The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-27 00:00:00

COUNT BISMARCK'S CIRCULAR NOTES.

The circular notes addressed by Count Bismarck to the
diplomatic agents of the North German Confederation
demonstrate, observes the Standard, in the clearest and
sharpest manner, that impossibility of any termina-
tion to the war except upon the basis of a treaty
signed respectively after the capture of Paris or
upon the expulsion of the Prussians from France
upon which we have so strenuously insisted. M, Jules
Favre could not been apprised of the language em-
ployed by the Cinweellor of the North German Confede-
ration in these manifestoes intended for home consump-
tion, although labelled for export, or he would never have
wasted a couple of days at Ferrieres. Count Bismarck's
circulars are not merely an indictment against the
French nation, as responsible for the war, they are a
denunciation of the French nation as incapable of ob-
serving the faith of treaties, ur to express the count's
meaning of the 2na/adroit language of his organs,
of the French people
.as wild beasts, who must be
caged and beaten to keep them in order. Had M.
Favre read the l n agraphs in which Count Bismarck
describes and demunc:s the French nation, he certainly
would never have sued for peace from the author of
these injurious and insulting expressions, and we must
express our strong ol•inion that, assured as Count
Bismarck may feel of victory, he has made, in the
composition and publication of these despatches—
great as is the enthusiasm they will provoke throughout
Germany—a very mischievous blunder. The utter want
of proportion between the mcaaures he insists upon, and
the arguments by which he justifies them is, perhaps,
the least objection to his circulars. Yet that is
not an unimportant one. To insist that no peace
can satisfy France ; to assert that the first care of tho
French people, after any termination of the war un-
favourable to them, will be to prepare to revenge the
check Germany has given to their vanity, and lust of
conquest, is, practically, to declare that no peace can be
made which does not break np altogether the power of
France.

COMMUNICATION WITH PARis.—Major Byng Hall
and Captain Perceval Robbins, Queen's Messengers,
passed through Rouen, with important despatches for
Lord Lyons at Tours, and, we are able to state, found
this route, via Calais and Amiens, quite open, and the
best and safest to the south-west of France.

A. Brussels correspondent writes :—Duprez, the
celebrated ex-tenor of the Grand Opera, is now at.
Brussels preparing the representation of his opera of
" Jeanne d'Arc." A cantata, "La derniere Nuit de
Faust;" by M. Emile Mathieu, which was performed for
the first time on Sunday, has been very well received.
It is a composition of sustained effect. A new oratorio,
music by Benoit and words by Kreuzhoff, entitled
" Hymne h la Paix," will be performed in about a fort-
night at the Theatre de la Monnaie ; 200 singers and 400
musicians are to take part in IL Mdlle. Block will be the
contralto, Mdlle. Sasa the soprano, and Signor Asiesi the
baritone.

MITRAILLEUSES.—SOIII6 short time since Lien,
tenant-Colonel Palmer, of Nazing, offered her Majes9trs:
Secretary of State for War to raise a body of Volunteen.
to work a battery, or a half battery, of Aarailleusett,
This offer was respectfully declined; 1314 it, is understood
that the right hon. gentleman contemplates following the-
example of his Majesty the Emperor 'of Russia, and to.
cause a lightly-constructed mitrailleuse to be attached
every company of infantry in her Majesty's service,
one to each of the gaols throughout the country for its.,
defence in the time of need.—Tintes.