The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-04 00:00:00

M. TRIERS' MISSION.

FRIDAY'S ENGAGEMENT
BEFORE PARIS.
READ-QUARTERS OF THE CROWN PRINCE,
VERSAILLES, OCT, 2.
The loss of the French in the engagement of the
30
-th ult. amounted to 1,200 killed and wounded,
among whom was General Giulham. 300 unwounded
Prisoners were taken.
The German loss was 80 killed and about 120
Wounded. Among the former were eight officers.
Only occasional shots were fired from the forts on
the Ist and 2nd inst.

PARIS, SEPT. 30.
General Trochu's report of the fighting to-day
84Y8

" Our troops to-day effected a very vigorous offen-
ll" reconnaissance, and occupied successively
e
hevilly and l'Hay, and advanced as far as Thiais
4114 Ohoisy-le-Roi. All those positions were strongly
°eellpied and entrenched, the last two being mounted
Vith guns.
"After a lively artillery and musketry engage-
/31"a, our troops withdrew in good order to their
Positions. The coolness of the troops was re-
rkable, and the Mobiles shewed great firmness.
short, the day was most honourable. We have
!littered sensible losses, but their number is not
estimated. We believe the enemy had considerable
losses:,

PARIS, SEPT. 30.
The Official Journal of to-day contains a decree
111)Pressing the service of General Public Aid, and
be that henceforth :all domiciliary relief shall
'43 exclusively municipal.
Another decree orders the requisition in the name
or
the National Defence of all wheat and flour now
liBting in Paris, with the sole exception of wheat
gild flour laid in for household consumption.
The Government has issued a notice that the
pension service of the State is secured in Paris and
she
Departments, and the amounts will be paid
regularly.
Alilitary reports up to the evening of the 29th
ipstant announcs a slight engagement between
rench gunbeatS and the Prussians during the
',estruction of the woods of Billancourt.

Several reconnaissances have been made in ad-
Nee of Villejuif, and towards Deanry,
Some shots from Fort L'Est and the double crown
St, Denis have dislodged the enemy from Stains
411 d Le Bourget.
The ensmy has constructed works at Dugny.

GERMAN ADVANCE INTO
SOUTHERN FRANCE.
BASLE, OCT. 3.
(3erman troops from Mulheim have been crossing
the thine all night by the bridge of Chalaman (F)
MALESHERBES, OCT. 3.
ithiviers is still occupied by 1,500 Prussians,
rho
it scour the surrounding country, and exhaust all
resources.

ORLEANS, 0c T. 3.
general Longfine drove a Prussian detachment
etterday out of Arthenay (13 miles north of Or-
t,eallB). The Prussians have concentrated in con-
iia'erable force at Touryi where they have collected
ge herds of cattle.

GENERAL NEWS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, SEPT. 27.
eehe Official Journal says that the Government ofo
0 l\rational Defence has completed the Barricade
°llThlscion by the addition of the Citizen Albert,
°llllerly member of the Provisional Govern-
tiellt• The Commission is also composed of nine
members charged with directing, and also nine
engineers of the works for the interior defence
iwthe nine sections. The Commission is divided
ti,,(3 three divisions ; and MM. E. Ulbach, Ernest
Fle:113.1 and Emile Raspail have been appointed as
retaries to the respective divisions.
~
Parisian is calm, impassable, and leads his
ITIal life from day to day ; only his rifle is ready,
eatriage-pouch is full, and at the first tap of the
dill fail
every one will run to arms. Not one
faa m hen the call to arms is sounded.
veran enormous mass of smoke, which at one p.m.
• clay rose above the city, caused some un-
B- illesa among the population. The fire arose
the conflagration of a certain number of
I,,itLs of petroleum, which had been brought
14 'in the enciente from the Park Chaumoul.
pmt'
it is in that park where, for some days
der') a portion of the petroleum to be used for the
defelloe
of the city has been collected. The barrels
4pon
their arrival ought to have been covered with
th'ed, but the precaution has been neglected. Hence
laie2l'e• Thanks to the prompt and vigorous
at Which were taken, the fire was got under
leesterday the soldiers accused of cowardice were
ty4k through the streets, on their way to the military
11-44.!nal before which they were to be tried. Their
ua were tied behind their backs, and their caps
and tun
tw ICF3 turned inside out. They proceeded between
_,ranks of soldirs. On their breasts they bore a
with the following inscription : "[The name],

miserable coward, who abandoned his post before the
enemy. All honest men are invited to spit in his
face."

The following despatch, which was sent 'by the
Empress to the Emperor, after his two first defeats,
has been discovered and published :
" I have received a despatch from Piotri.
Have you thought over all the consequences
which would follow your return to Paris under
the blow of two reverses ? For myself, Ido not
venture to take the responsibilities of counselling
you. If you have decided on the point it would at
least be the best step- that should be represented to
the country as provisional. Thus : ' The Em-
peror returning to Paris to reorganise the
Second Army, and provisionally entrusting the
command-in-chief of the army of the Rhine to
Marshal Bazaine."

THE STATE OF PARIS.
(FRENCH ACCOUNT.)

PARIS, SEPT. 28.

The twelfth day of the siege has passed almost
entirely without a cannon shot. Some shots have
been fired from Nogent only, the batteries
there having fired upon some travellers, who
dispersed. It is known that the viaduct of
Nogent, this work of art, which commands the
river Marne, and is seen with such grand
effect from .from the surrounding cocntry, has
been destroyed for the defence of Paris.
It has been broken into three pieces by mines.
The Prussians tried yesterday to rejoin the piles
by wooden arches, but our firing brought them to a
sense of the danger of the attempt. Beams and
cross beams Were left on the bridge, and those who
brought them away took good care not to come
back. The Prussian inundation of troops seems to
have reached its level, and a calm seems for the
moment to be established in their ocean of men.
The positions are taken up, and the enemy is
fortifying himself and securing his lines of retreat,
especially those to Choisi-le-Roi.

Information, the correctness of which is guaran-
teed, confirms the belief that the bulk of the Prus-
sian army occupies all the heights from Chatillon
in the south-west tu Bezons in the north-
west. Five army corps and an important
siege of artillery are collected upon this line.
We are assured that in the north-east and south-
east of Paris the enemy is established at a great dis-
tance; a considerable number of batteries, supported
by infantry and connected with each other by squad-
rons of cavalry (unceasingly in movement) are also
collected. Thus the enemy is endeavouring to sur-
round the capital by a sort of circumvallation
which, it is said, would be impossible for the
French to cut without encountering the enemy. But
however numerous the Prussians may be, this man-
ner of investing Paris might have for them a very
serious termination. A blockade, embracing a
circumference of forty miles, could only be effective
so long as it is our will that it should be so, that is to
say, until the moment when we believe it is time
to operate by making sorties, or until corps ape or-
ganised in the departments to engage the Prussian
lines.

BERLIN, OCT. 3, (5.10 P.M.)

Orders have been given to take as few prisoners
as possible before Paris, so as not to diminish the
mouths within the citys.—Times Telegram.

CIRCULAR FROM COUNT
BISMARCK.
BERLIN, OCT. 3.

Count Bismarck has addressed a circular de-
spatch t..) the representatives of the North German
Confederation abroad on the subject of M. Jules
Favre's report of the conversation between the
two Ministers at Ferrieres. The circular corrects
111. Jules Favre's report in many of its passages,
and states that the conditions of the proposed
armistice were very moderate. Count Bismarck
says that, as the French Government would not take
advantage of the opportunity offered for proceeding,
even in the territory occupied by the Germans, to
elect a Constitutional Assembly, it tliereby.manifested
a determination to keep up the difficulties to a con-
clusion of peace, and a resolve not to hear the ex-
pression of the public opinion of France. That a
general election, freely carried out, would have
resulted in a verdict in favour of peace, is the impres-
sion that forces itself
_upon the mind, and one which
will not have escaped those who hold the reigns of
power in Paris.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
COUNT BISMARCK AND M.
JULES FAVRE.

BERLIN, OCT. 3

M. Jules Favre has addressed a letter to Count
Bismarck, in which, in the name of the Diplomatic
Body, he requests that notice should be given before
the bombardment of Paris commences, and asks per-
mission to despatch a courier from Paris once a
week.

Count Bismarck declined, on military grounds, to
give the notice requested ; and, as regards the sending
of a courier from the capital, he replied as follows :
—" Though we may permit the forwarding of open
letters from the diplomatic agents in Paris, as long as
their contents are not objectionable from a military
point of view, I cannot regard or treat as well-
founded the view taken by those who consider the
interior of the fortifications during a siege the
proper centre for diplomatic intercourse. This
view, appears, moreover, to be shared by those
neutral Governments which have removed their
representatives to Tours."

FRENCH OFFICERS ON PAROLE.

The following statement is dated from the German
Headquarters .
" FERRIERES, SEPT. 29.

" The French General Ducrot, taken prisoner
at Sedan, had pledged his word of honour to pro-
ceed thence to Pont-A-Mousson, and to report
himself there, in order to be sent on as a prisoner
to Germany. Interpreting his word of honour in
a Jesuitical manner, General Ducrot did, indeed,
travel in his carriage to Pont-a-Mousson, but did
not surrender himself there. He has, on the con-
trary, fled to Paris.
" When we see other officers serve there with
one who has !despicably broken his word, we can
only regard it as a bad sign for the value attached
in the French army to the notions of honour. It
is natural that, in consequence of this experience,
the word of a French officer can henceforth only be
less thought of on the part of Germany, and that
the consideration hitherto shewn to captive French
officers will have to be essentially restricted.
The contrary would evidently be foolish weak-
ness."

GENERAL UHRICII AT TOURS.

TOURS, OCT. 2.

The Mayor visited General Übrich this evening,
and addressed him in congratulatory terms on Lis
heroic defence of Strasburg. M. Cremieux also
eulogised his bravery.
General Uhrich, who was dressed in private
clothes, replied briefly, expressing his thanks,
and said, with great emotion, " I shall carry to
my grave' the remembrance of this manifestation
•of sympathy."
General Uhrich is a prisoner on parole.

THE FRENCH MINISTRY AT
TOURS.
TOURS, OCT. 1.
Admiral Fouriehon has resigned his post as Bele-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESD A , O►C FOTIEII 4, 1870.

gate-Minister of War, but remains in the Ministry at.
the head of the Navy. General Lefort, delegated by
the Minister of War, will administer the War Depart-
ment.

Admiral Fourichon's resignation was caused by
the arrest of General Mazure, Commandant of the
Department of the Rhone, by order of'the Prefect of
Lyons. Admiral Fourichon disapproved of this
measure, which was nevertheless confirmed by the
Government.

NEWS FROM THE PROVINCES.

LYONS, OCT. 2.

M. ChaHemel Lacour, the Prefect of Lyons, is
invested with full powers for the preservation of
public order.
An address is being signed by the National Guard,
promising their energetic support to tho Prefect for
that object.
LILLE, OCT. 3.

The Francs-tireurs of Lillors, who were marching
towards the Ardennes, have been recalled, and
proceed to Breteuil, where the Prussians are an-
nounced.

The Lyons correspondent of the Independence
Beige says that a local paper states that the Pre-
fect had informed the Council that a Prussian
army corps, formed in the Hant Rhin 100,000
strong, was marching direct upon Dijon and
Lyons• Pending confirmation of the news, great
precautions for defence were being taken. Seven
thousand Garles Mobile were actively drilling.
CALMS, OCT. 3.

All the Garde Mobile and regular traops left
here to-day for Arras. Calais is now garrisoned
by the National Guard, who came on duty yester-
day.

THE SIEGE OF METZ.
NOISSEVILLE, NEAR ➢IETZ, OCT. 3.

Yesterday afternoon a Prussian battery in front
of St. Gamins, on the south-west of Mont St.
Quentin, destroyed with shells a bridge which the
French had constructed across the Moselle. In
doing so the village of Moully-les-Metz was burnt.
Last night, at 9 p.m., fifteen volunteers of the 4th
Regiment, under the command of a lieutenant,
made a dash into the village of Nouilly,
in front of the French positions to the east of
Fort St. Jullien, and fired it in six parts. The
village was entirely consumed. It contained secret
stores of food, the locality of which villagers had
revealed to the garrison of Metz, but which the
Prussians could not discover.—Daily News Telegram.

THE EXPLOSION AT LAON.

TOURS, OcT, 3 (.4.FTEnNOON.)

William and the Emperor Napoleon given by Pr
Russell, the Times correspondent, is founded
throughout upon mere invention.
(Signed) ed ) • BISMARCK.

JULES FAVRE AND GENERAL
BURNSIDE.
VERSAILLES, OCT. 2 (7. 40 P.m.)
The American General Burnside went to Paris
yesterday from Versailles to have an interview with
M. Jules Favre, and also with Mr. W ashbourne. He
is expected back to-morrow.
About 500 French prisoners were taken in a sortie
yesterday.

MOVEMENTS OF THE PRUS-

SIAN ARMY.

MLLE, SUNDAY.

The Nouvelliste de Rouen says that the two army
corps which were advancing upon Rouen are re-
treating upon Versailles.
Official despatches state that the Prussians have
appeared some distance from (Means, marching
north.

The old Republican party stongly disapproves the
policy of summoning the Constituent Assembly.
The Imperialists argue against the vote being taken
at the chief places of the cantons.
An angry discussion is going forward between
General Polhes and the Prefect of the Depart-
ment of• the Loiret, regarding the responsibility for
the retreat of the former from Orleans.
Letters from.Laon declare that a Prussian Council
of War had condemned the Mayor of the town,
M. Ferrand, to death for the explosion of the citadel ;
but the punishment had been commuted at the prayer
of the Archbishop of Rheims.—Telegraph Telegram.

Eight hundred Prussians, without artillery,
occupy Clermont-Oise. It is also reported that
Clermont is now defended by only 200 Saxons. •
Prussian troops from Fontainebleau have burnt
several houses at Chapelle la Reine.
The Prussians are making overwhelming demands
for provisions at Melum, and the population are
greatly exasperated.
Eighteen thousand troops are expected from
Algiers to form the army of the Loire, the head-
quarters of which will be at Bourges.
The Paris correspondent of the independance
Beige writes that a rumour- has been spread in
Paris, either by the French or the Prussians under
the walls, that the Crown Prince had written a
letter to the King of Prussia expressing regret at
the failure of peace negotiations with M. Jules
Favre, and commenting upon the difficulty of the
work undertaken.

THE SIEGE OF MEZIERES.

LIBRAMONT, FRIDAY,

THE FUTURE CONSTITUTION
OF GERMANY.

There is an armistice until Tuesday. Marshal
Bazaine, with part of his army, is said to be coming.
Active preparations for defence are in progress.

SIXTY LIVES LOST AT HARPERS FERRY
WASHINGTON, OCT. 1.

The monthly statement of the Secretary of the
Treasury shows a decrease of $9,000,000 in the
Public debt.

Over sixty lives have been lost by a flood in
Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

OPENING OF THE DANISH CHAMBERS.
COPENHAGEN, Ocm. 3.

CANNSTA.DT, Oc T. 2 (EVENING).

The Reichstag was opened to-day by the King in per-
son. His Majesty, in his speech from the Throne,
stated that by maintaining a policy of neutrality he had
succeeded in sparing the country from the evils of war.
Although no human foresight could tell what would be
the result and the consequences of the present war, his
Majesty said he entertained a firm hope that the question
that was pending between Denmark and Prussia would
meet with a solution that would ensure the future inde-
pendence of the country, and strengthen Denmark's good
relations with her powerful Southern neighbours. The
Speech from the Throne further declared it to be desirable
that the session of the Reichstag should be short.

A well-attended meeting of the prominent in-
habitants of this town was held to-day, and an
address to the King of Wurtemberg was adopted,
praying his Majesty to bring about the adhesion
of Wurtemburg to the Constitution of North Ger-
many.

[CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.]

MUTINY OFF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The ship Alexandra, Captain Cardon, master, arrived
at Galway, from Callao, yesterday. The master asserts
that the men mutinied on the sth of July, off the Cape.
He fired on them, and wounded one in the arm, and
another in the hand. The informations have been
sworn.

MINERS' AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION.

The conference of the Miners' Amalgamated Associa-
tion was commenced yesterday at Hanley, Mr. Halliday
presiding. The financial position of the Association was
declared to be good in all districts save one—Worsley---
with respect to which difficulty was pleaded. The Presi-
dent, in his inaugural address, after general re-
marks on the value of trade combinations, expressed his
full sense of the importance of arbitration, and
urged that the men should take this means of settling the
justice of their demands. But they should stand for their
stricts rights ; in this way, and not by cringing subser-
viancy, would they obtain the respect of their employers.
All laws of supply and demand, pleaded against associa-
tion, should not, could not, interfere with the
just demands of a man to have enough to sup-
port both himself and his family. Miners, however,
should be more careful with their hard-earned wages.
'Mr. Halliday, in conclusion, demanded, greater security
for the lives of miners. That was in part to be obtained
by the greater care of the miners themselves. To under-
stand the necessity for it they needed a higher education,
and he suggested that clauses for providing such should
be introduced Into the Mines Regulation Bill. But by
making Government inspection more what it should be,
something more might be done than was effected—a mere
attempt to lock the stable door after the steed had been
steed.