The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-26 00:00:00

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The ;leman, of rst sitting bts to the fitting for of Bank ief judge. did not eighhour -en ce,wbe that the having lout any lolly un rile debts incipayY mpames, far back 3n, Ford, dealings, L in their mild only t a still urnment ned by rig sub recent ,etor of 3d £5O ince of urged ptional ces in trd. reekly arrant nought -farm child week, not a•the ith a found hough racing 3ed to [aver- ng Ber small ye it, had nd it Mrs. 'ge of had nf or- ECONI) EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 2.30 P.M. LATEST INTELLIG ENCF. THE EASTERN QUESTION We had not received up to the time of go'ng to Press, the Russian reply to Earl Granville . t.; de spatch ; and it is doubtful if it will be published before the Cabinet Council on Monday. The despatch was delivered in the Foreign Office ; but it Was not received in time to be sufficiently con sidered at yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet Council. The Note of the Imperial Chanc ilqr was read, it was resolved to deliberate upon it as, au ad journed meeting on Monday. The public will gather some encouragement from this result. If Prince Clortschakoff had simply adhered to the claims set out in his first circular, there would have been 4 0 adjournment, for deliberation would have been Unnecessary. THE WA R. REPULSE OF 1,500 PRUSSIANS. From Amiens a despatch had been received dated the 25th, stating that 1,500 Prussians entrenched with three guns near Demuir, were attacked by two French battalions with two guns and put to flight. The enemy were pursued as far as Le Quesnel. errEAUX PILLAGED BY THE GERMANS. pr , A. French official despatch received to-day at Tours from Chagny, says that the Germans, after the repulse at Nuits, pillaged Citeaux. It appeared to be the intention of the enemy to concentrate their forces on Dijon. M. Gambetta returned to Tours yesterday. B ELLEME OCCUPIED BY THE PRUSSIANS On the night of the 22nd, twenty thousand Prus alans occupied Belleme with the intention, as i 4 PPeared, of proceeding in the direction of Le ka t na. On the 24th much surprise was occasioned °Y their suddenly marching towards Nogent le hotrou. RECRUITING FOR GA RIBA LDI AT PRAGUE. BERLIN, Friday, 6.40. Garibaldian recruiting office was discovered in Prague, and closed, on Wednesday. It is a branch °f a central office in Vienna, which is supported by t he French embassy in that place. II ERIOUS ENGAGEMENT NEAR .LE MANS, ' GERMAN REPULSE AT VOUGEOT. Tours, November 25. Yesterday the Prussians arrived within sigh l eagues of Le Mans. A serious engagement commenced at six o'clock In the morning, and strong expectations are enter tained here that it would prove favourable •to the French. TOURS, November 25. , despatch from Orleans dated to-day says that a il attle is imminent on the Loire. The Francs-tireurs have attacked the enemy at Ilougeot. They had six killed and a few It ounded. The Germans retreated upon Dijon, eking with them their dead and wounded in eighteen *aggons. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CROWN PRINCR OF PRUSSIA, VRRSAILIAS, November 25. The attitude of the army before Paris is one of Il'aitin g and watching; it seems very doubtful It an y attack will be made on French defences. 4 t is rumoured that the reason of change of rail to simple blockade is owing to Count M o ltke "lin g information that the supply of food in the Ity is less than was supposed. Trochu is thought c ertain to try a great sortie before he surrenders. BERLIN, November 25 (10.40 a.m.) The regular troops of the Paris garrison, it is re- Darted, come to the German outposts by hundreds, 1 44 fering to surrender. They say they are starving 'tit, excepting the sick, they are turned back. kN.GAGEMENT NEAR AIEZIERES. GER MANS REPULSED WITH GREAT LOSS. The Efoile Beige of Nov. 25, says an engagement t i /c ourred on the 23rd between Mezieres and Demun(?) Which the Germans are said to have been repulsed /t itil great loss. The French lost 15 killed and 8 W s.. °Unded ; two guns and three mitrailleuses were from the Germans. FIGHTING NEAR AMIENS. . . The Echo du Nord of the 25th says that a general 64 gagement is believed to be going on near Akiens. Iteports come from Lille tqat there has been fight at Villers Bretoneux, 15 kilometres from Amiens. T he Cannonade was heard all day yesterday (24th) at Corbie, but no details have yet been received. A 13 ' ° °4 many German , prisoners have reached Amiens. FIGHTING NEAR ARTENAY. tl 4 - second despatch from Tours of the 25th states cannonading was heard at Orleans the 1, 4'4 ' O lO of the previous day in tho direction of 4 !teuay. It is supposed that important engaga ;gents are in progress, but no intellig e n ce has tran ilirecl at Tours. The Prussians were reported.to be 1 4 terday evening at St. Calais, half-way between Mans and Vendome. General 13ourbalii still eists in his refusal to accept the command of the ti l e 18th Army Corps. CAPITULATION OF THIONVILLE. the report of the capitulation of Thionvillo is iTlfirmed, and the formal surrender of the town ( 7 0 t place to-day. The bombardment was carried ti ll by 76 guns for two days. The town is ahnost 4 troyed, it having been burning since the 22d. ENCOUNTER WITH MOBILE GUARDS. : 4 report from the Royal Head- q ua r t ers a t V er - Vliies, dated the 24th, states that the Ad va nb ce i l ard of Groeben division of Cavalry, commanded Colo ne l S u d eri t z , h a d au engagemen t on t h e 2 n d near Le Quesnel with the Mobilo Guards from lens. The French were repulsed and fled in gre at disorder. ADVANCE OF rim GRAND DUKE OF MECKLENBURG. %Ile latest information from Versailles states that L e Grand Duke con ti nues t o a d vance , b u t th a t oel'al s ki rm i s h es h ave ta k en pl ace w ith recon tiring parties near Neuville Bois and Mazieres. The German Staatsanzeiger, of the 24th, speaking 4a t he war in France, says that unles s the p re s en t tih`4ications are deceptive, the end of the fighting is toaching. A . THE THRONE OF SPAIN. q t elegram from Madrid says :—The official acceptance N buke of Aosta has been received. The Regent has ‘tr t ,u J° t'ated th e 'acceptance by pardoning five Carlists who Sit e :ndemned to death. The slavery questi on i s aga i n t ‘ed, and the Republicans are endeavouring to use 4 0b question as a weapon against the King and the went. f~le Lanc e t p u bli s h es a d ra ft M e di ca l Bill o f it s which it hopes will meet the approval of the pro -404. at,:,Poley, ILA., the eminent sculptor, has been Nif t T'Y indisposed for some weeks, through an illness tk Ing fro exposure to the inclement weather while at tr. °ll the m eat sitting figure of the late Prince Con sor t '43l e p THE TREATY OF 1856. MR. ODO RUSSELL'S MISSION. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA, VERSAILLES, Noitniber 25. '1 he scope of Mr. Odo Russell's mission is not allowed to transpire, but it is confidently asserted here that if he seeks Prussian help for England in the Eastern question he will not succeed. Prussia might possibly remain neutral, but would under no circumstances assist England in such a struggle. ST. PETERSBURG, November 25. Addresses of thanks to the Emperor have been received from-the Smolensk Diet and the nobility, the Bessarabian Diet and the nobility, and from all classes of the population. The St. Petersburg Gazette says that Russia cannot withdraw her de claration, nor lea . ve it without practical conse quences. • Such a proposition from the English press compels her to pursue more actively than be fore the realization of the problem set before her. No one in Russia wishes for, war; but all classes would rather consent to war than to a humiliating retractation before threats, unsupported by anything else than references to the sanctity of a Treaty, directed against the country. VIENNA, November 25. Two letters from Count Beust to Count Chotek were laid before the Delegation yesterday. In the second, Count Beust says : " I have in::de no secret of my conviction that the late Treaty placed Russia in an unworthy position. nonce I was all the more pained that she should take such pains to rid herself of the burden." • BERLIN, November 25 (12.33 a.m.). The St. Petersburg semi-official Golos, in reply to an article in the Times, charging Russia with an intended breach of the Treaty of Paris, says that Russia scorned to modify that compact by forced interpretationg, as has been so often done by her adversaries, but openly denounced an agreement which had been violated by everybody else. Russia, moreover, would have had no objection to lay her grievances.be'ore a conference could she have hoped for redress. PESTH, November 25. In the Austrian Delegation Count Beust asserted to-day that nothing had been omitted which was required by the dignity of the monarchy in the Black Sea question. No Russian reply has been received yet. He cautioned the members against speaking too much of war or peace, as equally inopportune in the present state of affaire. A despatch from Turin, dated November 24, says tho Duchess of Aosta was confined to-day of a prince. ACCIDENT TO THE IRISH MAIL. The up Irish mail, due at Euston at 6.45 a.m. this morning, on emerging from the Watford tunnel, came into contact with some empty cattle waggons which, through the great carelessness of the breaksman of the latter, were in the act of being shunted across the main line, instead of into their proper siding. The small resistance offered by the empty waggons happily prevented the passengers suffering any injury, but the engine of the mail train Wa3 thrown over on the main line metals, and stopped the traffic for two or three hours. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE, The Athenccum, says :—Miss Broughton, the author of "Red as a Rose is She," is engaged on a novel which is meant to appear with the next spring flowers.—Mr. Blanchard Jerrold has projected an elementary library of school books and prize books for the children of the people. The first three volumes, which are on the - point of appearing, indicate the character of the undertaking. 1. " The Best Teacher, a Primer, Spelling, and Reading book, designed to teach the child his first lessons from the book that that should be read always." 2. " Shakspearee Primer and Spelling-book, designed to teach children their earliest lessons in the English of Shakspeare." 3. " Jeremy Taylor's Reading-book, teaching both young and old the rules of holy living and dying, from the pages of the writer whom Emerson has called `The Shakspeare of Divines !""—We hear that the demands sent in to the Education Department for building grants for elementary schools are beyond all expectation, and that it is likely there will be a very strong pull at the Exchequer for funds—some say millions. It is to be hoped that before an application for alittle grant be listened to, some proper clas sification of schools in a district will be insisted on.— Among the candidates for the chair of Natural History in Queen's College, Belfast, vacant by the appointment of Professor Thomson to the • Edinburgh chair, it is be lieved that Dr. Mac Alister, Lecturer on Zoology in the University of Dublin, is the most likely to succeed.— Further extension of the Record Office, in Rolls Court s Chancery Lane, is intended. The city authorities pro pose to enlarge Leadenhall and Billingsgate Markets.— Among the plans now in vogue is that of building a new Mint in London. It is to be erected in Whitefriars, with a frontage on the northern Embank ment, and between the Temple and the City Gas-works.— The opening of the Lyceum Theatre with an Opera Buffo Company (Limited) is announced, to be under the management of M. Verger, whose dramatic and musical agency office in Paris has been broken up by the war. Signor Bottesini, tho contra-basso player, will be the conductor, and his opera, " AU Baba," is promised for the opening night.—The first performance in London of Mr. Benedict*s oratorio, " St. Peter," is announced for the 13th of December, with the aid of Mr. Barnby's choir ; the chief singers will be Mdlle. Tietjens, Madame Patey, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Rayn ham, and Herr Stockhausen.—Early in the new year the Royal Court Theatre, in Sloane-Square, London, will be opened as a place of fashionable entertainment. The house has been reconstructed by Mr. Walter Emden, who performed the like office for the Globe. A new comedy by Mr. W. S. Gilbert will form the opening piece. —An extravaganza; with new music by M. Herv6, will be pro duced at the Gaiety at Christmas. Mr. Toole and Miss E. Farren will then reappear.—The drama of " Marl borough," by Mr. Watts Phillips, will shortly be played at a West End theatre. The author has entirely re written the last act. Other historical dramas from the same pen are likely to be ere long produced.—A bur lesque by Mr. Gilbert is in preparation at the Op6ra Comique. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Hon. Anne, Dowager Countess of Mexborough was proved in the London Court under £25,000. Her ladyship, who died July 17 last, aged eighty-seven, was the relict of John, third Earl of Mexborough, who died in 1860.—The will of Rear-Admiral Richard Robert Quin, of her Majesty's Fleet, late residing at Torquay, who died on September 22nd last, was proved in London under £7,000 personalty. —The will of Major-Ceneral Sir George Moyle Sherer, K.C.5.1., late of the Bengal Army, Aide de-Camp to lle Queen, was proved in Loudon under a nominal sum in this country. The gallant General died on the sth instant, at the age of 70. The will of Mrs. Elizabeth Beresford, wife of the Right Rev. Marcus Gervais Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh, was proved in the London Court under £3o,ooo.—The will of Miss Elizabeth Dunn (which was proved in the Registry at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the 4th ult., under £35,000) abounds with bequests to Catholic charitable institutions.—The will of Miss Eliza beth Valentine Carter, of 50, Kensington Park road, Notting-hill, was proved in the London Court, on the Ist instant, under £20,000. She has left several charituble bequests. By a codicil dated May, 1868, she bequeaths to the Cancer Hospital and the Consumption Hospital, both of Brompton, and to the Drinking-Fountains Association, each £5O. —lllustrated London News. . _ The Earl and Countess of Munster have sustained a domestic calamity by the death of Viscount Fitzclarence, which occurred on the 22nd inst. Twenty 56-pounder guns havo been forwarded to Elswiek to be converted into 64-pounders at Sir William Armstrong's ordnance factory, on Major Palliser's prin ciple. Mr. Thomas Wier, a respectable farmer, residing near Warrington, was drowned on Wednesday night through his horse walking into the Bridgewater Canal, Preston-brook. The Rock says there has been a series of cptarrels at New Malden respecting the new schools, culminating in the forcible entry of the vicar and others against a bar ricade of forms and desks erected by three of the building committee who were inside. The Law Times says that the Northern Circuit will celebrate the elevation of their late eminent member, Lord Justice Mellish, to the Equity Bench, by a dinner to his lordship at the Albion on Monday. it is expected that those of her Majesty's judges who were members of the Northern Circuit will be present. IHT 511.61, LONDON, SATURDAY, N ovr,mffic, It 26, 187 C. THE MONEY MARKET. [CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.] LOSS OF FIVE LIVES, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The collier brig George and Jane of Shields, bound south, put into the Humber, wind-bound, on Thursday night. Yesterday mqrning. at five o'clock she was run into by the Edina, of Leith, bound for Hull. The brig was at anchor,but her lights were not burning at the time. She foundered immediately she was struck. One hand of the watch was saved, but the other five of the: . crew asleep in their berths went down with the vessel. On the Stock Exchange to-day there wag almost a cessation of business owing to the uncertainty that exists with respect to the . nature of the answer received from Russia. Consols shewed no recovery from last night, being 92a to 92 for money and account. There is no change in Foreign Government Securities, except that Turkish 1869 Bonds are better by per cent. than they were last night. French Loan, dis. to par. The Poonah, for the East, took out to-day £10,450 .in gold, principally for Alexandria. The Court of Directors of the Bank of England. have arranged to nominate Mr. George Lyall and Mr. Ben jamin Buck Greene for Governor and Deputy-Governor at the election in April next. As Christmas Day will this year fall on a Sunday, the following day will be observed as an almost universal holiday. In the present state of the law, however, the banks must be open on the latter day, thus compelling the attendance in the City of a large number of persons whose occupation throughout the year involves much hard work and responsibility, accompanied 'in many cases by inadequate remuneration. A bill introduced in the House of Commons in 1868, to render the day after Christ mas Day a bank holiday, was read a second time, but allowed to drop. It is to be hoped that the matter will be taken in hand in the forthcoming meeting of Parliament. The report of the Bombay Gas Company (Limited), to be submitted oil the 15th of December, states that during the past half-year there has been a steady increase in the consumption of gas over the corresponding period of last year, while the cost of production has decreased. The directors declare an interim dividend at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum. THE ASSOCIATED CAMBERS OF COMMERCE. At yesterday's sitting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Bradford, it was resolved to petition Parlia ment iu favour of Captain Sprp's route to Western China, and to memoralise the Postmaster-General on the subject of the pattern-post and telegraphic delays. It was also resolved to petition Government for a revision of the Spanish and Portuguese tariffs. A motion to repeal the Statute of Frauds was rejected. The advisability of certain clauses which were proposed being added to the Merchant Shipp.ng Acts way generally conceded. THE BISHOP OF MAtiCHF,STER, ON THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN. IThe Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Fraser) presided yesterday morning at the first annual meeting of the Manchester Society for Promoting the Higher Education of Women. His lordship, in his opening speech, remarked that he had been called a Radical bishop, but he assured the meeting that his Radicalism hid a very Conservative element in it. On tLe subject of female education, for instance, he was perfectly prepared to welcome everything that would make the education of women more sound, more deeply cultured, more ranging over all her faculties than that hitherto offered ; but he was most anxious to keep the proper functions of men and women distinct, ankl he therefore could not sanction with any satisfaction the attempts being made to intrude women upon functions which did not belong to them. When he saw women thrusting themselves into the domain of politics and medicine he was reminded of the ladies in one of the plays of Aristophanes, who sat in council upon affairs of state, and found they " made a mess of it." If anyone looked upon a school of anatomy, containing mixed classes of male and female students from 18 to 25 years old, as an edifying spectacle in the midst of Modern civilisation, then their notions of what was right and becoming were very different from his. What they wanted was to lift women from frivolity, and so to enrich their characters that they might redeem young men from fast life. They hoped thus to substitute public spirit throughout the country for dissipation and selfishness. But there was, he thought, something worse than the frivolous woman. She was bad enough, Heaven knew, but the fast woman was simply odious. She was bringing society to the ground. Several subsequent speakers re plied to his lordship. They upheld that education pur sued even further than by the society wolld not divorce women from, their home duties, would, indeed, have the opposite tendency to that of making them fast. At the meeting of the Scottish Australian Investment Company (Limited), no dividend was declared on the ordinary stock, the balance being only £2,766, which it was resolved to carry forward. The mectine of the Panama and South Pacific Telegraph Company (Limited), has been adjourned to the 30th instant. Petitions for the winding up of the Parcels Convey ance Company (Limited)., McQueen Brothers (Limited), and the Devon and Cornwall Granite Company (Limited), are to be heard in the Court of Chancery on the 3rd of December. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. THE CHARGE AGAINST REFORMATORIES. - Robert Graham, a decently dressed lad, was charged on remand, at the Westminster Police-court, with stealing a £5 note from his master, Mr. Jones, a linen-draper, of Warwick street, Pimlico, and he had been remanded to enable an uncle to take charge of him, but the most interesting part of the case was that the mother had stated that her husband, a warder in Milbank prison, found among his convicts at that establishment a large proportion of men who had been in reformatories when boys, going so far as to say that 6 out of 7 was about the average ; the step father, Stokes, attended and denied having made such an assertion, his wife must have mistaken the impression he meant to convey. In consequence of that assertion the Rev. Sidney Turner, director of reformatories, has been in communication with Mr. Arnold, the magistrate, and assured him that so far from being places of corruption they were decidedly of correction, and although they could not pretend to eradicate £the seeds of vice from all placed in their charge, he had great pleasure in stating that not more than 8 per cent. of the reformatory boys turned out bad, nor more than 6 per cent, of the girls. The statement of the mother was a simple invention, no doubt caused by the fear of having to pay a sum of money per week for the maintenance of the boy. Mr. Arnold said a gentleman had attended from the rev, gentleman, and would take the boy to be trained to a seafaring life, and as he was acting kindly in not punishing the lad, and the very clothes he wore were purchased with the stolen money, he trusted the father would, to satisfy his own conscience, refnnd the money. The father demurred to this, and Mr. Arnold said he could not compel him. He left it to his good sense of propriety and conscience. The b who had been apprehended at Liverpool by Sergeant Randall, of the B division, was then given up to the reformatory authorities. RUNNING INTO THE LION'S MOUTH.—Michael Lynch, aged 40, and Patrick Connor, 54, Irish labourers, were brought up on remand, before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, . charged with the unlawful possession of 27 lbs. of raw cocoa-nibs and 20 lbs. of iron nails, the property of some person unknown. The prisoners rushed into the lion's den. They were coming along Leman-street and encounteredjtwo police-constables, who were standing at the door of the Leman-street police-station, who saw indications of uneasiness on both, which convinced them that they had been guilty of some dishonest act,- and asked them what the bags contained they were carrying so assiduously. The prisoners replied only a few little tit-bits of things, and tried to move on in double ,quick time, but they were soon overtaken and stopped by the policemen, who, after a long and severe struggle with them, succeeded in forcing them into the station and opening the two bags. In one they discovered 27 lbs. of cocoa nibs, in the other 20 lbs. of iron nail. The prisoners said they picked them out of the dust bin at the Hibernia Wharf, Southwark, where they were employed. The police constables searched the bin spoken of by the 'prisoners. There were no cocoa nibs or iron nails in it. The prisoners insisted they took the pro perty found upon them out of the dust bin as rubbish. Mr. Paget said the cocoa nibs were perfectly clean, and had not been among the dust, and if they had been the prisoners had no right to meddle with them or to remove nibs or nails. He had no doubt the property was stolen from the wharf where the prisoners were employed, and that they had com mitted a most impudent robbery. Property in transit must be protected. He sentenced them each to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Bennett, John, Gresham-buildings, Basinghall-street, architect, Norember 21. Chabord, Alphonse, Camden-street, Camden Town, August 31. Chapman, Edward William, Tooley-street, Lime-street, and Wapping, lighterman, August 15. Hollis, C. E., Lombard-street, timber broker, August 15 Jackson, John, Warrington, implement agent, Nov. 17. Payne, Thomas, Davenport, near Stockport, Nov. 18. Simmons, Abraham, Tavistock-mews, `l'avistock•street, October 25. BANKRUPTS. !Afro Surrender in London.) Bidden, John, late of Angle-street, Walworth, isinglass manufacturer, now of Loat's-road, Clapham, December 7, at 12. Fevrier, Timothy, otherwise Lurand, East-street, Wal worth, dealer in oil lamps, December 12, at 11. Taylor, Joseph, Lower Clapton, butcher, Dec. if, at 2. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LEAMINGTON AND WARWICK HUNT MEETING—Fnp AT. NEW HANDICAP. Topsy Herod ••• Scrubbing Brush c ... Seven ran. FOURTH NURSERY. Dr. Temple. Sweetmeat Nona... . 2 3 Fourteen ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Woodford Ushant Succession...— Eleven ran. FLYING SCUD CUP. Thunderstorm Stanley Newsman Thirteen ran. WELTER HANDICAP. ..•••.. 3 Mayoress.... Satinstoe Surgeon ..... Nine ran. SELLING HURDLE. Wild Bee Spitfire Queen of the Valley Ten ran. HURDLE RACE MATCH. Curio Wild Blood GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE. Scarrington HippQlyte Double Event Seven ran. BRADGArE CUP. Stanley Fearnought • • Vestminater •!••••• Eight ran. WINDING-UP HANDICAP. Firebrand Adelaide Masaniello ff Ten ran. .... 2 SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION AT MAN• CHESTER. The result of the election of a School Board, for Man chester, was declared yesterday at half-past 12 o'clock. 26,513 electors or rather less than one third of the con stituency polled. The largest number of votes recorded for individual candidates were for the Roman Catholic nominees, Canon Poole heading the list with upwards of 54,000 votes. The advocates of unsectarian teaching stand lowest in the list. The board will be comprised of two Roman Catholics, one Wesleyan, six who declare them selves unsectarian, and one lady, Miss Becker, who ob tained 15,249 votes. VOLUNTARY EDUCATION. The Bishop of Rochester last night presided, at a meet ing held for the purpose of discussing the best•means of providing sufficient voluntary educatipn in the chief town of his diocese. It was stated that at least 22,000 would have to be raised. A resoluti,,n was passed in favour of that sum being subscribed, cud a committee was appointed to carry it into effect. THREE SEA,NIEN POISONED. Information was received in South Shields yestaiday of the poisoning of three seamen. , While the barque Clutha, Captain Twaites, of South Shields, %Ma on .her outward-bound voyage, the cook, for reasons not lotown, placed some poison in the food of three of the crew. One of the men died shortly afterwards, and the other two are expected to recover. The vessel has put into AffkDa, where the cook has been handed over to the authorities. A STEAMER ON HASBOROUGII SANDS. Information was received yestorday afternoon in Yar mouth that a large steamer laden with cattle from Rotter dam got upon Hasborough sand during the night. Two smacks and a steam-tug went to her assistance, and by throwing overboari somo of the cattle sho was got off, but with machinery very much damaged. Sho is believed to be the Diarmant. GREAT FAILURE IN SUNDERLAND. The suspension is announced of Messrs. Robert Wight and Son, chain and anchor smiths, of Sunderland and Seaham harbour. The liabilities are cstimated at £25,000. The works have been closed, and two hundred men have been thrown out of employment. A meeting of creditors has been called. THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. LAMBETH. —The most important meeting yet held in connection with the Rev. G. M. Murphy's candidature for the Lambeth School Board was that which took place last night at the Horn's Tavern, Kennington. Mr. Murphy is in favour of schools without fees, the righteous distribution of endowments, and will rigidly adhere to the unsectarian spirit of the Act. A resolution in favour of his candidature was unanimously adopted. THE EDINBURGH MEDICAL STUDENTS. The Lancet, commenting upon the conduct of the male students of the Medical School of Edinburgh on Friday week, says :—We regret to be compelled to add that the students of the Edinburgh School of Medicine have again disgraced themselves. We spoke far too lightly of the riot on the - occasion of Professor Simpson's lecture, and we have no words adequate to express our condemnation of such conduct. We entirely sympathise with the brave and resolute women, although we think that their present request should be denied. To have been a student at Edinburgh in 1870 will, for the future, be regarded as a disgrace to be concealed after such a cowardly exhibition as that which has taken place there. POLITICS IN CMPPLEGATE. A'numerous letter, signed with the well-know name of Matthew Arnold, appears in the Pall Mall Gazette. It purports to be a reply to a recent letter from one Arminius Von Thunder Ten Tronckh, and the writer takes a gloomy view of our interference in the Eastern Question. He likens the Russian difficulty to a quarrel between rough labourers and a missionary in Cripplegate, who are at enmity about an entrance to a tripe shop. When one ruffian (Russia) says he must again be allowed to use the tripe establishment, the missionary (England) is thus described " Years of outpouring, since he has been engaged in mis sion work, have somewhat damaged his wind ; the hospi talities of the more serious minded citizens of Cripple gate to a man in his position have been, I hope, what they should be; there a re apprehen sions, if violent exercise is taken, of gout in the stomach." Accordingly. as the missionary (England) looks so crippled and unable to prevent his enemy from entering the tripe shop, especially as the latter has been winked at by another dangerous ruffian, and a compact, probably, has been made between them, people looking on say he is unfit for a struggle. " The general feeling in Cripplegate," we are told, is, therefore, that nothing much can be done, and that ke, the Ruffian (Russia), must be allowed to resort again to the tripe-shop. A meeting was held on Thursday at Newport, in Monmduthshire, in favour of extending and improving the Church schools of the county, so as to avoid the necessity of rates. The Duke of Beaufort presided, and the Bishop of Llandaff was one of the speakers. The Bishop said that Churchmen having hitherto borne the burden of 75 per cent. of the education of the country, they wished to make an effort so as not to lose their posi tion. He opposed the introduction of rate-supported schools on the ground of expense, remarking that the heaviest burdens would fall upon real property. He held also that the working of school boards would cause great party feeling and strife. £1,500 was subscribed in the room, the Duke of Beaufott giving £5OO. HOSPITAL Foil CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BROMPTON.—The quarterly court of the governors of this Charity was held in the Board-room of the Hospital yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Sir H. Foulis, Bart., in the chair. It was stated that the following legacies had been received :—Mrs. Dunmore, £lOO ; H. Bickley, Esq., £5O ; Lord H. Seymour, further payment of 282; Mrs. Foster, £25 ; J. Ivatt Briscoe, Esq., M.P., 2500; Miss Elizabeth V. Carter, £5O. The number of patients admitted since August 4 was 323 ; discharged, many greatly benefited, 271 ; died, 40 ; new out-patient eases, 3,198. The report was unanimously adopted, and the proceedings were closed by a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman. THE EASTERN QUESTION. PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF'S REPLY TO LORD GRANVILLE'S DESPA'I'OXT. We understand, says the Daily News, that Prince Gortschakoff's reply to Lori Grani:llie's despatch, with respect to the treaty of 1856, reached the Russian Embassy, by special messenger at a very early hour yesterday morning, though it was not formally delivered at the Foreign Office until late in the afternoon, subsequently to Lord Granville's visit to the Queen at Windsor. On Lord Granville's return to London, Baron Brunnow, the Rus sian Ambassador, had an interview with him at the Foreign Office. Afterward; and just before the holding of the Cabinet Council, Mr. Gladstone was closeted for some time with the Foreign Secretary. STATE OF FEELING IN RUSSIA. The oorrespondent of. the Daily .New at St. Peters burg; writing on the 22nd inst„ says ;—Since the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, the' Russian journals have never ceased to repeat that the long -expected opportunity was about to arrive—the opportunity of casting off the humiliation which had been imposed upon them by the 11th and 13th articles of the Treaty of Paris. But few persons could have foreseen the sudden and high-handed action of the Rusidan Govern ment. ladeed„ few persons, even among tlfe best informed, could bring themselves to believe, a week ago, that Prince Gottschakoff had actually declared Russia no longer bound by her obligations.. It is affirmed that the circular was kept a State secret, oven from the highest officers of State, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and his more immediate personnel having been alone concerned in the execution of the great Project. How far this may be true it is ditcult to say. At any rate, report says the British Ambassador got wind of it, and prepared the nerves of her Majesty's Government for the shock which they were about to receive. The Russian public suddenly awoke to the fact on Monday last, when the circular was pub lished in the Official Gazette, and two days after the English answer was pretty generally known in town. There was, therefore, no time to make any speculations as to the manner in which the circular would be received by tlrb'Western.Powers. Ile journals commenced almost at once to discuss the importance of the fact and the objec tions of Great Britain. The latter are, of course, shewn to be ill-founded, while the fact is firmly esta blished by the irrevocablo will "of 'the Emperor. There is probably not a newspaper in Russia that will not support the action of the Imperial Government in this matter, and the public, as the Golos states, " have received the intelligence with transports of delight." AU the arguments put forward by Prince Gortschakoff are thoroughly endorsed by the leading organs yf St. Peters burg and Moscow. The right of Russia to re pudiate a Treaty which had been infringed before is considered on all sides incontestable, while the opportunity of repudiating it is pretty generally maintained to, be wisely chosen. France is powerless ; " the statesmen of England," says the Golos, aro not likely to undertake any enterprise that will involve risk; the rusty and blunted sword of Albion is ashamed to leave its scabbard, echoes the Pansla,vist organ at Moscow; Austria has troubles enough at home; and the Turk—what can he do alone l At the same time, the Russian public feel they have a powerful ally in " victorious Prussia, which in the hour of danger to Russia," says the German St. Petersburg Gazette, " will be found a faithful companion in arms." But this is just that part of the arrangement which duos not seem to please the editor of the Moscow Gazette, who is re ported to have said that he will accept no advantages that have been conquered by those Prussian baydliets, which he anticipates will soonea or later be pointed at Itussion breasts in the Baltic provinces. " Are we not the objects of a political intrigue," is one of the (pies. tions which the Moscow Gazette asks, but declines to answer before all the circumstances under which Prince Goitschakiig wrote his circular are known. " The springs of the Eastern , Question have been touched," says the Gazette, a day or two before the public were in a position to understand the allusion. "In the circles in which the plans of • the future are discussed, there is apparently a -hope that Russia will wrongly consider the present circumstances particularly favourable to her policy in the East. • . This, as far as we can see, is the programme ofthe immediate future. By commencing a movement in the East—such are the calculations of the rulers of events.-. Russia will suddenly find herself in the same positidu as Donanartist grams), which was mistaken as to the circumstances, and reckoned up wrongly her alliances and neutralities. A coalitian more serious than any thathas yet been brought about would make its appearante at the first stop taken by Russia. And Prussia? Would Prussia really enter into the coalition? Prussia may promise us her neutrality, but all her in terests will be on the side of the coalition, particularly since her neutrality would be favourable to the enemies of Russia, until at last, according to the march of events, she will find it necessary, as in 1855, to addreass words of friendly advice to us—tu submit sensibly to the force of circumstances. Her friendship will thus have been once more proved, and the business Will have been done." SIEGE OPERATIONS BEFORE PA.RIB. The Dai!y News correspondent at the hvadquartere of the Crown Prince of Prussia, in a letter dated the 21st instant, ivrites :—There has been no sortie on thil ail° of Paris for a whole month past. Since the fight of October 21st the French have been content to fire occasional shots from Mont Vale rein and the other wcrks without coming forth to fry conclusions with their besiegers. It may be wiser to wait, because General Trochu's army is getting into better order every day, but there is a danger in waiting, which I have already pointed out Ito yc:.l. The Prussians are strengthening their lines. This is no idle phrase, founded on the planting of a few guns here and there, or on the laying of trees across the road at unexpected corners. The Prussian lines 'are carefully studied positions. Much more is done by preparing the way for field batteries and infantry than by raising dia . - tinct mounds or breastworks. Nevertheless, some breast works are to be seen, and a good deal of labour has been bestowed upon the loopholing of garden walls. I must speak with reserve of many things that I have noticed, on account of the possible coming round of news to the French. But it cannot help them much to know that trees are falling fast beneath the Prussian axes, anti - . hat even the stumps aro being cleared away where is‘ thought that they might interfere with the move- meut of field guns. ;wont out lately to the front, and was for a short time beyond the line altogether. The great occupation of those whom I passed was hacking and hewing, chopping down and sawing down French trees. Whole acres of timber were being vigorously cleared, and the soldiers were as busy as backwoodsmen on a "lumbering" expedition. The object of all this was to leave open spaces for the destrtiction of the assailants should a sortie be made; to leave, in fact, a glacis before the besieging lines. There was great heartiness in the way the men went to work. They seemed -to enjoy the exercise of hacking and hewing. They have plenty of food, good clothing, and tolerable shelter, so why should they not sing at their wintry work? The sad part of the scene is more in the reflecting Am such havoc being spread round Paris than in the actual loss of timber at any one particular spot. Imperial parks and gardens, private villas, the retreats of ease and splendour, which encircled the city, are damaged or swept away with but a hundredth part of the after misery that must attend the ruin of the suburban villageg. I think that I must be far within the mark when I give eighty thou sand as the number of people turned out of hotise and home, left utterly destitute in most cases, by the operations of the siege. When Paris is thrown open there will be sore need of help: Not only will the city be starving, but one belt of land close to it will be almost a desert; and another belt, stretching back for many miles, will be so much impoverished as to yield but scanty supplies--; to yield nothing at all in excess of what the troops will want. ,-. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday in Down• ing-street. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, Viscount Halifax, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, Earl Granville, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers; the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Harting ton, and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster. It is anticipated in artistic circles, that Mr. T. Woolner will be the most likely candidate for election to the vacant title of A.R.A. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Friday, November 25th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets 1,572; ditto on payment, 507 ; total visitors, 2,070. METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES' ASYLUM. — The eighty-first half-yearly meeting was held at the Asylum, on Friday, Charles Comfort Esq., V.P., pre siding, when Foster Spottiswoode eras elected an inmate. The reports of the committee and auditors shewed that there were fifty-one inmatee of the average age of seventy one years,—the capital being £3,150 East Indian Go vernment Railway Stock, and £3,200 remaining to be restored, having been applied to complete the building: OUR COTEMPOR,ARIES—T'nis Morning ME !ASTERN QUESTION We (Times) understand that Prince Citrfathakofflo reply to Ind G'ranville's despatch hats been delivered at the Foreign Office, but it was not received in time to be sufficiently considered at yesterday's meeting rf the Cab'. net Councit If we are not misinformed, it didl in fact, artive just before the Cabinet met, and that i4all that can be said with any pretence of accuracy. There was no opportunity of submitting it to the consideration of a single Minister before the body assembled, and when that happened, and the note of the Imperial Chancellor had been read, it was resolved to deliberate upon it at an adjourned meeting on Monday. The public will gather some encouragement from this result. If Prince Gortschakoff had • simply adhered to the claims set out in his first circular, there would have beeif no adjournment, for deliberation would - have lagen unnecessary.. The Ministry have had ample time to consider what their conduct must be under this hypothe sis ; and there can be no hesitation on their part about their conclusion, or on the part of the country in supporting them in it. An adjournment, and es pecially an adjournment till Monday, is just evi dence that the Russian Government is not prepared to abide unequitocally by the pretensions of the Chancel. lor's Circulars, still less to embody them in instant action. It would, however, be an error to suppose that the Prince has withdrawn the claim to denounce the Treaty of 1856 which he asserted on behalf of his master. • On the contrary, he is reluctant to abandon his position ; he attempts to justify his conduct by referring again to the allegations of violations 'of the settlement by other Powers. Lord Granville's complaint that Russia had an nounced a resolution to disown the obligations of the Treaty, without having made any appeal to the other parties to it to have it reconsidered, is, we believe, met by a polite expression of doubt whether any such appeal would haVe been attended with any success. The Chan cellor of the Empire does not desire to provoke war, but heAis equally averse to the withdrawal of his first circular. In this respect his new note is Prince Gortscha koff all over. We, on our side, are as sincere as Prince GortschalA cau be in our desire to avoid war, but we are resolved that the stipulations of the Treaty of 1856 providing for the neutralization of the Black Sea shall not be broken under existing circumstances. They may be modified or abandoned after deliberation at a proper Congrence, but, until a Conference is possible they must not be infringed in any particular. - The .Daily Hews remarks : The reply of Prince aerts- chakoff to the despatch of Lord Granville was received at a late hour yesterday afternoon. The English public will learn with regret, though without surprise, that this long expected document does not terminate the question which its predecessor, the Circular of October 19th, so ill-advisedly and mischievously raised. The Chancellor of the Empire and his august master have not had the courage frankly to acknowledge the mistake they have committed, and to place themselves in harmony with the ,dictates of personal honour and political good faith. They have not adopted the only possible means of reinstating themselves in the good opinion of Europe and the civilised world. The renunciation of their obligations under the Treaty of 1856 is still itself unrenounced. In theory and intention, if not as yet in actual conduct, they Are untrue to their covenants. \Ve are Inclined, however, still to hope that a Sovereign of the good inten tions of Alexander 11., and a statesman so eminent as Prince Gortschakoff, will, in the end. be mindful of what they owe, nOt loss to themselves and to Russia, than to their plighted word. If the despatch which reached England yesterday does not conclude the e business in the most satisf..ctory manner, it does not conclude it in the least satisfactory, for it dotes nut conclude it aa. It loaves the question still open. If it is not inspired by the spirit of frank concession, it is as little framed in that of positive denial. No absolute or peremptory non possumus places its author and his Sovereign outside the range of further discussion and negotiation. The mixed and qualifieJ • character which, as we understand, marks this destiatch of Trines Uortschakofr, makes it, in cps sense, more difficult to ;teal with than if it were more simple and peremptory. With frank concession and with blank denial it would be easy to deal. A'yea which *is by by means altogetho yea, and a nay which is not abso, lutely nay, are not to be desimtehed in the same off-hand way. The Telegraph, in commenting on the deliberations in the Cabinet Council, ye.3,erday, says: If Russia had chosen a year ago to declare that she considered hers e lf no longer bound by the ordinary obligations of interna tional morality, she would undoubtedly have shacked the moral sentiment of Eurom and her neighbours would have taken those precautions which peaceful communities adopt in the vicinity ol freebooters. But it is hardly possible that any Power would have advocated war to avenge an immoral declaration until some attempt was made to follow it up by an overt act of aggression. There a t -ould have been no imminent danger to the peace of Isliulpe; for England and Franco would have 'speedily c'r.3.•,ke 1, a they dial before, any unwarrantable pretension the moment they passed from words to acts. Franco, however; has at present het. hands full at home, and could not spare a single soldier for foreign warfare. Eng land is all-powerful on the sea, but could not cope single handed with Russia on land ; and Austria, the only other Power that • Russia need greatly fear, might be held iu cheek by Prussia, if we assume the fall of Metz to have so .rippled France that Germany could dictate peace, or at least overrun the country with.. her irresistible hosts. That Russia should have chosen . , such a moment for declaring herself free to violate the neutrality of the Black Sea, in oentravention of the Treaty of Paris, seemed to show a sinister design to steal a march on Europe, and pounce upon her prey before any effectual resistance could be made. It is the opPortuke choice of time and circum stance that has roused our suspioions and made us look war itself in the face with determination, though with horror, rather than endure B lawless policy which, if allowed to prosper, would inevitably enthrone a reign of savage force on the ruins of Eurogean civilisa- tion. Any risk would be preferable to the ignoble and short-lived security of standing idly by without a supreme effort to avert so great a calamity ; for nations are but collections of individuals, and the morality of the units is not different from the morality of the aggregate whole. Whatever be the final solution of the tint ►ward problem with which Russia has vexed us, there can, at least, be no question that public opi►ion will sustain the Government in the resolve that any violation of the Treaty of 1856 mutst 'be firmly opposed. If it is complained, the Standard observes, that certain clauses are inconvenient to Russia to keep, the answer is that they were devised and intended to be inconvenient. In Securing a provision for the neutralisation of the Black Sea, France, England, and Italy gave up all other rights of conquest and all other fruits of tho war. They con sented to spare Russia the humiliation which at that time they had the power to inflict, in consideration of receiving the joint guarantee of. the Powers that Turkey should be secured hereafter against the aggressions of Russia. There was no advantage gained by England and France by the treaty for which a due and ample equivalent in substance was not given, and it is therefore monstrous to contend now that the treaty out to be abrogated because it bears hard on Russia. Once more let us. clearly state the grounds on which we ought to resist the Russian demands—on which we ought to go to war, if necessary. We are willing to consent to a rehearing of whatever case Russia may have, although this is in excess of her right and a gratuitous piece of generosity on our part. We are willing to do justice to any reasonable feeling of national pride by which she may be influenced. We are willing to admit that all Is not perfect in the system of Turkish do minion. But we cannot allow Russia, to take the remedy into her own hands. We cannot allow her to break away from her solemn obligations at her own will and time. We cannot regard her doing so, in however " conciliatory " a. manner s as anything else than a deliberate and intended affront to England, and an at tack on English Imperial rights. This is the true and simple issue, which no good citizen of England can fail to understand, and by which we are bound to stand or fall, let the cost be what it may. CRYSTAL PALACR.—Beethoven's music to " The Ruins of Athens" will form the chief feature in the pro gramme of to-day's concert. The vocalists are Madame Sinico, Herr Stockhausen, and Mr. Matey. Madame Norman Nerudalvili play Beethoven's Violin Concerto. The friends of the national education system in Ulster are seriously alarmed by rumours circulating in Ireland to the effect that Mr. Gladstone intends next) session to sweep away utterly the scheme established by the late Lord Derby forty years ago. An Irish Education League has been formed to resist such legis lation. CHRISTMAS-DAY ON SUNDAY.—The Standard says it is an unfortunate feature in the calender of 1870 that Christmas day falls on a Sunday. Unless some well organised effort is promptly set on foot there is a risk that many thousands of the employed will be condemned to labour at a time when they naturally look for rest an d en j oymen t . If f or five years in succession we can endure a total cessa tion of business on the 25th of December, why can we not in the sixth year observe the 26th of December as a holiday equally absolute ? If the commercial inte rests of the country do not suffer in the former instance, why should they in the latter ? If it be thought well, we might simply have an Act of Parliament declaring that when Christmas-day falls on a Sunday the following day , hail be a dies non. Everybody would then know what o expect, and all commercial interests could be managed accordingly, • '