The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-26 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY. Pending the result of the Cabinet Council held to-day to discuss Prince Gortschakoff's note, the stock markets have been in a quiet state. A general disinclina tion has been evinced to operate freely, and the quotations have given way. Home securities have been depressed. Consols have been flat, and f per cent lower at 92k, 92g for delivery and the December account. Reduced and New Three Per Cents, 91, 91f ; Bank Stock, 232, 233 ; Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 1.5 s prem ; India Five Per Cents, U 1 ,112 f ; and India Bonds, 225. to 275. prem. • For English railway stocks the market has been quiet, andthe alterations throughout have been unfavourable. Caledonian at 77, 77k, and North-Eastern at 1401, 141 4, are f lower ;, whilst Brighton at 39k, 392 ; South-Eastern at 72i, 73k, Great Eastern at 37, 37k, North-Western at 126 k, 1261, and Great Western at 672, 68f, are lower. Midland is quoted at 124, 126. Indian railway stocks have been quiet. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, 1041 ; East Indian, 109; treat Indian Peninsula, 1051, ; Great Southern of India, 1021 ; Madras, 105 ; and Scinde, 103. Canadian shares have been dealt in cautiously. Foreign shares have been in limited request. Recife and San Francisco, 14k, I, and San Paulo, 201 The foreign bond market has been in a depressed state, at an average reduction of about per cent. Egyptian (1868), at 75i to 76 ; Italian (1861), at 54i to 542 ; Spanish (1867), at 31i to 31i ; ditto (1869) at 31 to 31k, are each easier. Turkish 5 per Cents have fallen 1 per cent. or to 42i, 42i ; and Turkish (1869) are per cent. easier, at 48f, 49i. The French Loan is quoted at dis. to par. - American securities have been fiat. The Five-Twenty (1882) bonds are quoted at 87f, 88k; ditto (1885), 87, 87i. Erie Shares, 19k, 20; and Illinois Central, 109, 111. In the market for Bank shares nothing of interest has transpired. Anglo-Egyption, 21k, 22 ; Imperial Otto man, 11g, 112 ; Metropolitan, 8 11-16 ; Oriental, 41; and Union of London, 39. Telegraph shares have been quietly dealt in. Fal mouths, 10k, ; Hooper's, si; Constructious, 27. • For Miscellaneous securities there has been but little inquiry. Berlin Waterworks, 14i, 15 ; Credit Fonder of England, 2,2 it : General Credit and Discount, 615-16; Hudson's Bay, 8, 8 ; National Discount, 11k. ;The sum of £B,OOO in sovereigns has been withdrawn to-day for shipment to the Continent. As regards the exchanges there has been a good de mands for bills, especially those on Belgian, and the rates are lower. • At Mark-Lane to-day wheat is quiet, and lower to The discount market licts been fairly supplied with capitaL The business doing troth at the Bank and in other quarters has been to a moderate extent, and three months' paper has beeh taken at 2i to 2g per cent. ' A prospectus has been issued of the Vanin Silver Lead Mining Company (Limited), with a capital of £15,000, in shares of £l, to develops and work certain lead-bearing lodes recently discovered near Ramsey, Isle of Man. The' price to be paid for the property is £4,000, half in cash and half in shares. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Bewley, Webb, and Co., shipbuilders, of Dublin, a committee of three creditors was appointed to take a full valuation of the assets of the firm, and report to an adjourned meeting. It was stated that the losses of the firm during the last eight years had amounted to £40,000. FOREIGN EXORANGES.—Antwerp, three months' date, 25 30, 25 35 ; Paris, short date, —, ; ditto, three months' date, 25 60, 25 80 ; Marseilles, ditto, 25 35, 23 40; Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 26 95, 26 27 ; Amsterdam, short date, . 1117}, 1118} ; ditto, three months' date, and Rotterdam, ditto, 12, 12/ ; Ilamburgh, ditto, 13 11, 13 111; Frankfort-on-the- Maine, ditto, 1201, 126 ; Vienna and Trieste, ditto, 12 75, 12 89 ; St. Petersburgh, ditto, 29k, 293 ; Madrid and Cadiz, ditto, 49k, 49g ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, and Oporto, ditto, 52k, 521. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. LATEST PRICES.—AFTER OFFICIAL. HOURS. The prices under the lines Indicate the business done: GOVEIMBIENT •SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols.. 922 921 DoApril &Oct 1883.85.. 1104111 - 921, 4, 1. 4, 4 1104 , 114. 104, 1 1 Bo for Account 922 103 Three per Cent Reduced 911 911 Brazilian. 1865, 5p a .... 90 91 911, 1,1, 1 91f New 3 per Cent 914, 11, 1,.. Do Rail Dehou 7 p .. 99 101 Exchequer Bills. March 10 15pm 99 14s, Us pit Italian, 1805, 5p o - - Do. June lO 15pro 851 Bank Stoc pm k - - 911, 9 5 0 1 1 Peruvian, 186. spt o .... 901 911 , 2321, 1 Portuguese 1869 3po .. 31 32 India 5 per Cents - - Russian. 1862. 5 p a.. .. 83 85 1111, 121 832, 4,2, 1, 3 India Bonds - - Do Nicolas 4p a pm Spanish, 1867. 3 po Can 6po Jan&Julyll77-84 104 105 31 4, 1, 4 , i p 1041 Do. 1869. 1 a Do March & Sept. 102 104 314, 1,4, 301, 1 1)o 5p o Jan & July .. 97 98 Turkish. 1654, 6p o - - -- Do Inscribed Stook .. 97 93 Do, 1865. 5p a 4, 2 Dom of Ca n 5p a 1903 .. 96 98 Do. 186 5 , 6 1. po 2 Ceylon 6 p c May and 59, 60, 591 Islovember 1878 lO5 107 .U. 5.5-20 Bouds.6 p o 1882 371 3 71 Mauritius 6 p c Jan and 88, 72 July 1873 lO3 105 Do do 1885 87 871 New S Wales 5 p clB7l-76 10141021 871 New 5 p Zealand 6 p c 1891 l OB 9 8 11 9 0 Do 104 861 013nd5 2 , spo 1931 864 861 Doc - 9, Do 5p c Consolidated 974 981 ErieSha,l6o dols, all paid - - 984, 1,4, 74, 84 Illinois Central Shares .. 110 111 Do 6p oMar &Sept 1891 106 108 Atlantic and GW II Con Do June & DeclB9l 108 110 Mortgage Bonds - - Vict 6p cJan &JulylB9l 114 116 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B6 88 Do lst Pref 80nd5.... 53 56 Caledonlan , 77 771 Grand Trunk of Canada 771, 1 2nd Pref Stock Great Eastern 374, 64 Do 3rd Pref Stock . . 29 31 Great Northern 1221, 11 4th Pref Stock Do A l3O 131 Great Indian Pen g 5 ,, o 105 106 1314, 1, 301 1054, 4, 6 Great Western 674 68 Great Western of Canada 134 131 • 68, 71, 4, i 14, 131 Lancashire & Yorkshire 170 132 • Do 6p c Bonds, 1873.. 97 99 1311, 304, 1, 201 Do 51 do. 1877-8 94 06 Lon, Brigh. and S Coast 39 391 Do 5p c pref. issued 80 Idle Ipin 394, i Madras guar 5 Pc Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 121 13 • 105, 44 124,13, 121 N. Railway of Canada, Lon and North-Western 12611261 6p 0 Ist Prof Bonds 127, 6), 1, 4 Oude and Rohilkund g Lou and South-Western 88 90 5p o 881, 9 Scinde, Punjaub, and .Man, Shef, and Lincoln 424 435 Delhi guar 5p o 421 3 103, 21 x n Metropolitan " 63 64 Bahia and Van Francisco 631 - • g 7 Pc ' 17418 Midland 12511252 Belgian E Junction .... 2 24 1254, 4 Bu e nos Ay res Lit Sthrn.. 241 25 North British North-Easten, Consols l4O 141 Dunaburg and Witepsk 18 19 • 1414, 401, 1, 401 Dutch-Rheni s h 2ll 221 South-Eastern 721 734 Eastern of France -- 724 Great Luxembourg ll 114 Atlantic and St Lawrnce 76 78 114 77/ Lemberg Uzernowitzgua Bombay, llaroda, and Central India, g 5 p u.. 10311041 7p 0 151 x d 1044 Northern of Franco . . Buff & Lake Huron Prof 4 41 Ottom (Smyrna to Aida 41 54 Do 54 pc 80nd5,1872-J-4 80 82 Recife and San Francisco Cape guar 6p 0 East Bengal guar 5 p c lO4 105 144, 4,4 1 , 1 East Indian, g 5 p a 109, 84 204 drand Trunk Canada Do Equip Mort Bud 1 141 charge 6p c Do 2nd do Scrip .... 2 dis par BANKING COMPANIES. 1 Agra Bank (L) A 7l 81 2(1 Lon Char of Austrlfa 231 241 25 Alliance (L) 10 A uglo-A ustrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 211 22 15 London Joint-Stock 33 '4 22, 11, / 20 Lon and Westuauster 61 OS 50 British N American 53 56 621, 3 20 CI of India, Austrlia 14 141 10 Metropolitan Bl 81 25 Char Merc of India 22123) 8 11-16 231, 3 20 Midland (L) 10 City 25 Colo474nial 41, 1 4 Consolidated IL .. . ,i` Ipm 25 Union of Australia.. 411 421 20 Eng. Scot. and Aus • C 16 17 15 Union of Loudon .. ?81 391 20 iluiwrial ILI 171, 18 10 Imperial Ottoman 111 i, I TELEGItAI'II COMPANIES. I'd. , "I 100 Anglo-Ann rican L) 83 85 10 Great Northern .... 111 111 . . 83, 41 x d 6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Moditru (L) 1 2 8 1 3 3 Japan Extension.. 21 2 ills 130 xd 5 Indo-European 0 - 4.. 12 11 100 Atlantic _ 10 Marseilles, Algiers. 100 Do 8p c _ _ . and Malta (L) . L 1 61 13 British Australti (L) 4l 31dis 6 10 British Ind Exten (L)• 6 6/ 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) . 41 5 6/ • n Dimaand S. l'ac(l.) 34 21 xis 10 British Indian Sub- " dis marine, (L) ' - .7# 20 Soo Trans France (L) 14 111 2 ChinaSubmaxine(L) 5/41(114 14/ 1 - . • , 100 Submarine 233 240 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, , Do Scrip and Ntslta (4,1 1.(1. i „ MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. L'il Pd Anglo Austrian Bud- 5 Internl Final] Soc(L) 2 *Vs holders' Certificate 11 21 20 It Irrig Can Cavour 3 4 10 B erlinWaterworks(L) 141 151 100 Po 6 p c Bonds. re 1, 15 deemat:e 6 5 20.1101e14k0w-Vaughan(L) 30 35pm 70 London Flu ARSOO IB7O (L) 20 63 19 Lis 100 Boston City (U .S.) 5 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 21 3 ~ p e Sterling Loan 91 93 92 2 15-16, 4 Brit 2 Lou & Prov Ma r i n e L) 1 1 p in & Ego Marine (1.1 2131 nm 1 23 Cantda Company. 74 76 100 Madras Irri . &Canal 10 Ceylon Company (E) 32 31 c li. g 5 p c by Ind Gov. 100 101 61, 1,1, 0 2 Mauritius Laud . 25 City (Mines (L) 251.241dis 11 (L) 1 dis par 20 Colonial (L) 5 Corn Union Assume(' Miami 71 2 NNZileolarcilaAndgeLnocyan,Lr.d, i i ptu 10 Crdt Fono of Eng (L) 2 21 2146. i 5 N Zealand Loan and 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 1)o 6_pss Perp Deb 109.114 '5 OneauMarinelnsur .. 13114prn 271., 'Many Vale Steel (L) 9B,idis 50 P a•td 0 Steapa...'... t 49 61 100 Vieertiy of F. apt 7 P 0 Do do New. 1867 .2 die par Mortgage Loan, ' 77 79 0 Rhi7nney Iron .78, ft, 71 • New„, 81 91 100 Egyp 9 p clrroy - man, 0 Royal Mail Steam .. 51 53 guar by Egyp Gov.. 93 2 Tel Con and Main (L) 26} 269 94,1, 1 xd 27, 61 13 Fore-et Warehouse (L) 69 71pm 2 'Filmes and Mersey 100 Fgn and Colonial Gov Marine Insur (L .. 31 31 pm Trust 6p c Bonds.. 96 99 51 99 St Tobacco 6 p a Loan. 71 Gen Credt &Disot (L) 9 1 die guar by Italian Gov. 83 87 6 15-16 5 Trust and Loan Co of 14 Gen Stm Navigation 26 28 ... Upper Canada .... 111 pm 7 lloopees Tel Works lindis 5 a Marine. Lvpool IL 41 5 pin 54 20 Union Steamship (L) 24 6 17• Hudson's Bay 8 81 6 United Dis Corprn (I. 2 ldis 89, 1, i, 1 5 UnivMarinelnsur (lii 6169 pin 45 Indrbbr,GutPer.and 12 War.•ant Finance.... 9 7 die Tel Works L) .... 371 381 • 371, 8 MINING SHARE LIST.—NOVEMBER 20. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Officer., 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London Market dull. East Lovell, Great Vor, South Condurrow, an West Maria receded. Taquaril and Tankervind fr advanced Australian United, Bwlch Consols, Chiverton Moor, Chivertou Valley. C/hontales (Gold), Cook's Kitchen, 17, 18 Devon Great Consols, Drakewalls, 1/, 11 Dolcoath, AP Dou Pedro North Del Rey, 2.„, ii East Caradon, East Lovell, 22i, 23 East Beton, East Wheal Grenville, 2a, 2a Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), —S., —B. General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 18, 18i Great Rata!lack, Great Wiled Vor, 0, 42 Hingaton Down, Marko Valley, 6}, 62 New Boldon, 15s, 20a New Loren, Pacific, Pary's Mountain, 3f Perran Wheal Virgin, lf. Plynlimmon, 2, 2} Prince of Wales, 10s, 12s Providence Mines, 33, 40 Kosewall Hill and Ransome United, 111, 11 South Condurrow, 2, I South Frances, Tankerville, 13. 13} Taquaril(Gold), 495, 51s Tlncroft, 41, 42 Trumpet Consols, Van. Vau Consols, 11, 2 West Caradon, West Chiverton, 531 j, t 5 West Frances, West Maria and Fortescue 295, 31s Wheal Crebor, Wheal (lrenville, 2, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, 8, S Wheal Mary Anu, Wheal Seton, MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FamAt—lnfluenced by the conciliatory despatch from Prince Gortschakoff, and by the large quantities of prodUce which are expected to arrive shortly, the grain trade at Mark-lane to-day was characterised by an increased amount of quietness, at prices generally lower. There Was a limited supply of English wheat on offer; but the arrivals from abroad were on an extensive scale. The demand for all descriptions was inactive, and sales could only be effected at a reduction of from ls. to 2s. per quarter on the week. There was a good show of barley on the stands, which sold quietly, on some what easier terms. Malt was dull, but not quotably cheaper. Oats, the supply of which was large, experienced a slow sale, at a decline of from 6d. to ls. per quarter. Beans and peas were purchased only to a litnited extent, but prices were without any important change. Flour was inactive, and American barrels were offered at ls. per qr. less money. Arrivals . English and Scotch—Wheat, 840 ; barley, 1,480 ; malt, 1,420 ; oats, 30; beans, 110 ; peas, 130 quarters. Foreign—Wheat, 10,890 ; barley, 5,270 ; oats, 23,860 ; maize, 6,450; beans, 100 ; and peas, 910 quarters. Flour, 1,400 sacks, and 14,090 barrels. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—The market opened quiet to-day, and there was no indication of the probable day's business up to noon. Imports.—Wheat, 21,474 qrs.; barley, 1,527 qrs.; oats, 698 qrs.; beans, 52 qrs.; peas, 2.183 qrs. Indian corn, 84 qrs. ; oatmeal, 1,692 loads ; flour, 1,702 sacks and 1,532 barrels.—Closing Report.—There was at the close of this mar &et to-day more general inquiry for wheat ; but millers have not bought freely. There has, however, been a moderate sale. Prices are not quotably altered, but lower rates have been taken. There was a slow sale of flour also, without change of price. Peas and beans sold 6d. cheaper. Oats and oatmeal are dull. Of Indian corn there was a fair demand, at full prices, WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—The wheat trade is dull at this market. Factors generally hold out for last Friday's prices, but millers are indisposed to buy except at lower rates. The business passing is therefore of a retail character. Fine barley was steady. Other sorts were slow and rather lower. Beans and oats were fully as dear. LINCOLN CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-The wheat trade is very slow. Inferior sorts are ls. lower. There is a fair Alcow of barley. Fine sorts sell at late rates; other sorts are as last week. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.-There was only a limited supply of meat on sale here to-day ; nevertheless sales were effected cautiously, owing to the milder weather, but prices were without any important change :-Per 81bs. by the carcase:-Inferior beef, 3s. 4(1. to 3s. Bd.: middling do., 4s. 0(1. to 4s. 4d. ; prime large do., 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; prime small do., 4s. Bd. to ss. Od. ; inferior mutton 3s. 4(1. to 4s. ; middling do., 4s. Od. to 4s. 8(1.; prime ilo., 4s. 10d. to ss. 2(1.; veal, ss. Od. to ss. 4d.: large pork, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; small pork, 4s. 8d to ss. 6d. LONDON WOOL MARKET, FRIDAY.-Rather more steadi ness has been notided in the wool market. At the public sales of colonial produce biddings have progressed with increased animation, and the downwarp tendency of prices has been checked. English wool has been quiet but firm. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.-There has been a moderate demand for hops to-day. Choice quantities have continued to command full prices with a fair imfuiry. Other descriptions have met a quiet sale. Mid and E4st Kents, £2 10s. to £7; Weald of Keuts, £2 10s. to £4 ; Sussex, £2 Os. to £3108.; Farnham and country, £3lss. to £6 Os. ; and olds, £1 to £2 10s. per cwt. BOROUGII AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, Fur DAY.—These markets have been moderately supplied with potatoes. The trade has been quiet at our quotations. English shaws, 903. to 100 s. ; ditto regents; 455. to 80s. ; Scotch regents, 00s. to 70s. ; rocks, 455. to 555. per ton. ' LONDON OIL MARKET, FRlDAY.—Linseed oil has been quiet, at 30s. 3d. to 30s. &1. London, with 30s. Hull. Rape steady. English brown, spot, 455. LONDON TALLOW MARKET, FRIDAY.—The market is heavy. Y.C., spot, 435. 34. to 43a. 6d. ; spring, 435. 9d. to 445. ; March, 445. Bd. to 44a. 6d. LONDON METAL MARKET FRIDAY.--Scotch pig iron is firm at 60s. 100. Tin steady. Straits, £125. Copper firm. Chili bars, £62105. LONDON COLONIAL MARKET,FRIDAL—Tea: There has been only a modes ate demand, but prices have been maintained. Common sound congou, 114 d. to ls. Sugar has been firm, but the demand has not been active. Refined grocery Barbadoes 265. - to 285.; fine crystallised Demerara, 385.; low and ordinary brown Mauritius, 21s. Od. to 235. 6d.; middling and fine grainy brown, 265. to 20s. 6d. Coffee has been in moderate request at steady rates. Rice has been firm, and 3d. to 6d. dearer. Ran goon, 9s. 6d. to Os. 9d. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRlDAY.—Opening Re port.—This market opened to-day with an average inquiry. Prices will probably be steady. Probable sales, 10,000 bales to 12,000 bales. Imports, 10,587 bales. Second Report: Cotton imports for the week, 49,848 bales. Sales, 97,820 bales. Reported on speculation, 12,410 bales. Export, 18.030 bales. Actual export, 17,018 bales, Trade, 67,360 bales. Stoek, 3.3,920 bales, against 388,060 bales last year. Closing Report : The market closed quiet, but steady, to-day, Sales, 10,000 bales. Arrivals, Savannah at sea, 84d.; Savannah ship named, 81d.; Obarleston ship named, 8.4(1,; Orleans at sea, 81d. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.— This market remains quiet to-day, but steady in price, with a very small business doing either in yarns or cloth. Although the actual business of late has been extremely limited, still inquiries con rtinue to be made for shirtings ; and some classes of yarn suit able for India and China, and producers wno can take orders to deliver in December, have sold moderately. Others refuse the prices offering, and many more are unable to deliver in December owing to existing contracts. The latest accounts from China, and especially India, shew a loss on nearly all 'classes of Manchester goods. Yet in the face of this merchants are willing to increase their present heavy contracts if they can buy at their ideas of safety. The 'general question here is, How long is this to go on? Buying and shipping at a loss must have its limit. The smallness of the business done of late would not have main tained firmness in values but for the scarcity of American cotton in Liverpool, and the heavy engagements of producers. The home trades are also feeling the effects of the political complications, and are not buyinglargely, as they do not quit their stocks readily. Printing cloths are still dull and unremunerative to makers. All heavy goods are neglected. The tone at the close was quiet, and prices were barely maintained. SOUTH WALES IRON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY. —Great uneasiness prevails in the iron trade as to the prospects of war `with Aussia which would prove most disastrous to this district. )Buyers exercise great caution, but some slight improvement is 'noticeable in the rail trade, and prices are firmer, Awing to an accession of contracts on American and other accounts. The home markets also are fairly active, and a good demand exists for bars, bridge work, etc. Pigs are in better demand, and prices rue firmer. In tin plates there is scarcely any improvement to note, makers com plaining about the high price of raw materials. Animation is so far maintained in the steam coal trade, and with the orders coming, colliery proprietors are able to kelp their pits in.regu lar employ. For house coal a brisk demand exists. Coke is in good request. GLASGOW PIG IRONIMARKET, FRIDAY.--Opening Report.— This market began steady to-day, at 51s. 3d. in a month. This was afterwards a shade easier, and business was done at 51s. lid, in a month, open ; and"sos. 10Id. at various cash dates. Closing Report.—This market was quiet to-day. Kellen, 00s. 101 d. cash. Buyers, 50s. Dd. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, FRIDAY. —•At this market to-day the business was limited. Prices remain the same, CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRIDAY Ordinary firsts, 1285.: seconds, 1205.; thirds, 108 s.; fourths, 1025.; fifths, 945.; sixths, 655. ; 1,830 firkins in the market. Mild-cured—firsts, 1385.; seconds, 1265.; thirds, 1155.; 77.firkins in the market. FROME FAlR.—This fair was held to-day (Friday). The morning was finp, and there was a large attendance. There was an average supply of cheese. Prices, 56 to 72 ; Cheddar, 69 to 75 ; skim, 25 to 30. There was a large supply of cattle, and the sales were very brisk. In calf-cows and heifers, £l2 to £l4. A number of sheep were sold at late rates. But few horses were on offer, and the trade was dull. Jules Simon has restored to' M. Reran the Professor's chair, of which M. Duruy had deprived him. This said that Count Bismarck on parting with M. Thiers invited him to a rendezvous in Paris on the King's birthday, January 7th. A letter of General CambrieLs to M. Gambetta repels the accusation of treason or incapacity current against him, and demands his trial by court-martial. New postage stamps bearing the effigy of the Republic are being printed at Bordeaux. The old imperial stamps will circulate until they are exhausted. • The Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian informs us that " the war outlay up to November 15 " amounted to 121,000,000 thalers, or, say, £18,150,000 sterling. This, of course, is the outlay of the Northern Confederation only. • The town of Nancjr is said to have been compelled to borrow a loan" upon the security of property worth 3,000,000 f. at 6 per cent. from a Frankfort house to enable the inhabitants of the town to Pay the contribu tions exacted from them by the Prussian commanders. General Faidherbe, who has just been appointed to the command of the 18th Army Corps at Lille, is well known in the French army as a most gallant and distin guished officer. He has had for a long time the command of the French colonies in Senegambia and the West Coast of Africa. The other day the President of the Helvetian Con federation was at dinner when he was informed that a party of wounded French soldiers would arrived imme diately by the express train from Bale. He instantly left his house, and went to the railway station and super intended the removal of the wounded. He offered them reftekhmeixts himself. It was not till the members of the Ambulance Committee, who were sent for too late, came u$ th a t the French w•Omided . lealmed that the .gentleman who attended upon thericso . graciouily was the chief of the 'Thceexitive of the Swiss Confederation. ME SUN, LONDON, SATURDA‘, NOVEMBER 26, 1870. LAW AND POLICE. RESCUED FROM THE STREETS.—EIIen Prendergast and Sarah Prendergast, mother and daughter, the latter about 9 years of age, and Ellen Dunford, were charged before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with begging. The Marquis Townsend having proved seeing the prisoners begging, the child being used for the purpose by the other prisoners, said his principal object in charging them was that the child Sarah Prendergast might be rescued from a life of wretchedness and demoralization in the streets. Mr. Knox, seeing the child's father in Court, he having hobbled in on crutches, and appearing to hare lost the use of some of his limbs, told him that he had an opportunity of saving his daughter by sending her to an institution where she would be properly brought up if he thought proper. The father said he should be very thank ful if that was done. Mr. Knox said he was so glad at being able to save the girl from inevitable destruction, that he should discharge the other prisoners. The girl was then sent to the institution in Franklin's-row, Chelsea. ASSAULT BY A GENTLEIAN.—Mr. Charles Sala, of No. 39, Spring-gardens, gentlman, was charged at the above court, before Mr. Knox, with being drunk and assaulting Samuel Thompson, manager of the American stores, Oxford-street. Mr. Wright appeared for the prosecution. The complainant said that about a quarter to twelve the previous night, the prisoner, after making use of disgust ing language towards the barmaids and the customers at his employers, the American Stores, Oxford-street, went out. Shortly after he came in again going into a different compartment, and called for drink, but Mrs. Gooch refused to serve him as he had insulted the cus tomers, on which he said that he could not in sult her, at the same time calling her a most disgraceful name. He followed the prisoner to see him out of the house, but never put his hand on him, and he went up to a cab, then returned, and I struck him twice, knocking him down, hurting his back and spoiling his clothes. Witness having proved that the prisoner made use of disgraceful language, and his calling Mrs. Gooch au offensive name, the defendant said that being pushed roughly he struck the complainant. All the witnesses, in reply to Mr. Knox, said the prisoner had been drink ing. Mr. Knox said he had no doubt the fact was that the prisoner had taken a little brandy here and there, and did not know what he was doing. The prisoner having expressed himself sorry for what had occurred, Mr. Knox said that, taking the prisoner's expression of regret into consideration, he would not inflict imprisonment on him, but should order him to pay a fine of - 22 108., and £2los. ' by way of compensation to the complainant. SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF FOREIGN SEAMEN.—Mr. Moss Phillips, an American shipping agent, of High street, Shadwell, was charged before Mr. Paget at the Thames Police-court with unlawfully detaining the chest, bed, and sea kit of a foreign seaman with an unpro nounceable name, and for whose service an interpreter named Igetstran was sworn. Mr. Phillips said the complainant could speak and understand English well. Mr. Paget said it was most extraordi nary how the atmosphere of the Thames Police court made foreigners forget all the English they had previously learned. The complainant said he went to Mr. Phillips and asked him for a berth on board a ship, and he asked him to sign a ship's articles of agreement. He did so, and was charged 2s. 6d., and ordered to bring his bed, baggage, and clothes. He had since left all his things with Mr. Phillips and could not get them back. Mr. Phillips, in reply, said he had not got the man's things, and they were not in his posses sion five months. The man shipped to proceed in an American ship on a foreign going voyage, and an advance of a month's wages was paid to him. The clothes, chest, and hammock of the com plainant had been sent on board the American ship, which sailed last Tuesday. Mr. Paget asked the foreigner why he did not sail in the American ship, and he replied he did not like the vessel. Mr. Paget : You liked the advance. You have been guilty of a most dis honest act, and, after receiving a month's advance and spending it, refuse to sail with your vessel. The sum mons is dismissed. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—Two actions in the Court of Queen's Bench, in which judgment was allowed by default, were heard before Mr. Under- Sheriff Burchell and a jury at the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square. The first case, in which •the damages were laid at £l,OOO, was " Aitchison v. Burdon." Mr. Kydd appeared for the plaintiff, and the defendant was not represented. The plaintiff had been long acquainted with the defendant, who was a teacher of the telegraph. Preparations were made for the wedding, and the disappointment had such an effect on the young woman that she was ill for several weeks. The jury awarded £75 damages. In the second case, " Auschal v. Nordwald,"the plaintiff was a eook and the defendant a machinist to a military tailor. Mr. Warner Sleigh, in structed by Mr. Joel Emanuel, was for the lady, and Mr. G. F. Blake for tLe defendant. It was stated that the defendant expected that the plaintiff had £lOO, and with his income did not like to contract marriage. Mr. Blake asked the jury to give merely nominal damages. The jury awarded £2O as damages, and a certificate for costs was asked. The jury wished her to recover her costs. The jury gave the required certificate in order to get her costs as well as the damages. In the declaration the damages were laid at £5OO. SHAMEFUL CRUELTY AND PROPER PUNISHMENT.-At Marylebone Police-court John Flynn, 23, and a well dressed young man, who gave the name of Alfred Swoffer, were brought before Mr. Mansfield charged with cruelty to a cat. Thomas Dove, 69 X, said that at a quarter to two in the morning he saw the two prisoners and another man with three dogs going from area to area, encouraging their dogs to worry a cat. The dogs bit it severely, and Swoffer picked it up bleedingand with its back apparently broken. Isaac Cattermole, 297 X, was in Richmond-road, and saw the prisoners and another man, who escaped at the corner of Talbot-road. The cat was thrown down by one of the group. It was bleeding and unable to move. The pri soners said they took the dogs out for a run and called them off the cat as soon as possible. Dove, recalled, said the prisoners set the dogs on by clapping their hands and shouting at them. Mr. Mansfield ordered the prisoners to pay a fine of £5 each, and, in default of payment, to be imprisoned for two months with hard labour. The cholera still rages in Russia, though without great mortality. It is beginning to appear in many in terior towns, and has now got into the manufacturing districts near Moscow and Vladimir. At the monthly meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland it was authoritatively said that the Prince of Wales would accept the Presidentship for the year, and attend the Show, if an application were made. The Council resolved to make an application, and fixed the Show for the week commencing the 7th of August, provided that date would suit his Royal Highness. RUSSIA AND TILE UNITED STATES—Ono of the daily New York journals states that the new Greek Arch bishop of North America, appointed by the Czar of Rus gia, is now in that city making preparations for !minding a cathedral in Lexington avenue, near Fifty-third-street, the site for which was purchased some time since. The funds have been contributed principally by the Czar him self.— The Bock. The Toronto Globe says that the surveyors who have been employed all the summer in the country north of Lake Superior have returned. The position of the water-shed which forms the boundary between Ontario and Rupert's Land can now be defined. Professor Bell has succeeded in defining the southern boundary of the great silurian basin of Hudson's Bay. The Canadians may now discuss intelligibly the whole question of railway communication with the north-west territory. The Civilian says :—" Excitement w caused on Wednesday in the Customs by a rumour that quantities of rifles destined for the use of the Russian army bad been seized at Liverpool. It seems that 499 cases described in the ship's manifest as containing ' hardware were a few days since landed at Liverpool from New York. On the packages being examined they were found to contain rifles, and they have been moved to London under a special bond. Each case holds twenty stand of arms, and the whole were forwarded from New York by ' Colt's Gun Manufacturing Company' to its London agent. The rifles are at present deposited in the Queen's ware= house, and it is supposed that they will be liberated as soon as the informality in the ship's manifest has been satisfactorily explained. The probable destination of this `hardware' was France, and not Russia." THE IRISH POOR LAW SYSTEM.—The Poor-law Commissioners have issued an order under their seal directing that all the unions in Ireland shall be united, for the purpose of appointing one poor-law unions' apothecary for the service of all the unions. He •is to provide himself with a house in Dublin for a general depot for all medicines and medical and surgical appliances required for use in workhouse hospitals and dispensaries, and to engage assistants and servants. He must be licentiate of the Apothecaries' Hall, Dublin, and be thirty years of age at least. All candidates for the office shall send their applications and testimonials to the Poor-law Commissioners by the lst of January, to be laid before the guardians of each union in Ireland, who shall select the candidate of their choice, and the candidate selected by a majority of the unions shall be deemed to be appointed to the o s )fiee of apothecary. The salary is to be £5OO a year, with suitable apartments in the building to be provided as a gene'fal depot for medicines, &c. He is to give security to an amount not exceeding £5,000. He will supply all the medicine required by the. Irish unions at cost price. Some of the papers denounce this as a gross job. BREAKFAST. —EPPS'S COCOA.--GRATEFUL AND COll - very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa. Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables With a delicately flavoured beverac, , e which may save us many heavy doctoys' Made' simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in t -lined paokete labelled--ETA mcs .EPPS & 00., Hcrnueopathic Chemists, Lonclon.7-Actv.t. . THE WAR. A FRENCH MINISTER ON THE ARMISTICE. M. Chaudordy, delegate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Tours, has issued a dispatch to the diplomatic agents abroad in which he says that he will not again enter upon the points that have been discussed, but he desires to call attention to the reasons which prevented them from accepting Count Bismarck's propositions of an armistice without revictualling or elections without an armistice. The proposal of England was made in the belief that the armistice would allow of the elections being held with free entrance to Paris of the Deputies, and so it was understood by the French authorities. The terms accepted by Count Bismarck implied necessarily the re-victualling of Paris, and by all nations the condition of re-victualling is con tained in the principle of an armistice, for each belligerent should be in the same condition when hos tilities are resumed, that he was when the armistice com menced. M. Chaudordy says " Now, bow would France have been in the same position when Paris during twenty five days would have been sensibly diminishing the resources which enabled her to endure the siege? It is in vain that M. Bismarck in his last circular, dated the Bth of the present month, enu merates the advantages which . we should have derived from the armistice thus concluded, for is it not obvi ous to every one that We should have been, on the con trary, weakened in an important degree ? Was that really the military status quo' of which the Chancellor of North Germany speaks ? How ? While the Prussians would have maintained their positions, we should have good-naturedly used up the means of preserving our own. For this reason the longer the armistice the more injurious it would have been to us, and if Prussia had indefinitely pro longed it, the capture of Pariswithout the striking of a blow would have been the inevitable result of her concession. Is it necessary to insist upon this point, and have our enemies ever entertained a belief that we would accept a condition which would have been for us tantamount to defeat ?" He adds that they were inclined to ask them selves if Count Bismarck considered Prussia to be in pos session of a law of nations peculiar to herself because be refused to admit these principles which had clearly before been recognised in analogous circumstances. In declining the conditions which were imposed by Prussia the Government of the National Defence only followed the ordinary rule in such cases; It was at "the desire of the neutral Powers" that France declared her willingness to conclude an armistice, and her Goverhment trusts that those same powers will not fail to impress upon Count Bismarck the contradictory course he has pursued in substituting his personal interpretation for that of the Law of Nations, by which means he had cut short negotiations which they had initiated. With respect to the second proposition of the Prussian Government that elections might be held without the conclusion of an armistice, the Government of the national defence did not think it its duty to agree to it because " France is at this moment in arms on all the points of its territory, of which a part is occupied by 'foreign armies. Absorbed in the noble care of its defence, animated by an ardour justified by 'the extent of the perils which menace it, it ought not, in order to accom plish the work to which its resolution devotes a supreme effort, to let itself be distracted by any other thought. After recalling the fact that the electors are, for the most part, engaged in the contest away from their own depart ment, M. Chaudordy asks, " Hew, in this position, could a vote be taken in a country of universal suffrage? Count Bismarck knows as well as we do that a little time and security are necessary to enable men's minds to recover a temporary calmness, and in some de gree for the elements of universal suffrage to recognise each other and collect together. The French Government strongly desires the elections, which, putting the nation in the ' full possession of its rights, would tend to remove many difficulties, and to lead to a pacification, which has ' never ceased to be the object of its dearest wishes. On this point Count Bismarck's denials in his last circular cannot misitad anybody. But, at the same time, the Government desires that the 'elections should be carried out under regular conditions. In conclusion, he says, "Such, sir, are the grave reasons which, maturely weighed by the Government, dictated its resolution. However great its desire to pave the way for a better future, it cannot compromise the defence of Paris by a lamentable concession, nor decree elections which would not have been the exact expression of universal suffrage. To exhaust our provisions or to lose our time would equally have been to lay down our arms, The Government of the Defence sitting at Paris was unanimous in refusing such an arrangement." NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL. I The uncertainty and delay of the means of communica tion between Paris and the provinces: is regarded as the great grievance both within and .wit'neut the capital. At Tours people were especially anxious to know if the Parisians -had heard of the victory at Orleans, since at the time when M. Thiers passed through the Prussian lines the intelligence from the departments was any thing but cheering. Metz had capitulated, Beause, Normandy, and the Orleannais were occupied, and there was, in fact, scarcely a break in the clouds which overhung- the national prospects, but the resistance of Paris itself. Would this hold out undaunted by the severest privation which the lively and quick-witted Parisians can endure—the stoppage of news ? ,Men were beginning to get apprehensive of the effect on the morale of the citizens. The Prussians, they say, know very well what they are about in cutting off the supplies of news and encouragement, quite as important in their way as material provisions. The arrival of the welcome balloon which has reached Tours within the last day or two was therefore hailed with the utmost delight. Now, at last, there was news of Paris. The universal satisfaction was, however, tempo rarily damped by a rumour, originating, no doubt, in some unavoidable delay in distributing the documents, that the news from Paris was bad, and that the Govern ment was suppressing the despatches, Happily, this alarming report proved very speedily to he altogether without foundation, and to the eager demand of the group who thronged round the aeronauts when they made their appearance; "How goes it at Paris?" came the cheerful reply, " A Paris ? mats cela va tres bien !" An official letter confirmed the aeronaut's intelli gence. Paris was keeping up its courage, had received a number of the pigeons which had been sent from Tours, and, best of all, knew of the victory at Orleans. It was made known to the " Citizens and Defenders of Paris" on the evening of the 14th, by the following address from Jules Favre " My dear Fellow-citizens,—lt is with indescribable joy that I bring to your knowledge the good news you are about to read. Thanks to the valour of our soldiers, fortune returns to us ; your courage will retain her. Very soon we shall join hands with our brothers in the provinces to deliver the soil of our country. Vive la Republique ! Vive la France ! ` The Minister of the Interior, par interim, . `` JULES FAVRE." The Journal Official contains the following report : "The army of the Loire, commanded by the brave GeneraLd'Aurelles has proved its existence by a victory. Orleans has been retaken. The fight lasted two days, and probably two, or even three, Prussian divisions, com manded by General Von der Tann, were engaged. It was evidently an affair of some consequence, which is full of promise and hope for us. Paris is not abandoned to its sole resources ; the departments understand that their interest is identical with ours, and that in waiting to defend themselves against the enemy at their own doors they are surrendering France to him. The population of Paris has not been mistaken ht reckoning on its own constancy and fortitude for obtaining a change of fortune. Already on receipt of the good news, every one seems impelled to fresh efforts. We have the right to hope for the assistance of the organised troops of the West, North, and East. We see France ready to repulse the invader of her hearths and her fields, and resolved to seek her salvation only in that powerful and glorious unity which will call forth for her legions of defenders." This address was, of course, welcome enough, and con trasted happily with the unlucky proclamation of General Trochu, which the Figaro calls "a pompous funereal proclamation." As, however, the journalist advises Trochu to imitate the example of Bazaine, who gave the public "many reports of battles, but no proclamations," his censures will not perhaps count for much. Many in teresting items of intelligence have reached Tours by the balloon. Gas, which is running short, is cut off in the private houses, and successful experiments have been made with a new electric light, though this, of course, is intended for public and not for private use. Government has also ordered the delivery of all the horned animals now in Paris, and has thus obtained 3,000 cattle, or a ten days' supply of meat. In a few days the government will suspend the sale of fresh meat, and only issue salt meat during three days. After that in terval fresh meat will be sold again, alternating with the salaison. By this means it is thought the popula tion can better accustom themselves to the constant use of salt meat. Various devices are meanwhile resorted to, to vary the supply of food and the old English prejudices concerning the extraordinary compounds in French-made dishes are at last virtually realised. " The prejudices,of our fatheis," says one French*riter, " are disappearing. Killed properly, carefully skinned, . suitably seasoned, well cooked, and dressed with an ordinary kind of sauce, the dog makes excellent food. The meat is delicate and tender, in spite of the adage ' tough as a dog.' " In the guardroom of the hospital of Midi is posted the following notice :—" Whoever brings with him a cat, a dog, or three rats shall be invited to breakfast or to dinner. It is indispensiblo that these precious animals should be brought alive. The generous donors may take away the skins." There is some dissatisfaction at the destruction of some of the rare and valuable animals, such as the ostriches, and buffaloes still in Paris, for the purposes of food, so long as any other kind of meat remains. Half the horses belonging to the Compagnie des Petites Voitures have been seized by the Government, and only those who are not the requisite size for artillery service are left. The manufacture of guns goes on with great energy, and the fifteen factories established for the manufacture of cartridges produce 500,000 daily. Voluntary subscriptions for supplying the National Guard are vigorously kept up, and a grand theatrical display for the purchase of breech loading cannon is in contemplation. PARIS UNDER THE SIEGE. The special correspondent of the Telegraph, in his last letter from Paris by ballon monte,, says the slight success at Orleans has give rise to a crop of rumours which assure us that General Aurelles de Paladine has joined hands with Keratry and the Army of the West, and tha between them they have retaken Chartres. The Combat and the Gaulois have " reason to believe " that Bourkaki has retaken Amiens. There is a rumour, also, of a victory gained over some Baden troops in the east of France. It riow seems more than ever certain that. General Trochu will possibly within the next few days strike a heavy blow at the cordon which is throttling us. The largest workshop of M. Cail, who is the principal ironfounder of Paris, is putting out cannon e very day ; and fabulous tales circulate in the newspapers as to the range and accuracy of the field-pieces which tithe indefatigable ironworker is contributing to our defence. En revanche, every well - informed soldier is aware that the Prussians have so strengthened their lines of investment that it needs no prophet to fore tell what kind of reception awaits us as we attempt a de termined sortie upon a large scale. I dare not for a moment be sanguine as to the issue ; but I trust that, at any rate, General Trochu and Ducrot will get their soldiers to ac quit themselves like men. Paris will resign herself to peace, however painful its necessary conditions may be, if before concluding it she can win the respect of the world, not only as having held out with obduracy, but also as having fought with valour. But lam bound to add that pessimists still abound, who maintain that the "heroic grocers," or National Guards, will never be tempted to issue forth from the protection of their ram parts : that they art like woodland foxes, which all the foxhounds in England are powerless to drive from their forest fastnesses, and which obstinately refuse to break cover, although huntsmen and whips and dogs without number follow close on their trail. The journals abound with details which, it must be confessed, are not of a nature to inspire confidence in the heroism of the National Guards. Ono newspaper mentions that within the last two months there have been no fewer than 700 cases of " alcoholic insanity " among our citizen soldiers. It is but a few nights since two officers and three privates slipped off the edge of the rampart, or enceinte continue, and tumbled into the deep fosse below. Two were killed outright ; the lives of the other three are despaired of. In excuse, it is said that the edges of the rampart were slippery from rain, and that the wind caught the cloaks of the unfortunate guards, and hurled them into the abyss. I fear that alcohol had more to do with it than either wind or rain. The death-rate in Paris for last week was one of unexampled magnitude, but the presence here of large numbers of Mobiles brought up from the Depart ments, and badly housed and fed, may be sufficient to explain the abnormal mortality. SOISSONS AFTER BOMBARDMENT. Writing from the headquarters of Manteuffel's army, the correspondent of the Telegraph gives a brief sketch of Soissons after its bombardment. He says :It is a town fortified upon the Vauban system, and, at the time when it was attacked, was defended by 4,000 troops of the line, with some artillery. Meagre as the system of Vauban is when opposed to modern siege operations, the engineer who planned the defences of Soissons seems to have endeavoured to make them still weaker—for, beyond a cavalier lying out side the re-entering angle of the bastion of St. John, and a very useless hornwork covering the Faubourg St. Christophe, there is absolutely no protecting structure of any kind to the town. The place was shelled by the k Prussian batteries from the ridge of Vauxbuin on the west, and from the heights of Belleu, on the south side, at distances of 2,500 yards and 2,700 respectively. From the elevated position of these batteries, shooting into the town was something like shooting into a tea cup. As if to make his ignorance more palpable, the Commandant commenced operations by shelling one Of his own suburbs—that of the Faubourg of Rheims, situated on the Rheims road, because a few dragoons had ridden into it in quest of provisions. The result has been the destruction of all that part of the town which is situated in the neighbourhood of the magazine. In this direction, by the way, is the Church of St. Jean, an excellent mark for the German twenty-four pounders. This fine old building is a mass of ruins, its two unequal but beautiful spires being the sole remains of its former beauty. The ca thedral is also pitted with shells, and the large hospital is entirely destroyed ; in fact, from the gate of St. Christophe round to that on the Rheims road, the town is nothing but a heap of ruins. An affair much resembling that of Laon was very near happening here. Upon the capitulation of the town, the engineer officers went to the Church of St. Jean, in order to take over the powder and other materials. When they en deavoured to open the door, they found it fast closed against them. The French soldier who was sent with the officers had meanwhile mysteriously disappeared, and could nowhere be found. The 'suspicions of the party were at once aroused. By displacing • a stone near the door-post, a sergeant was enabled to pass his hand round to the back of the door ; he there found that a piece of twine fastened the catch ; this he immediately cut, and the door was at once opened. Fortunate indeed was it that the absence of the French soldier had been observed, for a truly diabolical scheme had been laid for the destruction of many innocent people. Attached to one end of the string was a gun fuse, which had, by means of two sticks, been made fast in a sack of gunpowder nailed to the ground ; while the other end of the string was attached to the door latch—so that, if the door had been burst open, the fuse would have exploded. The floor was knee deep in powder, every cask and sack having been sprung. This is the way in which "la graude nation" makes war under the aus pices of Gambetta and Rochefort ! In Soissons provisions are plentiful. The inhabitants had been greatly elated by the news from Orleans ; but upon the arrival of the First Army their rejoicings were wonderfully hushed. DIVISIONS IN THE PRUSSIAN COUNCIL. It has been reported that for the first time during the campaign there is a difference of opinion between the King of Prussia, and his great general, Von Moltke. It is said, too, that the King and his great strategist are not at one as to the appointment of the Duke of Meck lenburg to the command of the forces opposing General Aurelle. Moltke, according to the information received, has little faith in the Duke's strategical, ability; and so much importance did he sttach to the Army of the Loire, that he wanted his old pupil the Crown Prince to be sent against it. The Duke has, however, received the appointment, but he is accompanied by a young officer of ability, who, as chief of his staff, will be able to prevent any serious blunder. Regarding the siege of Paris, also, there is much difference of opinion at the King of Prussia's Headquarters, but the most influential members of the Council oppose the shelling of the city. The question whether the German forces should be massed round Paris to resist Trochu's expected sortie, or dispersed to attack the French troops north and south, has also been warmly debated. The Electeur Libre says that a collective note from all the Powers was placed the other day in the hands of Count Bismarck at Versailles. It is reported from Toulon that a maritime disaster has occurred. One of the two floating iron-clad batteries which left Toulon to proceed to the defence of Lyons foundered. No one was drowned, but the material loss is considerable, as the vessel sunk having on board its artillery and provisions. A rumour has been circulated to the effect that important changes in the Cabinet are in contemplation, in consequence of a difference of opinion on the Eastern Question. There is a strong opinion that Earl Russell is again bidding for power, and that he may soon be seen in office. A visitor at Beaubin, on the frontier of Belgium, writes to say that he has witnessed a sad spectacle. About a hundred poor women from neighbouring French villages came daily to receive the bread which is distributed to them by a Belgian committee. They receive it with eagerness, and are profuse in their grateful a,cknowledg nents. The Francs-tireurs in the woods adjoining show s4rupulous regard for the property of the Belgians. THE EASTERN QUESTION. COUNT BEUST'S REPLY TO PRINCE GORTSCHAK OII4 A telegram from Vienna dated yesterday says : " With regard to the last Russian Note the Austria Government considered it its duty to enter upon til e appreciation of this event with the earnestness and crw: ness necessary to the treatment of the question. The reply of Count Beust to the Circular of Prince Gortscbso°l points out that there can be no doubt as to the muto 3 ' obligations involved by the Treaty of 1856, which not by one party be modified or annulled. It is merelit in deference due to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg t il t Count Beust proceeds to an analysis of the arguraeow advanced by Prince Gortschakoff. The fact that Turk e y can maintain a fleet where Russia cannot could on l y warrant a desire for a revision of the Treaty, but never its arbitrary dissolution. This argument only increases t he gravity of the step taken by Russia, as such maxims danger all existing and future treaties. Turkey is n ot re' sponsible for the alleged breach of treaty by the 'Oil of the Danubian PrincipalitiOs. Turkey does not dem and the sanction of this breach of treaty, which infringes ill her rights and interests. The entry into the Black S ea ° foreign men-of-war having Princes on board was a ha rin _i . less proceeding, of which Russia should have complai rm " if deemed objectionable. The Austro-Hungarian Gran ment learns with painful regret the resolve ° Russia, and expresses it deep surprise thereof' It cannot but direct the serious attention of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to the consequences °, such a proceeding. A further note of Count Beust sA" dressed to the Austrian Ambassador, Count Chotek , at St. Petersburg, refutes the allegation which imputed to Count Beust his having taken the initiative in this matter in January, 1857. At that time tjie Russian ImPe rh ` Chancellor himself deemed the action of dount Beust Prt oipitate, as tending to excite the suspicion of the Freoc'' Government, and as no satisfactory result could be s r petted from a Congress. Besides, according to the Pr °- posals of Count Beust at that time, the different & signatories—but not a single Power by itself—were t° proceed to a revision of the Treaty. At that time, t 0 ll the proposal of Count Beust was not of a nature to ca : s forth dangerous, consequences, while the present isolo t 7 proceeding of Russia creates serious misgivings, as the Christian populations of the East will think that Ells', had deemed the moment opportune to take the solutionP the Eastern Question in hand." FEELING AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The correspondent of the Independance Beige, from Constantinople on the eleventh of November, gal that General Ignatieff is expected there in the course of the week. Many reports were circulated in Pera respect to the instructions this ambassador had received; but it was generally believed that they w ould demand the revision of the Treaty of ra xl ,7 l z It was understood that General Ignatieff Nirctc, be authorised to renounce the Treaty with the sublime Porte. Such rumours did not acord with the assurances conveyed by the General to the Turkish : Ministers before his departure. One important fac t , / ' stated, namely, that a petition has been addresse d ° the Emperor of Russia by the commercial men of Odessa! requesting that the Russian ports of the Black Sea, and th e f port of Odessa in particular, should be put into a state o. defence, or that their security Should be otherwise CO sidered. The petition adds that in the present staff 7 things the least chance might compromise the gr e y ' commercial interests of all the Russian slo re ; of the Black Sea. The commercial men Odessa believe that they are in danger from the Turku" fleet, which consists of powerful monitors, whose larle dimensions render them unfit for service in the .Arch v pelago. The question is—who framed the petition re ferred to and laid such stress on the commerce of Odes`` at this moment ? The Turks do not know what to believ e between the alarming aspect of things on one s ide and the friendly assurances of Russia on the other. It was only the other day that. the Cabinet of St. Pet e . l. l burg endeavoured to reassure the Sublime Porte nth respect to the report of Russia extending her armaments. It was said that these rumours originated fr °lll the fact that some movements of trooPo were necessitated by the journey of the EmPr e° into the Crimea in order to give her an escort, and P lace troops along the route. This explanation, which was ° e l asked for, was accepted with a good grace, but, for Al that, so long as peace is not re-estab.ished in EuroP e ' the Turks will keep a vigilant watch. OUR VETERAN WARRIORS. A contemporary says : " Lord Strathnairn and 1 ,014 Napier of Magdala have been mentioned for the col' mands of the British army in the event of hostilities nth Russia. The former distinguished himself as diploma tis " i, and combatant in the last Russian war. He also played great energy and skill in Central India during t" b° mutiny, and great forbearance 'b.s well as energy in the Fenian rising in Ireland. Lord Napier has already served in India under Lord Strathnairn, who is seven Yo re the senior of the former. The brilliant achievments , Lord Napier, in Abyssinia are well known. He would b e the first instance in the military history of our country which an engineer officer was appointed commander-in; chief of a British army engaged in a European war. Lo rd Napier is not even a Briton by birth. He was born a l Ceylon just sixty years ago, and although he was educate d at Addiscombe, the whole of his military career, with the exception of the Abyssinian campaign, has been passed in India." An influential correspondent of the Turin Gazette at St' Petersburg says that the armaments of this Power are most formidable by sea and land. They are w orking with the greatest energy to complete some railway line° which will transport the troops. The secret understand' ing with Prussian is looked upon as certain. °nil lb league between England, Austria, Italy, France, Turkei and Spain can remove the extreme peril which threat en Eastern Europe. GENERAL BUTLER ATTACKING ENGLAND. General Butler has been delivering a speech at Bosto in which he made a vehement attack on Great Brits t4 declaring that she had founded the Canadian Dominic° to cripple the United States. Upon the Republican part/' he'said, devolved the duty of securing a settlement of th e Alabama claims, and it would be cowardly to wait till Eng' land was at war. If reparation was refused he recommend ed non-intercourse. The withdrawal of American cotton and breadstuffs would inflict incalculable loss upon Eng' land, and America could readily secure other r earketf for those products. The cession by Great Britain ~c ) the naval stations at Jamaica, Nassau, and Berratifi would be regarded as a fair equivalent. Gene T, Butler denounced the course of Great Britain regal - 4 ing the fishery question as outrageous, and if she persisted the certain result would be war. alluded to the great temptations of the United States b° make war with Great Britain. The United States had million and a half of sturdy Irishmen eager for war, an the conquest of Canada would follow. As a Republinkn t !, he declared that war would be sustained by t' majority of the Democratie party, and the rule of O e Republicon party would thereby be perpetuated for gene; rations. The intimate relations between General BA!. and the President, and the current rumours that tu " General will succeed Mr. Secretary Fish have drawn CO ll ' siderable attention to this speech. The Limerick labourers' strike has terminated ) th e men receiving a slight advance. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Pure Bloocti As this vital fluid, when in a healthy state, sustains 5° 3 renovates every part of the living system, but when 1 , becomes impoverished or impure exerts a precisely.oL ll , trary effect, it is abundantly manifest that any medl which does not reach the circulation can never elct. ° ',, urinate disease ; but any preparation capable of exercisn a sanitary influence over the blood must with it be c arris'" to every living fibre of the frame. 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