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London, England, 1871-02-10 00:00:00

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THE WAR.

THE GERMAN TERMS OF PEACE.

The Berlin correspondent of the Independance Beige,
writing on the sth. referring to the German terms, says
it may be considered certain that, so far back as
the middle of December, Bismarck, in his
famous circulars, plainly indicated the line of Metz,
Strasburg, and Belfort as the frontier which Ger-
many would demand for her future security. But he
said then that if the war continued the demands of Ger-
many might increase proportionately. Very certainly
then she will not now abandon the line of the
Vosges, with the two strong positions that protect
it north. and south. As for the indemnity, it will
be two milliards of tinders, or, se the Versailles telegram
says, about aight milliards of francs which will be de-
manded bow Ftance. From this mat, however, he de-
ducted the contributions already raised, and the price of
the raihvays of Alsace and Lorraine. France will have
to compensate the Compagnie de l'Est, but this
must be deducted from the sum total of
the war expenses. The Luxemburg railway, which
is worked by the Compagnie de l'Est, will,
in consequence of these obanges, become a kind of boun-
dary. An arrangement will probably be entered into
with the consent of the Society of Guillaume Luxemburg,
proprietor of the railway, who has guaranteed to the
Compagnie de l'Est a rental of three million francs for
forty-five years. The consent of the State will be also
requisite.

THE ELECTION AT LILLE.
LILLE, February 7.

The brief electoral period has passed by tranquilly
in spite of the controversies which it was feared would
be raised by the vehement opposition existing between
the candidates. The oriflamme and the tricolor
were unfurled, metaphorically, by the Legitimists
and the Revolutionists, but the danger brought its
antidote. The bourgeoisie, who had troubled themselves
very little about politics during the last twenty years, were
aroused by the recollections of the past and they ar-
ranged a compromise. A list of candidates was pre-
pared, which contained a Republican majority. Eighteen
names, among which were those of Jules Favre, Simon,
Ernest Picard, Testelin and other notabilities, as well as
those of Trochu, Thiers, Jules Brame, and others of their
school, were selected, and the choice has been generally
approved. During the last two days several
travellers have arrived from Paris, who were
authorised to leave the capital as being can-
didates for the Assembly. The greater part
arrived too late to carry out their plans, but their accounts
reassured the citizens. The state of Paris is critical,
but not so disastrous as was represented. The
travellers took three days making the journey
partly by rail, partly by carriages, partly on
foot. They criticise the conduct of the military
political officials with great severity, especially as regards
Trochu. The revictualling goes on with less regu-
larity than Bismarck's despatches represent. The Ger-
man authorities have she wn an or at
best a nonchalance which is exhibited by the
act that thirty trains which left Lille have not yet suc-
ceeded in passing Gonesse. The travellers who have
arrived, it may be remarked, denounce the brutality of
the officer in command of the Gonesse station, while they
extol the courtesy of the officer at St. Denis. No letters
or papers have yet been received at Lille from Pari e
General Faidherbe has refused to be nominated for any
election, despite the enthusiasm in his favour. He wishes
to remain with his soldiers, but it is tolerably certain that
he will be proposed in several towns notwithstanding his
• refusal.

NOTES FROM HAVRE.
HAVRE, February 6.
The news of the armistice, which reached this town
through the medium of the English newspapers, was at
first scarcely credited, but too soon it was confirmed
by a telegram from the Bordeaux Delegation an-
nouncing the capitulation of Paris. It had been thought
that Paris had supplies for at least another fortnight, and
there was a vague expectation that the heroic defence
would culminate in a grand military attempt. So

the mortification and disappointment were propor
tionately great. It became known, however, that
the sufferings of the capital were too great
to allow the sacrifice to be delayed for a single day, but
it is greatly to be deplored that the Ministers in signing
the capitulation were not better informed as to the posi-
tion of the contending armies in the provinces.
The Prussians have thus been enabled to
continue their operations in the East, and in
several districts their positions have been extended
far beyond the juSt limits. Dieppe, for instance, which
has been several times vialted by the Prussians, and had
to pa►y requisitions, has never been actually occupied, aad
the road by the sea was free, so that troops could have
been thrown into it. At the first news of the armistice
the vessel Diamant received orders to occupy the port of
Dieppe, and her commander, M. Carrey, who was ap-
pointed commandant of the place, could certainly have
offered a vigorous resistance. But on Feb. 2 some Prussian
officers presented themselves with a flag of truce, bearing
the order of the Prussian Commander-in-Chief at
Rouen to occupy the town with a corps of 4,000 men,
under the terms of the armistice signed by Count
von Bismarck and M, Jules Favre. In face of such an
arrangement the commander of the Diamant had no choice
but to yield the town to the Prussian authorities,
and leave the port, taking with him a company of Mobiles
sent by General Faidherbe. The Prussian troops took
possession of the town the next day, and were quartered
on the inhabitants. Dieppe will be during
the armistice the head-quarters of the 2nd divi-
sion of the Ist corps, so that a port
which really belonged to the French has been
handed over to the enemy by the armistice, and the
same bas been the case in several other directions,
This has naturally created great discontent, and as soon
as the decree respecting the elections reached Havre, the
Republican Committee, thinking that it should take
the initiative, as the Prefect of the Department,
M. Carnot, was there and the principal, town was in the
enemy's hands, published a list of sixteen candidates,
which was placarded through the town. This was reckon-
ing without Bismarck however, for two days later M.
_Netion, the mayor of Rouen, published a counter list
of an altogether different class of candidates, including
the name of Trochu, who will not certainly stand for
Rouen, as he has refused to stand for Paris. Havre is
highly incensed at the affair, and addressed an
energetic protest to Bordeaux, which brought
in reply a decree authorising Havre, in con-
sideration of its commercial importance, and
the necessity of preserving its independence, in con-
sideration, too, of the communication with Rouen and
Dieppe being interrupted, to elect the number of repre-
sentatives to which its population entitles it, the num-
ber of representatives for the rest of the department
of Seine Infdrieure being reduced in proportion.
This permission gave great satisfaction, and the committee
proposed the names of M. Dufour, Communal Councillor,
M. Le Cesne; former deputy, M. Penlevey, Procureur-
G4n4ral at Rouen, and M. Quesnel, an agriculturist, at Go-
derville. It has long been a local ambition at Havre that the
city should become the capital of the department of
Seine Maritime, for which it is well suited.
M. Achille Delorme, the prefect of Calvados, refused to
Publish Gambetta's proclamation, and sent him a despatch
saying it was a fine proclamation, but the part respecting
the signature of the armistice was inadmissible. He
was ordered to depute the service to the Chief Secre.
retary, and to forward to him the order to publish the
proclamation. The daily service between Havre
and Honfleur has been resumed, as Honfleur
is in the neutral line traced by the armistice.
The work of repairing the railways goes on rapidly, and
trains for provisioning Paris leave this evening. The
death of M. Gustave Lambert is announced. He was
killed in the attack on Montretout on the 19th. He was
the promoter of the expedition to the North Pole, and his
vessel, the Borealis, which he bought for the voyage, is
now in the harbour.

The Daily News correspondent at Bordeaux, writing
on the 3rd, says there was then much talk of carrying on
the war with renewed vigour. Sixteen new regiments had
been created by decree ; 40,000 Mobiles and volunteers
were, it was said, to be furnished by the department of
the 114rault ; and a writer in the Emancipation of Tou-
louse had spoken of a new army of 300,000 men td be
raised within three weeks. M. Gambetta had published
several communications from generals complaining of the
armistice.

According to the Journal Ofticiel, notwithstanding the
great and continually increasing difficulties of providing
food which the directors of the Jardin des Plantes expe-
rienced during the siege, the losses sustained have been
but slight. In default of fresh vegetables, the monkeys,
apes, and other of the smaller animals from hot countries
died in great numbers. A few of the carnivora, including
a lioness and a jaguar, also succumbed to the unwhole-
some regimen to which they were reduced, as the meat
supplied to the animals since the investment was of very
inferior quality. The most valuable guimals, puch afs the