The Sun. — London, England, 1871-01-30 00:00:00

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All armp, with the exception of those of the Natianal guard and one division, will be delivered up. " Communication with Paris to be provisionally restricted. Revictualment allowed." BERLIN, January 29. According io a telegram from Count Bismarck, dated yesterday, he has signed with M. Jules Favre the Capitulation of all the Paris Forts, and three weeks' Armistice by land and sea. The Paris army remains in the city as prisoners o war. IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS, VERSAILLES, January 29 (2 p.m.) The following telegraphic despatch has just been sent by the Emperor to the Empress : "Last night an armistice for three weeks was Signed. "The troops of the Line and the Mobiles will be interned in Paris as prisoners of war. "The Garde Nationale Sedentaire undertakes the preservation of order. " We occupy all the forts. "Paris remains invested. It will be allowed to procure provisions as soon as the arms have been delivered up. "A. Constituent Assembly will be summoned to Meet at Bordeaux in a fortnight. " The armies in the field retain possession of the respective tracts of country occupied by them, with neutral zones intervening. "This is the first blessed reward of patriotism, heroism, and heavy sacrifices. I thank God for this fresh mercy. May Peace soon follow !"—Times. Tho following telegrams come through Ileuter's agency : IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS, VERSAILLES, January 28. The Federal Chancellor signed to-day with M. Jules Favre the Capitulation of all the Paris Forts, with an armistice of three weeks on land and at sea. The Paris army is to remain prisoners of war in the Capital. January 29. The German troops occupy the forts round Paris at 10 o'clock this morning. The garrison of Paris, with the exception of the National Guard, will lay down its arms. The armistice will expire on the 19th of Feb ruary. IMPERIAL HEAD-QUARTERS, VERSAILLES, January 29 (4 p.m.). Forts Ivry and Bicetre were this morning occu pied by the oth Silesian Army Corps, Forts Romain 1111e, Noisy, Rosny, and Nogent by the 12th Saxon Corps. The Ist Bavarian Army Corps garrisons Fort Charenton, and the 2nd Montrouge and Van . 711 38. The city of Paris has to pay a war contribution o f 200,000,000 f. BORDEAUX, January 29. 4 The delegation of the Government of Bordeaux fo , ele graphs to all the prefects and sub-prefects as llows " The Government established at Bordeaux, which ; t ad not up t o th e p resen t rece i ve d any i n f orma ti on e sPecting the - negotiations, excepting through the f oreign ; pres s , c o m mun i ca t es th e f o ll ow i ng t e l egram Ad received : «[ VERSAILES, January 28 (11,15.) " 'Jules Favre to the Delegation at Bordeaux. A " To-day we s i gn a t rea t y w ith C oun t Bi smarc k . a armistice for twenty-one days is agreed to, and l au , assembly is convoked at Bordeaux for February t ". Make this k nown t o a ll F rance . L e t t h e amnia be carried out, and summon the electors for f eb ruary 8. A. member of the Government is leaving 13ordeaux. 46 4 JULES FAVRE: " Le k decree will be issued expl a i n i ng th e measures t o R t aken to in sure th e carry i ng ou t o f th e a b ove trangements. VIENNA, January 29. 14t ) . - 1 1 to-d a y' s news p apers , re f err i ng t o t h e Capitu ic% of P ar i s , d o h onour t o th e h ero i sm o f P ar i s 1 , 1(1 Prance, as shown by their m a nly res i s tance. h ey are of opinion that France has done enough to ." her h onour , an d ma y now conc l u d e P eace i n orde r to resume as spee dil y as poss ibl e h er p l ace i n the European Areopagus. Some of the Vienna news papers counsel Prussia to chew moderation in the °llditions of Peace. D EATH OF THE DUKE OF BAVARIA. ALENCON, January 27. 4 8 4 i 8 announced that the young Duke of Bavaria b een shot near Broglie by a Franc-tireur. i I'ERIII.A.N EVACUATION OF TOURS. PORTIEN, January 27. t o from Tours state that the Germans are ti o 4l ng such preparations as to lead t o th e supposi -11 t hat they intend e d evitu'ating the town. t e 3 ' B said that a contribution of 2,000,000 f. has ell levied by the Germans in Tours. GENERAL BOURBAKI'S ARMY. • 4 LES VERBIERES, January 28. 471°4er/a Bourbakrs headquarters yest e rday were T °4 lans, near Besanc o n. The 24th e Germa ns h ave occu pi e d S a li ne. tarl e French Army Corps has r eac h e d Pon marching southwards. (SWISS ACCOUNTS.) t th PRUNTRITT, January 28. 44,, tt 6.l'russians have occupied Pont Roide, and are Itgai„ ile , l ng by way of St. Hippolyte and the Maiche Th`4 Alorteau and Pontarlier. tok i e te are numerous dispersed bands of French e ta along the Swiss frontier. F s u i Th e r, BERNE, January 28. Nilele Ge rmans ans have pushed forward as far as Chain tetzlto,g ve .... French so ldi ers con ti nue t o en t er S w i ss '4' 111\1 OP THE EMPEROR TO BERLIN. , The BERLIN, January 20. 45 erli„ - ' lll Peror has telegraphed from Versailles to heg t th at he will return to that city on Tuesday bei fo VEnsAu.Lug,January 29 (10 a.m.) 41 0 1 -1. " and the a rmy o f Bourbaki are not i ncluded 6 armistice. inwu jge BRUSS ELS , January rice) bahbeen received hete from Bordeaux to-clay, that M. Gambetta and the Delegation of the Government of National Defence refuse to partici pate in the result of the negotiations for the capitu lation or the peace of Paris, and proclaim war " :sted, letter )estal r the n the ritten Pitt. nd to outrance." M. GAMBETTA. BORDEAUX, January 29. The news that an arrangement for the capitulation of Paris had intervened between Jules Favre and Count Bismarck fell like a thunderclap upon the members of the delegation of National Defence. M. Gambetta intends to resign. —Lombard Telegrams. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE EAST. A telegram from the German headquarters says : General Kettler, on the 23rd instant, advanced in the direction of Dijon, when he captured five officers and 150 men. The colour-bearer of the 2nd Bat talion of the 61st Prussian Regiment was shot in a night engagement in a wood, and the colour disap peared. Between Chatillon and Monterna detach ments of the enemy have been seen. MOVEMENTS IN THE NORTH. The Prussians have abandoned Le Cateau and the neighbouring districts. On the road to Cogni court they erected a barricade and opened trenches. Au army contractor has been arrested for having delivered 15,000 pairs of boots, the soles of which were made of pasteboard. THE CAPITAL OF ITALY. In Saturday's sitting of the Italian Senate the members, by 04 votes against 39, passed the bill for the transfer of the capital. The order of the day, declaring that Florence had deserved well of the country, was also passed. In the Chamber of Deputies the debate on the guarantees to be given to the Pope was continued. In reply to the Opposition the Minister of Justice pointed out that the Bill gave the Pope complete independence. THE CONFERENCE. ONSTAN TINOPLE, January 23. The Porte insists at the Conference on being re instated in its full Sovereign rights over the Dar danelles and the Bosphorus. The Porte will not consent to any now inter national stipulation limiting these rights in favour of any Power whatsoever. BERLIN, January 28. The French Government has sent to the Neutral Courts a Note protesting against Count Bismarck's detaining M. Favre at Paris, when he has received an invitation to the Conference. The Note also declares that the French Plenipoten tiary has been instructed to leave the Conference it the right of the Provisional Government to represent France is conteated.—Times. THE RE-VICTUALLING OF PARTS. The following notification has been issued from the French Embassy : "An Armistice having been signed, and the re victualling of Paris having been agreed on between Count Bismarck and M. Jules Favre, all goods, especially flour, corn, and coal, that the trade may have in store to this effect, should be at once forwarded by the fastest trains to Dieppe, where the French Government have made arrangements, and are willing to buy the same. "No impediments of any kind will be put on the goods, either on the part of the Prussian or of the French authorities." (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) MR. GLADSTONE AND THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. In reply to a memorial from the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, urging the settlement of the Alabama claims, Mr. Gladstone on Saturday replied : "I beg to assure you that for years past the Government has assented to every allowable proceeding with a view to the settlement of these claims. We continue to be in the same disposi tion, and cordially agree in the opinion that the long unsettled state of this controversy is not to the advantage or honour of either country." THE LIMERICK ELECTION. - UNOPPOSED RETURN OF MR. MONSELL. The nomination for the county of Limerick, took place on Saturday. Sir Vere de Vere proposed, and Arch , deacon Crean seconded the nomination of Mr. Monsen, and he was elected without opposition. The Postmaster- General in returning thanks, alluded to the policy of the Gladstone Ministry for the past two years. The Govern ment, he said recognised the right of Irishmen to have their country governed according to their own ideas. They had passed a Land Act, whose action was universally acknowledged to be benefical. They had extended the com petitive system into all the branches of the public service. The Education Bill for Ireland would also be satisfactory. He warned the people not to be gulled by pseudo patriotism of a certain class. The professors of that new creed had put on a green garb only to overthrow the present Gove m - ea ) t. On the first gleam of a Tory sun the cloak r woul be c st aside, and the old orange colour would come out c CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. The commencement of the proceedings in connection with the conferring of degrees at Cambridge University upon all honour men in Mathematics, Moral Science, Natural Science, Law, and Modern History, took place on Saturday in the Senate-house, which was crowded. The undergraduates cheered the name of the Emperor of the French most lustily, bnt groaned at the name of Bismarck almost unanimously. The lady undergraduates were cheered. A - FRENCH IRONCLAD AT QUEENSTOWN. The French ironclad man-of-war Solferino, from Cher bourg, put into Queenstown on Saturday morning. She is on a cruise westward. THE LIMERICK FARMERS' CLUB. A numerously-attended meeting of the Limerick Far mers' Club was held on Saturday afternoon, in their club room, Limerick. The circular notifying the meeting stated that the same was called to consider important resolutions on the state 'of Ireland, on the eve of the meeting of Parliament. Five resolutions were then put to the meeting and carried unanimously. Two of these had reference to the late Laud Bill, which as a remedial measure was spoken of in the most condemnatory manner. Another referred to voting by ballot, which was declared the only mode to be adopted in the conduct of elections in their integrity. The last was in reference to the home government, which resolution was most emphatic in declaring that no matter what advantage would be derived from an English Parliament, it would not be acceptable to the Irish people. DEATH FROM EXPOSURE AT SEA. An inquest was held at Southampton on Satur day afternoon, on the body of a man, name unknown. It appears that on Tuesday last Captain Barnett, of the smack Belvidere, belonging to that port, when off the Norfolk coast, found the de ceased on a raft, made of portions of the wreck of a large vessel. Captaid Barnett got him on board, with some difficulty, and found that he was alive, but insensible, and although restoratives were given him, he died in about ten minutes after being taken on board. A verdict of death from exposure was returned. Deceased was a seaman, and about 35 years of age. THE CHARGE OF SENDING THREATENING LETTERS. The excitement caused by the apprehension and exami nation, at Lisnakea, of the man Joseph Swann, charged with sending a threatening letter to Mr. Murray, agent to Lord Erne, has in no degree subsided. Mr. Rea, who is engaged for the defence, was received by a great number of people at Clones Railway Station on Friday night. He was enthusiastically cheered, and carried to his hotel on a chair. This manifestation of sympathy was owing entirely to the crushing cross-examination of the principal experts for the prosecution. He characterised one of them as a S' bauch," both contradicting themselves in the evidence they gave. The charge was resumed and concluded on Saturday. Mr. Rea on behalf of the defendant addressed the court for an hour, and said the evidence adduced by Brown had failed, and called on the Bench to discharge his client. The Bench retired for half an hour, and when they returned into court, Colonel Archdall, one of the magistrates, said a prima facie case was made out, and committed the accused for trial to the summer assizes, ut accepted bail, the accused in £2OO, and two ureties of £lOO each. Bail was at once forthcoming. An attempt was at once made by the crowd to chairthe accused, but the police broke the chair, and took it from them. The crowd then seized Mr. Rea and carried him to the hotel, from the door of which he addressed them at great length, and promised to free Mr. Swann from the charges brought against him. In consequence of thd excited state of the people, and the crowds that congregated,. the police were obliged to patrol the streets and keep the people moving. ACCIDENT _ON THE ICE.-THREE MEN DROWNED. Three young men, named respectively James Teercy, of Market-street, Hexham; William Lowe, Gilligate, Hexham ; and James Murphy, Victoria-yard, Battle hill, Hexham, all between the ages of 18 years and 20 years, were playing a game called clubs (which is similar to golf) on the ice, on the River Tyne, at Hexham, on Saturday afternoon. In the excitement of the game they unthinkingly got on to the south side of the river, where the ice was unsound, which giving way, precipitated the whole of them into the water. The river being at that point very deep, and with a heavy current, all efforts to save the young men were fruitless. The grappling it on and ropes belonging to the Hexham Local Board were procured with all speed, but the bodies were not recovered until three-quarters of an hour after the immerson took place, when of course life was extinct. An inquest will be held on the bodies to-day. FATAL MINING ACCIDENTS. Two inquests were held on Saturday last, at St. Just, Land's End, before Mr. Itoscorla, coroner for Cornwall. The first was on the body of a man named Samuel Har vey, 30 years of age, who was using an iron tamping bar to settle gunpowder in a hole in the Bosweddan mine for blasting purposes. The powder suddenly exploded, in juring Harvey so severely that he died shortly afterwards. The use of a wooden tamping stick is recommended, but not obligatory in this mine. The second inquest was held on the body of a boy named Thomas James, aged 14 years. The deceased was engaged with some men lowering laddas in the guide shaft of the Spearn Consols Mine, the ladders being suspended over a beam forty feet high, and supported with ropes by the men and the deceased. A hitch occurred, and part of the ladders broke loose, taking the weight of the ladders from the men in the shaft, and throwing all on the rope passing over the beam. This weight instantly swinging the boy up to the beam, forced the rope out of his hands, and he fell down the shaft, a depth of twenty five fathoms, and was taken up dead. After the jury had visited the scene of the latter accident, a verdict of acci dental death was returned in each case. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 3(,, 1871. THE FALL OF PARIS. DEATH OF BOURBAKI. The special correspondent of the Telegraph sends the following from Versailles, dated Jan. 29 :—The capitula tion of Paris was signed yesterday afternoon, on the terms given in the telegram which I sent to you yesterday. The occupaticn of the forts by the German troops began this morning. Mont Valerien was occupied last night by the Prussian engineers, in order to draw the mines. The heavy guns will be immediately moved into the forts, as the enceinte is strongly armed, and no con-, fidence is felt by the conquerors in the fickle population of Paris until a general disarmament has been accom plished. A strong force of infantry and artillery has been moved forward in order to cover the working parties. The French field artillery outside the enceinte and between the forts has been taken possession of this morning. The terms of capitulation include an armistice to last for three weeks, which will expire at noon on February 19. The object of this arrangement is to spare further bloodshed, and to give the French people an opportunity of bringing together an assembly of their Representatives, which will meet at Bordeaux, to decide whether war shall be continued or peace shall be made. The elections of the Assembly will be permitted in the Departments occupied by the Germans, and no obstacle will be opposed to the free cir culation of the deputies throughout the country. The Army of Paris, the soldiers of the Lino, the Marines, and the Mobiles, are prisoners of war, with the exception of 12,000 men, who are re quired for the maintenance of order in the city. All the corps of Francs-Tireurs have been dissolved, and the National Guards remain armed. All the forts of the outer circle were evacuated by the French troops at eleven o'clock this forenoon, and occupied by the Prussians. The French deliver up their arms, their flags, and their field artillery—all these trophies, within fourteen days, to be collected at Sevran. The French troops may retire into Paris unarmed. The guns in all the forts are to be delivered up to the Prussians. The guns on the enceinte are to be dismounted, and the carriages given up to the conquerors, the guns within being left. A line of demarcation will be drawn between the enceinte and the forts. The French posi tion will extend to the enceinte only. The limits of the Prussian position will be 500 paces from the enceinte, with certain necessary topographical modifications. The Fort of Vincennes remains in the hands of the French. Paris is still completely invested in the military sense, but three railway lines will be repaired, and permitted to convey sufficient supplies for the daily nourishment of the population. Bourbaki's army and the fortress of Belfort are not comprehended in the stipulations of the armistice. The Prussian line of demarcation outside and to the south of Paris is to be the line of the Loire. Jules Favre returned yesterday evening to Paris. General [?] Velden, the chief of General Vinoy's Staff, and the Staff Captain D'Hdrisson, Aide•de-Camp to Trochu, along with three directors of the Mediter ranean, Orleans, and Western Railway, accompanied him back to the city. General Bourbaki shot himself yester day. ALLEGED CHILD MURDER. Mr. Brabant, deputy-coroner for the St. Albans' dis trict, held an inquest at the Queen's Arms, Underhill, near Barnet, on Saturday afternoon last, on the body of an illegitimate child, aged nine months, the offspring of a young woman named Bumbel, belonging to Finchley. The body was found in a pond by the Rev. Mr. Twenty man on Thursday last. On the 19th ultimo Bumbel called at a friend's house at Whetstone with her child, but in half an hour afterwards was seen walking along the road without it. She was asked what she had done with the infant. She replied that she had left it at the foot of Barnet Hill. Nothing more was seen of the child till it was pulled out of the pond. The inquest was adjourned to afford time for the apprehension of Bulbel. THE HEALTH OF MR. CHILDERS. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) Mr. Childers is about to proceed on a trip to the Medi terranean for the benefit of his health. The right hon. gentleman will embark on board the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, at Newhaven, for this purpose. SMOKING ON THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. The Metropolitan Railway Company having been specially excluded from the operation of the Act which compels all railway companies to provide smoking carriages, has been taking active steps to put down smoking on the line. In common with all exceptional legislation, this particular provision of the Act is found to work very considerable inconvenience. The Great Western Railway, for instance, is compelled to find smoking carriages for its pagsengers up to the Bishop's road station, where the carriages appropriated to smokers cease to be smoking carriages ; the smokers must put out their pipes or cigars, and passengers from the other sta tions are obliged to travel in a carriage which for the previous part of the journey has been reserved exclusively for smokers, and it is of course redolent of the smoke of the weed, while the smoker is debarred from the privilege which he had enjoyed. The district line is not exempted by the Act, but the Board of Trade has since the passing of the Act given the necessary exemption to the company from providing smoking carriages. It is an anomaly that smoking should be an offence on the Metro politan Railway, while if it takes place in the carriages of the Great Northern or Midland Companies, which run upon a part of the same line, it is not only not an offence, but those companies are actually bound by law to pro vide carriages in which the offence is com mitted. The Metropolitan directors would, we think, do well to follow the example of other railways, and endeavour to control a custom which it is hopeless for them to seek to put down. The directors should seek to conciliate support rather than estrange it. By their earnest endeavours to put an end to smoking on the railway they may be making for themselves many enemies, and not a ftw friends for those tramway car riages from which smoking will not be excluded, and which threaten to prove very formidable competitors to the Underground Railway. Mr. Sheridan, we perceive, has announced that it is his intention to take the first opportunity of removing the exemption which the com pany enjoys, and expresses his surprise that railway directors "should be so blind to their own interests as to fail to see the daily increasing demand for the separation of smokers from non-smokers on this line, and so far from endeavouring to meet this demand, are announ cing, and indeed commencing, a new crusade, against the public upon this subject ;" and "he strongly recommends the Metropolitan directors, instead of summoning their customers before police magistrates, to adapt their laws to the unquestionable necessity of the case, for they may be sure that an exception which has now become not only intolerable, but positively ridiculous. must be speedily abolished."—Railway News. John Bull hears that in several Loudon churches, should the marriage of the Princess Louise take place in Lent, there will be a special penitential office at the same hour! CABINET COUNCIL.—A. Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the private residence of Earl Granville, in Bruton-street. The Ministers present were—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, 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 Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Right Hon. C. Fortescue, and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster. THE COI:MT.—Her Majesty the Queen, accom panied by their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold; attendeil by the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, will, it is understood, leave Osborne on Tuesday, the 7th of February, and return to Windsor Castle. At Windsor the private suites of apart ments have been prepared in readiness for the arrival of her Majesty and the Royal Family. Her Majesty will, it is expected, proceed from Windsor to open the House upon the re-assembling of Parliament. According to the most recent arrangements, it is probable that the Queen after the ceremony will pay a visit to Claremont House, and reside there a few days previoas to returning to Windsor. BERMUDA.—PeopIe who o',ject to the acquisi tion of San Domingo, at a cost of only 1,500,000 dols., with 20,000 square miles of land, producing every variety of nature's most profitable articles of commerce, and a half dozen fine harbours, will be interested in learning from the following extract what the English people are doing at the little island of Bermuda, whose whole commerce is in early potatoes and onions. Rear- Admiral Lee, of the flagship Severn, under date of Bermuda, December 6, writes to the Navy Depart ment as follows :—" Vessels disabled on our coast come here to repair and refit. England has spent and is spending much money here in fortifications and military roads, and on its dockyard and reef passes. The floating iron dock, built in England and towed here last summer, at a total expense of $1,250,000, is a great success. It can dock the largest and heaviest ship in the world, can be readily used, its bottom can be conveniently cleared, and it is calculated to last half a century. Now iron ships can be well kept on this station, and the dock yard, which is provided with admirable buildings for the repairs and victualling of a fleet, is to be promptly pro vided with additional factory power, to the extent of its capacity and the requirements of a fleet for repairs after* battle.—New York Tines. BEFORE THE CAPITULATION. In a communication from Versailles, January 23rd, the special correspondent of the Standard remarks :--It seems impossible that Paris can bang out the white flag, and yet it must be hung out. It seems impossible that the Impe rial legions of Germany should march down the Boule vards ; nevertheless, will they not do so, and that shortly ? There is a deal of human nature in men, even in Parisians ; and all that I can forsee is, that they will conduct themselves pretty much as other men have conducted themselves in similar circumstances. We are looking for signs and wonders, and we shall probably be greeted with the com mon-place. One thing, however is certain : Versailles will not be the easy abode it has been any time these four months. Its fatly-feeding people will be swamped by the starving. And when Paris has fallen ? Yesterday was Sunday, and I paid several visits, some of them to French residents and refugees. I was much struck by the differ ence of tone prevailing among these excellent, but per sonally not very sorely tried, people, and that on which I lately commented so fully when I was travelling among the peasantry of what was once Maine and Anjou. Among the latter the whole of the Lord's Prayer seemed to have shrunk into one potition ; and that a new one —" Give us peace." I met with no politicians, no patriots, if you will. Only ruined householders, distracted housewives, and children with the ringing laughter gone out of them. When would the Prussians leave the land ? That was all they wanted to know. As I write, a visitor and another rumour. He is not a gossip, but a man of standing and sense. Everybody, he says, during the last half-hour, has it that Paris has capitulated. It is not an hour and a half since, in what a playful tongue might call the British Embassy, I was endeavouring to urge, amid many discordant opinions, that it might capitulate at any moment. Do I therefore believe this con firmatory report floating in the air ? It is likely enough to be true ; that in all I can say. I suspect it will be true before these lines reach you. Trochu, it is added, has handed over the reins and de scended from the box. Not above a fortnight ago he said that he would never surrender. Governors do not surren der; they resign. Desperate resolutions are rarely with out loopholes of retreat. This is Troche's. I hear ' no firing this afternoon ; but St. Denis and its defences have been. right hotly shelled these last two days. Their reply was feeble. Yesterday they were almost mute. Poor France ! Germany holds out its hand for big concessions, and she has no set-off to its exactions. Good terms, handsome terms, might once have been got ; but that diseased body politic, of which M. Gambetta has been the soul, has gone on making pacts with Death, and here the tyrant is to claim his bargain. Men's lips turn white, even the lips of adversaries, when they say that Paris is about to invert the brandished blade and pass under the Caudillo Forks. So much patience, so much courage, so much waiting, so many dead and dying, so much hunger and weeping, so much widowhood and orphanage—and yet not saved ! The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says that both National Guards and Mobiles fought with great bravery in the late sortie. The Drapeau, the new Imperialist organ at Brussels, states that Jules Favre will go to London to offer to the Duc d'Aumale the Presidency of tho Republic, in await ing the throne of France. Victor Hugo,who has much influence with the populace, was consulted by an officer belonging to the Belleville battalion respecting the emeute of Sunday, and advised that the people should not march against the Hotel de Ville, but against the Prussians. The fortress of Bitsch has been watched for three months by a Bavarian corps, but there has been an under standing on both sides that no useless loss of life should be incurred, the natural position of the place being so strong that it can hardly be taken except by famine. On the night of the 20th the truce was broken by a sortie of the garrison, supported by a warm artillery fire. It was, however, repulsed by the Bavarians. The Rev. Robert Payne Smith, D.D., Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, is the new Dean of Canterbury. A committee has been appointed to get up a great demonstration of unemployed working men at the opening of Parliament, so that there may be no mistake as to their real wants. SMALLPDX IN THE LONDON. HOSPITALS.-Si Ilce our last notice smallpox has broken out in another hos pital—the Middlesex. The patient, a female, was ad mitted for anaemia, and some days after her admission was taken ill, and soon presented the characteristic eruption of the disease. On her way to the hospital she travelled in an omnibus, in which was a person having an eruption on the face resembling smallpox. Six days after her admission the symptoms began, and on the ninth day the eruption made its appearance. She was sent to Hampstead, and the patients in the hospital were vacci nated. This fact is worthy of the attention of omnibus travellers—the more so that an eminent physician, availing himself of that mode of travelling, encountered exactly a similar case the other day. In this last instance, hOwever, the diagnosis was made before the person entered the omnibus, and admission was refused. At Charing-cross Hospital, although the disease has not broken out in the wards, in face of the difficulties which would attend isola tion, owing to the construction of the building, the managing body have resolved to stop all visitors except to patients dangerously ill, and then only after being ex amined by the resident medical officer. It was also re solved to exclude all out-patients suffering from the disease, as a single case admitted into a crowded room of sickly people is calculated to spread the disease far and wide. —Medical Times and Gazette. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY.— This celebrated and most delicious old mellow spirit is the very cream of Irish Whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure, and more wholesome than the finest Cognac Brandy. Note the red seal, pink label, and cork branded " Kinahan's LL Whisky." New Wholesole Depot, 6A, Great Titchfieldstreet, Oxford-street, W. THE BOMBARDMEN I' OF PARTS. The special correspondent of the Daily News at the 'Headquarters of the Crown Prince of Saxony sends the following by special despatch : MARGENer, January 24 During last night, and to-day until four o'clock, the bombardment of the St. Denis forts was conducted very lan guidly, the fog to-day being the' densest I have ever seen. At four there sprung up a furious cannonade, which was obviously not at all one-sided. lam told that the French utilised the night and Liu, foggy Jqy to repair the damages in the for+-: ; to bring into them heavier guns than they had pre viui, ?y manned them with ; to throw out a field artillery force backed by infantry and gunboats to threaten Epinay and Ormeson ; and that they assumed the offen sive when the fog partly lifted at four o'clock p.m. Listen ing to it I thought I heard both mitrailleuse and infantry fire, but the echoes are so deceptive, that I dare not be sure. Beyond question there was a furious two-handed cannonade, lasting for an hour and a half. Now, at seven p.m., our guns have dropped back into the usual night average. lam told that two artillery officers, one a captain, were killed yesterday in a battery. I hear that last night engineer patrols approached close to the St. Denis glacis, and report great damage done to the fortifications. It is said there was ssen at least one practicable breach in the double crown work of Du Nord; but I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this statement. There is an unauthenticated rumour that the Saxons have ventured to occupy the summit of Mont-Avron with batteries. In consequence of the de struction of the bridge on the railway between Toul and Nancy, no letters or papers have reached us for two days, and no doubt return communications are also re tarded. MARGENCY, Jan. 26. Orders have just reached here from Versilles for the German batteries to cease firing after 12 to-night if the French do the same, and not to renew until further orders unless the French set the example. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. From Versailles, January 23, the special correspondent of the Daily Hews at the Crown Prince of Prussia's head quarters writes :--There have been many scraps of addi tional news, in regard to last Thursday's sortie, coming in to throw light upon the scope and result of the attempt from Mont Val4rien. We have found that the French loss was heavier than was at first supposed, and there is reason to believe that, desperate as their chance of success must have appeared, the officers who led the sortie were bent upon striking a blow at the German headquarters. General Trochu is said to have been present himself, and risked his life freely to encourage the men. All the means of attack which modern science supplies, and which are Possessed by the French in Paris, were called into requisition. The gunboats on the Seine steamed boldly into action, and kept up a galling fire against the German right, which was established in the park of St. Cloud. The railway mitrailleuse batteries came out on the St. Germain line under the pro tection of Mont Valerein, and attacked such of the besieging troops as it seemed likely that they could reach, though I do not think they were able to keep up more than a distant fire upon the Prussian left. Field artillery and great guns in position were freely used to support the sortie, the heavier pieces sending up their shells from the works near Billancourt and Bou logne. It was altogether a well-supported attempt to make such progress in the first rush of the affair as would pave the way for an advance upon Versailles ; and at Montretout, where the French really succeeded in gain ing ground, there seemed to be a plan of permanently occupying the spot so long debated between besiegers and besieged. Throughout the day the French held Mon tretout, and they penetrated some little distance on the German side of the work. Even when the gallant von Strautz, with his Jaegers, supported by Infantry of the Line, had recaptured the bone of contention on the hill top, and thrown back the French with loss upon Suresnes, there remained that body of three or four hundred Mobiles, of which I have already told you, concealed in the village of St. - Cloud, cut off, as would appear, by the failure of their friends to support them ; and these Mobiles were taken by the indefatigable Prus sian Jaegers long after the whole matter of the sortie was thought to have been laid to rest. I have heard that the French were considered to have fought better than usual for the first part of their attack, as though they had nerved themselves up to strike a decided blow; but in the afternoon of Thursday, when I had a good opportunity of seeing for myself what occurred, the most that could be said was that they stood their ground, and kept up a brisk fire, but with faint symptoms of pressing forward, and with seemingly no hope of being able to make their way into the German lines. The practice of the French field-artillery is said to have been magnificent at one or two points, and that of the German field-batteries was quite up to its usual mark, as I can vouch from what I saw ; but neither on one side side not the other was the small-arm fire so deadly as might have been expected from the persistent way in which it was sustained. The French were most exposed, and lost many more men than their opponents, perhaps four or five times as many ; but the great loss to besiegers and besieged alike was caused by artillery fire. A BLACK COUNTRY LEGEND. Early in the present century, when Bilston was a long straggling village with one main street, which formed a part of the mail road from London to Chester and Holy head, the Bull's Head (advertised for sale Lady Day, 1870) was the principal inn of the place, and a well-known hostelry on the old Irish route. It was naturally, and almost as a matter of course, the house at which the town worthies were wont to meet, drink good wholesome home-brewed ale out of the Staffordshire black glazed pots, smoke their long Broseley pines, and talk over the politics of the day and the tittle-tattle of the neighbour hood. One bright summer's eve, while thus pleasantly engaged in the modest smoking-room (coffee-rooms had not as yet come into existence), a gentleman rides up to the door, followed by his servant with the saddle bags. There is, of course, great curiosity amongst the assembled guests to know who the stranger may be ; and from the communicative valet they soon learn that he is an Irish officer en route to London. They become immediately desirous of his company amongst themselves both for society and news' sake ; but the gentleman unsocially keeps his own room upstairs. So that at last, driven to desperation and perchance somewhat pot-valiant, one of the company, Mr. Edwar,d Woolley, of Stonefields, screw•maker (i.e., of iron screws for wood), sends up a servant with his chronometer to ask the Irishman if he can tell what time it is by an English watch. Great anxiety ensues as to the result. Presently the servant returns with his master's compliments, and he will be down directly with the watch and an answer. A great shuffling of feet is heard overhead ; and by and by ap pears Milesius, followed by his body guard bearing a tray with the watch and a brace of pistols on it. He unhesi tatingly announces that he is come to challenge the owner of the watch, and hopes he will have the "decency" to claim it and take up one of the pistols. (To the servant—" Take the watch round, John !") "Is it yours, sir?" The old doctor, Moss, was the first thus addressed ; and amongst others present were Messrs. Price and Bushbury. " No, sir 1" was the in variable answer from each put to this crucial test. At length it comes to the owner, "Is the watch yours, sir ?" "No sir 1" " Well, then, John,* since no one will own the watch, put it in your pocket ; and as we do not appear to have fallen among ' jintlemen,' bring out the horses, and we'll ride on another stage." The tale of course soon got abroad, and to the end of his career poor Woolley, or rather "'Oolley," as he was more generally called, was accosted with " What's o'clock, Mr. 'Oolley ?" Only within a year or two of his death, while riding along quietly in his carriage, a young urchin thus annoyed him ; and in getting out to make a dash after him, poor " 'Oolley " was upset and grievously injured. So that he had good cause long to remember the loss of his "family turnip," and his prestige of Quixotic combativeness.— Notes and Queries. THE LONDON TRAMWAY SCHEMES. These schemes, 21 in number, embrace 376 main lines, loops, branches, and extensions. It would be much easier to enumerate the thoroughfares and localities that are not proposed to be used than those that are. The total mile age of new tramways proposed. for the metropolis is about 250 miles, in addition to the lines already at work, and about 100 miles already*authorised, but not yet constructed or opened. The proposed extensions on the south of the Thames are inconsiderable in extent ; but on the north side it may be said with truth that there is no thoroughfare, north, south, east, or west, that the promo ters do not propose to appropriate. One bill, or rather the plans, embraces about 45 miles ; another above 40 Miles ; and one company, the London Street, schedules about 60 miles of streets and roads. The plans of two sets of promoters, the Common Road Conveyance Company, and the Southall, Ealing, and Shepherd's-bush Tramway, the one of 121 miles, and the other of seven miles, were not lodged at the Private Bill-office. Whether the pro moters will receive a dispensation from standing orders remains to be seen.—Builder, OUR COTEMPORARIPS—This Morning THE CAPITULATION OF PARIS. The Times, in its remarks on this important intelli gence, says : —Before we attempt to look any further to the possible consequences of the armistice, we may con gratulate ourselves and the world on the fact that Paris at all events, is saved from further misery and destruction. The war St outrunee party within its walls have not been able to enforce their desperate pro ject of one more sortie. General Vinoy has actually acknowledged that the Parisians had come to the end of their fighting powers, and if it was so three days since, with all the Forts and all the. implements of war in the hands of the Army and the garrison, it will certainly not be otherwise 20 days hence, when all the soldiers will be disarmed, and when the City itself will be at the mercy cf those very batteries, which for four months have so strenuously warded off the enemy's attack. The French Provincials will probably accept the decision of the Capital, whose lead. they have so long been wont to follow, and which by its heroism never perhaps in the whole history of the country deserved greater deference, or was entitled to exercise higher authority. The soundest as well as the most sponta neous instinct of the French people has for centuries been that of national cohesion. There are few at Bordeaux, at Lyons, or Marseilles who will not see that the most immediate result of any attempt to " fight for their own hand" will be to imperil the unity of the country. M. Gambetta's conduct will point out the course that most of his partisans will follow. The intelligence of the Versailles negotiation, we are told, "fell upon Bordeaux like a clap of thunder." M. Gambetta endea voured at first to discredit the report by stigmatising it as " a lie and a calumny," precisely as he did, weeks ago, the report of the fall of Metz ; but he has not dared to cast upon his Republican colleagues that charge of treason which he hurled at the Imperialist Marshal, and, according to the latest intelligence, he has limited his protest to the resignation of his office. We look upon this act as an acquiescence in an inevitable decision, and we think his countrymen ought to take his self-denial into account. M. Gambetta can no longer urge the people to fight when ob viously there is no one left who can fight. All the particu Jars that reach us of Chanzy's and Faidherbe's armies speak only of demoralisation and dispersion ; while as to Bourbaki, nothing but the armistice can save his army from utter destruction, and, without German help, the armistice itself can scarcely save it from starvation. Indeed, the forbearance shown by the Germans at this juncture toward an enemy so thoroughly vanquished augurs well for the success of all further negotiations. Fairer and, indeed, more generous terms the French, reduced to such extremities .as they are, could never have been entitled to expect. France will accept the conqueror's terms, and all the world, that conqueror himself not excepted, are interested in making those terms as-tolerable as the_circnmstances of the case will allow. The Standard observes :—The capitulation of Paris, it is reasonable to believe, brings us to the end of the war between Germany and France. There is little room to doubt that the provinces will accept the surrender of the capital as bringing to a termination all hopes of further resistance. It is impossible that France can continue the unequal struggle any longer. The Government of the National Defence have clone their duty, on the whole, gallantly and well, but from the first the chances of success have been most slender. From a military point of view all hope of re trieving the misfortunes of the war was gone from the moment it became evident that the French armies in the field were unable to come to the relief of Paris. The disastrous result of every attempt to break through the iron circle around Paris, either from within or from without, has precipitated that conclusion for which all Europe has for some time been prepared. Paris has fallen, and all is lost to France except honour and the hope of future vengeance. The more harsh and arrogant Germany is now in her hour of triumph the more speedy and sure will be her Nemesis. All that the Germans can reasonably demand are the costs of the war from France and such securities as may ensure them against the danger of a sudden attack. Absolute and complete immunity against any future enterprises of their enemy is what no Power has a right to claim, for it would imply the total ruin and permanent degradation of their rival. In the opinion of the Daily News, the surrender of the Paris forts and garrison —which is equivalent to the sur render of the city—will altogether alter the aspect of the war. It will in the first place deprive France of - the services of a large number of soldiers upon whose release many hopes were founded ; and it will set free an enormous German force, who will use the Parisian forts to dominate the centre of the country. In the second place, it will give France time to deliberate, so soon as she has fulfilled her first and impera tive duty of sending in provisions to the starving capital. If the country elects to carry on the war the various provincial armies will be deprived of the immediate object of their recent efforts. It will be a struggle on the part of France, not to save Paris, but to ensure at any cost the integrity of her soil. Events have given a cruel retort to the cries of " A Berlin !" which Paris uttered last July. Paris is herself a captive. We would fain hope that the victors may spare France the bitter humiliation of seeing German soldiers actually in the city. Will not the occupation of the forts—which, in a military sense, means the possession of the city—be enough ? Scarcely anything more cruel could fall to the lot of France than the fact which history will record of the first German Emperor of modern times hav ing accepted that dignity in Versailles. Over the record of that event the patriotic French schoolboy will hurry with burning cheeks. If, in coining to the story of the fall of Paris, he reads how that German Emperor successfully besieged the mighty fortress, he will perhaps console himself with the thought that it was a German Emperor who failed to defend the city during the first siege which the history of Paris records. Since then Paris has suffered many sieges, sometimes with evil fortune, some times with good ; and on many an occasion she has wit nessed the coming and going of foreign troops through her streets. Is there, too, reason to hope that the Ger man commanders will be satisfied with the capitulation of the city, and relinquish that triumphal entry which has been held before the eyes of the troops as the dazzling re ward of their labours ? The Teleg raph says :—There is no longerany u ncer t a i nty about the great surrender. Conquered by a more terrible enemy than shot or shell, Paris has capitulated ; she is now prisoner of war, and German troops occupy her circle of strongholds. And what will France do ? To answer that question lies in the domain of prophecy, into which it is never safe to enter, and least of all when the subject is the behaviour of the French people. But those sympathisers with the vanquished, who advise and seem to expect a continuation of the war, appear to forget the prodigious effect which the news of the capitulation must exercise upon the whole country. Paris has been so thoroughly the heart and brain of the nation, that when it knows the Germans are in Mont Val6rien and holding the rest of the forts, the effect upon the " patriotic fibre " may easily be something like paralysis. The remaining plans of •campaign which Gambetta and his generals shared " fall into uselessness." 'Whither to march when the capital is in the hands of the Germans ? Why cut the communications of the invaders when the first result may be to starve the Parisians ? or with what battalions can successful resistance be offered when 200,000 of the enemy's disengaged troops are held in readidess to crush out every new effort ? More over, the terms of the capitulation embrace a general armistice by sea and land; and either the Delegated Government must now respect this condition and stand aside for France herself to speak, or it must try the - - dangerous step of declaring a third period of the war, to which France will hardly set her imprimatur. The dreadful sense, of general collapse which prevails throughout the country is illustrated by Gatnbetta's re ported resignation, by the effect which the news has created at Bordeaux—where the act of M. Favre appears to be frankly accepted by the Delegation of the Govern ment—and by Bourbaki's melancholy attempt at suicide, if, indeed, the intention has not really led to a fatal result. It is, we feel in truth, cruel and guilty for outsiders to say to France, " Fight on;" the resources, the hopes, the energies of a whole generation have been con. densed into this awful campaign. The land is bleeding to death ' • it is beaten hopelessly ; it laid too m uc h on P ar i s, and it has lost all. With so bitter a prospect on every side, it were better now to make peace ; pea ce seems at this moment the highest courage and the truest patriotism—peace is the only real hope of the distracted nation whose double defeat under the Empire and under the Republic has been so crushing, so unrelieved by a single ray of changing fortune that the conquerors themselves, humanity hopes, will be awed into generosity by their astounding success. The Royal gold medal for architecture will (ac. cording to the Architect) probably be conferred by the Queen, on the nomination of the Institute of Architects, on Mr. James Fergusson, D.C.L., F.R.S., the writer of the" History of Architecture." The proposed scheme foi the compulsory retire went of assistant paymasters, so as to reduce the list within reasonable limits, has been submitted to the Trea sury, and now awaits their sanction before it is made public by the Admiralty. een be •ton sere but the wel for che- one. sited lam, of a eing ,ving k for earn sted. Vre ed it on darn, earnt