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

INTELLIGENCE.

SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M.

THE A ,

THE CAPITULATION AND THE
ARMISTICE.

VERSAILLES, January 31 (Evening.)
Persons will be allowed to leave Paris, but General
von Blumenthal and the military authorities have
been requested by the French not to give passes to
-enter.

The Emperor has had to order supplies of Prus-
sian flour to be sent in to prevent immediate star-
vation, and also ti let supplies pass through the
German lines from Corbeil and Chantilly. Bread-
stuffs would last till the 4th, and horse meat till the
10th.

Mr. Odo Russell was requested not to ask for leave
to go in.

A. train arrived here to-day from Paris to make
postal arrangements for letters.

The Emperor to-day visited Count Bismarck, who
is indisposed.

M. Favre and ono or two persons have come in and
returned to Paris.—Tunes.

THE GERMAN TERMS OF
PEACE.

A Times telegram from Berlin, Jan. 31, says :—The
conditions of peace as announced by Count Bismarck
to DI. Favre, include the cession of Alsace and Lor-
rame,with Belfort and Metz, the payment of a
pecuniary indemnity of ten milliards of francs, the
cession of Pondicherry, in the East Indies, and the
transfer of twenty first-class men-of-war.
M. Favre has referred the decision to the National
Assembly.
Another telegram from Berlin, a day later, says
the Spenersche Zeitunq, which at times contains semi-
official communications, says-4(ln well-informed
quarters it is confirmed that the preliminaries be-
tween M. Favre and Count Bismarck have led to an
understanding being arrived at which will form the
basis of future negotiations for peace."
A telegram from Florence states that frequent
communications are being exchanged between the
Cabinets of Vienna, London, Florence, and St.
Petersburg, in consequence of the late events in
France. Up to the present the result has been that
Prussia has not shewn any desire to accept the
friendly suggestions of the powers, wishing to re-
serve to herself exclusively the right of laying down
the conditions of peace.

The following telegrams come through Reuter's
agency
M. GAMBETTA ON THE ARMISTICE.
The following is the text of M. Gambetta's procla-
, 'nation to the Prefects, dated January 31st :—lnfor-
mation from abroad leads us to believe that nothing
has been settled at Versailles upon the question of
Peace. The occupation of the Paris forts seem to
indicate that the capital had been surrendered
in the character of a fortified town. The
army and the Garde Mobile are to lay down their
arms. The Sedentary National Guard are to retain
theirs. The Convention which has been entered
into relates exclusively to the armistice, which
appears to have for its especial object the formation
and convocation of an Assembly. The policy
maintained and carried out by the
Minister of War is still the same. War
outrance, resistance even to complete exhaustion.
Exert, then, all your energies to maintain the
moral spirit of the people. The period of the ar-
misticebe well employed in reinforcing our
three armies with men, ammunition, and provisions.
The troops must be submitted to a strict discipline,
to enforce which you must devote all your efforts
in concert with the military chiefs. They ought to
be exercised daily during long hours in order to
train themselves to war. The councils of
revision ought to continue; and every work
of organisation and equipment, far from
being interrupted, ought to be pursued with vigi-
• lane. It is necessary at any cost that the
armistice should be useful to us, and we can make
it so. In short there is nothing until the elections,
which may not, and ought not, to be turned to
advantage. What France wants is an assembly which
desires the war, and shall be determined to carry it
on at any cost.
BORDEAUX, January 31 (Evening.)
No reply has as yet been received to the despatch
referred to above, and which was sent yesterday to
Jules Fevre at Versailles. This despatch, which
Was published this evening, was as follows :
BORDEAUX, January 30.
"I have received the telegram addressed to the
Delegation at Bordeaux on the 28th, evening, and
received on the morning of the 29th. We have
announced it to the entire country without corn-
llield• Since then we have received nothing. The
country is in a fever, and cannot be contented with
those three lines. The member of the Government
Whose arrival has been annonnced, but whose name
has net yet been mentioned, has, up to the present
tune, not been reported en route, either telegraphi-
eallY or otheiwise. Meanwhile, beyond the mere
e„,rrYing out of the Armistice by the troops, which
We e have taken steps to have respected, it has
been impossible for us to adopt any administrative
measures respecting the elections in the absence
u 4 all explanations on your part, and without
"Ring the fate of Paris. GAMBETTA."
The Minister of the Interior has sent the following
.‘teapatch to the Prefects :
t gi
The Municipal Council of Bordeaux, at its sitting
ict`da, Y, has unanimously adopted the following reso-
tlii44°; which has been immediately transmitted to
e Government :
" gln presence of the events which have occurred
the ,
41 Itunicipal Council of Bordeaux protests against
conditions of peace not entirely guarding the
Fronal honour. It adjures the Delegation of the
Overnnaent at Bordeaux to remain at its post, and
; continue to prepare with the greatest energy for
ary 4 outrance. ' Vivo la Republique !' "
1,131 reply to M. Gambetta's despatch to M. Jules
cilla.Vre) Count Bismarck last night telegraphed to M.
hatta as follows :
Your telegraphic despatch, addressed to M. Jules
°rWho 11;„, has just left Versailles, will be handed
For
in Paris.
of 1. j" Your information, I communicate a resume
the Convention concluded with M. Jules Fevre on
`46 28th.,,
4.E4,cre follows the text of the Convention between
vre and Count Bismarck.]
illtp4:11;a Government of Bordeaux appends the f0110w-
... emarks •
•
e
There. is to be a suspension of hostilities until
magree,e when a lino of demarcation shall have been
thu Gl4ollPon. The object of the Armistice is to allow
,vernment of the National Defence to convoke
111/ eIY-elected Assembly, which shall pronounce
04 th
thuled e question whether the War is to be con-
eeneiu'u.3
ed. upon what conditions Peace is to be
or
lc The
Germans will afford every facility for carry.
LIZ
PUties. eut the electionsaidi for the meeting of the
line All the Paris forts which constitute the outer
or „
surrend'letence, as well as the war materiel, will be
I'4ll uo,red to the Germans. The German Army
batterio' enter Paris during the armistice. The
4rky of the enceinte will be dismounted, and the
their' -'-ateles Mobilos, and Marines will lay down
ete 41.1118,
ePtiou becoming prisoners of war, with the
wrvioein
the interior of the city. The toops will