The Sun. — London, England, 1870-08-05 00:00:00

THE WAR. DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH. --- A telegram from the Prussian side, dated Nieder rothenbach, August 4, 5.55 p.m., gives the following account of a battle that took place on the attempt to storm Weissenburg by the French " A brilliant but bloody victory has been achieved by the army of the Crown Prince of Prussia, under the eyes of his Royal Highness. The occasion was the storming of Weissenburg and of Geis-hill in the rear of that town. The troops engaged on the German side were regiments of the Fifth and Eleventh Prus sian Army Corps and Second Army Corps of Bavaria, and on the French side the division of General Douay, belonging to the corps of Marshal M‘Mahon. The French were repulsed and dispersed, leaving behind their encampment. General Douay was killed, and over 500 unwounded prisoners, including many Turcos, fell into the hands of the Prussians. One piece of artillery was also captured. On the German side General Kirbach was grazed by a shot. The King's Grenadier Guards and the 50th Regi ment suffered severely." REPORTED CAPTURE OF SAAR LUIS BY THE FRENCH. In a telegram dated Paris, yesterday, 4th, 5.27 p.m., a rumour is said to prevail that a French corps marched yesterday upon Saarluis, and that a battle was imminent in that quarter. The Paris corres pondent of the Standard telegraphs that a report was current that the French had occupied Saarluis. Two hundred and fifty thousand Prussians are reported to be massed between Saarluis and Neukir chen (opposite Saarguemines). The Pays reports fighting near Lauterbourg, in which it says 25 French chasseurs put 150 Prussian cavalry to flight. THE BATTLE OF SA.A.RBRUCK. The Prussian account of the affair at Saarbruck is as follows :—" Notwithstanding a heavy artillery fire, our outposts remained at their station until the move ment of the enemy had been fully developed. Having formed into three divisions, the French troops advanced, and the weak Prussians advanced guard evacuated the town, and took up another post of observation without disorder. The loss on our side in this outpost skirmish was only two officers and 70 men, notwithstanding the Chassepots, mitrailleuses, and numerous pieces of artillery. The enemy appeared to have suffered considerably. On the same day, the 2nd of August, the enemy proceeded to Reinheim to the east of Sarraguemines, crossing the frontier with a strong force, and opened a heavy skirmishing fire of whole companies upon the smallest of the patrols on this side. Only one horse was grazed. The enemy retired before night fall. In all these small engagements our troops have behaved admirably." The Journal Qfficiel of last evening publishes General Froissard's report of Tuesday's engagement. The French loss was 6 killed and 67 wounded. The French took 14 prisoners, and the Prussian loss is roughly estimated at 250 killed and wounded. It appears beyond doubt that the deadly effects of the mitraille use at long range produced a great impres sion on the morale of the enemy. The special correspondent of the TimeB says that a trustworthy neutral spectator at Saarbruck gives these details :—" The French made some prisoners. No guns were lost. There were 40 men killed and 60 wounded. The French numbered 20,000; the Prussians 6,000. By Wednesday midday the French had not occupied the town. The artillery decided the action. There was but little infantry and no cavalry employed." REPORT FROM THE PRUSSIANS AT MAYENCE. Up to yesterday at 9.45 a.m. no further news had been received from the frontier subsequent to the attack on Saarbruck. From Neukirchen it is stated that the loco motives which were at Saarbruck previous to Tuesday's attack have been removed to the interior uninjured. During the fighting the Saarbruck railway and station were somewhat d • • aged by shells. REPORT OF THE FRENCH ARMY AT METZ. According to the official reports of yesterday, Prince Fre derick Charles, the Commander-in-Chief of the Piussian army destined to operate in the valley of the Moselle, has fixed his head-quarters at the Quint Ironworks, near Treves. The presence of the 7th and Bth Prussian Army Corps on the Saar appears to be established. The Baden troops at Rastadt are being relieved by Prussian troops. All the soldiers of the army of the Rhine began on Wednesday to draw their campaign supplies. The operations on Tuesday against Saarbruck were undertaken with the object of capturing the left bank of the Saar, and cutting the railway communication between Treves and Neukirchen. This object was effected by a detach ment of engineers. Marshal Bazaine has reconnoitred the position of the Prussians between Saarbruck and Saarluis for a distance of 1,200 metres beyond Werden. The enemy was not found in force. THE PRUSSIAN FLEET. A Prussian telegram from Kiel says the statement made by some French papers that two Prussian gun boats had been captured by the French is a pure inven tion. So far as is known up to the present no gun boat or other vessel of war has come into contact with the enemy's ships. SATURDAY'S FIGHT AT SAARBRUCK.. The Prussian correspondent of the Manchester Examiner, just before starting with a division of the Prussian army for Coblentz, telegraphs'that great numbers of wounded arrived in Cologne on Sunday night. Saturday's engage ment at Saarbruck lasted six hours. There were six hundred men hors de combat. The 7th Lancers were considerably cut up. The French losses must have been greater. A number of prisoners were brought to Coblentz. NEUTRALITY OF SWEDEN. The Government has issued a proclamation declaring that it will observe a policy of complete neutrality, the maintenance of which harmonises with the interests of the people of Sweden and Norway. The proclamation further impresses upon the newspapers the importance of not embarrassing the Government by spreading rumours cal culated to weaken the confidence of foreign countries in the intentions of the Government. ATTITUDE OF AUSTRIA AND ITALY. Reliable communications received at Vienna from Flo rence leave no room for doubt as to the fact that the nego tiations conducted by Count Vitzthum for establishing a joint attitude on the part of the Austrian and Italian Cabinets, based upon an expectant neutrality, are being brought to a satisfactory issue. Count Vitzthum will probably proceed from Florence to Paris. Count Arese has arrived at Vienna, but nothing has transpired with regard to the possible mission with which he may be en trusted. In Wednesday's sitting of the Lower House at Pesti', the President, in his closing speech, dwelt upon the fact that the national Hungarian Honved Army and the com mon army of the Empire take their stand by the present monarchy. The King and the nation, he said, recognised strict neutrality, and the Honved army, no less than the common army of the Empire, would secure this neu trality ; and, supported by it, they fearlessly looked for ward to the future. The speech was received with cheers from all sides. In last evening's sitting of the Italian Senate, in reply to an interpellation from Signor Scialoja and to the criticism of General Cialdini upon the conduct of the Minister, Signor Visconti Venosta said he hoped that the Franco- Prussian conflict would remain circumscribed, and declared that the policy of Italy consisted in maintaining an at tentive neutrality. With regard to Rome he said that France had spontaneously reverted to the observance of the S€ptember Convention. Italy had adhered to this decision, and as violence could not solve a question so moral in its bearings as the question of Rome the Go vernment would not allow any one to take from it the initiative in achieving its solution. THE ENGAGEMENT AT SAARBRUCK. . PARIS, WEDNESDAY. We have to-day received the.nexciting .news that Sdaz- L!. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY briick, on the Prussian frontier, has been attacked, the Germans defeated, and the place itself taken. Naturally we are en fête. The bulletins are glowing, and though there is obvious reason to believe that the joy is somewhat in excess of the measure that the facts would justify, people are not disposed to ask questions at present. Yesterday, it appears, An attack upon Saarbruck was resolved on, and the Emperor sallied out of Metz with his son, in order to give that interesting, but very delicate youth, a first taste of powder. There was a move forward on the part of one of General Frossard's divisions, the frontier was crossed, and for the first time the French, in any great force, stood upon Prussian soil. The capture of the heights at Saarbruck, and the subsequent dri v i ng o f th e P russ i ans from the town, lasted about two hours. It began at eleven, and finished at one, and the Emperor with his son, who behaved well, was back in time for an early dinner. On account of the great " élan" of the French, their loss, we are given to understand, was extremely light—only ten men and one officer. We are told nothing about the loss of the Prussians. The artillery played a great part in the fight, and the mitrail leuses, so runs a telegram in the Figaro, did unheard of mischief. One of these instruments was placed on the top of a hill—one of those round the town which the troops carried ; the Emperor came up, and a favourable oppor tunity was watched for, in order to try the machine for the first time on living men. So it appears from this that the mitrailleuse is likely to do for the Prussians what the needle gun did for the Austrians. As to what became or the town we are in doubt, for whilst one story relates that it was reduced to ashes, another states that no attempt was made to occupy it. The Prussian force is given in the bulletin at from 10,000 to 20,000 men. All that we can say is that if such a force as this has been beaten, and Saarbruck made a heap of ashes, with the loss of only eleven men on the French side, and by the agency of a few battalions, the battle has been one-sided indeed, and the enemy may conclude a peace as soon as they like. The Paris correspondent of the Standard, Writing on Wednesday, an account of the fight at Saarbruck. He says :—lt would appear that yesterday morning the corps of Gene al Froissard, q uar t ere d a t S t. A vo id , w i th i ts outposts 'at Stiring and Spicheren, received orders to ad vance, and occupy the heights which command Saar bruck on the left bank of the river Saar. The infantry force was to be supported by several batteries of ar tillery, including one of 12-pounder howitzers. The ground slopes down from the French fr( ntier rather abruptly, and is nearly flat for about three-quarters of a mile, when it gradually rises and forms a plateau which commands the whole of that pretty little manu facturing town. Either the Prussians were not numerous enough to oppose the advance of the French in the open, or had orders not to do so. The former hypothesis is the more likely of the two, especially if it be true that it was garrisoned only by the 40th Regiment of the line and two squadrons of "Miens. However that may be, the French advanced with their usual dash and intrepidity, and very soon dislodged the enemy from the plateau. When the troops were half way across the plain, the Emperor and the Prince Im perial arrived on horseback, accompanied by Marshal Lebceuf, and were enthusiastically cheered by the troops. Had the enemy offered a serious resistance they would have been in a very dangerous position, as they were im mediately in the rear of the first line which kept firing as they moved. When the plateau was gained thel2pounder battery was brought into action on the plateau against the town in which the Prussians had sought a refuge, and began shelling it. It was set on fire in several places, and the Prussians finding it untenable crossed the Saar and evacuated the suburb of St. Johnann on the right bank, which was also set on fire by the French shells. As they retreated to the heights that rise above St. Johann (on the right bank of the river) mitrailleuses were brought against them, and are reported to have done tremendous execution. The Prussians are said to have had a battery of artillery in position above St. Johann, but it does not appear to have been any good ; probably the distance was too great. The long and short of the matter is, that the French occupy the heights commanding the Saar on the left bank ; whilst the Prussians occupy the heights on the right bank, the river and the town of Saarbruck are between the two forces. The town and suburb are, if not destroyeds utterly damaged by the French shells. The Prussians have evacuated it : but the French have not occupied it. Of course war has stern necessities, which at this distance it. would be impertinent to criticise ; but as the town was untenable the moment the French occupied the heights commanding it on the left hand of the river it seems a pity that it should have been deemed indispensable to bombard and destroy it. One account says it is now but a heap of ashes. Bombarding an open town, after a successful attack which has cost the assailants only one man killed and ten wounded, does not appear in har mony with the principles of modern warfare, which eschews the old rule to " kill, burn, and destroy" all tha' belongs to the enemy. The correspondent of the Opinion- Nationale, of Paris, thus winds up a lively accoinit of the Saarbruck affair The effect of the mitrailleu se was terrific. Battalions were mown down. After each discharge the Prussians broke and disbanded on all sides. The parade-ground was occupied by our troops. The 23d of the Line entered the first, driving the Prussians before them. The artillery was immediately established there. It was directed upon the railway station and the intrenched points of Saarbruck, which extended before us with its factories in flames to the banks of the Sarre. After a few minutes fire broke out in three or four different places, and the Prussians evacuated Saarbruck. Our Mitrailleuses pursued them with their terrible fire. They took their course along the paths which run along the heights on the other side of the Sarre. By one o'clock the action may be considered as at an end. Our division encamped upon the parade-ground and upon the slopes. General Froissard, with General Bataille. with their field glasses, observed the retreat of the enemy, and directed a battery to open upon the railway-bridge to the left, between Saarbruck and Forbach. The bridge was defended by bags of earth and barrels of petroleum. Our fire dis lodged the Prussians, the last enemies, who took to flight under the fire of our tirailleurs, The Chassepots are terrible. They earry 1,000 or 1,200 metres, while the Prussian bullets are only effective at 800. Upon the parade-ground everybody was talking gaily. The dead and wounded were few in number—two officers killed, one sergeant•major, and four soldiers. lam ignorant of the number of victims in the Prussian army, but it must be considerable, having regard to the superiority and ra pidity of our fire. The 3/litrailleuses have pt oved master pieces in respect of death and carnage. From our espla nade we saw the showers of balls strike down bat talions as a waterspout ravages and uproots a field of corn. The cannon still was heard, but the affair was ended. It was not a battle properly so called, for the Prussians never waited for us. They beat a retreat before us at racing pace. But a considerable advantage has been gained. The first engagement is a victory, and the moral effect is immense. Our soldiers jest freely upon the precipitate flight of the Prussians. Their pride did not prevent them from letting us see their backs at the first encounter. The Times Paris correspondent speaks of the affair some what differently from any other writer :—Nobody will doubt French dash, but it is manifest the Prussians would not have seriously defended the position, even if had been twice as strong. The little combat is probably only the first of a series of similar ones which will be fought before the Prussians make a determined stand in front of their fortresses. The important feature of the affair is that it seems to show a superiority of the Chassepot over the needle-gun. The French had only 180 killed and wounded ; the Prussian loss is estimated at 300. Although the Figaro professes to know, by a private tele gram; that there was a great artillery fight, and that the mitrailleuses did wonders, the accounts received in official quarters up to noon this day did not confirm this, and it seems to have been chiefly an infantry combat. Details, however, are still wanting. The important fact is that the campaign is opened ; that the French army has advanced in force into the enemy's country ; and that at this time of writing it is pretty certain that five corps, which may be estimated at 250,000 men, have crossed the frontier. SA ARBRUCK. Saarbruck is the chief town of one of the thirteen divi sions of the district of Treves, in the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine. It is an industrial town, containing from nine to ten thousand inhabitants, divided into two parts by the river Saare. The town is situated on the left bank, on the right bank is the St. Jean faubourg. Without. being a military posi tion at the present time, Saarbruck is well situated at the entrance of the forest of Forbach, two kilometres from the French frontier. It is surrounded by low hills, which command it on all sides. Its possession, says a French paper (which, however, there is reason to question) gives the key to the principal tributary of the Moselle, and to the strong Prussian positions which are near it. The campaign of 1794 put the French iu possession of Saar briick, but it was lost to them in 1815. The Pruosiana had made IWO of: , it a,i wotcli-tolver, to observe the French frontier, and some surprise I has been expressed that they did not surround it with fortifications. Saarbriick is celebrated for its collieries. It is situated in a valley which is near the Vosges, and at the head of the valley of Subzbach, which joins the Hartz Mountains in Rhenish Bavaria. An idea may be formed of the richness of the coal produce, when it is said that last year it reached fifty million hundred weight. From thirteen to fourteen thousand workmen are employed. Three rail way lines run from Saarbruck—one to Mannheim, another to Treves, and a third to France by Forbach. HOW IT WAS TAKEN. Ampler details tell us that the frontier was crossed shortly before ten, the second divisidin of the second corps advancing on the left by the town of Forbach, which is the nearest French post of any consequence, and the third division filing by the little village of Arne wald, which lies at the foot of the heights commanding Siarbruck. A battery of twelve guns of the sth Artillery Regiment was sent forward to support the troops. At about twenty minutes to eleven the 66th and 67th Regiments, who were the first in the advance, sent out skirmishing parties, and business began at once, the Prussians awaiting the tirailleurs in the ditches and hollows round the foot of the hills. Just before eleven the firing became general and very heavy, the balls of the Prussians flying in all directions, and the skirmishers battling most energetically, though, strange to say, so very few people, on the French side at least, were hurt. Only one French sharpshooter was killed in all this preliminary firing. After the skirmishers had finished the troops pushed forward. Some guns were got in position on the hill on one side of the river Saar, opposite the heights occupied by the Prussians, and there played with good effect. A well sustained cannonade was kept up, under cover , of which the infantry formed on the left, by the side of the wood, and moved forward towards the hills. At a quarter past twelve the wood of Ludwigswald began to burn, and soon after Saarsbruck itself was set on fire by the French artillery. All was now ready for infantry work, on the supposition that the Prussians meant to fight. The French had to take the heights and the Prussians had to keep them, but so far as we can learn from the very confused details, they did not attempt to do anything of the kind. It appears that nothing in par ticular came of all the cannonading, sharpshooting, and burning, for the Prussians fell back from their position, leaving them in the hands of the French. The bulletins say that the artillery then drove them from the town, but we all know better than that. If the Prus sians had meant to remain in the town, they would have fought for the heights that commanded it. They could not hold one without the other. It is obvious that if they had made up their minds to abandon the heights, they intended also to evacuate the town. At five minutes past one the French troops were in possession of all the points previously held by the Germans. There can be little question that the accounts of this affair haVe been exaggerated. Even the Moniteur, which is not prone to underrate official deeds, reduces the expression "from 10,000 to 20,000" to "from 6,000 to 7,000." A still lower estimate is probably nearer the truth. It remains, too, to be seen how far the evacuation of Saarbruck by the Prus sians was an intentional manoeuvre, and how far it was the result of actual defeat. The number of fatal casualties, only eleven, proves that there can have been no very hard fighting. But it is equally evident that the -Prussians committed a fault in not making a greater effort to keep possession of Saarbruck, and in their leaving the prestige of victory to their opponents. The moral effect of such an advantage cannot be slight. It must put the troops in good spirits; it has made people here joyful; Rentes have gone up, and the whole affair is very satis factory. It seems to have been more a trial battle than anything else—fought for the purpose of trying the chassepot and the mitrailleuse, to let the troops face fire, and, not least, to air the Prince Imperial. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Azamat Batuk, the correspondent of the Pall ill, Gazette., writes as follows from Metz, dated Tuesday " The first fight took place this morning at and near Saar bruck, partly in the town itself, partly in a forest. French accounts will probably represent the battle as a considerable one ; but I have good reason to believe that, although the number of troops present on both sides was large, the number of men actually engaged on either side did not exceed 2,000. The French plied their artillery hard, and the Prussians were ejected with some loss. Few particulars have been received yet, but the number of killed on the French side is spoken of as not more than ten : men. The Emperor left the Palais de la Prdfecture at half-past eight, shortly after receiving a telegram that fighting Was going on. He drew up in an open carriage with his soli to the railway station, where a special train awaited him, and where his field horses, and those of his staff as well, were ready saddled and placed into the waggons. The Emperor and his son were both present at the fight. It was reported that the Garde Impdriale--or at least that part of it which is at and near Metz--had orders to leave Metz if there was no news up to three o'clock. At a quarter to three, however, the Emperor himself returned with the news. It made no excitement. Officers simply exchanged compliments by shaking hands, so that at first I fancied something was wrong. It appears, however, that this coolness is only a matter of policy and tact. We do not wish to shew any particular satisfaction at so trifling an affair ; it is only natural and not worth mentioning. The people in the town, however, were not above shewing a certain degree of pleased agitation ; and while I write these lines there is more noise, more singing in the streets than usual. In spite of their coolness, however, the officers here do not conceal their satisfaction at what they conceive to be the moral results of the affair. They say that if the Prussians had not defended the pasition at all it would have been intelligible. But,since they began to fight they ought to have gone on ; and a retreat under such circumstances must act unfavourably on the spirit of the 8,000 or 10,000 men who had to march back. As the French have begun to advance there is, of course, a rumour that victory will be resumed to-morrow." MR. LABOUCIIERE ON BELGIUM. The independence of Belgium, which has found plenty of allies and supporters in the English press and Parlia- ment, has a very strenuous opponent in Mr. Henry Labouchere. He professes, indeed, to sympathise with the Belgians, andto regret that their national independence should be threatened, but he is ready with a long list of reasons why England should not exert herself on behalf of her imperilled ally. What are the obligations, he asks, which we are really under with regard to Belgium ? When the Protocol of London was framed, we joined with the other great Powers in guaranteeing its neutrality and independence. Not later than 1867, Lord Derby entered into a similar guarantee with regard to Luxemburg, when he explained that no Power was liable to be called on to act singly or separately. Mr. Labouchere having heard this statement pass unchallenged in Parliament, asks why we should undertake responsibibilities with regard to Belgium, which neither Russia nor Austria assumes ? We did not interfere to prevent the incorporation of Cracow into Austria, of Poland into Russia, of Savoy into France. We have stood by indifferent, while the treaties of 1815 have been torn into shreds, while a Bonaparte reigns in France, the German States have become a great military empire, and other changes have taken place. Again, can we defend Belgium thrust as it is between two great military empires ? Mr. Labouchere doubts it, and protests against English blood and treasure being spent on its behalf. He hopes Mr. Gladstone will remem- ber that We is the Minister of Englam], not of Belgium, and that our wars against the First Napoleon, which lasted 25 years, originated in that country. WAR. NOTES. CAVALRY AND AR riLLERY.—The armament in which I suspect the French will be found somewhat supe rior is in artillery. There is a kind of prejudice against this arm of the service in the Prussian army, so that the most spirited and intelligent young men prefer to enter cavalry or infantry, and the officers are not as a rule taken from the better classes, though they must of course be gentlemen. There may be improvements in the projec tiles since 1866, but in the war of that year it was found that a large proportion of shells were blind. The grand cavalry problem must be solved out of the Palatinate if at all. Both sides are confident of their superiority, but the Germans are far more numerous, at all events, and they have had the most recent experience in working cavalry, and have in it gained very comfortable successes. —Times Correspondent at Prussian head-quarto -8. DIPLOMATIC COMIDDRATIONEL—Ii you ask how EV EMNG, AUGUST 5. 1870 it came about that Count Bismarck listened to the French propositions, and urge that they never could have been brought forward had not Prussia shewn herself willing to lend a ready ear, Count Bismarck has a very simple answer to return. He was obliged to temporise with France, or war would have been declared against Germany long ago. It is commonly supposed, and with perfect accuracy, that Frar.ce is much stronger from a military point of view than she was three years since ; but the respite gained by Germany has been even more advantageous. So at least it is maintained here Count Bismarck professes never to have intended to let France have a rood of soil, German, Dutch, or Belgian, if he could help it ; but he had to keep France dangling till the moment arrived to keep her at arm's length. There can be no doubt that he is disappointed at the revulsion of feeling produced in England against France not being greater even than it is. Do not imagine that the common German wish. to fight France singlehanded prevails among politicians here. They would vastly like to have England on their side; and if an alliance between England, Germany, and Austria is not ultimately brought about, the objects of Berlinese statesmanship will not have been successfully attained. But pray bear in mind what is the alternative. France and Germany will not fight long for the sole benefit of England and Russia, and when they do agree their agree ment will be wonderful. An early and diplomatic peace is still talked of here if England manifests indifference to the situation.—Correspondent of the Standard at Berlin. FEELING IN AUSTRIA.—If war if inevitable, Hungarian opinion, from fear of Russian aggression, is in favour of joining France. Bohemian sympathies are in favour of Prussia. The astute Bismarck has actively employed the last four years, since the Treaty of Prague, in familiarising the northern portion of Bohemia with the peaceful and industrial adventures of Prussian capital and energy, by means of incomparable agents. These enterprises have been of public notoriety for a long time ; but, as usual, the Austrians evaded the trouble of thinking what might result from them. His other enterprises of a more clan destine nature can be pretty well guessed, and here he is believed capable of anything. Perhaps he is. At all events the obstinate fractiousness and childish sulking of the Bohemians are attributed to him. If the worthy Czechs imagine that, in an eventu ality, Bismarck would give them the autonomy for which they clamour, and which, if separated from Austria, they could not maintain single-handed for one week against Prussia or Russia, they ought once more to take themselves to the study of the old hackneyed fable of King Log and King Stork. In the German provinces of the Empire the feeling is generally Prussian—not, you may be sure, from any love of the Hohenzollerns or admiration of their Chancellor's great talents or policy, but because they regard the house of Bonaparte as the traditional enemy of the whole German race, and look upon a French soldier very much in the same manner as the Devil is supposed to regard holy water.--Telegraph Correspondent at Vienna. GOING TO MASS.—When M. 011ivier—not quite his own master perhaps —gave orders that no newspaper correspondent should exe rc i se hi s f unc ti ons at t h e front, _ _ he invited the eager tribe of journalists to present them selves at the Rue Cambaceres every night at twelve o'clock to receive the news of the day. At this invitation the wary and experienced shrugged thoir shoulders, and punctually they went to be at 11.30 p.m. Would that the English public knew as much of that foreign institution called a " Bureau de la Presse" as do these veterans ! If it were so, I also would go to bed at 11.30 p.m., and no reader of the _Daily Telegraph would blame me. The office of the Rue Cambaceres is a practical joke. Reading its nightly reports, given with so much solemnity, after grave verification of powers and mucn whispering of the bureaucrats, a stranger could never suspect that the deadliest combat of our generation was brooding even now upon the frontier. On Sunday night we went, eager and hopeful, to this merry Bureau de la Presse. Surely, we thought, there is something new. The Emperor has arrived ;he has done, or said something. Gravely the portfolios are handed to us. There is not one cigarette alight in all the handsome room, where they generally blaze like stars on the sea. We sit down. We hunt amongst the multitudinous leaves of blotting paper that give the portfolios so respectable an appear ance. We find the dingy half-sheet of cream laid, and we read with emotion inexpressible that " the Emperor and all his household went on foot to the Cathedral to day, where they heard mass." Not a word more from the frontier. Whilst we sit, open-mouthed, staring at the news, a young French journalist hurries in, takes his port folio, impatiently finds the paragraph, reads, and slams it down. " Pour le coup," cries he, " c'est trop fort !" and dashes out. And everybody in France echoes the indig nant words. The Bureau de la Presse simply laughs at us all. When the whole world is a tip-toe with expecta tion, it pretends to satisfy the universal appetite with news that the Emperor has been to mass. Was it worth while to drag us out at midnight to tell us that ? Who ever doubted he'd been to mass? , Perhaps it was the order of his going which might be sup posed to interest the universe. His household accom panied him, mark you,, and on foot. Well, as evidence that Napoleon is not so ill as some would make him out, the story has its value ; but as news from the seat of war it is merely a foolish jest. —Paris Correspondent of the Tele- I graph. ENGLAND AND BELGIUM.—The serious represen tations of Lord Granville to the French Government as to our treaty obligations to uphold the neutrality and inde pendence of Belgium, have led the French Government to send over the Marquis de Caumont la Force with personal explanations. Lord Granville, who was not per mitted to have a copy of the Duc de Grammont's last despatch to the French Ambassador in London, will not, however, be satisfied with personal assurances, but will insist upon a written and authoritative declara tion by the French Government as to their Belgian policy, in every eventuality of war and peace. It is held almost impossible that Great Britain can keep out of a war which is widening over the entire Continent. —Birmingham Post. "In my last I told. you that all here agreed that was a sadness in the expression of Napoleon's features which every one believed to be a sign as to how disturbed he was in his mind. I myself had not seen the Emperor then ; but now that I have had a good oppor runity of judging of his appearance, I am satisfied that the supposed sad look is nothing but an air of continual bodily suffering. Indeed, he walks with his body half bent and with so little elas ticity in his steps that any one accustomed to note the outward muscular indications of a long-standing and continually wearing disease can easily tell the half melancholy cast of countenance, which arises from no disturbance of the mind, but rather from some organic derangement of some .functions of the body.—Henry Mayhew in the Globe. A WAR WAGER,—A certain M. Thomas, of Paris, lately offered in the Figaro to bet 200,000 francs to 100,000 francs, that the French would be in Berlin by the 15th of August, and stated that the money had been deposited. Some members of the Union Club of Berlin have accepted the wager, and placed the 100,000 francs required in the hands of the firm of Rothschild, in Lon don. They now hope that M. Thomas will follow their example, as they have communic a t e d th e f ac t t o th e editor of the Figaro, and given him a longer time than he demanded. The wager now stands :—M. Thomas lays 200,000 francs to 100,000, and asserts that the French will enter Berlin as conquerors before the end of next August. We are, after all, not so much astonished at the bet of M. Thomas, for the great majority of Frenchmen firmly believe that Berlin is on the Rhine.—North German Corre spondent. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. More than the usual amount of activity is just now °ha:rya:We in the iron shipbuilding department at Chat ham dockyard, the'whol e o f th e ava il a bl e h an d s b e i ng employed - on the Sultan, the Glatton, and the Rupert, ironclad ships, which are being brought forward for sea as rapidly as the resources of the establishment will. allow. Of the vessels building the chief work is concen trated on the Glatton, 2,709 tons, 500-horse power (nominal), whi c h h as severa l hundred hands employed on her in preparing her for being floated out of dock. Three Volunteer Engineer corps are to take part in the siege operations and engineering works intended to be car ried on at Chatham on Monday next. The Volunteer Engineer' corps selected for this duty are the Ist Middle sex, the 2nd Tower Hamlets, and the Ist' London. The volunteers will arrive at Chatham by special train early on Monday morning. The lrasiness of recruiting for Jhe army excites much in terest in Chatham. On Thursday a Strong drum and fife band, with recruiting sergeants, &c-, marcned through the streets, beating up for recruits. The pattern of the Mitrailleuse, which has for some time pa-4 been stored at the Royal - Arsenal, Woolwich, has been sent to the Royal Artillery establishment at Shousburyness, where experiments will be made wit.h it, next week, on the beach, where - the gunnery operations of the Royal Artillery are carried on. Other patterns of the znitrailleuse are expected to arrive from the Continent and America in the course of a few weeks, and with these also experiments will be made at Shoeburyness. Information was received at Woolwich on Thursday that the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, accom. parried by his personal staff and a number of other officers, would visit Woolwich for the purpose of in specting the different departments in the Royal Arsenal. and also the artillery reserve stores at the grand depot in the New-road. An order has been promulgated at Woolwich to the !fleet that each battery of garrison artillery is at a ll times to have attached to it two soldier artificers, as wheeler and smith. This is intended to obviate as much as possible the necessity of employing civilian artificers. Lieutenant-General Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.8., Quartermaster - General and several other officers, visited the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on Thursday, and, accompa nied by Captain Gordon, C.B. Controller, examined various descriptions of stores for the use of cavalry in the field, together with an improved set of surgical instruments -.e use on active service. JOHN ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE. The Board of Health held a meeting yesterday, and received a deputation from the Anti-Coolie Association, who presented a written statement on the con dition of the Chinese quarter of the city. They ask the attention of the board to the shocking con dition of that quarter, and say that no language can adequately describe the crowded, filthy, and abomi nable condition of Chinese life in this city. It " disgusts " them and " sickens them to smell it." Some houses have 500 lodgers, some 1,000, and in the Globe Hotel. standing on ground 60x60, and three stories high, there are 2,500 people (thriving hotel). In some places they say Chinamen have burrowed dens even beneath the streets; holes that would not " admit a coffin." There are innumerable subterranean dens where gambling is carried on, and where crimes that " cannot be named are habitually committed." "To these caverns," says the deputation, " Chinese women of ill fame are taken taken for medical treatment, and if not cured they seldom escape, for the killing of such is justifiable by their terrible secret hands." The Chinese disregard all sani tary laws. The deputation gives some statistics to shew how much air people need for health in dwellings, boarding houses and hotels. They add that the Chinese here carry out their laws independently of ours ; they hold subterranean courts, have judges and executioners, and inflict the death penalty on any of their race who may reveal any of their secret doings to Americans. They believe there are 2,500 prosti tutes in the quarter, and describe their places of abode. They complain that nothing has been done towards en forcing the law for vaccinating Chinamen on their arrival here, and charge that the wealthy Chinese corruptly in fluence public officers. In conclusion, they pray the Board to interfere and prevent at once a threatened fatal _epidemic and a violent popular outbreak. They pray that the " vaccination law " may be strictly enforced, that the Chinese be compelled to move out of the 6ity, and that a staff of fearless health officers be employed to invoke any remedy which the law affords to remove them. This document was signed by Thomas Mooney, George Fisher, • Hugh Duffy, and Henry T. Bray, and was tabled for further consideration.—San Franono Bugctfn, July 6, 1 LAW AND POLICE. THE LATE EARL OF CARDIGAN'S PICTURES.—The suit, Cardigan v. Curzon Home, came before the Chief Clerk in Rolls Chambers, when an application was made for leave to effect an insurance on the late Earl of Cardigan's pictures. It appeared that the pictures were devised under the will of the deceased earl, and set down in the probate as of the value of £2,300. It was now proposed that an insurance should be effected to the amount of £s,Boo.—The Chief Clerk asked how the difference in the two sums arose.—The applicant said the pictures were merely valued at the minor sum for pro bate purposes. The Chief Clerk said there could be no harm in allowing the pictures to be insured, and made the order accordingly, but advised the applicant to draw the attention of the Crown to the apparent discrepancy. The applicant said it Vvas doubtful whether the pictures would realise the sum in which it was, proposed to in sure them. The prices of pictures were mere fancy prices. - - ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER. —At the Clerkenwell Police Court George Hall was charged with attempting to cut the throat of Mrs. Emma Penny. Mrs. Penny stated that her husband had been tried for assaulting the defendant, and acquitted by the jury. From that time both she and her husband had been continually troubled by the defendant for compensation, which they stead fastly refused to make. On Tuesday after noon, when she was proceeding down Clerkenwell green, the prisoner met her, and again asked for money. Witness declined to have anything to say to him, and the prisoner thereupon said if he could not have his revenge otherwise he would strike down her husband with a sledge hammer She told him that would do no good, and was proceeding, when he threw his arm round her neck and attempted to cut her throat with a knife. Witness struggled and got away, and a man came up and took the knife from the prisoner. The prisoner cross-examined the witness with a view to chew that he had been inti mate withher while her husband was in custody. The prosecutrix repelled these insinuations, which she said were part of the prisoner's design to injure her with her husband. The prisoner was remanded, the magistrate stating that he should send the case for trial. MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY. —There was a short supply of English wheat at this market to-day, which was 2s. per quarter dearer. Barley was 6d. lower. Oats tending downwards. Beans and peas were from 6d. to Is. cheaper. BRISTOL CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY.—There was a good supply, and a gaod demand at this market to-day of mutton and lamb, which was all sold. Mutton sold at 70. to Bd. per lb. The supply of beef was short, at 70s. for best quality. All sold. Good demand. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, THllnsnAv.—The cattle trade to-day has been in a quiet state. The supplies of stock have been quite an average, and fully equal to requirements. As regards be'asts the demand, generally, has been inactive, at Mon day's reduced quotations, the best Scots and crosses selling at 4s. 10d. to ss. per 81bs. Sheep, the show of which has been moderate, have been in limited request, at about late rates. Lambs have sold slowly, and the inquiry for calves has been restricted. Beasts have sold at from 2s. 10d. to ss. ; sheep from 3s. 4d. to ss. 6d.; lamb. 6s. 4d. to 7s. Bd.; calves, 3s. 10d. to ss. 6d.: and pigs, 4s. 6d. to ss. Bd. per 8 lbs. to sink the offal. Total sup plies :—Beasts, 830 ; sheep and lambs, 16,200 ; calves, 674 ; and pigs, 80. Foreign :—Beasts, 150 ; sheep and lambs, 3,500 ; calves, 524 ; and pigs, 30. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, THURSDAY.—First Report.— Railways- Caledonians, 711, to 72 ; Great Eastern, 291 to 30 ; Great Western, 61 to 611 ; Great Northern A, 118 to 119: Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 1251 to 126} ; London and North-Western, 1201 to 120; ; Sheffield, 36} ; Metropolitan, 03} to 64 ; Midland, 1201 to 121 ; Berwick, 129 to 130. LEEDS STOCK MARKET, THIIRSDAY.--Markets quiet and prices nominal. Midland, 121 ; Sheffield, 35} to 36}; Brighton, 32} to 33 ; Metropolitan, 63. Bank rate, 6 per cent. LONDON TRADE REPORT, THIIRSDAY.—The tallow market has ruled flat, at 455. for Y.C. on the spot, and 465. 6d. last three months. Saltpetre less active, but firm ; spot, 325. to 335.; for arrival, 355. Jute steady in value, but sale limited. Hemp, without change. LONDON OIL MARKET, THURSDAY.—Linseed flat, at 30s. spot. Rape quiet ; English brown, spot, 435. Other oils dull. LONDON COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS, THURSDAY.— Trade in sugar has ruled slow for low qualities, and prices are rather weaker. Good refining descriptions have maintained late rates. Floating cargoes of foreign sugar have been in good request. Coffee dull, and business has not been sufficiently extensive to test prices. Tea has remained very inactive, and without change. Transactions in rice have been confined to purchases afloat, at low rates. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, THURSDAY There was a large supply on sale at the market to-day, conse quently the demand ruled quiet, but without any material change in prices. Prime old hay, 120 s. to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 1105. ; primenew hay, 105 s. to 115 s. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; prime old clover, 1355. to 1455. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime new clover, 120 s. to 128 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 110 s..; and straw 245. to 30s. per load. LONDON WOOL MARKET, THIIRSDAY.—The wool market las been very unsettled. There has been very little inquiry 'or either colonial or English produce, and prices have a droop ng tendency. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, THURSDAY.—The supplies of potatoes have been large. The trade has been quiet, at about late rates. English shaws, 100 s. to 130 s. ; regents, 110 s. to 130 s. ; and French, 80s. to 90s. per ton. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, THIIRSDAY.—This market has become much quieter since Tuesday. The advance asked on that day checked business, and buyers have shewn less dis position to continue their transactions, being probably influenced by unfavourable telegrams received from Calcutta. Prices con tinue to drop, but there is less irregularity than there was during part of last week. Sellers, however, are wishing to con cede a little on the prices they would have accepted onTuesday, but with little effect on buyers. BRADFORD TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.—The past week has brought no improvement to the trade of this district. Until the inaction of the hostile armies on the Continent gives place to some decisive movements, a policy of waiting will con tinue to be adopted by both buyers and sellers. Consumers of wool are taking very few orders, and their operations in the market are most limited. Holders know that if they force their stocks forward unaer these circumstances they must part with them at a severe sacrifice, and, conse quently, do not attempt sales further than they are compelled. Quotations are therefore to a great extent fictitious and nomi nal, but the continued stagnation is undoubtedly affecting the value of wool.—Lustre wool is probably worth 2d. per lb. less money than before war was declared. Other descriptions have suffered Jess, especially down wools, which mix with colonial, and nearly maintain their price. Some considerable operations have been heard of in Kents by an American buyer, at about lid. to 2d. per lb. below the highest price. There is nothing new in the export yarn trade. Merchants are almost entirely without orders, and get few remittances. There is a little busi ness in home trade yarns, but spinners are indifferently em ployed. There is a moderate business in piece goods, chiefly for the home trade, and at rather easier rates. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—Imports per bill of entry, 1,640 bales. The market opened with increased flatness, and pressure by holders to sell. There is more distrust amongst commercial men, and growing anxiety as to the future. The sales will be on a smali scale, with a decline in prices. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, TEIIIRSDAY.—This market continues quiet. Prices are rather in favour of buyers. T i rviNG STONE. —The following letter has been received by Dr. Lory Marsh :—" British Residency, Zanzibar, May 11, 1870.—Dear Sir, — Your letter cf liroveu t bkr 10, in which I am desired to inform D r , fai , ,prtnget,one that he has been unan b nous l y elected n i l honorary member of the Medical CIA, reached me yesterday, having been rent a long way round by Mc:;:vnibig ue. I 81101 have much pleasure in enclosing, , your le: Dr. Livingstone, who may be at - UAW aweitii:g the arrival of men mid store„ . 111 M long ago, but delayed on the way•by cholera, which has passed inland, following the Unyamwezi caravan route. This fearful epidemic has at present closed all communication with the interior; but 1 trust that soon we may receive good news from Dr. Livingstone and welcome him back. Lim, dear Sir, yours faithfully, JOHN KIRK." ]IRKA CH OF PHOMISE.—A somewhat curious " breach of promise " case came before the Under Sheriff on Thursday. The plaintiff (Miss Joseph) is now only 18i years old, and the defendant (Mr. Myers) about 48. As their names indicate, they Vvere of the Jewish faith, a n d th e young lady worked at a Mrs. Solomon?, for, 3s. 6d. a week. On making her acquaintance defendant introduced himself to her friends as desiring to marry her, said he made thou sands a-year, gave her expensive ornaments and £2O to buy better clothes, besides driving her about in his brougham. The courtship went on swim mingly. for som e time, when suddenly the defenaant complained of the ungentlemanly treat the w ment he received fr om Mr. Joseph, an d a l t h ough eddincr-day was then fixed, never went near the lady again. No imputation wa s cas t upon Miss Joseph's character, and Serjeant Ballantine urged that it was not a case for heavy damages. If the defendant made thousandEt, he was on the turf, and lost thousands, The Jwcfralowever. fizpd t4e 44111011 SLOW PRUSSIA'S EFFECTIVE STRENGTH. In estimating the comparative strength of the comba tants in the present war, it is usual to count the popula tion and military resources of recently annexed territory upon a homogeneous basis ; that is to say, to reckon upon the people of the newly-appropriated Duchies and Elec torates, as if they were sure to be actuated by the same spirit of patriotism that is certain to animate the popula tions which live within what constituted the jurisdictive frontiers of Prussia in 1865. Events may prove this prognostication to have been a sound one, but we should not forget that there are circumstances which throw some doubt upon it. The parties, for example, which osten sibly or secretly have adhered to the ex-King of Hanover and the ex-Elector of Hesse will undoubtedly embrace with eagerness the opportunity to spread disaffection calculated to produce considerable embarrassment. It will be remembered that •in January, 1869, Count Bismarck made some startling disclosures in the Diet about a Hanoverian legion formed in time of peace, and concernin g o th e r secret proceedings said to have been taken on behalf of the deposed sovereigns, with a view to their restoration, and the overthrow of the Prussian rule. It is perhaps not less likely that conspirators of this stamp will resume their machinations at the present junctUre, than that the Italian Republicans will resume their designs upon Rome. The Hanoverian legion was organised in France, and was disbanded during the year—the agents of King George, who had been most active in the organisation, retiring with their families to Algeria. At about the same time the pro perty of this unlucky monarch, amounting to 13,382,000 thalers—without including the contents of the royal castles—was sequestrated by the Prussian Govern ment, as was also the accessible property of the Elector of Hesse. Now ; whatever influences to the detriment of Prussia can be stimulated into activity, either by French exertions or those of the exiled rulers themselves, •we may be sure will not be suffered to lie dormant. Hanover was the immediate occasion of the Franco-Prussian war of 1806, and the disposition of her people may have an important relation to the struggle of 1870. It seems certain, at all events, that the Prussian General commanding that Pro vince has already demanded reinforcements, and that the Prussian Government has given orders to prevent by every means the circulation in Hanover of the French proclamation.—New York Times. PROVISIONS OF THE ARMY BILL. The Army Bill, as it finally went through Congress from the Conference Committee, provides for a large re duction in the number of officers during the next six months. The grades of general and lieutenant-general are to expire with Sherman and Sheridan. The number of major-generals is fixed at three, and of brigadier generals at six, and no appointments to these grades are to be made until, by death, retirement or resignation, the number is reduced below these figures. The retired list is fixed at three hundred, and until that number is reached, officers of thirty years' service may be retired on their own application and at the President's discretion. Officers who desire may be honourably dis charged prior to next January with one years' pay and allowances. Worthless or incompetent officers designated by the General of the Army are to be sent as soon as pos sible before an examining board of five, to be appointed by the Secretary of War, and, on its recommendation, are to be mustered out with one year's pay, and all such officer are to be heard in their own behalf before the board. Vacancies in either arm of the service are to be filled until next January by appointments from the list of supernumeraries, having reference to the present rank and seniority, and at that time all supernumeraries are to select between going into the grade of second lieutenant or being honourably mustered out, with one year's pay and allowances. Retired officers have seventy-five per cent. of the pay of officers on the active list and are not prohibited from holding civil office, though those on active duty are thus prohibited, on pain of vacating their com missions. Brevet officers are to be addressed only by their actual title, and can wear nothing but th e un if orm o f th e ir actual rank. WHAT CAN PRUSSIA DO ? It must be very evident to those who have watched Europe during the past few years that both parties in the present war have been carefully preparing for the possible contingency of a gigantic struggle. No traveller can have failed to notice the immense preparations made in the fortresses of Rheinish Prussia, and the incessant manceu vering and marching of Prussian soldiers across the very region now to be fought over. Never was the old martinet drill, for which the Hohenzol lerns have been so notorious, so kept up in the royal armies as during the last three years. Rail road connections have been improved, and there is now no part of Prussia from which vast bodies of men cannot in a few hours be concentrated at Cologne or on the Upper Rhine. Nor has Bismarck neglected the essential thing—the sinews of war. An important portion of the Prussian debt has been funded ; the public credit is excellent, and, in financial respects, Prussia stands well prepared for the struggle. The numerouslittle kingdoms, principalities, and free cities which she has absorbed, noW furnish her men and means ' • and all South G erman y, in a struggle for the Rhi ne , will soon be in her service or an ally. The Prussian Government in one respect, it is true has not kept p ace w ith h er grea t opponent. Having but recently become a maritime Power, her fleet is comparatively inferior ; a fact which, as her commerce is now, we believe, third in importance in the world will be very disastrous to her. Yet the naval authorities have purchased one ironclad frigate — built in England—which is said to be more powerful than any single ship in the French Navy. They have also provided several small "monitors' , for harbour defence. France has been equally dili gent in her preparations. " The Line" has been increased in numbe r , an d , s i nce S adowa, the great body of the army have been armed with the Chassepot rifle—a weapon pronounced by our officers to be far superior to the clumsy needle gun of the Prussians. Her naval prepara tions have been immense, and the French navy is now the second in the world. The French officers are no doubt thoroughly familiar with everyinch of the Rhine Provinces, and every feature of the fortresses where the struggle is to be. In a financial point of view, however, we doubt if France can be considered so well prepared as Prussia. Her debt is enormous, and a short harvest is crippling her means. In the passions aroused, and the moral forces in arms, the two opponents do not seem to us equal. In the French population the love of glory, the hatred of the German, and the ambition of seeing France again at the head of Europe, are doubtless fully awakened. Still, to the French peasantry, who make the bulk of the army, these cannot be vital matters. France in its integrity, is not threatened, and the French mind of latter years is more greedy of money than glory. But with Germans even in the poorest Bauer the strong passion of nationality is aroused by this sudden at.ack. Their country is threatened. The Rhine is a symbol of nationality. All the old German enthusiasm, which has broken the power of France on so many battle-fields, will be kindled again. We shall see some modern fiery Blucher leading the young men once more in vehement assaults on the French invader. Germany will be in the position of a man defending his home. Such forces as these, though of not much account in modern warfare against superior armies, are of immense importance where the contending Powers are in other respects equal. If modern education be of much importance, the great body of the Prussian army ought to be superior to the French. . Perhaps with the rank and •file this is not of mueb consequence. Yet, in respect to the whole body of in ferior officers, and in connection with all the mechanical labours of an army and the power of comprehending a manoeuvre, superior intelligence and education must give an advantage. It was plain that Prussian intelligence gave the army the victory over Austrian stupidity. MaY it not over French drill ?—New York Times. The Bishop of Honolulu has arrived in Loudon, and is understood to have placed the resignation of his diocese in the hands of the Archbishop of Canter bury. M. HENRI ROCREFORT.—This representative of the French people, whose name was so constantly b e fore the Paris public a few months ago, seems now to have become almost forgotten by all but the judicial authori' ties of the Empire. M. Rochefort's sentence of six months' imprisonment expires on the Bth inst., but be has been officially informed that he will not then be. released, as he will hav e t o un d ergo a f ur th er d etention of four months, to which he was condemned for another offence under the Press Laws. Miss Lydia Becker, the champion of "woman's rights," in the north of England, protests against the manner in which the Lords have dealt with the Married Woman's Property Bill. Pretending, she says, to accept its principle, they have annihilated it. " Perhaps there are few women who would quite like to marry a mail who had taken care to have a large portion of hie estate settled ' for his seperate use,' though thei would not wish to deprive him of the ownership of one penny of it. Married men are allowed to own their property without this ugly condition. We ask the same freedom for married women." She threatens re newed efforts on the part of women to obtain " electoral rights " if the House of Commons does not resist the Lords' alterations. BIRTHS. On the Ist Aug., at The Ryes, Sudbury, Suffolk, the Lady Florence Barnardiston, of a son. On the 2d Aug., at 96, Eaton-square, the Marchioness Camden, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 2d Aug., at St. Kathe r i n e' s Ch urc h, Gl ouces t e r, Rev. Philip William Sparling, 8.A., curate of S. Jude's, Gray's-inn-road, Assistant Master of King's College School, and eldest son of Philip Smith Sp ar li ng , E s q., of Colchester, to Fanny, eldest daughter of Williams Nicks, Esq., of Colchester. On the 3rd Aug., at the parish church of St. Giles's-in-the Folds, the Rev. J. F. Spurgin, of Elstree, Herts, to Kate, youn g e r daughter of R o b er t L ow, E sq., of 211 Bedford-square. _ DEATHS On the 3d Aug., George Rufane Donkin, Lieut. R.N., 1I the 30th year of his age. On the 3d Aug., at No. 116, Belgrave-road; Luke Free' man, Esq., in the 87th year of his age. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at THE Sus Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. Friday, 4.uguat 5, WO/ A' The of the the el pate t Ifusie have I most i celebri chef, S positio. assign( W. 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