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MOSES and SON LONDON. CORNER, of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. C,IORNKR, of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. Col:quint BRANcII, BRADFORD. YORKSHIRE. 11 HEATRE ROYAL DR l; Y'-LA E.—Sole 1 Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CIIAIRE Theatre having been re-decorated under the W - e* tion of Mr. C. T. Phipps, F.S.A. is now Open for the AUTUM N DRAMATIC SEASON, THIS EVENING, Oct. 11. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. MISS NEILSON will appear in the character of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name, THIS EVENING, Oct. IL—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA NE. 14 R. T. C. KING will appear in the character of CVARNEY, in the new Drama, entitlei A,MY ROBSART, IS EVENING, Oct. 11.—TREATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. P- HOBUS'S FJX, in which the celebrated VOICES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Oet, 11.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. AMY ROBSART ; a new Historical Romantic Drama, written by Andrew Halliday • founded on Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel " Kenilworth," with new and characteristic scenery by William Eeverly, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock THIS EVENING, Oct.IO . .—THEATRE ROYALDRURY LANE. - _ - AMY ROBSART; new drama : Characters by Miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes, Kemp, J. Mortin, and Rosins Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock i THIS EVENING, Oct. 11—THEA.TRE ROYAL DRURY. LANE. A MY ROBSART; New Drama, characters by J- Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard, Brittain Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon, Yokes, F. Stanforth, H. Naylor, and Fred. Vokes, THIS EVEN ING, Oct. 11.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. 4 MY ROSBART; New Drama. The Overture and Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. 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Cooper; to conclude with THE HAPPY MAN, Mr. Shiel bury, &c. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and MAnageress, Mrs. SWANBOROU GH. This Evening, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING ; The School for Coquettes. Messrs. Crouah, Turner : Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly- Burly-Esque, "THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." 31essrs. Terry, Poulton, Fenton, and Turner Mesdames Amy pheridan, E. Ninon, Santley, Lee, Goodall, & 3. ; ;lad, THE cuorB oy THE CHANNEL. GLOBE THEATRE, Newcastle-street, Strand. — Miss ALLEYNE Lesse and Manageress.—THlS EYENING, BOARD AND RESIDENCE, at a quarter to Eight ; TAlaßg THE SHREW, Messrs. Fairclough, Shepherd, Cathcart, Amow and Alleyne ; MARCO SPADA, Messes. Walter Lacy, Robertson, liilpack, Shepherd, and Fairclough, Mesdames Ada Cavendish, Weston, Sr,c. STRAND.- ' VA UDEVILLE THEATRE, V Lessees-3Niessrs. IL J. Montague, D. ja zam: „ . ea, jThorne. THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING. After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitleaWo Arras. 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AMERICAN VIEWS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. The New York Times says that Earl Russell takes the same position on international law which was originally taken by Washington, expounded in the Neutrality Act of 1794, and amplified in the Amended Act of 1818. The legislation of Washing ton and Hamilton, adopted .by Congress, was copied in most of its features by the British Administration, in the famous Foreign Enlistment Act of 1819, of which, says the New York Tinzes, America had such un fortunate experience during the rebellion. "The very articles in our own Acts, which were omitted in the British, would have saved all the trouble which we had from British interference in our civil war." Had the legislation of Washington, which Earl Russell now praises so highly, been followed exactly in the British Acts or by Earl Russell him self, no Alabama would have escaped from British ports. After saying thus much, however, the New York Times goes on to express its opinion that the Prussian claims would not be supported by any portion of the American legislation. It might be a desirable change in international law if neutrals were forbidden to sell any material of war to either belli gerent. Common sense teaches that war ought not to be supported by the' aid of neutrals. Were it the custom of nations to forbid the export of arms as private merchanclize •from a neutral port to a belligerent, and were this international law, Great Britain would be obliged to execute it towards Prussia, But it is not law, and never has been, whatever it ought to be. The purely mercantile, or private sale of arms or material of war, by the traders of a neutral to the individual subjects of a belligerent, has never been forbidden. " According to international usage, any English mer chant might now build and arm a vessel and oiler her tor sale in Liverpool to the French. He might send her out as a commercial venture with regular papers to Havre filled with rifles and cannon, and sell her there w,thouL violating any neutrality legis lation or any previ(ms custom existing between nations." This is at least a concession on the part of a New York journal. THE ARREST OF DR. JAcony. The Daily News, usually so favourable to Prussia, pronounces the arrest of Dr. Jacoby to be a blue and can scarcely believe that a statesman so observant and sensitive to public opinion as Bismarck is, could have authorised such a very arbitrary and unwise proceeding. Whatever line neutrals may draw be, .tween the right of Prussia to annex Alsace and Lorraine, and the expediency of doing so, there can be no doubt, says the .Daily News, that the German feeling on the point is singularly unanimous, and this unanimity would be all the more clearly shown by allowing free expression to dissent. It is a bad argument in favour of freedom of discussion to say it will be useless; but it might appeal to King William's prudence. General von Falkenstein is a capital officer for keeping a newly-acquired province in military subjection, but no worse political agent could be found. Prussia has given the world full proof of her military power, and should be care ful to avoid the appearance of political absolutism at home. Count 13ismarck has been landed in a diffi culty by an officious old martinet, who probably regards democracy, freedom of speech, and anarchy, as convertible terms. The General has re scinded his prohibition against democratic meetings, though he relies on the police to inform him of any proposals which "may embolden France to oppose accepting conditions of peace." As France is not likely to be much encouraged by the German Democrats, General von Falkenstein may set his mind at rest; but the Daily News confidently ex pects that Bismarck, who is fully aware that the future of Alsace and Lorraine will not be much affected by the utterances of Dr. Jacoby, will see the policy of replying to the imprisoned deputy's appeal by an order for his release. CARDINAL CULLEN ON THR OCCUPATION OF ROME. Cardinal Cullen has addressed a long pastoral to his clergy, the subject matter being the recent events which have transpired in Italy. He is mourn fully eloquent on the annexation of Rome, which he denounces in unmeasured terms as an act of impious audacity, prompted by infidelity. In the whole history of the Church there can scarcely be found any other out rage upon sanctity and religion so audacious, so opposed to humane and divine right, or so sacreli gious as the mystery of iniquity, which has just been accomplished in Rome. The Cardinal thus sums up the situation : "In fine, a just Prince, loved and respected by his subjects, a Prince who had never been led astray by ambition or a desire of despoiling others, but vr ho had constantly protested against every injustice and violence, has been publicly robbed of all his possessions, under the hypocritical pretext of promoting liberal views and the interests of nationality—a pretext which will merely serve as a cloak for the robbery of a city in which treasures of antiquity, of art, of religion, have been accumulated by the wisdom of the Holy See, and for the oppres sion of a people who enjoyed great liberty under the Pope, and were more lightly taxed than the subjects of any other Power in Europe." 6 1 1 - Ta -11 °t tin t HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 8. The Queen drove out in the morning, attended by the Marchioness of Ely. In the afternoon her Majesty walked and drove out with Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice. The Lord Chancelsor had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. ABUSE OF THE NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS. At the Mansion House yesterday the Lord Mayor stated that he had received from a variety of sources information of a large number of indecent communications having been sent through the Post-office by means of the new Post cards. That was a gross abuse of what was intended to be a great boon to the public, and was one which was recog nised as an offence by the New Post Office Act, to one of the sections of which it was desirable every publicity should be given. It was as follows : " The' Postmaster-General may, from time to time, with the approval of the Treasury, make such regulations as he thinks fit for preventing the sending or delivery by post of indecent or obscene printing, paintings, photo graphs, lithographs, engravings, books, or cards, or other indecent or obscene articles ; or letters, newspapers, or post cards having thereon any words, marks, or designs of an indecent, obscene, libellous, or grossly offensive character." ONE POET THE LESS. Under the above heading Le Courrier de l'Europe pays a tribute to the late John Edmund Reade, who died at Elverstone, Satterton, on September 17th. Reade, says the memorialist, belonged to the old poetic school, which was not too classical. His longest poems are generally cold, but his fugitive pieces are very pleasing. Some fifteen years ago the writer knew him well. A daughter was just born to him, the hope of his old age, whom he named Agnes, and whose birth made him the happiest of mortals. His salon was the meeting place of one of the most agreeable circles in London. Alaric Watts, our Louis Blanc, Robert Bell, the editor of Chauce Delapierre, the Belgian consul, Cyrus Redding, some bus bleus, and several musical artists composed these rd unions. The dance, the charade, music, and conversation alternated in this salon ; one thought oneself in France, Vienna, St. Petersburg, or anywhere but in England, for rigidity, phlegm, and coldness, were strictly excluded from the doors of 17, Gloucester-place. Alas ! during nearly ten years the songs have ceased, the salon is closed. Illness -installed itself by the bedside of the poet, and threw a veil of mourning over those pleasant days. John Edmund Reade leaves behind him the heritage of his fathers, an honoured and honourable name. Mr. Gladstone, the Premier, was in Liverpool yesterday, and paid a visit to the Mayor, at the Town Hall. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One shilling day, Monday, Oct. 10th, 1870.—Admission by season tickets, 1,340; do. on payment, 2,153. Total visitors, 3,493. An interview took place between Napoleon the Third and Count Bismarck, in a small house on the road to Sedan. The Emperor and the Minister first sat down at the door of the house and afterwards continued their-con ference in a small chamber on the first floor. The chairs which were used on this occasion belonged to two different owners. Siemer, the lodger in the ground floor, sold his chairs to the Prince of Prussia, who sent one of them to England and the other to Berlin, as for the occupant of the first floor he has hitherto rejected all the offers which have been made to him, but he allows his visitors to sit on the chairs used by Napoleon and Bismarck, charging them so much per head, and his speculation has succeeded admirably as yet. LOYAL ODD WOMEn-A curious case has come before the Wolverhampton county court. Mr. Frederick Dol man, a miner, sued John Bevan for £4l3s. The plaintiff's wife was a member of a society called "The Reformed Order of Odd Women," and at her death he was entitled according to the rules of the society, to £lO, but of this he had only received £5 M. The rules of the "order " were produced in court. The introduction said :—" The culti vation of friendship, the pleasures of good company, and the improvement of the morals are the primary objects for the attainment of which a number of individuals of the' first respectability have formed themselves into a fraternity of Loyal Reformed Order of Odd Women." Rule Ist states :—" The members of the fraternity do therefore bind themselves, under the most solemn obligation, firmly to unite, sincerely to love, and inflexibly to stand by one another in sickness or in health, in poverty or in compe tence, in prosperity or in affliction." In Rule 2nd it is stated that—" Every odd woman cheerfully subscribes her wit to enliven the meetings as well as her money to defray the expenses of the lodge, and entertains us with a song, amuses us with a tale, or instincts with advice her sisters assembled. Good humour and good will are the characteristics of its fraternity. Honesty and good sister ship can never be separated. Friendship, love, and truth is the motto of the fraternity. Truth ought therefore to reign on the lips, love in the affections, and friendship in the heart of every odd woman." Rule 3 says : " Any sister swearing, or singing an indecent song, or giving an indecent toast or sentiment, or disobeying the N.G. [Noble Grand or any officer when called to order shall he fined 3d." The fifth rule provides that—" Any sister entering the lodge room in a state of intoxication shall be fined Is.; and every visiting sister shall be fined is. ; and every visiting sister shall pay 2d. for ale, to be drunk with the lodge ale the same night, and any sister refusing to do so shall be fined is. to our own lodge fund, or be expelled.' Part of Rule 6 says :—" And any sister divulg ing the secrets of our own or any ether lodge shall be fined for each offence 2s. 6d," The defendant was sued as secretary and treasurer of the order but he said he did not now hold that office, and that the club was no longer in existence. The judge, however, after a good deal of discussion, decided that the defendant was liable, and gave him four months to look after the money. It was stated that the deceased woman had been a member of the club for twenty-eight years, and had paid 10d. in every three weeks. atic Ult. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1870. THE war news is again unfavourable to France. After a succession of inconsiderable skirmishes, some of which have resulted well for the French, but none of which can have any influence on the fortunes of the war, two more victori s of considerable moment have fallen to the Germans. They have frus trated another attempt on the part of BAZAINE to break through their lines at Metz, and they have scattered some newly-formed levies in the Vosges mountains. The latter defeat is a serious misfortune for the French. Their force consisted of Freeshooters, Mobiles, and some Line troops from the South—in fact it was part of those new armies which, as we have been told for the last two or three weeks, are intended to march to the relief either of Metz or Paris. This engagement, then, serves to skew the quality of the material upon which the hopes of France are placed. The result is not re assuring. The French did, indeed, fight very well, for the engagement lasted over six hours—a clear proof that the new levies were not easily scattered; but they were ultimately beaten, according to the German account, by half their number of Baden troops. If this latter statement be correct, the defeat is grave indeed. Had such a miscellaneons force fought all day long against anything like their own number of Germans, the action would have been creditable and hopeful, even though it was lost in the end ; but if seven thousand Badeners defeated 14,000 Freeshooters, Mobiles, and Line troops, the result proves that the new levies are well nigh worthless for the immediate services which are required of them. The engagement at Metz is of less consequence. BAZAINE was foiled in his !sortie ; but his troops fought remarkably well, they inflicted a good deal of mischief in some quarters, they retired in good order, and there is no mention either of captured guns or prisoners. These constant futile sorties must greatly weaken BAZAINE'S army, but otherwise the fight is not im portant. It becomes more and more clear, however, that BAZAINE has no prospect of forcing his way through the Prussian lines without help from another French army, and it is equally cert.tin that the best chance left to the French cause is to attempt the release of the Marshal whilst the bulk of the German army is engaged at Paris. The new levies might not succeed in fighting a battle by themselves, bgt if they attacked Prince FREDERICK CHARLES on the one side, whilst BAZAINE made a sortie on the other, it is not at all unlikely that such a combination would prove successful. The German force round Metz is necessarily divided by the Moselle, which runs through the city ; and it would be open to the French Generals to concentrate their whole army on one side. It has been said that BAZAINE would not recognise the Re public, if ho were released but the Ministry cannot at such a moment give way to considerations of this kind. There is no time to be lost, for the Germans are fully alive to the danger, and the corps now advancing from Strasburg and elsewhere will soon find the new armies plenty of work on their own account. THE decisio'i arrived at on Saturday by the naval court-martial appointed to inquire into the cause of the loss of her Majesty's ship Captain is precisely what every one who had paid the slightest attention to the proceedings could alone have anticipated. " The pressure of sail assisted by the•heavy sea "—that is what caused her to capsize. That was the conclusion arrived at—a conclusion at the same time coupled with the deliberate judgment of • the Court, "That the amount of sail carried at the time of her loss (regard being had to the force of the wind and the state of the sea) was insufficient to have endan gered a ship endowed with a proper amount of sta bility." When that is said, all is said, in regard to the origin of the catastrophe. The equilibrium of the gigantic floating structure which had been thus most lamentably lost, had not been sufficiently cared for, in point of fact, by those entrusted with the responsibility of its fabrication. Exonerating the survivors of the great shipwreck from any blame whatever, the court furthermore decided with an evidently implied censure of the ill-fated designer of the lost ironclad or armour plated turret-ship, as well as of all his supporters both within and without the walls of the Legislature, that they (the Court) esteemed it their duty before separating to record the conviction they entertained that the Captain had been built in deference to public opinion, in opposition to the avowed disapproval of the whole scheme by the CONTROLLER of the NAVY and his department. Between the fatal day when the great ship went down off Cape Finisterre, on the morning of the 7th of September, and the pronouncing of the judgment of the Court Martial at Portsmouth, on the Bth of October, all the facts in any way adducable have pointed steadily, unanimously, inexorably in this one direction. The CONTROLLER of the NAVY in this instance had not been the Controller. His opinion had been directly run counter to, and the loss of the Captain has been the consequence. Captain COLES had the courage of his convictions, and he has paid the penalty by losing at once his life and his life's greatest achievement. It is a lament able story from beginning to end, and in our tales of flood and field will long survive— " While the billow mournful rolls, And the mermaid's song condoles, Singing glory to the souls Of the brave." TOPICS OF THE DAY. A SINGULAR SUGGESTION. A strange proposition has been made with respect to the difficulty of the French territorial and dynastic questions. It is suggested that Leopold, the King of the Belgians, should be elected Sovereign of the French people. This scheme is said to possess many advantages, for the Germans would not be jealous of a small State like Belgium. By the carrying out of this arrangement, Belgium, it is argued, might be merged into France, as Scotland was into England under James the First. Another advantage would be that France would gain such an increase of territory that she could submit to the loss of Lorraine and part of Alsace. with a better grace than she could be expected to shew under existing circumstances. Europe would have confidence in so stedfast a constitutionalist as Leopold, and need be under no apprehensions that aggressions would take place, whilst his successors could be bound over to follow in his footsteps. The proposer of this impracticable, but ingenious, scheme declares, in conclusion, that by this means French men might be made to choose a middle path between anarchy and despotism, while escaping from the evils of their present position. FRENCH CLAMS ON ENGLAND. A correspondent of the Times refers to the state ments which have been made by foreign writers that France went to the Crimea as the ally of England, and for our purposes, and also that England had abandoned Denmark, and extracts some remarks from M. Prevost Paradol's La France Nouvelle on the subject. In reference to 1854, M. Paradol asks bother in invading the Crimea to prevent a destruc tion of the Turkish Empire, whiala would have pre cipitated the humiliation of France, they did not carry on a defensive war for their legitimate great ness and for the future independence of Franco. With regard to the second part of the subject, M. Paradol declares that the dismemberment of Den mark, tolerated by the French in spite of the formal offers of assistance made by England to prevent so dangerous an act, and the encouragement which Prussia received from France in her designs against Austria, are facts which have an historical interest only, and which must be left to the severe judgment of an equitable posterity. The writer says it is to be hoped that posterity will do us justice, and acknow ledge that France did not establish any special claim on the gratitude of England by going to the Crimea to prevent her own abasement, and that Denmark was left unaided because France refused to concur in giving assistance to her old ally. 1. , 402 DS-011- FRENCH REFUGEES IN l 1 GLAND. The Globe says :—" The honour of London is concerned to _put a stop to an infamous practice of which, we are ashamed to say, some scoundrels have lately been guilty. Everybody knows that a great number of poor refugees are daily arriving from France, and it will be easily undei stood that a very large proportion of them are of that sex whose strength would be of the least use, at present, to their own country, i.e. : poor women who have been governesses, or, perhaps, milliners semp stresses, and women -servants. It is scarcely credible, but it is true, that there is an organised system on the part of certain blackguard Englishmen to await the arrival in the docks of the vessels brine:- . ing these unfortunate refugees, and endea vour to decoy them in the moment of distress when just landed upon a strange shore, into infamous houses. These facts were publicly stated by Mr. White, chaplain of the Savoy and of the House of Commons, in his sermon at the sermon at the Savoy Chapel on Sunday. A movement is on foot as letters in the newspapers have shown to organise some proNision for the refugees at once upon their arrival. A committee has been former, and several ladies, amongst them the Dowager Lady Lothian, have opened their houses. Many other measures of relief are being taken, and public meet ings, both in the City and at the West-end, are contem plated in the course of a few days. We are confident that all classes in the metropolis and the country will be eager to vindicate the hospitality of England from the foul slur which has been cast upon it." THE SIEGE AND THE POPULACE OF PARIS It is fifty-five years, last July, since the environs of Paris have experienced the annoyances and horrors of a hostile invasion. Few, except those who were children then, will recall the threatened siege of Paris in 1815, and the approach of the English and Prussian armies during the summer of that eventful year. But if any of our readers have the curiosity to compare the two inva sions, let them take up any stirring narra tion of the Waterloo campaign such, for instance, as the witty and vivid journal of the British General Mercer, just published—and they will find the same localities, and even the same for tifications, figuring in those histories, as now form the subject of each day's telegrams. Then, as now, we hear of Garges and Stains, and Pierrefitte and St. Denis, and Aubervilliers, on the north of the city ; or of Colombes or North Val4rien, on the West; or Meudon, Sceaux, and Clamart, on the south ; or of Charenton, Nogent, and Bondy, on the east. Then, as now, the Prussian soldiers were occupying the pretty villas and gardens which beautify the outskirts of Paris ; but then, they were smarting under the effects of years of exaction and "requi sitions " of the French armies, and they demolished, soiled, and ruined every pretty house, chateau, or garden they crossed or entered in their march. The Prussian advance, and the bivouacs around the French capital, were marked by trampled fields and gardens, broken furniture, and gutted houses. Then it was known, as it is now, that heights such as St. Denis, Mont martre, and Mont Valdrien, were the keys to the works which Napoleon I. had erected or commenced around the city. But in 1815 peaceful deputations of citizens and women and children came forth to wel come the King restored, and Prussians and English were hailed as deliverers. No shot was fired and no works were assailed. Now, something more real and terrible is threatening the brilliant capital. A line of "iron and fire" surrounds it ; and day by day the German pickets and infantry creep nearer and nearer to it. The siege of a city of two millions of inhabitants is an event un known in modern history. As a dramatic incident alone, it has no counterpart in recent annals . But when one reflects what Paris contains, and what a siege will naturally develop, the merely dramatic character of this great event fades away before the frightful misery, anarchy, and crime that are sure to appear. PariS has, at the lowest computation, ' thirty thousand proletaires—les misgrables—the most vil lainous, abandoned, murderous rascals and thieves that any large city ever contained. They live nsually from hand to mouth. Their food is from other men's property They prowl about in th owest dens of the city, and come forth, like birds of pr ,at night, or'when the carrion of society is open to tnern. They are kept down usually by the iron hand -r the law. What will they do in a siege, when every gendarme, even, is called to the bastions— when every house is open, and the very lights in the streets are extinguished? Then there are 'hundreds of thousands of ouvriers, who honestly believe that the property of the State and of the rich is as much theirs as their own. A e they likely to starve when the houses on the Boulevards are crowded with food, and the depots of the city and Government are full? There are also th us ands of Red Republicans who detest Trochu and despise the moderate Republicans— who want a "social and democratic Republic" at any cost. There are also Imperialists who lived on the spoils of the Empire and who hate the new rdgime. And strongest of all is the great middle classes—the bourgeoisie —who fear the thieves and the "Reds" more than they do the Prussians. Besides all these elements of anarchy are the fearful multitude of honest and suffering poor who could not leave the city, and have no provision for the future. How long is Paris with such a population likely to hold out against the best army of modern times thundering at her gates ?—New York Times A N w PETER THE HERMIT.—A letter from Cahors says that France requires more preachers like Father Joachin, a Capuchin monk, who preached at St Barthdlemy the other Sunday. He produced a great effect by his patriotic language, which was ardent and elevated in its style. Putting aside ordinary considera tions, he only spoke of the country, the Prussians, and the sacred duty which devolved upon all to run 'imme diately to arms. This new Peter the Hermit electrified his audience by his simple yet powerful eloquence. The writer of the letter was presented to the Father, who said that he came from Brittany and La Vendoe, which he had passed through in stirring up the people in the name of the country. He spoke with admi ration of the enthusiasm which had prevailed in those parts. He lately preached in the open air before twelve thousand people, who were animated with love for France and fury against Prussia. He said that he could not resist the impulse he felt to march at the head of the com batants, but that he regretted not to be able to use his gun, to which the other replied that he might follow the example of Bishop Adhemar, who to avoid shedding blood crushed his enemies under a heap of arms. EMBEZZLEMENT OF £3,000 AND WHOLESALE FORGERlES. —Extraordinary revelations have just been made in connection with one of the very many women's clubs now flourishing in Sheffield. The club has been esta blished several years, and its business has been conducted by a secretary. When the principals, of whom there are three, met a fortnight ago, a letter was read from the secretary, in which he stated that he had misappropriated the week's receipts, but that the money should be forth coming at their next meeting. As nothing more was seen of him, his books and the notes held as security by the club were examined, and it has been found that the ma jority of the notes are forgeries, and that the payments upon them had been made by the secretary himself. A number of the persons whose names are attached to the notes have been waited upon, and they have pronounced the signatures to be forgeries. The defalcations, which extend over four or five years, amount to about £3,000. There is reason to believe that two other persons are im plicated in the transaction, and all three have absconded. THE Loss OF HER MAJESTY'S -SHIP TRINCULO. —With reference to the court-martial which assembled on board her Majesty's ship Royal Oak to inquire into the loss of her Majesty's ship Trinculo, we are enabled to give the actual finding of the court, which was as follows : —" The court is of opinion that the loss of her Majesty's late gun boat Trinculo was caused by the bad look out kept on board the Spanish steamer Moratin, and by her putting her helm to starboard instead of to port. The Court is of opinion that no blame whatever' attaches to Lieutenant the Hon, Francis George Crofton or any of the surviving officers and crew of the late gunboat Trin culo for their conduct on the occasion of the loss, as it appears to the satisfaction of the court that Lieutenant the Hon. Francis George Crofton and his officers and crew did everything in their power to save the lives of the ship's company, who appear to have been in the highest state of dicipline, and behaved in a most creditable manner; the only men not saved were, in the opinion of the court, killed on the spot in the collision ; and the court doth in consequence thereof adjudge the said Lieutenant the Hon. Francis George Crofton and the remaining officers and the remaining officers and ship's company of her Majesty's late gun boat Trinculo to be fully acquitted, and the said Lieutenant the Hon. Francis George Crofton, officers and ship's company are hereby severally and respectively fully acquitted accordingly." The President also told the officers and ship's company that under God's Providence, through their own cool conduct and high state of disci pline, and their good captain, their lives were saved.— Gibraltar Chronicle. LITERATURE Claude. By Lady Blake. Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. Lady Blake is improving as a novel-writer. " Claud is one of the best stories we have seen from her pen. I is very interesting, and the mystification of the reader indeed complete. At the same time it may be objected that the probabilities are . not in favour of the denouenzent of the tale, neither can we regard the over chivalrous self sacrifice of Claude, as coming within the bounds of duty. The different characters are for the mosfpart well described. The fair heroine, who is the narrator of the history, is herself very attractive and interesting. The weak-minded step-mother, and the strong-minded aunt, who prides her self upon her frankness to say the most unpleasant truths, are capitally drawn ; so is also the over-zealous puritanical damsel who believes herself to be actuated alone by charitable motives pur et simple. Some of the characters are a little exaggerated, but despite occasional shortcomings, we are inclined to regard " Claude " as one of the best works of its authoress. THE INVESTMENT OF PARIS. Paris is still closely invested, but the Prussians cannot begin any active measures to reduce the outer line of defence till their siege train arrives. Meantime, the Parisians would seem to believe, judging from their Press, that the Prussians have their heavy guns up, but that they do not venture to mount them. The German army is necessarily occupied in keeping and fortifying what positions it has occupied. The French are busily employed in connecting' the line of forts by strong earthworks, and in throwing up new redoubts. They are, in fact, doing as the Russians did at Sebastopol previous to the 17th of October, 1854 ; but there is no further, or, at least, no great analogy between the two positions. Ae yet there !are no signs, so far as I have heard, of the outlying army from Lyons and Tours, but the people insist on it that there has been an engagement be' tween the advance guard of the French force south of Versailles and the rear guard, or covering reserves, of the Crown Prince's army. Any plan of the defences of the city previous to September will give a poor idea of the present aspect of the place. In fact, several works, such as that of Genevillers, may be considered as regular fortresses, and a considerable re doubt is also nearly made near Point-du-Jour. There is also a horse railway inside the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture. The gap between Valerien and Issy is pretty well filled up. I h o pe to be able to you something about the works on the North and East in a few days. The 4th Corps, which has its situation on the North side has been somewhat harassed by freeshooters, but flying coulumns sent through the woods have, it is supposed, chased them all out. There is one matter worth attending.to. It has no doubt been fully thought out. Winter is coming on. Every one who has spent a winter in Paris knows that it can be bitter cold there in spite of stoves and fires. The plateau of Versailles is considerably higher than Paris, and it sometimes snows and freezes with energy here. But cold and frost are not so much to be feared as wet. So far the repair of roads has not been much looked after, and if anY sanitary arrangements have been made I am unable to discover them. Certain subjects connecte .! with the health of standing camps are quite neglected. Some cores are remarkable for their utter want of superintendence on these points, and it will prove little less than miraculous if there is not an outburst of some epidemic when rain sets in, and pears and a pples have fully ripened. It will be a week or more before any breaching guns and mortars are,,mounted. No estimate of the time in which results can be attained could have any value just now till the French and Prussian guile have tried each other's metal. The ordnance on the forts is said to be much heavier and much more powerful than any mounted at Strasburg or the other places which have suffemd from fire. But the Prussians have unbounded confidence in their own ordnance.—Times' Corresponcla d at Versailles. • LORRAINE UNDER GERMAN RULE. The correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Nancy on the 4th inst., gives the following account of the province occupied by the Germans :—" One begins t° understand completely the determination of Germany never to give up the old German Duchies of which she has now got hold with a grip of iron. From Strasburg hither, every town and village bristles with German bayonets ; Prussian gendarmes and South Ger man armed police enforce the jurisdiction 01 the conquerors, bringing order and tranquillity with them wherever they are established—with the exception of s few recalcitrant hamlets, in which, every now and then, the misguided inhabitants, prompted by their priests, fall upon some isolated agent of the law and bar barously murder him. Two deplorable cases of that description have just occurred in the neighbour hood of this quaint little town, and a terrible example ie about to be made in the persons of the respective village Mayors, who are in custody, and will be shot to-morrow- A good many Francs-tireurs are scattered over the country near and around Nancy. They have had the imper tinence to write a threatening letter to the Governor, and sent it in to-day by a peasant—who, poor fellow, was entirely ignorant of its contents, and doubtless thought that he was doing a very patriotic deed in bearing a missive of importance to the redoubtable chief of the foreign Government organised in the heart of his native province. As it happens, his father is a prisoner here, under suspicion of having been concerned in some shady transaction—a circum stance which cruelly augmented his own fears. However, he was treated kindly by the staff officer to whom he was brought in, and will be dismissed, as well as his father, with a warning not to mix himself up again in political or military matters that do not coneern The animosity of this population towards the Germans is exceedingly bitter, and steadilY maintained ; so that the latter are compelled to be constantly on the alert, and to manifest a strictness and severity, in carrying out their precautionary regula tions, which are as irksome to themselves as to the inhabi tants. Despite the risks, however, of provoking the authorities beyond their patience, anti-German demon strations are immensely in vogue —many of them utterly in vogue, and unworthy of a people endowed with self-respect. For instance, there is the regular defiant promenade of the Nancy Upper Ten' on the Place Stanislas. You must know that this city is the head' quarters of lying rumours and `exceptional authentic informations,' which at all hours penetrate the German cordon traced round it, and circulate through like wildfire throughout all classes of local society, generating a pro found and exquisite joy that the expansive French cha racter is altogether unable to keep to itself. As 9 specimen of these reports, which obtain entire credence, I may mention two, recounted to me to-day with exulta tion by a gentleman of high social position—namely, that 60,000 Prussians had been miserably drowned in the water defences of Metz, and that 10,000 more had been blown into the air before Paris. I ventured to observe that, although the latest telegrams from both of the two besieged cities had just been officiallY communicated to me, I had no knowledge what ever of these enormous achievements ; upon which mY informant, with a dramatic and significant smile, replied, Of course not ; but we know that they have taken place: I persisted that he must be mistaken, since no gence respecting those disasters had reached the General Government. You may think so,' he rejoined, triumphantly ; but we have our information, upon the accuracy of which we can depend.' I then asked him whether he believed that Strasburg had fallen. 011 yes,' he said, 'we believe that, because some of our concitoyens, who belonged to the garrison, are already returned on parole; you may be quite sure that we should not have taken the Prussians' word for it.'" For the first few days after the surrender of Strasburg the traffic between that city and Kehl was carried on by means of a flying bridge across the Rhine. A pontoon: bridge, however, has now been erected, and thus the chic' difficulties have been done away with, and the intercourse which was so long interrupted has been completely r e ' established. Though all the materials have long bee n ,. kept in a state of readiness, it will pr o b a bly b e a f or tnight before the railway bridge is repaired, as the huge fog' ment of the iron bridge which was blown up lies veil much in the way.—North German Correspondent. TILE DIAMOND FIELDS OF THE CAPE. -- The zglo-African of Tuesday, Aug. 30,.has the following " We have just received the following from our corre ° : pondent at King Williamstown : Considerable excitemen t was occasioned in town last evening by the arrival from the diamond fields of Mr. Innes with a magnificent gel ° , of 2WI carat-, ; and Mr. Bernard Lee with nine 01 1 ° 1 diamonds, all without spot or blemish. M e s sr s. Lee 311 " Innes left Grahamstown by passenger cart this morning. Arrivals at the fields- . -1,000 per week ! The Aliviii Observer of Saturday says : Our town was thrown into great excitement on Wednesday last by t he arrival of Mr. Von Roan from the diamond fields, who announced the discovery, by Captain Edwards, of a diamond of 180 carats, valued at £100,000.' Hond bno purchased 400 diamonds in six days. A real beauty , pure and bright, without flaws or spots, of 40 carats) found on the Pneil side. Many more diamonds have been found." THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGJT P O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events. Ca m adv; Tile leet roue It 1 , 011 mist 1 1lig arit, COIL Il~l i