The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-21 00:00:00

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TOURS, Saturday Evening. There has been a great Republican demonstration here. 500 National Guards and an immense crowd took part in it. A. flag was displayed topped by the Phrygian cap. The crowd paraded the ti.r.?ets and Proceeded to the Hotel de Ville, whole soveral Speeches were delivered. All the speakers swore to die for the Republic. M. Gambetta addressed th, crowd. He said they had done well ; but they should do more than " manifest," and should abstain from bombast and shouting. MOVEMENTS OF BELGIAN TROOPS. BRUSSELS, November 21. The movementß, which are taking place amongst the troops, is to bring back the regiments to the Places which they formerly garrisoned. The fron tiers will, however, not be denuded of troops. VICTORY OF THE GARIBALDIANS. TOURS, November 9,0. An official dispatch published here last evening announces that the enemy has been surprised at Chatillon by the Garibaldian troops under Ricciotti Garibaldi, and that the whole body of 800 Prussians Was either killed or made prisoners. The Prussians continue to move on Neufchatel and Liesse. General Bourbaki has been relieved from the command of the &rmy of the North, and appointed General of the Eighteenth Army Corps, at Nevers. The army prepares to move immediately. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. ROYAL HEADQUARTERS, VERSAILLES, November 18. It is believed that the French will make no sortie at present from Paris, and the army of the Loire has Withdrawn southward to avoid being shut in between the .German armies which are marching against it. The spirit of the German troops round Paris is excellent, and their health very good, considering the cold damp weather at this season. There has been an ther quiet night in the siege works. Food Continues to be plentiful amongst the Germans, and the market prices in Versailles are not much in ex cess of what they were a month ago. Though not yet definitely concluded, the negotia tions for the union of Germany are regarded as rely brought through the critical stage of their Commencement. Several German statesmen have returned home. The American General Hazen has left Versailles for Germany. It is denied that Ilia journey had, or will have, a political character. GERMAN MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN FRANCE. EPERNAT, November 18. Yesterday General Manteuffel was at Rheims With the First and Eighth Corps, marching by Sois- Bons towards Amiens, with instructions to direct his course south-westward, in case of an attack by the Army of the Loire. None of his troops took Part in the fight at Dreux. The design of General 41 4kurelles de Paladin°, reinforced by Keratry, was to turn the flank of the Fifth Corps at Versailles, and orterate on the weak point of the German linesbetwoon St. Germain and Argenteuil, where a sortie from Mont Valerien was to support his attack. He had marched north from Chateaudun on the line from Chartres to Chateauneuf, expecting thus to keep far enough West to avoid interception. He was, however, met by the Duke of Mecklenburg, with parts of the sth and 12th Corps, the sth and 6th Cavalry divisions, and the 22nd Infantry division, which bad hastily been gathered from the troops besieging Paris, and from those which marched on Orleans. The 2nd and 4th Cavalry divisions were held in reser ve near Epernon. The French were thrown beck to Chateaunuef and beyond. The lst Bavarian Corps of Von der Tann were stopped at '''teropes in their march at Orleans, and forced towards Ablis; but as the French fell back in a north-westwardly direction the Bavarians are .ex pected to continue their southward movement. The 2 nd and 4th Cavalry divisions are to support. The gouda at Noissy and Gonesse are concentrating on the latter place—the 4th Corps at Saint Brice ; the 12th at Le Vert Galant ; the 23rd Infantry division at Coubron ; the 24th at l'Epine; the 12th Artillery Corps at Vllleparisis ; the 12th Cavalry division at Chantilly, near Creil— tile last-named is to support Manteuffel. All these are for the siege; but the following have orders to hold themselves in readiness for southward move kents, to support Von der Tann if necessary—the 2 nd Bavarian Corps, now at Sceaux ; the 6th Corps 11 ,t Villeneuve le Roi, the 11th at Boissy Saint 4 4eger, the Wurtembuig division at Villiers sur liable. How they will march will depend upon the line of French retreat from Dreux, and the expected advance of the French from Chateaudun. Princ e Frederick Charles is waiting to co-operate. THE NORTH OF FRANCE. AMIENS, November 20. An engagement took place yesterday at Vouel, near Tergnier, between the Volunteers of the Somme and the Prussians. The latter were in strong force 111 d were entrenched. The Volunteers retired. The French commandant was wounded, and Captain Petit Is'as The camp of St. Vascien (?) was on fire this morning. A battle is considered to be imminent in the direction of Beauvais. A rumour is in circnlation hero that Ganeral 3 :rochu has made a sortie and advanced as far as t'l-onesse. GERMANS REPULSED. The Germans have been repulsed at Evreux. T hey had moved from Gisors. to Nonancourt. They "tacked Evreux, but they met with a most deter- Il lined resistance from the National Guard, which col flpelled them to make a retrograde movement. News has been received at Tours that 7 on the 17th instant, 3,000 Prussians with 8 guns attacked .landelles vigorously at 2 p.m., but were repulsed With loss. AIR. ODO RUSSELL AT VERSAILLES. HEADQUARTERS, THIRD ARMY, VERsAILLBs, November 19. 15 , Odo Russell, accompanied by Captain Rob ,..lllE+) Queen's messenger, arrived at Versailles to `44Y- :%ount Bismarck desired a Prussian officer to re ceive Mr. Russell at the frontier. Mobiles from Montm6dy disturbed the escort, en route to Sedan. THE FRENCH DEFEAT AT I)REUX. A report from the Royal Headquarters, Versailles, Y e sterday November 18, says that in the engagement jesterday evening near Bronx, and in which Adju ta,nt-General Treskow drove about 7,00 0 Mobile wl4uards from the neighbourhood, the French loss all 0 0 killed and many wounded. The German ' 2 " Was unimportant. BERLIN, November 20 (10.50 a.m.). The official report on General Von der Tann's recent... engagement between Coulmiers and Baccon 7 . 3 7 8 th a t th e th ousan d G er man prisoners men ;lolled in the French report are sick and wounded Left at Orleans. 134 den and Hesse have signed treaties of adhesion TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1870. to the North German Confederacy. Bavaria it likely to follow suit shortly, Prussia having aban doned her claim of having the direction of the Bavarian troops in peace as well as in war. THE MONEY MARKET. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The Stock Markets are better to-day, the character of the news from the Continent being considered peaceful. The Funds are higher, Turkish, Egyptian, and Italian, 1 to 11 ; and Spanish, 2. Consols aro 92} to 921 for money and account. Turkish Fives are 41i to 412; Italian, 531 to 541 ; Spanish, 301 to 31 ; New French Loan at 2 to 1 die. A statement, received in the City from Vienna, that the Emperor Napoleon has expressed concurrence with the action of the Government of National Defence in rejecting the conditions of the proposed Armistice and in raising means for continued resistance, seems to have stimulated an idea which was previously gaining ground in many quarters, that the conclusion of peace may be accompanied by a restoration of the Imperial authority and the re-establishment of a settled Government. It is argued that, in the event of the capitulation of Paris, the return of the Emperor, and of such of his generals as still command public confidence, would apparently furnish the sole guarantee against an indefinite period of anarchy, while at the same time, so far as the external relations of France are concerned, it would more than anything else' facilitate a satisfactory settlement of the Eastern guts tion, and re-awaken hopes of the possibility of some approach towar.l.l a European disarmament. With the Roman, Spanish, and Turkish difficulties removed, Europe, it is suggested, would have prospects of pro longed peace better than any that have existed during the past 20 years. The report of the Chontales (Nicaragua) Mining Com pany, to be presented on the 22nd inst., states that the property could now at several points be worked at a profit, but that capital is wanted for the purpose. It is, therefore, proposed to issue £60,000 12 per cent. preference shares to supply the requisite funds, and also to extinguish the existing mortgage debt of £23,695. The report of the directors of the Great Indian Penin sula Railway Company states that the gross receipts for the half-year amounted to £1,063,367, and the expenses to 4569,051, spewing a net profit of £494,316, being equal to £5 7s. 4d. per cent. upon the amount of capital expended to the 30th June last on the open line. The half-yearly meeting of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company is called for the 16th December. An extraordinary meeting of the Alliance British and Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company is convened for the 14th December. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This DAY. A HYPOCRITICAL FATHER DESERTING HIS CHILDREN. — Joseph Henry Falconer, a seaman, late boatswain of a ship, was charged, at the Thames Police-court, with deserting his two children, and leaving them chargeable to the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town. The case was proved by Mr. Slight, the 'relieving-officer, of Milo End, who said the prisoner's two children were chargeable to the Hamlet for more than a year. The prisoner, since he had deserted them, had received large sums for wages, and had not contributed one farthing for their maintenance. He was taken at the gate of the House of Correction on Saturday week, after a month's imprison ment. He now cried and howled, and was laughed at. He talked about his inability.to support his dear little ones. Mr. Paget said if the prisoner had any affection for his dear little ones, as ho termed them, he would have contributed something for their support. He committed him for a month, and to hard labour, in the House of Correction. THE SMOKE NUISANOE.—Henry Rafael, gold and silver refiner, in Thomas•street , Limehouso, was summoned, at the above Court, for having furnaces on his premises so constructed as not to consume their own smoke. Mx. Sandison, Government Inspector, said the defendant worked several furnaces, and two of them had no apparatus for the consumption of smoke. Witnesses proved that smoke in dense volumes had frequently issued from the defendant's chimney shaft. A young gentleman, on behalf of the defendant, said that every precaution had been taken, and every means resorted to, to prevent the chimney from smoking. Mr. Paget fined the defendant 405., and £l6s. 3d. costs. t , NELL.' If Charles Dickens could have witnessed Mr. Halliday's version of " Nell and the Old Curiosity Shop " at the Olympic Theatre as he had some months since done at the first performance of "Little Em'ly," we believe he would have been even more gratified with the dramatist's last work, and would have grasped his friend's hand with a more genial fervour than he did when the celebrated Yarmouth story came to its conclusion. A more brilliant and attentive auditory than that collected at Mrs. Liston's small but pretty house,on Saturday, it could scarcely have been possible to bring together on a "first night," and yet we have no anxiety on the ground that a single person left the theatre dissatisfied or wearied. Mr. Halliday's reticence in appearing behind the footlights, in immediate response to the call for the "author," at least enabled him to see how genuine was the applause bestowed upon his work. And yet the drama of " Nell" is not altogether free from its faults, although they may be somewhat judicious in their nature. Indeed, if there were persons in the house who had never. read of the trials and hardships of the little darling in Dickens's mournful narrative, they would have failed to believe that the Ne'l of Mr. Halliday's play suffered, to any painful degree, at all. Her lines are not cast in altogether unpleasant places, although the anthor 7 -and we cannot honour him too highly for d3ing so—follows Mr. Dickens's steps so accurately as to allow the old grandfather's angel and the old grandfather him self to die at • the end of the piece. The portraiture of the grandfather, entrusted to Mr. Belmore, is exquisite, and nothing can be more truly pathetic, nay, beautiful, than this actor's soliloquy in the snow-clad churchyard, after his grandchild's death. Crazed, the poor old man treads lightly over the snow, lest the sleep of his tiny guide should be disturbed even by his steps. Standing bareheaded beneath the falling flakes, he observes that the robins are still waiting to be fed—the robins Whom she used to feed. In a gleam of wisdom her loss dawns upon him, and falling at a grave, he sees a vision (represented also to the audience with every effect that can make the scene impressive), in which she whose feet were " Imaged and torn" in leading him through life, is being borne to heaven. The grandfather cries out, "Take her not from me, oh angels, take her not from me!' and as the chorus of the angels comes on the air back to him, the climax is reached, his soul follows Little Nell's to heaven, and at this stage Mr. Halliday most appro priately brings down the curtain. We have to speak in eulogistic terms of Mr. Fisher's delineation of Dick Stvivelleu and of Mr. Clarke's Quilph. Mr. Fisher who became famous as Micawber, will become twice as much so as the lover of the " Slavey," " the Marchioness," and the " Rosy." We have in his impersonation apparently every action, look, and speech, of the original character. The only scene in which he figures in the novel, omitted in the play, being the ever to be remembered " supper party." But Mr. Halliday has, made Dick Statuetter so important and so lively a personage in all the other celebrated inci dents of his original career—in Brass's office, in the palace of the Marchioness, and the black beetles ; and ,we cannot omit to praise the performance on the " Hon. Richard Swiveller's own private band," a flute, an execution, which " will be chronicled in the Morning Post of to-morrow," in the latter place, and in his sick bedroom, where the devoted Marchioness appears to her best advantage, that the whole significance of his worthy and ludicrous character seem most fairly given to the audience. The scenes, " The Curiosity Shop," " The day at the races," and that last spectacle of all, where " Old Saturnus, with his frosty face, With chilling cold had pearst the tender greene ; And winter's wrath, where with each thing defaste, In woeful wise bewayled the sommer past," and where Little Nell and her grandfather die, tended and cared in th3ir last hours by the pitiful " old bachelor" of Mr. Dickens's narrative, are very magnificently pictured upon the stage. The sensation scene, the burning of Quilph's home on the banks of the Thames, was hissed by the gallery, but the ebullition was levelled more at the apparent ill-necessity of the sensationalism than at any imperfection in the representation. Miss Florence Terry (Little Nell) received a shower,of bouquets on retiring from the stage at the end of the play. THE BLACK SEA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—The Government are urged to declare war against Russia because she seeks relief from a disability which nine persons out of ten admit ought not to be imposed upon her. We are therefore to fight, not because Russia has done a wrong thing, but because she has not done it in a diplomatic manner. She boldly declares that she will no longer submit to the degrading condition imposed on her by the Treaty of Paris, which prohibits.her from maintaining a fleet in the Black Sea. She has a perfect right to set aside the conditions of that treaty, subject to the right of any of the contracting parties to fight for its maintenance. The question is simply whether it is worth our while to engage in another Russian war in order to maintain the supremacy of Turkey. The disappointment which has resulted since the last occasion on which we interposed on her behalf ought to be a warning for the future. In protecting Turkey we are upholding a worn-out despotism which is crushing more vigorous nations who would quickly assume the position to which they are entitled, but for our interference. This evil, it seems, is to be perpetuated, and a European conflagration is threatened because Gortscha koff told us in a straightforward way what he intends to do. No doubt a Bismarck would have accomplished his purpose in a different, if not in a more honest man ner. The honour of England is not involved in the maintainance of a treaty which every one admits ought to be modified, mainly because we take exception to the mode in which its correction has been sought. No one denies that Turkey has infringed the provisions of the treaty, and if Russia raised the question by asking for a conference, it is probable that in the present state of Europe a conference would have been declined. Turkey would have still more increased her fleet, and prepared herself for blockading her ancient enemy in the disputed waters upon which Russia is prevented from pveparing for a defence. _ _ Would any other great Power submit to such a dis qualification as has been imposed upon Russia one moment longer than it was unavoidable, and are the flames of war to be lighted throughout the whole of Europe on account of a question which, when it comes to be discussed, will be yielded to Russia, if justice and moderation are allowed to prevail ?—Yours truly, W. S. Sr. JAMES'S THEATILE.—H is Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied by the Marquis of Lorne, and attended by Major Elphistone and a distinguished suite, honoured this theatre with his presence on Saturday evening. _ _ _ CRYSTAL PALACE.--Half--a-crown dad•, Saturday, November 19th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets 4,755 ; ditto on payment, 956 ; total visitors, 5,711. CRYSTAL PALACE.--Weber's "Der Freischutz " was produced on Thursday last with so much success that it is to be repeated to-morrow (Tuesday) and Thursday. The clever athletes, Gonza and Romah, appear to-day and Wednesday. ft is rumoured that the First Lord of the Admi ralty, having carefully noted the points of the Naval Retirement Scheme which press hardly on some classes of officers brought under its operation, is about to modify the same. The London Scotsman is informed that it is proposed to nominate as Moderator of the next Gene ral Assembly, the Rev. Robert Horne Stevenson, of St. George's, Edinburgh. The next Moderator of the Free Assembly will be tho Rev, Robert Elder, M.A., minister of Itothesay. We regret to learn that the esteemed master of University College, Oxford (the Rev. Dr. Plumptre), is seriously ill, having been taken suddenly indisposed on Wednesday afternoon. The advanced age of the rev. gentleman and the serious nature of his illness, render his recovery extremely doubtful Amongfat the names of those who have been called to the English bar this term is that of Mr. George Royle. This gentleman has been a navigating officer in the Royal Navy, a master in the mercantile marine, and a Trinity House pilot. We understand that he left her Majesty s service with the intention of practising in the admiralty courts.—Solicitor's Journal. The Orchestra says that the following are the titles and subjects of some of the London Christmas pieces :—At Drury Lane, " Mother Shipton and the Dragon of Wantly ;" at Covent Garden, "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood ;" at the Princess's, "Little Gil Blas, and How He Played the Spanish Deuce;" at the Adelphi, "The Mistletoe Bough," a conglomeration of the stories and personages of many English ballads, such as Lord Lovel, Lady Nancy Bell, Simon the Cellarer, Philip the Falconer, &c. - - The decrease in barometrical pressure which had commenced has continued, especially in the west and north of the British Isles. Temperature has risen a little generally. The winds are still light to moderate, except in the west, where they blew a gale in the north from south and south-west, and continue to blow fres h to strong, with squalls from north-north-west at Roche's Point, and from south at St. Ann's Head. Rain has fallen in the west, heavily in the south of Ireland. The sky continues very cloudy, with fog in places. The sea is disturbed in the west of these islands, but calm else where. THE u.-kRIBA.LDIANS AND THE PRIESTS. Writing from the head-quarters of Garibaldi at Antnn on the 14th instant, the correspondent of the Daily News says :—To tell you that the wearers of the red shirt, and, in fact, every one serving under the orders of General Garibaldi, are looked upon by the priests as the apostles of the devil would be nothing new ; but this being the case it will not be difficult to form an idea of the sensation (if such it can be called) that the Garibaldians have caused in a town like Autun, which counts no less than nine con vents, and which is literally choked with priests, who possess a tremendous influence both in the town and the surrounding country. I have now been here several days, and during that period I have had numerous opportunities of talking on this subject with the townsfolk, more than two-thirds of whom, I am sorry to say, are completely priest-ridden. Many of the tradespeople seem perfectly astounded to find that the Garibaldians pay for everything they take, and that they neither rob nor assassinate the inhabitants nor carry off their wives, for it appears that so soon as it became known that Garibaldi's head-quarters were to be established here, the clergy sent abroad reports that were calculated to persuade the people that the Prussian invasion even would be preferable to the occupation of the town by Garibaldi's army, which they insinuated was nothing lees than an undisciplined band of brigands whose principal aim was pillage. One of these gentle. men, a village curd, having been denounced by some of the peasantry, was tried a day or two after our arrival by court-martial on the charge of inciting his parishioners to rebel against the military authori ties, and his guilt having been proved beyond a doubt, he was, in accordance with the law, condemned to death. A memorial, however, was presented to the Minister of War, who thought fit to sign his pardon. You can easily conceive that this affair has exasperated the clergy against us. They dare not attack us openly, but the Bishop appears to have undertaken the task of annoying us as much as possible, and as he is supported by a great many of the townspeople, he finds almost daily an excuse for complaining about some trifling matter or. • other. Since we have been here the staff has carried on quite a voluminous correspondence with the reverend father, who every morning has something new tp say. It is, however, only fair to mention that the Bishop's last complaint is to a certain extent well-founded. It appears that the night before last a party of thirty men, commanded, it is said, by a captain, went to his palace and demanded admittance, upon the pretence of search ing for concealed arms and a Prussian spy. The worthy Bishop, without dreaming to ask the officer for a written order, allows him and his troops to be admitted, and while his house is being searched quietly remains in bed. After the party hadretired, the Bishop misses two watches, and thereupon draws up a complaint, wherein he accuses the Garibaldians of having broken into his house and robbed him. An investigation has been commenced, and it is now almost proved that the outrage was perpetrated by a party of Francs-tireurs, who will natu rally be-severely punished. This matter was discussed this morning by the committee for the defence of Autun, who also took into consideration the decree of the under prefect, whereby certain cafés (the proprietors of which had given liquor to people in a state of intoxication) were closed for a certain number of days, and sentinels were posted before the houses of ill repute in order to pre vent them being frequented by the soldiers. The committee, probably with a view of shewing that it sides with the Bishop and disapproves of the measures taken by the under-prefect, acting possibly with General Garibaldi's consent, to maintain public order, has, I am told, resigned ea masse. If the priests are very savage with the followers of the great red-shirted hero, who has always been the bugbear of the Roman Catholic clergy, I am in justice bound to say that this ill feeling has in a great measure been increased by the unceremonious man. ner in which his troops have turned the convents and churches into barracks. GERMAN FEELING AGAINST ENGLAND. The special correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Berlin, November 15th, says :—Not a single news paper in the Prussian capital not even the most Liberal and anti-Governmental—has one word to say in favour of a people whose good intentions cannot be doubted by the unprejudiced, and whose active benevo lence has been proved by the subscription of more than a quarter of a million of pounds sterling. The fact is, the Prussians are at this moment violently prejudiced against England. They ascribe her intervention to the most selfish and basest motives. They attribute our pro posals to jealousy, and maintain that we are possessed by an overmastering dread Of German ascendancy. Whether the newspapers make public opinion here, or merely reflect it, is a question not answered. The Berliners pretend to ignore or despise most of their own papers ; but it seems to me that those writers whom they affect to slight easily lead them by the nose. It is by no means in the journals alone that one meets with this growing animosity. An Englishman hers is personally free from insult. The people are too educator and too self-respecting to visit, after the manner of their ignorant and vain glorious enemies, the sins of a nation upon any one of its sons. But the feeling leaks out on every occasion. Your friends here will remind you with a smile or a sneer of the commercial advantages England gains by this war, although the sale of a few thousand weapons, manufac tured in one small district, is no compeisation for the injury inflicted upon the whole community by the closing of England's principal market. In cafes and places of public resort the exasperation boils over, and from every table one hears indignant complaints of England's double dealing. Inthe low-class theatres, — again, an actor finds the most vulgar abuse of England the safest "gag" in which he can indulge. TO say " Englander —die Lumpen," is always enough, to bring down the house. LATEST FROM TOURS. The latest news at Tours states that Prince Fre derick Charles's army has joined the ferces of the Duke of Mecklenburg between Fontainebleau and Etampes. It appears to be the intention of the Germans to allow the French to a.lvance, with the object of subsequently stacking them on both Banks. 'I he total strength of the armies of General von der Tann, the,Duke of Mecklenburg, and Prince Frederick Charles, is stated to be 135,000 men. The siege of Le Fere continues, and 0,000 Prus sians are reported at Queasy. The houses along the road to Quessy are in flam s. The Francs-tireurs are annoying the enemy. The Corps of General You do Tann and the Duke de Mecklenburg continue falling back ; but there is no confirmation of the rumours of the French having occupied Chartres or Etampes. THE SIEGE OF METZ. CAssEL, November 20. A. pamphlet by Marshal Bazaine, justifying his conduct at Metz from the 14th of August until the capitulation, will be published at Brussels in a few days. THE EASTERN QUESTION. THE ANSWER OF PRUSSIA. _ BERLIN, Sunday, 1.40. p.m. Mr. Odo Russell has received the assurance from Count Bismarck that there is no private understand ing between Prussia and Russia on the question of the Black Sea. It id asserted that Russia has declared her willing ness to grant very extensive military furloughs to allay the uneasiness of the people. PUBLIC OPINION IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, November 19. The decree extending compulsory military service to all classes of the population has been well re eeived by the journals, and is looked upon as a peaceful measure. The St. Petersburg Gazette in its comments to-day upon the English note says that, as Lord Granville admits the substance of the Russian demands, it is useless to quarrel about the form in which those demands are expressed. Austria also admitted as much when Count Boust proposed a revision of the Treaty. No advantage could result to England or Austria from war. The form of the circular was necessary because of the impossibility of assembling a Congress, or of revising the Treaty otherwise. Russia was not the first to break the Treaty. A peaceful result will probably be obtained by diplomacy. THE RUSSIAN FLEET. BRUSSELS, November 20. A letter from St. Petersburg, dated Nov. 15, to the Inelependance Belge, states that we may expect the early appearance of an imposing iron-clad Russian squadron in the Dardanelles, and a mili tary demonstration on the Danube and Pruth, if the Cabinets of Vienna and Constantinople should prove less accommodating than Russia hopes. General Ignatieff .has set out on his return to Constantinople, furnished with detailed instructions. Prince Gorstehakoff's attitude in regard to the Treaties is very popular in Russia. BERLIN, November 19 (Evening). The Russo-Turkish embroglio is not expected here to lead to any serious consequences. Pacific views of the issue are uppermost in the minds of the people both here and at Vienna. The Prague Caechian Pollak., the leading organ of the Sclavonian movement in Austria, says that if Austria goes to war with Russia, the Turkish ques tion will be converted into an Austrian question, all Austrian-Sclavonians, with the sole exceptiJn of the Poles, looking upon such a war as contrary to their interests. Official circles in Berlin continue to indulge the hope that the movement of Russia will entail no serious complication at tho present moment. ROUEN, November 19. The Journal de Rouen says:—" All the intelli gence received irom Cairo is to the effect that Ismail Pasha is favourably disposed, and, in case of aggression on the part of Russia, would furnish a contingent of 30,000 men to Turkey, with a portion of the Egyptian fleet and a large subsidy. Under it new military organisation, Turkey can, in less than a fortnight, put under arms an army of 400,000 men." The Patrie of November 18 says a despatch has been received from Constantinople announcing that the population of Odessa have addressed a petition to the Czar, asking that the port of Odessa should be guaranteed against eventual aggression on the part of Turkey. General Ignatieff will refer to this petition in connection with his demand at Constanti nople for the entry of Russian vessels of war into the Black Sea. The despatch of the Russian Government, an noundng that it no longer considers itself bound by the Treaty of 1866, has been delivered to the Porte. .No immediate answer was given, the Grand Vizier stating that he would reply when he had conferred with the other parties interested. PUPLIC OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES NEW YORK, November 19. The New , York gribune says :—Prince Gortacha koff's talk of successive violations of the Treaty of Paris by other parties to it is simply an able statesman's laborious and skilful assignment of a pretext for an act to which these violations were evidently in no respect an incitement, and for which they cannot serve as justification. It was clear to all parties at the moment of signing the Treaty of Paris that Russia would be controlled by it exactly as long as she should feel unable to do otherwise, It would be absurd to exact from Russia a reverence for engagements under duress whereof history affords few examples. The most glaringly exceptional feature of her demonstration is its abruptness. She does not oven demand, she simply takes. Submission on the part of England would be a confession of weakness equivalent to the abdication of all future influence and moral weight in the politics of the Continent. Yet England may well pause in view of the weakness of her pro spective allies. The New York Times says :—War will lead at first to a decline in American securities and a loss to the Cotton States, but the export of gain and the carrying trade of the United States will be imme diately stimulated. The New York World believes that the angry feeling excited by Gortschakoff's circular will fume itself away in popular protest and diplomatic demon strations. The New York Herald says :—Prince Gortscbakoff , claims the faithful fulfilment of the letter of the treaty, and throws open the doors for an immediate Congress of the signatory Powers. England must accede at once, or, having already incurred the dis pleasure of France. Prussia, and America, must occupy the position of a recusant who will gii e no redress, and thereby invites war. CHINA. FOREIGN-OFFICE, November 21. In a telegram dated Pekin, November 3rd, Mr. Wade says he does not expect military force will be necessary anywhere. It is reported that an application has been made for £50,000 for the replenishment of the stores of Ports mouth Dockyard, in order to conform to the recent order that a twelvemonth's stock is to be kept up. At Wool wich Arsenal great activity prevails. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. The November session commenced to-day, the calen dar containing the names of only fifty male and seven teen female prisoners for trial. Edward Searey is charged with the wilful murder of a shoemaker in Mary lebone. Prisoner and deceased had quarrelled, and in the disturbance the latter was mortally stabbed. Among several cases of manslaughter is one againet John and Margaret Pursell, of having starved their child to death. Mary Hall will appear to answer a charge of palming a suppositious child upon Mr. Loe. Another case of public interest is that of John M`Donald, charged with contra vening the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, by enlisting a number of persons to take service in the French army. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH. The new church at Highclere, Hants, at which place Lord Carnarvon has a seat, was consecrated for Divine worship on Saturday, by the Lord Bishop of Winchester. The new building is considered to be one of the purest models of the early English period. It was designed by Mr. Gilbert Scott, and erected at a cost of nearly £6,000. With the exception of the organ and a few articles of church furniture, the whole of the cost was borne by Lord Carnarvon. The Lord Bishop of Winchester preached the morning sermon, with his accustomed eloquence. Lord Carnarvon afterwards entertained at luncheon, at the Castle, about 150 of the clergy and gentry of th e neighbourhood, and also provided dinner for about 150 of the tenantry and labourers of the pariah. Addresses were afterwards delivered by Lord Carnarvon, the Lord Bishop of Winchester, and others. In the course of the addresses special attention was made of his lordship's!, muni ficence and disinterestedness in allowing the removal of the church from its old site, which was contiguous to the castle, and of course convenient to his lordship's family and household, the present church being about one mile and a quarter from the castle, but in close proximity to the village and schools of Highclere. AN IRISH POLICE COURT. The Belfast police court was occupied for some time on Saturday with an application in reference to an alleged libel in the Northern Stew• upon Mr. John Rea, attorney. Mr. Andrew Joseph McKenna, the editor, had offered to accept the responsibility of the whole question, but sum monses had been granted against the proprietor and printer. The recriminations bandied about between the several persons concerned in the case became so loud and violent that the eourt had to be suddenly adjourned. Tue excitement was, however, continued in the streets, and Mr. Rea addressed a large crowd from a window. ARRIVAL OF A NORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAMER. The North German Lloyd steamer Rhein, from New York for Bremen, with 140 passengers- and a full cargo, arrived at Grimsby on Saturday morning all well. The Rhein left New York on the sth instant. During the whole passage she encountered heavy weather. She came northabout, in order to avoid tho French fleet in the Channel. She is brought up in the Humber, waiting orders for Bremen. She spoke no ships on the voyage. A FAMILY POISONED A family, namad Sellers, consisting of father, mother, and son, residing at Forken-on-Wolds, near Sheffield, ware poisoned on Saturday morniug, through the servant filling the kettle with sheep-wash, instead of water, for breakfast. None are dead yet, but the father is not ex pected to recover. It b supposed to hswe been done accidentally. A NARROW ESCAPE. As Dr. Norman M`Leod was preaching last evening to an immense congregation in the Stockport Sunday School great alarm was occasioned by the room, which Is of very large dimensions, and is situated on the third story of this building, becoming suddenly filled with a dense volume of smoke from a neighbouring chimney which was on fire. A cry of fire was raised in the hall, and the congregation, in a state of great excitement, were preparing to rush out, when Dr. M`Leod and others succeeded in assuring them that there was no danger. THE REPRESENTATION OF NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT. The writ for Newport, Islo of Wight, was received on Friday. The nomination is fixed for to-day (Monday) and the poll is fixed for to-morrow. STABBING AT GLOUCESTER. A month agO two labourers quarelled and fought at Gloucester. One stabbed the other, causing his death. The survivor now awaits his trial for wilful murder. On Saturday night a man, named Jeremiah Speck, a steve dore, fought with another man. He afterwards accused a companion, named William Drew, of causing the quar rel, and struok him. Drew then stabbed Speck with a pocket knife. Drew was arrested, and the knife found. Speck was taken to the Infirmary. His recovery is doubtful. TUE A.RIIY OF THE LOIRE. In a letter, dated Tours,, November 16, the Daily News correspondent writes :—lt is not probable that a battle will take place for two or three days yet, but it is impend ing. The question is, does D'Aurelles de Paladin intend to attack before Frederick Charles can join Von der Tann, or does he intend to hold the position he has got ? I have not been able to make certain about that. At all events, if Frederick Charles, as I hear, has only 40,000 at 50,000 men with him, the French army would still be numerically stronger than the army opposed to it, which would consist of Von der Tands army lately reinforced, and which may number 70,000 or 80,000 men, and Fre derick Charles's 50,000—total 120,000, or 130 ,000. D'Aurelles de Paladin's 15th and 16th corps, with some regiments belonging to the embryo 17th and 18th corps, now forming,l must have been nearly 150,000 strong when at Mer-aux-Marchenoir. Since then he has received stronereinforcements of artillery and mitrailleuses, and is receiving more every day, so that we may hope that in numbers the French will not be over weighted by the Germans on the day of this really decisive battle. Now, about this battle .there can be no doubt that on each side supreme efforts will be made. In the last battle the French were far superior in numbers (although, of course, all the troops were not actually engaged). There can be no doubt the Bavarians were demoralised, and that in a few instances they did not hold well. In the next battle the disparity of numbers will be almost insignificant. The Bavarians will be side by side with the Prussians, and no doubt !they will do every. thing to wipe out this first reverse. On the other hand, on the day of the last battle the French army was hardly cured of one of the worst fits of demoralisation which an army ever laboured under. Now, all is quite altered. They have now opened their eyes with surprise to the fact that the Germans can be beaten ; that their artillery can be silenced by the French artillery, which came off with all the honours ; that even they can be attacked with the bayonet successfully. An episode of the fighting of the other day shews"he reckless coolness of the young Mobiles. During the action the Mobiles of La Gironde, who were in line and advancing to the front, were encountered by numerous coveys of partridges, which the exploding shells drove away. These birds flew right in among the men, who became much much more engrossedby trying to catch them as they flew than by the thought that in another two minutes they would be under no small storm of shell and ball. I think the officers, who still speak despondingly, do so out of political bitterness. I heard a colonel the other day saying there was still no hope, for the Prussians were 1,200,000 strong in France, &c. As for Gambetta, he spoke of him most insolently. This was openly, in a railway carriage full of people. The Government here are very nervous about this impending battle. LONDON SOHOOL BOARD. MARYLRBONE. -- Mr Hepworth Dixon will address the ratepayers at the Grafton Hall, Grafton-street, Tottenham-court-rood, this evening, at eight o'clock. In all the Roman Catholic Chapels in London yesterday morning notice was given to all Roman Catholic ratepayers for the Borough of Westminster to vote for Lord Howard of Glossop ; to those of Marylebone for Mr. Whitefield ; and those of the Borough of Finsbury were desired to divide their votes equally between Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens and Mr. Clark. It was also announced that meetings to secure the appointment of Lord Howard of Glossop would be held in several parts of - London `during the coming week. OUR COTEMPOR,ARIES---Thi, Morning THE EASTERN QUESTION. Talk as we may please, the Times observes, of our own insular immunities, we are exposed, naked, and storm tost in comparison with the Power for whose special security the earth seems to have been planned and the very skies ordained. Only onco has a wild and desperate ambition attempted to penetrate that deep interior; and even had Russia failed of her duty the elements would have crushed the rash intruder. All that the reasonable part of mankind has hoped for is that, by supreme efforts, it may keep within tolerable bounds the immense bulk which itself can hardly help crushing its weak neighbours. The one only fear that Russia can truly and honestly feel is that, without intention and hardly knowing it, she may stifle or overwhelm the small and decrepit States abut her. They who preponderate cannot but over-sway. If there ever was a Power that could exhibit to an admiring world a single instance of that honour which it laments to find rare, and which could thereby rebuke the instability of public • principle, that Power is Russia. On the contrary, she has thought fit to adopt for her rule the necessity of peoples and States struggling for very existence, and driven to choose between self-assertion and extinction. It is impossible to deny that the races which have fought their way to unity, or independence, have a holy cause and a valid plea, whatever may be objected as to the ways and means employed. But Russia can allege no such cause or plea without transparent hypoerisy. She is encum bered by the immensity of . her existence, restricted by its independence, and overcharged with its strength. She has herself only to fear. She may topple over by her towering height, or outgrow the possible scale of earthly unities. She may provoke the Nemesis that ever waits upon excess. She may reach the numbers which are not strength, and the union which makes not force. But could all the world combine, it would leave Russia alone, except for self-protection against her imminent out-pouring. If such a Power is to rend a treaty whenever it suits its purposes, there is an end of treaties altogether, But Russia has a destiny, and looks at the stars. The treaty which chafes her has lasted half a generation. Of its two chief authors, France lies on her back in mortal strife and helplessness. England is blowing blasts about her own providential insularity. With the victo rious side Russia can exchange smiles. Now is the time. Here goes. The famous Treaty of 1856, which cost Eng. land and France a hundred thousand men and two hundred millions of money, is torn into fragments and cast to the winds. The Daily News says: What the opinions of the Foreign Minister an o d of his colleagues may be with respect to the provisions of the Treaty of 1856, which limit the sove reignty of Russia in the Black Sea, they will doubtless state for themselves, if Prince Gortschakoff will give them a legi timate opportunity of doing so. They would approach the question, we trust, with fair and open minds. The pre sent Government is not pledged to the conclusions either of the Ministry of 1853, which drifted into the war with Russia, or that of 1856, which stumbled into peace with her. But though we should not in 1870 voluntarily and for the first time undertake the responsi lities which we rashly assumed in 1856, we are not free in 1870 to abandon the responsibilities which we assumed in 1856. if Russia renounces her obligations to us, we do not thereby acquire the right to break our promises to Turkey. Interest and policy do not hold us to the fulfilment of our plighted word, but the bond of honour ought to be sufficient to keep to it. The intellect and conscience of England will not be darkened or perverted by the immoral pleadings in favour of a breach of faith which have been put forth, in a moment of inconsiderate impulse, by men from whose political logic and ethics better things might have been hoped. The scandalous doctrine of repudia tion will be indignantly disowned by the Government and Parliament of England. We cannot release Russia from her obligations under the Treaty, because we can not release ourselves from our own obligations under it. There is only one path honourably open to either Power out of the difficulty, and that is a formal revision by the contracting parties, and modification or amendment as may seem necessary, of the portions of the Treaty which are objected to. This course, we are san guine enough to hope, will be adopted. The Telegraph says the world has united to condemn Napoleon 111. because he was not wise enough or strong enough to hold back the French people, " straining like greyhounds in the slip," anxious to be let loose ; but what is to be said of the Emperor Alexander, who deliberately rouses a pacific Russia to the mad fury of a warlike France. We still hope that he will pause. If the second despatch of Prince Gortschakoff be meant sin cerely, there are within its four corners ample materials for a discussion to end in peace. It is perfectly true, as he there alleges, that we wish to maintain the Porte by "allaying differences between it and its subjects," and that we wish to do so in " accdrd with all the European Powers." ,Russia professes the same desires, and asks for a " sincere understanding." Such a despatch, standing alone, could have only one answer—a reply of cordial recipro city. But it is im possible to discuss it until formally or virtually it does stand alone. In.the north of England a " Scarborough warning" means " a word and a blow, but the blow first," a proverb borrowed from some local little feat of old and treacherous wars. Russia gravely mistakes us if she thinks that any violation of the treaty can facilitate discussion; if her " blow" comes first, it is not words that will follow it. She has her chece, and she ,has now the chance of rising to the wisdom of Prince Gortschakoff's second cir cular—am indication, we hope, of those " second thoughts" which are so often "best." The Standard asks what chance England would have of asserting the right in a Congress to consider the revision of the Treaty of 1856, in Which Russia herself would sit with Prussia, with whom this shameless breach of faith has been concerted, by her side, with Italy uncdrtain how to move, and engrossed with difficulties of her own making ? She might, indeed, have the support of Austria, but then the support of Austria, if Count Beust is the representative of the Empire, must be given on the point of form rather than of substance. But, adds the Standard, no Congress is needed now to prevent war, and any Congress meeting now would render the preservation of peace almost impos sible. The question is too simple for a Congress. In the form the Russian' Government has chosen to put it all the questions upon which differences of opinion exist as to the desirability of the maintenance of tho Turkish Empire are entirety excluded. There are only two points to determine—the first, whether Russia has any right to determine at her own will contracts into which she has solemnly entered; the second—one that ought, indeed, hardly to be entertained—whether the infringement of some provisions of the Treaty on non-essential points, considering the purpose of the contract—and, moreover, if not with the assent, without any protbst on the part of Russia—justifies Russia in repudiating an article of the Treaty which was allowed by everybody at the time it was signtd to be the most important ? There can be no difficulty about answering theselquestions. No Congress is needed to deter mine them, and no war need be dreaded so long as the English Government maintains firmly the answer given by Lord Granville on the 10th. Russia will not, we may be pretty sure, in the face of such a protest, make the slightest move to carry out her threats. If she should, the Turkish fleet is ready to call her to account, and the Eng lish too. Our fleet can this time do the work. If Russia persists in declaring that the Black Sea , shall not be neu tralised, the English fleet can soon make the Black Sea a sea in which no Russian vessel will dare to show herself. The Russian Government has made a terrible blunder, but the English nation would make a far worse one, if,from any idle or cowardly fear of war, it should submit to an insult which it can punish most exemplary almost without an effort. The other day some German and French officers had a friendly chat between two of the opposite outposts, near Paris. The Prussians asked the French why it was they fired so constantly with no apparent motive. The reply was, " It is not we, the regular army ; it is those coehons les Gardes Mobiles." These lemonstrations from the forts, whether made by Gerdes Mobiles or regulars, have been useful to the enemy. The German generals know now the range of the guns on every fort, and they confess that the ordnance is not to be despised. Some of the guns in position on the forts have an unex pectedly long range. They carry not only to the outposts, but to the reserves. Projectiles fail in villages occupied by troops on the northern lines of investment, but only now and then. They do little or no damage because their limits have been ascertained and measures taken accordingly. From the German foreposts before Paris to the reserves, and from the reserves on to head quarters, there is a complete system of telegraphy. A minute after a shot is fired against a forepost the tact is known to the reserves. The appearance of a body of troops moving from the forts is instantly communicated to all the headquartersp—.Pall Gag4tc.