The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-27
THE WAR.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.

TIE SIEGE OF PARIs-PREPARATIoNs FOR THE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BIRTHDAY OF
GENERAL Won MoLTKE-FAILURE OF The
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
LONDON, Oct. 20.
Correspondents report that Paris is girdled with
ruins. The country without the walls for miles
around, is desolate.
The Prussans have removed all art treasures
from Sevres TO Versailles.
Sir Francis Head writes to the Times to-day,
deprecating the English protest against the annexa-
ton Of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany. seeing
England has captured and annexed more millions
of men than all Europe together.
The Prussians again announce that fire will be
opened on Paris on the Goth inst One thousand
stoves have been ordered for the huts Of the Prus-
General Cambrill claims victory for the French
at Chattilon-le-Duc.
The French regard England's last effort at me-
diation with extreme distrust
1t is reported on the continent that Queen Vic
t0ria has written to the King OF Prussia to mode
rate his de mands.
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce complains
Of losses caused by the inaccuracy and delay in
the telegraphic service between Liverpool and
America. They have resolved to petition the gov
ernment for a direct line between Liverpool aud
Valentia bay it is between those points that the
greatest Irregularities occur.
1t is understood that the Madrid government
awaits Prussia's approval of the nomination OF the
Duke of Aosta to the throne.
The arrival of NJ. Theirs at Versailles is expected
to-day. The Tours government is firm in its re-
fusal to enter into any negotiations involving the
surrender of territory Bismarck's constant answer
French of some authorized government is an indis-
pensable preliminary.
service, to repair railways from the German from
tier to Paris. The bakers and butchers of Saar-
pare ample supplies for the German forces.
LONDON, Oct. 26-Books for subscription to the
new French loan have been opened in seventy out
of eighty-nine departments of France nineteen
being occupied by the Germans.
Shaw Lefevre, member of Parliament for Read
ing, last evening made speech to his constituents
in that city. He said "S1nce the proclamation Of
the French Republic Prussia, by her persistency,
had become the aggressor English sympathies,
which were riginally with Prussia, had now been
transferred to the French. Leaving the subject of
war, he rejoiced in the departure from the rule of
marrying English Princesses exclusively to German
Princes.
Viscount Avonmore is dead. Major Yelverton
LONDON, Oct. 26-[Special to the London Tele-
gram.]-A dispatch has been received by our corre-
spondent at Berlin from Metz which states that all
endeavors the part of the Bonapsrtists, through
Bazaine, by which peace could be restored on basis
of the Empress becoming regent, have been aban-
doned, and all hopes are therefore now at end,
and only be gained by the intervention of
The correspondent of the New York Herald, at
the headquarters of the German army, writes on
Livry, Nerbgallant, and other points around the
forest OF Bondys are kept alert night and day. At
disturbed by shells falling around them. The be-
siegers have not yet replied with single cannon.
No secret made of the fact that they do not intend
. to commence till they have brought enough heavy
guns into position to lombard efectually.
A number of guns have been brought up by slow
common roads. Guns of larger calibre cannot be
moved in that way, but must wait until obstruc-
and the bridge over the Marne, at Lagny, rebuilt.
The latter work Is nearly completed, but the former
dout result @ the nas
getting impatient of delay. 1t Is provoking to have
friends picked of one by one and make no return
Lyons have been received here
1t is not credited that 1t amounts to any import
anh N De hall rnht hat hn IA
stroyed If desirable; but the Germans begin
ming to fall into the grievous fault or despisng and
October Il, at A. Nj, 1 was awakened by the
sound of heavy guns, not the dropping Of shot, but
st. Cloud The Germans think there is nothing
wrong but in the cafes the French mysteriously
whispering, and gather from fragments of their
that Garibaldi, at the head of 1900 men, Is at
hand, and that the firing from the forts is intended
to cover an assault upon some bridge, outpost or
train.
Garibaldi, no doubt, is capable of doing much
secure, but believe he would do better with less
men. Mosely and Morgan did their work effective
ly with only handful of men.
The vigilance of the besiegers so constant that
even snch an active raider as Garbaldi will find 1t
to gt staefs fssOad like
LONDON, Oct. 26.-[Special to the Ma FORK
Herald.EA Berlin letter dated the 2ith,. Is the
nppermost feeling insBerin at the present Snent
is an intense longing for peace especially inong
the lower classes, who loudly clamor for termi-
under General Hummer at Metz, in repelling Ba-
zaines sortie on the 7th lost over four hundred
fathers of families, leaving many bereaved
widows and 1910 orphans.
LosDos, Oct. 2s-[special to the New York
Tribune. THE following is an authorized state
| ment Notwithstanding what Is insnuated and even
affirmed in certain Engsh journals
The Empress has not taken part In any one OF
the combinations referred to, having for their
object either peace an armistice. Her saloon at
Chiselhnrst has not become in any sense Official.
Her saloon is still that OF exile and IL its doors
are open to those who knock for admittanee It is
not 10 afford field for discussing peace war.
. General Boyer, envoy of Bazaine, may have ap-
1 preached the Empress with view 70 propositions
Of peace war, to be submitted TO Prussia, but he
| was received with no more favor than were the
emissaries of Bismarck on q previous occasion
when a former envoy Of the Prussian chancelloI
came TO propose peace, declaring that the King
disposed 10 content himself with $50 900 francs
| with the inhabitants of StFasburg included.
The Empress replied with great energy that SC
long there any question of the smallest ces-
sion of territory, she would hold aiosf from every
| negotiation. The events OF the last month have
made no alteration in her resolution; and so far a
the efforts of Boyer have been directed to thii
point they have completely failed; nor could the
mission Of General Boyer have had for its object