15 OCTOBER 1870, Page 3

The assertion made in the letter of the Daily News

from Tours that the Empress not only expected General Bourbaki, but wanted him to take the Prince Imperial back to Metz, with a view to his 'being proclaimed as Napoleon IV. whenever peace is made, is contradicted by the Echo of yesterday on authority. But as the authority on which it is contradicted cannot be Iligher than that of the principal intriguer or intriguante, and diplomacy is not scrupulous in these matters, we must wait till General Bourbaki himself chooses to speak, if he should -choose to speak, before we can feel confidence in the contradiction. If he should remain silent, it will be tolerably evident, we should think, that some such intrigue was pressed upon him.