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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST G . Changarnier on Bazaine's Incompetency In-competency and the Surrender of Metz. Movement for the Restoration Resto-ration of the OrleanUt. The Failure of the Armistice Negotiations. More Fighting' throughout France. GENERAL 5KWS, The Eastern Elections. All Quiet in New York. Louisiana Gone Republican. On the Track of the C. P. Robbers. FOREIGN. New York, 7. The Ilrvald' special spe-cial from Brussels on the oth relates a conversation with (Icn. Changarnier. The General declared Bazaine was not guilty of treachery in surrendering at Metz. Ho was incompetent to command com-mand a large army, and numbers bewildered be-wildered him. He could not move his men ; could not operate his forces. He had no judgment or foresight. He was also a selfish man ; all for himself and personal glory, and not his country's coun-try's honor. Bazaine thought all the time that peace would be proclaimed soon, that Paris would never hold out, that tke war would fall flat, and that his military reputation would not be impaired. He wanted to march out of Metz at the head of a hundred and fifty thousand men, the cream of the French army, and make the public believe be-lieve him a hero. Alter Bazaine was driven into Metz on the Ituh of Augu.-t he could have escaped had he marched boldly out with his entire army. During Dur-ing the remaining portion of that month, the thirty days of September, and the first five days of October, he could have done this with absolute certainty. During the last ten days no attack or attempt at escape could be made. We had no artillery, no cavalry, only 0U,(XJ infantry. We could do nothing against three branches of the Prussians. Prus-sians. At the time of the capitulation, capitula-tion, there were 13.",i)Ou soldiers: of these 25, (h.hj were wounded or disabled and 10,UU0 sick. The cavalry and artillery ar-tillery were useless because they had no horses. The reduced force was G0,U00 infantry. All our fine horses were eaten up, our bread gone and we had no salt, Horse, Monsieur, is not bad eating with bread and salt, when the horse is fat, but these horses were not tat, and we had neither bread nor salt. Could troops thus fed stand a great battle ? Do not forget that during the last ten days of the investment, invest-ment, the soldiers walked in mud up to their knees. The heavy rains and starvation made us surrender; but, as I told you, during the fifty-eight days there wero times when Bazaine could have taken this fine army to the field and saved France. He never made a serious elfort to escape from Metz. Every sortie was only pretended sortie sor-tie for appearance, and nothing cite. There were four high officers at Meta besides Bazaine. They were all for inaction. in-action. I i-aw all the military ma-neuvres. ma-neuvres. They were all shams, Bazaine Ba-zaine and his friends ni t acting ss soldiers, but only seeking their own future. The General subsequently expressed a belief in the restoration of the house of Orleans to the French throne. The Republic, he said, could not stand. It-is It-is already divided in fragments. France has no government to-day. She needs organization and harmony. The Or leanists can give them to France. The correspondent is convinced from other evidences that there is a strong movement at Brussels for the restoration restora-tion of the Orleanists, and that Changarnier Chan-garnier is one of the principal leaders. London, 9. Bismarck has furnished the following explanation of the rupture rup-ture of negotiations for an armistice. The French government having declined, decli-ned, through its representative, Thiers, its inability to accept the German offer of an armistice on the basis of statu quo, the Count proposed that the French name the time for holding elections tor a constituent assembly, and the Germans promised that in such event absolute freedom of elections elec-tions should be respected, even in territory ter-ritory now occupied by the Prussians. Thiers thereupon withdrew to the outposts out-posts to consult Favre, but at length returned to Versailles without the lower to accept the German terms. King William has issued an order that no person be allowed hereafter to enter or leave Paris. Five passengers have just been captured and will be court-martialed for violation of the order. Berlin, s. All the Berlin new.-pa-pers, official and otherwise, throw the responsibility of the impending destruction des-truction of Paris on the rench. The ! latter have thus far ohstimtuly refused ; to recognize plain facts. ' A icnna correspondent aj-ert that the French government acts as if it were unconscious of dri- at. Its tone and manner are the same as they would have been if the French army had been victorious and wa now before the citv of Berlin. ! London. Metz ha- U-en made ' the capital of German 1vhrincia. ! The Lorraine T.m,: !,.,. reason to believe the bombardmer;' r-f Pari will not begin for two week-. King William Wil-liam i reluctant to detr. y -o grand a city, and i giving th- ("rench every , opportunity to negoiiaii' '"r peace. It is said liaron Hau-man has been I arrested. j ersaibV, tieneol Tnv-kow re ported to the Prussian headquarters here yesterday that his divL-ton had . repulsed the Franc-tireurs in several engagements on the 2nd inst., between Colmar and Belfort- He reports also the occurrence of several skirmishes at Kouzemont and Petit Magny between the Prussians and Mobiles, in which j the French lost five officers and a bun- j dred and three men. The French fortress of Belfort was invested on Thursday. Communica-1 tion with General Werder has been re-opened. Marseilles, i, via London, Nov. . Esquiros reports that the people are now in complete submission to the government gov-ernment authorities. He therefore submits his resignation, asserting that it is the duty of the hour to unite against the invaders. The mayor of the city has issued a proclamation denouncing de-nouncing all acts of the revolutionary eemmittee. Vigorous exertions are being made at Lycns for defense. A great quantity quan-tity of provisions has been collected, and all the able-bodied citizens have been thoroughly armed. All commu-' nication northward from Lyons has been cut by the Prussians. J Berlin, S. The Prussian govern . ment, which recently gave orders for the restoration of lights and buoys at the mouth of the Elbe, has now countermanded coun-termanded them. London, S. Private advices received from Versailles confirm the account given by Bismarck of the suspension of negotiations for an armistice. Jules Favre, together with a majority of his colleagues favorable to the scheme for the election of members to the constit ucnt assembly, had urged the acceptance accept-ance of an armistice. Trochu, commander com-mander of the armies at Paiis,difscntcd and carried his point. Florence. S. Thiers has written to the Pope that the great powers of Europe will consider his cise at the coming Congress. The King will officially enter Borne after the national elections. Preparations Prepara-tions are being actively made iu all the provinces for the elections, which will occur on the 00th inst. |