The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-16 00:00:00

THE TREATY OF 1856.

The
dra announcement that Russia intends with-
wing from the Treaty of Paris, has produced
Erich alarm at Tours. It is said an English Envoy
h,B
bone to Versailles to take the opinion of Prussia
en the matter.

• THE ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS.
• REPORT OF M. TRIERS.
0;1- 81nmary of the report drawn up by M. Thiers
,
niission'to the German Headquarters has been
Illblished'by the Government at Tours. This report
Treat
communicated to the representatives of the
rnt Powers and of Turkey and Spain. M.
Thiers says that• he explained the object
of hie'
01,„ hia visit to Count Bismarck, namely, to
,1"°411 an armistice, and the German statesman
4 raitted the expediency of such a mission ; but made
aq
allusion to the members of the late rdgime who
e3a endeavouring to. 'reconstitute themselves as a
trernment at Cassel. To this M. Thiers answered
thsftt the late Government had for ever ceased to
exist.s The conferences then opened and it was
tc:3,11 agreed that ,the armistice should last twenty-
faC • days, and that perfect freedom of election
t.(lald be secured in the occupied provinceSi Count
b L'lnatell promised that- Alsace and Lorraine should
Q! • represented by influential persons without any
ditto
interference. The revictualling of Paris
dittethe difficulty. At first Count Bismarck seemed
kft?°Bed to admit the principle, but obstacles were
"t wards t°raised, the. Chancellor referring the matter the Prussian generals. The summary of the
port
says
ti:—
C 1 the 3rd,K Thiers said that the revictualling of
the L,ill'iaieged places had become- not a mere question of de
th. 'b_uut a sine quil non. Count Bismarck, on behalf of
is,Norigeian generals, declared that the armistice was
4/I,telY against the interests of the Prussians,
of d
I,"uat he could only consent to the revictualliug
bet -calif,' if, the Government of the Nationa
e,llee Was prepared to concede some military equivalent,
1,140 r example, a
.military position round Paris. M.
kilitiLß having insisted, Count Bismarck added that by a
00e.,-*Y Position he meant 'a fort; ancl•perhaps more than
Thereun M. -Thiers stopped him immediately,
"(I declared that to refuse Paris to be revictualled wasa
n 7
417 to depriving her of her resources for resisting during
to :nth, and that to demand a fort was nothing less than
7 1411c1 a surrender of the ramparts."
'er relating the rupture of the negotiations, M.
judes gays he will leave the neutral Powers to
of the conduct of the belligerents. Ho con-
' count have • used all my efforts to recover for my
the 117 the
e blessings of peace, which it had lost by
11,48 era of a Government whose existence alone.
11,,, a mistake. France having accepted such a
ret'arninent, and having abandoned to it, without
tre:ng any control, all her destinies, has been a
and irreparable fault."

NAVAL ENGAGEMENT OFF CUBA.
off savannah
arrived to-day of a naval engagement
ilte4°B3inah on the 9th, between the Prussian war
to;ler Meteor (3 guns), and the French steamer
inicivet (5 guns). The fighting was desperate,
l
of
,:asted over an hour, at the expiration
ke„o.ten—lell time the Bouvet madooff disabled, but the
screw was too much' injured to allow her
to:rBue• Both vessels have returned to Havannah
lonlair, in order to resume the fight. The Bouve
3 killedn killed, and several wounded ; the Meteor
and 1 wounded.