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Show LATEST iTEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. ' BAZAINFS CAPITULATION The Occupation of Metz and j Strasburg a basis for a i Peace and Withdraw-j Withdraw-j ing the Armies ; from France. German Loss before Eletz 45.000 Men, i A Portion of the Gerinau Troops Lately at Metz Already March in? on JPu'u. i Optitve of a Prussian Provision Pro-vision Train by irauc-iireurs. irauc-iireurs. Another Chinese Massacre Expected. Napoleon Going: to Elba. Terrible Cyclone in Cuba. FOREIGN. World'? special, London, I'T. Your special correspondent at Ostend telegraphs tele-graphs a statement received from Mercy le Haut, to the effect that upon the reception of a formal declaratiou signed by the Empress, that she was unwilling to sign a treaty involving the cession of French territory, or to be a party to any scheme involving a probable prob-able outbreak of civil war in France, Bazaine exclaimed he would take all the necessary responsibility himself. This was Wednesday night. Bazaine immediately sent a message through his lines to 1'iiuce Frederick Charles, at Pont a Mousson. The Prince eame up during the night, to Chateau de Fresaty, where this morning early stipulations stip-ulations were sisrned for the surrender of the army of Buzaine and the fortress of Metz. The report adds, Gen. de Coffinier, e'ommandant of the garrison gar-rison of" Metz, offered "a written protest against the surrender, declar ing he was able to protract the aetence into the wimer; that the recent defeats of the Germans had made it impossible impos-sible for them to imperil the possession posses-sion of the place; that provisions were in abundance both for the army and the people; and that since the lSih of Oct. the inhabitants had received daily rations of four huudred grammes of bread for adults, iwo hundred grammes of bread for children, and a hundred grammes for infants. Your corres spondent at Ostend says the total lobs of the army ol Piince Frederick Charles, from the. beginning of siege, is estimated at -lo,0UU men by battle and disease. The army of Frederick Charles consisted, on the 20th of Oct.. of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Till, 8th, 'Jib aud lUth army corps, witli two divisions ot the landwehr attached to the 9 h arm corps, making a total of 1GJ,0(MJ men, artillery and cavalry included. The sur render of B izaiiie. it is stated, has been aiade upon a full understanding wiih the " Prussian Government thai the occupation of Metz and Stiasbuig shall be accepted as; an adequate base lbr ihe withdrawing the G .'tman armies ar-mies fiom France, and "concluding a peace The Kcpuhlicaus in London loudly declare the Marshal is a traitor, ihat lie concerted bis action with P, ince Napoleu, the Empress, and Iving William, Wil-liam, auel that the government at Pans and Tours will repudiaie any ptaee prepared or signed by huu. In spite of the rumors about the surrender of Metz, the French b an has advanced in price ail day. M. Lourier is arranging for the expenditure expendi-ture of a large amount of t lie loan in the purchase of anus at Birniinehani. The correspondent of the . Tribune before Metz, telegraphs on the 20th that five days ago Gen. Coffinier, commander com-mander of the city and forties of Metz. informed Marshal tlazaine commanding com-manding the army eneainped outside, that he could supply no more provisions provi-sions and then" tnut fhifi for theiu-s-lves: whereupon Ba'aiue ordered his outpa-ts to cease tiring on the Prussian pickets, and allowed his men to desert 1 in groups of a dozen or two, who I were accepted by the Prussian out post us prisoners: larger bodies were Infused. On the afternoon of the 1 2-kh, tru-twor'hy inlbrniatiuB came from Metz by a civilian, a spy, that an outbreak t ii'JS'C would be made during dur-ing the night toward Gravellotte, as I Bain?'d oii rs to capitn aw with his army alne had been repeatedly peremptorily per-emptorily refused. Ihe outbreak was to be made wi;nou the hope of savin-any savin-any portion Ct the Granizaiion ol tronj..;, but eiujply to enable these sui'Cr3uo"t iLcjihs n behind ihe German line- to force the ' Germans to take them pri-"Uers. whereby the f-rtress miglit h-M out a Little ionc. r with a small garrison. But a: sev n in the eveninc ii.izaiiie h id -uc-Mob-d in convincing con-vincing Gen. C3iuier that the bl-.-xl-sliesl Lv'.se(U'.'nt. "ii -ucb an attempt wonM be f.-i d-ar a pri'v to be pa;d for a Jays' pr.i.s.i'.ieti of re.-i.-t-! auc A iress. ngcr was M nt to Prin v Frederick Cl.ar'.t s in"r; .a'ing h" int. n-I n-I "don of the f.itn ss to est aiuiaie. 'ihi-I 'ihi-I wfi-fh" f.r-t rrvT O-i'i' n vrnid-inclu- J.'ig the f.rtrcss i.:i.l :!.e -..Je army, i Aceoniineiv. niiomglit, the i'nisi;;i j troops, which t' en iea--c l :!.:." towards Gnue.lolte. receive 1 Orders :.. rear to cau.p t iJ o c.k. 1 c-ter-day aftt-rnooii, General I hr.Lekrn'.f r arrived and spent au hour with the Prince and departed much disturbed, saying no wonuer the Prince was so severe. se-vere. By the arrangement of this meeting. General ttc:kl, Col. A on Horseanig. chief of staff, and theijUar-termaster theijUar-termaster general of the Pnuce s army rode to Nesicon -Chaien. three miles south of Metz, ju-t within the Prussian 'line-, whither the t'i French commanders com-manders with the second in command in the iurtrcsi. had been brought by a Prussian field post chaise. The meeting meet-ing lasted from six till seven in the even-I even-I ing. and resulted only, at parting, I m an agreement that the dispu-: dispu-: ted points should le discussed i again at noon to-day. Matters, how- ever, were so far advanced that the i second corps received orders to march for Paris yesterday at noon, and , started early in the evening; while the other troops couceuuated at the near-' near-' est attainable points to Metz last night, to prevent a desertion rn ic.issf. London. 2s. A correspondent of ; the Tint's telegraphs the i'wi.-wing ! from Versailles, dated 2,'ith. It win he a few days yet before the German-bombard German-bombard Paris. In the action on the 21st, sixty-five battalions took part, supported bv twelve batteries. j Bazaine was recently informed he i could only have the terms whieh Were accorded McMahon. i Over two thousand sick and wounded French and Germans are inandarounu Versailles. Forts A'ouves, Montrouge and Bice-j Bice-j tre. are now connected by stiong earih-' earih-' works. Twenty citizens of Banguel hare been executed by the Prussians, Kir aiding the French in their sorties from lJaris. There was a sharp skirmish between reconnoitering parties on the left bank of the Jjoire. near Orleans, yesterJay; both parties retired. On Sunday the Prussian provision train near Vcrsiers, was attacked by Franc-tireurs, who killed the escort and captured the stores. They have also killed thirty of the white cuirassiers. ' Xear Oli.-y there is a lbrce of twenty-five twenty-five hundred Prussians. Before Mezieres, active uperatious have not commenced, the siege guns not having arrived. A London dispatch from Bombay announces that a day has been fixed by the Chinese for the massacre of all foreigners. for-eigners. They are marching and distributing dis-tributing their troops accordingly. The consuls everywhere notice an increasing increas-ing hostility and insolence among the native populatiorf.'- There is much excitement ex-citement among the English and French residents. Berlin correspondence says the health of Napoleon requires a milder climate, and it is possible that early next month he may change Wilhelm-shohe Wilhelm-shohe for illba Berlin, 2s. The Amieytr says, Germany, in regaining Metz, has the strongest point ou the line of the Moselle, Mo-selle, and she must keep it. |