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frO l Loudon oier that coo , , er of t°'., to read i l e e s r - hi ° , l r i ng ttoi , o o Hein are -Staltatl) Moil rs at Br it i ' s , o o o : a sin l " te1 ,51 7 e o 7i t a h % ll° , 3 ist r f, ess lo Led UP -n 11 D . 011' 1' L. to the ;!, rSUN LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1871. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SUN OFFICE, 8-A.M. THE WAIL ABROGATION OF GAMBETTA'S DECREE. That the decrees of the c ztOth of January, 1871 are maintained in their integA ry. " GENERAL TROCHU.. " JULES F ERRY . 44 JITLES FAVRE. " EMMANUEL ARAGO. " GARNIER PAWASS. " EUGENE PELLETAN. " ERNEST PICARD. " Paris, February 4,187 L." TaTENSIO -I ',:i OF THE AWisHSTICE. F—SERLIN, February 6 (0.12 p.m.) It is semi-offie.ally announced that the duration of the ar m i s ti ce v The Frew :h Jill be extended. Other town Parliament will assemble in some than Bordeaux, and in some town not oc- Plipted he ythe German troops. - THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. THE PARIS ELECTIONS. A Lombard telegram says the elections in Paris are adjourned to Wednesday. The capital is per fectly quiet. The popularity of the Republican candidates is diminishing, and the Orleanist sup porters predominate. GAMBETTA. TO BE SUPERSEDED. PARIS, Monday. M. Favre proposes to replace M. Gatubetta as Minister of the Interior by ➢I. Herod. The Independance Belge of Sunday evening says : A. person who lett Paris on Thursday communi mates to os th e f o ll ow i ng li s t of candidates, agreed to the previous day by the Committee pre :sided over by M. Dufaure. Eleven members of the Government, viz :—Jules Favre, Gambetta, Cr& . 111 .1enx, Gluis-Bizoin, Ernest Picar,l, Jules Simon, -Pelletan, Emanuel Arago, Garnier-Pagtis, Jules Ferry, and Amaraux Saisset, also, Henri Roche fort ; Admirals De la Ronciere, le Noury and Tothuan ; Generals Freehault and Bellemarre ; ' B even candidates representing science, MM. Taustin Lielie, Leblond, Germainsay, Ritrord, 'Sainte Claire, Deville, Berthelot, and Thiers ; the rhankers, Alphonse de Rothschild and M. Mallet; 'encrineers, MM. Solacroup, Pierard, Sauvage; :journalists, M. Lemoinne, of the Journal des Debuts, 'and M. Nefftzer, of the Temps. The latter declined to come forward, and requested to be replaced by Herbard, of the Temps ; MM. Desmarets, Bouvalet, Carnot, Martin, Vach.trot, and Oochin, formerly Mayor;'--Renter's Telegrams. The following telegrams come through Reuter's agency:— OCCUPATION OF ABBEVILLE BY THE GERMANS. LILLE, February ti. Abbeville was occupied to-day by the German troops. A despatch from the Prefect of the department of the Somme announces that the seat of the prefecture transferred to Rue. LYONS, February G. The prefect reviewed to-day 10,000 troops, natives of Alsace and Lorraine, organised into three legions, with cavalry and 24 guns. A large crowd witnessed the review and cheereJ the legionaries. M. tlhallemil delivered an address. • THE ELECTIONS IN THE NORTH. The Messager do Dunkerque, the Einancipateur de C ambrai, the Courrier Douaisien, the Courier du -2\r " d, find the journals pnblishel at Roubaix ener :getteally pretest against the decree of M. Gambetta relative to the electoral diequalifications. Several newspapers strongly urge peace. The Memorial de Ve, announcas that General Changarnier has ac cepted the nomination to the National Assembly. The following proclamation of the United Repub lican Committees of the, Seine-Inferieure has been :issued:— The Prussians occupied Louis le Saulnier this morning. THE FRENCH CONSUL IN LUXEMBURG. LUXEMBURG, February 6. The Luxemburg Government withdrew yesterday the exe q uatur of Baron Bussy, the French Vice- Consul, Citizens,—Your suffrages are about to decide the f ature ' 43 f France. After having proved to the world what the heroism of a people can perform, after having had the 'courage of ridding yourselves of a most shameful despotism, your votes must be the expression of the conse 'cration of the Republican idea. The Republicans alone have never compromised with their duty ; alone during the infamous period which ended at Sedan they have held high and steadfastly the flag of the na tional honour. Logical in their principles to them, it belongs to-day to say to the invader—We are ready to PaY for the crime which we committed in tolerating Na- P°leon 111., but we do not wish that dishonour should further aggravate our disasters. We do not refuse peace, but we wish for one worthy of France and of the Republic. (Signed.) 1. Dufour, Municipal Councillor . .„ 11t navre ; 2, L e C esne (J u l es ), f ormer ly D e p u ty f or th e 4 -hstrict of Havre ; 3, Penlevey, Public Prosecutor at Yuen ; 4, Quesnel, farmer at Godeville ; 5, Aubry lithographer at Rouen ; 6, Cordhornme (Ch.), °ll3aerly Councillor-General at Rouen; 7, Leplieux, advo 'eate of Rouen ; 8, Ramel (Emile), formerly sub-prefect at %tyre ; 9, Reguier (Antoine), weaver of Elbceuf ; 10, l a ligban (Ernest), adjoint t o th e May o r o f Darnetal ; i Manchon (Eugene), landed proprietor at La Feullie ; 12 ' bant resme (Lu c i en ), manufacturer at Elbosuf ; 13, T j A ebl3 / 1 (Emile), director of a manufactory at Dieppe ; 4 ' 13 ilmonve, manager of a spinning factoryat Longeville ; rollin (Artur) shi owr at Saint Valdry ; 16, Die (Achille) farmer p in the district of Yvetot. THE EMPEROR, OF RUSSIA AND THE TERMS OF PEACE. BERLIN, February 6. The New Prussian Gazette denies that the Em peror of Russia had written to the German Em peror, recommending moderation iu the terms of peace. NEWS FROM BRUSSELS. BRUSSELS, February O. The Independance Beige of to-day denies that the Czar has recommended to the Emperor William the advisability of moderation in proposing terms of peace. The same paper asserts that the essential points of the Black Sea question have been settled at the Conference. The Burgomaster of Brussels has left for Paris. SPANISH REPUBLICAN MANIFESTO IN FAVOUR OF FRANCE. MADRID, February 3. The members of the Republican minority of the Cortes have issued au election manifesto, advo cating the reform of Article 33 of the Constitution and the overthrow of the House of Savoy. The manifesto expresses ardent wishes for the success of the French people, victims of the ambition of the Brandenburgs, the crimes of the Bonapartists and the ingratitude of the House of Savoy. TILL INTERREGNUM IN FRANCE. PARIS, February 3. A note in the Official Journal says that in the %Rotations between M. Favre and Count 1318- 41 arcii the conditions of peace have not been dis ellilead. THE ARMISTICE IN EASTERN FRANCE. w 4. Dori a n w ill assume th e portfolio of Public °life ad interint, in consequence of M. Magnin o e : ling for Di e pp e . M. Herold will be the Minister the Interior ad interim. M. Gambetta has received a despatch from Jules Favre, dated Versailles, February 2, in which he says: —" Difficulties have arisen in the carrying out of the armistice. Regular communication beingimpracticable, we have been unable to transmit you the text of the Convention and the marked map annexed. I con firm the text that you will send to the commanders of Army corps." After enumerating the clauses already known, M. Favre proceeds to insist upon the execution of the armistice, adding, " Yester, day Count Bismarck consented to transmit powers to General Manteuffel to regulate with our commanders the lines of demarcation. After conferring with Count von Moltke, a final proposition was made to me to surrender Bitche and Belfort, and then a line of demarcation would be made. I cannot accept this proposition, although it is stated that Belfort cannot hold out much longer. I have asked for authority to despatch an officer to ascertain the true situation, and I do not think the request will be refused. Under these circumstances operations will commence before Bel fort and in the three departments, the Jura and the Cote d'Or, excepting an agreement should intervene between the two generals. lam informed that the commander of Langres refuses to recognize the armistice, and demands a cipher despatch. I have not his cipher in my possession. Forward a despatch to him." February 4. Delescluze has been released for want of evi dence, c U essrs. Piazza and Brunel, charged with being : ne erned in a military c o nspiracy with the object of pre venting the surrender of Paris on the 28th ult., b e y° been brought before the magistrates, but have en remanded sine die. They, however, remain in Natody. I'll R FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES AT The BORDEAUX. at representatives of Austria, Spain, and Italy, 4 . : ° tdeaux, whilst abstaining from interference, in their communications with Count ,alidordy laid stress upon the fact of their ail 'd accredited to the Paris Government only, aid tit , r ° ll gly urge harmony between the Delegation _b e; `le Paris Government, and in case of this not maintained, and a Committee of Public t h :Y formed, t h ey have rece i ve d i nstruct i ons f rom de g respective Governments to at once leave This diplomatic action bas caused some t(7itt.ll ati ° ll on the part of Al. Gambetta, in regard z e i egram e adopti on o f an ex t reme po li cy. — Lombard NEWS FROM BORDEAUX. „ GIEAT DEMONSTRATION. ` e leZram from Bordeaux, dated Sunday even by V. decree, dated the 4th, has been issued of the gate Government, ordering an increase ea ch n.lniber of cavalry regiments from 63 ,0 t0 m 7 e 5 n each.re'intnent to consist of six squadrons of lo Do rti ' T his evenin g ' s lli on i teur, i n th e non-official p apeta ll) reg re t s that yesterday evening five news a d eer w ere seized f or conta i n i ng a proc l amat i on and . ye 4tr Z , issued b y M. Jules Simon, and bearing . 74 dale. A , proclamation, signed by the Mayor and Councillors of Bordeaux, was posted up " this morning, requesting the inhabitants to remain calm and preserve order. The Siecle severely blames M. Jules Sinion's conduct. General de Marivault has been replarAd by General Plankol in command of the Mobilised Guards of Brittany. M. Etienne Arago las arrived at Bor deaux. A great demonstrp . .'d on is at this moment being made in front of ' .d Prefecture. Th e crow d 0 Colonel Milto n an d o th er has been harangued b: sf speakers, and is aw .. ..iting a communication from M. Gambetta. The speeches made are all against the February 5.. holdinthe ' g e eetions and against To-day's Journal Ofliciel contains the following of _ ... submitting to the terms T.4O Convention of Versailles. 'decree : "The Government of the National Defence , con dee' The Prefect th en rea d t o th em the following 'sidering lira a decree has been issued by t he De- i : dtration :_... legation of the Government in Bordeaux on the f The Minister of the Interior and of War, faith 31st of January, 1871, by which various categor l ep, ;JAI to his p rogramme, wh i ch consists in the words, .of citizens who, by the decree of the Gove tinned; . 3 q IT° Alm 1 To arms !' is at this moment engaged the 20th of January, 1871, are eligible fox Imo, with 'e. Council of War in deliberating upon the National Assembly, are declared ineligible. i bett means of d er i v i ng a d vantage f rom the " Considering that the restrictions impo' A kv, ori 1 Armistice." the elections by the said decree are , F ir 44ziempatibie The demonstrati on did no t assume i mpor t ant dimen with the principle of the freedom of As i suf- sions, and did not com e u p to the expectations enter -1 tivema tamed, considering th e s t e p s t a k en t o organ i se i t. 46 /aimed decree Ordains,—That the above-m , The crowd has dispersed, and at this moment the eaux is n u ll an d issued by the Delegation at Bor d city is quiet. void. February 6, Noon. M.M. Eugene Pelletal), Gamier Pages,- and Em manuel Arngo, members of the Paris Government, and M. Leonville, the secretary of M. Jules Simon, arrived in Bordeaux this morning. BORDEAUX, February 5 (Evening.) t. Marc Girardin has arrived at Limoges as a candidate. M. Gambetta has been brought forward in several places ; Garibaldi and Chatrian in the Bas-Rhin. At Bordeaux, as at Lyons and Mar seilles, some Republicans desire war a outrance,with out any elections.—Daily News Telegram. THE SUPPLY OF FOOD FOR PARIS. CALAIS, Monday Night. The Prussians are shewing a determination to re tard the revictualling of Paris. At Amiens I saw to-day nine trains of provisions kept in the station by theiGerman authorities, though the line is quite free thence:to Paris. Yesterday they refused to allow more than three trains to proceed. Railway communication is still interrupted between Amiens and Abbeville, but will be re-established in three days.—Morning Post Telegram. THE CATHOLICS AND THE IMPERIAL RESTORATION. BRUSSELS, February 6. It is reported that Cardinal Antonelli is actively , exercising his influence to induce the clergy to re commend the French peasantry to vote in favour of a restoration of the Empire as most favourable for the future pro'spects of Rome.—Lombard Telegrams, essential points of the Black Sea question have been settled at the Conference. The same paper denies that the Czar has recommended to the Emperor William the advisa bility of moderation in proposing terms of peace. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAAIS.) BANQUET TO THE NEWLY-ELECTED MEMBER THE TERMS OF PEACE. FOR MEATH. Mr. John Martin, the newly-elected member for the county of Meath, was entertained last night at a banquet in Dublin. The chair was occupied by Mr. William Shaw, M.P. Letters of apology were received from several members of Parliament and other gentlemen. Lord Claude Hamilton, in his communication, fully ap preciated the significance of the return of Mr. Martin, which he was glad had taken place. He looked upon it as a protest of an important county against the system of the Government of treating questions relating to Ireland merely with reference to their effect on party interests and the maintenance of that Govern ment's official position, instead of seeking 'to meet the wishes and requirements of the country by just acqui escence in her demands. The toast of " The Queen " was received with some tokens of disapprobation. Mr. Martin, on rising to respond to the toast of his health, was most enthusiastically received. Writing from Berlin, February 3, the Daily News corre spondent says :—lt was no mystery at Versailles that the various dynastic parties in France had begun to outbid each other in offering terms of peace. Bismarck's idea is, that the demands of Germany being accepted, the Re public ought to have the preference, because it most pledges the nation. A statement of pretended Ger man conditions of peace, including, besides Alsace and German Lorraine, a war indemnity of ten milliards, the handing over of twenty men-of-war, and the cession of the colony of Pondicherry—a statement which has been telegraphed from here to one of your contemporaries—has been received here with general merriment. I may observe that the acquisition of the French settle ment at Saigon has really been recommended by the Geographical Society of Berlin " for the advantage of science." The German geographers want to study South Eastern Asia without English pass ports—that is all. But the press is dead against it. Voss's Gazette but yesterday shewed, in a very elaborate article, how the hopes of rule and prestige attached to colonies which filled people's minds in the seventeenth and eighteenth century have all proved a failure ; and how the transfer of a colony from France to Germany would be nothing but a stupid blunder. As for the ten milliards, they of course have the true scent of the bar gain that is about to commence. Ten he says ; nine he means ; eight is not to be got ; seven is the value ; six he will take ; five I will offer. These are things that may be read, but must afterwards be forgotten. The certainty that the re-establishment of peace is close at hand—a certainty which rests on matter of fact, on military grounds—has already led, here at Berlin, to deliberations about the use that is to be made of the peace for preventing the recurrence of such internecine wars as the present. A conference took place yesterday evening of the' members of the German free-trade party, to which Englishmen now present here were invited, for the purpose of considering if the time had not arrived for assembling the free-trailers of Europe in a Congress destined to promote the commercial union of the European nations by new tariff and other reforms. A resolution to this effect was carried, and will be acted upon. THE LATE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION NEAR ATHLONE. The prisoner Robert Black, who was arrested imme diately after the attempted assassination near Athlone, was yesterday brought up before the magistrates at Athlone, and was fully identified by Mr. Blagfield and his servant. The former swore positively to the identity of the prisoner, and other evidence was also produced which leaves no doubt as to the prisoner being the man who attempted the murder, and he was fully committed for trial at the county assizes. CONVICTION FOR BRIBERY AT A SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. At the North Shields Police-court yesterday,Mr. Ralph Turnbull, a member of the School Board of that town,was charged with bribery at the recent School Board election. The evidence went to she w that Mr. Turnbull had influ enced voters by treating them to drink at a public-house. He was found guilty, and fined ss. and costs (or in default of payment to be committed for seven days), and was de prived of the franchise for seven years. A somewhat similar charge against a publican named Knott was dis missed. THE ARMISTICE AND THE ELECTIONS. By special despatch from Versailles, February 4, the correspondent of the Daily News at the Crown Prince of • Prussia's headquarters sends the following : A meet ing of the French inhabitants has taken place in the theatre of Versailles about the coming elections. The most perfect order prevailed. The Parisian authorities have published a statement of the reason why they concealed the exact con dition of the city as to food during the latter part of the siege. They admit the serious state of affairs in this respect now existing. The elections in Paris are post poned to the same day as those in the provinces. Pending the session of the Constituent Assembly at Bordeaux, AO peace negotiations are possible between France and Germany. France will be represented by the Constituent Assembly, and will receive the German ultimatum after an interval sufficiently long to allow it to reflect upon the difficulty of continuing the struggle. From all I hear there is no doubt that, though the French may do something towards reorg,anising their forces in the three weeks' breathing time, the German plans will so far be matured in the same space as to leave things as hopeless as before for the beaten side. Refugees from Paris continue to pass the German lines, and are to be seen by scores on the road to Versailles. There is great scarcity and distress, but still perfect order in the city. I hear from all who have visited Paris since the capitulation that the self-restraint and patience of the people are very touching to see. Long queues waiting at the provision shops for their turn to get the daily pittance of food are as well behaved as the queues we have seen outside French theatres in times of peace. There have been few complaints of robbery. The streets are kept clean. The shops are mostly open for business. It is said to have an odd effect when the rich man drives past to hear the poor not envying him his equipage, but longing to eat his horse. The special correspondent of the Telegraph, sends the _ following under date February 3 :—A decree, issued by the Government this morning, postpones the election in the capital until the Bth of February. Although the voting will thus take place• on Wednesday next, down to the present moment everything is confusion, with the exception of a. general tendency to refuse en bloc all members of the Government of National De fence. The meetings in the various halls become every day more demonstrative in their character. In some the name of Garibaldi has been received with cries of " No foreigners 1" and In others certain of the speakers per sisted in demanding that the individuals who had sur rendered the city should be arrested and tried, and that any candidate requesting the support of the club should sign an undertaking to that effect. At the Liberal Republican Committee, held in the Palais de la Bourse, it was declared that the Government of the 4th September should be called to the bar of the National Assembly, in order to render an account of its conduct and of its act in concluding the armistice ; that no treaty of peace ratifying the cession of Alsace and Lorraine should ever be signed ; that Paris should continue its defence, and should refuse to capitu late. In the Salle de la Linge Blanche an orator declared that, to save France, a Robespierre was required, and the guillotine alone could secure the salva tion of the country. This sentiment was received with enthusiasm, and the meeting shouted in chorus, " The members of the Government are cowards." At the Casino, Beaurelaire, who some time ago pro posed to out through the Prussian lines, was last night the pet of the meeting, and accepted as candidate. Coquerel, describing himself as " Protestant minister," was also nominated. Napoleon Gaillard declared that the present Government was a band of twelve bandits, who had sold Paris. He denied the Prussian victories, and demanded that Paris should vote in favour of deputies desirous of continuing the war. He was also accepted and loudly applauded. General Trochu declines to offer himself as a candidate, and has published a letter, in which he says : `• I only consented to retain the Presi- dency of the Government. because it was my duty to bear with my colleagues all the weight of our common re sponsibility. lam about to be discharged from it, and my part must finish with the events which gave it rise." The walls are placarded with inscriptions of " Pas d'Avocats." General Ducrot has not been wounded, but has refused to offer himself for any candidature. The favourite list of candidates is that of M. Dufaure. The Government has purchased large supplies of stores, but only private commercial activity can ensure in a complete manner the revictaul ling of the capital. Provisions are consequently permitted to be brought into the city. The Government renounces all claims to requisitions. The disarming of th e t roo p s i s b e i ng e ff ec t e d s l ow l y, an d will not be completed until the expiration of the armis tice. The 12,000 soldiers left with arms in Paris by the generosity of the Prussians are three regiments of the Line, and the regiment of Mobiles of the 11-et-Vilaine, which behaved so well at the Hotel de Ville on the 31sit October, The flour in the capital will be exhausted on Saturday next, and on Sunday Paris will be without bread. Grave apprehensions are felt that, after to-morrow, for from twenty-four to forty eight hours, Paris may be absolutely destitute and starving. Inspector-General Innes is coining in again on Sunday from the French Relief Fund with food. His first expedition was eminently successful. A City of Paris loan is talked of, to repay the Bank of France the two hundred million francs of war contribution which that establishment has consented to advance. M. Rochefort has commenced the publication in Paris of a new journal entitled Le Mot d'Ordre, and explains in his opening address that the mot d'ordre is regicide. The Journal des Debats declares the Republic has lost its vitality, and the only hope of France lies in the restoration of the Orleans family. General Trochu has publicly declared that he is prepared to proceed to Bordeaux for the purpose of justi fication. A Lombard telegram srom Brussells says that the re ported fusion between the Legitimists and Orleanists is denied, The fall of PariS has affected the sugar market differ ently from what was expected. The terrible distress of the inhabitants, and the limited means of transport in bringing in grain, and other prime necessaries have caused the supply of luxuries such as loaf sugar to be deferred, and 6d. per cent out of the is. 6d. to 2s. rise which was obtained in the loaf sugar market on the news of the approaching surrender, has been lost. POSTAL NOTICE.—The Post Office authorities have issued the following notification :—A mail for Paris will be made up in London every evening (Sundays excepted) for conveyance by special steamer from New haven to Dieppe, in the hope of means being found for sending it on to Paris. The lettors intended to go in such mail must be sent open, i.e., unsealed, and none can be ‘ registered. A mail for Dieppe will also be made up for despatch by these direct steamers. BOURBAKI'S ARMY. The French Army of the East is leaving for its cantonments in Switzerland. Berne will receive 20,000 men, Zurich 11,000, Argcnie 8,800, Canton de Vaud 8,000, Saint Gall 7,000, Glaris 7,000, and other places in proportion, the whole force interned num bering 84,000. Switzerland will not sutler financially through the internment of the French army, as the amount of French war material in the hands of the Confederation consists of over 100 guns and mitrail lenses, and 80,000 rifles. THE BLACK SEA QUESTION. The Independance Beige of Monday asserts that the THE ALLEGED PRUSSIAN ATROCITIES. In a communication from Dijon, dated January 26, the correspondent of the Daily News writes : Yesterday, while waiting for a batch of wounded coming up from Daix, to be housed in the general hospital, one of the porters told Inc that in the inner court yard was the corpse of a Franc-tireur who had been burnt alive. I wen; to the secretary and asked to see the corpse ; then went with Lieutenant • Davis, and two Baden surgeons. Of all ghastly sights seen in these days, this was the ghastliest. The poor fellow, who has since been recognised as a captain of one of llicc:otti's companies, had been tied to a tree ; the marks of the cords were on his arm. The fire had been lighted at his feet, and he had burned slowly up wards. His back, which had been bound to the tree, was not touched by the fire, his neck and face intact, a part of his red plaid shirt still hanging on. It i probable that the miscreants had been disturbed in their famous sport, and that the fire went out before the un happy victim was dead. It so happened that the same Baden surgeon who examined the corpse was assigned to me in the evening to attend to the few Prussians left at Daix. He was in a most pitiable state of terror ; still he went, did his duty, remained at the farm all night, and this morning I brought him and the remaining wounded back to Dijon. One colonel and a dozen soldiers had died in two days ; another major in the village was breathing his last. The rest were hardly transportable, but I had to choose between the risk of transport and the risk of the vengeance of the Franca tireurs. For all the serious cases who had to be moved in a recumbent position we provided separate cars, and es corted the convoy to the Lyceum, where the majority-of the enemy's wounded lie. The Baden surgeon and a very gentlemanly major were profuse in their thanks. They said they did not expect to be so treated by Garibaldi. Relieved from my fears for these men, I drove out to Hauteville, to the house where the members of the Saone•et-Loire Ambulance had been murdered. I found a very respectable woman, sister of the Mayor of Hauteville, and her daughter, at home. They told me that on the night of the 21st-22nd, some surgeons and nurses came and took possession of her house for a temporary hospital, hoisted the flag with the red cross, and, having attended to all their wounded, were seated in the kitchen awaiting some food that she was preparing. Suddenly the Prussians rushed in. One officer, who spoke French, swore that she concealed Francs-tireurs. She let them search ; they found none. Then in cold blood they killed the head surgeon, and another doctor who was trying to escape, and left for dead on the ground four of the nurses. The soldiers returning in the morning, stripped the dead and wounded. In the same house a young girl of 20 years of age was shot through the heart, but accidentally. Hitherto I have stood up for the Prussians, and dis believed the stories of their atrocities. Now my whole soul revolts against them. Ricciotti's surgeons are still prisoners. The colonel in command at Chatillon promised —nay, pledged his word—that they should be sent back on the 12th January, via Switzerland. We are now at the 26th, and there are no tidings of them; and a gentleman who met Zulinski the other day assures me that, as a Pole, he is to be taken to Russia. Poor General Bosak is dead. January 27. 'To•day I have been some of the officers of the - legion whose surgeons were massacred by the Prussians at Hauteville. They do not belong to the Army of the Vosges, but to the 3rd Legion of the Mobilised National Guard of Saone-et-Loire. On the 21st they had taken possession of the village with two battalions. As soon as the outposts were placed a patrol of the enemy's cavalry entered ; they were repulsed. Half an hour later a patrol of infantry were repulsed likewise ; but towards evening, attacked on three sides by the Prussians, they were obliged to retreat behind the village. The ambu lance surgeons and nurses remained at their post in the house they had occupied in the centre of the village, when the Prussians entered, and, long after firing on both sides had ceased, attacked the un armed ambulance. Dr. Morin, head surgeon, received two balls in his head ; an officer discharged his revolver in his breast, the soldiers finished him off with the bayonet. Dr. Milliard was murdered outside the house while trying to escape ; the Infermiers, D'Heret, Champigny, Fleury, Legros, and Moine, were fired on by officers armed with revolvers. The assassins carried off the four horses, the material, and even the surgical instruments belonging to the ambulance. The bodies of the murdered surgeons have been exhumed, and brought to Dijon; the wounded nurses are lying in our hospitals. THE LATE FIGHTING IN THE EAST OF FRANCE. The special correspondent of the Standard thus writes from Pontarlien, January 29 :—The original plan of cam paign, conceived by Lieutenant-Colonel de Bigot, chief of staff of the 7th Military Division at Besancon, offered great probabilities of success. We were close upon the heels of the Prussians when we reached Lure after a most fatiguing march. During the night there was an alerte ; in attempt on the part of the enemy to cut cff our Armstrong battery, but he was beaten back, and towards midnight the men were allowed to break ranks and cluster around the fires. At last the dawn broke, and we could see the Prussians at Chenebier throwing out their skirmishers, and preparing to resist our attack. At half past seven General Tevis deployed his brigade on the heights, and began with his mountain guns ; the enemy answered immediately, and almost at the same time we could hear the thunder of Bonnet's attack on Chagey rolling in our rear. For two hours our cannonade lasted, and then. as the Prussian fire slackened, the 86th was ordered to fix bayonets. The men were frll of fight, and we knew that there were only 8,000 to meet us on the other side, but just as the line was about to advance, Cremer sent orders to suspend operations. It is only a feint, he said, to keep us back from Mandrevillars, and we must not waste our munitions. Then the 32nd was sent over the hill top to Chagey, and we waited for the result. At noon the regiment was driven back, and the division com mander was obliged to confess that it was no feint, but a serious attack. Still he delayed his movement, although for two hours dense columns of Prussian infantry had been gaining our left by the Frahier road and were ad vancing on Etobon. We were lost if he occupied this position, for the road over the mountain in our rear was impracticable for artillery. At half-past one three batteries opened on us. The Germans had dragged their guns up into the woods opposite at 3,000 metres, and our fourteen mountain rifles were use less. Matters went on from bad to worse, a hail of projectiles swept the plateau, where there was not even a shrub to shelter our men. At 2.30 General Tevis perceived that the enemy's left was unguarded ; the 83rd was sent forward under cover of the the hill side, the Mobiles crept up in the snow to within 300 yards of the Germans, and began a furious fire : they were raw troops, but they held the crest for three-quarters of an hour; then their colonel fell with a ball through his heart, and they broke in dis order. The General rallied them, however, and just then we heard the welcome sound of the drums of the 57th advancing to their support. One of General Tevis's gendarmes was dismounted by a shell which cut his horse in two. In five minutes the poor beast was cut into steaks by the reserve. In this rush the General was thrown down and contusioned, but he was held up by two of the men, and again we ad vanced. Down came the 57th, shouting " Vive la France !"—there was not one cry of " Vive la Repub. lique "—the Ist battalion of the 86th joined the line, and in ten minutes Chenebier was won, just as Admiral Pen hoet's division of the 18th Corps carried Etobon. It was a brilliant, although a fruitless victory, for it was not followed up, and the carelessness of Admiral Penhoet rendered it necessary for us to recapture Chenebier next morning, and to fight for our suppers the same night, as the intendance mistook the road and led our convoy of provisions into the Prussian lines, losing forty waggons. However, it proved that the Mobiles could and would fight if well led. Forty-eight hours afterwards the whole Army of the East was re treating towards Besancon, leaving its woun3ed to the tender mercies of the Prussians. Never was sight snore welcome than were the gloomy fortifications of Besancon ; but even here we were not doomed to idleness. General de Bressolles, with the 24th Corps, had abandoned . Baume lee D ames , an d was flying to Pontarher, and again was our division sent to stop the gap at itself, but It was a t r ifling affair in but it saved the army for the time being. The 2nd Brigade carried the heights of Torpes and the woods in their front, on the 23rd, with the bayonet, and . every thing was mad e ready to attack Dannemane next morning at daybreak. By 2 a.m i . Bourbaki sent orders for us to fall back. That evening he shot him self. It is useless and almost impossible to describethe retreat of the Ist Army towards the Swiss frontier. All the horrors of the retreat from Moscow were rea lised, arid as the men stumbled through three feet of snow, but one hope was expressed by all—that they might be driven across the frontier into Switzerland. mi l s was a brilliantly conceived campaign lost against inferior forces, after a series of complete victories, through the negligence and incapacity of a General who never made a serious reconnaissance, and never established a reserve, and through the maladministration of the quartermaster's department, which left our troops without forage, food, and ammunition. >oked , !rsity some Glad vote ; time, have mauY outif I id, or 3cially due, co of 1836, ncil off .easure ,hat terms guilt, no de- though ad be of in- them, proper cil were ture re- case on iad con at I had ;e4 in fb s usual.. Winter :comicall .11equer ,though the war , kind of expected stres " is is season st. 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The Allan Company's steamer North American will be despatched from Liverpool early this (Tuesday) morning, with a large quantity of flour on board, for Paris. The vessel was chartered on Friday, and the customs and rail way officials have manifested the greatest readiness to assist with the preparations for departure, which were conducted during Sunday. THE SENIOR WRANGLER OF CAMBRIDGE, Yesterday afternoon Dr. John Hopkinson, of Man chester, who came out senior w rangier in the recent Ma thematical Tripos at Cambridge, was presented by the Associates and Students of Qaeen's College, Manchester, at which he studied for three years, and of which he is an associate, with an address of congratulation of his success. Dr. Hopkinson is the son of Councillor Hopkinson, an engineer, of Manchester, and being a Nonconformist, he was disqualified from accepting the emoluments which are attached to the distinguished position he has achieved, and has already devoted himself to his father's business. The meeting yesterday was attended by the Principal and Professor of Owen's College, the Mayor of Man chester, the President of the Chamber of Com merce, Sir William Fairbairn, Sir Joseph Heron, and representatives of other public bodies. The address was presented by Mr. Joseph Bull, a student, who, in the course of his speech, said : There was one thing which, as a Nonconformist, he could not prevent himself from saying, and that was, every gentleman •in the College, he believed, felt that it was not right that Dr. Hopkinson, or any other Englishman, should be debarred, as he was, from enjoying the highest emoluments which • his university offered, and which he had so justly earned for conscience' sake. (Cheers and a few marks of dissent.) —Dr. Hopkinson, in replying, confined himself to thank ing his fellow students and associates for the expression of their good feeling, and to thanking his teachers and professors for the assistance they had given him during his career as a student. THE FATAL ACCIDENT IN A RAILWAY TUNNEL. The Liverpool borough coroner held an inquest yester day on the bodies of George Ellis, Alfred Liddiard, and Amos Darwen, who were killed in consequence of the breaking of a chain by which they were being lowered down a shaft, communicating with a tunnel on the Great Northern Railway. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the chain,being much worn, was insufficient for the purpose for which it was used. THE HABITUAL DRUNKARDS' BILL. At a meeting held at Norwich last night a resolution in support of Mr. Dalrymple's HabituarDrunkards' Bill was adopted. THE PARIS BOOKSELLER'S RELIEF FUND. A numerously attended meeting of publishers and others connected with the book trade was held in the hall of the Stationers' Company, on Monday, for the purpose of raising a fund in aid of the distressed assistants of publishers and others connected with the trade in Pars. The chair was taken by Mr. Thomas Longman. A letter had also been received from Mr. Murray, suggesting that before distributing any of the money it would be as well to wait until they heard from Paris, whether Messrs. Dids and Hatchet, the well-known publishers in Paris, would form a com mittee for the distribution of the fund. Mr. J. Whitaker had already forwarded a sum of money to Messrs. Dids and Hatchet.—Mr. Kent urged that as a special fund it should be devoted to the special purpose for which it would be collected—Mr. Kelican, of the firm of Messrs. Dids and Hatchet, stated that his firm were willing to undertake the distribution.—A resolution was then passed appointing a committee to carry out the objects of the meeting, of which T. Long man, Esq., was appointed Chairman, Mr. Marston, Hon. Secretary, and Mr. John Miles, Treasurer.—Mr. S. Chappell remarked that by collecting a sum for a special fund they would probably obtain a larger sum from the trade than would be given by it to a general fund. A second resolution was then passed to the effect that the fund should be distributed among publishers, booksellers, music sellers, and other persons connected with literature. And it was al o resolved to commence the distribution at once.—The Hon. Secretary then announced that he had already received subscriptions amounting to £5OO. We are happy to hear from the Inverness Courier that the health of Mr. Bright is so far re-established that he is expected to go to Invergarry about the end of the present month for sahnon fishing. CRYSTAL PALACE—One Shilling day, February 0, 1871. Admission by season tickets, 1,403 , ditto on pay ment, 915 ; total visitors, 2,318. CABINET COUNCIL.—A. Cabinet Council was held yesterday in Downing-street. The Ministers present were —The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancel lor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, Viscount Halifax, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, Earl Granville, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Artgyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Right Hon. C. Fortescue, and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster. PRESERVED MILK.—The difficulty of obtaining good milk has always hitherto been a vexed question with housekeepers, they being entirely at the mercy of the dairyman who has the monopoly of the locality in which they may chance to reside ; but it is pleasant to be able to note that an immense improvement has of late made itself apparent in the supply of this truly household article. Milk can now be obtained from all grocers and chemists in a preserved state, being transported direct to England from the rich pasture-lands of Switzerland, and sent hither firmly secured in tins hermetically sealed, so that it will remain goad for any length of ti me . I n it s preserve d state the milk has a pasty appearance, which is caused by the fact of sugar being mixed with it to assist the proces of preserving; and the only thing necessary to render the preserved milk ready for immediate use is to pour hoe water upon as much as a person may wish to use, when it at once dissolves, and is both milk and sugar in one. It the present Franco-German war the Anglo-Swits Miln Company, of 38, Leadenhall-street, London, have hale their resources taxed to the utmost to supply the hostild armies; and large orders were received from Paris prior to the investment, but for want of time they could not all be fulfilled. The rate of importation into Great Britain of this article is, on an average, 1,500 cases of four dozen 11b. tins per month; and it should be borne in mind that each tin is equal to five pints of crude milk. The well known medical authority, Dr. Lankester, at several recent inquests held by him, has commented in a most favourable manner as to the advisability of the product of the Anglo- Swiss Company being substituted for breast milk where it was not possible for a mother to suckle her own infant ; and it is to be hoped that, from the high encomiums from all quarters that have been gratuitously passed upon this preserved milk, it will become more generally knowu'and appreciated, and meet with the success which such spirited enterprise deserves. ms' s v - • .4 , • - • • • • -. ~~_ •` ` ~y ~Y y'-.~• • ; OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning THE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE. The Times considers that it is premature to discuss the ultimate form of Government in France, except so far as the views which are put forth upon it illustrate the intellectual and political capacity of the several com petitors for power. The Duc D'Aumale locks fondly back on a Constitutional Monarchy. The civic mobs who support M. Gambetta would proclaim a Re public by Divine right, while the conspirators of Brussels declare that in a restoration of the Empire is the only chance for the salvation of France. It is difficult to repress some feeling of scorn for those who dispute over these forms of popular sovereignty, some feeling of despair for France when these are her best advisers. Starting from the premises that a Re public is nothing more than the government of a people by itself, we may easily see that all these proposed schemes of national organisation are in essence Republican. The Empire itself was a Republic, subject to these great defects that it was founded in violence, and that an act of violence was necessary to enforce that responsibility of the Emperor to the people which was its leading idea. These blots ought to prevent its ever being again established. A political system which cannot be changed except by a revolution is self-condemned. For the same reasons, that Demo cratic Republic which M. Gambetta, by his arbitrary de crees, confesses cannot exist except by the disfranchise ment of large masses of the nation, ought to be rejected. M. Gambetta's Republic would begin, as it would end, in violence. But why should there be any struggle between a Constitutional Monarchy and a Republic where the nation is governed by an elective representative Legislature and an Executive holding office only while possessing the confidence of the Legislature ? A Constitu tional Monarchy is nothing more nor less than this last, with a head either hereditary or elective, and time con ception of such a Republic has been familiar to all French political thinkers since the discussion on the " amendement Grery" in 1819. It is a very good thing to inherit a Constitutional Monarchy, or to have slowly reduced an autocracy to this shape, but to attempt to set up such an artificial machinery afresh is to violate the active political tendencies of France, and thus to pave the way for a fresh revolution. 'rue Teleyraph says : France is about to hold her elec tions in the midst of such gloom as falls upon nations only once or twice in the course of their history. There is an extraordinary muster of candidates. Legitimists, Orleanists, Bonapartists, and Republicans are all soliciting election. If the Dictator's thcree be annulled, the National Assembly will afford the fairest represen tation of France exhibited by any Parliament since that of 1848. If Gambetta, would only stay his hand, there would now be so complete a change that all political parties would rush into the field and jostle each other for the mastery. The sleepy headquarters even of the Comte de Chambord are said to display feverish activity. The Due d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinville have come forward to represent the House of Orleans. For the first time since the Coup d'Etal the fight in Paris will be waged by the Orleanists and the Republi cans, instead of by the Republicans and the Bona partists. The Moderate 'Republicans are, no doubt, still the dominant party, and such men as M. Jules Favre, M. Jules Simon, and M. Ernest Picard may be expected to head the poll. But the Orleanists have manifestly become formidable opponents, even in the Democratic capital. Through out the North the prospects of that party are still brighter; for the comfortable manufacturing towns have always betrayed a strong leaning towards the family of Louis Philippe and a monarchical form of government. The Republicans of the North, however, are also stirring, and the United Committees of the Seine Inferieure have issued a proclamation in which they declare that their party alone has never com promised its duty ; since " alone during the in famous period which ended at Sedan did it hold high and steadfastly the national honour." As for the Bonapartists, their sole hope lies in that great and inscrutable mass of peasantry which has never forgotten the glories of the First Napoleon, and from which, it is said, significantly pathetic inquiries have come respecting le paurre Empfreur who is now a captive in Germany. The peasants, there can be no doubt, hate a man who has laid waste their fields, and taken away their sons to die by the walls of Paris or the banks of the Loire. They have no love for the Repub lic ; they know little or nothing of the Orleanists ; and it is far from improbable that, if the contest were really free, they would once more place the Bonapartists at the head of the poll. The Standard observes :—The deliberations of such an Assembly as M. Gambetta aims at would be a farce. It would have no anthotity to represent France, its decisions for peace or war would not speak the desires of the people, and would have no effect upon the determination of the question, unless they should be unconditional submission to the German terms, however harsh they might be. M. Gambetta, if successful in this assertion of his own authority, will find that he has sacrificed France and destroyed all chance of that ultimate success in the war which he professes to still cherish by his insensate conduct. If an Assembly, fairly elected, had rejected, as it must have done, terms of peace like those which were at first announced, the most energetic efforts on the part of the whole nation to continue the war might have 'been relied upon. But now, no matter what the terms of peace, the vote of the National A- sembly, if it should be composed as M. Gambetta designs, will count for nothing with the nation, and the most passionate declarations for a continuance of the war will find no echo except in the South. The North will make no further efforts to continue a struggle which is carried on by those in power, not to save France, but to preserve the Republic and their own authority. The parts of the country which have borne the brunt of the war, and must be the sufferers if it should continue, will repudiate the right of the hot-headed Republican mobs of the South, who have made no sacrifices, to condemn them to a struggle which under such conditions must be a hopeless one. Who could honestly give his voice for a renewal of the war, however hard the terms of peace, if the direction of it must be left in the hands of a man who has shewn that it is not the freedom and the honour of France, but the triumph of a faction and the gratification of miserable personal and political hatreds for which he demands the continuance of resistance, and to which he would sacrifice so ninny thousands of his countrymen? POLITICAL DISSENSION IN FRANCE. It was once boastfully said, the Daily News remarks, that when France was satisfied Europe was at peace. It may truly be said that when France is unsettled Europe is disturbed. Revolution and anarchy among the French people are the signals of disorder in nearly every nation of the Continent. The present condition of France, and that into which she threatens to drift, form as great a darter to Germany and to Europe as any which menaced it from Napoleonic ambition and Imperial armies. It is probable that Count Bismarck has for months had fore sight, more or less distinct, of this evil. It is not likely that now, when it fronts him in all its magnitude and depth, he can fail to recognise its true charac ter, and see the peril which lies in it. The nar rowest German patriotism dictates the same course as that which a larger humanity would en ;gest. Forbearance and moderation may be recommended as politic to men on whom it would be improper to urge them as generous. They are necessary to the safety of Ger many, and to the peace and progress of Europe not less than to the restoration of France. The feuds between Bordeaux and Paris, between the war party and the peace party, the strifes of dynastic pretensions and of theoretical principles, of Orleanist, Bonapartist, and Legitimist, of Moderate and of Red Republican, of Socialist Reformer and Social Conservative, threaten all over France ; and unless means can be found of conjuring away the elements of danger, they will undermine any settlement which may be at tempted. When the very principles of society and the bases of Governments are questioned, the peril menaces established order everywhere. The year 1848 overset many European thrones ; and the catastrophe- of 1871 threatens to be more disastrous than that of 1848. It may be doubtful whether the danger which we believed Count Bismarck to have seen in September, and which then might have seen obviated, has not now reached unmanageable limits. If it is to be got rid of, it can only be by the proposal of such terms of peace as shall invite the unanimous acceptance of the French people, and leave them free to turn, with some degree of national self respect and under burthens not too heavy to be borne, from a miserable and humiliating past to the work of securing a staple and orderly present and a brighter future. The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture have ap pointed a committee to co-operate with the French Peasant Farmers' Seed Fund in mitigating the distress existing in many parts of France. The -New fork tribune states that Father Hyacinthe contemplates another visit to the United States next autumn, convinced that he did not see half enough of the country when he was there before, EN. )p. of 0. the Tese, 4,1: 4 4 ' .:, , 1 1 0 : , . ; 1 ;41 , , , 4 , : ~,-.••• ,