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SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 2.30 P.M.

LATEST INTE I. LI GEN CE.

We have been favoured with the following coin-
17411eication from Messrs. Morgan, Brothers, of
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'Our correspondent telegraphs from Tientsin,
ta October :

"A Chinese army has been sent here, and the
laku Forts are armed and provisioned.

"A ch'apel at Fatschu has been burned by the
111°137 but the provincial authorities promise its
restoration."

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

Great hopes are entertained that the present
negotiations will result in au armistice and finally
111 the conclusion of peace. During the last few
days the French press has repeatedly called for
the intervention of England, and it ap-
pears that the Republican Ministry, en-
Ouraged by these public symptoms, applied at Lon-
'en for aid. The English Government has thus
maintained its policy of abstaining from interven-
bleh until the expressed desire of at least one com-
2haht rendered it probable that some result
"clad be attained. The present overtures are the
more promising, as it is understood that France is
1111,4 f prepared to yield, at least, Strasburg,. and a
Shp of the adjoining territory. The question as to
*hatlparty in France ought to conclude the 'I reaty
map Still give rise to some difficulties, for, as we
have previously announced, neither Bazaine nor the
iz (3re immediate supporters of the Emperor remain
j
4active or indifferent.

The Gpznione of Florence, in its numbdr of October
23
'‘e°lbmenting on the negotiations for an armistice,
-11.8 that the French Gonernment would perhaps
4 g).ee, as preliminaries of peace, to dismantle the
fortresses
of Strasburg and Metz, and to pay a
War indemnity of £80,000,000 sterling, but Prlssia
ttBias in demanding the cession of A lsace and
44orraine.

VIENNA, October 22.
Lord Granville has officially counselled an arnais-
t;ee to the belligerents, urging the prompt convo-
t'atl°ll of a National Assembly as apolitical necessity,
the Provisional Government being unable to accept
the Victor's conditions. A National Assembly can
alone assume the responsibility of concluding a peace.
k Ustria, Russia, and Italy have been invited to
%„
I;PPort the proposition. The Vienna Cabinet im-
,tdediately responded by appropriately urging its
option to the Governments at Berlin and Tours.
It Is to be hoped that Lord Granville's efforts for the
%toration of peace will be successful, although
itn
rilellse difficulties still obstruct the cessation of

BERLIN, October 22.
The semi-official journals announce that efforts
,
4rbe being made in different directions to bring
an armistice, recent disasters having con-
a4"eed the French Government that further resist-
co 41 hopeless.
ar It hi, believed that Germany wiil insist on the
rel§tice embracing peace preliminaries. and on its
b,Nbising in principle the strategical boundary
°‘llAllation.

CAPITULATION OF METZ.
BERLIN, October 22.
When offering to surrender, Bazaine demanded a
baba'tion for himself, which, if accorded, would pro-
retic,l37 have enabled him to take a prominent part in
peZl'ing order in France, after the conclusion of
V.;". General Boyer, his me-sender, went from
frol.B4illes to Luxemburg, where he met a gentleman
pWilhelmshohe, Colonel Raimbeau who saved
p Czar's life when attempted by Borezowski in
,Itt.ris.. He had been sent from Wilhelmshohe to
'etersburg. Docteur Conneu had been sent to
fie Empress Eugenie. Angel de Miranda, Prim's
ell(1) and the editor of Le Gaulois, has been arrested
ilett
tliz Versailles. Eleven-twelfths of the municipal
es have been remitted at Versailles to alleviate the
~,den of the war.
'3,,,ehelestat is being vigorously bombarded.
several thousand Prussians are posted at Marien-
l_hen to maintain the connection between Upper
and General Werder.

OCT. 23.

Chartres was occupied on the 21st inst.
The deserters from Metz multiply.
th, alit night the first parallel was opened against
to-7Leuth-western front of Schelestat at from 500
Op, Paces distance. Thirty-two guns have already
ed fire against the fortress. Our losses are three
The Papal and Bolivian envoys have left Paris.

REPULSE OF THE FRENCH.
aoY eBterdaY (the 21st) the French made a desperate
from Mont Valerien, under the support of at
w" 40 of the largest of their field guns. They
bi`el however, repulsed by the 9th and 10th
efl.i.e,inns of the German army and the Ist Regiment
lit Landwehr. After the engagement had
e, en some time, the 4th German Army Corps
y141:1(11P and the French were compelled to retreat.
ia-d4ing witnessed the sortie and repulse from the
10,, act at Manly. The Germans suffered a trifling
h'l3B:l.but took 100 prisoners, and two of the French
The
Queen of Prussia has received a telegram
wbie jing the above intelligence from the King, in
aear' rt Ilia Majesty says the engagement took
riallnaison, that 12 French battalions took
art
ja the sortie, and that, after three hour's fight-
g, the enemy were driven back by the bravery of
BoldierB.

)(et, VERSAILLES, October 22.
—uaY afternoon the French, covered by the
tack of the fortress of Mont Val6rien, made an at-
froth °,ll the German position in the bend, of the Seine
Giral, Ituel, and La Celle to St. Cloud, in
the: columns and with numerous field guns. In all
18 :Le W8:8 a force of more than 25,000 men, of whom
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were engaged.
to the
fight lasted till dark, but the French retreated
leaN, bl 3 Shelter of' the guns under Mont Valdrien,
hanclaing
"att. a battery, most brilliantly carried, in the
The
oft he Germans.
Landwehr of the Guard behaved magnifi-
thei ; Schmitz's Division especially distinguished
it7selves
(111 act-
lery. I°ll the Prussians scarcely used their artil-
Pret„,'• All " German loss was one half that of the
is quiet to-day.

A FIGHTING AT BESANCON.
ee ;eti,egram, dated October 22, says there was
14 1
,4°Bnghting to-day from nine in the morning till
hot 13.3 tween Voiday and Cussey. The result is
Itladeet stated. A, vigorous bayonet charge was
VosgesY the Zouaves and the battalions of the