The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-29 00:00:00

IRE SUisl, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUG-UA 20, 1870.

PRUSSIANS NEAR THE
BELGIAN FRONTIER.
BRUSSELS, AUGUST 28, 8.80

Four hundred Prussians appeared yesterday even-
ing at Longuyo.n, 10 kilometres from the Belgian
frontier. .The Belgian troops have received orders
to proceed to the frontier, and the neighbouring
villages have been informed that troops are about to
be quartered on them.
Fighting is going on at Stenny.

REPORTED DOUBLE DEFEAT
OF THE PRUSSIANS.

PARIS, AUG. 27, EVENING.
No authentic news respecting Bazatne or Mac-
Mahon has been received.

The Opinione Nationale is i❑ posession of important
information of a battle fought .on the 23rd or 24th
inst., resulting in great carnage of the Prussians.

The Liberte states that General Steinmetz was de-
feated on the 23rd, and Prince Frederick Charles on
the 24th inst.

A letter published in the Debais, and dated from
Rheims the 25th, says that a battle was expected
near Rethel on the following day or on the 27th.
Other accounts represent a battle between
AlaclUahou and S'einmetz to be expected-on the
banks of the. Aisne, in sight of Monthois.

The view generally taken is that the advance of
the Crown Prince will not cause Maalahon to relin-
qUish his operations for the relief of Bazaiue and for
the defeat of Steinmetz.

The Paris journals regard the eventual' siege of
Paris with calmness, and consider the advance of the
Crown Prince as a fatal 1110Vi3 for the Prussians.
The armament of the detached forts of Paris is
nearly completed, and the city is fully garrisoned foz
defence.

A largo num oer or families daily leave Paris /or
the Northern and Southern Departments, but other
families have commenced laying by large stores of
provisions.

The great railway companies contemplate moving
their central offices from Paris.

The question of a removal of the seat of Govern-
ment has already been mooted, and Lyons is spoken
of for such a purpose. •
In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body the Duke
de Palikao refused to give information respecting the
position of the Prussian Armies.

All measures are taken for the defence and for the
provisioning of Paris.

REPULSE OF THE PRUSSIANS
AT EPERNAY AND VERDUN.
PARIS, AUG. 26 (EVENING}).
A detachment of Prussians made an attack upon
Epernay, but were repulsed by the National
Guard.
A body of 10,000 Prussians attacked Verdun yes-
terday, but were repulsed with loss by the National
Guard.
Prussian scouts appeared at Arcis-sur-Aube and
Übians were seen to-day four leagues froin Dijon.

SUCCESSFUL SORTIE FROM
STRASBURG.
PATHS, AUGUST 27, 2.5 P.M
The followit g is published under reserve by the
Minister of the Interior :
• PrttE:Aan cavalry are reported to be at Arcis-sur-
Aube.
"A detachment of Uhlans has attacked th, rail-
way station at Epernav, while other detachments
entered the town, hut were repulsed by the National
G unrd, with a loss of seventeen killed.
"A column of artillery and cavalry pushed on to
Chalons yesterday.
"It is asserted that the garrison of Strasburg has
made a successful sortie, capturing a convoy of cattle
and ammunition. A vigorous- resistance is being
made. The inhabitants aro organised as Naticual
Guards; they are full of spiric, and take part in the
sorties."
Charles Hart, the Prussian spy, was shot this

morning.
The rumour that the fortress of Longwy had been
attacked by the Prussians is denied.

CAPITULATION OF VITRY.
OFFICIAL PRUSSIAN DESPATCH.
BAR-LE-DUO, AUG. 20, EVENING.
The small fortress of Vitry capitulated yesterday.
Sixteen cannons were found. Two battalions of
Mobile Guards having lost their way, wore scattered
by our cavalry, and 850 men and 17 officers taken
.prisoners. On our side Major von Friesen and three
men were wounded, the former severely.

CAPTURE OF AN AMBULANCE
TRAIN.

BRUSSELS, AUGUST 28.
The PmFainns are at Longuyon, and have cut the
railway at 'fours la Granville.

The PrusSians have captured an ambulance with
six. surge ms and 20 l►orst's near Metz, and have sent
it back to the French lines by way of Luxemburg
and Belgium.

Pit irSSIAN E . VI'S AGAINST
11l AN C-TIRE MI S.

BERLIN, AUGUST 27, EVENING.

The official Staatsanzelyer of this evening says the
chief headquarters must already be at St. llizier
(Champagne).
Referring to the formation of the corps of Franc-
Tireurs in France, the official journal remarks that
besides the authorisation of the Minister of War,
these corps, according to international usage, must
be subject to French military law and be commanded
by French officers. If these conditions be not com-
plied with, the corps in question will be treated as
bands.

The export or transit of horses across any portion
of the frontier is prohibited.

DISSATISFACTION IN PARIS.
PARIS, AUG. 27, MORNING.

The impression gains ground that a siege of Paris
is inevitable. It it supposed to enter into the plans
of the Government to allow the Crown Prince to ad-
vance unmolested, but dissatisfaction begins to be
expressed at his unmolested advance, and appeals are
being constantly made to the Government for a gene-
ral arming of the population.
The Temps calls upon the Volunteers from the
South, West, and North to hasten to the front, and
to dispute-every inch of groun,l with the Prussians.
Tne Soir criticses the inaction of the fleet.
Paris is now provisioned for three months, and
stores cvnunue to be accumulated.

THE LEGISLATIVE BODY.
PARIS, AUGUST 27, EVENING.

In to-d,,y's sitting of the Legislative Body, M.
Thiers said ho had Darned from the official journal
that he had been nppointed a member of the Com-
mittee of Defence. 11-0 diet nob wisp to accept this
eppolntment, unless summoned to oo -so by the
Chamber. Nevertheless, in view of the present grave
circumstances, he would accept it if i'., anould be
ratified by the Legislative Body.
M. Chevreau, the Minister of the Interior, said the
Government thought that M. Thiers, being the
founder of the fortifications of Paris, should natu-
:ally be called upon to.rontribute to their defence.
Stee:l;wi;o,.., e . 1.;,; :o Thiers

Iv acclamation, but the 'President said that tito
',amber baying already manifested its wishes on
(7,.#3 subject, there. was AO ruled to consider M.
:teenacker's proposal

A superior officer in the 2nd Regiment of Zouaves has
sent a letter to Rheims, in which he declares that Bastline
is well fortified and well placed ; the army has confidence
in itself and believes in its chiefs. He feels assured that
they will accomplish great things, and deserve well of the
country.

The Nazione states' that the best understanding pre-
vails between the Cabinets of,i_Queen Victoria and Victor
Emmanuel. It is not true that Bavaria has made an
offer to the Pontifical 'Government to intervene in its
States. The Italian Government has declared that in no
case will it permit any foreign Power to take the place of
France in the Papal States.
The rumour is current in Paris that one of the principa
agents in the extensive spy system established in France
by Bismarck was a well known lady of the demi-monde,
to whom a Prussian of distinction, whom the King has
now appointed Governor of part of the French territory
occupied by the enemy, made the most splendid gifts. He
had bestowed on her not only—an hotel in the Champs
Elys4es„but a fine estate in one of the neighbouring de-
partments, valued at 1,700,000 f. Such is the report, which
adds that the lady is_probably by this time in the hands of
justice.
The English, according to the Patrie, are themselves
beginning to suffer from the arrogance which the late
conflicts have given Prussia. At Hamburg, Captain
Little, of the Englislf,steamer Germania, was brutally
insulted and thrust out of the Bourse. Why ? Merely
because Captain Little refused to give information respect-
ing the French fleet which he had passed in sailing to
Hamburg, where the blockade did not begin until the 25th
August. We wait to see what course the Cabinet of
London will pursue with regard to this outrage committed
on the person of one of its subjects. Mr. Gladstone is too
English not to apply the old maxim, of which Lord
Palmerston was always so fond, " Civis Romanus sum."

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
GERMANS AND CZECHS.

PRAGUE, AUG. 26, EVENING.

At a sitting of the German Club held to-day, Messrs.
Reiger, Bielsmy, and Keaddy made their appearance as
a deputation from the Czech Club. M. Rieger saluted the
German representatives of Bohemia, and proffered recon-
ciliation on the part of 'the Czechs. He said this had
hitherto been impossible so long as the Czechs were an
oppressed nationality, but great events were preparing in
Europe, and the Germans and the Czechs of Bohemia
were separated by questions which the majority was
unable to settle. M. Rieger added : "We wish to see an
attempt at a settlement undertaken outside the Diet. A
committee should assemble, composed of five members of
each party, which should endeavour to reconcile the dif-
ferences of opinion which at present prevail on constitu-
tional and national issues."

At eleven o'clock to-night the German Club sent a
deputation to the Czechs, announcing its readiness to co-
operate in the proposed commission, and thanking the
Czech Club for taking the initiative in the matter.

. THE CARLISTS IN SPAIN.
MADRID, AUGUST 29.
A band of Carlists has cut the railway between Pampe-
luna and Aldasna.

New bands have appearedin the North.
A member of the Provincial Council of Biscaya has
taken part in the Carlist movement.

MADRID, AUGUST 28, EVENING.

•
The Official Gazette of this evening confirms the report
that several Carlist bands have reappeared in Navarre
and in the Basque Provinces.
It is asserted that several others have made their ap-
pearance in Catalonia. The railway train from Bilbao
was stopped three times yesterday by Carlist bands.
The Basque Provinces have been put In a state of
siege.

Tranquillity prevails in Madrid.
MADRID, AUGUST 28.
The Carlist band that appeared in Navarre was
defeated yesterday.
The English fleet, composed of 15 vessels arrived at
Vigo yesterday evening.

AMERICA.
NEW YORK, AUGUST 27.

Gold closed at 116-i ; the highest quotation during the
day was 1161, the lowest 116. Sterling exchange on Lon-
don, 1098 ; United States 5-20 Bonds, 1882, 112 f ; ditto,
1885, 111# ; ditto, 1867, 110 ; United States 10-40
Bonds, 1867,1081; Illinois Shares, 135; Erie, 22i. Cotton,
middling upland, 19f. Petroleum, standard white, 261.
Flour, extra State, $5 750. to $5 95c. Corn, new,
$8 7c.

THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.
(By Atlantic Cable.)
TORONTO, AUG. 28.
The Red River Expedition reached Fort Francis on the
4th of August, all well.
Telegrams received from Fort Garry announce that the
advance parties had reached Lake Winnepeg, and were
expected at Fort Garry on the 20th of August.

INDIA.
(By Indo-European Telegraph.)
CALCUTTA, Aua. 27.
The appointment of Mr. Aintchison as Foreign Secre-
tary is confirmed.

(By British Indian Submarine Cable.)

CALCUTTA, AUG. 27.
Later intelligence has been received from Mr. Forsyth.
His expedition to Yarkand is proceeding well.

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 27.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Bangalore arrived this morning. She brings sixty-four
passengers, specie, value £64,274, also a general cargo, in-
cluding 2,689 bales raw silk, value £270,000.
The Bangalore experienced strong head winds across
the Bay of Biscay, and fine weather up the Channel.
The usual Egyptian fleet and the screw-steamer Poonah
were at Alexandria on the 15th, and at Malta on the 18th,
her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Defence, Newport, and tele-
graph ship Hawk. _ .

On the 24th, at 3 p.m., the Bangalore passed the com-
bined British fleet off Vigo.
GIBRALTAR, AUGUST 22.

The British steamers Dacion, Valetta, and Macedon,
of Glasgow; Tiber, Genova, Elderly, Bavarian, and Hecla,
of Liverpool, London, of London, Annie Vernon, of
Cardiff, Nyanza, of Southampton, and Pelan, of Mid-
dlesborough, severally arrived here during the past week.
The Richard Cobden, of the Blue Cross Line, ran into
the bulk Ellera on the 19th ; the latter sank immediately,
with 1,100 tons of coal on board.

Exchanges are quoted on London 90 days' date, 501, # ;
Paris, sf. 31c.; Seville, eight days' sight, I dis.; Madrid,
2 dis.; Cadiz, I dis.; Malaga, 1 dis.; Almeira and Alicant,
par to I dis.: Valencia and Barcelona, par.

(OENTIL&L PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
ALLEGED VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY
LAWS.

A French man-of-war has, it is alleged, violated the
neutrality laws at Lerwick, Shetland Islands. She arrived
at that harbour at the beginning of last week, and after
staying there two days, the authorities pointed out to the
commander that he had violated the neutrality laws by
remaining without due reason in a British port for more
than twenty-four hours, and asked him to leave at once.
This he refused to do, stating that the vessel's engines
were out of order, The engineers of the Queen, a steamer
in port, offered to test the truth of the statement by exa-
mining the engines, but they were not allowed on board,
and when the Queer. left Lerwick, on Friday morning,
the man-of-war Iv as still lying in the harbour, after being
there for nearly four days.

COLLISION AT THE MOUTH OF THE
HUMBER.

Last night the paddle-steamer Sheffield, of Grimsby,
arrived in that_porewith the survivors of the crew of the
French fishing vessel St. Jean Baptiste, which she had
run down at the mouth of the Humber. The French
vessel founderedlat [once. Twenty-two hands were
rescued and one drowned. Those saved were forwarded
to the French Consulate at Hull.

Our correspondent at Newcastle-on• Tyne telegraphs
that 3,000 sacks of flour were sent from the Tyne to
France. Other orders are to follow.

A large French frigate is lying off the Sascar, watching
all vessels passing into St. George's Channel.
A Prussian barque, laden with petroleum, has taken
refuge in Belfast/Lough, close to one of her Majesty's
ships.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SCARBOROUGH RACES.—This DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
VISITORS' PLATE.

Ptarmigan
Cinderella
Official A,signee
Five ran.
PRINCE OFAWALES'S STAKES.

Rebecca
Hopbine
Mulatto
Five ran.
HUNTERS' STAKES.

Extra Number
Doretta
Grace Darling
Seven ran.
GANTON HANDICAP.

Badinage
Mexico
Star and Garter
Four ran.

TATTERSALLS'—THIS EVENING.
ST. LEGER.
6to 4 agst Kingcraft (offered—take 7 to 4)
11 to 2 agst Palmerston (taken)
6to 1 agst Macgregor (taken and offered
10 to 1 agst Captivator (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Sunlight (offered)
25 to 1 agst Alexander (offered)
40 to 1 agst Muster (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 agst Wheatear (offered)
100 to 8 agst Camel 1,2, 3 (taken)

CESAREWITCH.
1000 to 20 agst Pax (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 agst Sarsfield (taken and offered)
1000 to 14 agst Blandford (taken)

~... 1

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
1000 to 20 agst Sarsfield (taken)
1000 to 20 agst Oxonian (offered—take 1000 to 15)
1000 to 15 agst Morna (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Albuera (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Barford (taken)

CITY BETTING—Tats DAY.
LIVERPOOL CUP.
4 to 1 agst Indian Ocean (taken)
5 to 1 agst Torreador (taken)
sto 1 agst Newsman (taken)
ST. LEGER.
65 to 40 agst Kingcraft (offered)
sto 1 agst Macgregor (offered-6 to 1 taken to
£500)
6to 1 agst Palmerston (offered)
100 to 6 agst Captivator (taken)
25 to 1 agst Normanby (offered-33 to 1 taken)
1000 to 15 agst Wheatear (taken)
CESAREWITCH.
50 to 1 on the field (offered)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
1000 to 15 agst Albuera (taken)
500 to 71 agst Royal Rake (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Atlantis (taken)

ME MONEY MARKET

AND

cOM M ERCIAL INTELLI GEN CE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Business on the Stock Exchange is unusually dull, and
quotations are almost unaltered. The settlement has
commenced, and is progressing satisfactorily. Foreign
Stocks, English Railway Shares, and Banking, Miscel-
laneous and Telegraphic Shares are neglected.
Consols are now 911 to 911 for money, and 911 to 911
for account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 to 911;
New Three per Cents., 911 to 911; Exchequer Bills, 5
prem.; India Five per Cents., 1101 to 111; ditto Four
per Cents., 1001 to 101; Bank Stock, 232 to 234..
Foreign Stocks show very little change since the opening,
and business continues quiet. Spanish (1867) is quoted at
25.1 to 261 ; ditto (1869), 24* to 251 ; Turkish Five per
Cents., 411 to 41 ; ditto (1869), 541 to 54i ; Egyptian
(1868), 72* to 731 ; and Italian, 481 to 48g.
At Mark-lane, this morning, the attendance was mode-
rate, and the demand generally quiet. Prices ruled about
the same as on Monday last.
The Argentine Budget for 1871, just issued by the
Finance Minister, Senor Gorostiaga, shows an estimated
revenue of £3,160,000, and an expenditure of £3,200,000.
A statement of the Interior debt of the Republic In 0 per
cent. bonds places the amount at £2,590,000.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received the fol-
lowing remittances on account of New Granada dividends,
viz.:----From Santa Marta, £300; Cartagena, £3OB ss. 6d.;
Bogota, £3,392 11s.; total, £4,000 16s. 6d. There is a
further sum of 5,867 dols. in Bogota to be remitted next
time.

Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. have given notice that
the coupons due Ist September next of the Erie Railway
Loan of 1865, and the United Canal and Railroad Com-
panies of New Jersey Loan of 18W, will be payable at
their counting house.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that, at a
meeting in bankruptcy of the creditors of Henry Moore
and Co., the liabilities were announced to be £22,120,
and the assets £10,717. Mr. H. Banner was chosen trus-
tee, and Messrs. G. Arlde and Keith were appointed the
committee of inspection.

MARKETS (THIS DAY.)

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

The cattle trade is without material change. The re-
ceipts of stock have been about an average, and have been
sufficient to meet demands. Prime breeds have continued
scarce, and have commanded full prices, ss. Bd. per 81bs.
being occasionally obtained ; the demand has ruled heavy.
The show of sheep was good. The trade was quiet, but
prices, generally, were fairly maintained. The best Downs
and half-breds sold at 5s 4d to 5s 8d per 81b. Lambs have
been quiet, calves have sold slowly, and there has not been
much demand for pigs.

THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 29.—The mail steamer Biafra, from
the West Coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira, has
arrived here. She brings 24 saloon passengers and
a full cargo of palm oil, ivory, &c., 339 ounces of
gold dust, and £11,704 in specie. The accounts
from the western districts of the gold fields are satisfac-
tory, and there was every reason to believe that
peace would soon be re-established. In the eastern
districts the Accras and their allies have had
a great success against the combined Ashantee and
Volta forces, and taken possession of the enemy's chief
towns. There were large quantities of produce on the
coast awaiting shipment, and oil and cotton were coining
down freely from the interior.

STRATEGY OF THE CAMPAIGN.

The Crown Prince, iii the south of the scene of war,
does not seem to push on very rapidly towards Paris. He
has received the capitulation of the little fortress of
Vitryi on the Marne, and his cavalry have scat-
tered or captured two battalions of Gardes Mobiles
near that place. At the same time we learn that
the Prussian cavalry had overspread the whole
country east of Paris, from Rheims to Dijon; the
railway between Rheims and Soissons has been cut ; and
Arc is- sur-Aube, between Chalons and Troyes, on one of
the lateral routes that link together the great highways of
Champagne, has been occupied by the Prussians. And
the French accounts assure us that the King, when he
joined the Crown Prince at Bar-le-Duc, brovt with
him a large reinforcement from the armies around
Metz—or, possibly, in other words, that new Fourth
Army which is to act under the command of the
Prince Royal of Saxony. But thts progress which we
have noted does not exactly correspond vtith the
assurance telegraphed from Bar-le-Duc the other day,
that the invaders had "resolutely entered on the march
to Paris." No doubt the main columns could not in any
case be expected to appear before the capital for several
days after the Uhlans had reconnoitred the outer forts on.
the east ; but the advance to Arcis-sur-Aube and towards
Mon tmirail does not necessarily signify that more than the
light cavalry has moved onwards. At the same time it is
important to notice that yesterday morning the Home
Minister at Paris announced, though "under reserve,"
that the Prussian movement on the Aube seemed to have
been suspended, and that the invaders were withrlrlwing,
towards St. Dizier. If this be true, it would seem that

Ow Crown Prince has yielded to tl
noticed the other day—that of

in the defiles of the Argonne, or

off from Paris by a bold march

enemy's flaa. Perhaps in th
explain the apparent temporary h

Prince in hie advance from the M

the A

nrzy have seized on the opportunit. taking Maci‘fabun
at a disadvantage, and have resole: ' h t:• • •
the French armies before marching on to the capital.
Even as we write, we receive from Paris direct authority
for such a supposition, in the statement that
the Prussians under the command of the Crown
Prince have turned off to the northward, towards
Suippes and Sonnnepy, as if to fall on the rear of Mac-
•nahon, entangled in the defiles. Such a movement is
nueli more energetic and intelligible than the retrograde
step to St. Dizier—which would rather seem to be aimed
against the front of a force issuing from the
Argonne defiles on the side of the Meuse
than against the rear of a force engaging
Aself in those defiles from the direction. of the
valley of the Marne. Never could there be found
a happier opportunity of finally disposing of the• French
armies in the field, before striking the coup de theatre of
the campaign, in the advance on Paris. MacMahon has
in his reckless African style blundered headlong into the
midst of the three German armies ; and it will be strange
if he should get off scot free. Great as might be the
impression produced by an appearance before
the walls of Paris, that impression • would be all
the more powerful and efficacious if the advance on the
capital were made only after the two French armies in the
field had been wholly "cut up" or captured. In such a
case Paris would indeed have no hope, and no heart to
prolong a futile and onerous resistance to a foregone con-
clusion. But this is principally matter of conjecture
and inference. Plainly, if the Prussians do not advance
with lightning rapidity on the routes " Nach Paris," it is
from no fear of opposition in the interval. Paris is a ripe
plum ; it must fall into the invaders hands in any case,
and the triumph will be all the more speedy ald bril-
liant if the armies of MacMahon and Bazaine
are both crushed or rendered impotent. There-
fore we conceive it perfectly possible that the Crown
Prince—who has now, be it remembered, the King and
25A000 men—has turner aside to strike his part of a great
concentrated blow at MacMahon, wildly scampering
through the defiles of the Argonne, in search for Laraine,
or iu hope to cut through the entrenched position of the
Prussians around Metz.—Telegraph.