The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-26 00:00:00

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THE WAR. • BAVARIA IN DANGER. th el 4 j negotiati ons respec ti ng th e entry of Bavaria ° th e new Germanic Confederation are becoming , It ewhat animated, The Catholic party now in ;Aver, Who are very jealous of Bavarian independ hee, are desirous of exacting special conditions in i v° tlr of their country. They wish for a t a a : b ai all Secretary of Legation to be at c'ed to the North German Embassies, ij a direct share dn peace negotiations, and likewise o t lle decla ra ti on o f war. The Bavarian Liberals, n al the othe r h an d , see i n t h ese except i ona l pr i v il eges W .? l lree of d anger . Th ey urge th a t suc h c o n ditions " l ead to disp u t es w ith th e res t of the Bund, and ma y involve B avar i a i n some thi ng lik e th e f a t e of H allover. T he ton e o f t h e G erman P ress i s now muc h more utt irectly kl / 4 1e ificall yinclined. The Cologne Gazette hints aat the advisability of coming to terms by l at , bl iting the war chiefly, if not entirely, to the Government. It says the Paris Press at first treat ed the Hohenzollern candidature as harmless, Fr)3° Public opinion pronounced for war, until the 4i i e , nel l Government had pushed on its demands, General rendered an outbreak inevitable. p o 'eneral Cadorna, at the repeated request of the eit pe) Bent some of his battalions into the Leonine th e 7 t° repress disorder, declaring that so soon as wim Personal safety of the Pope was secured he would `l'clravv them. F AILURE OF THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. AN ARMISTICE REFUSED BY FRANCE. 65 0000 GERMAN TROOPS ON FRENCH SOIL. I MPORTANT ENGAGEMENT NEAR PONTOISE. AIN TD OSAL OF BAZAINE TO CAPITULATE. (°PFICIAL GERMAN DESPATCHES). FERRIERES, SEPT. 23 (3.40 Pau.) 4 4 0 . Jules Favre left yesterday for Paris, with the f or t w in g conditions for an armistice to be granted 11 1 e Convocation of the Constituent Assembly : thL su rrender of Toul, Verdun, and Strasburg, with 1:4 0 ,` ; e w of securing an uninterrupted line of com iri'Acation for provisioning the German armies titti lu g the suspension of hostilities. These con- M. Favre has declined. FERRIERES, SEPT. 24 (1.4 P.m.) eat • cu ar categorical denial has been given by Count Bis tti eg to the misrepresentations of the German con- T o , ( , )118 for an armistice, published in the news from ' . l'B * Re denies that he insisted upon the surrender St ber Mont Valerien or Metz. Toul, Verdun, and ot 84 / 3 , 11 rg were alone demanded. The outworks p osa " latter f or t r ess being already in the lk vi e ftion of the German troops, and a breach k et „ /I g been opened, its fall was considered as a de question of days. Toul has since. surren- Iv o „ 6 ,; Verdun is of no military importance, but o l d) during a suspension of hostilities, have 4, 4 necessary for provisioning the German % - "Po before Paris by direct communication with te li till tii 4 h.Y. The Chancellor thinks, therefore, those dons to have been more than moderate in com -411 with the great advantages France would Bderived from an armistice, both for her politica astion and for her new armaments. TheßE RLIN, SEPT. 25 (4 P.M.) 14 . a . interviews between Count Bismarck and iN t. til es Favre took place on the 19th and 20th W er ,, The conditions offered by Count Bismarck 2a, d. rejected by the Paris Government on the Va,k r No such demand was made as that Mont (l e teu should b e d e li v ered into the hands of the Natos. THE FRENCH VERSION. Th e TOURS, SEPT. 24 (5 p.m.) th e elections for the municipal councils and for to n lls ' un stituent Assembly had been postponed, in th e e quence of the intention of Prussia to continue T W ar 4 routrance. 4 44 ,.... e local Government of the National Defence the following proclamation to France :- Ig t " TOURS, SEPT. 23. Iti th e . ,fore the i n ve s tment of Paris, M. Jules Favre oo r e ; to have an interview with Count Bismarck, Th e Ler to ascertain the dispositions of Prussia. Ilthfclloveing is the declaration of the enemy. te li sale desi res t o con ti nue th e war , so as t o Ag in Prance to the rank of a second-rate fa ez. ) Prussia wants Alsace and Lorraine, heh t l. !te Metz, by right of conquest; and, to con- Or k' , u an armistice, she dares to ask the surrender littb it r ashourg, Toul, and Mont Valerien. The in tatCalits of Paris, in their exasperation would thil li ez. bury themselves in the ruins of their city IN; 4 ceept such terms. To such impudent pre -°lll we can only reply by fighting to the bitter her France accepts the contest, and relies upon all children.” Th e TOURS, SEPT. 24. news received here from Paris states that, p reli minarytia conditions to the opening of nego the , 118 ) Count Bismarck had demanded that all tleit;°nresses in Alsace and Lorraine should be The to P russ i a , as we ll as M on t V a l er i eu . c 1 4 ,4 t e . l ocal Government is about to address a pro the to the French people, explaining sk rea Pteeent situation, and stating the fresh mea keau that are being taken for increasing the T h B of nati ona l d e f ence . e e lebtions to the Constituent Assembly will be ..u ted. • TILP TOURS, SEPT. 24. - conditions for an armistice proposed by Count th e Pek being wholly unacceptable, the elections of October will not take place, and the Govern klo,',legram.ng to decree a levee en masse.—Daily " NEWS FROM PARIS. BY BALLOON. „A 6 11 TOURS, SEPT. 25. "QtQ a - Z° o ll bringing dispatches, which left Paris on 4 4y . 1 \ 1 ) arrived at Evereux at eleven on the same ktl,f3 conditions demanded by Prussia had caused Plet:e irritatio n a t P ar i s . Th e city was corn ,ooo3' surrounded by the Prussians at a distance of 4 ttit„ t° 3 )000 yard s from the ou tlying forts. The ki lie 7 e of the F renc h popu l a ti on was very deter net -; NO person was allowed in the streets F ari s P.m. with ou t special permission. The Att . ;, u o v ernment had issued a decree abolishing ~oiof the C ons tit u ti on , w hi c h es t a bli s h e d th e li nc °-ait Y of public functionaries. The French ea °f battl e i n the enga g ement o f t h e 19 t h i nst. 44 :Il e( ' from Villej uif to Chatillon, and the ri l; ,h t s' was due to a panic among the Zouaves of the %lb, Wi ng) wo tok no part n the actio aucl left h win o g fell back in i good order. n. The a,. 4 not f TOURS, SEPT. 25 (AFTERNOON). dre ssed e -row MM. Gambetta and Jules Ferry, ad ; t ° M. Crdmi eux , an d mar ked "private, b y the balloon at Evreux. This note says i 8 prepared to make an heroic resistance. 'I HE SUS, LONDON, 'MON OA'Y; SEPTEMBER 26, 1.876. All parties, those of the Extreme Left, as well as those of the the old Reaction, are unanimous in vigorously supporting the Government. If you hear through PruSsian despatches that disturb ances have broken out in Paris do not believe it, and triergetically deny it. We have immense force's in the Garde Nationale, the Garde Mobile, and the troops, with the necessary provisions and munitions. We can hold out all the winter. Let France make an heroic effort." POSTPONEMENT OF THE ELECTIONS. TOURS, SEPT. 24. The following note is appended to the proclama ti on of the French Government announcing the demands f Prussia : ,‘ Totals, Sept. 24, 1870. " The mewl, rs delegates of the Government Ordruieux, Glais-Bizion, Fourichon. —ln conse quence of the above proclamation, which constitutes a crisis in the life of the nation, the Government decrees— " First—That all the municipal elections and those for the Constituent Assembly be suspended and ad journed. "Second—All municipal elections which have been made are annulled. " Third—The Prefects will be provided by the maintenance of existing municipalities, or by the nomination of provisional municipalities. ." The members delegates of the Government, 66 CREME LT; GLAIS-BIZOIN. 66 PALLIEN, Director of Telegraphs." The French journals state the head-quarters of the German commanders to be .as follows :—The King is at Meaux, Prince Albrecht is in Brunoy, the Crown Prince at Fontainebleau, the Crown Prince of Saxony at Bezons, and General Falken stein at Choisy-le-Roi. CHARTRES, SEPT. 24. Advices from Paris, dated yesterday evening, received here by courier, state all to be going on well, and represent the attitude of the population as most energetic and resolved on defence. There had been successful encounters with the enemy on the 23rd. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 24. M. Esquiros has issued a notification announcing that the severest penalties of the law will be dealt out against any persons concerned in illegal arrests. The populace has committed great havoc on the estate of General Reale, the aide-de-camp of the Emperor Napoleon, who was chiefly - active in the capitulation of Sedan. THE ARMISTICE NEGO TIATIONS. BERLIN, SEPT. 25, (2.15 P.M.) According to the (*del Gazette ; the Russian Government recognises the Prussian conditions as reasonable and justified. So far as Paris is concerned, the military measures are completed until further or ders by tha investment of the city. Paris is absolutely isolated ; all :avenues of egress and access are closed. The negotiations of Herr Delbruck at Munich concerning the terms of entrance of South Germany into the North German Confederation under the existing Constitution have resulted favourably :Modifications will be introduced to suit the wishes of Bava.zia. The prohibition of export of grain and flour from North Germany is revoked. The importation of coal into Alsace and Lorraine from the Palatinate and Rhenish Prussia is per mitted. The commandant of Strasburg has retired into the citadel. A reserve army, designated the Thirteenth Corps, is forming here with marching orders for the seat of war. The (official) number of Germans expelled from Paris is 102,000.—Daily News lelegram. DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLE. TOURS, SEPT. 25. Advices from the departments unanimously re port the proclamation of the Government delegation at Tours to have had a most inspiriting influence upon the population. The people are everywhere calling for arms. The garrison of Toul surrendered as prisoners of war on the same terms as those granted to the French army at the capitulation of Sedan. BATTLE AT PONTOISE. BEAUVAIS, SEPT. 24. An extensive engagement was fought all day yesterday between Pontoise and L'lsle Adam. A considerable number of fugitives have arrived in this Department (Oise). The inhabitants are rapidly coming. An encounter is announced to have occur red between some peasants and a Prussian convoy. ATTEMPT OF BAZAINE TO LEAVE METZ. SAARBRUCKEN, SEPT. 24. A sharp attack occurred before Metz yesterday, at which I was present. The French attempted to break out in force towards Thionville, at the same time making a feigned attack on Mercy-le-Haut. A heavy cannonade continued for four hours. Ulti mately the French were driven back. Fighting ex tended over several miles. The casualties on the French side were considerable. Bazaine has again sent the Prussian prisoners back into their lines.— ?Imes Telegram. OFFER OF BAZAINE TO CAPITULATE. BERLIN, SEPT. 24, 15.0 A.M. Marshal Bazaine offers to capitulate if the garri son is allowed free retreat with all arms on condi tion of not serving against Germany for the next three months. This offer will probably be rejected. —Times Telegram. The Daily News also publishes a telegram to the same effect. THE SURRENDER OF TOUL. (OFFICIAL GERMAN DESPATCHE.) FERRIERES, SEPT. 23. There is nothing new from Paris. The Parisian journals of the 22d inst. acknowedge that in the action of the 19th four French divisions of the line were engaged, and fled headlong in panic into the interior of the town. The journals abuse the troops of the live, and praise the Mobile Guards. ECROUYES, SEPTEMBER 24. The following officers, men, arms, and munitions of war, &c., were captured at the capitulation of Toul :- 109 officers, 2,240 men, 120 horses, one eagle of the Garde Mobile, 197 bronze guns, including 48 pieces of rifled ordnance, 3,000 rifles, 3,000 sabres, 500 cuirasses, and a considerable quantity of muni tions and articles of equipment. Soldiers' pay for 143,025 days and rations for 51,949 days also fell into the hands of the Prussians. FUGITIVES FROM BLOIS. TOURS, SATURDAY A crowd of fugitives has come to this city from Blois, upon which the Prussian Uhlans are advanc ing. The new-corners cannot be accommodated in the town, and are forced to sleep in the waiting rooms and other places about the station. The people of Blois resisted the departure of the troops. Three delegates have come from Lyons to consult with the Government on the subject of the dis turbanoes in that city, and are said to have arrived at ft satisfactory settlement of differences. The Due d'Aumale is understood to be a candidate for the Department of Charente In ferieure.— Tele graph Telegram. THE SIEGE OF STRASBURG. CA_RLSRUHE, SKPT. 25, 9 A.M. Colonel Von Buren, one of the Swiss delegates to Strasburgh, has published the results of his visit to the interior of the city. General Uhrich, he says, manifested little or no curiosity with regard to the progress of events; but Admiral Excelmans, who was to have commanded the flotilla on the Rhine, was more anxious to learn what was passing at other points of the war. The garrison was entirely ignorant of what had happened, but refused to believe the reports in German newspapers. The populace were confident that the French army was marching to raise the siege. There was great excitement when the truth came out. The cathe dral, though somewhat dama2:ed, is not irreparably injured. The astronomical clock is still per fect. The report of its destruction was owing to the fact of its not having been wound up since the bombardment. The French troops in the citadel, after respecting for some days the building on the island opposite Kehl, over which the International flag was flying, shelled it for two successive nights, and wounded two surgeons. The capture of Toul gives great satisfaction here . . Pfalsburg will be taken as soon as the heavy guns are brought tip. Up to this time the besieging battery has consisted of six field pieces only. The garrison make sorties solely to procure food. A. large German force is passing through Alsace, with the intention, it is supposed, of operating in the direction of Lyons. A petition is being signed, praying Count Bismark to release Dr. Jacoby.—Daily News 7elegt'anz. sels, placing it within easy reach of London; Paris, and Berlin, make it certainly the :most eligible town for the purpose." REPORTED BATTLE OUTSIDE PARIS. TOURS, SEPT. 23 (Evening). A rumour is spread in the streets to-nigh! that a great battle is progressing under the wars of Paris. Emile de Girardin has arrived here. General Cluseret, who has been staying here, has left for Paris, where it is feared his presence will tend to revive the excitement and inflame the popular feeling against the authorities. The environs of Paris are in ruins from the gates of Neuldy to Terries; all the houses are destroyed; the chapel raised in memory of the Duke of Orleans has been respected. All the trees are cut down, except two cypress trees, upon which the inscrip tion, " Il est defendu de toucher ces arbres, 3 ' has been placed by order of the military engineers. Le Peuple announces that M. Gaillardou, Central Commissioner at Marseilles, has committed suicide in his prison at St. Pierre. Admiral Fourichon has left hero for Rochefort. General Cambriel, who was wounded at Sedan, reached Tours to-day. DISBANDMENT OF PRUSSIAN TROOPS. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24 (Morning) A despatch from Gien reports the exhaustion and disbanding of 2,000 Prussians, between. Fon tainebleau and Orleans. The authorities of the Northern Department of France have forbidden the entry of Belgian lieWP paprs._ . . The Prussians are organising measures to operate on a vast scale immediately upon the receipt of the intelligence of the fall of Metz and Strasbourg. LYONS, SEPT. 23. Italian - Volunteers continue to arrive in we:o numbers, and are parading the streets with the tri colour flags of France and Italy. RUMOURED FIGHTING IN PARIS. FERRIERES (NEAR PARIS), SEPT. 28 (10.25 p.m.) The day before yesterday, heavy cannonading and rifle firing was observed from the heights over looking the city to be going on in the streets of Paris. Who were the c9ntending parties or troops, has not, up to the present, been discovered. PRUSSIANS MARCHING ON NEMOURS. TOURS, SErr. 28 (Evening). Advices of yesterday's date received from Ram bouillet state that the Prussians have disappeared from Dourda❑ and Arpajon, and are now.marching upon Nemours. It is asserted that M. Valentin, Republican Government Commissioner, succeeded in entering Strasburg. The Prefect of the Department of the L iret received a message from the Sub-Prefect at M,,n targes, of yesterday's date, announcing that four regiments of Prussian cavalry left Fontainebleau, in the direstton of Nemours and Montargis. The Prefect of the Department of the Seine and Marne telegraphed from Souppes yesterday that a considerable Peussian force, of all arms, was at Fontainebleau, and imposed a contribution of 150,000 f. upon the town, adding that the Prussians are marching in force on Nemours. Bavarian Chasseurs are at Bourron and Gres, compelling the peasants to repair the road between Fontainebleau and Nemours. Prussian detachments are marching upon Orleans by way of Malesherbes and Pithiviers. EXPLOSION OF A STEAMER LADEN WITH TORPEDOES. CUXHAVEN. THURSDAY. The steamer Neuenfelde, with a cargo of tor pedc.es, lying in this harbour, has been destroyed. Some of the Landwehr officers quartered here went on board to look at the torpedoes. In shewing them it appears that the necessary caution was not observed and the torpedoes exploded, the ship being blown to pieces. Nothing but the funnel can be seen above water. Only the engineer, boatswain, and appren tice were saved. The captain, four of the crew, and four Landwehr officers were killed.—Manchester Examiner. GERMANY AND NORTH SCHLESWIG. KIEL, SEPT. 24. The Municipal Council of Hadersleben has sent an address praying the King of Prussia to remove on the oc casion of the German victories the ban which weighs upon North Schleswig in virtue of the fifth paragraph of the Treaty of Prague. The Municipal Council of Kiel has resolved to present a memorial to the King expressing a hope that the success of the German arms will lead to the abrogation of the clause of the Treaty of Prague which stipulates the cession of a portion of North Schleswig to Denmark. The memorialists trust to the wisdom of his Majesty to take advantage of the moment when the whole of Germany is united, in order to protect the western frontier and its German inhabi tants, by victoriously achieving a permanent peace, and thus restoring that longed-for state of things to the North of Germany. A NEW INVASION. The occupation of Southern France has been actively undertaken. Forty • thousand Prussian troops and 25,000 Bavarians are passing, or have passed by rail to Mulhouse, Belfort, and Lyons.— Times Telegram, M. THIERS'S MISSION TO AUSTRIA. BERLIN, SEPT. 25, 11.25 A. 2.1 M. Betist told M. Thiers that Austria felt deeply for France, bat could not at present interfere in her favour. M. .Fhiers left for St. Petersburg to gain Russian assistance in return for concessions in the East. He will probably return to Vienna to report the reception of his overtures. In offering to join the German Confederacy, Bavaria asks greater independence than can be conceded.-7imes Telegram. BERLIN, SEPT. 24, 9.30 p.m. Authentic advices from Vienna report the com plete failure of M. Thiers' missi n. In his inter view with Count Beust, M. Thiers declared that the object of his mission was to awaken the inte rest of the Neutral Powers in the present condition of France, with a view to their obtaining favour able terms of peace by pressure upon Germany. Count Bust replied that Austria, with the best wishes for the interests of France, was not now, nor had been since the beginning of the war, in a condition to take any active steps in existing circum stances. M. Thiers retired disheartened. He was not invited to the great dinner given by Count Schweinitz, the Minister of the North German Con federation, was present.—Daily News Telegram. THE GERMAN TROOPS IN FRANCE. BERLIN, SEPT. 24. The total number of German troops on French territory is 650,000, consisting of twenty-one Army Corps, composed almost wholly of troops of the line, with very few of the Landwehr. There are three other Army Corps uuder arms which have not left Germany. The director of the North-German Telegraphs has paid a second visit to Nancy, and a Telegraph Administration has been established there. Nu merous telegraph clerks have left for the French provinces occupied by the German forces ; and several telegraph offices have been established, small telegraph stations in Germany having been closed to enable this to be accomplished. HAGENA U, SEPT. 24. The Amtliche Nachrichten (the official German organ) publishes a Cabinet order authorising the North German Postal Administration to organise at once and definitively a system of postal service in the territory now under the jurisdiction of the Governor General of Alsace and German Lorraine. It also orders that the postal service in the other French territory occupied by the Germans shall be provision ally administered on the basis of the existing arrangements. RETURN OF THE FRENCH FLEET FROM THE BALTIC. SKAGEN, SEPT 24 (3.30 P.M.) The French fleet, consisting of nine ironclads, five corvettes, and four steam transports, has just passed off here, steering westward. ITALY AND ROME. FLORENCE, SUNDAY. M. Senard, the French Minister at Florence, has addressed to Signor Visconti-Venosta, in the name of the Provisional Government, the warmest con gratulations on the Italian occupation of Rome. In his letter M. Senard contrasts the hopeful condition of the Italian kingdom with the painful circum stances of France. General La Marmora will leave this city for Rome, in order to take the place now held by General Cadorna as military commander in Rome. A. batch of political prisoners at Rome, to the number of fifty-four, was liberated to-day.— Tele raph Telegram. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24 (EVENING). The Journal de Bruxelles suggests to the Catholics of all countries to make arrangements for signing petitions to their respective Governments, praying them not to recognise accomplished facts in Italy; and it at the same time urges the drawing up of a combined manifesto protesting against the annexa tion o f Rome. FLORENCE, SEPT. 24 (EVENING). The Plebiscite in the Roman provinces is to take place on the 2nd of next month. FLO RE VICE,SEp. 25. All the political prisoners in Rome have been set free, Petroni after 17 years' confinement. General Cadorna has selected 18 citizens to form a Provisional Government of Rome. In opening the Government at Rome, he said, "You are called to fulfil a sublime task. The 20th of September marks a great epoch in your mission, and inaugurates a new era in Italian unity, which, when finally completed, will constitute Rome again the capital of the Kingdom. God mani festly blesses Italy."—Daily News 7 elegram. PROPOSED EUROPEAN CON GRESS. A. Brussels correspondent of a contemporary tele graphs : " We hear from Paris that peace will not be concluded without the conditious having received the sanction of a European Congress. As the place of meeting, Brussels is already designated. The neutrality of Belgium, and the geographical situation of Brus- SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 25. The Manifesto of the Republican Deputies has appeared to-day. General Orense has left for Frauce to organise a Spanish legion. General Caballero de Rodas, the Captain-General of Cuba, has been informed that, if he insists on tendering his resignation, it will be accepted. Advices from Havana announce that the leader of a filibustering expedition has been shot. PERSIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 23. The Parisian Ambassador left to-day for Bagdad. In the hope of the cholera in Persia being thereby diminished, the Shah will shortly undertake a pilgrimage AMERICA. (By Cable.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 24. The Cunard steamer Abyssinia arrived out at 11 a.m., and the National Steamship Companp's steamer Queen at 8 a.m. to-day. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out $425,000 in specie. Gold • closed at 1131. The highest quotation during the day was 1131, the lowest 1131. Ster ling exchange on London, 1091. Five-Twenty United States Bonds (1882) 112 t; ditto (1885), 1111 ; ditto (1867), 110 i ; Ten-Forties (1867) 1061 ; Illinois, 1351 ; Erie, 22g. Cotton—Middling Upland, 18c. Petroleum, Standard White, 26ic. Flour—Extra State, $5 30e. to $5 50c. Corn, new, 91c. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HaIt-a-crown day, Saturday, September 24, 1870. Admission by season tickets, 3,537 ; do. on payment, 940 ; total visitors, 4,477. . , WORIMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIIIITION.—A gri cultural Hall, Islington. The number of visitors, ex clusive of ticket holders, exhibitors, and others, on the 24th inst., was 7,569, and for the week ending same day, 41,832. CRYSTAL PALACE.—For the Harvest Fetes this week there will be an entertainment entitled " The Seasons, or the Rustic Year," in which Old English Merrymaking, Sports and Pastimes, Glees and Madrigals will be introduced. Harvest Trophies, Agricultural Implements, an immense Hop Plant (bearing five bushels), and other objects will be exhibited. Offenbach's " Roso of Auvergne," and Randegger's " Rival Beauties," will be played on certain days, and on Thursday a Display of Fireworks will be given, for which, in addition to the Strasburg Tower," there will be a special Harvest Device. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) PROPOSED N - EW I'AVAL COLLEGE Admiral Kelly, vihd died three years, ago, left by his will a very large sum of money, supposed now to amount to upwards of £lOO,OOO, to found a college in Devonshire for the primary education of naval officers' sons. The will has been the subject of litigation, and has been brought within the jurisdiction of the Charity Commissioners, who in turn passed it over to the Endowed Schools Com mission. The relatives threatened Chancery proceedings, bu t arrangements have just been come to by which all further opposition ceased, and it is stated to be almost certain that the college trustees will accept the offer of the Duke of Bedford to give a magnificent site for a college at Tavi stock, and £5,000 towards the cost of its erection. It is also said that the Tavistock Grammar School will he merged into the new college. The matter has excited great interest and competition among various towns in South-West Devon, and a settlement after the protected delays will be received with much satisfaction by the naval service and the public: DEPARTURE OF THE EMPRESS FROM HASTINGS. The Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial left Hastings by the quarter-past two train on Saturday,fore am den House, Chiselhurst. It is understood that in making the 'resent change of residence, her Majesty has been in fluenced chiefly by a desire to be nearer the metropolis. Numbers of persons assembled at the railway station to witness the departure of the Imperial visitors. The Em press and the Prince were received by the Mayor,, and conducted to the carriage reserved for them. The Empress expressed her thanks to the Mayor for his attention, and also for the kind reception she had met with from the people of Hastings. Earlier in the day the Prince called at the residence of the Mayor, and on behalf of the Empress and himself, ex pressed his thanks for the kind reception which had been given them in Hastings. SUICIDE FROM CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE. An elderly gentleman threw himself from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on Saturday, and was quite dead when picked up. He has not yet been identified. This is the third suicide from this bridge since its inauguration in 1864. THE ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL. The inquest on the bodies of the three persons who were killed in this accident was resumed on Saturday at the Town•hall, Tamworth, before Mr. Dewes, coroner. The same legal gentlemen appeared as on the last occasion. Edwin Smith, second guard to the train said the distance and stop signals chewed that the station was cleat. lie did not see that the main signal was against them until about a hundred and fifty yards from it. He heard the alarm whistle, and saw by the sparks that the breaks were on the engine, and oil the foremost guard's van. He then put on his break, but the train had passed into the platform siding. The train consisted of the guard's van, a composition carriage post-office, a tender post luggage van, three other composition carriages, two first class carriages, and a rear guard's break. All passed through the siding into the river. except the two first-class carriages and the break. The two last carriages were fitted up with continuous breaks, which he worked from his van. He was not injured, and assisted in getting the passengers from the debris. They travelled generally about forty-two miles per hour ; and at the time of the accident about thirty. A train travelling at that speed could be stopped in about six hundred yards. Higgins, pointsman, and Stafford, station-manager, were recalled, but nothing material was elicited. Josiah Baker, telegraph clerk, :aid that the Irish mail was signalled on leaving Stafford at 3.35, and the luggage train at 3.40. John Orpen, inspector of policemen and pointsmen, deposed to the efficiency of the signals and points. Mr. Evans said that the mail was coming before the luggage train on the night of the acci dent, but the line ought to have been blocked for the main line. GREAT REPUBLICAN DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK. A great Republican demonstration took place yesterday in Hyde Park, when it was estimated that between forty and fifty thousand persons were present. A procession was formed at Finsbury, which proceeded to Clerkenwell Green, and thenoe to the appointed place of meeting. Processions of French, Germans, Americans, Italians, and others arrived on the ground shortly afterwards, when the immense crowd was divided into sections, the principal of which, Nos. 1 and 2, were pre. sided over by Mr. M'Swiney and Mr. Weston. Bands and banners, representing the various nationalities, were n profusion, and mock litanies and speeches divided the interest of those assembled. Various resolutions were proposed and carried, the most important being the fol lowing :—On the motion of Mr. Moniham, seconded by Mr. Edginton, and supported by Mr. Riddell, " that in the opinion of the Republicans of London the people of France have done them selves honour in declaring the Republic, that being the only form of Government by which liberty and jus tice are secured to the people, and we hereby tender our thanks for their patriotic efforts." On the motion of Mr. Weston, seconded by Mr. Owen, and supported by Mr. Johnson, " That we, the Republicans of London, demand of the English Government the immediate recognition of the French Republic, and that we are determined to use every effort to compel them to do their duty." The meeting was as orderly as from the vast mass of paymons might have been expected MEETING AT ST. JAMES'S HALL. A public meeting, to sympathise with the Provisional Government of France, was held on Saturday night at St. James's Hall. Prior to the commemcement of the proceed ings, however, a panic was on the point of occurring, in consequence of the assembly suddenly finding itself plunged into total darkness ; and it is conjectured that this was not the result of mere accident, but of design on the part of some equally silly and wicked person. It is to the credit of the intelligence and self-possession of the meeting that order was not disturbed, and that business was gone through as if no such occurrence had taken place. , Sir H. Hoare was the only member of Parliament present, and Mr. Austin Holyoake made it a matter of complaint that, although several other popular representatives had been invited, with one exception, that of Mr. P. Taylor, the member for Leicester, none of them had even condescended to reply. The chair was filled by Dr. Congreve, and the principal speakers were Colonel Dickson, Mr. Bradlaugh, Professor Beesley, Sir H. Hoare, and Mr. Odger. One of the resolutions was that her Majesty's Ministers be called upon at once to frankly recognise the French Republic, and protested against any territorial spoliation of France. THE FIGHTING AROUND PARIS. The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Rouen in the 23rd inst., says :—The report circulated yesterday of a great defeat of the 'Prussians between Sevres and Meudon, came through Evreux, Lisieux, and Havre, and was obviously but another version of the rumour current on the previous day, which *iced the scene of the conflict at Ville d'Avray. There is no confirmation of it, and that alone suffices to shew ,hat it was devoid of any foundation, as if the Prussians nad sustained a serious defeat anywhere between Paris And Versailles they would have been compelled to evacuate the left bank of the Seine, and communication would nave been instantly re-established. The cordon, on the z.ontrary, is drawn closer than ever ; it is highly probable that skirmishing has been going on in the intermediate cone, with varying results ; thuse we hear to-day that to the south-west of Paris a Bavarian and a Saxon corps d'arnge had attacked three divisions of Vinoy's corps, captured seven guns, ind a good number of prisoners, and forced them back "behind the fort." t What f Valerien ort ? h and the ere are two on the south-west, he Mont Fort d'lssy. If the former, it would lead to an in ference that an action was fought on the plain which stretches between the hills of Suresnes and St. Germain, and that the object of the Prussians was to occupy the hills about St. Cloud, which com mand the Seine and the road from Sevres to Paris. Those hills partly command the works of Mont Vale- Tien, but they are liable to be swept by the fire of its inner works. I do not believe in so close an approach, and incline to think that the affair was a mere reconnaisance. The engagement at Wissous seems to have been more serious. Wissous is a village nearly due south from Paris, half way between Sceaux and Longjumeau, and stands in the plateau of Monthlery. About 2,000 runaways are said to have made their appearance at Pithiviers. It is said that the enemy were outnumbered ou this occasion, the French b e ing 25,000 to 15,000. Isolated attacks of this kind against the weak points of the blockading force are quite within the means of the regular forces in and around Paris, and the facility of communicating by rail and by excellent roads from one part of the circumference to a point diametrically oppo site gives the French an advantaire of which Groneral Trocliu will not be slow to avail himself. It is curious to intice that the report of a French victory shOuld have prevailed simultaneously in various parts of the country, it seems to have arisen almost at the same hour at Rouen, Havre, Goreau, and Beauvais. Havre had yesterday a very narrow escape of being blown up. A drunken magazine keeper, enraged at being repri manded, swore he would have revenge, and coolly made preparations to blow up all the powder stored in Fort Tourneville. He was arrested in the very nick of time. There was some little difficulty in preventing his being lynched by the infuriated garrison. There was also a panic throughout yesterday all along the coast, in consequence of a report that a Prussian iron-clad had been sighted off the Doggerbank, where she had sunk four French fishing smacks. The Prefect Maritime at Cherbourg thereon forwarded a telegram to all the-fishing ports, telling them they had no cause for apprehension, as the French squadron was off the coast. By way of precaution, how ever, a floating battery has been sent to the mouth of the river, and is to be stationed off Harfleur. OUR COTEMPORARIM3---This Morning END OF TEE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. The Times very much regrets that the Government of Defenee did not resolve to surrender Strasburg, Toul, and Verdun as the conditions of an Armistice. Their position was, without doubt, one of extreme difficulty. No Government, and most certainly no Government assuming power under such circum stances as the Provisional Ministry, can willingly surrender, even temporarily, a portion of national territory. They may have the fullest faith in the representative energies of France, low as she has been struck, but they ought to recognise the truth that their faith is in time, and that the struggle at this moment is against them. Was Count Bismarck's demand so great that they could not admit it ? He asked for Strasburg, Toul, and Verdun. The report of his demand, in passing throne' Paris to Tours, has changed " Verdun " into " Vrarien," and M. Cremieux, the Commisary of the Government there, has issued an indignant proclamation, com menting on the enormity of the cl;dm. His resentment would have been just had Mont Valdrien been demanded, for the cession of ValSrien would have been an acknowledgment that Paris itself was on the eve of capture ; but it is unnecessary to attribute to M. Crdmieux or any other of the agents through whom the intelligence must have passed a wilful misrepre sentation which was certain to be immediately corrected. The Government Defence have, by their refusal to assent to the terms M. Favre reported, prolonged the interregnum before France can be represented by any regularly con stituted authority, and have, indeed, left the way open to that disintegration of the country into independent local units which must be contemplated as possible should the supreme misfortune —the fall of Paris—happen. The question as to the terms of peace is for the present thrust again into the background. What we have now to contemplate in the process of Paris being starved if not stormed, into submission ; but whether this be the work of a week or of a month, or fail entirely, we must wait till thc problem is solved one way or the other before the word Peace is again uttered. The Telegraph says nobody can watch without pitying sorrow the thorough Bismarckian process of crushing the pride and vain glory out of the heart of poor France. It is the most solemn and moving example of retribution following upon aggression which the modern world has beheld. Count Bismarck, in the performance of his stern duties, has now only one more page to teach her of the Art of Belligerency—the page whereon it is written that French soil is no more sacred than Italian, Algerian, Danish, or German soil; and that, having made war upon the Fatherland, France must abide the issue, and must pay in the same kind in which, as historic precedents tell us, she intended to exact her own payment. Had it depended upon England, so painfully abortive an issue would unquestionably have been avoided. Her part was loyal and disinterested. By suggestion, by advice, by anxious projects of conciliation, our statesmen did all that was possible to close a struggle which the public opinion of this country had at the outset la boured sincerely to avert. For the present our attitude can only be one of pained and anxious suspense. We must acknowledge the conqueror's right when he demands such terms as those which he avows will secure to him peace in the fu ture. Upon him must rest the responsibility of deciding whether his terms will insure peace, or whether they will not rather provoke to war by perpetuating ani mosity. Germany, interrogated upon that point, answers with seeming unanimity, that, in her judgment, Metz, and Strasburg must be had. She must be the judge, subject to the further fortunes of war—Europe has de cided upon that ; but history, knowing no impulses of vengeance—no hot-blooded lust for victory—will in its turn be the judge of Germany. PRUSSIA'S TERMS REJECTED. The Daily News thinks everybody must regret—no one has need to wonder—that the negotiations for an armistice between Germany and France have failed. The plain truth is that France is not yet convinced. Surely there is nothing surprising in that fact. Tw:, months ago France counted herself mistress of the politics and destinies of Europe. In the real world people are commonly accepted for as much as they choose to give themselves out—at least, until some harsh rebuke of fate dispels the illusion. So it was with France. She .id she was the born Empress of Europe, and Europe was content to acknowledge her su premacy. We cannot wonder that she finds it difficult to bow the head all at once to a decree which deposes her, she hardly yet understands how or why, from her sovereign place. She cannot yet believe that the Ger mans have strength or daring enough to dictate terms to France. We fancy Jules Favre would himself probably have accepted the armistice, of which, indeed, the conditions do not appear to have been extravagantly severe. Germany demanded only to be allowed to remain in such a position that if the negotiations for peace were broken off she should be in no worse a condition relatively to France than she is at the present moment. The idea that she could consent to rest upon her arms, and do nothing, while General Trochu was drilling a new army, and General Uhrich was repairing the breaches in the defences of Strasburg, could only, as Count Bismarck said in his recent circulai, be " founded on the erroneous supposition " that the Ministers of the King of Prussia k lack military and political judgment, or are indifferent to the interests of Germany." The Germans, it appears, required conditions precisely necessary to maintain the status quo. The peace negotiations at Ferrieres, the Standard observes, have, as we anticipated, completely failed. The terms M. Jules Favre took back with him to Paris on Thursday were at once, and indignantly, rejected by the Government of the National Defence. Nominally its decision amounted to nothing more than a refusal to accept the armistice Prussia had condescended to offer. Practically it was a refusal to accept the conditions upon which Prussia is at present disposed to grant peace. Count Bismarck and M. Jules Fevre did not spend two days in discuss ing such questions as the legitimacy of the Provisional Government, and the terms upon which Prussia might afford to wait for the meeting of a Consti tuent Assembly, practically convoked to give its assent to a treaty that the Provisional Government had agreed to. They discussed the conditions of peace. M. Jules Favre heard from Count Bismarck what the Chancellor of the North German Confederation declared to our corsespondent a fortnight ago, and what, some d a y s b e fo re thi s inter view, he had stated in two circulars to the diplomatic re presentatives of Germany—theresolution, or, as the procla mation of the Government at Tours calls it, the desire of Prussia to reduce France to the rank of a second-rate Power by wresting from her Alsace and Lorraine. If the Government of the National Defence was not prepared to consent to this dismemberment, it could not, of course, agree to any armistice except one which would have allowed it to continue its preparations, whilst the enemy, on on the other hand, was prevented from reaping the fruits of his victories—an armistice which, it is needless to say, the 14ruselian Government would not, indeed could not, gr'ant. The Provisional Go vernment refused the armistice Prussia offered, be cause it would not accept t he p eace which the con clusion of the armistice wo uld have bound it to sign. In the terms of the armistice there is nothing that a Government ready to make peace upon the conditions explained by the conquerors could object to. In the position the Germans now hold it must be allowed that the conditions they put to the armistice were issgebilia, A telegram from Berlin states that Colonel Gram mont, the Duke's brother, has arrived at Munich as prisoner. He lost one arm at Woerth. The French Government has bought in England four steam fire-engines at the price of £4OO each. They are intended. for the prompt extinction of the fires which the bombardment may occasion in Paris. A telegraphic service will connect the different fire-stations. NT ;on hat and de t of