The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-30 00:00:00

WAR NEWS FROM TOURS.

The latest official despatches front Tours (Nov.
29) state that several inaccuracies are contained in
the Prussian despatch dat.3d Versailles, Nov. 27.
It is incorrect that the French evacuated Ladon
and Maizieres, in the Forest of Orleans, the Fiench

line on the 24th being 45 kilometres
.behind those
points. The French captured Ladon and Maizieres
on the 26th. It is untrue that a French General
was taken prisoner. _ _

The supposition that the Prussian detachment
which was reported in this department had strayed
from the main body and lost it way is confirmed.
Several Prusians were captured at Neauvy yes-

terday.
The Prussian forces towards Vendome are being
recalled to Chateaudun. The Prussian right is
concentrating in that direction to support Prince
Frederick Charles if he shJuld be attacked by the
French.

General Bourbaki has been appointed to the com•
wand of the 19th Army Corps.

The retreat of the portion of the army engaged
near Amiens has been effected in good order, and
without being harassed by the enemy.

THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD AND 'TIE
KING OF PRUSSIA.
BRUSSELS, November 29.
The Count cle Chambord has written a letter to
the King of Prussia, but has received no answer.
The Legitimist agent was not received at Ver-
sailles.

There are rumours here to-day of a battle having
taken place before Paris.
The first number of a new paper, called the
Drapeau, edited by Gamier de Cassagnac, has been
published here to-day.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

TOURS, November 30.

The Government here have received acommunica-
tion from Lord Lyons relative to the proposed Con-
ference on the Treaty of 1856. it asks- if France
would send a Plenipotentiary.
Lord Lyons is now awaiting the reply of the
French Government.

The lndependance Beige of the 30th, publishes a
telegram from Berlin, stating that England accepts
the Conference on the condition that Russia should
give satisfactory explanations of the first circular of
Prince Gor t schokoff. _ _

BERLIN, November 20.

Addresses thanking the Czar for his policy in
respect of the East have been voted at Smolensk,
Poltava, and Ekaterinoslaw.
A similar address to Prince Gortschakoff from
the University of Kieff elicited the following
reply :
"I am deeply sensible of the hoaour conferred
upon me by your congratulations. By zealously and
accurately carrying out the commands of the Emperor
we shall always effectually promote the true interests
of our beloved country. GOILTSCHAKOFF."
OPEN, November 29.
Prussia's proposal for a Conference ad hoc has
been notified here. .

Austria is not averse in principle, but makes its
adhesion dependent upon the decision of several
preliminary points, and among them that its accept-
ance is not to be taken as an adherence to Russia's

views.

VIENNA, November 29, (10.45 a.m.)

The Prussian Conference project is viewed here
with distrust. The Neue Freie Presse says that a
Conference is impossible while Russia denies Englea
and Austria the right of maintaining the validity of
Article 14 of the Treaty of Paris. •
VIENNA, November 29 (3 p.m.)

Tho proposal of Prussia has been submitted to
the Vienna Cabinet. It is accepted in principle,
but the final adoption is made dependent on certain
preliminary conditions which have yet to be con-
sidered.

ST. PETERSBURG, November 29.

Turkey has not yet consented b a Conference,
but probaaly will, as she is actuated by a desire
for peace. She does not object to the Russian
demands, or care for the neutrality of the Black Sea.
The Turkish statesmen are far less excited than the
English. It is rumoured that the Sultan has sent
an autograph letter to the Government here on the

subject.
The Exchange Gazette says it is glad that a Con-
ference has been proposed, as it shews the wisdom
of the form adopted in the Russian note. In no
other way could a Conference have been obtained.
Russ:a will gladly consent if the other Powers admit
the fait accompli. There is a strong feeling in society
here against any concessions. It is considered that
they wou,ld be injurious to peace.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. I
The War Office has decided that the armaments of the
forts in the Isle t 4 Wight should be changed from the
smooth-bore guns for rifled guns. The former guns of
8-inch and 68-pounder calibre, will be replaced forthwith
by 42-pounder and 7-inch breech-loading rifles.
A detachment of about fifty non-commissioned officers
and men from the depot companies of the Royal Engi-
neers left Chatham on Monday for Ireland. They will
join the 27th Company at Camden Fort, Cork harbour,
and the 12th Company at the Curragh.
The building of the Snake and the Scourge, iron gun-
vessels, is now actively proceeding at Chatham dockyard,
after the work had suffered some delay from the non-
arrival of material for their construction. They will not
be launched at the time originally fixed, the end of.
Decembers The vessels are for use in shallow streams,
and therefore will draw little water. Each will Carry an
18-ton gun, mounted on Captain Scott's gun-carriage.
Information has been received at the Admiralty, White-
hall, that her Majesty's ship Trafalgar arrived at Madeira
on the afternoon of the 16th inst. She was to remain
probably ten days at Funchal, and then proceed to
Teneriffe, where she would probably arrive on the Ist
December, and sail for Gibraltar about the sth. All well
on board.

Tho Panama Star announces the death of Queen
Emma of the Sandwich Islands, the lady whose visit to
this country some few years ago was turned to so much
account by the promoters of the Honolulu bishopric.
Pere Hyacinthe, the celebrator' French ecclesi-
astic, has recently been visiting the Rev. Professor
Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and made a
stayof some days at the Master'a lodgings. • • • •