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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. LOSS OF THE STEAMER "CAMBRIA." THRILLING TALE Or DISASTER WITHUI AX ECO S SAIL OF PORT. A Hundred and Eighty Souls Hnr-ried Hnr-ried to Eternity by the Miipwreck. Bazaine Shot in Metz And Marching with his Whole AiHitr on Paris. THE SPANISH CROWN ACCEPTED. AC-CEPTED. Bazatue's Successful Sortie with 80,000 Men. GESERAL. .ES. FOKEIGiX. Loudon, 21. The French. Uadron was seen off Heligoland on Tuesday evening. A Hamburg dispatch of today to-day says nothing has siueo been seen of them. The Manchester Exanilau' has a report from Berlin, which needo confirmation, confir-mation, that Bazaine has offered to sell Metz for the regency with the Prince Imperial. A Prussian attack on Bourses is probable, as that city has a large arsenal ar-senal and several foundarie?. It is telieved a formal summons to surrender will precede the bombardment bombard-ment of Paris. Brussels, 21. (Jeueral Sheridan is here. The report that McMahon had arrived is untrue. Kocnoy, 20. Hubost, delegate from Paris to Tours, landed near this town in a balloon. He says the Prus-ian in force, on the evening of the 17th. attacked a redoubt of Haute Bouins and were repulsed. They renewed the attack in the morning, but were again repulsed. He says in all the conflicts around Paris the French havj hud the best of it. The activity of the citizen?-was citizen?-was prodigiuu-'. Paris was making twenty five metraillcui s per week, two millions or cartridges daily, and cannon aud munitions in proportion. St. Quentin, 21. A force of 5,000 men, under the Grand Duke of Meek-liuburg, Meek-liuburg, with twelve guns, is marching on this town. London, 21. The exploring steamer steam-er Arct c, from Davis Straits, has ar rived at Dundee. The Pall Mall Ua:'M- has an article on government control of le'egraphs, in which it adduces facts and figures to show that the business of telegraphing has declined smce it passed into the hands of the postal department. London, Oct. 22. The Slundurd publishes a Berlin dispatch, saying it is officially stated that the French charge d' affairs at the Spanish court has asked the government to send France an army of 50,000 Spanish so'.-diers, so'.-diers, to assist in resisting the Prussians. Prus-sians. The proposal was positively declined. de-clined. London, 22. On Wednesday even-iugword even-iugword reached Londonderry that the Cumbria, of the Anchor line, bad been wrecked on the coast of Donegal. Information was brought to that city by the only survivor, Tlobn Mcli art-land, art-land, steerage passenger. The intelligence intelli-gence was at first disbelieved, but is since confirmed. The following is a summary of MeGardand's narrative : The voyage from New York was generally gene-rally ibrtunute, notwithstanding unpleasant un-pleasant weather prevailed m ist of the time, until the night of Wednesday. Oct, 9th, between 10 and 11 o'clock. The Ciimbria was then under full sail, steaming rapidly. Suddenly, when all was apparently going well, she struck on Mistraline Island, teu miles west of Donegal and thirty west of Londonderry. London-derry. The vessel instantly besan to fill, through large holes stove in the bottom, and the tires were soon extinguished. extin-guished. It became evident that the steamer waa hopelessly lost, and efforts were directed to save the lives of the passengers, who were massed upon the deck. Four boats, crowded with passengers, pas-sengers, were launched and put off from the sinking steamer. McGar;land entered one of the.and he saw no more of the ship or of the other boat. He thinks there is no doubt all the boats were swamped, and that he is the only survivor. Almost instantly, upon getting get-ting iuto the bout, it caps. zed and he lost consciousness. L pun reviving he found himself iu the sea. but grasping the gunwale of a boat which had righted. right-ed. He succeeded in getting in ihe boat a second time, awl iuund the dead body of a lady dressed in flack siik. Mr.McGartland was tns-eu about for uianv hours, when he was t. irked up by the EntTpr'i. Captain G.iles-pie, G.iles-pie, who cruise! about the sj-nc c'. the disaster fr lung time in the hpc of saving lile or property. c-tiartland c-tiartland says almost at the cry time of the disaster, the p-iv-diL-or- ,md crew were ContT.i'.u.aLng tU uisvivcr on the tempt stuous voyage Kipc nearly near-ly finished, and were r, .juicing in the fact that in one short iiuur more, thev would land a: Movi:l,;. There w-r"e certainly LsO souis on boird. perhaps more. Luttr LonaOi.dtrry. Oet. 21. midnight. mid-night. Yee! i'i-t returning t'r.ou the scone of the C ii,J ,i dicier, in the north chanrd. retort .'hut they discovered dis-covered only a lot of bro'sen pa; an. t a few b;rrt.ls of near, wni.dj krinei part ot her OarfO. Noihinj ha. y, , been heard ofthe li.,,6 itTf,1 bo.ts which rut of from, th Cntrri w'neu she struck. Hope for their safety has not been entirely abandoned; but MeGort and reports that a wind little short of a hurricane prevailed at the thi.e. in which it would be a miracle mir-acle for such small craft to live, i London. 22 The armis'iee at Me-zieres Me-zieres ended vesterdav at three o'clock. The bridge ovtr the Mtu-o is to be blown up to Jjy. but tV.e bombardment bombard-ment will not be comuieneel utitii more troops aud munitions of war can be tronjht up. The French fee:-! within tho walis of Mezieres is about five thousand. Berlin, 22. The Sunns Air-tic er. of vesterdav, in it- account i.i aS'airs before Metz. sa;vs the siekne-j in the armies is due to the quality of food. Dysentery is decreasing, and typhoid will doubtles go with the present cool -reather. Desertions are increasing, the fact tives ail giving the same reason rea-son hunger. The investing loree-, and the German armies generally, receive re-ceive abundant supp'ies of all sorts. New York. 22. Ihe Ttkgr-r.n has London advices from Tours liu-r Ha-za Ha-za ne bad made a successful sortie from Metz, and was in rapid march 1 with his whole army to Paris. The Democrat, per contra, has advices ad-vices from Metz that the Republic had been proclaimed, and B izaine, while endeavoring to check ilie republican manifestations, had been shot. Ficrei.ee, 22. Aorta's nomination for and acceptance of the Spanish ero.tn i is orheiallv announced Tours, '22. The following official dispatch is just received from INeul-Chutvau: INeul-Chutvau: On the 14th Baz.aii:e made a sortie with sn unO men, crushing the enemy, which consisted of sixteen battalions bat-talions of infantry and two of cavalry. He also captured 19 -I wagons laden with stores and provis ons of war. Sickne-s among the besiegers is constantly con-stantly increasing. The Prussians have been forced twice to renew their army around Metz. Another dispa eh tromXcuf-Chareau says the siege of A er lun was interrupted interrup-ted lately by the vigorous defence of the French. The latter made several sorties and inundated the environs of the town. |