The Sun. — London, England, 1870-10-26 00:00:00

SPECIAL EDITION, SUN OFFICE, 7 P.m. LATEST 1 r LLIGEINCE, I i -"T r IVAR. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PRUS- SIA AND BAVARIA. Intelligence has been received at Brussels from 'Versailles stating that the conferenoe between the p l enipotentiaries of the South German States and C . r ount Bismark, with reference to their entry into the North German Confederation has commenced. Bavaria claims privileges, and the King of Bavaria is ex pected at Versailles to support the same, but it is n et very likely that his terms will be agreed to. BONAPARTIST INTRIGUES. The Independance Beige of to-day denounces energetically the Bonapartist manoeuvres of which, it says, Brussels has become the principal seat. DEFENSIVE MEASURES IN FRANCE. LILLE, Oct. 25. _The Journal de St. Quentin announces that M. lulatole de la Forge, who placed himself at the ' l ead of the volunteers to . defend the town, has l ent in his resignation as Prefect of the Aisne. T he Municipal Council of Dijon have issued notice that, in view of the gravity of t he situation, all persons who have left their homes are ordered to return within five days, under Penalty of their houses being entered and a war charge assessed upon them. A census of the persons remaining away will shortly be made, and the Go /crunient will issue a decree imposing upon them a h eavy fine and depriving them of political rights. NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE ARMISTICE. • The latest intelligence from Tours, received to-day, la ys that the negotiations are wholly due to England, a a the French Government neither asked nor pro reed anything. It is expected that it will be at least ten days before M. Thiers will be enabled to enter Paris to discuss the proposals with the Pro -14. B johal Government. Russia has received the ktelligence of diplomatic action on the subject With great satisfaction. PRUSSIAN MOVEMENTS. At Orleans the Prussians are still in full force, T A make no forward movement on Blois or Von _°llle. They still surround Chartres, and make ~,, "9 111 sitions in the neighbouring districts. They have i tet ired from Besangon to Gy and Rioz, taking " W ay with them 37 carriages filled with wounded, It leaving behind them a great number of dead. je currently reported that the German troops are 4431centrated at Rheims. VIE NEW LOAN. The French Government have issued a decree em- PTivering the Minister of Finance to contract a loan °f 10 ,000,000 f. by public subscription in France and E ngland. BAZAINE AND THE NEGOTIATIONS. BERLIN, October 25. Yesterday B az aine's negotiations with Prussia were coli tillued independently of, and in opposition to, the „, P r oceedin gs of the Republican Government. railway from Orleans to Paris will shortly be ' 6 l 3 aired e Paris is being explored by Prussian balloons. Colonel B aron Stoffel, late Military Attaché to the Fre nch Embassy in Berlin, a prisoner since Sedan, Il aid to have escaped to Paris. saza Ine , s first proposition through Boyer was tiott he and his field army should be permitted to leave Metz on condition of not fighting against ?Plumy for three months. The original garrison of Z et z was to retain possession of the fortress. This I ' ll ' ° Position was declined, but the negotiations may Vet be rega r ded as at an end. the soldiers on parole having joined the army of. Tours Government, the King of Prussia has _ ti ered that henceforth all officers taken prisoners be by to Germany. Exceptions may be granted only head-quarters. i ztY French officers on parole have just reported th emselves t o th e P russ i a n commanders before Metz, r ec lllesting to be sent to Germany, as the Republicans Will not permit them to keep their word of honour. el'rleans must pay a contribution of 1,1500,000 fr ainpes pays 40,000 fr. for cutting telegraph wires. MORE ENGAGEMENTS. T he Carlsruhe Gazette publishes a telegram from ist e lieral Beyer to the Grand Duke of Baden, which :tea that on th e 22d inst. victorious engagements k er e fought en the River Ognon, at Voray, Cussey, 4 1 ") and Geneville. The enemy was every the e N beaten with severe loss. Battalions of 41 Ist, 3d , 4th, an d sth Baden Regi ellte) and three batteries took part in the en to'niters 4 0 • Our losswas about 7 killad and 38 wounded. stair officers, 11 superior officers, and 200 men Were captured. &MIENS NOT TO BE ATTACKED. AMIENS, October 25. gThe City is not to be attacked at present. The t o 'tans at Beauvais and Soissons are Ifalling back 11141 18 1116zikes. ANOTHER JOAN OF ARC. a h 4t To urs a young g i r l i n f an t as ti c gar b, calling elf a successor of Jeanne d'Arc, and carrying trfi ag with the Holy Virgin, is trying to inspirit the o op s. 11 \ 41 AMERICAN MINISTER TO ENGLAND. .Morton has formally declined the post of 4e r to Great Britain. INDIA. r otA CALCUTTA, October 25. Vi ce l o Durbar at Ajmere, on Saturday, the l am .1 Y told the chiefs that the British Government ju ati " t ermined to uphold those who governed with 4 . °6 and wisdom. e a rl 18 -Excellency wished to establish a College to T e r' the sons of Thikoors and chiefs. tio rt e °Peech was listened to with breathless atten- (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE LOSS OF THE CAMBRIA. P or °ll° of the Cambria's missing boats have turned up. h m , le time a hope was entertained that they might h at ; e t feund their way to the Scotch coast ; but this hope th ev len entirely abandoned, and it is now thought . that vit e 4 , l 7 a; " gone down with the ship. Large quantities of 4461' are daily washed ashore on the coasts of Antrim 4 1111 - 4 )11e gal• Men then have been placed on Innistra ‘o inter any bodies washed ashore. *atFATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. : 8 special cattle train consisting of thirty-two Pale „s, , Proceeding from Exeter . to Chichester Fair, the t at e station, t k • full speed through the Bishops o on int o °lic k% and South Western line yesterday, it came thre contact with a number of loaded trucks. The engine, 041 ,, I va back about twenty-five yards, turned round d 44 4' Pitched over or its side. The engine driver was killed ab lii th t : , stoker has been Compelled to have both his legs sere„ , L ed and is not expected to recover. Thirty , d oze„ '` 'lead of cattle were killed by the collision, and a of more have had to be slaughtered since. Three 0 waggons were thrown one upon the top of the other, and curious enough eleven head of cattle in the top truck were not at all injured. The train ought to have stopped at a junction before reaching the station, but although the alarm whistle was sounded for a mile, the guards, of whom there were three, neglected to put on the breaks. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1870 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET RACES.—THIS DAY (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) OPTIONAL SELLING PLATE. Firebrand Pythonesse Sister to Cherie Seven ran. SUSSEX STAKES. Australia W. 0, SUBSCRIPTION PLATE. Gladness Capsule Our Tom • Ten ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS, Curieuse Pericles Amber... Four ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Herod - Annie f Meleurge Fourteen ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Echo Orangeman Blonde Six ran. PLATE OF 50 SOVS. Prince Henry 1 Gourbi Flyaway Jack.... Seven ran. ALL-AGED STAKES. • Rosicrucian Normanby Typhoeus Four ran. GLASGOW STAKES. Field Marshal Sunflower c THE MONEY MARKET. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Stock markets are flat all round. Consols are one eighth lower, at 92-k to 92g. Foreign Bonds are mostly i t lower. The Manchester markets this week have opened with firmness. The war between France and Germany appears as yet to have had little influence on the American trade, the importations of foreign manufactured goods being still on a scale much larger than that of the same period of the past two years. Since the commencement of 1870 the total value of foreign " dry goods landed at New York has been £17,700,000, against £16,400,000 to the same date of 1869, and £13,900,000 to the same date of 1868. Owing to the weather recently experienced, there have been for the last two days very heavy books at Lloyd's. The steamers Sapphire and Fawn, as well as the Cambria, were largely insured in London. Telegrams from America bring the names of many vessels lost in the late hurricane at Cuba. A China clipper, the Shakspere, bound from London for Shanghai, has gone ashore on the coast of France, near the mouth of the Seine, and it is feared she will become a wreck. At the statutory meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Gilbert, Kerr, and Co., whose failure in the Australian trade for £63,369 was announced on the sth ult., the resolution come to at the previous meeting was unaui monsly ratified, and Mr. C. F. Kemp was appointed trustee. The Manchester Courier states :—"At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. T. Jolly, spinner, Hynburn Mill, Oaken shaw, Accrington, it appeared that the liabilities amount to £10,040, and the assets to £3,551, or about 6s. Bd. in the pound. The meeting was adjourned for a week. At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. R. Edmundson, yarn agent, the estate showed assets expected to realise about 2s. 10d. in the pound. It was resolved to liquidate by arrangement, and Mr. Robert Whitworth was appointed trustee." A prospectus has been. issued by the Wyoming Sweet water Mining Company (Limited), with a capital of £60,000, in shares of £5, to work some gold quartz lodes in the territory of Wyoming, United States. LORD HOUGHTON ON REFORMATORIES; (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMs.) In opening a bazaar organised on behalf of the West Riding Female Industrial Home at Wakefield yesterday, Lord Houghton delivered an eloquent speech, in the course of which he said : If there is any point in connec tion with my public life on which I can look back with satisfaction, it is that moment when I introduced into the House of Commons, in the year 1846, the first bill, the object of which was to establish the reformatories of this country. (Hear, hear.) That movement has made most rapid progress, and may at the present time be said to have almost attained its full perfection, that is to say, it has supplied a very great want, and remedied a very capital abuse. (Hear, hear). I ant not about to inflict upon you at this moment any speech upon that principle. You all at least understand it as well as I did then, or as I have ever done since. You, a part of the great thinking public of this country, have reconsidered that most solemn moral fact that we have duties to per form towards those who fall into crime equally as we have to those who maintain themselves in the path of virtue ; that to assert that a man or woman who has committed an offence against the law is for the moment irredeemably lost to the society to which we belong, is a principle not fundamentally unsound in so far as it illustrates what in England we regard as the palladium of our public life, namely, the respect for the law, but at the same time it carries that respect with an exaggerated form, and thereby may even damage that principle which it advocates. (Hear, hear.) It has very justly been said that there is a difference between the refuges for men and the refuges for women. After the establishment of the reformatory movement in this country it was a very easy process to apply that principle locally with regard to the details discharged from your great houses of correction. In that work wo found a most energetic co-agitator in Mr. Shepherd, the former governor of the prison. And we must not forget, even in the presence of his active successor, how much is owed to him on that account. I will not detain you on that collateral circumstance. The point to which I would wish to direct your attention is this : that whilst the labour of the men under good management and under good superintendence is able to be not only self-supporting, but to produce an abso lute gain to the institution, it is, from the .very nature of the thing, impossible that the labour of women, however well maintained, should obtain the same satisfactory results. It is therefore on that occount that you are called upon to-day at the same time to gratify an innocent pleasure and a sense of duty. Perhaps it may be said, and I daresay it will have occurred to many of you, that the unhappy circumstance of the world in which we are at this moment placed is not advan tageous to any large charitable effort, but it is found, and it is a curious principle in our nature, that some times when there is a movement in which there is the greatest call for our benevolence in one direction, we also f eel an impetus to exercise it in another. The magnificent charity which the people of England have ex hibited towards the victims of this terrible war stands, and will remain a fact, in the moral history of mankind, important not only as illustrating the good feeling and noble temper of the people of this country, but also as substantiating most important progress in the moral his tory of the world. Even war itself, brutalising and damaging as it is to the great principles of humanity, never theless evokes that very principle which it seems to tread under foot. And now I ask you to do all you can for this charity. These are they who have fallen sick and wounded in the great battle of life (hear, hear) ; these are they who have ,fallen under the artillery of mis guided passiion, or talents led away for want of instruc tion ; these are they, who, some of them—not all—are in a more real sense as good as any of us can pretend to be, and yet, nevertheless, have sunk under some ambuscade of evil, from which you at least may be enabled to rescue them. This point of view presses itself strongly upon all of you. Men dismissed from prison and turned into the multitude of life may, under certain circumstances and in the large populations amongst which we live under certain advantageous circumstances, be lost, as in the great multitudes of our manufacturing towns, and may fall again into the common rank of citizenship, but with regard to women the very circumstance of . the relations of their sex renders it more difficult to return, and makes the temptation to go on in evil' stronger. You will com prehend this every one of you, and if the issue of this pleasurable charity is to impress upon you the conviction that you have done something to rescue one of your fellow sisters from a life of evil and misery, you will, I think, mark this day as a happy one in your existence, and may look back to it for ever with gratification. (Applause.) THE PRINCE OF WALES. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, left Newmarket yesterday afternoon by the 6 o'clock special train, and proceeded to Cambridge thence by ordinary train to Wolferton, via King's Lynn, arriving at about half-past eight. The Prince reached Sandring ham at about nine o'clock, on a short visit of inspection of the works now in progress, and will return to London this evening. The new mansion is nearly ready to receive the Royal Household, and the !preserves are well stocked with [game. The Prince and Princess and family will arrive for the season early in November. THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUE. The annual meeting of the National Education League was held yesterday at Birmingham. The adoption of the report was moved by Mr. Dixon, M.P., and seconded by Mr. Vernon Harcourt, M.P. The latter announced his conversion to the free schools principle, and advocated moderation on the part of the League in endeavouring to accomplish the objects they had in view. He agreed with Mr. Fawcett, M.P., who wrote urging that the League should sink religion, and vote for compulsion. The Rev.• Mr. Syme, of Southampton, moved as an amend ment that the word "secular" should be substituted for " unsectarian" in the League's programme. A long and animated discussion ensued, but eventually the amend ment was withdrawn, and the resolution approving the adoption of the report was carried. CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND THE EDUCATION Q UESTION. Yesterday afternoon an important meeting of the uni versity town and county of Cambridge, was held at the Guildhall, to consider the question of education. There was a large and influential attendance. The Earl of Hardwicke, the Lord Lieutenant of the county, occupied the chair, and in his opening remarks referred to the changed state of the law as regarded edu cation, and proceeded to delate upon what in his opinion education for the masses should consist of. He congratulated them upon the fact that this act was framed in a spirit of moderation and justice, and he trusted they would act towards it in a similar spirit now that it was the law of the land. He believed that Noncon formists, of which there were many in Cambridge, felt, as did also Churchmen, that religion must be taught when a child was educated. He earnestly deprecated school boards, and the sys tem of rates, saying that the burden would ultimately fall upon the farmers and landlords, and would amount to at least 7d. in the pound upon the rating. There were, he said, only. eighteen parishes in Cambridge shire requiring aid to make them independent of the Act, and he urged on all the importance of assist ing them. The following resolutions were then passed : —That the passing of the Elementary •Education Act (1870) marks an epoch in the education of this country, and appears to this meeting to demand from all Churchmen a strong and united effort to secure, as generally as possible in public elementary schools, an efficient religious education. That the Board of Education for ,the county and town of Cambridge, and the Isle of Ely requires and deserves enlarged support to enable it effectively to aid local efforts, to promote and maintain religious and Church educations in all the parishes within the boundaries of its operation, and, if possible, to aid the establishment of diocesan inspec tion and the maintenance of training colleges. That inasmuch as increased accommodation must be, in many places, provided under the new Act, this meeting urges that in aid of local efforts, and in addition to the assistance which may be otherwise obtained, appli cation be made for building grants before the 31st of December to the Education Department of her Majesty's Government, and that donations and subscriptions be commenced to enable the Cambridge Board to tender aid in future years. The Bishop of Ely, Lord Royston, the masters of Trinity and Christ's, and the High Sheriff were among the speakers. FUNERAL OF MR. BALFE. The remains of Michael W. Balfe, the composer, were removed this morning from Romney Abbey, Ware, in Hertfordshire, for interment in Kensal-green Cemetery. A number of well-known authors, composers, and mem bers of the theatrical profession, attended the mournful ceremony. It is proposed to subscribe for a memorial in honour of the deceased. CRIMINAL COURT -This DAY. Jonas Woolf, 26, rag merchant, pleaded guilty to various counts of an indictment, charging him with obtaining large quantities of rags by means of forged orders and other false pretences. Mr. F. H. Lewis, on the part of the prosecution, recommended the prisoner to the merciful consideration of the court. He had been desirous of making reparation, and sent to the prosecutor a draft for £l,OOO, at the same time expressing his intention to plead guilty. Tde prosecutor had known tde prisoner for many years, and had had large dealings with him, and therefore desired to recommend him to mercy. Mr. Besley, on behalf of the prisoner, urged the same view, and Mr. Justice Lush consented to prisoner being libe rated in his own recognisances. THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AND THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. We (Daily News) are authorised to publish the follow ing 'statement : " Notwitstanding what is insinuates, and even aihrmea, in certain English journals pretending to have the best information, the Empress Eugdnie has taken no part in any one of the combinations referred to, having for their object either peace or an armistice. The salon at Cnislehurst has not become, in any sense, an official salon. It is still that of an exile, and if its doors are open •to those who knock for admittance, it is not to afford them a field for discussing peace or war. General Boyer, the envoy of Marshal Bazaine, may have approached the Empress with a view to propositions of peace or war to be submitted to Prussia, but he was received with no more favour than were the emissaries of M. de Bismarck on a pre vious occasion. When a former envoy of the Chancellor of the North German Confederation came to propose peace, declaring that King William was disposed to con tent himself with 250,000 French inhabitants, Strasburg included, the Empress replied with great energy that so long as an enemy was in France, and so long ,as there was any question of the smallest cession of terri tory, she would hold aloof from every negotiation. The eventkof the last month have made no change in her resolution, and so far as the efforts of General Boyer have been directed to this point they have completely failed. Nor could the mission of General Boyer have had for its object to consult the Empress as to the propriety of surrendering Meta at this moment. That is only one way of concealing the real object of his journey. Marshal Bazaine, confident in the strength of his position as a general who had suf fered no defeat, and at the head of the only French army which still exists, thinks himself entitled to exercise not a little influence on the question whether peace shall be made or hostilities continue. He would gladly make himself indispensable ; would gladly be the dictator, with whom the enemy should have to treat, taking the lead both of the Government which sits at Tours, and that which is shut up in Paris. He would rejoice that France should owe peace or victory to him, and to him. only. That is a respectable ambition, exag gerated as'it may perhaps be, but it must not be in ferred that Marshal Bazaine would rather conclude a peace favourable to the Napoleonic dynasty than in accordance with the true interests of his country. There is, then, no particle of truth in the stories told about the interview at Chislehurst, and it can scarcely be necessary to add that the approaching journey of the Empress to King William's headquarters belongs, like all the rest, to that domain of invention in which the subtle genius of Prussia, coming to the aid of her present difficulties, has contrived during the last few weeks to lead us astray. Prince Napoleon, who had taken sides With those who would perhaps have wished to induce, the:. Empress to commit an indiscretion, has had hi s s`, labour for his pains, while his violent recrimi flattens against the past policy of the Empire had ,other result than to compel him to listen to some harsli truths from his illustrious cousin, and to cause him to quit Chislehurst somewhat suddenly; whero , indeed; his reception had been of the coldest." THE FORSYTH EXPEDITION. Mr. Forsyth is reported to be returning to India, having failed to see the Atalik Ghazee, who is again engaged in hostilities against the Timganis. His expedition will so far have been advantageous that we shall have the benefit of his experience as to the facilities of the Chang Chemmoo route and the Atalik Ghazee will have had a practical proof of the desire of the British Government to enter into friendly relations with him. It is unfortunate that Mr. Forsyth was not able to see Yarkund and the neighbour ing country under the auspices of its ruler,— Calcutta Letter. MARK LANE. There was a firm tone noticeable in the grain trade to-day; nevertheless the business doing was on a some what limited scale. Arrivals were moderate, and the enhanced rates current on Monday were thoroughly sup ported. For flour Monday's currencies were also maintained. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tms DAY. REFRACTORY PAUPERS. Four casual paupers were brought before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, charged with refractory conduct in the casual ward of the Mile-end Old-town Workhouse, Bancroft-road. Two of them, able-bodied fellows, would not break any stones, after they had received a night's lodging and rations for supper and breakfast. Mr. Paget asked them why they did not work in return for the benefits they had received, to which they replied that they were not accustomed to break stones. Mr. Paget : You should have tried. You are not to select the kind of work the guardians require you to per form. You are sentenced to one month's imprisonment and hard !labour. Two other able-bodied paupers were charged with destroying their own clothes, and each a pair of trousers provided for them. The prisoners said their own clothes were filthy, dirty, and ragged, and they could not seek or obtain work with such things on them. They tore up the trousers because they were impressed with letters and rod chalk. Mr. Paget : How is that ? The labour master said the trousers had been worn by dock labourers and they might have been marked and lettered by them with red ochre. The canvas trousers were in the precise state in which they were received by the Guardians, and must have been marked before they came into their hands. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoners to 21 days' imprisonment, with hard labour. ACCIDENT TO MR. TYRWHITT.—We understand that Mr. Tyrwhitt, the senior magistrate at the Marlborough street Police-court, met with an accident yesterday even ing, having been knocked down by a cab, one of the wheels of which it is stated passed over his ankle, either dislocating it or causing such a severe sprain that the learned gentleman will probably be incapacitated from taking his seat on the Bench for the next few weeks. Mr. Knox, who had been telegraphed to, presided to-day, taking his seat at the usual time. ROBBERY BY A BARMAM.-401111 Barber, a bar man, in the employ of Mr. C. R Buer, landlord of the Champion Tavern, Wellington Street, Oxford Street, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a florin, the money of his master. The prosecutor said that for some time past, having suspected the prisoner, who was his barman, of robbing him, last night he watched him, and saw him take some thing from the till and then put his hand to his head, and he then distinctly saw in his hand a florin. He told the prisoner he had robbed him, and he said he had not, and that he only had two shillings in his pocket, at the same time trying to get away. He afterwards gave the prisoner into custody. In answer to the prisoner, the prosecutor said the reason why he did not discharge him, as he suspected him, was because he wanted to detect him, as he paid him well and fed him well, and had no right to be robbed. Police-constable Marshall, 206 E, said that at the station three shillings and a florin were found on the prisoner, who mixed them together. The prisoner told him he had a box with £1 in it, but he found £1 13s. in it, and in a coat pocket 12 half-sovereigns, also a suit of superfine clothes and a ticket for four for the dress circle at Drury-lane Theatre. In reply to Mr. Knox, the witness said he had reason to believe he had been exten sively robbed. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months', with hard labour. NUMEROUS FIRES LAST NIGHT. A fire, attended with considerable damage, took place last night in the premises of Mr. R. E. Jones, chocolate manufacturer, No. 339,. Edgware-wad. It commenced from some unknown cause in the stores on the basement, and in a very brief period the flames had made fearful progress. The firemen managed to get the conflagration subdued, but the stores were burnt out, and considerable damage done to the remainder of the establishment Another verb' alarming fire happened in the linen draper warehouse of Mr. S. Amery, No. 7, High-street, Clap ham. The damage done was very serious ; the stock and pattern rooms being nearly destroyed, and the rest of the premises and contents damaged by water, &c. The loss will fall on the Royal Exchange. Considerable excitement was caused in Piccadilly owing to a report being raised that Burlington House was on fire, but it turned out to be merely an explosion of gas. LLOYD'S.—For some time past the association has had under its investigation certain cases of re-insurance which brought to light such facts that it was deemed most necessary to pass an important bye-law. This gives a committee formed of seventy the power [to ex clude any member upon the resolution of a vote of fifty. It is considered in "the room " that this is a long wanted and wholesome reform, as some cases have clearly shown ; and there is little doubt it will add to immensely, and protect the respectability and high position the insti tution already enjoys. INDIAN NEWS. By the arrival of the Brindisi portion of the Indian mail we have advices from Bombay to October 1, and Calcutta, September 28. The Homeward Mail of Monday says : The talk 'of the week had been a military expedition to. China, which the Government of India were fully prepared to despatch immediately orders arrived from home. Some little excitement appears to have been caused in India by a demand from the Secretary of State for D. statement of the expenditure incurred by the Govern ment of India on account of the vi9it of the Duke of Edin burgh to the presidencies and provinces at the beginning of the year. Fears of a famine in Persia are reported from Teheran. At Muscat, Syed Toorkee has not relaxed his efforts to re-establish himself. He hsd made an attempt to land at Soor, and been prevented by Colonel Pelly, the British resident. He is, however, proceeding inland—further north on the Oman coast—towards Beraymee, where the Wahabee Amer and the Chief of Abutabaee were also threatening Azan-bin-Chas. THE GAME LAWS.—Tho Marquis of Westminster has given his tenants full liberty to destroy the rabbits on their farms. It is hardly necessary to remind our readers that the present Marquis has not very long succeeded to the Westminster estates.—Chamber of Agriculture Journal. DELAY IN POSTAL TELEGRAMS: Owing to the heavy gales which have prevailed for the last few days, telegraphic communication between London and Scotland, Ireland, Newcastle, and Hull has been partly interrupted, and telegrams have in consequence sustained delay. WRECK ON CARNARVON BAR.—CARNARVON , Monday.—John Jackson, Esq., the harbour master, re ports that the brigantine Meteor Flag, of Londonderry has gone ou the south bank of Carnarvon Bar. The Llandwyn lifeboat, John Gray Bell, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, put off through a heavy broken sea, and saved the shipwrecked crew. This is one of the fourteen lifeboats presented to the society by its Manchester branch. WRECK. IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Monday morning, during a heavy gale, the Vents of Genoa, a large Italian barque, which had taken in steam coal at Cardiff, and was bound to Bristol to complete her cargo, was wrecked in Walton Bay, near Clevedon, Bristol Channel. The anchors having slipped and the rudder broke, the vessel became unmanageable, and drifted on to the rocks. The crew, consisting of the captain and nine men, were escued in a private boat. All portable property was saved, but the vessel went to pieces. —Western Morning News. THE MEMBERS FOR MANCHESTER.—Sir T. Bazley, M.P., and Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., were present on Monday night at the inauguration of a Liberal Club for the township of Chorlton-upon-Medlock. Mr. Bright, in the course of his remarks, commented severely on the conduct of those who, for motives of their own, tried to raise a panic in this country whenever war occurred on the Continent. Those men, he said, before attempting to frighten nervous people, ought to show from which quarter an invasion of this country was to be apprehended. There had not been such a calamity for eight centuries, and there was nothing in the present state of affairs to render its recurrence likely. He added, we spend on our defences 25 millions a year, a sum equal to the whole revenue of Prussia, so that the nation could not be accused of meanness or parsimony. THE ENGLISH CHURCH.—The Bishop of Peter borough opened a restored church at Hargrave, North amptonshire, on Friday ; a luncheon was held after the morning service. The bishop, in response to the toast of his health, said it was not when, he saw the great towns that he was the most impressed with the strength and vitality and the future prospects of the Church of England. There was a great deal very striking and interesting in the great towns, but when he came to the country villages, and saw the restored church and the quiet parsonage beside it, and saw evidences of work in the Sunday and day schools, and the loving, hearty attachment of the country people to their parish church, he found that the Church of England was striking her manifold roots and rootlets so deep into the soil of the country that he could hardly bring himself to believe that the malevolent prophecies of those who aimed at uprooting her were so near their accomplishment as they would have us to believe. He saw some thing of the strength of the Church, which was interwined with the domestic life and affections of the rural parts of this great country of ours. They might some of these days cut down the tree. He did not know that they would. They said they would; but they would find it very hard to pull out the roots. If they cut down the tree—and he did not know that they would—he thought that those who cut down the tree would be apt to hurt themselves in doing it ; he was sure they would find that the roots were deep down in the national soil, and had in themselves a living power, which would give birth to a still higher growth, and a still more widely spreading tree. He did not know what would be the success of those who proposed to cut her down, even to the ground, but of this he was sure, that life was in her roots, and she would spring up again and again to confute th A malice of those enemies, and to afford a refreshing an sheltering shade to the nation for many a year. thr - , urt - b, - Li7 Strilkr • HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 23. The Queen and Princess Beatrice, attended by the Marchioness of Ely and Viscount Bridport, were present at divine service at the parish church of Crathie. The Rev. Dr. Taylor officiated. The Right Hon, E. Cardwell and Mr. Edmund Harri son arrived at the Castle. Earl de Grey and Ripon and the Right Hon. E. Card. well had the honour of dining with her Majesty. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by Viscountess Walden. The Hon. Mrs. W. Grey has succeeded Viscountess Walden as Lady in Waiting to the Princess of Wales. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. At the Court held at Balmoral yesterday, Parliament was further prorogued until Tuesday, the 13th of December. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE. Subjoined are the terms of the first official notice, as it appeared in last night's Gazette, of the approaching royal marriage :—" At the Court at Balmoral, the 24th day of October, 1870, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare her consent to a contract of matrimony between her Royal Highness the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta and John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell (commonly called the Marquis of Lorne), which consent her Majesty has also caused to be signified under the Great Seal." DEATH OF LORD AVONMORE. The death of Lord Avonmore in Dublin is annnou need by the Irish papers. He was in his 81st year. He is suc ceeded by Major Yelverton, the hero of the Longworth and Yelverton romance. Barry John Yelverton, third Viscount, in the peerage of Ireland, was born on February 21st, 1790 ; he succeeded his father in 1814 ; and married, in 1811, Jane, daughter of Thomas Boothe, Esq. o f Whitehaven (this lady died in 1821), and had issue living —one daughter. His lordship married, 2ndly (1822) Cecilia, eldest daughter of Charles O'Keeffe, Esq., and had issue the Major Yelverton (who will be the new Peer) and four daughters. PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON EXTINCT iNIMALS. On Monday night Professor Huxley delivered his second lecture on "Extinct Animals intermediate between Birds and Reptiles," to the members of th Midland Institute, Birmingham. He said it would be in their recollection that he had pointed out on the last occasion no fewer than eight different points in the organisation of birds differing from that of reptiles. He should like to warn them that these were by no means all the differences. They happened to be those requisite for his present purposes, and they were differences other than those which might have existed, although they left no traces of themselves in fossil forms. Having recapitulated the differences he had previously pointed out between birds and reptiles, he went on to argue in favour of the doctrine of evolution by references to the records of the past history of reptiles. If there was a probability of birds approaching to reptiles, there was an equal probabi lity that sundry reptiles approached birds—the approxima tion was not likely to be all on one side, so to speak. They were met at this point by a very notorious fact in the history of the extinct world, of those animals in the secondary age—a fact which at first sight seemed to be the sort of evidence they wanted. He then referred to diagrams representing animals which had existed and which bore in part of them an organisation resemblance to reptiles, and in the other portion of their forms resembled birds. He dwelt on this point at considerable length and with some minuteness, showing that reptilian creatures in the early periods of which he spoke were able to fly as bats now fly—flying not with a bird's wing but with instruments something more like a bat's wing, yet not a bat's wing. These wonderful creatures must have been flying about in the secondary period in the same way as birds do in our own time. They were however, not birds, nor even on their way to a bird. The link wanting in the direction in which he was seeking was not to be found among the creatures of the secondary epoch. It was to be met with in the trace of gigantic lizards in soft beds of sand and in certain fossil remains which had been described. Here was displayed a creature which in one half featured a reptile undoubtedly, but which in the other half—in the hinder—was more like a bird than any reptile whatever, and which in many re spects wiped out the distinctive character between birds and reptiles. After entering into interesting but compli cated details with respect to to the conformation of the bones of the pelvis in reptiles and birds in the early ages, Professor Huxley, reviewing the whole subject, said the main conclusions were that there is such a thing as a bird and that there is such a thing as a reptile, and that these two creatures, separated now by wide and definite gaps of structure, sprung either from the same common stock, or that birds had proceeded from reptiles. This was the belief of the person who held by the doctrine of evolution. lie mentioned as a curious fact that an eminent American anatomist, working independently of his own researches, had arrived at precisely similar con clusions. He looked upon this as so much definite gain for science, and if it was a gain for science, it was a gain for the doctrine of evolution ; for the fact of the existence of intermediate forms between reptiles and birds made it infinitely more probable that birds proceeded out of reptiles than that they proceeded out of the earth as separate and distinct forms. (Cheers.) NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Magpie, three guns, twin gun screw vessel, 665 tons, 160-horse power, now in the first-class steam reserve at Portsmouth, is, with one or two other vessels of the same class, about to be placed in commission for special service in the survey of the rivers in India. The expenses in all respects connected with these vessels during the time they are so employed will be borne by the Indian Government. The Cerberus, 4, iron armour-plated turret ship, com manded by Captain Panter, has at length left the Medway to proceed to Melbourne, where she will be employed for the defence of the harbour. She left her moorings at Folly Point, a short distance below Chatham, on Monday morning. Mr. W. Blakey, Queen's Harbour-master at Chatham, has charge of the vessel to the Downs ; she was accompanied by the Monkey steam tender. The Cer berus will call at Plymouth to take in a few stokers. The ship proceeds by way of the Suez Canal, calling at Gibraltar and Malta. For more than a twelvemonth the ship had been at Chatham preparing for her voyage out. Two soldiers of the 53rd Regiment, named Hayes and Macdonald, quarrelled while drinking on Sunday night in a canteen at Aldershot. A fight took place out side, and in one of the rounds Macdonald seized Hayes by the leg, threw him to the ground, and fractured his skull so severely that he died within a few minutes. Deceased was a man of sixteen years' service. It is stated the brigade of Guards is below its establish ment to the extent of 100 men per battalion. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Todd, John, Howard-road, South Hornsey, licensed victualler. Bankrupts to surrender in London. Bodger, William, High Holborn, draper, November 8, at 1. - Mannion, Edward, Castle-street, Falcon-square, City, agent to a shoe factor, November 9, at 2. Revill, Henry, Church-street, Edgware-road, upholsterer, November 15, at 11. Roberts, Thomas, New Bond-street, dentist, November 9, at 1. WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON, 1870.—The number of visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and others, on the 25th inst., was 3,926. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Tues day, October 25th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets, 2,118,; ditto on payment, 1,315 ; total visitors, 3,433. THE LIVERPOOL CHARITIES AND THE CLERGY. — The benevolent intentions of the Mayor of Liverpool and many other persons in that town, with respect to the local charities, seem likely to be impeded, if not altogether frustrated, by a section of the Established clergy. The Hospital Sunday collections are intended for the equal benefit of all the charities, but some thirty-three of the clergy have determined to retain the whole of their col lections for charities in which they have a special interest; and the result is a divergence of effort and a complaint from the mayor of discourtesy. OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning ,PRi - cfk,',N7GOTIATIONS. theA'ines, in'anarticle on the propoSed armistice, says: We believe the Government of 4 Defence will as flatly re fuse to,corisent in principle to a cession of territory as Count Bismarck will. refuse to enter upon negotiations for an armistice unless this stipulation be admitted. The Government of Defence may be under the grossest delu sion as to their powers . of ' resistance in adhering to their resolution. They may misapprehend the sentiment of honour which is involved in it. They may be betrayed by a false patriotism into inflicting terrible injury on their country which might be avoided were they wise and prudent. But the principle of conduct they follow is precise and unwavering. The people of Alsace, they say, are as passionately Frenchmen as the people of the Gironde, of Normandy, or of the Isle de Prance itself. To surrender Alsace to Ger many would do violence to the feelings of its inha bitants, and the rest of France could not, abandon them until it had itself felt humiliation as keen and bitter. Alsace may be torn from France, but no Government could suggest that Frenchmen should buy immunity for themselves by abandoning their countrymen to their fate. This 'may appear Quixotic, but it is the governing principle of those who lead the people, and there is no chance of its being superseded by. other considerations so long as Paris remains untaken. We yoblish a letter to-day from M. Guizot which is as thorough in the assertion of this principle as the Circulars of M. Jules Favre. The resolution of Germany to insist upon the coveted Provinecs is at least as stubborn, and when two incompatible princi pies are thus opposed it is impossible that belligerents can oome together and agree to a cessation of war. To try to persuade ourselves to the contrary is to nurse a delusion. The suggestion of an armistice cannot arrest the progress of the siege of Paris, which must soon pass from an investment to an active attack, culminating in a bom bardment. • The Standard, fn face of the demands of Prussia for Metz and Strasburg, Alsace and Lorraine, and the deter mination of the French people not to yield these fortresses, has not much hope of a favourable issue to the negotia. tions for an armistice. It is said, the Standard remark; that the Government at Tours has received with the utmost sympathy the suggestions of the English Go vernment; and it may perhaps be, that M. Thiers, convinced that France has nothing more to hope for from foreign Governments but profes sions of sympathy more or less ia arm and more or less false, is quite ready, de, son chef, to make peace upon the Bismarck terms. But what is the Government at Tours ; and who or what, in such a matter, is M. Thiers ? Their views at this moment count for nothing more than the reason which may underlie them, and, probably enough, will not count in the decision of the question even for that. The Government of the National Defence in Paris will not allow its delegates at Tours to make peace for it. General Trochu and M. Jules Favre will not eat their own words, and be guilty of what they have declared would be their eternal dishonour, because M. Gambetta and M. Thiers recommend them that " happy dispatch." And, after all, Paris is even more at this moment, although isolated from France, the decider of the destinies of France than at any previous period of its history. The Prussians will not and cannot make a peace to which Paris does not agree, and the Government at Tours would not venture upon the responsibility of such a treaty, The Telegraph, in discussing the subject of the pro• posed armistice, asks what prospect has France of so changing the situation that Bismarck would be forced to abate his terms ? That question, as we have stated before, cannot be answered by mere strategists ; for it involves an estimate of the moral forces at the com mand of the French people. If they were pre pared to risk the chance of fresh dipmiter—if they were careless of treasure and life—if they fought with rash obstinacy so as to give the Gardes Mobiles of the South time to harden into soldiers—then it might still be possible for them to achieve some substantial success, although such a result would be improbable ; and it might also be in their power so to weary out the German people that Bismarck could no longer resist the demands of that party which is already de manding peace. France has abundance of men, and her supply of effective arms is rapidly increasing. She is drilling day and night ; and in the coming battles, she has everything to gain and nothing to lose. Such, actually and contingently, is the state of things by which she is confronted, while her friends demand an armistice. A Moltke and a Trochu might estimate the chances differently; but even the French soldier would admit that the situation of his country is the reverse of hopeful. Will the nation at large—above all, will Paris recognise the plain truth, however painful ? If they do, there is some hope for the peacemakers ; otherwise, the moral forces of France will only be evoked to prolong a struggle in which success seems hardly practicable, while failure would aggravate the victor's resentment and increase the stringency of the terms he might exact. The Daily News observes that while hoping the best from the interview to take place between M. Thiers and Count Bismarck, it will be well not to forget the limits of the interest we have in the matters they are to discuss. A certain tone of anxiety in some of the reflections that are being offered to the public makes it opportune to remark that, whatever may be the result of our endeavours to reconcile France and Germany, under no circumstances can we suffer anything like a check. Our meditation is from first to last friendly and impartial. We have acted with the sincere desire to promote the interests of both the great nations now at war. It has seemed to our Government that the time has come when France and Germany may be asked to desist from the work of mutual destruction, and calmly consider their joint and several interests apart from the distractions of the battle-field. But we have mingled neither complaints nor approaches with our friendly representations. We are not saying, as we are told they say at some European capitali, that the war is intolerable, or hinting that failure of persuasion must be followed by resort to force. If we fail, it will be with profound regret that two nations with which we have long been closely united by those fruitful interchanges which are the sign of good neigh. bourhood should not be able to see their interest as we feel confident they will see it when they shall look back upon the circumstances of the present time. Our conduct will, however, be the reverse of wise if, in our eagerness for peace, we hasten to assume a burden which has not been laid on us. When we are told that, in order to " make the tender of our good offices really effective," we must " face the emergency," it is evident that the limited conditions of our mediation are not always kept in view. The danger of such exaggerated susceptibility is, in this case, not that we may be carried beyond our pacific intentions and drift into war, but that we may go heedlessly on until we find ourselves in a thoroughly false position, and then have to extricate ourselves by some degrading expedient t .; Mr. W. Vernon Harcourt distributed the prizes to the students of the Schools of Science and Art in the Town Hall, Oxford, on Monday evening. RECLAIMING LAND FROM THE SEA.--The Lin-. colnshire men still keep fighting the sea, and conquering, as the Dutchmen have done for ages on the opposite shore of the German Ocean. The latest feat has been the inelosure of one thousand acres of valuable alluvial land in the parishes of Kirton and Frampton, near Boston. The embankment, about four miles in length, has been completed in the short space of six months. Last week the cattle fed in the Home Park, Hampton Court, the property of Her Majesty the Queen, were sold by auction by Mr. Cowles, acting under the in structions of Colonel Maude. There were eighty-one beasts, polled and horned Scots ; they realised £1,829, an average of £22 11s. each—au extraordinary high price for beasts of their size. Mr. English, of Kensington ; Mr. Ines, of Hampton Court ; Mr. Poulter, of Hounslow ; and Mr. Withers, of Twickenham, wore the largest buyers. A CABMAN'S LICENSE REVOKED.—ENDANGERING THE LIFE OF A FARE.—Mark Mayhew, cab driver, badge 13,411, was brought before Mr.Tyrwhitt, at Marlborough street Police-court, charged with being drunk, and furious driving in Oxford-street on the Bth inst. The prisoner was summoned for the offence, but having failed to attend, was now brought before the Magistrate on a warrant. Police-constable William Pratt, 45 E, said that on the Bth instant he saw the prisoner driving along Oxford street at the rate of 10 miles an hour. When the prisoner got near Great Portland-street he called to him, but he took no notice, and went on, and when at the Regent Circus he appeared to lose all control of his horse, which swayed from one side to the other, and at last the cab came against the guard post in the centre of the Circus and was overturned, the prisoner being underneath it. He sent the prisoner to the Middlesex Hospital in a cab which wa s passing by, while he remained to extricate the gentle man, who fortunately was not injured, though much shaken, from the cab. On going afterwards to the hospital, he found that the prisoner had refused to go in, stating that he was not hurt, and had told the cabman to take him home. After two hours' trouble he found the prisoner at his home in Jockey's-fields, Bedford-row, in a state of intoxication. A summons was taken out against him, and as he failed to attend a warrant was applied for. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 40s. for being drunk and furious driving, and revoked his license. .ing not rod. ults ing Isla, for ) in ted [ell dd 40 nd gt ad mt