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One old ad herent is reported to have said, 66 The Empire lives O ut of France." DISCLOSURE OF MORE SECRETS Though there is not the slightest danger of a fa mine in Paris at present, the news by balloon fl. °l the capital describes a sort of food panic Which prevails there, owing to the inability 1 4 the poor to pay the prices demanded f or provisions. One butcher's shop has been taken bY storm. Amongst the latest revelations respect ing the Imperial Government is one to the eff ect that the Emperor virtually sustained the 11 . 11 Preme military command to the last, that the f amous bomb conspiracy was an invention, and that d uring the general election of 1869, a leading "enlocrat of Paris was paid about £4OO to oppose I\l. Thiers. THE PRETENDED MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The following telegram has been received by the " WILHELMSHOHE, OCT. 6 (10.45 a.m.) " Several journals have published a documen t s egued Napoleon, and dated Wilhelmahohe, Sept' 26 ) 1870. This document is apocryphal, and I shall be obliged by your contradicting it. w - " The Private Secretary of the Emperor Napoleon, " F. P lETRI." FRENCH SUCCESSES NEAR ORLEANS. I) ITHIVIERS EVACUATED BY THE PRUSSIANS. FIGHTING BEFORE METZ. THE - - DEFEAT OF THE GER MANS AT TOURY. VSNDOME OCT. 6 (EVENING). ,The Prussians have been driven out of Janville„, 1 °ll r3T, and the neighbouring villages. The French ~s T,acle 20 prisoners, one of whom is a courier of t inee Albert. The enthusiasm is increasing, and road to Toury is crowded with National i t-/ . l iards, some of whom have come a distance of 40 gilontetres. ORLEANS, OCT. 6 (10 A.m.). 111 consequence of the Prussian defeat at Toury tr a nd the occupation of that town by the French ° °l 3 B, the Prussians have evacuated Pithiviers in haste, leaving behind them a convoy of cattle. (FRENCH OFFICIAL DISPATCHES.) TOURS, OCT 5 (6.55 p.m.) :The following official dispatches are published here ' 4l B evening : " MONTARGIS, OCT. 5 (EVENING). " The enemy left Pithiviers precipitately yester day evening for Toury, and abandoned a herd of 180 A '°\ve at Manchecourt. , b: Thirty Germans have been killed at Bondaroy ' t he Turcos. Only one man escaped, and it is be lieved that there are more of the enemy's troops now l it the Loire." VENDOME, OCT. 5. " A telegram from Chateaudun says that the tiPrussians have been repulsed from Ymouville and n neighbourhood by Francs-tireurs and National il'uards, who have risen en masse this evening. They ave set fire to Fancrainville. The inhabitants of th e communes are demanding to be allowed to march Janville." THE SIEGE OF PARIS. BERLIN, OCT. 6 (11.20 A.M). considerable porticn of the German siege ery has arrived before Paris. The attack is de layed until it can be begun with overpowering Zellgth, which will be the case within a few 4h 313 . The King's Head-Quarters will be removed °III Y to Versailles. Herr von Branchitsch has bee n apointed German Pr6fet of Versailles. the engagement of the 30th of September, Generalthe Vinoy's Corps was ascertained to consist of art e depots of forty-two 'infantry regiments, marines, te some Mobiles, Prince Frederick Charles has fo nloved to Cormy. Wooden huts have been built ; t he Bavarian troops who are investing Bitsche.— sr neB Telegram. OC CUPATION OF VERNON BY THE GERMANS. (FRENCH ACCOUNT.] Th LE MANS, OCT. 6. nu a Germans, in. superior force and with a V o nle tous artillery, have occupied Pacy-sur-Eure and tes tn . in the department de l'Eure, after a vigorous le tance on the part of the National Guard. NEW COMBINATIONS. BERLIN, OCT. 6. 14 14 troops who besieged Strasburg are ordered to test Belfort, Schlettstadt, and New Breisach. °3B who took Toul will beleaguer Soissons. tj'ng Corps despatched by the army before Paris to O rleannias, Maine, and Picardy have found no • , of fresh l ev i es . Thiers called upon the Italian Envoy at St. o b , ters blirg, and, telling him that his only motive for i e ` a Tilig Itali an un ity h a d been his fear that it would t ° German unity, expressed his intention to 4 Florence on his return journey. b ee 4llo Russian Artillery Captain Bunyapowski has otdeall disp atched to Birmingham to receive the rifles \r ' re cl his Government. cie'"gotations for the admission of the South b e rll larl States into the Northern Confederacy will t he a h l3 er tly opened a t R o y a l H e adquarters. As yet atitiavarian Government is unwilling to place its tie a nd diplomacy under Federal authorities in f Peace. ai d l. e " Russia n W ar Offi ce i s d raw i ng u p a law con eh:4lY restricting the rights of conscripts to pur e su bstitutes.—Times Telegram. C °IINT BISMARCK AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. f ,,,r• Reute r has received the following telegram ' 33 : 1 Count Bismarck : " VERSAILLES, OCT, 6 (1.35 P.M.) ;,_`` do not hold the opinion that the Republican feititutions of France constitute a danger for th e nor have I, as asserted in a letter of eve - ` 7 th ult. published in the Daily Telegraph, a person. r expressed such a view to Mr. Mallet or to "Y other " (Signed) " BISMARCK." TIIE PRISONERS OF WAR IN BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Oc,L. 6 (8.45 P.m) The Eta,le Belo of this evening says that 'a battalio* of Belgian earabineers has been sent to Beverloo, some signs of an intention to regain their liberty having been remarked among the prisoners interned there. The Belgian authorities have taken the neoessary measures in time, and the prisoners will be separated and sent away to different garrison towns. • The Courier de la ,Meuse denies the rumours of negotiations for the cession of Luxemburg to Prussia. COLMAR, OCT. 5. This town was to-day for an hour in possession a body of Uhlans, who were making a reconnais- . sauce, with two pieces of artillery. It is said that Mulhouse has been evacuated, and that the corps which occupied that town has advanced upon Altkirch. THE MEETING OF THE CON STITUENT ASSEMBLY. TOURS, OCT. 5 (6.45 The Moniteur of this evening advocates the selection of Totirs for the meeting of the Consti tuent Assembly. It says Tours would be per fectly secure, since all idea of continuing the war would have to be abandoned, if it were not even possible to protect this city against the Prussian columns. In any other city the Assembly would only have a regional authority, and there is reason to apprehend that it wonld not group strongly round it the west and north of France. It is asserted that intrigues are proceeding to pro mote the annexation of Nice to Italy, and a detach ment of Italian Bersaglieri is stationed at Venti miglia, on the frontier. THE STATE OF STRASBURG. CA.RLSRUHE, OCT. 5 (7.20 P.m) General Treskow is in command of the army which is to advance into Southern France. Dele gates from the Carlsruhe Town Council report that 500 houses leave been destroyed in Strasburg, and at least 10,000 persons are homeless. Subscriptions for their relief have been opened in all parts ot Ger many.— Times Telegram. BOMBARDMENT OF METZ. SAARBRUCK, OCT. 6, At six o'clock last evening three Prussian batteries of heavy guns, posted on the heights above Woippy in a line of which St. Agatha was the centre, bom barded the French fort :of St. Eloy, the most northerly outwork of the Metz fortifications. The fortress replied with spirit, and a furious cannonade was maintained for two hours. The result is not yet known here, but it was probably indecisive. — Daily News Telegram. ADVANCE OF THE FRENCH. SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON THE GERMANS. TOURS, OCT. 6. General Reyan has made a report to the Govern ment, dated Chevilly, yesterday evening. He an nounces that at five o'clock in the morning, he advanced towards To ury with three brigades of cavalry and infantry, and three half batteries of artillery. At 7 a.m. he arrived before Chassis. A squadron of hussars surrounded the village, and carried off five prisoners from the Royal Bavarian regiment. Notwith standing the enemy's artillery, which comprised ten 12-pounders, and which dismounted some of the French guns, the movement forward continued, and General Ressayre's brigade turned the village of Toury on the right. The enemy's cavalry, numbering from 400 to 500, supported by 2,000 infantry, were compelled to beat a hasty retreat towards Paris. The French continued the pursuit beyond Toury for three or four hours, and the movement was then stopped, the troops being overcome by fatigue. General Reyan made a thorough reconnaissance of the enemy' strength, and ascertained the presence of the Princes Albert of Saxe-Meiningen and Saxe-Altenburg. General Reyan captured from the enemy a herd of cattle, including 147 cows and 52 sheep, which have been sent on to Arthenay. MOVEMENTS OF THE FRENCH. LILLE, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The Echo du Nord says that the railway service has been reopened to Orleans, and draws the in ference that the Prussians are falling back on Paris. The Municipal Council of Arras have under conside ration a proposal to appropriate five million francs for arming and equipping all the Garde Nationale in the Pas de Calais, who will be immediately called into active service. The Figaro says that the French Artillery would more often fire upon the Prussians, but that the inhabitants of Champigny and the surrounding vil lages have been impressed to carry materials and construct works of defence. The Prussians are attempting to remove the debris of the Nogent Viaduct and rebuild the broken arches, but are constantly interfered with by artillery fire from the forts. The villages of Gentilly, Arcueil, Cachan, and Chadllon are complete deserts. The Journal d'Amiens states that communication between Cbarleville, the Ardennes, and the rest of France is still open. The garrison of Tours, cavalry and infantry, make daily distant reconnaissances on the banks of the Loire. Extensive military manoeuvres take place every morning in the Champs de Mars, and the troops are exercised in shooting. A manufactory of mitrailleuses is about to be established at Nantes. It is also said that the establishment at Indret has received orders for their manufacture. M. G. Masure, editor-in-chief of the Progres du Nord, has been appointed Secretary of the Delega tion of the Government of National Defence at Tours. THE STRENGTH OF MONT MEDY. BRUSSELS, OCT. 6. A correspondent of the Etoile Belge says that Montmedy is provisioned for three years, it having been the entrepat of the army of Sedan. M. Giranier de Cassagnac passed through Brussels yesterday, en route to Cassel and Wilhelnishohe. The lnde'pendance Belge speaks of a new cannon of enormous calibre, which is about to leave the manufactory of M. Vorus, at Nantes, who has offered it for the defence of Paris. The charge is 35 kilos. of powder. It carries a distance of eight kilometres, and cost 120,000 f. It is intended for the defence of Fort Ivry. CHANGE OF GERMAN HEAD QUARTERS. VERSAILLES, OCT. 5. The Royal headquarters were transferred here to-day. The King previously inspected the position of the 6th Army Corps. INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. CARLSRUHE, OCT. 5 (7.20). General Treskow is in command of the army which is to advance into Southern France. TI- E SUN, LOND9IMI, PRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 113%, Delegates from the Carlsruhe Town Council re port that 500 houses have been destroyed in Stras burg, and at least 10,000 persons are homeless. Subscriptions for their relief have been opened in all parts of Germany. ITNDERGROUND TELEGRAPI-In FROM PARIS. BRUSSELS, TUESDAY. Ihe Cologne Gazette and the lndependanee Beige ain both of opinion that there still exists some Underground communication between Paris and the provinces, as despatches are daily received from Paris by the Government delegates at Tours. ,THE MISSION OF M. THIERS. VIENNA, OCT. 5 (EvENI NG). It is asserted that AI. Thiers, on leaving bore, will proceed to Florence. CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS ON THE BELGIAN FRONTIER. BRUSSELS, OCT. 0 (8.25 P.m.) The .toile Beige mentions a renewed movement 'of troops towards the Hainault frontier. The Nato du Parlement ;Jays :—" Since yesterday great activity has reigned among the troops at Antwerp, and everything tends to chew • that our frontier will again be gaitided by large forces. The. siege of Mezieres and Rocroy by the Prussians is believed to have .some connection with this measure. According to the Journal de Bruxelles the Jesuit fathers are leaving Rome. COUNT BISMARCK AND - - M. FAVRE. BERLIN, 00T• 6. The following circular has been issued by Count Bismarck : FERRIERES, OCT. 1. • "From reports in the public journals, it appears that the delegation of the French Government in Tours have officially announced that the under signed had declared to M. Favre that Prussia would continue the war, and reduce France to the position of a Power of second rank. Although such an expression could only be intended to influence circles unacquainted with the language used in in ternational negotiations, and ignorant of the geo graphy of France, still the circumstance that this official annoinicement bears the signiv ure3 of Messrs. Cremieux, Glais-Bizoin, and. Fourichon —gentlemen belonging to the Government of a great. European Power—induces me to request your Excel lency to put it in a proper light, in your official intercourse. In my interview with M. Favre, the question of the condition of peace was not at all formally considered. At his repeated re quest, I communicated to the French Minister in general outlines the same views which formed the principal topic of the circular dated Meaux, Sep tember 16. Demands exceeding those therein con tained have never yet in any way been made by me. The cession of Strasburg and Metz, which we seek in territorial connexion, implies a. reduction of French ter ritory equal in area to the increase through Savoy and Nice, while the population of these provinces ob tained from Italy is about three-quarters of a million larger. When it is considered that France, according to the census of 1866, numbers 38 millions of in habitants without Algiers, and with Algiers now furnishing an essential part of the French war forces, 42 millions, it is palpable that a decrease therein of three quarters of a million effects no change in the importance of France as against foreign coati-. tries, while it leaves to that great flipire the same elements of power, the possession whereof in the Oriental and Italian wars enabled it to exercise so decisive an influenao on the destiny of Europe. These few points will suffice to success fully oppose logical facts to the exaggerations of the proclamation ,of the 24th ult. I only add that, in conversations with M. Favre, I expressly directed his attention to these views, and I need not assure your Excellency that I refrained from every . offensive allusion to the consequencei of the present war on the future position of France .as a great Power of the world. " BISMARCK." —Daily News Telegram. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT, (8 rat.) Baron von Roggenbach has been summoned to the headquarters of the Crown Prince. Herr von Delbriick left to-day on another journey to the King's head-quarters. GENERAL IGNATIEFF. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 6. General Ignatieff left yesterday evening for Odessa. His journey is totally unconnected with political questions. THE ROMAN PLEBISCITE. FLORENCE,'OCT. 5. In the province of Velletri the number of Ayes re corded was 10,912, and of Noes, 50. The deputation bringing the result of the plebiscite will positively arrive on Saturday next, and will be received by the King. THE BOHEMIAN DIFFICULTY. VIENNA, OCT. 5 (EVENING). An Imperial Patent has been is3ued, dated to-day, ordering direct alterations for the Reicbsrath to be held immediately in Bohemia in virtue of the seventh paragraph of the fundamental lavi of the Empire. THE PAPAL CIVIL LIST. IWNIE, OCT. 4. Signor Sella has sent to the Pope 50,000 crowns, the amount of the Papal Civil List for the present mouth. The Pope has accepted the money. [CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.] THE PRINCE OF WALES DEER HUNTING. The Prince of Wales was on Wednesday deer hunting in Mr. Tennant's forest of Auchnashellach, on the west coast of Ross-shire. His Royal Highness was accom panied by the Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Bland ford, Lord Strathnairn, Lord Elphiustone, and others, the party numbering altogether about thirty guns. The hint took place in the mountain ravine. No less than five hundred deer are in this ravine, but they are to a great extent covered. Upwards of twenty-five stags were killed, some with fine heads. Yesterday the Prince returned by special train to Dunrobin. neglected orphan girls. Their passage money will be raised partly by subscriptions, and partly by grants from the local public bodies. ANOTHER IRISH AGRARIAN OUTRAGE. A sheriff's bailiff, whilst in the act of executing a decree at a village in county Tyrone, was savagely beaten yester day. The parties , implicated in the outrage have been identified. THE WAGES DIFFICULTY IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.. 'lle wages difficulty in South Staffordshire has passed off. The iron trade just now is very dull, and is likely to remain so for some time ; the men therefore forbear to press their claims until its conclusion. CHURCH EFFORTS FOR SCHOOL EXTENSION IN MANCHESTER. An attempt is being made in the diocese of Manchester, which therein follows the example of the mother see of Chester, to establifih new Church schools in particularly destitute districts' before the end of the year ; thus to secure them; from the operation of the Educa tion Act by the establishment of school boards, and securing the Government grant. The Bishop of Man chester, who has placed himself at the head of the move ment, yesterday presided over a meeting for carrying out this plan. A diocesan board was formed to attain the con templated object. In his speech to the meeting the Bishop announced that he bad instituted a census, which, though somewhat incomte, was roughly correct; it shewed that the Chuta 's schools of the diocese pro vided, accommodation for 140,000 children, the Dis senters and Roman Catholics having accommodation ter 80,000, but there remained 60,000 without standing room in the existing schools. In • order to provide for this themselves the churchmen of the diocese must provide a special building fund of from £25,000 to £30,000. He had obtained promises, of support from Lord Derby, Lord Egerton of Tatton, - and many of the leading Church.men of the diocese. The Government medical officer, Dr. Buchanan, held a Conference yesterday at Liverpool, on the subject of the fever epidemic in that town. MR. RUSKIN ON THE WAR. The Telegraph publishes the following letter from Mr. Ruskin : " Sir,—My friends ask me why I speak no word about this war, supposing—like vain friends as they are—that I might have some poor influence of intercession for filigree work, French clocks, and' other tender articles of vertu, felt at this moment to be in grave danger. But, in the first place, I know that the just Fates will regard no intercession, either for human life or chinaware, until their will has been accomplished upon all of us. In the second, I know also that the German armies will spare what they can, and !link they ought, without taking advice of me. In the Third, I have said long ago—no one listening—the best I had to say on these matters. But, after your notice to day of the escape of M. Edouard Frere, whose gentle power I was, I believe, the first . to recognise publicly in England, it is possible that some of your readers may care to look back at that which I wrote of modern war four years ago, and to know the aspect it takes to me, new that it has come to pass. If you will reprint these few following sentences from the Crown of Wild Olive,' I shall be able to-morrow to put what I would add to them, briefly enough to claim little space in your Jolumns `lf you have to take away masses of men from all industrial employment— to feed them by the labour of others —to move them, and provide them with destructive machines, varied daily in national rival ship of inventive cost ; if you have to ravage the country which you attack—to destroy, for a score of future years. its roads, its woods, its cities, and its harbours; and if, finally, having brought masses of men, counted by hundreds of thousands, face to face, you tear those masses to pieces with jagged shot, and leave the fragments of living creatures, countlessly beyond all help of surgery. to starve and parch, through days of torture, down into clots of elay-r -what book of accounts shall record the cost of your work —what book of judgment sentence the guilt of it? That, I say, is modern war—scientific war—chemical and mechanical war—worse even than the savage's poisoned arrow. And yet you will tell me, perhaps, that any other war than this is impossible now. It may be so ; tiie pro gress of science cannot, perhaps, be otherwise regii,ered than by new facilities of destruction ; and the bro therly love of our enlarging Christianity be only proved oy multiplication of murder. But the wonder has always oeen great to me that heroism has never been supposed zonsistent with the practice of supplying people with food, or clothes, but only with that of quartering oneself upon them for food, and stripping them of their clothes. Spoiling of armour is an heroic deed in all ages ; but the selling of clothes,-old or new, has never taken any colour of magnanimity. Yet one does not see why feed ing the hungry and clothing the naked should ever become . base businesses even when engaged in m a large scale. If one could contrive to attach ;he notion of conquest to them anyhow ? so that, sup posing there were anywhere an obstinate race, who re fused to be comforted ; one might take some pride ing,iving them compulsory comfort, and, as it were, ' occupying country' with one's gifts, instead of one's armies? If me could only consider it as much a victory to get a oarren field sown as to get an eared field stripped ; and .!ontend who should build villages, instead of who should `carry' them ? Are not all forms o: heroism conceivable In doing these serviceable deeds? You doubt who is strongest ? It might be ascertained by push of spade as well as ptsili of sword. Who is wisest ? There are witty things to be thought, of in planning other bwiness than zanopaigns. Who is bravest? There are always the ele ments to fight with, stronger than men ; and nearly as merciless. And then, observe farther, this true power, the power of saving, depends s either on multitude of men, nor on extent of territory. We are continually assuming that nations become strong according to their numbers. ['hey indeed become so, if those numbers can be made of ane mind. But how are you sure you can stay them inone mind, and keep them from having north and south minds? Grant them unanimous, how know you they will be manimous in right ? If they are unanimous in wrong, the snore they are, essentially the weaker they are. Or, suppose that they can neither be of one mind, nor of two minds, but can only be of no mind ? Suppose they are a mere helpless mob, tottering into precipi tant catastrophe, like a waggon - load of stones when the wheel comes off ? Dangerous enough for their neighbours certainly, but not powerful.' Neither does strength depend on extent of territory, any more than upon number of population. Take up your maps, put the cluster of British Isles beside the mass of Soulh America, and then consider whether any race of men need care how much ground they stand upon. The strength is in the men, and in their unity and virtue, not in their standing-room. A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools ; and only that nation gains true territory that gains itself.'—l am, sir, your faithful servant, "J. Russ's. "Denmark-hill. S.E.. Oct. 6." THE MINERS' CONFERENCE, At the miners conference at Hanley, yesterday, the preeilent, Mr. Halliday, announced Lord Lichfield's willingness to assist the miners in securing elucation for boys at work in the pit. The president was authorised to assist in procuring a satisfactory Trades Union Bill. THE CAPTAIN RELIEF FUND. A town's meeting to consider the propriety of raising subscriptions towards this fund was held at the Sun Hotel, Chatham, yesterday afternoon, the High Consta ble, Mr. George Winch, presiding. Most of the influential inhabitants were present. It was stated that a number of the crew of the Captain belonged to Chatham. Resolutions were passed, appointing a committee and officers for raising subscriptions. PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE. It is stated in Dover that Prince Pierre Bonaparte crossed yesterday from Ostend in the mail packet, and proceeded to London by South-Eastern mail train. MISS RYE ARRANGING FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE. Miss Rye, who has just returned from Canada, had an interview yesterday with the Mayor of Liverpool and leading gentlemen of the town. It is expected she will shortly be assisted to take out to Canada a number of A FRENCII SUCCESS. The fight on the 30th was a pretty brisk affair, ex tending from Villeneuve-le-Roi to Villejuif and a little to the west of that place. The French fought well and inflicted considerable loss on the Germans, the latter having lost about seven hundred men with a large proportion of officers ; the former left about 200 men killed and wounded on the field, and lost 300 or 400 prisoners. Of these I saw a number coming into Villeneuve-le-Roi ; and a more mise rable, woebegone, undersized set of men, I have rarely beheld. I was, unfortunately just in time to be too late to see anything of the fight, and am not in a position to give any details about it. In the meanwhile, people are eating, drinking, and enjoying themselves at Versailles, and the town is quite gay, The inhabitants attend to their usual work ; there is no lack of food and drink ; and everything goes merry as a marriage bell. The army of Strasburg is, I believe, marching 3n Lyons. It will do the " Reds " some good to have a► little taste of the pleasures of war. The present state iaactivity cannot last long. In a few days the bom bardment will commence, if nothing can be done in the meantime to effect a peaceful solution of difficulties. I cannot help thinking that t here is still some chance of the fair city of Paris escaping the horrors of a regular siege. They claim to have two months' provisions in the town. It is nat likely that they have so much, neither is it likely that the snob will submit to half-rations ; and I think we may expect the close of the war before the chill blasts of w inter shall have stripped the trees of their sere anti yell° W leaves.- -Telegraph's Coy ral:ancient at time Ger wan, Headouarters. BABY-FARMING REVELATIONS. During a discussion on baby-farming at the Dialec tical Society's Rooms, at 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, a statement made by the convict Waters in the condemned cell on Wednesday, and which covers some 15 sides of foolscap, excited much interest. The discussion in which this statement was mentioned has originated by a paper read by Dr. Dickson, of St. Luke's Asylum on " Baby- Farming, and its Physical and Moral effects." Dr Edmunds stated that on Wednesday he bad seen the woman, Margaret Waters, now lying under sentence of death, and he received from her a statement relative to her history, and the 'rimy she conducted her system of baby-farming. The facts which she gave him revealed the particulars of a .state of things of which few people had any idea. Waters, it appeared, was a widow since 1864. In that year she was settled with her husband in Newfoundland, and was in very good circumstances. They decided to come to England on a visit, and they proceeded to Scotland. In Glasgow her husband died, and she returned to Newfoundland to wind up the family affairs, and realise whatever property remained. Having done this, she returned to England with £3OO in her possession. Intending to turn her capital to account, she took a house in Addington square, Camberwell, and put into it a number of sewing-machines. Her plan was to make collars and other such articles, and sell them to the City houses. She knew little or nothing of the business, however, and partly owing to that circumstance and partly to the miserable prices which are paid for such goods, she was, at the end of the year, a loser of £250. She then resolved to save herself by letting lodgings, and that step led her imperceptibly into the career of baby-farming. One of her first lodgers was a lady living under the protection of a city solicitor, and passing as his wife under an assumed name. Mrs. Waters did not know that she was a single woman, but believed she was really the gentleman's wife. She was confined in the house, and she then left, but said she did not wish to take the child with her, and offered to pay Mrs. Waters for nursing it. Mrs. Waters consented, and that was the first child she in any way farmed. The same lady came again, and was confined, and left another child, whom she hiA also paid every well for. Being in difiicultie3, Mrs. Waters began to think that this would be a good means of adding to her income, but she did not go into baby-farming, as yet, systematically. Some more ladies became lodgers under much the same circumstances as the first, and two of the children were also left with her. She thus had at one time four children in her care in Addington-square. She never advertised at this time. Meanwhile she was steadily going down hill, and she found herself obliged to leave Addington square and go to Bournemouth-terrace, Peckham, where she commenced the baby-farming as a system. She advertised for children, and she had answers from persons in all stations. Amongst others of her clients were a Chancery barrister, a well-known gentleman in another profession, and a gentleman whose name was re cently very much before the public in connection with another matter. She drifted along in this course, getting from bad to worse. But she protested that she had no idea of injuring the children, though she did some things she was very sorry for, owing to the difficulties of her position. She sent for her mother to come and live with her. Her father, in 1868, died insane. Her mother strongly disapproved of her taking in children, and she therefore opened up a new line of the business. She took the Clerken well News, and there she used to find a whole string of advertisements from women who wanted children to nurse. She advertised herself for children to adopt, and she generally got £l6 with one. When she got the child and the money she went to one of the other adver tisers in the Clerkenwell News, and arranged to put the baby out to nurse. Upon paying two weeks in advance she was hardly ever asked even for her address, and when she went away, of course she never heard anything more of the child. She gained the difference between the £lO given her for adopting the child, and the fortnight's pay ment for nursing it. This was, after all, only a very pre carious resource, an 4 she fell into great distress. She went to a money-lender (whose name she does not conceal), and borrowed £2B from him on her furniture. He deducted £l4 of the £2B for " expenses," and made her pay £2los. a month until the whole £2B was paid him. Whenever shd was a few days behindhand in paying one of the in stall:l:tants, he threatened to seize all her things, and he only desisted upon being paid 10s. by way of fine. When the £2B was paid back in this way, she was so reduced that she was obliged to get another loan from the money lender on the same terms. All this took place while she was at Bournemouth-terrace. At this time the children were as well attended to as she could manage it ; and a medical man was always called in when they fell sick. When they died they were buried properly, and she had the undertakers' receipts. Dr. Pickstocke.certified as to the cause of death of several. The time came soon when she was unable to pay the money-lender his instalments, and he threatened to strip her of everything under her bill of sale. She owed besides twelve months' rent. She took another house and removed her things during the night. The money-lender found her out, and said he would prosecute her for removing the goods. She moved a second time, but was again dis covered by the money-lender. She then, with the help of some one, moved again, and changed her name so as to conceal herself from the money-lender, of whom she was in mortal fear. This, she affirms, was her sole motive for the change of name which so told against her. When the policeman in plain clothes looked in through the window in Brixton she thought it was the money lender's people that found her out once more. When she went to Brixton five children died, some from diarrhoea and wasting, and others frcm con vulsions. She was very poor, and determined to save the price of burial by leaving them about. She wrapped the bodies in brown paper and took them out at night and left them where they were found by people afterwards. She maintains that she did what she could for these children, and attended to them to the best of her power. There were also four other children whom she got rid of in a way for which she is now very sorry. She took them one at a time into the streets, and when she saw little boys and girls at play, she called one of them and said, " Oh, lam so tired ! Here, hold my baby, and here is sixpence for you to go into the sweetstuff shop and get something nice." While the boy or girl went into the shop she made off. The babies, she believes, were gene rally taken to the workhouse. On one occasion, the boy to whom she gave one was served so quick that he came out again before she had time to get away. She therefore stepped into an oyster shop, and ordered some oysters. She saw the boy looking up and down with the baby in his arms, and when he did not see her he began to cry. Some people gathered, and a policeman came up, to whom the boy sheaved the baby. The policeman then walked away with the boy, and she left the oyster shop and got off safe. Some of the persons who gave her the children for adoption were evidently well off. The babies were very well dressed. She used to have appoint ments often to meet parties at the railway stations, and a gentleman, accompanied by a nurse, would give her the child. Sometimes the children were given her within an hour after they were born—in less time, in fact, and before they were even dressed. One of the children found by the police at Brixton had been given to her only two days before. She gat £2O with it, and the people that gave it promised her any sum if she only took good care of it. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN CORK. CoRK, Thursday, 10 a.m.—At five o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in the large soap and candle manu factory of Messrs. Clark and Son, tobacconists, Cork. On account of the combustible nature of the materials stored in the building, the flames spread with remarkable rapidity, and for some time threatened the destruction of the adjoining buildings, of which the Blind Asylum stood the most in danger. The efforts to confine the fire to Messrs. Clarke's premises were ultimately successful, although by nine o'clock these were totally destroyed. The amount of property consumed is immense, and it is impossible at present to estimate the damage. The Levant Herald says the Sultan has sent a splendid jewelled snuff-box, bearing the Imperial cypher, to Mustapha Fazzyl Pasha, and his Highnes had au audi ence of his Majesty to thank him for this new token of his favour. The'London Ladies' Educational Association,which will be . in full work again next November, with courses of English and French Literature and Language, Logic, Experimental Physics and Chemistry, by Professors of these subjects in University College, opens next Tuesday evening. It is rumoured, says the Inverness Advertiser that the Prince of Wales has some intention of making an early purchase of a Highland residence, and he looks favourably on Auchnashellach, as one of the most lovely and i oma,ntic, and at the same time the most retired, spots in the Highlands. ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-A train from Garston to St. Helens ran into a pilot engine, at Widnes, at midnight on Tuesday. Considerable damage was done to railway property, and the line was blocked for some time, but no one sustained serious injury. The accident is attributed to the engine driver of the Garston train having left his engine in care of a fireman who was unacquainted with the signals. OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning THE ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND.. The Times believes that the English Ministry have been Perfectly right in refusing to join. in the war at any point of its progress. It has been said that if the Ministry had promptly pronounced a similar judgment with no uncertain souna, the Emperor would have re coiled from his undertaking. They shrank from what they deemed a brutum fu/men, but if we can explain we cannot be expected wholly to approve a reticence we ourselves cast aside. But, while protesting against the war, we should have been bound—we must speak plainly—to make sure of our allies before engaging in it. It was impossible for us, a natioir treasuring the authority of Parliaments as the highest law, to be confident that we could always co-operate cordially with Ministers who trampled upon . Parliamentary freedom. .We have some superstitious feelings about the obligations of Treaties, even if we are, as the Germans tell us, indifferent to indignity, and NA could trot but re membef that the stipulations of the Treaty of Prague, securing the liberty of North Schleswig, had been disregarded as a dead letter. We have no wish to recriminate, but it is necessary to defend ourselves when. we are wrongfully accused, and we have, perhaps, said enough to shew why we could not have taken up arms to assist Germany in repelling France. The real charge we have meet is that we abstain from interference against Germany when her Ministers proclaim their intention of annexing a portion of France. With our clear opinion as to the wrongfulness, not only of the Emperor, but of France also, at the commencement of the war, it must be acknow ledged that intervention in the middle of it would under no circumstances be easy. France has brought her punishment upon herself, and the adjustment of the proper degree of punishment is a question of great nicety. The excess of penalty must be something very gross,and apparent to impose any obligation of interference. If our consciences acquit us after the most careful and dis passionate consideration of the faults laid to our charge, we shall rest on their verdict, and await the future with unshaken confidence. THE HOUR BUT NOT THE MAN. ' The hour has clime, but not the man, exclaims the Daily Ncic. At no time during these recent and disastrous months of her history has France been so urgently in need of a man of daring and genius—a man capable of creating a " cry," and ready to guide into an effec tive channel that flood of enthusiasm and patriotism which as yet is only bubbling up in solitary and ineffectual springs throughout the departments. Paris waits and listens for the country ; the country waits and looks towards Paris ; and both in vain scan the horizon for any signs of the coming saviour. Ever since incompetence and inaction destroyed the corps d'armee which lay along the German frontier, France has been offering opportunities to anyone able 'to seize them ; but if there be a Napoleon Bonaparte in any of her provinces, he would seem to be still studying mathematics, or composing a pamphlet on artil lery. The situation is bad enough ; but it is no more desperate than it was in the autumn of 1792. When Dumouriez went to review the troops at Sedan they openly • swore at him as being one of those who had helped to - declare war. Brunswick had engaged to dine in Paris ; and was advancing upon the capital unopposed. Municipal valour had evaporated ; the soldiers were mutinous anal, ill-provided ; the country was overrun with Prussians and Austrians ; and France saw herself on the brink of destruction. The story of the release of Vrance from these perilous straits has been affording much-needed consolation to the Parisians during these past few weeks, and they have not been slow to say that 1792 shall find its parallel in 1870. Yet the parallel is wanting in its most im portant point. There is no Dumouriez at present. Here and there France murmurs •of revenge, and in certain districts corps are being formed which the Govenunent would fain call armies. But there is no man to stir up and use a great popular enthusiasm, and France merely waits. Every day that passes increases her peril. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. The 74,1egraph remarks that Paris places her hope not in the six hundred thousand fighting men said to be within her walls, nor in her omt vast lines of defence, but iu some external aid which is to come up from the north, south, or west, and suddenly " save her." She is told by her Government and journals alike, that France is rising, and that for the " thirty or forty thousand Prussians " disengaged at Strasburg, two hundred thousand men from the Loire and the Rhone will arise and march to her deliverance. In apparent sym pathy with the belief, General Trochu allows the foe to strengthen himself with the formidable earthworks which the Prussian engineers construct so well ; and, indeed, the Government seems rather amused that the enemy should entrench so busily. Where are the two hundred thousand French troops for whom Paris waits ? There are fitful levies here and there, feverish attempts at resistance which melt away before a handful of Uhlans : but the only solid regiments to be heard of are around Tours and in Normandy. If the people will not or can not rise, the inference seems to be that Paris must succumb, and, in her turn, have a statue of brass instead of marble._ In fact, look where he will, to the beleaguered capital, the bewildered country, or to the great border fortress just yielded, the heart of France appears ossified, and her quick brain dull mad corrupted. It lives to-day, as before, on false statements and fictitious hopes; and, ineradicably sentimental when it should be most serious, it is going to cast a bronze Strasburg to commemorate the drunken mutineers who forced the brave Uhrich to open his gates. THE CHANGE OF ENGLISH SENTIMENT. The Standard maintains that a complete and con spicuous change has taken place in English sentiment as regards the war,' and observes :—'Whatever of enthusi asm the triumphs of the German war may have awakened in England at the commencement of the campaign was due solely to the consideration that she was waging a war of self-defence, that she was repelling the invader, that she was fighting for her existence. "As the Germans are now carrying on the war solely to compel a cession of territory, the war is from this moment aggressive on the part of Germany and defensive on the part of France." We quote the words from Prussia's most consis tent advocate, the Spectator, a weekly journal whose influence is as considerable as it is confessed, and we'quote them merely because they briefly contain the true reason and the real secret why English sympathies have undergone the change which they have. The character of the war is altered, United France asserts fit the point of German bayonets and German guns the fact of its national existence ; it is Prussia which, for the present, enjoys the monopoly of the aggressive role. It is satisfactory that Englishmen are able to see the true relative positions of the combatants, that they know what the Prussian wishes for peace, as exhibited in the negotiations for an armistice, were worth ; that they realise the fact that' had M. Favre accepted the conditions proposed by Count Bismarck as a preliminary to the meeting of the Constituent Assembly, it would have been, as the Spectator says, " a mean form of concluding it there and then," and that it would have cast on their body the onus of a responsibility which was in reality already saken out of their hands. "As the Germans have made up their minds for conquest "—we quote again from the weekly organ of English Radicalism—no better course " could have been decided on he the Provisional Govern ment than to fight on." These, we think, are facts suffi ciently comprehensive to account for the change in English sentiments as regard s the war. But they are far from being all that it is possible or that it is easy to cite. Englishmen are at last beginning to see that if Germany desired a durable peace she would be anxious to remove all possibility of a future out break of the quarrel. But Count Bismarck actually challenges a future quarrel—" As we shall shortly have another war with you," said the German Chancellor to M. Favre. Thank goodness we at last know what the Prus• sian idea of a guaranteed peace is. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One shilling day, Thursday, Oct. 6th, 1870.—Admission by season tickets, 4,034; do. on payment, 10,058. Total visitors, 14,092. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI-. CULTURAL, HALL, ISLINGTON. - The number. of visi tors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors and others, on the 6 inst. was 2,742. WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE, 45, GREAT ORMOND STREET, W.C.—The seventeenth session will begin on Monday next, the 10th instant, when the classes will resume for now members. The Principal —the Rev. F. D. Maurice, M.A., (Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge,) will deliver the inaugural address on Thurs day, the 13th, at 8.30 p.m. The Art classes, to be held in the new rooms, comprise Life— Antique— Pencil and Chalk—Water Colour—Ornament and Perspective. THE TRUCK COMMISSION.--A West of England paper understands that Mr. T. W. Booker, an ironmaster, has been advised to institute proceedings against the Truck Act Commissioners, who are now at Cardiff, for entering his office and shop stores, and removing books and papers therefrom, on the 26th ult., and that notice of the intended action has already been given. The affair has caused much excitement in the district. k