The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-08 00:00:00

----- , THE Sl° Li) before Si r ith conspirin" that it No! i n anoo-Pruss ian >mas Cole de' hoe-lane, An hat one of the early par t of the 29th se a. and tookitr. L4s. 9d. receipt Pre" aid : On the Lowed peke was peke 3 asked Jo le9 mall boo k° , Jones re' Whellhate said he ws B at town. O le received r about fou r ° examinati °ll ' tion Souje t li number ot ritness di Is. each. The Is. a t 2s. 20. price was they had 0 1, 1 ' om they W simply CO ey found thel tional Sado* e resided 0 t town. Wit lees absence; er he re ceive , He bad li ° The I caps. -, t , nce of Nviti , ading, !se some sli t ; rellham, aft er lay from thl hotels ail' re the charges - w se boys, ho ;went, of gl 's • obtaining Mr. Walters sons with the ispiring with ,ttempting thers, divere intention t° efence, using mduct'of the ion. He de' ney for tll . ° 3ressing ,_ Wellhanl or that I n , commenulu3 y, his house, He shou ld considerab h l he contend ed )etween 1 4 5 The learns. m from Si r generallY, opinion tiW Le most bens; rd committee' AthenceuA t to certajo r music four e music for letter frosty uake which iter says les a minute . of hundred Le the °pap' egraphed ley had f,el! r was hardy be raven'" at the last or and par t niblishing 1g was fount` ust be Pr cr , Mr. Lend ;once. TB ° ig the whol e ag been go t ould appea r ting circura into. 3 Goverir stood, been House, th e land-square , market for %ordinal the )alace. The ion of it )f the Boar: 3rstood that the Reghr Labitation. other illUr own in Ger" called the, or policy 0 ' 1 distinction ;er a protest Tire. TO e a persona l the arrange' isoner ;and defendant' s the proseety luite 3 the acts ° 3d, and sew trkest Wel eaner set ol ;y guinea s Saturday t o I left Liver• h coals. - 4 mouldinged ebuoy an en p i cked v belong to rtain as the Silvia is an zis port, 03 and Green:, r purchase' t. She wai 4 anted Pre" Cynosure, September w York 1 1 1 1 of Messrs. —iiiveroe/ SPECIAL EDITION. SUN OFVICE, 7 P.M. LATEST I NTELLI GEN CE. THE . WAR. THE FRENOH LEVY EN MASSE. LILLE, November 7. It is estimated that the effect of the decree of the Government for a levy en masse will be that France Ilill number three millions of armed defenders, Possessing a powerful artillery up to this time un exampled. The Government at Tours has received intelligence of a general fermentation amoT4 the inhabitants of the territory actually occupied by the Prussians in the east of France. The Mayor of Lyons has issued the following proclamation " The Municipal Council, inspired by necessity, decrees as follows : " Rather than submit to the shame of surrender, Lyons will be defended until complete annihilation; Women, children, and aged persons only will be allowed to leave. Cowards in face of the enemy Inn be considered as deserters." THE FRENCH REPULSED AT BELFORT. General Triskow reports to Head-quarters at ersailles, that on the 6th he repulsed several attacks between Colmar and Belfort. In an engage- Ment with the Mobile Guards at Roigemont, the French lost five officers and 103 men. P ROCLAMATION OF GENERAL GARIBALDI. The following Proclamation has been issued by General Garibaldi : htilitia of the Army of the Vosges !—The cosmopolitan nucleus that the French Republic is rallying in her °Qat, composed of men chosen in the elite of nations, represents humanitarian future, and upon the banner of this noble group you can read the motto of a free people, which will soon be the watchword of the human family, "All for 0115 , one for all" Egotism governs the world, and autocracy c ombats certainly in the French Republic the germ of the li ghts of man, which it abhors ; genius of evil, it makes ev. erY effort for its preservation. „ And the people ? Modern Republics like ancient Car rage swim in gold and sybaritism, whilst despots shake "ands amidst the darkness they enjoy, and profit by the misfortune of a brother people. Helvetia, believing her self 'weak, holds down her head, and covers, with the holy flag of William Tell, her money chests and her banks. Grant, who by a single sign of his finger could have despatched the soldiers of Prim home to Madrid, permits pe aceably an entire population belonging to the grand t ' a Mily of Washington to be massacred and to be destroyed, ft od barely allows the great Republic to utter a word of 43111 Pathy for the valiant sons of Lafayette. „ And thou, proud and classic ground, refuge of the exile, hou who has first proclaimed the emancipation of races, a tid who to-day enjoyest the triumph of thy courageous i nitiative, wilt thou leave alone in its gigantic struggle t hat sister nation which, like thee, marches, and will march, in the van of human progress ? In the heroic struggle which France is sustaining there c an only be found the debris of an army of brave men, Which the most stupid of tyrants conducted to defeat. •unt the nation is there ! risen like one man, she will cause the old autocrat soon to repent of his determination to continue his butchery of men. What a noble mission therefore is ours ! 'Sons of liberty, Oite of all people. Oh, no ! I would not change my title ° f militiaman of the Republic for a crown. Apostles of peace and of the fraternity of peoples, we ar e compelled to fight, and we shall fight with the proud e° 2 l adousness of justice, whilst consecrating the formula the illustrious Chenier "Republicans are men, and slaves are children." Your courage I do not doubt ; all I ask of you is coolness and discipline—indispensable in war. G. GARIBALDI. THE LATE PEACE NEGO TIATIONS. A- despatch from the Prussian head-quarters at Ver 4allies, states that after the French Government had de clined the offer of an armistice on the basis of a mi litary status quo, Bismarck proposed that the Fr ench Government of Defence should appoint a tithe for the elections, and announce when they sh ould be held; and it was proposed that the elec °l-18 should take place in the occupied parts of Fr ance without an armistice, the Germans agreeing t_ respect the freedom of election. This offer M. g lers, after consultation with Favre and Trochu, had to decline, as he had received orders to with-. 1.417 from any further negotiations. According to information received from Paris, it tr Tears that M. Favre full the majority of the l loistry were i n fa v our of the elections for the C onstituent Assembiy, and the acceptance of the atolistice as proposed by M. Thiers. The Defender ° I Paris, General Trochu, was opposed to such a P t oceeding, and it will be seen his opinion has pre-. The German Commander-in-Chief has I . 4lP led an order that no person for ,the future 1 : to be all owe d t o l e a v e or enter Paris. This order as been occasioned in consequence of the discovery of certain documents found in two captured balloons, Passengers in which have been brought beforo a Court Martial. VERSAILLES, November 7. The negotiations for an armistice are at an end. I ‘ l . Thiers went to visit Count Bismarck yesterday at t wo o'clock. % his return it was believed that an armistice had bee n agreed to, as the forts were so silent. I , At six o'clock this morning M. Thiers started for The negoti a ti o ns for an Armistice have failed, as the demand for the reprovisioning of Paris could net be complied with. 4 , 4l lother telegram from Versailles states that . the s tatus of an armistice, on the basis of the military the quo, was frequently made to M. Thiers during tLae, live day& negotiations which took place, but „" as he demanded the re-victualling of Paris, 1 -I 'hout offering any military equivalent, his terms the n egotiations Considered unacceptable by the Germans, and n egotiations were broken off. BERLIN, November 7. 2 110 Berlin semi-official Norddeutsche Zeitung ta " tThe French Government and that portion of e people wh o voluntarily or involuntarily allow iis eniselves to be guided by them having refused to fo t ea to reason th e cannon w ill b e resor t e d t o p o r g i ving them a lesson. We have done all in our th .wer to sp are th e un f or t un at e c a pital of France the lad catastrophe. Those who, having usurped government of France, lack the courage to t; ° gaize facts and- accep t the consequences of t 4: situatio n , w ill b e respons ibl e for the blood of i i thousand s w ho w ill suffer from the impending Banters,,) 4f ll e Vienna Correspondens, a semi-official organ th e b . t he Austrian Government, says the fact of ef ti , i ng of Prussia o ff ering peace before the gates th a c, e ,hard-pressed French capital is a guarantee wii,bnere will be nothing in the terms incompatible the honour of the French. Of course the th e ene h must comprehend that, being vanquished, l iojL e annot expect an immunity which they would have accorded as victors. CHATEA.UDUN RETAKEN. A tei LE MANS, November 7 (2p.m.). co,_ _ —e gram states that an armistice is refused by tu° l- 1 accord of the Government of Paris and Tours. h re at T ° new Army Corps are directed to be formed o nce. Chateaudun Was retaken by the French yesterday. FIGEITING IN THE EAST OF FRANCE. Intelligence :arrives by way of Berne that on the 6th heavy cannonading was heard in the direction of Belfort and Montbeliard. The village of Vezilois has been set on fire by the French, and the entire population have fled towards Switzerland. THE VOTING IN FRANCE. PARIS, November 0. It is now announced that the total result of the voting in Paris on Thursday was 667,976 ayes, and 02,638 noes. In the Paris Official Journal of Sunday reference is made to arrests which have taken place in conse quence of the disturbances on the 31st. The Govern ment, it is stated, would be willing to over look the violence then displayed, but for the fact that fresh intrigues are threatening the peace of the Republic. Proceedings against the rioters were at once, therefore, to be taken. Perfect order prevailed in Paris. At the elections for mayors which took place on Saturday, some partisans of the '' Commune" were elected, but the majority of the candidates raturned are described as belonging to the Republican party. STRENGTHENING THE DEFENCES OF PARIS. BERLIN, November 7, (3 p.m.) M. Thiers has written to the Pope informing him that he has advocated his cause .at all the Courts visited on his late diplomatic journey. All the Courts were ready to consider his case at the coming Congress, and would grant him a position worthy of the Vicegerent of Christ. The French have constructed a continuous line of fresh earthworks, redoubts, and rifle pits between Mont Val6rien and St. Denis. Direct railway communication between Nancy and Metz has been restored. The Prefecture of German Lorraine is removed from Sarreguemines to Metz. FEARFUL CONDITION OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED. BERLIN, November 7 (1.10 a.m.). it is stated here that the intention of the medical authorities to transport a portion of the French sick and wounded from Metz and Germany cannot be carried out, owing to the prevalence among them of typhus fever, smallpox, hospital fever, and other contagious diseases. THE FRENCH FLEET. Nine French men-of-war have been seen ton miles west of Heligoland. ARREST OF BARON HAUSSMANN. The Revell des Alpes Maritimes says that M. Haussmann was arrested in his villa of Montborou' at Nice, on the 31st ult. ITALY AND ROME. FLORENCE, November 6. It is understood that the King's entrance into Rome will be postponed until after the general elections. While the Diplomatic Body in Florence will accompany the King, the representatives of the Foreign Powers in Rome will, it is believed, abtain from any official recognition of the entrance. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF WALES AT WINDSOR. The. Prince of Wales, attended by Major Grey, arrived at Windsor yesterday, by the 11.5 a.m., train on the Great Western Railway. His Royal Highness was met by Prince Christian and Sir Hugh Seymour Blanc, and the party proceeded to the royal preserves at Flemish Farm, Windsor Great Park, for the purpose of pheasant shooting. THE LANCASHIRE PRESBYTERY AND PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOLS. At a meeting of the Lancashire Presbytery of the Eng lish Presbyterian Church, yesterday, the Rev. C. Pater soiynoved that the Presbytery overture the Synod to take means to have its schools made rate-provided under school boards. The motion was modified and made more general, but was rejected by a large majority. A com plaint was read from some members of the Grosvenor square Schools Church, Manchester, to the effect that the Kirk Session had, without consulting the congregations, substituted kneeling for standing at prayer, and standing for sitting at singing. The Presbytery expressed satis faction with the conduct of the session. OPENING OF THE NEW UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, GLASGOW. The new buildings of the Glasgow University were formally opened yesterday. The proceedings were con ducted within the Hunterian Museum. The Duke of Montrose, Chancellor of the University, presided, and amongst those present were the Marquis of Bute, the Lord Justice General, Mr. Gordon, M.P., Sir Edward Colebroke, M.P., Mr. A. Orr Ewing, M.P. Lord Derby, the Lord Rector, was expected to be present, but was unable to attend. The Duke of Montrose con gratulated the Principal and professors upon the success which had attended their efforts, and that they had lived to see the opening day of the new University. The merchants of Glasgow had made princely fortunes, which was creditable to their talents and their industry, but it was still more creditable to them that they had made such a use of their riches as to enable the new noble building to be erected for the education of the rising generation. Professor Lushington delivered an address, specially prepared for the occasion, and Mr. A . Orr Ewing, M.P., stated that from subscriptions and from Government £254,000 had been obtained, and £117,000 had been received for the ground upon which the old college stood. Every thing in connection with the new building was paid. There was still, however, required the sum of £350 for a hospital, and £640 for a college hall. Of the £150,000 raised in public subscriptions, Glasgow had given nearly all. The University was declared open, and the various classes will meet to-day. Mr. Gilbert Scott, of London, who is the architect, was absent through serious illness. A banquet took place in the evening. THE HON. F. LEVESON GOWER, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. The Hon. F. Leveson Gower, M.P., addressed his con stituents at Bodmin last night. Speaking of the war, he said he believed the general sympathy in England was with Germany, France being the aggressor. Still, he thought the French people preferred peace. His brother, Earl Granville, had carried out the wishes of England to the best of his ability, and had done all that was possible in the way of securing a cessation of hostilities. The hon. gentleman said he was in favour of this country keeping up a small efficient army and a thoroughly effi cient navy, and was utterly opposed to balloting for the militia. THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT. A meeting of the clergy and laity of the Archdeaconry of Coventry was held yesterday afternoon in St. Mary's Hall, Coventry. The Bishop of Worcester was in the chair. His lordship said he expectei very beneficial oesults from the operations of the Act. He believed the difficulties talked of were more imaginary than real. The Act had already worked good. It had quick ened educational zeal throughout the country in a most wonderful manlier. Resolutions in favour of securing religious teaching in elementary schools, and declaring the need of more training schools for masters and mistresses, wereipassed. Mr. Newdegate advocated the union of all denominations in teaching upon the basis that the Bible is the Word of God. RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BROUGH. A railway accident occurred at Brough yesterday. One man is said to be killed, and Mr. Travis, the sti. pendiary magistrate of Hull, slightly injured. COLLISION AT SEA. The Kestrel, a Hull steam-vessel from Rotterdam, was in collision near Helvort, about one o'clock on Sunday morning, with a steamer, supposed to be the Aurora of London. The bulwarks of the Kestrel stove in. The other vessel sunk, and the crew went on shore. The Kestrel arrived at Hull this morning. WRECK OF A STEAMER. During the fog, the Lamona steamer, coal laden, from Sunderland to Hamburg, got ashore at the entrance to the Elbe, in the absence of buoys, and became a total wreck. The crew were saved. 'BE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 8, 1.870. THE MONEY MARKET. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLooR. LIVERPOOL RAGES—Tins DAY. Business on the Stock Exchange to-day was on a small scale. Consols are now quoted at 93 to 931 for money, and 93a for account. New and Reduced, KO to 91 ; Bank Stock, 230 to 232. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CROXTETH HURDLE HANDICAP. The Foreign Market is firm, but quiet, at last night's prices. Spanish of 1867, 31ii to 31'1 ; ditto of 1869, 311 to 31. Turkish Five per Cents., 46i l o 461; ditto of 1869, 534 to 544 ; Egyptian of 1868, 78} to 79 ; Italian, 554 to 56k. The new French Loan is quoted 2 to 21 prem. The quotations from the Berlin Bourse shew great steadiness, and thus indicate that at that city the rupture of the armistice negotiations can have created no sur prise. Miss Banks Age= Silvennere ...... . Six ran. BECHER HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE. Chevalier d'Esprit. TRIAL STAKES. The Bee Queen Bessie ... Tippler The directors of the Caledonian Railway Company have made a call of £lBs. per share on the ordinary shares of £lO each, created on the 24th May. Messrs. C. Devaux and Co. have received x despatch, advising them that the numbers of the Bucharest mid Giurgevo Railway Bonds, drawn in conformity with the terms of the prospectus issued, were published in Bucharest on the 6th inst. Cygnet g ••• Triplithong Recovery... •.. The report of the United Mexican Mining Company, to be presented on 9th inst., shows a loss of $,3,066 on the old undertakings, and that $17,578 has been expended in opening ont the new property. The manager of the " London Suburban Bank (Limited)" writes to say that the new petition presented for winding up the establishment is like the previous one, wholly without ground. It is stated ; ,that lan invention of importance will be brought before:the Society of Arts on the 21st of December for a new method of lighting i towns, factories, private houses, railway carriages, &c., by vegetable and mineral oils, by Mr. Albert Silber. Berger, Spence and Co.'s weekly report says : Towards the close of last week we had to report that scarcely the amount of trade had been done in chemicals generally as had been transacted in the three weeks previous. Since then, however, the market has recovered its elasticity and firmness—largely augmented prices having been quoted for forward contracts—and as paper makers have a pro spectively good trade before them, no reduction can be anticipated. In minerals there has been the usual demand, both hematite and oolitic ores maintaining full prices. There has been a little more liveliness exhibited in the metal trade during the past week, and it is to be hoped this may prove the premonitory symptom of a general improvement. Scotch and Cleveland pig irons aro selling moderately, and copper is in good demand at stiffening prices. Tin remains quiet and unaltered; but in lead a good business is doing, and slightly better prices are obtainable. Spelter continues dull and neglected. THE NEW LORD MAYOR-THIS DAY. The Lord Mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, and other members of the Corporation of the City of London proceeded in state to the Guildhall for the purpose of taking part in the ceremony of swearing in Mr. Alderman Dakin as Lord Mayor of London, and inducting him in his new office. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, the Lord Mayor divested himself of his chain of office, and conferred it upon Mr. Alderman Dakin, who then took the oaths and made the customary decla rations. He received the congratulations of his friends, and was loudly cheered. As soon as he had been formally installed, the various members of the Corpora tion who held their offices from year to year, approached the Lord Mayor and gave up the insignia of their respec tive offices, which his lordship was pleased to restore to them. The ceremony attracted many visitors. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS FIT SUBJECTS FOR A REFORMATORY.—Two boys, who gave the names of William Brown and Edward Johnson, were charged, at the Thames Police-Court, with stealing bacon in three shops in the Hamlet of Bateliff. Cox, a police-constable, stopped the prisoners. One of them was carrying a bag containing three pieces of prime bacon. One piece weighed 21bs., another 31bs., and the third 6lbs. The prisoners were identified by three shopkeepers, whose places they entered and solicited alms in the shape of bread, and stole a piece of bacon, when the shopman's attention was with drawn. They entered another chandler's shop on a similar errand, and diversified their honesty by purloining .a few herrings and a German sans 'c. The bacon and herrings were identified. Both lads said they were 16 years of age, Brown was really so, and Mr. Lushington sentenced him to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. The boy, who gave the name of Johnson, said he was 16, to save himself from a reformatory, but his father, Henry Dove, an honest, hard-working, steady man, said his son had given a fictitious name, and that his name wios Edward John Dove, of No. 7, King's Arms Court, Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars, and he was 12 years of age on the 25th of last September. H e was one of nine children he had to maintain. Mr. Lushing ton : Have you sent him to any kind of school ? Dove : I have, sir, and done all in my power to make a good boy of him. Mr. Lushington : I shall send him to a reforma tory for five years, and that will save him from destruc tion. Dove : Thank your worship. Mr. Lushington : For the present the boy is remanded for a week. The prisoner : I am 16. Mr. Lushington : No, you are not. I shall take your father's word, and stop your career of pilfering. A NICE GRANDSON.—AIfred William Cattley, a young man, described as a porter, was charged before Mr. Mans field, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with assault ing Mrs. Ann Hoyton, of No. 6, Lower John-street, Golden Square. Mr. Moore, of the Associate Institute for Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women, watched the case. The complainant said the prisoner, her grandson, and whom she had kept during the last 13 weeks in consequence of his being out of employ, went out yesterday evening, and returned about two o'clock that morning in .a state of intoxication. He took off one of his boots and threw it down on the floor making a great noise, and on her requesting him to be quiet he took up a lump of glass, and with it set to smashing all the things on the mantel-piece, and tried to break the looking-glass. She caught hold of him to prevent his doing so, and he then struck her in the eye with a lump of glass. She was of opinion the prisoner was not right in his mind, as a short time ago he tore up all her and his sister's clothes, and she could at times make nothing of him. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was remanded, Mr. Mansfield stating that the state of his mind would be in quired into in the meantime. THE MARQUIS TOWNSHEND AND THE BEGGARS. — Annie Sardin, a little girl, was charged before Mr. Mans field, at the above court, by the Marquis Townshend, with begging. The Marquis Townshend proved seeing the girl at a carriage door, begging of ladies, and when she saw him she ran away. He had known the prisoner as a beggar for some time, and sweeping a crossing; and his object in giving her into custody was to rescue her from a life of demoralization, and to take her out of the streets and from such a life. Mr. Mansfield remanded the prisoner, to see what can be done with her. The Portsmouth correspondent of the Daily News states that Messrs. Gambier and Rumble, the officers who were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for certain Admiralty frauds, have been liberated. It is stated that Mr. W. Gurdon, the County Court Judge of Essex, who was somewhat seriously . indis posed at the commencement of last week, but who Is now better, is about to resign his post. The celebration of the 6th of November anniver sary passed over quietly everywhere in Ulster, except Lurgan, where an Orange drumming party entered the town on the nights of both Saturday and Sunday. On the latter evening some disturbance took place, in which Mr. John Hancock, J.P., the agent for Lord Lurgan, and the magistrate in charge of the constabulary, on the occasion, received a serious wound on the head. There seems every prospect of the proposed railway between Scarboro' and Whitby being proceeded with. A meeting with that object was held on Wednesday evening when it was announced that it would cost about £lOO,OOO, and a resolution passed pledging the meeting to support the scheme. GENTLEMANLY STUDENTS.—Dr. Simpson, of Glasgow, the recently elected professor to the Chair of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, attempted on Wednesday to deliver his introductory address to the medical students. The uproar, however, was so great, and the conduct of the students so disgraceful, that the proceedings had to be brought hurriedly to a dose. Prin cipal Grant and Professor Christison in vain attempted to quell the tumult. FR OM PARIS TO LONDON.—A merchant who left Paris on the 29th of October arrived in London yesterday—the whole of the intervening time having been absorbed by the difficulties of the jour ney, although every facility was afforded him. He states that the Parisians when he left were still full of hope, believing that their deliverance will be effected by large armies from the pro vinces. With regard to food his report is that the supply of meat was already failing, but that if the people could live on bread and wine they might last out for two months and a half. Ten ran. WATERLOO WELTER. Seven ran. KNOWSLE Y NURSERY. Heirloom Barefoot Better Half ...... Eleven ran. WELTER CUP. Eugenie colt Westley... Forget-me-Not Four ran. FLYING STAKES. Countryman Roma Badswortli... Fourteen ran. CITY BET'T'ING—Tms DAY. ... 1 LIVERPOOL CUP. 11 to 2 agst Rosicrucian (offered-6 to 1 taken and wanted) 6to 1 agst Blandford (taken and offered-100 to 15 laid once) 9to 1 agst Musket (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Cardinal York (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Exciseman (offered) 100 to 8 agst Barford (offered) 100 to 8 agst Syrian (offered) 100 to 6 agst Flibustier (taken freely). 100 to 4 agst.Cecil (offered) 100 to 3,agst Fleets (taken and offered) 500 to 5 agst Ware Hare (offered) 500 to 5 agst White Slave (offered) 6to 1 agst W. Day's lot (taken to £5O) 100 to 8 agst Cecil, with a start (taken) 200 to 8 agst Fleets, with a start (taken) 6to 1 agst Cardinal York, with a start (taken) THE OPERA COMIQUE. The management of this new theatre seem fully alive to the charm of novelty, inasmuch as a change has already been effected in the programme. Last night, Mdd►e. Dejazet appeared in a fresh role, the play selected being "Le Marquis de Lauzun," a two-act comedy by M. M. Carmouche and Vermond. A piece thoroughly characteristic of the French stage, with sparkling dialogue, little plot, and less scenery, and evi dently written to bring out the especial powers of the actress, and sacrificing all other con siderations to that end. Mdlle. Dejazet sustains no less than five different characters, appearing succes sively as Traveller, Professor, Sportsman, a Timid Boy, and finally as The Marquis. Her performance was excellent throughout, and making allowance for the thinness of her voice, the song of "La Chasse " could not have been better rendered, whilst her singing in the love-making scene was enthusiastically encored. In the conduct of the present series of French plays at this house the management might borrow a hint from the Italian Opera, where books are furnished with the Anglicised version of the piece produced ; and if this plan was carried out at the Opera Comique, the per formances would doubtless be patronized by many English families who are not thoroughly au fait with the French language, but who, under these circumstances, could not help enjoying an .evening at this, the prettiest theatre in London. " The Marquis de Lauzun " was preceded by " Une Mauvaise nuit est bienfOt passee," and followed by " Une tas.se de The." AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Accounts of the situation in China up .to the 15th September come by the newspapers and letters from Shanghai. Ono correspondent writes :—" The Taotai of Chinkiang first warned foreign consuls, on the sth instant, that ho apprehended an attack on foreigners by the rowdies and braves quartered in the neighbourhood, adding that he hail appointed an an officer specially to search out those who had been instrumental in getting up the excitement. Whether in consequence of the Taotai's activity or not, the danger passed over quietly, and to trouble occurred. Chinkiang has never been behindhand when there has been a chance of turbulence. It has a Tartar garrison, which is an element of danger to begin with. Report says that the Taotai was horribly frightened by the news of the Ma's assassination, and at once changed his sleeping room and his body guard. Placards were posted at Kinkiang on the 7th inst., threatening an attack on foreigners on the 29th of the current month, but they were at once torn donn by the authorities. There are reasons at this port also for attaching weight to any hostile manifestation. The General cemmanding the troops there happens to be the adoptive father of Chen-kwo-gui, the leader of the Tien tsin rioters, whose execution Count Rochechouart demand, and he declares that if a hair of the head of his reputable protegé be hurt he will drive every foreigner into the river. As he has 8,000 men, and the foreigners are only 30, there is no serious danger of opposition to deter him. The presence of her Majesty's gunboat Firm, however, is a solace. Chefoo next had its share of excitement on the 12th. Some Tien-tsin men got up a row in the native town, which the authorities feared might spread to the native settlement. They were up on the watch all night, and had troops in readiness. The Tungchow authorities, now that the missionaries have left, are chewing immense energy in their cause. Matters seem to make no progress in the North. Tsengkwo-fan has been appointed to the Viceroyalty of the two Kiang provincos, vacant by the assassination of Ma. He is to be succeeded in the Viceroyalty of Chihli and in the Special Commissionership at Tien-tsin by Lihung-chang. There is a report that he has been entrusted with the nine headed lion seal, which gives him the command-in-chief of all the troops in the empire, and that he has been given high powers in various other respects, constituting him, in fact, pretty nearly a military dictator. Great un certainty prevails in regard to the prospect of foreigners in the north of China during the winter. It will certainly be unsafe for them to remain there when the Peiho is frozen ; yet, if they withdraw, they will only get back behind the invading force. The importation of half a-dozen regiments from India as a protection seems to most people the wiser course. The measure need not take a hostile aspect, if our Government wish still to regard the feelings of the Chinese after the massacre of Tien-tsin. The men might be stationed here just as troops are sta tioned in Japan. Their presence would have a good effect in more ways than one. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended iby their suite, honoured the Globe Theatre last evening with their presence, to witness the performance of " Taming the Shrew," in which Miss Alleyne takes the principal part. PORT WINE OLD IN THE WOOD.—" The readers of the Medical Times and Gazette aro aware of the impor tance which we attach to good wine in the treatment of disease. Five samples of Port Wine have been forwarded to our office, which we think well deserving the attention of practitioners. We are informed that they are samples of a great quantity of wine of the vintages 1834, 1840, 1847, 1858, and 1863, which have been left in the wood ' till quite a recent period, and have been allowed to rest in the caves of their native country. By this means, as we are informed, old wine costs much less than it would have done had it been imported and bottled years ago, and put into store in the wine morchants' cellars in this country : certainly, if we are not misinformed, the wines before us are extremely moderate in price. Moreover, the double process of spoliation and of development, the part ing with superfluous body, and the evolution of fine flavours which wine undergoes as it grows old, is very different in cask to what it is in bottle." (More than one thousand two hundred pipes of these wines were bought from the trustees of the late Baron Sexio by Messrs. W. and A. Gilbey, forming one of the many purchases they are from time to time making in Portugal to represent their established brands.) We subjoin the memorandum we jotted down in the order in which each was handed to us by our secretary : " Port 1847—Fine tawny colour, not much deeper than Madeira. Taste strong, rich, subluscious, clean ; fine vinous flavour : no heat. Port 1840—Colour and qualities similar to the preceding ; hardly so sweet ; fine flavour. Port 1834—Colour of Madeira fine, strong, clean, vinous flavour ; very soft ; drier than pre ceding ' • might be taken for Madeira, yet with decided Port flavour ; a very fine wine. Port 1858—Light Port colour ; very rich taste ; strong and vinous ; not hot. Port 1863.—A sweet, rich Port wine, not cloying nor heavy. We may add that we have administered these wines to the sick with benefit. These old winels, especially the 1834, would be most valuable in any case in which life was menaced by exhausting disease." —The Medical Times and Gazette. THE FIGHTING BEFORE PARIS The correspondent of the Daily News, writing from the Head-quarters of the Crown Prince under date October 31st, says : There has been a sharp fight at Le Bourget, a village to the north-east of Paris, between St. Denis and Aulnay les Bondy. It seems that on the evening of the 29th ult. the French sallied out mid occupied this village, which is au important point to hold for the defence of the Fort d'A.uhervilliers. On the 30th ult. the Prussian Guards, who are stationed in that part of the line, retook Le Bourget with heavy loss, capturing at the same time a large number of prisoners—as many we hear as twelve hundred, with thirty officers among them. At least three Guard regiments were engaged, and the struggle must have been severe, since the French had had time to throw up some light earthworks to strengthen their position. They are said to have fought with singular desperation, at first, and gradually to have got into the confusion incident to raw troops. I fancy, however, that the confusion is so taken for granted by the Germans that it would be noticed in almost any retreat of their antagonists, and the best proof that the French were roughly handled remains in the fact of the number of prisoners taken. Wo cannot doubt after such , zfforts as the sorties of October 21st and 29th, to the south-west and north-east of the city, respectively, that General Trochu is inclined to carry out the programme contained in his letter to the Mayor of Paris, and to snake vigorous attacks wren he can do so supported by a formidable artillery. On October 21st the French advanced under cover of not only of the guns of Mont Valerien, but of some forty field pieces dragged Into action at every risk, and on the 30th ultimo they must have received great help from their artillery to in dict so much loss upon the besiegers. Suspicious as one always is of mixing two figuies of the same value lest they should be but a fact and a repetition of the fact, there is reason to think that the number thirty represents the Prussian officers who fell, killed and wounded, at Le Bourget, as it does the number of French officers who were captured in the second day's fight. The Guard regiments had a hard task, and behaved with the utmost gallantry, pushing on in their final attack with a resolution which nothing could check. LYONS AWAITING A ITACK The security of Lyons, says the correspondent of the Telegraph in that city, under date November 5, has been suddenly and rudely disturbed. Belfort and Besancon cannot retard the march of the advancing enemy for a single day. The capture of Dijon proves that the invaders will come straight down the valley of the Saone, and so leave the two strong towns many, many miles to the east of their line of march. Our Conseil Municipal, upon learning the im minence of the danger, immediately passed a reso lution "that, considering the gravity of the situation, Lyons should defend itself till completely annihilated." These gentlemen are evidently resolved upon exposing the town to all the horrors of a bombardment —upon reducing to a heap of ruins the splendid new streets and handsome buildings which render it one of the most beautiful cities of Europe. And for what purpose ? Solely in the hope of keep ing the Prussians before the town for a week, or perhaps a fortnight. That Lyons can stand a siege of any length few sensible people imagine. The days of '93, when the town kept the troops of the terrible Convention at bay for weeks together, have gone by for ever—and so probably have the men of iron of the First Republic, never to return. The Republican of the present day is rather too fond of his Lien - etre. The demi-tasse, with its accompanying petit verre, in a comfortable cafe, has far more charms for him than the sentinel's monotonous walk at the cold corner of a street. As the members of the Conseil Municipal are nearly all far too old to serve personally, their resolution must not be considered as a proof of individual djoeuement—a fact in no wise lost sight of by the general public. Mean while, defensive preparations are going on actively. The men of the Garde S6dentaire, up to thirty-five years of age, have been in barracks for some weeks past, an "the remainder drill every day, at least an hour. Already great numbers are laid up, being totally unable to bear the fatigue of even a hour's hard work a day. The different battalions have their posted de combat already assigned them, and it is to be hoped that a sufficient quantity of ammunition for their muzzle-loading rifles will be forthcoming in due time. The two principal music-halls—the only places of amusement which have been opened this season—were closed this week. One of them is to be converted into a store house for grain, the other into a hospital A considerable number of beaches inutiles, mostly those of disreputable women, were arrested a few nights ago; but a great deal more remains to be done in that direction before the town will be cleared. Their presence causes much indiscipline and disregard of orders among the Mobluts, and the sooner they are all gone the better. Despite the resolution of the Council, it is to be hoped that prudence will take the place of valour should the Prussians arrive hero in force. What can a number of badly armed, badly commanded, unwilling men do against a well-equipped, highly -disciplined army, flushed with unbroken victory ? With what courage can a father of a family go to the ramparts, when he feels that his life will be sacrificed without being of the slightest use to his country ? The effect of a bombardment on a compact town of more than 300,000 inhabitants one cannot think of without a shudder. The prospects of the poor caauts, as the weavers are hero called, are already dark enough. Thousands are out of work honest, frugal, industrious men, who desire nothing better than to have plenty to do and to be left alone. Manufacturers, having been obliged to make enormous sacrifices on their existing stocks, will not be in a hurry to recommence work should the war terminate to-morrow. All other trades are suf fering more or less, and the amount of misery before us this winter is terrible to contemplate. Many a parent here anxiously awaits the arrival of each scrap of news from Paris,Belfort,and New Breisach, the places to which most of the young Mobiles from hero were sent. The surrender of Metz paused a most painful impression, and Bazaine is generally accused of treachery—in fact, the people are so excited as to be totally incapable of reasoning. We await in painful suspense the result of the negotiations for an armistice, but with little or no hopes of their proving successful. The popular igno rance is so great that every concession of the enemy is looked upon as a proof of his inability to carry on Use war for any length of time. When Paris and Lyons have fallen, it is to be hoped that more sensible opinions will prevail. THE NATIONAL GUARD IN PARIS. From the diary of a besieged resident published in tha Daily News, dated October 28, we extract the following : —The National Guard in Montmartre and Batignolles have held an indignation meeting to protest against their being employed in the forts. A law was passed on August 10 calling under arms all unmarried men between 25 and 40. In Paris it has never been acted on ; it would, how ever, be far better to regularly enrol this portion of the National Guard as soldiers than to ask for volunteers. As long as these " sedentary'! warriors can avoid regular service, or subjecting themselves to the dis cipline and the hardships of real soldiers, they will do so. Before the Pantheon, the mayor of an arrondissement sits on a platform, writing down the names of volunteers. Whenever one makes his appearance, a roll of drums announces to his fellow-citizens that he has under taken to risk his valuable life outside the ramparts. It really does appear too monstrous that the able-bodied men of this city should wear uniforms, learn the goose-step, and refuse to take any part in the defence within shot of the enemy. That they should object to be employed in a campaign away from their homes, is hardly in accordance with their appeal to the provinces to rise en masse to defend France, but that they should decline to do anything but go over every twelve days to the ramparts, is hardly fighting even for their own homes. Surely as long as the siege lasts they ought to consider that the Government has a right to use them anywhere within the lines of invest ment. They make now what they call military prome nades, that is to say, they go out at one gate, keep well within the line of the forts, and come in at another gate. Some of the battalions are ready to face the enemy,' although they will not submit to any discipline. The majority, however, do not intend to fight outside the ram parts. I was reading yesterday the account of a court martial on one of these heroes, who had fallen out with his commanding officer, and threatened to pass his sword through his body. The culprit, counsel urged, was a man of an amiable, though excitable disposition ; that he u is the father of two sons, had once saved a child from drowning, and had presented several curiosities to a museum. Taking these facts into consideration the Court condemned him to six days' imprisonment, his accuser apologised to him, and shook hands with him. What is to be expected of troops when military offences of the grossest kind are treated in this fashion ? I know myself officers of the Garde Mobile, who, when they are on duty at the ramparts, quietly leave their men there, and come home to dinner. No one appears to consider this anything extraordinary. Well may General Trochu look up to the sky when it is overcast, and wish that he were in Brittany shooting woodcocks. He haA undertaken a task beyond his own strength, and beyond ,t he strength of the greatest General.that ever lived, , ~. 1 ... 2 ... 3 OUR, 00 fLIVIPORALIEI3---This Zilorning THE FAILURE - OF THE ARMISTICE, The Tunes, in commenting upon the failure of the ne gotiations, concludes its remarks by saying, Why should we offer to take upon ourselves any responsibility, eyed if we could thereby bring about Peace? One reason is that there is yet time. We have good reason for knowing that the bombardment of Paris will not begin until after fifteen days more have passed, and, it is stated, apparently on trustworthy authority, that the King himself is reluctant to command the attack. If we have the power thus to restore Peace to Europe, we cannot neglect-tlai opportunity without abandoning the axioms of national duty we have always professed. The guarantee of Luxemburg is a recent acknowledgement of the responsi bility to assist in keeping the peace. But there are other reasons which should move us to'exertion. Without being in any way alarmists, we may say that Europe is in danger of becoming once more the theatre of an old struggle. The conflict between the principle of autocracy and the free government of nations must be waged anew, and in the attempt to ward it off at home, the supporters of the autocratic principle are ready to run the risk of any foreign adventures. With the possibility of such dangers before us, we ask what are the influences on which England should rely ? Are we not bound to strengthen the authority of public law, to maintain the supremacyof the free will of nations? The institution of reciprocal guarantees against wanton aggression is the first step towards the creation of a real public law which shall be able to control the vio lence of individual members of the body politic. A solemn recognition of the principle that the will of a people cannot be coerced, a recognition attested by a willingness to incur responsibility rather than see the principle lightly broken, would be of the highest value in the struggle between power and liberty. Whatever stories might arise, we should have with us something more than our own powers of defence ; we could appeal to the sanctions of the public law we promoted when we might have trusted to the security -of isolation, we could rally around us the influences of freedom in all nations, whatever plats might be contrived to confound them. The Prussian programme, says the Daily News, is plain. Paris will be bombarded. Humanity shudders at a prospect the full horrors of which it cannot even imagine ; but, if the present dead-look continues, the most sanguine of neutral spectators may well look round and ask what alternative is possible. There was but • one escape irom the dilemma in which the absolute declarations of the two belli gerents had placed them, and that was the formation: of an Assembly which might have nominated a Government bound to obey it. It is vain to say that if Count Bistnarck saw, or had reason to believe, at the last moment of the negotiations, that the vote of France would be merely a repetition of the vote of Paris, there would be no object in granting twenty-five days' cessation of hostilities. Count Bismarck professed to want the real opinion of Prance, and did not claim to dictate it. The formal rup ture of the negotiations was the act of France ; , but in such a matter one cannot apportion blame without being fully apprised of the action taken on the other side. If the Prussians were led to consider that France had not yet realised her position, and was de termined to accept of no compromise, why did they begin these negotiations ? Why did Count Bismarck allow M. Thiers to dangle on from day to day without bluntly stating at the outset that Paris would not be al lowed to revietutd? Why did not M. Thiers come to a clear understanding on this point, of first importance as a mere preliminary i Did either hope that the other would be seduced into giving way by having the tempting bait of peace hung fur a time before his eyes? if this hallucination existed on both sides, we are bound to believe that M. Thiers was its principal victim. It is not unlikely that Count Bismarck may have wished to accustom France to think of an armistiee as practicable. He may have designed to fascinate the peace-party with this possibility, under the hope that the leaven would spread. And it may yet spread, though the disappointment of one hope is not likely to engender another. The Telegraph, in an article on the failure of the armis tice and the prospect of the bombardment, says : We ' have within these few last days seemed so nearly to have escaped the horror of an active siege of Paris, that the mind scarcely realises what is now to be enacted. Yet grimly true and harshly certain it is that the beautiful city must suffer henceforth from ;word and fire mid famine. Let us try to realise what that means. llitherto Paris has been invested only ; the G ermans have scarcely tired a shot in reply to the lavish salvos of Mont Valerien and the adjacent forts. Now the besiegers will commence in terrible earnest, for the only envoys left are shells, the only possible plenipotentiaries cannon and mortars. Famine will by and by be seen, and with it the infec tious diseases which spring from hunger. The list of paupers to be daily.fed will swell; the well-to-do will see every hoarded mouthful which they swallow savagely envied; each failure, each disaster, must deject the spirit and embitter the discontent of the suffering po pulation. If the garrison could break out, from what army could they obtain support beyond the walls ? And if they merely hold the city, the half million of fighting mouths will help to eat away the supplies. After that fearful stage in the progress of the conflict, a time may come more horrible than any that we have ventured to foresee, when, masters of the outlying defences, the German chiefs will formally summon the city to sur render, and, on her refusal, will order the bom bardment and the assault. Who does not shudder to meditate on what Paris may then witness ? Already looms upon her that frightful future painted by the hand of Count Bismarck. Two milious of human beings stars o with very considerable speed when they once begin to approach the end of their provisions, and they cannot be rescued from that state by any sudden help ; they cannot be re-provisioned in a day or a week. Hundreds of thousands of lives will silently pay the tax of death now demanded by the firmness of the PariSian Government in breaking off the peace negotiations. With such a prospect made hideous by every element of human anguish— contemplating such a fate, self-invoked by the capital of France—Christendom draws near to its fes tival of " Peace and goodwill." Krupp's steel guns, alas I and the mitrailleuses seem likely to sing the Christmas hymns of ].870. Heavy, indeed,. is the responsibility of- those who have made peace impossible. Whose fault it has been is a question too momentous to decide upon at this hour ; but the artillery opening upon Paris is the prologue of the third act of the war; and the tragedy, it seems, must be played out now, till Trochu either works a miracle of war, or the proud heart of France is com pletely broken. The Standard thinks thb rejection of the armistice was inevitable, if indeed it was not desirable. But the ques tion is how could anybody, professing to speak by authority, have contemplated any other issue to this farce, which M. Thiers has been inveigled into playing bewro Versailles? In excuse of the French Government it must be said that they seem to have acted on the notion that in some way or other the four neutral Powers had obtained from Prussia the concession of the conditions as to tho victualling of Paris. An officiel dispatch from Tours, dated last Saturday, declares it to be " well understood " that. the victualling of Paris in proportion to the duration of the armistice was one of the con ditions precedent to the meeting between M. Thiers and Count Bismarck. Other opinions were expressed in this tame document even more strongly confirmatory of the fact that there was an impression at the seat of the French Government that the neutral Powers had taken some active steps to put an end to the war. Possibly some of these were among the ordinary delusions in which the French mind is prone to indulge ; but it is diffi cult to believe that M. Thiers could have gone upon his errand at all, except under the impression that the chief difficulty in the way of the armistice had been re moved by the action of the neutral Powers. To negociate for an armistice with tho essential point of the provisioning of Paris left unadjusted was to undertake a fool's errand. How far then are the neutral Powers responsible for the fiasco at Ver sailles ? What did England, or did she do anything, to secure a definite basis of negotiation ? Was there any communication held between our Government and the French as to the preliminaries of the armistice ? Was there, in fact, any real attempt made by the British Ministry to promote the interests of peace, and if so, how came these attempts to fail ? If the English Government did nothing at all in the matter, it seems monstrous that they should have indulged in any hopes of a successfurissue to M. Thiers's mission. A besieged resident of Paris, writing to the Daily News on the 28th ult., says :--I see at a meeting of the mayors the population of Paris is put down at 2,036,000. This does not include the regular army, or the Marines and Mobiles outside and within the lines. Tho con; su mption of meat, consequently, at the rate o' 100 grammes per diem, must amount to between 400,000 and 500,0001 b. per diem. Although mutton, according to the tariff; is cheaper than beef, I rarely see any at the restaurants. This tells its own tale, and 1 imagine that in three weeks from now at the very latest fresh meat will have come to an end.