The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-26 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT -This DAY.

Jonas Woolf, 26, rag merchant, pleaded guilty to various
counts of an indictment, charging him with obtaining
large quantities of rags by means of forged orders and
other false pretences. Mr. F. H. Lewis, on the part of the
prosecution, recommended the prisoner to the merciful
consideration of the court. He had been desirous of
making reparation, and sent to the prosecutor a draft for
£l,OOO, at the same time expressing his intention to
plead guilty. Tde prosecutor had known tde prisoner for
many years, and had had large dealings with him, and
therefore desired to recommend him to mercy. Mr.
Besley, on behalf of the prisoner, urged the same view,
and Mr. Justice Lush consented to prisoner being libe-
rated in his own recognisances.

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AND THE PEACE

NEGOTIATIONS.

We (Daily News) are authorised to publish the follow-
ing 'statement :
" Notwitstanding what is insinuates, and even aihrmea,
in certain English journals pretending to have the best
information, the Empress Eugdnie has taken no part in
any one of the combinations referred to, having for their
object either peace or an armistice. The salon at
Cnislehurst has not become, in any sense, an official
salon. It is still that of an exile, and if its doors are
open •to those who knock for admittance, it is not to
afford them a field for discussing peace or war.
General Boyer, the envoy of Marshal Bazaine,
may have approached the Empress with a view to
propositions of peace or war to be submitted to
Prussia, but he was received with no more favour
than were the emissaries of M. de Bismarck on a pre-
vious occasion. When a former envoy of the Chancellor
of the North German Confederation came to propose
peace, declaring that King William was disposed to con-
tent himself with 250,000 French inhabitants, Strasburg
included, the Empress replied with great energy that so
long as an enemy was in France, and so long ,as
there was any question of the smallest cession of terri-
tory, she would hold aloof from every negotiation. The
eventkof the last month have made no change in her
resolution, and so far as the efforts of General
Boyer have been directed to this point they have
completely failed. Nor could the mission of General
Boyer have had for its object to consult the
Empress as to the propriety of surrendering Meta
at this moment. That is only one way of concealing the
real object of his journey. Marshal Bazaine, confident
in the strength of his position as a general who had suf-
fered no defeat, and at the head of the only French army
which still exists, thinks himself entitled to exercise not
a little influence on the question whether peace
shall be made or hostilities continue. He would
gladly make himself indispensable ; would gladly
be the dictator, with whom the enemy should have to
treat, taking the lead both of the Government which sits
at Tours, and that which is shut up in Paris. He would
rejoice that France should owe peace or victory to him,
and to him. only. That is a respectable ambition, exag-
gerated as'it may perhaps be, but it must not be in-
ferred that Marshal Bazaine would rather conclude a
peace favourable to the Napoleonic dynasty than in
accordance with the true interests of his country.
There is, then, no particle of truth in the stories told
about the interview at Chislehurst, and it can scarcely be
necessary to add that the approaching journey of the
Empress to King William's headquarters belongs, like all
the rest, to that domain of invention in which the subtle
genius of Prussia, coming to the aid of her present
difficulties, has contrived during the last few weeks
to lead us astray. Prince Napoleon, who had taken sides
With those who would perhaps have wished to induce,
the:. Empress to commit an indiscretion, has had
hiss`, labour for his pains, while his violent recrimi-
flattens against the past policy of the Empire had
,other result than to compel him to listen to some
harsli truths from his illustrious cousin, and to cause
him to quit Chislehurst somewhat suddenly; whero
,
indeed; his reception had been of the coldest."