The Sun. — London, England, 1870-12-20 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY. There has been an absence of any political news of importance to-day, and the stock market, in consequence, has been free from all violent fluctuations. The business doing has been very moderate, and the movements have been trifling. As regards railways, Caledonian and North- Eastern have been firm at a slight improvement, but Great-Eastern have been rather easier. In the foreign bond market nothing of interest has transpired. In the telegraph department the principal feature has been the heavy fall of about 2 per cent. in Anglo-American. Consols have been dull, at 911, 9l ex div., for delivery ; and 94 ex div., for January. Reduceed and New Three per Cents., 94, 91 : Bank Stock, 230, 232; Exche quer Bills, 10s. to 15s. prem. ; India Five per Cents., 110, 1101 ex div. ; India Bonds, 225. to 275. prem. For Colonial Government Securities the demand has been on a limited scale. For English railway stocks the demand has been on a limited scale. Nevertheless, the quotations have been fairly maintained. Caledonian at 86, 864, and North- Eastern at 1441, 1442 are 2 and 1 better respectively. Great Eastern at 384, 382 thews a fall of 4. Metropolitan, 63, 634 ; Brighton, 402, 41; South-Eastern, 741, 742 ; Great Northern A, 1334, 131; Midland, 1281, 1282; North-Western, 128, 1281; and Great Western, 694, 704. Indian railway stocks have been quietly dealt in. Eastern Bengal, 1051 ; East Indian, 1104 ; Great ... lndian Peninsula, 1072 ; Madras, 1051 ; and Oude and Rohil kund. 1034. For Canadian shares the demand has been inactive. Great Western, 144. Foreign shares have been in limited request, Antwerp and Rotterdam, 12 ; Bahia and San Francisco, 181 4 ; Great Luxemburg, 11# ; and San Paulo, 201. The foreign bond market has been in a quiet state, but the tone generally has been firm, and prices have been steady. Egyptian (1868) have been steady, and / per cent. better, at 77k, 78. Peruvian (1865) are quoted at 92f, 931; Italian (1861), 551, 55-2 ; Spanish (1867), 31k, 311 ; ditto (1869), 31j, 31g ; Turkish Five per Cents., 44/, 441; ditto (1869), 50g, 5O ; Mexican, 132, 14 ; United States Five-twenty (1882) Bonds, 88k, 881; ditto (1885), 88g, 881; French Scrip, par, / prem. ; and North German Loan, 1,1 prem. Next to nothing has been doing in Joint Stock Bank shares. English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered, 161 ; Imperial Ottoman, 12 ; London and West minster, 631. Telegraph shares have been depressed. Anglo-Amed can have fallen 2, being dealt in 771. Falmouths are i t lower, at 91 to 9a. British India Extension, 61 ; British Indian Submarine, 6-1, 7 ; Hooper's Telegraph Construc tion Works, 6i, and Constructions, 26k. In Miacellaneons securities very few transactions have taken place. National Discount, 11 to 1.14 ; Thetis Marine, B*. Saturday next will be kept as a holiday on the Stock Exchange, and business will therefore be suspended from Friday evening to Tuesday morning. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank to day. At Mark-lane to-day wheat was dull, and ls. to 2s. per quarter lower. The Corn Exchange will be closed on Monday next. On and after the 2nd of January next the 1867, 1869, and 1870 Spanish Bonds will be quoted as one stock. Quietness has continued to be the feature of the money market. Fair supplies of capital have been on offer, and there has been but little demand. The rate for negotiating three months' paper has been 2 1 per cent. An increase in the inquiry may now be looked for, owing to the close of the year, but it is doubtful whether it will be maintained for any length of time despite the fresh enter prises lately announced, as heavy supplies of money will shortly be thrown on the market. The China, from IN ew York, has arrived with £38,787 in specie. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.—MoNDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIA HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols Mt 911 Viet spo Jan & Julynat. Immi 91L ;x d Brazilian. 1865, 5p o .... 92e 939 Do for Account ~...• 911 9294. 1 Three perCentßeducd 911 911 Borpt4an 1.002. 7p0.. .. 80 89 912. 1 SO New 3 Per Ce l nt 1019 Deben 7 p • .. 101 103 94 Exchequer 13111 s, March 10 15ple Italian, 1868, 8p o 14s pm 86 Do. June . 10 15pin Yertwian, l lB6s. 59 0 .... 93 9d rel 93 1, 3 . 1 Dank Stook 233 321 India 5 per Cents 1109, t a d 849 India Bonds -— Do Nicoias 4p o 225, 5s pm 661, 9 Can 6 poJan&Julyll77-84 105 106 Spanish. 1867. 3pc Do March & Sept. 103 105 311 Do 5p c Jan & July . 289 999 Do. 1889. 3p o Do Inscribed Stock .. . 97 99 319, 1, 1 Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 97 99 Turkish. 1i54, 6p a 7B 80 Ceylon 6 p c May and Do. 1855. 5p a klovember 1878 lO6 108 4 4 9, 9 1070 Do, 1865 6p c Mauritius G p c Jan and 63, 2i JulylB73 lO3 105 17.8.5-20 Bon 5.6 po 1889 881 889 New i6W ales 5p clB7l-76 1011102:1 880, 9 New Zealand Gp c 1891 lOB 110 Do do 1885 881 881 Dospo Do 5p c Consolidated 999 100 Do 10-471,0 Buds, Spa 1901 871 871 100 8 t Do 6p o Mar & Sept 1891 106 108 ErieSha, 100 dols, all paid Do June & DeclB9l 10 8 110 Wools Central Shares .. 10091109 Viet 6p oJau &July 1891 115 117 110, 1. 2 9 VV 1169 Atlantic and ( R Con DoApril &Oct 188385 lll 112 Mortgage Bonds — 11199, 12 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B7 89 Do Ist Pref 80nd5.... 56 58 83 54, 74 Caledonian 864, 3,3, 3 2nd Pref Stock Greet Eastern 381 Do 3rd Prat Stock .... 29 31 Great Northern 1231, 4 Grand Trunk of Canada Do A 133 134 4th Pref stock 1333, I, 4 161 Great Western o3 Pen g 5. , o 107 108 7 107 Lancashire & Yorkshire 13231333 GreatWeseern of Canada 143 141 1334, 3 141 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 401 41 Do 6D a Bonds, 18 7 3 .. 98 100 1 Do 51 do, 1877-8 94 96 Lou, Chat, and Dover .. 123 123 Do 5p c pref. issued 80 Idis Inm 123, 3. 4 Madras guar 5 p a Lou and North-Westert 128 1283 1054, 5 1271, 8. 73, 84 N. Railway of Canada, Lon and South-Western 90 91 6p o lst Pref Bonds 91 Oude and Rohilkund g Man, Shef, and Lincoln 453 461 5P 0 461, 51,1 1031 3 Metropolitan 631 Delhi guar 5 p c Midland 12831283 Bahia and San Francisco 1283, 3, 4 if 7 9 o North British North-EasteruConsols 144 116 ' Belgian E Junction .... 24 23 1441 3,3, 3 Buenos Ayres Gt Sthrn.. 242 25 South-Eastern 743 743 25 ktlantio and St Lawruce 75 77 Duuaburg and Witepsk 181 19 3ouibay, Baroda, and Hutch-Rhenish 22 23 Central India, g 5 p 0.. 10411053 Eastern of France — Buff and Lake Huron .. 31 43 Great Luxembourg Do 54 no 80nd5,1872-3 - 4 79 81 111, 4 79 Lemberg Czernowitz glut Cape guar 6p a East Bengal guar 5 p c.. 100 . 1053 Northern of France 106 k Ottom (Smyrna to Aidin) 43 51 East Indian, g 5 p c .... 110 111 Recife and San Francisco 1101 (Limited) guar 7p o .. 143 15 Grand Trunk Canada .. 111 12 15 Do Equip Mort Bnd 1 San Paulo (L) guar 7p o 20/ 211 charge 6p c Do 2ud dolicrtp .... ldis fpm South Austn 40Lom-Von 143 143 dis Southern of France .... :. In 151 BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 1 Agra Bank (14 A 7t 81 20 Lou Char of Austrila 224 25 Alliance (IA 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian , (14 202 211 341. 34 50 British N American 53 b 5 10 Lou and Westmustor 621 631 20 Ch of India. Austrlia 14 15 631 25 Char Mere of India 23 24 10 Metropolitan Bl 9 10 City 25 Colonial 4 Consolidated IL 20 Eng. Scot. and Ana 0 151 161 25 Union; f Australia.. 41 42 161 1 20 Imperial (LI 10 Imperial Ottoman 12. it. 111 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. I'd I'd 100 Annglo-lAmerican L) 77 79 10 Great Northern .... 11/ 11) 77 6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) l2l 124 Japan Extension.. nl2 die 100 Atlantic ... : — 5 Indo-European (L).. 10 12 100 DoB pc — 10 Marseilles, Algiers, 10 British Australis (L) 5 41dis and Malta (L) .... 51 5) 10 British Ind Exten (L). 52 6 1 10 M e diter rn Ex IL ) ~ 4k 5 61 21 Pnma and S. retail. 31 21 dia 10 British Indian Sub- die 62 7 8 Reuter's marine, IL) 6 15-16, I, ) 20 Soo Trans France (L) 131 131 7 ChinaSubmarine(L) 515-Idis 100 Submarine 237 242 11 Do Scrip 2l 21 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 10 W India &Pauarna(L) 41 51 and Malta (L) 97-16,1,g, I x d MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian Bnd- 190 Do 6 p c Boucle. re holders' Certificate 1) 2 1 deemable 1870 . 63 86 10 BerliuWaterworks(L) 143 15 65, 3 30 Bolckow-Vaughan L) 30 35pui 30 London Fin AssoclL) 20 18dis 100 Boston City 117 . 8. i 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 21 3 p c Sterling Loan 91 93 23 93) 2 Lou & Prov Marine LI 1 1 pm 4 Brit & Fgn Marine( LI 2•:i 3} pm 100 Madras Irrig. &Canal 25 Canada Company. , , 73 7 5 g 5 n c by Ind Gov. 101 102 10 Ceylon Company L) 31 &Hs 2 Mauritius Laud (L) 3 } dm. 35 City ()dices ILI 26 26 dis 5 Nate! Disct(:olup L) 11 Ili 20 Colonial (L) 5 Com Union Asaurnce 3 31pm 21 N Zealand Loan and 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng IL) 2 23 Mere Agency IL) .. }R pm 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6 p c Pero Deb,. 112 117 6} N Britslt and Mere IL) 28} 28t 27A Ebbw Vale Steel LI.. 9 81dis 5 Ocean Marinelnanr l3 ll 141 m 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7 Po 50 P and ° Stearn Mortgage Loan.... 78 SO 451 80 10 Do do New. 1827 3 2 Ala 100 Egyp 9 p cV'roy Loan. 50 Ithymney Iron guar by Egyp Gov.. 94 26 15 Do New Bl 91 95i 60 Royal Mail Steam 13 Fore-st Warehouse IL) 7i Bpm 12 Tel Con and Alain IL) 26 760 100 Fan and ColouialGov 26), 3 Trust 6 p c Bonds.. 98 100 2 Themes and Mersey 99} Marine lusur IL 71 Geu Credt &Dint (L) } digs St. Tobacco 6 to a Loan. • 7/ guar by Italian 001`. 37 • 89 14 Gen Stm Navigation 27 3 / 4 28 3 / 4 5 Trust and Loan Co of 7 Hooper's Tel Worka I Idis Upper Canada ... f Ipm 61 5 U Marine. Lvpool II: 4 3 / 4 spm 17 Hudson's BM , 8 8 3 / 4 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 45 lndrbbr.GutPer.and 6 United Dis Comm (L 1 die par Tel Works L) .... 44 45 5 UnivMarinelusur (I,‘ 6/7.1.n 44t 4 12 Wanant Finance.... 9'! dk ~ 5 Internl Finan SociL) 1113/4dis 20 It Irrie Can Cavour 31., 4 MINING SHARE LIST.—DEOEM DER 19. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Odicee, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. Active demand for Prince of Wales, Grenville, Tankerville, West Tankerville, Sweetland Creek, Providence, East Lovell, and East Caradon, at an advance in most cases. Great Vor receded to Sk sellers. • Australian United, Chiverton Moor, Chivertou Valley, Chontales (Gold), Cook's Kitchen, 17, 18 Devon Great Console, Drakewalls, 2,35, 25s Dolcoath, Don Pedro North Del Rey, 21, n East Caradon, 6, 6} East Lovell, 28, 29 East Beton, East Wheal Grenville, 2, ti Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), -8., —O. General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 1711, 181 Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vol.. 2E, 31 Hingston Down, Marke Valley, 6/, 62 New Beldon, New Lovell. 300, 32s 6d Pacific- 1, 11 Pary's Mountain, 3i, 42 Perran Wheal Virgin, 11, 11 Plynlimmon, 2, 2} Prince of Wales, 19s. 21s Providence Mines, 39, 40 Rosewall Hill and Rausoine United, South Condurrow, 3, 31 South Frances, 28, 30 Sweetland Creek, 3L 41 Tankerville, 13f, 131 Taquaril(Gold), 48s, 50s Tincrott, Trumpet Consols, Van. Van Consols, West Caradon, West Chiverton, 51, 52 West Maria and Fortrascue, 265, 28s West Tankerville, Wheal Crsbor, Wheal Grenville, 21, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Sam 25, 2y MARXETS, LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY,-From Essex and Kent the receipts of wheat were limited, and owing to the damp weather the quality was indifferent. There was a thin atten dance of millers, and the demand was heavy for all qualities, at a decline of from ls. to 2s. per qr. The show of foreign wheat was good. Sales progressed slowly, and prices gave way ls. to 2s. per quarter. With barley the market was moderately sup plied. Very little business was transacted, and inferior pro duce was lower to sell. Malt was dull, on former terms. With oats the market was well supplied. The trade was heavy, and prices gave way 6d. to ls. per quarter. Beans were dull, and the quotations were barely maintained. The supply of peas was limited. The transactions were restricted, and prices had a drooping tendency. The flour market was depressed, and less money was accepted. ai ETROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The de mand for beasts has been limited to-day, and prices have given way 2d. per 81bs. With sheep the market has been only mode rately supplied. Sales have progressed quietly, but prices have been maintained. Calves and pigs have been neglected. Per 81bs. to sink the offal.-Coarse and inferior beasts, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. • second quality do„ 4s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. ; prime largo oxen, ss. 4d. to ss. Bd. ; 'mime Scots, &c., ss. 10d. to 6s. ; coarse and inferior sheep, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d,; second quality do, 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; prime coarse woolled sheep, ss. 2d. to ss. 10d. ; prime South Down do., Os. t • 6s. 4d. ; large coarse calves, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. ; prime small ditto, ss. to Os. 4d. ; large hogs, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. ; neat small porkers, ss. 6d. to Os. 4d. Quarter old store pigs, 225. to 265. each. Arrivals ;-English-beasts, 2,295 ; sheep, 10,440 ; calves, 33 ; pigs, 130. Foreign-beasts, 1,000 ; sheep, 2,500 ; calves, 127 ; pigs, 70. Total-beasts, 3,295; sheep, 12,940 ; calves, 160; pigs, 200. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MoNDAY.-The supplies of cattle and sheep at this market to-day, though much less than last week, were seasonably large. Both sheep and cattle met a slow sale at a considerable reduction in price. Some heavy Christmas cattle were sold fully at Id. per pound less than last Monday. The prices were-Beef, 7d. to 84d. per lb.; mutton, td. to 9d per lb. There were at market 2,900 cattle and 9,108 LONDON TALLOW MARKET, MONDAY.—The market has been quiet. Y.C., spot, 448.6 d. per cwt. Town tallow, 445. nett cash. Stock this day, 36,769 ; price of Y.C., 445. 6d ; delivery last week, 3,478 ; ditto from June 1, 68,754 ; arrivals last week, 1,359 ; ditto from June 1, 73,263 ; price of town, 465. 6d. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, MONDAY.-The market has been moderately supplied with meat. There has been a slow trade, at drooping prices. The import into London last week consisted of 1,045 packages from Hamburg, 40 from Ant werp, 6 from Rotterdam, and 43 from Harlingen. Per 81bs by the carcase. Inferior beef, as. Od. to 3s. 4d ; middling ditto, 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d.; Prime large ditto, ss. Od. to ss. 2d. ; prime small ditto. ss. Od. to ss. 4d. ; inferior mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. ; middling ditto, 4s. to 4s. 4d.; prime ditto, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. ; veal, ss. Od. to ss. 4d. ; large pork, 2s. Bd. to 3s. ; small ditto, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, MoNRLY.-These markets have been only moderately supplied with potatoes. The trade has been rather quiet, at our quota tions. The import into London last week consisted of 32 sacks from Hamburg, 3 bags from Harlingen, and 31 baskets and 2 hampers from Rotterdam. English regents, 60s, to 90s. ; Scotch regents, 60s. to 85s. ; rocks, 60s. to 70s. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, MONDAY.—There has been no feature of importance in this market. Fine qualities_ have been firm in value, with a healthy inquiry, and medium sorts have been dealt in to a moderate extent. Other sorts have sold slowly. Mid and East Kents, 158. to £7 ; Weald of Kents, £2 10s. to £2 15s. ; Sussex, £1 10s. to £3 10s. ; Farnham and country, £3 15s. to £6 6s. ; Olds, £1 to £2 10s. per cwt. LONDON WOOL MARKET, AI ONDAY.— in the wool market a quiet feeling has been apparent. For colonial produce there has not been much inquiry. Neverthelesi the tone has been steady, and prices have been maintained. English wool has been firm in value, with a limited inquiry. The import into London last eek was confined to 628 bales from New Zealand and about 1 2.50 bales from the Continent. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—Opentng Re port.--This market opened to-day with a good demand. Pro bable sales, 12,000 bales. Imports—American, 6,164 bales ; Brazil, 8,791 bales: African and others, 2.649. This market closes steady to-day. Sales, 12.000. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MosiDAr.—This market has been quiet both on Saturday and to-day, with only a very limited business doing. Prices, however, are very steady though the easier feeling apparent lately has given way to one of considerable firmness, partly owing to the stronger tone ruling ins the cotton market. The large orders lately placed make producers very indifferens to sell, except at full rates, even for forward delivery, in consequence of cotton to arrive being dearer. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, MONDAY.—Buyers to a fair extent at previous rates. GLASGOW PIG-IRON MARKET, MONDAY.—This market has been rather active to-day. There was a fair business dono at 51s. 3d. prompt cash. Sellers at this. Buyers a few days to pay- `1 RE SUA, LONDON, TUESDAY, I{ 20, 1870 PRESIDENT GRANT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. We have receiver by 'the American mail copies, in amphlet fohn; of General Grant's annual address to (longress, in which. sb much allusion to the relations between the Milted States and Great Britain was made. The Message, it will bo remembered, was telegraphed to England briefly, but we think it maybe of interest to place here in full the more important portions of the Message, and especially the passages in it which are of moment to English readers. The President, addressing the Senate and House of Representatives, said : A year of peace and general prosperity to this nation has passed since the last assembling of Congress. We have, through a kind Providence been blessed with abun dant crops, and have been spared from complications and war with foreign nations. In our midst comparative harmony has been restored. It is to be regretted, how ever, that a free exercise of the elective franchise has, by violence and intimidation, been denied to citizens in ex oeptional cases in several of the States lately in rebellion, and the verdict of the people has thereby been reversed. The States of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas have been restored to l'epresentation in our national councils. Georgia, the only state now without repreeentation, may confidently be expected to take her place there also at the beginning of tho new year, and then, let us hope, will be completed the work Of recon struction. With an acquiescence on the part of the whole people in the national obligation to pay the public debt, created as the price of our union ; the pensions to our disabled soldiers and sailors, and their widows and orphans ; and in the changes to the Constitution which have been made necessary by a great rebellion, there is no reason why we should not advance in material pros perity and happiness as no other nation ever did, after so protracted and devastating a war. • attempt to enforce it, it will become my duty to take such steps as may be necessary to protect the rights of the citizens .of the United States. It has been claimed by Her Majesty's officers that the fishing vessels of the United States have no right to enter the open ports of the British possessions in North America, except for the purpose of shelter and re pairing damages, of purchasing wood and obtaining water ; that they have no right to enter at the British custom-houses, or to trade there except in the purchase of Wood and water, and that they must depart within twenty-four hour. 3 after notice to leave. It is not known that any seizure of a fishing vessel carrying the flag of the United States hag been made under this claim. So far as the claim is founded on an alleged construction of the convention of 1818, it can not be acquiesced in by the United States. It is hoped that it will not be insisted on by her Majesty's Government. During the conferences which preceded the negotiation of the convention of 1818 the British commissioners pro posed to expressly exclude the fishermen of the United States from " the privilege of carrying on trade with any of his Britannic Majesty's subjects residing within the limits assigned for their use," and also that it should not be " lawful for the vessels of the United States engaged in the said fishery to have on board any goods, wares, or mer chandise whatever, except such as in ay be necessary for the prosectition of their*oyages to and from the said fishing grounds. And any vessel of the - United States which shall contravene this regulation 'nay be seized, con demned, and confiscated, with her cargo." This proposition, which is identical with the construe- tion now put upon the language of the Convention, was emphatically rejected by the American Commissioners, and thereupon was abandoned by the British plenipo tentiaries, and Article I, as it stands in the Convention, was substituted. If, however, it be said that this claim is founded on provincial or colonial statutes, and not upon the Conven tion, this Government eannot but regard them as un friendly and in contravention of the spirit, if not of the letter, of the treaty, for the faithful execution of which the Imperial Government is alone responsible. Anticipating that an attempt may possibly be made by the Canadian authorities in the coming season to repeat their unneighbourly acts toward our fishermen, I recom mend you to eonfdr upon thq 141xecutive the power to sus pend by proclamation the operation of the laws authorising the transit of goods, wares, and merchandise in bond, across the territory of the United States to Canada ; and, further, should such an extreme measure be necesaary, to suspend the operation of any laws whereby the vessels of the Dominion of Canada are permitted to enter the waters of the United States. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The sharp frost, the Mark Lane Express says, having closed with a very decided thaw and an almost continuous rain through the past week, the country in many parts has been quite flooded, several rivers overpassing their boundaries, while agricultural operations have been mainly suspended. The clouds have thus paid in full the balance that was due on the score of last summer's drought, and we are embarrassed as to the disposal of the surplus. With labour limited almost to thrashing, farmers naturally hesitate before they lower the quality of their wheat, which in very many instances has lost weight fully 21b. per bushel, and the declining price which they must take as the consequence by no means satisfies the miller, who wants a dry sample and must look for it in granaried foreign. LAW AND POLICE. ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF THE POLICE.—An Irish labourer, named James Lynch, appeared for the second time before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, to answer a charge preferred against him by Macdonald, a constable of the H division, for assaulting him on Friday evening last in Leman-street, near the station-house in that street. While it was raining fast on Friday evening, the prisoner was rolling about very drunk and making a great noise. The constable laid hold of him and led him towards the station-house. The prisoner struggled and struck right and left, and kicked the constable, who was soon joined by the reserve man, James Sorrell, 30 11, from the station-house. The police-constables turned the prisoner over and carried him in a quiet and gentle' man ner to the station-house. The prisoner was unhurt, and he preferred no complaint of ill-usage. If is dress was also perfectly clean, but a man named Clarke, foreman cooper in the• dock, said the prisoner was knocked down repeatedly, kicked, and trampled upon, and that he was dragged across the road in a most barbarous manner. Mr. John Budgett, jun., surgeon, saw the whole affair, and said no violence was offered to the prisoner, and that he was treated humanely and with proper discretion. Mr. Paget had no doubt of what had happened, and was not sorry he had adjourned the case for the attendance of Mr. Budgett. The evidence of Clark was worthless and untrue, and in a fit of excite ment got it into his head that the police were ill-using a man who was very disorderly and violent, whose clothes were not soiled, and upon whom there was not a mark. He sentenced the prisoner to seven days' imprisonment. PICKING POCKETS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—Three well dressed women, who gave the names of Jackson, Thompson, and Phillips, but who refused their addresses, were charged, at Westminster police court, with picking pockets in the above Abbey on Saturday last. From the evidence of two detectives, who are specially employed in the Abbey in consequence of the numerous robberies com mitted there of late, they watched the prisoners acting in concert, and from their manner they were suspected, and followed to a public house in the neigbourhood. . After leaving a detective searched the closet and found three purses, one containing money and the others emptied of their contents.—Remanded for inquiries. WOMAN'S VOICE.—In a lecture delivered by Mr. Glaishier at Edinburgh the other evening, he gave a sketch of some of his balloon ascent experience, and mentioned one circumstance which appears to require explanation. He had noticed generally that the voice of a woman was audible at the height of about two miles, while that of a man never reached higher than a mile. He assigned no probable solution as to the cause of this phenomenon. A FORTIFIFD LONDON.—The extraordinary effeot in the duration of this war produced by the fortifications of Paris has drawn the attention of all thoughtful profes sional men to the subject of fortifying capitals gene rally. It has also, we are happy to learn, drawn the attention of our own War Office, and it is understood that the Fortification branch there, under Sir F. Chapman and Colonel Jervois, C. 8., has been directed to prepare a careful scheme for defending London. That the gentlemen who live at ease in Lan cashire may not be alarmed, it is well to state that Mr. Cardwell is not likely to propose any vote on this account, or anyone else; to begin a series of Forts Valerien. All that will be clone will be to make such a careful study of the hills which enclose this great basin of the Thames in which we live,. that we should have a ready-made plan whereby to turn our navvies on to the intrenching of a set of rough field-works should the Continental fleets and Continental armies unite to imperil our metropolis. In such a ease we should have the labour and the gulls, and should try to crea t e a bi g S e b as t opo l . —A rmy and Navy Gazette. THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH GOVERNMENTS. As soon as I learned that a Republic had been pro claimed at Paris, and that the people of France had acquiesced in the change, the Minister of the United States was directed by telegraph to recognize it, and to tender my congratulations and those of the people of the United Stttes. The re-establishment, in France, of a system of government disconnected with the dynastic traditions of ]:trope, appeared to be a proper subject for the felicitations of America. Should the present struggle result in attaching the hearts of the French to our simpler forms of representative goverment, it will be a subject of still further satisfaction to our people. While we make no effort to impose our institutions upon the in habitants of other countries, and while we adhere to our traditional neutrality in civil contests elsewhere, we can not be indifferent to the spread of American political ideas in a great and highly civilized country like France. We were asked by the new Government to use our good offices, jointly with those of European Powers, in the interests of peace. Answer was mado that the established policy and the true interests of the United States forbade them to interfere in European questions jointly with European Powers. I ascertained informally and unoffi cially that the Government of North Germany was not e then disposed to listen to such representations from any Power; and though earnestly wishing to see the bles sings of peace restored to the belligerents, with all of whom the United States are on terms of friendship, I declined on the part of this Government to take a step which could only result in injury to our true interests without advancing the object for which our intervention was invoked. Should the time come when the action of the United States can hasten the return of peace, by a single hour, that action will be heartily taken. I deemed it prudent, in view of the num ber of persons of German and French birth living in the United States, to issue, soon after official notice of a state of war had been received from both belligerents, a pro clamation defining the duties of the United States as a neutral, and the obligations of persons residing within their territory to observe their laws and the laws of nations. This proclamation was followed by others, as circumstances seemed to call for them. The people, thus acquainted in advance of their duties and obligations, have assisted in preventing violation. of the neutrality of the United Staters. TRH MILATIONS WIMP GMAT BRITAIN. Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain, for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade, have been exchanged, It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Afrioa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets. The ratifications of the naturalisation oonvention, be tween Great Britain and the United States have also been exchanged during the recess ; and thus a long stand ing dispute between the two Governments has been settled in accordance with tee principles always contended for by the United States. la April last, while engaged in locating a military re servation near Pembina, a corps of engineers discovered that the commonly received boundary line between the United States and the British possessions, at that place is about forty-seven hundred feet south of the true position of the 49th parallel, and that the line, when run on what is now supposed to be the true position of that parallel, would leave the fort of the Hudson's Bay Company, at Pembina, within the territory of the United States. This information being communicated to the British Government, I was requested to consent, and did consent, that the British occupation of the fort of the Hudson's Bay Company should continue for the present. I deem it important, however, that this part of the boundary line should be definitely fixed by a joint com mission of the two Governments, and I submit herewith estimates of the expense of such a commission on the part of the United States, and recommend that an appropria tion be made for that purpose. The land boundary has already been fixed and marked from the summit of the Rocky Mountains to the Georgian Bay. It should now be, in like manner, marked from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. I regret to say that no conclusion has been reached for the adjustment of the claims against Great Britain grow ing out of the course adopted by that Government during the rebellion. The Cabinet of London, so far as its views have been expressed, does not appear to be willing to con cede that her Majesty's Government was guilty of any negligence, or did, or permitted any act, during the war, by which the United States has just cause of complaint. Our firm and unalterable convictions are directly the re verse. 1, therefore, recommend to Congress to authorise the appointment of a commission to take proof of the amounts and the ownership of these several claims on notice to the representative of her Majesty at Washing ton. and that authority be given for thesettlement of those claims by the United States, so that the Government shall have the ownership of ,the private claims, as well as the responsible control of all the demands against Great Britain. It cannot be necessary to add that whenever her Majesty's Government shall entertain a desire for a full and friendly adjustment of these claims, the United States will enter upon their consideration with an earnest desire for a conclusion consistent with the honour and dignity of both nations. THE CANADIAN FISHERIES, The course pursued by the Canadian authorities toward the fishermen of the United States during the past season has not been marked by a friendly feeling. By the first article of the convention of 1818 between Great Britain and the United States it was agreed that the inhabitants of the United States should have for ever in common - with British subjects the right of taking fish in certain waters therein defined. In the waters not included in the limits named in the convention (within three miles of parts of the British coast) it has been the custom for many years to give to intruding fishermen of the United States a reasonable warning of their violation of the technical rights of Great Britain. The Imperial Government is understood to have delegated the whole, or a share of its jurisdiction or control of these in-shore fishing groundi, to the colonial authority, known as the Dominion of Canada, and this semi-independent, but irresponsible, agent has exercised its delegated powers in an unfriendly way. Vessels have been seized without notice or warning, in violation of the custom previously prevailing, and have been taken into the colonial ports, their voyages broken up, and the vessels condemned, There is reason to believe that this unfriendly and vexatious treatment was designed to bear harshly on the hardy fishermen of the United States, with a view to political effect upon this Govern ment. Th , statutes of the Dominion of . Canada assume a still broader and more untenable jurisdiction over the vessels of the United Stat Cs. They authorise officers or persons to bring vessels hovering within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours f Canada into port; to search the cargo, to examine the master, on oath, touching the cargo and voyage, and to inflict upon him a heavy pecuniary pe nalty if true answers are not given ; and if such a vessel is found " preparing to fish," within three marine miles of any of such coasts, bays, creeks, or harbouis, without a license, or after the expiration of the period named in 'the last license granted to it, they provide that the vessel, with her tackle, &c., &c., shall be forfeited. It is not known that any condemnations have been made under this statute. Should the authorities of Canada A STRANGE INCIDENT. A correspondent of the Indepenciance Beige, who sent that paper a summary of a letter purporting to be from President Grant to the Czar, and offering the American fleet to Russia in case of war with England, is said to have been banished ; the banishment, however, is not for publishing false news, but because the letter being private, " its publication is regarded as constituting an offence against the person of the Emperor." The source of this news is a telegram from the Prussian correspondent of the Times. The important feature in the business is that the banishment of the cor respondent assumes the accuracy of the statement about President Grant and the American fleet. The death is announced of the HoD. Humble Dud ley Ward, brother of the Earl of Dudley, which occurred last week at DeaL LONDON Scnoor, BOARD.—The Observer under stands that the London School Board will prepare a set of rules and regulations, which will be sent to the other School Boards, so that the opinions of the whole country may be obtained in respect to arrangements which have a general and not a merely local application. Although each Board will have to adapt its measures to the exigencies of its district, it is highly desirable that there should be unity of action as far as it is practicable. PANIC IN A CHURCH.—On Sunday night, during the evening service at Leamington parish church, a por tion of the moulding of the principal arch of the south transept suddenly fell and broke through the chair on which a lady had been seated just before the accident. Great alarm ensued, and a number of persons rushed from the building in great terror, but the churchwardens and clergy succeeded in calming the congregation before any one was injured. DANGEROUS TRADES IN LONDON.—At the last meeting of the Clerkenwell Vestry, Mr. E. D. Johnson stated that there was a large manufactory in the parish of the same description as that where the terrible explo sion at Birmingham occurred. Not only were cartridges made, but they were loaded as well, and several hundred hands were employed in the work. Without the Slightest desire to hamper trade, he thought it the duty of the Vestry to take some steps in the matter, as, in case of accidents, hundreds of lives would be sacrificed, and there fore he moved that a letter be addressed to the district superintendent of police calling his attention to the fact that a cartridge manufactory existed in the district, and asking the interference of the police in seeing that the Act of Parliament with reference to dangerous trades is properly regarded. In the course of the subsequent discussion, Mr. G. Brooke said that, in addition to the manufactory to which Mr. Johnson had referred, two or three Iniwirod boys , and girls were engaged in the same dangerous trade in another part of the parish. Other speakers pointed Aut that the large number of persons engaged in these factories in dicated that there must be a great quantity of powder on the premises if, as was stated, the cartridges were not only made, but filled. Some of the vestrymen expressed a doubt whether the process of filling the cases with powder was carried on in the manufactories mentioned ; but this was met with the positive statement that not only cartridge loading was carried on, but that percussion caps were manufactured on the premises. Thereupon the Vestry agreed to request an official inquiry on the part of the police authorities. _ . GARIBALDI IN FRANCE.—The following explana tion is given of the rumour, which is current in Italy, about Garibaldi and his sons having resigned their mili tary command. The statements we are going to allude to are contained in the Gazettina Rosa, of Naples, and in Gazette di Torino ; they are from the pens of Achille Bizzoni and Carlo Podio, w ell known Italian journalists and associates in arms of Garibaldi, from whose camp they date their letters. Signor Bizzoni writes that in the engagements near Dijon, the French Mobile Guards were .seized with panic terror, and that they r w away in the most cowardly manner. Garibaldi felt compelled, in order to resist this flood of fugitives, to descend from his carriage ; as a last attempt at rallying them, he began to sing the " Marseillaise !" But the defection of the cowards," to use the words of the Italian writer, ren dered the retreat necessary ; Garibaldi and his son Ric ciotti, with the Italian legion and a few of thc more valorous Francs-tireurs were the last to leave the battle-field. In another letter, dated from Autun, Signor Podio relates how the French Mobile Guards fled at the first shots of the Germans in a fit of indescribable fright. They ran away in hot baste ; and when the Garibaldians endea voured to stop them, the Mobiles discharged their muskets at them, using also their bayonets against their Italian comrades. "Nor," says Signor Podio, " was this all. Poor Menotti Garibaldi, who ordered the Mobile Guards to close their ranks and to turn once more against the enemy, was insulted, dragged from his horse, and thrown on the ground some of them aiming even their guns at him. By almost a miracle he was saved. He owed the protection of his life mainly to the intervention of his staff, who rescued him' from the hands of those wretches. These latter, nevertheless, continued to follow him, and to heap insults upon him. Thus they called out to him: ' Go, and be a commander in Italy ! . Let thee be CVa to faire " Carlo Podio, who relates this occurrence, begins his letter with the words, " My innermost soul is filled with unutterable grief." . - BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.- -GRATEFUL AND CON FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette ro marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa. Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables .with a 'delicately flavoured .beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES BITS Co., Tfommo patine Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Caeaoine, very thin evening beverage. —Advt. THE NAVIGATION oy THE ST. LAWRENCE. A like unfriendly disposition has been manifested on the part of Canada in the maintenance of a claim of right to exclude the citizens of the United States from the naviga- tion of the St. Lawrence. This river constitutes a natural outlet to the ocean for eight States, with an aggregate population of about £17,600,000 inhabitants, and with an aggregate tonnage of 661,367 tons upon the waters which discharge into it. The foreign commerce of our ports on these waters is open to British competition, and the major part of it is done in British bottoms. If the American seamen be excluded from this natural avenue to the ocean, the monopoly of the direct commerce of the lake ports with the Atlantic would be in foreign hands, their vessels on transatlantic voyages having an access to our lake ports, which would be denied to Ameri can vessels on similar voyages. To state such a proposi tion is to refute its justice. During the Administration of Mr. John Quincy Adams Mr. Clay unanswerably demonstrated the natural right of the citizens of the United States to the navigation of this river, claiming that the Act of the Congress of Vienna, in opening the Rhine and other rivers to all nations, sheared the judgment of European jurists and statesmen that the inhabitants of a country, through which a navigable river passes, have a natural right to enjoy the navigation of that river to and into the son, even though passing through the territories of another Power. This right does not exelnde the coequal right of the sovereign possessing the territory through which the river debouches Into the sea, to make such regulations, relative to the police of the navigation as may be reason ably necessary ; but those regulations should be framed in a liberal spirit of comity, and should not impose need lose burdens upon the commerce which has the right of transit. It has been found, in practice, more advantageons to arrange these regulations by mutual agreement. The United States are ready to make any reasonable arrange ment as to the police of the St. Lawrence which may be suggested by Great Britain. If the claim made by Mr. Clay Was just when the porn lation of the States bordering on the shores of the lakes was only 3,400,000, it now derives greater force and equity from the increased population, Wealth, production, and tonnage of the States on the Canadian frontier. Since Mr. Clay advanced his argument in behalf of our right, the principle for which he contended has been fre quently, and by various nations, recognised by law or by treaty, and has been extended to several- other great rivers. By the treaty concluded at Mayence, in 1831, the Rhine was declared free from the point where it is first navigable into the sea. By the convention between Spain and Portugal, concluded in 1835, the navigation of the Douro, throughout its whole extent, was made free for the subjects of both Crowns. In 1853 the Argen tine Confederation, by treaty threw open the free naviga tion of the Parana and the Uruguay to the merchant vessels of all nations. In 1856 the Crimean war was closed by a treaty which provided for the free navigation of the Danube. In 1858 Bolivia, by treaty, declared that it regarded the rivers Amazon and La Plata, in accordance with fixed principles of national law, as highways or channels, opened by nature, for the commerce of all nations. In 1859 the Paraguay was made free by treaty, and in December, 1856, the Emperor of Brazil, by imperial decree, declared the Ama zon to be open to the frontier of Brazil to the merchant ships of all nations. The greatest living British authority on this subject, while asserting the abstract right of the British claim, says : "It seems diffi cult to deny that Great Britain may ground her refusal upon strict lugs, but it is equally difficult to deny, first, that in so doing she exercises harshly an exteme and hard law ; secondly, that her conduct with respect to the navi gation of the St. Lawence is in glaring and discreditable inconsistency with her conduct with respect to the navi gation of the Mississippi. On the ground that she possessed a email domain, in which the Mississippi took its rise, she insisted on the right to navigate the entire volume of its waters., On the ground that she possesses both banks of the St. Lawenco, where it die embogues itself into the sea, she denies to the United States the right of navigation, though about one-half of the waters of Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Superior, and the whole of Lake Michigan, through which the river flows, are the property of the United States." The whole nation is interested in securing cheap trans- portation from the agricultural States of the West to the Atlantic seaboard. To the citizens of those States it secures a greater return for their labour ; to the inhabit ants of the seaboard it affords cheaper food ; to the nation an increase in the annual surplus of wealth. It is hoped that the Government of Great Britain will see the justice o f abandoning the narrow and inconsistent claim to which her Canadian provinces have urged her adherence. AMERICAN TOPICS. Our depressed commerce is a subject to which I called your special attention at the last session, and suggested that we shall in the future have to look more to the coun tries south of us, and to China and Japan for its revival. Our representatives to all these Governments have exerted their influence to encourage trade between the United States and the countries to which they are accredited. But the fact exists that the carrying is done almost entirely in foreign bottoms, and while this state of affairs exists we cannot control our due share of the commerce of the world. That between the Pacific States axd China and Japan is about all the carrying trade now conducted in American vessels. I would recommend a liberal policy toward that line of American steamers, one that will insure its suooess and even increased usefulness. The cost of building iron vessels, the only ones that can compete with foreign skips in the carrying trade, is so much greater in the United States than in foreign countries that, without some assistance from the Govern ment, they cannot be successfully built here. There will be several propositions laid before Congress in the course of the present session, looking to a remedy for this evil. Even if it should be at some cost to the National Treasury I hope such encouragement will be given as will secure American shipping on the high seas, and American ship building at home. The report of the Secretary of War shows a very satis factory reduction in the expenses of the army for the last fiscal year. For details you are referred to his accom panying report. • The expenses of the navy for the whole of the last year, i.e., from December 1, 1869, the date of the last report, are - less thau $19,000,000, or about $1,000,000 less than they were the , previouS year. The expenses since the commenceme - at of this fiscal year, i.e., since July 1, chew for five months a decrease of over $2,400,000 from tli.se of the corresponding months of last year. The estimates for the current year were $28,205,671 37. Those for the next year are $20,683,317, with $955,100 additional for necessary permanent improvements. These estimates are made closely, for the mere maintenance of the naval establish ment as it now is, without !midi in the nature of per manent improvement. The , appropriations made tor the last and current years were evidently intended by Congress, and are sufficient only, to keep the navy on its present footing by the repairing and refitting of °lir old ships. This policy must, of course, gradually but surely destroy the navy, and it is in itself far from economical, as each year that it is pursued the neceeity for mere repairs in ships and navy-yards becomes more imperative and more costly ; and our current expenses are annually itcreased for the mere repair of ships, many of which must soon become unsafe and useless. I hope, during the present session of Congress, to be able to submit to it a plan by !which naval vessels can be built, and repairs made with great saving upon the present cost. It can hardly be wise statesmanship in a Government which represents a country with over five thousand miles of coast line, on both oceans, exclusive of Alaska, and containing 40,000,000 of progressive people, with relations of every nature with almost every foreign country, to rest with such inadequate means of enforcing any foreign policy, either of protection or redress. Separated by the ocean from the nations of the eastern continent, our navy is our only means of direct protection to our citizens ' abroad, or for the enforcement of any foreign policy. The subjects of education and agriculture are of great interest to the success of our republican institutions, happiness, and . grandeur as a nation. In the interest of one a bureau has been established in the Interior Depart ment—the Bureau of Education; and in the interest of the other a separate department, that of Agriculture. I believe great general good is to flow from the operations of both these bureaux if properly fostered. I can not com mend to your careful consideration too highly the reports of the Commissioners of Education and of Agriculture, nor urge too strongly such liberal legislation as to secure their efficacy. In conclusion, I would sum up the policy of the Ad ministration to be a thorough enforcement of every law; a faithful collection of every tax provided for economy in the disbursement of the same ; a prompt pay ment of every debt of the nation; a reduction of taxes as rapidly as the requirements of the country will admit ; reductions of taxation and tariff, to be so arranged as to afford the greatest relief to the greatest number ; honest and fair dealings with all other peoples, to the end that war, with all its blighting consequences, may be avoided, but without surrendering any right or obligation due to us ; a reform in the treatment of Indians and in the whole civil service of the country ; and, finally, in securing a pure, untramelled ballot where every man entitled to cast a vote may do so just once at each election without fear of molestation or prescription on account of his political faith, nativity or colour. COUNT BISMARCK ON THE CONFERENCE. The note addressed by Count Bismarck to the Prussian Ambassador in London, respecting the Conference, has been published in the Berlin papers. It is very brief and to the purpose. The Chancellor begins by recalling his circular of the 26th ultimo, in which he requested the Courts of Vienna, Constantinople, Florence, and St. Petersburg to send accredited . representatives to London for a Conferende upon the questions opened by the Russian Cabinet in its circular of October 31st. This invitation was sent after he had learned the assent of the Britannic Government 0 doßussell, and he considered himself justified in saying that the Cabinet of St. Peters burg was on its side ready to accept counsel of England. Bismarck then states the order in which the replies from the several courts were received. The envoy at St. Peters burg announced the consent of the , Russian Cabinet the very next day. The Italian Government replied on the 28th. The Grand Vizier, on the Ist December, informed the Prussian Ambassador at Constantinople that the consent of the Porte was already in the hands of the Turkish representative in London. Lastly, on the 2nd, the Aus trian Government intimated that they were fully agreed with England on the subject: Count Bismarck expresses his satisfaction at the favour generally accorded to his proposal, and his hope that the British Government will now take the affair in hand, and fix the time of meeting. THE WA', THE SIEGE OF PARIS. TREATMENT OF GERMAN OFFICERS. Besides the evidence of French prisoners taken in the" late sorties, there is the testimony of several general offi Cers who have been in Paris, to prove that the food sup" plies are far from exhausted. The Times' corresponden t ' says :—Yesterday there arrived within our lines four Ger man officers who had been taken prisoners outside Paris/ and who had been exchanged against four French officers taken in some part of the South, where' the army of the Loire had been engaged. One of those German officers states that nothing could have been better than their treatment while under detention. They were kept int Paris for several days, but not on prison fare or " s hort , commons." He himself had dined with two French Generals, and the dinner and dessert were excellent. Several dishes of meat were served, two of theta being roast beef and veal. He was taken about to different restaurants, pour s'amuser, and his bill at those establishments, as well as his carriage hire, were paid by his jailors. But that is not all- No amount of misfortune makes a French gentleman forget that courteous consideration for which he is sa eminently remarkable. It was suggested that it would not be convenient for the German officers to go a bout. Paris in their uniform, and each prisoner was presented with a thousand francs to provide himself with mufti. AV this was done in the handsomest manner—in such a waY that the officers could not decline. The attentions were offered with a delicacy that forbade refusal. I hope such politeness will be duly reciprocated. TIIE PARIS NATIONAL GU 'kW). The whole force of armed men may be roughly estimar ted at a strength of 520,000, divided into three armies — the first of which is commanded by General CliSment Thomas, the second by General DucrOt, and the third by General Vinoy. Let us take them seriattrra according to their numbers. General Thomas's army is more numerous than the other two put together ; it consists of about 300,000 men, chiefly composed of National Guards, or Gardes takes. There are 266 battalions of these, the battalions varying in strength from twelve to seventeen hundred 'men. Since Thomas was appointed to his command, a• system of elimination has been adopted, which is gradually converting the civic force into an army fit to take the field. From each battalion 500 men are chosen—the unmarried members ; and, having been' equipped and armed at the Palais de l'lndustri 6 as regulars, exchanging all their " piston " rifles against. the " tabatieres " and Chassepots of their comrades who, remaining in the old battalion happened to be armed with improved weapons—they are formed into regiments of three battalions, on the approved army footing, and sent out to join the troops belonging to the Second Army ; in fact, they are transferred from one army to the other' The new regiments are commanded by colonels pro moted from the " commandants" formerly in charge of " Sedentaire " battalions ; and those battalions retain their original formation, though with thinned ranks, which , again, however, are steadily being filled up by volunteers of all ages and ranks. Forty thousand of these new mobilised troops, or twenty " regiments de marche," have already been sent forth to join the regulars and. Moblots in the field ; and forty thousand more will be ready to follow thoir example in ten days or a fortnight. The Gardes S4dentaires serve on the ramparts of the enceinte, and hold a good many posts, or guards, in the city, at the public offices, Government storehouses, hos pitals, and municipal bureaux. Only five batteries of artillery properly belong to General Thomas's army ; but great efforts are being made to strengthen it in this respect,—Correspondent of Telegraph. THE CHANCES OF PEACE. A Berlin letter in the Allgemeine Zeitung, which men tions the despatch from Spandau on the 12th of some heavy siege guns for Paris, gives vent to a suspicion which the German press has hitherto carefully refrained from indulging in. "It must," says the writer, "be concluded that the preparations for the cannonade of the Paris fortifications are still unfinished, though the contrary has for weeks been maintained by the semi-official papers. Experts seek an explanation of this partly in the badness of the roads, partly in the fact that many of the guns used at Strasburg and elsewhere have already become un serviceable. This disposes of the assertions already con tested by the Government organs that the bombardment' of Paris hal hitherto only been delayed because military and political considerations were constantly at variance at headquarters. Those papers which thus increase the im patience of the public proceed also on the erroneous as sumption that with the capture of Paris peace is insured. In official circles such a delusion has long been dispelled, and the diplomatists here were never deceived by it. It is true that in the north of France peace is yearned for, but in the west and south, where the devastating opera tions of the torch of war have not been immediately felt, the desire for peace is nowhere perceptible, which cannot be wondered at, considering that the South is en tirely governed by the "Red "party. In view of the dangers with which the recklessness of the Southern Reds threatens France, ideas of a Bonapartist restoration have recently taken strong hold in the north, and in our politi cal circles it is deemed not improbable that Imperialism will prevail over the Orleanist plans fostered by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. The Orleanists must be much stronger than they are at present before their dynasty can be re stored, or before the Due d'Aumale can gain the presi dential chair of the French Republic." AFFAIRS IN LYONS. • LYONS, December 15. The Municipal Council of this town has taken a strong measure, which is also a very prudent one. It has dissolved the national workshops, which had no longer a raison d'etre since all public works are either concluded or suspended, and they were only an arm always ready for the agitators. It was necessary to face the danger boldly, and this was done by M. Henon, supportd by the Muni pal Council. There were some slight disturbances in conse quence which the National Guard soon repressed. General Treskow himself pracuises ruses de guerre. His summons to the Place d'Auxonne was nothing but a feint to alloy a small corps which left Dijon to reinforce the assailants of Belfort to retreat from ReSures to Gray in safety. It was feared that the French troops on the Jura frontier would attack this corps. Officers of the marines have just been appointed to the' command of all the free corps acting in the Franche Comt4 which required direction. A subscription is opened at Besancon to present a sword of honour to Garibaldi. The hilt represents the figure of the Republic crushing under her feet a crown and sceptre. An ambus cade, under the command of Colonel Bourras a nd his Vosges troops, has , succeeded in capturing a detachment of 150 Prussians who had left Dijon to ler" requisitions at Nuits. It is said Garibaldi has protested at Tours against the formation in the East of France of companies of Freeshooters commanded by officers of marine, and not under his own direction. ►The Prussians seem inclined to re-assume the offensive" at Dijon, and are concentrating themselves there in con considerable force. The Badenese have re-occupied Nuits, but were driven from thence by the freeshooters, and after two hours' struggle departed, leaving 200 men on the field and 20 prisoners. They retreated to Dijon with pieces of artillery. CARDIFF AND THE EDUCATION ACT. —Yesterday morning the Cardiff Town Council declined by a majority , of 14 to Bto apply for the formation of a School Board for that town, on the ground that sufficient school accommodation was already provided by voluntary means. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at la, Russell-square, the wife of Chas• Oppenheimer, Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst., at 4, York-place, Bow-road, the wife of Charles Hope Buncombe, Esq., of a daughter• MARRIAGES. On the 15th inst., at Morpeth, Robert, y o ungest son of the late Rev. John Kinahan, rector of Knock Breda. co. Down, to Anna, fourth daughter of the late Colonel Birnie Browne, Bengal Artillery. On the 15th inst., at Market Bosworth, Charles Leigh Adderley, eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir Charles 13 , Adderley, M.P.. of Hams, Warwickshire, to Caroline , third daughter of Sir Alexander Dixie, Bart., Bosworth Park, Leicestershire. DEATHS. On the 16th inst., at 8, Montagu-street, Portman-sqvar e, Colonel Henry F. 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