The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-27 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M.

THE WAIL

THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR
CAPITULATION,
VERSAILLES, January 25.
M. Faire came again from Paris yesterday, and
slept here last night.
He had a long interview with the Imperial
Chancellor.
General Trochu has resigned, and General Vinoy
has tie command of the troops.
An enzeute was-s.uppressed by the troops firing on
the mob, who demanded more sorties, with cries of
" A Berlin !"
The bombardment of St. Denis contnued yester-
day.
The forts could scarcely reply.
The fire has been increased against the enceinte
and the works.

GERMAN PEACE DEMANDS.
BERLIN, January 25.

France being charged here with wantonly draw-
ing on the *ar, Germany, upon the conclusion of
peace, will possibly insist upon the line of the
Meuse, instead of the line of the Moselle, as first
asked. If this intention be carried out, the
new line will extend from Givet, on the Belgian
frontier, to M6zieres and Sedan; from Sedan to
Verdun and Pagny. The frontier will be formed by
the Meuse, thence it will go due east as far as Toul
on the Moselle, and follow the course
of the latter river as far as Epinal. From
Epinal it will proceed south-east to the hills
and river protecting Belfort and 111ontb6liard.
Such a frontier will render the invasion of Ger-
many by the French very difficult, but expose Paris
to a siege after the loss of a single battle. The
German Government is about to make a semi-
official declaration, intended to discourage all
attempts at mediation. As the war has been local-
ised, the German Government insists upon localising
the negotiations for peace.

THE NEGOTIATIONS AT
VERSAILLES,

The Manchester Guardian says:—" We under-
stand that the Prussian Embassy, up to noon
on Wednesday, had received no information that
Paris had capitulated. From what the Embassy has
known, however, during the last three days, it has
no doubt that negotiations for the capitulation are in
progress."

The following telegrams come through Reuter's
agency :

THE CAPTURE OF LONGW Y.

ARLON, January 26.
The Germans entered Longwy at ten o'clock yes-
terday morning. The prisoners taken in the for-
tress have been sent to Thionville and Metz. The
National Guards were not made prisoners.

NEWS FROM ANGERS.

ANGERS, January 23.

The Eclaireurs of ,:the Mayenne scattered yester-
day evening forty-four White Cuirassiers, who
had arrived within five kilometres of Azay-le-Rideau,
on the Indre, on the road from Tours to Chinon.

The Prussians have destroyed the railway bridge
on the Cher, near Tours.

FRANCE AND KING LEOPOLD.

M. Thiers, on the occasion of his mission to
Vienna and St. Petersburg, repeatedly alluded to the
advisability of offering the Crown of France to .the
Ring of Belgium. An attempt to follow up this idea
has been recently made.-7 lutes Telegram.

HONOURS FOR THE NEW EMPEROR AND

MOLTKE.

BERLIN, January 25.

A laurel wreath of gold has' been voted by the
ladies of Munich to the Emperor William, and a
Statue to Count Moltke.

BON APARTIST RESTORATION.

LILLE, January 26 (Evening).

An unusual activity and agitation, as I
from correspondents beyond the border, are re-
marked in the comings and goings of Bonapartist
agents. Every day these movements become
More noticeable, and, if I may so say, more fear-
less. Whispers of a Napoleonic restoration, of
Which the preliminary condition should be a peace
With Germany at any price, become louder every
day in Imperial circles here. And I need not say
Mere to indicate the activity and the business-like
Purpose of the mines to which I have referred than
the fact that M. Conti, the secretary of the ea-
Emperor, is at present in Brussels—through which
town daily passmessengers carrying or bringing back
despatches between the Emperor and the Empress
and the German Court at Versailles.—Telegraph
2 degrams.

RETREAT OF THE GERMANS IN THE
NORTH.

A. French telegram from Lille gives the following :
--The Prussians are ha3tening their retreat from the
north east towards the. Somme, having raised the
siege of Cambrai. They have also abandoned
the siege of all the other fortresses in the east
°f the Department of the North. Lan-
urecies, which they had invested, has been
14 °l'e damaged than Cambrai. The town was bom-
barded,
and has suffered severely. Three houses
ryebeen destroyed, and a large number more or
Zs injured. The Prussian headquarters were on
12Tiday at Crevecour, a place situated about ten
'4ornetres to the south of Cambrai. No Prussians
RP now in the district, except perhaps a few small
'etaehments of Uhlans in the east.

PROTEST OF GENERAL FAIDHERBE.
General Faidherbe has addressed a letter to the
1;16-Prefect of Peronne, in which he accuses the
"Illans of disregarding the laws of warfare, by
bombarding cities instead of fortifications. General
t,aldherbe also maintains that it was the duty of
13" Commander of Peronne to hold out as long as a
1'64'11 had not been made by the besiegers.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF BELFORT.
.1144v;ees from Besancon, dated the 20th, state that
- town and the advanced forts have been placed
~,„11 Perfect state of defence, and are well provisioned.
en'he bombardment of Belfort is continued by the
eillY with great vigour. The Prussians do not
rect the fire of their batteries against the ramparts,
:ft against houses and public buildings, and have
to 1118 ed Permission for old men, women, and children
egeellent the city. The morale of the inhabitants is
and they are firmly resolved to hold out."