New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-01
LONDON.

Further Reduction of Bank Rate-Cabinet
session on Foreign Anairs-Build Of
the ''Captain''-Blocknde of the Elbe
Removed - Confidence Returning In
Paris-Prussians Approaching Nearer
Dourdan and Nevernal Occupied by
Prussians-Colliery Fire Damp Explo-
sion-Prussinns Repulsed Mt Nantes
Reckless valor of Marshal LeBeuf
Around Mefz-He Feared to tell the
Emperor the State Of the Army Before
the War-British Military Commis.
siOner to Prussia.
LONDON, September 3O.-The Times in its
money article says further reduction Of
the bank rate is expected.
There was a Cabinet session held to-day
in regard to foreign affairs. The journals
saw the result will dssatisfy the belliger
ents and satisfy nobody.
In the Captain disaster investigation a
letter was read, showing that Captain Coles
being dissatisfied because his views were
modified in building the Monarch, received
a carte blanche in regard to the Captain.
The blockade of the Elbe has been re-
moved.
The Prussians have evacuated RambOull-
let, seventeen miles southwest Of Versailles.
Confidence is returning in Paris. 1t is
vaguely asserted that some of the positions
occupied by the Prr,ssians have been re-
covered
The Prussians are constantly coming
nearer and throwing up works at Bagne9X
and on MeudOn terrace. These works will
face the works ut Vanoise and Issy, on the
south side of Paris.
The Prussians have occupied DOurdan.
eighteen miles southwest of Versailles, and
it is reported they have also reached Never
9al and Grigucville, in the department of
Seine Disc.
There has been an explosion of fire damp
in a collicry near Tenby, killing one man
and injuring several others.
The successive defeats OF the yacht
Cambria, in American waters, is a source of
no little modification to yatchmen here.
1t is said the French repulsed the Prus-
slams at Nantes.
According to a statement which appears
in the La,ncrca,r, Marshal LeBoeuf, late
of NapoleOn's chief of staff, sought death
in the battles around Metz. and displayed
the most reckless valOr. He admits that
France was unprepared for war, anu con-
fesses he did not dare tell the Emperor be-
fore the war commenced what state the
| army was in. ,
Colonel Leslie goes as the British military
| commissioner to the Prussian front:
Gold is rapidly accumulating i'll the Bank
| of England.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg reports
| that the Gar has consented TO receive NJ
Thiers only at private in terview, and In
his capacity as private individual.
Especial to the New York Herald.
LONDON, September 3O.-It has been de-
termined by the cabinet to make a strong
| appeal to Prussia to consent to peace in con-
| sideration of the destruction OF the fort
resses in Alsace and Lorraine, without dis
membering France.
1t is r,mored the position of England is
taken in apprehension of the warlikc move
ments of Russia, which occasions disin-
clinatioa to see the power of France to
| much broken.
Alderman Thomas Daken has been elected
mayor of London.
The German Go=ehc.says the precipitancy
of the American government in recOgnizin,
the French republic was, doubtless, due t
| false information which was supplied by it
| minister at Paris