The Sun. — London, England, 1871-01-26 00:00:00

,ATEST INTEL LIG ENCE. SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M. THE WAR. THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR SURRENDER VERSAILLES, January 25. MM. Picard and Dorian have received safe con ducts, on the request of M. Favrei and will come to confer with him at Versailles.—Lombard Telegram. THE LATE SORTIE. (GERMAN ACCOUNTS.) A. telegram from Royal heal-quarters at Ver sailles says :—Our loss in the sortie from Paris on the 19th instant was in dead, wounded, and missing 39 officers and 616 men. That of ti.e e nem y is estimated at 6,000, of which 1,000 dead were I.ft lying in front of our works. Against the north side of Paris new batteries have been opened at various distances. Divisions of the Army of the South have crossed the Doubs to the south of Thsancon, in the rear of the army of General Bourbaki. Thirty-three railway waggons, some of them laden with provisions, were captured at the railway station at St. Vitt. CAPITULATION OF LONGWY, IMPERIAL HEAD - QUARTERS, VERSAILLES, January 25. General Krenki reports from Grandville yesterday, 3.25 a.m., as follows :—Longwy, which has been bombarded for nine days, has j ust capitulate 1. Four thousand prisoners and 200 guns have been cap tured. I take possession of the fortress at noon to day. BERLIN, January 25. The semi-official Provinzial Correspondenz of to day says . "Our operations in the north of France will shortly acquire greater importance, and be further extended in connexion with the movements of the right wing of our Second Army under the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg." Thc, following telegrams come through Rtuter's agency : (FRENCH ACCOUNTS.) ARLON, January 25. The Prussians are reported to have entered Longwy to-day. The city is in a deplorable state, but the Prussians will find large stores there. No cannonading was heard either last night or to-day. BORDEAUX, January 24. A Ministerial despatch to the Prefects says that, after the battle of Dijon yesterday, the enemy took to flight in the direction of Messigny, Noyes, and Savigny-le-Sec. All the corps engaged did their duty, and a large portion of the Mobilized Guard of Haute Savoie arrived in time to take part in the fight. From the West no incident of importance is com municated. The enemy appears to be falling back, the Department of Mayenne is free from Prussians, and Alenoon has been evacuated. In the East the line from Lyons to Besancon has been cut by Prussian scouts at Bryans, near Quin gez. The Government has no news from Paris. • January 25. The following military report from Angers, datel the 24th, has reached here : Yesterday the enemy had evacuated La Fleche ; but this morning a French reconnoitring party having been sent towards La Fleche, found an am buscade laid. A squadron of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, supported by infantry, arrived in the town. It scattered 75 Uhlans, killing many, and scoured the town, driving the enemy out of it. A strong Prussian column arriving, the French retreated on Bazouges. The Prussians suffered great losses in the streets of La Fleche; the Mobilised Guards fought like old soldiers. • A. slight engagement has been fought near Sahle. According to a despatch from Chateau Goutier, the enemy appears to have evacuated the Depart ment of Mayenne, making good his retreat on Le Mans. The inhabitants of Gisora defended themselves heroically on the 23rd against considerably superior Prussian forces. Those who had no arms seized Pitchforks and scythes. They captured waggons and horses, and killed 12 Uhlans. From Tours it is reported that Uhlans have appeared at Oinq Mars, and were pursued by French scouts. Oinq Mars is now evacuated by the enemy. It is said the Prussians have mined the bridge of La Motte on the line from Tours to Le Mans. A. despatch from Salbris, dated 24th, announces that a body of Francs-Tireurs has driven the Prus sians from La Motto, killing several troopers. According to a despatchfrom Gien, dated the 24th, a reconnoitring party of 200 Prussians visited Gien on that day, exchanging some shots with the Francs-Tireurs on the left bank of the Loire. The Prussians declare they will burn Nevoy, if the Francs-Tireurs continue firing on them. The Siecle announces that the Prussians have eva %late 1 Dole and cut the railway between Mouchard and Besancon at Biens. Advices from Auxerre, dated the 20th, state that a Prussian corps of observation, 20,000 strong, is between Noyers and Semur. Six hundred Prussians now occupy Montargis. LILLE, January 25. The Propagateur de Lille announces that the Republican committees of Arras, Roubaix, Calais, D ouai, Valenciennes, and Lille, have drawn up an address thanking the people of England for their s ympathy with France. TERRIBLE RAIL WAY COLLISION IN FRANCE. VIRTON, January 25. Was present last night at a terrible collision Z i? ' 110 1 took place in the tunnel at Montmedy "itween a train carrying young recruits for the B ; h 4 ards and one carrying French prisoners. :Ile former train was not i n j u r e d ; b u t fi ve 4 111, ages of the latter were compl e t e ly d es t ro y e d. a ny men were killed outright, and a large num b er , e "tuided. Th e F renc h h os t ages f rom S e d an plicaped ; but the accident was not caused by the ) 3 ,,!. (5 .3 1101 1. The line, now the only one since the Toul uge has been blown up, will be clear this morn g, Wednesday.—Daily News. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, January 26 (Evening). gi p he Berli n correspon d ent o f the Echo de Parliment I e currency t o a repor t th a t th e E mperor o f f: 414 / 1 Y has written a letter to the Empress, in uring her Maj e sty th a t, as th e cap i tu l at i on o f v ,2 18 is close at hand, he expects to return to Berlin I' shortly. d e k p ec °rding to the same authority General D'Aurelle ftladines has recently been seen in London. 03:-,e tt ers recei ve d f rom Ch er b ourg state that a large th 2b et of men-of-war ar e o ff th a t p or t, an d t h at i n captured by are numerous German merchant vessels by French cruisers. AUSTRIA. It i s the stated th a t f or some cons id era b le time past receipts from all sources of taxation have been large that, after paying the January coupons, the Austrian Minister of Finance has still a sum at his disposal amounting to thirty millions of florins. AUSTRIAN FOREIGN POLICY. In Tuesday's sitting of the Hungarian Delegation the debate on the budget of the Minister for Foreign Affairs was resumed. Atter some of the speakers had declared their approval in general of the polity pursued by the Government, Herr Orezy, the Minister representative, in reply t ) various observa tions, stated that the Government had not taken any steps whatsoever to prevent the exclusion of South Germany from the North. Since 1867 the Government hal never undertaken anything against Prussia. He also declared that as it was believed before the breaking out of the war that it would probably be carried on on their frontier, it was the duty of the Government to place the armaments of the country on a sound basis. was by prin ctors, it is 7 irre- Le case that it rdering erty to orts of as said s with )peared Count Ited the five at as im- lligence ,ver to would )on. 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The latter steamer was cut right in two, and she immediately foundered, the crew being saved by getting on board the Jane Bacon, with the exception of the engineer, Joseph Smith, who went down with the vessel. It is stated that the lights of the Chloe were out at the time the Jane Bacon struck her. It is stated at Southampton that Dr. Digan, who has administered the Contagious Diseases Act there since the application to the town, has been removed, on promotion, to Plymouth. The Board of Trade inquiry into the abandonment of the ship Land o' Cakes, off St. Michael's, was concluded at Liverpool yesterday, and has resulted in the certificate of the captain, Mr. Thomas Pennington, being suspended for two years. The British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company (Limited), at their meeting hold in Liverpool on Wednes day, agreed to a dividend of 4s. per share with a bonus of 6s. This, with au ad inteinz. dividend paid in July, makes a total dividend for the year of 1T per cent. NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE CAPITULATION OF PARIS. PROPOSED TERMS OF SURRENDER. The special correspondent of the Telegraph sends the following from Versailles, January 24th : M. Jules Favre is understood to be discussing terms of capitulation with the Imperial Chancellor. Points in debate are stated to be these : The forts to be garrisoned by German troops. • The Regulars and the Gardes Mobiles to be sent into Germany. Paris to receive no garrison : the pro tection of the city to be confided to the National Guard. The National Guard not to be disarmed. The province of Champagne to be held in pledge for war expenses. Alsace and Lorraine to be yielded to the German Empire. With the forts and Champagne in their pones sion, the German authorities will enter into de liberation on terms. France to be left •to reconstitute her Govern ment. These propositions are considered on the French side too severe, and ere combated. I cannot say at the hour when this leaves me what may be the result, and what abatement may take place on either side. Up to a late hour last night no confirmation had been received at the Foreign Office of the report that M. Jules Favre had proposed to Count Bismarck terms for the capitulation of Paris. It was rumoured yesterday that the French Minister had reached Dover, and was to leave at noon for London ; but this news was of course entirely without foundation. We learn, in fact, by a special telegram from our correspondent at the Imperial headquarters at Versailles that M. Jules Favre returned to Paris on Tuesday.—Daily _News. DENMARK. In Monday's sitting of the Volksthing, at Co penhagen, the budget of the Ministry of War came on for discussion. The leader of the Agricul tural party recommended that reductions should be introduced, as perhaps all danger to the small states would soon disappear. The Minister of War replied that on the contrary he believed that the situation of affairs in Europe boded no danger. No small state, despite its love for peace, could guarantee that it would not be drawn into the vortex of war, and have to defend its independence. INDIA. BARRA CKP 0 OR, January 24. Yakoob Khan, after surrendering, and while on his way to Cabul, tried to stipulate for the Governor ship of a province. The Ameer's servants, including Asluni Khan, pleaded their inability to give any pro mise, and on this ground, or suspecting treachery, Yakoob attacked them, and, after a crushing defeat, escaped with a few followers. Whither he has gone is not known. THE CONFERENCE. The Berlin correspondent of the Times telegraphs January 25th, that the semi-official Norddeutsche Zeitung says M. Jules Favre had been promised a safe conduct from the German military authorities. When, however, he ' applied for it to the German political authorities, after avowing his intention to moot the German-French question at the Confer ence summoned for the discussion of the Black Sea question, there remained nothing to be done but to refuse his request. Austria intends raoving at the London Conference for the extension of the jurisdiction of the Danube Commission as far as Braila or Orsova. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE REPRESENTATION OF LIMERICK. The evening edition of the Irish Times publishes the following respecting the representation of Limerick :—"A. correspondent in Cork writes to say that a movement is on foot to ask Mr. Romayne, of Cork, to contest the seat for Limerick with the Postmaster-GeneraL Mr. Romayne is a Nationalist. NEWCASTLE SCHOOL BOARD. The Newcastle School Board was elected yesterday, there being twenty-six candidates. Six Church and five unsectarian candidates were returned. EDUCATION IN RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At a meeting of the Ryde (Isle of Wight) Town Coun cil, held on Tuesday night, when only four members were absent, it was unanimously resolved to present a petition under the corporate seal to the Education Department, for permission to establish a School Board for the district of the borough of Ryde. The borough and parish are not extensive, but it is hoped the whole parish may be included in the district. COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS. The Bridgewater Board of Guardians yesterday unani mously resolved to petition Parliament in favour of the establishment of County Financial Boards. THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPE. A large county meeting was held in Tralee yesterday for the purpose of protesting against the invasion of the Papal territory. The high sheriff presided. Bishop Moriarty proposed a resolution to the effect that the invasion of the Papal States by the Italian Govern- Meat constituted a gross violation of the laws of nations and of the first principles of justice. This was carried by the meeting, as were other resolutions, affirming that the independence of the Sovereign Pontiff was essential to the freedom of con science from secular control; that, in the present condition of civil society, the temporal sovereignty of the Pope was the surest guarantee of his independence and freedom of action in the Government of the Church ; and that the maintenance of the Pope's sovereignty, was the best means of ensuring harmony between the spiritual and temporal powers. THE JERSEY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. Another incident happened in the Jersey Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. After the members had transacted Nome business, great confusion occurred, and some of them left without permission of the President. Business could not be proceeded with for want of quorum. One rector wished a fine to be inflicted on absent mem bers. The Constable of St. Heliers urged that the law was too strict, and another member immediately intro duced a bill for modifying the same by lessening quorum. Discussion on the bill was postponed, and the Assembly adjourned. CARRYING FIREARMS IN IRELAND. A circular, signed by the lieutenant and several magistrates of the county of Londonderry, to the Govern ment, has been issued, urging the necessity of directing the constabulary to aid in carrying into force the Act im posing a license of ten shillings on all persons, other than those specified who use and carry guns, and stating that the statute will remain a dead letter, and be openly and knowingly violated by great numbers of persons, if left solely in the hands of the Excise Department. WRECK OFF LOWESTOFF. Yesterday morning the sloop John and Susannah, of Lowestoff, left that port laden with herrings for London. Two hours after she had got out of harbour she struck on the Barnard Sands. She went to pieces in five minutes. The crew of three men were all drowned. The vessel is reported to be ninety years old. SUSPECTED ROBBERY OF DIAMONDS. Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance and foreign aspect was arrested at Northampton, where he had called at a jeweller's shop and offered a large quantity of old gold for sale. On being searched, he was found to be in the possession of a very handsome brilliant ring, several large loose diamonds, and large clusters of the same gems, as well as a quantity of gold. The prisoner, who arrived in Northampton on Tuesday night, in company with a young woman, stated that he had found a box containing the articles in question, and had brought it from Germany. EMIGRATION OF FRENCH REFUGEES TO JERSEY. The emigration of French refugees from the north-west of France to Jersey continues. Nearly forty persons arrived on Wednesday morning by the steamer from Granville. In that neighbourhood the Prussians do not appear to have shewn themselves. Extra boats are run ning between the island and the French ports. YARMOUTH HARBOUR BLOCKED UP. On Wednesday morning the schooner Starling, of Yar mouth, laden with coals, in coming into Yarmouth har bour, came into collision with the South Pier, and almost immediately sunk on the point. The entrance to the harbour is entirely blocked, and no vessel can get in or out. FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. Some workmen employed at the Seaham colliery, near Sunderland, on Tuesday night, struck some old workings, causing the water to rush out and flood the pit. A man and - a boy were drowned. Eight other men escaped. A STEAMER RUN DOWN AND LOSS OF LIFE. At an early hour on Wednesday morning, off St. Bees Head, on the Cumberland coast, the steamer Jane Bacon, Captain Work, owned in Liverpool, with iron ore, from Whitehaven, for Cardiff, ran Woo a steamer named THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. Lord Granville, as leader of the Ministerial party in the House of Lords, has issued a circular, requesting the attendance of the supporters of the Government at the opening of Parliament. The following letter has been addressed to the members of the Conservative party : " Hughenden Manor, Jan. 24, 1871. _ _ " Sir,—l beg leave to remind you that Parliament will reassemble on Thursday, the 9th of February, and to ex press my earnest hope that in the present critical state of public affairs you may find it convenient to be in your place on that day.—l have the honour to remain, yours faithfully, B. DISRAELI." THE POLICEMAN AND HIS PRISONER, The promptitude and decision with which the police have arrested Mrs. Tarpey on the charge of jewel robbery are so satisfactory that we are little disposed to criticise the means which they adopted for securing their prisoner. At the same time we must say that the inconsistency which manifests itself in our treatment of suspected criminals has seldom been more strikingly illus trated. ' Inspector Lund, who arrested the prisoner, cautions her against saying anything which may criminate herself, and at the same time snatches from her hand a letter which she seemed anxious to conceal, and which he therefore rightly suspected to contain evidences of her guilt. We would, however, remove this inconsistency, not by enlarging but by restricting the privileges which are allowed to persons arrested on suspicion. In our opinion the practice of volunteering such warnings as that addressed by Inspector Lund to Mrs. Tarpey has been carried much too far, and is a by no means legiti. mate accretion to the rule, in itself just and sound, which forbids an officer to put any questions to the prisoner he arrests without warning him of the possible consequences of an answer. The object of that rule is, we take it, not so much to prevent the prisoner from supplying real evidence against himself as to protect a man from the danger of having evidence fabricated against him by questions to which in the agitation of the moment he may return an unsatisfactory and suspicious answer. But the unsolicited remarks or statements of an arrested person are surely quite as legitimate evidence against him as the contents of his portfolio or his pockets; and if we are justified in possessing ourselves of the latter by force, we are surely not bound to prevent him supplying us of his own accord with the former.—Pall Mall Gazette. HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF THE MAN CHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN SHIRE RAILWAY. 1 (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) The half-yearly meeting of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company was held in the com pany's offices at the Manchester station yesterday. The chairman of the company, Mr. Edward Watkin, presided. The Chairman made an elaborate statement of the accounts of the company. He contended that it was one of the most economically managed lines in the country. The Government return for 1869, which was the latest he could procure, showed that the average per-centage of working expenses of ten of the leading railways was 49'49, while the per tentage on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway was only 46.57, the only company whose work ing expenses were lower was the Lancashire and York shire Railway, where the per-tentage was 45'66. It was, however, to be borne in mind that in the companies the Lancashire and Yorkshire gained in consequence of its large receipts from lands. At the same time the Manchester Sheffield, and Lincolnshire paid more in keeping up its road and rolling stock than any one of the neighbouring companies. The directors had resolved to expend a large sum of money in the present year in increasing their siding accommodation. They did not say that this was a ' measure of absolute safety, but the directors had adopted it in view of the many accidents which had recently occurred, as a measure of precaution. In referring to the Stairfoot accident, which he and all the directors deeply deplored, he stated that in the ten years from 1861 to 1870 the company carried 46,900,000 passengers without a single fatal acci dent. He had made the strictest investigation, but he did not think it could be shown that the railway had not been worked with prudence, and every regard for safety. The money loss to the company would be comparatively little, but the directors did not regard it as a question of money, it was a question of human life. (Hear, hear.) He should reproach himself bitterly if any precaution which could prevent accidents was omitted to be taken. The chairman then referred at great length to the question as to agreement between the Great Northern and the Midland Railway Companies, as to the differential rates ttpon coals by which the South Yorkshire coal-owners were practically shut out from the London markets. There was no reason why, with free and suitable outlet to London, the annual output of the South Yorkshire coal field should not be 4,000,000 tons in the year, instead of 2,000,000. The secretary had made a calculation which shewed that the amount of gross revenue, of which the Manchester, Shef field and Lincolnshire Railway was being deprived annually in consequence of the prohibitory rates charged by the Great Northern and Midland on Yorkshire coal going to London, was about £84,000 a year, and probably £20,000 more was being lost in passengers and merchandize in consequence of the crippled state of the trade of the district. He trusted that the question might be remitted for settlement by arbitration to the Duke of Richmond or Mr. John Bright, and that a ruinous competition which otherwise might be entered upon would thus be prevented. The directors would spare no effort to bring about a peaceful settlement of the question. The report was adopted, and the retiring directors, including Sir Edward Watkin, were re-elected. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday in Down ing -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 Marquis of Hartington, the Right Hon. C. Fortescue, and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN.—Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prin cesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold is, according to recent arrangements, expected to leave Osborne for Windsor on the 3rd of next month. Her Majesty, we regret to say, suffers from occasional attacks of neuralgia, of a somewhat painful description; and it is, therefore, possible that her return to Windsor may be postponed to a later date in February than that given above. Under these circumstances, should her Majesty be detained at Osborne till the 9th of February, the day fixed for the meeting of Parliament, it is is not unlikely that she will, health permitting, proceed to London to open the House, and return the same day. At present, however, so far as is known at Windsor, the Queen is expected at the Castle on the 3rd of February. THE COST OF THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C., M.P., the Recorder of London, who was, under the pro visions of the Elementary Education Act, ap pointed by the Education Department of the Privy Council returning officer for the recent elec tions to the London School Board, has. just issued his precepts to the various parishes for the amounts stated to be incurred in the respective dist r i c ts f or suc h elections. For the M ar yl e b one Division, in the parish of Marylebone alone, the amount of the precept is £384 12s. 9d., and for St. Pancras it is over £360, so that in two parishes only the official expenses charged exceed £740 ; Paddington and Hampstead being added to Mary lebone and St. Pancras will make the cost of 'the election for the Marylebone Division considerably over £l,OOO ; and if the official School Board elections were carried out in all the other metropolitan divisions in the same ratio of expenditure, the gross cost in the election of the forty-nine members of the London School Board will exceed £lO,OOO. With pretty much the same machinery as that used for the purpose of elections of guardians under the Metropolis Local Management Act, the latter, even in the case of a poll being demanded in every ward, is carried out in some of the largest parishes at a cost of some "X2O or £3O. THE ARMY OF THE NORTH. The special correspondent of the Daily News, in a letter from Lille, January 21, remarks :—As days roll on, the effects of the battle of St. Quentin shew themselves even more disastrously. The scattered soldiers are cowed, and notwithstanding any number of orders of the day from the general, they know very tvell that his con gratulations upon their prowess and courage are undeserved. Any attempt to rally them would be utterly useless just now, for the Prussians have struck terror throughout the districts. Many officers say in private that they are quite willing to fight if they see any object or a chance; but they object to being simply led out without fair prospects of success. The rumour to-day bas heen that the enemy is making its way to cut off the railway between Hazebrouck and Lille, so as to prevent any of the Army of the North escaping by sea to Cherbourg. If I may judge from what I have gathered, the majority will infinitely prefer being forced into Belgium than being allowed any chance of being sent to fight elsewhere. The 'feeling is they have done their duty and shewn their courage, and that it is useless to struggle against the force they have to contend with. This runs through all, excepting the sailors and marines, both of whom, I believe, would march out to morrow morning with wil- lingness if they were ordered. The TJhlans are prome manading all the country in the angle formed by Cambrai, Arras, and Douai, and were this afternoon within six miles of the latter place. THE SITUATION IN FRANCE. From Bordeaux the special correspondent of the Standard writes :—The situation becomes daily worse. Chanzy, pursued and beaten by Prince Frederick Charles, Jails back from position to position. Bourbaki, after three days' desperate fighting, has failed to carry the Prussian positions before Belfort, and has fallen back. Reinforcements from all sides flow in to Man teuffel, and it is probable that our next dis patch will tell of the Prussians having taken the offensive, and of Bourbaki being obliged to retreat towards Besancon. Bourbaki's only hope of success lay in complete and rapid victory at the commencement of his campaign. That victory he has failed to acquire, and his failure to drive back the Germans and to raise the siege of Belfort is equivalent to a decisive defeat. The only thing to hope for now, with reference to his army, is that it may disengage itself from the meshes of the net into which it has fallen. All communication with the North has ceased ; I am, therefore, unable to give you any information whatever concerning the movements of the troops at Cherbourg, which I sincerely hope' are by this time on their way towards Laval, the town from which Chanzy's last despatch was dated. My hopes, however, are not high, for I hear of no movements of troops from here, none from the camp of St. Medard, none from Nancy. Gambetta is, however, now really with Chanzy, the general having telegraphed to beg him to join him at once, and I do trust that Chanzy will suc ceed in impressing upon him that, if the campaign is to be saved at all, it must be done by what has been so long vainly urged—namely, by an instant concentra tion of all the available troops of France. The Liberte this morning strikes the right key when it insists that at least 150,000 men should be instantly forwarded to Chanzy, and a like number tc Bourbaki. Here at Bordeaux one or two of the papers begin dimly to see that the military situation is not perfectly satisfactory, but to read the vast majority of articles any one would suppose that nothing could be better than the general state of affairs, and I altogether lose patience at the impudent assertion and the absurd misstatemonts which comprise the bulk of the leaders. Nothing short of the capitulation at once of Paris, of Chanzy, and of Bourbaki would suffice to waken these people from their pleasant dream. As for the jour nalists, the supporters of the Government, of course, have it in their interest to make things as pleasant as possible, while the Opposition papers are afraid to speak out, for if they were to write anything like the truth upon the subject they would expose themselves to the accusation of endeavouring to clamp the spirits of the defence by false and injurious appreciation of the situation. When the scales really fall from the eyes of the French people there will be a terrible awakening. A. short time ago Lord Derby gave 8,000 yards of laud on which to erect the new Stanley Hospital. He has now given an additional 1,200 yards for a recreation ground for convalescent patients. It is stated that the total value of the land thus given is something over £20,000. The Church herald states that two noblemen, one of the highest rank, the other well known in political society, but neither holding official positions, having had it intimated to them that they would receive the Queen's commands to be present at the Lenten marriage of the Princess Louise, have asked her Majesty's gracious per mission to be excused for attending the same, now that it is likely to be celebrated in Lent. At the Clerkenwell Police-court, Mr. William Sterling, a gas-fitter, pleaded guilty to a charge of discon necting a gas-meter without giving twenty-four hours' notice in writing to the company of his intention to do so. His defence was that his customer's works were stopped, owing to a wet meter having been frozen, and he discon nected the meter in order to substitute a dry one for it. Mr. Cooke inflicted a mitigated penalty of £4 and costs. Writing on the 19th, the American correspondent of the Times says that General Schenck, to whom the publication of the Motley and Fish correspondence gives a warning, finds much difficulty in avoiding dinner invita- tions, and when he cannot well avoid them he has equal trouble in stilling speech-making. That he shall make no after-dinner speeches in England seems to be President Grant's ultimatum, and consequently England's gastro nomic plan of disarming American Ministers is to fail. TRAPEZE ACCIDENT.—An alarming accident took place at the Raglan Music Hall, London, the other night. Two young men were going through their evolutions on the high trapeze, when one of them lost his hold and fell from a height of thirty feet into the orchestra. The utmost consternation prevailed in the . hall, it being generally supposed that the unfortunate acrobat must have been killed by the fall. He was for a time quite insensible, but by the use of stimulants he was at length sufficiently recovered to reappear for a moment on the stage. BREAKFAST.— EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM PORTING.—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 EPPS & Co., liomceo pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin evening beverage.—Ativt. - M. GAMBETTA'S RECEPTION AT LILLE. In a communication from Lille,the special correspondent of the Daily News thus writes on January 24 :—lt would be idle to suppose that M. Gambetta has met with any reception in the North deserving the title of " enthusias tic." Beyond the first excitement in the streets on his unexpected arrival at the statiou, some indispensable calls from leading men in the town, and the Democratic Assembly at, the Prefecture on Sun day morning, there has been literally nothing to mark the event from that of the visit of any ordinary offi cial. The failure of the arrival of Mr. Jules Favre doubtle,,•3y has somewhat damped the prestige of the visit ; but there are other reasons why the. mass of the town have shewn themselves so unsym pathetic. The Conservative party is strong among the rich oil refiners and seed crushers ; the prospect of the near approach of war is distasteful to the owners of large commercial properties out side the walls arid, more than all, M. Gambetta, as the representative of Republicanism, has for some time been unpopular. Nothing like an ovation has been attempted. Even the front of the gates of the Prefec ture, to which building M. Gambetta, has confined him self, has been absolttely void of public gazers. And lastly, he has vanished from the town at an hour unknown to the public, and only escorted to the station by his old Paris friend, the new Prefect, and two or three more of the indispensable officials. The townspeople have seemed to me curiously apathetic to his presence, and when I have spoken of his movements to any of them the reply has almost invariably been "J e na sais pas," with a slight shrug of the shoulders. The truth is he has overshot the mark in his addresses ; and it has been too strong a dose for the Lillois, who see their soldiers routed by an enemy carrying all before them, to be told that the said enemy is on the point of exhaustion. Local affairs have had something to do with it also. The new Prefect, a stranger to the town, arrived early yesterday, and a certain jealousy exists at his being placed where a local celebrity should be. Then there is a very sore feeling as to the abolition of the Conseils Gtin4raux, and added to these political motives, the domestic feelings prevail also, and people cannot see why their sons and brothers should be led out to be slau.fhtered almost with certainty and for no good. The only attempt at communication between the townspeople and the Minister beyond the assembly on Sunday, has been a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce to advocate a revision, if not an abrogation entirely, of the Commercial Treaties of the Empire. This little straw skews the atnount of force that exists in to-day's martial spirit here. That such a question should be thought of at such a moment is curious, and M. Gambetta almost told them as much. Taking all in all, I have good reason for saying M. Gam betta has left Lille a sadder if not a wiser man, and has not even left behind him a valedictory address. I see in him a wonderful change. The young and energetic man seems bowed past middle age. There is a want of atten tion to his appearance, and though the eye is as vivacious as before, the face looks graver and the features are leas mobile. GAMBETTA ON THE WAR. The special correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Bordeaux on the 17th, says :—The opinion I have so often expressed in my correspondence from Tours. and Bordeaux, to the effect that the fall of Paris would not end the war of resistance in France, was fully con firmed yesterday in a conversation of some length which I had with M. Gambetta. I was ushered through a large room —which had before this war evidently served as one of a suite of reception rooms at the Prefecture, but in which there were now several clerks, all busy writing—into another large drawing-room. In a corner of this apartment, at a table covered with papers, letters, telegrams, reports, and official documents of all sorts, sat M. Gambetta. When I entered he was on the point of finishing off some business with a clerk or secretary, and having signed the paper held by the latter, he rose up, wheeled his chair round to one which he pointed out to me, and begged that I would be seated. There was nothing in the least degree official in his manner. After a few opening observations, the con versation turned upon the war in general, and what I had seen in some of the Departments through which I had passed, and which were in the occupation of the Prussians. But these topics have been so often already discussed in my letters that they need not be renewed here—all the more so as M. Gambetta confined himself to some general remarks upon the subject. I then asked him whether, after Paris fell, the war would come to an end, or whether the struggle against the enemy would still be continued. He replied—and his manner was, if possible, more earnest than. before—that the fall of Paris would have no effect whatever in putting an end to the war if the conditions hitherto insisted upon by the -Prussians were still maintained. " I do not speak," he said, "in my own name, nor even in that of the Delega tion of the Government here at Bordeaux; but I repeat the firm determination of every one of my colleagues, in and out of Paris. that the war must continue, no matter what the cost, no matter what the consequences. If Paris falls to-morrow, she will have done her duty nobly towards France. I cannot bring myself to believe she will ever capitulate ; I believe the people themselves would burn her, like a second Moscow, before they would allow the enemy to take possession of the town." "But supposing," I argued, " that she does capi tulate—l only seek for information—what then ? " I that case," said M. Gambetta, "we must continue to fight in the provinces. We have now, without reckoning the army of Paris, half a million of men actually in the field, and 250,000 more either on their way to join the army, or ready to march from their depots. We have not yet touched the levy of 1871, nor have we enrolled the mar ried men. The former will give us 300,000 recruits, the latter two millions of able bodied men. We have arms pouring in from all quarters. Money does not fail us. The nation, including men of all political shades of opinion, is with us ; and it will simply be a question of our nation against the German nation—of our people against theirs. Do you believe that the entire popu lations of all the countries in the German Confedera tion would he willing, for the sake of acquiring two French provinces, to carry on a war of this kind ? As for us, we can and we must do it. For us, it would be dishonouring and dishonourable to give up. We are fighting for our existence as a nation ; they for an in crease of territory which never will and never can do them any good whatever. Do you suppose that, wasted and exhausted as France is, parts of Germany are not much more so? Look at the losses of the Bavarian army alone. Look at the numbers of widows and orphans all over the land. Our married men have not yet taken arms, theirs have been killed by the thousand. No," he continued, turning more fully round to me, and laying his hand flat on the desk before him, " I hold it to be mathematically impossible that if we have patience, and continue the war, we should not end by driving the invaders out of France. Every 24 hours are a day gained to us, and bring us nearer our de sired end; but every hour's delay increases the difficulty of our enemies." It is stated that the Portuguese Government is contemplating an important financial measure, based upon a new duty on the tobacco monopoly. . An examination will commence at New College, Oxford, on Tuesday, March 7, for the purpose of electing to two open classical scholarships of the annual value of £lOO, and tenable for five years. At Bow-street Police -court a letter-carrier at Rotherhithe, named Higham was committed for trial on a charge of wilfully burning a number of letters entrusted to him for delivery. The new ironclad Sultan, which was to have left the Medway on Saturday last, will not be ready to pro ceed to sea until early in the ensuing month. She will then proceed to Portsmouth, to be fitted ont in all proba bility for a flag ship. The committee for the selection of pottery at the London International Exhibition will consist of the following :—Lord Lichfield, Mr. C. M. Campbell, Mr. C. Drury Fortnum, Mr. M. D. Rollins, and Mr. Alfred Morrison. r HER MAJESIY'S TOBACCO PIPE.—At the Com mercial Sale Rooms, in Mincing-lane, at the 182nd Custom House sale, 532 lots of tobacco and other goods are offered for sale. If the sale is not brisk, then her Majesty's tobacco pipe, which smokes tobacco by the ton, is likely soon to be well filled. This " pipe," or furnace, is at the London Docks, and in it vast quantities of tobacco in leaf, cavendish, negro head, and other sorts, that have failed to sell in the Government sales, are burnt. Very many tons are consumed in the course of the year. From one department alone, and that a comparatively small one, including seizures made for smuggling and rummage— that is, goods out of date in warehouse—there were recently sent • to this " pipe" several large casks of various kinds of tobacco, weighing more than two tons. The question may very naturally arise, why not sell all this good tobacco, and not consume it in this extravagant manner ? The answer is that the goods have been offered for sale to the public in the periodical Government sales in Mincing-lane, and, no buyers being obtainable, it is better to destroy the tobacco than to allow it to remain in a warehouse any longer, and a Board's order is then obtained from the Hon. Board of Customs for its destruction. OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning THE NEGOTIATIG/IZEIFOR SIIREEITDER. The Time; in an article on the present situation of Paris, says :—lt was confidently annotinced yesterday morning that M. Jules Favre would arrive in London in the course of the afternoon, only twenty-four hours after his presence was reported at Versailles ; and his hurried journey was taken as a sufficient proof that he had either broken off his negotiations for the surrender of the capital, or that he had left them to be carried on by some of his colleagues in the Provisional Government. It was, indeed hardly possible to imagine that he could have brought the matter to any terniination in so short a time, especially considering the nature of his original proposal. M. Jules Favre, however, is still at Versailles, and there can be little doubt as to the eventual sense of the trans action which his journey has initiated. The capitulation of Paris cannot be long postponed. We hare not for gotten that, on the eve of the fall of Metz, Marshal Bazaine put forward demands almost identical with those of which the French Minister for Foreign Affairs is said to be the bearer—that he claimed permission for the besieged army, which he affected to regard as something apart from the garrison, to quit the place with all the honours of war. These terms were not granted, and Bazaine, who knew very well they were not reasonable, had to be satisfied with that mere show of honour to which by the usages of war he was entitled, and to resign himself, with ev an bearing arms under him, to captivity. It o, rardly be doubted that the eSc ilitipi men at the head of affairs in Paris, whoever they may now be, will have to undergo the same fate and submit to the same conditions. The only alternative is to continue to fight and to suffer, and we believe Paris is at the end both of its material strength and of its moral power of endurance. Whatever, indeed, may have been the clamour in some quarters of the -city, we must be allowed to question whether the real fighting men were ever as eager for a sortie as they were represented to lie. The loss of the garrison at the last sortie is estimated at 6,000, of whom 1,000 dead were left lying in front of the German works. The honour of Paris, and even of France, may rest satisfied with this fearful sacrifice. M. Gambetta may think otherwise, but before he asks for more blood, he is bound to ascertain whether the country's thirst for it is as unslacked as his own. THE TERMS OF PEACE. The Standard remarks :—The whirligig of time works its revenges. Paris has done all that a capital could do, and for the future France has nothing to fear. It is the schooling of adversity which is the seed-time of greatness. While inside the walls of the beleaguered city the inhabitants were with fearful suspense speculating on the period of immunity from destruc tion by hostile gun and shell which they might enjoy, white mothers over their infants' cradles were lift- ing up their hands to Heaven, and praying that the' im plements of death might not wing their flight to the pillows of their little one, a ceremony which we can only speak of as a blasphemous travesty of devotion was being celebrated at Paris, and William of Prussia was being proclaimed Emperor of 'Germany. Thanks were offered to the Omnipotent for His justice and His mercy, and the incense of adoration was the incense of blood. Is it to be expected that a Monarch to whom the thirst for invasion and massacre has now become an instinct of nature will stay his hand at the surrender of Paris ? Had the Prussian legions not been insatiable for blood not a blow would have been struek after the events of Sedan. The object of Prussian resistance—the avowed object— had been more than attained even then. Even then France lay prostrate and bleeding ; but it was not enough that she should be prostrate and should bleed ; she must be trampled on. It may be that at the outset of the campaign there was more of public sympathy with Berlin than with Paris, What is the tone and tendency of general feeling now? In the only answer which there is to that question the most eloquent comment upon events is to be found. The annexation of French territory is not a step which will be taken for the safety of Germany or the se curity of the Fatherland. Prussia alone can gain by it, and the gain of Prussia will be the violation of the Euro pean conscience. The public voice of Europe has condemned the Prussian policy of spoliation. Is it likely that the piously-bloodthirsty Prussian Monarch will be warned ? "A durable peace !" Can any peace be durable which is based upon the dishonour of one nation, and which is dictated by ambition and lust ? Will the conditions dictated by the victorious Teuton be marked by any other characteristic ? It is upon the reply that fact will furnish to this question that the future of Europe de pends, and the fate of Germany too. THE FALL OF PARIS. The Telegraph says :—The attention of the whole world is now fixed on the interview at Versailles between M. Jules Favre and Count Bismarck. The fact that the French Minister has visited the head = quarters of the German Emperor, that he has remained there for some time, and that at his ,request safe I conducts have been sent to MM. Picard and Dorian, is naturally taken to imply the beginning of negotiations for the surrender of the capital. The end of the heroic resistance is clearly at hand. The time when the capital must open its gates is now reduced to a question of days or hours ; for the disastrous failure of the sortie on the 19th has revealed the utter futility of any attempt to break through the line of steel which encompasses the forts; the defeat of Chanzy, Bourbaki, and Faidherbe has thrown back into the dim distance the hope th a t P ar i s can b e save d b y the provinces ; and the vast store of provisions is on the point of exhaustion. The metropolis has shot its last bolt and has failed. The conditions which Count Bismarck is believed to demand may be changed to meet circumstances unforeseen even by the Ger man Chancellor, but, as at present stated, they may well be deemed appalling by the French people. The degradation of a great and proud country could scarcely reach a darker depth than that marked by the dictate of the Prussian statesman. Not only must the capital be surrendered unconditionally, or on con ditions which are a caricature of clemency, but, before Germany will debate the final terms of peace, the Provisional Government must yield up all claims to the very provinces for which the contest has been waged since the capitulation of Sedan. It would be idle, however, to lecture the Prussian Chancellor or f t u h l e l G rfg er o m ur an of pe t o h p e le teornmsthewhifcohll they exacting r t c h e e . y the o have shown uo disposition to surrender a fragment of the War is war ; and the victors in the present contest Government refuse to comply with prizes which they have won in battle. Nor can the persistently Pr ovisional the demands of the conqueror, so far as they relate to the capitulation of Paris. M. Jules Favre, it is true, may,' aed probably will, decline to surrender the title of France to the temporary possession of Champagne, or the permanent possession of Alsace and Lorraine. He may reply that the Government of National Defence has no right to barter away the soil of of France, even for the sake of preserving the capital from fire and famine. While offering to open the g a t es o f P ar i s and to capitulate without conditions, he may stubbornly withhold his sign manual from a deed of territorial transfer; and the resources, of civilised warfare do not permit Count Bismarck to bombard an unresisting city until the Provisional G overnment shall offer au abject submission. Nevertheless, Paris herself lies at the mercy of the besiegers. Her long and gallant resistance is now at an end ; but she falls amid the respectful salutations of all men who value the heroism of endurance. THE BONAPARTIST RESTORATION. If the statement positively made yesterday be true, observes the Daily News, Count Bismarck has at last ' brought to birth the long-talked-of scheme for the restoration of the Empire, and has got the consent of the Empress and the approval of the ex-Emperor to terms which he is ready to accept as the basis of peace. It is certain that for some time past the exiled Imperial. ists have been busy with their intrigue, and that they regard the restoration of the Empire as one of the certainties of the immediate future. This scheme of Im perialist restoration would make continued resistance in evitable. France is beaten, but France is not so humiliated as to take a Government from the hands of her conqueror. Even supposing that, for the sake of peace, France should accept the restoration of the Empire, how could the dynasty ever recover the humiliation of a restoration effected by foreign arms ? The Emperor would come back as a perpetual memento of French defeat. He would owe his Crown to the acceptance of terms which the Republic rejected with scorn. Count Bismarck must be far too astute to believe that a peace made with such a Government could possibly last. He proba bly intends to use the Imperial restoration onlyas a threat. He wishes to tell the Republic that if it refuses his terms he will turn to the Empire, and that the Empire will accept them. He probably reckons rather on the confu sion the restoration would produce, than on the order it might pretend to estabhsh ; and his real ofler to France simply amounts to the alternative—Peace on our terms, or civil war. Perhaps of all the results of the war an Imperialist restoration would be the most inconsequent and absurd. It would mock the professions of both parties, and dissapoint the hopes of the world. The war was begun in Imperial ambition, it resulted in an Imperial overthrow, and it would be absurd that it should end in an Imperial restoration. When King William found that he could transfer the war to French soil, he declared that he went to fight against the Empire ; Count Bismarck's scheme would make him end the war by fighting for the Emperor. Is Count Bismarck so inveterate a King maker that he must make a Government for France ? If so, he may find that he has made the Liberal party and the friends of free government in every nation the inveterate enemies of himself and of his cause. The neutral nations ought to have a voice in the settle. ment. They should not let this crisis pass without stopping in and making an attempt at peace ; and they ought not to allow the peace negotiations to become the meansllof foreign interference with the internal Govern ment of France. Empire or Republic, Orleans or old Bourbon, it is for France alone to choose herrulereand decide her destiny, )M -to. on his lers field dis -1 by ult. the ones, the the ition sday ad v. Y the from oney,