The Sun. — London, England, 1870-07-27 00:00:00

THE 1) ROPE CAVALRY. THE EXTRAORDINARY PROJECTED TREATY. According to information from an official source the project of the treaty is a summary of pourparlers which took place after the Treaty of Prague between Count Bismarck and M. Benedetti. It is, moreover, officially declared that the Emperor never approved the pro ject. The North German Gazette of Tuesday says :—"We learn that explanations will immediately be made on the part of Prussia with regard to the draft of a treaty published by the Times, and showing the offers made by France to Prussia. The correspondent of the Telegraph says the treaty was proposed to France by Prussia. n Grammont will utterly deny that France ever thought of the annexation of Belgium. The King of Prussia was the first to urge Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern to accept the Throne of Spain. The French papers contain no reference to this treaty. It was, however, telegraphed to Brussels, and is printed in extenso in the Independanee Beige and the Nord, both of which discuss it at some length. Both the Brussels papers doubt the authenticity of the document. The Pall Mall Gazette has reasons of its own for believing in the authenticity of this document. "In view, therefore, both of the improbabilities attaching to the opposite theory, and of the positive evidence in favour of the draft treaty, we shall not hesitate to avow our be lief that it either is, or shortly will be sufficiently authen ticated to leave the English Government no choice but to regard it as genuine. Such an issue of the matter will be of immense moment to the policy of England. It is not too much to say that this sudden lifting of the veil from the projects conceived so lately by Napoleon 111. ought to go far to convert our attitude to one of armed neutrality. We shall not pretend to raise any lamentations over this collapse of a cordiality in which we have never been very firm be lievers, and so long as France makes no attempt to put her designs against Belgium into execution, the fact that we have been mistaken in our estimate of the Emperor's good intentions towards ourselves need make no differ ence in our conduct towards the two combatants. But the knowledge that such designs have been cherished forces us to look forward to their possible revival, and to take care that no precautions are neglected which may enable i us to meet such a revival with the promptitude and deci sion for which it will unmistakably call." AUSTRIA AND THE WAR. The Austrian Government, according to the correspon dent of the Telegraph, will propose a loan of twelve millions of florins to raise the army to the ordinary peace establishment. PRUSSIAN PLANS. The semi-official Provincial Correspondence of last even ing contains the following :—" The vigorous armaments which have been carried on, and which are now complete throughout Germany, have served to dissipate day by day the apprehension lest the French should temporarily achieve an easy success in consequence of their having been in advance of us in their rpreparations for war. A well-founded confidence now prevails that the leaders of our armies will succeed in sparing German territory as far as possible from the direct burthens and inconve niences of the war preparations." THE EMPEROR. Several of the French papers announce that the Em peror has left for the army incognito. It is even reported in Paris that he has gone away secretly to join the Baltic fleet, and that while the Prussians are awaiting him on the Rhine he means to raise Denmark, and enter Berlin in time for his fete of the 15th August. THE HOHENZOL LER N CANDIDATURE. The Due de Gramont declares that the language used dy him in the French Chamber on the 6th inst. was due to the severity of the wound which had been inflicted by the Hohenzollern candidature. Ministers could only re tain the confidence of the country by requiring serious guarantees for the future. The Duc says further : "When the French Charge d'Affaires called upon Herr von Thile, the latter re plied that the Prussian Government ignored every thing. We were therefore forced to request M. Benedetti to speak directly with the King. We are not responsible for the voluntary absence of Count Bismarck and the obligations we were under of following up the discus cussion at Ems instead of at Berlin. The Prussian Cabinet say that the question of the Hohenzollern can didature was never treated on with M. Benedetti. This is ambiguous. It is true subsequent to the recent acceptance of the candidature by Prince Leopold, but false as regards the anterior negotiations." The Duc de Gramont cites a despatch, dated 31st of March, 1869, addressed by M. Benedetti to the Marquis de Lavalette, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, giving an account of an interview he had with Herr von Thile, in which he (M. Benedetti) expressed a desire to be pre cisely informed relative to the views of the Prussian- Cabinet on the Hohenzollern candidature, for communi cation to the French Government. Herr von Thile de clared that there was not, and could not be, any question of the candidature of the Prince of Hohenzollern to the Crown of Spain. FIGHT BETWEEN PRUSSIAN AND FRENCH An official despatch from General Lebceuf announces that General Berins had beaten a reconnoitring force of the enemy before Niederbronn (Bas-Rhin). One Bavarian officer was killed and two were taken prisoners. The Paris papers state that an English officer was among the Bavarian prisoners captured near Nieder bronn. It is believed that he was not present as a com batant, but merely as a looker-on. ITALY AND ROME. The Italian Government has been questioned in the Chamber relative to its foreign policy. The Foreign Minister replied that Italy could not be indif ferent at such a crisis, but she would remain strictly neutral. The Minister added that the worst policy would be to take advantage of present circumstances, in order to embarrass France and thus create the belief that Italy desired violently to solve the Roman question. WAR FEELING IN AMERICA. A telegram from New York says : In consequence of the publication here of a telegram from Europe stating that the Prussian Government would pay the passage and furnish equipment to all able-bodied Germans who might wish to return home and enlist in the Prussian army, large numbers of Germans made application to several con sulates for transpert. The North German Consul- General has announced that the telegram is untrue. The Official Journal announces that the French Government will not consider coal as contraband of war The Pall Mall Gazette says :—" The telegram which told us of General Goeben being appointed to the command of the Bth (Westphalian) Corps of the Prussian army should have brought the more important addendum, which we learn privately from Cologne, that General Herwarth von Bittenfeld was appointed provisionally from the 21st to command the combined 7th, Bth, and 11th Corps, representing the three provinces which cover Prussia on the Lower Rhine." The Pall Mall Gazette hears from Cologne that the clearing of the glacis and neighbourhood of the fortifica tions is pushed forward with all possible speed. On the morning of the 19th, General Frankenberg,who commands the place, set 1,000 labourers to work, besides the soldiers. The beautiful trees are falling one after another, and the structures surrounding the town are disappearing fast. The Prussian officers say they are not afraid of the flotilla of cannon boats which the French intend to place on the Rhine, as, owing to the shallows of the Rhine, it will be found impossible to float the boats. FROM THE FRENCH FRONTIER. NANCY, SUNDAY. This town looks like all the rest of the places, fortified and otherwise, on the frontier. The uproar, hurry, and crowd of war efface all difference. Is a town for tified, its works are hid by the cloud of white tents which stretch out in front of its bastions ; is it unfortified, the busy animation of a great camp gives it a warlike aspect. Every place here and in all the region round about is a rendezvous for troops. At Nancy it is cavalry which is the predomi nating arm. The trains which arrive here on the Eastern Railway contain apparently more horses than anything ; vast files of horses are camped out in and about the town ; and mounted soldiers ars galloping about the place in every direction. A good deal of artillery, too, has arrived, and more is coming. Indeed the guns and horses at Nancy bear an unusal disproportion to the foot soldiers. The number of mitrailleuses sent here is very considerable, About thirty of these machines arrived a couple of days ago. A large crowd collected about them, but they were speedily withdrawn from THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY I ENING, J ULY 27 , 1870. eyes of the curious. Nancy, like all the other centres of the French army, is a place of suspicion and precaution. The utmost care is taken to prevent the slightest information about military movements from oozing out. Any strange person entering the town is im mediately subjected to the most rigid scrutiny. He is surrounded, watched, interrogated, and run to earth, if he have no proper credentials, with the most relentleF s severity. Sometimes a spy turns up, or, at any rate, the authorities get hold of a person whom they believe to he a spy. One very singular story of this kind is circulat ing here. It has reference to Metz.- A workman who was some years ago employed in the Luxembourg fortifica tions was there treated with excessive brutality by a Prussian Major. Coming to Metz he found work on the fortifications of that very strong place. Soon amongst his companions he observed one who bore a very striking resemblance to the well remembered figure of the major. After some hesitation he imparted his suspicions to one or two of his comrades, who laughed at him ; for how was it possible, said they, that a major should do carpenters' work in such excellent style ? But these scoffers had not come under the influence of the major's cane; the other had. He went and told the commandant on the fort, who, accosting the sni disant carpenter as " major," made him display signs of confusion which were at once construed into evidence of guilt. The major is now in gaol. Here, as well as at Metz, the "gentlemen of the press "have a hard time of it. One of them went up to the top of a church the other day to take a bird's-eye view of the fine scene of martial activity around. He was immediately collared as a Prussian spy endeavouring to make a plan of the French dispositions, committed to the custody of the police, and not released until a brother of the Paris press had duly established the needful proof. It is quite impossible to make any adequate estimation of the number of soldiers round Nancy. It is useless and dan gerous to ask a soldier ; and the intelligent civilian counts by hundreds of thousands, and is not occasionally even ashamed of millions. Would that lies of this kind consti tuted his sole exercise with the long bow. He libels his unfortunate enemies with the most intense zeal. METZ, SUNDAY The chief business of the chronicler of events in this region is to record the sufferings and troubles of his illustrious profession. It is a most exciting campaign, this which is being carried on against the journalists. TO-day we have the news of a fine pitched battle, in which the correspondent of a Paris journal gained a victory over the impertinent authorities (such triumphs are not common) ; yesterday the representative of the Standard had been defeated and taken prisoner; and just previously the Times correspondent had his flank turned, and was for some time in serious danger of rout. As nobody knows whose turn may come next, the excitement of uncertainty is most pleasing. We have no war to talk about, we are not allowed to talk about troops, and hence there is the more time to devote to this literary business. The great difficulty is the liability of the correspondents to be taken for spies. A look at a fort is an offence, the production of a piece of paper is as gross an outrage in Metz as at a University examination. No man dare show a pencil here any more than he dare produce a re volver in Pall Mall. There is a constant sufveillance, dogging, watching, and questioning kept up. Corres pondents are liable to be regarded as spies from their well developed habits of intelligent observation ; but there are here a great many persons of German extraction, and these, too, are constantly falling into military clutches. Nor is this caution excessive, for Metz is too near the frontier, and is too important a place to escape the operations of spies. Now and then the genuine article is hit upon. One was captured in the costume of a peasant ; another in the dress of a pries escaped. With respect to the war (that against Prussia) there are abundance of symptoms, but no events. There are neither skirmishes nor battles to record ; but the most warlike uproar reigns all through Metz. The town is gaily hung with flags, the movement is continuous, the crowd enormous. The hotels are full up to the very doors, and have relays of attendants day and night. Not only is the throng of the densest, but the confusion is at present most unmistake able. Nobody knows where he ought to go, what he ought to do, or where his property is. Everywhere one sees officers looking for their baggage. There is a want of tents, a want of clothes, a want of everything, even to coffee mills, for which there is just now a tremendous outcry. They tell us that things are bad at Strasbourg ; they are worse here. The officers are, in many cases, destitute of anything like proper ' eating apparatus ; some of them literally eat with their fingers. Several were to be seen to-day cook ing eggs in a dish cover, turning the contents out on long pieces of bread, and satisfying their appetites with this kind of repast, Up to yesterday, when the military chest arrived, to the intense satisfaction of every body, there was no organised treasury. Eight thousand pounds for the use of one division was bor rowed from a place on the frontier the other day. At Bitsche things have been in a similar plight, the inhabi tants being paid for their solid substance in bills, with which they were little satisfied. The soldiers are gay enough and sing and dance after sunset, when they have finished their soup with small consideration for the desperate task that awaits them. The officers are less demonstrative. Some of them, indeed, are well advanced in years, and, after a long rest in the pleasant plains of France, are little fit to cope with the hardships and privations of a campaign. The rank and file, on the other hand, are mostly young and hdrdy men, and well calculated to do good duty. The French soldier is small, but not deficient in stamina, whilst in point of dash he is superior to his Prussian adversary. What the men about here seem to lack most is coolness. They are mostly in experienced, and are liable to panic. Every night there is a false alarm amongst the advanced posts, which are pushed out towards the frontier. The other day a fusillade was heard running from one sentinel to the other, without any apparent cause. A sous-lieutenant and a sergeant-major advanced to put a stop to this waste of powder. One sentinel, a chasseur l pied, evidently had his mind agitated by spectres of Uhlans, for he fired in the obscurity and shot the sergeant-major in the heart. The officers are report ing some improvement in this state of nervousness, which, by the way, is not unnatural to men quite unaccustomed to warfare. It will not do, however, for the chassepot to be managed by nervous hands. There can be no doubt of the fact, though it is con cealed as much as possible, that a great movement forward is going on here. There is an advance all along the line. Soon Metz will be left behind, and the busy hum of war will centre in a region still more close to the Prussian borders. FROM METZ.—The Daily News correspondent, writin a day or two ago, says :—This morning we had two important arrivals—the postal military service, and the military chest. All the money that has come is in gold ; a fact worth noticing, as it seems to shew that the troops are to quit French territory, and to go where French bank-notes will not be taken. Great distress has already begun to prevail in the factories here for want of coal from Belgium. Much importance is attached here to the gun boats which are to operate on the Rhine, the Moselle, and possibly on the Saar as well, should the Prussians defend it. Each gunboat is to carry one cannon and twelve men, and to be commanded by a lieutenant de vaieseau. It is believed here that the Prussians have none of these vessels, and of course the exultation is great accord ingly. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND PEA CE. —Th C Times Paris correspondent argues that the French Minis try, or, at least, some of them, were by no means so irre vocably committed to war as has been represented. He says :—" It is impossible to doubt the truthfulness of certain members of the French Government who declare upon their honour that they never dreamt of war until the Hohenzollern nomination burst upon them like a thunderclap. Nor even then, startled and indignant though they were, did they look upon a conflict as inevit able. They defend the terms of the Gramont declaration to the Chamber—in England deemed unnecessarily irritating—by saying that the 'best chance of maintain ing peace was to be found in a decided attitude. They appeal to the conduct of the Government on previous and recent occasions (as, for instance, in the affair of the St. Gothard), as proof of their pacific desires. They were well aware of the delicate footing on which France stood with Prussia, and they were anxious to avaid giving pretext for strife. It is beyond a doubt that M. 011ivier was drawing up a pacific declaration to be made that day to the Chamber, when M. de Gramont entered his room bringing with him news of the telegraphic communica tions addressed by Prussia to various Courts, stating the rebuff M. Benedetti had received. This was looked upon as an insult not to be borne, and the half written words of peace were thrust aside. When latelysketching the circumstances of M. Strat's mission to Sigmaringen. I omitted to mention that scarcely had he obtained the Prince's renunciation of the Spanish Crown when an envoy arrived from the King of Prussia charge I to recommend delay in complying with the demand. This certainly is not confirmatory of the sincerity of Prussia's assurances that she wished to avoid war. FROM FRANKFORT.— " Observer " writes from Frankfort on the Mein, to express his favourable opinion of the German troops lie saw there :—I am free to confess that these people do convey to me a very favourable, and, as respects the warfare to be waged, a most grave and serious impression. It is quite clear that the national soul has been stirred to its very depths, that long-dormant passions have been aroused, and that they will not be calmed or appeased until grea t events have occurred. I dine at the 7 o'clock table d'hote, chiefly with a view of studying the question. There are a vast number of officers here, and many dine at this hour. It is impossible not to be struck with the general appearance and bearing of these m en . Th e grea t ma j or it y are finely, firmly, and fully developed men, mostly over sft. 10in., and not exceeding Eft. ; well-looking, simply but carefully dressed, and remarkable for their, in almost every case, splendid frontal development. Another quality which, I confess, has a great value in my mind, is the universal frankness with which every man looks you in the face—the dark gray eyes play no game of hide-and-seek, but look you steadily, calmly, but still amiably in the face. There is no fuss or bombast. They sit together, talk low and earnestly, but with a cer tain quiet, self-possessed cheerfulness which, I think, augurs well for King William's cause. All is kept with wondrous secrecy here, and I have no doubt that one of the striking characteristics of the approaching struggle will be the sudden and unprepared nature of the facts which will shed joy or sorrow over either land as French dash or Prussian endurance bears away the palm of victory, FROM D CSSELDORF. —Great excitement prevails in this usually quiet, not to say dull, town. Preparations for the approaching struggle are going on at a great pace. Men are coming in by thousands, horses by hundreds. The English residents are doubtful whether they shall discreetly " slope off " at once, or valorously wait a little longer, and see what a few weeks may bring forth. The Queen's proclamation, that a ll women are expec t e d i n this crisis to do their duty to Fatherland, is already producing fruit. Sheets, bandages, and other hospital appliances are being got ready by the benevolent ladies who meet daily for that purpose in the Louisen School, while the very children are not allowed to have their fingers idle, but prepare lint, which may be wanted in such enormous quantities, no one can say how soon. This town, we hear, will probably before long be one vast lazaretto. The hospitals, the music -hall, the two principal schools, and' other public buildings are to be devoted to the reception of the wounded. At present troops are assembling here in great numbers, and lucky will that family be on which half-a-dozen soldiers are not billeted to-night. Every Prussian under a certain age is a soldier either in esse or in posse, and all the Reserve is now being called into active service. The peasants, who were just about to begin the rye harvest, the colliers, the factory hands, all must leave their work and their families, and join their respective regiments. How ever, there is no lack of enthusiasm on their part. They seem jolly enough as they come into the town, twenty or thirty together, shouting patriotic songs. As yet we have not seen much of the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Men arrive in their ordinary working dress, with nothing `military about them but a cross or medal gained in some previous campaign hanging outside the blouse. With even less parade are those who are ready for the war sent off, no bands playing or colours flying, or any thing of that sort. As to horses, there will be none left in the country soon but the veriest " screws." Every decent animal is taken possession of by the autho rities, and turned into a charger, the owner receiving re gulation price. —Times Occasional Correspondent. THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND THE GUN TRADE. A correspondent of the Birmingham Gazette writes : Surprise is expressed in all quarters at Mr. Cardwell's de cision, or rather indecisior, in so vital a matter as a reserve of breech-loaders. I learn that the inquiries from neutral Continental Powers as to the number of guns in the hands of private makers have been manifold ; and I further know that most of the the large gunmakers delayed replying to these inquiries until Government was consulted. Well, Government has been consulted, and the formal stereo typed answer is, "At present your services are not re quired." One large contract from Russia is now being executed in this country, and Holland and Belgium are both in the English market for arms. Of course, " for the present," the gunmaking trade of this country will not standstill, but will undoubtedly fill their houses with foreign orders, and then woe to Mr. Cardwell and hi s clique should he be forced into the market to buy, AN HUSH Run IN THE UNITED STATES. The New York papers of the 13th and 14th instant, recount a terrible riot which took place in that city on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, between Orange men and Irish Catholics. The " American Protestant Association " had announced for some weeks that they would hold a picnic in Elm Park, New York, on the 12th of July. As they were holding their festival, how ever, they were attacked by some fifty Irish labourers, and a regular fight ensued. Shots were exchanged stones thrown, and peace was with difficulty restored by a strong detachment of police. Three persons were killed and one hundred more or less injured, some of them very seriously two of them dying the next day. The riot i s described as on e o f th e mos t d rea df u l that had occurred in New York for a number of years, and it has produced the greatest excitement. drill been taught in which the soldier makes a rest of hi shako—for the remainder of the kit was perfection —the retention of the shako appeared absurd ? When we consider that each man . had his Chassepot and 90 rounds of ball cartridge, th e weight carried by the private cannot be esti mated at less than 451 b. A battalion marched past, then came the drums and bugles of another, a second battalion, and a third. A regiment had gone by, but I had ob served no eagle—the mounted officers, of which there were f. w, had their trousers tucked into large boots• with a roll of blanket before them. The officers on foot wore their swords. I observed no revolvers, and each had a satchel or ordinary travelling bag slung at the side. Then came the music and a second regiment, a general officer, with an aide-de camp, attended by a hussar leading a spare horse. Then a battery of four guns, with four waggons, and two pair of spare horses, with four or five mounted officers, and some officers, including a shoeing smith. There were no more waggons or horses. Each gun and waggon was drawn by four horses ; six or seven gunners bearing car bines followed, each on foot, more riding on the limners ; the driver carried his kit upon the horse he rode, leaving the other or off-horse looking almost bare-backed. The guns were unencumbered with tools or stores, and were ready for immediate action. The waggons were filled to excess with forage and tents, kits and stores of every kind. Then came baggage carts, three or four of a stronger nature, and dragged by two horses, led the van, followed by four carts of vivandikvs, these had their names thus: Madame Moinet, Ist Regiment, Ist Brigade, Ist Division, printed in large type upon their carts. (I do not care to give the true numbers.) Some of the women drove their own carts, others had a soldier or a civilian sitting beside them. They were not smartly dressed, and were got up for work. They seemed to enjoy the attention which their red trousers drew to them, anc looked as gay as if going to a regimental ball. In all no more than 20 or 25 carts followed the brigade, some tw, or-three were each pulled by a single horse. The secon, brigade followed; it also consisted of two regiments, bu was without artillery, A rear guard of 100 men close( the march.—Daily Nelas Correspondent at Strasboui LAM AND POLICE THE CASE OF £2,500 DAMAGES FOR A WIFE.—In the ' Court of Divorce, on Tuesday, Mr. Bayford moved for a rule for a new trial in the cause of " Broad v. Broad and Bird," on the ground that the damages were excessive. He pointed out that the co-respondent was an officer in the 51st Regiment, and had enough to do to pay his way. Lord Penzance said that without expressing any opinion as to whether the damages were too high, or the reverse. he would say that they were high. If he granted a rule for a new trial could the co-respondent pay any money into Court ? Mr. Bayford, after consulting with his client, said that the utmost that could be raised was £5OO. Lord Penzance pointed out that the co-respondent also rendered himself liable for the costs of the new trial ; but if £5OO was paid into court, there would be a rule nisi for a new trial on the ground stated. THE CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. Simcox Lea, incumbent of Trinity Church, Stepney, writes to the Times, to do an act of justice to "a very zealous clergyman " the Rev. Mr. Wallace, the gentle man fined on Monday for assaulting a boy. Mr. Lea says—No one is more rea dy th an M r . Wallace him self to admit that he acted hastily and injudi ciously in this instance. But I have before me a lump of granite, weighing considerably more than half a pound, which I brought from the interior of St. Luke's Church on Sunday night. Much larger stones had been thrown through the windows during service within the last few weeks, and one very heavy one had struck the book board close to the head of a chorister. Mr. Wallace had about a month ago carried a bag full of these lumps of road metal to the Thames Police-court, and had begged for his congregation the protection of the police. No abatement of the nuisance and danger had been secured, and the services, which are held every evening, were still disturbed in the same way. Mr. Wallace may have been mistaken in supposing the boy in question to be one of the perpetrators of this dangerous mischief, but when Mr. Lushington tells him, as he did from the bench, that "he was not justified in taking the law into his own hands," and fines him for having done so, it is but fair your readers should know that he did not do so till he ha( appealed in vain for the protection of the law at the tour here Mr. Lushington administers it. advice, THE EUROPEAN WAR. The situation in Europe is substantially unchanged, The tone of the despatches that have been exchanged is a little more deliberate than that of the hasty notes sent a day or two ago, but not less firm. The dignity of Prussia forbids that it should discourage .and put an end to a movement about which Bismarck insists that he knew nothing until Spaiu had acted without his" The self-respect of Spain is concerned in .avour of maintaining a position which is of its own seeking and choice, and about which it need not ask the advice of its neighbours. And the ambition and the fears of Napoleon prevent him from consenting to or passively allowing the elevation to the throne of Spain of one who would almost certainly be opposed to him if any fresh complications should arise in southern Europe. Austria naturally sides against Prussia, and leaves no substantial reason to doubt that the report of a fresh alliance between the two emperors is true. War seems inevitable. Spain cannot withdraw from her position at the dictation of a foreign power. France cannot peacefully allow the plans to go into effect. The note of preparation is heard. French troops are under orders. Passports are to be demanded by ambassadors, and official relations between the hostile governments are to be ruptured immediately. The standing armies of Europe render any extended period of preparation unnecessary, and if the war which now seems impending is soon proclaimed, it will be but a few weeks before active hostilities will have begun. It is no slight complication of the difficulty that both the great powers concerned, France and Prussia, have ambitious plans for territorial extension, and consequently a war of this sort, short though it must be,will very likely cause some changes in the map of Europe.— Boston Advertiser, July 4th. THE WAR-CLOUD IN EUROPE. WASHINGTON, July 13. It is belie's ed here in official circles that forty-eight ours will develop whether there is to be peace or war. The general opinion is that nothing can avert war, because Napoleon desires to measure strength with his great rival, King William. Ever since the battle of Sadowa he is considered to have been preparing and thirst ing for a brush with Prussia, and now that some pretext is offered he has seized it eagerly, and without the desire or intention of accepting peaceful explanations. M. Berth6my is said to believe that war is inevitable, and Baron Gerolt entertains about the same opinion. The late pacific dis patches from Paris, Berlin, and London are b e li eve d to be mere ruse s o f th e speculators, who desire to affect the markets. While this is the general opinion in official circles here, still it is not to be denied that there are some who entertain very different views. I have heard some men in high office declare that Napoleon is no longer responsible for his acts, that his intellectual as well as physical powers have become greatly weakened within a few years, and that his medical advisers are of the opinion that his trouble is softening of the brain. An incident tending to confirm this story of Napoleon's mental in firmity is related to me. While Marshal Niel, the late French Secretary of War, was on his last bed of sickness Louis got one of his severest attacks. One of his aids going to see him one morning during this sick spell was as tonished to hear the Emperor say to him, "Howls Marshal Pellissier ?" The latter had been dead some years, and the aid observed, " Your Majesty must mean Marshal Niel, not Pelissier." "No ! no ! no !" impatiently replied the Em peror, " I mean Pelissier ; how is he ?" The aid bowed submissively and retired, reporting the conversation to Marshal Niel. The latter directed the aid to go back and report that the Secretary of War was a good deal better. This little anecdote is related to chew that this present war move of Napoleon must be the result of some insane malady ; but it seems pretty, evident that if Louis is " looney " he has com municated some of his disease to 011ivier, Gram mont, and some of the brightest minds in the em pire. There is another story, to the effect that the candidacy of Prince Leopold is the result of a secret un derstanding between Napoleon and Prim. These two have had several conferences lately, and it is mysteriously sug gested that they have made an arrangement by which, should Prussia accept war with France, Spain will come to the assistance of the latter through Prim, the head of the army. As a compensation for this support it is said that Napoleon will aid Prim himself to the Spanish crown: and thus at the same time settle the question who wil rule over Spain and which power shall dominate in Europe France or Prussia. [NTER-OCEANIC COMMUNICATION BY A SHIP CANAL. It has been amply demonstrated that a ship canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific would secure results of incal culable commercial and political importance. The capi talists, political economists and statesmen of the present day unite in endorsing the enlightened views of William Paterson, the founder of a colony at Caledonia Harbour, and subsequently of the Bank of England. That extraordinary man anticipated one hundred and seventy-four years ago —as it were, with Scottish. " second sight "—the possibility of " removing dis tances and drawing nations nearer to each other" —of lessening more than one-half the time and expense of navigation to China, Japan, the Spice Islands and the greater p ar t o f th e East Indies, and of more than doubling the consumption of European commodities and manufactures by means of the Isthmus of Darien, which he called "the door of the seas and key of the universe." The arguments by which Paterson supported his theory have now acquired tenfold strength. Other arguments have been yearly multiplied by the development of Ameri can commerce, and to both the latter and the former additional weight and urgency have recently been given by the mission of the late Mr. Burlingame from the Chinese Emperor to the United States and to the Great European Powers, and by the rising flood of Chinese immigration to this country. The Herald has lost no opportunity of insisting upon the cosmopolitan importance of a ship canal across the isthmus. It has heartily encouraged the scientific explora tions which have been recently made under the auspices of the United States Navy in order to discover a feasible route for a canal, which would be the tenth wonder of the world. While we have faithfully chronicled the progress of the Darien Expedition of 1870, its successes and its failures, we have recognised the fact that, were it only by proving the impracticably of the several routes examined at Caledonia and Sassardi and San Blas, this expedition has rendered a great service to science and to commerce by eliminating so large a portion of the isthmus from future inquiry. Even if the explorations to be undertaken during the next dry season should prove that all the other pro posed routes from the Atrato to the line of the Panama Railway are equally impracticable, we should not abandon the hope that what the London Times calls " the grandest physical work the world can witness " will yet be accom plished, and the prediction of the London Sun may be verified that " ere long Darien will be the great inter oceanic portal, the door of the seas, the entrep6t of the world, thf storehouse of nations, the grand highway of nations." Notwithstanding the formidable array of names of prominent capitalists and politicians of New York city in favour of reviving the old project of an in teroceanic canal via Nicaragua, we cannot easily believe that American enterprise will be reduced to so forlorn a hope as this route, all the conceded advantages of which would seem to be neutralised by its great length, its start ling cost, its almost insuperable difficulties, and the wretched harbours at both ends of it. Nevertheless we are confident that whatever route may ultimately be de cided upon a ship canal will yet connect the Atlantic and the Pacific. The 19th century must add this jewel to her crown.—New York Herald. THE WHEAT CROP.—The present wheat crop in Virginia is reported to be the largest and finest harvested for years. From all parts of the country we get about the same. Well, this wheat is just in season for the great demand we shall have from Europe if the war really breaks out. The old parson who always prays for a long and moderate war in Europe is in town.—New York Herald. THE CHINESE QUESTION. The Fourth of July debate in the United States Senate, on the Chinese question, presented the most ex traordinary manifestation of statesmanship we have had for a long time. The Congressional Globe of Wednesday devotes several pages to it, but it is impossible to sum it up even into a short compass. The senators from Nevada and Oregon, both men of ability, and of good sense on other subjects, took the command against these ferocious invaders, and fought them at every point. Senator Wil son was willing to give the Chinamen a chance in the abstract, but when the test came voted against them. Mr. Sumner stood almost alone, fighting the battle on the old ground fought over ten thousand times, that men who came here honestly were entitled to con sideration according to their merits, an d no t accor di ng to the place where they were born. The majority were against him, but that is an "idle tale." The majority will soon be reversed. No foreigners, whether they come from Ireland, or Germany, or Africa, or China, or any other part of the world, will be driven back until there has been another revolution. —Boston Advertiser. EFFECTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF A WAR IN EUROPE. War in Europe will have its first effect here by im mensely increasing the flow of immigration. Already every careful father who can gather the cash and scents the conscription afar off is paying the passage of his boys to America. From America they may return home again richer than they went, or the father, perchance, may follow on the voyage ; from the army they wonld pro bably never return. And this result is secured to us merely by the war fever, even without the war. Next to the increase in immigration will be a demand for our breadstuffs and high prices for our splendid grain crops. If the war lasts we shall even fill some big gun contracts, and our workshops will burn gas. Europe will go on the debtor side of the books in a very unqualified way. Our bonds at first will go down in the markets of Europe ; for there will be a rush for money to be handled in the great financial transactions, and all values held as investments will be on the market ; but this will be only a first effect. Later it will be realised that the bonds of this great, prosperous, peaceable people are the only secu rities worth holding, and they will be in demand at any price. —New York Herald. A FRENCH DIVISION ON THE MARCH. This morning a division, complete, that which had occupied the Camp of the Polygon, marched through the town, evidently not about to start by rail, but taking a northerly direction. Would your readers like to know how a French division marched ? First came a battalion of Chasseurs, of which I only saw the tail, as it was its music which roused me from a sleep in which I fancied that drums were beating the attack for an actual combat, which a wicked Minister of War was loudly declaring I should not be permitted to see. On going to the window of my apartment I saw the last of the Chasseurs disappearsng. Then came the pioneers of a regiment, few in number, followed by half a dozen drums, eight or ten large brass instruments, and a dozen trumpeters. These last carried rifles. A battalion followed, keeping loose order and fllling the street nearly as they chose. They looked as if they knew they had before them a long day's march which would tax their energies before it was completed, and they certainly bore enough weight. Each man marched in his great coat of which the blue colour was relieved by the bright red kepi and trousers. These latter terminated, and in their turn set off by white linen gaiters. A yellow knapsack, from the leather of which the hair had not been removed, was surmounted by a blanket and by the tente d'abri, which folded down on both sides of the pack. small ammunition pouch was beneath. It is made small because the greater portion of the ammunition is carried in the sack. At the left side swung the sword bayonet and a haversack, or linen bag, like our own, crammed with provisions. A water bottle and a small cup formed also a portion of the kit. About every third man had strapped behind him a huge tin cooking vessel, smoked with the fire, and capable of holding at least a gallon. About every third or fourth had a metal dish with deep sides, out of which half a dozen men might dine. All carried two or three pounds of bread hung in a huge cake behind the pack. The most singular portion of the kit was the shako, which the man carried slung ; he wore the kepi or poised it upon the two little pointed sticks upon the tentes d'abri. Why has not this been given into store ? Has some new rifle IMPORTANT DIVORCE DECISION Lord Penzance gave judgment yesterday, in the case of Shaw v. the Attorney-General, which raised the question as to whether a dissolution of an English marriage by a foreign court held good in this country. The present case stood thus :—Betty Shaw petitioned the court to decree her marriage with William Shaw a valid one. She had formerly been married to aJohn Suthers, and had cohabited with him in Engl an d. Th ey subsequently returned to this country ; but shortly after, first Suthers and then his wife went to America. She seemed to have settled in the State of lowa, but did not see her husband. She afterwards obtained a divorce from him on the ground of his adultery and desertion. There was evidence that both parties always intended to return to England, and the petitioner did so and married a man named Shaw. His lordship was of opinion that where two persons went to a foreign country, and became domi ciled there, and by their own act were part and parcel of the community, it was only fair that if grounds existed for a divorce which would be good grounds in the English court, the decision of the foreign court should be looked on as a good dissolution in this country. But in the present case Suthers had never set foot in the State of lowa, and had no domicile there. He had never received the petition, so that the lowa Court acted on an ex parte statement. Besides this, neither party intended permanently to remain in America. He should therefore dismiss the petition. GREAT MEETING OF GERMANS. Yesterday afternoon, a large and influential meeting of Germans, resident in London, was held at the City Termi nus Hotel, Cannon-street, to promote the fund which has been started to aid the sick and wounded Germans during the pending struggle. The great hall, in which the meeting was held, was crowded, the bulk of those present being City men. Baron Schroder was unanimously called to the chair, and in opening the proceedings, which were conducted wholly in German, explained the object of the meeting. He said thousands of Germans were now hastening to to their native country to sacrifice life and property for their in dependence, and from the Baltic to the Alps, the world now saw the magnificent spectacle of a united country and a united people. (Cheers.) They were proud to call themselves Germans, and they would prove to the world once more that they were neither Prussians nor Bavarians ; that they were neither Frankforters nor Hamburghers, but Germans, ready to stand in defence of their country, to uphold its honour, and prepared to drive hostile foreigners from its frontiers, (Cheers.) Those who were present at the meeting coufd not like some of their brethren to take the sword and face the enemy, but they could render assistance in another way. They could assist the wounded and ssoth their pain ; they could help the widows and the orphans, and these were the special purposes of the meeting. He would urge them to forget all differences in political opinion, and only to bear in mind that they had a great duty to perform. That duty he was sure they would not shrink from, and then they would have the satisfaction of knowing that they had done their share towards upholding the honour of their country. To Englishmen he might say they had ample proof of the good faith of Germany, and though they could scarcely expect much from the English, he hoped that sympathy for their suffering fellow creatures would be some induce ment to them to give their assistance. Mr. Lohnis proposed that a committee of 12 gentlemen should be formed with the chairman at its head, to carry out the objects of the meeting. He said the committee would be a central body, and in communication with a committee which had been appointed for a similar object in Germany. He suggested the desirability of, forming local committees for the purpose of collecting subscriptions—(hear, hear). Mr. Lichtenstein seconded the proposition, which was carried unanimously. The committee having been named, it was annonuced that up to the commencement of the meeting a sum of about £13,000 had been subscribed. About £3,000 more was' added at the close of the proceedings. MARKETS. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—The deliveries at this market to-day were very small, and no business doing. The tendency was downwards. Factors were not forcing sales, and.buyers were not anxious to purchase even at a good reduc tion on previous prices. Flour was from 2s. to 3s, lower HULL CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY. —There was a small supply of cattle at this market to-day. There was very little business done, at late rates. There were a few pens of grazing sheep offered, but they were not sold, because buyers refused to give late rates. There was a fair show of pigs, and a moderate business was done. Prices were unchanged. The few sheep in wool shewn sold immediately. DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a good supply of beasts and sheep at this market to-day. Real prime beef realised 9s. per stone. Good small mutton Bd. per lb. The market was very slow for other sorts, at a slight reduction. LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.- -Tallow has ruled quiet, but steady in value. Y.C. on the spot, 465. 6d., sellers, for last three months. Turpentine steady, at3os. 6d. American, 295. 6d. French. Hemp firm, at £34 10s. to £35 for St. Peters burg, clean. Saltpetre is more quiet. 5/Ib. refractions sold at 28s. 6d., 4ilb; at 295. 6d., spot. Linseed oil is dull, at 31s. 3d. London ; and 30s. 6d. Hull, spot. Rape oil dull and lower, at 425. 6d. to 425. 9d., spot ; 40s. last four mo n th s. C o tt on h as ruled dull, but without change in value. LONDON METAL MARKET, TUESDAY.--Copper regulus sold at 13s. for three months ; Chili quoted nominally, at £65, sellers ; Wallaroo, £7O to £7l ; Straits ti n , £l2O ; S co t c h pi g iron, 51s. 9d., cash ; 525., month. - - BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKETS, TUESDAY.—The supplies have been moderate, and fully equal to requirements. The demand has been inactive, at about late rates. English, 90s. to 140 s. ; Jersey, 80s. to 112 s. ; French, 70s. to 110 s. per ton. Dutch, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per basket ; and kidneys, from 6d. to 9d. per cwt. - - METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY, —The market has been largely supplied with all descriptions to. day. The demand has been steady, at the annexed quotations : —Prime old hay, 110 s. to 1265. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s.; prime new hay, 100 s. to 110 s.; inferior ditto, 755. to 855.: prime old clover, 130 s. to 1455. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 1205.; prime new clover, 120 s. to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 955. to 105 s. ; and straw, 245. to 308. per load. COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS, TUESDAY.—WooI: The attendance at the wool sales was scanty, owing to the absence of French and German buyers, but no further change has taken place in prices. Sugar : The deliveries shew a slight falling off as compared with last year at this time, whilst the imports shew a large relative increase, and the stock is 101,000 tons, against 82,200 tons In 1869 at this time. Floating cargoes are in steady request, at 235, 3d. to 235. 9d. for Cuba, and 275. 6d. for No. 12 Havannah. Refined sugars are in steady demand, and rates maintained for both loaves and raw. Molasses, moderate sale, at 10s. 6d. to Ils. 6d. per cwt, Coffee : The de liveries are checked by the war, but the imports having fallen much below those of last year at this time, the stock in place of the relative now shews a deficiency of one thousand tons. Rum : A moderate business is passing. Demerara, 2s. 5d.; Leeward Island, 2s. ld.. Stock, 24,300, puncheons, against 2,5,100 puncheons. LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—So far as the woollen trade is concerned, there has been none this morning. It has been the worst market within the memory of man. There have been no buyers, and many of the largest manufacturers have kept away, knowing that to attempt to do business would be hopeless. The indignation aroused against the Emperor of the French on account of the "Projet de Traite " is unboundeded ; and a general feeling exists that some action on the part of England is called for. This, of course, tends to check trade. The merchants, many of them, feel so strongly that England will have to draw the sword, that they are making preparations to realise all the money they can. Avenues upon avenues in the coloured cloth hall haue not been visited at all this morning ; and the business on the clothiers' change was over in about half the usual time. Goods were offered at numerous prices, but without effect. All other branches of the trade are, so to speak, s t ar tl e d f rom their pro priety. The excitementis so great th a t every channel of in dustry is seriously interrupted. Further news is anxiously awaited. Connoisseurs in Art will be richly rewarded by a visit to an elegant gallery close to the Royal Academy, at 61, New Bond-street, lately opened by M. Carl Schmidt, for the exhibition of an art process scarcely known in Eng land. Foe-similes of some of the greatest paintings by the old masters are here to be seen produced on slabs of Berlin white porcelain, having been first copied by artists of the highest order of merit, and then burned in, not alone producing the delicate tints and rich colouring of the original, but rendering it imperishable— a desideratum of the greatest importance in this uncer -1 tain climate. The Art Journal truly remarks, "They will endure when - the originals shall be undecipherable relics or heaps of dust." Some years ago it was considered impossible to produce porcelain paintings of any consider able size, but the visitor will here find faithful copies of some of the greatest works on slabs of about 25 inches square. Few exhibitions of art in the metropolis will prove more attractive to the lovers of the beautiful. Morning Post. THE NEW YORK PRESS ON THE WAR. I n the midst of the mass of contradictory telegrams on the situation in Europe it is tolerably clear that if there is to be war, the cases belli will not be the candi dature of Prince Leopold. Should it be revived, it will be but a step in hostilities already declared upon other grounds, and not itself the basis of conflict. There is no good reaso n to doubt the assurance of the Ministerial Constitutionnel so far as it relates to the formal withdrawal of the Prince of Hohenzollern. Read by the light of continued warlike preparations, both in France and Prussia, there are many reasons for being sceptical as to its further opinion re garding the " pacific solution " of existing difficulties. Only twelve days ago we find the same journal writing as follows : " Our country has no intention of commencing a reaction against the changes accomplished in Germany in 1866 : but it ought to constitute itself the vigi lant guardian of the Treaty of Prague." At the same time a discussion was in process within the Legisla tive Chamber, in the course of which the " misfortune " of Sadowa was pretty frequently alluded to, and the as sumed designs of Prussia upon South Germany made the pretext for maintaining the annual military contingent undiminished. Guided by such indications of the spirit existing in Franee, it is not difficult to- understand the attitude of Prussia, fairly aroused as she now seems to be to the overbearing pretensions of her military rival. Whatever opinions may be entertained as to the right of France to maintain such a line of European policy as she has lately indicated, it is beyond a doubt that any interference she may volunteer between the two sections of Germany will be almost equally resented by both. The South German States may be briefly described as two kingdoms, two grand duchies, and two petty p r i nce d oms, united in a lo ose sor t of Confederation, of which Bavaria is the head. They contain about nine millions of the existing thirty-eight millions of German popul a ti on . Aft er the seven days' war of 1866, Austria left each of them to make its own terms with the conqueror, and out of these grew the treaties concluded at Nikolsburg, but only made public eight months afterwards, by which, in consideration of a guarantee of territorial independenc e , Bavaria Wurtem berg, and B a d en, agree d to place their armies in time of war under the leadership of the King of Prussia. Speaking in June, 1867, the Pri nce o f H o h enlohe, Prime Minister of the first of these States, remarked, in explanation of this agreement, " When I say that Bavaria, would in the event of war, place her army under the command of the King of Prussia, I suppose the case of a war in which the integrity of Germany, in its actual limits, would be menaced from any side whatever." Or, - as a French writer, quoting the passage, remarks :—" Let France extend her arms to grasp the Rhine, and Germany will rise as one man." It is perfectly true that in the South German States, with the single exception of Baden, there exists but a very sectional attachment to Prussia. Even the Suabian enthusiasts for national unity have begun to suspect that " one great Germany is a dream, and that the only possible change is to one great Prussia." But, if compelled to throw in their lot with either France or Prussia, there cannot be a moment's doubt that they would select the latter, and that a declaration of war by France would only hasten the completion of a union which the bond of a Customs Parliament and a military alliance has alieady half con summated.—New York Times, July 14. There is little doubt of great preparations for war in both France and Prussia. The disposition of troops has also a threatening aspect, and the army and navy of each power are clearly on a war footing. But as such result would follow the slightest indication of hostile intent on the part of either power, these preparations do not neces sarily indicate that a war inevitable. They may tend, however to aggravate a conflict for which thereis not wanting an in clination and a motive on the part, at least, of France. Napoleon maintains his threatening attitude and persists in his offensive demands, and the effort of Prussia at ex planation is not accepted. Throughout the whole affair the attitude of France has been that of an enraged ruffian bent upon insult. To be sure, the attitude of Prussia has been calculating and somewhat exasperating, - but she has decidedly the advantage thus far in the quarrel.—The pretext which France has used to produce a conflict upon which Napoleon has fixed his heart for a long time past is removed by the withdrawal, now positively announced, of Prince Leopold. He iignn willing to be the instrument of inflicting a war upon Prussia, and has declined the opportunity of being King of Spain. We shall now see if France has not anothor excuse for war. It will be strange if she does not discover after all that it is the Rhine frontier which she wants and for which she proposes to do battle—if only her people can be brought to support her Emperor. —New York Tribune, July 13. ien armies have been set in motion by a political difference, apparently or really trivial, the determination of that difference does not always arrest the movement of the armies; and thus though it is formally announced in Madrid, and - reported from Paris and Berlin, that the Prince of Hohenzollern is no longer a candidate for the Spanish throne, and though this declaration is accepted in Paris as settling the immediate point on which France took fire, yet we hear again from Berlin that the tone of France toward Prussia is still "alarming and provoking," and from Paris that parties in the Corps Legislatif are eager to force a war, while in all the news there is no intimation of any purpose to discontinue the vast military preparations already on foot. There is no doubt that in France the movement of troops has gone much further and been far more extensive than has been telegraphed hither, for the use of the wires would not be permitted by the French Government for any news on this subject. We can only judge of the activity in France by the movements that we know to have taken place in Germany, for these movements were only made to meet pr6ceding movements of French soldiers. The fact that the King of Prussia is in conference with Moltke rather than with Bismarck—that he takes advice in strategy, not diplomacy and statecraft—may furnish a hint how far matters have gone. It is possible, therefore, that France may now declare that she is in the a ttit u d e o f war; that she has been compelled to assume this attitude through the machi nations and encroachments of Prussia---of which the candi dature of the Hohenzollern was only the last—and that the mere withdrawal of this step toward the Spanish throne is not enough ; that while she has her arms in her hands she must insist upon some sufficient guarantee that Prussia will confine herself to the terms of the Treaty of Prague, or, otherwise, that France must have an equivalent for all possible aggrandisement that would come to Prussia with the Treaty of Prague set aside, this equivalent being the left bank of the Rhine. In assum ing this ground France would be neither arrogant nor domineering. She would only be acting upon and ap plying to the case before her the principles that govern now as they have governed in all past time every nation in Europe possessed of the power to make its purposes felt. There can be no question that Prussia in her recent history has acted on the maxim of the Greek, that " oaths are invented to cheat fools." She has regarded, in a spirit of the most impudent indifference, her own pledges, made with all the circumstances that give the sanction of law to treaties. She has directly violated her faith with Austria ; trampled upon the rights of the Danes with a bullying contempt for her little neighbour that should have been offensive to all Europe, and has never ceased in insidious encroachment, that, as it ways always more or less threatening to France, was certain one day to call forth the protest and resistance of that Power. It is clear that if France is ever to fight Prussia she must fight her now. She will likely never find it more possible to cope with her. Should she wait till Prussia has added to the power of United North Ger many that of all the South German States —till she has crowded Austria still further down the Danube, and is joined in treaties of intimate alliance with all the small Powers that are uneasy in the neighbourhood of France—continuing this very policy that would have put a German on the Spanish Throne ; should France wait for all this her contest with the German giant would be hopeless from its inception. As this is evidently felt in France, and as it seems to be widely conceded that col lision between the two Powers is only a question of time --there is still a high probability that, despite what may now occur touching the Throne of Spain, France may resolve to try whether the brilliant triumph of Prussia at Sadowa was not in a great degree due to the fact that she contended against a feeble and contemptibly com manded army, and whether the needle gun and the Prussian troops may not cut a very different figure when once really tried in well contested battle. With these possibilities before us it is not yet safe to rely on the peace of Europe, whatever sentimental notions Hohenzol lern may have of " the duty of a German soldier." —New York Herald, July 14. SUNSTROKE.—In the Malton Market on Saturday a country woman fell down in a fit occasioned by the heat of the sun, which marked 128 degrees. The deaths are announced of the Dowager Lady Osborne, widow of the late Sir John Osborne, who died in 1848. She was the daughter of Sir Charles Danvers, Bart., and of Lady Young, the wife of Sir Charles Lawrence Young, Bart. BIRTHS. - - - On the 24th inst., at 17, Grosvenor-crescent, Mrs. Henry Graham, of a son. On the 25th inst., at The Limes, Twickenham, the wife of R. W. Burrows, of a daughter. j MARRIAGES. On the 21st inst., at the Church of the Holy Cross, Mil ton, RobertCoales, LL.D., of Gower -street, London, to Marianne, daughter of Nicholas Fisher, of Milton, Nor thamptonshire. On the 21st inst., at Willen, Bucks, Robert Payne, of Frome, Somerset, solicitor, to Alice Mary, only daugh ter of William Whitworth, Esq. On the 25th i ns t . DEATHS and U , John Tilleard, Esq., of 34, Old J ewry, pper Tooting, Surrey, aged 76. On the 25th inst., at Harrow, James, second son of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, Bart., aged 15. 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