The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-15 00:00:00

INVESTMENT OF BREISACH,

The number of Prussians before New Breisach
is set down at 5,000 men, and the investment of the
place is complete. The Germans are laying
enormous requisitions throughout Colmar.

A MILLION OF FRENCHMEN
UNDER ARMS.

LILLE, THURSDAY NIGHT.

The Prussians, since occupying Breteuil, are
marching on Ailly-sur-Noye, and are hourly ex-
pected at Amiens,
A committee of defence has been established at
Caen for the protection of Lower Normandy. 300,000
francs have been voted for the purpose, engineers ap-
pointed to obstruct the highways with felled timber,
and to preserve all forage, provisions, cattle, and
vehicles from the enemy, and, when necessary to
burn them. Nine thousand of the National Guard
will co-operate in the defence.
The arrondissements of Valogues and Cherbourg
are being placed in a state of defence, and prepara-
tions- made to inundate the Valley of Carentan,
which' can be effected in two days.
Letters from Paris of the latest date still assert
that the Prussians are constantly repulsed in their
attempts to establish their batteries before the city.
M. Auguste Villemot, editor of the Figaro and
Temps, is dead.
The Journal de Liege says:—" Twenty waggon loads
of gunpowder and bullets have been sent from Givet
to Mezieres. Important works upon the fortifica-
tions of Mdsieres have just been completed. All the
trees in the environs felled, and one hundred en-
gines armour-plated, and pierced with loopholes for
muskets.

Schelestadt is still preparing for vigorous defence.
The Journal d'Ainiens asserts that the French
troops outside of Paris exceed a million of men, and
that four armies are now forming—the first, north
of Amiens ; the second, in Normandy and Brittany ;
the third, in the south-west at Mans, and the fourth
from Bourgogne to Langres. _

WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The
number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders,
exhibitors, and others, on the 14th Oct., was 2,480.

In a case heard at the Liverpool Police Court
it was stated in evidence that a youth of 16, named
May, had married a matron of 51. The pair lived
unhappily.

THE PHILHARMONIC, ISLINGTON.--This Hall has
recently passed into the hands ;of Mr. Charles Morton,
whose name is almost a household word in connection
with the origin and growth of the modern music hall
system. The opening night under the new management
is fixed for Monday next, the 17th instant. Quite a deco-
rative revolution has been effected in the interior of the
Hall; a stage, unique in its arrangements, is added for
operatic and ballet purposes ; and the programme for the
inaugural night is brimful of novelties.

RUNAWAY HORSES.— A. correspondent in the
Builder writes—" I have just read in this day's paper of
a fatal accident to three out of four ladies, through a run-
away horse. It is possible to remedy this, and I again
beg space in the Builder to explain my method of stopping
the headlong speed of frantic and restive horses. A com-
plete electric apparatus can be purchased in a small case.
Let one of these be fixed in an out-of-the-way nook in the
carriage, two wires to hook to harness, beneath which
have two very thin copper plates properly placed. In the
event of a runaway, the driver and inside occupants would
only have to press a glass knob to stop instantly the mad
career of the strongest horses."