The Sun. — London, England, 1870-12-19 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-SAT URDAY. There has'again been an absence of activity in the stock markets to-day. Firmness, however, has still been the feature of the Exchange, and quotations have been well well maintained. Consuls have been steady, and 1 1 per cent. better, at 911, 91i ex div. for delivery, and 91, 92 ex div. for January ; Reduced and Now Three per Cents., 91i, 912 ; Bank stocks, 230, 232 ; Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 15s. prem. ; India Five per Cents., 110, 1101-, ex div. and India bonds, 225. to 275. prem. _ _ The market for English railway stocks has been firm, and prices have again improved. Metropolitan, at 63k, 63i ; Midland, at 128 k, 128.2 ; and North Western, at 128, 124, are each better ; whilst Great ,Eastern at 38g, 38z, and Great Western, at 69i to 74, shew an en hancement of Caledonian is quoted at 851, 85 ; Brighton, 402, 41 ; South Eastern, 741, 74 ; Great Northern, 123, 124 ; ditto A, 134, 134 ; North Eastern, 144, 1441. For Indian railway stocks there has been but little demand. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, 105; East Indian, 1103,, ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1071, ; and Scinde, 103/, Canadian shares have been in limited request. Grand Trunk, 111, In foreign shares the transactions have been restricted. Bahia and San Francisco, 181 ; Great Luxembourg, 11/, g ; San Paulo, 20. Foreign bonds have been purchased cautiously, but at very full quotations. Peruvian (1865) have risen 4, or to on, 93/ ; Egyptian (1868), +, or to 77i, 78 ; Italian (1861), 4, or to 554, 551 ; Turkish (1865), 1, or to 63, 634 ; ditto Five per Cents, /, or to 44a, 444 ; ditto (1869), g, or to 50a, 504 ; Mexican, 4, or to 13. 2 , 14 ; United States Five- Twenty (1882) Bonds, 4., or to 88k, 881; ditto (1885), 4, or to 88a, 88g. French Scrip is quoted at dis. to j f prem ; North Ger• man Loan, ton prem. Port Alegre and New Hamburg Railway Company's . shares are at 2 to 2} prem ; and Anglo-German Bank, 1 to 11 prem. In Bank Shares the transactions have been restricted ; Anglo-Egyptian, 20g, 21; Consolidated, 4 13-16 ; Im perial Ottoman, 12 ; London and County, 49, 50 ; Joint- Stock, 34} ; and Union of Australia, 41±, Telegraph Shares have commanded but little attention; British Indian Extension, 6 ; British Indien Submarine, 6f, 15-16 ; Falmouths, 9 9-16 ; Great Northern, 111; French Cables, 13A ; and West Indian and Panama, 5} Hooper's Telegraph Works, 61 9-16 ; Silver's India rubber, 44/.; and Construction, 281. For miscellaneous securities the demand has been very quiet. Hudson's Bay, 8 ; Rio de Janeiro City Improve• ments, 22. The discount market has been fairly supplied with capital. There has been only a , moderate demand for accommodation, and three months' paper has been taken at 2} per cents. The Nyanza has taken out 6,710. Bar gold to the value of £22,000 has been withdrawn from the bank to-day. The agent-general for South Australia has negotiated the sale's of the whole of the £lOB,OOO bonds, offered on the 24th ult. to public tender, £15,00Q, at and above his minimum of £lOB ex-January coupon and the balance at a little below that price. _ . A prospectus has been issued . of the Porto Alegre and New Hamburg (Brazilian) Railway Company (Limited), with a capital of £292,000, in shares of £2O, to construct a line ,of twenty-seven miles in the provinces of San Pedro, do. Rio Grande, do. Sul, under a guarantee of five per cent. per annum from the Govern ment of that province on the entirb capital. This guarantee will yield £14,650, and it is proposed to apply it to the payment of seven per cent. interest upon £200,000 in preference shares, of which one half is now offered for subscription, the contractors for the line taking - £92,500 of ordinary stock in part payment of £280,000, for which they are to complete the under taking. .The population of the district and city of Porto Alegre is 'stated to be'nearly 100,000. • A prospectus has been issued of, the Wood-street Ware house Company (Limited) with a capital of £300,000 in shares of £5, to carry on the business of Messrs. Hugh Jones and Co.'s Warehouses, for which, including the stock in trade and freehold and leasehold premises, com— prising the sites of 11 houses in Wood-street, an aggre gate payment is to be made of £171,080. Mr. Hugh Jones subscribes 20,000 shares, and is to act as managing director. The' directorS' of the Metropolitan District Railway. Company have invited subscriptions for £300,000 6 per cent. debenture stock, bearing interest from the lit of January, 187.4 at the price of 102 per , bent. This com pletes the issue of £1,20,000 authorised by the company'si Acts of Parliament. By discount on prepayinent of Cal% the net cost is reduced to about 1011. It is upderstooil that the issue of this stock will enable the company to complete and open the line to the terminal station at Cannon-street by May next. • LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-SATURDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER 0 EMI A HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECITRITIES. nate per Cent Consols 911 91/ Via 6p cJan&JuIYIS9I 115 117 911, / x d . DoApril &Oct 1883-85.. 111 112 Do for Account 91/ a d Brazilian. 1865, 5 p o .... 929 939 ' Three per Can tßeduced 911 911 93 919, 1 Egyptian 1862. 7 p o .. .. 80 82 New 3 per Cent 919. 1 102 Exchequer 13111 s, March 10 15pm Italian, 1865, 5 p a m ' 869 Do, June lO 15pm Peruvian, 1865. 5 p o .... 93 94 pm 925, 31 Sank Stock India 5 per Cents 1101 x d 84 India Bends — Do Nicolas 4 p o pm Spanish. 1367. 3 pc Can 6 pc Jan&Julvll77-81 10491059 311, A , Do March & Sept. 103 105 Do, 1869. 3 p a Do 5 p c Jan & July .. 989 999 319, 5. 1 981, 9 Turkish.lBs4, 6 p c 7B 80 Do Inscribed Stook .. 97 99 Do. 1885. 5 p o Dom of Can 5 p c 1903 .. 97 99 449, 1, 1 Ceylon 6 p a May and . Do, 1865 6 p c November 1378 , . 106 108 63 filauritius 6 p o Jan and U. 5.5-20 Bonds. ii p o 1833 881 889 July 1873. lO3 105 889, 5. 9 New S. Wales 5 p clB7l-76 10191029 Do do 1835 881 88/ New Zealand 6 p 01891.. 108 110 889, 1, 1 Do 5 P a Do 5 p c Consolidated 99 jOO ErieSha,loodols, all paid 995, 9 Illinois Central Shares .. 110 111 Do 69 c Mar &Sept 1891 106 108 Atlantic and (1 IV Bijou Do June & lieclB9l 108 110 'Mortgage Bonds — MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. • • Pd rd. : Anglo-Austrian Bnd- 5 InternlFinan SoclL) 'lndia holders' Certificate 15 25 20 It Irria Can Cavour 35 4 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 145 151 100 Do 6p c Bonds. re. 30 Bolckow-Vaughan 14 30 35pm deema.ble 1870 . 63 65 , 100 Boston City (U.S. i 30 Loudon Fin Assoc(L) 20 18dis p c Sterling Loan 91 93 Lon (len Omnibu 2 3 4 Brit & Fin) Marine( Ll 2:71i 4 nin 2Prov Marine 1 s .. 4 5 1. pie 25 Canada Company. 73 73 11)1) Madraslrrig. &Canal 10 Ceylon Company L 1 35 271 is gsn c by Ind Gov. 101 172 35 City Offices (L) .... 26 25 dis 2 51auritins Land (I) 7 ; dis. 20 Colonial (L) ' 4 2 dis 5 NatnlDisctOomp I) 11 111 5 Com Union Assurnce 3 31pna 2 3 / 4 N Zealand Loan and 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 2 25 Mere Agency iL) .. I i s' Pm 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p_ c Perp Deb.. 112 117 61 N Dritalt and Atom (L) 28 281 274 Ebbw Vale Steel LI.. 9 85dis 5 OceanMarinelnsur l3 111 ni 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p Q 50 1' and 0 Steam 45 47 Mortgage Loan.... 78 8Q 10 Do do New. 1857 3 2 dis 795, 80 5.) Ithymney Iron 100 Egyp 9 p crroy Loan, i 5 Do New 8!. 05 guar by Egyp Gov.. 94 96 63 Royal Mail Steam 95 12 Tel Con and Main (L) 261 '267 11 Fore-stWaiehouse IL) 75 Bpm 261 100 Fgn and Colonial Gov 2 Thames and Mersey Trust 6p o Bonds.. 98 103 Marine lusur (L 995 St. Tobacco 6 p c Loan 7i (ion Credt kDisct (L) 5 f die guar by Italian Gov, 97 89 14 Gen Stm Navigation 275 285 5 Trust and Loan Co of 7 Hooper's Tel Works 5 Nis Upper Canada 65, 3-13 5 (7 Marine, Lvpool 11, 4; spin 17 Hudson's Bay 8 85 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 8 6 United Dis Corprn (Wills A pm 45 Indrhbr,GutPer.and 5 Univ Marine insur iL‘ 6171 pm Tel Works 1) .... 44. 45 12 Warrant Finance..:. '9 7 dis . - 447 RAILWAYS. .. ldis Ipm Bristol and Exeter F6 38 Do 2ud do Scrip .. Caledonian ' 56, I 52 - Do Ist lief 80nd5.... Zio '5B Great Eastern 387 , Grand Trunk of Canada Great Northern 124.31 374, I, I Do A ' 13371347 Do 3rd Prof Stock , , • 1337, 4 297 Great Western . 697 701 Grand Trunk of Canada .' 70, 1 4th Prof stook Laves/thin) & Yorkraltire-13271: 1 31 164, 1 Lon, 13rigth and 8 ()met 407 41 Great Indian Pen g 5-• a 107 108 40},1 - 11)77, 1 • . Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 121 127 Great WesternofCanada 147 147 121 . • Do Op c 11onds, 187 9 8 ,100 *- Lon and North-Western 12771281 - Do 57 do, 1877-8 95 97 128. 7. 77, 8: Do 5 p c pref. issued 80 Wig :loin ' • Lou and South-Westerii•. 90 '9l . Madras guar spc .. , , 91, 907 N. Railway of Canada , • " • Mali, fillet and Lh (5 icolu 451 46 p c let Prof Ronda , 451. i Oude and Itubilkund g Metropolitan 637 ' Schuh), • Punjaub, and • - Midland 12811287 Delhi guar 5p c ...._ 1281, 7 1031: 7 , 1 North British •North-EasteniConsols 14311447 g 7 pc 1447, 4, i 187 fionth:Eastern , 741 741 Belgian 14 Junction .... 27 27 ttlantic and St Lawrace 75 77 Buenos Ayres Gt Stlon.. 24f 25 757' I)unaburg and Witepsk 181 19 ' 30mbay, , Ilaroda, and Dutch-Rhenish 22 23 Ceutral India, g 5 p c.. 10411051 Eastern of Pralice — 105/ Groat Luxembourg Buff and Lake Huron .. :7 47 117,.+ ' - Do 57 iic 80nd5,1872- 3-4 79 S 1 Lemberg Uzernowitx gua . 7 pc 15}157 Cape guar 6p 0 . : .... .. 61— East Bengal guar 5 p 63 Northern of France , 3 „ 10411057 Ottom(Slnyrna to Aidin) .47 57 Elat Indian, g 5 p c ,•... 110 111 Recife and San Fraucjace 1107, 1 - (Limited) guar 7p c :, ' Grand Trunk Canada .. llf 117 San Paulo (L) guar 711 0 207 21 ) 117, 7 ~ • South Austu & Loin-Veu 147 14' Do lfquip 51drtBud 1 ' Southern of France ...„ ,= charge 6 - 31 a ...1 1G 17 90 52 BANKING COMPANIES! I'd Pd 1 Agra Bank ILIA 7/ 8/ 10 Imperial. Ottoman .. 11 21pui 25 Allia.uce IL) 10 Anglo-Austrian 5 7 lan 20 Lou 'Char of A ustrl la 23 24 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) "20/ 211 20 London 'lttid County 49 59 201. 1, 201 40k, 50 50 British N American 53 `55 15 London Joint-Stock 33) Ak , 20', eh of India, Austrlio 14 15 - 341 ,25 , chttr Merc of lu ba 23 24 20 Lou and Weatmnster 621 831 10'eity " - 11i , 10 Metropolitan , 8k 9 , 25 tfolonlal 4 consolidated IL 4 3-16 25 coital BankCortairn 40 41 20 Eng, Scot. and Aux 0 liii, , , 16 •i,5 Union of Australia., 4,1 4 - 20 imperial t L) 18/ - ll 1,1,,i 0n . of Torido k w. .. TELEGItAviI COMPANIES. I'd rd 100 Anglo-American L) 79 81 0 Groat N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrlt IL) 124 5 Jrido-European iLI.. 10 12 100 Atlantic glen, 100 Do 8P c — and Malt a (L) • 51 8 19 British Australn (LI.. 5 Pais 10 ANlediterrn Ea (Ll — : 4,, 5 10 British Intl Eaten (L). 51 61 2/ Pima and S. Pcfc)L 3/ 21 cfb 6 dis 10 British Indian Sub - 8 Renter's marine, IL) , 62 7 20 Soc Trans Prance (L) 131 13 6, 7 i, 15-16 ," 131 7 China Subroarine(L) 515)dis 100 Subfharine 237 24' 10 Ifahnotttli.olbraltae, Do Scrip 2l 21 awl 51 A 1 t* ILI 0,9-16 a d 5, L 10 Great Nortlieru 111 39.! TH E SUN, LONDON, MONDA Y , DECEMBER , 19, 1870 ACCIDENT TO THE ECLIPSE EXPEDITION. H.M.S. PYSCHE ON A ROCK. The following telegram has reached London, from Mr. Lockyer, who is in charge of the English Eclipse Expedi tion, bound for Sicily THE LIVERPOOL MURDER. At the Liverpool Assizes on Friday, Edward Richard Howchin, aged 22, was (as has been already briefly stated) put upon his trial.for the alleged wilful murder of Christian Flueck the proprietor of a school in Liverpool. Mr. Aspinall, Q.C.. and Mr. Leofric Temple prosecuted; Mr. Torr and Mr. Wheeler defended. The deceased man Mr. Flueck, lived at Dingle-hill, near Liverpool, where the prisoner had been resident usher for nearly 12 months., Ile is slight and active in form, youthful and intelligent in appearance, most unlike the usually accepted type of murderer. The facts appear from the evidence of the witnesses, but it may be said that at the time of the murder there were in the house the deceased and his wife, Mr. Kerr, a lodger, four boarders, a page boy, and two female servants. Ano ther lodger, Mr. Preyss, and some day scholars, were out at the time. The house is a large semi-detached one, 4 three stories high, the hail door in the side in a portico, and passing this a yard door. The schoolroom is the first on the left on entering the hall, and the study, in which the murder was committed, is on the first floor in the rear. along a passage, and over the kitchen. The room in which the prisoner slept is on the second floor, and just over the study.—Mrs. Flueck examined : I am the wirlow of Mr. Christian Flueck. My husband was 41 years old. -Ie was born at Versailles. We were married in 1859. " CATANIA, DEC. 15, 3 P.M. ' The Psyche, with the Eclipse Expedition on board, has struck on a sunken rock near Catania. , " All hands have been saved, and also the scientific instruments. " The captain, who has behaVed most nobly, is still on board, and, with a view to save the ship, has telegraphed to Malta for assistance." The eclipse will be visible on Thursday. The following telegrams have been received at the Admiralty : (FROM MALTA.) The Psyche. from Naples, struck on a sunken rock six miles north of Catania, Sicily. Crew saved. The Royal Oak and the Caledonia were despatched to her assist ance. (PROM CATANIA.) The Psyche has struck, .while running by chart, on a sunken rock, near Catania. All saved. Instruments sent into Catania. Commander Fellowes has acted nobly, and hopes to save the ship, if assistance comes at once from Malta. where he has telegraphed. The Royal Oak is also sent for. N.B.—The Psyche had gone from 11Ialta to Naples to receive the astronomers who are proceeding to Sicily for the purpose of observin g the eclipse of the sun. The instruments alluded to are those sent out for their use. The prisoner was an usher in the school. He -was going to leave at Christmas. I was in the habit of going , out to give music lessons oil Tuesdays and Fridays. I generally returned about seven. School would be over between four and five. My husband would usually go to the study and sleep or read. He very quickly fell asleep, and slept soundly. On Friday, the 25th, I went with a boy, soon after two, down into Liverpool. I came back at half-past four. I then saw my husband in the study. He was quite well On the table in the study there were some clean shirts. At the side of the table there was a rocking chair. I immediately went out and gave one music lesson. I returned at twenty minutes to seven. I rang the front door bell and was let in by the page boy, M'Grath. It was then shut, as usual. The two lodgers were the only ones who had keys. On the door being opened I ran up to the study. The door was shut. I opened it and went in. I' saw my hus band lying on the hearthrug with his head on one end of the fender. I tried to rouse him. • He was breathing heavily. I spoke to him, but he did not answer. I lifted his head off the fender and put it on the hearthrug. There was blood inside the fender. I ran upstairs to my bedroom for water and a sponge. I came down and began to bathe his head. I found his hair all clotted with blood. I put his head on a cushion and ran downstairs. I went to the schoolroom door and called Mr. Howchin. He came out. He said repeatedly, " What is it?" I said,' " Close the door. Come upstairs." .. We went up • together into the study. I said, " What can this mean ?"' He said, " It's very evident. Look at this." He pointed to a piece of 'iron (produced) .lying on the left hand side of the hearthru,g. There were two gaslights burn ing in the room. I then asked the . prisoner to go for Dr. Barrett, and he went out for him. He returned before the doctor, who soon followed. When he came he, asked for a razor. I went upstairs for one. As I was coming with it 1 met Mr. Howchin on the stairs. I said to him, " Mr. Howchin, do you know anything of this?" He said, " No, Mrs. Fleuck." I then said, "On your soul, Mr. Howchin." He said, "On my solemn honour." I said, " When did you last see Mr. Flueck ?" He said " Asleep in his chair, at 5 o'clock." Nothing further was said.; then I took the razor into the room. I think he fol lowed me into the room. There, he said, "Shall Igo for any one for you ?" I said, "Oh no." He said, " Shall I go for your aunt ?" I said "No ;" at last I said " Very well, go, she must know some time." He went and brought her. Before this, Howchin had not touched my • husband at all. I think the doctor was the first to touch the piece of iron. My husband died two days afterwards without having become conscious or being able to speak. I know of no . quarrel or difference existing between my husband and any one. [Some letters were here read from the prisoner to a Mr. Calder applying for asituation, and one to the same gentlema n from th e deceased in which he says of the prisoenr " though some-: what peculiar in manner, he is polite and obliging."] Pri soner did not obtain this situation. He told me so on the 23rd of November. He asked me " Was there not ome thing prejudicial to me in Mr. Flueck's letter to Mr. Calder." I said, "On the contrary, I think it was an ex cellent character." fie said, " Was there not something in it about a `peculiarity' or ' eccentricity.' " I said, " Yes, there was," and I told him what was in the letter,, repeat ing the words. He said, "Ah ! that is sufficient to damn me." I said, " I don't see that, as there was something •to 'a like effect in a character my husband received l of you." He said, " I know it, and I hope you will inter tede to get Mr. Flueck to omit• such words in future." I said, f , ` I'll speak to him, but I don't think he will, as he is strictly conscientious." He said, "He need not be so particular, as there arc men with characters as black as night with splendid testimonials." I said, "If so, .'its. a shameful thing; you had better speak to Mr. Flueck yourself." He said, " I wish no further conversation with him, as I have already made One blind stroke." • This was all that was said. I heard prisoner speak to my husband the same day. He was speaking angrily to Howchin about a boy having gone out. I said, " I gave him permission." He said to him " Why did you not tell me Mrs. Flueck lied given leave ?-" I don't recollect what was said, but How chin said, " You may as well call me a liar." My husband said, "So I will," and left the room. Mr. Howchin said to me, "How can you bear this?" , I said, "I am accustomed to his excitability." He said, "He ought to be punished." I said. "Oh, no, Mr. Howchin." After tea, my husband said, " I'm sorry I should have blamed you unjustly, Mr. Howchin." Prisoner made no answer. The shirts which I had seen on the table before going out were there•when I found my husband lying on the floor. There was also a newspaper there. There were spots of blood on both the shirts and paper. I never saw the piece of iron in the house before. Three of the boarders slept in the same room as the prisoner. He had a box there which was usually kept locked. Nothing was stolen from the house on the night of the occurrence. Cross-examined I saw the front door closed when I re turned from giving my lesson. Aspeaking-tube commun. cates from the study to the kitchen. I did not speak by it to the servants. I did not wish to alarm the house or the boys. I think when the prisoner went for the doctor I called the servants, but lam not sure as to the exact moment: I do ?not remember Mr. Preyss coming and holding my husband's right hand after he was injured. Mr. Howchin and'Mr. Preyss disliked each other very much. My hus band was easily excited by a Title drink." Isabella Jones, housemaid to Mr. Flueck : On the 25th of November, about 5.30 o'clock, my master came in at the side door. I was in the kitchen. The door was always open. He spoke to the cook and left some sausages. He then. went along the passage towards the hall. I had sent the page, M`Grath, upstairs to the back room to dress. About ten or fifteen minutes after Mr. Flueck left , we had tea. About five , minutes after Mr. Fleuek came in Mr. Howchin • came in the same *ay. I saw him going along the passage. • While we were having tea we heard a fall on the floor of the study Over head, on the right side of the fireplace: This would be ten of 15 minutes after Mr. Flueck came in. !I heard nothing afterwards. I went upstairs. to dress 25 minutes after wards, and stayed there about 20. It was a quarter past six when I came down. I heard, my mistress come in, and about five minutes afterwards I heard her call. I went to the study, and saw my mistress, mid Howchin; and Master there lying on the floor. I first saw the pieCe of iron on the study fluor. I had never seen it about . the House before. After the hearing of the case for the prosecution, the prisoner's counsel dwelt upon the purely circumstantial nature of the evidence, and urged that there was no ! (•vi dence sufficiently • strong to justify a verdict of guilty. The judge, Mr. Justice Mellor, then summed up, Occu pying two hours and a-quarter in so doing. He saidthat it would not be sufficient to find a verdict of guilty upon if the jury merely came to the conclusion that if tlit psi boner did not commit the murder it would be impoi;sible to say who did. After an absence of an hour and a-Cpaar ter the jury returned a verdict of .not guilty, which , was received with loud applause. • SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR ST HELENS. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. On Friday morning a railway collision of a serious character, and attended with severe injuries to three persons and slight injuries to a number of others, occurred on the London and North Western Railway, at Peasley Cross, about one mile from St. Helens station. The train to which the accident happened was the 9.30 passenger from St. Helens Junction, through St. Helens to Wigan, which consisted of the engine, three mixed car riages, and the break, and contained about forty passen gers. On nearing Peasley Cross the guard saw in front of them a coal train, which had pulled up to take in water. He instantly applied the break, which had the effect of considerably diminishing the speed of the train, but not of preventing a collision. ' The passenger train dashed into the coal trucks with considerable violence.. The passengers at once experienced a severe shock, most of them being violently thrown off their seats. One of the coal trucks was slightly smashed, and two of the buffers were knocked off the engine, but beyond this the injury to the rolling stock was of but a trifling character. The passengers, however, did not escape so easily. Three received injuries of so serious a character that they had to be taken to the Temperance Hotel at St. Helens, where they at present remain, two being confined to bed. One man was seriously hurt about the chest, and two about the head, besides suffering from a general shock to the system. Many of the other passengers were con siderably shaken, but their injuries were not of such a nature as to prevent them continuing their journey, and the train, after a slight detention, was despatched on to Wigan, the necessary repairs being afterwards attended. to. The following are the names of the injured passen gers who remain at St. Helens :—Robert Dewerson, Warrington ; George Howard, Warrington ; Joseph Cooper, Manchester--Manchester Courier. SCIENTIFIC TEACHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. A deputation, of the Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, consisting of the presi dent, the general secretaries, and the treasurer, Sir Charles Lyall, Bart. •, Sir John Lubbock, Bart„ : 1)r. Lyon Playfair, M.P. ; and Mr. Francis Galton,' had an interview with the Vice-President of the Council on Tu4day last. The object is stated in the following document :—" Sir,—The deputation from the" Conned •of the British Association for the Advance nient of Science waits upon you for the purpose of urging the advisableness of including elementary natural • science among the subjects for which payments are to be made under the authority of the Revised Code. We have asked you to receive us at the present time because - we understand that you have announced your intention of making certain modifications in the code. Our reasons for requesting you • to give . direct encouragement to the teachin g of natural science iiielementary schools are three. Firstly, we conceive 'such teaching to be one of the best instruments of education in the sense of intel lectual' discipline, and in many respects better cal culated to awaken intellectual activity, than other studies; secondly, we think that a knowledge of the elements of natural science has a high value as informa tion ; and, thirdly., .we are of opinion that scientific train • ing and teaching in the elementary schools will afford the best' possible preparation for that technical education of the working classes which has become indispensably necessary to the industrial progress of the country., We lake the liberty of pointing out to you that, in asking for the introduction of scientific teaching into the elementary schools; we are not seeking for the creation of a new system, or even of new executive machinery. The, Science and Art Department does already provide for elemedtary 'scientific instruction ' • and all that is necessary to fulfil our desire is, that the system Of the Science and Art Depart ment, and that of the revised code shall be brought into harmonious co-operation. In preferring the request that instruction in the elements of science shall be made part ofi the regular course of instruction of all elementary schools, we desire carefully to guard against the suppo sition that we are • seeking for such an amount of this kind of instruction as would interfere with - the teaching of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the other essential constituents of primary educa tion. 'On the contrary, we think it very desirable that systematic, instruction in elementary science should be •given iinly to those scholars who are able to read and write fairly ; that it should be 'limited to certain well defined subjects, such, for example, as elementary •phy s i. cal geography ;• elethentary physics • and chemistry ; elementary botany; and, in consequence of its relation to the public health, elementary human physiology ; and that care should be taken to make the instruction, so far as may be, real and practical." • The address was signed. by Professor Huxley,* as President of the British Asso dation. . It is Stated . -in Dublin that the Wicklow Peerage case is finally settled, the proceedings having fallen • through. AS Christmas Day will this year fall on a Sunday, -the following day, Monday, the 26th, will be observed as in almost universal holiday. In the present state of the law, the banks must remain open, but the attendance will •be much smaller thanusual. The Stock Exchange will be clOsed, according to custom. • In the Court of Vice-Chancellor MaEns,. on Satur day, A. jessrs. Olowse, the well"known,printers and pub lishers:of LondOn Society, applied for ail injunction against • Mr. Hogg, • late editor of the magazine 4 restraining him • from 'continuing the' publication of a magazine (called English Society. - On the defendant leaving, the service of the plaintiffs, he issued the periodical in question, the covers of which, theugh not,precisely the same, *ere so nearly identical, it was alleged, in form and general ap pearance with those of the other, as to cause one to be mistaken for the other: The injunction was granted. A NoTHEit FATAL RAILWAY 01;LIS Be tween twelve and one o'clock on Saturday a collision took place at Stoneclough, near Bolton, between a 3as senger train to ' Southport, and . a luggage train to Man - chester. ,The driver of *the luggage train was killed; :and one of the firemen'was seriously injured. Twelve passen gers were injured more or less, among them heir* Mr. George 'Wild, a gentleman residing at Belmont-street, Southport, who is,badly cut, and his head injured and Mrs. 'Sarah Fenton,- Manchester, who is injured in ternally. The passengers were conveyed to'Bolton Station, Where their injuries were attended to. • . • MEETING OF THE LEICESTERSHIRE CHAMBER. or AGRICULTURE. —At a meeting of the Leicestershire Chamber of 'Apiculture, Sir Henry Halford . chairman, it was decided to 'take steps to induce Government to con tribute more largely towards local taxation. It was .also resolved that the meeting should take steps to impress upon. the,.Privy Council the undesirability 'of reVert irg. to the old systeM of weekly inspection by inspectors in cases of foot-and-month disease, as it en tailed unnecesEary serious expenditures, costing the county of Leicester alone £5,00() a, year. . It was like Wise decided to get the -county members in case of the ex piration of the turnpike leases to throw the expenSe en the Consolidated Fund rather than on the owners and peen piers of • land. Similar resolutions were passed With regard to the profits from farming and local , taxation that were adopted three weeks ago. ; On the subject of local taxation, Mr. Albert Pell, M.P., -said that it. was unadvisable to deal with that subject piecemeal, and no change should be made in ntie portion of the pxisting, law, till ParliaMent had dealt with the 'whole subject in a comprehensive manner, and had decided whether the - whole burthen of local taxation shall-be ex elusively:confined to the same description of property as at_ present. . . . SCHOLASTIC ADVEUTISEMICNTS.—Justat this sea-, son of the year scholastic advertisements areiued.iu gwat numbers, and it is curious•to note the attractions put for ward by the schoolmasters of the clay. Here are one or two siunples from a recent number of the 2 luzeZ' One disinte rested " dominie" tells us that A few nice gentlemanly boys can be received on very easy terms, in a first class school, a few miles from London, where the main .object is not to make money but good scholars and loving disciples after the Arnold sort. - Address," &c., &c. The idea .of advertising capacities like Arnold's is cer tainly unique. A revel end gentleman advertising another school quotes an 'extract from a "private letter," which it, would, perhaps, be cruel to suggest wa , 4 concocted fOr the occasion. A gushing correspondent is supposed to write :—" By your admi rable management of him you succeeded :in gaining his confidence nod affection while exacting the strictest atten tion to .bis studies." We can only say that if the British parent is decoyed by this sort of thing, the School Board Will have .to educate fathers and mothers as well as the children. But here is an advertisement which will probably catch the average father, so artfully does it appeal to the innate flunkeyism of the middle-class mind :—" The vicar of a small country parish desires after , Christmas a companion pupil for a viscount and an earl's nephew.—Address,''.&e„ This is inimitable. Thackeray should have known this Vicar. Pall Mall Gazette. • CRYSTAL . 1.-ALACE.— HaI f -4-k,mown Day, Satur day, December 17th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets 5,819 ; ditto on payment, 1,034 ; total visitors, 6,923., BIBLICAL REVISION.—The Revisers Ot . the New Testament Company concluded their present session on Friday, after having sat during the four days as many a 25 hours. The Bishop of Glocester and Bristol preSided during thli session. The revision of nearly one half of the sutivrfsed version of the Gospel of St. Matthew has now been concluded.' • NoTIcE.—KINAHAN's LL. Whisky Depot. Kinahan and Co. have removed to their new and spacious premises, No. Ga,' Great" TitChfidd-street, Oxford-street, leading from Margaret-street, - Regent-street, and Market-street, Oxford-street. Kinahan's Lb. Whisky.—This &Mous and moSt delicibus old mellow spirit is the very cream of Irish . whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure, and more wholesome than the finest cognac brandy. .Can be obtained all over the kingdom, in the well : lnown sealed and labelled bottles, or in bond for exportation at the London Docks. Wholesale Agents to Messrs. Bass, Guinness,-and Younger, and Dealers in - Foreign Wines and Spirits. _ CAN I AFFORD IT ?—ray your Stationer Gd. for a reply. 'ap of the World gratis in all Letts's Office Diaries. Letts's ond Xs. Diarie3-give most value for year Money. Utiles Housekeepers' and Ladies' Diaries are much improved. Letts's Invisible Inl; or Postal Cants, Gd. per bottle. ]MARKETS. DONCASTER CORN - MARKET, SATURDAY.—The supply of wheat at this market to-day is small, and except in dry parcels of fine white went the trade is slow, ht barely last week's quota tions. Barley has a lowering tendency, and there is little doing in oats and beaus, GLOUCESTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—At this market to-day farmerS offered a small supply of wheat, and millers de manded a reduction of is. per quarter, which sellers would not accept, and little business was done. Foreign wheat was dull at a decline of is. per quarter. Oats were 6!. per quarter lower, with a slow sale. Grinding and malting barley, and maize was dull. NORWICH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—The attendance at this market to-day was good, and the supply of wheat on offer was considerable. Business was not very active in wheat, and a decline of is. to 2s. per qr. was noted. There was little or no change in Barley. -•- READING CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—Owing to the dampness of the weather and the nearness of Christmas, the at tendance of dealers, as also the supply of grain, fell far short of former weeks. The bad condition of the wheat on offer caused a very dull trade and a deterioration in value of from ls. to 2s. per quarter. A corresponding decline took place in other corn. LEITH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—Wheat is again slow, at this market to-day, and ls. per qr. lower. Barley was dull, and from 6d; to ls. per qr. cheaper. Oats bring full prices. Peas and beans unaltered. The arrivals for the weeek amount to 801 qrs. of wheat, 3.393 qrs. of barley, 4,100 qrs. of oats, 504 qrs. of beans, 1,059 qrs. of peas, 4;498 sacks of flour. „ . KIRKCALDY CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—There were good supplies of wheat, barley, and oats, at this market to-day. Wheat was ls. per quarter down, while barley and oats sold at the dull prices of last week. Prices per quarter ranged as follows :—Wheat, 41s. 6d. to 545. ; barley, 27a. to 365. 6d, ; oats, 235. 6d. to 28s. 6d. DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET, SATURDAY.---There is a moderate supply of cattle at this market to-day, which sell slowly at last week's rates. .There.are a very few sheep on offer, and little doing. There is a slow sale for pigs, at ls, per head less money than last quoted. METROPOLITAN HIDE AND SKIN MARKET, SATURDAY. —Market hides : 561bs. to 641b5., lid to 31d. ; 641bs. to 721bs. 34d. ; 721bs. to 801bs., 3id to na. ; 801bs. to BSlbs., lid. to 4d. ; BSlbs. to 961b5., lid. to 4id ; 961bs. to 1041b5., 4d. to 41d. ; 1041bs. to 1121b5., 4d. to Cid. Horse hides, 10s. Od. to 12s. calf skins—light, 2s. to 4s. ; full, 7s. 6d. Sheep skins— polled, 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. ; half-breds, Zs. 6d. to Os. 6d. ; Downs, 4s. to ss. 3d. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SATUBbAY. —Mr. Charles James Easton thus reports on the state of the hay market --There were moderato 'supplies of hay and clover on sale at to-day's market. The inquiry was rather more animated and prices were well maintained :—Prime meadow hay, 130 s. to 140 s. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. •, prime first-cut clover, 130 s. to 140 s. ; inferior ditto, 115 s. to 1255. ; prime seqond-cut clover, 1265. to 1355. ; inferior ditto, 106 s. to 116 s. ; and straw, 335. to 38s. per load. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The improved. demand continues at this market to-day.. Probable sales, 12,000 bales. Imports : American, 2,932 ' bales ; Brazil, 1,466 bales. Closing Report.—This market closes steady to-day, and better tone prevails. Sales; 12000 bales. Arrivals : Mobile, ship named, Bd., December. Shipment : Savannah, named, 8d:, De-' cember. • LEEDS ,TRADE REPORT,. SATURDAY.—The =met to-day, J for the time of year, has been an average woollen.market. Many buyers from distant towns are not now expected. Small specu lators attending hoping to catch up cheap lots and rem nants, succeed very little. ln other respects there' is an average sorting-up business going on. The limited spring trade which is dono is confined to .blue" coatings and some light meltons. The cheapest things pur-` chaseable at Present are low tweed% and dark shades sell in, small parcels. . The Canadians are here buying spring selec: lions, but all invoices are dated forward. In the home trade there is a good. ftteling as regards the future. The Luxemburg difficulty is not considered formidable, and millowners in most districts work' full time. The absence of new orders is attributed to stock-taking. The army cloths, and blanket makers are tipsy to the utmost, and employing all who come. Galipoli oil is £1 a ton dearer. Cot- • ton warps are in favour of buyers here as well as in Manchester,. but spinners being busy, prices are not as low in proportion as, the raw material, CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKIfT, SATURDAY.—This market closed quiet to-day, with a moderate business doing, at a decline since last market of 688. to 98s. per cwt. ou low and medium sorts, and 38% on whites. CORK BUTTER MARKET, SATURDAt—Ordinitry firsts, 1385.; seconds, 1275. thirds, 1125.; fourths 105 s. ; fifths, 98s. ; sixths; 675. 1,050 firkins in the market. Mild cured, no change. firkins in the market. LAW AND POLICE. INHUMAN CONDUCT OF PARISH OPFICIALS.—A poor• woman came to Mr. Arnold, the sitting magistrate at the , Westmin,ter Police-court, and requested his assistance under very peculiar. circumstances. She stated that her daughter was an inmate of the workhouse in York-street, Westminster, and was confined, or close upon it. She had been, to• see her daughter, who wished to see her, but the parish authorities would not allow her to see her daughter under any pretext whatever. Mr. Arnold said it was a most extraordinary proceeding, and gave the woman .a note directed to the relieving officer. She . : returned shortly, and stated that Mr. Collis, the relieving officer, had given her an order to see her daughter,, and she had taken that, with his worship's letter, to Mr. Morley, the master of the House, who had refused to allow her to see her daughter ; and, as the girl was very: bad, and wanted to see her, she requested his worship's assistance. Mr. Arnold expressed his surprise at the measure adopted, and ordered Davis, the warrant officer of the Court, to inquire about the matter. Davis did so, and reported that he had seen both Mr. Collis and Mr. Morley. Mr. Collis had not given the woman an order to see her daughter, but au order to the master with the words " see the attached." Referring to the magistrates note the master said that when' " unfortunates " girls were confined they were not allowed the regulations to be visited but once a month, except in case of imminent danger, and then their friends would lie , communicated with. The mother could call and hear how she - was progressing when she pleased, and besides there was such a fearful stench from her consequent' upon her confinement that it was not safe to see her. Mr. Arnold said that would be the mother's business. Davis said he had recommended the woman to go before the Board of Guardians. Mr. Arnold said that would be the better course. It was a very extraordinary proceeding, and required explanation. The poor woman thanked him worship, and left again for the workhouse. A BRACE OF DANGEROUS CHARACTERS.—Two rough- looking, fellows, named Patrick Crawley and Michael Donovan, alias Donahoo, were charged before Mr. Knox; at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with loitering in Oxford-street; supposed for the purpose of committing( a felony. The prisoners were seen in Oxford-street this morning, about two o'clock, by Police-constable Hill, 11.1 E, loitering for some time, and : as he knew them to be very bad characters he watched them, and saw them attempt to rob a drunken and then took them into custody. Detectfve Fisher, E division, said he had known the prisoners aboiit five years. They. belonged to a dangerous gang,' and were in the habit of hanging about the corner of.Croivii street, Oxford street, for the purpose of " picking up' drunken people, kind robbing them. The only defence the prisoners made was to abuse the: officers. Mr. Knox committed the prisoners for three months' each, with hard • • labour. How TYPHUS FEVER IS PROPAGATED. -- Inspector Osborn, of the H division of police, applied to Mr. Paget, • at the Thames Police-court, for summonses against a Irian residing in Whitechapel, for hiring a cab and-riding in it without giving due notice to the driver of the cab that'he WAS suffering under typhus fever. He also applied'fOr, a summons against the driver of the cltb for not disinfe:a- Mg his vehicle after his engagement. Mr. Paget : " Did the cabman know he had been carrying a man labouring under typhus fever ?" Inspector Osborn " Yes, sir:; •Ve. drove a man to the Fever Hospital, and he was inforui r ed • there that the patient was labouring under a - malinant fever; but he continued to ply for .hire, and to receive fares, without disinfecting his cab, or fumigating it in any way, and there was no knowing the mischief he might have caused, for typhus foyer way very contagious and prevalent at the preSent time." Mr. Paget said M the public interest; this was a very important and proper pm and, lit should graiit the summonses applied for. He hoped Mr. Osborn. would take' care and net in troduce the fever into that court.. Inspector Osborri said that the fever plitient was., perfectly cured,-and the:cab driver had not ridden inside his cab, and had not con tracted the fever. Mr. %•paget said it should be made known that persons labouring under a malignant fever or small-pox, who rode in cabs and other public vehicles, without previously giving notice of their malady were liable to heavy ptralties, and the 'drivers of vehicles were also equally liable if they did not properly disinfect their cabs after carrying fever patients. He granted the two summonses. _,.__r..,__ Dr. Cumoron, of tho Glasgow Mail, has just Lad the degree of L.L.D. conferred upon him at the hands of the senate of , the University of Dublin... THE AVAIL THE SIEGE OF PARIS. THE GERMAN POSITIONS. The Correspondance Havas publishes an account of the observations made by a Parisian at the Prussian advance posts. Behind Bourg-la-Reine the Prussiang have fortified themselves strongly. The railway lines have been cut, barricades erected, and moats dug. The most important position in this direction is Croix-de-Bernis, which is situated near Bourg-la-Reine, and is the chief point in the second Prussian line. The road from Choisy de Croix de Berths is of the first importance to the Prussians. Four other roads join it, and it secures their communication with Versailles by Chatenay, and preserves direct com munication between Choisy and the camp of ' Antony. Croix de Berths is the key of the two roads, and is the constant care of the enemy. On the road from Sceaux to the village there are no less than five barricades, and in front of the village is an abattis of trees , with two embrasures, through which two cannon command the road to Paris, while the village itself is defended by a series of epaulments and a battery armed with French 12-pounders commands the whole. At the bridge situated at Croia a mass of fascines and trees render it possible to repair the bridge - in a few minutes Following the Chatenay road, the railway to Sceaux is traversed by a formidable bariicade. At Croix de Bernie the rails taken from the railway have been used for case mating the powder of the battery. Antony haaaJbeen partly abandoned, part of the cavalry encamped there having been sent southwards. The infantry has gone to Choisy, to replace Genera Turupting's corps, gone to Montargis. A formidable Prussian battery was' unmasked the other day by accident. It was believed that the enemy intended establishing one at Argemont, and many 'attempts were made, though fruitlessly, to discover it. Numbers of bombs were sent in various directions without finding out where the battery was. A few days since a French officer, examining the ground before him from the redoubt at Charlebourg, saw, near the mill of Argemont, something which made him believe the enemy were stationed near there. A heavy piece of artillery had been put in position the night before, and this was fired, when a most .unexpected result was produced. A whole row of trees fell as if by a sudden stroke, and a formidable broad . side 'replied to 'the French cannon. The Prussians, believing their secret discoverdd, had at last unmasked the mysterious battery. NO INFORMATION TO•BE HAD. The Prussian official Staantnzeiger admits that the vigilance of the French has completely cut off the old sources of information :—" Notwithstanding the anxiety that prevails at headquarters to obtain intelligence from Paris, no news had arrived during the past week of the impression produced in the capital by the late unfor tunate attempted sorties. All that is known authentically up to the present moment is that General D.ucrot, who commanded the recent offensive movements, prefers remaining in the outer encampment instead of returning to the capital. The news already published by us, that a number of guns have been dismounted from some of the forts—lssy, Vanvres, and Val4rien are mentioned—and moved nearer to the enceinte of the town, has been con firmed. In other respects we are completely in the dark as to the position of affairs in Paris, as since the, great movements of troops which commenced on the 28th November no Paris newspapers have reached us, and since greater vigilance, has been observed by the French out posts, a stop has been placed for the present 'upon the desertions from their garrison." THE FOOD SUPPLY. One grand point is that bread is plentiful and bestowed where required with a liberal hand. The mills set up by the Government are working admirably, and the flour produced, though not of the usual whiteness of the best Paris make, is excellent. Some people complain that the bread is coarse, but in reality it is better than usual, there being no potatoes in it. With a view to meet this com plaint of the colour of the bread a committee of the Central Hygienic Commission, consisting of MM. Bouchutat, Saint Claire Deville, Tr4lat, G. See, Ad. Wurtz, De Montmahon, H. Baillon, Cubeer, Chauveau-Lagare, Reynal, Onimus, Du Mesnil, Behier, and Gavarret, have issued the following note Making bread of flour completely deprived of every particle of bran, as is usual in Paris, takes away from the bread a notable portion of its alimentary principles, and causes a regrettable loss. Taking this into consideration, the Com Mission reminds the public that brown bread, far from being injurious as many people imagine, is more wholesome and more nourishing than white bread." It should be added that the bread produced here at present is not brown bread, properly speaking, but only brownish. —Food Journal. GERMAN OFFICERS IN PARIS. General Schmitz, a staff-officer, has ordered a notice to be posted in Paris with respect to the German officers, who are prisoners in that city. He says that complaints have been made that they should be allowed free access to to the restaurants and street's. He says that these officers have given their word of honour not to leave Paris or to hold any secret correspondence with the besieging army, and adds that it may prove advantageous to lot Germans learn for themselves the true state of affairs with regard to the provisioning, and the spirit of the Parisian population. As these officers had, however, been assaulted in a restaurant where they were dining, he had ordered them to be sent to prison at La Roquette, in order to protect them from the annoyances to which theymight have been subjected by the excited state of the popular feeling, and which could not fail to produce serious consequences. A NIGHT IN A BALLOON. M. Jules Buffet and some other aeronauts left Pari; a few days ago in the Archimedes balloo n at four in he afternoon. It was dark consequently when they started. M. Buffet writes of the voyage :—" Paris, seen by night and from the height of one mile and a quarter, to which we . rose, has something very striking about it ; the lights of the ramparts seemed to combine together. so as to surround the city with a girdle of fire, and the streets appeared like brilliant lines cutting each other. Soon, however, all these lines of light mixed with each other, and Paris became only a brilliant spot, then it sank to a shining point, and then it was lost altogether. Nothing round the city indicated the Prussian positidns. The balloonran rapidly towards the north; its managem:ent was an easy matter, and the aerial machine proved itself an excellent one. Roads spread themselves out whiteish lines on the black base of the picture, and re lit up here and there by luminous points. Towns, w ch always appeared like lines of fire, succeeded each of er. Suddenly the whole earth appeared illuminated ; a great number of red lights attracted our atlen tion, and distant noises made themselves heard. This vas as I have since learnt, the coal' basin of Charletoi ; and it was. the innumerable forges and blast fur naces of that district which caused these lights and these ,startling noises. The night glided away with alternations of darkness and artificial twinkling lights ; and now, from the faint light which invaded the sky, we perceived that day was about to break. The weather continued beautifully fine, and at a height of nearly two miles we saw the sun arise in his glorioUs majesty — a spectacle never to be forgotten. The change was marvellous. Little by little the earth appeated, 'and amid the perfect silence of the regions through which we passed we distinctly heard the cock crow. The spectacle which we witnessed reminded one of a beautiful picture from which little by little the covering was removed. Woods appeared like tufts of grass, houses were like white points. Here and there were small glittering spaces —water, doubtless,; and from the flat and uniform aspect of the country we agreed unanimousely in recognising Flanders." A LETTER FROM M. GUIZOT. M. Guizot has, addiessed a letter to the Government of National Defence, praising them highly for their exer tions in a difficult situation. The name they have assumed is worthy and modest, for they have undertaken to save France from the foreigner and from anarchy, and have believed in the heroic resistance of Paris, and . the patriotic elan of the provinces when almost every one else doubted. M. Guizot has regretted that they have done some acts and have not done others, but he considers that on the whole they have acted like men of heart and good citizens. Ho addresses them with no other authority than that given by theexperienCe of a long life and the disinterestedness of an approaching death, which conditions enable one to catch a glimpse of the truth. He proceeds to recommend the election' of a Constituent Assembly at all risks, and exhorts the Government to allow no personal considerations to cloud their judgment. He will not, he says, 'speak of • the Second Empire, not wishing to sPeak of the conquered, even of those conquered by their faults ;- but in respect' to au Imperial resurrection, he says to France that she will find in it neither wisdoth nor the services of a strong power, nor the benefits of lib'rty. The Legitimists can insure an established Government, but cannot by establish their own Gcivern xnent. The time for conspiracies and risings is past akriong them. In future they can effect nothing except by uniting • themselves to the national sentiment, whether the ques t Lion lie of We internal or external affairs of the country. Monarchists and Conservatives, they are held to be at the same time Liberals and patriots ; for they are the natural allies of order in the bosom of liberty. M. Berryer celled in the art of thus serving his party and of keeping , it up by giving it a new form. M. Charette and M. Catheli veau are at this time serving the Republic under the same uniform as they served the Papacy. The House of Bourbon might have been able, by rallying all together under the national flag, to take to itself a newer and stronger posi tion, and rejuvenate, instead of mutilating itself. It has not been able to do it. The Count de Chambord remain s with dignity a monarchical claimant, but a clainas isolated and inert, pledged to wait without doing allY° thing and without hoping much. The Princes of the House of Orleans are Princes, but not Pretenders. TheY have said and proved this themselves during and sinc e 1848. Neither at the moment of their fall, nor under the Republic, nor under the Second Empire, lo ve they presented themselves to France as heirs of the thron e ' Always ready to serve France, they never claim any tide to govern it. They have done more—they have aske d from the Republic leave to serve it ; and as they are essen tially men of honour, if the Republic had asked of then l the oath of fidelity, and if they had taken it, they would have kept it. Whatever they do, they remain—an d they will remain—Princes ; they will never be usurpers. The Orleanists, he maintained, represented the mass of men of order and of sense, the vast labouring population often called the juste milieu that occupies so much room in France. This population, he said, was almost alwol ° too timid, too yielding for those who, in the name of o rder refuse it the necessary liberty, or, in the name of liberty, compromise its laborious repose. The Republicans have two duties, to separate' themselves from their pernicious allies, the fanatical Republicans, and to live constantlY in presence of. France itself, of its freely elected represely tatives sharing in the work of the Government. GERMAN CONSISTENCY. .The following extraordinary paragraph is frqm the .A r t l6 York Commercial and Shipping News :--" Since the cora . mencement of the Franco-Prussian war it is estimate d that the value of the munitions of war which havo been shipped hence to Europe closely approximates ten millions of dollars, and the principal manufactories of improved implements are still fully employed on foreign orders- At the outset, the North German Consul at this port protested against the shipment of arms to France as being in contravention of our neutrality laws, bal that theory was speedily exploded, and the aforesaid consul subsequently received instructions from his Goternment not to concern himself further in Ple matter, because there is no law among nations to prevent such shipments by privato citizens." What do Englishmen think of this ? Th e shipment of arms from England in trivial, 'imperceptibl e quantities is a grave outrage to Germany, which the Germans repay by systematic insult ; but the shipmen t of arms in immense quantities from America is a sort of thing Which " there is no law among nations to pre vent." The eldest son of the Duke de Gramont, the Frond ) statesman, has left London to join the French Gard° Mobile as a volunteer. He is only 19 years of age. Seven hundred men have left Hamburg to fill up gaps in the corps of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, which has suffered heavily. . The vessels placed in the Elbe to obstruct the channel have been all removed, on account of the ice which io floating on the river in thin sheets, but which is no impe diment at present to navigation. • The Rote, of St. Leopoldo, on the Rio Grande del sol (Brazirrsays that the Germans of that place have already collected and forwarded 22,000 thalers in aid of the wounded in the present war, and that they expect eh send in further subscriptions. Fifty Frenchmen, seized as hostages for the German merchant captains, arrived at Frankfort on the 11th. ana on the following day were sent to Bremen. They ar e composed of counts, marquises, barons, and wealthy com moners from the district of Dijon. The Echo du Nord of the 14th of December states that MM. Jeunet and Tilloy, editors of the Journal d'Amiens, have been arrested by the Prussian commandant upon charges of insulting the King of Prussia and maligning the Prussian armies, and are required to pay 50,000 f. 55 a fine before they will be restored to liberty. A correspondent of the Swam Mercury says :--- To the continuous grenade and small-arm firing of the enenlY is now to be added that of the gunboats lying o n the Seine, the guns of which, being of the largest calibre, cause great destruction." Captain l3eaurefaire has collected in Paris the 12;00 0 volunteers with whom he hopes to cut through the Prue' sian lines and organise a thorough levee en masse in .the provinces. He waited on Trochu, who, agreeably to b l 5 promise, officially authorised him to form this new corpe. The President of the Great Luxemburg Railway saYs that that line has not been leased to the Eastern of France Company, as has been alleged. The Great Luxemburg is not a line in the Grand Ducal territory.' The William Luxemburg line is the railway referred to, and this leased to the Eastern of France. A correspondent says it is probable that M. Gambetta will find that some days must elapse before Bourbakj' s army is in a condition to take the field. The gener al's own division is intact, , but he has a crowd of fugitives without arms or equipments to reorganise. The corps ar e in many cases completely scattered and broken up—ine rl without officers, officers without men. Some gastronomical philosophers of the Acclimiti' sation Society have been banquetting on all the extraor dinary viands which they could collect, and salmi of rat and broiled dog's liver are declared by them to be exquisite, while the young rats which furnished the garnish to roast cat were admitted to be uneatable, and a dog's hid leg was pronounced as tough and stringy as it is prover' bially crooked. The Alsatians, says the Allgemeinc Zeitung, will no t accept posts under the German administration. The neWs' papers daily give letters from officials, stating that they had resigned, and had no desire to serve the Gerron l ' authorities. People have consequently to be brough t from distance, and the Alsations will by-and-bye, in their own interest, regret this. In Upper Alsace attack' continue to be made on railways and telegraphs. Mayence has now an additional suburb. Between the inner and outer walls of the fortress eighty wooden build ings have been erected for the accommodation of the 27,000 French prisoners, who were previously under or vas. About 250 men are lodged in each building, with a Prussian and twenty French sub-officers over them. Th e demeanour of the prisoners is not very reassuring. ll e ' a volvers and knives, with which they have secretly arms themselves, have repeatedly been discovered. Greater pr e ; cautions are therefore taken, so that any outbreak w ok be nipped in the bud. THE PRUSSIANS IN ROUEN.—A. person lateli arrived from Rouen has furnished some details o f t he manner in which the Prussians have been c onductine, themselves in that town. It is not true that Rouen 10"„ been called upon to furnish a contribution of fiftee : million francs. Requisitions in money have not bee' called for, but the town has been obliged to contribl twenty thonsand pairs of boots, and eighty thousse, e coverings, together with other requisitions in kind. V, superior officers have fixed themselves in the best hoteLs ,tbe ; eat and drink well, and order the town authoritie s to pO9 the reckoning. The mayor has announced that all the roads are free, and therefore the country p eo p le co g send their cattle to market as formerly. T he Prussia ) have seized upon all the homes. They say that they 0 '; remain in Rouen for the winter. The Prussian garri?erj should consist of 8,000 men, but more than 20,000 soldis are now in the town. [ADVERTISEM ENT. I —Holloway's 4 . 1 Pills.—lf half - - ao attention were bestowed on preserving health as is g is " 9o to remain it when unfortunately it has been lost, rn) happinesswould be vastly augmented. Everybody's vv'l,,e is, most certainly, to be well, but to attain that desir oy state during the winter months of fogs and chills WO , 0 disputed question prior to the discovery of Hollovi'e pills. No one need hesitate to take Hollow a y' s medicA during the versatile and, dismal months. His pills 11 , e cast out any noxious matters which may have entered lungs, and likewise prevent disease arising from chec" D y perspiration, sedentary habits, or ill-ventilated rooni6,,De rousing the activity of the liver, and stimulating kidneys to abundant secretion. , BIRTHS. ~to 4 On the 14th inst., at Hampstead, the wife of W. Dom , Anderson, Esq., of a daughter. the On the 15th inst., at Elmhurst, Harehills, Leeds, wife of Robt.. Benson Jowitt, Esq., of a son. • . 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