The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-24 00:00:00

NEW PROPOSALS FOR AN ARMISTICE.

Dispatches from abroad report a fresh and more decided
endeavour on the part of her Majesty's Government to
bring about the conclusion of peace between Germany
and France. We have good reason to believe that in the
main the information is unworthy. Lord Gran-
ville has addressed himself simultaneously and
directly to both the Cabinets of the belligerents
and to those of the chief neutral Powers, urging that an
united effort should now be made to secure an agreement
on the terms of an armistice, that might allow of due
consiaeration of the bases on which peace might finally
be settled. It is obvious that any proposal of the kind,
made at such a critical state of the war as at present—
and made with all the weight which the immediate
appeal of the English Cabinet can lend—affords a
better prospect for the termination of the war than
either the negotiation at Ferrieres or any unofficial exer-
tions of General Burnside in the same direction. While,
therefore, confirming in their substance the welcome
tidings first published at Vienna, we may add, not with-
out good ground, that, although the different circum-
stances and dislocated condition of the two portions of
the Provisional Government may present some ob-
stacles—and although the temper of the Parisian papula-
tion is also an element of some weight in the calculation
of chances—there is reason to hope that the present nego-
tiations will at least lead to a full and fair consideration
of the present claims and prospects of both
States. In connection with these fresh negotiations,
we may merely notice a rumour which reaches
us, though not
,from an official, yet from a well-
acredited quarter at Berlin, that at envoy has been sent
to England from the German head-quarters at Versailles,
to make or discuss certain proposals having for their
object the return of the ex-Empress Eugenie to France.
The gracious and unfortunate lady who has
taken up her sojourn among us may be still
regarded as the de jure ruler in France, until
by their voice constitutionally expressed, the people
shall have confirmed the decision of a Parisian minority,
expressed in the sudden heat of irritation and dis-
appointment, that the Napoleon dynasty was dechue.
It is known that General Boyer, the Aide-de-Camp
of Marshal Bazaine, reached this country on Friday,
and that next day he had an interview with
the ex-Empress, the purpose of which was in reasonable
probability connected with the tenor of the mission en-
trusted to his hands by Marshal Bazaine before his
departure from Metz for the Royal Head-quarters at
Versailles. We have the beat authority for believing
that General Boyer, after his interview with the
ex-Empress, proceeded to town; that her Majesty
also came to London, and to yesterday evening had
not returned to Chislehurst. We can have no warrant for
associating this visit with any arrangement of which
General Boyer had been authorised at Metz, or encou-
raged at Versailles, to speak. We simply note the facts,
and leave their coincidences and suggestions to those who
care to draw them. Meantime, there is every reason to
expect the capitulation of Metz from hour to hour ; and
by that event the many surmises that late incidents have
provoked may be set at rest.—Telegraph..

11.M.5. CERBERUS.—It is stated that there has
been a serious disturbance on board H.M.S. Cerberus,
now lying at Chatham, bound for Melbourne, and the
case is before the Rochester magistrates.
EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING.—At the West,
minister Police-court, Captain Edward John Armytage
was charged with bigamy.—Mr. B. Hutchinson, solicitor
or the prisoner, asked that his client might
be remanded, after a short note had been
taken of the case, as he had not had time to
look into matters connected with the first marriage.—
Mr. Needham, clerk to St. Margaret,s parish, Westminster,
produced the extract of a register of marriage, sheaving
that Edward John Dalrymple was there married to Jane
F. Tagsman in 1861. —Mr. Arnold: Do you recognise the
prisoner as the person who was then married ?—Witness:
No, I cannot, although I was present.—John Micklejohn,
detective sergeant, said : I apprehended the prisoner
on Friday night in the Belgrave-road. I told him I
took him into custody for intermarrying with Caroline
Sheldrick, his former wife being then and now alive. He
said, "It is quite right, I will go with you." His first
wife, who lives in Denbigh-street, gave me her marriage
certificate, which corresponded with the registrar.—Mr•
Arnold : The prisoner ought not to have been taken without
better evidence of the offence, and I shall not detain him.
He is discharged. _

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