The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-26 00:00:00

A NEW INVASION.

The occupation of Southern France has been
actively undertaken. Forty • thousand Prussian
troops and 25,000 Bavarians are passing, or have
passed by rail to Mulhouse, Belfort, and Lyons.—
Times Telegram,

M. THIERS'S MISSION TO
AUSTRIA.

BERLIN, SEPT. 25, 11.25 A. 2.1

M. Betist told M. Thiers that Austria felt deeply
for France, bat could not at present interfere in her
favour. M. .Fhiers left for St. Petersburg to gain
Russian assistance in return for concessions in the
East. He will probably return to Vienna to report
the reception of his overtures.
In offering to join the German Confederacy,
Bavaria asks greater independence than can be
conceded.-7imes Telegram.

BERLIN, SEPT. 24, 9.30 p.m.

Authentic advices from Vienna report the com-
plete failure of M. Thiers' missi n. In his inter-
view with Count Beust, M. Thiers declared that
the object of his mission was to awaken the inte-
rest of the Neutral Powers in the present condition
of France, with a view to their obtaining favour-
able terms of peace by pressure upon Germany.
Count Bust replied that Austria, with the best
wishes for the interests of France, was not now,
nor had been since the beginning of the war, in a
condition to take any active steps in existing circum-
stances. M. Thiers retired disheartened. He was
not invited to the great dinner given by Count
Schweinitz, the Minister of the North German Con-
federation, was present.—Daily News Telegram.

THE GERMAN TROOPS IN

FRANCE.

BERLIN, SEPT. 24.

The total number of German troops on French
territory is 650,000, consisting of twenty-one Army
Corps, composed almost wholly of troops of the line,
with very few of the Landwehr. There are three
other Army Corps uuder arms which have not left
Germany.
The director of the North-German Telegraphs
has paid a second visit to Nancy, and a Telegraph
Administration has been established there. Nu-
merous telegraph clerks have left for the French
provinces occupied by the German forces ; and
several telegraph offices have been established, small
telegraph stations in Germany having been closed to
enable this to be accomplished.
HAGENA U, SEPT. 24.

The Amtliche Nachrichten (the official German
organ) publishes a Cabinet order authorising the
North German Postal Administration to organise at
once and definitively a system of postal service in the
territory now under the jurisdiction of the Governor
General of Alsace and German Lorraine. It also
orders that the postal service in the other French
territory occupied by the Germans shall be provision-
ally administered on the basis of the existing
arrangements.

RETURN OF THE FRENCH
FLEET FROM THE BALTIC.
SKAGEN, SEPT 24 (3.30 P.M.)
The French fleet, consisting of nine ironclads, five
corvettes, and four steam transports, has just passed
off here, steering westward.

ITALY AND ROME.

FLORENCE, SUNDAY.

M. Senard, the French Minister at Florence, has
addressed to Signor Visconti-Venosta, in the name
of the Provisional Government, the warmest con
gratulations on the Italian occupation of Rome. In
his letter M. Senard contrasts the hopeful condition
of the Italian kingdom with the painful circum-
stances of France.

General La Marmora will leave this city for
Rome, in order to take the place now held by General
Cadorna as military commander in Rome.
A. batch of political prisoners at Rome, to the
number of fifty-four, was liberated to-day.— Tele-
raph Telegram.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24 (EVENING).

The Journal de Bruxelles suggests to the Catholics
of all countries to make arrangements for signing
petitions to their respective Governments, praying
them not to recognise accomplished facts in Italy;
and it at the same time urges the drawing up of a
combined manifesto protesting against the annexa-
tion o f Rome.

FLORENCE, SEPT. 24 (EVENING).
The Plebiscite in the Roman provinces is to take
place on the 2nd of next month.

FLO RE VICE,SEp. 25.
All the political prisoners in Rome have been set
free, Petroni after 17 years' confinement. General
Cadorna has selected 18 citizens to form a Provisional
Government of Rome. In opening the Government
at Rome, he said, "You are called to fulfil a sublime
task. The 20th of September marks a great epoch
in your mission, and inaugurates a new era in Italian
unity, which, when finally completed, will constitute
Rome again the capital of the Kingdom. God mani-
festly blesses Italy."—Daily News 7 elegram.

PROPOSED EUROPEAN CON-
GRESS.

A. Brussels correspondent of a contemporary tele-
graphs : " We hear from Paris that peace will not be
concluded without the conditious having received the
sanction of a European Congress. As the place of
meeting, Brussels is already designated. The neutrality
of Belgium, and the geographical situation of Brus-