The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-31 00:00:00

A SERIOUS BUSINESS.

The armour-clad turret-ship Cerberus, 'which was de-
signed and built for the defence of the harbour of Mg'
bourne, is still in English waters, and, if the report 0
which have reached us can be depended upon, she is likely
to continue for an indefinite period on the home station.
It is stated that, in consequence of the late catastrophe
which the country is bewailing, the Lords of On
Admiralty were asked to give a certificate of
the seaworthiness of this vessel. This them
lordships, we are told, declined to supply. Hence
that which appeared to be an unaccountable delay
occurred. We have also learned that from the same
cause the Magdala, built by the Thames ShipbuilM
Company for the protection of Bombay has been detame!!
in the Victoria Docks, although her builders undertook
to deliver her at the spot for which she was destined,
and for which she is quite ready to start. It is air
expected that the Abyssinia, which in a few weeks
will be out of the hands of Messrs. Dudgeon and Co.,
will be prevented from leaving the riven—Army 0121"
Navy Gazette. .

CHIEF CONSTABLE OF BEDFORDSHIRE.-1111°
office is vacant ; salary, £3OO a-year, with an allowance
of &50 a-year for all expenses.
-AN UNDERGRADUATE'S AMUSEMENT.—At the
Cambridge Borough Police Court an Undergraduate,
named Frederick Hall Nicholls, of Trinity College, has
been fined £25 and costs, or a month's hard labour, f°
lamp-breaking and assaulting the police.

" GAZETTE " APPOINTMENTS.—The Queen bofif
been pleased to appoint Henry David Erskine, Esq., °
Cardross, to be Groom of the Robes in Ordinary to 131
Majesty, in the room of the Marquis of Hertford
resigned.—The Prince of Wales has appointed the Earl o_l
Leicester to be keeper of the Privy Seal of his RAY'S
Highness, in the place of Mr. Herbert Fisher, resigned.

THE CHESS CHAMPIONSIHP.—The Challenge CuP
given by the British Chess Association for competition
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amongst English players, appears extremely difficult 0-
acquisition. It must be won twice before it can become`
any one person's property, and hitherto no player 110,
been able to. accomplish this feat. When fa"
played for it fell to Mr. De Vere • last year Mr. Black'
burne gained it ; and now Mr. Wisker becomes the pt
visional owner. The tournament of 1870 opened about
three weeks ago, and resulted in the following scores :"."
Mr. Wisker won five games and lost one, Mr. Bur°
made the same score, the Rev. J. Owen won four and lost
two, Mr. Blackburne (winner last year) won three and lost
three, Mr. Gossip won two and lost four, M'
Green won one and lost five, and Mr. Ide lost all h'
games. Mr. Burn and Mr. Wisker having scored equally'
met on Wednesday to play off the tie. An obstinen
battle of ten hours' duration resulted in a draw. A second
game on Friday, though a less scientific specimen of play,
ended more satisfactorily for one of the players, for IVit
Wisker won the game and the cup, the second prize falling
to Mr. Burn. Both winners are amateur players.
A MAN " OF THE PEnrop."—He was essentiallY
the most recent product of the age we live in. Manly
enough in some things, he was fastidious in others, to the
very verge of effeminacy ; an aristocrat by birth and by
predilection, he made a parade of democratic opinionk?
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gifts, and as linguist, musician, artist, poet, and Philo-
sopher, loved to display the scores of thing°
he might be, instead of that mild, very
ordinary young gentleman that he was.
had done a little of almost everything ; he had been
the Guards, in diplomacy, in the House for a brief sew
sion, had made an African tour, written a pleasant little
book about the Nile, with the illustrations by his oval
hand. Still he was greater in promise than performance'
There was an opera of his partly finished • a five
comedy almost ready for the stage ; a half-executed
group, he had left in some studio in Rome, sheaved what
he might have done in sculpture.—Lord Kilgobbin

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M.

THE WAR.

THE FALL OF "IvIETZ.
PRUSSIAN 'HONOURS.
Xing William BERLIN, October. 30, Afternoon.
has telegraphed as follows to Queen
4ugusta, now at Homburg, under date of Saturday
last
"The great fact that both the hostile armies
'which confronted us in July last are now made pri-
a°Hers of war has induced me to create Fritz and
Friedrich Karl yesterday Field Marshals—the first
event of the kind in our House."
The Ring has raised General Moltke to the dig-
°lV of a Count.
" REMILLY, October 28.
" Prince Frederick Charles, at Metz, October 27,
t° Xing William :
" Four thousand French officers in Metz pray
Your Majesty to permit them to keep their swords."
ig HomßunG, October 28.
" Queen Augusta to Prince Frederick Charles :
" I send my sincere congratulations to you and
Your brave troops. Your splendid success has
ularked an era in this memorable war. I beg that
You will send the details of the surrender."
To-day Prince Frederick Charles entered Metz
With drums beating and colours flying. No strangers
are as yet allowed to enter the town. Perhaps to-
luorrow permission will be given.
Metz
is now uninterrupted communication between
Alets and the German lines via Saarbruck.
It is reported that 3,000 guns and forty millions of
francs have been taken in Metz.
Great quantities of provisions have been sent to
the town from Saarbruck and Luxemburg. Metz will
be open to the public to-day.
In consequence of General Ducrot and others
having violated their parole the French officers are
t° be treated in the same manner as the commot.
Belcher,.

CASSEL, October 28.

In the Palace at Wilhemshohe all are in great
suspense, eagerly awaiting news respecting the
conditions of the capitulation of Metz. Some
consternation is apparent.
Pietri, the late police prefect, arrived this after-
noon from Switzerland.
The Emperor walked out to-day.
THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

TAE FINAL SUMMONS TO SURRENDER.

BERLIN, October 29.

Efforts are making to induce the French Govern-
kent to accept the German terms proposed after the
fall of Metz.
The prisoners taken at the last sortie from Paris
state that the troops in the city receive only twice a
Week half a pound of meat.
The army investing Metz consisted of seven Prus-
sian corps, one Prussian Landwehr Division, and the
Hessian Division, in all 220,000. Of these less than
,2,0)000 will garrison Metz, the rest being destir.ed for
field operations.
According to an official report of General Hartman
several hundred women and children from Paris ap-
Peared at the German outposts betweenMontrouge and
ticetre, on the 24th instant. Being told that they
Would be fired upon unless they returned forthwith,
they replied that they preferred death to their
taieerable life inside the city. They were permitted
to cross the German lines.
Paris will probably be finally summoned to sur-
render in a day or two, and if it refuses to do so it
Will be immediately bombarded.
On the 22d inst. the first train ran from Chalons
t° Paris by way of Soissons, the line having been
completely repaired. The trains stop at Sevran,
near St. Denis.
FRENCH PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

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At present the number of French prisoners is four
karahals, 140 Generals, 10,000 officers, and
323,000 rank and file.
According to `the New Prussian Gazette the last
iiillzunons to surrender Paris was to be sent to the
city on Saturday. If refused the bombardment
Was to commence at the beginning of the present
Week.