The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-16 00:00:00

COMMUNICATION WITH PARIS.

By telegrams received at the Post-office on Wednesday
night, it was stated that direct communication with Paris
was stopped, and that arrangements had been made for
sending the French mails, until further orders, via Rouen
and Amiens, by which a delay of twelve hours would be
incurred. Yesterday morning, accordingly, the usual
mails from Paris and France generally, due on the pre-
vious evening, were received.

WORKMEN'S INTBRNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI-
CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors,
exclusive of season ticket holders exhibitors, and others,
on the 15th instant, was 5,439.
A SPLENDID MAP OF PARIS has just been issued by Mr.
Wyld, the Royal Geographer. It Is brilliantly coloured,
and includes all the important items in regard to the forts
and fortifications. It is fully up to time, and worthy of
the publisher's reputation.

A Greenwich waterman has picked up the body of
the Rev. Mr. Hind, curate of Christ Church, Gravesend,
who was drowned in the accident to the boat of the Chi-
chester training-ship last week. The body was found
floating a little below the Royal Arsenal.

ACCIDENT TO SIR R. ANSTRUTHER, M.P.—On
Wednesday afternoon, Sir Robert Anstruther, M.P.,
while shooting along with a party at Balcaskie, near
Anstruther, Fifeshire, had a narrow escape. He was in
the act of withdrawing a cartridge from the gun of one
of the gentlemen of the party, when the charge suddenly
exploded. He was a good deal scorched about the face
and head, and one of his fingers was much injured by the
explosion.

A MISSING REGIMENT.—When Gen.. Whimpffen
after the capitulation of Sedan and of the army,
announced to his officers the alternative in which they
were placed, to choose between imprisonment in Prussia
or not to fight against the enemy during the present war
in case they should recover their liberty, an immense
majority of those officers made their option for captivity,
with all its consequences. At that solemn and melan-
choly appeal, when officers had to bring their own men,
battalion after battalion, to give up their arms into the
hands of the victorious enemy, many brave hearts
flinched, heads which never bowed to grape-shot were
then bowed by despair and the agony of humiliation.
Some others, unable to bear the disgrace, disappeared
with the remains of their regiments, amongst them the
intrepid Colonel de Galiffet, the hero of Africa and
Mexico, who cut his way through the enemy with his
brave Chasseurs d'Afrique ; it is the same regiment
which furnished two squadrons of French cavalry at the
celebrated British charge at Balaklava. Nothing has
been heard since the battle of Sedan of that brave regi-
ment of hunters of Africa, or of their colonel. Has he
been able to rejoin Bazaine ? Has he succeeded in re-
treating to some safe spot ? It is not yet known. The
only fact'remaining certain is his disappearance with his
brave men when the word capitulation was pronounced.
Correspondent of the Standard.

DIE ALLEGED PLOT TO ROB THE BANK OF IRE-
LAND.—There is at present in circulation in the city a
statement of an extraordinary kind, which does not seem
to be without foundation, although the precise accuracy
of the rumour is not equally certain. It is stated that
amongst other things discovered in the rooms where the
large seizure of arms and ammunition were recently made,
in the South Main-street, was a document disclosing a
plan for either robbing or blowing up (or both) the Bank of
Ireland in this city. The document is said to contain a
diagram of the interior of the building with points marked
at which men were to be posted. and a regular scheme of
operations laid down. The principal, if not the sole
object, is believed to have been the abstraction of a large
stock of cash which is in the establishment, for the pur-
poses not only of its own transactions, but of that of other
banks in the city, which deposit their cash there at the
close of the day's business. It is understood to have been
intended to watch the bank until all the officers, save
one or two, had left at the afternoon hour for closing, and
then, at a given signal, for a party of sufficient strength
to enter. one, two, or three at a time, with as
much appearance of business as could be assumed.
The officers remaining in the bank might
easily be • disposed of, and the task of removing
the cash be then accomplished in a quiet manner,
so as to prevent all alarm. A vehicle in waiting
near at hand might then convey it away to its destination.
What subsequent steps were to be taken for preventing
detection of the thieves, and the place to which the booty
was to be removed, are purely matters of surmise. No
date is stated to have been attached to the plan, and it
may have been a thing contemplated in the past or pro-
jected for the future. At any rate, the discovery of the
plot is considered opportune,'and has created no little ex-
citement, chiefly amongst the employes of the bank itself.
The matter is, we believe, engaging the attention of the
authorities, and precautions have been taken to preclude
the possibility of carrying out the plot. Its execution,
while no such purpose was suspected, is thought to
have been not at all unlikely to be successful.—Cork
Examiner.