The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-02 00:00:00

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TO, tment Act specificall9,, ate wool n trade or assume no individuals difficulties re need be )ral duties le of War. s himself in a letter oits of the met with he action was told, ely 500. ind I am me by the selves par' , it is to be 'he follow' to procure but who :—Thomao Elliot .0 survived Evers and g' 5 and sub' survivors fire in the iubourg of ever saw, I bravery i as coo 1 1 9 measuring Legion of cers, tha t firmneso lothes and :us." me of the 'or mixing :oncern L the camp the batta: soldiers of my when ik French• is not the as soon ee nigh guar' et case of trd before at West• ropertZ ear. be the coo. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M. 'BETE WAR. THE NEGOTIATIONS AT VERSAILLES. BERLIN, November 1 (10.34 a.m.). The negotiations between Northern and Southern Germany at Versailles are progressing favourably. The Icing of Prussia will probably assume the title of Em peror of Germany. , The railway bridge between Strasburg and Kehl , ' 4 B been repaired. The siego operations have begun at Neu Breisach. Wooden huts have been sent out to the troops before Paris. 7.50 p.m. Bazaine has just visited Wilhelmshohe, where the Ahpress is asserted to have quite recently passed a few hours. Allecustro, the Portuguese Envoy, has left Paris With eighty American families. The Landwehr Brigade hitherto before Metz will ''e sent home and disbanded, its services being no I°ll ger required. The French news of a German defeat at Mont beliard is an invention, as the Germans never pene trated to Montbeliard, but marched to Dijon, which they took. The German geographical names are officially re tutroduced into Alsace. tSIGNATION OF GENERAL BOURBAKI. ToDEs, November 1. General Boutbaki has sent ili his resignation, W hich it is said has been accepted by the Govern -lent of Defence. Rear_Admiral Bouet de Villaumez has resigned t he command of the Northern squadron on ac count of ill-health, and his successor has been appointed. A NOTHER PROCLAMATION BY GAMBETTA. Anothe r proclamation has been issued by M. ' a mbetta. It is addressed to the French army. The soldie rs , h e says, have been deceived, not dis -1 riluoured. No longer betrayed by folly or treason th eir may now advance under leaders worthy of confidence, and save the country from the 'Placable fury of the enemy. Having denounced th e "treason of Sedan and the crime of Metz," M. '"latnbetta now calls upon them to avenge their uc4 lour, which is the honour of France. When they 'ave restored the country to her rank among nations th ey will remain citizens of a peaceful, free, and re spected Republic. RUMOURED BATTLE NEAR LE MANS. BRUSSELS, November 1. lhe Tours correspondent of the Btoile Belge says ti_ , at a rumour i s curren t a t T o urs that a sanguina r y battle has taken place on the route from Le Mans. Polignac, who served with the Confede rates during the American war, is about to receive Command in the East of France, and will com ll'e his operations with Generals Oambriels and Garibaldi. GARIBALDI AT FAULT. T e Moniteur, in announcing the capture of Dijon, °ln nients severely upon the absence of Garibaldi's f C)ce s and Cambriel's troops, which should have ~ ' o 'rered the town. I'IJ RCHASE OF THE FRENCH FLEET BY RUSSIA. It i s generally rumoured in Tours that Russian e i B naries are tempting the Republican Government Wlt h offers to buy the French fleet in return for an offensive: and defensive alliance in certain contin 'elleies• At present the proposal meets with no attention. THE PROVISIONS IN PARIS. co mmunications dated Paris, October 28th, say 0 4 11 — , the resolutions of the defenders remain 41 1184 aken• Money is flowing in, and enough has re ady,„ been received to buy 1,000 cannon. It is the that the fresh meat rations will last until 4 7 15 th of December, after which the provisions and B&Lt meat will last five weeks. There remained 7 , 9 00 horses. 168,000 oxen, and 410,000 sheep. W ith respect to bread, the Francals says it will not b e vi l. ll ecessary to ration it until January 1, up to " 10 1 date horse meat and wine will be abundant. 13 A.ZAINE'S REPLY TO GAMBETTA. I, Brussels the P r o c lamation of the Tours Go "nnaent has produced much interest and excite -31_1(3Ilk The Indep en d auc e Beige of to-day publishes : l etter from G en . B oyer , one o f M a rshal Bazaine's 2(le:de-camps,lrefuting the chargepf,treason bro aght 7 e a inst the Ma rs h a l b y th e T ours P rov i s i ona l Go _rnment. says the capitulation of Metz was ot caused through any fear or want of bravery, but Which in conse que nce of the state of famine to Ida the place was reduced. THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. CAssEi l October 31 (9.10 p.m.) is T he Empress Eugenie arrived incognita at Wil- I mshohe yesterday noon. General Clary alone ilecolll Pallied her. Marshal Bazaine had an inter view with the Emperor at 3.3 0 p.m. THE GERMANS IN METZ. SAA/tBRUCK, October 81, (10 p.m.) The German troops entered Metz at one o'clock ) ; d aY• The French troops marched to the village Gr ignY, where they surrendered their arms to Prussians. Twenty-five thousand were then m arched by the chaussee to Ars-la-Quenay, where phthey were encamped around a Prussian battery r oute to Germany:, They are to be draughted in l ltal numbers daily, and march on foot to the e ntier. Metz ie now entirely occupied by the Prussians. a l'he town was agitated at the publication of the : ie]. " of eapitul a ti on , an d an en d eavour was ma d e to l eite the National Guard to revolt. The tocsin was r eB . ll Z d t e u d t , and many officers took part in the proceed no general came forward to head the move ent) and the populace was dispersed by the French roops-...their last act in Metz. tii Marehal B aza i ne has issued a general order averring % t fa mine, and n o t th e enem y, has caused the sur rAeuer of the town. General Coffinibres, the corn- Zaedant of the town, 'acknowledges the loss of ei e% men during th e s i ege . Th e M a y o r and Coun r_ of th e t own state that all the blame of the failure est e with th e m i litary. to Proclamations were issued yesterday and to-day t he French soldiers and to the inhabitants, com rea4cling those among the former who had not sur hendered themselves as prisoners to do so within 24 ol e, or they wo u ld b e arres t e d an d t r i e d by m ar tial law, and exho r ti ng the inhabitants to 4(4 1114 quietly to the Prussian occupation, and for , .te molest th e so l d i ers, under pa i n o f d eat h ; jo a dd ing the assem bli ng of more t h an 10 persons the ding ; and promising that the property of Private i • n dividuals should be respected. The in habita nt and — a are also ord ere d to surrender all arms dee re ermuu nition, and the penalty of death is hicilldd for any infringement of these orders, which ca s ,, th e illuminati on o f a ll h ouses by night in s urprise T "e Prussian; entered the town in silence, under a aeiv : Y and a po ur i ng ra i n. Tley masse d them in the Place des Armes, playing national IHE SUA, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2,187 C. airs, and have now taken possession of the public offices and of the railway ; and the greater part of Lorraine is now thoroughly Prussian. Thus ends the seventy days' siege of Metz. PRUSSIAN S CONSTRUCTING MORE BATTERIES. It is stated that the Pru.ssians are constructing strong batteries near before Courbevoie. It is also believed that they have batteries at Bas-Meudon, for enfilading the ramparts from Point du Jour to Meudon. THE CAPITULATION OF METZ. A correspondent of the Daily News at Berlin writes as follows :—At Metz the French Guards have capitulated ; also 2nd Army Corps, General Frossard ; 3rd Army Corps, originally Marshal Bazaine, afterwards General Decaen ; 4th Army Corps, General L'Admirault ; 6th Army Corps, Marshal Canrobert. Marshal Lebteuf is also among the prisoners. The prisoners in clude 67 infantry regiments, 13 battalions of Chasseurs-la-pied, 18 fourth and depot battalions, 36 cavalry regiments, viz., 10 Cuirassiers, one Guides, 11 Dragoons, two Lancers, three Hussars, six Chasseurs and three Chasseurs d'Afrique, six depot squadrons ; also 115 field batteries, and 17 batteries of mitrailleuses. These troops carried 69 eagles for the infantry—one for each infantry regiment, and one for the battalion of Chas seurs of the Guards, and the sth battalion of Chasseurs. Two of these eagles were taken in the battle of Mars la Tour. Also 36 eagles and standards for the cavalry. The number of battalions of which this army and the garrison originally consisted was 221, and 162 squadrons of horse. The entire strength, 210,000 infantry, and 21;450 cavalry. They carried 690 guns, and 102 mitrailleuses. Besides the - three Marshals—Bazaine, Canrobert, and Lebceuf —and the Corps Commanders Frossard, Decaen, and L'Admirault— there are 40 generals of division and 100 brigadier-generals. Ninety thousand of the sound prisoners will come to North Germany, and fifty thousand to South Germany. The sick and wounded will also be distributed around equally. One of the Grand Staff of the Army writes me on the 22nd from Versailles :—" When the affair at Paris will be ended no mortal man can tell with certainty at this moment ; my personal calculation is a fortnight or three weeks, but I may be mistaken. At all events, we shall, with God's help, do up the business thoroughly. Therein, to be sure, we shall have hunger for our strongest ally." WORKMEN'S INTERN 4TIONAL EXHIBITION. The closing ceremony in connection with this exhibition, took place yesterday afternoon at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone in the chair. There were on the platform a large number of M. P.'s, and among the ladies present, were Mrs. Glad stone and Lady Augusta Stanley, wife of the Very Revd. Dean of Westminster. The SECRETARY (Mr. Patterson) congratulated the meeting on the happy unanimity which had enabled them to bring rank, wealth, and labour to carry out this exhibition to the present successful termination. This combination had brought for waid inventions which re dounded alike to the benefit of the working men them selves and the public, and brought hand and brain labour into such competition that it was hoped that in future the two interests would stand out in support of each other rather than in opposition, as had too fre quently been the case. (Cheers.) Mr. HENRY HOARE, hon. treasurer, said it was his un fortunate duty to announce a deficit in connection with the funds of this exhibition, and no oratorical jugglery or legerdemain could convert that deficit into a surplus. Having traced the causes which resulted in the carrying out of this international gathering, and the difficulties their promoters had had to contend with, he said these difficulties had been much smoothed by the kind aid of the late Lord Clarendon and other eminent men, he then read the financial statement, from which it appeared that there was a balance of expenditure over receipts of about £l,OOO which the guarantors would be called upon to pay. Count TERCOLINA proposed a vote of thanks of the foreign exhibitors to the Executive, dwelling on the care ful nature of the organization which was necessary to bring about so successful a termination to this exhibition, which had for the first time broken down the barrier that had hitherto existed between the working men and their masters. Mr. MOTTESHEAD (a working man) seconded the resolu tion, which was supported by Dr. BICKERS, and also by Mr. GEORGE POTTER. The latter launched out into commendation of Mr. John Bright and the Board of Trade, at which the audience expressed great impatience, requesting him to confine his sentiments to the Executive. The motion, having been put to the meeting, was carried unanimously. Sir ANTONIO BRADY returned thanks, and concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the Premier who guided the destinies of this great Empire. This having been seconded, was carried unanimously. Mr. GLADSTONE, in rising to reply, was greeted with loud applause. He said he wished the building in which they were assembled was as well adapted for the power of carrying the human voice to all those it was capable of containing, as it was for the far more important purpose, relative to their present subject, of receiving and displaying in a most convenient and effective manner the in teresting and valuable collection of objects which had been gathered there from all quarters of the world. He should, therefore, beware of making any very extensive demand upon their patience. But he had listened with great advantage to the truly practical and excellent speeches which had been delivered from that platform by persons who were best acquainted with, the purposes, and with the working of this exhibition, and therefore best qualified to explain the various details to them. He felt confident that if the public were enabled to weigh the matter which had been laid before that assembly they would think that that exhibition was nothing less than a further step, a further progress in the accomplishment of that great work which was contemplated by attempts of this kind. Now, with respect to the question of finances. No doubt, upon the face of it, the existence of a deficiency was a misfortune in itself, because it was in the future a barrier in the way of further efforts. (Hear, hear.) But at the same time let them consider how slight that deficiency was, and how small a sum would have sufficed to have converted into a balance on the other side. It would be an absurd and irrational deduction from the facts laid before them if anyone were to suppose that this difficulty was to stand permanently in the way of these exhibitions. He would say, on the contrary, that there was every reason to believe that this country would still continue to be able to hold these exhibitions on that footing which was by far the best in every point of view, namely, on the footing of independent, free, voluntary, and self-supporting institu tions. (Applause.) They might regret indeed, and he for one did deeply regret that the committee might perhaps be deprived of the power of awarding just tokens of approval to those who had distinguished themselves in the works exhibited, but he hoped that whatever part of the proceedings of the meeting might fail to reach the public eye, one part at least would be read very extensively, and especially he hoped it would be read extensively by members of certain great institutions in the City of London, he meant that part in which one of the speakers commended these exibitions to the support and consideration of the great and wealthy companies of the city as being objects worthy of their best encouragement. Indeed, consider ing the little they knew and the more they heard with respect to the condition of those companies, his own impression was, if they would not resent it as an invasion, the suggestion which had been made to them was a suitable, and would be an acceptable method of disposing of funds, of which some portion of the world, at any rate, s upposed they had now less sound purposes upon which to distribute them. (Laughter.) Now in respect of this financial deficiency he would only say that it should act upon them as a lesson for the future, and he trusted that when next they met in that great building for similar purposes, it might be in a time when the sword would be sheathed, and when Europe would not be so distracted, nor the minds of men pained as they now were, and bewildered at the events which they now daily heard. Passing on from the question of pecuniary results as re garded that exhibition, let them ask themselves in truth what was the object of that exhibition. The pur pose of their efforts was not, after all, alone to make money. In other countries it had been found difficult to conduct exhibitions of the kind except out of the public purse. And it had a rather satis factory distinction in this country—that they had been car ried on by voluntary means. It was, he repeated, satisfactory because the self-supporting character of those institutions was really the characteristic of this country, and because it shewed that the skill and industry of the country was not dependent upon the tuition received from any extraneous sources or artificial channels but had its roots in the minds and intelligence of the nation at large. At the same time they must all join in expressing the satisfaction they had all felt in examining the beautiful works sent them by the artists and artisans of so may European countries, and how some of these countr i e s had p ro g ressed. Austria and Italy but a few years back seemed to be locked up in deadly conflict, but those countries were now hand in hand with peace and pros perity at home and abroad. Long may they continue in that animated and friendly competition of which they had so many symbols in that hall. But there was another advantage arising from this co-operation with foreign countries. It brought us to use those facilities which Providence had so bountifully given ais. If men were lazy it was well they should be stimulated ; if men were wasteful and careless it was well that by example they should be made economical and thrifty. But this com petition meant something more. Still better than any thing he had mentioned was that growth of friendship and good will, which became stronger and increased with that intercourse which resulted in that unseen silent, but certain process which bound together in harmony and friendship all the nations of the world. The purpose of such an exhibition as this was to perform its part in this great and noble work, and they had good reason to believe that part had been performed. Mr. Mottishead referred in his excellent speech to the examples of Irish industry to be met with in that exhibi tion, and which were worthy to be commemorated. What a subject was that raised for their contemplation. It. had been sometimes supposed that the inhabitants of Ireland were fitted only , for the pursuits of agriculture ; that they were excluded from the pursuit of those careers of in dustry prepared by other men. Now let it not be under stood for a moment that he spoke of agricultural pursuits as other than that which were noble, healthy, and benefi cial, and deeply and vitally connected with the well - being of their country. But still it would be unfortunate for my country to be deprived of those varied applications of industrial power which was one of the great substan tial elements of this country's success. There was another case mentioned by Mr. Mottishead. If there had been one single branch of the higher kinds of industry for which we have often been tempted to ask ourselves whether it was possible for this country to hold its own, it was the silk trade. And he did not deny the melancholy fact which had marked the history of trade ; indeed, it might almost be said of it that " melancholy marked it for its own." He would not go back to the case which existed ten years ago at Coventry, the district of which at that time was under very severe suffering. He would not ask to what it was owing, to what the trial was due—whether to legis lative changes or to other causes. Mr. Mottishead had told them, and had told them with truth, that whatever might have been their judgment at the time, the result was that the industry of Coventry had been thrown back on its energies, and had discovered so much of resources and vitality under pressure which might have been the direct means of stimulating its exer tions, and had no doubt tended to the production of works of skill such as England and English silk manu facturers of thirty or forty years ago, had such works been predicted to them, would have Willy and positively de clared it to be altogether impossible. Well, it was said, and he was glad it had been said, that day from the plat form, that the effect of the exhibitions which had been held in this country had been to some extent to give an advantage to foreign producers in their competitions with English producers, and that the great exhibitions which had been held had shewn that rivals abroad had gained upon us. Now, they must not consider him deficient of patriotism if he said he was not sorry for it, but he confessed that that was the case with him. His belief about the English, the Britons, and if he had a • word which would include their Irish friends and fellow subjects he would use it, but his belief about this island was that the people had in them the materials of every thing which was great and excellent, but that they re quired the stimulus. They had not so much abstract love of excellence as might occaeionally be found among the natives of other countries. Therefore it was that production in this country required to be stimulated by competition from abroad. We must throw the Englishman upon his metal in order that be may come to know what really he can do. If he wanted to illustrate the truth of this apparently broad and sweeping proposition he would point out the condition of our manufacturers at a time when tbey were petted and coddled by legislative enactments, compared with what they had been during the past few years, while they had been free as air. Who would venture to say it was not desirable, as much for our own sakes as for other countries, that this stream of com petition should continue to flow? He felt that all must derive a great benefit from exhibitions such as these. They lad heard over and over again of labour and capital, and he thought it was justly to be said of this exhibition, if he understood its character aright, that it might be re garded as an advance upon former exhibitions in these two most important particulars : First, that the labourer had appeared there in his own proper character,with productions of his own peculiar and chosen profession; and second, that he appeared in nearer and closer connection with the capitalist for whom he worked, than had ever been the case before. Then there was a third person whose co operation and agency was necessary, and that was the inventor. Now, the inventor dial not always have fair play. It was very difficult for him, especially if he be in humble circumstances, to obtain for his talent the utmost value in the market. It was a question with him if an invention in its first form conld be practically applied and unless he was able to experiment to that stage at which it became experience, his posi tion was one of great difficulty. It was there fore with the greatest satisfaction that he had heard the Act which had lately been framed had been of great advantage in securing to members the power of exhibiting the results of their thoughts and ingenuity, which were not only a benefit to themselves but to the public. And, after all, these exhibitions might be con sidered as one chapter only in the great work of education for the people. (Hear, hear.) It was one particular form in which that education came. He must say that he wished self-education would always be pre-eminently the characteristic of Englishmen, and that we should not see substituted for that education any gigantic scheme which would introduce official agency when the most legitimate of all motives should prevail, viz., the enabling of all human industry to secure its own reward. At the same time it was a great satisfaction to think that we helped one another when we supported an institution such as this, and he would go as far as to say that he might congratulate them on the formation of au institution in East London where the labouring popula tion would be able to educate themselves by becoming acquainted with works of art in a thousand varied forms, which would enable them not only to prosecute their la bours in a much more efficient manner, but to fit them selves fora much higher career. It had been a great satisfac tion to him that he had received so much instruction from the speeches that had been delivered there that day. He thought he might congratulate them on their future prospects, that they might really cast aside the conside ration of any pecuniary difficulty attending the winding up of that Exhibition, especially as it had achieved its main success not only of equalising but of being in ad vance of that which was obtained by similar efforts in former years. We were far from being able to say that that man was only living by the bread the perishes, for nature was constantly supplying materials for the deve lopment of his faculties. After some few other observa tions, the right hon. gentleman concluded by thanking them for their acknwledgment of the very simple part he had been able to perform in connection with the Exhibition. NEGOCIATIONS FOR AN ARMISTICE. A delayed telegram from. German headquarters at Versailles, dated October 26th, says :—"The ex pected English despatch arrived yesterday at the headquarters. In it the English Government re commends that the elections should be under taken as soon .as possible in order that the French people should be represented. The same proposal had already been sent from the German side to Paris on the 9th of October by means of American intervention of a confidential character, and at the same time an armistice of forty-eight hours was offered for the elections, but this proposal was unconditionally and unanimously rejected by the Government of the National Defence. M. Gambetta left Paris to prevent the elections." The lifoniteur says the following is the real truth on the subject of the negotiations :—The neutral Powers, unanimous in their desire to re-establish peace, but differing as to the means of attaining that end, have at last come to a common resolve—namely, to propose to both belligerent Powers an armistice, during which Franoe could elect and constitute a National Assembly. This armistice would be exclu sively military, and not in any way affect the con ditions of the future peace. Russia and England, both entertained this view, and they were, moreover strongly supported by both Austria and Italy." ITALY AND SPAIN. FLORENCE, Oct. 29. Signor Montemar has announced to the Cabinet the assent of the Powers to the nomination of the Duke of Aosta for the Spanish Throne. The Pope has sent a - note to his Nuncios, com plaining of the occupation of the Quirinal—the place where Conclaves are held—and hinting at a forced departure from Rome. October 80. Sella, Lanza, and Castagnola have left for the North, and will return on Wednesday. The Ministry is completed. They will on Thurs day draw up finally the programme of the Papal guarantees. MADRID, Oct. 31. The Cortes opened to-day. The sitting was stormy through the violent conduct and a recriminatory speech of the Republican, Paul y Angulo, who pro posed the suspension of business until each Deputy had his powers confirmed by his electors. The motion was rejected by 129 to 5.: There was no allusion made to the Duke of Aosta, but it is presumed there will be on Friday, to which day the Cortes adjourned. The Duke of Aosta's election is almost beyond doubt. The country generally is satisfied with it. HUNGARY. PESTI', November 1. A motion expressive of sympathy with France has been introduced into the Hungarian Diet, bnt the House refused by a large majority to dis cuss it. Count Andrassy, the President, said that the Government had preserved strict neutrality between the belligerents, but that they would no longer do so were they to adopt this motion. The policy of neutrality had saved the country from the horrors of war, and there was no need to depart from that policy. INDIA. CALCUTTA, October 30, 10.55 A.M. From Cabul, October 23, we learn that Yakoob Khan had retired on the 18th some miles west from Candahar. The property of himself and his fol lowers has been confiscated. SUPPRESSION OF A NEGRO REVOLT. Advices received at Washington from Mar tinique state that the French authorities had sup pressed the negro revolt, and had shot 25 leaders and imprisoned 100. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH AND THE PAROCHIAL SYSTEM. The Bishop of Peterborough (Dr. Magee) presided yes terday afternoon at a dinner in connection with the opening of the parish church at Barrow-on-Soar. In acknowledging the toast of his health, he remarked that such gatherings gave a bishop the opportunity of pro moting unity between the clergy and the laity. To do that was to perform one of the most important functions of a bishop. Such unity was the intention of the paro chial system. That system was one of immense import ance ; its destruction would be a great evil. But there was the danger of the isolation of the clergyman. Did it make him ready to co-operate with his flock?—then the system was a source of vigour and strength. EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL. The emigration from Liverpool during the past month has been very brisk. Fifty vessels have sailed with 13,695 emigrants on board, which is an increase on the same month of last year of over GOO. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS CABLE. The shore end of the Channel Islands telegraph cable was successfully landed last evening at Compos Cave, near Dartmouth. The steamei International then proceeded on her way to Guernsey, paying out the cable. COURTS MARTIAL. Lieutenant Joseph Allison Fraser, of the Valorous, was tried by court martial yesterday on board the Duke of Wellington. He was charged with negligence in the per formance of duty, and with wilful disobedience of orders given by Captain Harding. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and urged that at the time he was overcome with drink. He handed in certificates of excellent service. He was sen tenced to be dismissed her Majesty's service.—Thomas Ashbury, seaman, of the Minotaur, was tried by the same court-martial for stealing a blanket from a shipmate, and was sentenced to imprisonment for one year. ELECTION OF REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, AT CAMBRIDGE. The Rev. B. F. Westcott, D.D., late Fellow of Trinity College, was yesterday morning been elected Regius Pro fessor of Divinity of Cambridge University. CAPTURE OF THE ESCAPED PRISONER FROM HERTFORD GAOL. - - The man Squires who escaped on Monday morning from Hertford gaol, was recaptured between 7 and 8 o'clock on Tuesday night. On leaving the prison Squires made for a succession of woods leading to Potter's Bar. When passing through Brookland's Park at Hatfield, he was seen by two of the Herts County Constabulary, who gave chase for some distance, but they did not succeed in coming up with their prey. Within fifty yards of this narrow escape Squires seems to have lain in the woods until dusk, when he recom menced his journey towards London, but on reach ing Potter's Bar he ran into the arms of three policemen, who were anticipating his arrival in that neighbourhood. After a sharp struggle, Squires, who was much exhausted; was secured, and conveyed back to his old quarters, in Hertford Gaol, at half-past ten o'clock on Tuesday night. A LADY SWINDLER. Edith Florence Howard, the notorious lady swindler, has appeared at Weymouth, where she has again been practising her nefarious profession. Coming out of prison on the 20th ult., after undergoing twelve months' imprisonment for swindling at Blandford, Dor set, last year, she began obtaining goods from tradesmen in Dorchester and Weymouth. She came to grief through frequently changing her lodgings, and having goods sent home for her landlords to pay for. She was apprehended on the charge of fraudulently appropriating a shawl to her own use ; but other ..charges will be made against her. She told the police she had not been out of prison for seven years, THE STATE OF FEELING IN TOURS. I hear sensible Frenchmen regret M. Gambetta's hasty charge of treason against Marshal Bazaine, who, there is accumulated evidence to shew, did not surrender till his garrison was threatened with immediate starvation. Whe ther such a fine army ought not at some previous time to have cut its way through the besieging force may be a military question to be examined. But the French nation seems to have lost its fighting qualities. A func tionary who was present at the capitulation of Soissons tells me that when the balls began to whistle about their heads he saw the regular troops by hundreds throw down their arms, unbuckle their knapsacks, and run away as hard as they could. The same thing occurred at Orleans and in many other places. It is not to the superiority of German artillery, nor even to the superiority of German generalship, but to German bravery pitted against French cowardice, that the' as tounding fact of upwards of a quarter of a million of fight ing Frenchmen being at this moment prisoners of war is to be attributed. There is much individual gallantry, heroism, and patriotism, but the fact seem 3 to be conclu sively proved by the absence of a single grand success of any importance since the beginning of the war that the masses of Frenchmen of this generation cannot be got to risk their lives for their country as their fathers did, and as the Germans of the present day do. A great many people do not hesitate to say publicly this morning that the capitulation of Metz must be the end of the war. It is an event which must greatly strengthen M. Thiers' hands when he endeavours to second the attempt of the Neutral Powers to stay the further effusion of blood. It is telegraphed from London that one favourite scheme of diplomacy is to induce Prussia to take Luxemburg instead of Alsace, France paying the purchase money to the King of Holland. But a considerable objection to this combination is that the Luxemburgeois do not at all want to be sold. M. Thiers must, I think, have known of the capi tulation of Metz when he left Tours, and to that knowledge must probably be attributed the reported fact that he shed tears when getting into the railway carriage. This much I know for certain, that at the last moment Madame Bazaine communicated to him a dispatch from her husband, announcing that the could not hold out any Longer. M. GAMBETTA. AND THE WAR NEWS. The special correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Amiens, Oct. 30, says :—lt will be difficult to make people in England holier° that, up to the time at which I write—Sunday, 9 p.m.—the Government of France has not yet published officially the news of the fall of Metz, which was known in London at 3 p.m. on Thursday last, and in Amiens on Friday afternoon. What can the rest of Europe think of Ministers who, at one moment eager to make known, even without waiting for confirmation, that a party of thirty Uhlans have been repulsed by a company of Francs-tireurs, the next have not the moral courage to announce to people over whom they rule a misfortune so great as to alter entirely the position of the war? Do you believe -I con fess I do not—that the Government at Tours has not known, for at least sixty hours, that on the 27th instant three French marshals, six thousand other officers, and a hundred and seventy-three thousand men were obliged to lay down their arms? What can be said of a Government that so governs? what of a people that thus, like children, allow themselves to be governed ? M. Gambetta has not yet fulfilled his promise of keeping the people of France au courant of what is going on. We certainly see strange things, and wonderful events have happened in this war of giants which is taking—or rather which has taken—place in the year of grace 1870 ; but never, I imagine, since civilised governments were known in the world has a Minister de nounced as traitors and outlaws (mis hors la loi) gallant soldiers who had defended a fortress for more than two months, and who had at last been obliged to capitulate from want of food without even the pretence of a trial or inquiry upon the conduct of those who are thus de nounced. It almost makes one shudder for the future of France to read such a document emanating from one of its leading rulers. It contains an amount of childish anger, and yet of old-womanish rage, that has never been yet seen in any proclamation ever set forth by a public man. And, to a certain extent at least, the trick has succeeded. Amongst the working men of Amiens, and even amongst the petty shopkeepers, there are hundreds who believe that the news of the fall of Metz is an invention of les journalistes anglais. M. TRIERS' PROPOSITIONS. Writing from headquarters at Versailles, on the 26th ult., the correspondent of the Telegraph says :—With regard to the attitude that will be assumed by the King towards M. Thiers' propositions—propositions that will, I imagine, deal only with the question of an armistice—l may venture to assure you that no terms will be accepted by his Majesty which (1) do not put the German forces in possession of a fort, or forts, strategically commanding Paris ; 2, which do not absolutely preclude the victualling, in any respect, of the capital so long as the armistice may last, or until peace be con cluded—should that happy result be achieved ere the ex piration of the truce period. These conditions may ap pear severe to philanthropists, but they are no more stringent than those by which the sacrifices hitherto made by Germany to achieve her present advantages entitle her to exact from her vanquished foes. The King would lay himself open to just reproach from his hardly tried and heavily burthened subjects, were he, moved by sentimental considerations, to acquiesce in any arrange ment that might render the possible task of the confede rate hosts one whit or tittle more difficult, perilous, or protracted than it already is. Nor can there be the slightest likelihood that his Majesty will yield an inch upon the same point. As for the conditions of peace, I am inclined to believe that they have already been determined by the State Council; but these are kept a profound secret, and nobody outside that august body can do more than guess at them. It is to be hoped that M. Thiers' powers will justify him in closing the bargain: otherwise the fate of Paris will be sealed by his re fusal. Whatever may be the immediate result of the communications that are about to be made to Count Bis marck by the venerable gentleman who fortified Paris, or by the consort of the Marshal who still commands the last remnant of the French army ; depend upon it that within a month from this date the King will hold a grand review of his soldiers on the Champ de Mars. He will not leave France until* that cere mony shall have been gone through. On that renowned parade-ground he was promoted to field rank more than half a century ago, and tJok command of a battalion of the Ist Guards as a Prussian Major under his father's eyes. As Commander-in-Chief of the combined armies of a Germany that owes its unification to him—per haps as Emperor of Germany—he will pass his troops in review on that very ground, and then will return home with all convenient speed. The Germans expelled from France who have been re quested to estimate the loss caused by their expulsion, with a view to recovering it from the French, make the most ridiculous calculations. Altogether their modest little bill amounts to about twenty-eight millions sterling. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER RACES.--YESTERDAY. SEVERN SWEEPSTAKES. South Durham Prosper Zerlina Three ran. DECIDING HEAT—South Durham beat Prosper, but was objected to on the ground of a cannon. HURDLE RACE. Victress Miss Banks Jack ... . Ten ran. NURSERY HANDICAP. Hesperia Miss Lizzie Turquoise Eight ran. WORCESTER HANDICAP. Forget-me-Not Albany Not Out Nine ran. SELLING HURDLE. Cobalt Royal Princess 2 Bellone Four ran. CLAIMING PLATE. La Verzee Nymph f Clara Webster f Eight ran CITY BETTING. ESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL CUP. 900 to 100 agst Rosicrucian (taken) , 10 to 1 agst Alarie (offered) 10 to 1 agst Blandford (offered-11 to 1 taken) 13;to 1 agst Cardinal York (offered— 1400 to 100 (taken) 1000 to 70 agst Syrian (taken) 1000 to 70 agst Exciseman (taken) 100 to 7 agst Cecil (taken) 100 to 6 agst Barford (taken and offered) Temple reported scratched. We have authority to give the a formal denial to the telegram from Versailles, dated October 26, stating that the Comte de Paris and the Comte de Chambord have had an interview abroad. His Royal Highness the Comte de Paris has not left his residence at Twickenham for more than a month. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI. CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, anC others, on the Ist inst., was 4,933. The Southampton papers state that Mr. Thomas Gunner, a Liberal barrister of the Western Circuit, has been appointed temporary Recorder of that borough. We are glad to learn that Alexandre Dumas is re covering. He had fatigued himself too much during his journey to Spain. Before he fell sick he was finishing a lengthy work on the life and country of the Cid. The county magistrates sitting at Bolton on Mon day, committed to prison for two months, with hard labour, a boy, 12 years of age, for throwing a stone at a railway train. Pleuro pneumonia prevails to a very great extent in the metropolitan dairies, although few cases are re ported, and to a greater or less extent in twenty-three counties of England and Wales, and twelve in Scotland. Mr. Alexander Murray, formerly M.P. for New castle-under-Lyne, diLd on the 27th ult., at Warrior square, St. Leonards, in his 74th year. He was a justice of the peace for the county of Middlesex. The foot and mouth disease continues to spread around Dorchester. The constabulary returns for the division, issued on Monday, showed that the number of animals suffering from the malady was 561, including 120 sheep. Iwo boys are now in custody at Gateshead on a charge of causing the death of a woman, by wilfully pushing her into the Tyne. The affair occurred about a week ago, but the body of the woman was not found till Sunday. THE POPE AND THE PAPAL ZODAVES.—The Freeman's Journal denounces the " sacrilegious acts of the Florentine brigands," and publishes a letter from Cardinal Cullen in honour of Captain Delahoyd, who has returned to Ireland after ten years' service as a Pontifical Zouave. The Cardinal hopes that every parish will "give vent to its feelings of indignation at the violent, brutal, and revolutionary proceedings of the Florentine Govern ment." The Cardinal hopes that " Rome restored to its lawful rulers, Captain Delahoyd may be able to resume his former profession, rallying again his brave companions round the Pontifical throne." A testimonial to Captain Delahoyd is being collected for. FLIGHT OF AN IDONMASTED, WITH A LADY.— It transpired on Monday that one of the proprietors of a large ironworks, near Dudley, has made a precipitate flight, leaving his wife and family behind. During the last few days he is said to have collected a considerable amount of money from various seurces, and thus, pro vided with plenty of cash, he quitted his home and the town in the company of a lady. Whither the run away pair have gone has not transpired.—Birmingham Gazette. PARLIAMENTARY VA CA N CIES..—A rumour is current that Mr. Robert Jardine, the member for the Dumfries district, intends to resign his seat, and that Sir James Anderson will offer himself for the vacancy. It is also said that an arrangement has been come to by which the Conservative member for the county, Major Walker, will retire at the next general election, and that Mr. Jardine will take his place without a contest. It is also stated that Mr. Robert Kennard will be brought forward by the Conservatives as a candidate for the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. C. W. Martin, member for Newport. A bill is in preparation to give effect to the recom mendations of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on prison chaplain, over which Mr. Maguire, M.P., presided last session. By the law as at present administered visiting justices may refuse to pay stipends to clergymen visiting gaols save those of the Established Church. The bill will make the payment of all chaplains compulsory, the remuneration to be adjusted in propor tion to the number of prisoners for whom spiritual minis tration is provided. RAPID PASSAGE FROM CHINA—The fine clipper ship Belted Will, A. Locke, commander, owned by Messrs. Bushby and Edwards, of Liverpool, has made a quick passage of 99 days from China, being the quickest by seve ral days this season. She returns to Hong Kong immedi ately. She left Macao July 16, passed Anjer August 13, the Cape of Good Hope September 9, crossed the equator the 28, made the Start 23rd inst., got pilot 24th; had to anchor in the river—blowing hard for eight hours. After moderating, hauled into the London Docks on the follow ing morning. OUI COTEMPOR.APIES—This Morning THE PREMIER AND THE TIMES. The Times remarks : Mr. Gladstone expressed a hope yesterday, at the Agricultural Hall, that on the next occasion of an I nternational Working Men's Ex hibition " Europe may not be distracted, and the minds of men pained, astonished, and bewildered at the events of which we daily hear." These were almost the only words in a long speech delivered by the Prime Minirter which revealed a consciousness that a war was being waged in the country of our nearest neighbour, and . tis somewhat unfortunate that they should be open to grave objection. Distraction and bewilderment do not, as it seems to us, describe the frame of mind that should be experienced by intelligent spectators before whose eyes the great drama in France is being enacted. Its events are colossal, its movement is on the largest scale, the war is a war of giants, but in the midst of the shock of empires and the fall of dynasti es there may be traced a definite purpose on each side, and the relation of scene to scene as the tragedy progresses is clear and transparent. The accuracy of this statement may be tested by the fact that we have been able to forsee the progress of the drama before it has bsen made evident by the actual succession of events. The defeat of the aggressive army, the fall of the Empire, the resurrection of the Republic, the beleaguerment of Paris have been foreseen be fore they occurred, and it requires little gift of prophecy to predict the general course of the future. Paris, after resisting to the uttermost, will fall, and the King of Prussia, or, as he may by that time be sty led, the Emperor of Germany, may, if he chooses, migrate from Versailies to winter quarters at the Tuileries. But the South will not submit instantaneously because Paris has submitted. With a frantic disdain of consequences, Lyons, Marseilles, and Bordeaux will court the fate of the capital, and, unless Count Bis marck prefers to retire on the Provinces he in tends to retain, laying his hands at the same time on such ether sureties for the payment of a war indemnity as he thinks adequate for the pur pose, he will be compelled to pursue his career of victory until from the centre of Paris all the chief points of re sistance throughout the country have been subdued and occupied. THE PROPOSED ARMISTICE. We never supposed, says the Standard, that the so called mediation of the English Government Was of a character that promised to be effective. We could not believe that such a Cabinet would speak with decision conclusions to which it had deliberately come. But we must confess that we were not prepared for this paltry outcome of au intervention of which our contemporaries have made so much. We supposed that at the least Lord Granville would, whilst urging the Delegation at Tours to accept Count Bismarck's armis tice, have urged with some emphasis upon the King of Prussia and his Minister the wisdom and the justice of for mulating with some distinctness their demands, and of re ducing them as far as possible within such limits that France could accept them. It appears from the officious journals of Berlin that no pressure of this kind was exerted upon Germany. Count Bismarck was only asked by England to agree to an armistice of which he should himself stipulate the conditions, and the Government at Tours was pressedinto sending aplenipotentiary to ask the Government of Paris to reconsider its refusal to submit to this condition. No doubt Lord Granville meant well in all that he has done, but he must feel himself that he has played a poor if not contemptible part. Would it not have been been better, if the Cabinet could only pluck up courage enough to press upon the Delegation at Tours the acceptance of a proposal rejected by the Govern ment at Paris, to have done nothing and to have looked on immovable at the great tragedy which now seems so near its end ? The position might have seemed mean and cowardly, but it is no less mean and cowardly than that which has been taken, and it would at least have been far less ridiculous. The Daily News, on the subject of the negotiations for an armistice, says it is with the Government inside Paris that the negotiations must stand or fall, and remarks that the Delegate Government at Tours is obviously beyond the pale of any possible compromise. We are glad to see that the more thoughtful shall we say the more respectable ? newspapers in France depre cate the frantic character of the latest proclama tions, as likely to injure the Government, alike in the eyes of the country and in the o pinion of neutral nations; and we are sure that a Constituent Assembly —to which Gambetta is stated to be strongly opposed — would refuse to endorse, without deliber ition or evi dence, the charges of treason which Marshal Bazaine has taken the trouble to refute. "We have capitulated through famine," says General Boyer in his letter of exculpation, written from the Imperial headquarters at Wilhehnshohe, which the Empress has also joined; and, whether that be taken as representing the whole truth of the surrender or not, it will at least be admitted that no evidence could have reached the Triumvirate at Tours to warrant them in publishing their heated ac cusation. The more we look at these proclamations of the Delegate Government, the more personal in tone do they seem. We do not wish lightly to charge three Ministers, who are in a most difficult position, with a desire to retain for themselves prominence and power even at the cost of prolonging the agonies of their country, and plunging Paris into such horrors as the world has not yet seen. But the responsibility they incur in declaring themselves irreconcilable is a very dreadful one under the present circumstances. Paris lies exposed to the Prussian guns. The departments are at the mercy of four new armycorps, which are about to be turned loose into them. The rawlevies which are being submitted for th e first time to the rigours of a winter camp will be wasted with cold and rain before the bayonet and the rifle overtake them. Awl M. Gambetta stands on the deck of au imaginary Vengenr, and declares that he and all the wretched people who have been entrusted to his care will go down together to perdition before the flag of the Republic shall be struck. TrIE PROCLAMATION •FROM TOURS. The Telegraph, in commenting on the Proclamation of the Government at Tours, says: France must now look to a new quarter for a prospect of relief from her present un speakable sufferings. Her existing rulers cannot afford to be rational—" Defence to the last franc and the last man" is their raison d'etre; and, had the land not become demoralised, that fierce appeal to all its manhood might have aroused a power mightier even than Stein's system. But the France of our day cannot shew the world how a country can be saved ; the towns are selfish, and the communes bewildered. Therefore, while anything whatever is to be saved while present horrors and tumults to come, may possibly be averted the plain sense and sober patriotism of the nation should take counsel, and speak out firmly. It is stifled for the time by the manifestoes of the lawyers in command, who, `were they true patriots, would risk their popularity with out hesitation by advising France to make the best peace she can. This course they neither dare nor choose to take ; and unless sheer agony and desperation ere long force from the inhabitants a cry for respite and for an arrangement, the bitter fight must rage on, with new victims, new sufferings, and an ever widening gulf of hate between the maddened combatants. Such, then, is the stage which the war has now reached. The manhood of the Fatherland is still being drained off to carry out the work of slaughter, pillage, and destruction; while France, taking counsel only from wounded pride and patriotic despair, gathers her scattered resources for yet another effort. One army on the Loire to stem the tide of invasion, another in the north to break if it can the lines that encircle the yet unvan• quished capital, and a third in the south, to which Gari baldi has lent the aid of his simple heroism ; add that yet unknown force, the " resolution of Paris," and we have all the factors of the problem which M. Thiers will make a last effort to solve. Will the Government of Defence endorse the passionate appeals of Gambetta, or will it master the real lesson of the surrender of Metz, and admit that fortune has for the time aban doned her wayward and ungrateful child ? Look ing back a few weeks, what can the sound judg ment of the country trace but a constantly accu mulating burden of misfortune ? The elements of disaster have multiplied, and those of hope have ono by one vanished, leaving each aspect of the momentous difficulty more formidable for those who resolutely refuse to confront what they cannot remove. We learn by telegram that Rear-Admiral A. Far quhar, the co mmander-in-chief of the Pacific station, arrived at Panama last week on board his flagship Zealous. On Sunday nearly four hundred sermons were preached in Northumberland and Durham in aid of the medical charities of those counties. In N ewcas tl e a l one, where the " Hospital Sunday " movement was initiated, considerably over £l,OOO was collected on that day. DEATH OF THE VISCOUNTESS HEREFORD.—We have to announce the death, on the 26th ult., of Emma Jemima (Dowager) Viscountess Hereford, daughter of the late Mr. George Ravenscroft. She married Robert, 15th Viscount Hereford, Premier Viscount of England, 25th November, 1841 ; and after that nobleman's death, in August, 1855, she married, February 23,1857, Lieutenant- Colonel Thomas Ireland Blackburne. She was the mother, by her first marriage, of the present Viscount Hereford.