The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-07 00:00:00

EMOSES and SON 1.2.4• • CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. 7 ‘11;:W OX FOR D - STREET, CORNER of lIART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. E MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of G ENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING. Frock Dress Old d Camb. Coats. Coats. G°34B Coats. Also at other prices. Also at Also at other prices. other prices 1 325, Also at ,ther prices L" , MOSES and. SON beg •to remind the public , o that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its 4uality, and they venture to affirm that every article field by them is ~ ,onsiderably cheaper than what can be obtained at any other ho Ise in Englaml. F e MOSES and SON'S PRICE LIST of G :.;NTLEINIEN'S CLOTHING CONTINUED: Su r Imer Tourist I Summer Suits. Trousers. Suits. 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A trans formation so complete as the one just now.effectedin the whole of the political institutions of a .great country, has never been carried out with such as tonishing equanimity, so to speak, as the one which has within the last few hours in the French capital replaced the , imperial system of eighteen years with the thoroughly democratic machinery and organisation of a Republican Provisional Government. This, moreover, with a victorious army rapidly ' advancing upon the metropolis, after having receive() the capitulation of an enormous army of defence. Happily, the sword of the dictatorship is in strong hands. General TitocHu, it is felt by one and all, is the very man for the emergency. Added to which the popular leaders who have been grouped together suddenly upon the spur of the moment in the form of an ultra- Democratic Cabinet, are the ablest men of the extreme party ; men like GAMBETTA and JULES FAVRE— unassociated with mere shallow-pated firebrand demagogues like M. ROCHEFORI of the Lanterne notoriety, lately of St. Pelagie, or with men of sinister reputation like Louis BLANC and LEDRU ROLLIN. Only the abler veterans of. the old demo ._ c atic party, such men as GARNIER PAGES and tEMTEUX have been chosen as colleagues of the - ounger men among popular leaders, about the youixtiest and ablest of whom is certainly N. GAMETTA. The task before the Provisional G4ernment is certainly one of a very onerous cha- meter, and laden too with an enormous responsibility. With the national standard - draggled in the dust, with the powerful and resplendent army of defence swept out of the national calchlations, with vitally important outposts like those of Plialsburg and Strasbourg still subjected to a cruel and appalling bombardment, with the prestige of the arms and of the diplomacy of France at one and the same time frightfully compromised—the rulers of forty million Frenchmen have suddenly to bring together anew army, to lift up anew the tarnished standards of the country, to secure the safety of the capital now very imminently imperilled, and to do all this with the enemy nearly at the gates flushed with a score of magnificent and terrible victories. There is a talk, more over, at this time, of peace, of an armistice, of diplomatic negotiations tending towards the satisfactory settlement of all difficulties be tween the belligerents. But the measures to that effect come neither from Paris nor Berlin. They are springing -up, here and there, among observant neutrals. The wish is, of course, father to the thought. Nothing in the way of a pacific settle ment has as yet been adventured upon by any one practically. At this moment we cannot but fear that the hope of a pacification, or of a temporary pacification is in every way premature. The thought of it is hardly less than a hallucination. The Prussian, or rather the German armies have by this time got such a way upon them that they can hardly be brought to a stand very readily or rapidly at the instance of any negotiation, however influential or authoritative. Besides, France generally, Paris especially, has be come infuriated, has vowed vengeance= against the invaders who have been subjected here to such as tounding and terrible humiliations. The defences of Paris are prepared. The people have sworn an oath that the capital shall not be delivered up, that the German invaders of France shall to the last man be driven back from the walls of Paris and across the northern and eastern frontiers of France into the Rhenish provinces, and into the Baden portion of the Germanic Confederation. Will that oat h —can it—be kept ? Or will France— must she—be fore sworn ? A comparatively short time will indicate. THE ARGUMENT AGAINST TIIE EMPIRE. L'Empereur est mort; Vim la Republique! Such is the cry which resounds throughout France . . Physically dead the EMPEROR, indeed, is not. He " was not able to die at the head of his army," he told his captor. Why he was not able, why he did not fulfil his promise mort ou vainqueur, does not appear, and we will not ask. But for all purposes of GovernMent he is dead, and his dynasty is dead with him. The shout which Paris has raised, which has been re-echoed in many of the large cities, and will, we doubt not, be eaug,,t up even by the peasants who have these last six weeks been lamenting the Plebiscite that has brought to them disaster most terrible, ruin most complete, is not akin to the proclamation that used, to be made in the old days of the Bourbons, from the window at Versailles. It is no longer a proclamation of continuity, king hollowing King because the King never dies. It is the announcement of revolution, of as complete an overthrow as ever betel even a French Sovereign. The EMPEROR, and not only the EMPEROR, but the Empire, is gone. It is scarcely possible that it can return. Twice has it been tried; first the Empire which wasiucessant war, then the Empire which declared that it was peace ; and both ,times it has brought the enemies of France conquerovs up to• the very gates of her capita]. The sun of Austerlitz wAs eclipsed by the storm of Waterloo: Midsummer day at Solferino has been obliterated by the 2nd September at Sedan. Paris may be worth a mass, as HENRI QUATRE declared, but ) even Napoleonised, beautified, Paris is not worth a March 31,1814, or that day not yet named, but close at hand, when the foreigner shall again dictate peace in the Tuileries. So complete an overthrow forces us to seek fur an explanation of it. 0: May 8 nearly eight millions'o!' votes were recorded la havour of the .E.NLYSILOIL and IHE -SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,87 U, • THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. GAlETT—Litschen and Fritschen. The Quaker. Blue- beard. PRINCESSES'—Wunte.d, 1,000 'The Rapparee. The Happy Man. QUEEN'S-My Wife's Dentist. 'Twixt Axe and Crown. ROYALTY—Our Nelly and F. M. Juluis Cncesar, the Irregular Rum 'Un. OLYMPlC—Poppleton ' s Predicaments. Handsome Is that Handsome Does. Undine. VAUDEVILLE—ChiseIIing. Two Roses. Don Carlos. STRAND—Kind to a Fault. Pilgrim of Love. NATIONAL STANDARD—LittIe Emily. Venus versus Mars. .ALHAMBRA —Grand Ballet and Varieties. CnEmonNE--Fireworks, Ballet, &c. ST. JAMES'S HALL. —Christy Minstrels. Every evening. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 11 a.m. till 3 p.m. and 7 till 10 p.m. ls. ; extra rooms, 6d. • PcrLYTECHNlC—Professor Popper's Ghosts. Afternoon and Evening. THE EUROPEAN WAR. A SECOND EDITION of THE SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST N EWS of the WAR, and of all other events. erg' 44 Lis Government:llll: Republicanism was so utterly r(jocted that even. 'COhstitutional Liberalism suf fertd defeat, because it was suspected of an :alliance with the Democrats. And yet in less than four months not only is the EMPEROR de throned, but the Republic is proclaimed amid such rejoicing as though France had come out of the war. victor, instead of being beaten beyond all hope of recovery. It may be said that the . reverses in the battle liejd are quite sufficient explanation of this startling Change. But is this the case ? When CHARLES ALBERT was defeated at Novara he did indeed abdicate, but it was only in order that VICTOR EMMANUEL might reign. FRANCIS JOSEPH has twice suffered ruinous defeats, yet neither after: Solferino nor after Sadowa did his people demand that he should cease to rule them. The ultimata cause of NAPOLEON' fall is his' policy. That policy was personal Government. He Would govern Fran Ce. He would not allow,France to govern itself. This being so it was indispensable for him to succeed. Nothing, it is often said, succeeds like success, and Paris, made beautiful, welcomed back with shouts of applause the conqueror, who on the plains of Lom bardy had added fresh victories to the list in scribed on the Arc de Triomphe. In August 1859, NAPOLEON 111. was at the very height of his popularity. He had fought against and over thrown one of the greatest mill tare PoWers in the world. He had hearcland ; answered " Italy's cry of anguish." He was not only a conqueror, he was also e,liberator. He was the foremost figure in Europe, and even the most sturdy Liberals 'who had never' forgotten the coup d'etat were willing at least to for give it when they saw the Italian and French tricolours waving side by side in the streets of Milan. A few months later the glory had been somewhat tarnished, the fine gold had become dim. The annexation of Nice and Savoy deprived the EMPEROR of the credit which even his hitherto inveterate foes had been willing to give him. They had believed him for a while when ho said that France made war for ideas„ They believed him no longer when they saw' that he made peace in . order to acquire new domains. This lust of territory then for the first time exhibited, was , shown again and again afterwards, and proved to be at once the ruling pas sion and the destruction of the EMPEROR: From that time forward he never ceased to conspire against the peace of the world in .order that he might en large the borders and increase the influence of France; and thereby confirm his dynasty. In every attempt he was baffled and defeated. The Latin Empire which he established in Mexico could not stand against the first threatening word -of the re-United States. The demand for the surrender of the coal fields of the Saar Valley as his price for preserving neutrality in the German war of 1860, was refused. His bargain for the purchase of Luxemburg was forcibly open off. His attempt to persuade Austria to make the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of Prague a cams bell, and to parcel out North Ger many as the spoils of the victory which was to attend the combined French and Austrian arms, was politely declined by FRANCIS JOSEPH at Salzburg just three years ago. The final effort to bribe the Power which lie could not venture to attack, and could not win over by flattery---his celebrated projected treaty, which was to annex Belgium to France—was treasured up against the day when the revelation of it would . estrange the country whose alliance he had always striven to maintain—would estrange England at the very time when he most sorely needed all the aid I,vhich England could give him. If nothing succeeds like success, so nothing fails like failure. Repeated and humiliating checks had so injured the imperial prestige that his position became seriously compromised. But tout pent se retablzr. There was, one means of regaining all that had been lost. A successful war would re-establish him andenable him to hand down the throne o t France to his son: For this war he was, as his own most trusted counsellor declared, preparing for four years. But here again the radical fault of the Imperial sys tem shewed itself, and vitiated all its preparations. Imperialism must do everything for the people, and thus it came to pass that it . did nothing; that it failed utterly, awfully, and that the Empire has 'collapsed and chaos has come. There are some English Imperialists who cannot even now refrain a sneer at the new Government which has succeeded the Empire. A Government of lawyers and journalists, it is. said, is scarcely the Government to save Paris from the half a million of Germans who are pressing on with forced marches to the devoted city. Perhaps it is not; most probablyit is hot ; yet even the Ministry of lawyers and journalists can hardly do worse for France than Imperialism and its generals have done. France under GAMBETTA; FAVRE, and PICARD can not fall lower than it has fallen under LE BCEUF 7 OLLIVIER, and 'NAPOLEON.— Western Morning News. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A WORN-OUT MANIFESTO. Upon the pith of September, 1860, an Imperial Manifesto Was issued explaining to the French diplomatic agents in all foreign couutriesthe language they were to hold in their communications regarding the results of the Austria-Prussian war just then ended. The following extract will not be without its interest at the present time :—"From the elevated point of view from which the Imperial Government regards the destinies of Europe,, the horizon appears to b© cleared of all menacing ex entualities . ; formidable problems which ought to have been solved because they could not be evaded, pressed upon the destinies of the people ; they might have been iinposed at a more opportune periog they have received their natural solution without too vio lent shocks and without the dangerous co-operation of revolutionary passions . A.4ce which reposes upon such a basis will be 00uraVle peace. ks to France : in whatever direetiOn she looks-she call p;,r ceive nothing which can inipededier progressor inter rupt her prosperity. Presening friendly relations with all powers, directed by a policy which has generosity and ; moderation for its strength, relying upon her if., imposing unity ; with all her extended genius, .1 i: treasures, and her credit, which fertilise Euraij i. , with her developed military forces, Itirrannd ti: lienceik:rth by independent nations : she' will Dot appear less great, she will remain .1 - 1oi: 'less re spected." not conquered in 'one catupaigo. The Herald thinks that an admirable opportunity presents itself for American mediation for peace. There can be no more opportune, natural, or glorious office to fill than that of disinterested intercession between two nations, of wlioin America is the last and real friend. King William has grace fully acknowledged ,the effOrt of Pius IX. llis people hold 'millions of our securities, and he can do no less by us. 'France cannot and will not doubt us. The Tribune publishes a letter to Presi dent Grant which 'advocate's the necessity for an in dependent offer of mediation, and calls upon America to make au appeal to nations to join in an International Congress. • • number obtained by the - direct manufacture .61 breech-loaders is 58,067. The number of carbines and ninskets of other descriptions than the infantry rifles is 122,629, whilst the new ones amount to 1,350. The grand total prwluced is 583,532, and on the Bth of August 199,362 breech-loaders were in the pos session of the regular troops and the reserve forces. The number of breech-loading rifles in Store 0;' all descriptions on the Bth August, 1870, was at Home stations, 231,240 ; at foreign stations, in ciuding India, 53,039; of carbines and muskets of other descriptions. than infantry rifles, at how.) sta tions, 16,500; at foreign stations, 144. The total of breech-loading arms in store at the same period, was 300,923. Only 53,183 of these weapons are in the hands of storekeepers at foreign stations. . • • 14imir, Tar I: MA J ENT Y. BALMORAL, SEPT. 4. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, attended morning service a Crathie. Lady Churchill and Colonel PonSonby were in attend auce on her Majesty, • • The Rev. Dr. Taylor fficiated. THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR AND THE PARIS MOB. The Gaulois gives the following account of the danger incurred by the Spanish Ambassador in Paris :—" An incident which might have had disastrous consequences, but which, • happily, had a satisfactory termination, thanks to the good sense of a few citizens, took place yesterday evening, at five o'clock. The Spanish Ambas sador was nearly maltreated by a group near the bridge of La Concorde, at the moment when the diplomatist was coming out of his hotel, on the Quai d'Orsay, to enter his carriage to go to the Corps L4gislatif. The carriage was stopped at the corner: of the quay near the Corps L6gis latif, and the Ambassador was summoned to descend. M. Oiozaga tried to speak, but his voice was stifled by the crowd, who flung themselves upon the carriage, knocked down the servants, tore off one of the doors, and destroyed tue crest. Happily several Spaniards who were near heard what was going on, and rushed forward; saying, "Stop ! stop ! It is the Spanish Ambassador ! " The crowd drew back. M. Olozaga came out of his carriage, and went back to his hotel on foot, followed by the crowd, whose passing anger haachanged suddenly into sympathy. They remained under the windows of the embassy,.and called loudly for the ambassador, who came on the bal cony and spoke as follows ; " Citizens, I thank you for the respect you shewed, to me as soon as you knew my position. In acting thus you have rendered homage to the country which I represent, and which is a loyal friend of , France. I thank you in the name of Spain. As tor me if you follow the recent course of e vents closely you must know what a lively interest I feel in your country. This interest enables me to take leave of you by crying "Vive la France !" These dignified and appropriate words were loudly applauded, and the crowd retreated shouting " Vive l'Espagne ! Vive l'Ambassadeur ! Vive la R - publique !" All is well, says the Gaulois, that ends well ! THE REPUBLIC IN WANT OF A PRINTER. The bloodless revolution was near being quite the reverse of bloodless. The peaceful manner in which the Republic was established was due to the promptitude with which the Liberal party acted, and the judicious character of their addresses. But it was With great difficulty that the official proclamation announcing the .Republic got printed. A correspondent of the Liberte says that as he was walking down the Boulevard Bonue Nouvelle he was hailed by a deputy of the Left, who was driving in a carriage, and invited the correspondent to take a place beside him. The deputy then handed him a manuscript, saying; " There is the declaration of the Left, which proclaims officially a Republic in France. lam just going to the office of the Siècle to have it set up, for the national print ing office is utterly deserted." Arrived at the quarters of the Siecle, the manuscript was handed to one' of the staff, who at once exclaimed, " That is Picard's handwriting ! " He was right. Would he undertake to print it at once? " Impossible. I have not a single printer on the pre mises." There was no time to be lost, and so the writer of this narrative proposed to the deputy that they should drive off to the office of the Liberte. " A second edition is just coming out ; we shall be sure to find some hands there." So they drove on and were fortunate enough to meet with some compositors. It was then 5.30. At six o'clock the deputy and the correspondent were on their way to the [otel de Ville with a proof. Arrived there they found it impossible to get in, the National Guards kept all the doors, and had strict orders to allow no one to pass. The deputy had forgotten to bring his ticket, and even he was refused admission, until at last he was recognised by an dieial, who extricated the two friends ,from their cr.obarrasEment. After passing through several rooms famous in history, they found Jules Ferry, who told them that the Left Centre and the Left were holding a con -I)rence h 1 order to devise a form of Government. A few minutes later the door opened, and a d'ozen members of the Left Centre passed out. Then, a little later, the door opened again, and, amid cries of " Hats off !" " The Go vernment !" and " Present arms !" Trochu appeared, fol lowed by Rochefort, who shook- hands with many of the bystanders. Trochu then made his speech, announcing that grave events had happened, and thanking those who heard him for the confidende they had placed in him. Then the deputy with the proof of the proclamatibn pressed forward, and as soon 'as it was corrected, an order for 20,000 copies was given by Ferry. The next morning the Parisians awoke to see the proclamation on every wall in Paris. AMERICAN MEDIATION Fon PEACE. The New York papers just arrived, considering the chanceS of peace between the European armies, ask if the United States cannot now act as mediator between France and Prussia ? The Times, of the 21st of August, says that the frihttil losses which the French have sustained must have left them utterly helpless, and inquires when this wild slanghter is to cease. Is it impossible for tie United States to offer mediation, in conjunction with England or alOne ? Surely this country has some claim to be • heard at the Court of Berlin. The Government should express the opinion which widely prevails that the w. r should be stopped. If the President would address a letter to the King of Prussia it would produce an instant ef fect.. The , United States would have ten times more influence than any European Power. The proposed mediation would not . be designed in the interests of iiithey of the Powers at war, but in the interests ,of2:litimanity arid eivilizaion. Unless; peace can fie 'none by the intervention of other Pow, tens' of flottsands of lives will be sacrifice.d. The 'Empire is dead, but 37,000,000 of people are 1 ,THE RUMOURED PROPOSAL OF AN ARMISTICE. The Telegraph declares the statement of the _lade pendance Beige that Earl Granville had proposed an armistice between the belligerents to be altogether groundless. I.ths, it maintains,. sufficiently disposed of by the amionncement that Mr. Gladstone is still at WaMier. His arrival in • town bac, been more than once postponed, as there is no absolute necessity for his exchanging the sea air which has proved very beneficial to his health„ for the - official atmosphere of London, espeCially as he is able to consult his host and col league, Earl Granville, at any moment, and the means of communication between Downing-street and the residence of the Lord Warden are " direct and instantaneous." These two considerations, however, somewhat neutralise thoeffect of thepractical contra 7 diction to the armistice which the. Telegraph, finds in Mit. Gladstone's stay at Walmer, since 'the proposal might be agreed upon between, the Prime Minister and the Foreign , Secretary at leisure, and any further communications which might be necessary could be carried on.by telegraph. THri: CONDITION' OF PARIS FOR DEFENCE. The Times considers the condition of Paris for defence, and says that the ,capitulation of Mac- Mahon's army leaves nothing to oppose the march of the whole Prussian army. Therefore the present question is, whether Paris is likely to hold out long enough to exhaust the Germans and gain better times for France. Paris has the same advantage as Ma,yence in covering the junction of two rivers, the Seine and the Marne, so that the exterior force must be separated into three parts to watch the garrison. Besides enceinte and forts, there are positions, such as Belleville, Montmartre and the plains of. St Denis that could be fortified. A great difference exists be tween real forts, built with care, intended for the de fence of a city and positions defended by earthworks hastily thrown up, such as those at Wissemburg and Woerth. The hasty lines can always be turned if the enemy is in superior force. If it were certain that Paris was provisioned, that the guns and the rampaits were rifled and well provided with ammu nition, and the citizens were to be trusted, there would be a prospect of the city holding out for a long time. The real danger consists in the political rather than the military situation, but as it is the situation is doubtful. It may, be asked for what all the Pari sians are about to suffer the horrors of a siege. There is no Emperor, no King, no liberty even yet, and certainly no fraternity. There is an Orleanist Go vernor, a Republican populace, and a middle class in mortal terror lest their property should be taken_ from them. Among these discordant elements who is there capable of defending. Paris ? Imperalism has succeeded in dividing and commanding all other parties. The Emperor is gone, and the division alone remains. No man can count upon , any thing that France may or may not do. As far as can be seen, her only chance lies in the mercy of the conqueror or the intervention of the neutral Powers. MR. SPURGRON ON THE WAR. If there is one part of London in which horror at the war, without sympathy fir either belligerent, may be said to express the prevalent feeling, it must be round the Surrey Tabernacle. Mr. Spurgeon since the opening of the war has exhibited unusual concern about it, and has seized opportuhities, other even than those aflbrded by his Tabernacle, of allowing the public to . know his opinions. His last 'attempt at picturing his views possesses more then the ordinary amount of argument, and vivid imagery. So persuasive is gr. S;►urgeou's language that the Peace Zociety . have tiought it worthy of adoption in the interests of their vocation. Mr. Spurgeon's expressions find vent in a letter ad dressed to the two leaders of the Rhine war, and the following are the more forcible of his observa tions : " Did either of you ever think of what war means Did you ever see a man's head smashed, or his bowels ripped open? Why, if you are made of flesh and blood, the sight of one poor wounded man, with the blood oozing out of him, will make you' feel sick. I don't like to drown a kitten ; I can't bear even to see a rat die, or any animal in pain. But a man ! Where are your hearts if you can think of broken legs, splintered bones, heads smashed in, brains blown out, bowels torn, hearts gushing with gore, ditches full of blood 'and heaps of limbs and carcases of Mangled men ? Do not deceive yourselves, you'are no better than the cut throats whom your own laws condemn ; better ! why you are worse, for your murders are so many. Think, I pray you, for your poor peciple will have to think whether von do or no. Is there so little want in the world that you must go trampling on the harvest with your horses and your men ? is there so little sorrow that you must make widows by the thousand ? You fight for (dory, do you? I am a plain-talking Englislfman, and I tell you the English for glory is damnation, and it will be your lot, 0 kings, if you go on cutting and.hacking your fellow men. .Stop this war if you can, at once and turn to some better business than killing men. Before the deep curses of widows and orphans fall on you from the throne of God, put up your 'butcher knives and patent men-killers, and repent." If Mr. Spurgeon's sermons on the war are as eleetri fyirig as his letters to sovereigns, - the effect upon the ambitious young men of Surrey will be, in . a short time, very serious. At all events, the occupation afir the recruiting sergeants will be totally unnecessary, and the texts about valour and honour often making a . small man famous in a bold warfare, upon which the sergeants found their persuasive argunients, will no longer be thought worthy of being listened to. PRINCE SALM-SALM. Among the many victims of the terrible field ol Gravelotte was Prince : Felix Salm-Salm, of the Prussian . Grenadier Guards, whose name is well known in connection with the short-lived Mexican Empire. Prince Salm had served in many armies. Born in Westphalia, he first took service in the Prussian anny;,aiteryvards he joined the Austrians. On;-' the brealcing - out of the great civil v/.1i7, . the United States he hurried 1 ,i); nterica and offered his • sword to '',PeSident, Lincoln. He distinguished himself greatly, and was thanked by the President in an autograph letter. .Subsequently he played a prominent part in the tragedy of Mexico, and was, the confidential friend and • adviser of the hapless Maximilian, in wlrse dangers and captivity he shared. AnOther brave man,Tasch, was also a prisoner, and together they endeavoured to save Maximilian. Prince Salm corresponded with the Emperor by means of letters baked in loaves of bread ; they sent cigars to each other concealing their private plans, and they tried to force the Emperor, to whom they had sworn fidelity, to esoape, even though their own lives paid the forfeit. The wile of Prince Salm, described as a lovely and high-spirited Canadian lady, exerted herself 4renuously but Vainly- in the same cause. When Kinperor was 'condemned to death Prince Salm wished to die with him, but was spared to be received with high honours at Vienna, and to die a soldier's death at (I ravelotte. OUR SUPPLY OF RIFLES. A Parliamentary return just issued furhishessome interesting information relative to the supply of rifles. The number of breech-loading infantry rifles produced since the adoption of the Snider breech-loading principle is 4.59,553. The number obtained by the oonversion of muzzle-leading rifles nit) breech-loaders is set down at 400,883. The THE PRISONERS OF STE. PELAGIE. At four on Sunday a band of 500 citizens presented themselves before the gates of the prison of Ste. Pelagie, which contained the politicaal prisoners. They demanded that the gates should be opened. The Governor refused. The gates were soon beaten in with hatchets and crow bars, and the crowd pressed into the prison itself. At the central wicket the turnkey, rather than open it, handed the keys over to the people, who lost no time in- making use of, them. They traversed the - politioal side of the pri son, and got hold of the book ooritaining the names of the prisoners. Among them were Rochefort. Clement, Vermorel, Fonvielle, and a crowd of others. These were called over name by name, and the gaoler was ordered to release them, which he did. I COUNT BISMARCK'S TERMS OF PEACE. The Pall Mall Gazette's special correspondent writes : CLERMONT-EN-ARGONNE, Monday, August 29. Yesterdey evening, just after I had posted my letter to you; I had half an holies conversation with Count Bismarck, and, as his Excellency was well aware that he was talking to your correspondent, and that " anything he said might be taken down in writing, and used against him," as they say in the police courts, I have no hesitation in• sending you the substance of his remarks about the conditions' of peace to be dernandei of France. "We might," said the Federal Chancellor, "form Alsace and Loraine into an independent neutral State stretching from Luxemburg to Switzerland, and so protecting the whole of our western frontier against France. But who is to guarantee the neutrality of such a State ? Then, too, the people would be always wanting to return to France, to which they have so long belonged. As to we ourselves annexing Alsace and Lorraine, I do not see the use, far less the probability, of our doing so. We should have a discontented people to - govern, and, besides, mere increase of territory has no attractions for Germany. But we must have securities against an attack from France. So long as she possesses Strasburg the whole of South Germany is at her mercy ; we have no fortress till you get to Ulna. Strasburg, therefore, and probably, we shall take and hold permanently if our arms are ultimately victorious. Striisburg shall be our Gibraltar. You say that the French will hate us fear fully for taking their two best - fortresses, and will per petually be seeking to revenge themselves. I grant it ; bat it is ,certain that they are already so enraged against us that they will endeavour to revenge them selves in every possible way. The best thing we can, therefore, do in the interests of peace is to take the power of doing mischief out of their hands. The Germans insist on that. You say you hope we shall not meddle with Holland. My dear sir, we do not dream of it ; the Dutch are not Germans, and German unity is what' we want. I assure yOu no German dreams of trying to annex Holland." 'Count' Bismarck then spoke very . strongly against the francs-tireurs, and pointing to an article from Figaro, translated in the Pall Mall Gazette, .which he held in his hand, said that on their own sheaving the francs-tireurs were assassins, and could in nowise be considered as forming part of the regular French army. I ought to state that I in no way sought to " inter view " the Lord Chancellor. He had expressed a wish to see the Pall Mall Gazette, English newspapers being•rare articles here, and on going to call for them I was asked to step in and smoke a cigar with the great Minister. THE SMALLEST CITY IN ENGLAND• The miniature city of Rochester, famous as it 11a: always been for its historical interest, as well •as for it: quaintness and beauty, in consequence 'of the association of i.he name of Charles Dickens with it, may henceforth be expected . to become more celebrated than ever. Entering Rochester, the train slides into that one outer portion of the city which is composed chiefly of exceed ingly unpretentious houses, happily scanty in numbe r ', old lime heaps, ponds of stagnant water, rough by-waYs. and black boarding. Unprepossessing and disappointiw 2 : , however, as this first view seems,- one has only to Pas' under the sombre arch of the railway, and to step int , the highway over the iron and stone bridge which, crossing the winding Medway, serves as the opening to the city proper, to witness some of the delightful points of the surrounding scenery. It is While standing on the bridge that the traveller first learns that Rochesterian e have neither cause to think ill of their town, nor that they do think meanly of it. The baronial castle reminding the spectator somewhat of the Tower of London ; th e Mammoth cathedral, built under the auspices of Gundelf , the confessor of Henry the First's queen ; the small but handsome Guildhall, whose "pavements," according, to a stone placed on the wall, were given to Roehester late in the 18th century, by one Sir Thomas Fairborne—al l tend to substantiate the first, and the announcement on board, erected on a gravel walk of scarcely a hundred yards length, to the effect that this is "The City of Rochester Esplanade," lends somewhat of proof to the latter supposition. Passing along the narrow High Street , which is filled with old English buildings abutting over the roadway, the number of strange inns and the peculiarities of • their titles, The Three Postboys , The Bull Inn, and The King's Head ; prove tha t even the chief thoroughfare of the town Po' sesses more than usual materials for the ink of the imaginative novelist. The second-named he is the only one in Rochester which boasts the ro: arms over the doorway, and this privilege is said to ha\ been granted to its proprietors in perpettaity, in remeln" brance of the many days the Princess ViCtoria and suite stayed at the hostelry in Her Majesty's early Beside the portal a motto taken from Pickwick, " house, nice beds," also acids to the external recomme; tions of the' establishment. The - Kii;' , ;'s Head is no interesting a tavern, and probably irilitalie more antiq of the two. When Falstaff -and Poins were disporti; themselves as highwaymen outside - Rochester, on, the to Gadshill—a place, by the bye, which, according Bosworth and Malone, was "in the course of the Mit' mas term, a famous resort for numerous horse thie with such fat and lusty horses as were not like Lae/ horses nor far-journeying horses "—some one of the 0 pany suddenly exclaimed, "On with your visors, the money of the King's coming down the hill %is going the King's Exchequer." To which Falstaftleplied " lie ! tis going to the King's Tavern." Therii is scarcely doubt but that-the inn he referred to was the still respr able one, the King's Head. In the High Street there building chiefly notable now tis the one to which Dickens, nominally as an "Uncommercial Traveller," and dressed as a " casual," once paid a visit, the Watts Alms house. Over the doorway a large stone informs paser-by that Richard Watts left the house and a fin. for the benefit of poor men who might be journeying through' Rochester, and who might require assistance. The inscription on the stone orders that every morning early the trustees for the alms are to render aid to four applicants, who must known " not to be rogues," a modest bred_ and 4d. in money. Charles Dickens has chronicled, favourable experience of the extent to which the charitY is distributed. There is, however, an additional fact which he apparently was not aware of, but, which may worth recording. It seems that at dawn on certain morn ings not four but 40 apparent paupers present themsel. at the threshold of the almshouse, and that a polic e man ls called upon to decide as to which are criminal and which are not. None of the men are assisted on two mornings 0 succession. The almshouse is very nearly opposite the east gate of the city walls. This large portico is surmounto by a house, supposed to be the " Gatehouse ".referred to in Edwin Drood, ' as it adjoins the precincts of the Cathedro;! in which are situated the Corner. " Minor Canon Corner to be remembered as in future, and the small rows of . domiciles devoted to the clergy and others connected wi , Gundelf's edifice. In the catheral, which is in admirable preservation, built in the form of a double cross, there all very few monuments. The extreme whiteness 0 ' the walls tends to' reveal the few there are more re markably. There is one huge stone in memory of Dame Henniker, the lady whose finger is represented in her , i monument as pointingto Heaven, a position which is salt to have been adopted as - a warning to those wh o stitehet' on a Sunday, as she is understood to have been doing wile ° she died. The walls are unrelieved by any extraordinaa, decoration, alth oug h t races h ere an d t h ere denote that they were in a past age all frescoed.- Doric windows hav e 'been placed almost side by side with the antique Norm's ones ; but the effect, if not in accordance with NI:0 0 'i Mr. Ruskin would have advised the authorities oI cathedral to adopt, is certainly not becoming. The plainest thing in the cathedral is Gundelfs own tomb. The grave allotted for the body of Mr. Dickens, and which on the morning of his burial - in the Abbey ofi Westminster was prepared for its reception, l;! situated in a corner of the " Lady Mary's Chapel," aftti is almost alongside a stone on which is elaborately all beautifully carved the scene in the story of the goo' Samaritan, where the wounds of the man who lay by the roadside are being bound up by his benevolent eare-taker• Well worth seeing are the arched cloisters, the dungeons the confinement of refractory retainers and the narrow leading to the battlements. The first-mentioned re tacks, upheld by a large number of sombre pillars, the cloisters of almost every other cathedral, are enaPt: and destitute of curiosities of any kind save those attar ins to their own build or history. The cathedral as a place of worship, is one of the simplest, and yet of the most pleasing in England. Thero is nothing ecclesiastical, too grand or obstrusive about it or its serf Even its bell is a tidy; tinkling one ; and a single ye; alone manages the entire arrangements of seating congregation, attending to the clergymen, and preserN the sanctity and cleanliness of the structure. Next. the cathedral is a chapel of ease, and the roadway immediately in front of both. Crossing the latter railed-in graveyard, quite square, Studded - red roses, and planted with willow,. sy_ and box trees, is noticed. This is undern Rochester Castle, and Rochester folk will tell the yeller that in the Doric-cut opening, high up in the wall, and surrounding the holy acre of ground, •Dickens, used often to sit watching over the city, no , book in hand,-- Musing in solitude, and oft perceiving, Fair trains of imagery before him rise.," The late author, clad in a black velvet jacket, was the habit of coming into Rochester accompanied small pack of large dogs, and it is said that the rei cracking of his whip • and the baying of his dogs warning of his coming long before he appeared in si) The well shaded grounds of Rochester Castle have lately purchased by the corporation of the city, who pose throwing them open freely . for the people's use. thisis done, pleasant and improving advantages will no be extended to the latter ; but the privacy which, and without the walls seems to be such a charm.of place, and in the enjoyment of which one can quietly ness and reflect upon the vast scene over the whole cil far away to Cobham on one side, and. along the silo Medway as it wanders out to sea on the other, taken from it. The building is chiefly remarkable in tory as having afforded a refugeto the Lady Elizabeth - she was flying from her malicious sister, Mary. Me: point out now as distinctly as ever the path along the. Princess escaped from. - the Queen's soldiers Watts's house (which, by-the-bye, she called then and ever afterwards, by the name of " Satis ") to the cas and again from the castle to the river. The summit o f castle is now reached by. only one set of stone greatlY injured by age, and so rough and - uneven t, rope has had to be placed along the wall to assist climber.. It' was probablii - these steps that suggested postern stales mentioned in "Edwin Drood." Some • think the similitude between sights in Rochester• those described in Mr. Dickens'g last work may be too drawn. Be this as it may, one cannot leave the without fancying that all that has been seen there • to recall the town of Cloisterham and the many scences in connection with it impressed upon the ri of the Lest novel of the deceased writer. The view the wall surrounding the top of ' the square cast on e of the most satisfying kind. Sitting upon the grass-covered and ivy-mantled buttresses, seems to rest above a little world full of poetry and breathe an atmosphere pregnant with thousands of Nat -dowers; It ie too high up to hear the small sounds of the but far away there seems to rise in the air the clinki hammers and the hoisting of cranes. Looking in direction, over to the east of the castle, one sees the :bats 'of many soldiers as the wearers move about hei there busily. There are large ironclads, too, anchare , the river, and then we know that it is Chatham. :may in another part over and above the hills is • Pitt, several military hospitals, and a large new W'.4 building, almost the only externally whit e buile, l 4, in Rocester. This is the newly-erected hospil s ; 'o It for the purposes of the Contwibus Diseases A c tbr stretching over towards Gadshill mid High a m the til e s listing hills and bright green fields are spotted with - "v l rs' mills, round which swarms of minute birds seen' tad playing, 'and here and there, very widely apart, ° ee ls Portable far houses dot the nplands. Carts are also 8 44 0 plodding slowly onwards ever the roads, and the gr' - 'W sound of the wheels comes to one's ear as distinctly e' 5 e ,e,... lowing of cattle and the hammers at, the dockyt,s, [Jetting the eye fall nearer to eyLere we are staff?` te ,6 he little city in its entirety, surrounded b,Y .ti j e a !tornan Wall, is open to view. Countless red jest' muses,, capped with tin chimneys, present thews el the sides- of the h t.im and narrow streets; N‘ThP- resider' :orners of the town quiet domiciles, the res i the wealthier classes of Rochester, are visl!•-t nse lusters of trees a , , way ''from the NY ';O1 0- ['lie many small fires lighted in the place propagate S ois e 11 the atmosphere, bile it is only dense enough to reujo t ,übduing effect to the scene and to prevent , the b ~,lours of the flowered gardens of the city, the red .1000 ,f the houses, and the verdant nature of the plentiful 'rom being too glaring to the spectator's vision. g. GEORGE, NATIIO' 'N., - spE LAT IMPo - APPI ARR] tiot y et at p ar . lE 14 o f Northe r back th VII u p° , H ugo enth u d He sl th e R ei of civil savage "Pal by eff a "By ON' Accc the Inl The aCti v i ti to t of Arm s form e d Thr( ItePub 130 x The Portioi bay c It i th e to. 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