The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-30 00:00:00

THE WA I Z..

DEFEAT OF THE ARMY OF
THE LOIRE. •
1,000 KILLED AND 1,700 PRISONERS.
VERSAILLES, November 30.

Additional reports have been received at the
Royal Head-quarters relative to the action at
'eaune le Rolando. They state that the greater
Part of the Army of the Loire was engaged ; that
It, suffered a complete defeat, and further that the
French left upwards of 1,000 dead on the field of
battle. More than 1,700 prisoners were taken, and
the number is being increased hourly.

FIGHTING BEFORE PARIS.
VERSAILLES, November 29 (4 p.m.)
After a violent cannonade last night and this
morning acrainst the German positions on the south
1:114 west sides of the city, the French made sorties
from Forts Issy and Valerien towards St. Cloud
and L'llay, which were repulsed. The German loss
at St. Cloud was trifling.
No particulars have yet been received from the
outposts.
Versailles is greatly excited.
The negotiations for the Conference are pro-
.Pessing.

Another despatch received from the Royal Head-
quarters of the Prussian Army, Versailles, states
that during the night of Monday and Tuesday, the
28th and 29th, heavy cannonading was opened by
the Paris forts, which was followed by a sortie in
f
°ree of the garrison, supported 2y gunboats, in
the direction of L'Hay and other points, which
form the position of the 6th Army Corps.
taheously with the above smaller sorties were made
111 other directions, but they were all victoriously
repulsed, and over 1,600 have been taken prisoners.
Th® German loss is reported to be 7 officers and
100 men.

gant, and egotistical, has sent in his resignation while
in presence of the enemy.
lie threatens Gambetta with a council of war, and
accuses General Loverdo of• treason.
General Kdratry is here in Tours.

, The despatch further states that the French
°eaten near Amiens had fled in the greatest disorder
and Were being pursued by the. Germans, who had
taken four French guns, in the direction of Arras.
There seems to be some doubt about the correct-
ness of the above, as the correspondent of the
illanchester Guardian, telegraphing from Tours yes-
terday, says :—" The right wing of the French
1111113' made six simultaneous attacks on the German
eft Monday. They were successful in five of
these actions."

A telegram to the same journal from Havre states
that a hostile column of infantry and cavalry has been
repulsed with considerable loss at Bizy, near Vernon

MORE BURNINGS BY THE PRUSSIANS.
Bouzaincourt, which has been occupied by the
deans since the Ist of November, has been
"acuated. The Prussians have entirely destroyed
81117 by Ere.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
BERLIN, November 29.

4, The German Official Moniteur Versailles says
that the capitulation of Paris is drawing near, and
that large stores of provisions are being established
at Versailles in anticipation of the event.
Prom private sources at Versailles it is announced
that there is-no truth in the report that the King
/vas going to the Army of the Loire.
eneral Werdersee has been sent forward to
prince Frederick Charles. It is believed that if the
French Army of the Loire can be surrounded as was
that of the Emperor Nipoleon at Sedan, before the
3tll December the war will be over.
Preparations are being made at Versailles for the'
receptions of the Kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg.
The forts of Paris continue their silence. There
18 much distress in the besieged capital.
Five hundred and sixty-eight French prisoners
attempted to escape from the fortified camp at
twerp ; some succeeded. At Liege, 85 more
glade a similar attempt. All are now confined in the
Citadel.

'3etliu is i'rile—repn coort
rrect . t tha the King would soon return to
- -

The new loan has been taken up by the bankers
here at 921, to be issued to the public at 95, and
°be repaid in five years or earlier, at the choice
°f the Government, in thalers or pounds sterlinz

THE REPULSE OF THE FRENCH BEFORE

PARIS.

HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF
PRUSSIA, VERSAILLES, November 27.
After many days' comparative silence before
'iris there was, last night, a brisk cannonade
from the forts southward of the city. A
skirmishinnish took place near Choisy-le-Roi, and the
'filing from the forts was probably intended to
e:ver the retreat of a French reconnoitring party,
hich was falling back with loss of prisoners. The
Wench were met in this affair by a detachment of the
tleutil Prussian Corps, were allowed to come close to
e Prussians, and were then greeted with a mur-
derous volley. The loss on the French side, though
r(lt exactly known, must have been severe, as they
B,eplied spiritedly to the Prussian fussillade, and
:30(1 some time exposed to its effects. The re-
„°,lllleissance is suppoded to have had an ulterior
"ulect. The French wished to find out the exact
position of the besiegers, and succeeded to their
cost.

u-uay there is perfect stillness at the front.
November 29.

A demonstration was made last night by the
F 16']01 against Bezons from Mont Valerian, and
m 1
18 Morning against MontKetout from tho same
quarter. •

A serious attack upon the Prussian Corps at
eli
°3BY-le-Roi took place at nine o'clock this
2 105orning:• The French attack was repulsed, and
Prisoners were taken. Many of the French
We .
killed. The German loss was' comparatively
Inisll.

v.The Bavarian Corps was also engaged, but not
Or seriously. The French fire was heavy from
llejif.

RESIGNATION OF GENERAL. KERATRY.
Touns, November 29.
General K6ratry, iu a letter which is considered of
'l4 'beard of character, as well as unpatriotic, arro•

CBE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y NOVEMBER 30, 1870.

PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK FOR 1871.

With a rootootooit Mr. Punch is again well up to time
with his annual pocket-book a good clear month before
New-year's-day. The Merry wight is always welcome in
this guise, as welcome indeed as when, according to the
old nursery song, on—
" A misty moisty morning,
When'cloudy was the weather,
We met a little old man
Cloth4d all in leather "

—the leather here being, of course, red Morrocco ;
our greeting to him at these times being always exactly
like that so very heartily expressed .in the refrain of the
same old nursery song, to wit—
" How do you do, and How do you do,-
And How do you do again !"
Charles Keene's is the coloured illustration forming the
folding frontispiece, representing very comically
the gallant " Rescue off the Bachelor Rocks." L.
Sambourne contributes several wonderfully chosen
typical or allegorical devices to the various de-
partments, as for example, under the heading " Ambas-
sadors," the arrival (by balloon) of Mr. Punch himself,
as Envoy Extraordinary to the Man in the Moon ! Toby,
paw over paw, following his master up the rope ladder
in his capacity, no doubt, as Secretary of Legation !
Tenniel's " Donkey Tournament" in itself, by the way, is
worth the cost of the whole pocket-book. The letterpress
.in the earlier half of the publication is thoroughly useful,
and has evidently been compiled with a scrupulous regard
to accuracy.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

CROYDON NOVEMBER MEE 11NG.

THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MAIDEN STEEPLECHASE.

Silvernier€
Magnum Bonum
Thalassius

Five ran.
•
. SHIRLEY HURDLE RACE.
Grand Falconer
Punishment
The Czar....
Nineteen ran.
GRAND METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE
Souvenance
Keystone
David Copperfield
Six ran.
SELLING STEEPLECHASE.

Irritation
Little Annie
Wild Blood
Seven ran.
STAND PLATE.

Casse Tete
Stella
Avone

COUNCIL AT WINDSOR.

• 3

Yesterday afternoon her Majesty's Ministers, including
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Earl de Grey, Lord
Halifax, Lord Sydney, the Right lion. Mr. Bruce, &c.,
with Mr. Arthur Helps, left London, in order to attend
the Council held by her Majesty the Queen at Windsor
Castle. The Ministers left Paddington at 1.15 p.m., in a
saloon carriage attached to a special train, which arrived
at Windsor at 1.50 p.m. Several of her Majesty's car-
riages were despatched from the Royal Mews in order t;)
convey the Ministers to the Castle ; but the Premier and
one or two others preferred walking up to the Castle,
leaving the carriages to the service of friends and several
distinguished foreigners who bad come to Windsor to
have audiences with the Queen. The deliberations of the
Council were somewhat longer than usual. At 3.20 p.m.
Earl Granville and Lady Griinviile left the Castle and
droire to the Windsor Station of the Great Western Rail-
way, whither the noble Earl was followed by the other
Ministers. The Ministers quitted Windsor at 3.48 p.m.
for London.

Ten ,ran.

The objeCtion to Defiance in the Hunters' Race yester-
day has been withdrawn.

THE QUEEN AND THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

Her Majesty left Windsor to-day, on a visit to the
Empress Eugenie at Chislehurst. Her Majesty returned
to Windsor late in the afternoon.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
MR. RYLANDS, M.P., ON THE EASTERN
QUESTION.
Mr. lands, M.P., addressing the executive of the
National Reform Union in Manchester last night upon
the Eastern question, advocated the revision of the Treaty
of 1856, a►:d contended that the country was not bound
to declare war against Russia without the adhesion of the
other Powers whose signatures were appended to the
Treaty. At the present moment, he said, the Tory
party, finding that the Government was strong,
and had the confidence of the country, were en-
deavouring to entbarass the Ministry by creating
foreign difficulties, and were advocating increased expendi-
ture. Others belonging nominally to the Liberal party,
but Who'had been left out of office, were trying to create
as much mischief as possible. Among these he chzsed
Earl Russell, whose letter he characterised as so inherently
silly that public opinion was not likely to be affected
by it.

. A report was current this afternoon in the City
that Paris had capitulated. We publish the rumour
as it was very general, but without in the slightest
degree guaranteeing its authenticity.

THE MONEY MARKET.

THE EARL 01? DEVON ON THE
VOLUNTEERS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

On the Stock Exchange to-day business was restricted
in consequence of its being pay day. The settlement has
passed off well. Great losses there must have been, but
as no failures have been declared they have been met.

Consols are 924 to 93 for money, and 91a to 91i ex div.
for the sth of January. For Foreign Securities prices
remain as last quoted. Italian, 54a to 54i ; Lombardo-
Venetian, 14i to 143 ; Spanish 1867, 31 to 31g.
The following telegram has been received by the
directors of the Almada and Tirito Consolidated Silver
Mining Company (Limited) from Mr. Clemes, dated
Guaymas, 4th November instant :—August : Profit for
month, $2,160 ; 187 tons of ore crushed in month ; value
of ores, $o per ton. September : Profit for month,
$3,774 ; 197 tons of ore crushed in month ; value of ores,
s4g per ton. Pitanque ore in stock, 18 tons (the value of
Pitanque ore as realized by former sales is from £BO to
2100 per ton). July : Account not received.
It is understood that an offer has been made of a sub-
scription of £8,000,000 to the contemplated new North
German Loan at a definite price, the dividends on the
bonds to be made payable in London as well as in Ger-
many.
A prospectus has been issued of the Thornhill Reef
Gold Mining Company, with a capital of £20,000 in
shares of £l, for mining purposes in the district of
Maldon, Victoria, Australia.
It is stated that the forthcoming report of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company will recommend a dividend
of 2 per cent. for the six months ended the 30th of
September last, making with 3 per cent. paid in June, 5
per cent. for the year. A payment of 2 per cent. will also
be recommended from the proprietors' underwriting
account.
The Post-office have arranged with the Brighton Rail-
way Company to convey the French mails via Newhaven
and Dieppe. The trains will leave London-bridge station,
on the 30th of November And the Ist of December, at
10.20 p.m.
With reference to the affairs of Messrs. De Vecchj
Navone, jun., and Co., of Great Winchester-street-build-
ings, the registrar has decided that the resolutions sub-
mitted by Mr. Phelps, for the realisation of the estate in
bEihkruiltcy were duly carried out, and the matter will be
wound up accordingly. • •

A large meeting was held in Exeter Guildhall last
evening for the purpose of promoting the efficiency of the
Ist Devon Volunteer Rifle Battalion. Lieutenant-Colonel
the Earl of Devon said he was -not alarmed as to the
future of this country, yet he thought it highly important
that the volunteer regiments should be able-to bring into
the field, if required, the number of men that appeared
on their muster rolls. Those who would have the right
to demand the co-operation of volunteers should know
exactly upon what they had to depend. All non-
efficients should be struck off the books of the
battalion, and he asked for recruits .to iiiake up the defi-
ciency, observing that the appeal was now not to their
pockets so much as to their patriotism.

MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL PALADINE

The special correspondent of the Telegraph, writing
from Tours on the 26th, says :—lntelligence has reached
me, from a source which can be relied on, that the main
body of the Army of the Loire has advanced from
Orleans towards the north—in other words, towards
Paris. From what I gather, the plan of the French
General is to advance, as the weather permits, by marches
of about twenty-five kilometres (say twenty English miles)
and at each halting-place to leave parties of 2,000 men,
whose sole work will be to make an entrenched
camp after the headquarters shall have gone on,
so that, if the latter had to fall back, it would have places
behind which to defend itself. The idea is somewhat
novel; for, although since the days of Torres Vedras,
entrenched camps have been well knovall i European
warfare, I do not recollect of a series of sue } works having
been erected by an army advancing to raise the siege of a.
beleaguered town. The distance from Artenay (where
the French camp before Orleans was 'bn Thursday)
to Paris is 102 kilometres ; and from Toury,
where the camp- was last night, the distance to
the capital is eighty-nine kilometres, or about sixty-four
English miles. Thus in a few days from this time, the
great crisis in the affairs of France will have come and
passed away; and either the cause will be lost for ever, or
the enemy will have received a blow from which he can
hardly hope to recover. What, the - Prussians have
been about, to allow the French ' thus to pene-
trate through their very centre, it is impos-
sible to say. This movement of the French seems
to have been unsuspected until the night before last.
when the enemy appears to have fallen back from Bel-
leme (Orne) when in full march upon Le Mans, and to
have made a forced night march upon Nogent le Rotrou
(Eure-et-Loire). There they must be within a compara-
tively short distance of the left flank of the advancing
French army ; but, as I can gather from the
hundred conflict reports which reach me, they
are unable- to act on the offensive, owing to the
large French force at and near Le Mans, which
is moving behind the extreme left of the main body of
the Army of the Loire. Behind this French corps at
Mans, which numbers 35,000, and is almost entirely com-
posed of regular trcops, there will be again the Breton
army of Iteratry, so that, so far as the left flank of the
French Army is concerned, it seems to be safe enough.
Of the right flank I cannot speak with anything like
certainty, excepting that the enemy before it is com-
paratively insignificant in numbers, and that it is
well drawn in towards the centre at Vittori—so
that what was last week the pivot may to-day be con-
sidered the right of the French line. Of course all eyes
are now turned towards General Trochu, whose sortie
from Paris, it not made before Wednesday or Thursday
next—or if unsuccessful when made—will ruin every-
thing. There is, however, this much to be said in
favour of this sortie—that General De Paladins
is no doubt in communication with Paris, and
has been so for some days past. Yesterday
morning, very early, two officers of Trochu's staff, who
had left Paris in a balloon the day before, arrived at the
camp of General Paladine, and no doubt brought with
them certain intelligence as to when the advance could
be made, so as to join hands with the sortie. In
fact, there is good reason to suppose that the move
forward has been made, if anything, before the
Army of the Loire was . quite ready for it ; and this
fact may perhaps make success less certain than might be
otherwise hoped. The weather, too, must be greatly
against any movement of troops on alarge scale, except
upon the high roads ; and this makes me believe that
there will be a race between the French and the Prus-
sians which shall first reach the neighbourhood of Paris,
and that the race will be more to the swift, than the
battle to the strong.

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