The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-22 00:00:00

'FHB SUN, LONDON, TUESPAI, NOVEMBER 22, 1870.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M.

THE WAR.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

VERSAILLES, November 21 (2.45 p.m.)
All is still quiet before Paris.
Mr. Odo Russell dined with the Crown Prince
yesterday. The King was present.
The King gives a dinner to-night to celebrate the
birthday of the Princess Royal of Prussia.
Wurtemburg signed on Saturday the same agree-
ment as to the Confederation as Baden and Hesse.
ROYAL HEADQUARTERS, VERSAILLES,
November 22.

We have no news to-day of any further fight-
ing beyond Dreux since the affair near Chit-
teauneuf.

BERLIN, November 21, (2.30 p.m.)

There is no truth in the report that the terms of a
pacific settlement between France and Germany had
been agreed upon.
All the heavy guns now before Paris have been
provided with five hundred rounds of ammunition,
and the bombardment can begin at a moment's
notice. The city has been, since the 16th instant,
completely enclosed on the south side:
An opinion prevails at the head-quarters at Ver
sailles that, despite the completed preparations, the
city will not be bombarded.

.The Provisional" Government is understood to be
about to quit Tours for a point further south.
The French troops who were attacked by the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg at Dreux formed part
of the Army of the North. The Army of the
Loire will be surrounded by five Germ tn Army
Corps, numbering 150,000 or 160,000 men.
As yet the difficulty about Bavaria's entrance into
the new German Confederation has not been over-
come. Herr Dalwigk, the Prime Minister of Hesse-
Darmstadt, has returned from Versailles.
The contents of the Lyons Museum have been
removed.

PUBLIC FEELING IN PARIS.
Towns, November 21.

The balloon Uhrich has just arrived from Paris.
She brings intelligence of the state of feeling there,
which is in flat contradiction with that put forth by
M. Edmond About. The victozy at Coulmiors has
given fresh courage to the inhabitants. Every one
is determined to prolong the war a outrance, and not
the slightest apprehension is felt as to the supply of
food.

People are making merry here at the dimensions
which the King of Prussia has given to the slight
engagement at Dreux in the telegrams which are
published in the English journals, especially in those
which describe it as a defeat of the Army of the
Loire.

Touts, November 21 (1.5 p.m.).

Much misapprehension appears to prevail iu the
English press with regard to the campaign of
General Aurelles de Paladine.

No opportunity has yet been lost by the Army of
the Loire, but the important combinations in which,
within the past few days, it has taken a leading part,
necessarily involve time.
We are on the eve of great events which will
take Europe by surprise. The army is now in muoh
better order, and possesses much greater confidence,
than ever before the war began.
Great and proper secrecy, however, is exercised
with respect to ite future movements, . in virtue
of the recent order of M. Gambetta—who is now
universally regarded as the right man in the right
place.

THE REORGANISATION OF GEBMA.N Y.
BERLIN, November 21.

It is stated here that the results of the negotia-
tions at Versailles are as follows :—Baden and
Hesse will enter the North German Confederation
unconditionally ; Wurtemburg will enter subject to
reservations which are of merely secondary im-
portance respecting taxation, the postal and tele-
graph services, &c.; Bavaria retains her military
sovereignty and an independent military organisa-
tion. The neoes sary Conventions will be laid before
the North German Parliament for ratification during
the approaching session.
Advices from the headquarters of Prince Frederick
Charles state that the French Government will have
to remove ere long from Tours, if it wishes to avoid
capture.

know of the strength of the French corps which had
re-occupied Dreux, it was only a detachment from the
army of Brittany."

The Lille journal considers the onward movement
of the armylof the Duke of Mecklenburg, not as an
isolated fact, but as the sign of a general movement,
concerted with Prince Frederick Charles, intended
to encircle the Army of the Loire by means of a
junction of the two generals on the southern bank of
that river. The execution of such a plan, it declares,
must be prevented at any price.•

A telegram from Berlin notices the work assigned
to the Prince's army and that of General Man-
teuffol respectively. The two are repre-
sented as forming, the one on the north and the other
on the south, a second girdle of investment round the
capital. The Duke of Mecklenburg is to push
on to the south-west, north of the Loire, we pre-
sume, and the 9th Army Corps is to reoccupy
Orleans. It is added that the successes near Dreux
and on the line to Clartres have placed the whole
country up to the Loire in the hands of the Ger-
mans.

The King of Bavaria has made all preparations for
a speedy visit to Versailles. Wurtomberg Ministers
have arrived hero to settle the arrangements for

union.

The Prussians have captured another balloon
from Paris, between Dreux and Chartres. The
aeronauts were made prisoners, and their papers
seized. This is the fourth balloon captured since
the Weginning of November.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
BERLIN, November 21 (10.2 p.m.)
Russia is endeavouring to prove to the great
Powers that there is no foundation for the rumour
that she has bought or intends to buy American
men-of-war for a Black Sea squadron.
Her language is very pacific.
Prussia, in reply to the inquiries of Mr. Odo
Russell, is expectedvto advocate an amicable arrange-
ment of the Black Sea question. -
The British and Russian Ministers here are of
opinion that the danger of a rupture between Great
Britain and Russia on account of the attitude of the
latter Power with regard to the treaty of 1856, is
already abating.

BERLIN, Sunday, 1.40. p.m,

Mr. Odo Russell has received the assurance from
Count Bismarck that there is no private understand-
ing between Prussia and Russia on the question of
the Black Sea.

It is asserted that Russia has declared her willing-
ness to grant very extensive military furloughs to
allay the uneasiness of the people.
VIENNA, November 21.

No fears are entertained here that the Eastern
difficulty will involve Europe in any fatal complica-
tion. All the incidents of the affair as yet are inter-
preted as pointing to a peaceful solution.
It is believed that the St. Petersburg Cabinet has
forwarded a conciliatory answer to Lord Granville's
reply to Prince Gortschakofrs circular.
It is not the case that Austria has proposed a Con-
ference on the subject, nor is it true that Italy has
refused to act in concert with the Austrian and
English Governments.
General Ignatieff ;net Halim Pacha in Constanti-
nople to day. The answer of the Porte to the
Russian note is to be sent at once. The Russian
answer to the Vienna note will be sent on the 23rd.

The Austrian journals are more peaceful in tone
,o-day.

EXTENSIVE WARLIKE PREPARATIONS OF
RUSSIA.

The St. retersburgh correspondent of the In-
dependance Beige says: The new armament of the
Russian army is entirely completed ; that the con-
tingent amounts to more than one million well-
drilled soldiers ; and that as regards morale the
army is far superior to that possessed by Russia
during the Crimean war.

ST. PETERSBURG, November 20.

According to the Borsenzcitung of to-day the
annulment of some of the stipulations of the
Treaty of Paris has taken place with the assent of
Turkey. Addresses have been presented to the
Emperor expressing the most enthusiastic readiness
to undergo every sacrifice in 'support of the inten-
tions of the Government.

According to the Levant Herald of the 19th,
orders have been given to call out the Turkish
Reserves.

[CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.]
WORK AND WAGES IN STAFFORDSHIRE.

At a meeting of ironworkers iheld at Wednesbury yes
terday, representatives presented themselves from about
thirty ironworks in South Staffordshire. The following
resolution was passed :—" That this meeting select a
district committee to be composed of men belonging to the
works represented, who shall hold meetings throughout
the whole district for the purpose of organising the men
and endeavouring to establish a branch of the National
Association, and also to induce the employers to form a
Board of Arbitrators for the district with the intention
of avoiding future strikes and lock-outs."

liamentary purposes. He urged that attention should be paid
by the Legislature to the subjectof the inequality of local
taxation, and while he could not admit that prohibitory
measures worked successfully as regarded intoxicating
drinks, he would give the inhabitants of ,a district con-
trol over the granting of new licences, and was in favour
of public houses being closed earlier than at present,
especially on Sundays.

COMING OF AGE OF THE MARQUIS OF ELY.
It is stated that great rejoicings will take place to-day
at Leneghan Castle, Hume, Ely Lodge, and at Gar-
rison, to celebrate the coming of
.age of the Marquis
of Ely. similar rejoicings are expected on his
lordship's estates in Wexford. His lordship is
unavoidably detained with his mother, the Mar-
chioness of Ely, and will not be i resent ; but it is ex-
pected he will go to Fermanagh, on December 6th, to
receive the nobility and gentry of the county.