The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-07 00:00:00

TI- E SUN, LOND9IMI, PRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 113%,

Delegates from the Carlsruhe Town Council re-
port that 500 houses have been destroyed in Stras-
burg, and at least 10,000 persons are homeless.
Subscriptions for their relief have been opened in all
parts of Germany.

ITNDERGROUND TELEGRAPI-In
FROM PARIS.
BRUSSELS, TUESDAY.
Ihe Cologne Gazette and the lndependanee Beige
ain both of opinion that there still exists some
Underground communication between Paris and the
provinces, as despatches are daily received from
Paris by the Government delegates at Tours.

,THE MISSION OF M. THIERS.
VIENNA, OCT. 5 (EvENI NG).
It is asserted that AI. Thiers, on leaving bore, will
proceed to Florence.

CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS
ON THE BELGIAN FRONTIER.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 0 (8.25 P.m.)
The .toile Beige mentions a renewed movement
'of troops towards the Hainault frontier.
The Nato du Parlement ;Jays :—" Since yesterday
great activity has reigned among the troops at
Antwerp, and everything tends to chew • that our
frontier will again be gaitided by large forces.
The. siege of Mezieres and Rocroy by the Prussians
is believed to have .some connection with this
measure.

According to the Journal de Bruxelles the Jesuit
fathers are leaving Rome.

COUNT BISMARCK AND - -
M. FAVRE.
BERLIN, 00T• 6.
The following circular has been issued by Count
Bismarck :

FERRIERES, OCT. 1.

• "From reports in the public journals, it appears
that the delegation of the French Government
in Tours have officially announced that the under-
signed had declared to M. Favre that Prussia
would continue the war, and reduce France to the
position of a Power of second rank. Although such
an expression could only be intended to influence
circles unacquainted with the language used in in-
ternational negotiations, and ignorant of the geo-
graphy of France, still the circumstance that this
official annoinicement bears the signiv ure3 of
Messrs. Cremieux, Glais-Bizoin, and. Fourichon
—gentlemen belonging to the Government of a great.
European Power—induces me to request your Excel-
lency to put it in a proper light, in your official
intercourse. In my interview with M. Favre, the
question of the condition of peace was not at all
formally considered. At his repeated re-
quest, I communicated to the French Minister
in general outlines the same views which formed
the principal topic of the circular dated Meaux, Sep-
tember 16. Demands exceeding those therein con-
tained have never yet in any way been made by me.
The cession of Strasburg and Metz, which we seek in
territorial connexion, implies a. reduction of French ter-
ritory equal in area to the increase through Savoy
and Nice, while the population of these provinces ob-
tained from Italy is about three-quarters of a million
larger. When it is considered that France, according
to the census of 1866, numbers 38 millions of in-
habitants without Algiers, and with Algiers now
furnishing an essential part of the French war
forces, 42 millions, it is palpable that a decrease
therein of three quarters of a million effects no change
in the importance of France as against foreign coati-.
tries, while it leaves to that great flipire the same
elements of power, the possession whereof in the
Oriental and Italian wars enabled it to
exercise so decisive an influenao on the destiny of
Europe. These few points will suffice to success-
fully oppose logical facts to the exaggerations
of the proclamation ,of the 24th ult. I only add
that, in conversations with M. Favre, I expressly
directed his attention to these views, and I need not
assure your Excellency that I refrained from every.
offensive allusion to the consequencei of the present
war on the future position of France .as a great
Power of the world. " BISMARCK."

—Daily News Telegram.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, OCT, (8 rat.)
Baron von Roggenbach has been summoned to the
headquarters of the Crown Prince.
Herr von Delbriick left to-day on another journey
to the King's head-quarters.

GENERAL IGNATIEFF.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 6.

General Ignatieff left yesterday evening for
Odessa. His journey is totally unconnected with
political questions.

THE ROMAN PLEBISCITE.
FLORENCE,'OCT. 5.
In the province of Velletri the number of Ayes re-
corded was 10,912, and of Noes, 50.

The deputation bringing the result of the plebiscite
will positively arrive on Saturday next, and will be
received by the King.

THE BOHEMIAN DIFFICULTY.
VIENNA, OCT. 5 (EVENING).

An Imperial Patent has been is3ued, dated to-day,
ordering direct alterations for the Reicbsrath to be
held immediately in Bohemia in virtue of the seventh
paragraph of the fundamental lavi of the Empire.

THE PAPAL CIVIL LIST.

IWNIE, OCT. 4.

Signor Sella has sent to the Pope 50,000 crowns,
the amount of the Papal Civil List for the present
mouth. The Pope has accepted the money.

[CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.]

THE PRINCE OF WALES DEER HUNTING.

The Prince of Wales was on Wednesday deer hunting
in Mr. Tennant's forest of Auchnashellach, on the west
coast of Ross-shire. His Royal Highness was accom-
panied by the Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Bland-
ford, Lord Strathnairn, Lord Elphiustone, and others,
the party numbering altogether about thirty guns. The
hint took place in the mountain ravine. No less than
five hundred deer are in this ravine, but they are to a
great extent covered. Upwards of twenty-five stags
were killed, some with fine heads. Yesterday the Prince
returned by special train to Dunrobin.

neglected orphan girls. Their passage money will be
raised partly by subscriptions, and partly by grants from
the local public bodies.

ANOTHER IRISH AGRARIAN OUTRAGE.

A sheriff's bailiff, whilst in the act of executing a decree
at a village in county Tyrone, was savagely beaten yester-
day. The parties, implicated in the outrage have been
identified.

THE WAGES DIFFICULTY IN SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE..
'lle wages difficulty in South Staffordshire has passed
off. The iron trade just now is very dull, and is likely to
remain so for some time ; the men therefore forbear to
press their claims until its conclusion.

CHURCH EFFORTS FOR SCHOOL EXTENSION

IN MANCHESTER.

An attempt is being made in the diocese of Manchester,
which therein follows the example of the mother see of
Chester, to establifih new Church schools in particularly
destitute districts' before the end of the year ; thus
to secure them; from the operation of the Educa-
tion Act by the establishment of school boards,
and securing the Government grant. The Bishop of Man
chester, who has placed himself at the head of the move-
ment, yesterday presided over a meeting for carrying out
this plan. A diocesan board was formed to attain the con-
templated object. In his speech to the meeting the Bishop
announced that he bad instituted a census, which, though
somewhat incomte, was roughly correct; it shewed
that the Chuta 's schools of the diocese pro-
vided, accommodation for 140,000 children, the Dis-
senters and Roman Catholics having accommodation
ter 80,000, but there remained 60,000 without standing
room in the existing schools. In • order to provide for this
themselves the churchmen of the diocese must provide a
special building fund of from £25,000 to £30,000. He had
obtained promises, of support from Lord Derby, Lord
Egerton of Tatton, -and many of the leading Church.men
of the diocese.

The Government medical officer, Dr. Buchanan, held a
Conference yesterday at Liverpool, on the subject of the
fever epidemic in that town.

MR. RUSKIN ON THE WAR.

The Telegraph publishes the following letter from Mr.
Ruskin :

" Sir,—My friends ask me why I speak no word about
this war, supposing—like vain friends as they are—that I
might have some poor influence of intercession for filigree
work, French clocks, and' other tender articles of vertu,
felt at this moment to be in grave danger. But,
in the first place, I know that the just Fates
will regard no intercession, either for human
life or chinaware, until their will has been
accomplished upon all of us. In the second, I know also
that the German armies will spare what they can, and
!link they ought, without taking advice of me. In the
Third, I have said long ago—no one listening—the best I
had to say on these matters. But, after your notice to-
day of the escape of M. Edouard Frere, whose gentle
power I was, I believe, the first
.to recognise publicly in
England, it is possible that some of your readers may care
to look back at that which I wrote of modern war four
years ago, and to know the aspect it takes to me,
new that it has come to pass. If you will reprint these
few following sentences from the Crown of Wild Olive,'
I shall be able to-morrow to put what I would add
to them, briefly enough to claim little space in your
Jolumns

`lf you have to take away masses of men from all
industrial employment— to feed them by the labour
of others —to move them, and provide them
with destructive machines, varied daily in national rival-
ship of inventive cost ; if you have to ravage the country
which you attack—to destroy, for a score of future years.
its roads, its woods, its cities, and its harbours; and if,
finally, having brought masses of men, counted by
hundreds of thousands, face to face, you tear
those masses to pieces with jagged shot, and
leave the fragments of living creatures, countlessly
beyond all help of surgery. to starve and parch,
through days of torture, down into clots of elay-r-
-what book of accounts shall record the cost of your work
—what book of judgment sentence the guilt of it? That,
I say, is modern war—scientific war—chemical and
mechanical war—worse even than the savage's poisoned
arrow. And yet you will tell me, perhaps, that any other
war than this is impossible now. It may be so ; tiie pro-
gress of science cannot, perhaps, be otherwise regii,ered
than by new facilities of destruction ; and the bro-
therly love of our enlarging Christianity be only proved
oy multiplication of murder. But the wonder has always
oeen great to me that heroism has never been supposed
zonsistent with the practice of supplying people with
food, or clothes, but only with that of quartering oneself
upon them for food, and stripping them of their clothes.
Spoiling of armour is an heroic deed in all ages ; but the
selling of clothes,-old or new, has never taken any colour
of magnanimity. Yet one does not see why feed-
ing the hungry and clothing the naked should
ever become . base businesses even when engaged in
m a large scale. If one could contrive to attach
;he notion of conquest to them anyhow ? so that, sup-
posing there were anywhere an obstinate race, who re-
fused to be comforted; one might take some pride ing,iving
them compulsory comfort, and, as it were, ' occupying
country' with one's gifts, instead of one's armies? If
me could only consider it as much a victory to get a
oarren field sown as to get an eared field stripped ; and
.!ontend who should build villages, instead of who should
`carry' them ? Are not all forms o: heroism conceivable
In doing these serviceable deeds? You doubt who is
strongest ? It might be ascertained by push of spade as
well as ptsili of sword. Who is wisest ? There are witty
things to be thought, of in planning other bwiness than
zanopaigns. Who is bravest? There are always the ele-
ments to fight with, stronger than men ; and nearly as
merciless. And then, observe farther, this true power, the
power of saving, depends s either on multitude of men,
nor on extent of territory. We are continually assuming
that nations become strong according to their numbers.
['hey indeed become so, if those numbers can be made of
ane mind. But how are you sure you can stay them inone
mind, and keep them from having north and south minds?
Grant them unanimous, how know you they will be
manimous in right ? If they are unanimous in wrong,
the snore they are, essentially the weaker they are.
Or, suppose that they can neither be of one mind, nor
of two minds, but can only be of no mind ? Suppose
they are a mere helpless mob, tottering into precipi-
tant catastrophe, like a waggon - load of stones
when the wheel comes off ? Dangerous enough
for their neighbours certainly, but not powerful.'
Neither does strength depend on extent of territory,
any more than upon number of population. Take up
your maps, put the cluster of British Isles beside the mass
of Soulh America, and then consider whether any race of
men need care how much ground they stand upon. The
strength is in the men, and in their unity and virtue, not
in their standing-room. A little group of wise hearts is
better than a wilderness full of fools ; and only that
nation gains true territory that gains itself.'—l am, sir,
your faithful servant,
"J. Russ's.
"Denmark-hill. S.E.. Oct. 6."