The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-22 00:00:00

Leeds 6ched at ness un- ne, ran udders mocked Pills.— inflam igestion ilcen in heuma should rties of affect a h they rity of , after will nanent THIS EVENING'S NEWS. THE WAR. MARCHING : OP THE CROWN PRINCE ON PARIS WITH 150,000 MEN. VERDUN SURROUNDED. PREPARATIONS AT CHALONS, PARIS, AUGUST 21. Letters from Verdun to the 19th inst. state that the Prussian advance guard was rapidly closing in on Verdun, where no news had been received from Marshal Bazaine Verdun is in an imperfect state c f defence. French accounts of the battles of Gravelotte, on the 16th, say that the French lost 15,000 wounded, without counting the dead. The camp at Chalons is raised, and the troops are being extended and have taken up positions along the line. The army of the Crown Prinee was near St. Dizier, and it appeared that he intended to march on Paris by the valley of the Aube. It is stated that the army of the Prince is 150,000 strong. The visit of the Emperor to Chalons on Friday is believed to indicate the immineuc , 3 of some great movement. It is stated that Bazaine's army is under the guns of Metz, and that Marshal M'Mahon is executing strategical movements, which Marshal Bazaine will support at the proper moment. The Public states that yesterday Marshal Bazaine received ammunition and provisions, of which he was in need. Other information states that the Prussians had cut Bazaine's communications with Verdun. Th e Prussians have occupied the station of Meyie rs between Metzand Thionville. The Siecle says that the time for illusions is passed, and the Parisians must accept the idea of a siege. Paris is about to become the bulwark of the national liberty and independence. PARIS, Aug. 22.—The French official journal of this morning, says :—" No news having been received by the Government from the army of the Rhine for two days in consequence of the interruption of tele graphic communications, it is thought that the plan resolved upon by Marshal Bazain• has not yet suc ceeded. The heroic conduct of our soldiers in the different encounters against very superior numbers of the enemy gives hope of the ultimate success of the Operations. The enemy's scouts have appeared at St. An official decree, dated2lst August, prohibits the exportation and transport of all kinds of cattle, meal' and alimentary farinaceous substances, and all kinds of bran and forage over the sea frontierfrom Dunkirk to St. Valery. FURTHER DETAILS OF THURSDAY'S BATTLE. PRUSSIAN OFEICIAL ACCOUNT. BERLIN, AUGUST 22, 11 A.M. In the battle of the 18th inst. the following troops Were principally engaged :—The Royal Guard, and the 2nd, 7th, Bth, 9th, and 12 Army Corps. The 3rd and 10th Army Corps were in reserve, of whom Only small detachments took part in the ac tion, which was principally carried on by the artillery. The whole army of the enemy Occupied a position equal to a fortress, with the sole exception of the Corps of Marshal M'Mahon, and two divisions of General Failly. At nightfall all the heights had been stormed and captured by Our troops. The losses cannot, as yet, be even ap proximately estimated. The battle lasted from noon till nine p.m. Several thousand prisoners were taken. MISSION OF PRINCE NAPOLEON. Prince Napoleon has arrived at Florence, it is said on a mission from the French Government. The Chamber of Deputies, by 216 against 77 votes, has approved the military credit of 40 millions Prince Albert of Prnssia, killed in one of the late en gagements, is the youngest brother of the King of Prussia. lle was born on the 4th of October, 1809, and married in 1830 the Princess Marianne, daughter of William, King of Holland. The late prince was divorced in 1849, but the King withheld his sanction until 1853, eight days after it was granted he married, morganatically, the Countess Rosalie de Hohenau, then 38 years of age. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) ARRIVAL OF MARSHAL CANROBERT'S WIFE IN LONDON. Lady Canrobert, the wife of Marshal Canrobert, and family, accompanied by Lady Macdonald, arrived in Dover from Paris, by the English mail boat Wave this morning, and nroceeded to London, where she will take Up her residence till the end of the war. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) CRUELTY.— Samuel Barker, a carman, living in Blyth's- Yard, Whitecross-street, St. Luke's, was brought up before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough Police-court, charged With the following cruelty to a horse, Young, one of the officers of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, watching the case. Alfred Hunt. 166 C, Proved examining a horse which was being ,driven by the Prisoner, and finding it to be very old and very lame, having a broken foot, or what was called a shot joint, and one of its sides was a mass of sores, caused by Its knocking itself about through excessive weakness. On his telling the prisoner the horse was not fit for work he said it had just been shod, and being pricked it had become lame, and that he had brought it out to exercise. Youn g , the officer of the society, corroborated the con stable, and said the horse was unfit for work. Mr. Knox said he considered it a very bad case. A magistrate had no power to order a horse to be destroyed, but if the pri soner thought proper to have it done it would go in mitiga tion of the penalty he intended to impose. The horse having been destroyed, Mr. Knox fined the prisoner 40s. or a month. STONE-TROWING AND GAMBLING.—WiIIiam Wheatley and Joseph Tucker, two rough-looking fellows, were Charged with being drunk, making use of obscene lan guage, and assaulting Police-constable Cowell, 226 A, in 11 3'de Park. After hearing the evidence of the police, Mr. Knox committed the prisoners for two months with hard labour each. A number of lads were charged with stone throwing, and were fined in sums varying from 2s. 6d. to 10s. each. Pour others were charged with gambling, and having been locked up all night were fined Is. each. COWARDLY ASSAULT.—George Tyler, a sulky, rough fellow, described as a costermonger, was brought before . Lushington at the Thames Police Court charged with assaulting and robbing Mr. William Burton, of No. 6, 4 -Paley-street, Stepney. The prosecutor went into a re spectable tavern in the Commercial-road, Stepney, to ob tain some refreshment and arrange some accounts, and Was looking over his papers, when some ruffians, among Whom where the prisoner, commenced hustling him, and Pushing him about. He asked what was meant by such con duct, and the landlord at the same time ordered the pri soner and his companions to quit his house. They did so, and the prosecutor was preparing to follow, when the pri soner, who stood before the door, struck him a violent blow on the mouth, making it bleed profusely, and docked him backwards among his companions, who hustled him again and threw him on the ground. He called for the police, several persons interfered, and the prisOner aud his companions took to flight. The prosecutor then missed biz pocket-book from his coat pocket. It contained some Papers and accounts only. The prisoner was immediately sought after by Charles Merrett, a police-constable, No. 296 IC, who found him in a beer shop in Stepney, drunk, and he made a great resistance before he was secured. The prisoner said he was in drink, and that all the prose cutor said was false. Mr. Lushington had no doubt what ever the prisoner had committed a savage and unprovoked assault on the prosecutor, but there was no evidence of his having committed a robbery. He believed the pocket book was lost in the meta. He sentenced the prisoner to 84 months' imprisonment and hard labour. The prisoner 't'ou'r take a fine, won't you ? Mr. Lushington—No ; I vidll take no fine, tx, Aug. 3. n an engross of last July, 27th, when d the Sandy inutes ahead was a superb ast, and Mr. people. It is win, and the lilt the pride utryman win Ly who know It building, craft that Club. 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Reduced, 9n to 911 ; New Three per Cents., 91 to 92 ; India Five per Cents., 1111 ; ditto Four per Cents., 101 to 1001 ; Metropolitan Board of Works, 3i per Cent. Stock, 92j to 92k. In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of 1865 are 911 ; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864, 85 to 87; ditto of 1868, 75 to 74k'; Spanish of 1E67, 27 to 261; ditto of 1869, 261 to 251; ditto Quicksilver, 741 to 74 ; Peru vian, 87 to 86k; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 44 to 43k; ditto of 1869, 58 to 57f; and Five per Cent., Italian of 1865, 77 to 82. The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 66 5 ; Great Eastern 36} to 35i ; London and Brighten, 40 to 40a ; Caledonian, 741 to 741; South-Eastern, 711; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 422 ; Great Northern, 1221 to 122 ; ditto (A), 133 2 ; North Eastern, 1400 ; London and North-Western, 1271 ; Midland, 1272 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 131 ; Great Western, 691. Canada Six per Cents. are quoted 107 ; New South Wales Five per Cents., 100 to 1011; New Zealand Five per Cents., 98 to 100; Queensland, 106 8; Victoria Five per Cents., 111; and ditto Six per Cents., 113. Anglo Mediterranean, are 131 British Indian Exten sion 6 to 61 ; Falmouth, n to 9 ; British Indian Submarine, 71. In American Securities, Five-Twenty Bonds are quoted at 881 to 89; Ten-Forties, 83 to 831; Erie Shares, 171 to 17i ; Illinois, 1071 to 107 g. In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 14 ; Anglo- Austrian, 191 ; Chartered Mereantile, 25 to 27 ; Consolidated, 1 prem ; Imperial Ottoman, 121 12,; Lon don and County, 49 ; London and Westminster, 601 591; London Joint Stock, 331; and Union of London, 36 37. In Miscellaneous Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted 141; Viceroy of Egypt 7 per cent. Mortgage Loan, 761; National Discount Company, 111; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 42. Advices from Paris state that all reports as to the pro bable price of issue of the second loan of £20,000,000 sanc tioned by the Chambers are premature, the Minister of Finance having delayed the announcement of the terms, in the hope of a success in the campaign which might en able him to bring out the loan at a high figure. According to the Levant .Herald the Shah of Persia is expected at Constantinople soon with a retinue of 6,000 persons, and from this visit some important political re sults are anticipated. By the Cape mail we learn that the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Cape of Good Hope Bank was held on the 15th ult., when a dividend of £3 per share for the half-year was declared. The shareholders of the Cape Commercial Bank, at their meeting on the 7th ult., agreed to a dividend of 5 per cent. The eleventh annual general meeting of the Simon's Bay Dock or Patent Slip Com pany was held on the 14th ult. The report was adopted, and a dividend of 12 per cent. was declared. The award by the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Cairns in the matter of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway has been issued. In the discharge of liabilities priority is given to the Common Fund Debentures and Stock, Victoria Station Improvement Debentures and Stock, certain Debentures on the General Under taking, and the Western Extension Debentures and Stock ; all these, with arrears of interest, are to be con verted into an " Arbitration Debenture Stock," bearing interest at 4 per cent., and of the amount of £5,000,000. Two other stocks, the " Arbitration Preference,' £4,394,289, also bearing 4i per cent. interest, and an " Arbitration Ordinary," £7,743,405, to rank after the Preference, are also created, and into one or otherdenomi nation, partially or wholly, every claim on the company is to be converted. The Japanese loan lately introduced by Messrs. Schro der, and which, after having been eagerly subscribed, went to a rather heavy discount, is again at par, although all other foreign securities are still much below the prices current when that loan was brought out. The recovery is to be attributed to the favourable and steady character of the advices by each mail, which indicate that while Europe is in the convulsions of war Japan is emerging from centuries of fanaticism to take a prominent place among commercial nations. Among other steps for good organization has been the establishment of a Commercial Department for the purpose of carrying out more effectu - ally all matters connected with foreign trade. Late advices from Sir Harry Parkes also describe an excursion of 300 miles into the interior, during which he had oppo r tunities of observing the prospect of the grain harvests, together with that of the silk culture. The report of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way Company for the half-year ending 30th June last has been issued. It states that the gross receipts have been £313,668 4s 4d, as compared with £306,668 78 3d in the corresponding period of 1869 ; while the expenses have been £201,155 2s, against £200,375 16s 10d, and the net result is a balance of £112,513 2s 4d, as compared with a balance of £106,292 10s 5d for the corresponding period of last year. MARKETS.—Tnis DAY. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) IRISH SYMPATHY WITH FRANCE. Lesage, a French resident in Dublin, who organised subscriptions for the French wounded, has received the fol lowing communication :—" Sir, The Empress Regent has received with your letter a bank order for 5,000 francs, which you addressed to Her Majesty as the first offering of the Irish people in favour of the wounded of the French army. The generous sentiments which inspired this offering, and the wishes that Ireland has expressed for the success of our arms, and the happiness of the Imperial family, have • deeply touched the heart of her Majesty. In commanding me to express the high satis faction she feels at your patriotic initiative, the Empress Regent has deigned to ask me to pray you to be to the subscribers the interpreter of all her Majesty's gratitude and sympathy. Receive, &c., for the Chief Secretary, Marc Pietir. Paris, 19th August, 1870. Office of Secre tary of her Imperial Majesty." OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning THE DANGER TO PARIS, The Times observes that the bulk of the German army can certainly not for some time be expected to march upon Paris. No one can foresee how long Metz may hold out ; and, so long as it does, a force at least twice as large as the garrison within its walls must be left in ob servation of that fortress.' That the Crown Prince alone, or with sufficient reinforcements from the main Prussian army, may defeat the army at Chalons, and clear the way to Paris before him, is, however, by no means unlikely. The Prussians may march upon Paris ; but they need not attack it. They have only to cut off its communications by land and water, by road and rail road, to reduce two millions of people shut up within the detached forts to a struggle for subsistence. The defence of a capital or of any large place, moreover, may have practical pufposes when it is a means, but not as an end. If before the siege of Paris commences there were still an army in France holding the open field, or if one could be organised in the provinces, no matter at what distance, or if the garrison in the city could be drawn up in a force sufficiently large and compact to fight without as well as within the gates, no doubt the valour of the soldiers and citizens might be made avail able, and the fortune of war might yet be reversed. But the key to the whole position is time ; and what time will be allowed to General Trochu either to arm his twenty miles of fortifications or to drill and discipline his hundreds of thousands of re cruits, or to cater for his two million " useless mouths." All things considered, it seems difficult to believe that the partisans of the defence of Paris, and especially General Trochu, seriously contemplate a repetition of the melan choly scenes which terminated the campaign of 1814. We prefer to think their object in this projected defence of Paris is the same as that which prompts them to with hold unfavourable news. It is, we believe, the wish to avoid commotions to which a knowledge of the true oondition of affairs could scarcely fail to give rise. In other respects, with all its defences, the great city is not more capable of resisting a siege at the present day than it was fifty-six years ago. It is, on the contrary, we apprehend, weaker—weaker by all the additional num bers of unwarlike population ; weaker by all the comforts and luxuries which our civilisation reckons among the necessaries of life, and which can hardly be compensated by the undoubted heroism of the inhabitants. SUNDAY'S BATILI4I.-BORNY. A Metz paper, the Vceu National, gives a clear account of the serious battle—though inferior in importance to those of Tuesday and Thursday—which took place on Sunday week at Borny, on the east side of Metz. It says :—By order of Marshal Bazaine the camp under the walls of Metz was raised on Sunday morning, and the bulk of the forces made a retrograde movement tc gain the road leading from Metz to Verdun. Pon toon bridges were thrown above and below the town across the several branches of the river, an i towards the afternoon the columns might be seer debouching from the road, and passing over from the right bank to the left. But as the greater portion of the French forces was on its way from Longeville to Moulins, a large Prussian corps d'armee advanced on the position it had just evacuated. The first shots were fired about noon towards the extreme left, at Ste. Barbe, a vil lage about eleven kilometres (about seven miles) from Metz. It soon became evident that the engagement was serious. The French corps, which had not yet passed the river, faced right about, and the battle soon extended from Ste. Barbe to Grigy, its length being about three leagues (seven and a half miles). The Prussians were every minute receiving fresh reinforcements, and the French forces, unable to check their advance, slowly fell back upon Metz, fighting all the while. The Prussians, however, were for a long time kept at bay at the village of Servigny, where a fierce struggle took place. The vil lage and the neighbouring hamlet of Paixe (five miles from Metz) suffered considerably. They were taken and retaken by storm several times, and were partly burnt down. A desperate conflict also took plac9 for the pos session of Noisseville, which was also partly destroyed by fire. The Prussians, however, managed to' carry them, and debouched by the valleys of Noisseville and Lanvalliere. On that latter point they were received by an artillery fire which committed great havoc in their ranks, and two batteries of mitrailleuses planted in the orchards of the farm of Bellecroix, swept whole ranks away at each discharge. At the same time the 4th Corps (General Ladmirault's) which had already reached the Moselle, retraced its steps, and debouching into the plain by the valley of Vallieres, was able to attack the Prussians in flank, whilst the French artillery thundered against him from the heights of Vantoux. The Prussians, whose object was to occupy the French outer line of de fences, advanced no further; they continued to fight with coolness and intrepidity, but visibly lost ground. The Chateau of Colombey was taken and retaken three times. A portion of the Prussian forces having advanced to Borny, the fort St. Quentin's artillery fired a few rounds, and received a few harmless shells. As night fell, the Prussians resumed their attack on Servigny, but twc regiments concealed in the vines opened fire on them at close range, and threw them into confusion. L TUESDAY'S BATTLE-VIONVILLE. The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Dan willer, gives so me details of the great battle fought on Tuesday, no account of which, so tardy is the march of nesirs, has previously appeared. Of course this corres pondent writes in ignorance of the still more terrible fight which took place on Thursday :—On Monday night a great part of the French army was placed in battle line at Gravelotte, at the intersection of the two roads leading to Verdun; no engagement took place on that evening. I left at five o'clock p.m., and at seven I was in the neighbourhood with the Chas seurs d'Afrique, hunting the Uhlans. I know well the position of the two armies, and send you a sketch of the battle-field. At nine on Tuesday morning the Prussian line had advanced as far as Doncourt, and their tirailleurs began the attack on the French positions, occupying Rezonville and Vionville. Those villages are situate on a plateau, known as La Plaine de la Warfe, at a distance of 14 kilometres from Metz, and commanding in the eastern direction a full view of Metz, and the Valley of . the Moselle. The battle-field is situate between the two roads leading to Verdun near Grave lotte. From nine o'clock, when the Prussians began the first attack, up to eight in the evening, the tremendous struggle has been lasting, and from the different reports I have been able to gather, no engagement since the be ginning of the war has been so serious in losses on beth sides ; two hundred thousand men appear to havebeen en gaged, during the day, on one aide, part of the united army of Prince Frederick Charles and Count Steinmetz ; on the French side the three corps of Marshal Bazaine and the Imperial Guard. The 2d Corps of General Frossard, and the cavalry of General de Forton, accomplished prodigies of valour, but at a very dear cost; they lost a great many men, and were successfully reinforced by the 3rd Corps and the divisions occupying Rezonville : in one of these furious engagements General Bataille, com manding the 2nd division, 2nd Corps, has been seriously wounded. The Prussians have successively advanced with new and strong colums. Their forces were considerable, and by far superior to the French. The greatest part of the day they maintained the offensive with a certain success, and according to their custom towards the evening brought an immense corps d'armee of entirely fresh troops, attacking vigorously the left wing of the French and trying to break it. After several attempts, more or less successful, they were definitely repulsed on the line, and by the evening Marshal Bazaine was occupying the head points of Prussian lines. The losses are considerable on both sides, and until I have full details and true num bers I shall repeat the words of Mashal Bazaine— The losses of the enemy are great ; ours are serious. As usual, the Uhlans have played an important part in the battle ; they are to be found in every spot where daring is wanted. 'lt is no doubt a marvellous Caaalry, composed of some :of the elite of the German nation. I have seen them as eclaireure, I have seen them everywhere in the country I have crossed, and I hear that at this battle near Gravelotte a regiment of them attacked the staff of Marshal Bazaine, killing twenty men of the escort, and retiring after the death of their commander. Seldom has such a brilliant coup de main, attacking the staff of the commander in chief, been witnessed, and it is well worth mentioning. Sunday was a victory for the French, Tuesday a more important one; it remains to be seen if it will alter the movements of the French army ; but the departure of Napoleon for Chalons during the contest would seem tq infer that the French will continue their retreating tactics. THURSDAY'S GREAT BATTI4E-REZON VITZE, fg . ECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE " DAILY NEWS."' SAABBRUCK, AUGUST 21, 6 P.M. The great battle which was fought on the 18th, result ing in a victory for the Prussians, began at ten o'clock in the morning, and did not end till nearly ten at night. Up to twelve o'clock it was an artillery duel. The French lines stretched along the hills covering the road from Metz to Verdun. Their right flank rested on a farm-house known as La Villette, with a walled garden, altogether a strong position. A similar road led from Gravelotte. On the left of this road the French had seized upon the crest of a line of hills, on which they had thrown up twelve earth. works. The guns of these defences, together with eight mitrailleuses, swept down the slope, of the hills, and up the valley from Gravelotte, commanding every approach, Behind this line lay the forte of St. Quentin and Carieres, completely protecting the French rear, and securing their retreat. The Prussiabs had at first taken position on a line of hills between Rezonville and Gravelotte, stretching north-west and south-east, and extending on either side of the road from Metz to Verdun. By twelve the fire from their artillery had driven the French guns from their first line, and the Prussians found themselves able to push forward their guns, and establish their batteries in advance of their first ppsi4ion, The new line stretched a considerable •jistanoe on either side of gray.eiott q ." I reached the field at twelve, just as the encounter was developing into a general engagement. and from one of the hills above-mentioned had a good view of the whole field. By two o'clock in the afternoon the French batteries covering the Verdun road wag silenced, and the Prussians had pushed forward till they reached and occupied the farm-house at Malmaisen. Twenty minutes later the Prussian guns, were in front of Gravelotte the weight Qt. their Metal and superior accuracy crushing the French fire, and driying one battery after another froth Its position, 4t.t twenty minutes past three the Prussian cavalry, including Uhlans, Cuirassiers, and 4usears, moved forward under a heavy fire from the Vrencii batteries, which still maintained their ground. !fief. attacked with energy, but unsupported at first bt infantry, and only partially covered by their ovAi guns, were obliged - to give way. Meanwhile the :>;ussian infantry divisions had been coming rapidly up, and at forty-five minutes past, four the first serious effort to dislodge the French commenced- The 33rd Regiment of the Line was directed against A hill that seemed the key of the French position, 'hey went forward with th e utmost gallantry and determ i ne . tion, but were driven back with heavy loss. By this time the Prussians bad massed heayY forces upon this portion of the line, and the fortunes of the battle seemed likely to turn' upon the, attack and defence eo ohstinately Itcpt up at the centre. The Prussian diViSiena were formed again and again, and led texward, only to be repulsed and forced to withdraw under a searching fire from the French guns, which cost them great numbers of men. Nothing coY.Ald b e more brilliant than the rePosts4 efforts of the Prm,sians; nething more. stezidv than the French defence. The disparity of numbers existed hers as at Woerth • but here the numbers were on the side of the French, and for long hours it seemed more than doubtful whether the natural strength of the French position, and their numerical superiority together, would not baffle the utmost efforts of the _Prus sians. During all the afternoon, an d far into the evening, the Bth Prussian Corps was engaged with what I believe to be nearly the full strength of three French Corps. Reinforced as the Bth Corps was by portions of the second and third, it did not exceed fifty thousand men, while the number of Prussian guns engaged was given to me as about ninety. I have bad no time to collect details, nor was it possible to distinguish from my point of view the different regiments, brigades, and divisions that shared in the successive attempts that were unavailingly directed against the French position. Nor was the fortune of the day to change at this point. Whether the Prussian generals became convinced that the centre was too strong for them I cannot say, but they made their final and successful attack on the right flank of the enemy. The farmhouse or hamlet of La Villette, though held in great force, was carried about nine o'clock, and the French position became immediately untenable. Their line was enfiladed•by the Prussian fire ; some of their outworks were even taken in reverse, and they were compelled to abandon the ground they had so bravely held, and to withdraw under cover of the fortress. Their last hold on the Verdun road was abandoned, and the army of the , Rhine found itself shut up in the strong hold which they had chosen as the base of their inva sion of Germany. I hear that a force will speedly occupy the railway northward, cutting off Metz from Thionville al ;o. King William was on the field throughout the battle, General Steinmetz being in immediate command of the Prussian troops engaged. Marshal Bazains commanded on the French side. It is difficult to estimate the Prussian losses, but the killed and wounded are reckoned at not less than 10,000—a large proportion for the number actually engaged ; but the losses at one time, in the effort to roach the French centre, were tremendouf. I can give no notion of what the French may have suffered. The Prussians, notwithstanding the severity of the day's work, are in great spirits over• their victory. Ramours of peace already circulate in the camp, and at any rate the hardest work of the campaign is be lieved to have been done. General Sheridan of the American army was present, and witnessed the fight from Count Bismarck's carriage. General Forsyth was also here. One English officer was wounded, the horse of another was shot under him. I will send detailed accounts as early as possible. It may be noticed that the French accounts, which are exceedingly meagre and at second hand, by im plication directly confirm all that the Prussians assert as to the extent of their triumph at Rezonville. Let us see what the French have to say before we pass on to the fuller and more authentic state iniits on the other side. On Saturday General Montauban, Count de Palikao, French Minister of War, assured the Corps Legislatif that so far from the Prussians having gained great advantages on the 18th, they had been driven into the quarries of Jaumont. Considering that the Prussians were some 220,000 strong, and that the French, at the outside, could not have fought on Thursday with more than 120,000, or even 100,000 men, it does seem a little strange that such a successful effort should have been made. If, however, we are to believe this story—which seems to refer really to a place called Giraumont on the edge of the heights that overlook the Orne, a tributary of the Moselle flowing north-eastward to its junction above Thionville—we have to recognise at the same time that Giraumont is on the newly opened railroad from Metz to Verdun ; and thus it is apparent, even from the War Minister's statement, that the Prussians fought not only on the northern road to Verdun, bat also on the railway, which runs a little to the north of that road. In other words, the French themselves tell us that the enemy was in force to the north-west of Metz, across all the direct communications with Verdun and the capital; and we may easily assume that, even if, in the vicissitudes of the far-reaching fight, a regiment or a brigade had been hurled in defeat into the "quarries," there was scarcely accommodation there for the entire Prussian army. But, setting aside the ridi culous attempt of Palikao to exalt a partial reverse—if, indeed, it was even so much—into a great overthrow ,of the enemy, what do the other French stories say ? One account from Paris, not styled official, informs us that Bazaine " is stated " to occupy a position " enabling him to march upon Metz or Verdun," and to have voluntarily arrested his march on Verdun. The same authority, however, informs us, with a charming naivete, that " Communication between Metz and Chalons has become difficult, eighteen hours being required for despatches " to pass between MacMahon and Bazaine. But the other day it took full twenty-four hours before Bazaine could get a despatch from Vionville or there abouts to Verdun ; and now, although he fought on Thursday, not one word from the Marshal himself has come to tell how he threw ~the Prussians " into the quarries " of Giraumont. Yet the Officica Journal pub lishes a despatch, dated at Chalons on Saturday night, twenty-four hours after the cloats of Thursday's battle, containing only a silly and pompous account of a visit paid by the Emperor to the soldiers, who clamoured to be le i against the enemy. Quitting in impatience the French falsehoods and suppressions, we merely ask, where are the despatches that took eighteen hours between Metz and, Chalons ? If they have been received at Paris, they have not been published ; and, if they have not been received, how did they take eighteen hours to travel? The French statements about this las great battle are plainly a hope. less jumble of reckless ontradictions and wild obscurities. —Telegraph. On Saturday afternoon the General de Palikao assured the Corps Legislatif a Paris that the Prussians had not obtained a victory, but that the reverse was the case. He announced the receipt of a despatch, which was not, however, either read or published in its entirety, to the effect that three Prussian corps which had attacked Marshal Bazaine had been repulsed and driven headlong into the quarries of JaumoLt. Other unimportant successes the Minister would not mention, But the quarries of Jaumont are ten kilometres north of Gravelotte, in other words, are six miles north of the road from Metz to Verdun; and how came the French there in such force as to defeat three Prussian corps, for we know, with tolerable certainty, from Bazaine's own despatches, that the French commenced a retreat from Metz to Verdun, and that the Prussians attacked them from the south. There is but one way of accounting for the French being in force at Jaumont, and that is by their having been driven six miles off the Verdun road in the action of Tuesday. This, we have every reason to be. lievo, was not the ease ; indeed, no such success was ever claimed by the Prussians; and it is utterly un reasonable to suppose that three Prussian corps crossed the Moselle below Metz, and endeavoured to force the wooded heights of the forest of Jaumont, to the east of the quarries of the same name. The Prussian plan has been clearly indicated by us for many days past ; it con• sisted in passing the Moselle above Metz, and hemming in the army of Bazaine against the Ardennes by swinging round their left, and preventing the French retreat to the Meuse. Any attempt to throw large bodies of troops across the river below Metz would have been against the success of the strategic plan, In no conceivable way can we reooncile Count 4 Palikao's statement with the facts as we have them from Prussian sources, or even with Basaine's des-, patchs. In the same way we are bound to dismiss as unworthy of trust the French accounts of Saturday morning that Marshal Bazaine "is stated to occupy" a position enabling him to march upon Metz or Verdup t and to have voluntarily arrested his march upon Verdun: The fiery next sentence of the despatch contradicts the statement--" The communication between Metz and Chalons has become difficult, 18 hours being required for despatches between Marshals Bazaine and MacMahon. If Marshal Bazaine had won Si victoz:t and made good his retreat to Verdun, h@ would have found no difficulty in communioating the news to Paris, and none in sending his despatches to MacMahon. Thn only hope, strategically Viewed, for either him or MacMahon, lay in their j Anct..l l and that hive is destroyed.—Standard. • _ . The ituppression by the French of information respect.% lug a battle in which, by their enemy's admission, thek army fought nobly, is to be regretted. The statement{ put forth in Paris that. Marshal Bazain,e was in a position( where he was free to March on Verdun if he liked, but that he had voluntarily abstained from doing so, is more; damaging than the candid admission of difficulties, and, made as it was in connection with the statement that the communication between Chalons and Metz had be come difficult, sea down the price of the Rentes. If even there could have been any doubt about the position of Marshal Bazaine's army, it must be considered to have been removed now, by the confirmation of the intelligence three days after the event, and the obstinate silence of the French. Whether Bazaine's sixty thousand men shut themselves up in Metz, or attempt to escape, they are equally in the toils of Prince Frederick ("harles's army. The Prince appears to have practised upon them the same device that Napoleon( employed after the battle of Je n a. B e i ng as k e d b y one of his generals whether he would take measures to close the gates of Magdeburg against the fugitives, he said, "No leave them open , all the fugitives will then cthere, and thus we shall catch til<na like fi sh i t DT:111 MARK-LANE. The grain trade at Mark Lane to-day has been in a quiet state. The receipts of new English wheat have been on a more liberal scale, but the quality has been very forced. Of old produce very few samplef have been exhibited. There has been a thin attendance of millers, and the demand has ruled quiet for all descriptions at about the rates current on Monday last. With foreign wheat the market has been well sup plied. American flour has been in request for France at t full quotations. In English flour trade closed heavily, and town-made fell 4s. a sack. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET. Devoid of any feature of importance the cattle trade has been in a quiet state to-day, and the increased liberality of the receipts has in some instances weakened prices. The arrivals of beasts from our own grazing dis tricts have been on a moderate scale, but they have in cluded but few specimens of choice qualities. A fair number has been received from Germany, and Spain has sent a moderate supply in generally speaking good con dition. As regards trade prime breeds have been in request at from 5s 4d 5s 6d per 81b; otherwise the demand has been inactive at about late rates. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire we received about 1,390 shorthorns, etc., from other parts of England 600 various kinds, and from Ireland about 100 oxen. With sheep the market has been fairly supplied. There has been a healthy inquiry at improving currencies. The best Downs and half-breds have sold occasionally at 5s Bd, but 5s 6d per 811 as has been the general top quota tion. Lambs have sold slowly. Calves have been in limited request, and pigs have been neglected. THis MORNING'S NEWS. THE FRENCH FLEET IN THE NORTH SEA. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company's steamer Wakefield has arrived at Great Grimsby from Hamburg. She will make no more voyages until the blockade of the North German ports is raised by the French. On her outward passage it appears that the Wakefield was boarded by one of the ships of the French squadron; a French officer warned the commander of thp Wakefield that the Elbe would be finally closed on the 25th of August, and then left, wishing him "bon voyage." The Wakefield reports that part of the blockading fleet was ying at anchor near Heligoland, while the remaining French ships of war were cruising off the mouth of the Elbe. A large number of Prussian troops—many thousands—passed through Hamburg last week for the seat of war. The Wakefield, in coming out of the Elbe, passed one of the steamers of the General Steam Navigation Company proceeding to Hamburg. The English barque Pathfinder, of Swansea, from Peru for Hamburg, with saltpetre, on approaching the Elbe was boarded by an officer of a French blockading cruiser. On the French officer finding that the cargo of the Path finder was contraband cf war he placed a prize crew on board, intending to send the barque to Dunkirk. The French officer, however, afterwards withdrew his men, and ordered the Pathfinder to sail for England. She has accordingly come to Grimsby to await the orders of her owners. It is rumoured in Lisbon that insubordination has mani fested itself amongst the troops at Madeira. The British fleet, composed of eleven ironclads, is cruising off Lisbon bar, BOATING ACCIDENT. On Saturday afternoon a three-ton pleasure boat, con taining Mr. Gwatkin, coach-builder, Mrs. Gwatkin, and Miss Trudgeon, all of Newport, Monmouth ; Miss Gwen nap, of Burgan ; a boy named Keen and. Captain Binney, of Penzance, was returning from St. Michael's Mount to Penzance. It had scarcely reached half way when a puff of wind upset the boat. Mr. John St. Aubyn, M.P., and children, with Mr. Wriothesley Wing field, were sailing near the spot in Sir Edward St. Aubyn's barge. Six oars were instantly put on, and the barge reached the spot in a few minutes. Keen could swim, and was picked up. Mr. Gwatkin and Captain Binney were dead. Mrs. Gwatkin and Miss Trudgeon were insensible, but were afterwards restored. Miss Gwennap went down with the boat, and could not be found. OPENING OF THE AUSTRIAN DIETS. The provincial Diets of Austria were opened on Satur day by a message of the Emperor, in which his Majesty declared it his urgent duty. in view of the present serious state of things, to convoke the representatives of the different portions of the Empire. He has fulfilled this duty at the present grave juncture because the Empire now more than ever requires the unanimous co-operation of all its peoples. The Emperor exhorts all the Diets to elect im mediately their delegates to the Reichsrath, so as to enable him to have all the representatives of the whole monarchy around him, as their constitutional co-opera tion appears to be urgently necessary. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the pro prietors of this company was held at King's-cross Station on Saturday ; Colonel Pocke (the chairman of the com pany) presided. The report of the directors shewed that the capital account was as follows :—Total received, £18,788,818 ss. ; total expended, £18,947,906 Os. 10d. Balance of expenditure over receipts £159,087 10s. 10d. In order to meet this deficiency and to provide funds for expenditure in the current half-year, the directors recom mended that £410,000, the balance of the capital authorised by the additional powers out of 1866, be raised by the crea tion of original stock. The report shewed that the expendi ture during the past half-year amounted to £193,19315. 4d. The sanction of the proprietors was asked for the expen diture of £18,623, for necessary works and stocks. The total traffic receipts were shewn to have exceeded those of the corresponding period of the previous year by about £3,300. The Chairman, before touching seriatim on the • various items of the report, observed that the manner in which they had received the directors in the Board-room proved that they were pretty well satisfied with what, had been done. He was happy to say that the sum granted last year had not been expended. In announcing that power had been obtained to abandon the'Watford and Edgware line he observed that this would reduce the capital of the company by about £150,000. With regard to the Newark accident, he referred to the application of Mr. Denison for a committee of the House of . Commons, and stated that no doubt legislation would result that would relieve railway companies in this respect. The cost at this pre- sent moment for the Newark accident amounted to £13,000. After a brief discussion the report was received and adopted. On the motion of the Chairman a dividend was declared at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the original stock, giving for the half-year £2los. per cent. on the original stock, £3 on stock B and £2 on stock A, leaving a balance to be carried forward of £4,194 4s. 10d. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. THE BROMPTON MURDER-THE INQUEST. On Saturday Dr. Diplock, the Coroner for the West minster division of Middlesex, resumed, at the Drayton Tavern, Thistle-grove, West Brompton, the inquiry con cerning the death of Samuel Lee, aged 36, the potman at the above establishment, who was brutally murdered at 3, Cledhow-gardens, opposite the above house on Saturday last. Since the last hearing the police, under the direc tion of Superintendent Fisher, have been unremitting in their endeavours to discover the perpetrator of this brutal murder ; but up to the present time they they have not obtained the slightest clue, mo re especially as every man who was at work on the property on Saturday last is still at hi s employment, and it therefore seems probable that the murder was planned and carried out by some of the discharged workmen, many of them, who were employed here some months ago constructing a sewer, being esteemed persons of very bad character. On Saturday morning the police were actively engaged in prosecuting some slight clue which has been obtained if it may be so termed • but it would not be prudent toin dicate further on What their suspicions aro grounded. Anyhow it is certain that the murderer was perfectly acquainted with the practices of the unfortunate deceased. The first witness called was, James Taylor, who deposed : I am a labourer, and live at 30, Bective-road, Fulham. I saw the deceased on Saturday as I was going home from my work. H e was then about sixty yards the other side of the house where he was found dead, coming towards the house. It wa s about twenty minutes past one, and he was walking slowly, with his book in his hand, apparently reckoning it up. George Perry : I am, a bricklayer, and live a t 8 , Caroline Buildings, Queen's-road, Chelsea. I work for Mr. Spicer, and had to pay deceased 3s. 9d. that day. I can't say how many had to pay him. By a juryman : He supplied most of the men at the buildings. I paid him his money the same day that he was killed. I can't say,,, whether any of the men had not paid, lam foreman orbricklayers. A juryman : How did he give change. Witness : He usually held it in his hand. I never saw any bag in which he kept it. James Richards : I live at 26, Victoria-road, Land's end. I knew deceased, and paid him that day what I owed—half-a-crown. The Coroner : Did you see any disturbance with any of the men who paid him ? Witness : No, not the slightest. I go by the name of Jack. _ _ _ _ A juryman referring to the book, said he found the name of Jack entered. . A conversation ensued among the jurymen as to how the money was paid, the foreman of the works being on the jury. The Witness : I have been as much as 6s. indebted to him; never a sovereign. He was a most kind accommo dating man. He usually stood at the junction of the two works in Earl's Court to receive his money, and he had sovereigns and shillings indis criminately in his hand, so that every one could see it. I don't know the men mentioned in the book as Paddy, Joe, &c. We might know them by other names, but deceased of course would know them. I don't know how much money he had when I paid him, or which way he went. After several more witnesses had been examined, who proved no more than the previous ones, save a lad named Price, who s aw d ecease d i n conversa ti on with a man whom, he said, he should know again, but who was not engaged on the works, Some discussion ensued as to whether the case should be adjourned, when, in answer to questions from the Coroner, Superintendent Fisher stated that there was no further evidence, and not the slightest clue to the murderer, for whom Government would offer a reward after the jury had returned their verdict. The jury then returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown," and the pro ceedings closed. The Cambria beat the Idler over the Newport course, 20 miles to windward and back. A telegram from Toronto of Satu. day states that exten sive tires were raging in the woods around Ottawa. Large quantities of property were destroyed, and *some lives were lost. The city itself was in danger. Heavy rains have fallen in Bengal, seriously damaging the crops in many parts of the country. The steamship Wakefield has arrived at Grimsby from Hamburg with a full compiethent of passengers and the heaviest cargo she has ever brought over. A considerable quantity of goods had t o be left behind. On her outward passage a French man-of-war ran across the Wakefield's bows, ordered her to stop, and sent an officer on board to examine her papers. This officer stated that the Elbe would be open until the 25th, when it would be finally closed against ingress and egress. The Libra was also boarded by an officer from a French man - of - war. It was stated in Hamburg that last week 100,000 men from Schleswig - Holstein passed through on their way to the seat of war. The English barque Pathfinder, of Swansea, bound for Hamburg with a cargo of saltpetre, on approaching the Elbe, was boarded by an officer of a French blockading cruiser, who, finding that her cargo was contraband of war, placed a prize crew on board, intending to send her to Dunkirk, after wards, however, he withdrew his men, and ordered the ,Pathfinder to sai fQ r England, BRITISH DEFENCES. The Standard asks whether England has even a Lebceuf in Mr. Cardwell. The petty state of Switzerland, whose neutrality is guaranteed by all Europe, and which has 'certainly not so much risk or concern in the war as England, was able in the first week of its outbreak to place an army of 40,000 men on the frontier, capable of being raised in a fortnight t o 200,000. Yet Switzerland has a yearly revenue of less than a million sterling. It is the most thrifty and at heart the least warlike of nations. Yet we also pride ourselves, under the regime of Mr. Lowe, upon our economy. We spend more than fifteen millions a year upon our army, but where is that army? How many men could we bring to the field in a fortnight fit to encounter such troops as are fighting round Metz? Were we called .upon to redeem our pledges to Belgium, what force could we send for her protection? But this is not our only danger. The rapid and unexpected victories of the Prus sian army demand of us, towards Denmark or Holland, duties similar to those we have undertaken in regard to Belgium. The entrance of Russia into the quarrel may revive on a sudden the Eastern question. Who can tell what may be the demand upon the British army a month hence ? Who can assure us that any demand will be met in a manner corresponding to the position and the dignity of this coun try ? At no period in her history has England bee ain a worse condition than that in which she is now. At no time was her peril greater • and yet these are the days when Mr. Low e i s our c hi e f economist and Mr. Cardwell our War Minister. THE FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. The Telegraph discusses the choice of a French Sove reign if the Empire be overthrown and the Republic can not be set up by a coup de main. The Comte de Chain bord, who represents the elder branch of the Bourbons, would command the support of the Legitimists, and would have in his favour th e f ac t th a t h e re p resen t e d th e principle of stability in succession, identified with a Sovereign who rules by right of birth. But the French Legitimists are, as a party, hardly less extinct than the English Jacobites were in the days of George 111. More over, the fact that " Henri Cinq " is fifty years of age, and has been married for five-and-twenty years without issue, deprives his candidature of its chief advantage, that of securing the succession to the Throne. And, what is perhaps the greatest objection of all, he is utterly unknown to France. A man of quiet and retiring habits, he has taken no part and no apparent interest in the affairs of his native land, and has hardly brought his name before the French public on half-a-dozen occasions throughout his life. An exactly opposite course has been followed by the Princes of the younger branch. Since their exile from France, after the downfall of Louis Phillipe, the descendants of the Citizen King have missed no occasion of keeping them selves, to use a French phrase, " en evidence "—of putting themselves forward as possible candidates for the Throne of France. In saying this we have no idea of imput ing to them any unworthy catering for popular favour. They have played a difficult and painful part with courage and dignity. Living in this country, as hey have mainly done, for upwards of twenty years, they have studiously avoided any such association with our English ways as might justify the suspicion that they regarded England as their home. Thus, if the ,empire should, during this terrible catastrophe, come to an end, the Comte de Paris would seem to have the best chance of succeeding to the throne. On the other hand, it should be borne in mind that, though the party iu favour of are pub lic is powerful, there is no strong Orleanist section in France. M. OLLIVIER. The Daily News says the feeling of contempt which M. 011ivier has awakened in Paris springs out of the belief that he has allowed himself to be deceived and befooled from want of moral strength to assert the dignity of his position and the sacredness of his convictions. No Minister, no man of any condition, is warranted in placing his principles and his conscience wholly in the hands of others, and blindly permitting those others to make what use of him they like. Something like this Emile 011ivier weakly did when he allowed the Emperor and the Duc de Gramont to present him to the world as responsible for a policy in the direction of which he was not even consulted, and regarding some of the most important points of which he was purposely kept in ignorance. This might perhaps have suited a Billault ; but a man who began as M. 011iTier did should have stooped to no such service. How many times in his days of Opposition did 011ivier's eloquent scorn find special subject in the abjectness of the position accepted by the Billaults and Baroches, who were but the mouthpieces of their master's sentiments and plans so far as he chose to reveal them, and whose assurances of to-day were always liable to be utterly refuted by the facts of to-morrow. When 011ivier himself consented to occupy such a place he deprived himself of all power to render that service to his country which alone could have sanc tioned his acceptance of office. He put his principles in forfeit and his power in jeopardy. He gave strength and warrant to that voice of angry and scornful public opinion which now proclaims his retirement and fall, and hails his departure as a flight. THE . clasp IN FRANCE. The Manchester Examiner and Times thinks that every, thing points to PaOs as the most important scene Of conflict, for the ramparts of Paris seem the only thing strong enough to turn the tide of invasion which still flows on with ever increasing volume, but, so far as can be judged from present indications, no political differences will be suffered to stand in the way of a complete and hearty union in the fulfilment of a patriotic duty. Such an attitude not only commands the respect of neutrals, but it ought to inspire caution on the part of enemies. It may be inevitable that the quarrel should be fought out to the bitter end, but if such a consummation can be avoided, generosity and farsighted policy would alike sug gest, even to a victorious foe, that in the long run more will be lost than gained by inflicting the last extremity of humiliation and disgrace upon the great French nation— once let Paris be besieged, and most of us may bid fare well to any hope of assured peace during Or lifetime 111 r. Ciladstone will leqvq town for Walmer Castle to-day, CRIST4I4 PALACE. Admissions on Saturday (half-a-crown day), by season tickets, 3,947; on payment, 995 ; total visitors, 4,942. A telegram from the Hague says that a new elec toral law, on a very liberal basis, extending the suffrage to some classes hitherto excluded as voters, has just been laid before the Chambers by the Minister of the • Interior. AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY.--Some fine country is reported to have been discovered to the north-west of Mount Margaret, in South Australia. There are two rivers abounding in fish, and a large extent of first-class pasture land, which is well watered. ARMY RESERVE.—On Saturday bills were po ß ted throughout the metropolis inviting men not exceeding 34 years of age, Who . have been' discharged from the army with goed characters and not lesathan three years' ser vice, to enter the ReierVe Army Corim- Applicatioxi to be made to Captain Bruce Albany-street Barracks. NEw TRAINING. amp Fo PALMER BOYS.—MT. GOSChpri, the President of the Poor Law Board, has caused to be addressed to the guardians of the parishes and unions in the metropolis a letter, stating that he viewed with favour a proposition to provide for the benefit of the pauper boys of the metropolis, where they might be fitted to enter the sea service. THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE BOARD OF EDINA" TION.—We have reasonto believe that Mr. Torrens, M.P. for Finsbury, has been invited by many persons of influence to become a candidate for the Chairmanship of the Metro politan Board of Education. There would be a peculiar appropriateness in Mr. Torrens' election to the office, as it was he who proposed the institution of the Board, his proposal being accepted by Mr. Forster, and incorporated in the Act.—Tinies. A MONTH IN FRANCE DURING THE WAR.—The gentleman who has contributed a series of interesting letters from• the seat of war, under the signature of '` Azamat Battik," - announces a lecture, on the above sub ject, to be delivered at St. Georgete Hall, Longhorn-place, next Thursday evening at eight O'clOOk. The inoceeds of the lecture are to be devoted to the relief " of the poor families of Lorraine and Alsace who have been driven away from their homes, and who are dying of starvation on the high roads and in the woods of France." HAL.