The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-05 00:00:00

TI E WAR. _ THE FRENCH PRESS AND SENATE. PARIS, FRIDAY. Whatever the actual state of affairs in the field, the journals are determined that the French shall have the best of it on paper. They speak of their position all the more positively, perhaps, because we have so little real information, and of what there is so little Is reliable, Fancy the Constitutionnel, the semi-official journal, deli berately informing us that the situation of the Prussians is every day becoming more difficult and more threatening. It explains the steady advance of the invaders (French journalistic ingenuity being equal to anything) by declaring that they dare not` retreat. The King of Prussia, who was at the outset of the war confident that he should speedily be OA to announce to Ma people the fall of Paris, is disheartened, and reduced to his last resources. France must let him exhaust himself ;for the King is pressed for time, but France is not, and the European Cabinets are unanimous in declaring that if Paris will, if France will, the final victory must rest with her. Fancy, in face of what we know through England of the real state of affairs, a paper deliberately stating thatKingWilliam is at his last resources ! The Liberte tries another line of lofty argument. The King of Prussia, it proclaims in a conspicuously printed article, is undoubtedly mad. "La Folie du Roi de Prusse," according to this writer, consists in having for gotten that he owes to France his admission among the great Powers, his capacity to rectify his frontier, and many other advantages, in having alienated his natural and necessary ally (What of Jena and the French occu pation?), and in thus having left himself unable to carry out his dream of raising Prussia to a first-class maritime Power in defiance of Russia, his only dangerous rival. What would the French affiance have cost him, asks the Liberte. Only the equal division of the Rhine through its length from Bale to the sea which the port of Trieste and his part of Holland would have amply compensated for. Was not the King of Prussia mad when for the vain satisfaction of seeing one of his lieutenants ascend the throne of Charles the Fifth he broke up an alliance which would have made France and Prussia the arbiters of the new European equilibrium. With this equi librium, to use an expression of Emile de Girardin, Europe would have been Zollvereinized.` The Liberte concludes with the declaration, more emphatic than polite, "fi'il n'est pas fou, it est ivre The Government made no official communication to the Corps Legislatif yesterday, but at the close of the sitting M. Busson Billault, the President of the Council, received from the Minister of War a note which he immediately communicated to the deputies in the Salle des Pas-Perdus. It appears from the information attained, not from Mac- Mahon himself, but from letters and documents bearing the semblance of authenticity, that the Marshal gave battle to the Prussians on Tuesday, August 30, when fighting went on throughout the whole day, and the Prussions lost enormously. However, MacMahon was forced to recross the Meuse. The next day the Prussians made the attack, but the Marshal succeeded in getting over the river again. The French loss was very heavy, but the Prussian loss was still greater. Such was the substance of the information communicated to the deputies by the President of the Council, and it may possibly be perfectly well founded, only why has not MacMahon himself announced his success. The great interest of the day yesterday centred i►n the Senate, where the debate was most animated. It was opened by M. Le Verrier, who questioned the Government respecting the severity shewn by the Prussians towards the French who resist them, who do not belong to the regular army. M. Le. Verrier made special allusion to the proclamation of the King of Prussia, in which the pain of death is so frequently threatened, and asked whether that was civilisation ? The speaker went on, amidst the growing indignation of the Chamber, to cite passages from letters and journals referring to the rigour of the Prussian conduct. A corre spondent of the Courier des Vosges mentions a Prussian order which says laconically that "every man found bearing arms will be shot," and a letter from Vienna an nounces that this order had actually been carried out in Lorraine. The Prussian Government, says the Etoile Belge satirically, evidently creates for itself a code of patriotism which is quite new, and a moral code for its own particular use. M. Le Verrier repeated the anecdote which made so much stir when mentioned by the War Minister in the Corps- Legislatif the previous day. The Bishop of Strasbourg having gone to the Prussian General Werder to represent that his fire was only directed against the inoffensive inhabitants, the General replied,, ' I know perfectly well that I can not take Strasburg, by attadking its ramparts. Its inhabi tants must compel the general to capitulate." The speaker having asked the- Government what means could be taken -to mitigate this state of things, M. Bauchart exclaimed that the best means of checking them was to defeat the enemy, a sentiment which called forth general approbation. M. de La Tour d'Auvergne, the Foreign Minister, read a circular which the French Government had sent round to the great Powers setting forth a series of charges against the Prussians the gravest of which were the shooting of a surgeon, and the forced employment of French peasants in the trenches round Strasbourg, by which means the defenders were compelled to fire upon their own countrymen. Great excitement was produced by the official confirmation of the rumour occasioned in the Senate, and the Marquis de Chasseloup Loubat declared that General Werder deserved to have his name scouted b• posterity.—M. touruy exclaimed, "Yes, let us put him in the pillory of history, as we did with his predecessor before Lille in '92, but let us add that the punishment was not slow to follow. Jemappes occurred within a few weeks." There were loud cheers at this, in the midst of wbich the War Minister read another circular relative to al leged infractions of the Convention of Geneva by the enemy. A circular addressed toFrench representatives abroad which announced that if the Prussians continued to treat the Corps 7rancs as non-combatants, and fire upon them, the French vill in their turn make reprisals on the Land wehr and the *Landsturm, who represent the same class in Germany. This intimation they had asked the English Government to make known to the Cabinet of Berlin. The Senate seemed perfectly satisfied with the Ministerial explanation, so for once Mes sieurs les Ministres came off with flying colours. The commandants of the National Guard have had an interview with General Trochu, at which the condition of the capital in respect of a siege was spoken of. The General declared there were four guarantees of the safety of the city in case of attack. 1. The protection afforded by the entrenched camps outside the forts occupied by the troops ; 2, the forts served by the artillery of the Marine and the Garde Mobile ; 3, the railway employed strategically ; 4, the enceinte guarded by the Mobiles and the National Guard. Each National Guard will be on duty on the ramparts one night in four. If by any chance the enemy should penetrate these four lines of defence he would find national barricades in all the streets and every house turned into a fortress. Paris, says the General, can defy the whole of Prussia. But, asks the sceptic, how about the bonnets rouges within the walls ? JUST BEFORE THE COLLAPSE. It seems like the bitterest satire on themselves, their hopes, their threats, their resolves, reading the Paris newspapers just now come to hand, dated last evening-- now that we have the actual result from the seat of war absolutely in our possession :-- Marshal MacMah on and his arm y caving in with a capitulation — e m peror Napoleon delivering himself up p ersonal l y to the King of Prussia — The " Army of the Rhine " defeated on the frontiers of Belgium— the journals ,of the French capital are yet discussing the probabilities of triumphant turn being given to the campaign. They are yet calculating upon the long looked for union being ,effected between the forces of Bazaine and the forces of MacMahon some lvhere midway between Metz and Montmedy. They are Busily engaged preparing for the defence of the capital, hoping against hope whenever an ominous tele gram has reached them circuitously, little thinking that the armies are `4 ,done for," and that the Sovereign, in sporting phrase, is nowhere." Our Parisian contemporaries in point of fact, now that we are reading them, damp from the press—reading them 111 the glare of these astounding telegrams from Sedan Berlin—are already obsolete. Notwithstanding this, ,we continue our translations from their columns as ketp ;lug up the chain of information as to events immediately prior to the Emperor's surrender and the Marshal's capi tulation. NEWS FROM SEDAN. The special correspondent at Sedan for the Temps, namely, M. Georges Jeannerod, writing under date 30th ult.—that is on Tuesday—little foreseeing what was going to happen at that very place only three days afterwards, that is on Friday, says : " For MacMahon the very first thing to do is to hold out the hand to Bazaine, to unite to his own 120,000 men, whatever yet remains of those valiant legions, after their heroic combats, and with this still formidable mass, to throw himself at the centre of the Prussian armies, and compel them to forego their intended march upon Paris. This is the very plan sketched out all along as inevitable in the event of an in " vasion and with the capital duly fortified. The delay of our armaments and the inequality of the forces of Marshal Bazaine blocked up in Metz alone compelled the carrying out of this plan to be reflected in this particular direction. As to the object the Prussians have before them, every body to whom I have had occasion to speak upon these matters agrees in thinking that I had good reason in sup ' posing that they aimed at carrying out the same manoeuvres here that have already been carried out at Metz. The design is evidently to circumvent MacMahon on the south end on the east as they have down with Bazaine. " Not less than in the instance of Bazaine, this would not by any means be the work of a day, for a great army is not assuredly to be dealt with like a mere division. The danger, however, is in the perseverance of the enemy, in the renewing of the battalions they freely devote to death, sothat the last armies shall finish by triumphing. " The two armies are actually in presence of each other during these last three days—preparing for the encounter. They observe one another. They remain silent and watchful. Each is on the look out to deceive his antago nist, if possible. This terrible game, however, cannot last long without the intervention of cannon. I arrived this morning at'Sedan in a carriage, so that I might be at the actual scene of operations. I shall only quit my post of observation in order to send off my letters when and how I can. No trains, no couriers have any more free passage. Meanwhile I carry my passport in my pocket, ready to cross the frontier into Belgium, if need be even on foot, to avoid being taken, and in order that I may be enabled to rejoin you if it should unhappily prove that my mission is definitely terminated. " The Prince Imperial has quitted the town, and re turned to M6zieres. They inform me that he held a review there of several squadrons, while others tell me at Sedan that he severely reprimanded the commissary of police because of a disturbannce that had taken place among some drunken carousers. In either of these two causes which should you regard as the more marvellous on the part of this youngster, his holding a review under the actual circumstances, or his having this scene with the commissary of police ? "Yesterday evening we had, at Mkieres, some cavalry officers who had been wounded towards the close of an affair of outposts. They belonged to the 12th Chasseurs. Many pressed round them to interrogate them, but they were fatigued for one thing, and in the next evidently knew little or nothing. This ignor ance on the part of everyone is very em barrassing for a correspondent who wishes, as I do, to acquit myself of my charge as faithfully as possible. Nothing can express the sense of tedium to which we are doomed in consequence. The correspondent of the New York Herald said . to me yesterday that he knew nothing comparable to it. Sedan is a town of 18,000 souls, and is built at the foot of a suffi ciently strong citadel. I have found a library here where they provided me with Le Temps, assuming me at the same time when they did so that they were not dissatisfied with its correspondence. Upon this I did not h esi tate to explain who I was. Nevertheless that did not save me, a little while afterwards, on emerging from the town, from being pursued and surrounded by four zealous ob servers, with fixed bayonets, demanding my surname, my Christian name, my quality, and all the rest of it. Then it was that one appreciated the value of one's pass port. On re-entering the town I beheld a touching spec tacle. Artillerymen, to what number I know not, having defiled there—to them the inhabitants bring wine, fruit, cakes, bread, sausages, sardines. They bring them these things in overflowing baskets. May these evi dences of sympathy be auguries of better things than the like incidents in Alsace at the commencement of the campaign ! Whether it will be so, we shall see imme diately. I stop writing, for the courier, if courier he be, is about to leave, and I am determined to remain here yet awhile." The Liberte rectifies an error which it made with respect to the death of the son of General Uhrich, the Com mander of the town of fitrazbonrg. Albert Uhrich, pro moted to the rank of captain on the morrow of the battle of Eeischoffen, is at present attached to the staff of Marshal MacMahon. The Paris correspondent of the Manchester Examiner says Bazaine's victory at Courcelles is confirmed in official quarters, and it is stated that 30,000 Prussians were left dead on the field ! Prince Charles's cavalry was, accord ing to this account, entirely destroyed, and he was pre vented from joining the Crown Prince. Count Palikaos's nephew at the War Office has received a despatch stating that MacMahon was attacked on the 30th while crossing the Meuse, and was driven back to Douchey, near Sedan, but the next day he drove the Prussians back to Ville montry. A meeting of the Alsatians in Paris took place the other day; from two to three thousand were present. The misfortunes of Strasbourg formed the object of discussion. As the Government could not or would not send arms to Alsace with sufficient speed, a subscription for the purpose was organised. A protest was then drawn up against the neglect with which the unfortunate and heroic city was treated. This protest which was in the form of a petition to the Corps Legislatif was then taken by a deputation to M. Jules Favre, has presented it at the sitting in the Palais Bourbon. The meeting was characterised by its calmness. M. Ratisbon, who took part in the affair declared that as Strasbourg had deserved well of France, France should deserve well of Strasbourg. The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Dinant on Friday night, says that the carnage at the battle of Sedan was monstrous. He received some particulars from General de Septueuil, who commanded the light cavalry brigade in the corps of MacMahon. He was thrown upon the Belgian soil with the whole of his staff was made prisoner by Belgian gendarmes, and is now at Dinaut, on his way to Namur, where he is to be kept; he has with him nine officers, among whom is an artillery colonel. On the 30th a division of Failly's was taken by surprise and defeated. On the 31st there were some considerable successes achieved by MacMahon on the very same position where the fight took place on the next day. The Prussians lost several thousand men without inflicting any injury on the French. Confidence was so great that the Prince Imperial returned from Avesnes to Mezieres. The Prussian forces afterwards succeeded in crossing the Meuse, and they then began to surround Sedan from all sides ; `and the French cavalry, assembled behind that town, unable to move in the mountainous locality, and placed between cross artillery fires of the right and left flanks of the curved Prussian line, was forced to save itself as best it could. Since then the General knows nothing. MacMahon is wounded, but did not leave the battle-field. The Industriel Alsacien has furnished some details with respect to the bombardment of Strasbourg, which were given by some persons who contrived to leave Strasbourg, and return to France by the German route. The bom bardment commenced on the 15th of August, and con tinued almost incessantly ever since, more especially during the night from half-past ten until six in the morn ing. It is carried on from three points. The frontage of the Cathedral has been greatly damaged, and in many quarters the buildings have been almost entirely de stroyed. The Bank of France was struck by balls, and some ladies who had taken refuge in its cellars had to make a re treat, as they did not think themselves safe. In all parts of the town smoking ruins may be witnessed. When a house is on fire the Prussians keep pouring shot on it so that the task of the firemen is a very difficult one. This may account for the circumstance that whole quarters of the city are so completely destroyed. For the last ten days th e inhabitants have remained in the cellars by night and by d a y, Onsp whose houses are burned take refuge in the churc h es . 'De people are in the greatest distress and are h o ping every day 0 12 4 t tbe French army may come to t h e i r rescue. The Prussians are 4344t0 be revenging themselves on Strasburg for the difficulties which they, have en countered in their march on Paris, and for the ardent patriotism which they did not expect to meet with in Alsace. 'THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 187(k THE EFFECTS OF MACMAHON'S DEFEAT. ' The effects of this victory over MacMahon can scarcely be overrated. They are even More important than those which resulted from the victories over Bazaine before Metz. When Bazaine was driven into Metz, the corps of Mac Manon, De Failly, and Douay were yet for the most part able to concentrate at Chalons. The reserves added to them, the marines destined for the Baltic, the old sol diers called up, and who helped to swell the corps of Wimpffen and Vinoy, brought up the second army of France to a more than respectable strength ; and MacMahon stood in the way of an advance to Paris, no trifling obstacle, but one which must be destroyed before the advance could be effected. Now that second army is defeated and thrown back into the extreme north of the French Ardennes. The strategy of MacMahon. boldly planned,, was feebly executed, and the result has been a collapse that renders his condition almost desperate. His plans were based on false calculations. Every strategist knows that marches are to be measured by time and not by distance, and every element which tends to lengthen the time occupied in moving • must be taken into consideration by the commander. Mea sured by distance, the army a MacMahon, with the start which it had gained, should have passed the Meuse, and advanced well on its way. to Metz before the Crown Prince of Prussia could possibly have attacked his flank. Measured by time, and considering only the ordinary obstacles to the march, the same result would be reached. But some unknown disturbing elements must have entered in—either the demoralised condition of the troops or the difficulty of supplies ; the calculation of time became falsified, and the result was fatal. It is abso lutely impossible to suppose that when Mac- Mahon undertook that remarkable counter-march, he could for an instant have contemplated the idea of fighting a general action against superior forces close to neutral territory. Yet this has been the result of his slow movements. Attacked at the same time in front and in flank, he has been driven back under the shelter of the fortress of Sedan. Not such, a fortress, however, as Metz, nor even such a place as Mezieres, upon which it will now probably be extremely difficult for MacMahon to effect his retreat. With the Prussian cavalry at work upon the railway, it will be almost impossible for MacMahon to draw supplies for his army by rail, whether he take up his position at Sedan or effect his retreat as far as Mezieres. It will not be difficult for the Prussians to close the roads eastward and westward. We have heard it asserted that the French troops in Mezieres, should they reach that place, would be easily supplied through Belgium. We doubt the fact. We doubt, in the first place, how far Prussia would permit an organised system of supply for a great army to be established from Belgium into France, and in the next place, the Belgian army, which, as we know, is concen trated inside the frontier, close to the scene of action, will require the resources of the immediate country, and the lines of railway for its own use. Neither Mezieres nor Sedan we expect is provisioned to support a large army besides its garrison. —Standard. THE STRATEGY OF MACMAHON AND BAZAINE. There can be no doubt that the advance of Mac Mahon, which brought on these battles, had been concerted with Bazaine, and that thelatter knew that the Germans would be engaged with Mac Mahon while he was struggling with Prince Frederick Charles. It may turn out that MacMahon's delays, which have seemed so unaccount able, were planned to give Bazaine time to prepare for a decisive effort. Letters from before Metz of the 24th ult. stated that the defenders were strengthening the works of their entrenched camp on the west side of the Moselle. The writer notes that the weather had been cold and rainy for several days, causing much sickness in the form of diarrhoea and dysentery among the Prussian troops, who began to suffer from want of shelter ; the day of action, however, found a sufficient number of them equal to their task. It will be under stood that the French troops are not shut within the walls of Metz as criminals are shut in a prison, although they are hemmed in. To keep the French prom escaping, all the roads from the fortress have been entrenched, and camps have been formed about the place. It was, there fore, open to Marshal Bazaine to offer battle to Prince Frederick Charles whenever he chose. On Friday last he made an attempt to escape by the road to Courcelles, probably chosen as that which would be guarded by the least force. The Stuttgard Sanitary Committee, who were visiting the works before Metz that day, found on their arrival in the morning, the Prussian outposts falling back before a sally in force. But the Prussians had an entrenched position, which de fied the further advance of Bazaine's troops, who with drew early in the afternoon. The visitors heard later that 'the French had directed a more real attack up the river to try to seize Pont-h-Moussan, and here also had been repulsed. The prolonged attempt of Wednesday and Thursday was, however, of a very different character made after ample time for preparation, and with all the forces at Marshal Bazaine's disposal. The French, it is evident, fought like lions, to whom the cage had become intolerable, and who were determined to break through or perish in the attempt. Owing to the extraordinary cir cumstances of the struggle, which did not admit of an interval during which the works of the investing force might be strengthened against them, the French maintained the struggle not only all day on Wednesday but also through the night and again on Thursday. We may easily imagine them again and again charging the batteries and earthworks with a courage which failure rather inflamed than extinguished. Prince Frederick Charles pays a tribute to their great bravery, but sums up the issue in one line—" The Marshal was victoriously driven back at all points during the night." We may be tolerably sure that the attempt will not be repeated until it is believed that some great change at present un foreseen is made in the conditions of the contest. All that men could do has been done by Bazaine's army in these memorable days, and there is nothing left but to be resigned to the result. Whether it be true or not that epidemic sickness prevailed in Metz before the battle, certainly the burial of five or ten thousand of the soldiers who must have fallen in these battles will not increase the salubrity of the Marshal's position. —Daily News. THE PRUSSIAN GUARDS AT GRAVELOTTE. The following letter was written from the battle field of Gravelotte by a young officer of the Queen Augusta Regiment of Guards to his father :—At half-past five on the morning of the 18th we broke up our bivouac near Sisemont, and marched as far as Mars-la-Tour. Here the whole of the infantry of the Guard Corps collected itself in close " rendezvous." The generals rode from troop to troop, the chaplains exhorted the men, and loud cheers for the King resounded from all sides. After a short pause, the intelligence arrived that the enemy was retreating, and would not accept battle. The sun had already risen when the command was given to march on. We passed through La Tour, over the battle-field of last Tuesday, crossed a brook, and prepared ourselves for action--the Ist and 3d battalions, and then the 2nd. Then we advanced, passing through St. Marcel to the right by Ferme Caubrd, as far as Verneville, and took up our position on the left of the Bois de la Cusse. For several hours we witnessed desperate fighting, and some shells fell amongst us, but without inflicting any injury. It was nearly 3 p.m. when we sent the Ist battalion to St. Ail to cover our artillery. At 4 p.m. the 2nd and 3rd battalions received orders to advance. We went to the left, passing St. Ail on the north, were joined by our Ist battalion, and without delay marched to the attack on the heights to the south of St. Privat la Montagne. This village is situated on an eminence, and the ground slopes towards St. Ail ; two deep valleys led to the summit of the heights which we had to take. St. Privat itself is a strongly built village, with gardens surrounded by stone walls. It was strongly garrisoned by infantry, and further and higher by artillery ; the position was what theory calls normal for the full effect of fire on the part of the defenders ; with its trenches the village was, in fact, a fortress. The colonel, Count Waldersee, now once more re-formed his regiment, the Ist battalion, in columns of a company, to the right ; the 3rd battalion, in columns of a company, to the left; the 2nd followed, but soon advanced into the first line. The advance commenced with incredible steadiness. The bul lets rained upon us, but made no impression on our brave men. Incessantly we pressed forwards, leaving roads of dead and wounded behind us. Waldersee rode with the utmost coolness in the midst of the advancing Grenadiers. For 1,000 paces we advanced under an increasing fire from the enemy, when the colonel ordered me to direct the 12 companies to a general attack on the highest hill. My big bay charger, which soon received two grazing shots, flew over the dead and wounded, and in the next moment sundry companies, with drums beating and loud cheers, charged the hill. The enemy did not wait for the last at tack, but withdrew. Arriving• breathless at the summit our battalions threw themselves down, and fired on the partly retreating and partly remaining enemy. The noise of the small arm fire reached a deafening pitch. As the enemy still retreated, Waldersee sent Von Stolzenberg and myself back for some cavalry—not finding any far or near I returned. Von Stolzenberg received a wound in the leg, but succeeded in reaching Buditzky. v , hom he stated our want of cavalry. In tL ateantinie the enemy had rallied and kept up a murderous fire upon us. Our line decreased more and more. Waldersee, therefore, sent me in search of artillery. I found it at St. Ail, and brought it up. As I was returning to our post I met our brave Count Walder see, his saddle streaming with blood, yet he declined my offer to take him from the field. I rode on to present myself to Major von Rosenberg, as commander of the regiment, but he had already been wounded and taken from the field ; neither could I find Prince Salm, as he was at the head of the battalions ; so Major von Behr took the command. We did not fail to arrange our men, but the never-ceasing balls made great havoc in our line. In the meantime the twilight fell ; the whole country was enveloped in smoke through which the setting sun shone like a red ball of fire. One could not see a single enemy but the fire was continued on both sides with the same bitterness. Our left wing (the 3rd battalion and part of the 2nd) advanced, destroyin everything before it, towards the village of St. Privat, whilst the rest of the Ist battalion covered the artillery, and for that purpose continued firing. The men of the 2nd and 3rd battalions, with the Kaiser Franz Regiment fighting on the left of us, and the Saxons who were at the extreme left, took the village and scattered the enemy from house to house. The slaughter was great; but the vic tory was ours. The darkness alone put an end to the struggle. We collected as many of our wounded as possible. Towards ten o'clock the remainder of our regiment assembled near St. Privat. The next morning our losses were ascertained—out of 47 officers, 24 were either killed or hors de combat, and upwards of 800 men. A sad feeling crept over me at the sight of our glorious regiment. IV.k.y best friends and comrades dead and wounded. The day after to-morrow we hope to be or our way to Paris to settle with the Bonapart e s and the Chauvins. C. vox S. THE FRANCS-TIREURS IN PARIS. A correspondent of the Daily News thus describes a performance for the benefit of the Francs-tireurs :—At the Porte Saint Martin Theatre we have had a "repre sentation pa triotique au benefice des francs-tireurs," last e's ening. The francs-tireurs are a popular and pictur esque corps. Their Parisian friends and relatives flocked to the performance, which comprehended a couple of speeches from the stage, by two deputies, M. Cremieux and M. Esquiros. The programme of the night was of an intensely warlike character. Every seat was taken, and there was quite a cerulean belt or sky line of blouses in the region above the glowing pyramids of the gaselier. Prices for places, indeed, rose to famine or fever height, and at about ten o'clock no room could be had. The audience heard with admirable patience a trifling play which preceded the " conference" on " Rouget de l'lsle et la Marseillaise " by M. Cremieux. The speaker made vigorous use of his text, and was listened to with the most profound attention and enthu siasm. His points were caught up instantly,. and cheer after cheer greeted the bouquets of noble sentiments which he kept displaying merely alter ing the arrangements, as it were, occasionally of the most familiar flowers of French rhetoric. He had by him the inevitable table and the glass of water, while in the background and at the side were standing hundreds of the Francs-tireurs, in whose interest the exhibition was promoted. The Francs tireurs were also scattered throughout the stalls and boxes, which are constructed after the fashion of those theatres in London which have been provided for spectators who might defy the propensities of the flogging Orbilius mentioned by Sydney Smith. The orator was vehement, almost wild in gesticulation. His voice ran through an octave of inflections ; he wailed, he roared, he whispered, he nearly sang, he growled, he put on his tremulo e stop, he seemed to pray, to weep, to de nounce, and in every mood he was followed by the vast crowd, many of whose faces grew white with excitement and eager suspense. When he concludes the applause is deafening, there is a hoarse simultaneous roar from every Kith), and the Francs-tireurs rush forward to salute the worthy little gentleman, who seemed net a whit the worse for his exhausting oration. He is sum moned forth like a prima donna to receive the compliment of a second reception. And now the " Marseillaise," embodied in the person of Mademoiselle Agar, appears to give illustrative effect to the " con ference." She is admirably fitted by nature and by art for the role. Her forehead is low and broad, her eyes black, her hair is dark and loose, her bare arms are shapely, though somewhat muscular, she moves in a crouching, tiger-like attitude, she is hoarse, as though choking with passion. In a white dress she stoops and glides to the footlights, and commences her chant as though she were a Brocken witch, murmuring an unhal lowed incantation. The blouses aloft are still as mice, a warning hush-h stifles a solitary chatterer in the stalls. Every line is dwelt on with an emphasis which would be grotesque in its exaggeration but for the terrible and oppressive earnestnee with which each syllable is listened to. We come to a climax when the tricolour is unfurled, and Mdlle. kneel down, and the Francs-tireurs kneel also, and the audience rise. At the close of the song Mdlle. is recalled, and is accompanied by a Franc-tireur, who holds her by the hand, with a bow sufficiently expressive of his and his comrades' resolve to live or die for the nation. Another warlike solo is delivered by a gentleman who is a trifle too fat to produce unmixed emotion, and whose rotund build is rendered over palpable by a pair of yellow tight drawers worn below a short jacket. We have a tender ditty by a young lady and gentleman, who quaver and quiver in that sight away, die-away fashion which belongs to the school of French drawing-room music, corresponding with our own boudoir ballads of amorous desolation and despair, necessitating the expression of a desire to be a bird or a butterfly. A piece of declamation by Mdlle_ Agar on "Liberte," and we conclude with "Le chceur des Enfants de Lutdce par tons les artistes de la Porte St. Martin." A FALSE ALARDL—This letter is written from Sedan, a small but very strongly fortified town in the Ardennes. A thousand or fifteen hundred men might hold it for at least six months. It is an important position, commanding the valley of the Meuse, and the only place of refuge from the enemy for the very large population inhabiting the neighbouring villages. Last night no less a personage than the Prince Imperial slept here, putting up at the sub-prefect's house. In the course of the even ing, about nine p.m., a drunken hussar - raised the cry that the Prussians were at the gate. The cry everywhere was " aux anus!" At the table d'hote of the Hotel de l'Europe, where I was doing my best to eat a very late dinner, every one rushed off at once. The town, I must tell you, is only garrisoned by the Garde Mobile and Garde Nationale, with a few artillerymen to work the guns. Of the former corps upwards of a thousand were under arms very quickly, but the confusion and crowds in the streets prevented them from reaching their posts as quickly as they might have done. That, of course, could scarcely be avoided. But you will hardly believe that, when the men were assembled, it was found that no ammunition had been served out to them, and they were consequently utterly useless. Fortunately the alarm was a false one, or nothing could have prevented the Prussians from making good their entrance and carrying off the heir to the Empire.—Cor;respondent of Telegraph. THE RUSH FOR STORES.—A French writer has the following entertaining paragraph :—" At present the chance of Paris being besieged seems to have become much more distant, and all individual efforts have slack ened in consequence, though the Government has not relaxed its activity. But a few days ago Paris offered a curious spectacle. There was a mad rush of every house keeper to the provision and grocers' shops to lay in stores which might keep during a siege. Salt meat, cheese, rice, even sardines, anchovies, and jams, were bought up eagerly. I have known Parisians (who could have thought it ?) stoop even to Australian mutton. On Saturday not a ham was to be had in Paris for love or money. For sugar, orders could only be exe cuted to the extent of 50 per cent. Every customer at the grocer's shop was expected to carry away his or her purchases, and some favour or good luck was re quired to get one's demands attended to at all. There were many comical episodes, and if the truth were not so sad there would be much to laugh at. Perhaps we may be able to smile again some day— when we think it all over—but one can hardly fancy it possible now. One gentleman I know considered himself fortunate in having been able to lay in a stupendous stock of macaroni in provision for the approaching siege. It was, he said, his favourite dish—au gratin ; but he was suddenly precipitated from the heights of his exultation when he was asked whether he would like macaroni plain boiled in water as well, since most certainly in a belea guered city butter would be a very scarce commodity. OUTPOST DUTY AT STRASBURG.—About eleven a.m. our breakfast was brought, consisting of black bread, pork, some potatoes, and a bottle of wine, and down we sat in the quarry to a not very tempting meal. The French, however, were determined we should not enjoy it peaceably, for scarcely had I got a piece of bread into my mouth, when the report of a gun, fol lowed by the whistling of a shell, made me scramble to my feet. Bang it went, bursting in the air some hundred yards short of our party. About a minute after came another, this time going clean over us. I now scrambled out of the quarry, and made for a tree just in time, for a shell dropped right into the quarry we were sitting h., and, burying itself in the straw, ex ploded in the midst of the officers. Of course I expected to see nothing but their dead bodies, so you may judge of my surprise when I heard a hearty laugh from the officer in command • not exactly comprehending how the bursting of a ;hell could have caused so much merriment, I hastened to ascertain the cause, and I must confess the scene was sufficiently ludicrous. The shell had exploded in their midst, without touching one of them, but it had blackened their faces as though they had been so many Christy minstrels. One young subal tern still remained flat on his stomach, a piece of pork in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other ; an old lieutenant was cursing the ill luck that had broken the cherished china bowl of his pipe ; whilst the captain in command was endeavouring to wipe the powder out of his eyes. The French now commenced shelling in earnest, so much so that we were forced to seek some other shelter, unfortunately not before we had lost six men killed and two wounded. After about half an hour they stopped, and we returned to our quarry. The rest of the day was'passed much in the same way until the evening, when I went into camp to get something hot if possible, no fires being allowed on outpost duty. When I got to the Colonei's quarters I found great rejoicings over a tin of potted salmon and a box of sardines that had just been discovered in some Marketender's waggon, and after a hearty meal I returned to the outposts just as the sun was setting. —Correspondent of Telegraph. THE IMPERIAL BARK IS GOING OUT WITH THE TIDE, The thoughtful and attentive reader of David Copper field cannot fail to have been impressed with the striking parallel in many points of their worldly career between late lamented Mr. Barkis and the present Napoleon 111. In suggesting this comparison, we crave pardon of the in jured spirit of the departed Barkis for likening him in his manly, straightforward life of a common carrier of honest property with the Imperial adventurer in his crooked existence as an uncommon receiver of all sorts of stolen goods. The .first marked appearance of Mr. Barkis on the stage of public life repre sents him with an insatiable appetite for " the apple pasties " and other edibles of Peggotty's compounding. How like the action of the illustrious Emperor in his hunger for the treasures and throne of France ! " And so she made 'em, did she ? And she makes all the apple pasties and doos all the cooking, do she ?" asked the shrewd and hungry Barkis. " P'raps if you was a writin' to you'd reelect to say that Barkis was willin'." And down went a cake into his capacious mouth, which he " ate at one gulp exactly like an ele ' phant, and which made no more impression on his big face than it would have done on an elephant's." And so, undismayed by the rebuffs of Strasbourg and Boulogne, the hungry. Emperor continuedto express his "willin'ness" to France, gulping down power after power with a sturdi ness at which one can only wonder., Nor was he in the least gorged by the savory morsels; but having swallowed his cakes he crowded the youthful David of a French Republic so persistently off his seat that the poor boy was fain to stand and suffer in silence rather than venture to remonstrate against the encroachments of the all-con suming monster. When at length Barkis's waiting was crowned with success, and the red-cheeked Peg gotty consented to love, honour, and obey him, who can forget with what grudging reluctance the elephantine. carrier gave her the scanty pittance with which to supply the commonest wants, and how at the same time he tried to create the impression that he was doing deeds of unheard-of magnificence and generosity ? He was a little "near," said the generous soul, with pious fraud. Had it been Peggotty's old self—the Peggotty who dared the wrath of the Murdstones, and braved the scorn of Betsy Trotwood— how different would have been the result ! But Peggotty had had her buffets, and: desired to lead an easy and peaceful life ; and hence, without a mur mur, she accepted the situation. So France, long torn and harassed by war and dreams of honour and ambition—seeing the prospects of a republic fading away, having dared and met all Europe—at last yielded, for sheer hope of peace, to the malignant sway of the usurper, and calmly accepted such boons as he might dole out to her. At length there comes a hope of better things. In his last days, worn and bent by disease, loving his money with a miser's passion, with what infinite agony, physical and mental, did Barkis, scrape out of his mysterious box under the bed the little trifle wherewith to keep peace with Peggotty and do honour to David's coming. So from his storehouse of stolen things did our Imperial autocrat dole out to hungry France the scraps labeled " Universal Exposition," "Plebiscitum," " Responsible Government," and other hollow-sounding names -mere tinsel and glitter —all the while grasping with eager hands the box which contained his stealings and parading it as if the whole was his. "If he lives till it turns," said Mr. Peggotty, "he will hold his own past the flood and go out with the next tide." The poor, decrepit, broken-down Emperor did hold his own till past the flood of one tide which threatened to take him out with it. But now " they're both going out fast." The day comes when all his pain and toil will go for naught. "He was lying with his head and shoulders out of bed, in an uncomfortable attitude, half resting on the box which had cost him so much pain and trouble. Time and the world were slipping away from beneath him, but he clung feebly to the box, and muttered feebly, `old clothes.'" So the arch conspirator against the liberty and welfare of France clutches in his feeble and trembling fingers the crown which he filched, claims that he has wielded his power for the good of France, as Barkis indulged the pleasant fiction that he held the box in trust for Mr. Blackboy ; and now , it being low water, he goes out with the tide.—New York Tribune, August 18. THE OVER LAND MAIL. Bombay . papers to the 9th of August, received by way of Brindisi, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, furnish little news of interest beyond that already forwarded to Europe by telegraph. The overland summary of the Bombay Gazette contains the following items : A letter, received by the Calcutta Examiner from Simla, states that four butchers have been arrested, and papers found upon them in reference to a plot for the massacre of the European residents, from the Governor-General downwards. The same letter states that the men have been released on heavy bail. This has not yet been con firmed. It is reported from Bangalore that cholera has disap peared from the Lancers. Three men had been attacked fatally—and these three men had been on duty together one evening a few clays previous. The total loss caused to the Indore community by the late flood is estimated at 2,50,000 rupees. About forty lives are said to have been lost on the 21st of June, either by being buried under the falling houses or carried off by the floo. Ensign Frederic Martyn, of the 2nd Grenadiers, had died from an accident at Bombay, and the deaths are also announced of Surgeon-Major William Peach, M.D., Indian Medical Department ; and Lieutenant-Colonel D. Gaussen, retired list, her Majesty's Indian army. AUSTRALIA. The advices from Melbourne by the Overland Mail extend to the 16th of July. A bill for the abolition of State aid to religion had passed both houses of the Vic torian Legislature—the third reading in the Upper House being carried by t lB to 4, votes—and now awaits the Royal assent. Other items of news are given by the Melbourne Argus as follows :—The Hon. J. M. Grant has resigned his seat in the Legislative Assembly. A national subscription, which is expected to reach £lO,OOO, is now being got up for the hon. gentleman. An Intercolonial Conference has sat in Melbourne during the month. It was found impossible to agree upon the basis of a customs union between the several colonies, but the delegates agreed to recommend to their respective Goveenments important reforms in connection with the postal service and telegraphic charges; also uniformity of colonial law, with a view to facilitate the apprehen sion and punishment of persons guilty of misde meanours. The conference were also unanimously of opinion that the protectorate of the Fijis should be assumed by the British Government. The revenue for the first six months of the year amounted to £1446,131, being some £B,OOO less than that for the corresponding period of 1869. The principal fall ing off is in the customs returns and the railway income. Trade still continues dull, and there is a very general want of confidence. At the Birmingham Musical Festival, on Friday, a new oratorio by M. Jules Benedict, entitled " St. Peter," was produced for the first time, and met with un bounded success. THE NORWICH CROWN BANK.—It has been officially announced that a first dividend of ss. in the pound will be paid to the creditors of the Norwich Crown Bank on and after the 15th inst. The private debts of the surviving partners—Mr. R. A. Kerrison and Mr. R. Kerrison—are to be paid in full. THE SIAMESE TWlNS.—Chang and Eng, the famous Siamese twins, arrived in Jersey City on the 13th of August from Europe, whither they have been to take medical advice as to whether they can safely be severed from each other. The decision is that it will not be safe. About two days out from Liverpool Chang was stricken by a paralytic shock, depriving him of the use of his left side, and is now far from being well, while Eng continues in perfect health. They depart for their home in North Carolina in a day or two.—New York Times. AN ASTEROID. --A communication in the Utica Herald states that an asteroid was discovered on the 15th of August, and its motion determined on the following night, from the Litchfield Observatory , Hamilton Coll ege , Cli n ton, New York. It is stated that the asteroid" is on the border between constellations Aquarius and Capri cornus, in 321 degs. right ascension, and 13th degs. south declination, going south at a rate of three minutes per day, and easterly 14 minutes. It will be the 111th of the asteroids." COMMODORE VANDERBILT STRUCK WITH APO PLEXY. —Troy, N.Y., August 18.—This evening, as Com modore Vanderbilt was entering his room at Congress Hall, Saratoga, he fell in an apopletic fit. He was im mediately carried in the room and medical aid was sum moned. Two physicians from this city have gone up. No one is allowed to see Mr. Vanderbilt, and the physicians are constantly at his bedside. Every effort is being made to keep the affair quiet and hush it up. It is be lieved that the excitement of the races brought on the attack, and from appearances the Commodore lies in a very precarious condition. His family have been sum moned to his bedside. „ RAILWAY COLLISION.-21. Collision occurred be tween two luggage trains between Marsden and Slaithwaite on the London and North-Western Railway, on Wednes day morning, by which a guard was very seriously injured, and a number of waggons smashed. A train left the Hud dersfield station and proceeded in the direction of Man chester at 2.45 a.m., and while at Standedge tunnel about 14 waggons heavily laden got loose and commenced to run backwards in the direction of Huddersfield. Descending the incline, they came into collision with an advancing goods' train which had left Huddersfield at ten minutes past three o'clock. Four or five of the waggons were smashed to pieces, and the guard, a man named Honing worth, who was in the van attached to the running wag gons, was badly hurt. The driver and stoker of the ad vancing train, perceiving the red light of the running trucks, escaped injury by jumping off the engine. \ YACHT RACING IN AMERICA. gives the A recent number of .the New York Herald following account of the cruise of the yachts from P I• port to New Bedford : " New Bedford, Mass., August 19, 187 1 0 ; e0 " The ovation given to the squadron on arrivi n . , i n n, this evening was never equalled on any former occro while it certainly was never so well deserved. fl ( i the astic to a great degree, the inhabitants crow° e yed wharves, while the decks and rigging of nearly ting whaler were occupied by delighted spectators. 13° 0 1. was displayed in all directions, and the yachts wer e bsd corned with salutes t for over half an hour after theYot dropped anchors. It was altogether the finest an iv:- hearty reception ever extended to the fleet in th is ot hour. The elements favoured the display, and the Pe The recollection of this scene must long be re memberen' fi i c lN Sappho left her anchorage at 11.5 a.m., and ci- goillf followed in the wake of the squadron, IV 4 ,1 out of the channel the Magic and Madige 100 the shore on the fort side ; the Cambria s t e N vide' the opposite shore, and, passing the Palmer, th e ,'''llo line was next in order. At 11.55 a.m. the leading . 7 . o ed , were clear of Fort Adams ; the others were not cote On her second tack the Madeline, which had oulY brie , off the ways the day previous, weathered the 0 '1) 1 A which made her the third schooner in the order in t oed the yachts cleared the channel. As soon as they 'we! to th e Brenton's reef lightship .the yachts squared awe ,-', cor eastward with a free wind, the Cambria gaill%jraert siderably on the yachts ahead of her. The '4O Phantom, Alarm, Restless, Halcyon, and Da e lbeit weathered the Beaver Tail light, and then stood on lit course, the Sappho coming up in the rear. r r e v o t mentioned vessel passed Brenton's reef lights e el twelve twenty-five p.m. The spectacle was elc ti :, so d pretty as the vessels headed towards New Bedf ord as the wind was comparatively light, clouds of cd' u oeti proved to be the order of the clay. The Cambri a : h 1 , bib balloon jib, and all her other fore and D.,,,,; i t' and when the' fleet had passed Bateman's ,"" t heia few miles, those having square sails hoisted a fter The Cambria 'overhauled the M a d g ie soon 40 4 clearing the .point, and made a strong 03, 0 to get to the windward of the Madgie• is chll vessel, however, gallantly held her own. ge 3 " e the Madeline made excellent way, and a lso Pyis the Madgie, and held on closely to the elgil which had now winded her. The Palmer was cent 0 4 at a pretty lively pace, but the remainder of the n e 'bole considerably astern at one o'clock. The DauntielTrer ever, made her way through the fleet, and passe' nfl' ton's Reef lightship, about ten minutes aster n - 0, Cambria. At this time it was very hot, and the so' seemed to decrease, but suddenly sprung up ag'"7.ic e a rendered' the chase of the Cambria after the lvitt os e 11 ceedingly interesting, but the latter seemed to 1 5p .9 ground, and still retained the lead. At 25 iniqt s ,oo t " one p.m., the Cambria passed the Hen and Chia c o O, ship and was saluted by the ringing of bells on ti c l oba: tionary craft, which was responded to by the le dipping her flag. The Dauntless gained gracile, siii' the yachts in advance of her, and came upon th_ a e 0 Il e ' of the Madeline, and, after keeping company C ";for* tIO some time passed over to the lee quarter of the of j and now commenced the most interesting portie a j f, ll run to New Bedford. The Magic was still an e c ilv. the Cambria the second, and as the Dauntless W,l,ed y+ ing upon her, a great deal-of speculation was in,_allst to which vessel should come to ahead. 'ril e less remained on the lee of the Cambria, ilia ho ar o ; two went bow and bow for over half 0 0, 0 The Madeline sailed much better than she has o siti ° o t i l e any run during the cruise, still maintaining her . tea " in the wake of the Cambria. The Palmer 1 3 ' 1 , P , O Madgie, which, by the way, was also rigged witu; r o e e . sail and water sails.. The Sappho now aPP e O O '; splendid advantage, as she bowled along some ~it i n behind, under a full cloud of canvas, including a.„,,^ n sit?,'" which is a sail set abaft the mainsail. The -r', et l r,t, Halcyon, Restless and Josephine were the sll i f,g e .., yachts after the Palmer, the Madeline still'lear i V;# vessel. A prsttier run on a free wind has . sehlr ee t Ina witnessed, and the appearance of the entire • d j certainly very beautiful. As already menet:,le. O r , Magic retained the lead, followed by the Daun n t' o pti, je , Cambria, till near Clark's Point, when the -v )fov,.t dropped her companion and came up towards thelojer4, the welcome breeze freshening at the time. The ' l pt f fr kept her ground ahead of the Palmer, which was be 0 : 0 0 and the display of canvas by the five yachts We t ; .o.oa ful as it was extensive. The schooner yacht to to sailed well and kept a good position in resne e of Aa Josephine,_ Restless and Halcyon. The orde r c ip,7o, yachts ahead alluded to remained the same -- )1014 Magic, Dauntless, Cambria, Madeleine, Palmer i !, o ';4 Phantom, Sappho and the others. • In tu p ;o" they approached New Bedford light, and a more r• y: spectacle has rarely been seen upon the w s 4tle st i if leading yachts were clustered together, going in ',.t. ~ ,,0 then came a long string each about a cable length 3 1 ) °"o a sq a splendid run the Dauntless, after passing the 41,0 bed joined the Magic, and passed her when nearing ' en tli, q , house. But there was not much difference betf r e ,,,jelt l and the Cambria was close at hand, while the 11 ' . " bev s ; the fourth vessel, retained the relative position 510.• towards the Cambria throughout the run. 'Whr e pp, the lighthouse the Cambria got in the wake of t less—a position she tenaciously retained to thieao6 After one of the most' agreeable runs since the C ° es fi i ment of the cruise, characterised as it was bY riles ‘i sailing and a good free wind, the first ya cht P or jet light at 3.35 p.m., the following being the ~soti c o the arrival of the several vessels, viz. :--' l 4l n o Magic. Cambria, Madeline, Palmer, Madgie, ro seP ji Sappho, Halcyon, Restless, Alarm, and the ''' Co The leading schooners passed the sloops Gracie' 9 and White Cap some distance before . Pas s a j i'd4 ship. The Dauntless arrived only about one Pryki f t il l r a t:o 0 711 minutes ahead and there were not more seconds between the Magic and Cambria in l a— Isi s Of former, whilst the Madeline was scarcely threelo behind. The time of the others was not take" all arrived in capital order. , . DEATH OF AN Ex-M.P.—Mr. A. '--- s iaer Dunlop, late M.P. for Greenock, died at his Corsack, Kirkcudbrightshire, on Thursday. • The King of Sweden has conferred the' P A tit 7 hood of the order of Wasa on Mr. Frederlek - op t F.S.S., of London, in appreciation of his write national coinage and statistics. " ENGLISH SOCIETY. "— The public ar - tO still another shilling magazine and one which il l , assume a prominent position in the field. 3 :it t ortj Hogg, the founder of London Society and sole eu l e f it ,4 4 first seventeen volumes of that work, has ju st t to 0 have any connexion with it. He is now aboil 11,101.,`' English Society, aided by the flower of those masters of the pen and pencil, with whom he long and so intimately associated. IF',l ROBBERY IN BIRMINGHOL—A dart O was perpetrated on Thursday night on the P of pi / Messrs. Antrobus and Co. wholesale jewelleo44 mingham. Having forced an entrance by the 6 " lel into a room occupied by another firm over til e 9. Messrs. Antrobus, the b u rglars cut a large h e jet Of, floor, through which, with the aid of a rope, thelot one of their number into the shop. In this ral o l extracted property valued at upwards of £1,9 0 1, most valuable portion of the jewelry was i s ,t ? „o , secured in iron safes, no attempt to break which o f , The police have not yet succeeded in disc° thieves. At if); " A WORKING MEN AND 311 E WAR. -11- working men was held on Friday night at the v:',4°3l Old Bailey, to consider an address to the work; o pr a of England which had been drawn up by a sulr e s od o if of the Labour Representation League. The addr e o ? to: the people of England to oppose any settle l l94lt to present war that would disturb the equilibrium o ',it, nations, and to urge the Government of this c e so ty to interfere in any way in the choice of the C e o,L,A and government which the people of France .44.( 1% to establish at the end of the present crisis. f ool i A berment of the French Empire, it was added , 'pp t to future complications and future wars, and g e i - dierziO: for many years in a precarious state. The auZ j er; after a lively discussion, adopted with a few 033 ' Most of the speakers expressed a belief that it t e 'V 4 berment of France would be no security for peace of Europe, but would have quite t he ii effect. The present war was looked upon a s ,, o pletf between two dynasties, and not between two 13:;,ter" such wars were denounced as against the best 1 " .1, the human family. y. oo" The Prussian Governor - General of Lorraine-- t proclamation to the inhabitants of the provinc i e :, l ,6 he invites them to appeal to him in full confil, gb does not expect them to be very loyal; altholli nt iloor A of German origin, but he requires that they sKilLesir,i respect to the laws. The laws of the countrYl til l , in force until the introduction of the Gene' g 0 0 11 e: Code shall take place. The police adminiefsSof; the postal and telegraph systems will be speecL7 o o,A , but with respect to the commercial and ica°„' e r t' m terns, new rules will not be introduced until 0 , P 0 51 1 1 elusion of peace, until which time the old P t ' I,op maintained. He trusts that the inhabitants % t ie 'A will not compel him to make use of the To . o l. which will remain in force until the new orcle r t ie t shall be established ; but that all people will 0,00 , I preserve the maintenance of order and tranci !~_ ~•~ ,_ ~.. C I lidini l'i ow Terra( At w prices 13 Macon e ah, bot -....____ 8 8. 0 , tiered ii 12s . Vilna Dri„,fe , w Old I („11-3 AI !1 1 , e , 8 A vv i. to,. 64 2 48 I 10 ° tt.Z 4 e ion 11011:3,;, th e e, PiAt 78, e ' d 401b411; qiu e,( l tat! , !,adie 68 ,1 ttad 11A1 the hair /1 0 1,!`t 11: B A De c i a N tibab ) , Th e '4114 °the •( ,t 4WI wed f \AT/ -- BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., at 99, Gloucester terrace9,:i:r. the wife of Augustus Gore, Esq., of a datigi'," On the Ist' inst., at Sandbach, the wife of riott, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. a i d ' On the Ist ihst.,at Edmonton, Stanley, fi,f t ' 9 8 late Joseph William Gray, of Tottenhr e 'd r. Stock Exchange, to Ellen, second daughu — Grainger, of Laurel House, Edmonton. , fy On the Ist inst., at Walcot Church, Bath, Clog' Radcliffe, C. 8., to Isabel, daughter of the de Blaquiere. DEATHS. o p. • .On the Ist inst., Alexander Colquhoun Sto e Dunlop, of Corsock and Edinbarnet, TAt Greenock, aged 72. t P ll On the Ist inst., at Hackney, William Abb ot merly of 7, Milk-street, Ches,pside, aged 71 ' 0 ' Pi 130 oPY London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND — Di o f No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Publis hu " THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the pr Savoy, n the County of Middlesex. Monday, September 5, 1870.