The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-05

proclamation. Macktshon evidently did not |
think it decisive-Dot even q signal advantage,
for while the Grown Prince was restoring his
broken and bruised lines, he hastily moved
bis army to the north side Of the Meuse and
once more united it, not at Montmedy for
offense against Prince Carl, but at Sedan for
defense against his old opponent Prince
Fritz. What part the Grown Prince of
Saxony on the east bank Of the Meuse took
in this engagement is not definitely stated in
the dispatches
Reorganized during the afternoon of the
31st ult., the Germans advanced again te the
attack on September 1. The reports of the
battle on this day are conflicting, but all ac-
counts unite in saying 1t was disastrous to
the French. The accounts from Belgium
which report MacMahon retreating on Sep
tember to Mezieres, and that 10, 900 French
have surrendered to the Belgians, are not
to be fully credited. The official report of
King William claims nothing of the kind,
but he says the French were driven into
Sedan. That they did not retreat on the 1st
is evident, from the fact that they fought
desperate fight on Friday The Prussian
right wing advanced on the lst to Giyonue,
a suburban village of Sedan, only a mile
or two northeast of it. Whether this ad-
vantage was maintained on Friday is not
now known. All that is known positively of
the fight of Friday is that it began at day
break, and that Bazaille, Villers, Renuly.
Sernay, and Ballsl all suburban towns of
Sedan-were already in flames, having been
fired by the artillery engaged in the conflict
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE
THE KINGS OR THE PEOPLES.
From the N. Y. Herald.
The republican journals of Spain, rejecting
the universal sentiment of the republican
party of the Peninsula, are rejoicing over the
news of the German victories in France as
foreshadowing the certain downfall of Napo-
leon and his empire, and the revival of the
French republic. So much for the interfer-
ence of Napoleon with General Prims nomi-
nation of German prince for the throne of
Spain. The Spaniards have seen from the
course of Napoleon upon this question that
he assumed the role Of his uncle not only in
regard to the Rhine, Italy, and the Pope, but
in that other Napoleonic idea, the reduction
of Spain to mere dependency of France. 1t
is probable that General Prm was inspired
by Count Bismarck in nominating Hohen-
zollern for the Spanish throne in view of this
very war which has followed between Napo-
leon and Prussia; but it is probable also that
Prim anticipated through this movement
release from France and full liberty to Spain
not only to name the chief but the form of
her Government as an independent State.
We presume that all parties in Spain, of
the Bourbons and the anti-Bourbon monarch
lists, as we'll as the republicans, will rejoice at
the downfall of the Bonapartes. The Bour-
bons in Spain have little to hope for with the
maintenance of the French empire They
may be reinstated, in the event of peace
between France and Prussia. The Spanish
republicans, however in looking for French
republic with the displacement of the empire,
have good reason to hope that the next result
from Napoleon's overthrow will be republic
in Spain. Hence the popular excitement all
over that country that become SO demonstra-
tive that the republican directory had deemed
it expedient to issue manifesto counselling
patience and moderation; and warning the
party that one false step may compromise
them and endanger the country. This means
that if the Spanish republicans are too preci-
pitate they may alarm the European dynastes
and bring them together in the work of
restoring peace upon the basis of their COM
mon protection against the republican ele-
ments, even in Spain.
The scheme of peace which isnow supposed
to be under consideration by the govern
ments of England, Prussia, Russia. Austria
and Italy embraces the restoration of the
Orleanists to the throne of France, the estab-
lishment of German empire under the King
of Prussia, and the abolition of all engage
ments entered into between the Emperor
Napoleon and King Victor Emanuel involving
any further cessions of Italian territory to
France in exchange for the States of the
Church. In the Church organ at Rome the
following has been recently published as an
understanding arranged between Napoleon
and his prOtege Victor Emanuel The
appropriation and occupation of the Papal
States and the city of Rome as her capital by
Italy; the cession by Italy, as an equivalent
TO France, of the island of Sardinia, and the
removal of the Pope and his headquarters to
the occupation and possession of that island,
under the protection of France. This scheme
of satisfying Italy, and compensating France,
while providing for the Holy Father of Rome,
looks so plausible aud so Napoleonic that we
are inclined to think there may be something
in it. 1t is certain, at all events, that, with
the removal of Napoleon, Italy, except as a
republic, with France as a republic will be
made independent of any further nursing or
instructions from France, whatever may be
the disposition made of the Pope
In the general reconstruction of European
affairs which is sure to follow this momentous
war. whether this work of reconstruction is
to be under the direction of the dynasties or
the peoples of Europe, will depend very much
upon the reconstruction of France. Then
may follow general republican rising over
the Continent, which will displace the schemes
of the dynasties. In short, q speedy settle
ment of this war in croWninQ success to the