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THE WAR. BATTLE NEAR AMIENS. DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH. Official despatches received from Tours to-day state that a battle was fought yesterday between vipers Bretonneux and Soleur, near Amiens, which lasted the whole of the day. At the com mencement the fortune of the day was in favour of the French, who maintained their position 11 P to half-past four, when V illers Bretonneux was abandoned before the superior forces and powerful artillery of the Germans. The French also sus tamed a defeat before Boves, but at Dury they maintained their position. The number of iGerman t roops engaged is estimated at 3,000. ALSACE AND LORRAINE. A message has been sent from the Royal Head- Tlarters at Versailles to Dr. Bamberg, formerly the Prussian Consul-General at Berlin since the outbreak of the war, requesting his attendance to snake a report on the question of Alsace and Lorraine. REPORTED ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF PRUSSIA. Le Havre states that "M. Antoine Monard (P aul Gramat), editor of the Avenir de l'Auch, ", ved yesterday at Rouen , af ter p assin g throu g h the German army round Paris. M. Monard states that last Tuesday a Bavarian soldier fired at King William between Louveciennes and Bougival. The King was not struck ; the ball passed within a few I nches of his head. The soldier was immediately arrested and shot." GERMAN DEFEAT NEAR VENDOME. Towns, Saturday. A great French victory was gained yesterday near Vendome. The Prussians were routed, with great loss, by General Sonnet. The battle begun at two. o'clock in the afternoon. the Prussians were pursued till nine at night. Two guns were captured. Touns, Saturday, 3.15 p.m. French successes continue to be announced. The French were victorious at Amiens, Gentelles, Bores, Vongeancourt (? FoLquescourt), Neville, Vernon, and Artenay. Four guns were captured at Artenay. OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH. HAVILB, Saturday Noon. Oi l Thursday, in the neighbourhood of Amiens, , 4116 Prussians were driven back ten lea g ues as far as 4 037 e, and sustained considerable losses. ENGAGEMENTS AT AMIENS AND ON THE LOIRE. The following dispatches have been received from another source : I'OURS, November 26 (Night). During the last two days fighting has been going °II at Gien, Montargis, Artenay, and Nogent-le- Itotrou. On Saturday the engagements were within thirty miles of Tours, on the French left. The Ger leans were everywhere repulsed. The French cavalry Rade several brilliant charges. Great enthusiasm Prevails in this city. November 27 (7.45 p.m.) ° l l Friday, Saturday, and to-day, there has been lighting along the entire line, and the French have carried everything before them. The Germans tried to turn the French right at Glen, in the Department of Loiret ; and to perform th e same operation the left at Chateau-du-Loir in the Department of Sarthe, about twenty-five miles North of Tours. At both points they were repulsed with great loss. Hard fighting also took place to-day in the centre about Vendome, resulting in the French driving back the enemy; and taking 600 prisoners. No doubt is entertained here that the decisive conflict is at hand, and the greatest excitement con. tlnues to prevail. Touns, November 27, A despatch from Amiens, dated the 26th, states that engagements have taken place at the central Positions at Gentelle and Roves, and that the Ger mans were repulsed and pursued at the point of the bayonet. Their losses are stated to have been treble that of the French ; but the Commandant Yann was seriously wounded. The Frenc h troo p s are said to b e acquiring fresh skill every day, and to be lull of dash, A. despatch from Orleans, dated the 26th, states that an engagement in which the French were victorious has taken place at Neuville. The Ger mans, who had bombarded the town, were repulsed, and left behind them many dead and wounded and 80 prisoners. The French losses were of trifling importance. IMPENDING BATTLE ON THE LOIRE. The Moniteur of the 27th says that a great battle is undoubtedly impending. The advantage in the preliminary partial engagements has hitherto rested with the French. The enemy made several threat ening demonstrations on our right towards Gien a nd Montargis, but there encountered forces, com pelling him to change his plan of attack. The en emy has rapidly moved part of his forces from t he centre to the right, in order to overw helm our e ft, who was on too extended a line to be easily defended. Thie movement was made in such cc msiderable force that the Commander-in-Chief el dered the concentration of our army b y drawin g t owards the centre the corps on our extreme left. ehateaudun may consequently be evacuated, but t . lllB Would form part of a series of mov ements pre liminary to a decisive action. THE OPERATIONS ON THE LOIRE. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA, VERSAILLES, November 25. It is stated on good authority that the French hold Orleans in force, and that their expected retreat across the Loire has not even commenced. The Re tions reported from the direction o f Dreux and , ateauneuf have been mere skirmishes with out ing detachments, to cover the adv ance of the errnan right towards Le Mans. T he Arm y of th e Loire, as a body, seems never to have been north Artenay. THE FIGHTING NEAR AMIENS. AMIENS, November 26. A lter smart fightin:z, Moreuil has been occu l'iea by the German forces. Twenty-one Uhlans creased the Somme this morning. Formerie is threatened. FRENCH VICTORY AT NEUVILLE. bombardment of Neuville by the Prussians 121-114SIJN,i LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1870. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—Tms EvENING. CROYDON GRAND METROPOLITAN STEEPLE CHASE. sto 1 agst David Copperfield (offered—t 11 to 2) 6to 1 agst Q.C., (taken and wanted) 6to 1 agst Souvenance (offered) 7 to 1 agst Lymington (taken and wanted) 10 to 1 agst Red White and Blue (taken) DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Albert Victor (taken) 10 to 1 agst General (taken) CITY BETTING.—THIS DAY. CROYDON GRAND METROPOLITAN. sto 1 agst David Copperfield (offered-11 to 2 taken) 11 to 1 agst Q.C. (offered-6 to 1 taken and wanted) 100 to 15 agst Souvenance (taken) 10 to 1 agst Lymington (taken) 12 to 1 agst Red, White, and Blue (taken) 12 to 1 agst Ampleforth (taken) GRAND NATIONAL HURDLE. sto 1 agst Standard Bearer (taken) 6to 1 agst Ampleforth (taken) 7 to 1 age, Scarrington (taken) Bto 1 agst Q.C. (taken) 10 to 1 agst The Czar (taken) 10 to 1 agst Bliss (taken) 10 to 1 agst Magdala (taken) 10 to 1 agst Broadlea (taken) THE PRIMES'' PRIMERS. An announcement has just been made in the very nick of time that cannot but be most welcome news to every School Board in the United Kingdom. The announcement of an elementary library of School Books and Prize Books for the Children of the People by a man of letters well up to his work, one whose name has for year. been associated intimately with the cause of The Poor—Mr. Blanchard Jerrrold. As the first three volumes of the series we are to have immediately issued from the press :- 1. " The best Teacher, a Primer Spelling-book, designed to teach the child his first lessons from the book that should be read always." 2. " Shakspere's Primer and Spelling-book, designed to teach children their earliest lessons in the English of Shakspere." 3. " Jeremy Taylor's Reading-book, teaching both young and old the rules of holy living and dying, from the page of the writer whom Emerson has called ' The Shakspere of Divines !'" The design is an admirable one, and we heartily wish it that success which it is pretty certain at once to com mand. A GOOD HUMOURED TIT-FOR-TAr. A delightful little pamphlet, entitled " A History of the Sale and Use of Tea in England," has just been issued from the presi under the authority of the Licensed Victuallers' Tea Association. It is as relishing and as refreshing as an old-fashioned " dish of tea," in every leaf of it ! It constitutes quite incidentally and un obtrusively a sort of commemoration of as well tempered a turning of the tables as ever has been heard of. Ten years ago, the now Prime Minister, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, passed the Act of 1860 enabling any shop keeper to sell wines. The licensed victuallers considered this a direct interference with their trade, and finding that nearly eve' y grocer took advantage of the Act, started a Tea Association upon the tit-for-tat principle. Out of that flourishing institution has now come this charming little brochure, giving a record of the rise of Teadrinking in England. Anyone, everyone may read it with interest— " While the bubbling and loud hissing urn • Throws up a steaming column, and the cups, That cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each"— cups containing what a century earlier than the poet Cowper, the poet Waller had sung when averring— " The Muse's friend, Tea, does our fancy aid ; Repress those vapour. which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene." From this little pamphlet the reader learns how the first English tea-kettle might have been boiled by the Great Fire of London, Lord Arlington having in 1666 (according to some rather doubtful authorities) imported tea for the fiat time into this country ! How about that time it was sold In England for £6 the lb. weight ! How it has become purchaseable nowadays for 2s. 6d. the lb. ! How the East India Company bought 2 lbs. 2 oz. of it as a present for his Majesty King Charlea 11. ! How the imports of it during this last year of grace 1869 have risen, at length in lbs. m eight, to the enormous aggregate of 145,000,000 ! THE MONEY MARKET. CITY, Two o'CLocx. There is to-day a recovery in most securities. Consols are quoted 921 to 92 for money and account. Foreign Securities are firmer. Turkish, French, and Italian are to 1 per cent. higher ; Spanish to and Russian about A recent partial recovery in the price of Erie Railway shares has led to various conjectures. Among them is one to the effect that some compromise is contemplated. In that respect it is necessary to warn the public that no compromise can be of the slightest permanent benefit to the defrauded shareholders which does not involve the removal of every person connected with the present management. Even in such case there would be no absolute security, because so long as they escape without punishment and the judicature of the State of New York remains in its present condition, it will be in the power of Messrs. Gould and Fisk to commence a series of new operations against this property, or, indeed, against any property in which European investors may be interested. It is only from the Supreme Court that any redress can be looked for, and it is upon the decision of that tribunal that the question whether there is the slightest protection of any kind for, foreign holders of American Joint-St'ck, State, or Corporate Obligations must depend. As to the date at which the judgment of the Supreme Court may be expected no information is given. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states :—" At a meeting of the creditors in the case of Mr. Edmund Thompson, in the Australian trade, the debts were stated at £7,000, but the assets represented only about £lOO, and an offer of ls. 6d. in the pound was accepted." The Manchester Courier states :—" At a meeting of the creditors of the late Mr. James Mellor, of Oldham, the statement submitted showed the liabilities to be £11,600, unsecured debts £4,600, and assets £2,900. A committee of creditors was appointed." The London and China Telegraph says :—" The meeting of Glover and Co.'s creditors was held at her Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Nagasaki, Japan. The liabilities were stated to be $797,000, and assets 5550,000, showing a deficiency of $247,000." A bill just introduced in the North German Parliament authorises an additional war credit to the amount of ahout sixteen millions sterling, A petition for the winding-up of the Afon Railway is to be heard before Vice-Chancellor Malins on the 9th December. took place on the 24th. The French, however, dis lodged the enemy from his position, and compelled him to retreat on Montigny Azcheres. SUCCESS OF THE pA_RIB ktIIIANS. 'lll6 Garibnldians have surprised and put to flight the Prussians at Auxon, making 9 prisoners. The Prussians lost 30 killed and wounded. REPULSE OF THE GARRISON OF BELFORT. A despatch from the Royal Headquarters,Versailles, dated November 26, says :—On tho 23rd inst. Gene. ral Treshow dislodged the enemy from a position in front of Belrort, and subsequently repulsed a sortie of the garrison. THE FRENCH OPENING FIRE. VERSAILLES, November 27, Noon. Forts Issy, Vanvres, and Montrouge opened fire last night upon the German position and continued till daybreak. No damage was done. A sortie is expected. NEWS - VIA BERLIN. BERLIN, November 27. The Paris Figaro of the 18th instant conjures the Government to dispense with all sorties, convene the National Assembly, and conclude peace, relief having become impossible since the retreat of the Loire Army. The new forts of Metz are being completed, and armed by Prussian engineers. The officers of the garrison, expecting to remain there, have sent for their families. Alsatian Mobiles, prisoners of war, who own real property are released on signing a tlocument signi fying their consent to the confiscation of their land if they fight against Germany. The German editors have been officially cautioned against printing correspondence on military move ments in Germany and France. Many locomotives and large quantities of salt have been sent to Paris. 4.50 p.m. The main body of the French Army of the Loire is ascertained to occupy an intrenched position in and near a forest between Artenay and Orleans. THE TREATY OF 1856. A CONFERENCE AGREED TO. VERSAILLES, November 27, 9.30 p.m. A. settlement may be hoped for soon on the bases of a Conference to be held at London, and the with drawal of,the Russian Note. Constantinople and St. Petersburg were proposed ; London finally, and was readily accepted by Count Bismarck. It is understood that Russia will yield willingly to friendly representation and a Conference, as pro posed by Prussia. VERSAILLES, November 27. Mr. Odo Russell dined last night with his Majesty, and was graciously received. He had an interview with Count Bismarck in the afternoon. Prussia adheres to a Conference, but had no con cert with Russia, and was surprised by Prince Gor tschakoff's Circular at this juncture. She cannot interfere at present. Sr. PETERSBURG, November 27 (1.33 p.m.). Among the merchants and business men confidence is returning, and stocks have risen i❑ price. Among the diplomatists some anxiety is felt as to the effect in England of the Russian answer. The St Petersburg Gazette expresses deep regret at the tone of the Austrian answer. It says that for a long time Austria has not dared to speak to other Powers in such terms. The Gazette regards the Austrian answer as a bad sign, and says it awaken in Russia no other feeling than that of in sulted honour and indignation. It will not hur Austria to know this. _ . A decree has been published in the Official Journal giving unlimited furlough to soldiers enlisted for ten years, who have served their time, and temporary leave to thirteen years' soldiers who have served eleven or twelve years. ST. PETERSBURG, November 27 (3 p.m.) It is stated on good authority that a Conference of the Powers has been agreed to, and that it will be held in London. Here it is confidently expected that the Conference will ratify the course which has been adopted by Russia. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 26. Yesterday afternoon General Ignatieff had an audience of the Sultan on the subject of the revision of the Treaty of 1856. There is considerable move ment in the diplomatic world here. The panic has somewhat subsided, but there is still a feeling of doubt and uneasiness. Military and naval prepara tions continue. An American officer has been ap pointed superintendent of the factory for the con struction of torpedoes. The conviction is that all depends on the firm. ness of the Government and the attitude o England. VIENNA, November 25, Prince Gortschakoff's answer to Count Beust has not arrived in Pesth. Count Beust in to-day's sitting of the Delegations said nothing had been omitted to preserve the dignity of the Empire, and to secure a peaceful solution of the question. The Vienna diplomatists confider the situation extremely serious, and declare that a secret under standing positively exists between Prussia and Russia. PESTH, November 26. The Emperor received the Delegations separately to-day. He said briefly to the Hungarian, after regretting the delay in its convocation, that the importance of the circumstances which had made him wish to obtain the advice and patriotic support of the Delegations had been increased instead of diminished by more recent serious events. The Italian Note, dated the 24th inst., has been despatched to St. Petersburg. It is said to remon strate in courteous terms against the oae-sided denunciation of the Treaty of 1856. SPAIN. MADRID, November 27 (11.40 a.m.) Count de Cheste and Senor Calonge having accepted the amnesty granted by the Government, and taken the oath of allegiance to the Constitution, have been respectively reinstalled in their former positions as Captain-General and Lieutenant- General. THE QUEEN AND THE EMPRESS. We understand that the Queen will avail herself of the very first opportunity which public busines will allow her Majesty, to pay a visit to the Empress Eug&lie. The Queen will but interpret the national feeling in offering to the illustrious exile as kindly a reception as that which greeted her in the days of prosperity. There is no truth in the report that the Empress is about to leave Chislehurst with the Prince Iniprial, to take up her residence at Cassel. On the contrary, her Imperial •Majesty has no intention of quitting her present home.—Morning Post. THE HUSH PAPERS ON THE WAR. The Dublin Irishman rejoices to think that America is "in the Russian plot." . " Without a doubt," this journal declares to its Irish readers, " America will act the part of a benevolent neutral towards Russia—of a hostile neutral towards England—and what that means a swarm of Alabamas may disagreeably explain." The same paper is certain that a turn has taken place in the affairs of France, and that her triumphs have begun. The Irishman and Nation publish letters from " Irishmen in the service of France," dated Caen, and showing that some of those who went out as ambulance men are now acting as francs•tireurs. THE CABINET COUNCIL.-(TATS DAY.) The Cabinet Ministers assembled this afternoon for deliberation on the action to be taken on the Russian answer, but up to the time of going to press we have not heard of any decision that may have been arrived at. (CRNTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) SIR STAFFORD NORTHOOTE ON THE ELEMEN TARY EDUCATION ACT. A meeting was held at Tiverton on Saturday to con sider the Elementary Education Act. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., M.P., presided. He said the question of elementary education had for a long time presented a good deal of difficulty to the country, and for many years there had been a sort of easy consciousness amongst pub lic men, but something of a national character ought to be done to promote the education of the masses. At the same time had it not been for the voluntary exertions of those who had taken an interest in this question, we should have been in a very different position with regard to it than we are at present. What they found was that for the last thirty or forty years great and very successful exertions had been made to establish what they now re cognised as a voluntary system of education upon the basis of voluntary efforts and management, assisted, how ever, and to some extent superintended, by the State; and so far as it had been carried, that system had worked exceedingly well. But the time had now come when in the opinion of many, and in his opinion as well, something more was required to extend and develope the voluntary scheme, and if necessary to provide some other plan to promote the education of the masses. It was not intended, however, by the new Act to educate on the old system, but to add to its sphere of usefulness, and to provide foz the educational wants of those poor districts which had hitherto been neglected in consequence of their popu lotion being unable to support the desirable means of imparting knowledge to those who needed instruction. The present measure, he thought, had been conceived by Parliament in a praiseworthy spirit ; and the only fault of any great importance, of which he felt it his duty to complain, was of the clause which excluded religious teaching in schools erected and managed by school boards, in districts where the voluntary system was impracticable. It was the provision of this principle which led him to hope that everywhere if possible in this, and other dioceses, the clergy and laity, would work heart and soul for the furtherance of the cause of the voluntary system. A MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A SCHOOL MASTER. A murderous attack was made upon Mr. Christian Fleuck, master and conductor of a flourishing boarding and day school in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on Friday evening, during the absence of his wife, as he was sitting alone in his room. A resident tutor, named Houshiau. has been arrested on suspicion. Mr. Christian Fleuck has since died from the effects of the wounds inflicted upon PUBLIC BANQUET TO MR. BASS, M.P. A public dinner was given to Mr. Bass, the senior M.P. for Derby, in that town, on Saturday night, for the purpose of presenting his portrait to the Mayor and Cor poration. The presentation was made in commemoration of Mr. Bass's long connection with that town, and his beneficent gifts of a public playground and swimming baths to the inhabitants. The usual complimentary toasts having been honoured, the presentation was made. Mr. Bass remarking that he had far more pleasure in giving than the inhabitants of that town had in receiving his two Dre_au.t.i... • A BELLIGERENT CREW AT GRIMSBY. The German schooner Alicia, which has fallen a prize to the French fleet, was brought up in the Humber on Satur day morning, about a mile from Grimsby harbour,having a French crew on board, commanded by Captain Bouzo. She was captured on the ith inst. by the Hermitte, de spatch boat, attached to the French fleet. The schooner was from Bremen, in ballast, destination unknown. Her crew except the master, were taken off as prisoners. The prize crew endeavoured to get her to Dunkerque, but failed. Falling short of provisions, they went to Grimsby to replenish, but received notice to leave English waters in twenty-four hours. They managed to secure provisions. A FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A fatal accident occurred on Saturday at Camborne, on the West Cornwall Railway. A guard named Drew was in charge of a mineral train, and whilst shunting at Carn Brea, near Camborne, it is supposed he attempted to jump off, and got caught between the wheels, which went over his thigh, and dragged him along for some distance. lie was extricated, and medical aid was summoned. Ho lived for nearly four hours afterwards, and then died. The body was fearfully mangled, but Thew was sensible till death. DEATH OF ARCHDEACON HALE. We regret to announce the death of the Venerable William Hale Hale, Archdeacon of London. For some time past the Archdeacon had been in failing health, and a few days ago serious symptoms presented themselves, to terminate fatally shortly after two o'clock yesterday morning at the Master's Lodge, Charterhouse. With the Charterhouse the memory of the late Archdeacon was intimately linked. He became preacher there in 1323, and Master in 1842. To all old as well as present Carthu sians his death will be a personal grief. The venerable Archdeacon was in his T6th year. ALEXANDRA PARK PRIZE ESSAYS.—The Wood green committee have seemed the services of Mr. Samuel Carter Hall, E.S.A., editor of the Art Journal ; Mr, Blanchard Jerrold, editor of Lloyd's Weekly News ; and Mr. Henry J. Slack, editor of the Weekly Times, to assist them in the selection of the prize essays. The essays must be sent to Basil Ringrose, Esq., M.D., honorary secretary, at Wood-green, to-morrow. This (Monday) evening a paper will be read at a meeting of the Social Science Association, Adam-street, Adelphi, by Mr. Ernest Hart, on "Medical Organisation in time of of War." The chair will be taken by Colonel Loyd Lindsay, M.P. A special morning performance will be given al Drury-lane Theatre on Wednesday, December 14, in aid of the fund now being raised for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen lost in H.M. late ship Captain. SPOLLEOE OF PRECEPTORS.—A. meeting of the Council of this Corporation was held on Saturday last. Mr. J. Ogle, of St. Clere, Sevenoaks, and Mr. G. Ma conachie, M.A., Head-Master of the Jews' College, London, were elected members of the Council, and Mr. G. W. Tuck, of Devizes-road, Salisbury, was elected a member of the College. The stipendiary magistrate of Sheffield, Mr. Davis, has set a good example by announcing his inten tion to punish severely all pawnbrokers who take pledges from children. The practice is not confined to Sheffield, the Act of Parliament being notoriously violated in all the large towns in the kingdom. Arrangements have been made for giving a com plimentary dinner, on Thursday evening next, to William Holyoake, Esq., by the students of the Royal Academy, for the purpose of presenting him with a testimonial on his resignation of the curatorship of the Painting School of that institution. It will take place at Simpson's Hotel, Strand. The chair will be taken by Valentine Prinsep, Esq., and a number of gentlemen eminent in art and lite rature will be present. The arrangements are in the hands of a committee, with Mr. Horace H. Canty, of Campden Hill, as hon. secretary. FEARFUL RAILWAY CATASTROPHE. The catalogue of terrible aceidents on the London and North-Western Railway, which com menced with the appalling calamity at Abergele, received , a sad addition on Saturday evening.. The Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham express train, which leaves Euston at five p.m., when just past llarrow station ran into some empty goods trucks, causing a collision which in a moment en cumbered the line with the ddbris of smashed truck, eiigines, carriages, and with the bodies of killed and we forded passengers. The train consisted of nineteen e rriages, drawn by two powerful engines with ten ders.' It left punctually at its appointed time, and after passing Willesden Junction had got up full speed when the smash occurred. The scene of the accident is about three nundred yards beyond Harrow station, where the line is level, and perfectly straight; so that but for the dense frg which prevailed there would have been no diffi culty iu seeing an obstruction on the line in time enough to avoid a collision.. The empty trucks were ,mashed into splinters, and were burnt as a means Loth of clearing the line and of giving light to enable the relays of workmen to pursue their labours during the night. The leading engine of the express strewed the line as mere fragments of metal, while the second was overturned upon its side, and, though hopelessly damaged, retained sufficient coherence to work its pistons for a few seconds, the steam blowing off, and the huge driving - wheels revolving with terrible energy, and tearing up the earth, sleepers, and rails where it was lying. Even the passengers who were so fortunate as to occupy seats in the carriages at the rsar of the train describe the shock as most alarm ing. People who were sitting facing the engine were thrown violently forward, coming into damag ing collision with the occupants of the opposite seats. Tha stoppage was immediate, all who were not too seriously injured at once descended and made their way to the front. At first all that could be seen through the fog was an immense pile of Splintered wood, beneath which the second eng:ne was frantically struggling. When lights were procured the bodies of several of the unfortunate passengers were seen jammed amid the wreck. In what had been the first carriage the boa) , of a gentleman was seen who had been crushed to death by pressure across the middle. In the remains of the second carriage were the bodies of two other gentlemen, one of whom ap peard to have been forced upwards through the roof, and to be suspended by the neck and shoulders; while the ,other was crushed into a shape which indicated that his death must have been instantaneous. Portions of female gar merits were seen in a position which left no doubt that a lady had also lost her life. One gentleman was lying with his foot fixed in a wheel, and appa rently otherwise unhurt, though his quiescence afterwards turned out to be the tranquillity of death. It was not until after some hours' labour that the full extent of the calamity was found to be the loss of seven lives. The more . serious injuries appear to be wounds and contusions of the legs and feet, caused by the seats of the front carriages being crushed together, and, fortunately, none of these are likely to prove fatal. Alter four hours' labour, a sufficient clearance was effected to enable the traffic to be conducted with some unavoidable delay, by means of the up goods' line. But such was the mass of debris, and so serious the damage to the permanent way that it was not until yes terday afternoon that the passenger lines were again ready for traffic. It was ascer tained last evening that the persons killed were Mr. Jordan, of Cheadle, Hulme, Manchester ; Mr. George Bell, of Bolton; a la ly, supposed to be Mrs. Bell; Mr. Smith, of the firm of Fishur, Soria, and Smith, Tib-lane, Manchester; and Mr. J. W. Jeffreys, Manchester; Mr. Rowley, Manchester (this gentle man was alive when extricated, but died shortly after being removed to the hotel at Harrow); and James Shelvey, the driver of the first engine. The two guards of the train, Latham and Gsmusell, are very much injured, though their lives are nut despaired of. Four of the more seriously injured, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, M. Adolf Bourjau, and the guard Gem mel', are lying at the Euston-square Hotel. Two or . throe are said to be at Harrow ; and the rest well able to boar removal to their own hotels or residences on arriving in town NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Army and Navy Gazette says :—There is not the slightest truth in the statement that several of her Majesty's ships have left England for foreign stations short-handed.—The Russians assert that they possess a breechloading rifle which is far superior in all re spects as a military weapon to our Martini-Henry. We understand that our authorities have been made acquainted with this fact from informa tion which has reached them from St. Petersburg.— Rear-Admiral Ommanney, C. 8., will shortly embark on board her Majesty's ship Urgent at Portsmouth, and pro ceed to the coast of Spain to view the approaching eclipse.—Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Grant, G.C.8., G.C.M. G., does not resign the Governorship and com mand of Malta consequent upon his promotion. — Owing to the arrangements made by the Quarter master General's Department for the quartering of the Ist battalion 15th and 84th Regiments in Ireland upon their arrival home from Bermuda and Nova Scotia, the 34th Regiment at Shorncliffe and 2nd battalion sth Fusiliers at Glasgow will not be called upon to cross the St. George's Channel during the present winter, as was anticipated. The 97th Regiment and depot companies of the 76th Regiment will be sent to Ireland, and will be re placed at Dover by the Ist battalion and depot companies 2nd battalion 25th Regiment, now occupying the Anglesey Barracks, Portsmouth. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tms DAY. A SKELETON KEY THIEF.—A lad of about 18, who gave the name of Cox, was brought up at the West minster Police-court, charged with stealing a skeleton clock, value £4. Mr. Thomas Hawkins Rogers, of 16, Peterborough-road, Fulham, said the clock produced was stolen from his house on the 19th pf September, or there abouts. He identified it at a pawnbroker's on Saturday week. Walter Bird, assistant to Messrs. Debree and Avant, Drury-lane, produced the clock pledged on the 26th of Sept. for 15g. by the prisoner. Mr. King, a carman, proved giving prisoner a ride about the time of the robbery, and he had a clock with him like the one produced. It was pledged in the name of Henry Palmer, an associate of the prisoner, and now in custody for various offences. A detective proved s earching the prisoner's room ; he found three Bramah keys, and all the robberies had been done with these keys. Remanded for a week. SMUGGLING ON BOARD SHlP.—William Somers, a sea man, aged 43 years, was charged, at the Thames Police court, with smuggling 41 lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco. Mr. James Gorniby, a Custom House officer, was overhauling the chests and bags of the crew on board the ship Knight Errant, in the Millwall Dock, and on taking up a bag belonging to the prisoner he asked him what it contained, to which he replied, soap. The officer, thinking it contained something else besides soap, opened the bag. It contained 41 lbs. of tobacco. Then I declare, said the prisoner, the soap has grown into tt.ibacco since I placed it in the bag. Mr. Lushington did not believe in the astounding miracle, and fined the prisoner L 1 Is. 3d., the single value and duty of the tobacco. THE FRENCH FLEET. The following singular article has appeared in the United Service Gazette :—ln the present state of affairs between the four Powers, France, Prussia, Russia and England, it would be a satisfaction to know whether a sharp eye is being kept ou the ultimate destination of the French Fleet. That Prussia is acting in complicity with Russia there can be no doubt. There has already been a talk of the Prussians demanding, or being about to demand, possession of the French Fleet as a material guarantee. We very earnestly hope that the Government will allow as little opportunity as possible for the carrying out any little schemes of those astute allies, who may chance to find that , they have outwitted them selves, if there is a man who is worth his salt in the Ministry. Promptitude in a case like this is the very essence of safety, and we would urge upon the Ministry to avoid the usual vacillating policy, by which a Liberal Government has hitherto contrived to " drift " us into a war, out of which a Conservative Government alone was capable of bringing us victorious. Scouting the idea that there is the remotest reason why we should be squeamish in giving defiance to any power that is disposed to offend us, we see no reason why we should not supply the wants of our old ally France, holding her Fleet, for which she has no present use, as a deposit for re payment. Vacillation and hesitation are alone dangerous at the present moment. An alliance offensive and defensive with France, at this moment, would crush Germany and ren der Russia impotent. We should save the cost of another war, and save an ally who has acted fairly and manfully by us. It is true, that with proper management we might have been twice as strong as we are at present, but we are strong enough ; and if not such alliance is all the more needful. "Of late years we have been so un-Englished and Ell Germanized by influence in high places that it would be a satisfaction to Englishmen to have an oppor tunity of shewin that they prefer their own nationality I to any other." CRYSTAL PALACE.—IIaIf-a-Crown Day, Saturday, November 26th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets 5,743; ditto on payment, 980 ; total visitors, 6,723. OUR COTEMPORARIF.S—This Morning ever The Broad Arrow says :—The iron armour-plated ship Hercules, under the command of Lord Gilford, at Ports mouth, will be ready for sea this week.—The Adventure, troopship, is ordered to be paid off on the China Station, and her officers and crew to return to England on board the first ship leaving the station.—The new Flying Squadron, under Rear- Admiral F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., will rendezvous in Plymouth Sound early in the ensuing month, and unless unforeseen circumstances occur, will leave for Barbadoes about the 12th proximo.—Consequent on information received from the Government of India, it has been determined not to hold an examination in February, 1871, for admission to the Indian medical service. Mr. Cardwell has abandoned his intention of reorganising the Yeomanry, owing, it is said, to the strong opposition of the Colonels to the measures proposed. M. Valentin, who was appointed Prefect of Strasburg by the Government at Paris, and who so valiantly succeeded in entering the beleaguered city, turns out to have bcen French master in the Royal Academy at Woolwich. He was not shot at by the Prussians as reported, but remains a prisoner at Ehrenbreitstein, opposite Coblentz. The London correspondent of the Edinburgh Courant telegraphs that in the event of Prince Gortschakoff's reply to Earl Granville's dispatch being unsatisfactory to the Government, it is intended to at once recruit all the battalions on home service up to their full strength. Arrangements have already been made for this at the War Office and the Horse Guards. On application from the Turkish Government, the War Department has sanctioned the engagement of twenty artisans now employed in the Small Arms Factory at En field for the Turkish service, and they were to have left England on Saturday for the Tophant (gun factory) at Constantinople. They are engaged for two years, at £25 per month each, with £2O allowed for the passage out, and the like sum for the return home, and the work in which they will be employed is the conversion and manu facture of rifles on the Snider principle. There are already many English mechanics employed in the service of the Sultan, and some months ago one of them, Mr. Wyatt, and Said Bey, a Turkish officer, were sent from Constantinople to America, where they purchased the whole plant, including four hundred machines of various kinds, of the Springfield Small Arms Company, Massa chusetts. This machinery has been erected at the Con stantinople Tophane, under the superintendence of Mr. Wyatt and other Englishmen, who are devoting the skill they acquired at Enfield and Woolwich to the service of the Ottoman Empire, and have been promoted to high honours and emoluments by the Sultan. THE EASTERN QUESTION. The Times, in discussing the question, says : Ths position Lord Granville assumed was very simple, and though we may have to say the same thing over again, he will not, we trust, be beguiled into quitting it. Not that our attitude is misunderstood in RusS'ia. The reply of Prince Gortschakoff shews that he comprehends it per fectly, and his expostulations, apologies, and pro tests on other heads are simply attempts to shift the debate to points not so clearly impregnable. The semi-official Golos puts the truth in words that may be accepted as foreshadowing the yet unpublished language of the Chancellor :—" The British Ministry, and with it, ' we must admit, nearly the whole 'of the European press, look upon the step taken by our Cabinet from the abstract stand-point of international law, and therefore energetically protest against the method we have adopted for modifying one of its clauses. Exclusively emphasizing the question of international law, and sacri ficing, it would seem, the Treaty itself, Lord Granville informs us that he would not, perhaps, have objected to remodel the agreement in question had we only taken the trouble to address the Powers who were parties to it on the expediency of a change." This is for practical purposes perfectly accurate. We have not attributed to the Czar the design of conquering Constantinople, sub jecting. the Mediterranean to his rule, and dictating laws to the West. We have not been careful to calculate whether hostilities with Russia would benefit Prussia or France, though the French people, differing from the (lobos, evidently believe they would be for their ad vantage. We have - not attempted to ascertain how many years must be passed before Sebastopol could be restored, or the Russian fleet of 20 years since be re placed in the Black Sea- It has been enough for us that Russia, having consented to a settlement of the Crimean War, which was devised in a spirit of moderation, that it might not offend her susceptibilities and provoke a speedy recurrence of hostilities, has seized a time when two of the pArties to a treaty are engaged in a deadly struggle to declare—what ?—that she repudiates the obligations to which she consented. This is the claim we must resist. To it we can give no countenance what- Any attempt to embody it in action would necessitate action on our side. The stability of all inter national relations is at stake. The maintenance of the sanctity of law rests upon our decision ; and we fear we must add that the Russian Court saw this, and calculated that we should shrink from a duty so onerous. If this was the belief at St. Petersburg, we trust that the delusion has by this time been scattered, and that a better acquaintance with the reality of our respect for the obligations of Treaties will be a powerful element • in promoting such a change of attitude as shall permit peace to be unbroken. To-day, says the Daily News, the Cabinet will meet, and, in Parliamentary phrase, will real Prince Grorts shakoff's despatch a second time. In their deliberations an Friday, Ministers, it is said, were able to do little more than acquaint themselves with the terms, and to disen tangle from them the precise meaning of the missive which, though it had been long expected, was suddenly submitted to them. Unless the Chancellor of Russia has cultivated an obscurity which is foreign to his usual style, there aught to be little difficulty in coming to an understanding of it and about it. There should be as little delay as possible in announcing a decision. Every hour of uncet , Ainty is fraught with loss and peril. The question which Ministers have to examine is whether the sub stance of Prince Gortschakoff's despatch admits of being Pdconciled with the position assumed by Lord Granville n his reply to the Russian Circular. If this harmony gas not yet been attained, does the tone of the Imperial Chancellor afford reasonable ground for coping that further correspondence will lead to a satisfactory result ? The substance of Lord Gran second letter must be contained in his first. No honourable retreat is possible from the position which was then taken up ; and a dishonourable one is, if such In expression may be allowed, yet snore impossible. the attitude of England is free from all ambiguity, and • she will pursue the course which a sense )f duty dictates without doubt or misgiving. The Treaty sf 1856 may be revised, but it.must not be broken. We shall be faithful at any cost to our pledges, though Russia withdraw from hers. This is the real issue, how ver dexterously sophistry and special pleading may strive o confuse it. The Telegraph says : Pending the careful and deliberate liscussion which Prince Gortschakoff's rejoinder will re :sive in the Cabinet Council to-day, the exact termsof the :ommunication are for a time withheld; but there need be so hesitation in dealing with the general character and surpose of the Russian note. That document is, to use slain language, neither honourable to the Government f the Emperor, nor worthy of a nation claiming to rank among those which sustain the laws of civilised norality. We snake the remark without implying that he answer of the Muscovite statesman to Lord Granville slakes peace at all impossible. On the contrary, there would be a certain mournful satisfaction if the official Pokesman for Russia used honest and clear diction, vhether in the direction of excuse or of avowed irrita ion ; whether towards mutual explanations and rational arrangements, or towards firm defiance and sudden war. There is nothing straightforward in the position of Prince i'ortschalcoff. He neither looks the moral questions onestly in the face, nor yet boldly avows a policy of dis .egard for such niceties of conscience ; although he may thstain fro , . tone of menace, he does not disavow the ntentiiiii of acting upon the lawless notice which has seen given. In a. word, the general bearing of the aussian Government is at once aggressive and tempo ising ; yet it would be going too far to say that it affords so ground for further intercourse, or that it closes that ?ostern gate of rational agreement which the supplemeu --ary acts of the Imperial Chancellor so studiously left ejar. When the public has perused the communication arhich engages the attention of our Government to-day, • ire believe disapprobation in regard to its lack of candour and probity will be the first feeling, while ;he second will be a conviction that the position stands very much as it did, complicated only by the lisappointment which must be felt in seeing the 'ar from honourable line still taken by the Em )eror's representative. It will, we fear, have to be sccepted as a broad fact . that the communications sf the Prince are of a piece from first to last, and that in !uture the Russian definition of national rectitude must oe held to mean something quite different from the view entertained by Europe in general. We shall be only too glad if our remarks prove strong in their accent A condemnation ; but we have too much reason so apprehend that the English nation will agree with us in denouncing Prince Gortschakoff's reply as disinge nuous, and little calculated to establish any faith in the professiohs of Russia, if we should allow her to abolish without rearrangement those securities which UQW bind her action. We regret to announce the death of the Hon. James Stuart-Wortley, which took place yesterday a Wharncliffe House, Curzon-street. PRINCE AND PRINCESS CHRISTIAN. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, attended by Colonel and Mrs. Gordon, returned to Frogmore House on Saturday afternoon from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trent ham Hall. The following is the correct list of the brides maids chosen for the mareale of the Princess Louise Lady Constance Seymour, daughter of the Mar quis of Hertford ; Lady Elizabeth Campbell daughter of the Duke of Argyll ; Lady Florenc Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond Lady Mary Butler, daughter of the Marchioness o Ormonde ; Lady Alice Fitzgerald, (laughter of the slat quis of Kildare ; Lady Grace Gordon, daughter of th Dowager Marchioness of lltuitly ; Lady Moreno Montagu, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich ; and Lad Acatha Russell, daughter of Earl Russell. Thq Morning Advertiser reports that on Friday morning the first of a series of meetings, promoted by the Evangelical Alliance for prayer for the restoration of peace, was held at Freemasons' Hall. Sympathetic com munications were read from the Bishop of London, the Eail of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Chichester, and other English gentlemen ; and similar letters coming from abroad were read. Count A. Bernstorff was present, and offered up a prayer, his subject being, " That the grace of the Divine Comforter may be given abundantly to those who have been bereaved in the war ; that all who suffered loss in their property may have patience and, strength to endure the taking or spoiling of their goods !" MEETING OF THE LEICESTER CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. —A meeting of the Leicester Chamber of Agriculture was held on Saturday, under the presidency of Mr. William U. Heygate, M.P. The subjects under dis cussion were, the causes now in operation which discourage the application of capital to agriculture. It was unanimously resolved that these causes are, first, the comparatively unremunerative character of the occupation secondly, the want of sufficient ur s yeerieciutyuiaaactn to bectyrea occasioned for alsoctioaoomnon a c ( : Ipdee p rsn i eby t a s sya haphazard eoaiimovpnnei consideredrt e ao: s ztpf t t har herevdedys over-preservation l therein, wumruvtaaagatntotittioieeni oNNd t r. Tof,and,hhgceyiott also u h aan i i t dprl game.o y er rge , esu t eg h i nree required rse iserreea. ravages ml y g tenant. He quite agreed as to fartniug occupation being unremunerative, and thought the immense number of profitable trades prevented a large amount of capital being laid out in agriculture. As to being 'cut out of the market by import or foreign cereal, he did not take a gloomy view, but believed we should be ablC to produce our own. ;; t • fi r -,;> r ,~:i ~~~ i ~ .