The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-12 00:00:00

PRUSSIA AND ITALY.

The Vienna correspondent of the Standard sends
the following telegram —" Prussia has menac-
ingly protested against the forcible oc-
cupation of Roman territory in Italy ;
hence the delay in Austria's recognition of the
French Republic, which only awaits • that of the
other Great Powers. Diplomatic action in favour
of peace is here deemed Impossible at present.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE MARCH ON PARIS.
PARIS, SRPTEMERR 10, 11.35 A.M
he Journal Officiel contains the following :

" The commandant of the Forest Guards states
that 700 Prussian infantry rested during the night of
the 7th instant at Villiers Ayron. A. detachment of
cavalry is marching towards Verneuil and Chatillon.
A Prussian detachment arrived on the Bth at Chateau
Thisrry."

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 10, NOON,
The Ministry communicates the following intelli-
gence :

Prussian scouts are reported at Chateau Thierry,
Montmirail, Ferti-sous-Jouarres, and Vailly-sur.

Aisne.

The Prussians are maintaining strict discipline and
preventing depredations.
Railway communication is open from Paris to
Nogent-sur-Seine, and between Chaumont Mulhouse
and Bale.

The Prefect of the Vosges announces that the
coudition of his department has improved ;
no movemelit of Prussian troops is reported there.
Toul continues to offer a vigorous resistance, the gar-
rison making frequent successful sorties.
It is rumoured that Marshal Bazaine is harassiig
the enemy, and has made a sortie upon Pont-au-
Mousson.

The Prussian troops concentrated round Stras-
burg have captured a convoy of munitions intended
for the garrison.

PARIS, SEPT EMBER 10 (Evening).
The following official dispatches have been pub-
lished to-night :
" CHAUMONT, SEPTEMBER 9, 1.45 P.➢i,
"The railway and telegraphic communication still
exists between Chaumont and Neufchateau.

" The nearest point to which the enemy has ad-
vanced in this direction is Vancouleurs.

" BEA.UVAIS, SEPTEMBER 10, 2.60 P.M.
" The enemy is approaching Creepy and Com-
p iegne.
" Two battalions of Mobile Guards at the
latter place are falling back on Beauvais.
" The Prussians arrived yesterday at Montmirail,
and seized a number of young men for conscription.
" The enemy must without doubt be expected at
Coulomniers this evening or to-morrow.
"The Municipal Council of Lemogis voted a loan
of 400,000 francs for volunteer reinforcements.
" The city of Marseilles has voted 600,000 francs
for the same object.

SORTIE AT METZ.
PARIS, SEPTEMBER 10,4.16 A.M.

The Ministry has received information from
Epinal of to-day's date, according to which a rumour
is current at Nanoy that Marshal Bazaine, in a recent
sally in the direction of Pont-a-Mousson, inflicted
considerable losses on the Saxon Landwehr.

A telegram from Coulomniers reports the enemy's
scouts to have passed Al ontmirail and Sezanne
yesterday. Two Prussian corps, each 10,000 men,
are approaching these two towns.
The telegraphic line to Soissons has been cut.
Yesterday evening the enemy was nearing
Chauny.

Inhabitants of Laon who have arrived in Paris
assert that yesterday afternoon, alter the Prussian
staff had been allowed to enter the fortress, the fort-
ress was blown up, the inhabitants haying previously
fled.

SURRENDER OF THE CITADEL

OF LAON.
PARIS, SEPTEMBER 11, 7 A.M.

The following official despatch has been received
from the commander of the Forest Guards of La
Ferb3-sous-Jouarre :
" There have been from 600 to 600 Prussians at
Chateau Thierry since yesterday morning. Advices
received from Laon of yesterday announce that
General d'Hame surrendered the citadel in order to
save the town.

" The Prussians entered the citadel at noon. They
set the Mobile Guards, who garrisoned it at
liberty, and half an hour later a powder magazine
blew up, with a portion of the citadel, killing the
Prussian staff, some hundreds of Prussian soldiers,
and a number of Mobile Guards.

" General d'Hame survived, but is wounded in the
head.

" The Prussians are using no violence in the
town.

" The German amiss are converging towards
Laon.

" A camp of from 6,000 to 6,000 Prussians has been
pitched at Clermont-les-Formes.

SPAIN AND THE REPUBLIC.
PARIS, SEPTEMBER 11, 7.35 P.M.
The Journal Official de la Republique Francaise
publishes decrees suppressing the cantonal commis-

sioners of police, and abolishing the restrictions on
printing and bookselling.
M. Mercier de Losten, the French Minister at
Madrid, is recalled.
The delays for commercial drafts, granted by the
law of the 23rd of August, are prolonged for 30
days, dating from the 14th of September.

A decree of the Committee of National Defence
announces that all woods and forests which might
endanger the defence of the country will be set on
fire at the approach of the enemy.
Senor Oloza a, the Spanish Ambassador here, has
written a letter, dated September 1, to M. Jules
Favre, in which he states that he has received in-
structions from his Government to keep up official
relations with the Government of the Republic.

M. Jules Favre, in his reply, dated yesterday, to
Senor Oloiaga, says : " It is precisely at this cruel
moment for France that we see clearly manifested
the wisdom whioh would join in one single tie three
nations that really form but one family, and awaiting
only the signal of liberty to recover their family
titles."

Thionville is vigorously holding out, and the
garrison is making frequent sorties.
Advices from Thionville state that Marshal
Bazaine is well provided with provisions and
ammunition.
Montmedy still holds out.

Marshal MacMahon has addressed to the Ministry
a letter dated Portaux-Bois, Sept. 8, in which he
announces that he had received authorization from
the Prussian Government to be removed to that
place. The Marshal says he is a prisoner of war,
and adds that within five or six weeks, when his
wounds permit, he shall ask to be interned in some
German town.

THE EXPULSION OF GERMANS

FROM FRANCE.

[PARIS, SEPTEMBER 11,2.20 P.M.

The official M.niteur Beige publishes another
article protesting against the odious insinuations of
the German Press on the subject of the demonstrations
and bad treatmei f t which the Germans expelled
from France were exposed. The paper says that the
demonstrations were made by the German people at
Herberthal, who mistook the trains in which the
Germans travelled for the train of the Emperor
Napoleon and threw stones at it.

BELGIUM AND THE FRENCH
REPUBLIC.

LIEGE, SEPTEMBER 10.

the Journal de liege says that the Belgian
Ministry has decided upon the recognition of the
French Republic as in 1848. The Republic will
therefore shortly be recognized, and a note to that
effect will be despatched to M. de Beyens, who will
communicate it extra-officially to M. Jules Favre.

PUBLIC FEELING IN AMERICA.

(By Cable.)

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 10.

The New York Herald, New York Times, and
other prominent journals urge President Grant tt
tender the mediation of the United States between
Germany and France. Several newspapers which
sympathise with France express regret that M. Jules
Fevre, by continuing to exhibit a vindictive feeling,
towards the Emperox Napoleon, prevents the country
from heartily uniting for defence.

INSURRECTION IN THE ROMAN
STATES.
ORVIETO, SEPTEMBER 11.

An insurrection has broken out among the popu-
lation of the province of Viterbo. Shouts are being
raised of " Erviva il Re d'ltalia."

Young men with arms have formed themselves into
guerilla bands to harass the Papal Zouaves, who are
strongly entrenched at Viterbo, Montefiasoone, and
Valentano.

The gendarmes have been disarmed, but left at
liberty, and the whole district guarantees the main-
tenance of order in ' the name of King Viotor Em-

mannel.

ITALY AND ROME.
FLORENCE, SEFT.II (EVENING}.)

Signor Visconti-Venosta, the Italian Minister of
Foreign Aaffairs, has addressed a circular to the re-
presentatives of Italy abroad, dated the 7th instant,
These documents and the instructions given by the
President of the Council to the Duke de San Mar-
tiny, establish the necessity of the Italian troops
occupying those points of the Roman territory which
may require their presence in order to ensure the in-
violability of the Italian soil and the security of the
Holy See. The troops will leave these populations
at liberty to carry on their own public administra-
tion, and wail take no part in acts that may pre-
judge any political or ecclesiastical questionwhatever.
The Italian Government, moreover, declares itself
ready to some to an understanding with the Foreign
Powers upon the arrangements for the sovereign
independence of the Roman Pontiff, and expresses a
hope that His Holiness will accept the conservative
and tutelary action of Italy for his own sake and for
that of the Roman people."

tory,

RE SU.N, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1876,

CHINA.
(By British-Indian Cable).
HONG KONG, ARGUST 23.
The condition of Tien-tsin has become more unsatisfac.

The Chinese are becoming bolder, and are massing large
numbers of troops there.

BRAZIL.
RIO DE JANEIRO, AUGUST 22.

The Count and Countess d'Eu have embarked for
Europe on board the mail steamer Douro, which leaves
to-day.
A special committee of the Chamber of Deputies have
presented an Emancipation Bill containing numerous
stipulations encouraging manumission.

The revolutions in Entre Rios and Monte Video con-
tinue, but no fighting has occurred.
The Argentine Government has sent horses to the
troops.

THE -CAPTAIN.---HOW LOST.

NAMES OF THE SAVED.

Admiralty, 12th September, 1870.

The following persons who escaped from H.M.S.
Captain, and landed at Corcubion, north of Cape
Finisterre, on the evening of the 7th instant, arrived
this day at Portsmouth in H.M.S. Volage :
Mr. James May, gunner.
James Ellis, gunner's mate.
Lewis Werry, captain of foretop.
James Harvey, second captain of foretop.
George Borde, coxswain of the pinnace.
'Charles Tregenan, leading seaman. '
John Heard, A.B.
Albert Herd, A.B.
William Lawrence, A.B.
David Dryburgh, A.B.
John Walker, A.B.
James Freeman, A.B.
Henry Grange, ordinary.

Robert Tomlinson, ordinary.
Thomas Vernan, ordinary.
Francis Merryman, boy, Ist class.
James Saunders, boy, Ist class.
John (dribble; boy, Ist olass.
Mr. Herbert L. Mayne, midshipman, who was
supposed to have perished on board the Captain,
was left invalided at Lisbon Hospital.
It appears from the deposition of the survivors
that the Captain turned bottom-up up, in a heavy
squall, and went down in three minutes.

MONEY MARKET.

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CITY Two o'cLocx.

Business in the Stock Exchange continues very dull.
Consols are now at 93 to 92} for money, and 92 to 92}
for account. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 904
to 92 Bank Stock, 235 to 237 ; Exchequer Bills, ls.
to 6s. prem. ; Italian, 49a to 4911 ; Lombardo-Vene-
tian, 15i to 15i ; Spanish of 1867, 262 to 27; ditto of 1869,
251 to 26} ; Turkish Five per Cents., 43} to 432 ; Egyp-
tian, 74i to 76 ; Peruvian, 86 to 86i ; Mexican, 14 to 15 ;
and Brazilian, 89 to 91.

Advices from Auckland, dated August 7, received via,
San Francisco, state that " The proposed loan of ten
millions sterling had been reduced to four millions, in-
cluding one million guaranteed by the Imperial Govern-
ment. The money is to be expended for the reproduction
of public works, for the purchase of lands for immigra-
tion, and for internal defence. The bonds to be sold do
not yield over six per cent. to buyers."
It is stated that the company for the submersion of a
new cable between this country and the United States
will be brought forward directly after the conclusion of
the war between France and Germany, as well as many
other new undertakings, which for the time remain in
abeyance.

At a meeting of creditors of Messrs. John Seeger and
Co., of Constantinople, held at Bradford, the balance-
sheet showed liabilities £175,635, and assets £58,894.
The liquidators of the Western Bank of Scotland,
which stopped 13 years ago and caused wide-spread ruin,
have issued a report, proposing that a sum of £8,448
should be paid to any one who may be disposed to assume
the nominal outstanding liabilities of £24,611, so as to
free the bank, in which case estimated assets will be
available for a return of X 53,061 to the contributories.
At the meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Snead,
Snead, and Co., bankers, of Chepstow, a composition of
10s. in thn pound, afterwards advanced to 11s., was
offered by Messrs. Morgan and Brown, of Chepstow.
The creditors resolved not accept less than 12s. in the
pound.

MARKETS.-THIS DAY.
MARK-LANE.

The grain trade at Mark-lane to-day was characterised
by much quietness. From Essex and Kent the receipts
of wheat have been moderate. A few country buyers have
been in the market, but the general attendance has be en
thin, and there has been a decided disinclination to ope-
rate freely. For all qualities the demand has been quiet
at about late rates. Flour has sold slowly, and prices
have been without change.