New-York tribune., 1870-10-19
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.

RUSSIA OFFERING TO MEDIATE-HAMBURG AND
BREMEN THREATENED BY TIE FRENCH
FLEET-PoPULAR OUTBREAKS IN FRANCE
AFFAIRS AT PARIS.
LONDON. Tuesday. Oct IS, 1870.
It's reported that Russia has rendered her offices
for mediation, and that Austria and England are
anxious for peace The bankers are to-day declining
TO negotiate Berlin paper, Hamburg and Bremen
being threatened by the French fleet The excite
Inent in those cities is intense.
Violent popular outbreaks have occurred at Hon
6eur. France and other towns in that vicinity, on
account Of the alleged inefficient conduct OF the war
The following news from Paris has been received
here to-day:
-vILENcIENNEs Oct. ls.-M. Rbota, an oHaehe OF the
Foreign Office has just arrived here from Pans lie
says the people are calm and hopeful Politically affairs
ave unatrd The resolution 10 be common TO all
th. Prsians now investing the city TO screen them
calves behind their powerful batteries 80 tremendous Is
the French fire that the plains are absolutely swept ny
The unners in the world are collected IN the fars
Notifications. The marines rarely miss their marx at
GOO metres. The Prussians threatening the i'm
roodate bonbardment OF Paris. This is Impossible TOT
~ long as the French forts outside are ~ well served no
enemy can approach near enough. The manuaeture Vi
arms is actively going on in Paris
St Cloud is total ruin. All the pictures and
tapestry have been destroyed by the fire from the
forts. The Government has abandoned the Brosecr-
tiOn against Gustave Flourens on representations
made by Henri ROchefort
NJ. Gambetta has left Tours for the French army
IN the Vosges which is to be organized for the pnr
pose Of operating on the German communications
The people of Strasbourg generally satisfied
with the order Of things. The French senti-
ment if there be any has not shown itself offensive
SINCE the Capitulation There have been one or two
instances Of firing on the German soldiers patroing
she city from the windows of houses The cnlprits
were Immediately spprehended and brought TO jus
tce with the appreciation of all classes of citizens
The official Language III Alsace hereafter will be the
German. gentleman has arrived at Versailles from
England with f200OO raised in that country for the
German Hospital Fund. The amount viii be turned
over TO the German authorities Immediately.
The German steamship Thuringa, which sailed
for Hamburg. is anchored in the Grimsby Roads
A reward Of f10O has been offered by her owner At
Hamburg TO any one giving her nosce Of the re-
sumption of the blockade Of the Elbe
The Times to-day, in editorial on the Continental
situaton reminds It's readers that this IL the anpi
yersary of the Battle of the Nations which occurred
near Leipzig on the 18th of October, 1878:
at has been generally understood Ia the German
that the bombardment OF Paris from all the batteries
simultaneously would be opened this Anniversary,
day which is full OF glorious remembrances 70 Ger
mans and which has been regularly celebrated for yea
The world ia waiting for the events Of to-day"
The Anglo-Americsn Ambulance Corps has left
Versailles for Orleans where there 5000 wounded
TIsach and GeTmaDs. The German army in France