The Sun. — London, England, 1870-09-02 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS-YESTERDAY. The fresh Prussian successes have been favourably re garded in commercial circles. The severe defeat received by the French, coupled with the determination on the part of the Prussians to follow up their advantage with their usual ptomptitnde, are taken as signs that the war cannot be prolonged much longer. Influenced by this, probability, and also in no small degree by the reduction in the Bank rate to 34 per cent., the stock markets opened with a very steady appearance this morning, and a general advance took place in prices. Subsequently, owing in a great measure to realisations, the tone became less firm. A reaction set in, and a por tion of the improvement was lost. The market for Home Securities has been very unsettled. Consols opened steadily at 921 to 92i ; or, at an im provement of 1, but the quotation subsequently fell to 91. to 914 for delivery, and 91i to 913 for the September account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 912 to 92; Exchequer Bills, la to 6s. prem. ; India Five-per-Cents., 110 to 1101 ; and India Bonds, 12s. to 20s. prem. Colonial Government securities have commanded but little atten tion, and prices have been without change. The Railway Market was very firm at the commence ment of business, and a general improvement took place. Later in the day the demand was less active, and some adverse fluctuations took place. Metropolitan is 1 higher, at 631 to 631; Great Northern (A), 1, at 129 to 130 ; and North Western, 1, at 1241 to 1251. On the other hand Caledonian is 4 lower, at 721 to 721; Great Eastern, 1, at 741 to 751 ; Great Western, 1, at 674 to 68 ; and North Eastern, 1, at 1361 to 137. In Bank Shares not much business has been transacted, Chartered Mercantile of India, London and China, 271 ; London Joint Stock, 331; London and Westminster, 584 to 591 ; Imperial Ottoman Shares are better, at 1 to premium. For Telegraph Shares there has been but little inquiry. Anglo-Mediterranean, 13} ; British Indian Extension, 6} ; Falmoutbs, 91 to i ; French Cables, 14i to 14i; Telegraph Construction are I better, at 24 to 24i. Miscellaneous Securities have been quiet, and without hange. Indian Railway Stocks have been dealt in quietly, but prices have ruled firm. East Indian, 110-1 to 111 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 107. Canadian shares have been steady. Grand Trunk, 13 to 13} ; and Great Western, 14 to 14k. In foreign shares very few transactions have taken place. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 14k, ; Lemberg Czernowitz, 16i ; and Lombardo, 15i, 16. The market for foreign bonds has been steady, and prices shew an improvement in many instances. Egyptian (1868) have risen ; Italian Marmmana Railway, 2 ; Prussian (1865), ; Spanish (1867), ; Turkish (1858), 1; ditto Five per Cents., ; ditto (1869), ; and Italian (1861), 2 per cent. American Securities have continued firm. The Five-Twenty (1882) and 1885 Bonds have risen and Illinois Central The sum of £49,000 has been sent into the Bank today. The steamers which left New York yesterday took out £70,000 for Europe. The Clearing House return for the weak ended August 31st., shews a total of £69,307,000 against £69,702,000 for the corresponding period last year. The large additions that have been made to the stock of bullion in the Bank during the week, and the steady in crease in the supply of capital have enabled the Bank directors to reduce the rate, and the official mini mum is now 3,1 per cent. In the general market there is very little inquiry for accommodation, and three months' paper is taken at 3 to n per cent. The joint stock banks and discount houses are allowing 2i per cent. at call, and 22 per cent if with seven or four teen days' notice of withdrawal. The £1,000,000 specie remittance from the Government of India will be due here on the 13th of September. It is expected to consist entirely of silver, but there are also large amounts of gold on their way from that country. Various amounts of gold or silver are expected from Turkey and the Mediterranean and nearly all parts of the world. It is understood that gold can no longer be sent to Paris. The sums recently dispatched thither have been detained for safety at the port of arrival. Rio advices mention the stoppage of the firm of Messrs, Teixeira Leite and Nephews, native coffee dealers, with liabilities for about £50,000 or £60,000. The house had little business connection with London. At the half-yearly meeting of the Irish North-Western Railway Company this week the chairman stated that the receipts exceeded those of the corresponding half of 1869 by about £5,000. Compared with 1866 there was an increase of £9,000, and with 1865 of no less than £23,000. The London and South-Western Railway Company (says the Western Morning News,) tried on Saturday the experiment of running a train from Bideford to London and back, at the fares recommended by the Belgian Government, viz., one farthing per mile, the far for the return journey being only 10s. The experiment was perfectly successful, some 460 passengers, a large portion of whom were working men, availing themselves of the opportunity afforded. Mr. Scott, the able traffic manager of the South-Western, was so pleased with the result that in addition, he gave to each passenger a free pass from London to Hampton Court and back. The traffic return of the Great Northern Railway shews an increase on the corresponding week of last year of £2,867 ; the Great Eastern an increase of £636 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire an increase of £855 ; the Caledonian an increase of £2,405 ; the Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire an increase of £121; and the Bristol and Exeter an increase of £486. The return of the Bank of England shews the following results when compared with the previous week :—An increase in circulation of £74,262 ; an increase in public deposits of £316,515 ; a decrease in other deposits of £92,892; a decrease in other securities of £116,772; an increase in bullion of £643,087 ; an increase in rest of £228,400 ;an increase in reserve of £532,942. The circu lation, including bank post bills, is now £24,220,303; public deposits amount to £5,581,193 ; and private deposits to £19,936,903. The securities held represent £32,764,175 ; and the stock of bullion is £20,636,733. The rest stands at £3,662,509. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-THURSDAY. LATEST PRICES.—AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 91/ 921 Brazilian. 1865, 5p c .... 89 90 921, 2,1, 11, 21 90, 89 a d Do for Account 92, f Do Rail Deben 7 p .. 97 99 Three per Cent Reduced 92 924 Italian, 1865, 5p c 924,4,1 80 New 3 per Cent 92/, 1,1, 2 85* . 64, 51 Exchequer Bills, March 16 pm Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c.. 28 29 Do, June Bl,m 2 16 pm Russian 1862 5 p c.. .. 84 86 Bank Stock - - 841 x d India 5 pe l r Cents - - Do N ico 7, las 4p c 01, 10 6 4 Ind a Bond - - Spanish, 1867 3pc 17s. pm 27, 61, 71 Can 6pc Jan&Julyl 77-84 104 06 Do, 1869, 3p c Do March & Sept. 102 104 26, 4, 51 Do 5p c Jan & July .. 95 97 Turkish, 1854, 6p c B2 84 Do Inscribed Stock .. 94 96 Do, 1865, 5p e Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 97 99 42. 4, 12, 24 Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1865, 6 p c - November 1878 lO7 109 631, 4, 31 Mauritius 6p c Jan and U.S. 5-20 Bonds, 6p c 1882 881 89 July 1873 lO2 104 881, I 1 New S Wales 5 p clB7l-76 100 102 Do do 1885 871 88; New Zealand 6 p c 1891 lO6 109 881 Do 5p c Do 5p c Consolidated 97 93 831, 3 974, 1 Erie Sha, 100 dols, all paid - - Do 6p c Mar &Sept 1891 108 110 Illinois Central Shares .. 1061107; Do June & Dec 1891 107 110 107, 1 Vict 6p o Jan &July 1891 111 114 Atlantic and GW R Con DoApril & OctlBB3-85 lll 114 Mortgage Bonds 22 23 113, 12} 224, 2 Viet 5p c Jan & July 1894 100 102 1011 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B2 84 Do lst Pref Bonds .. .60 62 Caledonian 73, 21 2nd Prof Stock Great Eastern 351, I Grand Trunk of C anada Great Northern 1191, 181, 19 x all 181 Do A 129 130 Great Greatlndian Pen g 5 p c 10 6 107 1291 x all 107 Great Western 671 68/ Western of Canada 14 141 88, 1 141 Lancashire & Yorkshire 12711281 Do 6p c Bonds. 1873.. 99 101 128, 71 x d Do 51 do, 1877-8 95 97 Lon, Brigb, and S Coast 38 39 Do 5p c pref, issued 80par 2pm 381 Madras guar 5 p c Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 111 121 N. Railway of Canada , iti v.,on an d North-Western 12121251 Oude and Rohilkund g 1241 /, Western 5 p c Lou and South-Western 84 86 1041 Man, Shef, and Lincoln 41 42 Scinde, Punjaub, and Metropolitan 631 1041 Midland 241 x d 12311241 Bahia and San Francisco 1 g 7 c North British North-Eastern Consols 137 138 Buenos Ayres Gt Sthrn.. 23 24 1371. I 7,1 x d Dunaburg and Witepsk 17 18 South-Eastern 6B 69 Dutch-Rhenish 2l 23 681, 1, 8 x d Eastern of France . Atlantic and St Lawrnce 78 82 Grc..t Luxembourg . Bombay, Baroda, and 11 Central India, g 5 p c.. 105 106 Lemberg Czernowitz gua Buff & Lake Huron Pref 3 1 4 1 7p 0 Do 51 p c Bonds, 1872-3-4 78 82 161 Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5p c lO5 106 Ottom (Smyrna td in) 51 6 East Indian, g 5 p c 101, 111 (Limited) guar 7 p o .. Grand Trunk Canada 131, 13 San Paulo (L) guar 7p c 20 21 Do Equip Mort Bnd 1 2011 11/ 12 .. 151 161 171 charge 6p c 15/ & Loin-Yen 15: 16 94 16, Do 2nd do Scrip ....1 dis, Ipm Southern of France .. BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 1 Agra Bank (L) A..... 91 101 20 Imperial IL) 10), 91 10 Imperial Ottoman 25 Alliance (L) 13 20 Lon Char of Austrlia 23 24 10 Anglo-Austrian 79 pm 20 London and County 47 49 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 211 221 15 London Joint-Stock 33 34 50 British N American 50 52 331 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 161 17) 20 Lon and Westmnster 58) 591 25 Char Mern of India 26 28 581, 91 27) 10 Metropolitan 7l 81 10 City 25 Colonial Consolidated (L) 4 11-16 25 Union of Australia.. 39 41 20 Eng, Scot, and Aus C 161 17) 15 Union of London .. 36 38 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Pd 100 Anglo-American L) 87 90 10 Great Northern .... 101 101 88* 6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) l3l 131 Japan Extension.. 4 3 dis 131. 1 5 Indo-European (L).. 12 14 100 Atlantic 100 Do 8p o 10 British Australn (L) 10 British Ind Eaten (L). 6 61 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 5 6 61 28 Mama and S. Pcfc(L) 4 3 dis 10 British Indian Sub- 8 Reuter's marine, (L) 2 China Submarine (L) 58 48dis 141, 1 dis 100 Submarine 225 235 10 Palmouth. Gibraltar, 1 Do Scrip 2 21 and Malta (LI 9l 91 10 W India & Panama(L) 58 6 94, i, 11-16 6 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER -2, :870. THE WAR. AFFAIRS IN PARIS. WEDNESDAY. To-day's sitting of the Chamber has opened with an exciting episode. M. Keller said that he bad received some statements of the condition of affairs at Strasbourg. The details were both glorious and sad. A quarter of the town had been burned, and the Cathedral and hospital were destroyed. The Bishop of Strasbourg had re quested the cessation of the bombardmenf, but he was informed that there was no time to make a siege. The Germans expect to conquer the population through fear. French peasants are compelled to work in the trenches and were thus exposed to the French fire. M. Keller added that such conduct had roused the indignation of all Europe. Strasburg had'deserved well of the country and desired to remain as a French town. The depart meat of the Lower Rhine was:ransacked, not only by Prussian troops but by Baden peasants, who were un armed. This could only ,occur because the authorities had refused arms to the French people. These unarmed ; populations were deserted by those who should have be en their support. At Colmar the municipal authorities had destroyed a great deal of powder by throwing it in the water. In other places they arrested citizens who were fighting, and refused to furnish means of!transport to old 1 soldiers who wished to rejoin their regiments. This dismal newsifilled the Chamber with the utmost indignation. There were great murmurs of horror when M. Keller announced - that the Germans hoped to murder the people into subjection, and long and loud were the cries when he added that the inhabitants had been driven into the sewers for shelter. The Chamber rose in honour of the brave Strasbourg people who thus preferred death to the triumph of the foe. But the talk about arming the people gave rise to the old tumult. The Left applauded the speaker and denounced the Government ; the Right inter rupted M. Keller an 4 denounced the Left. " It is treason," cried the Republicans, when M. Keller said that the depre dations of the Baden peasants were due to the neglect (or designed refusal) of the Ministry to supply weapons ; but the Right ferociously came to the rescue of its leaders. It is the old difficulty. The Government will not arm the people. No matter what may befall the country, it will not take a step which may lead to its own overthrow. The easy progress of the Germans is in great part to be attributed to the determination of the powers that be to trust to no armed men except those in the regular army. _ _ _ The expulsion of foreigners from Paris has become a serious reality. They are departing in crowds. The following notice has been issued :—" The foreigners who are directed by the recent decree of the Governor of Paris to leave the capital, and who consider themselves included in the favourable exceptions made by the said decree, are informed that by appointment of the Governor of Paris the Prefect of Police is commissioned to decide upon their claims. Each claimant must therefore present himself at the Prgecture of Police, furnished with a written demand, in which is stated his name and Christian name, his age, his nationality, his profession, the time of his sojourn in France, and all the circumstances which would justify the ssue of a special and exceptional permission to remain. This claim must be supported by the written declaration of well-known persons who will be guarantees for the claimant." The Prefect of Police has addressed a circular to the Commissaries desiring them to see that the decree is strictly enforced in their several districts, and desiring them to scrutinise most rigidly the antecedents and posi tion of any foreigner who claims to be exempted from it, and of his sureties, making immediately a special report on the subject. Still there is no news, though all Paris is on the tip-toe of expectation. There are rumours of battles, but that audacious paper, the Pairie, says that the march of Mac- Mahon upon Meta is going on with the most perfeet safety, conditions so favourable, in fact, that we may soon hear of complete success ! MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. Pd Yid Anglo-Austrian Bnd- 30 London Fin Assoc (L) 19 17diS holders' Certificate 1 n 102 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 131 141 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. .. 28 21 30 Bolckow-VauCn (L) 30 40pm 2 13-16, 1 100 Boston City U.S.) 5 2 Lou & Prov Marine (L)par fpm p o Sterling an 89 91 100 Madras Irrig &Canal. 4 Brit ft Fgn Marine (L) lt 21pm gsp o by Ind Gov. 100 103 27 Canada Company. 72 76 Mauritius Land (L)..1 dis, par 10 Ceylon Company (L) 6 5 dis NatnlDisetComp (L) 101 111 35 City Offices (L) 27 26 dis 21 N Zealand Loan and. 20 Colonial (L) 5 Cora Union Assurnce 2 21pm 5 N Zealand Loan and 10 Crdt Fono of Eng (L) 21 21 Trust (L) 100 Crystal Palace 00 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb lOB 113 50 P and 0 Steam 43 45 271 Ebbw Vale Steel (L).. 10 8 dis 10 Do do New, 1867 3 Adis 191 50 Rhymney Iron Egyp 9 p &Troy Loan. 15 Do New 9l 101 guar by Egyp Gov.. 95 97 60 Royal Mail Steam 961, 6 20 Tel Con and Main (L) 24 241 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 51 61pm 241, 4. 1 Fgn and Colonial Gov 2 Thames and Mersey Trust 6p c Bonds.. Marine Insur (L) 78 Gen Credt &Disct (L) 1 1 dis St Tobacco 6p c Loan, 71 guar by Italian Gov. 80 83 Gen Stm Navigation 29 30 5 Trust and Loan Co of 7 Hooper's Tel Works 31. 2tdis Upper Canada 20 Hudson's Bay n 81 59 84, i a Marine, Lvpool (L 4151 pm 45 Indrbbr, Gut Per, and 20 Union Steamship (L) 21 23 Tel Works (L) ... , 40 41 6 - United Dis Corpm (L) 11 Adis 401, 40 5 Univ Marine lnsurll.) 4 spm 20 InternlFinan Soc(L) 2lt dis 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7D 0 It Irrig Can Cavour) 31 31 Mortgage Loan.... 74 76 100 Do 6p o Bonds, re- 741 deernak:e 1870 .. 58 62 12 Warrant Financ .... 9 7 dis MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY, -At this market to-day there was a large supply of English wheat, at fully Is, per qr. lower. For foreign wheat there was no sale. Barley was nominally unaltered. Beans were firm. Peas were ls. per qr. cheaper. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY. -The cattle trade to-day has been characterised by a fair amount of firmness. About an average supply of beasts has been on sale. Prime beasts have been in request, at quite Monday's quotations. For other quotations there has been a moderate inquiry. Sheep have changed hands to a moderate extent on former terms. Calves have been quiet, and pigs have sold slowly. Per 81b. to sink the offal : -Inferior beasts, 39. 6d. to 4s. 2d. ; second quality ditto, 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; prime large oxen, 4s. 10d. to ss. 4d. ; prime Scots,ss. 6d. to 55.10 d. ; inferior sheep, 3s. 6d. to 35. Bd. ; second quality ditto, 4s. 4s. 6d. ; prime and wooled sheep, 4s. 10d. to ss. 4d. ; prime Southdown ditto, ss. 6d. to ss. 10d.; large coarse calves, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. ; prime small ditto. 4s. Bd. to ss. 10d. ; large hogs, 4s. 2d. to ss. ; small porkers, ss. 4d. to ss. Bd. Sucking calves, and quarter old store Pigs, 20s. to 255. each. Total supply :- Beasts, 1,815 English ; 400 foreign. Sheep and lambs, 12 , 440 English ; 2,650 foreign. Calves, 405 English; 275 foreign. Pigs, 40 English ; 40 foreign. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY.-The supply of cattle at this Market to-day was not equal to that of last week, either as regards number or quality. All kinds were in demand, and an advance of 3s. to 4s. per cwt. on last week's quotations was readily obtained. Top current, 765. 785. per cwt.; secondary, 725. to 745. per cwt.; Inferior 608. to 675. Of sheep and lambs the supply was large, but generally of middling quality : top sorts were in demand at prices similar to last week's. Inferior qualities were very dull, and scarcely saleable. Sheep, top current, Bd. to 80. per lb.; secondary, 71d. to 6, d. per lb.; middling and inferior, 6d. to 7d. per lb. Lambs, top, 265. to 30s. each; secondary, 18s. to 245. each ; middling and inferior, 9s. to 12s. each. At the close of the market good sorts were well sold, but nothing like a clearance could be effected, DUBLIN CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY. -The supply of cattle at this day's market was by far the largest of the season, which caused a slow trade at barely late rates. There was also a large supply of sheep, and, although the demand was hardly so beLsk as on this day week a good clearance was early effected at about late quotations. Be s t bed Ma. per cwt., mutton, Bd. per pound. BIRMINGHAM IRON TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.-There was a small attendance, owing to the festival attractions. The works are fairly engaged, only a small portion being at a stand still. United States orders are good. Merchant bars are selling well on home account. The pig iron trade is quiet. There are large stocks of puddled bars on hand. There was no change in prices. The demands of the Ironworkers for an advance of wages will be considered at a committee of the II onmasters' Association to be held on the 10th inst. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. Opening Report.—lmport, per bill of entry, 1,340 bales. The market openee with a good demand at firm prices, without excitement. The sales were expected to reach 10,000 bales. Americans were were still sought for. Closing report.—At this market there was a good steady business done during the day, without any material feature, beyond perhaps a slight improvement in the price of Bengal cotton. The sales were called 12,009 bales, 3,000 of which were on speculation and for export. MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—This mar ket was rather firmer to day in consequence of the news to hand of further successes of the Germans. No increase of busi ness Is as yet perceptible, and the more active cotton market in Liverpool has had no influence here as yet. The business doing was exceedingly small and of a miscellaneous character ; and at prices which shewed little or no change from those current for some days. BRADFORD TRADE REPORT, THIIRSDAY.—WooI has re mained remarkably firm during the past week. Country rates are against this market, and the staplers, who having been try ing to replenish in the growing districts, have found it impos sible to buy at such prices as would enable them profitably to resell here. Wethers are most in favour, especially lustre and demi-lustre ; and Down ewes, Down tegs, picked hogs, and half bred wools, are a slow sale, and full as easy ; while some other descriptions have established id. advance from the lowest. To day's market is rendered more cheerful by the news of Mao Mahon's defeat. German merchants make more inquiries for yarn, but only to test prices, as they have not yet courage to buy. Spinners' prices are weak, and the power of production greatly exceeds the present demand. For piece goods there is a fair business for the home and American markets. Goods are bought chiefly from stock, or for quick delivery. Plain fabrics for Germany, probably for mourning, are going rather better. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE, THIIRSDAY.--Sugar is steady, but the demand is less active. Common to good Egyptian, 21s. 6d. to 245. per cwt. Coffee in fair request, at full prices. Middling to good Plantation Ceylon, 665. to 965. 6d. ; small to low middling, 575. to 625. per cwt. Tea has been quiet but steady. Saltpetre dull. Fine Bengal nominal, 295. to 295. 6d. LONDON TRADE REPORT, TRIIRSDAY.—TaIIow has been dull and drooping. Old, Y.C. spot, 425. 3d. ; new, 445. 3d. ; last three months, 445. per cwt. Oils have been quiet ; linseed dull, at 295. 3d. to 295. 6d. spot. Rape firmer, at 41s. 6d. spit, and 395. last three months. Metals have been dull. Tin inactive, at £126 for Straits. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, THURSDAY. —There has been a fair supply. The trade has been steady. The following are the last quotations :—Prime old hay, 120 s. to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 110 s. ; prime new hay, 115 s. to 120 s. ; inferior ditto, 00s. to 105 s. ; prime old clover, 140 s. to 150 s. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime new clover, 120 s. to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 1108. ; and straw 245. to 325. per load. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, THURSDAY.—There was a fair business done at this market to-day, and prices were ful sustained. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TIIIIRSDAY.—At this market to day a firmer business was done at 51s. 9d. cash. Closing firmer buyers. Sellers 61s. 10d. Closing Report.—There was a quiet business done at 51s. 80. and 51s. Bd. cash. Closing rather sellers at latter quotations. A. military and acting chaplaincy at Hong Kong has been conferred upon the Rev. John Piper. Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen is about leaving England, and his friends have determined on giving him a farewell soiree. It will take place at the Hanover-square Rooms on Monday, the 12th inst. THE FRENCH PEOPLE AND THEIR RITLER.—The craving for glitter and fame; the tendency to grasp at these rather by sounding adventurous achievements with out than by silent effort within ; the pretension to stand at the head of nations and the thirst to patronise and plunder them ; all these faults which lie in the Gallic nature, were fostered to such an extent by Louis XIV., by the first and by, let us hope, the last Napoleon, that the national character has suffered the deepest injury. Glory in particular, which one of your Ministers has recently , called the first word in the French language, is rather its worst and most pernicious ; one which the nation would do well to strike out of its dictionary for a long time to come. It is the golden calf round which the nation has for centuries kept up its dance ; it is the Moloch at whose altar it has sacrificed, and is even now again sacrificing its own sons and the sons of neighbouring nations ; it is the Ignus Fatuus which has lured it from fields of pros , perous labour into the wilderness, and often to the brink of the precipice. And while those earlier monarchs, Napoleon I. especially, were themselves pos sessed by this national demon, and therefore went even ' into their unjust wars with something of sincerity, with the present Napoleon it is the conscious cunning design to lead the nation astray into aims of cool self-seeking ; to draw their attention away from their moral and political destitution within, that is, by ever alad ever stirring up the national passion for glitter, fame, and depredation. Against Russia in the Crimea, against Austria in Italy, he was successful. In Mexico he met with sensible disaster. Against Prussia he let the right moment slip. At the beginning of this year the world could for a moment be lieve that he was in good faith, leaving this path and turning to that of internal reform, in the sense of rational freedom and administrative amendment ; till his back ward spring to the Plebiscitum convinced all the world that he was still his old self. From that time Germany, too, had everything to fear—rather should I say, every thing to hope. That u n it y w hi c h he desired to frustrate is ours. The unheard-of claim which lay in his demand on the King of Prussia was as comprehensible and intolerable to the poorest peasant in the march as to the kings and dukes south of the Main. The spirit of 1813-14 swept like a storm through every German land ; and already the first events of the war have given us a pledge that a nation which fights only for that f or w hi c h i t f ee l s both the right and the power in itself cannot fail of its end. This end for which we struggle is simply the equal recognition of the European peoples—the sec ur it y t h at for the future a restless neighbour shall no more at his pleasure disturb us in the works of peace, and rob us of the fruits of our labour.—Dr. Strauss in the Allgemeine Zeitung. THE PRUSSIANS IN CHALONS. Accounts from Chalons detail the treatment which that town received when it fell into the hands of the Germans. The 23rd was an unlucky day for Chalons, as three Prus sian regiments took possession of the place. The avant garde of the Uhlans, the Hussards, and the Ist Dragoons informed • the mayor of the near approach of their regiments, and by three in the morning the three cavalry regiments appeared, followed by a detach ment of artillery. After parading by the Hotel de Ville, they retired to the barracks. There were from that moment two authorities in the town, that of the Mayor and that of the military rulers, who gave their orders en maitre. All the neighbouring villages were visited, and during the day many officers arrived to take orders from the head-quarters,which were established at the prefecture. By 12 o'clock proclamations in French and in German were posted up all over the town, and an hour later a printed proclamation in French, only signed by the Crown Prince, set forth the terms of the military jurisdiction established in the conquered country. In the course of the afternoon the inhabitants were ordered to give up all the arms that were in their possession. Six persons were taken prisoners, and charged with contravening the orders of the proclamation. Their relations made every effort to obtain their release by Prince Albert, but in vain. They were not shot, but the Prussians took them away. A coach which started in the morning with passengers for Epernay returned in the evening with three wounded Prussians. The driver had been compelled to take charge of the wounded men. The next day the Prussians were joined by other forces, and went off with all possible speed to Suippes. Altogether the number of Prussian soldiers who sojourned at Chalons and in the environs amounted to seven thou sand. The Peuple Francais publishes an address to the Minister of the Interior, signed by " all the inhabitants of Chalons." It runs as follows :—" The town of Chalons learns, with as much regret as indigna tion, that an attack upon the proclamation of the Mayor of that town has been made in the Chamber. The Municipal Council unanimously agreed to this proclamation, and all the town understood its motive. The people, therefore, protest energetically against such an attack. Chalons is a town completely open ; the military division, the intendance, the garrison, everything had disappeared, only the company of firemen (eighty men) had some old guns, but not one cartridge ; while a whole division of the enemy, forming the advance guard of the Crown Prince's army, was at our gates. The next day it occtrpied the town.—Chalons-sur-Marne, August 27th, 1870." Some guns, however, must have been left in the town, to judge from the brief notice issued by the Prussian commandant of division :—" For all arms found in the town of Chalons after noon, the town will pay a fine of £4oo.—Major von Versen." The arms were carried in front of the Hotel de Ville and burned. THE GARDE MOBILE OF VITR Y. The Journal de la Marne gives a terrible account of the rout of the Garde Mobile at Vitry. The worst news respecting the Garde Mobile of Vitry have, it says, arrived at Chalons. According to the information received there was at first an intention of defending Vitry. At the moment when the Prussians arrived it was determined to send forward the battalion of the Garde Mobile towards Chateau Thierry. The battalion was composed of young men from the arrondissements of Vitry and Sainte Menehould. At the same time the cannons which guarded the ramparts were spiked and thrown into the fosses. The Prussians, who are always well informed by their spies of what goes on in our midst, became aware of what was passing and arrived abruptly at the town. Instead of remaining united and compact, the battalion of the Mobiles divided. One portion,of whom we have no exact intelligence, appears to have resolved upon following the route pre viously arranged. The other part, which was composed of gardes belonging to St. Alenehould, wished to regain their own arrondissement. On their way they were attacked by a corps of Prussian troops. They flung themselves into the woods in order to escape the attack of the enemy's cavalry, of whom, however, they killed several. The in fantry drove them, and they fell upon the sabres of the cavalry. The scene was frightful. Overwhelmed by numbers, shat Of munitions, little accustomed to the use of arms, the Mobiles wished , to surrender as prisoners. But the Prussians would not regard them as soldiers. They slaughtered them at will, and falling upon those who were already wounded, they cut them to pieces. Already fifty of these Mobiles were killed or wounded, when sevrr , l persons succeeded in convincing the head of , the detachment that he was really deal ing with soldiers, and the carnage then ceased. The wounded were removed to Saint Menehould. Some of them were in a deplorable state, having received twelve sabre cuts. The savage conduct of the Prussians in this instance has greatly exasperated the population. AZAMAT BATUK AND THE " GAULOIS." Under the title "La Revanche d'un Homme d'Esprit," the Gaulois makes amends to the war contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette. It confesses that the writer in ques tion is not only a clever but an honest man, sincerely sympathising with France and incapable of doing her an injury. "Thus, the instant he returned to London, instead of addressing invectives to us, he had the happy idea of revenging the little vexation to which he had been subjected by carrying into execution the following philanthropic plan :—He arranged a lecture on the war, spoke with eloquence and earnestness of the misery and sufferings of the people of Alsace and Lorraine driven from their houses by the terror of the Prussian; and wandering through the woods, where they die of hunger and exhaustion. That was the act of a man of good heart, and at the same time of a man of wit. If all English journalists resembled this contributor to the Pall Mall, we should feel towards them only senti ments of grateful fraternity." The Gaulois then sum marises a report of the lecture given by " the Mama monchi of the Pall Mall Gazette," and thus concludes : - " Such was the lecture of the able correspondent of the Pall Mall. We may add that at this moment Azamut- Batuk ' has boldly returned to France with the receipt of the French ambassador, in whose hands he deposited the proceeds of the lecture. This receipt, it seems, he - means to show to the gendarmes if he is again arrested, in order to prove that he is not an enemy of France disguised as a reporter. A superfluous precaution. He is now in France, and, as we fancy ourselves a polished nation, which does not allow itself to be beaten in courtesy, we will shew M. Azamat- Batuk' that he has not put ungrateful people under an obligation. For ourselves, we beg him to consider as not existing our recent criticism and to believe in our feelings o; friendly fraternity for the future. We only wish all the rest of the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette were like , him." At the railway station of Verdun two millions of spoilt cartridges have been found stowed away. Heaps of gypsum were strewn by the French on the battle-fields before Metz to serve as indicators of the ranges of their various batteries. The death at Mars la Tour of Henry XVII., Prince Reuss, from a grenade shot, was instantaneous, his body being torn in pieces and hurled to a wide distance. Great disgust is felt in Paris, says a correspondent, at the treatment of the Prince Imperial—hurrying the poor lad about from place to place according to the retreat of the French army. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says :—" I was offered the house of a senator for nothing, if I only would promise to occupy it for two months, and hoist a Union Jack over it." On the Alsace railways, which are worked largely by the captured French rolling stock, the services of the porters and signalists are retained, many of the latter being women. The Besancon journal Le Jour advertises a reward of a million francs to the soldier who shall deliver King William alive or dead into the Emperor's hands, and 100,000 francs for any other German Prince. The Saarbruck journals report that already twenty thousand wounded have passed along their rail way. In the space of four days last week ten thousand wounded and prisoners passed 13ingerbrnek station down the Rhine valley. The account of the state of things inside the works at Metz is pitiable. The town is filled with wounded ; hos pital gangrene, that dreadful addition to the torture of the wounded, has made its appearance, and typhus rages in the camps. There is likewise a scarcity of good food. A remarkable proof of the bravery with which the French held the field of Weissenburg against their assail ants the following fact will supply. The colours of one of the French regiments engaged changed their bearer no less than twenty-seven time& during the battle. A number of the smaller telegraph stations in Germany are to be closed, to set free 100 of their officials for service in the field. The postal service'in Alsace and Lorraine is being carried on as far as possible by the existing person nel, a declaration of faithful performance of service being exacted. The German press is thanking the Emperor for one thing. The roads in all the country► districts are excel lent, and greatly facilitate the movements of the German troops. These good roads have been mostly made under the Imperial Government. The Germans take every care to disarm the French population of all districts through which they pass. The inhabitants of Pont-h-Moussen were ordered to give up their arms under penalty of being handed over to martial law in case of disobedience. All assemblages are prohi bited, all doors and window blinds are to be kept open ; the town to be lit up at night, every house to exhibit at least one light ; troops marching through to be sup plied with water ; at nine at night all public resorts to be closed. The francs-tireurs have made their debut. They have shot four men belonging to the 4th Cavalry Division near Chalons. Instructions have been sent to the corps com manders to deal with them most severely—in other words, they will be shot if taken with arms in their hands. No doubt, says a writer, the French will retaliate, insisting on the legitimate character of the francs-tireurs when a levy en masse has been ordered, and thus we may drift into a war of reprisals, which, again, may become a war of " no quarter." The correspondent of the Times with the Prussian army quotes a private letter from Paris, which relates that the Due de Gramont, who has taken to spending his evenings at the Jockey Club, was lately asked there, "How he came to blunder into such a fatal war ?" He replied. " I asked the Minister of War, Lebceuf, if he was ready, and he answered, ' Ready? Aye, and doubly ready!' Otherwise," added the Due, " I should have taken care not to have counselled a war which there were twenty modes of averting . " The Agenee-Havas states that a great impression has been produced at Vienna by the news of the backward movement of the Army of the Crown Prince. The parti sans of Prussia could not conceal their uneasiness, for they comprehend that each day's delay renders the march of the Prussian army into the French capital less secure. Letters from the Southern States of Germany declare that in that region the audacious course pursued by the Prussian army has given rise to general regret, and it is feared that it may entail deplorable consequences. Herr Wickede, the correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, in describing the march up to and beyond Lune vile, re fers to the gloomy and angry countenances which fre quently encounter the German troops. Whereas in Bohemia, in 1866, the country people were hostile, while the towns' people sought to make terms with the invader, in France it is the peasants who endure patiently the fearful sacrifices imposed on them by the war, while the inhabitants of the small towns are intensely anti-German. Rural terrorism is assuming great magnitude in many parts of France. "Everywhere," says a Vienne journal, " the calumnies and the proceedings are the same. Every democrat is formally accused of sending money to tho Prussians. At Saumur the Municipal Connell has bad to intervene in order that the house of M. Louvet might not be desroyed; and it is kated that at Angers M. Segris's house has been threatened. The most patriotic and devoted men are the object of these senseless manifesta tions." A German source is responsible for the following story : —The French National Guards betray so much impatience for fighting, that their men, keeping a respectful distance from their enemies, have meanwhile commenced the game among each other. In some of the Paris regiments the Fivates did not approve of their officers, appointed by Government : they therefore refused to shew them obedience, selecting other officers from out of their ranks. The Government officers not being willing to give up their appointments, the consequence was a regular fray. A letter in the Cologne Gazette says :—" The troops of the advanced guard of the South have to endure excessive fatigue. They keep still marching on like a hurricane, repulsing the enemy wherever he shows him self. There are soldiers of the line who for eight or 10 days have not taken off their shoes, and have known no bed since crossing the French frontier but a bivouac under the open air in rain or mud. The horsemen hardly ever quit their saddles, and the poor beasts, harnessed for whole days together, throw themselves on the ground nunediately on coming to a halt. They - are also at; thin as cats, and many of them quite exhausted; nevertheless the mass still holds on, particularly the horses of Eastern Prussia, who have Arab blood in their veins, and support the fatigue of the campaign better than any other." THE BATTLE OF TUESDAY. MacMahon had ventured into the lion's mouth. He had advanced against a force which was already quite a match for his own, and be had been immediately fallen upon and closed in by other forces. He began to see himself compassed round by a circle of iron through which it daily became' more difficult to break—a force to which he could not give battle, and from which there was not much hope of escaping. MacMahon's position, indeed, began in a great measure to resemble that from which he was attempting to rescue Bazaine, with this difference, that Bazaine was at least in a strong place—a place from which, if he could not break loose, he could also not be driven, in which he was unassailable by any other force than famine ; while MacMahon was also hemmed in by a force from which he could only extricate himself by fighting, but to whose attack he was exposed in open ground—a force which he bad to face with his back upon a frontier line, and from which, if worsted, be had no other escape than across the frontier into neutral ground, where he would have to lay down his arms, and where his campaigning must come to an end. So far as we can rely on the first intelligence that reaches us of the battle things turned out precisely as all precedents led us to expect. MacMahon took counsel only from despair when be offered to give battle. It was the last card of France that he played on what had hitherto been a losing game. He thought his own personal honour was at stake.—Times. WITH MACMAHON'S ARMY. From Mezieres, August 21, a correspondent of the Telegraph writes :—" It appears that the Prussians are spread over all the space comprised between the Vesle and Marne, and have surrounded the old Imperial city in considerable force. Yesterday, at eleven o'clock at night our Brands garden fired upon the enemy's scouts from the side of Cormontreuil. This morning, at daybreak, some skirmishes took place at Tinqueux, Ormes, and Bezanes. A heavy rain pre vented further operations, which obstacle, I may take this opportunity of observing, has, during the last two days, considerably interfered with the movements of the armies. The possession of Rheims is of great im portance, not only on account of the wealth of the city and the ease with which it can be provisioned, but on account of its being the centre whence five railway lines branch ; and there is no doubt that the enemy will use all the efforts that they now' can make to become masters of it. I also learn that the Prussians have taken Ay. Their horses throng and destroy this famous vine yard. The invaders have also occupied Mutigny, Champillon, Avenay, Reilly-la-Montagne. They camp in the woods and vineyards which cover the rich and beautiful country whence come the finest champagne wines, and, perfectly at home, they declare laughingly that they live like " unser Fferrgott, in . Frankreich." The Soissons line is threatened by the Prussians towards Magneux. The Mourmelon line is de stroyed. A detachment of two hundred Prussians occupy Joinville, a large village situated eight kilo metres from Chatelet. The enemy have also been seen at Witry-les-Reims, on the Rethel line, and has shown at Cernay, Berru, and adjacent places. Prussian cavalry has been observed in ambush among the fir woods of Pompelle, and their infantry had entered Pont- Faverger. It seems pretty clear that the army of the Crown Prince follows close upon MacMahon to place him between two fires should he open upon Steinmetz. Only the Laon line seems free. Will he retreat before too late ? From Sedan, on August 29th, the same writer gives an account of a somewhat serious engagement, which took place at Chauveney. The detachment of the French, numbering about 50 men of the 6th Regiment, sent to Chauveney to protect the line and station, was attacked by a very superior force of Prussians, consisting both of cavalry and infantry, and amounting, according to my informant, to several hundred men. The French, under cover, enstained their attack for nearly a couple of hours, and fought most desperately. When at last they were driven from their position, the Prussian infantry effected the destruction of the line. I have not heard whether the remaining men of the French detachment effected their retreat or were captured by the Prussian cavalry ; but some of the French wounded were taken to Montmedy. From there we have also a reliable report that very strong cannonading had been going on during the morn ing of yesterday in the direction of Stenay, and it is almost certain that a not unimportant engagement has taken place near there. The Prussians are stated to be in strong force near Dun, on the river Meuse, in the direc tion of Etain ; and if my information is trustworthy, MacMahon is so near to them that a battle is im minent. Certain it is that the report of the Mar shal's retreat towards Rethel is here positively contradicted, and must have been spread by the French Government solely for the purpose of mis leading the Crown Prince, who, it is stated, is rapidly moving forward on the right flank and rear of Mac- Mahon's army. This is all the news I am enabled to send you from this part of the seat of war. From letters I received this morning from the neighbourhood of Rheims I hear that the old place is surrounded by a considerable body of troops, whose movements are very active. The enemy, who, if not actually at Epernay, at least occupies its environs, has made an onward movement northwards. It is pretty certain that 12,000 German troops are camped at Les Peutes Loges, between Mour melon and Rheims, and it is also affirmed that scouts of the enemy have been seen at Muison, on the Soissons line. If this be so, the Germans at Peutes Loges will have passed by the heights of Rheims, quitting the wooded half circle which borders the city on the south. It is also absolutely certain that the Prussians have been seen in force to the north of Cernay, near the Rethel line. However, the best way to clearly compre hend the situation of Reims at this moment is to know the condition of the five lines that branch from the city. The direct line to Paris by Soissons and the North is in full activity ; but it is reported that Muison, the first station after Rheims is threatened. The Laon line, by which Paris can also be reached, though not so quickly, appears to have escaped menace ; still, the pre sence of those charming free lances, the Uhlans, has been reported at Brimont. The Rethel rail, just now busily engaged in military transports, is free ; but the blue and yellow livery has also been seen at Witry-les- Reims, which is but two kilometres from Cernay, a vil lage containing a detachment of Prussians. The Chalons- Mourmelon line is entirely shut up. To bar the route of the Prussians the company itself fired the fencing of La Veuve, a kind of long wooden causeway running through the low plains of Champagne. THE SIEGE OF STRASBURG The correspondent of the Telegraph with the besieging force, writing from Oberschaffelsheim, August 26, says : —" There are now one hundred and fifty-six guns (cannon and mortars) en place, and ready to hurl destruction upon the fortress and town ; three hundred more are close at hand, as well as enormous quantities of ammunition. Of Prussian artillerists there are six thousand odd, and the Badenser are as numerous. The mere artillery force of the besieging army is therefore considerably larger than the whole of Ulrich's garrison. Every day increases the gravity and terror of the position in which the inhabitants of Strasburg, sorely against their will, find themselves placed. The bombardment of Kehl may have been sport to the Imperial Commandant, but it has been death to them; for, since the commission of that barbarous act, the town has no longer been spared in the scrupulous manner hitherto obtaining, and doubtless much loss of life, as well as ruin of property, has accrued within the last few days to the unoffending citizens. Kehl, or at least the force of artil lery serving the trans-Rhenan batteries, has taken its revenge on the citadel, which has sustained serious' damage since last Tuesday ; but the fire from this side has, I fancy, done more injury to the town itself than to the works surrounding it. At one o'clock this afternoon Strasburg was on fire in ten places, and when I left the outposts for my quarters at six p.m. the flames , arising from its burning houses were staining the horizon with a mimic sunset ; over Ruprechtsau, which has been very roughly handled, hung, a sepia-coloured curtain of smoke, completely hiding the Baden mountains from view, and swallowed up in its dusky bosom shell after shell cast into it by " Toby," while, ever and anon, a bomb would prematurely bUrst, splitting the dusky vapour into ragged morsels, with edges of livid light. Very little village burning was transacted to-day by the French, who confined their attention principally to the new batteries that had sprung up during the night in trenches not further than eighteen hundred yards from their walls; but even upon these their fire was spasmodic and badly maintained. The Germans, on the other hand, poured a constant rain of missiles upon their enemies throughout the day. I counted the shells pitched into the town and works from the six batteries, within my own immediate range of eye- I sight, during one quarter of an hour; they numbered one hundred and nine, or rather more than seven per minute. To obtain an approximate idea of what Oven 'nth a bombard• meat as this means in the way of horror anddestruction,le t your readers picture to themselves the probable effect of the hundred shells projected within au hour into the parish say of St. Marylebon e, although the district is considerably larger thau Strasburg crashing through the house roofs, exploding in the streets and squares. killing women and children in their beds, burning Pr; vate residences to the ground, maiming an wounding harmless people of all classes. . 1° aggravate these inflictions to anything like the really hideous conditions in which the Strasburge rs are daily living—and dying in numbers—still furth er grievances must be added to the imaginary spectacle of bombarded Marylebone—namely, butcher's meat at five shillings a pound, bread a shilling a loaf, butter, milk' cheese, and vegetables not to be purchased for their ' weight in gold ; the most simple articles of 01 ; sumption only obtainable at sixfold their norma l prices, and these rising daily, almost hourly The lot of the unfortunate Strasburgers is truly harde r than they can bear; indeed, it was rumoured to-da at headquarters that the mayor, at the head ° f a deputation of citizens, had waited upon General Ulric h yesterday, to urge upon him the surrender of the fortress, stating that the citizens had already suffered more than their share of hardships, and would not submit to their continuance ; upon which it is said—though I oanio t believe it—that the General took up a revolver from his table, and shot the Burgermeister dee' d , upon the spot, " to correct him of his treason That such an outrage upon civilisation should hav e been perpetrated by a French officer is simply incredible. All I can advance in excuse of its mention is th at I heard of it from a person the accuracy of whose infer mation is generally unquestionable. Of one thing, lic' v ' fr ever, you may be positively certain—viz., that the population of Strasburg is so dangerously 014 ' perated against the garrison and its commander that General Uhich's perils from within x re nearly as redoubtable as those menacing from without. Yesterday morning the Bishop c d Strasburg came over to the Prussian outposts an asked for an interview with the General-Commandi n g' in-Chief (Werder), stating that it was his earn est desire to intercede with his Excellency on behalf o f the minister in particular and the non-military part o f tbe town in general. The Bishop's request was cominun P cated in due course to the General, who, howeve r ' declined to receive him, but informed him, through aide-de-camp, that every possible precaution would h e taken by the German army to avoid injuring t he cathedral, and that no more harm than could ~.e helped would be done to the town. His lordsla was escorted back to the gate of the city, and at the same time a parlimentaire was sent in to General 'Ulric h ', conveying to that officer a full and detailed account e' the reverses sustained by the French armies before Metz, and urging upon him the surrender of the fl a tress upon the ground that further resistance vow only be spilling blood to no purpose, the defence °f Strasburg against the forces gathered round it bei ng absolutely hopeless. To this communication the Gen e ; ral only condescended to return the verbal message 0 1/ . "he meant to hold Strasburg as long as he ba c ' man under his orders ;" and the French fire was a t onc e resumed by way of post-dictum. So poor Strasburg, (which is mainly Protestant, by the way) did not Pr°,, h ' much from the well-meant interference of its Cath olic Bishop. The French during last night's tic' mendous contest, fired chiefly shrapnels, of which the sent a large number into the German lines, h u ., to little purpose ; fortunately their practice 14 7, vnusually bad. The loss in killed and wounded °' our side was, therefore, comparatively to theirs, unimportant. One Baden infantry soldier was killed by Chassepot bullet a little in front of Konigshof, and sc3 : buried to-day in_ Wolfisheim churchyard. About dozen men lost their lives in the trenches, and tbr: times as many were hurt ; but the results of t o t t night were satisfactory beyond the hopes of the rc,, sanguine. A shell dropped into a battery of 10th Prussian Artillery, and burst between v v. ; of the mortars, but, by a piece of good fortu l c i ) nearly akin to a miracle, not a single mau in the t ree was *Owed. To night several wore batteries will be IVI I in position (about thirty mortars and guns, as I hear) , an d those already available will keep up the bombardmen t 7. through the night. In fact, the siege operations will pressed forward with the utmost despatch, as the besi e s g c ; ing army is exceedingly anxious to capture the P lay before the end of the war. TUE KING OF PRUSSIA AT GRAVELoTTE.- 411 King had been for ten hours exposed to the ene my's and about this time had taken a seat near a garden 0 close to Rezonville. A large worsted spinning factor" W A on fire, and illuminated the Royal head-quarters. 4 , 0 ladder, resting with one end on a pair of scales, with fi other on a dead horse, formed the seat of his Majestl , 4 , whose company there were Prince Charles, the G rall, , duke of Weimar, the Hereditary Prince of Mecklenbn, Count Bismarck, Minister von Roon, Count DoenkTe &c. Truly, never was a Royal court kept in huraP e w quarters. The deepest silence reigned. No one kn ro o yet how the day would close, when suddenly ) 3 ? a, Moltke, excited, heated, gasping for breath, apprettlo and cried : "Your Majesty, we have conquered ! enemy has been thrown from every one of his position:d A loud and repeated " hurrah !" was the response. thef t now the Royal party, all life and cheerfulness, began supper, consisting of whisky and plain brown sold' bread.—Continental Correspondence. g Of ARRESTING A SPY.—Paris, with the symptorn i o the war fever that 'consumes it on every side, bee ° o disagreeable in the end. I felt so yeste r and ventured out o the Bois de Boulogne. 'of lawns have been turned into pens, the Garden t he Love into a rustic Smithfield, and, but for :0, forts and cannon-crowned ramparts that are ;r o c/. one might imagine himself at some monster cattle h o lde I was just calculating how long the great city could to out with such a stock before the time would arri v 'S serve up birds' nest soup and cutlet of horse, with et e o rat to follow, when a shrewd fellow approached 131 ,, very shrewd fellow. " War is horrible, monsieur. at o agreed that it was very horrible. "I have seen 8°- ' and invasions," he continued, " a y e , an d Prussia °e l and he gave me a wicked glance. " I nva si o ns !" ° cbo r ol —the shrewd fellow could no t b e more th an 45—" YIP when?" "In 1815." "H ow o ld were y ou then?" ocl reddened and stammered " four years old, and -- -01' —your countrymen, the Prussians, came in by o ot lette." I saw how the land lay • his net was a h e ad) , 0 1 to bag me as an emissary of the enemy. I anticilljet him and saved myself. I laid my hand on his shon',ol suddenly and told him he was my prisoner—that lle:d the head of a. Prussian spy. You never saw a sh r ' e til fellow look so black. His face lengthened and his ° t ile chattered. I positively began to fear I had hit on t o real Simon Pure by accident; but 'he produced D.% ° 019, paper for the fifth arrondissement, and after nun - o fto examining it I told him he might go, but to be 0r how he left his own quarters again. I mean to tak.toi,te own advice to this clumsy amateur detective, and pr ° you I shall not revisit the Bois de Boulogne while r d . has its war paint on.—Paris Correspondent of Standar pelf THE POPE AND THE WAR.—It is posia • the denied that the Pope ever offered his mediation t°, King of Prussia and to the Emperor Napoleon vv" f 1 tet view of inducing them to suspend hostilities just it .; ,13 they had broken out. Thus the correspondence nic. has recently appeared cannot be regarded as autbe n oo The Governor of Rome has ordered all p er sons who b o lo resided in the city for less than three months to ob authorisations to stay there.—Birmingham Gazette. 0 1 RELIEF OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED.—c c t l' w Loyd Lindsay has written to the Times another veil the teresting letter descriptive of the efforts made bysa Society for the Relief of the Sick and Wounded. eo II that at the close of this week there will be forty sung l . o o on the field or in the hospitals serving under the Red Li ci The condition of the French wounded accumulat, e , 4 Luxembourg is described as terrible, and that couoniveo made the base of operations. The assistance to be g l the to the wouuded from Luxembourg will be chiefly t ° French, who are described as a b an d one d by friends `- foes. 181.10 1 ; THE LADIES OF MANCHESTER AND TH.. • —The Mayor of Manchester presided at a meeting ladies held in the Town-hall on Wednesday, to fr;eo, committee for the purpose of receiving lint, ban d and other articles snitable for the relief of the sick at t wounded in the war. It was stated that at the Inn-' l lOl the convalescent patients had already made uP ott miles length of bandages, composed of old lila° ll , war. calico, and that it had been forwarded to the seat 0 , 1 st et, The contributions paid into Heywood's bank,MatLe L ` e since the formation of the committee a week slo e '‘ , amounted to £1,700, BIRTHS. On the 30th ult., at Torquay, the wife of J. Dun Esq., of Carron Hall, of a daughter. ° 0 On the 30th ult., at Wimbledon, the wife of Ja v9e Elles, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Ato ,rt o On the 27th ult., at Cheltenham, Captain Cunliffe Bengal Cavalry, son of Sir Renald Martin, „ F.R.S., to Frances Mary . , only daughter of Thcft el' Colledge, M.D., F.R.S., Ed., Lauriston House, tenham. P" On the 30th ult., at St. John's, Waterloo-road , . l Henry, eldest son of William Blewchamp, of Ricr eo rge Surrey, to Martha, second daughter of Alfred Steere, of Richmond, Surrey. DEATHS. Lod' On the 30th ult., at 16, Prince's-terrace, Hyde-park, don, Sir Thomas Montgomery Cuninghame, Bar t ' v 54.9 On the 31st ult., at Barnes, Surrey, Bolton CorneY , M. R. S. L., aged 87. of London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOY let No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by L'; be THE SUN Office, No. 112 Strand, in the Precinc t Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. 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