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

lE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 187 C.

MONEY MARKET.

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niT Y. Two o'OLocx.
The Stock Markets opened firm, but prices are now
ss active. Consols are quoted at 92 7-1 G for money, and
2 fur the account. New and Reduced Three per Cents.
re 91 to 91i. Spanish and Turkish have advanced ;
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Italian and Egyptian, I. Italian Five per Cents. of 1861
are 55 to 651 ; Spanish Three per Cents. of 8867, 291, to
Nil; Turkish Five per Cents. 42 to 43g ; Egyptian Seven
per Cents. of 1868, 77.t0 77k. Railways are quiet. .

The proposed Montevidean Loan has been withdrawn,
upon the advices by the River Plate mail showing that
the present Government of !the Uruguayan Republic are
threatened with violent oveithrow by the Blanco or

Federal party, who have been for some time in arms
againSt them. There is no reason to believe that the
change would interfere with the financial engagements of
the country, but, the politics of that region being little
understood here, it would be 'inadvisable for Messrs.
Thompson, Bonar, and Co. to take . the responsibility of
receiving subscriptions until a definite order of affairs
shall have been established. Meanwhile the commerce of

the Republic must continue to suffer from the wane of a
sound currency basis, which it was the object of the loan
to afford.

It is understood that of the German Five per Cent.
War Loan of 100 millions of thalers, introduced some
weeks back at the price of 88, the portion subscribed by
the public was 60 millions, that 20 millions were with-
drawn by the Government, and that the remaining 20
millions have been taken by a combination of bankers at
95g.

The advices from Buenos Ayres by the present mail

bring the satisfactory news of the suppression of the
revolutionary movements in the province of Entre
Bios, . which had been in progress ever since the
assassination of General Urquiza in April last.
The forces of Lopez Jordan, the leader of the out
break, had been completely routed by the National
troops, and there was every probability that with
this event the tendency to Gaucho disturbances
would be finally suppressed throughout the country,
which in all parts is rapidly assuming a European cha-
racter. The intelligence of the war on this side had in-
terfered with the financial arrangements of thesGovern-
ment, and they had consequently found it necessary to
ask an authorisation from Congress for the sale of the
17,000 shares they possess in the Central Argentine Rail-
way.
The schedule of the Public Debt of the United States,
issued on the Ist inst., shows a fresh reduction in the
total since the Ist of September of £1;801,500, making a
decrease under the Grant Administration of £35,709,500
since March, 1866.
In the matter of the Nevada Freehold Property Trust,
Mr. James Ford has. been appointed provisional liqui-
dator.

MARKETS.—Tius DAY.
MARK LANE.

• The Corn Exchange was fairly attended by millers,
and the tone of the market was firm ; neverthless the
business transacted was on a very moderate scale. The
show of English wheat on offer was small, but the ar-.
rivals from abroad were large. Sales in both red and
white produced were effected steadily, and the advanced
rates of Monday last were thoroughly maintained.
Barley was in moderate supply and request for fine
malting samples ; grinding qualities experienced a cautious
sale, but prices were unchanged. The malt trade was
not active, but prices ruled firm, There were large
supplies of oats on the stands. The trade was dull at
Monday's reduced quotations. Beans and peas were in
fair request at fully previous currencies. Flour was in
quiet demand, but firm in value.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

GLOUCESTER RACES.--Tins I)AY

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CITY BETTING.-- lily DAY.

2
3

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CAMBRIDGESHIRE'.
7 to 1 agst Not Out (taken to £500)
15 to 2 agst Adonis (offered-8 to 1 taken freely)
Bto 1 agst Podesta (offered-100 to 12 taken and
wanted)
12 to 1 agst Barford (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Albany (offered-14 to 1 taken)
100 to 6 agst Frivolity (taken and wanted)
20 to 1 agst Vandenhoff (offered—take 25 tot ; 200
to 7 and 300 to 10 laid previously)
20 to 1 agst Queen of Hearts (offered— 25 to 1 taken
and wanted)
25 to 1 agst Rafale (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Vintner (offered)
30 to 1 agst Green Riband (offered—take:loo to 3)
1000 to 30: agst Fichu (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Dark Cloud (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 agst Cymbal (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Stanley (offered)
66 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (taken)
100 to 1 agst Thunderstorm (taken)
1000 1 o 8 eve, Ryshworth (taken and offered)
500 to 4 agst Exciseman (taken)
2000 to 60 agst Stanley and Exciseman coupled

TREATMENT OF THE PRUSSIANS AT
VERSAILLES.

Writing from the headquarters of the Prussians, the
correspondent of the Telegraph says : "The conduct of
the people of Versailles towards the Prussian troops and
commanders, if not cordial, is at least respectful and un-
aggressive. I cannot say the same for that of the sur
rounding country. The fact is, that France seems
determined to exhaust every means of annoying
and harassing, if she cannot defeat, her enemy.
And this spirit seems to be now on the in -
crease. The Francs-tireurs are becoming bolder
and more numerous ; and, no doubt, they occasionally
inflict losses on the Germans. Nor is this all. Notwith-
standing the severity with which the invaders treat sn ch
offences, the peasants do not cease to fire upon the Prus-
sians whenever an occasion offers. The affair at Ablis
the other day, shews what the state of feeling is among
the inhabitants of some of the French villages.
There the fourth squadron of the 16th Schleswig
Holstein Hussars were quartered ; but while sleeping
in fancied security at night, they were set upon, and
before they could recover themselves 100 of their num-
ber were slain. The survivors assert that the Francs-
tireurs by whom they were attacked were aided by the
villagers, and that the whole affair was a well-arranged
plot. If so, the inhabitants of Ablis have paid a severe
penalty; for the village has been burned to the ground.
Nor is it the ignorant peasants alone who thus attack the
Prussians. A day or two ago a priest was brought
here under arrest. He is said to have fired on a cavalry
patrol at Meudon, and to have killed a dragoon.
It is, I hear, the intention of the authori-
ties to make an exemple of this ecclesiastic.
He is first to be put in the pillory, before he under-
goes the still heavier sentence which the military tribunals
will doubtless pass upon him. In Saint Germain and other
places, also, the spirit of the peasantry is very dangerous;
the inhabitants, it is said, who by remaining quiet during
the day escape observation, at night steal away
into the woods to join the ranks of the Francs-
tireurs. Altogether, the state of the French population
in the rear of the army is somewhat threatening ; and I
expect before long to hear of some terrible reprisals on
the part of the Germans for the annoyance and losses,
trivial but terribly irritating, which they constantly
suffer."

RUMOURED NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE
CAPITULATION OF. METZ.

Important intelligence regarding Metz reaches us from
Berlin, under date October 18th. It states that on the
14th, General Boyer, first aide-de-camp of Marshal
Baz,dne, arrived at Versailles, accompanied by a Prussian
officer ; that General Boyer had an immediate inter-
view with Von Bismarck, who, at its close, pro-
ceeded to the King's quarters. We shall, probably, not
be long left in doubt as to the meaning of this incident.
It is possible that it may be the result of some Bonaparte
intrigue, in which case Marshal Bazaine—not considered
a very reliable man—would be guilty of gross and unpar-
donable treason to his country, and no less gross and un-
pardonable folly. It may be that the Marshal wishes
to ascertain the real state of affairs in France before de-
ciding on his own course of action. It may be that
he seeks to gain time by amusing the Prussians with nego-
tiations. Again, and this is the most probable surmise,
the Marshal may be reduced to extremities and is anxious
to obtain good terms of surrender. If he does surrender,
it will be as if a limb had been lopped off from France,
nor can we discover that he is yet in that situation which
would render a capitulation justifiable. The troops
are, it is true, compelled to subsist in a great measure on
horseflesh, and are in want of salt, but are many degrees
removed from famine. The Marshal can obtain cover
for the greatest portion of his army in the city, while
the investing army are exp,sed to all the rigours of
the climate. Fui-ther, he has 100,000 armed men
at his disposal, and by a merely passive attitude,
chequered only by occasional sorties, he can and does
detain more than double his own numbers from the siege
of Paris or the subjugation of the provinces. If he has any
thoughts of surrender, he should bethink him of the
glorious precedent for an obstinate resistance under pres-
sure of actual famine afforded by Massena, at Genoa, in
1800. We should not, however, be surprised to hear of a
capitulation, for it seems to be now the fashion.
to neglect all the rules of military honour,
to ignore the obligations imposed by the past
glories of the French army, and to, capitulate as soon
as it becomes inconvenient to hold out. Strasburg, in
spite of all that has been said—and, up to a certain point,
justly said—of the heroic resistance, is an instance of what
we assert; and Soissons, with the bombastic declaration
of the commandant about a defence to the last, is another.
—Standard.

GA MBETTA AND THE SPECIAL
COE RESPONDENTS.

The correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Tours
under date of the 16th, thus relates the interview he had
with M. Gambetta on the occasion of a refusal to forward
certain information —" I was ushered into a, very hand,some
room, noteworthy for its striking lack of furniture. A
dozen gentlemen were dozing or whispering on a divan along
the wall, and two or three secretariei were writing for their
lives. In another instant I was shewn into M. Gauabetta's
cabinet. Perhaps an apartment thirty feet by twenty-
five should not so be called. It is a light, pleasant room,
looking upon the garden. By the open window, on
the right, half hidden by an ancient bedstead with the
most gorgeous yellow silk hangings, sat the Minister
himself—at a table covered, of course, with papers. He is
a dark, powerfully-built man, with a very large head.
His long hair, not unconscious of a grey strand, hangs
over a forehead lofty and massive. I must not describe a
living gentleman's face minutely. The countenance
of M. Gambetta is certainly one of great power and de-
termination, if not handsome in feature. But
those who have heard him spoken of as the ' young
tribune of Marseilles,' and all the rest, would be rather
surprised to mark his bodily presence. He spoke
with great courtesy, but perfect firmness. This
despatch,' he said, taking my unfortunate telegram from
the table, ' I might have received from the General whose
name you mention. You will see I do not mean to deny
that it is true—absolutely true. For that reason I
cannot suffer it to be sent. Even to the number of
our men and guns, you are correctly informed. Had that
despatch been printed in London, it is impossible to
say what the result might have been.' I replied
that the bureau of the telegraph passed what it pleased,
and suppressed what it liked; that the acceptance of such
a responsibility by the bureau seemed to absolve me from
any point of honour in the transmission of news ; and I
added, that I should not have thought of putting
in a sealed letter the facts which I did not hesitate
to send in an open despatch, could they have
reached you for publication in as short a time. M. Gam-
betta answered that the question for him was the safety
of France. He desired to know from what source I ob-
tained the secret information which, as the Inspector
told him, the correspondent of The Daily Telegraph had
several times addressed to •London. Finally, with great
politeness, but with greater firmness, he pointed out
that the Government could not possibly allow its plans or
dispositions to be told ; that the control department of
the telegraph refused to accept or understand the respon-
sibility I put upon it ; and that, in point of fact, he must
demand my word of honour never henceforward to men-
tion movements of troops or intentions of the military
authorities by telegram—never to allude to them at all,
excepting they were faits accomplis. Of course, the pro-
mise was given forthwith. But I made a more vigorous
stand when it came to letters ; pointing out that the mail
took at least two days, and that, in regard to the facts at
this moment in question, to write about them
to-day could not possibly do misctief to the operations
designed, while it would enable English readers much
more easily to follow the great events which will doubt-
less, by the time my letters reach then, ha've taken
place. I regret to say that M. Gambetta• seemed
to care mighty little whether English readers under-
stood or not. He refused to draw any distinction what-
ever between letters and telegrams. Perhaps I cannot
prevent your getting information;' he said ; but I
demand that you impart it neither by one means nor
another.' So, since there was no help for it, I gave my
word and left, after thanking M. Gambetta for the
pleasant tone in which his warning had been given."

WIZEN IS THE BOMBARDMENT TO
BEGIN ?

The Times correspondent inside Paris, in his letter of
the 15th, says the monotony of the operations of the siege
is beginning to tell upon the Parisians. Day after day
the military bulletin simply notifies reconnaissances
in one or more directions, when, after the exchange of
a few shots with the advanced posts of the enemy,
the French troops usually retire with an insignificant
loss in killed and wounded, and the throwing of
-occasional shells by one or other of the advanced forts
into the enemy's works. Nov and then it is varied, as on
Thursday, with the report of a positive engagement, in
which the losses mount up on both sides, but these occa-
sions are few and far between.

The Prussians shewed promptitude enough in investing
Paris, as, contrary to all expectation, within a day or two
after their presence had been signalled some thirty
miles distant they had shut up a couple of millions of
human beings like so many birds n a cage; owing to this,
every one believed they would be equally rapid in their
movements with regard to the siege itself, and would long
before this have begun the bombardment. To-day people
have almost given over reading the military reports, for
they present such a sameness, and ask each other with a
feeling akin to impatience, " Whenever is this threatened
bombardment going to begin?" The topic serves us
as a subject of conversation, just as the weather
with you in England, for since the wind has shifted
round to the east, and our " ballons-poste " have
resumed their service, and Major Flourens and his
battalions have given over invading the Hotel de
Ville, and we are furnished with our ration cards, entitling
us to something like an ounce and a half of solid meat—
exclusive of all bone, mind—per diem, we have really
nothing left us to talk about, and the papers have little else
to write about. In presence of this one all-absorbing topic
minor matters are hardly taken note of. Even the de-
struction by fire of the Palace of Saint Cloud the day
before yesterday through a shell thrown into it by Fort
Valerien received little notice. Had it been a shell
thrown by the Prussians into the most insignificant
quarter of Paris, the affair would certainly not have been
treated with the same amount of indifference. On the night
of Tuesday, the 11th of October, half Paris lay awake,
listening for the anticipated cannonade, but hap-
pily listening in vain. Wednesday's papers informed
us that the bombardment had been postponed, that
various Prussian prisoners who had been captured the
day before at different points had all agreed in stating that
owing to something or other not being ready, it had
been decided to put off the bombardment, which had
been originally fixed for the 10th, they said, for
a couple of days, and they warned their captors to look
out for it that very day,—namely, Wednesday. Accord-
ingly, all that venturesome class of individuals existing in
every community, betook themselves to Point du Jour,
Auteuil, Passy, and other points of the fortifications, and
to the Trocadero, the Arc de Triomphe, and, in fact,
everywhere where it is believed a good view
could be obtained, and paid from half a franc to a
franc to look for a moment or two through a telescope
at the Prussian batteries on the heights on the other
aide of the Seine, if not at the anticipated shower
of Prussian shot and shelL Those who waited all
day were rewarded for their patience by the sight
of a puff of smoke, followed by a dull rumbling noise,
whenever Mont Valtirian threw a shell into the enemy's
works. In the stillness of the evening the distant roar
of cannon was continually heard, and people, thinking
the bombardment had at length opened, sought after
the next morning's papers with' eagerness, only
to learn froln them; however, that there 'had been a
brisk cannonade on the part of Mont Valdrien on the
evening before, but not so much as a single shot fired
from a Prussian battery. They announced, however,
that as the next day, Friday, was the anniversary of the
battle of Jena it was no doubt for this occasion the Prus-
sians were reserving their fire. On Thursday there was
an engagement, which may be said to have assumed
the proportions of a battle, between the French and
Prussians at Clamart, Chatillon, and Bagneux, and
one shell from Mont Val6rien demolished the Lantern of
Diogenes in the Park of St. Cloud, while another pene-
trated the palace itself, which was supposed to be occupied
by the Prussians, and immediately set fire to it, reducing
it, after a conflagration which lasted many hours, to a
perfect ruin.
The day following—the anniversary of the battle of
Jena—passed over peaceably, and so has to-day, and the
Paris newspapers have now given over speculating when
the bombardment will begin.

INCENDIARY FIRE.— On Saturday evening the
ricks in the homestead of Mr. Robert Hooper, Little
Cheverell, near Devizes, Wiltshire, were discovered to he
on fire in several places at once. Eight large ricks, with
extensive barns and outhouses, were quickly consumed.
The evening was quiet, and the rains of the previous
week had damped the thatch of the houses in the neigh-
bourhood, or the destruction would have been much more
extensive, the absence of water and any efficient
engines, rendering opposition to the flames of little
avail.

CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN lIIELAND.—Tha C 8113.•
monial of opening the academical session of the Catholic
University at Dublin took place on Saturday in the
church attached to that institution. There was a very
large and fashionable congregation assembled, who, from
the usual interest they manifested in the sacred function,
were (says the Freeman) evidently anxious to attach to it
a good deal of political significance. The rector, Dr.
Woodlock, delivered an address on the occasion which had
brought them together. He dwelt long and eloquently
on the principle that science and religion could not be
separated, and in .conclniion 'proceeded to.show that, the
datholic Church had always promoted the cultivation of
the arts and sciences,

OUR COTErVEPOIZARIES---This Morning

ARLES-DIIFOUR'S ADDRESS.

The Tines, aster commenting upon the appeal of M.
Arles-Dufour to the people of Great Britain hus concludes:
—We have indicated on more than one occasion
terms of peace that might have been accepted
by both belligerents, and the suggestions we have
made have been supported by neutral opinion abroad.
But the French Government is isolated in Paris, and
it has never clearly appeared to what lengths it is
willing to go in the way of concession ; and the German
Government is at Versailles, and must not be confounded
with the delegation that remains at Berlin. Coun-
sels of peace under such circumstances have neces-
sarily been offered under greats disadvantage, and
it has been impossible to tell whether or not

they would be ineffectual. There is at this moment
a rumour that a basis of negotiation has been settled,
even if a definite Peace has not been agreedupon, but the
evidence in support of the statement is vague, and with
the heartiest wishes that it may be well-founded, we
cannot accept it as a fact. We wish we could answer M.
Arles-Dufour by the assurance that Peace wes accomplished,
but we fear he must wait under further discouragement
before that happy consummation can be reached. It is
pitiable that he and such as he should have toiled during
long lives to bring about the reign of Peace, and should
find in their later years that the spirit of war is appa-
Jently more firmly enthroned than ever. No harder trial
can be conceived for a faith that believes in the progress
of humanity through suceeding generationt. As
we watch the course of the war we seem to see
its baleful genius brutalizing the temper and corrupting
the patriotism of both belligerents. Yet we will not
bate one jot of hope that the evil counsels to whose
ascendency this terrible spectacle is due will pass away,
and the principles of freedom and Peace will supplant
the animosities and craving after domination that now
threaten to become rampant.