The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

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COUNT BISMARCK AND M. FAVRE.

BERLIN. Oct. 4. 3 24 isa.
The following Circular bas been addressed by
Count Bismarck to the North German Embass!es and
Legations:—

“FERRIERES, Sept. 27.

"1 he report if M. Jules Fame, presented to his colleep nes
alter cur interview on the 21st September, cetera me to ad-
dress to pair Excellency a communication which will Owe
see • correct Wes et whet pasted between es. Upon the
whole! cannot lint admit that M. Fevre Las eteleavenred to
convey an teemed e account of the treneacti. it If he hee not
fuliy succeeded in to doing, hie en or a arcsefficketly explained
by the her ti of our iutereiews ami the eh cunistances nester
which tLey were held. With regard to the dr if lof his entire
areumet. a I night, however, to observe Viet the t rimer,
topic of our convir-atione was rot the cal:elusion of peace,
but of an stmistice, which was to precede it. Auto one
terms of peace, I expressly declared to M. Fevre that I
should state the Resider vie abs old claim enly after the
prturiple of tuition if territory had, been weakly mince led
by France. lu connection with this the fot metiers of
a new Moselle district, with the to rocelimements 01
Start:lll4, Chateau Saline, Ssareemund, Mete, and Thten.
rifle, seee ennoed to by me as an athengernent included
In our leteriturs, tut I have not renoneced the rieht of
nankin:, such further de mards as 'bey be calculated to in-
demnify ui for the Sacrifices which a mullet:mice of the
war will entail upon us al Fan, called Stratburg the key
of the house, leaving it doubtful which house he m, t. I
replied that struberg was the kip of cur house, mei we
therefore objected to leave lit, foreign hands. Our tint conver-
sation, In Chateau Mute Station, rear Montry, was confined to
an abstractinquiry Into the p eneral charactertsticee f the past
and present sees. SI. Favre's orly pertieent rem*: ken tide
iv:melon was that they would pay any ram, • tout eorgent gne
nOur aeons? hut declined any cession of territory. l'pon my
declaring such cession to be hall, petral le, he said in that
twee, it would be useless t s open utgetiatione for peace : and
he argued on ti.e suppasitimt that to mile territory wooed
hurniltate—nny, dishoucur France. I felled to convince tem
that terms such as France lied obtained from Italy and e"e-
nemiled from Germany, wl; hout even the excuse of pee-
vitals war—teener which France would have undoubtedly
imposed upon us had we been defeated, sad in which uearly
eveoy war had resulted down to the latest ItMe, —could hove
nothiue ellehmettriug in theineelves to • country vanquished
triers gallant streggle, and thet the honeur of thence was
of no other quality of nature than the honour of all other
cenotries. N. Force liken Me (leeriest:l to tee that, as a
question of honour, the present restoration of Seraeburg
would he on a par with the former restoration
at Landau and Serreloule, and that the honour
of France was jest es little bound up with the
unlawlul coterie:its of Louis X IV. ite it had been wi:h
those of the Mist Republic or the test Empire. Our couversa-
Mons took a mere {elected turn at Ferrleres, where they
refored to the question of an armistice. Such having
been their exclusive theme at that piece disproves the
assertion that I refired an armistice eerier any condi..
Goes M. Fevre doing me, on thls and other occasions,
the homer of making toe expocas my own personal
notices—for instance, 'di fandsait sin armistice et je
seen rove ii uncut. psis,' and such like—crepele me so
rectify his allegatione. I never, In mimeo:ration/1 of thie
kind, speak of myeelf as amordirg or denying abe thing, hut
only communieate the intentions and deniande of the Govern-
ment whose business I have to transact In air cotivetsa-
lion we both were Oft p retort that an armistiee mieht he
cenclueed, to give the French hatien a n r pnertunity of
electing a Representative Assembly, which alone would be
in a position to tar as to strengthen the title to power
lessened by the existing Gevernmeet sol to rebder
It possible for no to conclude with them a pose.
vend in aecnrdance with the rides of International
law. I remarked that to an ariey in the midst oft victorious
career an armistice is always b jurieus ; that in the present
.ltisicttce, to re 00 t'vdtrly, it would give Franco time to
renrgaidze her trooea and to make tiefeerive pre; stations,
and that. therefore, I court not accord an ramie:ice without
some military equivalent beteg conceded to us. I mentioned
as such the surrender of the metres:tea obstructing our com-
menaced:ins with Germany; Deese., if by an armistice we
were to be detained in Fratme longer this was rthiclutely
lie-emery, we must boast upon Ii cease I meses of bring.
hug tip previsions I referred to Strathere. T, ul. and come
less important place• Con-ere:in, Strasburg, I tined thet
the crowning et Ills Mae, haring been re ,nopliAnd, the
eorgliest at that place might I e shorty millet:este d, soil that
we tierefore the:teat ourselves entitle d to depenuel that the
garrisen houla surrender as prisoners of war. The gerrisens
of the other placer woul I be allowed fees retreat. Patin
win a:nether difficulty. liming comp!i tely oleo eel
This city, we coaid permit it re nese I interceurs
with the rot if France only if the Import:4 en it
fresh proviseine thereby reed:err:l pees ble did not
weaken ilir own militaly positton and r. twd the date
at which we might hope to starve oat the place. Ilay.ng
consulted the mierary authorities and taken his M 'sty's
ceramands. I therefore ultimately submitted the fullowir g
aliernettre:—. Either the fortified place of Peri& is to be
given lets, our hands by the eurreuder of a commanding
portien of the weeks, in which care we are ready to allow
Paths renewed intercourse with the o 'entry, and to permit
the prov;sionleg of the town ; Or, the fortified place of
Paris not begig Oren into oar hand., we eivell keep
it invested dorieg the armiltice, which latter won't
otherwise result In Paris being elee to oppose us at its
eeptry, reinforced by froth forpplita, and streng,hened by
new defences.' It Fevre peremi torily declined hnndlng
over sty portion of the works of Paris, and also ref esed the
surrender of the Ste... Clog garrison as Wieners ei ear. Ile.
however, promised intake the opinion of Is colleagues at
Paris respecting the other alternative under which the
military status quo I clone Parts was to lit mate-
tained. ACor4inoy, tee programme which M. Farm
took to Parts as :he result if cur Conterrations, and
which was rejected there, contained nothing as to the
future conditions of peace. I, eels: inclueed an mud.
site e os from a fortnight to three weeks, to he granted on the
folowiug cotteitions, in order in nettle the elec: ion of a
Nationel Asietnh. y to be held :—Firstly in and h. fore Perla
the matneenaece of the military 'status quo ; in and
before Metz ire cense:unmet of hostiaties within
a e bele hereafter to lie more accurately defined ;
thre le, the eurrereler of S:rasburg with its eartime, and
the evecuation of Tout avid &tech°, their garrimeis being
accorded tree retreat. I believe our cenviction that this
was a very accepts:lee offer will be shared by all neutral
Cabinets. If the French Gevernmect hes cot availed
Ilnoif ol this oppertunity for having a National Amembly
electe I In all parts of France, these occupied by as
not excepted, this Indicates a resolve to proloug the dila-
cultic. which prevent the conclusion 01 a valid peace,
and to ignore the voice of the French people. From all
we see here the cenviction is forced upou us, as it no doubt
is likewiee wet the rulers at Paris, that free and unblessed,
general elections will yield a maj wily In feversn Oft eace. I
request your Excellency to communicate thts circular to the
Govalanent to which you are accredited. blettellee."

V,.
The Dedin comapondent rf the Co/orse Gazette stales
that M. Thiera in hta interi lei.. with Ltd Grenville, urged
that Eeyeted ehould leave- be other reutral Poe ere to el-
of tr.., oh I,iii r sAr Piuwit to no.ke petee 011 mice-
c.; i. 1,113. II• elate ;he Emalsh
Govcreinint V.Lit the ri • terain n of the Empire war impos-
sible. An to the that point, Lord Granville tainted that
could nnder no eircametence intirvene. Pr Germany
hatf el carried on the war alone could not be hiuderid frees
oxmcluding peace 1. iterif. Ou the second vial JAcd
Tale agreed whit M. Thieve.