The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-19 00:00:00

THE FIGHTING AT PARIS.

The correspondent of the Standard at Rouen, says
on the 18th :

The secretary of General Trochu, arriving in Bel-
gium by balloon from Paris, passed through Rouen
yesterday evening, and he states that on Friday, the
14th instant, some very serious engagements took
place near Paris.
The Prussians lost three thousand men, and were
obliged to request an armistice of 48 hours in order
to bury their dead.
Seventy thousand Gardes Nationales took part in
the action.

THE STORM ON THE SCOTCH COAST.

WICK, OCT. 10.

We have had a terrible storm of north-easterly
wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, since last
night. Fragments of wreck, believed to be-
long to a Norwegian vessel, are coming ashore,
including staves, battens, a skiff; pump, and other
articles belonging to a dismasted vessel which
was in the offing yesterday. It has been ascertained
that the vessel wrecked is the schooner Enichoden,
of Drammen, with wood, from Christinia, for Fra-
serburg. All the crew are lost, except a boy, who
was most miraculously saved by climbing up the
rocks at the south side of Wick. The vessel is a
total wreck, and the cargo scattered along the whole
coast.

WRECK ON THE SUFFOLK COAST.
LOWESTOFT, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

Mr. John Henderson, the Chief Officer of Coast-
guard, reports that the lifeboat Detitia, belonging
to the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched
last evening to the stranded brig Glenora, of Scar-
borough, 241 tons, Simpson, master ; bound from
Shields to Rochester with a cargo of coals. Fortu-
nately the lifeboat was instrumental in rescuing the
crew of seven men, and in landing them in safety.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 19.

Three men, named O'Sullivan, Murphy, and
Bullen, were brought up at the Cork police-court
yesterday, the first charged with having the previous
night fired a revolver at Mr. Bull, Deputy-Clerk of
the Peace, and the other prisoners with assault and
with assisting O'Sullivan. Shortly before midnight
Mr. Bull was passing along Patrick-street, when a
shot was fired. lie turned round and gave chase,
but was set upon by the supposed accompliCes of the
assailant; a desperate fight followed, and the police
arrested the three prisoners. They were remanded.
The Church Convention reassembled to-day. The
Primate pressed the representative bodies to report
on the Government Charter and on Finance. The
resolutions were considered and adopted.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND HIS

CRITICS.
The Bishop of Manchester, speaking at a meeting held
in his diocese last evening, defended himself from the
attacks which had been made upon him in the London
and provincial newspapers in consequence of some
remarks he had recently made as to the troubles now
afflicting France. He said he had been charged with
offering a gross insult to our poor French neighbours in
comparing Paris to Sodom and Gomorrha, but he had done
nothing of the kind. He had simply made the innocent
remark that the vices of a nation had something to do
with its degeneracy, and that the story of Sodom and Go-
morrha had repeated itself in history again and again. He
did not say this by way of unkind reproach to France, but
for the purpose of pointing out that we in England were
borrowing some examples from France, which we ought
not to do, and the remark was made in older that we
might be setting our own house in order. The Daily
Telegraph, which a .few days ago had published a,
rather sharp criticism for his benefit on Monday
in a-leading article, repeated exactly his sentiments,saying
that when one looked at the proflgacy, the luxury, and the
dissipation of the great cities of France, he was tempted
to exclaim that it was the wickedness of France that had
shattered its Government, crushed its best armies, and
imperilled the safety of the nation. It was quite right
that we should look first at our own faults at home, but it
was also legitimate to take warning from what we believed
to be the faults of our neialbours.

THE PRINCE OF WALES IN SCOTLAND.
Last night a ball was given at Polmaise Castle, Stir-
lingshire, in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales
The castle was splendidly decorated for the occasion,
there in addition to the numerous guests, and
was a large company consisting of the nobility and gentry
of the surrounding country. His Royal Highness leaves
for London to-day.

SUICIDE OF AN OFFICER.
captain Henry Ley, North Devon Hussars, committed
suicide yesterday by shooting himself in the saddle room
attached to the stables of his mansion, at Marwood, near
Barnstaple. It is somewhat remarkable that his father
shot himself in the same house.

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EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A BANK

CASHIER.

At the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions, yesterday,
Henry Walter Bunn, cashier at a bank in Abergavenny,
pleaded guilty to embezzling £1,179, the pro-
perty of the bank directors. Prisoner, who is
very respectably connected, had speculated in horse-
racing, and thus lost the money, the whole of the defal-
cations occurring in one week. After an eloquent appeal
by his counsel prisoner was sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment.

DISTURBANCE AT CORK.
The three men who were arrested in connection with
the asssult made upon Mr. Bull, Deputy Clerk of the
Peace, in Patrick-street, Cork, on Monday night, were
examined at the police-office yesterday. Robert O'Sullivan
was charged with having fired a revolver at Mr. Bull, and
the two other men, Buller and Murphy, with aiding
O'Sullivan and committing an assault when Mr. Bull
attacked the man who had fired the pistol. The police
found a breech-loading-revolver cartridge upon O'Sullivan.
The prisoners were remanded.

At the magistrates meeting yesterday in Dorchester, it
was reported that the Dorset Mendicity Society, during
the last nine months, had decreased vagrancy in the county
by 2,400 over the same period in last year, or 30' rer
cent.