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He 11 ''' said he thong s. cireumsteo RENVILL examination of n the Cou rt r pt having been he he appear° ions with ys, and intention it ;herefore, all ° was out oft he en at the DlA ri d . and W in& e was unablei.tv,c) t o arrest. t, hurray, his 0 1 n not to C 03316 ) the Secretsrf, h_o eply was . f il it to allow 01- f imprisourae7 The•ass et hat could on ly the old fatn ii ii i The qu es r:t iforced other class ° I the clue s lot they sloir .t a bill of rig ° he must leave petitioning e re : which the baal r d his H o noursa l roceedinV t h3v , was for othe r Cho solicitor t° crupt might be &NOES. ' lallard prow lliam Jelin ° (Rankeill or d with having Lay afternoon e A n t on said th, SPECIAL EDITION. • SUN OFFICE, 7r. z. LATEST INTELLIGENCI.47, THE TREATY OF 1856. Official advices received in Vienna announce that *he St. Petersburg Cabinet refuses to modify i'm 'recent demands. BERLIN, Thursday, 2.25. The semi-official I'rovinzial Correvandettz says : " Prussia is not a party to the Treaty of 1856 to the same extent as Austria, England, and Fiance, and •ahe did not engage to consider every violat . on of it as a casus 'bah, but only to respect the integrity of Turkey. The different position evidently gives the Prussian Government the beet prospect of mediating with success." The war outlay up to November 15 was 121,000,000 tha!ers. BERLIN, November 24 (10.26 p.m.) General Timscheff, the Russian Minister of the Interior, has cautioned the St. Petersburg Press against supporting France and attacking Germany, it being against tho interests of Russia to irritate the latter country at the present juncture. THE WAR. CAPITULATION OF TIIIONVILLE. The report of the capitulation of Thtortville is %confirmed, and the formal surrender of the town took place to-day. The bombardment was carried on by 76 guns for two days. The town is almost destroyed, it having been burning since the 22d. r ENCOUNTER WITH MOBILE GUARDS. A report from the Royal Headquarters at Ver sailles, dated the 24th, states that the Advance Guard of Groeben division of Cavalry, commanded 12 03 r Colonel Sudoritz, had an engagement on the 2nd near Le (bunt' with the Mobile Guards from AMiens. The French wore repulsed and fled in great disorder. ADVANCE OF £HE GRAND DUKE OF MECKLENBURG. The latest information from Versailles states that the Grand Duke continues to advance, but that several skirmishes have taken place with recoil noitiring parties near Neuville Bois and Mazieres. PRUSSIANS MARCHING ON TOURS. TOURS, November 24, 6 p.m. The Gazette de France estimates the Prussian armita near Toury and Montargis at 160,000 or 1 70,000 men, and considers it probable that the in tention of the enemy is to march on Tours with the object of cutting off the army of the Loire from its base of operations. The advanced guard of the Prussian cavalry appeared before Beaune on the morning of the 19th, and is stated to have been compelled to fall back by an ambuscade of Francs- Tireurs. THE GARIBALDIANS AT AUTUN. M. Gambetta yesterday visited M. de li6ratry at the camp of Conlie. The Sub-Prefect of Autun has written a letter to the Journal de Macon stating 'that that the request for lodging Garibaldi's troops in 'the seminaries and colleges of Autun was made to -the ecclesiastical authorities by the Sub-Prefect aqd the Municipality, and not by Garibaldi. The Mobile Guard, numbering 2,000 men, had occupied all other accommodation. General Can zio has written a letter from Autun, dated the 17th 'twit., to the Journal de Macon, stigmatizing the reports of the proceedings of the Garibaldians at Autun as base calumnies. The Journal de Macon re quires General Canzio to distinctly answer the allegations of its informants. 6.30 p.m. A letter of General Cambiiels to M. Gambetta repels the accusation of treason or incapacity cur rent against him, and demands his trial by Court- Martial. BALLOONS FROM PARIS. BRUSSELS, November 24. To-night's Journal de Bruxelles publishes a tele gram from Louvain stating that a balloon from Paris descended at half-past 2 to-day at Berthem, tear Louvain. It left Paris yesterday evening 4 a quarter to eleven, and contained MM. de Fon lle, Lecomte, Vellonstret, Recourt, Lelude, and .131 iel. The travellers were fired at by the Prussians Ontil.they reached Soissonfi. Paris is announced to 13 e full of courage, and there is no lack of provisions. The balloon brings journals, letters, and pigeons. A- despatch from; Marbais announces that two balloons have been observed travelling in the direc tlOD of Brussels. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRUSSIANS. The latest intelligence from Lille up to the 24th states that the Germans have completely disappeared tom Rocroy, Rumigny, and M*Szieres. News comes from Soissons that an army corps comprising about two divisions and a half passed through that town on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, proceeding 'a the direction of Amiens. According to other ad vices the army of General Manteuffel was advancing O a Rouen, leaving Amiens on its right. ZTOOUNTER NEAR VERNEUIL.-RETREAT OF THE FRENCH. TOURS, November 24 (6.35 The Gazette de Fiance of this evening states that _ t he Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is march 4ng upon Le Mans, and yesterday was at a distance of 30 kilombtres from that town. Re had an encounter with the French forces at erneuil. The French troops consisted of some b attalions of Mobile Guards, supported by 700 Marines. The French retired, covered" by the Marines. '.he German troops which fought yesterday a ppear to consist of the • two bodies which on previous days had occupied Dreux and Chartres, and : 111 ited they probably number 25,000 or 30,000 men. The entire Prussian foroe now operating on the Loire la Supposed to number 100,000 men. The French, in yesterday's encounter, fought bravely, and suffered severely. Ne mail has been received to-day from Eng land, the line of railway having been cut at Ser altigny. la Normandy the enemy is reported to be march /11g upon Rouen. b Queen's messenger has gone to England to-night 3 ' Way of Nantes, Rennes, and St. Malo. It EPULSE OF THE PRUSSIANS NEAR. AMIENS. • AMIENS, November 24. Fighting has taken place to-day near Dowart and b e alloourt; and six Prussian prisoners have been b l mlght in to Amiens. The Prussians were driven aCk to Itoye with loss. GENERAL BOURBAKI. Toußs, November 23. h . General B our b a ki f ee l s h ur t, and will not accept 14 n ew command. He says that he will fight simply the leader of a Volunteer corps. • Gambetta ha 3 gone to Le Mans. tk 4 eneral B r i an d rep l aces G enera l K ersa l aun (?) i n u e Sure. -- ORTED CAPITULATION OF THION VILLE. A despatch from Luxemburg, dated Nov. 23, states that the bombardment was being actually carried on. The greater part of the town and the surrounding villages were in flames. A later tolog,ram; however, antiounees that ihion vine capitulated yesterday (kth), but the news is not official. • A. dapitulittion after only two dais' bombardment would not be very creditable to the garrison or its commandant. THE SITUATION AROUND PARIS. Bniresins, November 24 (Evening). No iMpottant change bas taken place in the militlry situation around Paris ; but every at te tat concluding an armistice is from hence forth abandoned, and the official journals of Berlin announce that most important events are immediately at hand on the Loire and in the North. • General Faidherbe (?) replaces in the command at Lille General Bourbaki. GENERAL TROCIIU'S ORDER. General Trochu has issued an order in which he charges the besiegers of Paris with " firing on un armed men, and even on women and children, in defiance of all feeling of humanity." The General states that "despite orders most clearly expressed through newspapers and pla cards, to the effect that no perion should on any account venture beyond the Outpotti ) some inhabitants of Paris go out of the city on all sides in bodies into the open country. They *chalice. thits within the nearest range of the Prussian lines, being encouraged to do so by the previous conduct of the enemy, who seldoth has molested them," but that now the firing of the enemy makes enforcement of the original orders imperative. THE EASTERN QUESTION. ST. PETERSBURG, November 23 (6,30 p.m.) Prince Gortschakoff's reply to Earl Granville's note withdraws nothing ;it is calm and firm. Thi Turkish reply has not yet been received. BERLIN, November 24. everything encourages us to anticipate a peace able solution of the difficulty raised by the Note of Russia. It is believed that Prussia would endeavour on her side to exercise a conciliatory influence ; and that, on the other hand, Turkey would accept a propoSal to examine, in concert with the other Powers, the grievances alleged by the Russian Government. A telegram from Constantinople says that the North German Ambassador in that city has assured the Porte of the friendly feeling of Ger many, and that all fear on the score of Prussia has ceased. VIENNA, November 24. Prince Grortschakoff's answer to Count Betist's note is expected to-day. It is said to be calm in tone, but, at the same time, firm, and it does not relin quish the position originally taken up by the Russian Government. In official circles it is believed that Russia is far better prepared for war than is generally supposed. The Netze Pr eie I'resse corroborates the report that large bodies of Russian troops are being concen trated at Odessa and to the north-east of Jassy. Ellis movement is, nevertheless, only a military deinon stration. VIENNA, November 24 (Evening). The situation with respect to the claims of Russia is not considered absolutely hopeless; but Count Beust is very decided in his determination never to separate the action ant the policy of Austria from those of England and Turkey. The Minister for War will immediately ask for an extraordinary ; credit of fifty millions of florins, or pOssibly even more, for warlike preparations. Count Potocki has resigned office, but he returns to power, re-forming his Cabinet, and retaining Count Taafe and Baron Petrino. VIENNA, November 24. The Minister of War, llerr Ku'ln, will demand from the Austro-Hungarian Delegation in Pesth. an extraordinary credit of sixty millions of dollars, dis tributed in the following manner. Six millions for the increase in the number of soldiers and horses ; . thirteen millions for material and furniture of war which have been already purchased ; four millions for • the cost caused by the insurrection in Dalmatia; six millions ascribed to the account of former deficits; fourteen millions for the purchase of arms; eight millions for fortifications ; and nine millions to provide clothing for the troops. ' The Turkish Government is resolved to oppose to the utmost the . pretensions of Russia, and no t to permit the slightest violation of the Treaty of Varis. THE REPLY OF AUSTRIA TO RUSSI i. Count Ballot's reply to the circular of Prince Gortschakoff points out that there can be no doubt as to the mutual obligotions involved by the Treaty of 1856,, which cannot by one party be modified or annulled. The fact that Turkey can maintain a fleet where Russia cannot, could only warrant a desire for a revision of the Treaty, but never its arbitrary dissolu tion. Turkey, he says, is not responsible for the alleged breach of treaty by the union of the Danubian principalities. The entry into the Black Sea of foreign men-of-war having princes on board was a harmless proceeding, of which Russia should have complained if deemed objectionable. The Austro- Hungarian Government learns with painful regret the resolve of Russia, and expresses its deep sur prise thereat. It cannot but , direct the serious attention of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to the consequences of such a proceeding. A. note of Count Beast, addressed to the Austrian Ambassador, Count Chotek, at St. Petersburg, re futes the allegation which imputed to Count Beust his. having taken the initiative in this matter in January, 1867. CHINA. SHANGHAI, November 2. The assurance from Earl Granville that England would [support the demands of France has greatly relieved the minds of Europeans here, and very opportunely, as the Chinese are daily becoming more insulting to foreigners. THE LEDBURY SCANDAL. The hearing of the case, "Jackson v. Martin," was resumed yesterday before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Their lordships sat later than usual the previous night to enable Sir Alm Karslake to complete his argument for the appellant, and the Solici tor-General to commence his case for the respon dent. Sir John Coleridge, in opening his statement, contended that the d ec i s i on at which the Dean of Arches had arrived was a sound decision, borne out by the whole bearings of the case. There were certain parts of the evi dence which probably their lordships could not and would not accept as reliable testimony; but he felt convinced that the consideration which their lordships wouldgive to the case could not fail to lead 'them to the conclusion which had ,been arrived at by the learned judge of the. lower court, that Mr. Jackson was guilty of the various charges which had been brought against him. Dr. Twiss followed on the same side, and had riot concluded his argument when their Lordship's adjournell The Wele announces the death of M. Petri, the ex Prefect of Police at Paris. He died in Switzerland. By order of tho Admiralty, Fearnought screens are to be fitted to ships and vessels with tops, for the pur pose of concealing the riflemen. LORD F. CAVENDISH, M.P., AT, HALIFAC.--At a complimentary dinner given on Wednesday night to Colonel Akroyd, M.P., by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, Lord F. Cavendish, in reply to a toast, referred to the measures to be discussed next session. Amongst those were the Factory Acts, the reorganisation of endowed schools, and the pollution of rivers. The noble lord said the Factory Acts were in a chaotic state, but they had a promise from Mr. Bruce that those Acts should be amalgamated and assimilated, so as to equally affect commerce and agriculture. • HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1870. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LEAliStdtOR WARWICK HUNT • - MEETING-1 1 11'S DAY, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) NEW HANDICAP. Topsy • • 1 Herb(' ..•' ' '" •'• ' 2 13iush b • Seven ran. FOURTH NURSERY. 1)r. Temple Sweetmeat ... ... Nona Fourteen ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Woodford 1••• I Ushant Succession...—. Eleven ran . . ViSiNd- SCUD CUP. • Thunderstorm:............ Stanley Newsman Thirteen ran. WELTER HANDICAP. Mayoress Satinstoe •• ...... Surgeon : • Nine ran. SELLING HURDLE, Wi1(1•Bee Spitfire Queen of the Valley Tien It 3ls~ AACE ••. . 1 Wild Blood • ' 2 GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE. &Arrington Hippolyte 2 Double Event Seven ran. BRADGATE CUP. Stanley Fearnought . . Vestminster Eight ran. SWEEPSTAKES. Queen Bessie Olympia ... Phryner • '''' Ten ran. WINDING-UP HANDICAP. Firebrand Adelaide Masaniello....ff Ten ran. -1 3 HORSES STRUCK OUT O' THEIR ENGAGEMENTS. — Nov. 19, after 2 p.m„ Lapageria and Birch Rod, out of the Selling Nursery Handicap, at Warwick ; Sunflower, out of Warwick engagements. Nov. 21, at 9 p.m., Wed ding Peal and Royal Rake, out of Warwick engagements. Ladas and Ouragan 11., out of the Midland Counties Handicap. Warwick : Miss Dodson, out of the Warwick Handicap Steeplechase ; Syddnia (dead) .o out of all engage ments j . Wambit ) Mit df Handicap Hurdle Race, War wick; 'Pithy/ell ) out of Croydon eligageinents; at 11.50 a.m., Sider Heien) (Mt of Warwick engagements; at 2 p.m.. Ben isteVii; oiit of Warwick engagements and all races, except Hunters' Stakes, at Croydon; at 2.35 p.m., NeW Zealander, out of all engagements; at 3.20 p.m., Dr. Wilson; 'OM tif Handibap Hurdle Race, War wick ; Lightning ) Mit of Warwick Handicap Steeplechase ; at 3.27 p.m., Sacchaboni, out of Warwick engagements; after 6 p.m., Helice, out of Warwick engagements. Nov. 22, at 9 a.m., The Nun and Maesderwen, out of all handicaps at Warwick, where the weights have been published to date. Nov. 24, at 9 a.m., Chantilly, out of all engagements at Croydon. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) THE ASSOCIATEb CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE. The autumnal meetings of the Associated Chambers of Commerce opened at Bradford, yesterday, Mr. S. S. Lloyd, presiding. A resolution was passed to petition the House of Commons for a select committee to inquire into the mode of assessing property and income tax, and into the principle on which the tax is now levied on pre carious incomes. A resolution was also passed to amend the new Bankruptcy Act, by requiring the debtor to fur nish a list of creditors and estimates of assets to each creditor. Another resolution was adopted demanding compulsory. registration of partnerships. The draft of a bill to provide a Tribunal of Commerce was considered and approved. FUNERAL OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES O'DONNELL. The funeral of Major-General Sir Charles O'Donnell took place at Limerick yesterday afternoon, the body of the old Peninsular veteran having arrived there from Colchester, where at the advanced age of seventy-seven he had died. It had been resolved that Sir Charles should be interred with military honours, but his dying request being that his funeral should be strictly private, this intention was abandoned. For a number of years the deceased was colonel of the 10th Hussars. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER AND LORD ROBERT MON,TAGU. The Duke of Manchester has been addressed by the Huntingdonshire Protestant Defence Association on the subject of Lord Robert Montagu having joined the Roman - Catholic Church. The association has asked his grace's views on the advisability of urging his lordship to resign his seat for the county, and has received the following reply : " Kimbolton Castle, St. Neots, November 19th. Sir,—l am desired by the Duke of Manchester to ac knowledge his Grace's receipt of the letter dated the 17th instant, bearing your counter -signature, on the subject.of the recent perversion of Lord Robert Montagu to the Church of Rome. The Duke desires me to say that as a peer of the realm it would not be becoming in him to take any action in the matter affecting his lord ship's position as a member of the House of Commons; his Grace wished it to be fully understood that no one can regret more deeply than he does Lord Robert's secession from the Protestant faith.—l have the honour to be, J. FREER THONGAR, Secretary. Read Adams, Esq. THE EDUCATION MOVEMENT IN MON MOUTHSHIRE. Yesterday afternoon an influential county meeting was held at Newport, Monmouthshire, to consider the Educa tion Act. His Grace the Duke of Beaufort presided ; the Bishop of Llandaff and Lord Tredegar were also present. The Bishop of Llandiff proposed that it is highly impor tant at the present crisis to make special efforts for the religious education of the children of the poor. He briefly recapitulated th 9 provisions of the Act, andAtated that Churchmen having hitherto borne the burden of 75 per cent. of the education of the country, they wished to make an effort so as not to lose their educational position. He opposed the rate-supported schools on the ground, of expense s stating that the, heaviest burdens . would fall upon real • property ; and on that conviction%e held that the working of school boards would cause great party feeling mid strife. The Rev. Samuel Kennedy, an independent minister, moved an amendment supporting the formation of School Boards. He argued that the accommodation for Church schools in the district.was in excess of the population connected with the Chnrch. The amendment was negatived by a large majority. The Rev. J. S. Harding gave statistics as to the amount of educational accommodation required ; and it was resolved to meet the deficiency in the agricul tural districts by voluntary subscriptions which should be raised in aid of the Llandaff Education Society. The amount required excluding Newport was £l,OOO. £1,500 was subscribed in the room, the Duke of Beaufort giving 2500. EARL GRANVILLVS TO VIE QUEEN. • Earl Oran - Ville liar b4en to td-day, in order, it is presumed, to acquaint her Majesty with the contents of the Russian reply to his lord ship's despatch. The noble earl returned this after noon for the Cabinet Council. , EPIDEMICS IN LIVERPOOL. Dr. Stallard having ascribed the spread of epidemics to the use of ashes and refuse in making foundations for houses, the medical officer of Liverpool, Dr. Trench, on Wednesday supplied the Health Committee with a report defending the system. It Was determined to obtain competent opinions from two independent parties. In addition to fever, scarlatina, measles, and smallpox have appeared in that town. _ CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. The following notice has been largely circulated in Cambridge yesterday morning:---- " To the members of the Senate,—We, the undersigned, beg leave hereby to record our protest against the infringement due to the Senate by the non-placeting of graces without notice having been previously given. Such a proceeding may lead, through a surprise, to the rejection by a small minority of a measure which meets with general approval. We therefore suggest that in cases where a grace has been rejected, as the result of a non-placet, of which notice has not been given, a special congregation should be held in the next week, at which the same grace should be brought forward again, with a view to ascertain the opinion of the majority of the Senate : S. Parkinson, St. John's : W. M. Gunson, Christ's ; A. X. Vansittart, Trinity ;•tl. W. •Blore, Trinity.; •H. A..Morgait, jerglN. THE ST. &LBAN'S RITUAL CASE. At the sitting of the Judicial ebiliffiliPe of the Privy Council this morning judgment was pronounced in the case of Martin v. Mackonochie, the incumbent of St. Alban's, Holborn, which . was an application for a condemnation of Mr. Mackonochie on the ground that he had violated the monitions of the Court. Their lordships ordered that Mr. Mackonochie be suspended from office for three calendar months, and that he pay the costs of this application. THE MONEY AI +T/ ----• UTTY, Two O'CLOCK, The feeling on the Stock 'Exchange is rather uneasy, the result of the discussion on the answer of Russia being waited for before transactions are entered into. Consols arc now 924• to 93 ; Foreign Stocks are mostly lower. Tnrkigh 1869, j ditto Five per Cents., Itissian, and Italian, 4 ; Egyptian trench, 4; And Spanish, - ; It is stated that one main cause of the reduction in the New Granadan dividends this half-year is that the sum of £10; 553145. 2d has been remitted by the bondholders' agent at .Bogota in billrz en New Granadan bankers in Paris, which, on account of the gtate df slegb, cannot be presented, accepted, or negotiated. This sum, when received, will consequently pass into the next diviclend account. The biddings for the South Australian 6 per cent. Government securities for £lOB,OOO were opened yesterday at the National Bank of Australasia. The total amount tendered was £27,500, of which £7,000 was at or above the price of 108—the minimum fixed by the Agent- General. A prospectus has been issued of the Vanin Silver Lead Mining Company (Limited), with a capital of £15,000 in shares of £l, to develope and work certain lead-bearing lodes recently discovered near Ramsey, Isle of Man. The price to be paid for the prOpeitY is £l,OOO, half in cash and half in shares. A first meeting of creditors under the petition for liquidation of De Vecchj, Navone, jun., and Co., mer chants,GreatWinchester-street, has been held. The state ment produced by the debtors showed liabilities to the extent of £230,000, of .which the sum of £33,428 is ex pected to rank agmst the estate. The assets tare stated at £43,613, chiefly abroad. Two proposals for winding up—one by arrangement and the other by bankruptcy— were submitted to the meeting, and will be decided on by the Cotirt. The Manchester Etantiner states :—" At a meeting of the creditors of MeSsrs. Dabb, Hill, and Co„ linen mahu facturers and commission agents, the statement of affairs showed liabilites £23,628; ani assets £12,553. It was re solved to liquidate by arrangement." The Telegraph'Construction and Maintenance Company have -received a telegram from Alexandria, stating that the duplicate Anglo-Mediterranean Cable was success fully laid on the 22d inst. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAT. RESCUED PROM THE STREETS.—EIIen Prendergast and Sarah Prendergast, mother and daughter, the latter about 9 years of age, and Ellen Dunford, were charged before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with begging. The Marquis Townsend having proved seeing the prisoners begging, the child being used for the purpose by the other prisoners; said his principal object in charging them was that the child Sarah Prendergast might be rescued from a life of wretthedncss and demoralization in the streets. Mr. Knox, seeing the child's father in Court, he having hobbled in on crutches, and appearing to have lost the use of some of his limbs, told him that he had an opportunity of saving his daughter by sending her to an institution where she would be properly brought up if he thought proper. The father said he should be very thank ful if that was done. Mr. Knox said he was so glad at being able to save the girl from inevitable destruction, that he should discharge the other prisoners. The girl was then sent to the institution in Franklin's-row, Chelsea. ASSAULT BY A GENTLEMAN.-Mr. Charles Sala, of No. 39, Spring-gardeue, gentleman, was charged at the above court, before Mr. Knox, with being drunk and assaulting Samuel Thompson, manager of the American stores, Oxford-street. Mr. Wright appeared for the prosecution. The complainant said that about a quarter to twelve the previous night, the prisoner, after making use of disgust ing language towards the barmaids and the customers at his employers, the American Stores, Oxford-street, went out. Shortly after he came in again going into a different compartment, and called for drink, but Mrs. Gooch refused to serve him as he had insulted the cus tomers, on which he said that he could not in sult her, at the same time calling her a most disgraceful name. He followed the prisoner to see him out of the house, but never put Isis hand on him, and he went up to a cab, then returned, and I struck him twice, knocking him down, hurting his back and spoiling his clothes. Witness having proved that the prisoner made use of disgraceful language, and his calling, Mrs: Gooch an offensive name, the defendant said that being pushed roughly he struck the complainant. All the witnesses, in reply to Mr. Knox, said the prisoner had been drink ing. Mr. Knox said he had no doubt the fact was that the prisoner had taken a little brandy here and there, and did not know what he was doing. The prisoner having expressed himself sorry for what had occurred, Mr. Knox said that, taking the prisoner's expression of regret into consideration, he would not inflict imprisonment on him, but should order him to pay a fine of £2105., and £2los. by way of compensation to the complainant. SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF FOREIGN SEAMEN.-Mr. Moss Phillips, an American shipping agent, of High. street, Shadwell, was charged before Mr. Paget at the Thames Police-court with unlawfully detaining the chest, bed, and sea kit of a foreign seaman with an unpro nounceable name, and for whose service an interpreter named Igetstran was sworn. Mr. Phillips said the complainant could speak and understand English well. Mr. Paget said it was most extraordi nary how the atmosphere of the Thames Police court made foreigners forget all the English they had previously learned. The complainant said he went to Mr. Phillips and asked him for a berth on board a ship, and he asked him to.sign a ship's articles of agreement. ITe'did so, and was charged 2s. 6d., and ordered to bring his bed, baggage, and clothes. He had since left 'all his things with Mr. Phillips and could not ge4 them back. Mr. Phillips, in reply, said he had not got the man:s things, and they were not in his posses. sion five months. The man shipped to proceed in an American ship on a foreign going voyage, and an advance ,of a month's wages was paid to him. The clothes, chest, and hammock of the com plainant had been sent on board the American ship, which sailed last Tuesday. Mr. Paget asked the foreigner why he did not sail iu the American ship, and he replied he did not like the vessel. Mr. Paget : You liked the advance. You have been guilty of a most dis honest act, and, after receiving a month's advance and spending it, refuse to sail with your vessel. The sum mons is dismissed. THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. MlRYLEBoNE.—Yesterday evening Mr. Hepworth Dixon addressed a crowded meeting of ratepayers at the Lecture Hall, Seymour-street. ; Ilk Finch presided. Mr. Dixon was received with much cheering, and which was renewed again and again'duriiig a lengthy address. On the motion of Col. Dickson and bis. Reed, the usual re solution was put and carried unanimously. EXPLOSION OF A BOILER ON BOARD A VESSEL. — Yesterday morning, as the steamer Victoria, of Sunder land, was steaming up the Tyne past South Shields, her boiler exploded, killing a youth named Hall, about 16 years of age, and dangerously injuring George Brown, the engine-man, a native of North Shields. The steamer was much damaged. DEATH OF GENERAL CARMICHAEL, C. 13.— We have to announce the death of General Charles Montan: ban Carmichael, C. 8., colonel of the 20th Regiment of Hussars, which took place on Monday last, at Boulogne sur-Mer, aged 80. The deceased general, who was formerly in the Indian 14.riny, had seen considerable service. He had served in the siege and capture of Callinger in 1812, against Rewah in 1813, and Alwar in 1814. He was pre sent at the siege and capture of Hattrass and Moorsaun, in 1816-17 ; the Mahratta, and Pinda,ree war of 1817-19, including the capture of Joud and Rampoora ; against the fort of Hmneerghur and the Bheels, as brigade-major, 1823.24. He commanded a light detach ment and took possession of the Raj of Jawra Mairpore in 1837-3 5 3. At the end of the year 1838 he marched in command of the 4th Irregular Horse to join the army of the Indus as volunteers, and served throughout the cam paign in Affghanistan under Lord KPane, including the forcing of the Bolan and Khojuck Passes, the taking of Candahar and Khelat-i-G-hilzie, siege and, capture of Giniznee, occupation of Cabool and Jellalabid, and pas sage of the Khyber Pass. In 1834 he was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and had also re ceived the medal awl 3rd class llotauee Empire.' • • THE ADDRESS OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA, The Nolth German Parliament was opened yesterday, *hen the folloWhik speech from the Throne was de- livered : " Honoured Gentlemen of the Parliantent of the . kortii German Confederation,—His Majesty the King of Prussia has been pleased to confer upon me the task of opening the Parliament of the North German Confederation in the name of the Confederate Governments. ft Would have afforded his Majesty great satisfaction to have been present to-clay hi your midst, in order to thank God from this place for the Buda:marl with which' the arms of the German forces have been blessed, and tit express to you the part which the national attitude and unanimity of the Parliament in affording the necessary means for carrying on the war have 'had in these successes. ' By the victories, unprecedented in the military history of the world, which, by God's will, have been gained through the heroic) valour and sagacious leadership of the Germans, the ageresslou undertaken by'France against Germany in July last has been inVellt.d: The French people must have acquired the conviction that its pregnt power, . nine the destruction of the armies which were sent into the field against us, is not capable of coping with the united military forced of Germany. We should, therefore, be able to regard peace as certain had our unfortunate neighbours a Government the members of which re garded their future AS inseparable from that of their country. Ueh a Government would have seized every opportunity to place the nation, at the • head of which it had raised itself by its ova supreme power, in a position to elect a National Assembly, and to deliberate upon the present and future Of the country;. But the documents which will be sub mitted to you, gentlemen, by the Presidency of the Con: federation, will afford you proof that those Who .now hold the reins of power in France prefer to sacrifice the forces of a noble nation in a hopeless struggle ; the incalculable' exhaustion and devastation which will be to France the consequences of the continuance of the war under pre sent circumstances must certainly diminish the power of the country to such an extent that its restoration will require a longer period than would be the case in tile ordinary course of war. The Confederate Governments, however, are compelled with regret to give expression to their conviction that the peace between these two great neighbouring peoples, up mn the continuance of which they calculated less thatt sir months ago, will but be all the more in danger by the remembrance which the impression of this war will leave in France the mo ment when France, by the restoration of her own strength, or by the conclusion of alliances with other Powers, shall feel herself strong enough to ?scorn mence the struggle. The conditions upon which the allied Governments would be ready to conclude peace have been publicly discussed. It is necessary that they should be commensurate with the greatness of the sacrifices- laid upon our country by this war, which though undertaken without any ground whatsoever, had the assent of 'the whole French nation. It is, above all things, necessary that they should establish a defendable frontier for Germany against the continuance by future Governors of France of the policy of conquest, which has Been pursued for so many hundred years, and that this frontier &laid be settled in such a way as partly to redress the results of the unfortunate wars which Germany, at a period of in ternal division, was compelled to wage by the will of France. At the same time it is necessary that our South German brethren should be freed from the Istftheir of the threatening position which France owes to former conquest. The Confederate Governments feel that they can rely upon the North German Parlia ment not to refvse the means which are still required for the attainment of these objects. They are convinced that now, when it is a question of rendering secure the results which have been achieved, they will meet in you the same patriotism and devotion which they found when the task watt that of accomplishing the now achieved successes. It is their roost profound wish that it will be possible to refrain from using the whole of these means: • In order to afford you a complete survey of the politica situation; the doyen - Intent-will lay before you the communications which have recently reached the Ministry for Foreign affairs respecting the Treaty of Paris of the 30th of March, 1856, and iu doing which thei Confederate Governments desire to express their hoper that the blessings of peace will remain assured to thOsei nations which have hitherto enjoyed them. The continu- • ance of the war has not prevented the accomplishment of a work of peace. The sentiment of unity, which has been vivified by the common danger and the jointly-won victories, the consciousness of the position which Ger many, for the first time for centuries, has achieved through her unity, the recognition of the fact that only by the creation of permanent institutions for the future of Germany can a fitting legacy of this time of deeds and sacrifices be assured, have, more rapidly and universally than a short time back would have been cre dible, filled the German people and its princes with the conviction that a stronger link than that afforded by in' ternational treaties is needed between the North and the South. This unanimous opinion of the Governments has led to negotiations, the first fruits of which, grown on the field of battle, will be laid before you for approval in the shape of a constitution for a German Confederacy, which has been agreed upon by the North Ger: man Confederation and the Grand Duchies of 'laden and Hesse Darmstadt ; which has been unani mously adopted by the Federal Council. The un derstanding which has been arrived at upon similar bases with Bavaria will, also, form the subject of your deliberti tions ; and the agreement of views which exists between the allied Governments . and Wurtemberg respecting the object to be aimed at, permits us to hope that a similar agreement as to the mttthod of attaining it will not be wanting. Honoured gentlemen,—With this, work you will worthily close a period of activity such as has rarely been the lot of Legislative Assemblies. In little morel than three years you have helped to further tile com pletion of the Federal Constitution which was desafided to your co-operation, by a long list of important laws, entering deeply into the most varied interests of the life of the nation, and by the last of these laws which is submitted to you, before the close of your legislative existence, this constitution and the legislation resting thereon are to be extended across the frontiers which have hitherto separated us from our South German brethren. 'lle great national thought which has always guided you in your deliberations will, with God's help, be brought a decided step 'nearer to its full realisation by the last discussion for which you assemble. Herewith, by order of his Majesty the King, Chief of the Bund, and in the name of the Confederate Governments, I declare the Parliament of the North Ger man Confederation to be opened." The address was read by Herr Delbruck. TAE SUFFERING IN PARIS. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News on the nth inst. writes :—We have come to eat " rats and mice and such small deer." A cat sells for six francs, and the leg of a dog is a delicacy of the season. But in truth we have not yet come to the end of our beef and mutton.; there is a considerable quantity of . salt pro visions and preserved meats in store, and there are 40,000 horses which have to be eaten. -At the commencement of the siege we had 100,000 horses, including those of the army. Of these 30,000 have gone the way of all flesh..-they are consumed. Suppose that the army requires 30,000 horses, there remain forty thousand for consumption. Each horse may be sup posed to yield 250 kilogrammes of food; and if each inhabitant is allowed fifty grammes a day, it follows that there is meat enough in Paris to last for yet another 100 days. This is official, and may be relied on. But disease and death are spreading fast, and much depends on food, and low spirits, and anxiety. In a recent letter I reminded you that in the Sedan week the deaths in Paris amounted to 900. In the week ending November 5 the deaths had mounted up to 1,800. In the week ending yesterday, the deaths reached 1,900. The deaths from smallpox alone are very terrible. rn the week ending November 5, they were 380. In 6his last week, they were 419. There area great man y deaths from gastric complaints. It is reported also that a sentimental, but very real, disease has broken out among the provincial battalions of Mobiles—home sick ness, or, as it is technically called, nostalgia. Many people laugh at this disease ; they cannot understand it. But it has a powerful. influence on certain temperaments. The Scotch Highlanders, en foreign st&tions often suffer from it, and sink in their graves to the tune of " Lochaber no more." These pure Celts—the Bretons —are giving way to the complaint, drooping from mere melancholy. They lack amusement. Nearly all amusements are at an end. The theatres are closed by order of the Government, and it is doubtful if people would flock to them so as tc make them pay even if they were free to open. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN HORSE RACE. A genuine sporting match, and one of an international character, has just been made in America, a challenge to race an English thoroughbred against an American horse for 25,000 dollars a-side, both animals to be three-year olds, and the distance to be two miles, at the Sarata or Jerome-park Meeting next season, having been accepted, and the articles duly certified. Nothin g is yet known as to what English horse will be selected, but both 41fimals are to be named within ti mouth. OUR COTENIFORARIES---This Morning THE EASTERN QEESfftill. Me Times remarks that it is not difficult to anticipate ilia reply which Prince Gortschakoff will Ore' to the despatch of the British Foreign Office. nusdla will hardly retreat fttne the position which she has be recently ; so decidedly ; so offensively taken, yet the forfns of diplernatic Moderation will of course • be maintained. We are given' #.O understand that her ecrmmunicatiore will be firm—that is ; she will yield nothing in substance, yet she will not close the door to negotiation. This necessitates a corresponding action on the part of England. We must be firm, yet not close the door to negotiation. To submit tamely to the affront which Russia has put upon us while we cannot but per ceive the Lientian of the offender and the construction which the whole world &List place on the act, would be unworthy of a great Fewer ; and bring with it that loss of consideration which id ar real weakness to a nation. To accept the principle that a treaty can bu denounced and videted at the will 'of any party to it would be an overthrow of public law, and the most deadly blow to the Political system under which the States of Europe, in spite of their national fends and the jealousies and 'ambition of their rulers, have been enabled to maintain themselves at the head of civilization. From the strong , position which Lard Granville has taken up there must be no withdrawal ; the e4yuntry will not only support the Government in maintaining gre principles of their dee patch, but insiit that no afMr-ra...,14ve shall practically nullify them. National honour andinfluenoe are terms that hare been much abused ; they have been perverted within the preselit year to the basest purposes of dynaetie ambi tion, but they are fiat vain words. England's honour, and that legitimate influence which the ablest and most just-minded men of all countries admit to be used for the benefit of Europe, Must not perish in irresolution and in that aver-scrupulosity which is always searching after excuses for an opponent. The Daily News askg s te, it peace or war? and adds - , this is the questicur which the Ministers who meet in Council have to decide,. if it have not indeed been already decided for them by the despatch of Prince Gortschakoff, which will form the subject matter of their deliberations. Let us hope that the Rus sian Chancellot and his Master have been wise, if only in the narrowegi sense of political prudence ; and patriotic, though only according to the most short sighted and egotistic ideas of ,patriotism. A narrow prw deuce and a large wisdom in this coincide in their dic takes ; a selfish and merely Russian policy is, for the Sove reign and Ministers of Russia,- at one with a large and generous European statesmanship. What is the aim which inspired the Circular of Prince Gortschalcoff? The Cabinet of St. Petersburg is restive under the restraints imposed by the Treaty of 1850. It demands, or rather• declares that it will resume, the excercise of the full rights of sovereignty in the Black Sea. It bursts asunder the restrictions by submission to which it purchased peace and saved-itself from the cession of territory, With MI air of magnanimity, Prince Gortechakoff declares that the liberty which Russia asserted for herself she is ready to grant to Turkey. What she takes she gives, having no right either to take or give. The Czar can as little release the Sultan, as he can release himself, from obliga tions which both owe not reciprocally to each other only, but to the faith of the Treaties, and to the companionship of European nations. Even if the matter lay between Turkey and Russia alone, the eonsent of Turkey would be necessary for the legal and moral validity of the re nunciation of the convention for neutralieini; the Black Sea. If Russia maintains the positions laid down in the first Circular of Prince Gartsoliakolf, she invites war. If she reduces those pretensions to sets, she makes . war. For her own sake, not less than for that of I:nrope, of civili sation, and of humanity, she is bound to be cautious.' The Telegraph says: Au incident of such importance as the reply of Russia to England upon Prince Gortscha koff's note naturally caste a long shadow before it is actually realised. In the absenec i therefore, of textual information, it has been already pretty generally un derstood what the - . purport of that reply would. be, and we believe th it the accounts already given by telegram and public rumour are mainly accurate. The response of the St. Petersburg Government to Lord Granville'e strong but courteous communication is said to be .conciliatory.- Telegraphic forecasts of the despatch which will arrive to-day demonstrate to us that the manife.sto which has so profoundly shocked the sentiment of eivilisation and international honour was conceived in the interests of peace. Russia is represented as desiring peace and the repose of the East—blessings which can only be secured by an equitable* understanding. She declares herself anxious to assist in arriving at such an understanding, together with the Powers concerned ; and she does not consider the statement winch has appeared to involve any such alternative as retractation or war, but to be rathei a simple -notice of the fact, that repeated infractions of the Treaty of Paris, and generally altered circumstanees, have caused certain conditions of that treaty to lapse. Russia now explaius, we rejoice to hear, that she did not mean to put her language upon this subject into action. It is well ; for we were not " talking big !' nor diplomatising. Our Minister spoke but the sense of the nation when he wrote that her Majesty's Government could not sanction the avoidance, without proper preliminaries, of a ormtract still in force and bearing England's signature. We may now hope that the unmannerly words of Prince Gorts chakoff will in proper time lead to a rational discussion between the Powers, at which other matters besides this last compiication may be happily reviewed. "'Your if "is a great peacemaker and if " the Czar's Govern ment ineasit nothing but peace and go.d faith when it an nounced the intention of defying European opinion and breaking a registered bond, why, we can only regard Prince liortschakoff's despatch as an unlucky specimen of diplomatic literature. • We owe, says the Standard, to the peace-mongers the Crimean war—we owe to them the disasters which accompanied it. We owe to them our unprepared state, our military shortcomings, and the events which Earl Russell called " horrible and heart-rending," and did not exaggerate in so doing. Is this also to be repeated ? We are not hi a state to go to war, we are told by some. It is unfortunately too true, but we are still loss in a position to crave igno minious peace. We have, at this season of the year, time to properly organise our naval and military arma ments. If we do so, we may not need to use them, it is true; but will the nation lose by that ? But if we' drift on, lulled into false security by treacherous assur ances at home and abroad, what will our condition be when the present war is over, when Germany is flushed with conquest or France inspired by revenge ! Should peace be patched up between these Powers, without a supreme struggle, shall we find either pf them amicably. disposed . towards Englend? We fear not. We have. now the opportunity to conclude a valuable alliaace, one that will suffice to check the aggression of Russiti o at least, one that would make even Prussia hesitate before she adopted the quarrel of a Power which has derided a . solemn Treaty to which she was a co-signatory. Austria, in a word, looks to England for a firm and decided policy, and is ready to act au honest part. THE STATE OF PARIS. The 211a2iChUter Courier considers the German anticipa tions of completing the conquest of France by a coup de main are not quite so brilliant as they were a few weeks ago. Possibly they are not, and the reasons are not very recondite. Winter is approaching with rapid strides, the weather has been wet and unsettled to an unusual degree. German troops' are but ill provided for the winter campaign, and the difficulties of communication are gradually but steadily increasing. The last seven or eight weeks have been not wasted in France. The army of the Loire is no longer a myth, but, on the contrary, a most striking reality. The one real French victory of the cam paign has fallen to its lot, and it now holds a position from which it would be difficult, if not impossible, to dislodge it. Other forces are occupying the same kind of position. Up to within the last few days they have been supposed to be either non-existent or else of exaggerated strength ; today they are known to be rapidly improving in power and in discipline, and to be likely to give a good account of any enemy with whom they may be brought into contact. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone arrived in town yesterday from Hawarden Castle. The Marquis of Lorne ii on a visit• to Prince Arthur at the Ranger's House, Blackheath. Tier Majesty's Indian troopship Euphrates left Bombay on the 22nd of November, for Aden and Suez. The Captain Velief Fund now amounts to about £40,500. A sum of £22,008 is still required to make suit able provision for the widows and orphans of those who perished in that vessel. In the sitting of the Cortes, to fix the flotation of the new monarch and to decide on the ceremonial of reception, the Republicans propose to make an extra ordinary demonstration in favour of their doctrines. The death is announce I of the Rev. J. R. Barker, Professor'of Exegetical 'Me°logy - at Spring Hill College, Birmingham. Mr. Barker had held a chair in the College from its foundation, upwards of thirty years ago. He was a constant and most acceptable preacher in the various Nonconformist chapels in Birmingham and throughout the Midland Counties,