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xular. ri, Nov, 10. service in the thanksgiving Iness of fly' ted. d by Prin ce° mess of OP ovember tended by t he fternoon HE DUO f Aosta o . e .° arshal ;flouncing t b° candidature t interest I ! 9 ' s . been antl er , c reatea aed that the ay before the ttached more than to the. situation a up as t b° ie Presiden t fella IL Oi l home chap* anticipation ° r exclaime d, this manne r the World, xophe. If nore tree, nentationa ; wh et/ pulture, Paris, th e atened 99 , understan d have 1 1(4 , ur remorse Lost even the tonarchy, th e Prim. Th e Cher of god ° ra,). Prim the ywn of Spy burn V to th e ,Lna rmany, of SavoY. g, for when .ely on diP l ° . port of yo' t omacy ar e monarehigg ona. WhaP is of France/ tikes of Tug' Greece, th° )r of ileag°l America T . a greg° rinoe of the Inc, raised b' t American . A wife of ?anted hint. itten none .or, pierced ms, is a 3d by bitter You map ver, a great to live int ;tool ; but .Ns floating like those blood and ple that the e other can' )on Carlos bsurd caw at least the clergy represent a symbolist tus, but he France, the achy, from the middlo orce in the candidate 'O, Cadela r iracter was. his policy 3ked, one of teir faith in alike. To Bismarck , No. On policy, and I is chance, 3 the army' .sent chaos, y to power. id has been principles ed that the no party: of Mazzini tholics the ism. What politics a perse disorder, ,ement, his ty, and his to the re ed to offer not be sux hat on the his passage SECOND .EDMON.. SUN OFFICE, 2410 P.M. LATEST INTELLIGENCE THE WAR. R EPORTED BATTLE NEAR ARTHENAY. BLOTS, Saturday. It is rumoured that the French gained a victory at At thenay yesterday. The capture of 40 guns is reported. Prisoners are arriving here in hundreds. THIONVILLE ON FIRE. Some travellers who arrived at Arlon on the 12th State that Thionville had been heavily bombarded by by th e Germans, and that the greater part of the Ci ty was in flames. THE BATTLE AT ORLEANS. BERLIN, November 13 (2.20 p.m.) General Podbielski telegraphs from the Royal Read-quarters at Versailles that General Von der Tann on the 9th instant, repulsed all the attacks of the enemy with great loss before he retreated. At mid-day on the 10th a division of the artillery reserve, with two guns, loit its way, and was cap tured by the French. No later movement of the Loire army has been reported. The following French telegram differs from the ah ovA •w :-- TOURS, November, 13 (6 p.m.) The battle of the 9th was a decided success. The German loss was at least 5,000. The conduct of the Mobiles was very great. The moral effect has been very good. Prisoners are arriving, and reinforcements have gone up. Gambetta has returned. TILE SIEGE OF PARIS. BERLIN, November 11. The French have armed their new redoubt at Ville uif 22 heavy guns, and are constructing another redoubt between Villejuif and Vitry. In front of these redoubts are trenches and rifle- Pits; the whole being a fac simile of Totleben's e elebrated defences at Sebastopol. Liberal papers dissuade the Government from s ummoning the Federal Parliament to meet at Ver %Wes, as the members would scarcely consent to go thither. Npvember 12. After the arrival of General Wittich, Prince Albrecht, and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, V on der Tann's army amounts to nearly 70,000 ken. The Loire army opposed. to it is probably some- What stronger,. but has only 12,000 regulars.. -- - A. battle is expected unless the French retreat. To-day one of the leading bankers of Berlin was a rrested' on a charge of high treason, for sub- Beribing to the French war loan. The blown-up tunnel at Nanteuil, on the Paris and trasburg line, which was in course of reconstruc tion, has fallen in again. DEPARTURE OF ENGLISH SUBJECTS FROM PARIS; VERSAILLES, November 11. Mr. Wodehouse, who, ..,with s a convoy of British 84 bjects, was allOWed to..leave Paris by the German 44 thorities, arrived here last : night. Some of them Were,in distress. • - They report that provisions were short. The al lowance of fresh meat was 50 gre mines a day to e ach person. The British prisoners taken . - n a balloon near Verdun will be sent to a - Prussian fortress and tried , court-martial. The weather is cold and snowy:. General Moltke has issued' very strict orders re- El Pecting the bearers of the Geneva Cross. DECISION RESPECTING THE - BOMBARDMENT. • BRUSSELS, November 13. According to very . . trustworthy information Paris cannot hold out for more than three , . weeks. 'lt is, t herefore, intended to trust to hunger for the sur render of the city, and no bombardment will now take place: . • • • . WAR ITEMS FROM TOURS. Nothing further had reached Tours up to the evening of the 10th inst. relaiive to the engagement 4 Orleans, further than the arrival of 400 of the B avarian prisoners. The French journals say the 6 4 g 4 hn g t was most desperate, especially at Coulmiers d i ßaccon. The Germans loss in killed and wounded since the 7 t h is put down at no less than 10,000. General Werder, with his army, proposes to effect a junction with General von der Tann. Th e expected visit of the Germans to the Eastern provinces will take place, it is believed, by 1 1 $Y of Chalons, vid Seurre and Clergy. Chagny will be avoided. On the first signal of their approach all t he bridges on the Rhone will be destroyed. The Government have ordered the formation of a C amp of Instruction at Toulouse for the formation of s'L an army of the South West. According to the official announcement, the 1111rnber of prisoners taken at Orleans on the oth and 10th amounts to 2,500 men. The Moniteur says the greatest barbarity has been exhibited by the Prussian army. Wounded 801diers at Chateauden were thrown from the win dows of the house's in which they were lodged, and I, ° lne peasants had been shot for working on the l'elich entrenchment. ,Ministerial despatch from Evreux announces t hat 800 Prussians have arrived at Etrysaguy. The P russian strength between G isors and Pointoise is 'titnated at 4,000 men, with ten guns. GAMBEITA'S PROCLAMATION. Gambetta has issued a proclamation congratu lating the Army of the Loire on the result of the Rattle s of the 9th and 10th instant. He tells the eol cliers that they have given France her first con eelation, her first ray of hope. They haNe retaken o • tleans with the ardour of old tro vs accustomed to e Qnquer. They are on the road to Paris, and must Zot forg e t th a t s he awaits them. Their honour is st aked up on th e ir success in loosening the grasp of th e ' " barbarians who threaten them with fire and • THE FRENCH MARSHALS. CASSEL, November 13. - Marshal Canrobert, with his Staff, left on Satur cla 3r for Stuttgart. Marshal Lebceuf will shortly depart for Bonn. Marshal Bazaine and his wife, who arrived this morning, will take up their residence at Aix-la- Ql l apelle. All on Royal special permission. THE PAUSSIANS AT RETHEL. LILLE, November 13. 111 e Echo du Nord says :—" According to infor mation from St. Quentin, the scouts sent out from Pas te had not, up to yesterday, reported the : 88 age of, an army corps of the enemy. It report from the Ardennes that a Prussian column,, estimated at 10,000 men, arrived on T hursday at Rethel, and that yesterday morning tk4 Prussians male requisitions for seventy-three w aggons in the dif f erent communes of the Canton haumont. In the same region the Francs-1 tireurs had captured- a ,large convoy of -the f, 9nentykr4...i • ARMS FOR THE FRENQH. ROUEN, November 13. The Journal de Rouen says that the French mail steamer Pereire, which has arrived at Havre from New York, brought over 7,000 barrels of powder, 1,000,000 cartouches, 60,000 rifles, 30 eanuon, and 1 mitrailleuse. THE FRANCS-TIREURS. MARSEILLES, November 11. • Large numbers of persons, many of them of high standing, are leaving to join the Francs= tireurs —M. Delpech and M. Delewart, formerly, Chief of Police, and the journalists Noble and Asbins, amongst the numbers. A portion of the old Civic Guard of Marseilles have left in the ca pacity of Francs-chasseurs, under the orders of Com mandant Billard. A legiOn of Garibaldian guerillas is in course of formation. fhe funeral of the son of the late Prefect Esquiros has taken place with much ceremony, amidst great demonstration of popular sympathy. THE PRUSSIAN PRINCES RUSSIAN FIELD MARSHALS.; It is stated at Berlin on trustworthy authority that the Crown Prince of Prussia and Prince Fredrick Charles have been appointed field marshals - in the Russian army. General An nenkoffs, of the suite of the Emperor of Russia, who arrived in Versailles on the Bth inst., is said to be the bearer of the appointment. NIGHT. civilians, k. body of t garrison, death of fatally ay. They ommenced :ing there. assisted Dldiers to soldiers 40 comrades, glass, and 7 the police ~ome into age -street. nted. On the police Military. )olicemen. lave been confident emitted to rear, by" ) of the at city is Lth. The to Mr• slaughter mmitted, the next tmy.—lt amy who that their -hen they ants, will e oil fall contains hie makes e most de • :Akin e, by Dyad, pre' ared onlY treat Ras t ; at their rnE s tJN, LONDON, MONDAI, NOVEMBER 14, IA7O SPORTING INTELLIGENCE SHREWSBURY RACES 7 -Tars DAY. • • (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ABBEY PLATE. Visage Gladness Bonnie Katie Seven ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Countryman Roedeer , . Tull ibardine Seven ran. THE IVIONEY MARIiET. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The rumours respecting the Vastern question have caused a great decline in the Stock Markets. A reduction of has taken place in Consols, which are now 92 to 94. Foreign Railways are very fiat, More particularly Tur kish, which are 14 lower ; Egyptian, ; Italian and French Scrip, ; and Spanish, to I. Annexed are the parti culars :—ltalian, of 1861, 54( to 54i ; Spanish, of 1867, 301 to 31; ditto of 1869, 50i to 51k ; Egyptian. of 1863, 76 t 077 ; Peruvian, 89 to 90i ; and French Scrip, par to prem. The Manchester Courier states :—`"lhe suspension of Messrs. Edward Bigg and Co., of Bombay and Man chester, has been announced, with liabilities stated at £116,000, of which one firm in London appear as creditors for about 277,000, the remainder being distributed princi pally among the Indian banks. The assets are, however, considerable. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Morgan and Jackson on Friday afternoon, nothing definite was done, the meeting having been adjourned. The liabilities are £8,500, but there is a joint life policy upon the debtors for £5,000, the premium of which is guaranteed for six years." It is understood that the claims of many of the members of the Stock Exchange against the private estate of the late Sir Robert Harvey, of the Norwich Crown Bank, representing a total of nearly £lBO,OOO, will be heard on the 19th inst. in the Rolls Court, The case excites great interest, as might naturally be expected from the large amount involved. A new undertaking has just been formed, under the title of the Cape and Natal Steam Navigation Company (Limited), to establish a line of steamers from London to the Cape, Algoa Bay, and Port Natal, to sail once a month, or more frequently, if required. Provisional con tracts have been entered into with builders for the con struction of the steamers, as well as with the managers and loading brokers for conducting the business of the company. As showing the rapid increase in the commerce of the colony, it is mentioned that the exports of wool from the Cape in 1868 ' reached 141,916 bales, against only 694 bales in 1834. In ad dition to the direct cargo for London, it is intended to take advantage of the large intercolonial trade carried on between Natal and the ports in the Cape Coloriy. The recent discovery of diamonds in the colony is expected to add considerably to the usual passenger traffic. Reference is made to the successful working of the steamers of the Union Company, between Southampton and the Cape. The capital of the undertaking, which is re spectably constituted, is fixed at £250,000, in 12,500 shares of £2O each. The proposed first issue is £20,000, in 10,000 shares. An extraordinary meeting of the Levant Submarine Telegraph Company (Limited) will be held on the 21st inst. ; and the ordinary general Meeting of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company on the 29th. THE POLITICAL CONDITION • OF PARIS.i Distusshig the political aspect of affairs in Paris; the correspondent of the Daily News, in a communication of the 7th of November, remarks :—lf, however, the reac tionary party has intimated its disappointment at the rejection of the armistice, such has not been the case with the proletarian classes. These have less to lose, but their sense of national honour is exceedingly quick. They received the intelligence with an , actual cry of rage, believing that the armistice meant a dis honourable peace. There is no refuting this fact. Coming immediately upon them with the news of the fate of Metz, and of the avoidable disaster at Lo Bourget, the feeling manifested itself by the demands for the Commune, as a means of controlling the Government, and stimu lating it to more vigorous action. I was under the 'impression that the movement of the 31st was premeditated. I am assured not, by a gentleman closely connected with the members of the Government. I told him what I had myself noticed at the Place de l'Hotel de Ville, but he tells me, that whatever may have occurred later in the day, the first movement was a spontaneous one on the part of a portion of the National Guard, and that the members of the Go vernment present in the Hotel de Ville were privy to the issue of the placards bearing the words, "No armistice. Vive la . Commune !" It is certain that the reports of MM. Flourens, Pyat, and others, published' since the Government accounts have thrown a very different light upon the transactions °Utile 31st, though they do not extenuate the attempt of the leaders of the movement to abolish the Government after it had agreed to the Commune, and to substitute themselves. So long as the, National Guard remained ignorant of this attempt, it" stood firm for the Com mune, but turned against it as soon as it acquired the conviction that a coup d'etat was intended, and in actual course of execution by the arrest of the principal members of the Government. Upwards of ten thousand. National Guards were at one time in the Hotel de Ville, spread throughout every part of it, and ready to defend, as well as to assert, the Commune ; and as, I am assured, only the conciliatory course of M. Flourens and M. Delescluze, at a very critical juncture, saved the Hotel from becoming a scene of massacre. It is now established beyond possibility of disproof, that the Government, as represented by M. Dorian, M. Etienne Arago, M. Jules Ferry, General Tamisier, and H. de Rochefort, entered into a transaction with the leaders of the revolt, and consented to the establishment of the Commune, and the municipal elections for the morrow, and also that both parties quitted the Hotel de Ville amicably. The facts have since ' come out and the truth should be told. Under these circumstances the arrest of the chief participators in the scenes at the Hotel de Ville is nothing short of a gross, unpardonable blunder on the part of the Government. M. Doran could scarcely be persuaded to retain office upon hearing of these arrests. Nothing will come of them, for should a trial be attempted, M. Dorian will be bpough forward as a witness, and will disclose what he knows to be the facts of the case. I hold this from the highest authority. Greatly is it to be regretted that the Government should have adopted such an extreme mea sure. It acted wisely in appealing to the popular vote for a confirmation of its powers, cleverly in submitting the question as between itself and those who had sought to usurp its authority. Five hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-six votes against 62,633—the figures officially recorded, not including those of a few suburban communes, gave it an authority and a power it ought not to have abused ; and the fault is all the greater, because the arrests wore not made until after this vote of confidence had been obtained. By it the Government became strong enough to treat these opponents with contempt. Persecution will convert them into martyrs, and as no trial is possible they will be released upon a record of " no case," and come out not only with no loss of their own strength, but with an actual gain of all that the Govern ment will have lately lost by the failure of its object. M. _Edmond Adam persists in his resignation as Prefect of Police arising out of these transactions, and so does Henri de Itochefort, but it is supposed he will con sent still to act as President of the Commission of Barricades. A REVIEW OF THE SITUATION IN FRANCE The Paris correspondent of the Daily News, writing on the 7th, says :--But to whatever other causes besides superior numbers, superior tactics, superior artillery— each in its degree L-the magnificent successes of the Prus sians may be attributable, as masters of the situation their right to impose terms of peace or conditions of an armistice is incontes table. The only question is whether it is prudent on their part to take the fullest ,advantage of their strength, and exact the hardest conditions they can obtain. Looking at their position from a military point of view, and taking into consideration the contingencies of a change in the political situation, it is unquestionably their policy to push their advantages to the utmost, and as rapidly as possible, or they will commit a gross military blunder. On the other hand, by this course, though they should even secure a final and a most brilliant triumph, and should reduce France to abject submission, they would so alarm the susceptibility of the neutral Pow& rs, especially of Austria and Russia, that they would involve themselves in' a political error of equal magnitude. Thus, at this present moment, their very successes place them upon the horns of a dilemma, escape from which seems impossible ; and hence, perhaps, their • apparent readiness to listen to the suggestions of the neutral Powers. If, however, Prussia be sincerely desi rous of an armistice, with a view to afford France the opportunity of selecting her permanent form of govern ment, and presently of . determining the great question of peace on such terms as can be obtained, or of war to the knife, how happens it that she repudiates the only conditions upon which France can, without dis honour, accept this means of ascertaining the sentiments of her entire population ? The revictualling of Paris for the whole period of. the armistice is a material point, because if negotiations were broken off at the end of that term, the city would find itself so many weeks materially less able to resist her besiegers—that is, with her stores of provisions diminished by so many weeks' consumption, let alone the increased number of consumers which the assembly of a . Constituente would bring , into Paris. Count Bismarck's reason for refusing the revictualling is that the Prussian army is actually itself in need of all the provisions which it can obtain, and that were the condition of the revictualling of the city per mitted, the food taken into it would be just so much tarn from the besiegers. With regard to the refusal of the permission for Alsace and Lorraine to vote with the rest of the provinces, it is held to be tantamount to an assumption that they are not only lost to France, but gained absolutely by Prussia—a position the Government will not admit, so long as the metropolis has not been subdued, so long as the nation at large has not agreed to surrender those valuable parts of her terri tory. Prussia may have her own reasons for assuming, because up to the present moment the French armies have been vanquished, that France is herself subdued, but such is not the case. The provinces have not risen to defend the metropolis, but to defend themselves. To employ one of M. Garnbetta's latest phrases in one of his most recent despatches, "the defence is tending to localise itself." This fact is significant. It is a result of the system of centralisation which, during so many years, has left the provinces to the initiative of Paris in all matters, and now Paris—the head—is cut off from the body, the latter is for the moment paralysed. This, however, is a state of things which will right itself. I believe Paris must not expect help from the outside. Instead of the provinces coming to the succour of the metropolis,' it will be the metropolis which will go to tho help of the provinces. Paris cannot fall without an effort to save herself. Up to this moment the nation has met with nothing save reverses. Paris must vindicate the national honour, must assert herself as the head of the nation. A successful sortie, one decided advantage, may change the whole aspect of the war, and bring the pry vines tollie rescue. THOROUGH TEST OF DOUBLE PLOUGHS.—The most important, and thorough trials of Double Ploughs which have taken place since the Peterborough meeting came off on Friday last at Alford. Major Grantham, Spilsby, and Mr. Helmsley, Nottingham, who both acted as judges at Peterborough, and Mr. Jamas Martin, of Mainfleet, all eminent agriculturists, were the judges on this occasion, and, as at the Peterborough trials, the services of Mr. C. E. Amos, C.E. the Engineer to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, were engaged to carry out the dynamometrical experiments. For this purpose Mr. Amos brought with him the self-recording instrument belonging to the Royal Society. The princi pal competitors were Messrs. Ransomes, Ipswich ; Howard, Bedford ; Ball, Rothwell ; Cooke, Lincoln ; one of Fowler's Pirie Plough; and three others. The land, which was very heavy, was iu a terribly sticky and wet state, owing to the heavy rains-, and the frost of the previous night, and afforded a good test of what Double Ploughs could do on heavy land. Whilst most of the work was as good as that produced by single plough; a saving in draught of more than 25 per cent. as compared with them was clearly shewn. Messrs. Ransomes' plough, as at Peterborough, shewed a very light draught, regis- tering on the dynamometer only 4 cwt. 2 qrs. 71bs. ; Messrs. Howard's 5 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lbs. ; whilst some of the implements took more than 6 cwt. At the conclusion of the trials the first prize of £lO for the best general pur pose double furrow plough, due regard being had to light • ness of draught, ease, and economy of management, strength, and simplicity of construction, was awarded to Messrs. Ransomes, and-the second prize of £5 to Messrs. Howard.—Daily News. RUSSIA. AND THE TREATY OF 1856. A communication appears in the current number of the Independance Beige, dated from Berlin, which states that Russia had at different times confidentially declared that the neutra lisation of the Black Sea was insup portable. The recent declaration Of the Russian Cabinet, it also states, appears sole:y to relate to that point. Russia has never claimed a revision of the territorial cession stipulated by the Treaty of 1856. THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL. By the arrival of the African mr;l news comes that the natives of Congo having shot the supercargo of an English bark H.M.S. Pert subsequently burnt the villages belonging to the natives. The French officials had removed the buoys marking the entrance to the Gaboou river. The brig Locomotive blew up in Opobo river, killing a number of natives. The Bonny and Opobo dispute continues. PROPOSED CONGRESS OF THE NEUTRAL POWERS. FLORENCE, November 12 (5.15 p.m.) According to authoritative information received in Florence, Count Beust has refused to associate the Austrian Government with the Cabinets of England and Italy in proposing a Congress, founding his de clinature on the opposition which such a proposal would meet on the part of Prussia. BRUSSELS, November 12. The Independance Beige publishes a despatch from Tours, announcing that, accorling to the journal La France, the neutral Powers, desirous of stopping the war, are about to put forward a proposal for a Oon gress. Other despatches assert that the initiative is taken by Russia. ITALY. FLORENCE, November 11 (9.40 a.m•). Cardinal Antonelli's Circular, protesting against the eventual occupation of the 'Quirinal, announced by, telegram of the 29th of October, was issued yesterday, - (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) STRANGE ACCIDENT THROUGH AN ESCAPE OF GAS. Yesterday the gas from the main escaped through a drain into two small houses in Moon-crescent, Dewsbury road, Leeds, and in one of them caused the death of an old woman named Wood, and her daughter, aged 20, who were in bed at the time. In the other house two children, aged respectively six and four, were suffocated. Their parents were found almost in the same condition, and are now in the infirmary in a precarious state. RUSSIA AND THE TREATIES OF 1856. The Yorkshire Post of to-day (Monday) publishes the following :—" We are given to understand that very grave complications have arisen bet Ween this country and the Government of the Czar. On Wednesday last the Rus sian Ariabassador waited upon Earl Granville, and handed him in person a despatch from the Russian Government amounting to a formal repudiation of the obligations of the treaties of 1856. The communique of the Russian Ministpuched in polite but positive terms, declared that the treaties had been violated by the consolidation of the Roumanian. PrOvinces, and that in further negation of their provisionii armed vessels had been permitted by the Ottoman. Government to pass into and out of the Black Sea. Russia accordingly claims a similar privilege for her navy, and declares her right to maintain a naval force in the same waters. She insists upon a revision of the regulations of the treaties of 1856, and announces her determination to abide no longer by their obligations. We believe confirmatory despatches clearly indicating the views and decision of the Prussian Cabinet, and the attitude it has determined to assume, have been received frOm the English Minister at St. Petersburg. These des. patches show that the position assumed by Prussia in reference to the eastern question is the result of full deliberation and of a good understanding between that country and Prussia. The Cabinet of the Czar appears to have definitely fixed upon a line of action which the despatch handed by Baron Brunnow to Earl Granville has formally committed to Her Majesty's Government. Reports have been for some time coming in from our diplomatic agents in Russia, detailing the strenuous efforts of the Government of that country to push forward its military preparations. Large masses of troops have been collecting in the southern provinces. With a full knowledge of this state of things it may be presumed that the incident of last Wednesday was not quite, unexpected by our Ministers. We understand that Mr. Odo Russell, the under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, proceeded to Versailles, to ascertain the views of Count Bismarck on the subject. An alliance offensive and defensive between England, Austria, and Italy, in the view of certain eventualities, but too likely to occur, is said to be not improbable." THE REPRESENTATION OF NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT. It is expected that the writ for the borough of Newport will be received to-day (Monday), and the election will take place to-morrow and Wednesday. Both candidates are pursuing their canvass in a very energetic manner. MR. JOHN BRIGHT, M.P. It is stated that Mr. Bright condemns the war very severely ; and he designates it as a war of pride. The right honourable gentleman has not returned to Llan dudno, and it is supposed that the risk of travelling during the cold weather has kept him back. CAMBRIDGESHIRE CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. Ameeting of the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Agriculture was held at Cambridge on Saturday, for the purpose of discussing the Subject of fire insurance. •The subject was deferred, and -a discussion took place on the employment of the police for Government purposes. The following resolution was passed by the Chamber :—" That this Chamber begs to tender their thanks to the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the county for declining to allow the county police to undo-- take the duties of recruiting officers, more particu larly as such refusal was based on the ground that it is unjust to burden county rates, from one description of property, with payments for Imperial purposes. And further, they would express a hope that the courts will petition the Legislature to consider the whole ques tion of local taxation, a great part of which is now de voted to Imperial purposes, such course having been adopted in several counties. The final race between Pembroke and Balliol, the holders of the Silver Challenge Cup, was rowed on Saturday afternoon. Balliol, who had the first station, won by ten seconds. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This DAT. JACK AMONG THE LAND SHARKS.—Mary Ann Herring, aged 31 years, and Ellen Bryant, 21, were charged, at the Thames Police-court, with stealing £9 from the person of Henry Davis, an old weather beaten, sun burnt mariner, who gave a very odd account of his adventure among " those here land sharks," as he termed the prisoners, and the vile gang with whom they associated. He came to London on Thursday laSt and- went straight from the Rai/Way Station to Bryant's house, in Bluegate-fields in a cab, took a nap, and at four o'clock in the afternoon went to the shipping office on Tower-hill, and received £ll and a few shillings for wages. He returned to Bryant's house and saw both girls. He gave Bryant a so iereign, and tied up 10 sovereigns in the corner of his handerchief for safety. He treated both girls to the play, and changed one sovereign. At that time Davis had two sove reigns belonging to him. He took them away, and consigned the girl to perdition. He went home to Bluegate-fields, in the latitude of Shadwell again with Bryant, and went to bed. He put his necker chief and money under his pillow. The prisoner and a lot of girls of light character began dancing in the room he was in. He was smoking his pipe in bed, and laughing at them, but they had the laugh at him. They hatched up a row and a quarrel, and fought ; and while the row was going on they took his goldfrom him. The " old one" said, " Come, you get up and turn out," and he did so ; and Ellen said, " Come, go out of the house and take your man with you, and take your bundle." It was a planned job, to get him out of the house. " Ah, the pretty little Ellen, I love her still." (Loud laughter.) Directly he got out of the house she said "You go to hell," and he then began to suspect something wrong, He found all his money was gone. He then addressed Ellen Bryant, and said, " Now Ellen, I did what was tidy by both of yon ; where is my money ? Give me £5 and say no more about it." "I had only 13s. left out of the sovereign 1 changed. I am sorry to see a woman in'that here dock." The prisoners were remanded for a week. A CURIOUS CHARGE OF FELONY. Emily Stacey, married, of lady-like deportment, was charged. at the Westminster Police-court, before Mr. Woolrych, with a silk mantle from the Victoria Coffee House, 8, Wilton road, Pimlico. Mr. W. D. Smith, of Rochester-row, defended.. Mrs. Pedley, a widow, living at 231, Vaux hall-bridge-road, said she had lost several articles of dress, viz., a, black silk dress, mantle, satin petticoat, and a packet of black silk from a box in a room which the prisoner occupied at 8, Wilton-road. Witness had lived there, but left to attend a sick lady who has since died. Goods were safe in prisoner's room on Saturday afternoon, and in the evening they were gone, and she, too. Mr. Woolrych asked if she knew anything of the prisoner ? - Mr. Smith said she was a highly respectable lady, wife of a gentleman, who was present. They were staying at this house quite temporarily ou account of changing their residence, and taking a house in Pimlico. Eliza Notley, widow, keeper of the house No. 8, Wilton-road, proved Mg. and Mrs. Stacey taking a furnished apartment. On Saturday witness saw this box all safe, and prisoner intoxicated ; at half-past three witness went into the room and found the box broken open, and the things gone. The prisoner had left at half past two. Mr. Smith contended that there wasinot the least probability a lady like the prisoner should commit so paltry a theft ; her husband was a . man of means and position; he analysed the evidence in its weakest points - , and contended that although there was slight suspicions, his client was perfectly innocent of the charge. Mr. Woolrych said it was a case for enquiry, and remanded prisoner till Wednesday, accepting bail. Mr. Odo Russell, Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has left England for the Prussian head quarters at Versailles. The loath is announced this morning of Mr. Charles Salisbury Butler, who was for many years M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, for which he was elected in 1852. He was 58 years of age. LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. MARYLEBONE DlVl sioN.—Mr. Hepworth Dixon will address the ratepayers of St. Pancras this evening (Monday) at the Milton Hall, Hawley-crescent, Kentish-town-road. The chair will be taken at 8 o'clock by John Rahles, Esq., churchwarden. GENERAL VON MOLTKE AND THE WAIL—The Liberte states for certain that Prussia has been preparing for the invasion of France for the last ten years. She had procured all the staff and register maps, and her plans of invasion were so well done that she knew to the minutest detail the population, and the habits and cus- toms of the smallest villages. The great strategist, General von Moltke, had explored as a tourist all the roads and ways between the Rhine and Paris, and made excursions in the various spots which the Prussian armies now occupy in Alsace and Lorraine. The' General's friends recount that he often came to France, accompanied by his daughter, dressed quietly, travelling on horseback or in a post - chaise. They went everywhere after the fashion of tourists who delight in exploring sites, and as great lovers of design. His daughter always carried an album, which she filled with landscapes, but she'served as assistant to her father, in making annltations and revising maps. Often, indeed, she played the part of spy to obtain some information with respect to awkward undertakings. There is not a tourist nor a hunter who knows better than General Von Moltke does the countries which are the theatre of war. The celebrated strategist was not only the organiser of victory, but the GeneraLin-Chief of the spies. All the halting-places, all the rencontres of the army, were fore. seen beforehand. GARIBALDI AND HIS FORCES. The following is an extract from the letter of a corres pondent of the Daily News, at Autun, dated November 8 : Garibaldi came down before the train had commenced forming, and some of his officers were disposed to be angry ; but he checked them. " They have so much to do," he said. General Michel, with 5,000 men, is on the road. He seemed in good spirits, laughed when the Mayor of Dole told him that there are two priests' seminaries at Anhui, and when I asked him if this was a retreat, said, " No, certainly not. The Prussians are at Dijon, it remains to be seen whether they mean to make straight from thence for Lyons, or come into the centre of France. M. Gambetta wishes to have us near to him ; du reste we are almost as far north as we were at Dole." He said he thought the Prussians would probably occupy the department of Jura, which does not displease me on the whole, as they as yet have suffered nothing pour la patrie, and assuredly were -anything but enthusiastic in favour of its defenders. After about a Couple of hours' lounging in the station, the enor mous train of 100 carriages got under weigh. I travelled with the staff of the Italian Legion, old friends all. To me there is somethingtouching in the fact that almost all the officers were at Mentana ; that all are husbands and fathers of families, which they have left for the Republic or Garibaldi. The head of the Legion is Colonel Taunaro, of Parma, who has been through all the campaigns from '4B to Mcntana ; major of the first battalion, Ciotte ; of the second, Erba—both of "Mentana. Then we have Captain Manara, whom I remember well visiting in the hospital on the night of the 4th November, badly wounded. Captain Turba, of the regular army, who sent in his resignation to join Garibaldi in '67 ; Cecchini, aide-de-camp of Major Erba, condemned to death with Barsanti for the revolutionary plot of Milan—all picked men, in short, friends and old comrades, and keenly anxious for the honour of the Italian name in France. I have never seen our volunteers better disciplined than in that legion. The dismissal of Major Zagri, for the affair of the refusal of the flintlocks, and the sending back to the depot at Chambery some 80 or 100 of the ringleaders of the riot, was - a masterly stroke. The Italians must take their cue from their General. They are here, having offered their services to the Republic ; they must submit to the terms on which they are accepted, or go home. They looked very bright, and proud of their Spencer rifles, which are here pre ferred to Chassepots, and delighted to consider themselves Garibaldi's guard of honour, as he only brought up this Legion of Tannaro and his choice company of Genoese. That company, of which each man is a veteran, commanded by all officers "of the thousand," will leave a name in France if only we get the chance, depend upon it ! Certainly the whole number she wed their discipline yesterday in uttering no complaint though they were left thirty hours without food. Each man is paid a franc per day, and caters for himself ; but along the rail for 1,000 men to supply their wants at the buffets was impossible. So the telegraphic order had been sent to the mayors to prepare 1,000 rations of bread and wine at Bourg. We arrived there at 1 p.m., travelling very slowly owing to the length of the train. Not a crumb nor a drop. Nothing prepared even for the General, who, however, thanks to Basso, and a capital orderly of Friuli "Eugenio," wants for nothing (poor Maurizio of '66 and '67 is dead). Some of us managed to get a little hot bread and water called potage, and some slices of very fair boiled ham, but the miracle of the loaves and fishes would have been required to feed the multitude. At Macon we hoped for better fare, and I was pleased to see all the officers, from the colonel to the captain, busy themselves to obtain supplies. But nothing was prepared. The mayor promised to s end rations within half an hour, but the station-master said we must start at once or wait three hours, and to this delay Garibaldi would not consent. So on we went, and, to their credit be it said, none of the officers went to the buffet, saying that they should be ashamed for their soldiers to bee them there. At Moores the train stopped; we are told that the bridge between that and the next station was broken. By whom? asked Garibaldi. By the "Civil Engineers." His face clouded over, but he said nothing; this passion of the French for bridge breaking is his nightmare. AN EXPECTED SORTIE. Writing from the Royal Headquarters at Versailles, under date November 7th, the special correspondent of the Telegraph says :—The monotony of our sojourn here will most likely be broken in a day or two somewhat disagree ably. Besides the discoveries already mentioned regard ing secret correspondences with Paris—discoveries which have resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of two lead ing ex-officials of the late Government—the German police have got scent of a conspiracy of a very serious character. I fear that its members will have but a short shrift if their participation in the plot can be clearly brought home to them. Last night a sentry in the Avenue de Paris was fired at and wounded in the leg. This cowardly feat will cost the town one million of francs exactly, besides a number of lesser annoyances. That the contemptible crime of an individual should be visited upon a whole community seems hard, when measured by the standard of ordinary justice ; but it is a stern necessity in war time, and the citizens have had ample warning. A de serter who came in yesterday announced so positively that a sortie in enormous force had been arranged to take place this morning at eleven, that preparations on a great scale were made to repel it; and the day has been one of unusual bustle. All the ambulances, including the great English one at St. Germain, were en pied at an early hour, and the supports and resprves were moved forward, so that they might be ready, on the first signal froin the outposts, to give the enemy a warm reception. Sure enough, French troops in large numbers (I heard of sixty battalions) were massed near Fort Val6rien this morning, and their attack was anxiously awaited ; but, after remaining stationary for some time in the safe position they had taken up, they appeared to think better of their project, whatever it was, and withdrew out of sight, so that we all had our ride out for nothing. Oddly enough, not a gun has been fired throughout the day or evening; it is now midnight, and the silence of the last two hours, generally broke by salvoes from Valgrien and Issy at intervals of five minutes or so, has been en tirely undisturbed by even the faintest report of adistant fieldpiece. What can Trochu be about? That is the ques tion which everybody hero is asking himself and his friends or acquaintances from morning till night. The Germans are utterly at a loss to comprehend his inaction, and lam sure they heartily despise him for it, There was a brush with France-tireurs yesterday near Nauteuil-sur- Marne, but not of any great importance. We hear that the French Army of the Loire is pulling itself together,, and numbers nearly 60,000 men. The Musical, World says Madame Anna Bishop is writing her memoirs.—Another refugee, and musical celebrity, is in London—Signor Camillo Sivori, the violinist --M. Offenbach is shortly expected in Vienna, where, it is said, he intends settling altogether, and establishing a theatre on the model of the Bouffds rarisiens. THE MILITARY INCAPACITY OF THE EMPEROR. —The ex-Emperor is alone held responsible for the dis asters which have so suddenly overtaken France. It is now established beyond disproof that he commanded in person, and insisted upon movojients disapproved of by his own generals, and of which the slender chances of suc cess were frustrated by the impediments the care of him self, his son, and their baggage involved It is absolutely incomprehensible how he could have resolved upon a war he knew would "be long and difficult," having only 140,000 men on the frontier, having no reserves, having no commissariat, having no means, in fact, of repairing any great reverse, yet knowing that Prussia had 526,000 men actually under arms when war was declared, all thoroughly equipped and armed, and ready for action, and sustained by a most formidable artillery, the whole commanded by a general of consummate genius as a strategist. It is not by the fortune of war, however, that Prussia has triumphed thus far. Her success is not even due to the superiority of her numerical strength, nor of her tactics in the field. These count for something in the chapter of her triumphs, but not every thing, nor nearly. The sanguinary details of the battles on the frontier prove that even where her enemy could oppose only four, six, ten thousands to her forty, sixty, a hundred thousand, her victories were dearly purchased. Her hosts fought, not only with the con viction of success, but with the moral courage they derived from the knowledge that all Germany was at their back. The troops opposed to them went into the field without enthusiasm for their leader, without confidence in their chiefs whom they saw were divided amongst themselves by petty jealousies, and to a great extent demoralised by the feeling that the Empire was rotten, and that even victory could not sustain it. Of that demoralisation they were victims. The men who have escaped from Sedan and reached Paris confess the fact. The truth flashed upon them at the very first great defeat. They learnt that this reverse placed " the country in danger ;" that even then their position was desperate, in spite of the cajoling despatches which attempted to convert defeats into victories. —Correspondent of the Daily News. OUR COTEDIPORARIES—This Morring RUSSIA AND I'HE TREATY OF 18:76. The Times, in commenting on the circular saia to nava been issued by Count Gortschakurf to the Great Powers who were parties to the treaty of 1856, says : With re spect to the future relations between Russia and the rest of Europe, we know that there are many apprehensions, but we cannot believe that they have any real foundation. A certain friendliness exists between the Prussian and Russian Courts, and the sympathies of the Czar have been testified by the compliments he has paid the German princes on their achievements in • the present war. But between Germany as a nation and the Russian Power there can scarcely be any real union. Germany would be eventually the chief sufferer by Russian aggrandisement. While divided and weak she has looked to Russia as a necessary ally against France ; but now that all fear of her Western neighbour has passed away, she is likely to judge Russian ambition as severely as the Western nations have ever done. New Germany, indeed, will probably entertain ideas very hostile to the Russian hopes. Panslavism, which has its outworks far into the mist of Germany, will receive a heavy blow from the events of the pre sent year. Should, for instance, the Austrian Germans be brought into closer union with their countrymen, the united German Power will make short work of the hostile . elements in Bohemia. On the other hand the state of the German provinces of Russia is very likely indeed to enter into tho field of German politics. These considerations account for a remarkable phenomenon of the war—the hostility of the independent part of the Russian press to Germany. The Russians have, probably, divined by a truthful instinct the rise of a Power which may keep them more stringently in order than France herself. Tie interests of Germany, moreover, are not in accord with a policy which should give the Russians free action on the Danube and the Black Sea. The Danube may be called a German river, and at the present moment its mouths belong to a little State which is being very largely Germanized, and is actually ruled by a German Prince. Is Germany to join in a move ment for bringing it again within the limits of Russian passports and Custom houses? The same may be said, in some measure, of the whole South-east of Europe, where German commercial and other interests are yearly extend ing. For these reasons we are sanguine that the policy of United Germany will not take the direction of giving free course to that Russian aggrandisement which the Western Powers checked in the war of 1854. THE LATE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. On the whole, gays the Daily News, we cannot gainsay M. Jules Favre's argument that the GoVernment of Paris was bound to refuse the terms offered it. They meant nothing less than the laying down of arms. But it does not follow that Count Bismarck was bound to offer any better terms than he actually proposed. It might have been generous, it might have politic to do so. But no obligation to act otherwise than he has acted rested upon him. The idea of an armistice pre' ceeded on the assumption that the victorious belligerent was willing to make some slight sacrifices of his over whelming advantages, a sacrifice so slight thatt, it would leave them practically nearly as overwhelming as before, in order to facilitate a peace. This assumption has proved a mistake. The Germans, acting within their perfect right as belligerents, have determined to push their military advantages to the utmost, and to conquer and dictate, rather than negotiate, a peace. In this determination,whethor it be Count Bismarck's own or whether it has been forced upon him by higher in fluence, the instinct of the soldier has, we fear, predomi nated over the foresight of the statesman. The Tel says : Peace seems now to be further off than ever. The hint of insubordination on the part of Bavaria, important as it may be prospectively, does not tell upon the actual state of the contest ; and the victory at Orleans will stir the heart of France like the sound of the trumpet. Brittany, with ip fierce fanatical peasantry who believe this to be a war of reli gion; Lyons and Marseilles, with their great ouvrier class, which finds a religion in the tenets of '92, and which fan cies that France has fallen from her place among the nations because she has forsaken the red flag of Revolu tion ; the Conservative North, with its Orloanist sympa thies, its wealthy manufacturers, and its crowd of com fort-loving citizens—will all take courage to renew the fight. And, even if it be true that France is hopelessly beaten, the task before Count Bismarck and General Moltke is long and terribly perplexing. In Bourbaki, General Manteuffel must defeat one of the best soldiers of France, backed by the great fortress of Lille; D'Aurelles de Paladine presents the obstacle of a large and victorious army on the Loire ; Count Keretry has already prepared a great fortified camp in Brittany; the whole Sotith of France is armed and eager for combat, while the indefatigable Gambetta has ordered the establishment of a Camp of Instruction at Toulouse, for the formation of a new Army "of the South-west.' Behind the French forces stands the grim spectre 4 - )f anarchy, more ominous to Count Bismarck than a great defeat. Although ho must now push blindly on, he knows that in the moment of final victory France may fall to pieces in his hands, and leave him burthened with the responsibility of reorganising a bankrupt and and shattered State. Meanwhile Russia is coming to the front with her long-deferred claims ; the circular of Prince Gortsckacoff may be the cloud no bigger than a man's hand which is soon to cover the whole East with a veil of darkness. Midnight is the forerunner . of dawn : is it permitted us to hope, that in the truly faithful complication of warlike omens, threaten. ing to involve the whole of Europe, literally from the Atlantic to the East, from the North Sea to the Mediter ranean, we may discern the climax of that " worst' which will usher in a happier future for the troubled natious? GERMANY AND HELIGOLAND. / The Standard draws attention to the speculations of the Germans as to a contest with England on the sea, and the reclamation of Heligoland. The Stamford observes : It is well that we should know our fate beforehand, in order that by a timely penitence we should be prepared either to receive the blow when it comes with due meekness, or be able to avert it by our cheerful submission. Already we tremble for the peace of happy England, and for the silvery streak so ruthlessly torn asunder. Already our disturbed imaginations conjure up a horrid vision of the redoubtable German navy ravaging the coasts of England, levying contributions on Dover and Portsmouth, and dooming all citizens to death who shall dare to defend their country in any other than the recog nised uniform. Considering toe terrible revenge which the German fleet will be able to take upon England . wren it comes into being we can only wonder at the magnanimity which is contented with the recovery of Heligoland. Is there no other portion of our territory which United Germany would wish to claim on ethnolo gical grounds, or which is neees:Ary .to round off her military frontier? In a great part of Norfolk and Suffolk they speak a dialect which is certainly as closely related to Frisian as Frisian is to Swabian. The Isle of Wight belongs, by all philological and ethnic rules, quite as much to Germany as does Lorraine. Are there no songs or ballads extant proving incontestibly that the country of the South Saxons is also a part of the Fatherland, for possession of which the Fatherland has been pining? Why stop at Heligoland? That would be but a paltry prize fur the great German fleet. If the German admirals, under the strategetical direction of Ve..: Moltke, were able to take Heligoland by force, it is clear they might take a great deal more. • An awkward scone has occurred at Natal, at the Rev. Mr. Robinson's wedding. Bishop Macrorie per formed the service, and afterwards administered the Sacrament, but refused it to Captain Harford, M.L.C., and Mrs. Harford, because they support Bishop Colenso. Mr. Gladstone, according to the Irish Times, in tends to abolish the office of Judge Advocate General, now vacant. The Duke of Cambridge, it is said, favours the idea, believing that the duties can be efficiently dis charged either at the Horse Guards or the War Office by the Deputy Judge Advocate General. SEBASTOPOL RECORDS.—The hereditary Grand Duke of Russia is about to enter the ranks of royal aspi rants for literary fame with a work on the defence of Sebastopol, and the official organs of Russia contain a formal request in his name to the public in general to assist him in his work. Anybody who thinks that he has to make any authentic communication on the subject in question, any one who possesses anything either in writing noted down by him at the time or since, or who has gar nered up certain recollections in his memory, is invited to forward the same without delay. Diaries, memoirs, let ters, even anecdotes referring to the smallest episode, or any jottings down by an eye-witness in the simplest form will be highly welcome. There is only one condition made, which is to be considered sacred : truth ! Likewise those who have been distinguished by crosses, orders, and other rewards before Sebas topol will oblige the author by telling him, in as crude a shape as they like, what were the circum stances under which they obtained these distinctions., Everybody, in fact, is asked to collect in some shape or other new materials towards this history of the defence of the Russian fortress. A good deal has, indeed, already been forwarded to the Sebastopol Museum, and much more is expected. The Grand Duke wishes, lie says, to publish in such a form and under such conditions that the book of the great deeds before Sebastopol shall become a [ - manual for the Russian nation and the Russian army. Pall Mall Gazette.