The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-19 00:00:00

BANKING COMPANIES.

Pd - Pd.
1 Agra Bank (L) A .... 8 9 20 Imperial ILI
25 Affiance (LI
134 111, 11
10 Anglo-Austrlan
131, 15 231
20 Angio-Igyptlan
21, k, 1, 4 (L) 21 211 20 London and County 491 501
91, 1
50 British N American 53 55 15 London Joiut-Stock 33 34
20 Ch of India, AustrUa 14 14t 20 Lou and Westmnster 63 64
25 Char Mere of India 22 23 63k, 3, 4
23
10 City... 10 11 10 Metropolitan Bl 9
. 2O Midis- V"

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10i 20 New Souti
hT Wales ..13/4 840
25 Colonial
4 Consolidated (7.
20 Eng. Soot. and Aus Cl 5 17 25 Union of Australia.. 41i 423/4
16 15 Union of London .. :8 39

TELEGRAPH COMP,iNIES.
t'd Pd
100 Anglo-Anaqicau L) 83 85 6 Great N. China, anti
83i, 4i ad Japan Extenaion., 2i 2 die

10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) 125 130 5 Indo-European (L).. 12 14
1263 10 Marseilles, Algiers,
100 Atlantic — and Malta (L) ... 53 63
100 Do 8p c — 10 Mediterrn Ex (L). .. 43 5
13 British Australn(L) 43 4 die 43
10 British Ind Eaten (L). 6 63 23 Pnma and S. Pcfc(L) 421 dis
10 Britisk Indian Sub- dis
marine. (L)
73, 5-16 20 Soc Trans France (L) 132 131
2OhI na Submarine (L) 5343 d is 131
10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 100 Submarine 235 240
and Malta (LI
103, I 10 INT India &Pauama(L) 41 51
10 Great Northern .... 113 111
11, 3

SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1870.

THE WAIL

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
THE PARIS JOITBSALS.

The Government of Defence did not offer very ample
explanations to the Parisians respecting the failure of the
armistice negotiations. The Temps censures this reticence.
It mentions the unmasking by the Prussians of 150
Krupp guns at Fleury and Alontretout, protected by walls
and iron plates, and urges a vigorous offensive move-
ment as the only means of saving Paris. An ex-
tract from the Official Journal shews that the Govern-
ment had no knowledge of the loan resolved on by
their colleagues at Tours. The Temps quotes a
long article by Edgar Quinet, the historian, in the Siiicte,
combating the German theory that Strasburg is a sally-
port of France. It appears that two editors of the VeriM,
Delescluse and Cournet, have been ordered to be arrested.
Blanqui's organ, the Patric ea Danger, begins a caustic
and ironical article, entitled " The End of a Nation " in
these terms :—" The Republic is dead ; the Government
of the National Defence,which yesterday was still the head
of the counter-revolution, is to-day nothing more than its
arm. With Paris it is all over. It is sighing on account of
its lost customs, its cut-off provisions, the peace withheld
from it. It is more than satiated with the role of a Stras-
burg, and it does not care to be obliged to feast on the rats
of its sewers. Our Lent has already lasted 40 days : let us
now begin the carnival." The election of mayors has
given this paper little satisfaction, its candidates
having had but very partial success. All the news-
papers blame the want of interest which was
shewn in these elections. The " Reds " censure
the Government, on the one hand, for having commenoed
the negotiations, and on the other for not having
succeeded in them ; though it is believed they rejected the
Prussian terms out of fear of their censors. The Figaro
of the Bth thus satirises the Parisians :—" Public Opinion,
30th of October.—' If the Government has a particle of
sense, it will send all rioters to prison at Vincennes.' 31st
of October.—' No armistice, no armistice !' sth of
November.—' What ! are they in prison ? That is foolish,
that is absurd.' Gth of November.—' What ! cannot we
reckon any more on an armistice ? Who can govern with
such a rabble ?' "

army. Another item of intelligence leads to the same
conclusion. It was announced this morning that the
Duke's army had made a move towards Anger-
ville. This backward step may be taken to
signify that the Germans at Toury have changed their
front, and are now falling to the west to meet the ad-
vancing army of the Loire. They have discovered that
D'Aurelles is attempting to outflank them by their right.
The Pall Mall Gazette takes the same view. "We have
hardly a doubt that during the silence of the last few day
the Army of the Loire has moved westward, and gained
the Chartres road to Paris, possibly solely to endeavour
to turn the Germans possibly to assist or ha assisted
by a movement along it from Le Mans by General
FiZ.Teck."

The liidependance Beige states that M. Haussmaim,
whose arrest at Nice had been reported, has been released,
and has at once gone to Italy.
At Bitche the guns on both sides are silent, there being
apparently a disposition to avoid useless bloodshed. Even
as regards the victualling of the place the 2,000 Bavarian
besiegers seem to shut one eye.
Great changes are taking place in the population of
Strasburg. Several wealthy families of French proclivi-
ties are leaving the city, as they will not submit to live
under German rule.

M. Raimond, a captain of Marseillais Francs-tireurs,
who lately surprised 600 Prussians near Auxonne, in the
Cote d'Or, and killed 100 of them, has been made a major
by Garibaldi.
The Pomeranians, Badeners, and Bavarians enjoy the
reputation amongst the French population of being by
far the worst conducted of the German troops. The in-
habitants of the occupied districts welcome the presence
of any other Germans as an absolute relief.
M. Tarb4, editor of the Ganlois, who has contrived to
escape from Paris and has got through the Prussian lines,
has arrived in Brussels, where he proposes to bring out
his journal.
The French went to work vigorously when they burnt
St. Cloud. Forty-five shells were thrown into the
palace in an hour, and two hundred in the immediate
vicinity.
A Paris paper states that M. Thiers recently spoke
as follows, with regard to the army of the Loire :—" I
have passed through the Army of the Loire; there are
80,000 men well armed, well equipped, well instructed;
I have also gone through the Prussian lines among the
best Prussian troops; soldier for soldier I prefer ours."
The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says :—" As I
hear, General von der Tann left 800 wounded and sick
behine at Orleans, but before the departure of the last
Bavarian detachment the city was made responsible for
the safety and care of these poor fellows, under threats
of terrible retribution should any harm befall them.
The authorities accepted the conditions with cheerful
alacrity. Doubtless in a few days' time our troops will
again occupy the place."
The France says :—" The success obtained by our arms
near Orleans has brought into the field afresh the retailers
of strange stories. Besides the narratives which convert
the battle of Baccon almost into a Prussian Sedan, a story
was told of an advantage gained in front of Mans and of a
sortie of the Parisian army, which had carried forward its
outposts to Juvisy. In the name of our national dignity,
let us not again commence this child's play, which has
procured us, and justly, the sarcasm and contempt of
Europe."
The able diarist of the Standard holds it probable that
by this time General Bourbaki is ready to take the field
at the head of a really efficient force. " General Man-
teuffel can only have some 50,000 men under his command
altogether, and many of these are detached. Bourbaki
had three weeks ago 75,000 men. He must, therefore,
be in a position to meet Manteuffel at least on equal terms,
and as the latter is decidedly advancing, we may soon
hear of a decisive battle between Amiens and Beauvais."

The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs says that the
Prussian Government has not Dent a note respecting the
hostile attitude of cartain Belgian newspapers, but had
made some communications, through its representative,
which were not of a threatening character. The Foreign
Minister had maintained the rights of the press, and de•
clined to interfere in the matter. At the same time he
thought the journals should maintain a cautious reserve
in accordance with the principles of strict neutrality.
At Cologne a few days ago, a Turco, who disobeyed and
attacked a sentry, expiated his offence with his life, and
on the night of the 9th a soldier in the Guards, only just
arrived from Metz, attempted flight from a barrack at
Fort Elizabeth. He tried to overpower the nearest watch,
but did not succeed. On his running off the deadly bullet
of a second sentry reached him. The prisoners employed
by the citizens give in general little cause of complaint,
but arrests on account of drunkenness and roaming about
are tolerably numerous.
The correspondent of the Standard gives an unfavourable
account of the plundering done by the German troops in
the neighbourhood of Mulhouse. They "requisition"
every conceivable article, not merely food, clothing or
cash, but things which must inevitably be sent into
Germany before they can be used. The other day the
mayor of an Alsatian town was in Mulhouse purchasing
enormous supplies of goods of all kinds, in conformity to
a requisition for the German troops. Amongst them, for
instance, were 150,000 bootnails.

General Beyer, in his report of the capture of Dijon,
states that the town was evacuated by the French on the
28th, but that on the 20th a fanatical mob forced the
authorities to decide on its defence, to arm the National
Guards, and to summon troops. The engagement of the
30th accordingly followed. The entrenchments which
were commenced shewed that it had been intended to
defend the place. The workmen's tools lay scattered
about. The 3rd Baden brigade marched twenty-five
miles on the day of the battle, and a detachment of them,
nothwithstanding their fatigues, advanced during the
night and destroyed the railways to Lyons and Auxonne.
The bears in the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, have been
found too costly curiosities at the present time, consuming
as they do or did an amount of fresh meat equal to the
rations of many persons, and it has been determined to
slay these animals and use their flesh as food. Arrange-
ments have been made to collect the blood from the
slaughter-houses, which formerly ran into the sewers, and
it is now used in the preparation of a kind of black pud-
ding, which is in great esteem in Paris. In a single day
no less than 8000 kilog,rammes in weight of these puddings
have been sold, and constitute a welcome addition to the
meagre ration of fresh meat. Beef and mutton suet is
melted up into an excellent substitute for butter.

The Liberte states that the negotiations between Thiers
and Bismarck, which opened in due form on the Ist
November, were seriously interrupted on the 2nd by the
news of the emeute of the 31st inside Paris. Thiers pro-
posed to send his secretary, M. de Remusat, to Paris
immediately, to learn the exact truth, for at Versailles
there was a feeling of stupefaction. M. de Remusat
started, and returned on the 4th, bringing art exact
account of affairs and the result of the voting on the eve-
ning before. Bismarck, however, had gained the time he
wanted, and took refuge under the pretext that little
confidence could be placed Ina Government thus attacked.
Such men as Flotu-ens, Blauqui, and Pyat are, says the
Liberte, in commenting on the story, not only the enemies
of the Republic, but the friends of Bismarck.

A VISIT TO SEDAN.—The Rev. S. Eardley, who
has paid a visit to Sedan, reports that he conversed there
with all grades of people, and found that there the
Emperor had been by no means unpopular. Two days
before his surrender he had ridden four times down the
Rue Napol4on, and was enthusiastically greeted with
cries of " Vive l'Empereur." " Next to the Chateau
Bellevue I suppose the most interesting spot—to posterity
—in connection with this war will be the place where the
Emperor courted death. A shell was thrown amongst a
number of men who all bowed their heads to escape its
effects, except he who was not to die, and who remained
the one unmoved figure in the group. I was glad to hear,
from an eye-witness, of the tender care bestowed upon the
sick and wounded, but the sufferings they endured no
tongue can tell. On the morning after the battle the
agony of human beings found vent in sounds so wild and
inhuman that a doctor told Mr. Bordley 9A the distance
of half-a-mile he could have imagined himself in Smith-
field Market."

GERMAN TERRORIS3I.—A correspondent of the
Standard, writing from Bule, describes the terror inspired
by the reckless and brutal conduct of the German soldiers,
and asks :—Might it nob be worth the while even of the
Germans themselves to pause for a moment, and ask
themselves whether this sort of thing does not in truth
defeat its own object ? Terror is inspired no
doubt, but with it is inspired also something
more, and even terror when it reaches the
point of desperation becomes formidable. I will say
nothing of the future of Alsace. Germany thinks no doubt
on retaining her conquest, but it is obvious that she means
to do so permanently by force, and has no delusive notion
as to the
.possibility of winning the affections of Alsace
and Lorraine, or even inducing them to submit patiently
to her yoke. Be it so. Alsace and Lorraine may
prove more easily kept under than Poland or Italy, or
better worth the blood and treasure they will cost. But
how about the present ? Is it really the interest of the
conqueror to make the districts lie occupies so
utterly uninhabitable that its sons are compelled
to risk the dangers of flight, and throw them-
selves into the armies gathering everywhere
against him? A moderate amount of terrorism I can
understand—an amount even far in excess of anything
that the present century has learned to recognise as among
the legitimate or even the excusable usages of war. But
is it quite impossible to go too far I doubt it.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

WAR PREPARATIONS.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Examiner
writes :—" I may now state that active preparations
for war are going on, and have been going on for
weeks past, in our arsenals. Malta and Gibraltar
have been largely supplied with stores for their
own use and to supplement the expeditions which
will in all probability have to pass them. A
portion of the Channel Fleet will shortly leave to reinforce
the Mediterranean squadrons ; ships on foreign stations
have been recalled; but still we hope for peace."
It is telegraphed from London to the Birmingham
Post that the British Government has decided, in the
event of Russia persisting in her demands, to call Parlia-
ment together with the least possible delay. The
numerous officials of Westminster, whose services for that
purpose will be required, have already received orders
to hold themselves in readiness. At the earliest, however,
the Houses cannot assemble before the first week in
December.

Extraordinary activity is reported at the Foreign
Office. Some of the responsible heads of the department
have been for several consecutive days detained at the
office until -very advanced hours in the night.