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A telegram, dated Paris, July 29, says the Patrie of this evening, announceiug the recall of the French troops has been well received at the Vatican. France has received Personal assurances from King Victor Emmanuel, that Rome should be respected, and the September Convention scrupulously observed. If, however, contrary to expecta tion Garibaldian bands should be formed, they would be immediately dissolved by the regular troops. The Empress assumed the duties of Regent on the 28th, and presided at Council of Ministers in the afternoon. The following are the chief items of official news sup Plied by the Minister of the Interior to-day : " METZ, TEN o'CLoog. "A reconnaissance of the enemy's troops penetrated into the village of Petite Roselle, near Forbach, but quickly disappeared on the approach of our soldiers. " Great movement is reported from the garrison of Ant werp. The forts are being actively put in order. " Twelve o'clock.— The Baden prisoners, MM. le Baron de Wehner ( ? von Wechmer) and de Villiers (? Villiez) have been sent to Orleans, where they will be kept in custody. "The officer killed in the skirmish at Niederbronn was born in Germany ; his father was English, and his mother German. He served in the Baden army. His name is "Vinsloe (? Winslow). " At one moment we thought that the Prussians, who had gathered together a great number of boats in front of Bernheim, intended to pass the Rhine. We were ready to receive them, but the project appears to have been abandoned. " There has been no engagement in front since the day before yesterday. " A great fire is reported in the forest of Merten, situated on our frontier near Boubay. "During a storm on the 26th, the lightning fell on the head-quarters of the Lorencez Division, and wounded three officers—Captains Acaries, Duquesnoy, and Beillet. " The enemy does not appear to bt, in force on any Point. " We have had a heavy fall of rain." PRINCE NAPOLEON. It is confirmed that Prince Napoleon has been appointed commander- in-chief of the land forces which are to operate in the Baltic. Admiral Bouet has specially stipulated that the Prince shall in no way interfere with the fleet. DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia left Berlin on Thursday morning for the army. General Steinmetz, who has also left the capital, is said to have been almost knocked off his horse by the flowers thrown at him. It is said that Count Bismarck hands the reins of the Foreign Office to M. de Thile, and joins his regi ment of Cuirassiers. BELGIAN PREPARATIONS. There are 100,000 men now under arms in Belgium to guard the neutrality of that country. Of these, 60,000 are ready for field operations, while 40,000 garrison Ant erP and the Quadrilateral. The statement lately pub lished by a Paris paper that the fortifications of Antwerp were falling to pieces, owing to the nature of the ground on which they were constructed, is quite unfounded. AUSTRIA. A telegram dated Vienna, July 30, says a ministerial decree has been published this morning, laying down the rules to be observed, in accordance with the Paris Mari time Convention of 1856, by Austro-Hungarian vessels in reference to the belligerent Powers in the present war. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAT.) CONVICTION OF BETTING MEN.—George Lock, 97, B ,tar-Street, Paddington, tobacconist, Thomas Baker, 19, Stanley -street, Paddington, cab-driver, badge number, 594 , and Daniel Landon, 5, South-wharf-road, Padding ton, carpenter, were charged at the Maryebone Police court, with unlawfully assembling together in London street, Paddington, for the purpose of betting, thereby causin g an obstruction, contra r y t o th e 30th an d 31 s t Vic. c e t LaP. 34, sec. 22, under the Metropolitan St ree t s A c t. Samuel Doble, detective of the X division, said on the Previous day he was in London-street, and saw the pri soner Lock with a betting list in his hand. Baker asked } lira the price of the odds upon a horse that they men tioned for the Chester Cup. Lock said, four to one. Baker said thatwas not good enough. They then wentrouud the corner into a mews, where Lock took out a piece of Paper and wrote something on it after Baker had given him two half-crowns, Baker went away, and Lock entered something on a piece of paper . Landon then asked Lock the price of the odds against Formosa. Baker came back and said to Lock, book me another at the same price. Lock took some money from him and put it in his pocket. Lock put something down on apiece of paper. Witness went up, and Lock tried to tear up the Papers. He now produced a portion of it. Cross-examined : London-street is a great thoroughfare. He was close to the prisoners. Hobbs, police-constable 178 X, said he went to the spot and saw Baker pass some money to Lock, who placed it in his pocket. After a short time Baker came back and passed some more money to Lock. He then went into a public house. In answer to Mr. Sampson this witness said that he did see money pass. Mr. Sampson addressed the magistrate at length, and argued that under the Betting Act the Police had done a wrong in apprehending the prisoners. Mr. Mansfield said the prisoners were properly charged under the Metropolitan Streets Act, which had these words—" Where three or more persons assemble together in a public thoroughfare they shall be deemed guilty of Causin g an obstruction in the street." He thought the Prisoners had so infringed the law. If they wished to Carry on their avocation as racing men, they had better become respectable members of Tattersall's. The penalty the law allowed him to award in cases of this kind was The prisoners would each have to pay £5. The fine was paid. A ROW IN AN EATING - HOUSE--Matthew Graham, a tall, determined, strong fellow, aged 30 years, and de- Beribed as a labourer, was brought up before Mr. Lush ington, charged with a variety of offences, which included charges of being disorderly in the eating-house of Mr. G. Parkiss, Whitehapel, refusing to leave Ithen requested, making a disturbance, and assault ing Mr. Parkiss. The prisoner was also charged with assaulting Mr. John Hyett, eating house keeper, of No. 22, Hoxton-street, Shoreditch, and Robert Hill, a police-constable, No. 101 H. In addition to this, he was charged with damaging several choice dishes which the chef de cuisine of Mr. Parkiss's establishment had prepared for the hungry liege subjects of her Majesty. It appeared that the prisoner visited the eating-house of Mr. Parkess last night. He was full of appetite and full of drink, and after he had treated himself with soups, meat, and plenty of vegetables and bread, he paid his score and took his departure. He returned in a few minutes, and complained that Mr. Parkiss had not given blur his right change. He demanded 5d., which Mr. Parkiss refused to give him. He then made a great disturbance, and capsized all the dishes of meat and s oup' in th e p l ace. Mr. Parkiss attempted to put hi m ut, but was unable to do so, and the. prisoner tore his shirt to ribbons, and bit two of Mr. Parkiss's fingers severely. Mr. Hyett, another eating-house keeper, came to th e rescue , an d was severely kicked and disabled by the prisoner, who carried all before b un, and would have made a complete wreck of the shop, had not two constables of the H Division, named Eldred and 11111, arrived on the scene of action, and seized the Prisoner, who fiercely attacked both officers. Eldred was rendered hors de combat in an instant, and Hill, who the l gall antly seized the prisoner, was kicked a severe bl ow on He struggl e d de s p era t e l y w ith the prisoner, who threw eg. the policeman, and then kicked him again on the Side. A reinforcement arrived, and the prisoner was secured. He pleaded it was the drop taken that did all the mischief.—Mr. Lushington said the prisoner 'had lacted like a madman, and sentenced him to six months' nlPriso erkiss nment and hard labour for three assaults on Mr. , Mr. Flyett, and Hill the constable. THE ARMY AND NAVY. O Th e Army and Navy Gazette says : — Lieutenant-General n' George B u ll er, G.C.8., on Monday gives over the toraand of the Southern (Portsmouth) District to Lieu tellant-General Lord Templetown, K.C.8., and retires fro 11 1 active military service, carrying with him the iteBPect of all th o s e w h o , d ur i ng th e man y years g : has served his country so honourably and w;,_ w ell, have had th e goo d f or t une t o serve 1,‘,L1 and under him. W e h ave reason t o believe that "lough Captain Sherard Osbo rn , C. 8., did not sh ew a 6 Positi on to serve in p eac e a bl e times, there is every Probability he will, now that the political horizon is TRE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, - JULY 30, 1870. darkened over, be both ready and willing to place his ser vices at the disposal of his country ; and there is au equal probability that the First Lord of the Admiralty will not fail to avail himself of them in case of need. —Captain J. W. Hozier, Scots Greys, is to have the coveted appointment of Brigade-Major of Cavalry at Aldershot, about to be vacated by Captain and Brevet- Major W. Arbuthnot, 14th Hussars, who has pur chased his regimental majority. Captain Hozier (elder brother of the writer) is known not only as an excel lent regimental officer, and a very distinguished Staff College student, but for his late exertions as secretary to the Royal Commission on Military Education, and especially for the valuable report made to that body, since published, on the military schools of France and Prussia. Rear-Admiral Hornby's flying squadron left Honolulu for Tahiti on the 23rd of June, and will soon make its way with all possible speed to. Valparaiso. The ships will, no doubt, be hurried home in conse quence of the critical state of affairs in Europe, and will probably arrive in England some weeks before they were originally expected. The health of Mr. Childers is completely restored, and he is now capable of giving his undivided attention to business. We under stand that from conscientious motives Captain Charles Stirling, R.N. (1863), has resigned the commission he held in her Majesty's service. Lieutenant-General Sir William Mansfield, G.C.8., G.C.5.1., takes over the command of the troopS in Ire land, vice General Lord Strathnairn, G. C. B. , G. C. S. I. , from Major-General Sir A. A. T. Cunynghame, K.C.8., on Monday, and will assume the command of an army in the highest state of efficiency. The two divisions of the Channel Squadron will shortly rendezvous off Plymouth, and wilt proceed to sea to meet Sir Alexander Milne, who will assume the command of the combined fleet, .and retain it for a certain period, returning afterwards, as we have previously said, to England in H.M.S. Bellerophon.— The chief clerk at the Admiralty, Mr. Thomas Wolley, and Mr. Robert Bell, one of the senior clerks, have been recom mended by their lordships to the Lord-Chancellor to be placed on the commission of the peace.—Colonel R. Carey, C. 8., half-pay, late 40th Regiment, succeeds Colonel C. G. Mein, as Deputy Judge-Advocate at Man chester on Monday.—Major R. Harbord, half-pay, late 7th Fusiliers, recently promoted to a half-pay majo ity, has been oppointed Garrison Instructor at Oork. , — Major-General L. S. O'Connor, C. 8., lately in command of the forces in the West Indies, arrived home from Jamaica on Wednesday.—Colonel C. Nugent, Deputy Judge Advocate at Dublin, will we are informed, remain in his present position.—ln future the consolidated pay and allowances of the Military Secretary to the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief will be £1,500, instead of £2,300 a year as heretofore.—Colonel J. H. Laye, Deputy Judge- Advocate, will not be succeeded for the present. It is, in fact, probable that he will retain his appointment until his promotion to the rank of Major-general.— We have it upon excellent authority that as yet, although the present condition of our army has received the serious attention of both the Secretary for War and the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, nothing has been done to prepare us for taking any steps towards the protection of Belgium, should our services be required. 'THIS MORNING'S NEWS. • (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) BUSINESS IN LIVERPOOL• • Another failure was announced yesterday in the cotton trade at Liverpool, and there was great depression in the market, with a still further fall in prices. The feeling on the Stock Exchange was better, and the settlement was easier than had been anticipated. LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING. THE FORCES OF ENGLAND. , The following was on Thursday. night telegraphed to the Birmingham Post:—" It is understood that a sub committee 'of the Cabinet—composed of the Premier, Lord Granville, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Childers; and Mr. Lowe have met this evening, and agreed upon the necessity of quietly giving orders for strengthen ing our means of national defence. Your Birmingham manufacturers may expect some large orders during the next few days. Recruiting for the army will be carried on vigorously. A Cabinet Council will be held on Satur day, at which a supplementary estimate for additional naval and military preparations will be taken into con sideration. DANGER OF THROWING FUZEES IN THE STREET. Two serious fires occurred yesterday morning through the dangerous practice of persons smoking throwing the re mains of lighted fuzees into the street. One happened in the premiSes of Mr. G. A. Christmas, a florist, No. 257, . Camberwell-road. In the course of a few minutes the front shop and the first floor were in flames, and the fire quickly extended to 257, belonging to Mr. T. P. Hubble, a dyer, as well as to No. 353, in the occupation of Mr. E. Field, a furrier. The flames were not subdued until two houses were partly destroyed, and the last named greatly damaged by fire, water, &c. The principal loss will fall upon the County Fire Office. The other fire took place at No. 71, Marylebone-lane, belonging to Mr. G. Fuller ton, a tobacconist, and Mr. J. W. Edgar, a gas fitter. The shops were in a blaze before an engine had time to arrive. Both shops were burned out, and the rest of the buildings seriously damaged. The Attorney-General has appointed Mr. H. T. Cole, Q.C., to be leading counsel to her Majesty's Post office in the Western Circuit, vacant by the death of Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, M.P. The Post is authorised to state that a marriage is arranged to take place between Captain the Hon. Sydney Hylton-Jolliffe, Scots Fusilier Guards, second son of Lord Hylton, and Miss Gertrude Eaton, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Richard Eaton, M.P., of Stetchworth Park, Cambridgeshire. THE FREE CHURCH MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA. A letter has been received by the Council of the National Association from the Rev. R. B. Webb, of Lyndock, South Australia, who has been appointed one of the Society's local treasurers, stating that the subject of free churches was to engage the attention of the Synod, and requesting papers and full information on the workings of the system. THE ORDER OF ST. GEORGE.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to make the following appoint ments to the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. To be ordinary members of the Third Class or Companions of the said Order :—Lieutenant- Colonel Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, R.E., C. 8., Governor to his Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert ; Donald M`Lean, Esq., Member of the Executive Council of the colony of New Zealand and Minister for Native Affairs in that colony. THE WAR AND STORE CATTLE.—The hostilities between France and Prussia have had the effect of en hancing the value of store cattle and sheep at the various local cattle markets, as the stock-breeders and flock masters anticipate that the war will materially check the importation of Dutch cattle and sheep and other stock from Holland and the Continent to the London markets, and that an increased demand for home-bred cattle will be the result. There is already an advanced value de manded, and an active speculation prevails amonggraziers and dealers in store cattle and sheep. THE NEGOTIATIONS or 1866.—The Despatches from her Majesty's Representatives at Foreign Courts, having refenence to the negotiations of 1866, which have been asked for in the House of Commons, will be found, when laid before Parliament, to throw much light upon the transactions of that period. What is now published to the world as such new news will be shewn to have been then brought under the attention of the Government, and to have been placed at that time in its true light.— Post OPERATIONS AT CHATHAM.—The/authorities have commenced engaging a crew for the turret-ship Cerberus at Chatham Dockyard, but the time for her departure for Australia is not yet fixed, A grand review is to take place at Chatham on the Bth August, when extensive siege ope rations will take place, in which some of the London volunteers are expected to take part. A number of men employed in this dockyard, in the chief engineer's depart ment, commenced working overtime from Friday night, for the purpose of preparing torpedoes. THE CATTLE DISEASE.—The Government veteri nary department has just received information of the prevalence of scab and smallpox among sheep in several of the districts around Stettin. The British Consul at that place, writing on the 16th instant to Earl Granville, says that, according to an official notice in the Provisional Gazette, the sheep in the following localities, within the consular district, are affected with scab and smallpox, viz., Raidon, Saatzig, Griefenburg, and Dummin. The Customs' officers at all the English ports are instructed to exercise the utmost vigilance in the examination of sheep imported into this country from the districts referred to. The Chancellor of the Diocese of York held a Court on Friday, to which Mr. Edmund Mellor, church warden of St. Clement's, Rochdale, was cited. The charge against him is that on the 12th of June last, without any just cause or lawful authority, and contrary to the ex pressed injunctions of the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, he forcibly removed a cross attached to a ledge fixed on the reredos, the position of which cross had been approved by the late Bishop of Manchester. Much excitement pre vails on the subject in Rochdale, St. Clement's being what is called a High Church, where many practices are observed which are distasteful to the parishioners. THE HOLBEIN EHXIIIITION,—We are ques , ed to state that, owing to the disturbed state of the Continent, it has been decided to postpone the proposed exhibition of the works of Hans Holbein, the younger, at Dresden till next year. Her Majesty had graciouly promised to con tribute a number of original paintings and drawings from the collection at Windsor Castle, and other possessors of genuine works of Holbein in England had also signified their willingness to lend them. It is hoped that the delay will result in. the formation of a much more important series of works than would have been possible had the undertaking been carried out as proptised. A committee will, at the proper time, be formed in London to co-ope rate with the promoters of the exhibition in Germany.— Athenceum. A WOMAN'S GRIEVANCE. - The degree of " Bachelor " of Laws has been conferred on a married lady in America. Mrs. Kepley, the lady in question, is the wife of Mr. 11. B. Kepley, a practising lawyer of Effingham, in Chicago. Having for some years had a desire to be admitted to the bar, she commenced at her own home reading various legal text books. Wishing to take a thorough course, she, with the full consent of her husband, went to Chicago, entered the law department of the university, and pursued the regular course of study prescribed by that institution to the end, and then passed a creditable examination. She obtained her diploma, but in consequence of a recent decision of the Supreme Court, was unable to obtain a certificate to practise. Law Times. CONTRABAND GOODS.—The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of an Imperial Decree, dated the 24th instant, prohibiting the export of certain articles from France during the war. The following are articles of which the exportation, the re-exportation, and the transit are prohibited, subject to the exceptions which shall be authorised by the Minister of Finance Arms of war of every kind. 2. Lead, sulphur, powder, saltpetre, nitrate of soda, fire stones, percussion caps, gun stooks, projectiles, and other munitions of war of every kind, articles of military clothing, camping equipment, and harness. 3. Horses. 4. Sailing and steam vessels, ma chines and parts of machines belonging to navigation, rigging and artillery•of ships, and all other articles, raw or manufactured, of naval and military material. M. I'REVOST-PARADOL.—There is a curious pas sage in an anonymous work of M. Prevost-Paradol. Some years since he wrote a serial in the Revue des Deux Mondes, called " Madame de Marcay." There is in this novel a character named Ferni, which was generally sup posed at the time of the publication to be intended by the author as a type of himself. The following is the fanciful end of Ferni :—" In the design he conceived there was something insensate and criminal, and bearing the stamp of the fatal night in which it was engendered. But once resolved, Ferni found for its execution all his habitual energy and presence of mind. He went to St. Petersburg, and had no sooner arrived there than he feigned those signs of mental derangement which readily deceived bystanders- H a blew out his brains, and then it was stated in the papers that the rash act, committed in a fit of insanity, threw a gloom over society in St. Petersburg, and caused in Paris, where Ferni was well known and generally esteemed, the most painful sur prise. All the journals in Europe deplored his premature end." COAL.—The Time., correspondent says :—" It is reported that the French have chartered many vessels at Newcastle and elsewhere to load with coals with which to supply their fleet in the Northern Seas. The news has caused great commotion in the cities, and the Prussian authorities have, I hear, called Lord A. Loftus's attention to the transaction in energetic terms, regarding such an employment of neutral vessels as a breach of neutrality. Undoubtedly, it would seem that such a chartering of neutral ships would come within the terms of the Act of George 11. cited in her Majesty's proclamation, The use of British vessels as " store-ships " for belligerents is distinctly forbidden in case of war. It is difficult to argue that vessels chartered with cargoes of coal for the use of a French fleet engaged in hostile operations against a Power with which we are at peace, and sent out to put their cargoes on board that fleet in the open sea are not acting as "store-ships" for au enemy. It is unfortunate that some clear understanding as to the nature of coal has not been arrived at by all the great Powers. It would be rather a stretch of terms to hold that, if coal be con traband of war, the trade in it between neutrals and bel ligerents should cease, and that England, for instance, should not sell coal to the merchants of France because the French Government might buy it for war purposes. Such theories pushed to conclusions would inflict on neutrals a good deal of the evils of war for which they were not responsible. Horses may be and are considered contraband of war, but it will be hard to persuade a Yorkshire breeder that he ought not to sell his horses to French men or Prussians because they are fighting each other. It is obvious that considerable complica dons and difficulties may arise from these questions. I believe that Great Britain is bound by the French Treaty not to prohibit the export of her coal, yet coal is the life of steam, without which a fleet is of little value. [HE MONEY MARKET AND ( WWI ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoe.K. Stock markets very quiet, and quotations almost nominal. Foreig n b on d s w ith ou t c h ange . Little business is doing in the railway. market, and prices on the whole are steady. Consols are now 891 to 891 for money, and 89i for account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 891 to 89k; New Three per Cents., 891 ; India Five per Cents., 1091 to 1091; ditto Four per Cents., 15 10 prem. Messrs. Brown, Seaton, and Co., East India merchants, of Mincing-lane, have issued a circular to their creditors announcing their suspension. The liabilities are estimated at £250,000, and the assets are badly spoken of. The Java has arrived from New York with £381,600 in specie, and the Silesia with £40,000. The Bula, from Brazil, has brought £28,000. The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada for the week ending 23rd July, were £2,400 more than in the same week of the previous year, The dividend on North-Eastern Railway Stock for the half-year was officially announced to-day at the rate of 7i per cent. per annum. The Frankfort telegrams chew a considerable rally on the Bourse. The arrivals of sovereigns from this side had produced a great effect on the money market, and an im provement in the aspect of all descriptions of business. In United States Bonds a recovery had occurred of 3 per cent. The excitement occasioned by the failure of the house of Mr. W. F. Jager, which was announced some days ago, with liabilities for £350,000, had greatly subsided. Since the end of last month the Bank of France has ex perienced a reduction of £7,000,000 in its stock of bullion. On the 23d ult. the total held was £52,737,000, being the highest ever reached. It is now £45,775,000. In the same interval the Bank of England has experienced a reduction of £2,640,000. ' The Silesia, due at Southampton from New York, is the last of the steamers of the Hamburg-American Mail Company to arrive. All the others are now safely lying at New York, Southampton, or Hamburg. The submarine cable of the Marseilles, Algiers, and Malta Company, connecting Marseilles with Bona (Algeria), has been successfully submerged by Mr. W. T. Henley, of North Woolwich, under his sub-contract with the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company. The actual distance is 406 nautical miles. It is stated that the second section, between Bona and Malta, is in a forward state of manufacture, and that the shipment will commence almost immediately. It is announced by the Metropolitan Railway Company that the balance at credit of the net revenue account for the past half-year will admit of a dividend at the rate of n per cent. per annum on the Ordinary Stock. The liquidators of the London Colonial Company have announced a further dividend of 2a. in the pound at the offices of Messrs. - Theodore Jones and Co., the ac countants. ALLEGED ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF AN IRON STEAMER. In the Court of Vice-Chancellor Malins, to-day Sir Roundell Palmer applied for the discharge of the recent order of the. Court as far as the Turkish Ambas sador was concerned. Sir Roundell Palmer stated that the Turkish Government had given an order for the con struction of an iron steamer, the contract price (X 92,000) being arranged to be paid in periodical instalments. The vessel was ready for sea on Wednesday last, and it was alleged by the company that on the following day the men in charge were overpowered by the representa tives of the Turkish Government, and that the vessel was seized and immediately taken to sea. The same afternoon an injunction was obtained in that court, and on the fol lowing morning the vessel, under the powers of the injunc tion, was forcibly retained. The allegation was that the Government had done all this for the purpose of escaping the payment of the last instalment of £22,000, but he was in a position to prove that the whole thing was a mere pretext on the part of the company with the view of escaping certain penalties which they had incurred. But with that he had nothing to do at present, the object of his application being to have the fact of the order which related to the Turkish Ambassador discharged, inasmuch as the official had had nothing whatever to do with the transaction, and had not, in fact, been served with a notice of the injunction. The Vice-Chancellor, after consulting some authorities on the question, acceded to the application. THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. In the Rolls Court to-day Sir Richard Baggallay, Q.C., M.P., presented a petition in the case of Bubb v. Yelverton, which is a suit for the administration of the estate of the late Marquis of Hastings, filed at the instance of a creditor. Sir Richard stated that a fund had been deposited in court for the purpose of discharging the debts of the deceased. At one time it was thought that the estate was quite insolVent ; but subsequent inquiries had shewn that it was solvent, and that to a very considerable extent. The Marchioness and some members of the deceased's family were the residuary legatees of the estate. It appeared from a certificate of the Chief Clerk, dated June last, that the debts proved amounted altogether to £92,916, and that there were other claims still under consideration to the extent of £42,793 ss. 4d. The object of the present petition was for the benefit of those interested in the estate, by the payment of the certified debts out of the fund in Court. Amongst those debts were over two hundred for sums under £lO, some being as small as 55., and it was proposed that the aggregate amount of those debts should be paid to Mr. Blake, solicitor to the trustee, upon his undertaking to pay the several parties, In addi tion to the sums he had already mentioned, it was the desire of all parties that £20,000 should be paid Mr. Padwick, and as that would substantially pay off the whole of the debts in the suit, he asked that the costs of all the parties should be taxed up to the present time. Lord Romilly assented to the application, remark ing that he had no objection to the proposal of paying off the small creditors, inasmuch as he had the utmost confidence in the gentleman who had been named ; and every difficulty would be met by the insertion of adver tisements in the public newspapers indicating that the small claims would be settled in this particular manner. SYMPATHY WITH FRANCE. A great effort is being made by the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Limerick to get up an imposing demon stration in favour of France on Sunday next. The counties of Clare and Tipperary are invited to join. It is rumoured that the authorities have received instructions from the Government to put a stop to the proceedings. Additional police forces have been ordered into the city. BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. A Board of Trade inquiry was opened yesterday at Liverpool into the singular loss of the steamship Chilian on the 16th instant. The pilot taking a short course, the vessel was stranded on a bank at the mouth of the river. It could not be removed, parted at low water, and became a total wreck. ROYAL ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. The members of the Royal Archaeological Institute met yesterday in Leicester Town Library to receive the annual report. It was exceedingly satisfactory. The subject of the choice of the next place of meeting was deferredto the general committee in London. The members then adjourned to the lecture room of the Town Museum,whereLord Talbot de Nalahide presided. Several papers were read, notably one by the Rev. J. Lee Warner on " John Wycliffe." It was contended that the three portraits of Wycliffe in the museum of the society are imaginary, and that the dress preserved in Lutterworth Church as the garb in which Wycliffe preached was a vestment which he had never seen—it belonged to a period subsequent to the fifteenth century. In the afternoon the members made an excursion to Kirby Muxloe Castle, and in the evening a conversazione took place in the temporary museum of the Free Library. PIT ACCIDENT. An eruption of water took place yesterday at New Pit, Penzance, near Newport, by which one man was drowned and four others were cut off from the bank for many hours, during which their lives were despaired of. Ultimately it was ascertained that they were in safety in a higher working, but at nine o'clock they had not been extricated. About a hundred were in the pit when the water broke in- The pit is owned by Messrs. Protheroe, of Newport. THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE, At half-past ten yesterday, Bishop Simpson and Dr. Fors ter en-tered the Conference, and presented papers from the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, which were read by the Secretary. A com mittee was appointed to prepare the report. Bishop Simpson spoke an hour and five minutes on the success of the conference of coloured ministers. In the last five years the population of the States increased 30 per cent. Methodism increased 62 per cent., while church erections have increased during five years at the rate of $6,000,000, or £1,500,000 yearly. The Church property has increased double in value in the last five years. Institutions for aged persons and orphans are now founding in the States. Methodism seems designed to counteract Romanism in the States. Proposals are being made to amalgamate with the Episcopal Church in the South. Probably in a few years all Methodist bodies in America will be one. Dr. Foster spoke of educational efforts in progress. Dr. Jobson proposed that 100 copies of minutes of conference from the beginning and the twelve volumes of Charles Wesleys poetry be presented by the president to each member of the deputation. Mr. Arthur followed in an able address, expressing his belief that God was gathering people from all lands in America, and Methodism was thus spreading to counteract Popery. Baron Channel, in charging the Grand Jury at the Huntingdon Assizesyesterday, said—" That the Education Bill would soon have the sanction of Parliament. He did not expect great benefits as the immediate result of the bill ; but ultimately, he had no doubt, the expectations of the majority would be fully realised by the measure, which deserved the support of all."—At the same Assizes ; Louisa Woodhouse was sentenced to twelve months im prisonment, for concealment of birth at Stone. The Grand Jury ignored the bill for murder. WAR :NOTES. PARTINGS. -- A letter from Frankfort in the Standard says :—We were told by some officers of a sad accident which had occurred at the Potsdam station that morning. As a body of troops were leaving, their wives clinging to them making their fi na l a di eu . E ven after the train was in motion they still held to their hands, and one poor woman, still holding on , was pulled off her feet, and killed before her husband's ayes. At a train which had left Berlin a few ho urs before our own, a similar catastrophe had been p r e ven t e d by the ingenuity of the station -master. The women clung so t) their husbands that it was impossible for the train to move on. In vain the officers and officials implored them to move, and so great was the excitement that the driver of the engine absolutely refused to turn on steam, saying that he would not be the cause of so great loss of life. At last the station-master had three empty carriages added to the rear of the train, and told the poor women that the troops must move on in order that another train might come up to the platform, but that if they would take their places they might go on to the next station, and there take the last farewell of their husband. The women crowded into the carriages, and when they had taken their places, the couplings were quietly un sastened, and the troop train moved out of the s t a ti on leaving the carriages with the wives standing at the platform. A. FRENCH REGINIENT.—But the Lancers pass, and to them succeeds a regiment which is better fitted for all the duties that cavalry is still competent to do— of foraging, of outpost, and of pursuit—than any regiment I have ever seen in the service of France, from the " heavies," with their obsolete cuirasses and their big plunging cattle, to the weak-looking corps of light horsemen, who have neither arms for sabres to their bodies nor animals for the weight they carry under them. Light men they may, but they are not by any means lightly equipped. But this regi ment which advances is a model of its kind, the best mounted, the picked warriors of his Imperial Majesty Napoleon 111., the Chasseurs of the Guard. The horses are all, or nearly all, grey Arabs, light-iimbed, sinewy stallions, with waving manes and long bushy tails. They are small—but how symmetric and powerful, how clean in the pasterns, and what finely-chisselled heads ? There is a lurking devil in the small fiery eyes of these steeds of the desert, sure sign they are game, and will never give in until they absolutely drop from fatigue. The men who ride them are light and prettily uniformed in dolmans of light green, with five ranges of large buttons, and wear the talpack with scarlet pompo n i n front, a head-gear some• thing similar to our hussar-busbys. The onlp fault to be found with the Chasseurs is one not singular to them— their horses are too heavily laden, and almost disappear under their burden of tent, cloak, pack, cooking utensils, and net of hay, like a light porter under a load of band boxes.—Slandard Letter from Metz. THE PRUSSIAN FORCE.—I am inclined to the belief, says a correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from Frankfort, that the usual prelude to a great engagement will be omitted in the commencement of the present war, and that the first serious trial of strength between the Prussian and French forces will be a battle on a gigantic scale, in which from six to seven hundred thousand men will be engaged. By the end of this week Prussia will have a million of men under arms, counting the armies of both Confederations. The grand movement of troops commenced yesterday morning, and by Friday more than six hundred thousand men will have passed through this city alone. Trains are arriving every quarter of an hour filled with troops, which are, after partaking of the refreshments offered them by a committee of the citizens, at once marched to another sta tion, and despatched to their respective destinations. The Rhine fortresses are completely garri.,•oned, muni tioned, and provisisned. The outer line of defensive works on the heights round Mayence was finished and armed yesterday. I must not tell you the number or size of the guns mounted. Suffice it to say that Mayence is now twice as. formidable as it was ten days ago. The charming promenades of the pretty and industrious little town have suffered cruelly ; all their fine trees have been cut down, and it will be many years ere they will recover their gay and flourishing aspect. The mobilisation is achieved ; and those who have failed to rally round their standards may be counted as under a thousand in num ber, _which is something marvellous, considering that nearly 700,000 men have been called out. A. Woolwich correspondent writes :—There has been some excitement during the last day or two, owing to the guns, waggons, and other stores in the grand depot, where they have been housed since the Crimean war, being brought out into the light, and a number of men employed painting the woodwork, mending straps and buckles, and hammering the wheels to test their soundness. A number of men, about 300 in all, have R been taken on this week at the oyal Arsenal, and work ing overtime is resorted to in most of the manufacturing departments. Recruiting sergeants, who have been long complaining that there were no regiments " open," are now again busy about the streets, and recruits are being daily attested before the magistrates for the Royal Horse Artillery and other corps. The garrison is full 0f rumours, themost acceptable being that the Woolwich divi sion of Royal Marine Light Infantry, one of the finest regi ments in her Majesty's service, which was disbanded last year, is to be recalled. DOWNING-STREET, JULY 28. The Queen has been graciously pleased to make the following appointments to the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. Gebrge. To be Ordinary Mem bers of the Third Class or Companions of the said Order : —Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, R.E., C. 8., Governor to His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert. Donald M`Lean, Esq., Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and Minister for Native Affairs in that colony. ADMIRALTY, JULY 26. In accordance with the provisions of her Majesty's Order 'in Council of the 22nd February, 1870, the undermentioned officers have been placed on the Retired. List of their respective ranks :—Paymasters : Frederick Gransmore, from this date. Joseph G. W. Hoare, from the 22nd inst. Mr. Gransmore has been al lowed -to assume the rank of Paymaster-in-Chief from the date of his retirement. Assistant Paymaster George W. de L. Willis, from this date. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED, Keen, Alfred, Plumstead, deputy assista,nt superintendent of stores at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, July 27. Tinkler, Mary, StamforANd, KRUPT builder, July 21. B. (Act 1860.—T0 Surrender in London.) Chabord Alphonse (not Chaborne, as in last " Gazette"), Cambden-street Camden-town, August 8, at-12.30. Perceval, Morrell De, Palmerston-buildings, City, mer chant, August 15, at 11. (To Surrender in the Country.) Bellamy, William, Birmingham' electro plater, Aug. 9, at Birmingham. Broadbent, Robert William, Bradford, merchant, Aug. 9, at Bradford. Gleave, Peter Dutton, Liverpool, coachbuilder, Aug. 18, at Liverpool. Hodges, Edwin Banks, Bristol, broker and furniture dealer, Aug. 4, at Bristol. Jackson, William John, 35th Regiment, August 10, at Liverpool. Jackson, John Thomas, Loughborough, corn and coal merchant. August 13, at Leicester. Richards, George, Bristol, late hide and skin broker, August 10, at Bristol. Roe, John Phannel, Cardiff, engineer, August 10, at _ - Cardiff. . Simpson, Edward, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, cart proprietor's clerk, August 10, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Walker, John, Hereford, August 11, at Hereford. Wardie, John, Leeds, formerly licensed victualler, Aug. 9, at Leeds. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the late Right Hon, Robert King, sixth Earl of Kingston, of Roscommon, and second Viscount Lorton, in the Peerage of Ireland, was proved in London on the 12th instant, and the personalty in England sworn £30,000. The will is dated in 1861, with two codicils, dated May and June, 1869. The will and codicils are revectivelv signed " Lorton," his lordship having only succeeded to the earldom on the Bth of October last. The executors appointed are the Hon. Lawrence H. K. Harman, of Ireland ; Captain Caleb Robertson, of Abbey View, Boyle, Ireland ; George Noakes, Esq., of London ; and G eo r ge Ridsdale, Esq. ,M. D., of London. He directs his executors to sell all his sheep, cattle, and farming stock at Rockingham, Roscommon, as well as all other his property. He leaves to his daughter, the Hon. Frances Isabella Warburton, £3,000, in addition to £20,000 under settlement. He bequeathes to each of his executot s a legacy of £5O for their trouble, and, in addition thereto, he leaves to the said. Captain C. Robertson (his valued agent), £5OO ; to Dr. G. Ridsdale, £lOO ; and to Mr. G. Noakes £6,000, and also appoints him residuary l ega t ee . lie has left to three of his servants legacies of £2OO £lOO, and £5O. There are a few other legacies, all free of duty.— The will of Admiral Robert Mitford, late of Mitford Castle, Northumberland, and of Hunmanby Hall, York shire, was proved in London, on the 15th inst., by the testator's son-in-l aw , Willi am Amhurst Tyssen Amhurst, Esq., the executor for life ; and he appoints after his decease his (t es t a t or ' s ) brothers-in-law, Alexander Dunsmure and James Dunsmure, Esqs., to be execu tors and trustees. The personalty was sworn under £35,000. The will of Thomas. William Burt, Esq., M.D., formerly surgeon in the Hon. E.I.C. Bengal Medical Establish ment, and late of No. 2, Obere, Promenade, Homburg, Prussia, was proved in London on the 7th instant, and the personalty in England sworn under £30,000. The will of W. S, Burnside, Esq., was proved at Nottingham, under £250,000 personalty.— The Illustrated London News. A meeting of the Bishops of the Province of Westminster will take place in London, at the residence of the Archbishop, on the Bth of August. MADAME RA TTAZZI. - The reported death of Madame Rattazzi, the Emperor's cousin, was a piece of false news, originating in a mistake. hi. Rattazzi, the eminent Italian statesman, has just lost his mother, and not his wife, as the first telegram stated. A woman na-ied Mary Ann Taylor has died from injuries inflicted through the upsetting of the Leeds and Boston Spa omnibus. The inquest has terminated in a verdict of manslaughter against the proprietor of the vehicle. The limes hears on good authority that a large section of Roman Catholics in Austria have made up their minds to secede to Protestantism unless Cardinal Rauscher promptly repudiates the dogma of Papal Infallibility. This is a startling comment on Dr. Manning's declaration in the Vatican Council, that the immediate effect of pro claiming the dogma would be to induce a large secession from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. The Civilian states that the reductions in the War Office have now almost reached their limit, but the " re construction " of the department is making neither a rapid nor a brilliant progress. Sixty gentlemen are at present absent "on leave ;" but their leave will be perpetual, as they are not to return to the office. They will, however, continue on full pay until the end of the year, when they will be superannuated in conformity with the scale of retiring allowances published by us some months ago. Several of the most zealous and efficient members of the department, dissatisfied with the scanty recognition their long and meritorious services have received, are to be found among the sixty candidates for retirement. THE MEN OF WAD. AND THE PILOTS.—We have already stated that Trinity pilots have been em ployed to take charge of Prussian and French men of war passing up and down the Channel, and that on Monday one was taken on board the flag-ship of the French fleet, Which he piloted until near Ostend. Orders have now been issued by the authorities at Trinity House that during the war the Trinity pilots are not to navigate French or Prussian men of war out of their own waters. _Dover Chronicle. WORKING MEN AND THE WAR.—The General Council of the International Working Men's Association has issued an address respecting the war. After stating that the refusal of the working classes in all the industrial centres of. France to vote for the Ple biscite was the work of the Society, it says that the victory of the Emperor, obtained by the ignorance of the rural population, was the signal for the assassination, not of an individual, hut of nations. The "war plot" of July, 1870, it describes as an amended version of the coup d'etat, and it declares that the French working men are strongly in favour of peace. However the contest may end, the death-knell of the Second Empire has already sounded in Paris. If the German working classes allow the war to lose its strictly defensive charac ter, and to generate into one against the French people, victory or defeat will prove alike disastrous to them. The address maintains, hovvever, that the principles of th e I n t ern ational Association are too widely spread among them for this to be possible. THE CHANCE OF PEACE.—I must tell you that the impression is rapidly gaining ground, at Berlin as well as in this commercial centre, that the enthusiasm. of France for the war "is diminishing daily, and that the Emperor, alarmed by the firm attitude and enormous military resources of Germany, as well as by the defection of Denmark, is seriously disposed to listen to reason. Of course, no one believes that an arrangement acceptable to both belli gerents—such an one as would culminate in a general disarmament can be arrived at until a battl e shall have been fought ; and even then its attainment would be terribly jeopardised did such a battle result in a de cisive victory for either the Prussian or French army. It is therefore earnestly hoped by the advocates of peace —who constitute the majority of the German nation, for all the indignation felt against the French Government — that the first general engagement will be a drawn battle, equally " honourable " to both combatants, and that the judicious interfere nce o f E ng l an d an d Russia will, immediately after its conclusion, arrest the progress of hostilities ere the feelings of either people become too violently embittered to permit their withdrawal from the awful struggle. No serious collision between the armies is expected before the sth of August.—Correspondeng of the Telegraph. AROUND PARIS AND UNDER IT.—ln the neigh bourhood of Paris, and indeed beneath that city, mush room culture is carried on to an extraordinary extent. The stone of which a great part of Paris is built is taken from underground quarries, seventy to eighty feet below the surface, worked like our coal mines, and in these old quarries the mushroom is grown most successfully. It is said that in one of the abandoned quarries there are upwards of twenty-one miles of mushroom beds, in another sixteen miles, and as many as three thousand pounds have been sent in one day from one of these quarries to the Paris market. The culture of the mushroom is very simple, and some tables are kept supplied , by a small bed in one corner of the cellar. The only conditions required for the healthy growth of mushrooms are a mass of short stable manure that has heated to the warmth of from fifty-five to sixty degrees, and lumps of spawn about the size of walnuts, tucked in just beneath the surface, six inches apart all over it, the whole covered with an inch thickness of good, light, friable earth, and three or four inches of straw, a little of any kind to keep in the very moderate warmth. This can be managed in any dark cupboard or cellar, and as the size of the bed is immaterial, it may be made on a shelf eighteen inches wide, or as mush larger as convenient or desirable on the floor. When the bed approaches dryness it must be sprinkled with water with the chill off, enough to wet th( earth, but not the manure. Mushroom spawn can Le obtained at some of the seed stores.- -Philadelphia Ledger, THE EXECUTION AT DUBLIN The horrible execution in Richmond Bridewell, at which the culprit's head was severed from his body, owing to his being made to fall a distance of fourteen feet, wasfollowed by an inquest. It appears that the surgeon of the prison anxious to lessen the pain of execution to the unfortunate man, considered a fall of fourteen feet necessary to pro duce instantaneous death. This official, Dr. Minchin, deposed as follows :—The- head was completely severed from the trunk, all the parts being divided evenly . across. The second cervical vertebra was frac tured, which alone would cause instantanepus death. The fall which he got was less in propor tion to his height than the fall Kilkenny got at Kilmain ham. The fall is a matter simply of figures. Death by strangulation is caused by a short rope, with all the at tendant horrors of kicking and struggling, whereas a long rope ensures a sudden, instantaneous, and painless death, by fracturing or dislocating one of the bones of the neck. A portion of the force of the fall is usually ex pended in tightening the elaborate noose usually em ployed, whereas in the present case I fear that the noose was tightened beforehand, and thus an additional force was reserved which resulted in death. The usual formula is 2,2401b5., divide I by the weight of the offender in pounds. In this case 459 will give a quotient representing the number required to break the neck, which would he fourteen: The drop is twenty-two feet from the ground, and the man fell fourteen feet. I do not think the thinness of the rope contributed to the accident. I suggested fourteen feet as a proper fall in accordance with opinions founded on published scientific data, and with the view of avoiding a lin gering and torturing mode of death.—A Juror : Would you consider the slenderness of the rope would cause the instantaneous severing of the head from the body, for it is as clean as if it was cut by a knife ?—I would not consider it was the thinness of the rope. I rather attribute it to the perfect contact of the rope with the skin.— A Juror asked to have the executioner brought up for examination.—Captain Boyd said he was not a prisoner. He was a man employed by the sheriff, and left immediately after the execution.—The Rev. 'William Anthony, Roman Catholic chaplain of the prison, deposed : Just when deceased was led in on the scaffold with the rope round his neck, and tightened, he complained by saying, " Will you strangle or choke me before 'the' time, or 'my ' time ?"—A Juror: Was it loosened anything by the executioner ?--Witness: I could not swear to that.—To the Coroner: I do not know whether it is the executioner's rule to tighten the rope or to leave it loose, so that I cannot give an opinion as to whether he performed his duty skilfully or not ; but I conclude it was too tight from the prisoner complaining The Jury then retired to consider their verdict, and after a short deliberation found the following verdict :—"We find that the said Andrew Carr was executed in Richmond Bridewell on the 38th July, 1870, in accordance with the sentence of the law. We are of opinion that the separation of the head from the body, which took place at the execu tion, was the result of accident, for which the prison offi cials are in nowise to blame." LAW AND POLICE. ANOTHER ROBBERY AT TWICKENHAM.—A sixth bur glary during the year has been committed at Twicken ham. The victim this time is Mr. Roffey, of Colne House. A quantity of plate and other valuable articles were stolen. and the thieves, as in the case of the bur glary at Mr. Bohn's, appear to have retired to a sum mer-house on a neighbouring estate. There they se lected the most valuable portion of the property that had been carried away, leaving the rest behind. A dress ing -case was found with other articles, its silver mount ings having been wrenched off. From the similarity of the mode of procedure in each of these burglaries, it is probable that all the robberies have been perpetrated by the , same gang. FENIAN - PRISONERS. —The commission appointed to inquire into the condition of the Fenian prisoners have been engaged at Chatham during the last few days. The principal witness examined has been Dr. J. J. Burns, the chief medical officer of the convict establishment, who has given some important evidence which entirely negatives the charge of the Fenian prisoners having been impro perly treated during their imprisonment at Chatham. Mrs. Rossa, the wife O'Donovan Rossa, one of the Fenian convicts, whose alleged ill-treatment was brought before Parliament, has been permitted to be present duting the inquiry. THE DEFAULTING BANK OFFICIALS AT HEREFORD.— Mr. Greenhow, the manager, and Mr. Bellamy, the cashier, of the Hereford branch of the West of England Bank, have been examined on charges of embezzling sums of £965 and £3,647, and committed for trial at the assizes. IMPORTANT POINT IN DIVORCE LAW.—During the hearing of the cause of Babbage v. Babbage, Manning, and Holmes, a point of great importance arose. The petitioner was being examined by Mr. M. Ch am b ers , Q.C., when he was asked by that person questions which if answered in the affirmative, would prove adultery dur ing the life of his first wife. Dr. Spinks argued that such an interrogatory could not be put.—Mr. Chambers held that it could, as it did not take place during the time of the second marriage, of which the petitioner now prayed a dissolution.--Lord Penzance read the Act of last session, which authorised the examination of the parties in a suit, but he was of opinion that unless a party was called to disprove his or her adultery, he or she could not be asked questions touchily , their adultery at any time. Mr. Chambers asked his lordship to take a note of his having tendered the question, and the learned judge said he would do so. RETURN OF THE BISHOPS FROM ROME.—TI 1 0 Archbishop of Westminster arrived in London on Wed nesday. The Bishops of Beverley, Birmingham, Hex. ham, and Plymouth passed through London this week on their way to their respective dioceses. The Government have consented to propose a vote for £l5O in favour of the Irish Acadamy of Music for this year. Sir John Esmonde, M.P., had, therefore, the best reason for not putting the question of which he had given notice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is hoped that the progress of the Academy will convert the vote into an annual one.—lrish, Tinter. Mr. Mittll has given notice that early next session he will move for a committee of the whole House for the purpose of laying before it resolutions preliminary to the extension to the Church of- England of the policy of dis establishment and disendowment carried into effect by the Irish Church Act of 1869. It is a curious fact that the three leading prelates of the English Church who were expected to visit their clergy, and to deliver charges in the course of the autumn, have been obliged to defer doing so on acconnt of illness. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, and the Bishop .of London, have all, under medical ad vice, been compelled to postpone their visitations and charges until next year. The Lancet has heard with gratification that the Prime Minister has granted a pension of £lOO a year from the civil list to Dr. Gavin Milroy, in recognition of his public services as a sanitarian and his many contribu tions to our knowledge of epidemic disease. Dr. Milroy was one of the medical inspectors attached to the General Board of Health in 1849-55; he held the post of Govern ment medical inspector in Jamaica in 1851, and was a member of the Crimean Sanitary Commission in 1855-SG. SIR R. P. COLLIER AND THE RECORDERSHIP OF BRISTOL—The Western Morning News says :—" It is thought probable that the Attorney-General, Sir Robert Collier, will take the Bristol recordership, which is the second best in England, Manchester, the best, being worth £BOO a year. The Bristol recordership became vacant when Chief Justice Cockburn was Attorney- General, and he at once took it. Had he declined it the post would have been filled by Lori Westbury, the then Solicitor-General." SAFE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER GERMAN STEAMER. —The Hamburg and New York mail steamer Silesia, 2,400 tons, arrived at Leith yesterday from New York, having come by the way of the Pentland Firth, in order to avoid the French cruisers. She brings about 200 pas sengers, 153 mail bags, and about £40,000 i n s p ec i e . Th e majority of the passengers were forwarded by a Lieth steamer to Rotterdam, at the expense of the company ; but others preferred to be landed. The captain has tele graphed to Hamburg for orders. REMARKABLE SUICIDE.—A woman drowned her self in the Regent's Canal the other day. The body was recovered the - next morning by a policeman, who found that the deceased had a heavy weight of iron, made in the form of a pincushion, and w e i g hi ng about 101 b., tied by a piece of strong sash-line round her neck. She had a beer jug in her hand ; and on searching the clothes, her pockets were found filled with stones. The woman was 60 years of age, and, according to her h"sband's story, was in no want of food. THE " MARSEILLAISE " AT LIVERPOOL.---A rather curious incident occurred at the Liverpool Amphitheatre on Thursday evening, which shews how strongly the minds of all classes are at present occupied by the ques tion of war between France and Prussia. It so happened that on the evening in question the band of the theatre played a sort of pot-pourri, in the course of which the celebrated French national air of the " Marseillaise " was introduced. The air was hissed by some of the audience—Germans, it is supposed, and their marks of disapproval led immediately to a counter manifestation, a portion of the audience promptly rising and cheering with great enthusiasm. GOLD CASKET FOR M. pit, LESSEPS.—This cas ket, the manufacture of which was entrusted to J. W. Benson, of 75, Old Bond-street, is of purely Egyptian design, and the whole is of fine gold, enriched with enamel and wreaths of laurel. It is surmounted by the City Arms, and supported by six lion's claws, upon each of which is a column bearing a Sphinx head. In front of the casket on a raised medallion is the arms of M. de Les seps, beautifully executed in enamel, and on the reverse is the inscription. Six of the orders awarded to M. de Les seps, viz. :—The Medijee, St. Maurice and Lamm, the Star of India, the Legion of Honour, Francis Joseph, and St. Stanilaus, are enamelled in blue on the columns. The presentation takes place this morning at the Guild hall. " THU FATHER OF THE ROYAL HIJNT."-Mr. Henry Hickman, of Colnbrook, died on Friday lust, aged 75 years. The deceased had been a gentleman farmer for many years—a true Conservative in principle, an old English sportsman, having followed the Queen's hounds for fifty-e_ b iolt years, and desc r ib e d recently by Lord Col ville as " Father of her Majesty's Hunt." On one occasion he rode his horse from Colnbrook to the meet at Farnham, from thence to St, Alban's, and returned to his residence at night. Deceased was churchwarden of St. Thomas's Church, and was buried there on Wednesday. For fifty years he had been a true tiriend to the church choir. The service at the-funeral was choral, the Rev. W. Grieve and the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson taking part. A vast concourse of persona attended the funeral, including most of the tradesmen of the town, who alsb partially closed their shops during the day for their very old friend and neigh ; bour.