The Sun. — London, England, 1870-12-17 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.--YESTERDAY. In the stock exchange to-day much quietness has been noticed. The tone, however, in the absence of any further political complications, has been steady, and the movements throughout have been favourable. In the rail way market, South Eastern, Great Northern, A., Great Eastern, North Eastern, and Midland, each shew an improvement. Foreign bonds also have been firm, and the leading speculative securities have risen in value. Consols, have risen *per cent., or to 91;, 91 ex div. for dalivrey, and 911, 911 ex div. for January ; Reduced and New Three per Cents., 911, 91 Bank stock s 230, 232 ; Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 15s. prom. ; India Five per Cents., 1101, 1101, ex div. ; and India bonds 225. to 275, prem. In Colonial Government securities very few transactions have taken place, but the quotations have ruled firm. • The market for English Railway Stocks has been firm, and the quotations have improved in most instances. South Eastern at 741 to 741, Great Eastern at 381 to 38„'-, and'Midland at 128 to 1281, are each 1 better. Great Northern A has risen 1, or to 1341 to 135, and North Eastern 4, to 144 to 1441. Metiopolitan, 63 to 631 ; Caledonian, 851 to 851; Brighton, 401 to 41; North Western, 1281 to 1281; and Great Western, 69 to 70k. Very few transactions have taken place in Indian rail way stocks. East Indian (Marked), 1101 ; ,Great Indian Peninsula, 1071,1. Canadian shares have been in limited request. Great Western, 141. In foreign shares next to nothing has been doing., Central Argentine, 20*. The foreign bond market has been in a steady state, and a further enhancement.leas taken place. Egyptian ' (1868) has been 1 per cent. better, at 771, 771 ; Italian (1861), _a, at 54, 51 . 4 ; Spanish (1867), /, at 311, 311 ; ditto (1869), *, at 311, Mg Turkish Five per Cents, TO, at 441, 441, and ditto (1869) /, at 501, 501 ; French scrip par to 1 prem. ; German loan to 1 prem.; Peruvian (1865), are quoted at 92/, 924; Mexican, 13k, 131; United States Five-Twenty 1882 bonds, 88g, 861; ditto 1885, 88, 881. Bank shares have been quiet. Alliance have been lower, at 121, 131 ; Anglo- . Egyptian have marked 21 ; Imperial Ottoman, 111, 12; Joint-Stock, 341 ; London and Westminster, 631; Oriental, 401: and Union of London, 39. • . For Telegraph Shares there has been but little inquiry. British Indian Extension, 6 ; British Indian Submarine, 7 ; Falmouths, 9 11-16, 1 ex div. ; Hooper's Telegraph Works, 61; and Constructions, 26g. Miscellaneous Securities have been cautiously dealt in. Ebbw Vale, 182 ; Thetis Marino, 81; and Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 6 ex div. The bullion operations at the Bank to-day, comprise the purchase of £lB,OOO in sovereigns, and the with drawal of £7,000 sovereigns. In the discount market nothing of interest has been noticed. Full average supplies of capital have been offered, and there has been but little inquiry for accomo dation. Three months' paper has been taken at 21 per cent. As regards the exchanges, the rates on Italy, are some what flatter, but in other respects, there is no appreciable variation. -------- At Mark-lane to-day, wheat was dull, and is. lower in seine instances. At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Godfrey J. Aman, cotton and produce broker, of Liverpool, on Wednesday, a composition of ss. in the pound was offered and refused, and a petition in bankruptcy was filed yesterday. At the annual meeting of the Gresham Life Assurance Society the report stated the new policies for the year to have been 3,971, for an aggregate yielding £60,103 in annual premiums, that the total income was £418,377, and that the realised assets are £1,453,012. The sum of £66,893 was available for bonus but only £50,000 was thus appropriated owing to the diSturbed state of Europe, the society holding some investments on property in Paris and in Austria. Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake thus report on the state of the Bullion Market. The arrivals of gold this week have been very small ; they consist only of £45,200 per Douro, from the Brazils, and a small amount by the Elbe, from the West Indies. There have been a few orders for the Continent, but net suffi cient to absorb all the sums that have been offered for sale and the bank has therefore received about £15,000 duriog the past few days ; on the other hand, sovereigns to the value of £131,440 have been withdrawn, for shipment to Brazils. and Alexandria. Silver continues to arrive from New York; the amounts to hand from thence comprise £98,000. FOREIGN EXCEANGES. —Antwerp, three months' date, 25 35, 25 40 ; Paris, short date, nominal ; ditto, three months' date, nominal ; Marseilles, ditto, 25 50, 25 60; Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 20 95, 27 05 ; Amsterdam, short date, 11 18, 11 19 ; ditto, three months' date, and Rotterdam, ditto, 1201, 121; Hamburgh, ditto, 13 IQ, 13 11i ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine, ditto, 1201, 120} ; Vienna and Trieste, ditto, 12 70, 12 75 ; St. Petersburgh, ditto, 29i., 29a ; Madrid, ditto, 491, 49a ; Cq.diz, ditto, 49#, 49 ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, and Oporto, ditto, 52k, 521. LONDON STOOK EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIA HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 914 914 Vict 6p cJan &July 189 115 117 911, 1 a d DoApril &Oot 1883-85.. 1 111 112 Do for Account 914, 1 x d Vict 5p c Jan & JulylB94. 10311041 Three per Cen t Reduced 911 914 1031, 4 911, 4, 1 Brazilian, 1865, 5 p o .... 921 931 New 3 per Cent 914, C 4. i Egypt ia n 1862, 7 p o .. .. 80 82 Exchequer bills, March 10 15pm Do It Deben 7 p c .. 101 103 pm 1011, 2 Do, June lO 15pm Italian, 1865. 5 p - - 10s pm Peruvian, 1865, 5 p a Bank Stock - - 924, 4 230, 2 Portuguese 1869 3 p o .. 311 324 India 5 per Cents - - Russian, 1862, 5 p 0.. .. 83 85 1104, 1, / x d 831, 4 India Bonds - - Do Nicolas 4 p o m 661, i Can,6 poJan&Julyll77-84 10411051 Spanish. 1867, 3 po 1041 321 Do March & Sept. 103 105 Do, 1869. 3 p 0 Do 5 p c Jan & July .. 98 99 312, 4, 1 Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 Turkish. 1854, 6 p o 7B 80 Dom of Can 5 p a 1903 .. 97 99 •Do, 1865. 5 p a Ceylon 6 p c May and 444, 4 November 1878 lO6 108 Do, 1805 6 p c Mauritius t p c Jan and 62, 4 July 1873 lO3 105 1T.8.5-20 Bonds.Gp o 1832 884 881 New 8W ales 5 p clB7l-76 1011102/ 881, 4, i 1021 Do do 1889 88 881 New Zealand 6 p c 1891 lOB 110 834 Dospc Do 5 p c Consolidated 99 100 ErieSha, 100 dots, all paid - - 992, 4, ~./ Illinois Central Shares .. 11011111 Do 6 p c Afar a Sept 1891 106 108 Atlantic and (1 W 11 Con Do Juno & DeclB9l 108 110 Mortgage Bonds - - 10 British Indian Sub- 8 Reuter's marine, (L) 7 100 Submarine 237 242 7 China Submarine(L) 51 sdis Do Scrip 2t 21 lid Falmouth, Gibraltar, 10 W India SrPanama(L) 4. 51 and Malta (LI 91, 11-16, i x d RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B6 88 Do Ist Pref 80nd5.... 66 58 Caledonian - 563, 7 859, 5,6, 51 9 Grand Trunk of Canada Great Eastern 389, 3 - 379 Great Northern Do A 133 134 Grand Trunk of Canada 1339 4th Pref Stock Great Western .692 701 169, 9 70. 699, 709, 891 Great Indian Pen g 5'% 0 107 108 Lancashire & Yorkshire 13291339 1079, 9, 8 1329 Great Western ofoanada 14 149 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 409 41 ' 149, 9 409 Do Up c Bonds. 1873.. 98 100 Lon, Chat, and Dover 129 Do 3 p c prof. Issued 80 9dis Bpm Lon and North-Western 12711281 Madras guar 5p p 128, 79 N. ' Railway of Canada, Lon and South-Western 90 91 -6 p c Ist Fret Bonds 909, 1 Oudo and Rohilkund g Man, Shef, and Lincoln 4s' ; 46 spo 459 Scinde, Putijaub, and Metropolitan 629, 31 Bahia and San Francisco Midland l2B 1289 g 7 D 0 1289, 8 Belgian N Junction North British .-. .34' '35 Buenos Ayres Gt Sthrn.: .242 25 North-EasteniCousols.. 14391449 25 1432, 49, 9, 2 Dunaburg and Witepsk 189 181 Houth-Easterti 741 741 Dutch-Rhenish • 22 23 ktlantic and St Lawrnee 75 77 Eastern of France _.. =_iombay, Baroda, and Great Luxembourg Central India. g 5 D 0.. 10411051 113, 9 Buff and Lake Huron .. 39 49 Lemberg Czornowitzgua Do 59 pc 80nd5,1872-3-4 79 81 7 Zia Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5p o 10491059 Ottoin(Smyrna to Aidin) 49 59 East Indian, g 5 p c MI (Limited) guar 7p o .. 141 15 Grand Trunk Canada 119 San Paulo (L) guar 7p a 209 213 DO Equip Alert Bnd 1 South A ustu & Lom-Yen 143 143 charge 6p a • 899 909 Southern of France ..,. Do 2nd d . o Scrip .... ldis Ipm BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 1 Agra Hank 11,, A 73. 83 20 Lon Char of Austrlia 23 24 25 Alliance (L) 124 15 London Joint-Stock 333 ::41 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Ai.glo-Ngyptlan (L) , 20, 21 20 Lon and Westmnster 623 633 21, 203 61, 3 60 British N American b 3 .55 10 Metropolitan B3 9 20 Ch of India, Anstrlia 14 15 2 0 Midland (L) 25 Char Mere of Indite 23' 24 20 New South Wales .. 37 39 233 37i, 8 10 City 25 Colonial . 47 49 403 4 consolidated (L 20 Eng. Scot. and Ana 0 151 10,‘ 15 Union of Lomita' .. : 4 83 393 20 Imperial ,L) , l7l 184 39, 81 10 Impf•rial Ottoman 12, 11g, 12 TELEVIPAPII COMPANIES. . ra . I'd 100 Anglo-Arnertcan L) 79 81 lo Great Northern .... NI 111 10 Anglo-111editrit If a 123 125 t; fireat N. China, and 122 a Japan Extension.. 21.12,114 100 Atlantic 100 lin 8p c 13 Brit( 311 A ustraan (L) 5 41,dis and Malta (14 .. • 51 0 1. 1 , la Mcditerrn Ex 11,).. 4a at Ind J';xten (Ll, 5 1 GI 21 nu.. awl B. Vcfc(l.) - 4 21 dis Ws 10 Br filE SUN, LONIiQI, SATURDAI, DECENIBER 17, THE IRISH CHURCH. The Synod of the Archdiocese of Armagh resumed its sitting on Wednesday, the Lord Primate presiding. Before commencing the business of the meeting, his Grace announced that he had received £250 from the Bishop of Durham; being the half of his subscription, with a promise that £250 would shortly follow for the Sustentation Fund. In his letter, the learned prelate expressed the greatest interest in their progress. The Primate said. he bad a letter from another English bishop, advising them to make no appeal, or allow no appbal to he made, on their behalf to England till May, inasmuch as•the English people had already given £500,000 f(ir the sick and wounded, and as in every diocese in England, within the next two months, large sums must bt collected for school • funds to enable them to purchase the schools. The writer who made this suggestion re-echoed the. assurance that had come from other quarters of the very great interest which the bishops and clergy of England take in their success. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A FUNERAL. On Thursday, at the Dewsbury Borough Police-court,. John Grady was charged, at the instance of the local Burial Board, with creating a disturbance in the cemetery on the 7th instant. A man named Anthony Fox was included in the charge, but he did not appear. It was proved that on the above day the Rev. W. R. Kenny, Roman catholic priest, vexed at the conduct of the defendant and other mourners— they were all intoxicated—struck him with an umbrella. Grady immediately knocked the priest down, and the latter, on rising, proceeded to the mortuary chapel to perform the burial service. This over, the coffin, was ordered to be taken to. the grave, but Fox would not permit it, and he had to be removed. He came up again, obstructed the passage of the corttge, and was then struck . by Grady. The two men fought, and, not to be behind hand, some of the women, all more or lees intoxi cated, had a "set to," and the scrimmage was Continued while the interment was taking place. Mr. Breary, who represented the Burial Board, said that was the first : case of the kind they had had, and therefore they did not wish to press for a heavy penalty. Defendant was fined 40$. and costa, and a warrant was ordered to be issued against Fox.—Manchester Guardian. • LORD LAWRENCE. The election of Chairman of the London School Board is an event of far too much importance to be pasSed lightly by. Many particulars more or less accurate of the career of Lord Lawrence have been published, the most impor tant point in connection with them being the mistakes made apparently by confusing the actions of his lordship with those of his brother, who, like himself, won fame and renown in India. Lord Lawrence, member, of the London School Board ' , ref esenting - Chelsea is the fourth son of ' Colonel Alex. Lawrence, who was a soldier of distinction under Marquis Corn- wallis in the Mysore Campaign, and an heroic combatant at Seringapatam. He had four brothers; all, of whom were soldiers. One pf them, Henry, fell in th 4 success ful defence of Lucknow, and his loss was monrned by every 'Englishman. John Laird Mair Lawrence, now Lord Lawrence, was born on the 4th of March, jBll, and ' was educated chiefly at the High School at Derry, in Ireland (since called Foyle College, from the river Foyle, .up which came the Protestant ships and smashed "the boom"). Here he was a schoolfellow of the rioted Sir Robert Montgomery, Lieutenant-Governor of the Pun jab. On leaving. school he was presented with a civil appointment in India, known as a writership, but he evinced much., opposition to koceeding to that country unless in a military capacity ; but j,at that juncture his brother Henry returned hpme sick with fever, after, the Burmese war, and his experienced narrative had much ,effect in removing this ida. He accordingly started in 1829 to occupy the pest of 4ssistant 1 - to the Resident of. Delhi, one of his coadjutors tieing, Sir Charles Trevelyan, afterwards Governor of Madras. He soon left Delhi and proceeded to the districts, aii/ay from Europeans, where he was throWn upon the natives' for help, obedience, usefulness, success, and even syinpathy ; and there obtained his training in Indian life. 14 worked hard and made his subordinates. do likewise, laying up a store of knowledge of all kinds—official, jndiciA social,' agricultural, commercial; learning, in fact, to know the races whom, by God's Providence, he was afterwards to be called upon to rule. After ten . years of this work he returned to England for three years' holiday, was married, and returned to his duties happy and invigorated. Ile resumed his work on the eve of very perilo'.is times.. In the winter of 1841-2, a British force of 5;000 men, with three times that number of camp followers, were cut to pieces between Cabul and Jellelabad, a disastr which, united with the inherent justice of the retributi in, gave the first decisive blow to English prestige in. I dig, and sounded the key-note to the disasters of 1857. n 1845, the Sikhs burst across 'the Sutlej with an ftrmy of perhaps 100,000, and then came the famous exploits of Lords Hardinge and Gough, which resulted in, the loss of some 6,000 killed' and slain, including the ."foremost man in India," George Broadfoot , and cau se d th 4 transfer of John Lawrence to the Punjab on the earnest recom mendation of Lord Hardinge and Sir F. CurJrie, then foreign secretary. From 1846 to 1849 John Lawrence remained Commissioner of the Trans-Sutlej States (the rich Jalundhur Doab, and the hills adjoining, running up the borders of Thibot, yielding a revenue Of about 400,000 a year.) His task was to change the entire system of government therein from that of the ; Sikhs to that of the British, and thus incorporate the new terri tory with British India ; and he effected it in these three years with masterly ability. In particular, lie commuted the whole land-tax from payment in grain to payment in cash, in the face of native popular opinion, but to the , ultimate satisfaction of the agricultural classed r a solid and substantial administrative triumph. It is noted that he. was least successful with the feudal .chiefs, his brother :Henry being more at home with them ; but it, must be admitted that no branch of Anglo-Indian government presents more serious difficulties than the question what to do with the aristocracy. In 1848 the Sikh army again contested with the British, and, after a severe struggle, the Punjab was annexed to British India in March, 1849, and the new province was ruled by a Board . of Administration, consisting of Henry Lawrence, as presi dent, with John Lawrence, Mr. Mansell, and aftewards Mr. Montgomery. In 1852; Henry Lawrence withdrew, and the sole charge of the Punjab was , given to John as Chief Commissioner, an office he held for five years, during which his labours were immense both to himself and his subordinates. . • Then came the calamitons events Of 1857-8, when 100,000 Sepoys revolted front English rule and again •set up the Mogul Dynasty in Delhi. .British rule was then convulsed from sea to mountain. It was clear that Delhi must be regained or British India would be lost. The Governor-General of India at Cal cutta and the Governors of Madras and Bombay were 'shut off, and everything depended upon the( Punjab. .At such a crisis the Punjab stood firm and faithful ; poured down from hill and plain the flower of its 'native chivalry, and the best of our .generals, with the choicest blood of both succeeded in recapturing the ' historic capital -of . India, , and the then ruler of ' 'the • Punjab was John Law-. rence. And, accordingly, it is not surprising that hon ours were heaped upon him in rapid succession. The Times of October 23, 1858, startled all England by pub lishing at full length some minutes .of Sir .Tilin Law rence's on " the Christian duty of this country in. the government of India." They discwised many ipoints of administration open to objection; but their utterance was most clear and spirit-stirring on the old English ' sub ject of an open Bible. - 'He stated that, in his judgment, " the Bible ought not only to be placed among the college libraries and the' school books, for the -perusal of those who might choose to consult it"—(as had hitherto been the neutral practice)L--" but also it should be taught in class, wherever we , - have teachers fit to I teach it and• pupils willing to hear it." Nor was thil all. Sir John closed his despatch by as fine, manly, and English • a confession of political - faith as we know of iin public records.. - The following extracts give the pith of it : " Sir John Lawrence has been led, in common with others, since the occurrence 'of the awful events of 1857, Ito ponder deeply on what may be the faults and shortcomings of the British as a' Christian nation in India. In considering topics such as those treated of in this despatch,' he would solely endeavour to ascertain what is our Christian duty. Having ,ascertained that, according to our erring lights and conscience, he would follow it out to the nttermost, undeterred by any consideration. If we address ourselves to this task, it may, with the blessing of Providence, not prove too difficult for iv. does entertain the earnest belief that all those measures which are really and truly Christian can be carried out in India. not only without danger to British rule, but, on the contrary, with every advantage to its stability." When, in 1859, John Lawrence returned to his native ' land, lie was presented by the Bishop of Louden with an 'address of congratulation signed by nearly 8,000 impor tant Persons, including three archbishops, twenty bishops, twenty-eight temporal Peers, seventy-one M.P.'s, and nearly 200 mayors and provosts of cities andboroughs. The honours conferred on him were the dignity of K.C. B. a- baronetcy, a seat in the new Indian Council and on her Majesty's Privy Council. The East Indian Company, as one of their final acts of power, granted from the revenues of India a pension of V 2,000 per annum for two lives. On the formation of the Order of the Star of India he was made K.S.I. At the end of 1863. he' succeeded the late Lord Elgin as Viceroy Governor - General of India, an ' aPpointment which gave great satis faction in India,. and which 'he held with the greatest good: effect until , his ' retirement , in 1868, when he was raised to the peerage as Lord X.awrence. His lordship has received the honorary degrees of D.C.L. and LL.D. from both Oxford and Cambridge. ' Since his return to England lie has been :the .consistent helper and advocate of -every truly Christian undertaki4-, and has taken a•most lively interest in missionary and educational enterprise in the country where he won his fame and renown. The. difficulties of his course 'may be estimated from the sketch of Indian life given by Lord Stanley (now Lord Derby) in 1859, addressing the students at Addis combe, when lie remarked, " Everything in Asia, public safety, national honour, personal reputation, rests on the force of individual character. For a European gentleman • in India there is,' strictly: speaking, no private life.. He is one of the ruling race; he is one of the few among the many ; he is one of a population of some 10,000 strong among more than ten times as many millions."—Record. TEE GREW OF THE GARADOC.— The boat con taining- the remainder of the crew of the Caradoc, bound. from Liverpool for Singapore, which foundered after colli sion with another vessel on the Bth inst.,. was picked up' by the steamer Egyptian, the beingen subsequently transferred to the bark Janet Fabers, and landed safely at Dublin. THE EXPLOSION AT WITTON.—MonE DEATHS. — From the many lingering sufferers at the Hospital death has removed two more. Jane Johnson died at three o'clock on Thhrsday afternoon, and Lucy Hilliard at ten o'clock at night. Twenty-one have now died since Friday last, and the ease of many more is hopeless, In one ward there ere five poor women in a painfully critical condi tion, and there seems but little hope of their surviving long. The New York Tribune, writing of the reported arrest of George . Francis Train at • Marseilles, asks, " Lives, or lived there ever a man with such an immense talent for breaking into gaol 'as our eloquent friend ?" The Tribune says that Train grows great upon im prisonment ; that he dotes upon, persecution ; and that to .be "severely let alone" would cause him intolerable anguish. THE WAR. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. TEMPORARY CALM. Herr Wachenhusen, of the Cologne Gazette, says that the last few days before Paris have been " intolerably " calm. " Only at times the soiesan boom of one of the big guns of tile forts is heard, especially at night, as if they were disturbed by horrible dreams. It is possible that it is done to quiet the Parisians, and to shew them how well they are guarded, for any sensible purpose is not to be attained by such foolish cannonadiUg. Upon Mont Valerien though, or in the redoubts, a new gun of very long range must recently have been placed in position, a shot from which fell the . day before yesterday within 1,500 paces of Prince Charles's residence at Ver sailles. It may possibly be only a model upon which others are being constructed. The way in which our parlementaire was recently complimented back is said to have annoyed the King very much, and his merciful views 'are greatly changed in consequence. It is there fore possible that very shortly more energetic steps may be taken against the Parisians. We may expect a sortie during the next few days towards Mention, the exposed position of which General Trochu has long had his eye upon." MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. Pd . Pd Anglo-Austrian End- 20 It Irria Can Cavour 3?..- 4 holders' Certificate 13 21 100 lio6 p c Bonds. re -10 BerlinWaterworkstLl 142 151 deemable 1370 63 65 •30 llolckow-Vaughan 14 30 35pm 30 Lbndon Fin Assoc(L) 20 18dis 100 Boston City (U.S. 1 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 2F, 3 p c Sterling Loan 91 93 • 3 • . 4 Itrit & Farr Marine( LI 2.t3linn 2 Lou & Prov Marine 1411 Ipm 25 Canada Company.' 73 75 100 Madraslrrig. &Canal 10 Ceylon Company L) n *lig gsn c by Ind Gov. 101 102 6:: 7 • 2 Mauritius Land (L) i 1 dis. 71 City 0 0 i ces ad • • 26 25 dis 5 Natill Disct Comp (L) 11 111 20 Colonial (I.) , 4 2 dia _ 111 - . -- .. . . - - Y 5 Corn Union'Assurneo 3 31pm 21 N Zealand Loan and 10 Crdt 1?onc of Bug (L) 14 21 Mere Agency iL) .. 4 :-, pm 2 5 N Zealand. Loan and 100 Crystal Palace .. 18 20 Trust IL) , ll 11 pm 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb ll2 117 6 OceanMarinelnsur —l3l 14Pro 27/ Ebbw Vale Steel L) 9 8/dis 50 P and 0 Steam 45 47 181 10 Do do New. 1867 3 2 dis 100 Viceroy of. Egypt 7p c 50 Rhymney Iron Mortgage Loan.... 78 80 15 Do New Bl 91 794 60 Royal Mail Steam 100 Egyp 9 p &Troy Loan. 12 Tel Con and Main (L) 261 261 guar by Egyp Gov.. 94 9i: 20 951, 5 2 Thames and Mersey 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 7/ 81Pin Marine Incur IL 100 Fgn and Colonial Gov flit. Tobacco 6 p 0 Loan l'rust 6p c Bonds.. 98 100 guar by Italian Gov. 87 89 99, 1 5 Trust and Loan Co of 71 Oen Credti4Disct (L) / 1 die Upper Canada 14 Gen Stip Navigation 271 281 6i d 7 Hooper 's Tel Works i Idis 513 Marine, Lvpool IL 41 5Pm 61, 11-18 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 17 Hudson's Bay 8 81 6 United Dis Corprn iLldis 'pm 45 Indrbbr, Gut Per, and 5 UnivMarineltisur (L 1 61.7.; pin Tel Works L) .... 44 45 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 (Its 5 InterulFinan Soca.) 1114 dis MINTNG SHARE LlST.—DtcEmma 16 Messrs. 'WATSON BROTIIERS. Office., 1, St. Michael's Alley, COrithill, Lenciwi. Moderate demand for Tankerville, West Tankerville, Taqua ril, Grenville, West Maria, East Lovell,. and Providence. Great Vor Hatter. • Australian United, Bwlch Consols, Chiverton Moor, Chivertou Valley, Chantsles (Gold), 10s, 12s ad Cook's Kitchen, 171. 181 Devon Great Consols, Drakewalls, 235, 25s Dolcoatit, Don Pedro North Del Rey, 22, 21 East Caradon, 51, 6/ East Lovell, 25j, East Seton, East Wheal Grenville, 2, 21 Froutino and Bolivia (Gold), Pary's Mountain, Perran Wheal Virgin, 32s Cd, 35s Plynlimmon, 2, 21 Prince of Wales, Providence Mines, 38, 40 Rosewall Hill and Ransome United, a 11 South Oondurrow, 3, 31 South Frances. Tankerville, 131, 131 Taquaril(Gold), 50s, 52s Tincroft, Trumpet Consols, Van. 55, 57 Van Consols, West Caradon, West Chiverton, 51, 52 West Maria and Forteecue, West Tankerville, Wheal Crebor, Wheal Grenville, 21, 2i Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, 8, 81 Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Beton. 22k, 27i General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 174, 184 Great Betaßack. Great Wheel Vor. 31, 31 Hingston Down, Marke New Beldon, New Lovell, Ws, 318 Pacific, 1, MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.-The grain trade at Mark-lane to-day ruled quiet. Transactions throughout were restricted, and prices generally were lowrr than on Monday last. There was a limited supply of English wheat on offer, the con dition of which, owing to the wet weather, was indifferent. The inquiry was dull. and occasionally a reduction of ls. per quar ter took place in values. Foreign wheat, the supply of which was large, experienced a slow, sale at drooping prices. There was a large show of barley on offer. Both malting and grinding descriptions were purchased sparingly, the former being offered on lower terms. Malt was quiet, but. values were unchanged. The market was moderately supplied with oats. The trade was depressed,and values in someinstances gave way ed. per quarter. Beans and peas were in limited request, at about late rates. Flour was inactive, and prices were weak. Arrivals :-English and Scotch : wheat, 550 ; barley, 400 ; malt, 90 ; beans, 60 ; peas, 70. Foreign : wheat, 23,330 ; barley; 1 7,87 0 ; oats, 19,080 : maize, 8,030 ; flour-sacks, 710; barrels, 12 890. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-This market opened quiet to day, and buyers offer less. Imports : -Wheat, 31,028 quarters ; barley, 1,064 ; beans, 217 ; peas, 222 ; oats, 137 Indian corn, 3,880; flour, 13,946 barrels, 3,033 sacks; oatmeal, 452 loads. Closing report :-There was a thin attendance of buyers who purchased small retail quantities reluctantly at a reduction of 2d. per cental. Flour was slow and nominally lower. For barley, beans, and peas there was an unvaried limited demand. Oats and oatmeal neglected. Indian corn transactions unimportant, sellers yielding 6d. LINCOLN CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-The wheat trade at this market to-day is slow, at last week's prices. Best barley is firm, other sorts 6d. lower. Other sorts of grain at late rates. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDDAY.-There is a very limited demand for wheat at this market to-day, and any business done is at a decline of ls. per qr. from last Friday's prices. Barley has a slow sale, and unless very fine is rather cheaper. Beans and oats remain unaltered. Another account quotes prices the same as last week. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.-There were fair average supplies of meat on sale at the market to-day. The trade, influenctd by the mild weather, was depreSsed, espegially for pork, and quotations were considerably lower :- Per MtS. by the carease:-Inferior beef; 3s. 46. to 3s. Bd. : middling do., 3s. 86. to 4s. 4d. ; prime large do., 45. 86. to ss. prime small do., ss. to ss. 2d. ; inferior mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. : middling do., 4s. Od. to 4s. Bd. ; prime do., 4s. 10d. to ss. 26. : veal, 45. 86. to ss. 46.: large pork, 3s. 06. to 3s. 6d. ; small pork, 4s. 4d. to 4s. 86. LONDON METAL MARKET, FRIDAY.—The market con tinues firm for metals of all kinds. Straits tin, £l3O cash ; Chili copper, best brands, £64 ; Burra £72 ; English tough, £69 to £7l; best selected, £ 7l to £ 73 ; sheet, £73 to £75. Lead —English pig, £lB to RlB 2s. 68. ; W. 8., £l9 ss, per ton. Quicksilver nominally £lO per bottle of 35Th. LONDON OIL MARKET, FRlDAY.—Linseed and rapeseed remain without any material alteration. Fish oils are quiet. Sperm, £7B per ton. Olive oil firmer. Gallipoli, £4B to £49 per tut - - LONDON TALLOW MARKET, FRIDAY.—Tho market is firm, and tending upwards. Y.C. 445. 9d. to 455. on the spot and December, 455. 6d. March. BOROUGH •HOP MARKET, FRlDAY.—Although business in the hop market has not been extensive, a fair amount of ani mation has been observable, and full rates have been realised for all kinds, Mid and East Kents. £1 15s. to £7; Weald of Kents, £2 10s. to £2 15s. ; Sussex, £1 10s. to £3 10s. ; Farnham and country, £3 15s. to £6 6s. ; and olds, £1 to £2los. per cwt: LONDON WOOL MARKET, FRIDAY.—In the wool market a fair amount of steadiness has been noticed. Colonial wool has been purchased with tolerable freedom, and the quotations have been well maintained. English wool has been firm, and quite as dear. • • BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, FRI DAL—Those markets have been only moderately supplied with potatoes. The trade has been quiet, as follows:—English regents, 60s. to 90s. ; Scotch regents, 60s. to 855.; rocks, 60s. to 70s. per ton. • COLONIAL .AND FOREIGN PRODUOE MARKETS, FRIDAY. —Sugar ; The market is firm, but not active. Bengal, Gur paltah date bought in at 30s. 6d. to 335.; fair brown ditto sold at 275. to 28s. 6d.: Madras jaggery, out, at 20s. 6d.; Mauritius crystallised, out, at 355. 6d.; Jamaica, brown and yellow, • 26s 6(1. to 31s. per cwt.; Australian treacle, out, at 16s. 6d. per cwt. Coffee : There is a fair demand, and prices are maintained. Tea : The market is quiet, but prices are unchanged. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRlDAY.—Opening Report. —This market opened to-day with an improved demand. Probable sales, 12,000 bales. Imports—American, 4,136 bales ; Egypt, 2,696 bales •, Brazil, 118 bales. Second report.—Total weekly import 79,609 bales ; sales, 64,810 ditto • reported specu lations, 3,120 bales ; reported export, 11,200 bales ; actual export 15,052 bales ; taken by trade, 50,490 bales; stock, 384,940 bales. Same time last year, 349,100 bales. This market closed more cheerful to-day, but without quotable change in prices. Sales 12,000 bales. Arrivals, Orleans at sea 81d. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT,.FRIDAY.—Tbis market continues generally steady, no change of moment having oc curred in prices since Tuesday last. There is, howeVer, a slight tendency in favour of buyers for some classes of goods and yarns,.though the lattkr are not much in demand, where stocks exist. This is only natural; owing to the recent decline in the value of cotton, which is much greater than that on yarn or cloth. Only a small business has been done. this week, and few of the transactions have been individually of much magnitude. The quieter state of our market this week is owing to the large busi ness done during the previous weak, and doubtless, also, owing to fresh causes of uneasiness in the future course of continental politics. In yarns there is little doing. In shipping qualities and the home trade the demand is again less active. Iu cloth, transactions have been unimportant. Market closes quiet and barely steady. SOUTH WALES IRON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—The iron works continue fairly employed, although the manufacture of railway iron is less than formerly, Other branches are brisk Further contracts have come to hand from the United States, and shipment of railway iron to American ports , is active. Fresh uneasiness prevails as to the continental demand, in con sequence of the Luxemburg difficulty. Pig iron is being pro duced in increasing quantities, in view of the large demand which is anticittd on the declaration of peace. Miscellaneous descriptions are in fair request. The further advance in the price of tin has aggravated the difficulties of the tin plate manufacturers. The effects of the Franco-Prussian war have told with,severity on the steam coal trade. Shipments of coal to France (luring the past month have largely decreased. house coals are in active request. . - GLASGOW PIG. IRON MARKET, FRIDAY.—There is nothing doing at this market to-day. Tone steady. Ms. 11-2 d. buyers, 51s. 2d. sellers. This market closes firm ; little doing- Buyers, 5} ; sellers, 54. CLYDE CRUSIIED SUGAR MARKET, FRIDAY.—There is no 'change to report at this market to-day. CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRIDAY. Ordinary firsts, 138 s. ; seconds, 120. ; thirds, 112 s. ; fourths, 105 s. ; fifths, 98s. ; sixths, sixths, 675.. 1,130 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts, 1525. seconds, 1335. ; thirds, 118 s. Forty firkins in the market. Commander W. IL Moore has been awarded the naval pension of £5O a year. _ _ . Eton College closed yesterday for the Christmas vacation. The holidays will last till the 17th of January. The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. H. J. Borckhardt, 1V1.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, curate Of Thirmarsh, near Hythe, to the rectory *of that parish. The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented the Rev. H. Glover, curate of St. Matthew's, Croydon, to the incumbency of the Church of St. Mary Magdalefie, Addiscombe. Mr. R. A. Cross, M.P., delivered an address on physical training at the Liverpool Gymnasium on Thurs day night. In the course of his speech he said he believed that every one now began to feel that people could not work all day long ; there was a sort of growing feeling throughout the country in favour of what was called the Saturday half-holiday ; there was a growing feeling that persons who worked when they did work ought certainly to be allowed to play when they did play, so that they might forget the work in which they had been engaged, and throw their minds into something very different to that in which they were employed ; he was sure that every one who did so not only played better when he played, but worked better when he worked. BREAKFAST.—Etps's 0000 A.--GRATEFUL AND COM. FORTING.--The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks:—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws Which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa. M. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS AL CO., Tloniceo pathic claemists. - London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin evening beverage.—Advt. NOTES FROM AMERICA. A correspondent writing on . November 30th, says A. J. MUntlella, M.P., whose recent address on labour in New York met with the displea,ure of the " Working Men's Union" in that city on account of his declaration that every working man had the right to decide for him self whether he would or would not belong to a • Trade Union, has found a strong ally in the New Yorle Journal of Commerce. It says that the " Working Men's Union " liked neither Mr. Mundella nor Mr. Hughes, and that, in fact, the Trade Unionists of this country like no one who has a word ,of sound criticism or good advice to offer them. Mr. Mun della's sentiment it describes as " a declaration of human freedom, of the rights of man," and says no resolution or threats will prevent that sentiment from spreading among working men who are capable of thinking for themselves. The New York Press, while, for obvious reasons, they. do' not take Mr. Mundella's side of the controversy, are quite as careful not to commit themselves in favour of the trade unionist dogma. One of those military re-unions so com mon in this country occurred at Cincinnati last week — the. re-union. ,of the "Army of the Cumberland." Among the prominent officers present were Generals Sherman and Hooker. General Sherman advised his companions in arms to laboUr' for the advancement of the nation's grandeur in peace with the same zeal with which they had protected her honour in war, and, comparing our country favourably with war-devastated France, argUed in favour of - peace. General Hooker, on the other hand, was all for war. He desired to take part in one more conflict, and that for the acquisition of Canada. The peace and - the war speeches have gone to the country, and the verdict has come back in general praise of Sherman, and in general condemna tion of Hooker. America wants no more wars—not even for Canada, or the Alabama claims, or to please some restless military chieftains or pOlitical enthusiasts.. She knows what a costly and unsatisfactory luxury a war is, and her motto for a generation to come will be President Grant's words, " Let us have peace." NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Lorne visited the Royal Arsenal a second time on Thursday, and went through various work shopS. The arsenal will be closed from the Friday before Christmas Day until the Tuesday morning after. Mon day will be given as a holiday, and the half-day lost on Saturday will be made up by working overtime. It is rumourel that a committee of inquiry into the loss of her Majesty's ship • Captain will be presided over by. Lord Dufferin, whose chief qualification appears to be his kinsmanship to the Duke of Sotherset. The Vanguard, new ironclad, was brought into Devon port Harbour on Thursday. Her crew will be turned over to another ship pending the alterations to be made in the Vanguard. • The long-expected promotions in the War Office have 'at last been decided upon, and the Civilian learns that they are not likely to prove satisfactory to many able and zealous officials. Our contemporary hears of one or two - extraordinary instanees'of junior clerks being .foisted over the heads of men very many years their seniors. Some days since a large draught from the depot of the 73rd Regiment arrived 'at Gravesend from' Newcastle-on- Tyne, the depot being attached to the 34th Regiment at that place, to be conveyed to Ceylon, to join the service companies there. While at Gravesend the draught was attached to the General Depot Battalion' at Gravesend, and occupied the barracks at Milton, used during the summer for the troops who •go through a course of rifle practice at the Milton range. On Thursday the draught, embarked at Gravesend for Ceylon. It was under the command of Captain W. Gordon. The War Department has just perpetrated another Basco. Several months - ago it was determined, contrary to the advice, of practical men, to construct a large number of brass field guns. The Department was warned that these would not stand rapid fire, but the warning was unheeded. Experiments ' •soon chewed that the practical men were rigiri. The metal got fused, and the guns became useless. (A little later . our military attache c with the German army sent home word that nearly all the brass guns taken from the French had been found more or less damaged in the same way, and it has' now been determined to abandon these guns, and to substitute wrought iron or steel. tubes. CHATHAM AND THE EDUCATION ACT. --- The Chatham Committee of Education state that the result of the appeal made by them to the ratepayers, does not justify them in proceeding in their endeavours to supply the existing defictencies of school accommodation in that town by voluntary efforts. A School Board now appears inevitable. FATAL DISH STER AT SEA.— About midnight on Thursday, as the screw steamer Flora, of Glasgow, from Dunkirk to Grangemouth, was proceeding np the Firth of Forth, she was run into by another vessel, supposed to be the Prima, of Flensberg. The Flora Almost imme diately sank, The crew, 18 persons all told, were saved, but they had barely time to take to the boats., During the gale which 'raged at the same place, the.sloop Earl Seafield, of Macduff, from Fraserbur , to Leith, with grain, was driven ashore on Leven ,Saalds, and all hands lost. The vessel is expected to he got off. NARROW BALLOON ESCAPE.—A. loam; from Belleisle, in a French provincial paper,' announces 'the landing in that island, which is situate fifteen miles from the coast of Brittany, of the balloon Jules Favre, which left Paris on the • 30th ult., • with two passengers. It started at midnight with a northerly wind, and the pas sengers e t xpected - to be carried towards Lyons ; but as their electric apparatus did not work, they could not tell what direction they were taking. At six the next morn• ing they found themselves approaching the sea, which, peeping through the fog, they took for the river Marne or Seine, until the low Murmur. os its waves became audible. They w ere driven towards Belleisle with such impetuosity that there was great danger of striking against a rocky promontory. The balloon twice grounded and reascended. One of the passengers jumped out, : and sustained a contusion of the leg and throat by collision, with a wall ; the other was Gown out senseless, bu revived, though somewhatseriously hurt. The despatchest which the balloon carried were sent off on the 2nd to St. Nazaire. . . BITCHE.—An account from the only Lorraine fortress yet untaken by the Germans says :—Everywhere the fortress bore marks of the bombardment that.it lately endured ; but beyond the burning of the barracks little damage appears to have been done, as the soldiers were protected by casemates cut in the solid rock, which forms a distinguished feature of Bitche and renders it impreg nable, except to famine. We then saw the Maire, and with him inspected 'the town ; the bombardment con tinued for 11 days and 11 nights without intermission from four batteries of heavy siege guns. Onb third of the town, or 98 houses out of 320, have been burnt entirely ; about 100 more are so utterly smashed and shat tered by the shells as to be uninhabitable •, exit for the women and children was refused by the Bavarian com mander, the object being, by burning the town, to compel the fortress to surrender ; so far from that, the only mes sage sent by the town to the Commandant was to request him to hold out. Of a population of 2,500 inhabitants before the slop but 1,200 remain, mostly very poor, those better off having left after the bombardment, during which their houses were burnt down, and are now,scat tered over the country. Many of these had with their savings bought their houses in the town, and these, burnt' are now entirely ruined. 870. CHRISTMAS BEFORE THE CAPITAL. Dr. Russell writes from Versailles :—I deeply regret to think that we shall spend Christmas at least here. Christmas trees are arriving from Germany ; invitations to Christmas dinners are tieing given, and many a good case of wine is on its way to the various head quarters. But the great festival is fifteen days off yet, and a capitulation, an armistice, or anything else may be effected before that. There is not an officer nor a man in the German armies who would not rejoice at it. They all heartily wish the campaign at an end. I believe they would rather spend their Christmas at home than win another victory equal to that of Sedan. But none of them are prepared to lower the terms of peace. They declare that they entered on •the war as one of defence ; they argue that they are still on the defensive, and that in their case the proposed annexation is not aggression, but only the requirement of reasonable security that they may not be assailed in future. Alsace and Lorraine keep us here. THE CHRISTMAS FARE INSIDE. • Little tins of foies gran, about the size of an old fashioned snuff-box, are marked from 4 to 8 francs, and the smallest path is worth nearly the same money. A truffled turkey at the present time would certainly be sold for £5 at least. A fine one, filled with the truffles, is worth about forty francs at ordinary times. 'To give an idea of the prices of pork-butchers' delicacies, I may mention that Lyons sausage is worth ten shillings a pound, or three times the usual price. To meet this state of things a requisition has been issued, and declarations required to be made of all kinds pf salt pork, ham, &c., and preparations of chareuterie of all kinds whatsoever; the prices to be fixed by two arbitrators. The working classes in Paris eat little else than soup, bread, and wine, at any time, and I question whether many of them do not sell or barter the bits of meat they get to their richer neighbours.—Correspondent' of Food Journal. The new decree ordering the expulsion of the Germans from Boulogne is being very rigorously carried out ; those even who have lived there for twenty or thirty years have received notice to quit, and cannot obtain grace. The Independance Beige states that two important seizures of arms intended for France were made this week on the southern frontier. On Sunday, at Howardries, 108 chassepots with sword bayonets were seized, valued at o,lBof. and on Tuesday, at Blandain, 18,000 f. worth of muskets of old pattern were also taken. Multitudes of fresh French troops are being sent for ward from the west to General Chanzy. They, are not, however, described in very flattering terms by writers who have seen them. "There were thousands of them, hardly one had a great coat, and many had boots out at the toes, and all looked very miserable." The new balloon cannon invented by Krupp has recently been tried at Versailles and found to answer admirably. It is said that projectiles can be hurled from this remarkable piece of artillery to a height of 13,000 feet. The easy way in which the gun can be handled and pointed in any direction proves its especial fitnest for the particular purpose for which it has beeh constracted. A number of letters have been found on the dead Prussians, and in the possession of the Prussian prisoners. In all the writers express their regrets at not being able to celebrate Christmas in the midst y of their families.. In one letter, which was found on a dead lieutenant, a curious passage occurred. The writer said that the worst of it was when the present frightful war was over, there wculd be 'a still more dreadful struggle to get through, but there was no indication as to which war he referred. The greater part of the historical families of France are represented in the Army of the Loire, and they have dis tinguished themselves greatly in the fights that have taken place. The young Duke of Lugues was killed when fighting valiantly at the head of his company, and his brother, the Duke of Cheureuse, was seriously wounded. M. de Chatelineau is always in the first rank of the com batants. M. Montalembert, nephew .of the celebrated orator, is also in the Loire Army. An order has been posted at St. Germain en Laye for bidding the inhabitants to leave their houses for more than two hours during the day, and ordering them when out to salute the Prussian officers they meet. This has been issued because the population left their houses during the whole day to, avoid coming in contact with their unwelcome visitors and deserted the cafes directly the Prussians entered them, turning their heads away in the streets when they met Prussians, and grouping to gether in the public places of resort. The Castle at Versailles is used as a lazaretto, which accommodates from 200 to 300 wounded. Even the " Salle des Batailles " is used as a store-room, where, amongst other things, sewing machines are at work, forming a strange contrast with the glorious battle pictures of Horace Vernet and Yvon. The " Salle des Glaces," the most magnificent part of the palace, with all the adjoining suite of gorgeous apartmEnts, alone remains undisturbed, and is reserved for the occasion of the homage of the German princes to the new Emperor of GOrmany. The commandant of Phalsbourg, according to a Stras burg letter in the Carlsruke Gazette, offered to capitulate on the 11th on condition of marching out with arms and baggage. This was, of course rejected. Fourteen Mobiles deserted from the fortress that day. The smoke of powder which• ascended every evening from the place evidently indicated that a surrender was imminent, and that the stores of gunpowder were being gradually burnt, in order that they might not fall into the hands of the enemy. The commandant had been inquiring in the suburb for provisions. On the 12th, the virgin fortress which was designed by Vauban capitulated. A writer to the Paris Soir says that in the recent engagements outside Paris a Prussian battery fired unre mittingly on the French troops and mowed down the men. Five times the Zouaves advanced to take it, five times they were repulsed. At last the officer gave orders: to sound the retreat. An old Zouave pushed forward - from the ranks and said, " Pardon, mon offieier, but if we retreat like this, they will say we are cowards." The officer looked at his men, and changed the order•into " Eri avant." This time the point was gained the artillery men were killed at their posts, and the battery captured. A few days after the writer visited the wounded at Fontenay-sous-Bois, and found the old Zouave and his officer in the same room. The soldier was triumphant, and was demonstrating to the officer that it was always possible to take cannons with the bayonet. " And you would take them again ?" asked the visitor. "Certainly I would," said the old man, "only you must first give me back a leg." He had been wounded in the action and had suffered amputation in c ansequence. Tait GERMAN LOIRE ARMY.—According to the high authority of Captain Hozier, the number of German troops with which Prince Frederick Charles won his nu merous victories on the Loire was considerably inferior in strength to the French host. The Army of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg was formed of the 17th 22nd, and lit Bavarian Divisions. The 17th and the 22nd numbered about 10,000 bayonets each, a and the strength of the Bavarian division was half as much again, or, in round numbers, 15,000. Thus, the Grand Duke could dispose of 35,000 infantry.. The strength of his artillery is not known with certainty. The army more immediately under the command of Prince Frederick Charles, who was at the same time Generalis simo, contained three corps d'armde, the 3rd, the 9th, and the 10th. The 3rd and the 9th were of about equal strength, each . counting 15,000 bayonets, whilst the 10th could shew at most but 8,000. Their tenuity in point of numbers is to be ac counted for by 'the double fact, that they were far from being of their full strength when they left Metz, and that after quitting Troyes the Prince was obliged to leave very heavy detachments behind him to guard his com munications. In artillery, however, he was very strong. With the 10th Corps were 72 guns, with the 3rd and 9th, 81 each. The cavalry, too, at his command was most im posing. It counted four cavalry divisions, containing 20 regiments, whose joint strength was not far short of 10,000. Thus, the entire German force was not much short of 90,000, but it was certainly not above it. AUSTRIA AND THE EASTERN QUESTION' In a specia, edition of the Eastern Budget we find °Le following abstract of Count Beust's despatch of the 7tP instant, in reply to the note of Prince Gorts chako e The despatch begins by expressing the satisfaction of Austro-Hungarian Government that Prince Gortsch3. koff's note chews a desire for a peaceful settlement of th l e , question of the Russian declaration relative to the 1315 % Sea. In view of the approaching Conference, C°ll/1 Beust declines to enter into any discussion on this qu a. tion, but he observes that if Prince Gortschakoff's theory of the intimate connection between all Enr ° P ells treaties were accepted, the consequences would be dangerous to the foundation both of inter nx tional law and of popular rights. The course d timee t might render changes in certain cases advisable in tr,elt stipulations, but no such change can be admitte d with a previous appeal to the Powers by whom the 11.° A was concluded. Anstria had, it is true, recegniz the advisability of making a change in the lireaetla of Paris, but she at the same time expressly st 3" that any alteration must be effected solely on the bile of a previous understanding with the Powers. . 4 - Bt°t alleged cold reception which, according to Prince Lircl chakeff, was given to the Austrian despatch of t Count Beust observes that the despatch to o°llltej Stackelberg, alluded to in the Russian note, is d 3; November, 1866, and could not therefore be au an swe :7 initiative taken by Austria on the 2nd of JanuarY' i joi The despatch concludes by stTongly repudiating the P: t view that in this, note of November last Count Pl e accused Russia of reopening the Eastern question• b t merely pointed out that the Russian declaration iv g cause a lively agitation and possibly complications ' ll 1 g East Austria will enter the Conference without d ee r ,a, beforehand as to the course which should be ad °ll : - J Her sole wish is to maintain peace in the East , r to settle the points at issue without impairing the owe guarantees. DR. RICORD. In the terrible sortie of November the 30th, the distinguished services to the wounded were render 6 l - 0' Dr. Ricord. Having established his headqua' o in a ruined hut he awaited the arrival of !ell brancards with their unhappy freight. As poor sufferer was brought in, he gently "j, rapidly relieVed him of his clothes, dressed his 1 01/i t io or applied the splint to his shattered limb, 33 case might be, placed him on his shelf, and had hill' c ere veyed by ambulance waggon to the steamers which o' moored on the Marne, by Joinville. As soon as the botb; taken in as many as it could hold, it steamed swiftly ( I° .A4 stream to the bridge near the Bastille, whence the brattol:4 0 5 bore the patients to the hospitals or to the private 11(1'1'- which had been prepared for their reception. For 11 ° If: and hours Dr. Ricord continued thus to exert WO:by according to one eye-witness, he " created amazement his übiquity." The doctor's seventieth birthday Wr b .; e cl the 10th of this month ; and in the energy he disp it ' J he adds another to the list of able and vigorous sefi t ' i .:; genarians on whose prolonged career of usefulnes s lately commented.—Lancet. DISTURBANCES AT A SPANISH THEATP' er The reckless band of La Poura has committed an°tl3:t outrageous act, which has caused great indignati on Madrid among men of all parties. The last scene of °let exploits was at a small theatre called the Calderon, w he t i a c e a farce, with the title of " Ma,caronini 1.," ridiculing 1 . 4 Duke of Aosta and the principal men in power, was be acted for about the twenty-fourth time, drawing alwaYs full house. The manager was aware that there was g °ll3 ; to be a row that evening. He had applied to the Ale ; of the district, who promised that he would send a p ro fl number of policemen to avoid a disturbance. As 5 b as the first act began, about thirty ruffians armed e sticks, large knives, and revolvers, attacked the 110°,4; pelting the poor actors, and totally destroying the scelle"t stalls, &c. The confusion among the audience was very g re l 9 9 as the mean of exit from the theatre are very difficult. 0 the press demand indignantly that the promoters a der shameful proceedings be given up to justice in or . that the band of La Poura may be in future prev ent from repeating such tricks. A RIOT IN THE VATICAN. A correspondent in Rome writing on the 9th,, deser te t ; a serious disturbance which took place on the pre day. There was a general service in all the churches which prayers for the Pope's restoration were offered , a special Celebration in the private chapel of the Vitt le l l 3 l As the crowd were leaving the Basilica, a mob of rogg e and released convicts, who are the terror of the Le° llll, ,10 city, and who are vulgarly called Angelo Tagrie7h brigands (as they are commanded by i v- 4 e brothers of the Lerristori murderer, wh o become the Murat of the Roman Revolution) hav'-o ipformation that the loyal portion of the Pope's subj ec at had gone to pray at St. Peter's, seized the occasion for armed assault on the Vatican. all T- 9tti ed with daggers and revolvers, as were ..h&metti arm- - daggers LW, _ , p re his followers, came to the foot of the Vatican stairs s"'",, o the Italian sentries are stationed, and through the °P i ; doors began insulting the Swiss Guard and a few of t ,, : ", e Mobile and Urban Guard who were in the passage, e5,, 11 : 7, out, " Forori le Bold ! Vaglianio Vatican ," and 0 1.1 7; to his followers, drew his revolver and made a rush at i , t j ' guard. One of the Roman gentlemen of the 15n, Guard, Bersani by name, replied by a cry of " Papa Rd," and, closing with Tagnetti, received his old and fell wounded, uot, however, before he had suce eeu in closing the doors of the Vatican. Tagnetti, foiled in his attempt on the Palace, do r his rage on the crowd of devout persons, of whom at half were ladies, which was pouring out of the Basil v il , The Conflict became general, for the Roman gentleseio were resolved not to be massacred by the mob, and fag 3 most bravely when - attacked, placing their wives , ° e g daughters within the Basilica, and defending thenase`sio and the approaches to the Vatican with the gre st , ; e d courage and coolness. After some time the Italian ro.P - i t thought fit to intervene, and Tagnetti and al?out persons were arrested. Both the brothers Bersani f 9 three or four other Roman gentlemen were sever wounded. In a letter from Versailles, a " Military Corkesponk l 'o of the Times says :—" The chiefs of this army assert tP iit an invasion of England is not only possible but s iO' d certain of success. They say it only requres to be "r,, planned and vigorously executed. If the people of P tit land will put this together with the fact that througl i y, Germany, and especially throughout the German gro there has arisen just such a feeling as was expresseo y America at the height of the Alabama agitation, tlles surely will not grudge to the Government the for putting our army in a state to make a fair fight Of 1 e a The shoemaker who was tried for murder st tl Old Bailey on Thursday was defended by Mr. 1111 p Chester, the only negro barrister at the English bar. De Chester was admitted a barrister about a year ago, 0 0 c ; has not often appeared in the public Courts. 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