New-York tribune., 1870-09-24


The Times this morning publishes 'oi'e
fr0r, ps-,in Of Yesterdays date, saying 'D"'
c.. ou bismarck and Jules Favre were
.,...., n aov Thursday, the former insist
ing on the meeting of the Constituent ASS'rn-
bly to ratify treaty.
1,1as Favre conceded an indemnity for the
o,.t of the war. the surrender of part OF the
fleet the dis1nantling of Metz, Strasbourg and
Dossibly other fortiications.
IMPORTANT CIRCULAR FROM BISMARCK.
ms VIEWS CONCERNING THE MEANS AND CONDI-
TyoNs OF PEACE-THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
pr1rryEp TO BE INsINCERE IN ITS EFFORTS
FOR PEACE-PRUsSIA DEMANDS ONLY WHAT
IS NECESSARY FOR HER FUTURE DEFENSE.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TuBUNRl
LONDON, Friday Sept. %, 1870.
The special correspondent of THE TRIBUNE
at Berlin, telegraphs this day the following
letter from Bismarck concerning the means
and conditions of peace addressed to the
North-German representatives abroad:
MEAUx, Friday, Sept 1s 1870.
Your Excenency is familiar with the circular
which NJ Jules Favre has addressed TO the
foreign representatives of France in the name
of the men at present holding power IN Paris
and who call themselves "Le GoWrernemeHt de
Ia Defense National" l have learned simulta-
neously that NJ. Theirs has entered upon
a confidential mission to the foreign
courts, and l may presume that he VIII
endeavor on the one side to create a belief in
the love for peace of the present Partisan
Government, and on the other side will request
the intervention of the Neutral Powers IN
favor of a peace which shall deprive Germany
of the fruits of her victories, and for the pur-
pose of preventing every basis of peace which
would make the next attack of France on
Germany more difficult.
We cannot believe in the sincerity of the
desire of the present Partisan Government to
make peace so long as it continues by it's Ian
guage and its acts at home to excite the pas
siOns of the people and to increase the hatred
and bitterness of population stung by the
mferings of war, and to repudiate in advance
every basis acceptable to Germany as unac-
ceptable BY France. By such course it be-
comes impossible TO make pence. The people
should be prepared for peace by calm words
and in terms corresponding to the gravity of
the situation.
If we are TO believe that negotiations with
us for peace are honestly intended, the demand
that we should conclude an arnistice without
any guarantees for our conditions of peace
could be meant seriously only on the suppo1-
ton that We lack military or political judg-
ment, or are Indifferent TO the interests of
Germany. Moreover, the hope entertained by
the present rulers in Paris of a diplomatic or
material Intervention of the Neutral Powers
IN favor of France prevents the French ma
ton from seeing the necessity of peace.
When the French nation become convinced
that as they have wantonly conjured up the
war alone, and Germany has had TO fight it
out alone, they must also settle their account
with Germany alone, they will soon put an
end to their resistance, now surely unavalllng.
1t would be an act Of cruelty to the French
people by the Neutral Powers to permit the
Partisan Government TO nOurish among the
people hopes of Intervention that cannot be
realized, and thereby lengthen the contest.
We are far from any inclination to mix in
the internal affairs of France. 1t is inmate
rial TO us what kind of a Government
the French people shall formally estab-
hsh for themselves. The Government
of the Emperor Napoleon has hitherto been
the only one recognized by us. Our conditions
Of peace, with whatever Government, legislat-
ing for the purpose we may have to negotiate
with, are wholly independent of the question
how or by whom the French nation is gov
srned. They are prescribed to US by the ma
tire Of things and by the law of self-de1ense
against violent and hostile neighbOr.
The unanimous voice of the Gerrnanic Gov
erHuents and the German people demands
that Germany shall be protected by better
boundaries 'han we have hitherto had against
TIE dangers am violence we have experienced
from all French governments for centuries.
SO long az France remains in possession of
StrasbOurg and Metz 50 long is it's offensive
strategicaily stronger than Our defensive 80 far
as all South Germany and North Germany on
the left bank Of the Rhine Are ooroorned
strasbourg IN the possession of Franco is a
gate wide open for attack On South Germany
IA 'ne hahoS OF Germany, strasbourg and