The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-14 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 187(

inst. The German fleet froni Jande was off Heligo-
land on the afternoon of the same day.
The ship Nicholas, which bad been captured by
the French, has stranded on a sandbank. The
crew, including the French marines who were in
possession, were saved. The captured ship Jo-
hannes is also stranded, and both vessels will pro-
bably become wrecks.

FRANCE AND THE UNITED
STATES.

PARIS, SEPT. 13:

The Electeur Letre says that Mr. Washburne de-
manded an authorisatien from his Government to
intervene semi-officially between the belligerents,
to which the American Government replied, that in
view of the disposition of Prussia all steps in that
connection were useless, as Count von Bismarck
declined at the present moment all intervention.

PARIS, SEPT. 13.

At the demonstration made before the American
Legation, last night, Mr. Washburne is stated to
have said :—" Like you 1 believe that the
two great Republics ought to remain united
before monarchical Europe. Under the actual
circumstances you have specially gained the support
of the United States, but in consequence of our re-
lations with other Powers and of the great distance
between us, my personal opinion is that you must
reckon more upon moral than active support." The
speecb was greeted with loud cheers.

BERLIN, SEPT. 13

On reliable authority it is stated that the
news, originally published in a Prague newspaper
of the American Minister having' made proposals
relative to, the intervention of the Washington
Government, is declared to be without foundation.
Equally avoid of truth is the rumour that the
United States had offered their good offices.

nst. to the 6th Cavalry Division. After th e
conclusion of the _capitulation the 4th Company of
the 4th Rifle Battalion occupied the citadel. As
the last man of the Mobile Guards left the citadel,
,the enemy, in contravention of the capitulation,
blew up the powder magazine, causing great destruc-
tion both in the town and fortress. Duke William
of Mecklenburg Schwerin was bruised, and 95
riflemen and 300 Mobile Guards were either killed
or wounded." •

THE GERMANS AND THE RE-
PUBLIC.

The delegates of the German sections of the
International have published a manifesto congratu-
lating the French on the Republic. This great
event, they say, demands a new attitude from
Germany, who ought to cease hostilities. The
criminal author of the war should be given up to
the justice of the Republic. The German workmen
protest against the annexation of Alsace and
Lorraine, and greet " the Social Universal Re-
public."
The two official organs of Berlin consider the
change of Government in France will have no effect
on the military situation. Bismark's organ is silent.

The German Press is greatly excited against
Belgium which it accuses of showing too much
sympathy to the wound d and captive French. he
Belgian journals seem annoyed by these attacks,
and refute the charges brought against them.

AFFAIRS IN ROME.
(PROM OUR CLWN CORRESPONDENT.)
'• ROME, SEPTEMBER 8.

The alarm of yesterday continued till about four
o'clock in the afternoon, when dispatches from M. de
Charette were received at the War Office, stating that
he had not been attacked, and orders were at once given
to the Zouaves to remain till further notice at Viterbo.
The Pincio, the Vatican, and the railway stations were
all strongly fortified, and every moment we expected to
hear that the order to march had been given ; the chap-
lains, the ambulance volunteers, and the surgeons had
received-notice to be ready, and the officers had hastily
made their preparations for action, when the counter
order arrived. In the course of the day telegrams of a
reassuring nature were received at the Vatican from
General Trochu, Jules Favre, and Marshal Palikao, who
takes command of the Army of Legion ; and the
Florence train arriving in the evening from Corence
reported the march of the Italian troops as arrested for
the moment.

It is, however, reported this morning that bands of
Garilaaldians are beginning to appear upon the frontier,
and that this means may be used as an extreme one for
provoking the action of the regular troops, especially as
Geneials Bixio and Caseuz, being ex-Garibaldian generals,
it would be difficult for them not to support their old
comrades.

The Count of Caserta has left Rome to return to Ger-
many. He has left his youngest brother here, and is
going to bring back his wife, by the advice of the Pope,
with whom he had a long interview before leaving, and in
which he is said to have conveyed to his Holiness the
assurance that Prussia would protect his rights and those
of the dispossessed Princes after the war.
The King of Naples is in the Prussian camp, or was so
the other day. He returns in November to the Farnese
Palace.

Very serious accounts of the Emperor Napoleon's
health have been received at the Palazzo Bonaparte. I
have just seen a letter from one of the French prisoners
at Zonigsberg. He says that he and his fellow officers
are treated with the greatest kindness and courtesy by
the authorities and the population. At the Prussian Em-
bassy last night it was stated that the Crown Prince had
telegraphed to his mother that the siege of Paris was not
expected to last above six days, and I have just read a
letter from a resident frieni of my own there who con-
siders a long defence impossible on account of the enor-
mous extent of ground to be defended.
M. de Le Ferronays (late of the Legion of Antibes),
and nephew of the Hon. Mrs. Craven, is said to be among
the dead of the 18th August. He was married last year
to a daughter of the Duc des Ceers, a young and most
beautiful woman, and was recalled recently from the
Pope's service to serve in his old regiment in France.