The Sun. — London, England, 1870-12-21 00:00:00

MQINTETARY REPORTS,-'"YEZTERDAY. Business in the Stock Exchange to-day has been of a very moderate character. The approach of the holiday season has the effect of limiting transactions, and specula tive operations lately have been much restricted. No change of importance has taken place in the value of any class of securities to-day. Consols have continued quiet at 91, 911 ex div. for delivery, and 911, 914 ex div. for January ; Reduced and New Three per Cents., 01, 912 ; Bank Stock, 230 to 232; Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 15s. prem; Indian Five per Cents., 110, 1101 ex div. ; and Indian Bonds, 225. to 275. prem. There has 'been very little inquiry for English railway stocks, and the alterations have been confined to an ad vance of * in Brighton and North Western, and a fa of *in Great Eastern. Metropolitan is quoted at 63, 631 ; Caledonian, 861, 86-2; South Eastern, 741, 74 ; Great Northern, 123, 12'4 ; ditto A, 133 k, 134 ; North Eastern, 1441, 14Q ; Midland, 1281, 128 k; and Great Western, 70, 701. _ _ _ Indian railway stocks have commanded but little at tention. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, 10 5 0 ; Eastern Bengal, 1051; East Indian, 1101; Great Indian Peninsula, 1071 ; and Scinde, 103 f, Canadian shares have been quiet. Grand Trunk have been I better, at 11k, 121, and Great Western I. at 141, 141. For foseign shares the inquiry has been restricted. Bahia and San Francisco, 181; Great Luxemburg, 111; and Recife and San Francisco, 141. In the foreign bond market nothing of interest has transpired. Egyptian (1868) have been rather weaker at 77k, 771 otherwise there is no change to notice. Peru vian (1865), 93, 931 ; Italian (1861), 551, 55 , 2 ; Spanish (1867), 31 5-16, 31 7-16 ; ditto (1869), 31 5-16, 31 7-16 ; Turkish Five per Cents, 441, 441; ditto (1869), 50fi, 501 ; Mexican, 131, 14 ; United States Five-Twenty (1882) Bonds, 88, 88,1 ; ditto (1885), 881 88g ; French Scrip, 1 dis. to prem. ; and the North German Loan, gto prem. For bank shares there has been but little demand. Agra A, 71; Consolidated, 4 13-16 ; Imperial Ottoman , 12; London and County, 50; and Union of London, 39. In telegraph shares next to nothing has been doing. Anglo-American, 781 ; Falmouth, 91 xd ; and French Cables, 14, 1 ; Constructions, 26g. The market for miscellaneous securities has been in a very quiet state. Commercial Union Assurance have been 1 better at 31 to 4 prem. Ebbw Vale, 181 ; General Credit and Discount, 71, ; and Thetis Marine, 81, 1. The Ceylon Company (Limited),, held its half-yearly meeting, when the report was adopted, and an interim dividend for six months, ended onithe 30th September last, was declared, at Ate rate,of,6 pet: cent. pefannum, payable the 22nd inst., free , of income tax. The Commercial Bankpf Scotland has declared a divi dend at the rate of 12 'per cent. per annum, together with an extra dividend and bonus of 2 per cent. The sum of X 14,000 has'been withdrawn from the Bank to-day. Bills on Hamburg and Holland have been in dema4 but there has been less inquiry for St. retersbnrg and Vienna.; The rates have been without material' alteration. The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland notify that a dividend, for the half-year ending Christmas next, at the rate of 4 per cent. on' the, paid-up stock of the undertaking, and also an extraordinary dividend of 30s. on each £lOO share, and 12s. on each £lO share, will be paid to the proprietors on the 16th of January. Notwithstanding the ap p roaching close of the year, the demand for money has not improved to any material extent. Capital is still abundant, and three months' paper is taken at 2i per cent. The traffic return of the South-Eastern Railway chews a decrease, compared with the corresponding week ()Vast year of £1,982. The London, -Brighton, and South Coast has an increase of £387. VOBBION EXCHANGE& —Antwerp, three months' data, 25 85, 25 40 ; Paris, short date, nominal ditto, throe months' date, nominal. I Marseilles, ditto, 115 50„ 25 60; Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 27 00. 27 10 AmsteTdam, short date, 1118, 11 1g; ditto, three mouths' date, and Rotterdam, ditto, 12011, 124; Hambnrgh, ditto, 19101, 19 10!i Prankfort-on-the-Maine, ditto, 1201, 124 ; Vienna and Trieste, ditto, 12 75, 12 80 ; St. Petersburgh, ditto, 29}, 295 ; Madrid, ditto, 49i, 40g s Cadiz, ditto, 49§, ; Lisbon, 00 date' date, and Oporto, ditto, 52i, 521. LONDON STOOL EXORANGE.—TtIgfeDAii LATEST PRICER.--AFTER OFFICIAL fIOUIN, The mines under the lines indlnas the business done. GOVERNMENT SOCUBITIER. Three per Cent Console 911 914 Viet 6p o Jan &July 1821 115117 911, 1 x d DoAvril &Oct 1883-85.. 111 112 Do for Account Three per Cent Reduoed 913 911 Brazilian. 1865. 5p o .... 921 3/ 913, 3 93, 1, 21 New 3 per Cent 913, 1, 1 Do Rail Deben 7 p o .. 10X 103 Exchequer Bills, March 10 15sm Italian, 1865, 5p o — 10s pm Peruvian, 1865, 5p a Do, June lO 15pm 9 33, k i pm Portuguese 1869 3po .. 311 321 Bank Stook 231 883. 3 India 5 per Cents 1101, 10a d 66. 1 India Bonds — Spanish. 1861. 3po ....... 313 111 _111,4. 1 pm - ill. t. Can 6 poJanaulyll77-84 108 106 Do. 1869. 3p o t 105 311. 1. 1. I,' I Do Korth &Rept. 103 105 Turkish. 1854, 6p • TO 80 Do 5p o Jan & July .. 981 991 Do, 1 865, 5 p o . 113 441 99, 1 441, b Do Insorlbed Stock .. 97 99 Do, 1865 8 p o Dom of Can 5p o 1903 .. 97 99 17.8.5-20 Bonds. 6 p o 1882 881 881 Ceylon 6 p o May and 887, 9. 83 November 1878. . lO6 108 Do do 1885 881 881 Mauritius 6p o Jan and 881 ,1 July 1873 lO3 105 Do 10-40 Buds, 59() 1901 871 871 New SWales 5 p 01871-76 10111021 871 New Zealand 6pc 1891 lO9 111 ErieSha,loodols, all paid Do 5p o Do 5p o Consolidated 9 9 2 100 1 110, 1 -.. 100, 1 Atlantic and G W It Con Do 6p cMar &Sept 1891 107 109 Mortgage Bonds — Do June & Deo 1891 106 108 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B7 89 Grand Trunk of Canada 88} 2nd Pre! Stock ....»38 40 Caledonian Do lid Prat Stook .... 39 32 Great Eastern 3Bl 391 291 881 f. 9, 1 Grand Trunk of Canada Great N 1 orthern 23} 17 Do A 13311341 Great Indian Pen g 5. o 107 108 Great Western 7O 70e 1 071 70. i Great Western of Os.natla 141 119 Lancashire & Yorkshire 133 134 14 9 , I, 8.1 Lou, Brigh. and El Coast 408 41 Do 6p o Bonds. 1873" 98 100 41 Do 58 do. 1877 .. 8 . 94 06 Lon. Chat and Dover - 80 . 1dis}vin 1 Madras guar 5 po ... 1041051 Lon and A orth-Western 128 1281 105 128 1 N. Railway of Canada. Lon and South-Western 90 91 6p o Ist Pref Bonds .. 92 94 088, 1,1, 901 Gude and Rohilkiiiid g ' Man, Shef, and Lincoln 45/ 461 5n o Metropolitan 63i Delhi guar 5p o ...... 10211031 Midland 1281128/ 1031, 1 1281. 1 , 8 Bahia and San Francisco North Bri 35 ti s h 34 North-Eastern Consols.. 144 146 Belgian E Junction 4 24: 21 1441. 5-16 South-Easterp 741 741 Buenos Ayres Gt Bthrn a . 241 28 Atlantic andliftLawrnoe 75 77 2 41 3ombay, liaroi , da, and Dunaburg and Witepsk 18/ 19 Central India, g 5 p o 10481051 Dutch-Rhenish 22 23 n a 4 Eastern of France — Buff and ke Huron .. 39 41 Great Luxenibourg Do new) 80ad5.1872-3-4 79 81 111 - Cape guar 6 p'ts East Bengal guar 5p c 10411051 7p o 1051 1 4 1 1, i East Indian, g 5 p c .... 110 111 Northern of France - 1101 0 ttom (Smyrna to Ai d in) 5 51 Grand Trunk Canada .. 12 121 Recife and San Francisco 12, ii. 126 (Limited) guar 7p o Do Equip tort:Bud 1 141 charge 6p o Do 2ustdo Scrip .... idle Ipm 21, 1, 209 dis South Austn & Lom-Ven 141 143 Do Ist Prof Bonds—. 57 59 Southern of France .... 572,81 . . BANKING COMPANIES. Ed Pd 1 Agra Bank IL) A 7l 8i 10 Imperial Ottoman .. 11 tiprn 71 14 111 25 Alliance IL) 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian IL) 201 211 20 London and County 49 50 50 British N American 53 55 50 20 Oh 14 of India, Austrila 14 15 15 London Joint-Stook 33)14; 20 Lou andWestmnster 63 t 631 2 25 Char 2 3 Mero of India 2 2 1 231 100 M i Medlantropolitd IL) an 1 dis ar 8 1 91 10 City 25 Colonial 4 Consolidated ( L pm 25 Union of Australia.. 41 ' 42 4 12 4 13-16 1 161 13 Union of London .. 381 3 4 31 20 Eng. Scot. and Ans C 15 16 39 20 Imperial 1L) TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Pd Pd 100 Anglo-American L) 78 80 6 Great N. China, and 781 Japan Extension.. 21 lidi. 10 Angio:Meditrn (L) l2O 123 5 Indo-European (L).. 10 12 100 Atlantic 2O 23 10 Marseilles, Algiers, -nd Malta (L) .. 51 i N 100 Do 8 pc — 10 British AustralnlL) 5 41dis 10 Mediterru Ex (L) .. 4i 5 41 10 Brithsh Ind Exten (L). 51 61 10 British Indian Sub- 21 Puma and 8. Pcfc(L 3 1 2 1 die marine, (L) 7 8 7 China Submarine IL) 5151 d Is 8 Reuter's 11 20 Son Trans France (L) 131 131 10 Falmouth. Gibraltar, 131* 1 and Malta (L 1 91 x d Do Scrip 2l 2 10 Great Northern .... 111 111 10 W India BtPanamalLl 41 51 MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian Bud- 20 It Irrie Can Cavour 31 4 holders Certificate 11 21 100 Do 6 p c Bonds. re -10 BerlinWaterworke(Ll 141 151 deemab:e 1170 . 64 66 30 Bolckow-Vaughan L) 30 35pm 30 London Fin Assoc(L) 20 18dt 100 Boston City (U.S.. 4 Lon Gen Om n ib us .. 21 • p c Sterling Loan.. 91 93 2 15-16 4 Brit & Fgn Marine( L) 2131 pm 2 Lon & Prov Marine L) 1 1 pm 25 Canada Company. 73 75 100 Madraslrria. &Canal 10 Ceylon Company L) 31 Wig a 5 D c by Ind Gov. 101 102 35 City Offices (L) .... 251241 dis 2 Mauritius Land (L) 1 I die. 20 Colonial (L) 5 Com Union Asgurnce 3 31pm 21 N Zealand Loan and 81, 1, 2 Mere Agency iL) .. 1 ii pm 10 Ordt Form of Eug (L) 2 n 514 Zealand Loan and 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp DO ll2 117 5 OceanMarinelnsur —l3l 14pm 271 Ebbw Vale Steel L) 9lBldis 50 P and 0 Steam 45 47 181 10 Do do New. 1867 3 2 din 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p cs 50 Rhyniney Iron Mortgage Loan.... 78 80 15 Do New Bl 91 80. 791 60 Royal Mall Steam 61 53 100 Egyp 9 p cV'rcky Loan. 11 Tel Con and Main (L) % 261 guar by Egyp Gov.. 94 96 263 95i, 5 2 Themes and Mersey 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 7/ 7/pm Marine lusur (L 100 Fgn and Colonial Gov St. Tobacco 6 p o Loan Trust 6p c Bonds.. 98 100 guar by Italian Gov. 87 89 99, Si 5 Trust and Loan Co of 71 Gen Credt&Disct (L) 1 1 dis Upper Canada ... 1 1 Spin 7 1-16, 3-16 5 Cr Marine. Lvpool (L . 41 spin 14 Gen Stm Navigation 271 281 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 7 Hooper's Tel Works 1 1 dis 6 United Dls Corprn (L 1,113 par 17 Hudson's Bay BBl 517 tlivM ari ne 1 nsur (Li 617 Im n 45 Indrbbr.Clut Per, and 12 Warrant Finance .. _ 9 i dig Tel Works L) . . M 45 5 InternlFivan SocIL) 1112 , 114 3 3-16 MINING SHARE LIST.-DECEMBER 20. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Alining °ltem 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. Market very active. Prince of advance. Grenville, South Fran East Caradon, Pacific, Sweetlam Providence also in demand. Australian lJnlbed. Chiverton Moor, Chiverton Choutalea (Gold), Cook's Kitchen, 171,181 Devon Great Consols, Drakewalls, 235, 253 Dolaoath, Don Pedro North Del Rey, 21, 21 East Caradon, 52 61 East Lovell, 281, 291 East Seton, East Wheal Grenville, 21, 21 Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), —B., —45. General Brazilian, Great Lazey, 171, 18 Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vor, 3, 31 Hingeton Down, Marko Valley, 6/, 61 New Beldon, New Lovell, 32s 6d, 35s Pacific. 1 3 / 4 , 1 3 / 4 Pary's Mountain, st, 4 f Wales in great demand, at an aces, East Lovell, New Lovell, Ld Creek, West Tankerville, and Perran Wheal Virgin, 39e 6d, 35s Plynlimmon. Prince of Wales, 11, Providence Mines, 39, 41 Resewall Hill and Ransoms United, South Condurrow, 3, 31 South Prances. 29, 30 Sweetland Creek, 31, 41 Tankerville, 131,131 Taquaril(Gold), 48s, 508 Tincroft, Trumpet Consobs, Van. Van Consols, 11, 11 West Caradon, West Chiverton, 51, 52 West Maria and Forteaoue; 265, 283 West Tankerville, 3#, Wheal Crebor, Wheal Grenville, 21, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Anu, Wheal Setou, 24, 26 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TURSDAY.—Opentng Report.— This market opened quiet, but steady to-day. Imports—wheat, 52,280 qrs ; barley, 1,064; malt, 15 ; oats, 653 ; beans, 5,163 ; peas, 2,232 ; corn, 7,290; oatmeal, 2,727 loads ; flour, 4,050 sacks and 15,282 barrels.—Closing Report.—rhe sales of wheat at this market to-day has more tone. A moderate quantity was sold, at Friday's reductions, namely, 2d. per cental under last Tues• day. In home cases 3d. decline. Flour was steady, at a fair request, at the prices of last week. Beans were steady, secondary qualities only offered. Barley aad peas unchanged. Oats and oatmeal dull, late prices being barely maintained. Indian corn had a fair inquiry. . _ _ LEED'S CORN MARKET, TllESDAY.—lnfluenced by the dull imports from Mark-lane, the millers at this market to-day en deavoured to buy for less money than last week. Factors held really good line dry wheat for last week's rates. White secon dary, and damp parcels are bad to quit at ls. per quarter less than last week. The malting barley trade is slow. A few ohoics lots are placed to brewers at late rates, but all under this quality are is. lower to effect sales. HULL CORN MARKET, TIIESDAY.—There is very little bust: ness doing in picked samples at this market to-day. English wheat brings last week's prices. Other sorts, from is. to 2s. per quarter lower. Other grain is a little cheaper. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TUESDAY. —This mart is remarkably dull to-day, and there were only a few samples from farmers in poor condition, which sold at last Saturday's decline. Nothing doing in other grain. run CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—The show of cattle at this market to-day was unusually large. Good prices were ob.. tained for grazing stock, a slight advance on last week being obtained. Pigs had a moderate sale, at 7s. 6d. per stone. There was only a moderate show of sheep. Late rates were fully maintained. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, TITESDAY.—At this market to-day there was the best show of cattle ever seen for quality" and quantity. There were 1,748 cattle aad 5,070 sheep at the nltrket. Prime beef sold from 9s. 6 d. to 10 s. 3 d. per stone. 'IALFORD CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—This was the - day appointed for the Christmas show at this Market, and there came to hand a very large number of beasts, more than there has been for some time. Among them were some very superior cattle, fed expressly for the Christmas market. These were sold at very high prices. The quality was generally better than for some time. High classes of cattle met with a steady sale, and realised up to Pd. per pound, but generally prices may be quoted at Bd. per lb. Second and inferior sorts were slow of sale and made less money. Sheep were about the same as last week. The quality was good and the trade ruled steady, the best making 9d. per lb. The quotations were as follow ;—Beef, first-class, 9d. per lb. ; second, Sid. per lb. to 84d. Sheep from 70. to 9d. Calves 7id. to 9d. per lb. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, TUESDAY.—There were moderate supplies of meat on offer. Tho trade ruled heavy, at the annexed quotations :—Beef, from 3s. 4d. to ss. id. ; mutton, Se. 4d. to 58. 4d. ;'veal, fe. to 58. 4d. ; and pork, Si. 4d. to de. 4d. per &lbs. by the caroase. METROPOLITA.N RAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUASDAY: —'There was a larger supply of hay and clover on offer al to-day's market. The trade was moderately active, at the annexed quo tations :—Prime meadow hay, 180 s. to 1405.; inferior ditto, 110 e. to 120 s. ; prime first-out olover, 1808. to 1408. ; inferior ditto, 1106. to 1255. ; prime second-out clover, 1265. to 13ffs. ; Inferior ditto, 105 s. to 1165.; and straw, 838. to 38e. per load. LONDON METAL MARKET; TUESDAY.--Scotch pig iron 81s. Bd. cash, with moderate demand. Chill copper is dearer , ie66 paid for J. Edward's bars. Straits tin, £l3O. -- - LONDON OIL MARKET, TtrEsnAY.—Linseed is firm. Lon. don, 30s. ; Hull, 295. laid., and 305., spot 3 1 s, first four ; rape advanced to 47a. 6d. to 475. 9d for English brown on the spot, and 485, first four months. LONDON TALLOW MARKET, TIIESDAY.—Market is quiet at 44a. Ott for Y.C. on the spot, 455. spring, and 45e. Od. March. LONDON ocriorruL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET, VIIBDAIL—Sugar : Since the 80th September, when stocks In England were at the largest, there has been an aggre gate diminution of 60,000 tone. High prices are held for which check sales. West Indian were bought in Trinidad at 85s. to 2ps. per cwt. Penang, middling to fine strong yellow, 30s. to 85s. 64. ; and for brown and gray, 275. to 28s. 6d. Coffee : There is a fair inquiry, at full prices. Costa Rica, low middling to good bold colony, 68s. to 675. 6d. ; Rio, small greyish to good bold washed, 555. to 655. 6d. ; and for unwashed, 50s. to 535. 6d. Tea : The market is steady, and prices are well supported, especially for Moyune green_ teas. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—Opening Re port.—This market opened steady to-day. Probable sales, 10,000 to 12,000 bales. Imports :—American, 9,488 bales ; Egyptian, 1,093 bales ; Syrian, 100 bales. Closing Report. — This market closed very firm to-day. Sales, 12,000 bales. LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—In the woollen cloth halls there has been no business of importance doing for the home trade. Some Manchester and Bradford buyers were look ing round, but very little which suited them came in their way. Low tweeds sell where low prices are taken, and the Pudsey and Calverley millowners, as well as the weavers, are most anxious to work for a very bare profit, if only to keep the wort from the door. Blue tweeds are a little more profitable to deal in, and orders for next year's account continue to be given out for cheap coatings and meltons. The army cloth makers keep immensely busy. The leather trade is buoyant, the importance of it to the district is likely to be ha -1 creased by some extraordinary improvement in machinery, which as yet is not made public. The wool combing trade aro likely to derive a great advantage from the invention of a new combing pin, bayonet shape, and the use of it will render almost impossible the present large percentage of waste. Silk machinery is exceedingly brisk, owing to the requirements of the English silk spinners and weavers being greater than they have been for years. CLEVELAND IRON TRADE, TUESDAY.—This market was well attended to-day. The pig iron trade shews increased firm ness. Notwithstanding the complication of political affairs, there are a good many inquiries for pig iron, and buyers are anxious to secure contracts for delivery next year, at present rates, which may be quoted at 475. for No. 3. • Makers are not inclined to accept these terms, and the amount of orders booked over the whole district is not Isrge. The probable settlement of the wages question till March at a reduction of five percent. has hada beneficial effect. Delivery fully keeps pace with the production, although there is a scarcity of ships for the coastwise and foreign trade. The rail market is very depressed, and there is only two or three months' work in hand over the district. Inquiries are numerous, but makers are not disposed to yield the low price offered. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TUESDAY.—This market opened steady to-day, at 51s. Bd., cash in nine days ; closing sellers at this, buyers 51s. 2d. prompt cash. The market closed quiet ; sellers 51s. 3d., buyers 51s. 2d. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR, MARKET, TIMMY.- -There was a very quiet feeling at this market to-day. There was a fair business done, at prices generally 3d. lower than Saturday's rates. CORK BUTTER MARKET, TUESDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1385.: seconds, 1278.; thirds, 1135.; fourths, 1078.; fifths, 08s.; sixths, 675. ; 7960 firkins in the market. Mild-cured—firsts, 1525: : seconds, 1385.; thirds, 118 s. ; 30 firkins in the market. JOTTINGS FROM PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 1871. VOLUME OF SMOKE.—From a library on fire. THE RESTRAINTS OF SOCIETY. —Juvenile Bohemian : " Hate goin' out to tea ! 'Have to be good such a precious long time !" THE CENSUS (ARITHMETICAL PROGRESSION.)—" What do you intend to be this' time, Maria ? Last time, you were thirty-' one,' and thirty the time before 1" " Tell the truth, dear—thirty-two. Heigho ! How time flies I" MATER BULKY — FILIA BULKIOR.—ImMMenseIy stout mamma (loq.): " That is my portrait, Dr. Briefly ; it was painted eighteen years ago—we think it very like dear Emily, here." " Why, its the very image of her !" says the young doctor, aghast, and he mentally resolves that he will " NOT " propose for dear Emily, after all. WHAT WE WANT IN OUR POLICEMEN.-1. Great agility—To catch the criminal. 2. Immense physical strength —To overpower him, 3. An acute and well disciplined intellect—So as never to take up the wrong, person. These characteristics are rarely to be found combined in one policeman, but by organising picked men into little bands of three, great improvements may be expected. OUTRAGE ON GOLDSMITH. (By a Sleepy Housemaid, concerning Missus.) She rings us up at 7, till 10 she lies— " More bent to raise the wretched, than to rise." The consecration of the Martyrs' Memorial Church, erected in the neighbourhood of Smithfield, which was appointed to take place on Friday next, has been post poned, on account of the necessary amount of money not having been subscribed. The numbers of unwounded French 'prisoners in Ger many up to the fall of Thionville amounted to 10,067 officers and 303,842 men. Prussia, including the Federal fortress of Mayence, has 3,611 officers and 217,808 men in fortresses, and 4,915 officers and 13,657 men in open towns. This includes the fortress of Mayence, which has 416 officers and 24,839 men. There are 1,207 officers and 21,224 men in the other States of the North German Bund, 1,000 officers and 10,500 men in Wurtemberg, 205 officers and 20,412 men in Bavaria, and 8,202 men in the South German fortress of Itastadt. These returns are exclusive of 15,253 officers who are residing in France or neutral states on parole. FHB - SUN, LONDON, AVEDNESDAN, DECEMBER 21, 1.870 THE RELEASE 01? THE FENIANS THE MEMBERS FOR SALFORD AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS. Mr. C. E. Cawley and Mr. W. T. Charley, the mem bers for S.alfdr - d, addreased a meeting of their constituents on Monday evening, in the Saliord Tows Hall. The Mayoc of Salford (T. Davies, Esq.) presided. Mr. Charley said the honour of a constituency was bound up with that of its representatives, and he con gratulated the constituency of Salford on the futility of the persistent efforts which had been made to cast ridi cule upon him (Mr. Charley) for certain expressions that he used at a meeting which should be nameless. Mr. Gladstone was, no doubt, still Prime Minister of Eng land ; but during the last session of Parliament, whilst retaining office, he had to submit to defeat after defeat, and practically to, acknowledge that his so-called bene ficent legislation for Ireland had failed to realise any of the rosy-coloured results which he so artistically painted. Take, for instance, the division upon conventual and monastic institutions. He should never forget the burst of cheering which rang from the Conservative benches when Mr. Newdegate walked up the floor of the House of Commons to an nounce the first defeat of Mr. Gladstone's Government. But the disasters of the Government did not end there.. Majorities against them went on increasing—first two, then 34, then 45,—until Mr. Gladstone, no longer able to resist the pressure brought to bear upon him by his own most cherished supporters, was obliged to throw over board his own Solicitor-General and to outbid Mr. New degate by instituting an inquiry of his own into conven tual and monastic institutions. The Committee which was appointed was not Mr. Newdegate's, but Mr. Glad stone's--the friend of Archbishop Manning and Cardinal Cullen. Poor Mr. Gladstone ! The greatest questions of the day were undoubtedly social once. The prevalent social immorality would not be amended by such quack medicines as the ballot. There was now no vice so preva lent as that of gambling. The present Government had laudably done all that it could to suppress it in every case save one—religious gambling. With regard t) foreign affairs, he hoped the Government would avoid meddling in European politics. One Crimean war was enough for a generation. It was no business of ours to prop up Turkey. We should rather seek to raise Greece from the position of a dependency of Russia to an independent and presperous empire. It was to the work ing classes they must look mainly for raising the moral tone of the country, and for reviving those chivalries and that patriotic feeling by which our ancestors made Eng land the arbiter of the destinies of the world. Mr. Cawley expressed satisfaction at seeing the Mayor of Salford in the chair. With regard to the Irish policy of the Government, he did not quarrel with them for having released the Fenian prisoners; but it grated on one's feelings to find Mr. Gladstone boasting of quiet . reigning throughout Ireland when that country groaned under the Coercion Act. He should rather have approved of a condition by which the released prisoners should have been bound to obey the laws of the land to which they belonged. He hoped the clemency of the Queen would be justified by the future conduct of her Irish sub- jects. One of the most important measures of last session was, of coarse, the Education Act. He regarded oompul- Rory attendance at school as one of the most important elements in a scheme of national education. In the case of the criminal and debased clasees it was necessary. Re hoped working men would do all that lay in their I power, by taking advantage of the educational means now at their disposal, to render compulsion unnecessary, If it was resorted to, it must not be applied to any one class, but must be general. Ho regarded the Burials Bill which was introduced last session, but rejected, as the thin end of the wedge which was to break down the Estab lished Church. The opening of burial grounds to Dissenters he did not object to in places where there was no public cemetery ; but he could but regard the proposed liberty to use any dissenting service at a funeral as a preliminary to the, use of such services in the Church itself. To this he emphatically . ob jected. Amongst prospective measures was the Dliuee Regulation Bill. A feeling existed that sub inapeetoss slaerald be appointed to visit the mines almost daily. He, however, condoned the country against sanctioning anything which should relieve col liery owners or their Wattagema, .either from legal responsibility or from a sense el responsibility. Any measure which did that would be more inju rious than the present system. Having in view the letter which Mr. Gladstone had lately written to Mr. Deese on the subject of the Pope's spiritual functions, the people of England should keep their eyes open to his movements. As Protestants, they did not object to the utmost civil freedom being extended to Roman Catholics. What they objected to was the pretension of that Church to civil and religious supremacy. He should be sorry to see that which might become inevitable in certain circum stances, namely, a struggle between Protestants and Roman Catholics in England. The Times does not place much reliance on the sensc o gratitude which the releakte of the :Fenian prisoners ought to call forth from, the men themiathres.. There is a parlu liar self-deception incidental to political eon.4piraw, 'which did net desert these Fenians on their trial, and may, perhaps, harden many of them against the feelings naturally inspired by forgiveness. They can hardly fail, however, to have profited in some degree by the disastrous futility of their enterprise, and what they will hear on coming out must convince them that it is now less promising than ever. They will learn that an Act has been passed which removes the chief grievance of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, that another Act has been passed which gives the Irish farmer a new stake in the country, that a third Act has armed the Executive with extraordinarry powers, and that agita tion has been directed into a fresh channel, which, how . ever unconstitutional, is widely divergent from that of IFenianism. The Fenian prisoners, being prohibited from returning to Ireland, at least for the present, they cannot ofNVrren th a ey nd w ine i a d ny pro ; b h u ah t l e y ve fi n n i d f f t o h ll e o y w d t i h d e return to Ireland themselves the objects of much less admiration than in their cells at Portland and Chatham. Fenian leaders only appear heroes when they can be represented as mar tyrs, and the manufacture of disaffection will be carried on under greater difficulties without the aid of menda cious stories of ill-treatment in English prisons. At all events the Art is one that, being accepted by the English nation, will speak for itself. It is a conclusive proof tolreland that the Government does not feel it necessary to retain these prisoners as hostages for her good behaviour, and Great Britain respects the kindly interest in their release manifested by many Irishmen never suspected of a bias towards Fenianism. Let us hope that the concession— for it is a concession—will be accepted in a like spirit, and that we may never have to repent having departed from a sound principle, in deference to Irish sentiment. The release 'of the political prisoners, as the incarce rated Fenians are termed, is a step of which it is to be hoped the full consequences have been duly weighed. These men but a short time ago were active instruments in a scheme for upsetting the British rule in Ireland, and in furtherance of their plan did not hesitate to blow up public , buildings in England, to plot arson, robbery, and murder, and would have burned down London had we allowed them the opportunity. If offences of this nature are to be designated as political, some of the con victs in Alillbank would be valuable additions to the House of Commons, and the "deliberative assembly" of a gang of burglars in Whitechapel has an equal claim to our respect. It must also be remembered that the release of these "political prisoners" is a direct snub to the vigilance of the police by whose exertions they were captured, and a rebuke to the judges who sentenced them to imprisonment. It is, moreover, a lesson to lawless ruffians who, under the cloak of political discontent, pursue their nefarious schemes or ambition and bloodshed, that the administration of justice in this country is a mockery and a sham, and that if their friends can only manage to frighten or bamboozle the so-called Government of this oountry, they will assuredly be released directly the panic caused by their lawless actions has subsided. It is in truth difficult in the present day to say what is the Government of this oountry. Its voice is I to be heard more on the stump orator's platform or shriek- ing from the cells of Millbank than at the council table in Downing-street. We appear to be guided by no principle but that of noise. We almost tremble at the sound of our own whisper ; yet, strange to say, the echo of the guns that are blazing at our doors excites no feeling of apprehension in our breasts. We start at the falling of a pin, but are deaf to the roar of cannon. Threatened abroad, bullied at home, it is perhaps as well for its own comfort that our Government does not allow its pro tracted slumbers to be disturbed by opposing a fatiguing resistance to those who kick its prostrate body ; but whether this is comforting to its employers, the public, is another question.—Pall Mall Gazette. The Dublin Freeman's Journal says : The official docu ment which we publish, seems to declare that all the prieoners to "be discharged" are to be subject to the eon &don "of not remaining in nor 'duetting to the Unitai Kingdom.* We regret that the gracious ace determked on by the Minister has bees cramped by this unnecssary and in no way advantageous condition, Grace should in such matters be free, generous, cordial. Half , its value is taken away—all its beauty is disfigured when some small and valueless bargain is exacted from the recipients. As a matter of Imperial policy this restriction was a blunder, which in politics is worse than a crime. O'Donovan Rossa or Mr. Clarke Luby, or any other of the prisoners would be very small fry, indeed, if free amongst their fellows in Ireland, restricted from all pernicious agitation by the consciousness that they , breathed the free and untainted air of heaven by the generous moray and royal grace of the Sovereign, against whom they had offended, but to whose forgiveness they were debtors. But those men, driven into exile, banished for ever from their native land;forbidden ever again to visit the scenes of their youth, may be converted into martyrs by the unwisdom of the Government, and become the active apostles of revolutionary ideas and anti-English sentiments at times and places where such pernicious ideas flourish as in a hotbed. Possibly, however, the Govern ment have knowledge of matters that left them no option between this perpetual banishment and the wearing out of life, of body, soul, and intellect in the ordeal of the con vict's maddening routine. The Government is responsible, and they alone can decide. To our countrymen we would say, accept the present first step in the generous Writ in which it is conceived. No doubt a time will come when the decree of exile will be cancelled, as that of penal servitude now is. We wish it were now—:but 'Ashok; now are unavailing. The Amnesty Association have now seen the liberation of the last of the prisoners. We are satisfied that if that bodyhad been more measured in speech and more moderate in council they would have seen the prison doors opened long since, and possibly opened unconditionally. Their duty to-day is plain. They have still large funds banked, we presume, for the benefit of those who will now need the aid so generously subscribed for them by the Irish race, and handed to the Amnesty Committee, as trustees for the political prisoners. Australia only recently sent back for the use of the home prisoners £5OO, a handsome sum for the men now about to be discharged. Let the association wind up its affairs at once, and give to the public a satis factory account of their stewardship—beginning with t h e fact that all the prisoners are now free from penal servitude and penal restriction—though the sea seems decreed ever to be a barrier between them and Ireland. The Glasgow Citizen says :—" The recent letter of Gene ral Neill, the Irish American chief, is excellently timed to justify that of Mr. Gladstone to Mr. M'Carthy Downing, intimating the determination of the Government to libe rate the Irish political prisoners. The Fenian leader confesses to a conviction, which must be shared by most of bis fellows, that the time has passed for an invasion of Canada. To say truth, the enterprise never had a chance of success beyond that involved in its kindling a war be tween Great Britain and the United States, and so enlist ing a powerful nation on the side of the brotherhood. But its final abandonment by the most distinguished, of its champions comes appropriately enough, at this moment to warrant the gracious act of the Govetnment, in freeing the poor bondsmen whose cause woo looked on with favour by many of the Irish people, because, under all its wickedness and folly, lay, it was alleged, a genuine and sincere, if wildly mistaken, love for Ireland." ENGLAND AND AMERICA. - THE ASHBURY BANQUET. The following were the chief speeches at the banquet given in honour of Mr. Ashbury, the yachtsman, at Man chester. Mr. C. H. iranscombe, the United States Consul in Manchester, in responding to the toast of his health, said He trusted that any victory which Mr. Ashbury and his countryman might achieve over Americans would be as bloodless as the victory which had just been achieved by Mr. Ashbury ; and give occasion only to such festivities as that which they were now holding. In the second place, they would allow him to say how profoundly grateful he felt at the manner in which they had received the last toast. In their expressions he found clear and conclusive proof that they bore in their hearts good will towards the United States. Their expressions, he was persuaded, were not mere polite phrases of diplomacy, high sounding words or the acceptance of their distin guished consideration, but they were emphatic expressions of hearty, sincere, and lasting friendship. Had he de sired a stronger proof of their sincerity, he would have had to remember the fact that he was speaking in Lancashire, and addressing a portion of the people of that county, who in the dread hour of America's peril, when she was assailed by foes within and without, and when a conspiracy was concocted in the interests of human slavery, and to wipe her out from the map of ; nations—against all arguments and inducements of self interest stood firm as a rock as the uncompromising friend of America- He believed the people of England were friends of the great American Republic. England and America had oommon purposes and common aims—their destiny and interests were alike. In referring to the present war on the continent, the speaker said he trusted that one of the results of the war would be that the grave of military glory and standing armies would be dug 'so long that they would be past resurrection. He maintained that no war should be waged unless it could be defended upon some great principle of •eternal right, or a question of national existence. He invoked a blessing on the union which already existed hetween Englishmen and Americans, and hoped that that union would never be disturbed by the rude hand of bloody war. Mr. Ashbury, on rising to respond to the toast of his health, was received with prolonged cheering. He said he had only arrived from America on the previous day, and it was only on his arrival in this country that he had learnt that he was to be in vited to a banquet in his native city. He then proceeded to refer to the negotiations which had brought about the race between the Cambria and the Dauntless over the Atlantic, which commenced on the 4th of July last, from Daunt's Head, near Cork. Singular to relate, he remarked, the yachts, after they had started about ten minutes entered a dense fog, and they drifted as it were into oblivion, and they never saw each other again during the twenty-three days and nights which the race occupied until they landed safely in New York waters. He would not attempt to describe the discomfort which he and his friends suffered during their voyage. When they arrived at Cape Race-1,000 miles from New York—they spoke it, 4 and expected to reach New York in three days, but eturrtrary winds prevented them from reaching New I'm* wit . ' ten ddye had elapsed. The Cambria, as they no doubt were avast, won the race by 105 I adulate% The race was for a gold cup, valued at £250, and it was his intention, with the view to spread emula tion among yachtsmen, to give the cup to the Harwich Yacht Club, to be competed for by the yachts of Eng land, Ireland, and France. It might seem singular that he had debarred America from the competition, after the great kindness which he had met from Americans, but he could not ignore the fact that the Americans had possession at the present time of one cup which they had carried off from this country, and against the world, in 1851. It was his intention to return to America in September next, and he thought there was just the pro bability of his bringing that celebrated cup, of 1851, back to this country. From what experience he had had of America he was certain that the best feelings existed among Americans with regard to England. HEAVY GALE OFF THE ISLE OF MAN.--A hetwy gale from the north-west was experienced 'at Ramsay on Sunday, and during its continuance the smack Pearl, bound from Ramsay to Douglas, was seen in distreesin the bay, with her sails blown away. The crew of the Two Sisters lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, quickly manned their boat, and proceeded to the aid of their fellow townsmen. Fortunately their efforts were crowned with success, for they were enabled to save the crew of three men shortly before their vessel disappeared. The boat was out under sail for about six hours. It is believed that the smack has become a total wreck. THE REWARD OF COURAGE.—A. correspondent of the Echo tells a story which is too like many others that we hear of now-a-days: —" The following are the facts of the massacre of a number of unfortunate French men guilty of no other crimes than patriotism and pluck. I give you the story as, it was related to me by an eye witness, an American gentleman of unimpeach able character and good social position, who has been a sympathiser with the Germans from the first, and still upholds them through thick and thin. During one of the fights on , the 29th ult., in the neighbourhood of Chateauclux, a malt beexi of Frenchmen in unfferal consisting of a blouse with a broad belt) and trousers with a plain yed stripe, excited the admiration of my friend by the tenacity with which they hold w nob very *Arnim Resides for some little time against superios minibus of Bavazians. They were defeated, and the survivals gave up their arms and were taken prisoners. When this had been effected, the Bavarians, all the time jeering at and "chaffing" their unfortunate captives, drove them before them with the butt ends of their rifles, ranged them in a row, and, amidst much, laughter, murdered them ! My friend could only look on while two were being shot, viz.. a lad who looked scarcely more than sixteen, who trembled from head to foot, and cried bitterly ; and a grey-headed cld man of between sixty and seventy ; for to use the phrase of one of the "execu tioners," both these " fluttered" after they fell, and were dispatched, while on the ground, by bayonets." NOTICE.—KINAHAN'S LL. Whisky Depot. Kinahan and Co. have removed to their new and spacious premises, No. 6a, Great Titchficld-street, Oxford-street, leading from Margaret-street, Regent-street, and Market-street, Oxford-street. Kinahan's LL. Whisk .—This famous and most delicious old mellow spirit is the very cream of Irish whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure, and more wholesome than the finest cognac brandy. Can be obtained all over the kingdom, in the well-known sealed and labelled bottles, or in bond for exportation at the London Docks. Wholesale Agents to Messrs. 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Louis Blanc asks to what limit Prussia would not have pushed her exactions and her insolence in face of a Constituent Assembly if France, a nation of 38 millions had seemed to lose hope at an invasion of 800,000 or 000,000 men; if with half a million of armed citizens, who were nothing unless in Paris, she appeared to recognise that she was hopelessly vanquished, and that hereto France was indeed dead. It would have been necessary either for the assembly to reject dishon ourable conditions of peace, in which case matters would have been where they were before the armistice, or else it must have resigned itself to submitting to the law of the conqueror. What would have been the result? Peace would have been concluded, but it would not have been founded, for France, however enervated by twenty years of Imperialism, would never have consented to her own abasement, and the idea of a revenge would be the constant preoccupation of her people. Such a peace, endured as a means of escaping from her troubles by a last effort, would be nothing morn than a feverish halt in the war. From the humiliation of to-day would spring the storms of to-morrow. M. Louis Blanc goes on to praise the Republic, which he de clares it is the interest of all to preserve untouched as the form of Government which, in the words of M. Tillers, causes the least division, and which is the natural and ne cessary Government for a country threatened with death. But if an assembly had been convoked to treat of peace before France had recovered herself, and Paris was free, the supporters of a dynasty would have argued that monarchical Prussia must regard a Republic with horror, and thus the desire for peace would have been one of the forces of the enemies of the Republic. Peace must be conquered by the arms of France and not accepted from a conqueror. "We havo two courses before us," says the article, in conclusion, " either to succumb with honour, or to conquer. To treat with an enemy who occupies our territory, and who dares to speak to us as master, is what we ought not to do, what we cannot do." FRENCH AND GERMAN SIEGE ARTILLERY. A military correspondent of the Times, in a letter from Etampes, on December 14, says :—" The civilization of this age is not likely to receive the terrible shook which a bombardment of Paris would give to it. The guns mounted on the forts are quite equal in power to any that the besiegers could bring opposite to them. If the German batteries were to bombard the city it could only be after having reduced all the forts within easy range ; otherwise, the batteries firing against the city would be exposed to bombardment in their turn from permanent forts with bomb-proof cover at a comparatively short range. To reduce one fort might be an easy task, if the fort stood alone ; but each member ,of the encircling guardians of Paris sup ports, and is in its turn supported by others, so that were one to fall no large force could march through the gap thus made without being exposed to the concentrated fire of many heavy guns, such guns as have never been used in war until now, if we except the isolated rounds fired from the Affondatore during the battle of Lissa. The forts are armed with heavy ship guns, breech loading all of them, made of cast iron, and strengthened by steel hoops round those portions of the piece most exposed to the shock of the explosion. The guns are rather untrustworthy in strength, but under present cir cumstances there is time enough available to take any precautions that may be thought advisable. So far as is known, the gun of highest calibre now in Paris has a bore measuring more than ten and a half inches across its diame ter. The projectile weighs little short of 5001b5., but a comparatively large charge cannot be used on account of the danger of bursting, unless the Ems , elan plan of burying the piece in the earth be tried, as men say it has been lately. The nearest approach to Versailles from the French side has been made by a gunboat, which has come close up to the bridge tat Shvres. The distance as the crow or the shot flies is, according to Stanford's map, less than five miles—about 8,500 yards. English artillerists have not, with some ex ceptions, aimed at building guns for extraordinary ranges ; yet 8,500 yards, the distance between the French gunboat and the Royal Quarters at Versailles, has been more than attained over and over again by English guns, and, I believe, lately by French guns from the forte. Given a form of gun capable of standing a large charge of powder, and a long rifled barrel, with a long projectile, there is no range, certainly up to 10,000 yards, which may not be attained. Either Sir W. Armstrong or, Sir J. Whitworth, would, without doubt, pledge. thous reputation to design and fashion such a gun, and if the French cannot do so the failure must not be ascribed to any intrinsic impossi bility. Descending from these supreme efforts of artil lery science, the second French gun has a calibre of about nine and a half inches, and a projectile weighing rather more than 300 lb. lam not sure whether any of the 10i-inch pieces are mounted round Paris ; but there (An be no doubt that the projectiles, more than three feet long, which have been fired lately, must be from a piece of that calibre at least. Next comes a 7i-inch gun, with projectiles up to 178 lb. weight, and then a number pieces from about 6i-inch calibre downwards." As to the Prussian guns, the correspondent, without naming the pieces actually present before Paris, gives some particulars from Captain llajendie's pamphlet. I MILITARY HOSPITAL. The correspondent of the Standard, writing from Arras, December 17, thus describes his visit to a military hospi tal :—My first visit was to the Hospital de Jean. I am told that it is the largestand most important in the Pas de-Calais, and, like the Hotel Dieu at Amiens, it is both civil and military. In this hospital alone there were about 400 beds. Most of them are occupied by the wounded from Sedan. The moment I entered the principal corridor I perceived an odour that I had never before en countered—a warm, sickly, heavy breath, that strongly reminded me—l cannot say why—of dying exotics in a stifled conservatory, and as yet I could see nothing. The first man I summoned up courage to speak to had the whole of his jaw literally smashed by a shell. Only the upper part of his face was visible, and he was unable to speak. But he was recovering surely, and beyond a sad disfigurement, would soon be able to move. The linen on his bed was deliciously clean, and a little table was by his bedside covered with presents of delicacies from his friends. Next to him was a boy, only 17, one of the marines who made such a gallant stand at Amiens, and who actually fired upon their own men for trying to escape across the river. He had a ball in his side, and the doctors had not yet been'able to extract it. Beyond was a Turco, with an expression on his face of undisguised barbaric contempt of pain. Both his legs were cut clean off by a cannon balL He was smok ing a huge cigar, and took not the slightest notice of us whatever. I offered him a good Havannah. He took it without saying a word, lighted it, puffed at it once or twice, and the faintest attempt at a smile dawned on his face, as ho muttered " bono." When I was leaving the room, he beckoned me over to him, nodded to me with a strange, kindly smile, and shook my hand to thank me, but never said a word. A few beds beyond a very old soldier was dangerously ill. He was seriously wounded in the ankle joint, and inflammation had set in. A young boy, who had been wounded at Villers-Bretonneux, was reading to him. I looked at the book. It was the Russian Campaign of the Great Napo leon. In one corner of the room was a young artilleryman, with a face of the strangest beauty I could have conceived it possible for a man to possess. His attitude was so motionless that it might have been taken for death, but that his eyes were open, and looking with a long, wearying look through a window that was open . o pp e site. A crucifix that was suspended by a gold chain hung round his neck, and lay on his breast, and some beer violets were near his right hand. He was a Breton, and had had two brothers. They fought side 'by side in the same regiment at Sedan, and where he lay after the battle grievously wounded his two brothers lay dead beside him. The mother of the three young soldiers was a widow : and when a month afterwards she heard the news she set out from Dinan, in Brittany, to go to her last son, but died of grief before she was able to see him. The violets that lay upon his bed were sent to him every morning by a young girl who lived in the town, who had never seen him, but had heard, in common with all, his sad story. There were three men beyond him who suffered from the most extraordinary wounds, all received at Sedan, and, curiously enough, by three comrades. A shell had fallen upon one, and exploded in such a manner that it literally tore off both his hands from the wrists without touching him in any other way. The second received a ball on the side of his nose ; it penetrated his palate, went down his throat, and simply puzzled all j the medical faculty to discover where it had gone to. The third was struck near the left temple. The bullet made its way instantaneously to the shoulder, lodged in the man's arm for a time, and finally came out at the elbow. They were all three rapidly recovering and the man with the undiscovered ball wa g, curiously enough, not a little proud of his eccentric con stitution. The deaths had been and were of constant occurrence, The men have lain so long on the 6eld of battle and during the cold nights that gangrene had fatally set in. Many even had died in the act of being tranaP° r ' ted. Of 25 cases in one hospital (the Grand Sdminaire at the Bishop's Palace) where amputation had been neces sary, only three survived. One of them was a ru ng fellow of 19, which was the brightest and gayest of them all. His right arm was severed close to the s h ou lder ' and a sleeveless arm was looped up with a certain wild do that made one think it was rather a good joke thanll otherwise. PONDERINGS AT BERLIN. The National Gazette of Berlin, in discussing the ben r bardment of Paris, says it would be a serious thing if the French remain convinced that their capital is 1019 ' 8 : callable. Three months since they were laughed s'' when they boasted that Paris was impregnable. To, day it is acknowledged that Paris is unassailab le. Whether it owes this reputation to the strength o f its ramparts or to the respect which Paris inspires in Europe matters little, the fortifications and the respect together combine to produce the reputation of inviolability. Three months ago men laughed at the Republic of Gambetta and at his inanity, but if that Republic had only proved the impossibility of attacking Paris, it would, howev er fleeting its existence, have rendered an important serums to the country. In any case the French will not in their future wars against Germany, repeat their present errors . They will arm themselves better, choose better leaders, 0 1 will not see their armies captured wholesale. Even afte r defeats, they will save sufficient forces to protect Par is by holding the country. If, in this case, the town 1 0 not forgotten its present destinies, and if it is well pr o• visioned, it will be an extremely powerful Pig!' The French will say in future, If Paris, 1 1l the unfortunate year 1870, remained unas s ailable, it will do so much more in a war better managed 3 °' more fortunate. This sense of security will give a fresh impulse to the bellicose spirit of the nation. Therefore the French ought not, after the opening of a war so se' cessful for us, to have afforded the spectacle of Paris ' sheltered from our attacks, a sigh t which must have surprised themselves aft er Woerth and Sedan. If there is still time, th e German headquarters would render a great service to the future of Germany if they would furnish evidence that Paris can be attacked. General d'Aurelles is said to be living abLyons. M. Thiers has arrived at Bordeaux. * An entrenched camp is to be formed near Marseillefh between the chain of the Alps and the Rhone. Colonel Trappoli, of the Garibaldians, has been sr pointed general of brigade in the auxiliary army. - - The people of Lyons suffer greatly, and the winte r prospect is far from reassuring. The work of fortificatio n kept a great, many men employed, but a heavy fall snow has suspended this resource for the time being. It is said that Garibaldi has protested to the Govern: ment against the formation in the East of companies 01 Franc-tireurs, commanded by naval offiers, and not under his command. Not only the Bavarians, but several others of the German corps, have been greviously worn down by th e suffering of the war. The 10th Prussian Corps is 019 one third its original strength. At Metz, on the night of the 11th, a Prussian sentry was shot. Several persons have been arrested on susPi" cion, and if the assassin is not discovered the city will be fined £2,000. Several chests of concealed chassepots an d cartridges have been found in private houses. Count Bismarck has been ill during the last few days' Some injury to his leg has compelled him to keep 111° room, if not his bed. He was therefore prevented frota joining the grand dinner-party of the King on the occa sion of the fete of St. George, when all the Germs° Princes and Dukes, General Moltke, &0., were present. The Archbishop of Paris has visited the Bretonne ambulance. He exhorted the wounded, as soon as they were cured, to renew their efforts for subduing the enemies of France. He told them not to yield, but to fight for the deliverance csf the country, adding that he regretted his ecclesiastical position prevented him from assisting t ° defend the ramparts. The Liberte has received a letter from Japan, stating that the Prussian fleet being offered battle by the French. Vice-Admiral, refused it, and retreated to Yokohaing. The Prussians have .taken down the funnels from their steamers, which is thought to prove that they will not go to sea again in the presence of the French war vessels. The Prussians have evacuated Beauvais. They retired in such haste that they left behind them at the ravel station requisitions to the value of 250,000 f., consisting of 100 sacks of flour and 300 sacks of oats, which they ordered the town not to touch under the penalty of 9 severe reprisal. The German troops proceeded towards Gisors and Gonesse. The people of Versailles are in expectation of a bolo: bardment. Not only have very heavy guns been mounted on Val6rien, but a redoubt has been run up by the French 1,000 yards in front of the fortress. This batted will, it is thought, be able to throw shells into the neigh' bourhood of the King's residence. The bombardment of Belfort, which has been coin' menced by the Prussians, has not done much damage' The suburb of Fourneau is the only part that has Ye t been injured. The place is defended with the utmost vigour. It is of great importance. The Cologne Gazette states that the Government at Bar' deaux has so far modified the measure respecting til e blockade of the French ports that whilst Rouen, Fecaralh and Dieppe are declared to be in a state of blockade , the port of Havre will be exempted for the present fro/ 0 such restrictions. Galician papers give some particulars of the Polish corps organised at Lyons. It appears that the Pre' visional Government, which at first, through fear d o offending Russia, disallowed the title of " Polish Legion' has now sanctioned it. It has, indeed, the Polish flog and Polish uniforms, the officers wearing short dark blue coats with gilt buttons, and bright blue trousers wit h black stripes. The legion consists of 500 infantry and 9 squadron of Uhlans, which was originally only 80 strong' but receives constant accessions from Galicia. Montmedy was bombarded by about seventy heavi guns, the cannon-balls weighing on an average 1501 b• each, and they did frightful execution. The upper to' was almost destroyed, while the lower suffered but little• On the commandant observing that the iron roof of the powder magazine had been struck, and that the fortress and both the towns were likely to be blown up, he calle d a council of war, which unanimously decided on capitall Y tion. The correspondent of the Standard reports that the Mobilised National Guards at Lille were in capital eor r dition, but were decidedly overloaded. " One has only t ° look at the packs these men carry to understand why, a'retreat, they are so often thrown away. To retire r e ' taining them would be hardly a defeat at all. On 0 1, noticing this to an officer he informed me that it was one of the greatest difficulties they had to contend witl b ,, ' The men,' said he, ' insist upon overloading themselv es with articles they are afraid to leave in their hones When, therefore, it comes to a rout, and they find they cannot escape with the weight they have to carry, mail, are apt to throw away their muskets rather than pr o " with the contents of their knapsacks."' [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Pia—Liver C 01 12.,, plaints and Disorder of the Bowels.—lt is impossible ".,`" exaggerate the extraordinary virtues of this medicine . 1 : 4 the treatment of all affections of the liver or irregularitivi of the bowels. In cases of depraved or superabundelL bile, these Pills taken freely have never been known "s" fail. In bowel complaints they are equally efacacion7 but they should then be taken rather more sparinglYt. f° o every medicine in the form of an aperient r evil e caution when the bowels are disordered though a gen te or more genial aperient than these Pills, in modes doses, has never yet been discovered. If taken accord to the printed instructions, they not only cure the o w. plaint but improve the whole system. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at Barmoor Castla, Northumber l .e.. the wife of B. Atkinson, Esq., of a son. On the 18th inst., at Anglesea House, Surbiton, the W of Francis A. Davis, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Saul On the 17th inst., at Christ Church, Southgate, Sar att A Walton Nutt, Esq., of Carlton Lodge, Palmerston . r oa l and the Stock Exchange, to Ellen Sainthill, young e„ daughter of John D. Hewitt, Esq., of The Lode" Palmer's-green. On the 17th inst., at the Holy Trinity, Bromp toli i Thomas Godrich,Esq., M.D., to Clara, the young ° daughter of the late Arthur Rumsey, Esq. PEATHS. On the 17th inst., at 28, Chapel-street, Park-lane, 3° 114 Horrocks, Esq. ~. of On the 18th inst., at York,Esq., George Fox, l .ll l' Mincing-lane, London, aged 56. __----. . v London : Printed by GIDE ON ACLAND BOY9IT o No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by DP W THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. Wednesday, December 21, 1870, .1„ . NO. 24,9 ORYSTAI kitni • ss wn ••• • „ p ell eanAthlet , 4s ntitOraime, " Atk a . Ission, Twe "The veti .ter Twelve tlB tita4B:::clieiLeanri)aH.tnsMW Managing ß R. i.- 04 GE3IN& Iti ast and Itagnifie t Derh and imm , ', o eal and Instrtm e Se o a s es a r F u: Sondi s i l uPe i I . 0 1 , 1 e. Deg - range l'" 9 • 1 ', Mdlle. .14edle, Mr. Georg( k at ina. Jullien's andyelling the mars Littie Bob, i dents. 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