The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS -YESTERDAY. In the Stock Exchange to-day business has been almost entirely suspended. Railway stocks have continued de pressed, and the few transactions effected have been at reduced quotations. Foreign bonds, however, and Eng lish Government ,securities have been tolerably firm in value, notwithstanding that business has not been brisk. Two small failures have been announced in the consol market to-day, one of which is mainly attributable to loss sustained by the suspension of dealers during the early part of the panic. It is satisfactory to learn that many jobbers who recently suspended through the complication of their affairs, have already paid 20s. in the pound, and will doubtless immediately resume their places in the market. The market for English Government securities has been characterised by an increased amount of firmness, owing to the disposal of a large parcel of gold to the Bank. Notwithstanding the firmness in the wheat trade, Consols have been firm, and per cent. better, at 89 to 89-/ for de livery, and 89.} to 89A for September.- Reduced and New Three per Cents., 89i to 89k; Bank Stock, 232 to 234 ; Exchequer Bills, par to ss. prem. ; India Five per Cents., 107 to 109, and India Bonds, 10s. to 15s. prem. The market for English railway stocks has been charac terised by much quietness, and the fluctuations have again been unfavourable. North-Eastern has risen but Caledonian has fallen 1, Brighton South-Eastern 1, Great Northern 1, and ditto A 2. In Indian railway stocks the transactions have been to a very moderate extent, and there has been a tendency to lower rates. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India has fallen 1. Canadian shares have been dull, and Great Western have been lower. In foreign shares next to nothing has been doing. The market for foreign bonds is rather firmer, but no important movement has taken place. Argentine 1868 have risen 1, Spanish f, and Italian * per cent. American securities have been firm, and the Five-Twenty Bonds have improved I. Atlantic and Great Western Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds have fallen 1, and Erie shares *. Bank shares have been quiet, but firm. Agra have risen *. More disposition has been shewn to operate in telegraph shares. Anglo-Mediterranean have improved f, British Indian Submarine *, and Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta f : but British Indian Extension have fallen*. Miscellaneous securities have changed hands slowly. London Financial have fallen. The German Patriotic Fund in Liverpool has now reached a total of £4,000, about one-half of which sum has been sent to Germany for the relief of the sick and wounded. At the annual meeting of the Royal Insurance Com pany, at Liverpool, a dividend for the year of 10s. per share, free of Income tax, was declared. The directors' report, which was unanimously adopted, stated that the results of the past year were highly satisfactory in both branches of the business. As regards the exchange the tendency generally has been more favourable, but the rates are still un settled. The failure is announed of Messrs, Green, Humphry, and Co., warehousemen, of Cannon-street. At Mark-lane to-day, owing to the prohibition of exports of grain from German ports, wheat was firm, and fully as dear. The sum of £174,000 has been sent into the bank to-day, The steamer which left New York yesterday, took out £330,000 for Europe. A meeting of the creditors of Mr. G. E. Pand, spinner and manufacturer, Holt Town Mill, Ancoats and Man chester, was held yesterday. The statement submitted by the accountants shewed that the total liabilities amounted to £12,998 ls. 10d., and the assets to £5,750 98. Bd, It was resolved that the estate should be wound up by , the liquidators, Mr. Halliday being fsppointed trustee, with a .committee of inspection. The advice's from Lyons mention & banking failure at that place, and state that some of the large silk houses have availed themselves of an old law which compels the Bank of France to advance 60 per cent. on all silk placed in the Government depot, subject to certain stipulation; with regard to the right of sale. Charles Noon and Co. (Limited), announce an interim dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the half year ending June. The Provincial Banking Corporation :will declare a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum. The discount market has continued very fair. The demand has not been active, but not much disposition has been evinced to transact business, and three months' paper has been charged 6 per cent. The Bank of Holland has raised its rate of discount from 5i to 6 per cent. The Lafayette has arrived at Brest with £15,700 in specie from New York. The Erin has brought £43,120 in specie from New York. With reference to the state of the bullion market, Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake remark that the movements in gold have been very extensive during the past week, and the demand from abroad has absorbe, all the arrivals, in addition to £206,000, in bars and coind withdrawn from the Bank. Owing to the rise in the rate of discount to 6 per cent., there is now less demand for the Continent, and it is very likely that a portion of the large amounts now due from America and Australia will be retained here. The total sum which reached England in the week was £1,198,390. Paris advices state that an advance of £500,000 for the Portuguese Government has been negotiated at 9i per cent., the Government engaging at the same time to arrange matters with the Northern of Portugal Railway Company in a satisfactory way, so as to reopen the Paris market for Portuguese securities. The Russian Government have granted to the Black Sea Navigation Company, which will henceforth be carried on under the title of " The Company of Russian Steamships and Odessa Railway," a concession for the Odessa line, comprising extensive ramifications, with an authorized capital of 47,445,000 silver roubles, and 30,413,000 paper roubles, the former amount to be issued in guaranteed obligations, and the latter in shares. The proposed line will establish the shortest connexion between Austria and the Black Sea. The report of the Southampton Dock Company, to be presented on the 10th instant, shews an available total of £11,162, including a previous balance of £1.681; and recommends a dividend for the half-year at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum; which will absorb £7,207, and leave £3,965 to be carried forward. The report of the Millwall Dock Company, to be presented on the 10th instant, states that the accounts shew a gradual development of the business of the Com pany, and that the increase over the corresponding half year, ended the 30th of June, 1869, is 21 in the number of vessels entering the docks, in the tonnage 22,521 tons, in the gross receipts £1,706, in the net profit £1,540, and in the amount to be carried forward to the last half of the year, after paying interest on debentures, loans, &c., £1,750. Arrangements have been entered into for the letting of a small piece of the company's land on favourable terms, but with that exception no sub stantial progress has been made with the sale or letting of any of the land during the half-year. The company having obtained powers of raising money on debentures, or of issuing debenture stock, it is proposed at once to exercise them. LONDON STOCK EX CIIA NG 11—Faz DAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER. OFFICIAL 1-10URS. The prices tinder the lines indicate the business done, GCVERNMENT 6EOURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 89 894 Do 6p c Mar & Sept 1891 105 108 at 4, 94, 9, 4 Do June & Dec 1891 104 107 Do for Account 88' 4 ., 9 1 DoApril & Oct 1883-85.. 106 109 Three per Cent Reduced 891 891 107/, 8, 7 88 3. 91. ii Vict 5p c Jan & July 1894. 96 99 New 3 per Cent 881, 8. 9. „ Brazilian. 1865, 5 p c . Exchequer Bills, March par, spm 851, 61, 5/, 61 5s pm , par Egyptian, 1862, 7 p c.. .. - - Do, June par, spm Do Rail Debeu 7 p .. 93 96 Pm 95, 4 Bank Stock - 77 82 India 5 per Cents Peruvian, 1865, 5p c .... 82 84 108, 7, 83, 7/ 821, 2, 31, 24 India Bonds Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c.. 261 271 Can 6pc Jan&JulylB77-84 99 101 Russian, 1862, 5 p c.. .. 83 85 99 Do Nicolas 4p c Do March & Sept. 102 105 63, 4,3 i, i Do 5p c Jan & July .. 89 91 S pan i sh, 1867, 3pc 241 242 994, 891 Do, 1869. 3 p c Do Inscribed Stock .. 88 90 241, 31, 41, 34 891 Turkish, 1851, 6p c - - Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 93 95 80 Ceylon 6 p c May and Do. 1865. 5p c November 1878 166 108 384, 91, 81, 107 Do, 1865, 6p c ........ - - Mauritius 6 p c Jan and 57 July 1873 lOl 103 U.S. 5-20 Bonds, 6pc 1882 83 83/ New S Wales 5 p clB7l-76 96 98 83, -1, 3, 4 New Zealand 6p c 1891 lO5 108 Do do 1885 82 83 Do spc Do 5p c Consolidated 93 95 Do 10-40 Bnds, 5p c 1904 79 81 94 80, 4, 791 85 87 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter BO 82 Do Ist Pref Bonds ... ,53 56 82, 80 Grand Trunk of Canada Caledonian Great Eastern 281, 8,8, 72, 81, 78. 4th Pref Stock Great Northern 1:2 103, 8 Do A ll3 115 Great Western of Canada 128 121 1151, 16. 12 121, 12, 1, 8 Great Western 598 608 Do 8p c Bonds, 1873.. 97 99 60, i, 598, 1, 602 591, 60 Do 58 do, 1877-8 95 97 Lancashire & Yorkshire 123 125 Do 5p c pref, issued 80par 2pm 125, 8, 38, 41. 3 Madras guar 5 p e Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 31 32 1028 318, 28, 1,8, 34, 2 N. Railway of Canada, Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 11 13 6p o Ist Pref Bonds 12 Oude and Rohilkund g Lon and North-Western 11981208 5p c 120, 198, 208 1018, 2 x n Lon and South-Western 84 86 Sci n d e , Punjaub, and Man, Shef, and, Lincoln 33 35 Delhi guar 5p c 35, 3, 48 x d 101 Metropolitan Midland 11981208 g7p c .. 1208, 19 16 North British North-Eastern Consols l2? 129 Bue n o s Ay res Gt Sthrn.. 22 24 128, 8, 7. 88 Dunaburg and Witepsk 16 17 South-Eastern 62 64 Dutch-Rhenish lB 20 62, 18 Eastern of France 2l 23 Atlantic and St T,awrnoe 75 80 21 Bombay, Baroda, and Great Luxembourg Central India, g 5 p c.. 101 103 9, 81, 9, 1 101, 1 Lemberg Czernowitz gua Buff & Lake Huron Pref 38 4 7p o l4 15 Do 51 p c Bonds, 1872-3-4 - - Northern of France Cape guar 6p a East Bengal guar 5 p c lO2 104 48 East Indian, g 5 p c 107, 68 (Limited) guar 7p o .. 13 15 Grand Trunk Canada 111 20 Do Equip Mort Buds, 1 South Austn & Lom-Ven 138 14 charge 6p c 89 Southern of France Do 2nd do Scrip .... 2 dia, par 16i 17, . 23 25 BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 10 Agra Bank ILIA .... 8i 91 20 Lon Char of Austrlia 211 221 91, 9 20 London and County 49 51 25 Alliance (L) ~. , .... 12 13 491, 501 121 15 London Joint-Stock 31 33 10 Anglo-Austrian .... 46 pm 321, 2, / 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 18 20 20 Lon and Westmnster 59 61 50 British N American 51 53 60, 59 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 15 16 10 Metropolitan 7 81 16 20 Midland (L) 25 Char Mere of India 25 27 20 New South Wales .. 37 39 10 City 25 Colonial Consolidated (L) •• 2 12 pm 25 Union of Australia.. 37 . 39 20 Eng; Scot, and Ausb 17 18 15 Union of London .. 35 37 20 Imperial IL) 10 Imperial Ottoman 10,1 TELEGRAPH CODIPANIES. Pa Pd 100 Anglo-American L) 82 85 10 Great Northern .... 91i 10 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) lll 12 9f 12 6 Great N. Ching, and 100 Atlantic l2 14 Japan Extension.. 121 25 Indo-European (L}.. 100 Do 8p c 3 British Australn (L).. 414 dis and Malta (L) ... 51 6 10 British IndExten (L) 5 51 10 M e dit errn E x (L). .. 41 5z 41 n Pnma and S. Pcfc(L) 3 2 dis 10 British Indian Sub- 8 Reuter's marine (L) 61, *, 5-16, 1 141 2 China Submarine (L) 51 sdis 100 Submarine 230 240 10 Falmouth. Gibraltar, 1 Do Scrip lf 21 and Math (L) .... 81 9 10 Wlndia &Panama(L) 51 6 81, 13-16 4 3 dis 13 17 MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian Bnd- 30 London Fin Assoc (L)l9llBsdis holders' Certificate 15 21 95 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 111 121 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .... 21 2 124, 12 22, 11-le, 5 30 Boickow-Vaughan (L) 25 3Cpm 2 Lon & Prov Marine (L) 42 pm 00 Boston City (U.S.) 5 100 Madras Irrig &Canal, P c Sterling Loan.. 88 90 gsp c by Ind Gov. 99 102 4 Brit & Fgn Marine (L) 2122 pm 2 Mauritius Land (L)..1 dis, par 27 Canada Company. . 65 70j Watnl Disct Comp (L) 105 111 10 Ceylon Company (L 55 41 dis 102 35 City Offices (L) .... 265 25, dis 25 N Zealand Loan and 20 Colonial (L) 5 Corn Union Assurnce 1 2prn 5 N Zealand Loan and 62, 9-16 Trust (L) 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 2 24 64 N Britsh and Mere (L) 24 27 2 3-16 5 OceanMarinelnsur 12 14pm 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb lO9 114 50 Rhymney Iron 275 Ebbw Vale Steel (L)..12 10 dis 15 Do New 9 10 100 Egyp 9 p cV'roy Loan, 60 Royal Mail Steam guar by Egyp Gov.. 86 89 20 Tel Con and Main (L) 205 211 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 4 45pm 20, 5, 191, 201 17, 1 2 Th ames and Mersey 10 Fgn and Colonial Gov Marine Insur (L) Trust 6p c Bonds.. 87 92 St Tobacco 6p o Loan, 90, 2 guar by Italian Gov. 76 81 _ 75 Gen Credt &Disct (L) 1 i dis 205, 20. 192, 20 61, 1 5 Trust and Loan Co of 14 Gen Stm Navigation 29 31 Upper Canada 7 Hooper's Tel Works 45 4 dis 1:7 Marine, Lvpool . (1 5 6 lan 20 Hudson's Bay 75 72 20 Union Steamship (L) 21 23 72, 1 6 United Dis Corprn (L) 2 ldia 45 In drbbr, Gut Per, and 5 Univ Marine lnsur iLi 25 31 pm 352, 61 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7 p o Tel Works (L) . . 36 38 Mortgage Loan.... 67 TO 20 Intenal Finan Soca.) 25 2 die 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 dis It Irrig (Can Cavour) 25 35 100 Do 6p c Bonds, re deemak:e 1870 . 85. 60 MINING SHARP. LIST.—AUGUST G. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Milling °film, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, 14011110 Market still inactive. Prices nominal Australi 'United, 11, 1; Bwich Consols, Bronfloyd, Chiverton Moor, Chiverton Valley. Cook's Kitchen, 14y 15 Chontales (Gold), 1, f Drakewalls, 1,1/ Dolcoath,i Prince of Wales, 13s, 153 Providence Mines, 30, 32i Rosewall Hill and Ransoine South Frances, Tankerville, 14i, 151 Tincroft, Tan-yr-Allt, Taquaxil (Gold), 18s, 20s Trumpet Console, Van. 60, 65 Van Consols, 21, West Chiverton, 521, 531 West Frances, West Maria and Fortescue. 11, 1 West Drakewalls, West Caradon, West Panty Go, West Seton, Wheal Agar, Wheal Basset ' Wheal Grenville. Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Ann, 9, 91 Wheal Seton, Don Fedi . ° North Del Rey, 21, 21 East Bassett, East Caradon, 31, 4 East Lovell, 26, 27 East Wheal Grenville, Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 18, 19 Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vor, 7, 8 Hingston Down, Ilfarke Valley, 7,7 h New Lovell, North Crofty, Pacific, si, 6 MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.—Owing to the late rains no new English wheat was on sale here to day. The shew of old was limited, and from abroad the arrivals were not ex tensive. For all qualities the trade was quiet, at about late currencies. Moderate supplies of barley were on offer. Sales progressed slowly, on former terms. Malt was quiet, at pre vious quotations. Oats were in request for the continent, at full currencies. Beans and peas were steady. Flour was quiet, at the rates current on Monday last. Arrivals—English and foreign : Wheat, 300 ; barley, 50 ; malt, 670. Foreign : Wheat, 21,240 ; barley, 7,550 ; oats, 34,070 ; maize, 6,000 ; peas, 6,870 ; flour, sacks, 1,340 ; barrels, 2,560. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—This market is very quiet to-day, with a small attendance of buyers. Wheat was steady. Indian corn was 6d. per quarter lower. There was no change in beans and peas, but prices were rather favourable to the buyers. Oatmeal was dull, from 295. to 225. 6d. Closing report.—There was a very limited demand for wheat at this market this morning, and Tuesday's prices were barely main tained. Flour was bought easier. Oats were offered on terms quite as easy. Indian corn was in request at a reduction of 6d. per qr. Beans were a slow sale, at 6d. per qr. decline. LINCOLN CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—There was only a small attendance at the market to-day. The supply of wheat was limited, and factors held for is. to 2s. per quarter more money. New oats were exhibited. Beans and peas commanded extreme rates. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—There has been brilliant weather in this district this week, and harvest is gene ral. The wheat trade is quiet to-day, and last week's prices are firmly maintained. In some instances fine wheat is rather dearer. Spring corn is steady, at late rates. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.—The sup ply of meat has been good. Business has progressed quietly, at our quotations. Beef from 3s. Od. to 4s. Bd. ; mutton, 3s. 4d. to ss. 6d.; lamb, ss. Od. to 58. Bd. ; veal, 4s. to 4s. 4d.; and pork, 3s. 4d. to ss. Od; per 81bs. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.—The hop market has been free from any important movement. The trade has been quiet, at about late quotations. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 125.: Wealds, £6 to £8 ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 125.; Bava rians, £6 6s. to £9 ; French, £5 to £6 10s. ; Americans, £4 ss. to ; and yearlings, £1 10s. to £3los. per cwt. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—The tallow market has ruled dull, at 458. for Y.C. on the spot, and 465. last three months. Bengal saltpetre, for 41bs. refracting, 325. to 335. LONDON OIL MARKET, FRlDAY.—Linseed oil has been dull, at 30s. sellers spot. Rape has been firm. English brown, spot 435. to 445. Other oils flat. LONDON COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAY.—The sugar market has ruled dull, but prices have been maintained. . BUsiness of small extent has been transacted in refined goods. A small quantity of plantation coffee has been taken off by the home trade at previous rates. LIVERPOOL STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, NOON.—Railways Caledonian, 704 ; London and North-Western, 1194 to 120 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1244 ; Sheffield, 344 to 344 ; Midland, 1194 to 1204 ; Metropolitan, 62 to 63 ; Berwick, 1274 to 128; Great Northern A, 118 to 119 ; Great Western, 604 ; Great Eastern, 284. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE, FRlDAY.—Railways—Great Northern(A), 1154 ; Great Eastern, 274 ; Sheffield, 344 ; Brighton, 314; Midland, 119 i ; North-Eastern, 78. • GLASGOW STOCK EXCHANGE, FRlDAY.—Railways : Cale donian, 681 ; South Western, 1104 ; Great Eastern, 274 ; Great Northern, 1154 ; Great Western, 59 ; Sheffield, 34 ; Metropoli tan, 62 ; Metropolitan District, 221 ; Midland, 1191 ; North British, 291 ; South Eastern, 604 ; E. P. and D., 2nd pref., 83 and G. W. pref. 44, 59. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRlDAY.—Official figures. Imports, 30,702 bales ; sales, 64,870 bales ; stock, 565,350 bales ; taken by the trade, 49,530 bales ; by speculators, 7,200 bales ; for export, 8,150 bales; actual export, 5.154 bales. Mid Orleans 84d. ; Mid Mobile, Bd. ; Mid Uplands, 74d. ; fair Egyptian, 9id. ; fair Dhollerah, 64d. The market opens under yesterday's de pression with continued pressure to sell.—Closing report.—This market is still dull and drooping, and the recent advance is almost entirely lost. Sales, 8,000 bales, including 1,500 for speculation and export, to arrive. Dhollerah fair new mer chants, June shipments. Cape 741., Canal 6fd. DONCASTER. WOOL MARKET, FRIDAY: —The supply of wool at this market to-day is about 200 sheets, but though there are several buyers present, the business transacted is only limited ; and as prices are so various it would be hazardous to give any definite quotation further than to say that general sellers submit to a slight reduction. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—This market continues without improvement in tone ; and no increase in demand, with prices still in favour of the buyers. The advance n the Bank rate to 6 per cent. has added to the depression, and insect buyers to he very cautious in their operations, as dear mey is generally accompanied by a curtailment of credit. offers for India and China have ceased for the present, to the bad accounts from these markets. For de continent there is of course nothing doing, and for the Levant the transactions are unusually small. The home trade houses will buy only for immediate wants. In home trade yarns there is a moder a te business going on, and spinners are free sellers, but even a con cession in price does not increase their tran sac ti ons. Th e de mand for shipping yarn . is very quiet, and very low prices are accept d. Producers are now become anxious sellers, as many contracts are nearly run out, and should an increase of demand not set in shortly stocks lutist increase, unless shoit time is come to. Quotations are nominally unchanged since Tuesd a y, b u t transactions since then are on too limited a scale to afford a proper test. wing CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, FRIDAY.—This larket is dull, and little business doing. THE IRISH MILITIA.—We believe we are correct n announcing that the Government has at length resolved tpon embodying the Irish Militia. —Advertiser. TiJL SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, A [TO UST ( - 1 1870. WAR MAP THE WAR. them as it were into the hands of aliens ?—Shdield Telegraph,. PRUSSIAN FORTRESSES.—CobIentz, when we reached it, was full of Landwehr, mixed with a few soldiers of the line. On the fortifications many trees have been felled, and more are now falling under the axe to make ready for an attack. Everything of course rings with preparation. Even the Rhine steamers are deprived of their usual peaceful freight of tourists, and bristle with bayonets and brass-spiked helmets. On application to General von Sperling, Head of the Staff of the First Army, for a pass, he referred me in a polite note to General von Moltke, the Commander-in- Chief of the armies of Prussia. I have at once written to Berlin, and shall, no doubt, soon receive a favourable reply, Coblentz, it is needless to point out, is a most im portant stragetic point for the Prussians. It is very strongly fortified, and could shelter easily 100,000 men in case of a defeat in the field. Ehrenbreitstein is still called the Gihraltar of the Rhine, but since the invention of rifled cannon its importance is diminished, as many of the hills round it would render it indefensible if held by an enemy, provided with heavy artillery. All the com manding points, however, are strongly fortified, and earthworks are even now being thrown up on the forts towards the French frontier. —Daily News letter from Coblentz. THE ENGAGEMENT AT SAARBUCK. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. At length we are favoured with something like a rational account of the Saarbriick affair. The Minister of the Interior has published a plain official statement, devoid of all tawdry ornament, and having a business - like air. It says that on July 31st General Frossard, whose head - quarters were at Morsbarch bad his forces concentrated at two or three places on the frontier. The first division, under General Verge, was at Bening ; the second, under General Bataille, at Forbach ; and the third, under General Laveaucoupet, at Oeting. The next day all three divi sions had been drawn together about Forbach, opposite Saarbruck ; and on Tuesday the second division moved forward towards the Prussian town. The action on that day is described as a reconnaissance offensive, having for its object the occupation of the left bank of the Saar, which runs before Saarbruck. The Prussians did not at first appear to expect this favour. An advance guard who were posted in an inn, were come upon unawares. They bolted,leaving one man dead. General Bataille moved forward by the line of railway which runs A PLEASING INCIDENT.—A young and thriving merchant of Saarlouis was to have been married at Saar louis to a young lady from Schleiz on the 16th of July. On that morning came the telegraphic order of mobilisa tion. The train carried off the bridegroom a quar ter of an hour before the time fixed for the marriage. He, like thousands of other men of an equally good position in life, took his place as a private in his regiment—the 40th Hohenzollerns—and cheerfully ar ranged with his bride that the marriage should take place as soon as his battalion reached Saarbruck. 'He would then go off to the war and she would return, as his wife, to her home. The bride came yesterday with her ! brother to Saarbruck. I had the pleasure of walking up with them this afternoon to watch the battalion in which the bridegroom was to appear, pass from the high road into the bivouac-field. The bride groom who was there in the thick of the - helmeted stream, ran from the ranks, and kissed his bride with German fer vour. The men marching past looked at them with sym pathetic admiration, but with no sign of wonder, much less of coarse derision. Then the bridegroom ran on to the place he had left, and the bride went to an officer and begged a few hours' leave for her bridegroom, that they might be married. The officer, of course, was only too glad to listen to such a request from the lips of such an applicant, and escorted the bride to the colonel of the regiment, from whom leave had to be obtained. We saw the bride with dark eyes more expressive than ever, and a shadow of apprehension over her broad forehead—not too German for perfect beauty—repeating her request to the colonel and winning from his lips of discipline the gentlest answer. The bridegroom was sent off on leave till midday to-morrow. The marriage will be a few hours earlier. I do not think that any Englishman could have witnessed the scene without the thought crossing him that it implied such a society in the army and such a noble simplicity of life as we in England hive not yet learnt even to aspire to. How extraordinary, how outre would it seem in England if we were told that a gentleman serving as a private in the army ran from the ranks and kissed his bride, and then that the bride went up before half the regiment to the officers and made the request which I have recorded! —Daily New Correspondent at Saarbruck. from Forbach to Saarbruck. and found several batches of skirmishers posted about a stone bridge which crosses the river. (Saarbruck itself is on the opposite 'side of the Saar, furthest from French territory.) The presence of these gentlemen was considered a most favourable oppor tunity for trying the mitrailleuse. The grinders commenced to turn accordingly, and soon the most utter disorder in the enemy's ranks began to be manifest. Twelve dis charges were made in all with tremendous effect. A few cannon shots then sufficed to put an end to the rifle fire which was kept up from the houses in the town. Whilst the " principal action "—that is the peppering of these mitrailleuses, &c.—was going on, a column composed of one squadron of cavalry and two battalions of infantry scoured the country to the left. It exchanged shots with some sharpshooters, and suffered loss of two or three wounded men. Further to the left still a detachment of Marshal Bazaine's corps reconnoitred the country bet Ween Saarlouis and Saarbruck in front of Verden, which is in the centre of that line. The enemy was not found in great force there. It seems then that three operations were undertaken ; that against Saarbruck itself—which ended in the small Prussian force falling back, and the French getting the heights opposite the town ; the "scouring of the country "to the left; and the reconnoitering on the further left. The general result of the day's work is that the railway between Triers and Neunkirchen has been occupied and the communication cut off. There is a report to-day that Saarlouis, too, has been taken ; but sure news of this great advantage is not yet to hand. DOINGS AT CHALONS. There has been a slight disturbance in the camp at Chalons, owing, it is said, to the discontent of some of the troops on finding themselves without either shelter or pro visions. There was a grand review by Marshal Canrobert a day or two since, when the commandant of the 6th Corps of the Garde Mobile paused in front of each company to ask if they wanted anything. When he put the ques tion to the third division he was met, to his horror, no doubt, by shouts of " A Paris !" " A Paris !" "You are unworthy the name of Frenchmen," cried the Marshal in a fury, and the officers flung them selves among the brawlers, and tried to pacify them. One of them was slightly wounded, but they succeeded in restoring quiet. The incident produced great excitement in the camp. .Several companies afterwards presented addresses to the Marshal, assuring him of their loyalty and patriotism. In the evening three men were arrested, two of them being, it is said, Prussian spies, and the other a manceuverer, sent from Paris with the express object of spreading disaffection among the Garde Mobile. PRUSSIAN NOTIONS OF SAAILBRUCK.—We' have received from an authoritative Prussian source the follow ing details about the engagement at Saarbrucken : " Three companies of the 40tti Regiment defended them selves bravely for several hours, and obliged the enemy to deploy his whole force, and not only a few battalions, as the French reports maintain. Not till then did these companies retire behind the Saar to a position which had been prepared for their reception. The enemy did not attack this position, and did not cross the Saar. If the spirit of our troops was capable of great encouragement the " engagements up to this moment would have had that effect. BAtalions of the enemy were brought against single peletons, with out, however, forcing them to retire, or inflicbing great losses on them."—Pall Mall Gazette. A LESSON.—Our Birmingham correspondent sup- plies a piece of information from which an important lesson may be drawn. Two local gunmakers some time since hit upon an ingenious plan for improving upon the Prussian needle gun. Recent experiences of the conduct of the English authorities with regard to inventors of improved arms led them to choose France rather than their own country as a market for their mechanical contrivance. At Paris they succeeded in getting their suggestions brought under the notice of the Emperor Napoleon, who at once recognised their value, and ordered 1.000 francs to be paid to the inventors. So the Chassepot was improved by the addition of the small steel case, in which the needle is now enclosed, through the ingenuity of Englishmen. When will England learn how to appreciate her own advantages instead of forcing THE WEISSEMBUIZG AFFAIR.—The Weissemburg engagement seems to shew that the Prussians, under the Crown Prince, made independent action against the weakened French right. - General Douay had apparently a detached command, MacMahon himself being elsewhere. We may learn more of the sig nificance of this movement on the part of the Prusians when we know MacMahon's where abouts. The reported advance of the French on Saar louis probably indicates a massing of their troops upon their left, to meet or to anticipate the threatened attack from the Prussian right. If so the weakness of the French Shelving present positions of French mad. Prussian Armie r s, with the loeV,ities of recent engagerneutt. right, and the attack of the Crown Prince both as a blow and as a diversion, are accounted for together.—Pall Mall Gazette. AUSTRIAN ViEws.--The publication by the Times of the secret treaty of 1866 between France and Prussia has had an immense influence over the minds of Austrian statesmen, and put an end to all thought of a French I alliance. Up to the hour of this disclosure there was a large party in Austria well disposed towards France, and the army, still smarting under their defeat in the late war, is almost unanimous in dislike to Prussia. It is said, I know not with what truth, that the ' Emperor himself leaned to a French alliance. A cordial assurance once given by the King of Prussia before the war, at a Bohemian watering-plade, to the Emperor of Austria that " under no circumstances should Prussian be found opposed to Austrian in battle," is believed to be , be - the source of a dislike and mistrust never to be obliterated. In this day of ugly recriminations and evil reminiscences the story has again Wen revived, and is widely circulated through the army. With all this, the national feeling is not with France. Hungarians and Slays, whatever their grievances with Austria, are ready to stand by Germany if they should be• forced out of their ' neutrality.—Vienna Letter of Pall Mall Gazette. FRENCH ENTHUSIASM AND THE GARDE MOBILE. —Authentic information reaches me of the readiness with which the military portion of the French nation is coming forward to share in the war. Besides the mass of volun teers, which includes not a few old soldiers and numbers of young men of the higher classes, whose education and intelligence will greatly facilitate their conversion into efficient soldiers, a great many officers of subaltern rank, who had left the service from various motives, now step ' forward to resume the epaulet, to assist in the training of the Garde Mobile, to offer their services, in short, in any capacity in which they may best be found available. If in the Garde Mobile there are not a few unwilling soldiers, it is expected that their re grets and repugnance will soon disappear under the potverful influence of esprit de corps and of the military ardour innate in Frenchmen. Within the last few days we have witnessed the departure of several bat talions from Paris, and, surrounded, as they were, by weeping women and dejected relatives, they nevertheless went off resolutely, if not cheerfully. It is certain that this new institution of the Mobile, as it is called, presses very hard on all classes. Money cannot buy exemptions except in certain very i3pecial cases, when a substitute is allowed. Young men who in all probability would be have been rejected by the medical examiners as too weakly for soldiers had they been drawn in the conscrip tion for the line, are compelled to form part of this army of reserve. Of course there is mubh wailing and misery among widows and needy families at the departure of an only son or brother, on whose labour they mainly depended. There are many sad hearts and tearful eyes in Paris at this moment. The 18 battalions of the depart ment of the Seine will soon be all collected at Chalons. They form a medley of young men of all ranks, and dandies from the boulevards, whom we have daily seen caracoling in the Bois, are liable to find themselves in the same squad or associated in the same irksome fatigue duty with their servant, their barber, or their shoeblack. One of the young Rothschilds is a corporal in the force. The spirit of equality, so strong in France, will be severely tested under these circumstances ; but if we may believe letters from the camp, the fusion is easily effected, and the natural lightheartedness of the French character soon chases away sad thoughts of home.—Paris Correspondent the of Standard. CASUS BELLI OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.— We take the following from the London telegraphic correspondence of the Birmingham, Post ;— No doubt is entertained that the English Government have virtually laid down a casus belli to France and Prussia. The modus operandi has already been concerted between the Belgian and English Governments. In the event of the neutrality and independence of Belgium being violated by either of the belligerents, King Leopold 11. will form ally demand the performance by Great Britain of her treaty obligations. It will then be the duty of the British Cabinet to call upon all the Powers who signed the Treaty of 1839, other than the actual offender, to assist her in Performing their mutual engagements. But Great Britain will not wait either for the collective or individual action of her allies. If the preliminary negotiations now going on shall indicate any confirmed backwardness or indecision on the part of these Powers, as soon as the casu.9 belli just laid down by the English Cabinet, has occurred, a British expedition willsail for the Scheldt, and British artillerymen and infantry will assist the Belgians to garrison and hold Antwerp. It does not, how ever, necessarily follow that if we assist our Belgian allies to hold Antwerp, we must therefore declare war against the Power which renders this measure of precau tion unavoidable. Upon this point it has not been neces sary for the English Cabinet to take any resolution at present. Unofficial notice has been given to the whole brigade of Guards, and they are now ready to "go anywhere and do anything" at the traditional two hours' notice. It is the privilege of the Guards to be " first ' out" and " first home ;" or " first out" when the sudden exigency arises, and the country demands their services, and " first home" when the necessity for a military force has ceased. THE FENIANS AND THE POPE. Fenianism is a funny institution, and the Fenians are funny fellows, but both will be much queerer than they are before they come to the rescue of the Pope. That they hurrah for Louis Napoleon in Dublin, and blend the tri-colour and the green as a sign of their faith in the source of Ireland's deliverance, we are quite prepared to believe. Their hope rests upon the possibility of a quarrel between England and France ; when that occurs the world may look out for a Fenian row of a higher order than Smith O'Brien's cabbage garden battle, or the heroic O'Neil's invasion of Canada. But only a miracle can rally them to the relief of Rome, whose authority h as b een v i gorous ly exerc i se d i n I re l an d and other parts of the British dominions to repress Feni anism and frustrate its designs. The Tory Castlereagh understood the value of the Pope as a political ally in Ireland, and the English Ministers of the present day are not altogether ignorant upon the same subject.—. New York Times.. \ -\ ' ---------- - ~.,..,i t It ....>_, r •- ' 4 f j. 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An insufficient history is given of the night —of all he time between one a.lii. and five a.m.—when he servants were alone in the house with the corpse and made no sign. Is this the natural conduct of such persons in such circumstances ? Neither, it seems, ever thought of calling for help or that a physician might be of use. The man Auguste thought his master was taken with a fit, and immediately ran downstairs for vinegar. Downstairs he found blood on his own clothes, and said, " Some one has killed M. Paradol ; " so that he had the conception, first, of a fit ; second, of a wound ; yet never thought of a doctor. When he went ffi ,stairs M. Paradol was dead, yet he lived three-quarters of an hour. During the greater part of that time apparently the dying man was alone, and his servants were downstairs looking for vinegar. It is said that as they were strangers to the country and lan guage they knew not what to do ; but the ser vants knew the residence of other members of the Legation ; and as to the country, there are certain customs that are naturalised the world over, and one of these is for servants to call assistance to the help of an injured master in all cases where they have nothing to conceal. The letters produced are not without a peculiar character, When did M. Paradol write the exclamation, "Je me tue ?" Its time assumes to be coin cident with the act it refers to, but was it written before or after, and how did it come to light? The letter in the possession of M. de Jardin is not above closer scrutiny than has been given it. Superficially, appearances point to suicide, but the conduct of the servants was certainly strange, and some other points are not less so.—New York Herald. THE EXCESSIVE HEAT. Sixty persons died in one day in this city from the effects of the heat—a fact which indicates what might come to pass if there should be any permanent consider able elevation of the temperature of the atmosphere; for these sixty were generally the feebler, the old or the very young, or persons weakened by excesses, and these, of course, succumb first ; but after a few days of such heat as we had on one two days recently all persons are num bered among the weak. In fact, our temperature already goes to the verge of human endurance, and in the facts about us we see that an apparently inconsider able modification would depopulate the whole district in which it operated ; and thus we might glimpse at the be ginning of the end and speculate upon the time when the earth, if it should not absolutely perish by fire, would at least become uninhabitable by reason of the heat, and at least perish as the dwelling place of man. It will be re membered that the past winter was anomalous. It was very mild in all the earlier months, and the Hudson was open to an unusual period ; but late in the season cold weather came on with some severity and pushed the spring from its place, All this modification is so much evidence of the verity of the remarkable observations recently made of changes in the sun ; and they tell us very clearly how intimate is our dependence upon the sta bility of existing conditions in that luminary. To the speculative view the appearances described in the sun are such as might be occasioned by great suddenly up-bursting conflagrations of gases or other highly inflammable matter ; and it seems possible that these fires, if they really are such, exhaust themselves after a time. Do they not, then, meanwhile exhaust in enormous degree the heat-producing power of the sun, and shall we not pay for all this by loss of proper heat at another time, by a winter perhaps as excessively cold a►s the summer is hot 7 P.S.—No argument is Intended in favour of high cog -Nc'e York Herald. THE FARMERS AND IHE WAR. Our moral feelings rise up against the unhallowed ambi tion that, for as flimsy a pretext as was ever made, plunges half Europe into smoke and blood. In some respects the war will benefit us, but probably not in an important and lasting sense. It has already raised the price of wheat, and may carry it up to a dollar and a-half. Corn also, of which we are growing an immense crop this year, will be quoted at a dollar and over. Gold, how ever, may go up at about the same pace, so that im ported goods may cost the farmer nearly as much as now ; but the ultimate effect will be to make the rich in Europe feel that no investment is - do safe for them as Amj,rican bonds. Much depends on the duration of this war. If it is to be short it will made a sudden and sharp demand for flour, oats, leather, iron, and woo/. Hence it is risking too much frr the farmer to hold his grain, expecting a long contest and two dollars for wheat. As the cultivation of countries increases, as loads be come wide and hard, as railroads cover the face of a country, and the rivers are spanned by bridges, wars will become brief and bloody the question of strength and spirit can be tested at once. But in a wild, undev e l o p e d countr y of bad roads and poor bridges, it is more a question of horse-flesh and sheer endurance. This transatlantic war is waged in a country that was prosperous and cultivated in the days of Charlemagne. Much of the land is held at from two hundred to five hundred dollars an acre. The strife now raging' there resembles a war between Illinois and Indiana for that part of Indiana west of the Wabash, or be tween Virginia and Pennsylvania for the She nandoah Valley. The territorial question is simple, and the war is a struggle between two strong men to see which has the tighter grip. All the probabilities now look towards a contest short, sharp, and decisive, and our advice to the farmers of this country is to thresh out their grain and push it forward as fast as the cities and the railroads can handle it. Three weeks ago, when Mr. Dodge made his report, there was some prospect of a scant crop. Many parts of the West had suffered for want of rain ; but the hot, moist weather since the 20th of June has pushed forward the crops everywhere, and Chicago and Milwaukee are preparing for a full crop of wheat and a l arge cro p o f corn . I n f ac t , nothing but this European war could ha e arrested the downward tendency of breadstuffs, and it is not safe to calculate on the duration of a struggle in which every precedent points towards a contest, hot bloody, and brief.— New York THE ELCHO CHALLENGE SHIELD.—The Lord Mayor has consented to be the custodian of the Elcho Challenge Trophy, won by the English Eight at the l a st Wimbledon meeting, until the next competition. The ceremony of presentation to the victorious eight will take place shortly in the Guildhall. ALLEGED FRENCH PURCHASE OF FORAGE IN AYR' SHIRE. —Large quantities of hay have been purchased in Ayrshire by an agent (it is said) of the French Government. It is affirmed that he has already paid away forty thou sand pounds and contracted for more hay near Prestwick. Numerous stacks await transit. It is believed that Go vernment will take cognisance of the latter. As this country imports hay the sending of so large a quantity abroad may seriously affect the price of this kind of forage. NAPOLEON AND THE UNITED STATES.-Re membering his ill-advised Mexican venture Louis Napoleon in appointing the late M. Pr evost-Paradol, Union man during 'our civil war, his Minister to the United States, has shewn his desire and purpose to give henceforth no cause of offence to our government. We may, therefore, safely assume that we have nothing to apprehend from France in reference to Cuba, whatever the complications of this war with Prussia.—New York Herald. POPULATION OF CHlCAGO.—Chicago continues to give hints to the United States Deputy Marshal to be sure and make out a population there ,of at least 400,000, or perish in the attempt. Th us d oes a Chicago newspaper figure. In our new directory we have 100,555 names. Multiply this by 4 to find the total number of inhabitants, including women and children and we have 402,220. " Bah !" cries the Cincinnati G azette, " w h y not m a ke it 500,000 while you are about it ? It's just as easy, and looks a good deal better in print." We suppose that the census-taker and his assistants in Chicago are honest men and good arithmeticians ; but if their total comes out by so much as one less than 400,000, our warm advice to them is to leave the city at once. They might not be assassinated, but somebody would be sure to have theta indicted for perjury.—New York Tribune. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. at Comley B an k, Sti r li ng, th e w if e o f Archibald H. Graham, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at 21, Avenue-road, Regent's-park, the wife of Henry Mutt, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. On the 3d inst., at Tunbridge parish church, Philip C. Story, Captain in the Cameronians, to Emily Priscilla Rebecca, eldest daughter of the late Henry Chapman, Esq., of Wanstead, Esiex. On the 3d inst., at Bromley, William Read, Esq., R.N., to Catherine, second daughter of Samuel Shuttieworth, Esq., of Manor House, Bromley, Middlesex. DEATHS On the Ist inst., at The Bridge, Marlow, Thomas Rolls, Esq., aged 90. On the Ist inst., at 1, Albion- street, Hyde-park, William Lister, Esq., of Lloyd's, and 31, St. Swithin's-lane, aged 73. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the . Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. Saturday, August 6, 1870, . 0 1117 DAI beautiful. Palace ope mission Orchestral No extra Children 1 In the Al English B, Pictorial 1 Plates, Rif Pompeii OREM ‘J Ban] PETE. Sp Inents. C ltdlle. Clay Works. Di other popu ALIT A ARGY The extra ')f the Sink( the electric Pate in it, Music Sole( have had t Most eaten zelebrated Cher, Signor positions of assigned to W. Graves, Thomas Pitt N.B.—Th, will take pl. MADA Bake JONES, all CHAMBER Ilorrors, 6d. 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