The Sun. — London, England, 1871-02-02 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M. THE A , THE CAPITULATION AND THE ARMISTICE. VERSAILLES, January 31 (Evening.) Persons will be allowed to leave Paris, but General von Blumenthal and the military authorities have been requested by the French not to give passes to -enter. The Emperor has had to order supplies of Prus sian flour to be sent in to prevent immediate star vation, and also ti let supplies pass through the German lines from Corbeil and Chantilly. Bread stuffs would last till the 4th, and horse meat till the 10th. Mr. Odo Russell was requested not to ask for leave to go in. A. train arrived here to-day from Paris to make postal arrangements for letters. The Emperor to-day visited Count Bismarck, who is indisposed. M. Favre and ono or two persons have come in and returned to Paris.— Tunes. THE GERMAN TERMS OF PEACE. A Times telegram from Berlin, Jan. 31, says :—The conditions of peace as announced by Count Bismarck to DI. Favr e , i nc l ude the cession of Alsace and Lor rame,with Belf or t an d M etz, t h e paymen t o f a pecuniary i ndemnity of ten milliards of francs, the cession of Pondicherry, in the East Indies, and the transfer of twenty first-class men-of-war. M. Favre has referred the decision to the National Assembly. Another telegram from Berlin, a day later, says the Spenersche Zeitunq, which at times contains semi official communications, says- 4 (ln well-informed quarters it is confirmed that the preliminaries be tween M. Favre and Count Bismarck have led to an understanding being arrived at which will form the basis of future negotiations for peace." A telegram from Florence states that frequent communications are being exchanged between the Cabinets of Vienna, London, Florence, and St. Petersburg, in consequence of the late events in France. Up to the present the result has been that Prussia has not shewn any desire to accept the friendly suggestions of the powers, wishing to re serve to herself exclusively the right of laying down the conditions of peace. The following telegrams come through Reuter's agency M. GAMBETTA ON THE ARMISTICE. The following is the text of M. Gambetta's procla , 'nation to the Prefects, dated January 31st :—lnfor mation from abroad leads us to believe that nothing has been settled at Versailles upon the question of Peace. The occupation of the Paris forts seem to indicate that the capital had been surrendered in the character of a fortified town. The army and the Garde Mobile are to lay down their arms. The Sedentary National Guard are to retain theirs. The Convention which has been entered into relates exclusively to the armistice, which appears to have for its especial object the formation and convocation of an Assembly. The policy maintained and carried out by the Minister of War is still the same. War outrance, resistance even to complete exhaustion. Exert, then, all your energies to maintain the moral spirit of the people. The period of the ar misticebe well employed in reinforcing our three armies with men, ammunition, and provisions. The troops must be submitted to a strict discipline, to enforce which you must devote all your efforts in concert with the military chiefs. They ought to be exercised daily during long hours in order to train themselves to war. The councils of revision ought to continue; and every work of organisation and equipment, far from being interrupted, ought to be pursued with vigi • lane. It is necessary at any cost that the armistice should be useful to us, and we can make it so. In short there is nothing until the elections, which may not, and ought not, to be turned to a dvantage. What France wants is an assembly which desires the war, and shall be determined to carry it on at any cost. BORDEAUX, January 31 (Evening.) No reply has as yet been received to the despatch referred to above, and which was sent yesterday to Jules Fevre at Versailles. This despatch, which Was published this evening, was as follows : BORDEAUX, January 30. "I have received the telegram addressed to the Delegation at Bordeaux on the 28th, evening, and received on the morning of the 29th. We have announced it to the entire country without corn llield• Since then we have received nothing. The c ountry is in a fever, and cannot be contented with t hose three lines. The member of the Government Whose arrival has been ann onnce d, b u t w h ose name has net yet been mentioned, has, up to the present tu ne, not been reported en route, either telegraphi eallY or otheiwise. Meanwhile, beyond the mere e „, r rYing out of the Armistice by the troops, which W e e hav e t a k en s t eps to h ave respecte d , it has bee n impossible for us to adopt any administrative mea sures respecting the elections in the absence u 4 all explanations on your part, and without " Ring the fate of Paris. GAMBETTA." The Minister of the Interior has sent the following .‘teapatch to the Prefects : t gi The Municipal Coun c il o f Bordeaux, at its sitting i ct `da, Y, has unanimously a d o pt e d the following reso tlii44°; which has been immediately transmitted to e Government : " g ln presence of the ev en t s w hi c h h ave occurred the , 41 Itunicipal Council of Bordeaux protests against conditions of peace not entirely guarding the Fronal honour. It adjures the Delegation of the O v ernnaent at Bordeaux to remain at its post, and ; co ntinue to prepare with the greatest ene r gy f o r ar y 4 outrance. ' Vi v o la R e p u bli que !' " 1, 131 reply to M. Gambetta's despatch to M. Jules c i ll a .V re) Count Bisma r ck la s t n i g ht t e l egrap h e d t o M. hatta as follows : Your telegraphic despatch, addressed to M. Jules °r Who 1 1;„, has just left Versailles, will be h an d e d F or in Paris. of 1 . j" Your information, I communicate a resume th e Convention concluded with M. Jules Fevre on `4 6 28th . ,, 4.E4,cre follows the text of the Convention between vre and Co un t Bi smarc k.] illtp4:11;a Government of Bordeaux appends the f0110w ... emarks • • e T her e. is to be a suspensio n o f h os tiliti e s un til m ag ree ,e when a lino of demarcati on s h a ll hav e b een th u Gl 4 o ll Pon. Th e o bj ec t o f th e A rm i s ti ce i s t o a ll ow , ve rnment of the National Defe n ce t o con v oke 1 11/ eI Y - elected A ssem bl y, w hi c h s h a ll pronounce 04 th th uled e question whether the War is to be con eeneiu'u.3 ed. upon what conditions Peace is to be or lc The Germans w ill a ff or d every f ac ility for carry. LIZ PUties. eut the electionsaidi for the meeting of the line All the Paris forts which constitute the outer o r „ surrend'letence, as well as the war materiel, will be I '4ll uo , re d to the Germans. The German Army bat terio ' enter Paris during the armistice. The 4r ky o f the enceinte will be dismounted, and the thei r ' -'-ateles Mobilos, and Marines will lay down ete 41.1118 , ePtiou becoming prisoners of war, with the wrvioein the interior of the city. The toops will THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1871. strictly secret, only the presiding officer at the different centres knowing how votes al e recorded ; consequently the result of the city election was not known for certain at night. The university voting commenced at twelve and concluded at two p.m., with the follow ing result, Professor Burrows, Dr. Leighton, and Mr. Kitchin, elected ; Mr. Bradley not elected. The papers will be handed to Mr. Ward, the chairman of the Local Board, who will officially declare the numbers of the three elected for the university. Professor Burrows and Dr. Leighton are Conservatives, and Mr. Kitchin Liberal. PLYMOUTH SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. The result of the Plymouth School Board Election contest is just made known. Two working men head the poll, two Wesleyan are next, there are also four Conservative Churchmen, three Liberal Nonconformists, one Roman Catholic Canon, and one Independent Dissenter of Conservative tendencies. The vicar is sixth on the poll, and the Mayor last. There were nineteen candidates, of whom thirteen form the Board. The unsuccessful candi dates were four Churchmen and two Dissenters. 3,250 electors voted, 42,000 votes being given. THE CRISIS IN THE SIEGE. The special correspondent of the Telegraph, in a letter dated Versailles, Jan. 28, says—The crisis which has re sulted in the conclusion of the siege seems to have oc curred in Paris on the 23rd, when the Mayors of the arrondissements met in the Hotel de Vile, and officially declared that the civil population had nothing more to eat—in other terms, that in a few days the stores of provisions would be entirely consumed. At the time it was stated that the military bad still three weeks' rations remaining ; that the very poor had not yet suffered, having received their two and a-half francs a day, together with rations of food and wine ; but that the rich, the middle, and upper classes, bad already felt most acutely the hard ships, and miseries consequent on the siege—their money having ceased to be exchangeable for food, and their own private stores having long ago been appro priated by the Government. With the exception of the emeute excited by the failure of the 19th, Paris has been wonderfully quiet, and has borne privations and bitter suffering with a degree of fortitude far exceeding anything that was supposed possible among that light, pleasure-loving, and tiivial population. The populace has throughout the siege submitted, and even in a great mea sure sacrificed itself, to the military rule. But after the declaration of the Mayors on the 23rd popular feeling becnme too strong to be kept in check. Actual starvation stared them in the face ; and famine —though, like other evils, it may be treated lightly when considered as a remote contingency, to prevent the occur rence of which many circumstances might arise— is a very ugly customer when viewed at close quarters. Compelled by popular feeling, M. Jules Favre sought and obtained an interview with Count Bismarck on the question of capi tulation. THE OCCUPATION OF MONT VALERfEN. Writing from the headquarters of the Crown Prince of Prussia, January 30, the special correspondent of the Daily News says :—The forward movement commenced yesterday morning, by which the German circle is tightened round Paris. From every quarter the Germans advanced to take possession of the French outworks. All the forts were occupied except Vincennes, which the French retain for a time by special stipu lation. It is impossible to forsee what tone will be adopted by the Assembly soon to be called to decide the fate of France. There are grounds for believing that the fall of Paris will lead to peace. Paris has fallen after the best efforts of the provinces to save her ha've failed. The taking possession of Mont Valerien was no small event. The Germans bad long watched it from a distance, and wondered whether they would ever be there. Yet when the time came to advance they went to work calmly, though cheerfully; too accus tomed to good fortune to be excited by any triumph. You might have seen them marching through Bougival along the high road to Rueil in compact order, with every thing required for a fresh campaign ; baggage, ammu nition, and artillery bringing up the rear. It was curious to pass the limits of death and destruction with out risk. The half-burnt village of Bougival, loopholed and barricaded, was no longer in danger of crashing shells from the fortress. Above there was a line of rough bar- Hers, formed by felled trees ; loopholed walls ; earth works for field batteries, which the French had tried so hard to take, and from which they were so bloodily repulsed; a line stretching by Buzenval, Garches over the neck of Mont Val4rien ; along the ridge in • front, from one reach of the Seine to another. There were the plateaux where the French mustered for two great efforts against the German position. There were the fields over which I saw them endeavouring to fight their way in October, and the rising ground where their field guns kept up so fierce a fire in the last wild effort but ten days ago. What shouts, and groans, and rolling of musketry and mitrail lenses, were lately heard on this trampled ground ! The opposing sentries had watched one another rifle in hand, and the deadly crack told of many a lad sent to his last account. Once out of Rueil, on the hillock near the mill battery, it was easy to skirt the fort and obtain entrance on the Garenne side. Small parties of Prussians might be seen strolling to their new quarters in the rear of strong de tachments in the very act of taking possession. The Prussian infantry filed into the gateway. Presently on the central flagstaff rose the German tricolor, and then the music of the Prussian band burst forth, swelling proudly in the fort. No Frenchmen were to be seen about—neither dead nor wounded, sick nor prisoners— but a couple of old crones, who seemed to have lived in the cottage near the gate, could be seen peeping over the garden wall, and a female custodian might have been found comfortably established in the porter's lodge. Mont Valerien is a splendid stronghold, well placed for defence, and admirably fortified. Not having been bombarded, it shews no sign of damage. It was more noticeable yesterday for its dreary emptiness than for anything else. Many guns have been removed. About a dozen heavy pieces are left behind. There is the huge " Josephine," a ship's gun, which sent shells so far into the Prussian positions. Another ship's gun, unchristened, is almost equally large. Of mitrailleuses, small arms, baggage. &c., not a vestige was to be seen. The barracks were very dirty ; likewise the stables for the artillery horses; and scores of Prussians might be observed diligently beating disinfecting powder into mattresses which the French had left. There had been much sickness in the fort. THE GOVERNMENT DELEGATION AT BOR- DEAUX In a letter from the King's Headquarters, Ver sailles, the special correspondent of the Standard, com menting on the situation in Prance, observes !—What of the disjecta nzembra of the Government of National Defence? What of the authorities at Bor deaux? What of that' stormy petrel, M. Gam betta ? Ask of the winds and the waves. He travels only by air and water, and things of the earth, earthy, know him not. I dare say that even now he is preaching the immortality of the Republic, and demonstrating the certa:!:l;y of German overthrow. I presume he must be dealt with. He is the goss-hawk of the fable who had better not be left out of the calculation. What if he imitates a statesman of somewhat similar temperament and calibre, and goes on " a pilgrimage of passion" through the provinces He has proved his in ability to drive the coach ; but it is perhaps not beyond his powers to upset it. He may undertake a crusade of continued resistance, and peradven ture be listened to. Then will France be scourged with scorpions. Preparations are already being made here for a move, and every contingency is being provided for. Should neither preliminaries of peace nor armistice ac company the fall of the capital, then cogent reasons will at once be given to the centre and south of France why M. Gambetta should not be listened to. You remember how quickly the German armies turned from " capitulated " Sedan, and flooded the valleys 'Which conduct therefrom to Paris. So quickly will they turn from capitulated Paris, if in its surrender it do not contrive to make terms for the members of that body of which it is the head. The reserve artillery of the sth Corps re ceived orders yesterday to be ready to march in three days. What resistance fresh scouring forces are likely to meet with all the world knows. "Hell or Connaught" was not considered much of a choice ; but Bourbaki now has not even that. Retreat into Switzerland is no longer open i,o him ; he can but fight or surrender, and the latter appears the more inviting prospect. Chanzy's army is now a mere nonzinis umbra; and the gifted com panion of the pen with whom - I lately travelled in Brittany has, I hear this morning, accompanied a flying column of the Duke of Mecklenburg, and so finds himself, oddly enough, at Rouen ! The instructions sent from here to the Grand Duke are, "Do whatever you like." That is just what every German commander in France is now doing, and the Frenchman who drives them all out of the land by the magic blade of peace—he shall be praised. not be allowed to cross the lines of demarcation dur ing. the Armistice. The National Guard will retain its arms, an I be intrusted with the maintenance of order. "The gendarmerie, and other :similar bodies, to the number of 35,000 men, will retain their arms. Every facility was given to M. Jules Favre to make arrangements for an armistice which has been ob served by our Generals for the last 48 hours. "On the other hand, the Prussian armies con tinue their movements, especially in the East, and have occupied various positions, notwitstanding the legitimate opposition raised by our command ing officers. The Government Delegation which has hitherto received but a single French official docu ment, is entitled and bound to communicate these facts to the country, in order to cast upon those who are at fault the responsibility for errors of interpre tation, of which the consequences, as affecting our heroic army of the East, may prove irreparable for France." THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH OF FRANCE. BORDEAUX, January 31. The Committee of Defence of the Gironde has held a sitting, at which the following resolution was passed : " Convinced that it is the Government's supreme duty to push forward with the greatest energy the preparations for a war a outrance, unless France obtains honourable conditions of peace, the Com mittee calls upon the Government Delegation to remain at its post, and offers it again the most active and devoted co-operation." BOURBAKI IN SWITZERLAND. The Federal Council at Berne has received official information that the army of General Bourkaki, numbering about 80,000 men, has entered Swiss territory. The Federal Council has sum moned the Cantonal Government to take the neces sary measures for the reception of the French soldiers, who will be distributed among the different cantons. VERSAILLES, February 1. The Emperor has telegraphed to day as follows to the Empress Augusta : "The army of General Bourbaki, 80,000 strong, has entered neutral Switzerland, near Pontarlier, in accordance with a Convention. "This is the fourth French army rendered in capable of further fighting." COMMUNICATION WITH PARIS. The following telegram has been received from Mr. Odo Russell, dated Versailles, January 31, .1871: • " Letter post between Paris and Versailles is re established. Havre and Dieppe will be the ports of communication for England. The French authorities do not wish foreigners to enter Paris before the revictualling can be effected. No exception is made. Mr. Herbert was refused yesterday.", BERLIN, February 1. The postal authorities have issued a notification, according to which ordinary open letters will be de spatched to Paris at the rates charged before the outbreak of the war. the transmission of closed letters is not allowed. BORDEAUX, January 30. The Director-General of the Telegraphs has issued an order re-establishing private telegraphic commu nication throughout France during the time of the elections for all correspondence relating to electoral matters. LILLE, February 1. The postal service with Paris is re-established for unsealed letters, THE NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, February 1 (Evening.) In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Representa tives, M. Louvier asked the Government whether it was not advisable to send home a larger number of the militia now that an armistice has been con cluded at Paris. Baron d'Anethan replied as follows: " After the events at Sedan, as the belligerents removed from our frontier we dismissed 35,000 men on furlough, but an army was still required to watch the frontier on account of the prevalence of rinderpest, and because we had also six depots of in terned French prisoners to guard. When the mili tary operations again brought the belligerents near our frontier, when Longwy was besieged and the siege of Givet became imminent, we had to rein force our Army of Observation, and we called out about 13,000 men. This step was attri buted to the existence of a plot among the French prisoners in Germany. Our information confirmed the fact of a plot being prepared; but this was not the cause of our recalling the troops. As regards the -sending home of Militia now, if the armistice concluded at Paris is carried out, we shall immediately send back several classes ; orders have already been given to that effect, but if the cares of neutrality should require fresh sacrifices the Government will not hesitate to make a renewed call upon the patriotism of the Chamber. It is well known what is going on at Bordeaux, Lille, and other towns, and the Government will not dismiss the militia unless the armistice is accepted and carried out." HUNGARY AND GERMANY. In the debate at Pesth on the extraordinary credit for the military vote, on the 31st, Count Beust said :—" Although I agree with the views expressed that we have no cause for apprehension, seeing that our relations with Germany have become most friendly, the object of the Government must, nevertheless, be not only to maintain, but also to strengthen these relations. It is not sufficient that our new friend is aware that we neither fear nor suspect him, but our great care must be that one friend must not only not fear the other, but also respect him, and we require this respoct in order to arrive at a complete friendship with him." THE DAN ÜBIAN ELECTIONS. In the election of deputies for Bucharest to the Chambers, the Red party were victorious, carrying successfully all their candidates. ROUE. Royal decrees, published at Florence on the Ist, abolish the Lieutenancy of Rome, and appoint Signor Gadda Royal Commissioner at Rome. Signor Gadda is Minister of Public Works. THE CONFERENCE. A. Lombard telegram from Vienna, dated January 31, states that in official circles it is reported the prolonged adjournments of the London Conference are due to the opinion entertained that no valid modifica tion of the treaty can be made without the actual pre sence of a representative of France, and also because the solution of the Black Sea question has given rise to greater difficulties than were at first anticipated. In Constantinople it is reported that the Confer ence will be closed until France is represented, (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) ADDRESS TO VISCOUNT CRICHTON, M.P. Yesterday the inhabitants of Enniskillen presented an address to Viscount Crichton, M.P., congratulating his lordship upon his marriage with Lady Florence Cole. There were great rejoicings in the town. ELECTION OF MEMBERS FOR OXFORD SCHOOL BOARD. The election of members for the Oxford School Board, namely, six for the city and three for the university, pro ceeded simultaneously on Wednesday, but the polling for the former was not closed until evening. The voting is NEWS FROM BOULOGNE. From Boulogne, January 31, a correspondent of the News Daily, writes :—Gambetta's latest despatch, pro claiming anew war to the knife, has been received here with a shrug of the shoulder, and not even the most ardent Republicans venture to approve its tone. It has produced no excitement whatever, and its only effect has been to dis credit its author ; nevertheless, it is admitted by those who think the matter seriously over, that his opposition to the peaceful counsels which now prevail may have a very baleful influence. His one grand but impracticable idea is resistance. At Calais, before embarking for Bor deaux, he made a midnight speech at the buffet of the station, in which he repeated the idea enunciated at Lille. " Let but the spring come," said he, " with a milder temperature, then our troops, inured to war, and having no longer to contend with the inclemencies of winter, will give a good account of the invader." In this hope, which no doubt renders him of so impracticable a disposition, iu presence of the general disposition to treat with the enemy, but in thus imperiously opposing himself to the national will, he overlooks the fact that the men who form the bulk of his army have no heart for fighting after the severe defeats they have ex perienced. As a rule, the only persons in these parts who at all support him are those who do' not know how to handle a gun, and are pretty certain that thesr will not.be called on to leave their homes. It seems to be very much doubted here that the Republic will survive the war. An ardent but sensible Democrat expressed to me his belief that an Orleanist Prince would ere long rule over France ; and this seems to be the general opinion. As for the Emperor, no one has a good word for him ; and only the ignorant peasantry would submit to his return. NEWS FROM HAVRE. From Havre, January 30, the Daily News correspondent writes as follows : —The official intelligence which arrived here this morning from Bordeaux, to the effect that M. Jules Favre had concluded an armistice, has been re ceived with mingled feelings of satisfaction and indignation ; satisfaction at the suspension of hos tilities for the moment, and indignation at the idea of Paris being obliged to treat for capitulation. In the meantime the Army of Havre is being put in a proper state of efficiency, under the superintendence of the new Commander-in-Chief. All the troops are now properly clothed ; the commissariat is remodelled ; 100 field guns have been added to the artillery ; the cavalry have been augmented, and a military train organized. Indeed, General Loysel, since his arrival here, has been inde fatigable in his exertions to improve the undisciplined and badly organized troops over whom he was appointed. It is much to be regretted that the Government of Bordeaux did not send a competent man to take the command of this garrison immediately after the evacuation of Rouen. If such had been done, the thousands of men who assembled here after that event, instead of idling and loafing about the town, might have been turned to some advantage, and then been able to render useful service to Faidherbe, or perhaps to re-occupy Rouen. General Loysel came too late and his task has been a race against time. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.—Wednes day, February 1, 1871.—The admissions by season ticket. were 2,309; ditto on payment, 1,744 ; total visitors, 4,053. BREAKFAST.L—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COIL FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES Eris & CO., Homeo pathic Chemists, London.. Also, makers of Epps's CacaOine, a very thin emit% beverage.—Advt. PUBLIC FEELING IN BORDEAUX. In a communication from Bordeaux, the special corres pondent of the Daily Illsws remarks :—I have noted with pleasure the opinions of many competent authorities that , the taking of Paris would not imply the conquest of France. The " conquest," in the sense of the annexa tion or permanent occupation of the country, certainly would not follow ; but from all I see, it seems to me a forlorn hope indeed to expect that, once Paris capitulated, or was taken by force, the provinces could oppose any effectual resistance to the victorious invader. Doubtless they ought to do so. Doubtless there would yet remain in France men enough, arms enough, and money enongh to expel from the violated soil an enemy well nigh exhausted by an effort which he could not greatly prolong. But fatal experience in the East, West, North, and in Paris itself, seems to show that Frenchmen of the present generation have lost their fight ing qualities. The Mobiles have had quite drill enough to make them as good fighting soldiers as the dregs of the German Landwehr and Landsturm now brought against them ; but the " sleep in a whole skin principle " is stronger in them than in the most miser able Germans, and no threats or cajolery will induce them to risk their lives in the way the Germans do. This rooted disinclination to be food for powder, even for the chance of glory, is stronger than all M. Gambetta's rhetoric. It is at the bottom of all the French disasters. Neither treason nor incapacity on the part of generals would have produced such uniform un success, with large material means, had it not been for the great element of cowardice in the French masses. I believe this disease— a transitory one, perhaps, in the nation—to be incurable as far as the present war is concerned, and therefore I have small faith in M. Gambetta being able to achieve the noble object of his ambition—the restoration of his country to her old place in the world. What I anticipate is (and Heaven knows I hope I may be wrong), that after the capitulatinn of Paris the provinces will fall away from M. Gambetta, and then some one of the various pretenders patronised by the invader will easily, by means of released Pretorians and the state of siege, put down all the active and courageous patriotism of the country ; and under the specious pretext of heal ing wounds and putting a stop to slaughter, step into the enjoyment of power and wealth at the expense of a degraded, mutilated, and ruined nation I do not feel the loss of Alsace and Lorraine in the way that Frenchmen do, and I think it would have been wise to have accepted that dismemberment as a consequence of Sedan and the Emperor's policy. A good and great France would have been left with out those Rhenish provinces. But if now France is not only to lose these provinces, but after the plunder of a fourth of her territory to pay a war indemnity which will condemn her sons up to the end of this century to toil for the foreigner, her condition will be worse than Egyptian bondage. The executioner of Wilhelmshohe is quite willing to accept these or any other terms which will restore him and his satellites to their former rank and emoluments. The Orleanists, saying truly enough that they are not responsible for the present disasters, would take a Crown and a Civil List upon the best conditions on which they could get them ; but all enlightened French citizens would feel that they were precipitated from the place they had been taught to hold in the world, and that France was sold to "chains and slavery." All the recruits who have been enlisted during the last six months were inspected on Tuesday by Major- General C. A. Edwards, C. 8., at Woolwich. The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Sant, Esq., R.A., to be Principal Painter in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Sir George Hayter, deceased. —Gazette. It is understood that General Schenck, the newly appointed United States Minister to England, is not ex pected to arrive in London earlier than three weeks from the present date- Mrs. Bickford, the widow of Major Bickford, has purchased for over £l,OOO the site of the drill griund and armoury of the Cambrone Volunteers, and has presented it to the corps. The vote of want of confidence in Messrs. Dalglish and Graham at Glasgow was carried, not (as reported by telegraph) because they voted for the conventual inquiry, but because they voted against it. Hull holds the best position in the mortality returns for the past week by having the lowest annual rate of mortality, while the highest falls to the lot of Lvierpool. A Liverpool firm have decided on making an attempt to establish a trade between Liverpool and Dundee by sea. It is not intended that the vessel shall run through the Caledonian Canal, but go round the north of Scotland. The Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday, dis charged the rule nisi for a criminal information for libel against the proprietor of the Newcastle Chronicle, which had been obtained on behalf of the Rev. Canon Greenwell, one of the visiting justices of the Durham county prison. The Admiralty has refused the application of the Greek Government to enter more of their officers in the navy, in the place of those lost on board the Captain. At the preliminary examination in arts of the Apothecaries' Hall, Dublin, on the 30th ult., Mrs. Leggatt passed very creditably, her papers being of a high order of merit. This is the first instance in Ireland of a lady having enrolled herself as a medical student. The Rev. G. . Gruebor having addressed a long letter to the Archbishop of York impugning the judg ment of the Privy Council in the case of " Martin v. Mackonochie " as inconsistent with that of the same tribunal in " Westerton v. Liddell," his Grace has replied substantiating to a great extent the grounds upon which their lordships declared judgment. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—At the next meeting of the committee of the Royal Humane Society, Sir William Fraser will move that a deputation wait upon the President of the Privy Council to suggest that swimming be taught in all schools which come under the recent Act. THE NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS. —A deputa tion, consisting of representatives of steamship owners and agents or Hull, Grimsby, Goole, Newcastle, Leith, and West Hartlepool, with Mr. Irvings, from the port of London, has had an interview with the Right H on. J. Stansfefd, at the Treasury, to obtain a modification of the new customs regulations relative to the mode of entering goods exported and imported. The deputation was introduced by Mr. J. Clay, M.P., and Mr. Nor wood, M.P. THE AUSTRIAN PRESS AND BISMARCK.—The Austrian press unanimously condemns the conduct of Bismarck in refusing Jules Favre the safe-conduct. Even those papers which previously applauded the Federal Chancellor censure alike the form and substance of his reply to Favre, which they consider injurious to the general sentiment of humanity and insulting towards England. The New Free Press of Vienna goes so far as to say that it would have been less disastrous to Germany to have lost a great battle than to have so alienated the sympathies of nations. The Tetablalt belimves that Bismarck's argu ments conceal his desire to annihilate the Republic in France. Other journals, though less outspoken, alike condemn the refusal. MURDER BY A MANUFACTURER AT BRADFORD. At an inquest yesterday, on the body of John Howard, who was killed on Tuesday by Mr. Joshua Armitage, an insane gentleman, at Eccleshill, Bradford, the coroner advised the jury to return a verdict of wilful murder, and leave the law to deal with Mr. Armitage afterwards. A verdict of wilful murder was returned. FIRE AT A COTTON MILL. Three lives were lost and property to the amount of £40,000 was destroyed by a fire which occurred yesterday at the cotton spinning mill of Messrs. Ede and Co., Elton, near Bury. MURDER AT NEWCASTLE. Last night a verdict of wilful murder was returned by the coroner's jury against Barbara Sample, the woman who assisted in the house where Elizabeth Matthewson was found dead on Tuesday morning. The accused is very ill from the effects of some poison which she had taken. THE IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS. Last night a meeting was held in Dublin in favour of the release without the condition of expatriation of such of the Irish political offenders as are still in prison. The pro ceedings were of an orderly character. Resolutions were adopted protesting against the imperfect character of the amnesty granted by the Government, which was declared to be cruel, inasmuch as it merely changed the sentence of imprisonment to one of transportation. An address to the Queen on the subject was adopted. The total emigration from Liverpool during the past month was 2,914, which shews a decrease of 670 on the same month of 1870. At the annual meeting of the Clydesdale Bank, on Wednesday, Mr. James Lumsden presiding, it was re ported that including twelve thousand pounds brought forward from last year, there were one hundred and thirty-five thousand pounds of profits to dispose of. A dividend of eleven per cent., with bonus of one per cent , all free of income tax, was adopted. Ten thousand pounds were laid aside for new buildings, and five thousand car ried to reserve, leaving ten thousand pounds to be placed to next year's account. £HE BOULTON AND PARK CASE. In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday afternoon, the Attorney-General said he believed that an application had been made to the Court to postpone this case for some time. He wished to state, as there had been a great deal of misapprehension about the matter, that the Crown was ready and most anxious to try the case at the Old Bailey last summer. It was, however, removed by cer tiorari by the defendants into the Court of Queen's Bench, and it became the duty of the Crown to enter the case for trial last term. They did not enter it, however, as it became quite clear that it could not have been reached. This term they entered it at the earliest oppor tunity; and as there remained now only about twenty cases—some of which would not occupy much time — before it, he hoped it might be reached in time to be tried this term. Mr. Justice Blackburn said the application made by the defendants was not to delay, but to fix a day for the trial of the cause, on the ground that they had to bring a number of witnesses from Scotland and other places, which would be attended with much greUter ex pense if they were kept waiting day after day in the court. He thought the application reasonable, but he did not wish to make any order until he had heard the other side. As there appeared to him to be little chance of the case beinv tried this term, it occurred to him that the case might be set down for trial on the first of tho six days after the Easter Term, usually set apart for common jury cases. It was ultimately arranged that the fixing the day of trial should be postponed until it was seen how the business before the Court progressed during the present week. MEETING AT MANCHESTER IN SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) Last night a meeting in support of Mr. Gladstone's Government and non-intervention was held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, under the I: auspices of the Na tional Reform Union, two or three hundred branches of which were represented by deputations. Mr. U. Mason, of Ashton-under-Lyne, presided, and letters of apology for absence, and expressing approval of the objects of the meeting, were read from Sir T. Bazley, M. P.,Mr. Leatham, M.P., M. Dixon, M.P., Mr. Peter Rylands, M.P., Mr. G. Hadfield, M.P., and others. Mr. Leatham in his letter deprecated in the strongest manner the interference of England in the affairs of foreign nations. Amongst those on the platform were Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., and Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P. After the speakers had taken their seats the "Dead March in Saul " was played on the grand organ in honour of the memory of the late Mr. George Wilson, president of the Union. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, said the Radical party had recently lost one of their great chiefs from the Cabinet, and if their other great chief there chose to recruit his Ministry from worn-out Whigs and mem bers of the great aristocratic families it would be a fatal mistake. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., moved the following resolu tion :—" That this meeting heartily commends the Go vernment for passing through Parliament those great measures of justice to Ireland, the disestablishment of the State Church, and the bill for the reform of the Land Laws, and expresses its earnest hope that it will in the ensuing session vigorously promote mea sures for securing a thorough revision of the laws relating to the sale of intoxicating li quo rs, vo t e by ballot in parliamentary and municipal elections, the equalisation of the suffrage in boroughs and counties, and the abolition of university tests, and pledges. itself to render to the Government all the support in its power for the carrying of these and similar measures of reform." Mr. Bright, in supporting the resolution, referred to the marriage of the Princess Louise, and expressed his regret that in some constituencies great objections had been made to a dowry being granted to her. This objection certainly did not arise from any feeling of hostility to the Princess; her character forbad any such supposition. Though little could be known of one so young, it was admitted she had a warm sympathy with the education of the people, and took an especial interest in the educational efforts intended to improve the character of her own sex in every position of life. The objection to the vote certainly did not arise from any prejudice against the family into which she was going to marry, for there was no member of the House of Peers more laborious in his public duties than the Duke of Argyll, and no member of the Cabinet who during the last two years had more conscientiously seconded the efforts of Mr. Gladstone to pass liberal measures. He believed the opposition must arise from an economical fit, but he held that the man was a shallow politician who began to economise at this point. There were millions of pounds misspent in this country in reference to which economy might well be exercised. For his own part he would not join those who strained at the gnat and swallowed a camel. The resolution was passed. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., moved " That this meeting is of opinion that her Majesty's Ministers have by their policy of non-intervention earned the confidence of the country, and that by pursuing the same course they will be enabled to reduce the military expenditure of the country without impairing the efficiency of the service. Mr. Richard, M.P., supported the resolution. He should like the Government to go to the newspaper offices and search out the men who wrote brimstone articles. He would also give them permission to go upon the platform of St. James's Hall, and take hold of the gentlemen who made loud speeches there, as to the duty of England to inter fere, and send them to the war. He hoped the day would soon come when England would advocate a system of international arbitration. The resolution was adopted with only a few dissentients. I OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning BISMARCK'S PERMS OF PEACE. The Times, commenting on the German conditions of peace, says :—We have seldom had reason to doubt the accuracy of the information transmitted by our Berlin Correspondent, and we must, therefore, suppose, he had good ground for his statement of the terms proposed by Count Bismarck in his interview with M. Jules Favre. TheSe conditions were, of course, by no means definitive, and no one can say for what abatement of his dethands the Imperial Chancellor may not be prepared, upon France evincing any real disposi tion to desist from further strife. Still, allowing for all possible deductions, and repeating the conviction we have always held, that France would be made to purchase peace at a most ruinous sacrifice, the alleged German proposals far exceed our most gloomy anticipations. The • Conqueror de mands as the cost of the war an indemnity computed at " ten milliards," or four hundred millions of our money. We can hardly conceive an idea of such a sum unies.s by comparison. It exceeds two-thirds of the present Na tional Debt of France ; it is more than twice as large as the Public Debts of such minor kingdoms as Spain of and more than five times our own yearly Revenue. A. the price at which France would have to raise it, it woul , t equal our whole National Debt. What the real expen diture of Prussia and her Allied States in this seven months' war nciay have been we have no means •of ascertaining. Besides the actual military outlay, the Germans may reckon the pensions to be allowed to the widows and orphans of officers and men fallen in battle, and, perhaps, also the heavy burdens their country had to bear iu expectation of the attack with which the French Emperor's policy perpetually threatened them. But, even making allowance for whatever claims may be reasonably or unreasonably urged, we _ have no hesitation in asserting that the weight of - Brennus' sword must be thrown into the scale before it can be made to outweigh such a tremendous fine. The payment of such a " pecuniary indemnity " seems to us not even a question of justice or expediency. It is a matter of sheer impossibility. Reviewing the German demands on France, the Stan dard remarks :—To some cession of territory of course the country must make up its mind, if it is prepared to make peace now. But the cessions Count Bismarck now insists upon would deprive France of all independence. How false and ridiculous the German plea that Germany needs better frontiers for her own protection 'is everybody must see ; but even granting the justice of such a claim, the pretensions to exact Alsace and Lorraine, Strasburg, Thionville, Metz, and Belfort, would be an offensive and not a defensive idea. If Germany should take Metz and Belfort, France. and Paris would be at the mercy of the German armies. We might just as safely have allowed a French RePublic, Empire, or Mo narchy, animated by the bitterest hatred of Eng land, to hold Dover and Portsmouth. It is simply impossible for any truly French representative body to accept such proposals. A National Assembly, composed of Republicans, of Orleanists, or of Imperialists, who think only of obtaining power in Franc 6 to exploit it for their own selfish ends, might agree to such a peace, under which Paris would practically be governed by the Prussian commander of Metz ; but an Assembly consisting of men who have any thought for the future of France, and any sense of honour, must reject such terms. The exception cannot put France in any worse case than she is. The losers, if the National Assembly should reject such terms, would be the Ger mans who imposed them. They cannot annex France ; they need urgently an end of the war. If their proposals are rejected, they must fall back upon the line of frontier they have demanded for their defence, and must keep constantly ready to maintain it. France can lose nothing materially, and will gain much morally, if she refuses to make peace upon the terms which Count Bismarck is reported to have announced to M. Favre, and M. Favre is alleged to have heard before he signed the armistice. THE VOTE IN THE ASSEMBLY. The Telegraph remarks :—There is an idea prevalent that the Republic, or at any rate M. Gambetta and his ad herents, intend 86 to manipulate the elections as to secure a new lease of office and power. We are told that the Assembly will meet simply to discuss the advisability of accepting the terms of peace offered by Prussia or of con tinuing the war, and that, having decided this issue, it will, after three days' deliberation,be dissolved, the Government of France stil remaining in the hands of its present rulers. Now, if the Assembly should pronounce in favour of war to the death, we can understand the wisdom of such a dissolution. But, supposing, as seems pro bable, that the nation should deci,",e in favour of accepting its manifest defeat and con cluding peace even on the basis of territorial cession, what possible reason is there for the continuance of the present provincial regime? We hold that the Assembly now about to be elected should not meet merely to accept or reject the proffered terms of peace, but should be invested with the powers of the " Constituante." The position would be infinitely simpler if the Provisional Government had adhered to its original professions, and had regarded itself simply as a Committee of National Defence. If the National Assembly, whose meeting the Dictatorship has opposed so violently, should separate after passing a vote in favour of peace, the whole conduct of public affairs will b e l e ft i n t h e h ands of men pledged to introduce into France a system of Government avowedly distasteful to the majority of the nation. That such a result should hap pen would be, in our judgment, a national misfortune for France. It would be useless •to disguise the fact that many persons who know France well expect the depar ture of the invading forces to be the signal for civil war between North and South between Napoleonists and Republicans, Orleanists and Le gitimists. We hope and believe that these apprehensions are exaggerated, but we cannot say they are ground less; and w e are conv i n c e d that the best mode of avoid ing intestine discord is to entrust the destinies of France to a National Assemhly, elected, as the one now summoned will be, on a broader issue than the claims of rival dynasties and contending forms of Govern ment. GERMANY AVENGED. The Daily News remarks :—The Germans have avenged upon the Third Napoleon the contempt which the founder of the Bonaparte dynasty avowed for them. The First Napoleon had no great respect for Prussian soldiers. In that terrible campaign of only a few weeks which ended in the final break up at Jena, he had struck them down as easily as a lion would strike a dog. The old Prussian generals, with all their traditions of victory, never for a moment made head against the French conqueror. With the irre sistible impetus of a railway train, Bonaparte had rushed from Paris to Berlin. He bad snatched from the tomb of Frederick the sword that had won so many battles, and with a blow had paralysed the leader of German reaction, and avenged the rout of Rosbach. In the life of that modern Cwsar, the Jena campaign could be summed up in the three immortal words, " Veni, vidi, vici." It deserved no more. In those gloomy last days at St. Helena, when Napoleon re viewed his past life, explaining here, denying there; sof tening this fault, and extenuating that crime, he spoke briefly and contemptuously of the Prussians, whose defec tion from his cause he never, indeed, forgave. Thatproud man little thought that the day would come when three hundred thousand French prisoners would crowd the cities of Germany, w ith a F r ench Emperor among their number ; or that half France would one day be under the heel of the Prussian trooper, while at the same time three French armies (each larger than the force with which Napoleon declared he could overrun all Europe) would be hopelelessly endeavouring to relieve blockaded Paris. The Gods madden those whom they have doomed. The prospect of a Hohenzollern Prince on the Throne of Spain roused the Imperial jea lousy to fever heat. The first blast of the trumpet scattered all the Emperor's deliberately -formed opinions of the boundless resources of Prussia. He forgot in a moment the sound training and patriotism of the soldier citizens of Germany. Wisdom, driven from the Tuileries, left the door open for Vanity, False Confidence, and False hood ; and after the glittering army of France crept Ruin, Death, and Despair. Rash and over-confident as Darius of old, the Emperor hurried into the war, and suddenly and hopelessly as Darius he fell. THE LOSS OF THE HULL STEAMER BOLDERAA. —An inquiry ordered by the Board of Trade was opened on Tuesday, at Greenwich Police-court, before Mr. D. Maude, the magistrate, and Captains Harris and Hight, nautical assessors, relative to the stranding and loss of the Bolderaa iron screw steamship, Read master, of Hull, off the Island of Oland, Sweden. Mr. O'Dowd attended as counsel for the Board of Trade ; and Mr. C. J. Cotting ham for the owner ; Mr. Norwood, M.P., for the master. Joseph Stocke, chief engineer of the Bolderaa, said the vessel was going at a rate of 8 knots when she went a3h9re. He noticed a current setting up the shore to the northward. Did not see the light. No lives were lost. Mr. O'Dowd said he had no other witness to call, and the inquiry was adjourned in order to allow the captain to prepare his statement. ..• '',.----4