The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-24 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS. -YESTERDAY. There has been an entire absence of any approach to activity in the Stock Exchange to-day. Business has been confined within very moderate limits, and the quotaions have had a drooping tendency. The prevalent heaviness has been caused by the rumour that Marshal Bazaine had effected his retreat to Chalons, and that the Prussian army, under the Crown Prince, had made a retrograde movement. This news was considered to be very inimical to the prospect of any immediate cessation of hostilities. A check was in consequence imparted to business, and transactions for investment, which for some time past have continued to strengthen the tone of the market, were suspended. Prices shewed no violent fluctuations, but the tendency was unfavourable. The market for share securities has been in an un settled state, and the quotations have ruled easier. Consols have been flat, and present time, at 91± and 91# for delivery, and 91i to 910 for September. Re duced and Mid. Three per Cents., 911 and 94 Bank stock, 233 to 235 ; Exchequer Bills, Is. to 6s. prem. ; India Five per Cents., 110/ to 111/ ; and Indta i ßonds, 10s. to 15s. prem, For Colonial Government securities there has been but little demand, at d prices have shewn no change. The English Railway Market has been dull, at a general reduction, The principal decline has been in Great Western, which has fallen 21, in consequence of the divi dend being / per cent., less than was expected. Great Northern A has receded 1/, or to 129 k to 130/ ; Great Northern (original) 1, or to 120 to 121 ; Metropolitan, j, or to 641 to 64f ; Caledonian at 74 to 74/ ; Brighten at 39 to 39 1 ; South Eastern at 69 to 69/ ; Midland at 1261 to 127, and North-Western at 126 k to 127 ; are each lower. North-Eastern, at 139 to 140 shew a fall of 1. Indian Railway Stocks have been dealt in quietly, but prices have been without change. Canadian Shares have been flat. Foreign Shares have been dull, and Lombards have been I lower, at 15/ to 15g. The tone of the market for foreign bonds has been very quiet, and prices have given way. Italian Marem mana railway bonds have fallen 2 ; Russian (1850), 1; and Turkish 5 per cents. + per cent. American securities have been in limited request. The Five-Twenty 1885 and 1887 bonds have fallen 1. Illinois Central shares have advanced and Pennsylvania General Mortgage 1. Bank shares have been quiet. Anglo-Egyptian, 22 ; Imperial Ottoman, 11i to 12 ; London and Country, 481; London Joint Stock, 33± to 33 - 1: London and West minster, 591 to 60 : and Union of London, 37. Telegraph shares have been flat. British Indian Sub marine at 7/ to 7i ; and Falmouths at 9/ to 9 are / lower. French cables, 141. Telegraph Construction are 1 lower, at 23/ to 24 ; and Silver's India Rubber, 2, at 40 to 41. Miscellaneous securities have been neglected, and are drooping in price. The sum of £7,000 has been taken to the Bank to-day. As regards the exchanges there has been a good demand for short Paris bills, and the rates are lower. Otherwise there is no alteration. The dividend of the Great Western Railway will be at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum. The Don Pedro Mining Company have received the following telegram from Lisbon :—Weighed to 30th July, 4,529 oitavas ; estimate for July 6,529 oitavas. In the discount market there has been a good supply of capital. The business doing has been limited, and three months' paper has continued negotiable at about 4 per cent. The Etna, from Halifax, has brought £3,193 in specie. At a meeting of the Submarine Telegraph Company, the directors' report was adopted, and a dividend of 6i per cent. for the half-year was declared. The report of the shareholders of the new Bank of Bombay, submitted at the meeting (the adoption of which was announced by telegraph on the 13th inst.) chewed that the net profits for the half-year, amounted to £35,148, of which £lB,OOO was appropriated to a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, £2,000 to premises account, and £12,206 to reserve (thus raised to £41,500), leaving £2,942 to be carried forward. The directors had not yet come to any satisfactory arrangement with the Government in reference to the charter, but an early settlement of the question is anticipated. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-TUESDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GCVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols mg 911 DoApril & OctlBB3-85.. 111 113 911, 1,1, 1,1, 1 113, 121 Do for Account 811, 1,1, 1 102 Three per Cent Reduced 911 911 Brazilian, 1865, 5p c .... 90 92 911.1 911 New 3 per Cent HI, 1, /, 1 Do Rail Deben 7 P .. 98 100 Exchequer Rills, March 16 pm 981, 7, 8 6s. prem Italian, 1865, 5p c Do, June l6 pm Peruvian, 1865, 5p c .... 86 87 prem Portuguese, 1869, 31) 0.. 271 281 Bank Stock - - 281, f India 5 per Cents - - Russian, 1862, 5 p c.. .. 86 88 110 k, 111 Do Nicolas 4p c India Bonas - -- 681. 71. 8, i 15s pm Spanish, 1867,3 pc Can 6pc Jan&JulylB77-84 105 107 261, 7, 61 1051, 61 Do, 1869.3 p c Do March & Sept. 104 107 251, 61 Do 5p c Jan & July .. 95 97 Turkish. 1854, 6p c B2 84 Do Inscribed Stock .. 91 97 84 Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 96 98 Do. 1865. 5p c Ceylon 6 p c May and 431. 4, 31, 4, 31 November 1878 lO7 109 Do, 1865, 6p c - - Mauritius 6 p c Jan and 631, 3 July 1873 lO2 104 U.S. 5-20 Bonds, 6p c 1882 881 881 New S Wales 5 p clB7l-76 10011011 881, 8, 1 New Zealand 6p c 1891 lO6 109 Do do 1885 871 88 Do 5p c 9 83f Do 5 p c 2l Consolidated 98 100 Erie Sha, 100 dols, all paid - - 986, 1, 9, 88 Illinois Central Shares .. 10711081 Do 6 pcMar&SeptlB9l 109 111 1081, 76, 8 Do June & Dec 1891 107 110 Atlantic and GW R Con 109 Mortgage Bonds 23 24 Vict 6p c Jan &July 1891 111 113 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B4 86 Grand Trunk of Canada Caledonian 741, 4 43i, 2f, 3 Great Eastern 35 1, Grand Trunk of Canada Great Northern 1224, 1 19 Do A 129 130 Great Indian Pen gsp c 106 108 131, 30, 291 1071, 64 Great Western 66 67 Great Western of Canada 14 141 69, 84, 94, 81. 6f 141 Lancashire & Yorkshire 13011311 Do Op c Bonds, 1873.. 98 100 1 100 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 381 391 Do 51 do, 1877-8 95 97 394 Do 5 p c pref, issued 80 par 2 pm Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 12 13 Madras guar 5p c 14, 13, 4, 122 1064 Lon and North-Western 126 127 N. Railway of Canada, 1271, 64, 7. 61 6p c Ist Pref Bonds Lon and South-Western 85 87 92 851 61 x d Oude and Rohilkund g Man, Shef, and Lincoln 41 411 5p c 411 1041 Metropolitan 644 x d Delhi guar 5 p c Midland 12611271 1054 127 Bahia and San Francisco North British North-Eastern Consols.. 13811391 Belgian E Junction 1394, 1, 40, 39 2 South-Eastern 69 691 Buenos Ayres Gt Sthrn.. 231 24 69 Dunaburg and Witepsk 17 18 Atlantic and St T,awrnce 79 83 17 3 / 4 Bombay, Baroda, and Dutch-Rhenish 2l 23 Central India, g 5 p c.. 105 107 Eastern of France 106 Great Luxembourg Buff & Lake Huron Pref 4 41 11k, i 2, ln Do 54 p c Bonds, 1872-1-4 78 82 •Lemberg Czernowitz gua Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5 p C.. 106 108 Northern of France .... East Indian, g 5 p c .... 11011111 Ottom (Smyrna to Aidin) 51 61 1111, 11 Recife an d San Francisco Grand 34 T ru 16 nk Canada .. 13 131 (Limited) guar 7po .. 151 161 11 Do Equip Mort End ,1 San Paulo (L) guar 7p c 191 201 charge 6p c 94 South Austn & Lom-Ven 151 16 Do 2nd do Scrip ..1 dis, Ipm 15 : , i Do Ist Pref Bonds 63, 21, 3 181 191 111 12 16 17 BANKING COMPANIES. I'd 10 Agra Bank (L) A 9l 101 10 d i Imperal Ottoman .. 11 2om 10 P 5 12, llt 25 Alliance (L) 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 215 225 485 22 15 London Joint-Stock 32 34 50 British N American 50 52 331. 1, 4 20 Ch of India, ndia, Austrlia 161 175 20 Lon 6o and Westmnster 59 61 1,59 k 25 Char Merc of India 26 28 10 Metropolitan ........ 75 8 1 271, 7 7 15-16 10 City 25 Colonial - 43 20 New South Wales .. g 7 i 39 43 25 Orntal Bank Corporn 40 42 Consolidated (L) 4 9-16,5, 11-16 25 Union of Australia.. 39 41 20 Eng. Scot, and Ansa 161 175 15 Union of London .. 16 38 20 Imperial IL) 18 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. ra Pa Anglo - American L) 87 90 10 Great Northern .... 101 1i 10 Anglo-Meditni (L) l3 131 6 Great N. China, and 100 Atlantic' l3l 141 Japan Extension.. 4 3 dis 100 Do Bpc 10 British Australn IL) 4 3 dis 10 M arse ill es , Al g i ers , 10 British Ind Exton ( L). 5/ 61 a n d M a lt a (L) .... 51 52 61 10 Mediterm Ex (L) .. 5 6 10 British Indian Sub- 21 Pnma and S. Pcfc( L) 4 3 dis marine, (L) 71 4 20 Soc Trans France (L) 14 141 2 China Submarine (L) 5 4dis • 141 clis 100 Submarine 230 240 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 1 Do Scrip and Malta (LI 9l 92 10 W Indi a &P anama(L) 52 6.} 91 I MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. Pd Pd Anglo-A us trian Bud- 100 Po 6p c Bonds, re holders' Certificate 11 21 deemak:e 1870 60 65 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 131 14 30 London Fin Assoc (L) 20 18d is 14. 1 10f 30 Bolckow-Vaughan (L) 30 40pm 4 Lou Gen Omnibus .... 2 2 22 100 Boston City (U.S.) 5 22, 2, 13-16 p terling Loan, .89 92 2 Lon &Frov Marine (L)par ipai THE 4 Brit & Fgn Marine (L) 11 21pm 100 Madras Irrig &Canal, 27 Canada Company. 7O 75 gsp c by Ind Gov. 90 102 10 Ceylon Company (L) 5141 1 dis Mauritius Land (L)..1 dis, par 35 City Offices (L) .... 26125 3 dis Natnl Disct Comp (L) 101 114 9 111, 11, 1 20 Colonial (L) 5 Com Union Assurnce 11 21pm Mere Agency IL) .. 11 pm 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 2 21 5 N Zealand Loan and 2} Trust (L) 100 Crystal Palace 211 261 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb lO9 114 181 271 EbbW Vale Steel (L).. 9 7 dis 50 P and 0 Steam 4l 43 191, 2 424, 3, 2 Egyp 9 p eV'roy Loan, 10 Do do New, 1867 4 2dis guar by Egyp Gov.. 95 98 50 Rmney Iron 951, 61 15 D hy o New 9l 101 3 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 51 61pm 60 Royal Mail Steam 181 20 Tel Con and Main (L) 231 24 Fgn and Colonial Gov 24,31, 4 Trust 6p c Bonds.. 94 98 2 Thames and Mersey - 1 1 Gen Credt &Dint (L) 1 i dis Marine Incur (L) 72,1 St Tobacco 6 p o Loan, Gen Stm Navigation 29 31 guar by Italian Gov. 78 83 7 Hooper's Tel Works 34 21dis 5 Trust and Loan Co of 41 Upper Canada 20 Hudson's Bay Bl 81 U Marine , Lvpool ( L 4151 pin 81 20 Union Steamship (L) 21 23 45 Indrbbr, Gut Per, and 6 'United Dis Corprn (L) 11 Idis Tel Works (L) .... 38 43 5 Univ Marine lnsur tL% 45 pm 41, 40. 4 100 Viceroy of Egypt 713 c 20 Inteml Finan SociL) 11 11 dis Mortgage Loan.... 75 77 It Irrig (Can Cavour) 34 3/ 12 Warrant Financ .... 9 7 dis MINING SHARE LIST.—AuGusT 23. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Meer., 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London' Market rather quiet to-day. Taquaril and West Chiverton firm, at quotations. East Lovell a shade flatter. Australian United, Prince of Wales, 13s. 15s Bwlch Consols, Providence Mines, 36, 38 Bronfloyd, Rosewall Hill and Ransome Chiverton Moor, United, Chiverton Valley. South Condurrow, 21, 2 Cook's Kitchen, Tankerville, 151, 16 Chontales (Gold), 10s, 15s Tincroft Drakewalls, 235, 25s Tan-yr-Allt, Dolcoath, Taquaril (Gold), 31s, 33s Don Pedro North Del Rey, 21, / Trumpet Consols. East Bassett, Van, 60, 65 East Caradon, 4, 41 Van Consols, 21, 21 East Lovell. 331, 341 West Chiverton, 54, 55 East Wheal Grenville, West Frances, Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), West Maria and Fortescue, 11 West Drakewalls, West Caradon, West Panty Go. West Seton, Wheal A gar, Wheal Crebor, Us, 13s Wheal Grenville. Wheal Kitty, St. Agues, Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Seton, General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 18, 19 Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vor, 8, 81 Hingston Down, Marke Valley, 7, 71 New Lovell, North Crofty, Pacific, 2i, 3 MARKETS. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-There was a good attendance at this market, Wheat was a shade dearer than on Friday last. Flour sold better. Oats and oatmeal were steady. Barley, beans, and peas were unchanged. Indian corn was in moderate demand. at 6d. per qr. advance upon last week's currency. LEEDS CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-At this market to-day fine new wheat, being scarce, commanded fully last week's rates. Common qualities and old met with little attention. There was a little business passed in malting barley, but scarcely sufficient to test pricer, there being no consumptive demand as yet. Other descriptions of spring corn were slow, at late rates. HULL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-There was a small supply of wheat at this market to-day from farmers, who realised fully last week's price. Picked samples brought ls. per quarter more money. There was nothing doing in foreign wheat. Fine old white Dantzic sold at 565. per quarter. Malting and grinding barley was more inquired for. Beans and peas were better to sell ; for grinding easier to buy. Fine old oats were scarce, and fully as dear. New oats were easier to buy. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-Harvesting in this district prevents the farmers from getting to market, and therefore few samples have been shewn by them. There was a good supply from factors, but they were very firm in demanding last week's prices, and were not pressing sales. Flour and oats at late rates. DUBLIN CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-Weather fine. Fair attendance. Demand slow. The supplies of new grain were moderate. Native wheat was unaltered. White wheat was 28s. to 30s. per qr. Old white oats, 16s. 6d. to 19s. per qr. Flour, firsts, 18s. to 19s. seconds, 17s. to 18s. ; inferior, 14s. to 16s. Oatmeal, 19s. to 20s. New barley, 17s. to 18s. Malt, 30s. to 31s. 6d. Bere, 16s. to 17s. Pollard, Bs. to Bs. 6d. HULL CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.-The show of cattle at this market to-day was very poor, and no business was doing. Sheep were unusually plentiful, and trade was brisk. Lambs sold for 295. 6d. Ewes sold for 503. each. There was a mode rate supply of pigs, and a fair business was done, at slightly higher rates. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.-At this market to day, there was a better supply of cattle. The supply of sheep was about the same. Beef sold well, and in many instances 81d. per lb. was obtained : but the average price was 80. In the sheep market a steady trade was done at about last week's prices. The quotations were as follows :-Beef first class, 81d. to 80. per lbs., second class 71d. to Bd. ; sheep, 70. to 80. per lb. ; foreign beef, 70. to Bd. per lb. ; foreign - sheep, 7d. to 71d. per lb. ; calves, 6d. to Bd. per lb. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.-Opening report: In port, per bill of entry, 50 bales. This market opened quietly to-day, but steady. There is a rumour that the weather in the Southern States is unfavourable, and that cotton in New York 4 has advanced in consequence. Probable sales, 10,000 bales. Closing report :--Tnis market closed decidedly easier to-day, and prices have become irregular in buyers' favour. Sales, 8,000 bales, 2,000 of them on speculation and export. Nothing done for arrivals. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE, TUESDAY.-Tea has been quiet. Sugar has been steady in value, notwithstanding that business has been only to a mederate extent. Brown and good yellow Barbadoes, 245, to 295. ' • good middling and fine, 325. to 335. 6d. ; low to middling, 275. to 28s. 6d. ; Trinidad, 225. to 235. 6d. ; brown and middling, yellow syrup, 225. 6d. to 275. 6d. Coffee has been steady. Middling and good colony Jamaica 655. to 955. ; small to middling grayish plantation Ceylon, 593.6 d. to 645. Cocoa is dull. Common and line Trinidad, 60s. to 955.; superior, 110 s. per cwt. Rice has been steady in value, with a slow sale. Linseed oil has been quiet, at 295. 6d., London, and 28s. 9d. to 295. Hull, on the spot. Rape is firm; English brown, 41s. 6d. to 425. on the spot. Other oils have sold slowly. Tallow has been dull. Y.C., on the spot, 445., last three months; 445. 9d. to 455. last three months. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY. —The market has been fairly supplied with all descriptions to day. The trade has been inactive, at about late rates :—Prime old hay, 1265. to 1355. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 110 s. ; prime new hay, 115 s. to 120 s. ; inferior ditto, 90s. 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 110 s. ; and straw 245. to 325. per load. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS, TUESDAY.—The supplies of potatoes have been liberal. The demand has been quiet, at our quotations. English shaws, 70s. to 100 s„. regents, 80s. to 1408. ; kidneys, 80s. to 1405.; Jersey, 80s. to 1205.; and French, 80s. to 90s. per ton. LONDON WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.--The wool market has been in a very quiet state. Much caution has been shewn by spinners in concluding transactions, and to this is due the limited extent of the operations. Sales, however, have not been forced, and prices, in consequence, have been unaltered. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The market to-day was quieter in consequence of prices being so high, that buyers shew great indisposition to purchase at the extreme prices now asked. Spinners are compelled to hold out for full rates in consequence of the advance in the raw material. Cotton, however, is quieter to-day, and we fancy we have now reached the highest point. For the pre sent, both buyers and sellers are satisfied with their operations. A large business has been done of late at ad vanced rates, in anticipation of a higher range of prices should an early peace be arrived at, and producers, being now engaged for some weeks to come, demand full prices, and business in consequence has become more limited. There has been a very fair business done lately in yarns and cloths, suitable for the East, but very little was transacted at the lowest point touched. The home trade houses are also well supplied, having bought freely last week. For printing cloths the demand has been exceptionally slow. Our market closes quietly, and full rates are scarcely sustained. Quotations to-day are as follows :—First, 13id. ; second, 134 d ; third, 12/d. ; fourth, 18id. ; fifths, Bs. 3d.; sixths, 9s. 9d. ; seventh, Os.; eighth, 10s. 3d. LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TIIESDAY.—In the woollen cloth halls business has only been quiet. Few buyers from a distance are here. Stocks of all sorts, of both plain and fancy goods, diminish very slowly, and when sales are effected it is only at low prices. Such goods as tweeds and meltons, which ought now to be a profitable, can only be sold in small assortments. The most marketable articles are Victorias, but this branch has been quieter than usual to-day. Manufacturers are still anxious for orders, but the home merchants are very cautious. A good deal of mill power is standing. Gallipoli oil is very low, from 395. to 40s. free on board. Cotton warps are gradually getting higher. For other materials there is scarcely any demand. Extraordinary activity prevails in the machine and tools trades. A pressure of Birmingham orders for lathes ne cessitates both night and day work. Tools for the borings of ord nance have been ordered extensively. The best iron trade is a full average ; and locomotive plates, cranks, axles, and tiers are made in abundance of the best material. The steel works here and in the neighbourhood never had more orders for large castings. BELFAST TRADE REPORT, TIIESDAY.—Yarns. Something more than quietness prevails in the market. Seldom has it occurred that absence of animation in demand was more percep tible than it leas during the past week. The business transacted was not by any means sufficiext to absorb the produc tion, consequently stocks have become increased. The warlike complications have completely suspended for the present all trade with the Continent. The prices of lines are irregular but declining. Ordinary wefts have been freely offered at 3s. 6d. per bundle. Tows have not undergone any change, spinners being somewhat sanguine as to the future, therefore they are less dis posed than they otherwise would be, to make concession in prices. Line's brown power loom light linens for bleaching have have met with numerous inquiries, the business resulting was by no means extensive. The stocks continue on the increase. The transactions have scarcely been sufficient to test prices, still manufacturers seen anxious to sell, even at a slight reduction on the current rates. The business accomplished in heavy linens was very limited. Stocks are increased No change in prices. Cloth suitable for the foreign clothing trade : Business accomplished was very limited, still some few orders appeared, and, where suitable goods were obtainable, good prices were realised. In cloth for dyeing, and hollands, the business transacted was not extensive. Stocks were scarcely kept in check. Prices generally speaking were well maintained. There was a fair moderate demand for roughs, of approved makes. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, TUESDAY. —At the market to-day there was a fair business transacted, but without any change in price. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TUEESDAY.—This market was very flat to-day. Business was down to 51s. Bd. cash. Closing sellers. CORK BUTTER MARKET, TUESDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 131 s. ; seconds, 1225. ; thirds, 114 s; fourths, 111 s. ; fifths, 935. ; sixths, 775. 1,980 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts, 1355. ; seconds, 130 s. ; thirds, 1235. One hundred firkins in the market. FORTUNES MADE IN THE AMERICAN PRESS.— The San Francisco gives the following account of the fortunes made in America onthe press. "James Gordon Bennett, who began the Herald with 200 dols. or 300 dols. borrowed money, in Ann-street cellar, writing on a board, is now worth 5,000,000 dols. Manton Marble, who, ten years ago, as a task writer in the Evening Post at 25 dols. a week, is at present sole owner of the World, valued at least at 500,000 dols., and has an income of 75,000 dots. a year. Henry J. Raymond, a t th e t i me of his death, was worth $300,000, and made every cent. of it out of the Times.—Horace Greeley, with all his carelessness of, and indifference to money, could be sold out for $150,000, though he made his entry in the metropolis a poor printer's boy, with all his fortune in a small bundle of clothes swung on a stick.—James and Eras tus Brooks have estates valued at more than $150,000 each, all made from their earnings as owners of the Express.-• Robert Bonner, not long since a printer at the case, making with very hard work 30 dols. a week, boasts of possessin g 200,000 worth of hor ses , h as an annual income from the Ledger of nearly 100,000 dols., and would not sell his popular weekly for 1,000,000 dols. Henry C, Bowen, after failing aS a merchant, turned his attention to the manacrement of the Independent, and realises 90,000 dolls, to 100,000 a year from it." THE NV AR. THE SITUATION IN PARIS. PARIS, MONDAY. At length it is fully acknowledged on all hands that communication with Bazaine is interrupted, and his retreat cut off. An official note from the Minister of War states that nothing has been heard from the Marshal for two days, and that the Ministry is without information as to his movements. This, palpably, is not very lively intelligence, but some of the Government papers, with a spirit one cannot too much admire, continue to argue that things are yet going favourably for the French. A theory which has found great favour is to the effect that Bazaino has got into this position at Metz entirely of his own design and free will, and that . it is nothing less than a well-laid scheme to out-manoeuvre the Germans. By remaining at Met; these theorists urge, the army of Bazaine will keep the whole force of Steinmetz and Prince Frederick Charles employed ; and thus MacMahon will be able to deal with the lesser force of the Crown Prince. Whilst the large Prussian army is occupied at Met; the small one will be met by a fore-) equal to, if not greater than, itself. It needs, however, no great military insight in order to perceive the danger of such a scheme. Bazaine is exposing his whole army to destruction. He has already lost an enormous proportion of his troops in three great battles, and whilst the Ger mans can fill up the voids in their ranks, he cannot. If he remain at Metz he must starve, surrender, or cut his way out —an expedient which, even if successful, must necessarily involve great further loss. The great strate gical plan now attributed to Bazaine amounts, then, to this : in order to give the army of Chalons the chance of winning a victory, the army of Metz is to be entirely sacrificed. Can this be deemed a good bargain? Assuredly Bazaine will not think so. We shall soon, doubtless, hear of desperate attempts on his part to cut his way out of the beleaguering forces. Probably he will endeavour to force his road northwards to the Belgian frontier. The works requisite to complete the fortifications are being pushed forward with all possible haste, and are rapidly approaching completion. It cannot be denied that General Trochu is doing all that the position ad mits of. Paris must be extremely difficult to defend : its vast extent, and the obstacles to feeding such a population must tell in favour of the Germans, who ought with their vast array to soon force an entrance. But if there be a chance of defending the place, that chance will be turned to the best account. Six hundred guns are already mounted round the vast exterior, and very many more are in reserve. Besides the encircling wall, with its numerous bastions, there are sixteen outside forts, each of which has one hundred guns mounted. Nor are these pieces entrusted to ignorant persons ; on the contrary the best artillerymen in France are to be employed on this service. There will besides be an army outside the walls fighting under their cover. It really looks as if the autho rities had made up their minds to try the experiment of a siege, notwithstanding all that has been said about the folly and inutility of relying upon such a resource. Amongst the many strange sayings and doings attri buted to the Empress is one about her son. She is said to have addressed this despasch to the Emperor :—" They say at Paris that you have placed our son (in the battle field) in a situation where none but spent balls fall. I beg you to place him in a situation where fall the bullets which kill." This is quoted as an instance of her Majesty's high spirit in misfortune. She would not have her son, we are assured, survive the disgrace of his parents. Movements are reported on the part of MacMahon's army. It is ou its way from Chalons to Rheims—north wards, and part of it has arrived there. This movement is in order to give support to Bazaine, of whom, at this moment, nothing is known. An incident is narrated of the mismanagement which prevailed at French head-quarters. At a certain place in' the North an officer received orders to send forward some artillery waggons. Waggons there were in plenty, but no horses. The horses were in another direction. He telegraphed to head - quarters, and was told to buy horses. This he did, but when the peasants brought them in quite bare, according' to custom, no harness was forthcoming. Another telegram followed. The answer came " You are mistaken, harness for so many hundred horses is down in the books." The officer searched and found the harness in the books but not in the stores. Luckily he found forty-five halters, and the horses wereharnessed as they best could be with cords. But what had become of the harness paid for and registered? Another story is told of Marshal Le Bceuf, and the report is declared to be verbatim. In the committee appointed to report on the Declaration of War to the Chamber, M. de IC6ratry said to Marshal Le Bceuf, " Marshal, are we ready?" M. Le Bceuf : •` Quite ready." M. de K6ratry " Will you give us your word of honour? Remember, it would be a crime to engage France in a war without having foreseen and prepared for all." M. Le Bceuf : " I give you my word of honour that we are completely ready. (Movement of satisfaction.)—M. de Cassagnac " Yet, one word. What do you understand by these two words "Be ready ?"—M. Le Bceuf (with authority) : " I understand that if the war were to last a year we should not have even a gaiter button to buy." The Figaro, in commenting on this report, which several Paris papers quote, observes that it was not only with a light heart, but with a light head that the Ministry of January 2nd went into the war, and that Marshal Le Bceuf, if a soldier's death does not absolve him, will have a terrible account to render. A story is told of a Prussian who has become naturalised in France, and forgotten his old country and native language. He declares that France has given him hospitality, and he cannot forget it. If he is Prussian by birth he isFrench at heart, and as a proof of his devotion he has subscribed 500 francs to the national defences of a country which has kept him for thirty years. The other day he turned the laugh against a bystander, who insisted that he was Prussian in spite of his assertions to the contrary, and adduced as an un answerable argument that he was born in Prussia. "According to that," he exclaimed, " if I had been born n astable I should have been a horse." The France en Orient says that after the declaration of war against Prussia, Metternich went to Marshal Lebceuf —it is even hinted that he went to the Emperor— and said, "Do you despise the tactics of this enemy? They are always the same. We failed because we did not believe in them. Profit by our experience. They march in large masses, with three corps d'arm4e each supporting the other. They send some troops in advance to draw the enemy on, and crush in succession all isolated forces of inferior number that oppose them. Above all things,. be well informed.''. Metternich was listened to politely, but given to understand that his hearers ':new better than that. UN, LONDON, WEDNESD A Y MORNING, AUGUST 24, .870. is that Metz and Strasbourg—Metz especially—should hold out. Our unfortunate debut renders it also indispensable that a second army, as good as the first, should come to its assistance against the invaders. NINE O'CLOCK P.M. At the moment when I was hurrying into the town to secure .a vehicle for the journey to-morrow with the intention of going to the camp at Chalons, a wonderful rumour met me everywhere—the camp at Chalons is broken up. This news had, in fact, scarcely reached me when the sound of trumpet and drum and the sight of advancing regiments on all sides proved it to be true. I went along the canal of the Marne, and I could see at the village of Courcelles the encampment of the Cent-Gardes, which announce the approaching presence of the Emperor. At the same time a long column came in sight on the road to Laon. It was composed chiefly of infantry, of Marines, and of artillery, as well as of some regiments of the line. As after Froschwiller and Forbach I was comforted by the sight of Marshal Bazaine's fine army, so at the sight of these fresh troops who knew nothing of the sufferings of the last few days hope, which was becoming almost a stranger to my heart, revived again. Part of all the corps passed before me, they were the reserves ivho could not join at Metz. Eighteen trains have arrived since midday at the station of Reims, and fifty iE is said, came in the night. At this rate we shall have everything ready in four days. The Prussian advance guard is some 40 kilometres on the other side of Verdun, some 30 leagues from this. It is not therefore likely their army can be in line under eight days, and we shall be ready in less time than that. The tactics of the enemy have hitherto been most audacious, but there is an end to everything. Their tactics have in fact consisted in taking one point of direc tion, and maintaining themselves there immovably, sacri cing the outer flanks of the column. It is evident that this plan demands an immense number of men, and after the losses which the Prussians have suffered, I doubt whether they can continue it. A FRENCH OFFICER'S WAR NOTES. The able correspondent of the Temps, Captain Jean nerod, continues his letters from the war district. His last contribution, dated Reims, Sunday evening, runs thus :—This town, since yesterday evening, has busied itself with trying to solve the Chinese puzzle. What are the quarries of Jaumont, and how can the Prussian army be shut up in them, as the official despatch says it is ? According to some country people whom I luckily met (for all Metz and its environs seems to have emi grated westward), the quarries of Jaumont extend over a vast plateau between Gorze and Vernevillo. If the Prussian army is there, it means, in plain terms, that it has pretty well maintained its position, and that our advantage is reduced to the heavier loss which we have been able to inflict upon him. But eve►► thus the advantage is not one to be despised, since Marshal Bazaine can hardly, with the forces at his dis posal, hope to conquer the three united armies of the Crown Prince, Prince Charles, and General Steinmetz. To keep them in front of Metz, in order to leave the troops at Chalons time to organise, and to hold his own against them, is of itself a good result to attain, and there is reason to hope he has already gained it. It is objected that remaining in position in face of the enemy does not help the retreat, and rumours still less favourable state that we have not been allowed to retain the statu quo, but that recent engagements have forced us to fall back under the walls of Metz. But even this hypothesis, to my mind, is not alarming. I never liked the idea of the retreat on Verdun, which seemed to m e useless if we were going to form a grand army at Chalons, and mischievous inasmuch as it risked surrendering Metz to the enemy. Let us not be discouraged. The melancholy one cannot help feeling, does not prevent me from reflecting on those considerations which a month ago I put forward on the supposition (which then seemed so improbable) of a defeat. The enemy may yet find his destruction on the plains' of Champagne, or under the walls of Paris, The great point PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. According to the Independance Beige negotiations for peace have been and are yet going on ; but it does not appear that their progress hitherto has been very pro mising. The Powers concerned, says the Belgian paper, were more anxious to hinder each other from joining in the struggle than to interpose between the belligerents. In fact the first impulse came from Vienna. Austria was eager to come to an understanding with Italy relative to their common attitude of neutrality; England, foreseeing the danger of this combination, at once interposed, in order to remove from it any contin gent character, by extending it to the other neutral Powers, and by submitting a precise formula, by which those Powers should bind themselves not to act singly, either in . the endeavour to re - establish peace or to regulate the condi tions of peace. Russia hastened to support the English proposition, and Italy decided to give her adhesion. It is not yet known whether Austria has given her reply, but it is probable that she will abandon her separate con vention with Italy in order to accept the convention pro posed by England. The Berlin correspondent of the Times maintains that Italy had previously concluded a treaty of alliance with France, and that the Prussian Minister at Florence had thought it necessary to visit Caprera, to come to an understanding with Garibaldi, in order to hinder the action of an Italian army beyond the Peninsula. But in this case the adhesion of the Florence Cabinet to the English proposi tion which it has officially announced, would be either an act of duplicity towards England or of treason towards France ; and it is not possible, without conclusive evi dence, to believe either ono or the other. Let us add (says the Independance Beige), that this is the first we have heard of the movement attributed to the German diplo matist who could hardly, had he performed it, have remained at his post at Florence. The same correspondence contains other pretended revela tions which are alike improbable, whether they refer to an appeal for intervention addressed by the Empress Eug4nie to the Queen of England and refused by her, or to a project started by England for the formation of Alsace and Lorraine into a neutral State. This last scheme, which has perhaps been dreamt of in some circles at Berlin, would assuredly be rejected with indignation by France. Nothing could be more calculated to render the establishment of peace impossible, or to give the war a character of extermination, than the design, under what ever form it be disguised, of trenching on the integrity of the French soil. England is well aware of this, and is also well aware of the fact, openly acknowledged by the Germans themselves, that Alsace and Lorraine are as much attached to their own nation as any other part of France. According to a despatch received from our special correspondent in Loudon, concludes the Belgian paper, England and Russia on the contrary have agreed to oppose any dismemberment whatever of France. THE POSITION OF THE TWO ARMIES. 'We will not venture to estimate the force of the French Army now falling back from Chalons, or what resources it may find among the volunteers . and National Guards now mustering and drilling in Paris. The French War Minister and the Commander -in - Chief have strained every nerve to bring up all the detach ments which had been left in charge of public order in the great centres of population, the Fourth Battalions from the Depots, the Marines, the Gendarmes, the Custom-house officers, the men of all arms who were subject to military training and disci pline. It is a heterogeneous army, and its nucleus, con sisting of the lately routed corps of MacMahon, De Failly, and Canrobert, still, according to the evi dence of eye-witnesses, bears traces of the tremen dous exertions which the battle and the retreat de manded of it. Still it would be rash to ex press any doubt of its efficiency, particularly under the influence of the enthusiasm which will be sure to welcome it on its approach to the endangered capital. The Chalons Army was described as mustering 100,000 strong, and about half that number will be added to it out of the present Paris garrison. With such a force one more battle before the gates of Paris may yet be risked. It may save the honour of the capital, even though it may achieve no more. But, after that, the defence of the detached forts and of the National and Mobile Guard will, we believe, be of little consequence. The Parisians would doubtless fight very well if they were put to it, but neither themselves nor their chiefs, nor their enemies, will bring matters to such extremities.—Times. We know very little indeed of the strength of the army at Chalons. The corps of Canrobert and Douay, which are always quoted as a reserve, appear never to have had any existence in that capacity. Regiments which, according to the original constitution of the active army, promulgated five weeks ago, ought to belong to one or other of those two corps, turn up hero and there in a battle, and straightway the Prussians report that they have had Canrobert's or Douay's corps against them ; but nobody ever saw the corps. At present it would be premature to conjecture what force will meet the Crown Prince, as it would certainly be to predict with what force he will march upon Paris. All we know is that in the capital itself no faith is placed in the power of MacMahon to stop the Crown Prince's army.—Daily News. TUE BATTLE OF BORNY. Two official German reports have been issued respect ing the battle of Pange, as the Germans call it, or Borny, the name the French prefer. This battle took place on Sunday week. The first report is dated Herny, August 15, and is as follows :—" This morning his Majesty the King, accompanied by Baron Moltke and the other gene rals of the royal head-quarters, as also by Count Bis marck and Count Kutusoff, the Military Member of the Russian Embassy at Berlin, inspected the locality of fes terday's fight. It is situated between the eastern ramparts of Metz and the villages Ars, Lague nexy, Borny, and Colombey. At Coligny, west of Pange, where the head-quarters of the 7th Corps d'Armte were, the King, with his suite, mounted and proceeded at once to the battlefield. It appears that on the morning of the 14th the French army were stationed east of Metz, occupying three different camps, and stretching over a space of at least nine kilometres. It is probable that Gene ral Bazaine intended to fall back upon Chalons, and that it was only owing to sundry difficulties with which he had to contend that we still surprised him at Metz. At two o'clock in the afternoon General Steinmetz ordered the 7th Corps d'Arm6e (Westiihalians, General von Zastrow) to proceed to the attack. As on previous occasions, we found the French behind earthworks and in rifle pits, which, while protecting them from our fire, exposed our troops to the full effect of their deadly aim. On this oc casion as on some other preceding ones it was observed that the French, when crouching in rifle pits, fire more calmly than when in the open. One after the other we had to take the pits and intrenchments near Ars, Laguenexy, Griquy, Borny, Colombey, and some other hamlets, which, surrounded with hedges, present considerable difficulties for attack. The fight was long, vehement, and very sanguinary, As the French stood on the defensive, and only popped up out of their shelter to fire, their dead have nearly all been shot in the head. In one rifle pit alone we found 781, all laid low by our sharpshooters. Our losses, too, are considerable, as we did not break off the engagement till late in the evening, by which time we had driven the French into the very glacis of the fortress. When the enemy began to yield,immense confusion set in in his ranks. After a short time he had en tirely disappeared, most of the slightly wounded managing to effect their escape with the rest. As we have made pri soners of nearly all regiments of the three principal corps united under General Bazaine (respectively commanded by Generals Decaen, Frossard, and Ladmirault), it seems that we had nearly the entire force opposed to us. Yes terday's fight, nailing the French army to the spot at Metz, will be the more prolific in results, as the Crown Prince has already occupied Luneville, and penetrated even to Pont-k-Mousson. In the meantime, we are con structing a railway from Remilly, south of Metz, to a cer tain point north-east of the fortress, which will enable us to utilise the Saarbruck-Metz-Nancy line, even though Metz remained in the hands of the enemy. Though a tem porary construction, and built in the light style of the American prairie railways, it is a grand enterprise, and occupies thousands of labourers. Our difficulties in the task are the greater, as the inhabitants of the neighbour hood have been mostly draughted into Metz to work on the new fortifications." The second report is dated Pont-h-Mousson, August 16 : "The Royal Headquarters having been removed to day from Henry to Pont-h-Mousson, are now stationed in the midst of the three operating armies, cf which the one, under General Steinmetz, is before Metz ; the other, under Prince Frederick Charles, has got far beyond Pont h-Mousson ; and the third, under the Crown Prince, has reached Nancy. The basis of future operations now is the Moselle, between Nancy and Metz. There is little doubt that the engagement near Pange, on the 14th, will be attended with the most important conse quences. Marshal Bazaine, being obliged to fight by our troops coming up with him, probably kept quiet on the 14th, because he had determined to celebrate the 15th, the Napoleon's Day, by a battle. He accordingly, in the night, from the 13th to the 14th, drew his troops together into one continuous line, and, it seems, awaited the arrival of the Imperial Guard, under General Bourbaki, on the 15th. However, we left him no time for the execution of his plans,, but ourselves proceeded to the attack, in the afternoon of the 14th. We found ourselves in front of the four corps Ladmirault, Failly, Decaen, and Frossard, the latter of which, it is true. could no longer be called a corps, having been almost crushed at Saarbruck. Of the three corps d'armde form ing the First Army, under General Steinmetz (West phalians, Rhinelanders and East Prussians), the 7th or Westphalian, corps opened the fight. The en gagement at first was little more than a skirmish, but by the new French practice of fighting from rifle pits became very bloody, and assumed unexpected proportions. Eventually portions of the Ist (East Prussian) Corps d' Armee became involved, when the French were driven from pit to pit, from intrenchment to intrenchment, and at length were compelled to seek shelter on the glacis of the outworks of Metz. As .we advanced upon them, they left their ditches soon enough, but only to seek cover in another trench prepared a little further back. This, and the telling effect of the Chassepot, when managed with more deliberate aim, as it usually is by the French from under cover, retarded our progress. Still, as we steadily gained ground, we reachcd the glacirs by the time darkness set in. It was owing to this very gradual advance of our men that the French had time allowed them to retreat. The fact of their retreat is sufficiently proved by their not reappearing on the 15th. In all probability they have since joined the Guards under Bourbaki, and are at present drawing off on the high road from Metz to Chalons. It is just possible they will have to encounter our Second Army, which has turned to Thiancourt from Pont-h-Mousson, and is likely to stop them long before they come in sight of Chalons." At a meeting of the Central Society of the French booksellers, it was resolved that all possible means should be employed to carry out the generous plan of Baron Holtzendorff. M. Lexier, of the Siecle, writing from Chalons, says : "The Imperial head-quarters present an aspect of melancholy. The Emperor does not shew himself, and no one has seen him since his arrival at the camp. In passing along the road near the pavilion which he occupies I met the Prince Imperial, in uniform and wearing the military medal, walking with his equerry. He had the gay and careless air of a boy of his age. After following the road for a distance, he crossed a field and went and sat down on the edge of a ditch, where he amused him self in drawing lines or figures with his walking-cane in the sand." Baron Holtzendorff, Professor of Sciences at Berlin University, and a member of the Institute of France, has written to M. Malarce on the subject of providing enter tainment for the French prisoners. He is informed that more than twelve thousand have passed into the hands of the Germans through the fortunes of war. In order to lighten the burden of their imprisonment in a foreign laud he has formed a collection of French books to be distributed among the French in the prisons and hospitals. He desires that assistance should be afforded to him in his undertaking, and requests M. Malarce to use his influence with the booksellers and pub lishers of Paris and procure some interesting works which would be suitable for the purpose he requires without en tating a heavy sacrifice on the donors. He mentions the fact that one of the publishers of Berlin has sent to the hospitals, for the use of the wounded, books to the value of 20,000 fr. FIELD TELEGRAPHS.—The Opinion Nationale gives an account of the Prussian field telegraphs :—" I found there the field telegraph, which extends its lines in the rear of the troops, according as they advance in the country occupied by the Germans. A 'division of pioneers stretches the line in a few hours along a distance of several leagues. If the lines follow the line of great forests, the telegraphic engineer follows closely upon the axes of the pioneers, who cut off the branches in the way of the wire. The campaign police, whose eyes are never shut, and whose iron arms know no fatigue, watch during the execution of these works of the war machine. From time to time you may see two or four tall strong men on horseback, m earing the uniform of gendarmes, rise as it were from the earth and disappear as suddenly. These horsemen belong to the campaign police. They have the whole police regulations of the camp in their charge during the war, and, in case of need, the police regula tion of the hostile countries occupied by the German armies." HOLLAND AND THE WAlt.—Whilst ➢T. Edmond About complains in the Soir that Holland is hostile to France, the Cologne Gazette of Sunday complains that she is hostile to Prussia. The Gazette says :—" To thinkers it is very wonderful that in Holland a timid and hostile feeling still prevails against Germany and Prussia, as our cousins in the Netherlands pass with justice for an intelligent and reflecting people ; and, apart from some fantastical people totally without influence, no one amongst us has ever cherished any thought of their ab sorption, or other injustice directed against them. French insinuations have without doubt had much to do with this inexplicable state of feeling. It is, however, worthy of notice that it appears to have spread since the Min:stry of Zuylen van Nyeveld. This is perhaps to be explained by the fact that Count Zuylen was for some- time Am bassador in Berlin, and did not distinguish himself by the fine and skilful manners of his predecessors and successors The consequence may have been that the Ambassador did not meet with the same reception as these, and that he carried home with him from this time an ill tempered feeling which now produces its effects." A PRUSSIAN SOLDIER'S VIEW OF THE WAR.— A letter from a Prussian soldier to his mother says : " The battle at Woerth was worse than that at Koniggratz; we had so many more wounded, for those horrible mitrail leuses were hid in between the vineyards all up the steep hills above Woerth, and the people cowered behind the vines and bushes and fired down in fury upon our ad vancing troops. We could not get at them till our batteries came up, and when they began to fire in upon the French army there ensued a scene that must have been horrib'e. We had about 6,000 dead and wounded, but numbers of the wounds are in the legs. Very few shots went higher than the lower parts of the body, but those are the most dangerous. I think the advancing army despised the mitrailleuses too much, and so were uselessly exposed. The Artillery came up too late, but from that moment the French bolted. I think our fellows had no idea they would run away in that manner. . . . There must have been 10,000 French lost in that dreadful battle, and we have at least half as many more prisoners, mostly un wounded. What astonishes me is the number of un wounded officers that have fallen into our hands. They are dispirited, and seem to have little hope for the French cause. A poor colonel of a miserable regiment that was cut to pieces, who was wounded and taken prisoner, went into hysterics at the sight of the remnant of his men. I am sorry for such old soldiers, but I have not a grain of pity for Napoleon. He has not a grain of pity for his own poor people. Who has murdered all those wretched fellows ; who but himself and Gramont ? POSTAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN . ANTWERP AND NEW YORK. It is very possible that Antwerp is not a potent factor of European politics, and its opinion that the Franco - Prussian war will be over in a week, according to a some what silly telegram received by the ocean cable, may not decide the fate of empires. But Antwerp is neverthlees s a town which has within a few years, revived to an extra ordinary degree from the decline into which it had previously fallen. It may yet recover the splendid posi tion which it held in the height of its prosperity, between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was the commercial centre of Europe, and was frequented by ships of all nations, boasting of twenty-five hundred vessels ill port at one time, and of a population of two hundred thousand. If a letter from Brussels to London may b e credited, Antwerp has already made an additional stride towards its ancient position by the establishment of weekly postal service between itself and New York for la years. The German steamer which Congress recently lost the opportunity of purchasing may be secured, it is surmised , for this service, which is additionally important in view of the uncertainties of communication between this port and the port of Bremen, Hamburg and Havre, on account of the European war. Immigration from Germany and France to the - United States must be temporarily c hecked by the war ; but facilities of postal communication with the Continent of Europe are in greater demhnd than ever and, so long as Belgium maintains its neutrality, wiJi doubtless be fully enjoyed.— New Yorlc Herald. OUR FRENCH AND GERMAN RESIDENTS. The wise advice which the Courrier des Etats Unis gives its compatriots in New York, to maintain, especially i° places of public resort, " the utmost coolness an d moderation," might well be given to the Germans in our midst, who largely outnumber th e F renc h. " intemperance of language is a lack of self-respect or l b lack of generosity, according as it is occasioned b) adversity or by prosperity." It i s earnes tly t o b e hoped that our French and German residents will ac' t repeat the painful personal conflicts which hav e already taken place. Why should they quarrel ? Al this distance from the actual seat of war they might both coolly look at the situation and repress even the stronges t natural sympathies with one side or the other, rather than come to blows at the dinner table, in the club or in the bar-room. The Germans at home are fighting not for Prussia so much as for Deutschland, not for absolutism in the persons of Frederick William and his able Minister Bismaick, as f or the unity of Germany, and, it is not too soon to a dd, for a republic as a possible ultimate result of the war' They are thus really fighting for France as well as for Germany. On the other hand, should Napoleon either abdicate or proclaim a universal republic, there would n° longer exist a bar to the enthusiasm with which the French people would rise en masse to the defence of their native soil against foreign invasion. The prestige of the famous armies of the first French republic would be recovered. French republicans . and German republican° would shake hands instead of crossing swords. An era of peace and conciliation would be inaugurated which nothing but the restoration of imperial and monarchical despotism could interrupt. The Germans at home are fighting fo r German unity. The Frenchmen at home are fighting a.iainst foreign invasion. Most of the Germans and of the French in New York are republicans and need not quarrel here. If they are " spoiling for a fight " let them go over to France or to Germany and volunteer for the defence either of Paris or Berlin.—New York Herald. CHANGARNIER AT METZ. When the declaration of war was made in the French Legislative Chamber, it was stated that Right, Left, and Central sections ceased to exist, and from that moment the Deputies became united by the common name of Frenchmen. That a transformation equally sudden and complete has come over the broader political divisions of the nation finds an additional proof in the newly-tena dered adhesion of General Changarnier. For eighteen years the soldier has remained stubbornly in exile, grimly watching from Brussels the course of events, in which his political principal and his seventy-seven years seemed alike to forbid him participating. The man who, in 184 8 , was called " the third Power in the State ;" who, ere the close of the short-lived Republican, came to be designated as " the sword of the Assembly," and whom Boor bons and Orleanists were willing to regard as the future dictator, was equally with General Cavaignee a species of rival to the Prince President. Thus it bar pened that one of the first acts of Napoleon, on the eve of the coup d'etat of the 2d December, 1851, was to arrest the, Ex-War Minister of the Assembly, and place him beyond the possibility of doing harm, in the prison of Mazas- The meeting at Metz of the Emperor and the almost octo genarian General, which to-day's despatches record, will furnish a picturesque episode for the pen of the future e historian. The old soldier may have lived in the hope 0' finding the extremity of Napoleon 111. the opportunity of the grandsons of Louis Philippe. He may have dreamed of becoming the Monk of another Charles, in the person of the Count of Paris, and of seeing a Bonapartist Empire end once more in a constitutional monarchy. But if be, loved Napoleon less, he loved France more, and when the soil of his native country is once more pressed by the armed heel of the invader, he for gets everything but the single fact that he is a French' man, and hastens to place his talents and his life at the disposal of the man who wields the destinies of the nation in its hour of peril. Changarnier emerges from exile upon a Europe which has almost forgotten him, and but climb' remembers the crisis of blood which he and his troops averted from Paris. But while he has been watching the current, Louis Napoleon has floated with it, and has clone more, perhaps, than any other man living, to shape the course of European history during the last 20 years. Whichever way it may be regarded, it is a singular destiny which brings the General whom the Prince Presi. dent treated so cruelly to the aid of the baffled and dis spirited Emperor, and which bids fair to bring the fickle and impressionable soldiers of France once more under the influence of the Orleanist commander in Algiers.—Nelp York Times. THE YACHT RACE. The race for the possession of the Queen's Cup is over, and that much-prized trophy remains in American hands. The contest appears to have been conducted with spirit and skill, and reflects credit upon all engaged in it. The mischance which happened to the Cambria cannot be held to have determined the final result, for, even making all possible allowance for accident, she was fairly defeated. American yachtsmen maY therefore be justly congratulated upon a gallant victory, as well as upon the honourable retention of a testimonY to their superiority in the building and management of their vessels. After an event of this nature there is always a close criticism of the behaviour of particular yachts, and of the causes for the various relative failures or triumphs during the course of the race. For example, the Cambria was by some asserted to be sure of defeat, for the reason that from her heavy build she was more adapted to an ocean voyage than a short homestretch. But the man who makes a challenge is supposed to comprehend the conditions of victory. Mr. Ashbury himself would probably be the last to assert that he laboured under disadvantages to which all his competitors were not equally liable. It would naturally have been gratifying to him if he could have won the international champion cup 'but he has failed, and is not likely to deny the full credit of the victory to the quarter where it belongs. Yesterday's ex perience proves that yachting, as a healthy and manly pastime, is more popularly employed in matches in home contests than in long voyages. Under no circumstances can a race across the Atlantic be other than accidental with this class of vessels. Besides, yachting is a recrea tion in which the friends and families of owners are much interested, either as witnesses or participators. Yesterday's race, with its accompaniments of b r ight weather, a glorious breeze, and an exciting bustle of sail and steam upon the water, was a source of delight to thousands who would never realise from mere descrip tion the run of three thousand miles of two or more yachts hardly ever spoken by passing ships. There is, moreover, ample room for the exercise of courage, training, and skill in a race round the light-ship at Sandy Hook or to Cape May. It would have been an agreeable thing if we could have recorded the success of the Daunt less in yesterday's race, but as it turned out, we will only tender our congratulations to all the American contestants of yesterday upon the fact that a prize won so many years ago is still their own, and that they are still able to challenge all the world to a struggle for its possession.— New York Times, August 9th. M. Louis Leprince, the Birmingham gentleman arrested during the riot at La Villette, has been set at liberty by the military authorities in Paris, after having been kept in prison one week. Mr. Leprince has no con nection whatever with the disturbances beyond that of a casual spectator. BIRTHS. On the 20th August, at Ryde, Isle of Wight, the wife of Colonel Barrow, Royal Artillery, C. 8., of a daughter. On the 20th August, at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, the wife of John Young, Esq., of 5, Holland-park, London, of a dafighter. MARRIAGES. On the 18th Aug., at Weybridge, Captain W. D. Lloyd, late 67th Regiment, to Diana, fourth daughter of the late Sir Harry Dent Goring, Bart., of Highden, Sus sex. On the 20th Ang. , at Shepherd's-bush, John Finch, Holy rood Villa, Godolphin-road, to Kate Margerine, third daughter of the late George H. Barth, Cambridge Villa, Hammersmith. Nc Prices D' this p the <t, as the adapt Qp (I.lces 10s. 6( 248, 11 r~ Parati the ve Etolbo TI tne f 3ss. 6, lied P i SKIN h. (id Ilolbi G taecii effect 84,. li Ladi 4 38. 6 4 Had the siert ( to Wh DELq - 1710. On the 20th Aug., at Cowes, Lieut.-Colonel Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards, aged 36. On the 21st Aug., at Tottenham, William Stanhope Saw tell, Esq., aged 75. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. 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