The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-03 00:00:00

SPEC IAL EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. THIS EVENING'S NEWS. THE WAR. GREAT BATTLE AT SAAR BRUCK. (FROM TIIE CORRESPONDENT OF THE CENTRAL PRESS.) METZ, AUGUST 3. Saarbrack was trPke.n yesterday by the French with insignificant loss. OFFICIAL FRENCH ACCOUNT. METZ, AUG. 2, Afternoon. To-day, at 11 a.m., the French assumed the offensive. rhey crossed the frontier, and had a serious engagement with the Prussians. Notwithstanding the strength of the enemy's position, few battalions sufficed to carry the heights commanding 3aarbruck, and their artillery quickly drove the enemy From the town. The French loss Ls slight. The engagement commenced it 11 a.m., and terminated at 1 p.m. The Emperor was present at the operations, accom panied by the Prince Imperial, who displayed comple% presence of mind and coolness. His Majesty returned to Metz at 4 p.m. THE ATTACK ON SAARBRUCK. The following further account has been received this afternoon : METZ, Aug. 2.—The French had 11 killed in the attack on Saarbruck, including one officer. The number of wounded is not yet announced. The French allege that the division under the command of General Froisard was alone engaged against three Prussian divisions.• Saarbruck is partially burnt down. The mitrailleuses are declared to have produced an ex- traordinary effect. THE NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS. (FROM THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE CENTRAL PRESS.) METZ, AUGUST 3. The Emperor has liberated the correspondents of the English newspapers arrested as spies. PROCLAMATION OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. MAYENCE, AUG. 3. The King of Prussia has issued the following proclama- Lion : To THE ARMY. All Germany stands unanimous in arms against a neigh bouring State, who has surprised us by declaring a war against us without any motive. The defence of the threatened Fatherland of our honour and our hearths is stake. To-day I undertake the command of the whole army, find I advance cheerfully to a contest which in former times our fathers similarly 'situated fought gloriously. The whole Fatherland, as well as myself, trusts confi iently in you. The Lord God will be with our righteous cause. FRANCE SEEKING AN AUSTRIA! ALLIANCE. A letter from a well informed source at Paris says France, like Prussia, is bidding for an Austrian alliance, apparently with a better chanoe of success than her ad versary. Negotiations are being vigorously pushed, at Vienna, and there is thought to be considerable probability that Austria may abandonherneutrelity. Great efforts are also being made at Copenhagen and Stockholm. But, it will be said,. if Austria joins Trance, Russia will assuredly aid Prussia. To this the French answer that Russia is in no condition to fight. Not expect ing war she is unprepared, and has not, it is here affirmed, done anything in the way of altering her armament, but still uses the same rifles with which she defended Sebastopol. General Fleury's reports from St. Petersbtirg to his Government are said to declare this, and to represent Russia as in no respect formidable at the present juncture. THE REPORTED CONVERSATION WITH THE EMPEROR. With reference to the letter signed " An Englishman," published in the Daily Telegraph, the North, German Corre spondent is authorised to state that the fist part of the account of the relations betweea..Napoleon and Count Bismarck, supposed to be given by the former, down to the words, " Not one foot of territory, whether Prussian or neutral, can I resign," is substantially correct,, while all that follows is 'a, pure invention. The Empress of the French telegraphed to the Em peror, saying that she desired to go to Metz to see him, to embrace her son, and to show herself to the army and endeavour to increase the enthusiasm for the war, as it is apt to be increased in such cases by a woman's presence. The Emperor replied, thanking her for her wishes and intentions, but requesting her not tb carry these out, as he should have left Metz before she could arrive there, and he was unable to tell her where she could find him. NumerOus complaints continue to be made in Paris of the maltreatment of French subjects in Germany. The following is published, on Government au thority, in the O f ficial Journal : —French per sons expelled from the Duchy of Baden have had to endure the most unworthy treatment as far as the Swiss frontier, whither they were conducted in chains. Several of them were despoiled of their property and Compelled to pay 24 kreutzers for the rent of the dungeon in which they were sheltered from the violence of the mob." A part of the French garrison of the Papal States has landed at Marseilles, the rest will be there by the end of the week. It is stated that the late Confederate Generals Lee and Beauregard wisli to take service in the French army, but that Marshal Lebceuf, in accordance with the rule he hat laid down, will not give them permission. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON MEETING-THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ROUS STAKES. Little Princess Visage 0utp05t....., ,1 Reindeer Bonnie Katie Asterope... Eugenie c Rapidity Phosphorus 2 3 Hobart ... 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At ,ing for dnated. will be twenty- Born- idon for to the ring the sum 0 Paul's ; Bishop the pre ae con- ccident L Lieut. rowned, ,m from Nine ran. OVINGDEAN PLATE. Nine ran. NURSERY STAKES. Ten ran. WELTER PLATE. Seven ran. BRIGHTON CUP. Four ran. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—THIS Day. ASSAULT IN HYDE PARK.—ALLEGED ATTEMPTED ROB BERY. —Mr. King, a respectable-looking young man, de scribed as a clerk, was brought up at the Marlborough P olice -court, charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting Georgina Bruce, who described herself as " unfortunate," rn Hyde Park. The prisoner said the complainant and three other woolen came up to him as he was walking through the park; and on the prisoner attempting to seize his watch he pushed her, and she fell, but he never struck her. Police-constable Chorley, 300 A, said she saw the Prisoner walking towards Stan ope Gate, and the com- Plakriant running after him. A young man told him that he saw the prisoner leave the complainant, but that he did not strike her. He knew the prisoner to be one O f a gang of women who were in the habit of stopping e very respectable-looking man they came near nightly in the park, but seeing that her eye was bleeding he took the Prisoner into custody. Barns, the gaoler, said the corn. wainant had been charged at the court two or three times. The Prisoner denied striking the complainant, and said he O illy pushed her to get rid of her. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it Was clear to him that the prisoner struck the complainant, and fined him 40s. or a month. A DISHONEST RAILWAY CLERK.—JOhn M`Carthy, 6 clerk in charge of th e St. J ames ' s P ar k Metropolitan Railway Station, was charged at the Westminster Police eciort with embezzling several 'earns of money, the- ProPerty of the directors of the company. Mr. George' White, a chief inspector of the line, said - the prisoner had been in the service of the company six years, and eighteen months booking clerk. He was toll clerk in charge of St. James's Park station, and it was his , duty to send the money he took in one day in to the cashier the next. On the Ist of June his book showed that he had received £5 16s. 2d. on the part of the Metro politan Railway, of which he paid in £4 10s. 3d., and on the part of the Metropolitan District Railway £4 10s. id., of which he paid in £1 7s. fid. ; both were in his own book, and must have been found out by the travelling clerk and accountant, who examined the books once a month or six weeks; on the Ist of July on the same accounts he received £4 18s. Bd., of which he paid in Bs. Bd., and £4 14s. 7d., of which he paid in £3l4s. 7d. Mr. Arnold said he should remand the pri soner. Prisoner asked that he might be admitted to bail. Mr. Arnold asked what deficiencies there weve. Mr. White said they amounted to upwards of £52, but he could not prove any more to-day. Mr. Arnold declined to take bail. RIVAL SLOP SELLERS.—Mrs Harris, a very fat woman, a Jewess, and Peter Anning, both outfitters, carrying on business in Grace's-alley, Wellclose-square, presented themselves before Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police Court, on cross summonses, charged with abusing and as saulting each other. The Jewess was repreSented by Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, the Christian by Mr. Pelham, solicitor. It appeared from the evidence of many wit nesses on both sides that the parties had a regular scold ing match, that Mrs. Harris accused Mr. Anning of every conceivable evil, and his wife with being too fond of blackmen whom she entertained in her bed-room, and that he spat in her face. Mr. Anning, on the contrary, said that Mrs. Harris was too fond of Swedish captains and of defrauding railway companies, and he said she did the spitting part of the business. There was no doubt they used vile language towards each other. Mr. Pelham elicited from Mrs. Harris that she had been mixed up with a transaction with a Swedish captain, but that had nothing to do with this matter, and that she had brought an action for damages against the Brighton Railway Com pany, and the verdict was against her. Mr. Lushington said both parties were to blame, and bound them over to keep the peace towards each other. He also fined Mrs. Harris 10s. for assaulting Anning. GREAT FIRE IN LIVERPOOL. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) A telegram from Liverpool this afternoon says that two large warehouses are on fire in Strand street. Six engines are at work, but cannot succeed in subduing the flames. TH_L StIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3. 111 PER IAL PARLIA EN HOUSE 'OF. 00111MONS.Tifis - .1711 iyurnberd a; , ;embW at the usual hour, twelve lint nearly half sn !win- elapsed Wort, a House ! r f , rtned. THE CHANNEL FLEET. " 7 "TTALTYX gave notice that be sbou'd on the , P 0 " • day ask the First Lord of the Trea ,nry whether he was prepared to state the reasons for the 14t;r of the Channel fleet to Gibraltar, whether he thought that such a course might not be prejudicial to the inlicy of the Government and the safety of the country OTITIS MORNING'S NEWS: SALE OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAY BILL, (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) NAVAL ACTIVITY .AT 'PLYMOUTH. (hi the order for_the second reading of this bill, Aldernnu 14.11V11ENCE remarked that he believed it was the intention of the member for Warrington to piess the bill forward. Ife, however, felt convinced that there would he no chance of any success, and he thought the (YiO. member would meet the wishes of the House if w.a.e - to withdraw the measure, remembering that the .vhole subject of the licensing system was : to be taken into ."onsideration by the Government next session. If the bill 19w before tiles House would suit certain district.; it would be totally unsuitable to the metropolis. A measure which would close every tavern, public-house, and houses for the axle of refreshments where beer or wine were . sold, mad iot be put in operation in London by any novernment. lie appealed to the hon. member for Warrington to re main saliNfied under the circumstances with having ventilated the question. He moved an amendment fiat the bill be read upon that day six months, and the n'Aion for the second reading of the measure was ne:ra ;lye(' without a division or further discusSion. GAME LAWS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Much excitement existed among the officers and em ploy& of the naval establishments at Plymouth yesterday. A large detachinent of Royal Marines was selected to proceed to Ireland oh Thursday. The ironclada now in the Sound, including the Agincourt and the Notthum. herland, received sealed orders, supplemented iii the afternoon by a telegram, directing them to proceed to sea at once. It was found, however, impossible for thein to do so before Thursday, owing to the almost total absence of stores and ammunition at the Vic tualling Yard and Bull Point magazines. The ships fitting out in baste at Devonport and Keyham are delayed for want of tanks, of which none are in store, several , suitable ones having lately been sold. The re-entry of recently superannuated artisans at Devonport commenced yesterday, the men in. sisting on retaining their pensions in addition to their wages. Recruiting parties of Royal Marines were sent out to enlist all the suitable men they could procure. The crews and Marines belonging to the ships under orders are prohibited from coming oh ghbre, Mr. Lociz moved that the order for the second rendiTig )f this bill be discharged, and intimatel that he should •auitroduce the measure next session. TE ItRIBLE STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION. A telegram received here- from Philadelphia announces another of those terrible steamboat calamities which are so common on the Western rivers of the United States. The Silver Spray, one of the passenger boats running between New Orleans and Cincinnati, when on the up ward passage near Memphis, at midnight on Sunday, ex ploded her boilers and then caught fire. Twenty-six per sons lost their lives, either drowned or burnt to death. ELECTION RIOTS IN BELGIUM. A telegram dated Ghent, Aug. 3, says :—The Par liamentary elections were held here yesterday. Last night serious disturbances occurred, and several convents were wrecked. The Gendarmerie and the Civic Guard bivouacked in the menaced localities. The troops have arrived and order re-established. Another from Brussels, Ang. 3, says :—Some disturb ances occurred here yesterday. The Chambers have been convoked. HIE MONEY M ARKET AND OMM ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Business to-day on the Stock Exchange was very dull, but the arrival of the intelligence of the taking. of Saay bruck caused some excitement. In the foreign markets prices• are lower, and there is no further change in the British Funds. American securities are better, but there is a decline in railways. Consols are now 881 to Sfli for money, and 881 to 881 for account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 881 to 89; New Three per Cents., 881 to 891 ; Exchequer Bills, 4 prem..; Indian 104 per Cents., 202 ; Indian Five per Cents., 1084; ditto Four per Cents., 100 to 1004; ditto, 54 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1044 ; Metropolitan 80 - ard of Works, 34 per Cent. Stock, 90k. In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of 1865 are 861; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864, 82; ditto of 1868, 664 to 671; Spanish of 1867, 231 to 241; ditto of 1869, 231 to 231 ; ditto Quicksilver, 65 to 68 ; Peru vian, 831 to 2; Turkish Five per Cents of 1865, 374 to 381, ditto of 1869„ 474 to 481 ; and Five per Cent. Italian of 1865, 82. The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 64 ; Great Eastern is 30k to 30 ; London and Brighton, 33 to 321 ; Caledonian, 71i to 72k; South-Eastern 64i; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 38i ; Great Northern, 113 f to 113} ; ditto (A), 118}; North Eastern, 130 ; London and North-Western, 1211 ; Midland, 121 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 127 ; Great Western, 61k. Canada Six por Cents. are quoted 100 ; New South Wales Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; New Zealand Five per Cents., 93 to 94i ; Queensland 103 ;. Victoria Five per Cents., 98 to 97f; and ditto Six per Cents., 108. Telegraph Shares—Anglo-American, 85 to 85} ; British Indian, 6i ; China, 5i to 5 dia.; Falmouth, 8i ; French Cable, 15 to 151 ; and Construction and Mainten ance, 22i. In American Securities, Five-Twenty Bonds are quoted at 821 to 831 ; Ten-Forties, 79 to 81; Erie Shares, 15 to 14 ; Illinois, 98 to 100 ; Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 19 to 21 ; and ditto De bentures, 25 to 30. In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 122 ; Anglo- Austriaa, 15 i; Chartered Mercantile, 28 . to 28 ; Consolidated, j I ; Imperial► Ottoman, 101 to 91. ; London and County, 50; London and Westminster, 59, 61; London Joint Stock, 31 33 ; and Union of London 35k. In Miscellaneous Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted 11 12 pm; Viceroy ofEg,ypt;9per cent. Mortgage Loan, 68f; National Discount Company, 101; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 39 41. After several days, during which there was no transac tions, bar silver has been sold at 602 d. per ounce, and a quantity of Mexican dollars at 591 d. These terms show a reduction of nearly 1 per cent. from the high rates ob tained ten days since, and indicate that there is no longer a demand for exportation to Germany. Telegrams from Bombay and Calcutta report a com mercial panic at both places. The ad vices from Ametica mention with reference to the question as to the extent to which the commerce of the United States is likely to be affected by the war in Europe that last year they imported from France goods to the value of £7,120,000, and from the North German Confederation £5,050,000, while their exports were £8,720,000 to France and £8,250,000 to Germany. It is understood that the Submarine Telegraph Com pany's new cable will be submerged between Beachy Head and Havre about the 12th inst., after which the electrical communication between Paris and London will doubtless greatly improve. Meanwhile great delay occurs, the present lines being much occupied with Government and mercantile messages. At the same time some of the most experienced telegraphists have left Paris to join the French army, and their places have been taken by persons of less experience. . The report of the North Australian Company (Limited) has been issued. It states that the proceedings ordered to be taken against the Government at Adelaide have commenced in the Supreme Court, and the directors fully expect to hear by an early mail that the case has been tried, and the Government " made responsible for its breach of contract." It is announced that the directors of the Midland Rail way Company have decided to recommend a dividend on the company's stock for the half-year ending 30th june last, at the rate of 61- per cent. per annum. The Great Northern Railway will pay a dividend at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum, against £4 ss. at the cor responding date last year. This distribution will give for the half-year £2 10s. per cent. for original stock, £3 per cent- on the B, and £2 per cent. on the A, Stock. A dividend, at the rate of 4 per cent., is proposed by the London and South-Western Railway Company, being the same as in the corresponding period of 1869. The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed Thurs day next a special settling-day in the Scrip and Six per Cent. Sterling Bonds of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, which are to be marked. The half-yearly meeang of "the North London Railway Company will be held on the 18th inst. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY 13T LI., The House considered the Lords' Amendments to this soino of which were adopted and others rejected. The )roposal to extend the operations of the Act was adopted. TRAMWAYS BILL. The Lords' Amendments to this Bilt were considered. Ain amendment to one of the Lords' proposals was no ved by Mr. Shaw Lefevre, providing that the same iotice should be given to the owners and occupiers of pre nises in streets, through which the tramway was proposed dbe made, as was now required to be given by parties goceeding under a private bill.—A division took place, End the proposition of the Secretary of the Board if Trade was carried by 35 to 14 votes.— . 11r. Dodson. moved that the House disagree with me of the Lord's amendments, which he said would pre ieribe by Act of Parliament the time when a private bill should or should not be introduced. The words of the Lord's were " not later than the Ist May in any year," Mr. Dodson's amendment was adopted, MERCHANT SHIPPING CODE BILL, Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE moved that the Speaker leave the :hair in order that the above bill might be committed oro forma with the view of reprinting and circulating it. several amendments were made in the Bill, and the Ight hon, gentleman promised that towards the close of .he year it should - be reprinted with amendments. SUNDAY TRADING BILL. Mr. TALBOT moved that the Speaker leave the chair in rrder that the bill might he committed. He remarked hat it was a measure which had received the support of 11 the prominent members of the House, and he believed hat the Government would support it. Mr. TAYLOR asserted that the bill was based upon no ninciple, and it would do nothing but mischief. If it vere good for the metropolis, why, he asked, did not pro noter of the measure extend it to the .country. Mr. BRUCE, although he spoke in favour of the bill, •nd alluded to the fact that no metropolitan member had ender the circumstances of the session it would be nade any representation as to its unpopularity, thought that udicious of Mr. Talbot not to press his motion. Mr. WATKIN WILLIAMS, in a somewhat-excited manner leclared that the bill would be most unequal in its pera i ,Vons, whilst the well-conducted poor, he pointed 'ut, would be prevented obtaining refreshments on the Sunday, the rich could drive about, go to such places as he Star and Garter, or have recourse to their wine cellar. After a few remarks from Alr. Candlish, the motion vas negatived without a division, CONSTABULARY (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. THE NAVY. Mr. BAXTER, in reply to Mr. Duff, said there was no ntention to propose an increase in the naval armament of he country. There was an abundant supply of seamen ►nd marines.. He asked the House to have confidence in he Government, and he believed that from what had alien place they had confidence in the naval adminis rition.. THE EXPORT OF HORSES. Mr. 3. LOWTHER called attention to the export of horses .o the Continent. Mr. CARDWDLL said the Government were not prepared o prohibit the export of horses. He thought if they did •he trade would have good reason to complain. FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL. On the order for going into committee on this bill, Mr. NORWOOD remarked that the bill was one of very great mportance, and he understood that, although when it vas discussed en the last occasion *several eminent mew )ers took part in the debate, still no mercantile men had )een able to speak on the subject. The constituency vhich he represented was one which was likely o be extremely affected by any hostile proceeding ,n the part of any European Power, and unfortunately it was much more likely to be affected by the war which had noken out, than any other portion of her Majesty's lominions. He thought the Government should not have lone more than re-enact the old Bill, with such amend ments as were necessary to meet a case like that of the Mabama—that was to say, an enactment which would give' nore complete power.to stop the delivery and despatch )f an armed ship. But it appeared to him that the Bill went very much further than that. It was very stringent indeed in many of its clauses—too stringent in his opinion—and he hoped the law officers of the Crown would make considerable concessions. He especially abjected to that part of the bill which changed the court which was to have jurisdiction. Under the old Act it was one of the superior courts in common law at West minster—the Exchequer Court, he believed. It was now proposed that the duty of deciding upon theforfeiture of a ship should be transferred to the Court of Admiralty. The Court of Admiralty did not, he said, enjoy very greatly the confidence of the public, and he was sorry to say that mercantile men had not much confidence in it, as at present constituted. The hon. member objected very strongly to power being given to a judge without the aid of a jury to exercise so very stringent a jurisdiction, as to the forfeiture of a ship— involving as it did a question as to intent and know ledge of the purposes for which the ship was intended. Such a power should not be given to a judge no matter how eminent he might be. Mr. VERNON TIARCOURT thought the Admiralty Court would act with perfect fairness. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had heard with a good deal of surprise the member for Hull protest against the Bill on behalf of the mercantile classes of this country. He denied his right to protest on behalf of those classes, or to represent himself as expressing their views when he ob jected to the measure, because there was no class so much interested, in it as the mercantile community, for they, above all others, were interested in the preservation‘of peace. And the sole object of the bill was to preserve peace. The hon. gentleman had expressed something like (In opinion that.the House ought , not to go beyond the present law, but he was the only member in the House who held that opinion. ' I I , A House then went into committee on the bill. Thewhole of the, elapses were agreed to, and the bill was reported with amendments. The Meeting of Parliament Bill, the Canada Loan Bill, and the Beerhouses Bill, were read a third time and passed. The. Appropriation Bill was brought in and read a first time. The House adjourned at 10 minutes to six THE CHANNEL FLEE r. The division of the Channel fleet, consisting of the Hercules, the Captain, the Minotaur, and the Monarch, all armour-plated vessels, is now at Portsmouth ready to proceed to sea. ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Last night, about half-past six o'clock, a special trail. from Cupar Fife to the north ran off the line about two miles from that town. The train was chiefly filled with farm servants, who had been attending Cupar hiring, market. Thirty persons have been injured, a number of them severely. AN 74111 P. ON ENGLAND'S POSITION. Mbar a volunteer inspection of uesday at Henley, Col. Roden, M.P., sakl-Hbin my opinion. we shall have to „ shew sooner than many of us expect that our drilling is no sham, but reality. This matter is becoming serious, and, many besides myself are of opinion that- it is only a quee don of time wiled this country will by at war, and we voltenteers will have to chew that we oan do our duty as well as our drills" The remarks were r. , ,leived with cheers. THE LATE STRIKE AT CORK. The twelve men convicted of taking part in the riot in connection with the late tailors strike were sentenced by Judge Keogh on Tuesday to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. Two, who seemed to have been ring leaders, got eighteen months, and three six months. Two, convicted of a violent assault upon tailori who had abandoned the strike, were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. His lordship strongly cen sured the inactivity of the mayor and of the local magistrates at the commencement of the disturbances, be• lieving that the mischief might have been checked earlier by proper measures. He said there were too many magis trates, and that their responsibility was too much divided. He exempted the stipendiary magistrates from censure. DECAPITATION ON THE RAIL WAY AT CAMBRIDGE. An inquest was held at Cambridge on Tuesday on tile body of Thomas -Mclntyre, who committed suicide on onday night by deliberately laying himself across the rails of the Great Eastern Railway at Cambridge in front of the Norwich train. Both his arms and his head were severed from his body. Deceased took up his position in front of the train with his eyes wide open looking at the approaching engine. He is stated to have been rather a dissipated character, and was frequently in gaol. He had been liberated from prison the morning of his death. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. DEATH FROM DROWNING. An inquest was held at Brompton, Chatham, on Tuesday by Mr. Hill, coroner, on the body of Lieutenant Charles Edward Turner, of the Royal Engineers, who was drowned iu the River Medway, on Monday, at Would barn, where he was stationed for instruction in pontoon ing. The deceased, with Lieutenants Peacock, Maxwell, and Dobson; who had been watching the men working at the pontoons, agreed to swim, with their clothes on, to a pontoon raft in the river which was about thirty yards off. The tide' was running strong at the time,'but all succeeded in reaching their destination with the excep tion of Mr. Turner, who said he could not reach the. raft. Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Peacock plunged into the water to kris assistance, and Mr. Maxwell caught hold of him,_ but was obliged to let go, as he was himself exhausted, -and the deceaeedeank. The body was not recovered for three quarters of an hour, when every effort was made to restore animation, but without effect. The: }airy returned a ver dict of accidental death. THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA AT IYDE. Tuesday was fixed for the opening of the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta at Ryde. The race for her Majesty's Cup was to have been sailed, and every pre,paratiou was made. But early in the forenoon a thick fog gathered, and not a breath of wind stirred. The regatta, had it been possible to sail at all, would have been without interest. As. therefore, the weather improved but little, it was determined not to start the yaohts, and the Pe gatta was postpones. RUMOURED ABSCONDING OF LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL MEN. tumours of au unpleasant kind were afloat in Liverpool en Tuesday respecting commercial men of high standing. Two men, well known on 'Change; have, it is said, absconded, one having duped a bank .of about .120,000, and the other having embezzled £lO,OOO of his employer's money. THE IRONCLAD SEIZED' AT PLYMOUTH. The embargo on the Turkish ironclad Lethi Bulend, which was seized at Plymouth on Friday, having been fully removed, she left Plymouth Sound for Constantino ple on Tuesday night. INCENDIARY FIRE IN "CARLOW. Some incendiaries have (says a telegram from Callow) fired the houses of Mr. William F. Burton and his steward. Their motives are suppoked to be known, and have been communicated to the justices of the peace. THE STATE OF LONDONDERRY. The city of Derry has calmed down a little after the •noting, and is now comparatively tranquil. Several mobs paraded the streets on Tuesday, chiefly, hoWever, out side the walls. They amused themselves by throwing stone bottles and other missiles ; but all conflict between the rival parties wasprevented. Large patrols of police paraded the principal streets and prevented the people from congregating. St me half-a-dozen rioters were a i rrested at night; per contra, there are in the infirmary about a dozen sufierin frtm injuries—some of them from gunshot wounds. One boy has been stabbed. A large force of military and police are in the city ready to prevent further riot. Mr. Justice Fitzgerald opened th e ass i ze s on Tuesday, and iu the course of his charge stigmatised the proceedings t childish, dis graceful, and barbarous. His lordship also spok.!. .•trongly against the inactivity of the police, who did not slo=w that zeal in arresting rioters that was needful. If (added the learned judge) such conduct was persisted in, it would be come the duty of the Government to put the city under that portion of the Peace I"reservation Act which ordered all persons to keep within their houses after nine o'clock. SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION, There was a railway collision on the London and North- Western Railway at Crewe yesterday morning. A goods train started by mistake in advance of the mail from the south, due in Manchester at three a.m., and the latter overtook it at Sandbach, and smashed several waggons. The van of the mail train was broken, and the officials hurt. The mail was detained four hours. CHARGE AGAINST COTTON BROKERS. Thomas Blackburne and Richard Holland Schofield, cotton brokers, Liverpool, had received five thousand pounds from William Johnson and Co., Wigan, who instituted (under the seventy-fifth section of the Larceny Act) proceedings against them yesterday for misappropria tion. The case was dismissed, the stipendiary saying that the account appeared an open one, and that the ordinary receipt given for the money was not tantamount to an agreement to apply the cash to a specific account. VERDICT IN THE LATE CARLISLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT, The verdict- was given yesterday by the jury appointed to make inquiry into the causes of the late accident at Carlisle. • They returned a verdict •of Manslaughter against Rowell, the - driver ; and said they considered. Pattison, who should have driven the goods train, seri ously to blame in not doing so. Michael Shields, the breaksman, is strongly censured for allowing Rowell'to leave without Pattison ; and the evidence shewed a culpable want ( f supervision on the part of the heads of the department of the North-Eastern Railway. 'Men were placed in responsible positions who were incompetent to hold them. Rules had been systematically broken, and no adequate attempt made to enforce them. The jury trusted that in future' the public would not be placed at the mercy of reckless and incompetent persons. Rowell was committed for trial, but was admitted to bail. The Coroner expressed satisfaction with the patience of the jury. At their meeting yesterday the Liverpool Select Vestry confirmed a resolution of the Industrial Schools Corn wittee, approving of the boarding out Of orphan pauper children. I)CNV I I,LE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of whisky in the. world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommeniled the medical profession in preference to French brand . iied in casks and cases for home use or exporiation. Quotations on application to Messrs DUNVILLE Co., Royal Irish Dis tilleries, Belfast ; or at thei London Offlee.4. 4. Biutufort Buildings Strand. W.C. 1 870. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. The Lord Chan&lief tgolt his .Pat on the woolsack at five 'o'clock. • • . FOREIGN AFFAIRS-NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM: • Earl Russell on moving the second reading of the Mili tia Act Amendment Bill took the opportunity of calling the attention of their lordships to the present state of foreign affairs 3 which he said were in such an excited and unsettled state that it *os highly desirable before Parlia ment separated to aria the Clovetnineitt with power to act on any eiritrgenby. The noble earl pointed out the character of the treaties under' which England was bound with respect to Belgium, and expressed a fear that the course of events might oblige us to force the guarantee of neutrality. Under these circumstances it was desirable to oonsider in what position this country was,more particularly after the recent revelations that had taken place with respect to the projectedtreaty and the published conversa tions of the French Emperor with an Englishman. An attack upon so beautiful a country as Belgium, he believed would be one of the most wanton outrages of modern times, and it was idle to close our eyes to our danger. There was but one course open to this country, and that was to abide by its treaties and protect Belgium at avy cost. He believed that all the intrigues and all these real dangers arose from the doubt which tkisted on the Con tinent as to the course of England, but if we declared that We intended to enforce our treaties more than half the danger would have passed away, for neither France nor Prussia would desire to outer into hostilities with England. He theft proceeded to point out the im possibility of permitting Antwerp to France, and he called on the Government to declare explicitly and holdly their views on the matter. It was their duty to do so, although he firmly believed nothing would be done to sully the fame of this great country. Earl GRANVILLE hoped the noble earl would not press the second reading of the bill, but would leave the matter in the hands of the Government. He must decline to follow the noble earl through the many important topics he introduced into his speech, which he must say he regretted, as it showed a want of confidence in the Govern ment, which was greatly to be regretted, coming as it did from one of such authority as the noble earl. Hardly a week ago he had made a statement of the policy of the Government, a policy he thought was received with some favour, and he was not aware that anything had occurred either to require any alteration of that policy or any fur ther explanation from him. The House of Commons had asked for copies of the treaties affecting Belgium, and he had laid them on that table, and he might here observe that her Majesty's Government was not unaware of its duty and obligations with respect to the independence of Belgium. Owing to the importance of the subject it was not for Ministers to make superfluous statements, knowing the degree of importance that it was attached to every word uttered—(hear, hear)—it would no doubt be his duty to make certain communications and explanations, but these declarations would only be made at the proper time. It was not the practice for ordinary persons to discuss their private affairs openly to the world, and that being so it was certainly as important that at the present crisis Government should observe that rule. If they pursued calmly, but firmly, the course which the interests, the obligations, and the honour of England de manded from them, he felt that they would receive the frill support of the Parliament and the country. He did, therefore, ask their lordships to give the Government some little discretion as to the time, manner, and mode of making their statements. (Hear, hear.) Last week they had made a statement of what the Government of Eng land thought right, and that had been communicated to the great Powers, and before Parliament separated it would be informed of the steps the Government had taken in the full reliance that having once declared the duties and obligations of England no consideration would ever induce them to vary or depart from them. After a few remarks from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and Lord Cairns, the noble Earl withdrew the bill of which he had moved the second reading. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed after a few verbal amendments had been made by Earl de Grey. THE CENSUS BILL. Their lordships then went into committee on this bill, when the Earl of Harrowby moved to insert the words " Religious profession" amongst the columns to be filled up. The amendment was objected to by the Govern ment, but on a division it was carried, the numbers being for the amendment 43, against it 39. Several other bills were forwarded a stage, and their lordships adjourned at 20 past 7. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. INCREASE OF HER MAJESTY'S FORCES. In committee of supply, a vote for 20,000 additional men for her Majesty's service was proposed. Sir WILFRID LAwsort objected to the vote, and re marked that he quite agreed with the assertion of the member for Waterford on the previous night, that war when not a necessity was a crime. No war in his opinion could be justified which was not strictly defensive. The House bad been informed that the naval and military resources were amply sufficient for the defence of the country, and therefore, he said, what necessity was there for another vote ? Sir John Pakington condemned the reduction which had been made in the effective strength of the army, and he asked, when speaking of the reserve forces, whether the Government intended to take steps for the embodiment of the militia before the separation of Parliament. The right hon. baronet alluded to the subject of breech loading rifles, and was informed by Mr. Cardwell that the number of breech-loading weapons now in store, was 300,000. Mr. CARDWELL defended his policy at considerable length, and ultimately a division was taken. The vote was agreed to by 161 against 5 votes. Progress was shortly reported, and the sitting was suspended at seven o'clock. THE EVENING SITTING. The House re-assembled at nine o'clock, and imme diately went into committee of supply.—Mr. Anderson, the member for Glasgow, drew attention to the plurality of offices held by the Field Marshal the Commander-in- Chief and the military and private secretaries. The hon. gentleman strongly denounced the system, and he moved the reduction of the salary of the Commander-in-Chief to the extent of £1,768. The proposal, however, was not agreed to. The House did not resume until twenty minutes past one. The Speaker in consequence of indisposition was unable to take the chair. On the order for the second reading of the Inclosure Bill Mr. Fawcett divided the House on the question that the debate be adjourned on the ground that it was too im portant a measure to be discussed at nearly two o'clock in the morning. The hon. member's motion was rejectedby considerable majority.—Mr. Taylor thereupon moved the adjournment of the House, and Mr. Newdegate seconded the proposition.--Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen assured the hon. member for Bridgewater that any inclosures Which were seriously objected to would not be urged by the Government. Ultimately the motion was withdrawn, on the understanding that the debate should be postponed until Thunsday. On the order for the third reading of the Gkbe Loan (Ireland) Bill, Mr. Newdegate moved the adjournment of the debate: On a division the motion was lost. After a short desultory conversation a division was taken on the main question, and the result was—for the third reading, 48; against, 26. The bill passed. The House adjourned at five minutes to three o'clock. CRYSTAL PA L A CE.—One shilling day, Tuesday, August 2, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets, 2,036 ; ditto on payment, 3,092 ; total visitors, 5,128. A labourer, named James M'lntyre, who came out o f gaol on Monday morning, at Cambridge, was seen at night crawling on the railway near Ch es t er t on j unc ti on . H e placed . his head on the rails, and a passing train severed it from his body. No reason can be assigned for the act. GALLANT RESCUE FROM DROWNING BY A LADY. —On Wednesday a number of ladies were bathing at Wbitepoint, near Queenstown, and amongst them was Mrs. Jack, wife of the surgeon on board her Majesty's ship Mersey. Mrs. Jack was dipping in the usual way customary to ladies, but she happened to get out of her depth. There was a strong tide running down at the time, and, finding herself carried away, she screamed and shouted for help. Perceiving her great danger, Miss Cummins, of Ri ngmeen , w h o wa s st an di ng on thebeach, rushed into the water and swam to the help of Mrs. Jack, who was naturally much frightened and exhausted. Indeed, she was so exhausted that Miss Cummins had her entire weight to pull through the water, but she ulti mately succeeded in getting the lady into shallow water after a very clever rescue. COTEMPORARIES—This Morning. ENGLAND AND BELGIUM. The Times, thinks that Lord Granville's last statement marks a great advance on Mr. Gladstotie's speech of the evening bef - ofe i and on his own attitude last Thursday. Without in any was' overstepping the discretion of a responsible Minister, Lord Granville declared in the most positive manner that the Government of the' Queen aro aware of the duty this country owes to Belgium>. and his perfect confidence that if the Government follow judiciously and actively the course Which the honour, the interests,. and the obligations of the country dic tate) they will receive the full support of Parliament and the ziation. But Lord Granville said even more than this. He intimated that the Ministry had taken steps last week, after the painful revelations that were then made, to convey to other Powers in the clearest manner; though without adopting an offen• sive or menacing tone, what Ungland believed to be due from and to her, and he made an emphatic appeal to the confidence of the Peers to believe that when once the Govemmeist hadinade a clear intimation of their Inten tions in any respect nothing , wonkl induce them to with draw froth such an intimathm. ]very considera tion of policy and pf principle combine to support the conclusion upon which lord Russell inistecl, and which Lord Granville accepted in the language we have already cited. The Daily News observes that Lett Granville's lan guage was clear and unmistakeable. It would be a great. injustice to tho present Prime Minister to suppose that. natural and decorous reluctance to speak freelj upon Certain transactions between foreign Powers is incom patible with a fixed and resolute purpose to make for to mild words by the silent energy of acts that cannot be misunderstood, such as the strengthening of our avail able naval and military forces, and securing our neutrality by material guarantees in the shape of ships and gun 4..- NEUTRALITY. The Standard obseves that in the matter of building and equipping ships the diffitulties of neutrality increase exactly in proportion as the obligations of neutrality are observed. Wisely or unwisely, justly or unjustly, the law of nations has put the supply of ships by neutrals to belligerents in a special category. To equip a war vessel has been a thing tabooed for more than fifty years by the only Powers whose help is worth having, while the American war has left a chronic bitterness which has made the Executives of England and America especially jealous observers of the shipbuilding trade when great Powers are at war. The Alabama was allowed to steam out of the Mersey at a time when public opinion was so strong in favour of the South that Earl Russell was not sorry to avail himself of the loopholes afforded him by somewhat scanty evidence, and the coincident illness of the Crown's official law ad viser. Subsequent experience, however, has not only shewn us the folly of sailing so close to the wind, but has induced the Government to bring in a bill which inust be hurried through both Houses at express speed, In order that shipbuilding for belligerents and their Lgents may be placed under a ban which will effectually prevent a European reproduction of the Alabama contro veniy. So much we have done in theinterestsof neutrality itself, and with an anxious desire to avoid the suspicion of partiality. But the fates are too strong for us. We escape Scylla, but we fall into Charybdis. We propitiate the manes ef.President Lincoln by something very much like a tacit admission that we gave him less than he was entitled to ask ; but Ave offend King William by laying down a law which will prevent him from getting that very kind of material aid of which he stands in sorest need. The Post thinks that the clauses of the new measure di rected against illegal shipbuilding and illegal expeditions are sufficiently comprehensive to meet the ease of indi viduals knowingly building or equipping ships intended to be used against a friendly State, and also dispatching or allowing to be dispatched vessels which they have rea sonable cause for believing are to be similarly employed. Snould these sections receive the assent of the Legisla ture, it will be impossible, save through the ross care lessness of the Government that we should be again engaged in another Alabama controversy with a friendly Power ; since the mere circumstance of reasonable cause existing for supposing that a particular vessel is intended to be used against a friendly State will be sufficientground for seizing and condemning the ship and punishing those who are privy to its building and equipment. The eleventh clause provides that no ship built or equipped in contravention of the Act shall he received in any port in her Majesty's dominions, and general provision is made for facilitating the procedure in dealing with vessels which the Government have good - grounds for believing are about to be dispatched from our ports in violation of the new Act. THE CAMPAIGN. The Telegraph is disposed to question the eonndness of the plan of the campaign generally put forth. The fact that the Emperor established his head-quarters at Metz is no proof that Germany is to be invaded across the north-eastern instead of the eastern frontier. From Metz two routes would naturally be followed by an army which was to invade Germany, but which was precluded from passing through Luxemburg. The first would 1e along the line of the railway leading from Metz through Forbach and Kasiers-Lautern to Mannheim or to the suburb of Ludwigs-Hafen, which faces Mannheim on the left bank of the Rhine. This line, which is about one hundred miles in length, runs through a succession of narrow wooded valleys ; and, if the advance of the French was seriously opposed, the invading force would be exposed to great danger from the broken character of the ground, while it would be impossible to bring large bodies of troops into action in so confined a space. The second route from Metz to Germany lies down the valley of the Moselle ; and, although .exposed to attacks from the heights on each side, a large. army might there operate with considerable advantage. The valleys, both of the Rhine and the Moselle,. are trenched cut through a high table-land. On ascending any af -the lovely gorges which debouch upon these riveray instead of finding yourself in, .a mountain. -district, you out upon a bare "rolling country, sparsely wooded, and with little claim to grandeur or even picturesqueness of scenery. Now across the "Eifel," which lies in the angle formed by the Moselle anti the Rhine, great armies have marched, and could march again ; and it is perfectly on the cards that.cle scending the Moselle valley to Treves, the French might then cross the table land which skirts the river till they struck the Rhine after it has left the gorge of the Rhein-Gau at Bonn. The chief objection to such a route would be, that the invaders must either keep a strong force to protect Stras bourg and Nancy, or else leave the -eastern frontier en tirekunprotected. All precedents, however, point to an invidon of the Fatherland from some place near Stras bourg. THE TWO AhmiEs. The Emperor Napoleon, says the Times, has only led an army with him out of France. The domestic, social, and economical conditions of the country are not very sensibly altered. France has been for several years taught to dispense with seven or eight hundred thousand of her able-bodied population. She is accustomed to a yearly subtraction from her productive forces ; and whether her soldiers are idling in her garrison cities or are abroad in Algeria, in Mexico, or in Cochin China, they are only missed each from his own family or village. But it is otherwise on the German side. Prussia and North Germany have now only one business in hand-- the War. All other labour and industry is in abeyance,, and every one out of three in that million of men under arms represents the sustenance of a family, a unit in the aggregate sustenance of the State. What a strain a cam paign of more than three months' duration would bet upon a community organised on Prussian military prin ciples has not yet been tried; it is an experiment from which Prussian rulers must at all times shrink. War brings Germany to a state of suspended animation. Were the ordeal indefinitely prolonged, utter exhaustion must ensue. It is in obedience to this necessity, many people begin to think that, if the French will not go to the Germans, the Germans must go to the French. THE EDUCATION BILL IN THE LORDS. The Post remarks that the " religious difficulty " of the Education Bill was amply discussed in the Lords, and some ineffective efforts. were made to modify the Time- Table Conscience clause. With every respect for the sensitiveness with which the Upper House regards this matter, we are bound to say that many of the fears that were expressed as to the working of this clause, were either exaggerated or wholly groundless ; again, as to the withdrawal of children who claim the benefit of the conscience clause—first as to the mode in which that claim is to be made, and next as to what is to be done with the children who are to be exempted from religious instruction while such instruction is being given. This question, like many others that have , been raised during the debate upon the Bill, must be settled by common sense. Where secular instruction can be contemperaneously given to children who are withdrawn from religious teaching it will be given. But this is just one of those questions which must await the final working out of the Bill, and we must relegate it to that solution in common with other difficulties which were raised upon various amendments, but which only in a very few instances obtained the assent of the House. The Bill will go back to the Commons the same, substantially, as it left it, i but with this difference — namely, that the liberal spirit n which the Lords have considered its provisions will set an example of for- . bearance to those who, in the desire to carry out their conscientious convictions, do not adequately consider • that other people May have conscientious convictions as well as they: • DISCRETION IN PARLIAMENT. There is no such thing, we are told, says the Daily News, as unmixed good or evil in this world; so,.certainly, what , is called the wisdom of Parliament is by no means an - 1 . ,exception to this rtge. On Monday night, at a tolerably late hour, after a debate not unworthy of the greatest re presentative assembly in the world, and the only one that'• happens to be actually in session at this critical period in European l4tory, Sir Henry Hoare got up to talk some most unnecessary nonsense about "our constant and faithful ally, the Emperor of the French," for whom, it seems, the member for Chelsea professes a high, not to say a characteristic, admiration. Sir Henry regrets that our Government has felt it necessary to ask for an increase of 20,000 ,men, which he regards as a menace to out "constant and faithfully ally." We have seen a good deal , of this sort of talk in the organs of the Tuileries of late ;, but it is a little hard that the " 20,000 working then' of Chelsea should be supposed to be enthusiastic admirers of M. Benedetti's master. However, at a still later period of the evening, Sir Henry Hoare was stir.' passed by . Mr. Montague Guest, who, with the" dignity of his age, and the weight of his ex. perience, and with convivial solemnity appropriate tc the hour, administered a severe rebuke to some " leading journals," which, by their comments upon the Secret Treaty, " tended to involve this country in war." It ie not, perhaps, always easy for the best regulated journal( to be. so discreet and guarded in their language as a legie latex pf Mx..l4,o4aglie p,ll.4ltAuthority. h-rE."