The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-19 00:00:00

The trains on the Northern Railway stop at Breteuil,
sixty miles from Paris.
The injury received by Duke William of Mecklenburg
from the explosion of a magazine in the citadel of Laon,
is not serious, but only a contusion of the foot, which does
not prevent his following the troops in a carriage.
Bennigsen and Lasker, Liberal leaders in the Prussian
Parliament, are at Munich, with a view to confer with
Ministers there on the expediency of Bavaria joining the
North German Confederacy. The Prussian Minister, De
Ebruck, is expected from Rheims on a similar mission.

The Paris correspondent of the Telegraph says that Eng-
land has sent a second French note to the German head
quarters. It contains four articles, and demands peace
on the basis of the integrity of French soil. The King
of Prussia, in reply, hesitates to deal with the Govern-
thent of National Defence.

The number of • French prisoners in Germany is
140,000 privates, 62 Generals, 4,800 officers. Among
them is Colonel Palikao, son of the late Minister, who is
at Wesel. His mother is at Cologne.
The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian,
takes a somewhat remarkable view of the situation :

There is a growing belief that the affair will end in a
grand military spectacle. Count Bismarck is reported to
have said a few days ago that it would be " easier to
grant moderate terms to France prostrate and out of
reach of help than while her head was still free and her right
arm unpinioned." There is good common sense in this.
The astute Chancellor of King William discerns clearly
that the prestige of Prussia cannot be raised by the slow
process of emaciation and extermination. He has already,
it is said, dropped the mention of Lorraine as a province
to be ceded ; and if the King of Prussia could return to
Berlin having extorted a war indemnity, ten ships of war,
and the demolition of the frontier fortresses as the con-
ditions of peace signed at Versailles, Alsace would not
remain a sine qua non.

THE AMERICAN CONSUL AT MARSEILLES.
The Semaphore of Marseilles contains a full account of
the popular demonstration made in that city before the
American Consulate. The crowd was very great, and the
enthusiasm was general. M. Esquiros, the Ministerial
representative, and M. Lapadid, prefect of the town,
headed the procession, which was preceded by French and'
American flags. M. Esquiros delivered an address to the .
Consul, thanking him in the name of the people of Mar-
seilles for the sympathy shewn by the American Govern-
ment for the French Republic. In the last century it
was the independence of America, which proved the day-
break of the French Revolution. France, now temporarily
vanquished, did not invoke the protection of any foreign
nation. She knew how to save herself, but she wished to
thank General Grant for his noble words. Hitherto
France and the United States were only connected by
telegraphic wires and commercial relations. Political
institutions raised a barrier between them, but to-dayithe
barrier was broken down, and the tie of a common liberty
r united them. To this address Colonel Price, the Ameri-
can Consul, replied in the following terms : ,
" Citizens of Marseilles, I thank you three times over.
I express myself badly in French ; but all languages are
alike in affirming the rights of the people. Republican
France has become the worthy sister of the American
Republic. The United States have recognised the French
Republic ; we welcome her into the great family of na-
tions. Frenchmen, you were our first friends. To-day,
we Americans wished to be the first to give you our cor-
dial congratulations, and to wish you a happy result in
your work of regeneration. Our sympathies have con-
quered space, and we have given you the hand with the
speed of lightning. We are Republicans and friends.
Henceforth our flags shall float together. At the birth of
our nation we were poor and weak, France is rich and
powerful. We were three millions, you are forty millions.
Our country was a vast blank ; your soil and yourheavens
are so fertile and so charming that all the world calls you
La belle France. You have free soil and free labour :
guard well those conquests ; be strong against personal
slavery, and respect individual responsibility; confer your
offices on eminent citizens, and you will remain free. I
have committed a great crime in murdering your fine
language, but it will survive my ill-treatment ; whereas
the Napoleonic dynasty, which you have exterminated,
will never revive. Thanks, in the name of the Republic,
and I wish triumph and perpetuity to the French
Republic."

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
The Athenceum says :—lt was good news for those who
Love Art that the treasures of the Louvre have been re-
moved from Paris to a place of safety, the whereabouts
of which has been kept secret. There can be no impro-
priety in wishing that the English Government, or, say,
the ever-energetic Mr. Henry Cole, had borrowed for the
time as many of the most precious pictures in question as
could be accommodated at South Kensington.—Herr C.
Mayer, the engraver, has died at Vienna.—Mdlle.
Nilsson, accompanied by Herr Maurice Strakosch (who,
with his brother, Max Strakosch, are th a speculators in
the Transatlantic tour of the Swedish songstress), and by
Mr. Jarrett, her agent (late acting manager of the Drury-
lane Italian Opera), have by this time reached New York.
—The farewell tour in the chief towns of the United
Kingdom are of Signor Mario has commenced. He is
accompanied by Signor Sivori, the violinist,—and the
Chevalier de Kontski, the pianist,—and Fraulein Lieb-
hart and Mdlle Enriques, vocalists.—Sir Michael Costa's
new German national hymn 4' All Honour to the King,"
composed expressly for the King of Prussia and first per-
formed in Berlin in presence of the Royal Family in 1868,
has been published simultaneously in Berlin, Leipzig, and
London.—A new comedy is announced from the pen of
Signor Achille Montignani, entitled "La Contessa di
Camporeale," written expressly for Signora Pezzana,
whose talented and powerful impersonation of
Fernande, in M. Sardou's play, was lately a
great success at the Rossini Theatre in Venice.—
Considerable curiosity has been expressed regarding Pro-
fessor Jowett's "Plato." We are able to give the fol-
lowing particulars. The book, which will be in four thick
octavo volumes, will contain a translation of all the works
of Plato • and to each dialogue will be prefixed an intro-
duction of considerable length. The work has occupied
the new Master of Balliol for many years, and has been
submitted by him for revision to several scholars of emi-
nence : it may be expected before the end of 1870.—Mr.
S. C. Hall is engaged on " A Book olilllemories of Great
Men and Women of the Age," with whom he has been
personally acquainted.—A translation of Mr. Disraeli's
"Lothair," in parts, is passing through the press in Hol-
land. The translator is Mr. A. H. Verster. Among
translations from the English which have recentlyap-
peared in that country, are—Thackeray's " Pendenms ;"
Garibaldi's "Rule of the Monk," from the English edi-
tion ; "Catherine St. Quentin," translated by Mr. Van
Westrheene ; Miss E. S. Phelps's "Light through the
Gloom ;" Mr. Ward Beecher 's " Norwood ;" Mr. J.
Gardner's " Religions of the World," adaptedto Holland;
" Faith Gartney's Girlhood," by Mr. C. E. Busken Ilnet;
a new translation of " Robinson Crusoe ;" Captain
Marryat's " Midshipman Easy ;" and Mr. Whyte
" M. or N."

One of the King of Prussia's couriers is missing. Three
weeks ago he left Berlin for head-quarters, arrived safely,
and was sent back to the capital escorted by two soldiers.
He has not since been heard of. Probably the French
free-shooters could give some account of him.
A gentleman who was rummaging the old book stalls
on the Quai Voltaire the other day came across M.
Thiers' estimate for the fortifications. The ex-President
of the Council when proposing them to Parliament set
down the expense at 113,000,000 francs. What they
really cost was 240,000,000 francs ; but no one quarrels
with the price now, and never was the member for the
Seine so popular as to-day while invoking the interference
of the great Powers, lest his bastions should be attacked
by Krupp.
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formed their toilettes corani popido, and put on thei
etrousers over their old ones.
M. Bombonnel, a noted panther hunter, and now leader
of a small body of freesbooters, fifteen in number, reports
that within a few days he and his men killed 20 Prussians,
-of whom three were officers, took 26 prisoners, and cap
tured some few horses and vehicles. They lost one man.
One of the Prussian artillerymen before Strasburg, has
been rewarded for a brave action. A shell dropped in
the midst of a battery. The gunner seized it, and threw
it as far as he could into the open field, where it exploded.
A similar act was done during the Crimean War at least
once by Englishmen.
Madame Canrobert, who recently arrived at Windsor
frcm isfa h quitted Grove House, the residence of her
mother, Mrs. ald, and left England, it is under-
stood, for the Continent, in search of her husband. The
children remain with Mrs. Macdonald at Windsor.
Madame Canrobert is naturally extremely anxious as to
the position of the marshal.

A French correspondent of the Times expresses his
belief that if, on the fall of the Empire, instead of M.
Jules Favre's circular, there had been a direct proposal of
peace on the part of the new Republic, a firm repudiation
of the Imperial policy of aggression both in the past and
in the future, and a proposal to leave to the arbitration of
neutrals the compensation due to Germany for the wrongs
inflicted by Imperial France, we should have been in a
better position now, King William's refusal—had he
refused—would have done more to enlist neutral Europe
on our side than any arguments M. Thiers can use.
The Cross Gazelle has this anecdote to relate :—A
volunteer in one of the infantry regiments found in the
breast pocket of a Frenchman killed at Gravelotte a letter
from a Frenchwoman, who, from the terms of the letter,
was evidently his cousin, in which the writer, in a post-
cript, always the essence of a woman's letter, says, "Make
haste to return, and bring with you the head of one of
these infttmes Prussiens 1' I should rejoice in such a
wedding gift 1"