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CHAMAN & CO.'S ENTIRE WHEAT FL OUR promotes a vigorous and healthy growth of the bones and teeth, and prevents premature decay. CHA RATAN & CO.'S ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUR. PROFESSOR ATTFIELD, Analyst to the Royal Pharma ceutical Society of Great Britain, reports as follows :---" Its rich ness in gluten, or flesh-forming material and phoshates, or bone and teeth-forming substances, shows it to be a very valuable and nutritious food, especially for children. It is incomparably superior to arrowroot, corn-flour, and otherforms of starch, which contribute but little to the growth o rettewal of bone or muscle. LONDON, TUEFDAY, AUGUST 9, 1870. THE preparations for the combat on the two sides were lengthy and seemed slow; but we were all agreed that the shock when it did come would be terrible. The event must have outdone the calcu lations of the most sanguine imagination. Already has defeat befallen two important sections of the French army; already have the Ger mans broken the French line, and established them selves on the whole of the frontier, whilst the EMPEROR is drawing his forces to a centre in order to defend the road to Paris. If we except the affair of Tuesday, when the French made a shew of attack, entirely useless, upon Saarbriick, three days have sufficed to accomplish all these great ends. On Thursday the CRowN PRINCE, with a very considerable army, numbering at least 100,000 men, assailed the French frontier at Weissenburg, and defeated without much difficulty a very inferior force. From Weissenburg a railway line runs almost due south towards Strasburg, to a place named Sultz ; and thither the CROWN PRINCE advanced without opposition. On Saturday, however, MACMAHON had come up with the whole of his own corps and some portions of • two others—the total force amounting to perhaps 60,000 or 70,000 men. A battle ensued between Worth and Hagenau, a little to the south-west of Sultz. The fight raged all day and ended in the complete defeat of MACMAHON, who retired in a north-westerly direction towards Bitche The catastrophe was most serious. Both sides lost heavily; but the French were driven from their position leaving behind them thousands of prisoners, and several cannon, mitrailleuses, and eagles. This was the greatest event of the day, but not the only one The battle near Wirth was fought on the extreme right of the French line, towards the south-east ; another defeat was inflicted on the Imperial host at the left centre. On Tuesday the French in considerable force had got possession of the heights opposite Saarbriick ; but the rapid advance of the Prussians, and especially Thurs day's battle at Weissenburg, soon brought about a retreat. The Germans came up in great numbers and assailed General FROSSARD, who was strongly posted at Spicheren. This second battle of Saturday, like the first, was fiercely contested, lasted all day. and terminated in the defeat of the French. Both battles appear to have been well fought. The French in no way disgraced themselves. The vic tories were dearly bought. But the loss to the Germans counts as nothing compared with the advan tages they have gained by these two brilliant triumphs. The most unskilled reader will be able to judge for himself as to the great gain the Germans have secured. Pierced in two points at once, at ' the ex treme right and the left centre, the whole French line must fall back in order to save its detached por tions from being out-flanked and cut off. The large circle which the French occupied from Bitche, and by St. Avold to Thionville, is now compelled to con tract, and a lesser circle is at this moment forming round the strong town of Metz. On its side the German army will converge with its three separate divisions towards one point. A great extent of French territory falls into its hands. United, full of confidence in itself and its leaders, superior in. number to the enemy, it goes to assail the dis couraged and weakened French host under the walls of Metz, where a stupendous battle, calculated to fix the fortunes of the war in one day, may be raging - whilst we write. So far this struggle is a close reproduction of that fought in 1866. Then, as now, the Prussians were the invaders. They have sent three separate armies into France, just as three entered Bohemia in that memorable July. In 1866 the Austrians were defeated in several separate and simultaneous battles at different points of the line. Similar misfortunes are now befalling the French, and the Sadowa of this war may be looked for hourly. It does not follow that the issue will be of a like kind ; but the expec tation that the French will be able to turn the table's can rest on no substantial foundation. The Germans have been superior in numbers at these pre liminary battles ; and so must they be at the great fight. The other advantages in their favour are both numerous and obvious. Win the French may, for their array is yet far from contemptible; but such a triumph must be brought about by exceptional causes. It can hardly arise in the ordinary development of events. Present grievous disaster and the near prospect of crushing defeat—such is the outcome of this war. Na wonder Paris is at once on fire with rage, and prostrated with des pondency. No wonder the Ministry, in a pro clamation to the people, suppress all allusion to the EMPEROR and the Empire : they talk only of "La patrie" and its brave defenders. This is the , darkest day in the chequered life of the French Sovereign. If he do not speedily retrieve his losses, now and for ever will it be finished with him. That victory or ruin is his only alternative is clearly enough shewn by his own actions. The advantages that might have been gained by a sudden attack were lost through insufficient prepara tion. The EMPEROR, and his Generals seemed to have conceived no plan of a campaign; at any rate they have done nothing more than lie idle with their force before Metz until the army was rudely hustled about by the German corps. The mismanagement, to all appearance, has been utter. Of strategy no French commander has yet shown one jot. After the battle of Weissenburg there still remained a fair opportunity for retrieving the situation ; indeed, the chance was not a bad one ; but MACMAHON threw it away. When the CROWN PRINCE was advancing alone with his 100,000 men, there could have been no great difficulty in sending a greater force to meet him ; whereas MACMABON hastily gave battle with a lesser number. The situation was this : The French army was arra❑ged in a gradually narrowing circle Oxford Coats. Also at Also at other prices. other prices 18s. 1 18s, 235. 1 235, 265. I 265. 325. I 325, 365. I 365. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1870, OPERAS, THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. PRINCE OF WALES'S—A 7.30. Quite by Accident. M.P. Dearest Mamma. QTTEEN'S—At Seven, Hy Wife's Dentist. 'Twist Axe and Crown. VAUDEVILLE—Cupboard Love. Two Roses. Don Carlos. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8; Wed nesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. Zo LOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park. Open daily (except Sun days). Admission, ls. on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. MADAME TIISSAUD'B EXHIBITION, Baker-street, from 11 a.m. till 3.0 p.m., and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admission, ls.; extra 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ..... after Afternoon ........30 after 0 44. , r j " 4l-' W ilsg 4i * Sitil 4,-;\ MORNING EDITION. round Metz at a radius of from thirty to forty miles. Three Prussian armies were advancing in a sort of outer circle, the CROWN PRINCE being on the left (the French right) and isolated from the others. Surely the French would have done better to have further concentrated their inner circle, turning it towards the right, so that by yester day (probably) a greatly superior force might have been gathered and shot out at the isolated CROWN PRINCE. The position would then have been thus : MACMAHON with (say) 120,000 men would assail the CROWN PRINCE, and probably overpower him on the right. On the centre and left the main French army would have been opposed to a greatly superior Ger man force. There would, however, be no need for fighting this superior host. If the main army fell steadily back, taking care only to cover MACMAIION'S flank, that would have been sufficient, no advance of the other two German armies could have availed aught, unless the CROWN PRINCE had won his battle. By fighting MACMAHON on unequal terms he has won it ; the only chance of obtaining a different result was to take care that this first invading German army was outnumbered. Moving as they did, on an inner circle, the French generals ought to have been in a position to accu mulate the needful force. If they were not, their abilities and state of preparation must greatly resem ble those of poor BENEDEK in 1866. THE complications not unlikely to occur as the result of this formidable war, are, some of them at least, sufficiently portentous. There is a jealous watchfulness of each other, not unnaturally obser vable among the chief powers pledged to neutrality. That neutrality is, in each instance, only preservable contingently. If Austria or Italy, but still more it both together, were to side with either of the belligerents, Russia, it has been insisted all along, would be constrained in her own interests to advance westwards. Each Power has a cause to avenge, a memory to obliterate. Ever since the Crimean War, for example, we may rest assured of this—the Government of St. Peters burgh has been on the watch for some more propitious opportunity than the last for its movement in the direction of Constanti- nople. Ever since the close of the campaign of Sadowa, the Government of Vienna would exult, we may be equally well satisfied of this, over any prospect that might present itself for the avenging of the deadly and disastrous fusillade of Ktininggratz. The intimation coming the most recently from the Russian capital is one full, as it seems to us, of warlike significance. While Prussia and France have been arming themselves to the teeth during these last few years, not secretly or surrep titiously, but openly and in the sight of all Christen dom, Russia, less observed, but quite as systema tically, has been acting in like manner—multiplying her forces, improving their discipline, securing at any and at every cost the latest and most perfect contrivance in the improvement of rifled cannon and breech-loading arms of precision. Never—such is the significant intimation now coming to us from St. Petersburgh—never has Russia been more fully pre pared for war than she is at the present moment. Supposing the Czatt were only in the humour to avail himself of the opportunity now tempting him to seize upon the Golden Horn (as the long-coveted horn of plenty to the great Muscovite sovereignty), there is absolutely nothing whatever to prevent him, upon any day he pleases, from becoming at last master of Constantinople. France and Prussia in deadly con flict with each other—Austria, eager but powerless to move—ltaly, with an all but bankrupt exchequer, precluded from increasing, unless constrained so to do, her already formidable military and maritime expenditure—England, reluctant to forsake her neutral position, unless absolutely com pelled by some such flagrant goad to her sense of honour, as the violating of the independence of Belgium—there is nothing, literally nothing, in the way of even any powerful prohibition from her so acting, to prevent Prussia from seizing at last, at her own free will and pleasure, upon the sick man her neighbour, and, giving him at length, off-hand, the long looked-for coup de grace. Among the possible contingencies of the war, not the least probable, strange to say, are these three—that the HOHENZOLLERN may yet be enthroned at Madrid ; that King WILLIAM may assume the title any day he pleases of Emperor of Germany ; and, finally, that while BoluAncx, and BENEDETTI have been conferring together as to the shameless bartering away of Belgium, the Russian autocrat, without saying another word about it, may some fine day seize by main force what his predecessor made a premature clutch at sixteen years ago, when the Allied Powers of Western Europe were then prepared, as they are not now prepared to, prevent his taking possession ,of it—that grand imperial prize of Constantinople. TOPICS OF THE DAY. hastened from thence to London, and; on', to the Continent. These personages were two generals of the United States army en route to the respective seats of war in fulfilment of an order from the Pre sident—to watch the different movements and the tactics pursued by the rival commanders in the Rhine struggle. General Philip H. Sheridan, whose military exploits and strategical feats with the army of the North in the American war gained him a most enviable reputtion, is directed to attach himself to the French army. The other officer, General For syth, will follow the Germans. It is not generally known that the United States War Department usually commission their generals to watch the manner of the warfare of other nations. In the Crimean war the representative from the American War Department was General McClellan. has been postponed. It has been found advisable to adopt this measure in consequence of the confu sion created by the war. The Chairman and the Secretaries have announced that the New York managers believe if the Conference were held this year, it could not be attended by many of the delegates who might appear at a more convenient season. In the first place the German representatives could not proceed to America to discuss the blessings of peace at a time when their country is distracted by the turmoils of war, and the same reason may apply to the French representatives who would wish to be present. The postponement of the Conference is a great disappoint ment to its projectors. It was originally intended to rival the Ecumenical Council of Rome, and to repre sent a General Council of Protestantism, but the unforeseen circumstance of Le great European war has altogether disorganised the scheme. THE FRENCH FLEET. • The French Minister of Marine has been busily engaged in the organisation of the transport. The number of Government ships falls far below the re quired mark, and the authorities have been com pelled to appropriate air the steamers of the Transatlantic Company. Admiral Bouet blockades the entrance to the Baltic, and stops the transport of supplies, which are eagerly awaited in Prussia, while he seizes the ships that arrive from North America. When he is joined by the iron-clads and floating batteries from Cherbourg he will proceed to bombard Hamburg, Kiel, and Dantzig. The plan of opera tions consists in cutting off the Prussian supplies until the opportunity presents itself for attacking the most important commercial points. Great activity has been displayed at Toulon, but Brest and Cherbourg will be more intimately connected with the war. The famous gunboat of M. Farcey's has been sent to Strasbourg ; it possesses the merit of being able to carry a gun of the heaviest calibre, while it has a light draught of wat.r. This craft can be handled with surprising readiness in action, as the vessel can perform a revo lution in less time than the gun can be loaded. EFFECTS OF THE WAR. The French iron trade has suffered greatly from the effects of the war. It is true that a certain amount of business is transacting in Champagne, but in many places business has stopped altogether, and the mineral workings of the Moselle are well-nigh deserted. The French Government have given an order for a large quantity of bullets and cannon-balls, which is to be executed with the greatest dispatch, and fresh orders for armour-plates are spoken of. The returns show that 46,783 tons of iron materials were imported into France from the German Association during the first five months of this year. The Belgian iron trade has also suffered greatly from the war. Scarcely any fresh orders have been received. The Luxemburg masters will make energetic efforts to keep their blast furnaces going, and the construction of some new works at Esch will be continued. The Belgian coal trade shews great activity, and orders have been received from those who formerly used Prussian coal. The Eastern of France Railway Com pany will use increased quantities of Belgian coal. ; AMERICA AND THE WAR. Two very distinguished American visitors reached Livetpool by the Scotia on Saturday morning, and THE. WORKING CLASSES AND THE WAR. Those to whor war brings the direst evils are precisely the people who in former days had the smallest voice in staying the ambitious schemes of rulers who thought more of dynastic success than the welfare of humanity. The spread of education which followed in the footsteps of the great French Revolution had its effect in opening the eyes of the working classes to the folly of their rulers, and although by appealing to the worst passions of the people, insensate sovereigns still harry Europe for dynastic purposes, there is some consolation in feel ing that reason has not been altogether blinded by the subterfuges which have so often done work for legitimate and holy appeals. The address which has been prepared by the Workmen's Peace Com mittee for circulation among the working men of Great Britain and Ireland, protests against the war between France and Prussia " as a great and horrible crime on the part of Christian nations at this period of the world's history, and a wanton inflic tion of misery and ruin without any adequate cause or the possibility of any beneficial result." The working men of France and of Germany are, the committee remark, equally their brethren. The oc cupation by a foreign army either of Paris or Berlin is deprecated as storing up deadly national animosi ties for the future, and arbitration is strongly insisted upon as the proper mode of putting an end to the present struggle. The committee observe that it should be the firm and unanimous resolve of those to whom they appeal not to allow England to be drawn into the war on any pretext _whatever Believing that England is abundantly able to repe. invasion, should any power be wicked or foolisle enough to attempt it, the committee ask for thh moral support of their brethren in lessening the sphere of a war which will be followed by untold misery and degradation. The working men implore the peoples of Europe to have no regard to courts, cabinets, or dynasties, but to insist upon arbitration as a substitute for war., The nations to whom this appeal is specially directed may be too heated by passion to give it the attention that it deserves, but the working men have nevertheless performed a Christian duty. MR. REED ON OUR IRONCLADS. Mr. Reed, of Admiralty celebrity, has written to the Times on our Ironclad Navy, replying at con siderable length to the letter of Captain Sherard Osborn on the same subject. Mr. Reed admits that we are deficient in low freeboard turret-ships of moderate draught, because successive Boards of Admiralty have preferred to build sea-going cruising ironclads, but he defends Sir Spencer Robinson, the Controller of the Navy, from the charge of antagonism to the turret system. The Controller of the Navy has, according to Mr. Reed, strongly recommended the construction of the class of ironclads alluded to, and Mr. Reed himself, has " taken the greatest pos sible pains to design such vessels." In short, Sir Spencer Robinson and Mr. E. J. Reed are the two best friends whom the turret system has. This will be news to Captain Coles as well as to the public. However, Mr. Reed's turret theories are so very different from Captain Coles's, that nominal agree ment goes for nothing. Mr. Reed's criticism on the Captain is worth reading, especially when we remember that even the Admiralty declines as yet to pronounce a verdict against her, or in favour of Mr. Reed's Monarch. The curious thing is that while Mr. Reed speaks of a " terrible disadvantage" in the size of target presented to the enemy," of "an alarming blunder in calculation." of "the very worst failure in a ship to fulfil her design which I have ever known," of "failure in another vital point," and of the Captain's "risk of b eing disabled as soon as she enters an action," he tells us in another part of his letter that she is in "flat contradiction of all the early contentions of Captain Coles, and is a vindication - of what the Admiralty have always believed and acted upon." THE MILITIA. Mr. Hussey Vivian has written to the Times on the claims of the Militia, and asks whether a con siderable portion of the surplus in the hands of the War Department may not be ad vantageously employed in increasing that body. He considers that the addition of 100,000 militiamen to our defensive forces would be an enor mous gain, and if this were done a sum of £135,000 would still remain over from the sum granted by Parliament for the creation of warlike stores. The great continental nations have at a short notice half a million of men available, and if we woull be safe we must have weight of men, to oppose them. Our militia force should be raised perma nently to 500,000 men, at an outlay of £2,400,000 be yond its present cost. By judicious arrangements a large portion of this sum might be saved from the non-effective services. Mr. Vivian carries his argument solar as to prefer that an increase should take place in the Militia, even if it should entail a corresponding reduction in the standing army. He believes that the extra militiamen could be raised by voluntary enlistment, but if not the country would sanction the adoption of the Militia Ballot. MR. COOK AND THE TOURISTS. Mr. Thomas Cook, whose name stands high in the estimation of all intending tourists, has written from Lucerne to announce the results of a tour of inspec tion, on which he started immediately after the declaration of war. His office in Fleet-street was besieged by inquirers as to the safety of a Conti nental trip, and he, accordingly, set off for Switzer land with a passport, vis6d by French, Swiss, Baden, Prussian, and Belgian Consuls. Hitherto neither passport nor vise has been asked for. There were some eighty foreigners in the train in which Mr. Cook travelled, but none of their luggage was opened. He rode to Geneva without the slightest interruption, and from thence went round Switzerland from the Rhone to the Alps, finding peace and repose everywhere. From Mont Cenis to the Splugen every Alpine road is open, and trains and diligences* are running their regular course. The Americans and the English have Switzerland to themselves this season, the French and Germans being otherwise engaged. On the Baden frontier only old men, boys, and women are to be seen at the stations and quays, the strong men being summoned to'the " The ripening harvest has no reapers, the vines are untended, and deathlike solitude reigns over the district." Groups of, Swiss soldiers met the train at every frontier station, and carefully looked into the carriages, being resolved to let no belligerents cross the line. Mr. Cook gives several details of the anxiety of the Swiss authorities to afford every facility to foreign tourists, and declares, that Switzerland was never more attractive to English visitors than it is it present. war. THE CONFERENCE OF ALL NATIONS. The Christian Conference of all nations which was to have been held in New York in September HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, AUG. 8. The Queen walked out this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise and. Prince Arthur. Princess Beatrice also went out. The Right Hon. W. E. Forster has left Osborne. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albqrt Victor, Prince George and Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge, Lieut.-General Ellis, and Mr. Knollys, left Marlborough House last evening on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, at their seat, Dup plin Castle, Perthshire, en route for Abergeldie Castle, Aberdeenshire. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. DEATH OF SIR JOHN THWAITES, We regret to announce that Sir John Thwaites died on Sunday evening, at his residence, at Putney from an attack of English cholera. He was the son of the late Mr. Christopher Thwaites, of Toddy Gill Hall, Westmoreland, and was born in the year 1815. In early life Sir John was in business as a draper, and having been frequently engaged on parochial business, he was elected a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1856, of which body he was chosen the first chair man. In 1865 he received the honour of knighthood, in commemoration of the opening of the great main-drainage works of the metropolis. Sir John was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for Middlesex, and a mag i s t rate f or Surrey. Prince Leopold and the Princess Beatrice are ex pected to join the Prince and Princess Christian at Grew Malvern. It is expected that Parliament will be prorogued on Wednesday. On Tuesday (to-day) the Ministers go clown to Osborne to arrange with her Majesty the terms of the Queen's Speech, which will be read by Royal Com mission.—Observer. No appointment has yet been made to the Assis tant Under-Secretaryship of the Foreign Office, vacant by the death of the Hon. Charles Spring Rice. The names of Lord Tenterden and Sir Louis Mallet have been mentioned in connection with the vacant appointment.— Observer. There is no foundation whatever for the statement that the King of Hanover has embodied a Hanoverian legion for service with the French army against the Prussians. The report that a son of the King of Hanover had taken service under the Emperor Napoleon is equally incorrect. Late on Saturday night a cupola on the Town Hall of Newport, Salop, was observed to be on fire. The flames spread with the utmost rapidity, and by twelve o'clock the handsome front block of buildings was gutted. The hall is insured. A large French steam ram, barque rigged, passed Dover westward on - Sunday afternoon. It is believed to be the same reported on Saturday morning by telegram, and is supposed to be looking after German ships coming through the Channel. The guns now stored in Guildford-yard, Dover, are being taken out for examination as to their fitness for service, and some are being removed to the fortifications round the coast. It is also observable that larger guns are being mounted on some of the Castle batteries.—Dover Chronicle. The High Sheriff of Dorset has fixed Monday, the 15th of August, for the execution of Thomas Radcliffe, now under sentence of death for the murder of a warder at the Portland Convict Prison. During his incarceration the convict has been of a sullen demeanour, and has made but little reference to his crime. The new public park at Moss Side, Manchester, named the Alexandra, in honou r o f th e Princess of Wales, was formally opened to the public on Saturday. The new park covers 60 acres, and has cost 260,000. The other public parks in Manchester and Salford were presented to the inhabitants by a committee, which raised the neces sary subscriptions in one year, and completed their gift in another. The new . park is the first in Manchester of which the expense is defrayed out of the municipal funds. The Nation gladly welcomes the Hon. E. R. King Harman as a candidate for Dublin. "Home rule," it agrees with him, "is the question of the day." It has always, it says, advocated the union of all classes in Ire land in obtaining for her the right of self-government, and now that a Protestant gentleman—a member of one of the leading families in the country —comes forward to join the ranks of Irish patriots—" shall he be denied the welcome "to which this conduct entitles him? "An Irish Parliament in College-green would bring a tide of wealth to the metropolis, the effect of which would be felt by every member of the community." DR. NEWTON AGAIN. The gentleman who pretends to have miraculous powers of healing the sick, and who had to make a most ignominous retreat from a chapel, in the West end of London a few weeks ago, has found his way to Kingston -on-Thames, and on Sunday morning , went through his anything but entertaining perfor mances. The newspaper report states that there was a very respectable audience at the Temperance Lyceum, and the corporation of the town furnished its quota of enlightened spectators to the "doctor's " exhibition, in order, it is presumed, to witness an operation performed on one of its members. Among the persons who were " healed" was an old gentleman, who, hobbling up to the platform on crutches, informed the performer of miracles that he was para lysed. He was desired to do as the " doctor " did, which was rather difficult, considering that the American went through a series of postures that might make the fortune of any acrobat who might feel disposed to imitate them. The cripple followed the instructions as well as he could, and after having had his legs well rubbed, he was told he was cured. As to the healing powers of the " doctor " it is need less to express any opinion. The credulity of the people who place their faith in such quacks would be astounding, had the Education Bill been in exis tence a few years ago. BUILDING' SOCIETIES. One of the most popular forms of providence among the working classes is investment in building societies. Rent is usually a very formidable bug bear, and there is a peculiar fascination in the idea of a house to oneself for most Englishmen. The disasters and frauds connected with ill-considered and ill-conducted societies of this kind have, however, brought them into disfavour in some quarters, and it is to be hoped that the new bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to them, will do good service in placing them on a surer and more equitable basis. Under it the rules are to be strictly registered, and every altera tion in them submitted to the Registrar. A notice of change of name must also be sent and such change shall not interfere with any right or obligation of the society. The officers must give security, and be prepared to render their accounts whenever called upon. When the trustees of the society are absent or incapable, the registrar may order stock to be transferred ; and provision is made for the recovery of property, should the officer of the society die or become bankrupt. Sums under £5O may be paid without administration on the death of a member. Disputes are to be deter mined by arbitration, but the court shall in certain cases have the right to determine tho dispute upon application, the arbitrators having delayed or refused to act. Societies are to make annual audits and statements of the funds to members, and the various documents of the association shaft not be subject to stamp duties. Camb. Coats. Also at other prices IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock, at which hour there was a rather numerous attendance of. peers. The space before the throne was also fully occupied, Count Bernstorff, the Prussian Am bassador, being present. THE WAR.—NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM. Earl GRANVILLE, after referring to the anxiety produced by the publication of the terms of a projected treaty between France and Prussia, said her Majesty's Government had felt that they could not remain perfectly quiescent under the circumstances. The noble earl having stated the courses open to the Government, proceeded to say that on the 30th of July they wrote to the Courts of Prussia and France expressing their satisfaction at having received an assurance that neither of the belligerents in tended to violate the neutrality of Belgium, adding that they considered it the duty of both to maintain the obligations of the treaty which guaranteed the independence of Belgium. It was further proposed that a treaty should be entered into recording a common determination to maintain the independence of Belgium. The noble earl then stated the provisions of the treaty in nearly the same words used by Mr. Glad stone in the House of Commons, and said that Austria and Prussia approved of the proposition of Great Britain, and although he could not say that all the matters connected with the treaty were settled, yet he might say as both belligerents had consented to the principle, the completion of the threaty would be but the work of a very short period of time. Prus sia had telegraphed to Count Bernstoff expressing her acquiesence to any measure to strengthen the neutrality of Belgium, and also her assent to the draft treaty, reserving only its final approval until the measure itself was sub mitted. (Cheers.) He hoped that the proceeding would show that her Majesty's Government had not been either inactive •or unmindful of the great importance of maintaining inviolate the nationality of Belgium. The Duke of RICHMOND expressed his complete and entire approval of the steps taken by the Government, and further said it was a proceeding that would meet with the approbation of the country at large: (Cheers). The Foreign Enlistment Act passed through committee, The Commons' reasons and amendments to the Elemen tary Education Bill were considered and agreed to. The other bills on the paper were forwarded a stage, and their lordships rose at a quarter to eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. The Speaker took the chair at ten minutes past three o'clock. WANT OF AMMUNITION. Sir JOHN HAY asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if it was true, as reported in the Western Morning News of the 3d August, that the Agincourt and Northumber land having been ordered to sea, it was, found that they could not leave in consequence of the almost total absence of shells and ammunition at the Bull Point Magazines. If the Audacious, Iron Duke, and Vanguard, now fitting at Devonport, would be delayed for want of tanks, of which there were none in store to fit them, several of that size having been sold three or four months ago ; and that the Captain and Manarch were 246 Palliser shot short of their complement. Mr. CHILDERS replied that there was not a word of truth in the statement respecting the Northumberland and the Agincourt, neither was it true that the Audacious, Iron Duke, and Vanguard would be delayed for the want of tanks. It was not true that the Captain and the Monarch were 246 Palliser shot short of their complement, but they were short of the new pattern of shot recommended to the Admiralty some time ago. In reference to the latter part of the question, the right hon. gentleman referred to the factories of Sheerness and Chatham. THAMES EMBANKMENT. Mr. W. H. SMITH asked the First Commissioner of Works, if he could inform the House what steps were being taken by the Metropolitan Board of Works to open up approaches to the Embankment from the Strand and Fleet-street, and, when such approaches will be available for the public use. Mr. AYRTON replied that the Metropolitan Board of Works were taking steps to open out two approaches to the embankment, one from Villiers-street, and the other from Norfolk-street. TEMPLE BAR. Mr. WHITWELL asked the First Commissioner of Works whether he would hold out any hope to the House that he would be able to convince the Metropolitan Board of Works on artistic and utilitarian grounds that Temple Bar ought to be removed or widened during the erection of the New Law Courts. Mr. AYRTON said he was not able to state the intentions of the Board of Works, and he regretted to say that the gentleman who had filled the office of Chief of the Board had died that morning. He bad no doubt that the Board would come to the conclusion that the sooner the Bar was removed the better for the public. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. Mr. SOMERSET BEAUMONT asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether he would undertake that any further papers with reference to the war should be communicated to Parliament in time to allow of a discuElison on their contents before the prorogation. Mr. GLADSTONE : It would be very difficult for me to promise absolutely that further papers with reference to the war should be communicated to Parliament in time to allow of discussion before the prorogation, if the ar rangements as to the prorogation should be finally confirmed to-morrow, and according to the present state of business, it appears that Parliament may perfectly well take that course on Wednesday, (Cheers.) it is possible we may be able to lay papers on the table to-morrow, but with the permission of the House, after the questions are concluded, I will endeavour to state as exactly as I can what has taken place so far as the British Government are concerned. (Cheers.) THE SECRET TREATY. Lord E. FrrzmAunlcE asked the First Lord of the Treasury if he would explain the remarkable difference in the dates in the two extracts given below from the Franco-Prussian correspondence (No. 2) :—Dispatch No. 5. page 4, Count Bismarck to Count Bernstorff, " When the more modest French designs with reference to Luxemburg had been counteracted by events which are publicly known, the more extensive propositions, embracing Belgium and Southern Germany, were renewed. It is at this time, in 1867, that Count Benedetti's manuscript was communicated to me. Dispatch No. 7, pages 5 and 6, Lord A. Loftus to Earl Granville, " With reference to my telegram of yesterday I have now the honour to transmit to your lordship a litho graphed copy of the draft of the treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, which AI. Benedetti proposed for the accept ance of the Prussian Government at the commencement of 1869, on the eve of the Belgian railway question." And if it was not Count Bismarck who gave Lord A. Loftus the information on which his dispatch above quoted was based. Mr. GLADSTONE said his noble friend was quite correct in the reference he made. The Government, however, were not aware that Count Bismarck gave Lord Augustus Loftus the information in question. With regard to the apparent discrepencies he thought that considering that the elucidation of the transactions in this matter might not yet be complete, it would be better that he should abstain from further remarks. (Hear, hear.) ENGLAND AND THE WAR. Mr. GLADSTONE said he was desirous of making a short statement to the House in view of the approaching pro rogation. He should strictly confine himself to a state ment of the facts, not uniting with them anything in the nature of explanation or defence, if, indeed, defence were necessary. On Saturday, the 30th July, the Government made a proposal to France and Prussia severally in identical terms. The proposal was that an engagement should be contracted with each of them, whether under the name of a treaty, or whatever other name, to this effect—that if the armies of either belligerent should, in the course of the operations of war, violate the neutrality of Belgium, Great Britain would co-operate with the other belligerent for the defence of that territory. (Cheers.) It was specified in the docu ment then transmitted that Great Britain should not by that engagement, or by acting upon that engagement in case of need, be bound to take part in the general opera tions of war, and of course the other contracting powers were to enter into a similar under taking to use force for the defence Of the neutrality of Belgium against the offending Power. The treaty and engagement as pppose,d by England was pro posed to hold good for twelve months after the ratification of the Treaty of Peace between the belligerents, and at the same time the existing obligations of the Treaty of 1839 were reserved by the stipu lation that after the expiration of this special treaty, these of diploma the cons last Sat took pla by the ] the cons the extr Parative Posals would 1 So far a the mat but he d bound a Count ] Bistnarc COnsequ, municat quently Stating t from Lo sure whi of Belgic the sth ~ the Pru. then rec witted 1 agreeme] telegram autheris4 came inl Yet recei expected Cl-1( sidered Minister accepted that coin tions in t] of the n Treaty, E lish Gov( two pow( alter th( arranges asked fo: although they we , they con( That int evening, Might a not arri manner t reason tc remov e al rAent. 1 evening b Mr. Di t %lied f important following E Maj esty ' s neutrality country moment diplomati, light box abstruse a almost; that when w as exre 183 9, the u pon tha Mr. BRi went mad duetion of Census ret For the I it, 40. 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