. " We take it up with the hope that, taught by expe rience, France will have the wisdom to put it into prac tice. On his side the King of Prussia declared that he made war not against France, but against the Imperial dynasty. The dynasty has fallen to-the ground. France raises herself free. Does the King of Prussia wish to continue an impious struggle, which will be at least as fatal to him as to us? Does he wish to give to the world of the 19th century the cruel spectacle of two nations destroying one another, and in forgetfulness of humanity, reason, and sOience, heaping corpse upon corpse, and ruin upon ruin ? Xle is free to assume this responsibility in the face of the world and of history ! If it is a challenge we accept it. We will not cede either an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses. A shameful peace would mean a war of extermination at an early date. We will only treat for a durable peace. In this our interest is that of the whole of Europe, and we have reason to hope that, freed from all dynastic considerations, the question will thus present itself to the Cabinets of Europe. But should we be alone, we shall not yield. We have a resolute army, well-provisioned forts,. a well established enceinte, and, above all, the breasts of three hundred thousand combatants, determined to hold out to the last. When they proudly lay crowns at the feet of the statue of Strasburg, they do not obey merely an enthusiastic sentiment of admiration ; they adopt their heroic mot d'ordre ; they swear to be worthy of their brethren of Alsace, and to die as they have done. After the forts we have the ramparts, after the ramparts we have the barricades. Paris can hold out for three months and conquer. If she succumbs France will start up at her appeal and avenge her. France would continue the struggle, and the aggressor would perish. " Such is, sir, what Europe must know. We have not accepted power with any other object ; we will not keep it a moment if we should not find the population of Paris and the whole of France decided to share our resolutions. I sum up these resolves briefly, in presence of God who hears me, in the face of posterity, which shall judge us. We wish only for peace, but if this disastrous war, which we have condemned, is continued against us, we shall do our duty to the last, and I have the firm confidence that our cause, which is that of right and of justice, will triumph in the end. It is in this manner that I invite you to explain the situation to the Minister of the Court to which you are accredited, and in whose hands you will place a copy of this document. " Accept, sir, the expression of my high consideration. "The Minister of Foreign Affairs, . (Signed) " JuLES FAVIM "September 6,1870." RUSSIA AND THE WAR. ST. PETERSBURG, SEA. 7. The Journal de St. Petersburg states that the Imperial Cabinet has officially declared that it is pledged to devote all its efforts towards shortening' and localising the war, and to bring about an equit able and lasting peace. Its co-operation, therefore, in the endeavours to eff..ct this object will not be wanting to the neutral Powers. The journal states that the Imperial Government will, nevertheless, not permit any obstacle to be raised which might hinder its freedom of action. SPAIN AND THE: REPUBLIC. MADRID. SEPT. 6. Tllo Cortes will probably meet at the end of the pr month. Senor Zorilla, the President of the Cortes has arrived at Madrid, Th orrespondencia says that as regards the cppytion of the recognition of the French epublic by the Spanish Government, the Cabinet will be guided by its liberal sentiments and the interests of the country. • PRUSSIAN VIEWS. BERLIN, SEPTEMBEE 7, EVENING'. The semi-official Provincial Correspondence of this evening says " The new phase which the war has entered has had this important result, that no foreign Power any longer thinks of arresting the progress of the hostili ties by intervening. The decisive successes at Sedan were in themselves sufficient to prevent the offer of mediation had any Power being so inclined ; but the change of Government in France has removed all ground for any foreign interference." The hundred thousand French prisoners who have been captured by the German army will be distri buted among the different German States in propor tion to the number of inhabitants. THE FRENCH LOSSES AT THE BATTLE OF .SEDAN. (OFFICIAL GERMAN - ACCOUNT.) VARENNES, SEPTEMBER 4 (Morning). The enemy's army which capitulated near Sedan consisted of fourteen infantry and five and a-half cavalry divisions, together with a proportionate train of artillery. _ _ _ During the battle of September 1 alone there were 30,000 French taken prisoners. We also captured several eagles and numerous cannon. Our losses were relatively small. * This telegram was sent en by post from Nancy to Ludwigshaven, and only reached London September 7. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 7. The Bourse has been heavy. Routes closed at 61f., or 20c, lower than yesterday. THE SIEGE OF AIETZ. The Times , Berlin correspondent telegraphs that negotiations have been opened with Bazaine for the capitulation of Metz. The French prisoners in Ger many received the news of Napoleon's dethronement with great satisfaction. THE SIEGE OF STRASBURG, The correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs the following from Achim :—" An underground tele graph running between Strasburg and , Metz has just been discovered and cut. Gene ral Uhrich has • been informed of the capitulation of the French army, and again sum moned to sur:.ender. His reply has not yet been received. The Cathedral spire is damaged. The organ, the high altar, and the astronomical clock, are all destroyed. The country around is black with burned fragments of the library. Many women and children are escaping daily. LORRAINE AND ALSACE. The limes Berlin correspondent telegraphs that a portion of Lorraine having been placed iunder the Prussian Governor of Alsace, the territory under his jurisdiction now includes all the districts the cession of which will be probably de manded by the Prussian Government. The Western frontier of this territory begins at Etsck, on the borders of Luxemburg, and flanking the Moselle at about' ten miles distance from its western banks, crosses the river at Corney, half way between Metz and Pont-au-Mousson, whence it follows the course of the Moselle and Meurthe at about ten miles distance from their eastern banks as far as Mount Dopon. Its south-western frontier is that of the Haut Rhin and Bas Rhin. It compre hends all Alsace and the following north-eastern arrondissements of Lorraine, Saarburg, Sargemund, Metz, Thionville, and Chateau Saline. ARREST OF THE PRINCESS MATHILDE. The Princess Mathilde was at the house of M. Dumas fill when arrested at Dieppe. She is a pri soner at the Hotel de Londres. Sixty-two boxes filled with objects of art and valuables are seques trated, and the Princess is guarded by a detachment of Mobile Guards. A domiciliary visit has been paid to the house of M. Drouyn de Lhuys.—Daily News. N. LOUIS BLANC AND THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S. It is stated on authority that M. Louis Blanc will be appointed by the New Republic Ambas sador for France at the Court of St. James's. The distinguished refugee will succeed the Marquis de Lavalette,:whose resignation was announced on Tues day. M. Blanc, who has long been an exile in England, has left London for Paris to give his aid in the construction of the new Government.--Bir mingham Gazette. The Echo says we are authorised to state that no official information has been received that such an appointment as that of Louis Blanc as French Minister in England has been made or is contem plated. MARSHAL BAZAINE AND TEE CAPITULATION. It is stated that General Wimpflan accompanied thb Prussian General who was sent from Sedan to Metz, in order to represent to Marshal Bazaine the exact conditions under which the army of Marshal MacMahon capitulated and the Emperor surrendered, and to urge Marshal Bzaine to prevent a further slaughter by his own capitulation. The transport of MacMahon's defeated troops has commenced. The Crown Prince is now making a rapid advance on Paris. POSTAL COMMUNICATION. It is expected that the postal Communication between Paris and London will soon be stopped. (REUTER'S TELEGR.AIIB.) AMERICA. (By Atlantic Cable.) QUEBEC., SEPTEMBIat 7. The Allan (Glasgow) steamship St. David arrived here yesterday. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 7. The Republicans yesterday carried the State of Ver mont by about their usual large majority, electing Mr. Stewart as Governor, and re-electing Messrs. Smith, Poland, and Willard, members of Congress. • THE ORLEANS PRINCES. The Prince de Joinville, the Duc de Nemours, and the Duc de Chartres, crossed from Calais to Dover, en route from Paris, in the mail boat this afternoon, and went to London by special mail train on the South Eastern Railway. A BARONET DROWNED. Sir George Burrard, Bart., was drowned yesterday morning at Lyme Regis whilst bathing. His body was afterwards recovered. AID TO THE SICK AND WOUNED IN THE WAR. The agencies in operation in Fifeshiro in connection with the National Society for the Sick and Wounded soldiers of the French and German armies, have collected a sum of nearly £1,400, £1,200 of which, as likewise a large quantity of hospital materials have been sent to the Central Committee in London. A public meeting was held at Stroud yesterday after noon for the purpose of forming a committee to aid the sick and wounded in war. The returning officer, Mr. Little, presided. Mr. Dickinson, M.P., proposed, and Rev. Dr. Bidcock, the rector, seconded, a resolution forming a local sub-committee of the National Association for the Borough of Stroud. Mr. Marling, M.P., pro posed, and Mr. Wilberforce seconded, a resolution appointing th 3 committee. All the speakers referred to the terrible and urgent need of help, and a good subscrip tion list was started in the room. Already about £5O has been remitted. THE MASTERSHIP OF BALLIOL COLLEGE. The Rev. Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Tutor and Fellow of Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek, w as yesterday morning elected by the Fellows of Balliol College to the vacant headship of that Society. FIRE AT RAMSGATE. A fire broke out shortly after twelve o'clock yesterday morning at the Medic.al Hall, Queen-street, Ramsgate, kept by Mr. James G. Lennningham,chemist. The fire originat e d in the shop and spread with great rapidity. Frequent explosions• were heard during the progress of the fire, caused by the heat affecting the chemicals. The local volunteer fire brigade were prompt in attendance, under Superintendent James Hake, and after working hard for an hour and a half, subdued the flames. The adjoining premises of Mr. West, draper, were also a great deal burnt. No one being in the house at the time the origin of the fire is a mystery. THE ESCAPE OF A. CONVICT. The convict Beaumont, alias Gordon, who broke out of Portland Prison, early on Monday, is still at large. Ha cut through the cell flooring, entered the air shaft hole, cut through two walls, before reaching the grating, which he forced out, and so gained the yard. He scaled the • officer's quarters, and lowered himself to the main road by a sheet and blanket rope. A guard heard a fall about half-past one, and saw something moving, and fired, but ineffectually. Beaumont had been in Portland prison before, and had a sister in Weymouth. Friends of his had got into the prison and taken him clothes, a watch, a ring, and money. It has been discovered that three London " pals " were to meet him with a conveyance. The Turkish Ambassador, the Russian Ambas sador, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, the French Charge d'Affaires, and the Belgian Minister had inter views with Earl Granville at the Foreign-office on Tues day and Wednesday. At the last meeting of the Council of the London Free and Open Church Association, theßishops of Bangor and Lincoln, William Beattie, Esq., M.D., Sir John Henry Briggs, Captain Charles Mallard, RN., and Samuel Hope, Esq., were elected Vice-Presidents. A correspondent informs the Daily News that preparations are in progress at Brodrick Castle, one of the princely seats of the Duke of Hamilton, in the Isle of Arran, for the reception of some of the ex-Imperial family of France, including the Empress and the Prince Imperial. For several days past a number of workmen from an eminent firm in Glasgow have been busy pre paring a suite of apartments in the castle for the reception of other than ordinary' visitors. THE STATE OF FEELING IN PARIS. A correspondent of the Daily Neu, writing from Paris, sa y s :—" The latest news of the German forces has just been announced by M. Gambetta in the following words :---` The enemy is approaching nearer and nearer to Paris.' Late yesterday night I obtained the following statement of the situation. I can guarantee its accuracy. There will be, with Vinoy's troops, 40,000 soldiers in Paris. They are utterly demo ralised. There are 80,000 Garde Nationale armed, 20,000 Mobiles, and about 5,000 armed Volunteers. This is the sole armed force which can be counted on for the defence. There are no more guns, so that it is impossible to arm more Volunteers, and there is -hardly enough ammunition for one battle. The Provisional Government would be ready to treat upon any terms short of a cession of ter ritory. They are afraid, if the armed force is hurried to the ramparts, that the scum of the populace will pillage the town. The population of Paris require at least ten more days of hard work to enable them to resist an attack. Under these circumstances it would appear most desirable that the Foreign Ministers resident here should interfere to prevent s if possible, a further effusion of blood. A foreign diplomatist said, to me this morning, " Why does not England, order her ambassador .to act ? He has received no instructions since the capture of the Emperor." Lord Lyons is a man of excellent judgment and great caution. Let him receive by telegraph carte blanche to proffer his services to the Provisional Government, and to throw the whole moral influence of England on the side of peace on conditions which a gallant though vanquished nation, which has been for long a true ally to us, may accept, and which Germany, after her tremendous sacrifice in repelling aggression, could not in reason decline. The situation in which twenty years of personal government has left this nation is a terrible one. The milks are prisoners or blockaded. Arms and ammu nition are wanting. Notwithstanding the proclamations which the provisional Governmen issues every hour, calling on the people to be united and all will be well, the feeling of to-day is one of utter despair. Re sistance indeed is known to be impossible, and yet anything is felt to be better than to cede two provinces to the enemy. Count Bismarck, it is understood here, required a war indemnity, the cession of Alsace and a : portion of Lorraine, and the whole French fleet. It is reported that the Prussian headquarters will be at Com- I piegne to-night► If this be true, the railroad to England will be cut to-morrow, if not this evening. 1. 1 1-‘IIIS IN DANGER. (PROM A FRE.NCII CORRESPONDENT.I PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The state of affairs here is fast becoming critical. The news received by the Government this afternoon an- nounces that the Prussians are advancing hourly on Paris. Their scouts have already appeared within fifteen leagues of the capital. It is supposed the Prussians will be before Paris in force in from six to eight days. Ido not mean to say that the Prussians will easily enter Paris, if they come ; but the direction taken by their armies seems to indicate that they anticipate no further interruption to their onward march. The fortifications are in an excel lent state, and well provided with guns and ammunition ; and supposing that all those who rend the air with " Mourir pour. la patrie " were serious, there are more than enough men to defend the city for a sufficient length of time to allow the great effort to be made to call out every man capable ofibearing arms. There can be little doubt that the Prussians intend investing Paris. Great as her resources undoubtedly are, it is very questionable if she will be able to do so. To invest it effectually would require upwards of 500,000 men. But if the Prussians could bring that number, they would have to leave Marshal Bazains in their rear, with 120,000 troops, and General Vinoy, with his division, now augmented by about 15,000 men formerly belonging to the army of MacMahon, and who were dispersed after the battle of Sedan. They would also have to contend with the army of Lyons, estimated at not less than 80,000 men. This army has been formed at Sartory, near Lyons, and is said to be well organised and thoroughly equipped. Then, again, the Prussians would be har rassed by the Franc-tireurs, who are being rapidly organised in every department. All this seems to Suggest that they will not try to invest Paris, but attempt to get possession of one or two of the weaker forts, and commence bombarding the city. Should they do so, which I trust may not be the case, I am of opinion that the popula tion will demand to capitulate. But the real danger which Paris risks is not so much from a Prussian occupation as from a civil war. The Socialist party, composed principally of idle and and am bitious workmen, have for chiefs a legion of needy adven turers, whose desires can only be satisfied by seizing on power, and the robbery of the aristocracy and the wealthy manufacturers and tradesmen. These men and their satellites openly delare that they have worked too hard and too long to enrich others, who now live in idleness. That the day has at length arrived when the system must b e altered, and. the scene entirely_ changed—that the rich shall work, and their property shall be divided amongst the working-classes. To many such scenes only seem absurd. But when the character of the Parisian Social ists is considered, and the extent to which vicious leaders may excite and inflame them, it is only too probable that the attempt may be made. The present Government are most of them men of property, and, as may be supposed from this, are utterly guiltless of Socialistic proclivities. They are anxious to maintain order, so that they may retain power. But the fear is that they will not be able to do so. LOUIS BLANC ON ENGLISH OPINION. Louis Blanc, immediately on his arrival in Paris, ad dressed a letter to the Temps, which the editor, M. Nefftzer, endorses as highly important. M. Blanc says he has just arrived from England. Public opinion in this country up to this time has been, with few exceptions, in favour of Prussia ; but during the last few days, even before the Republic was proclaimed, there has been a re vulsion, of which he says : " I have myself received testimony in the shape of nume rous denials of the charges of partiality which I myself brought against the people of Great Britain. Some of my correspondents contented themselves with declaring their sympathy for France ; others professed warm admi ration for the firmness with which she had supported her reverses ; and these writers proved their sincerity by an enclosure for our wounded. Added to this, many English politicians perceive clearly the monstrous pretensions that Prussia considers the legitimate consequence of her suc cess. They remember how cynically the Prussian Government devoured its Danish prey in the very face of indignant England. They remember that the Prussian Chambers justified the annexation of Hanover on the ground that the right of conquest sanctioned the acquisition of foreign states, with out consulting the people. All these considerations induce thoughtful Englishmen to ask whether an immense Ger man Empire, guided by such sentiments, would not be a standing menace to all Europe, including England. It is in our interest to encourage this reaction of public opinion in our favour ? Those who doubt the answer must be ignorant and blind. Hence our line of conduct is clearly traced. Just before I left England I received a letter from a Liberal member of the House of Lords complaining of the bit terness and ill ivilrshown in some parts of France towards his countrymen. If this be true, the Republican Govern ment should discourage such a disposition. Oue of the principal causes of England's inclination to side with Prussia has been the aggressive character given to the war by Napoleon. The Liberal party is, consequently, the most against us. Let us, therefore, undeceive them. The enthusiasm with which the Republic was proclaimed ought to prove to the English that a wide gulf separates France from the Empire. Let the Republicans tell the world that Republican France did not desire this war. We leave the right of conquest to tyrants. Inter national law, as we understand it, would put an end to all international hatreds. The character of the struggle is changed. The Empire is fallen, and France is on the de fensive. The bonabarders of the heroic town of Stras bourg,' the King of Prussia, if he claims Alsace and Lor raine, after solemnly declaring that he fought against Napoleon, not the people . : these are the aggressors. We have our country to save, and Europe will not see with a hard heart children dying in defence of their mother. LOUIS BLANC. PARIS UNDER THE REPUBLIC. Paris, to all outward appearance, is perfectly quiet; but there is a strong under-current of excite ment and agitation, and no man can feel certain what the next day or hour may bring forth. For .six hours, from nine till three, I was a good deal abroad in the better inhabited parts of the city on both sides of the water, and saw nothing but what is seen in ordinary times, except men with soldiers' arms and equipments, but in plain clothes. Even the Na tional Guards, who were marching in bodies on duty, had in many instances a considerable part of their number in this hybrid equipment. The usual • force that maintains order in Paris, the sergens-de-ville, had quite disappeared ; but it will prob ably be seen again —the same birds witli different feathers. I hear they are attiring them in old 1848 uniforms, and will then change their beats—that is to say, those who were at the Madeleine will be sent to the Bastille, those who did duty at the Luxemburg will be transferred to Montmartre, and so on throughout the city, in order that their familiar and unpopular faces may not lead to their recognition and to consequent rows. As yet, considering the odium attaching to them, they have got off very well. The papers do not confirm the alleged killing of several of them on Sunday afternoon, and although one was seen in the water, he was, perhaps, got out. A number of them were disarmed, and their swords and cocked hats thrown into the Seine. It is reported that the Gardes de Paris, also an unpopular corps, have been disarmed, which would be a foolish measure, since they are good troops, and might be useful if it came to a siege. But will it come to a siege? That is the ques tion which numbers ask, and foreigners especially make the inquiry, because they do not feel certain that the effervescence of these last days must necessarily be followed by a tenacious defence. When all the troops and Nationals, and even the armed police, are on the ramparts, who, it is asked, will protect Paris against the dangerous classes, on the alert for plunder, and by no means destitute of arms, which they are quite as likely to employ against their fellow-citizens as against the common foe? Such are the apprehensions that suggest themselves to reflecting men, and daily more strongly con vince them of the uselessness of defending Paris and of the internal dangers such defence would be likely to en tail. There has been much declamation about this pro mised defence, and we have been told again and again that France will rise " like one man," and sweep the invader from her surface. But what her brave armies have not done her raw levies and citizen soldiers will hardly accomplish. That Paris can beat off the Prus sians is no more probable than that the armies said to be forming on the Rhone and Loire will be able to revenge the reverses of MacMahon and Bazaine,—Paris Corre spondent of Times. The new Knight of the Garter, in the room bf Lord Clarendon, is to be the Marquis of Westminster. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone yesterday paid a visit to the Workmen's International Exhibition at the Agricul tural Hall. The distinguished visitors remained in the building nearly two hours. THE FIRE IN THE STRAND. —Last night Mr. S. F. Langham, deputy coroner for Westminster, received in formation that the remains of the missing gentleman, who lodged a t th e h o t e l i n Cecil-street, whic was de stroyed by fire on Surday morning, had been discovered. OUR COTEIVIPORA_RIES—This Morning THE FRENCH CIRCULAR. The Times asks whether a disastrous peace is under all circumstances dishonourable—whether there is not some thing noble and even heroic in resignation to an inevitable evil. Indeed, M. Jules Favre him self does not seem quite confident that the population of Paris and the whole of France share his resolution. It would be terrible to. find, after all, that the people are 'not quite ready to go the lengths of a resistance that might appear suicidal. There is nothing so unsteady for a basis of sound, rational policy as the " humour of a people. M. Jules Favre and his colleagues of the Provisional Government have no other guarantee of the earnestness of the people's mind than the mere clamour of an excit able multitude. The Republic untertakes the defence of Paris, but it was the Empire that prepared and organised it. The means on which the new rulers depend are those which their predecessors procured—those very men whom the Republicans charge with treason to the country, to whose guilty mismanagement they impute the disorders in the army, and the consequent collapse of the nation. The Empire, the Times thinks, rendered it impossible fore the Republic to continue the war, and statesmen who can no longer wage war ought to know how to make peace, how to purchase it even at an exorbitant—if it be an unavoidable price. If M. Jules Favre wishes to know how determined Paris really is to fight, let him not form his •estimate upon the noisy crowds of the Boulevards or the suburbs. Let him put the question to the poor stragglers now coming in by thousands, the miser able remnants of the twice-defeated armies of MacMahon. If out of these he can make a " resolute army "—if these are not aware of their defeat, and if they long for a new appeal to the fortune of war, then, indeed, it may be hoped that either "Paris may save France," or that " France may rise and avenge Paris." The Daily News says that the new French Govern ment has delivered its ultimatum to Germany and to Europe. M. Jules Favre, the able leader of the Liberal Opposition to the Empire and the war, whom the -Republic has called to the control of its foreign relations, has issued a circular to the French diplo matic agents, stating the view which the new Government takes of the war. M. Favre and his col leagues are themselves individually and collectively free from all responsibility for • the outrage on civilisation in which the war began. Tbey had the cour age to stand up when France was cheering the Emperor in his mad career of ambition, and to protest against the war as unjust and needless. By one of those strange surmises of which even French history has but few, M. Favre and his colleagues have been called to power for the very purpose of carrying on the war which they so consistently de nounced and oppose:l. For them, however, the situation is changed. The war has failed, and the Empire that made it is overthrown. Instead of the triumphant promenade to Berlin, it has been turned into a march of the enemy on Paris ; and for Paris and France the war of unjust aggression and aggrandisement has be ceme .a war of patriotic resistance and self defence. To patriotic Frenchmen, therefore, the whole aspect of affairs has changed. France did wrong : she has suffered for that wrong ; and in suffering she believes that she has expiated it. The Emperor represented her aggressive mood, humiliation and defeat changed that mood to one of de fence, and with her change of mood has come a change cf government. For France the Emperor and the ImperL.l system are the scapegoats of her sin, the offering which has atoned for the wrong, and has now sanctified the struggle it has brought. But M. Favre evidently believes that Germany and Europe will see the change as they see it. He and his Ministry are not responsible for the war, and they believe that in cashiering the Emperor France herself has got rid of her responsibility. M. Favre throws the responsibility of continuing the war on the King of Prussia. The new Government will yield nothing, concede nothing, " not one inch of our territory, nor one stone of our fortresses." It desires peace, but will not move an-inch to get it. The King of Prussia may leave off if he pleases, or may keep on—may march to Paris or may march back to Germany, but he shall get nothing from France. THE SURRENDER OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE. The Standard, commenting upon the views advocated by the Times as to the ,annexation by Germany of the two provinces, says it is well-known that the German speaking population of France is more enthusiastically French in its sympathies and traditions than the people of many parts of France where French is the native tongue. Are the wishes of these people to go for nothirt% as if they were so many head of cattle, or some serfs of the middle ages ? Of their wealth, industry, and inde pendence, the numerous commercial towns around the Southern Vos ges bear testimony. Erckmann and Chatrien have proved in our own time how this country was welded to Prussia, and in the fields of French litera ture have vindicated the nationality of the German- - speaking districts that gave them birth. It is not so easy to settle this question as it is assumed ; nor is the reverse of the picture such as the enthusiastic abettors of Ger. man ambition assume. The condition of France is deplor able enough ; and no one would be justified in attempt ing to disguise it from her, in seeking to encourage her to defer any settlement on reasonable terms; but if the best terms she can get involve the surrender of one third of her territory ; the abandonment of a loyal and illustrious section of her population ; the leaving her capital, her pride, exposed at any moment to an inroad from the invading hosts of Germany, the Standard does not see that worse can befall her from a prolongation of the war. And that pro longation would be on conditions to which the German armies are yet new. A guerilla warfare in the centre of Europe would be a very awful thing to contemplate in the year 1870, but the advisers of Germany are doing her a very ill service in assuming that such a contihgency is impossible. THE IRISH PRESS ON THE SITUATION. The Irish Times considers France cannot be unaccount able for the rashness and folly of Napoleoh, whose power she thrice established. The question is one of terms of compensation. Money compensation would, if asked for, speedily end the war ; but the cession of territory could not be carried out without a lengthened protraction. Freeman's Jonrnal says the Ministry are right in refusing to yield one sod of French soil. If the Prussians persist in demanding Alsace and Lorraine, a battle under the walls of Paris is inevitable. The Mail says, if General Trochu fights like MacMahon, he will find himself in a similar dilemma. MURDER OF AN AGENT IN lEELAND.—(By Tele graph.)—Cork, Wednesday Night.—lntelligence has been received here that an under-agent on the Marquis of Waterford's estate has been found murdered near Dun garvan, having been shot through the breast. No furthe particulars have yet been ascertained. CONVICTION FOR MURDER IN SCOTLAND.--We learn, by telegraph, that at the Perth Circuit Court yes terday, George Chalmers was, by a majority, found guilty of the murder of an old man named John Miller, a toll keeper, at Blackhill, Perthshire, on the 21st December last. He was sentenced to death, and his execution is fixed to take place at Perth on the 4th October. THE MAILS FOR INDlA.—Notice has been re ceived from the French Post-office, that the next mail for India, &c., will, in order to avoid Paris, be sent by way of Amiens, Rouen, and Tours to Marseilles, which will cause a delay of twenty-four hours. As the least incon venient arrangement for the public, the mail will be despatched from London on Friday night, as usual, and the packet will await its arrival a t M arse illes. A long e r delay than twenty-four hours would be caused by sending the. Indian mail through Germany, and thence to Brindisi. THE DISCIPLINE OP THE FRENCH ARMY. —I have spoken to many of the French officers who are pas sing throligh Belgium, on their way to other parts of France as prisoners on parole—for the Prussians oblige them all to go that way—respecting the loss of the battle of Sedan, and they one and all, without a single excep. tion, say that, not only have they been throughout the campaign infamously handled by their Generals, but that the men have been from the very commencement of the war almost impossible to command. Vague Repub lican ideas, and ultra Socialist opinions, seem to have been sown and grown up in their ranks. In several of the regiments the . soldiers have again and again flatly refused to obey their of f icers, and have more than once threatened them with personal violence. It was hoped that, as the war proceeded, this spirit, so unusual in the French army, would have died out—the more so as it was confined to a few corps. But it seems to have spread, and to have become more and more violent after every defeat. The Republican papers of Paris are, .so the officers say, the cause of this evil, and to them, and those who pull the wires of political puppets for their own use, the defeat of the French army may in a great measure be attributed. I confess that some of the revelations made by regimental officers—by men whose wounds and muti lations bore testimony that they at any rate had borne their share of hard knocks—quite startled me, and re ' minded me of much that was brought to light in the Ben gal army after the great mutiny of 1857.—Correspondent of Telegraph.