The Sun. — London, England, 1870-11-12 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY. Owing to the circulation of rumours decidedly adverse to an early return of peace, the stock markets have been in a very depressed state, and a general decline has taken place in values. Foreign bonds have been principally affected, the fall in some instances being severe but railway stocks shew no important alterations. Con sols have fallen 1, or to 923, 93 for delivery and the De cember account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 911, 91a ; Bank Stock, 230, 232 : Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 14s. prem. India Five per Cents., have been done at 113 A to 114, and India Bonds 21s. to 265. prem. For Colonial Government Securities, the demand has been to a limited extent, and quotations have bad a drooping tendency. The railway market has been in an unsettled state, and the quotations have had a drooping tendency. Metropo litan, 63a, 63a ; Caledonian, 77k, 78 ; Brighton, 42, 42t ; South Eastern, 75t, 75* ; Great Northern A, 134 A, 135 ; Great Eastern, 39k, 393 ; Midland, 1271, 127 A ; North Western, 128*, 1281; Great Western, 703. 71* ; and North-Eastern, 144,144*. For Indian railway stocks the demand has been inac tive. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, 105* ; Carnatic, 103 f ; East Indian, nab ; Great Indian Peninsular, 106 A, 7 ; Great Southern of India, 105 a ; and Scinde, 104 a. Canadian shares have changed hands quietly. In foreign shares very little business has been doing. Bahia and San Francisco 18* Central Argentine 201 ; Dutch Rhenish 23 ; Great Luxembourg 113 ; Lemberg Czernowitz 17; San Paulo 20a ; and Lombards 14g. The Foreign Bond market has continued depressed, and there has been a general reduction in values. Italian (1861) have fallen or to 551, 56 ; Spanish (1867) or to 31k, 31i; ditto (1869), f or to 31A, 31g ; Turkish Five per Cents. g, or to 56, 56t ; ditto (1869) 3or 523, 53* ; Egyptian (1868) or 78A, 78g. Mexican quoted at 14k, 15. American securities have been quiet. The Five-Twenty (1882) - bonds are quoted at 89*, 891, ditto, (1885) 88i, 881. The French loan has fallen to a, 3 prem. The demand for Bank shares has been inactive. Agra A, 8-i ; Chartered Mercantile of India, London,• and China, 23 ; Imperial Ottoman, 12i ; London and County, 50; London and Westminster, 63k, and Union of London, 39. Telegraph shares have been purchased quietly. Anglo- American,B7k ; British Indian Extension, 6i; British Indian Submarine, 7i, 71: Falmouths, 10k; Great-Northern, 11 1 , 12; Mediterranean Extension, 4i : and French Cables, 14g. Hooper's Telegraph Works, 6k ; and Silver's Indiarubber, 38k, 38g. In miscellaneous securities the transactions have been restricted. Berlin Waterworks, 15f ; Ceylon Company, 6f, 6 ; International Financial, 3 ; London General Omnibus. 3i; Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 50. The bullion operations at the Bank of England to-day consisted of the purchase of £28,000 in bar gold, and the withdrawal of £lO,OOO in sovereigns for Alexandria. The supply of bills on 'Change to-day was more abun dant, and prices were more favourable to this country. The discount market to-day has been heavily supplied with capital. The demand for accommodation has not been active, and three months' paper has been nego tiated at 2a per cent. Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake thus report on the state of the bullion market :—The large amount of £BOO,OOO in gold, brought by the Overland Mail from Australia and India, has been delivered this week, and as there is no demand whatever for export, the whole of this sum will be sent into the Bank as soon as it can be refined. About £369,000 has been sent in since our last circular of the 3rd instant. The demand for silver is still active for the Continent, and the price remains with out alteration at 60ad. per oz. standard. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce announces the failure of Messrs. J. Clibborn and Co. The liabilities are not known, but the amount is believed to be large. The assets are expected to yield 20s. in the pound. The Manchester Examiner and Times states that at a meeting of the creditors of Jonathan Swallow, builder and contractor, of Ardwick, a composition of 10s. in the . pound was offered, payable in three guaranteed instal ments, but not accepted. The traffic return of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway for the week ending November 6th records an increase of £42 upon the corresponding week of last year. The West India and Panama Telegraph Company having been informed that steamers have been chartered to form a daily line of communication with Key West, oovering the break of the International Company's cable, announce that telegrams received from Cuba will be for warded in this manner without extra charge. The rates to Jamaica have been reduced to £3 7s. 6d. FOREIGN EXCHANGES.—Antwerp, three months' date, 25 35, 25 40 ; Paris, short date, —, ; ditto, three months' date, 25 60, 25 80 ; Marseilles, ditto, 25 40, 25 50 ; Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 26 62k, 26 67i ; Amsterdam, short date, 11 17i, 11 18 ; ditto, three months' date, and Rotterdam, ditto, 11 19k, 11 12 ; Hamburgh, ditto, 13 101, 13 102; Frankfort-on-the- Maine, ditto, 1201, 1201 ; Vienna and Trieste, ditto, 12 50, 12 60 ; St. Petersburgh, ditto, 29 k , 292 ; Madrid and Caili7, ditto, 491, 49k ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, and Oporto, ditto, 521, 52g. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 923 93 Viet 5p c Jan& JulylB94. 10311041 933. 3,3, i 104 Do f0 931 r Account A 1 Three per Cent Reduced 911 911 Egyptian 1862, 7pa• . .. 81 83 911, 3, I Uo Rail Deben 7 p .. 99 101 New 3 per Cent 911, 3. a Italian, 1865, 5p o Exchequer Bills, March 10 15pm Peruvian, 1865, 5p o 10s pin 901, 1 Do, Juno lO 15pm Portuguese 1869 3 p a.. 311 311 pm Russian, 1862, 5 p a.. .. 851 86 Bank Stock India 5 per Cents 113/, 14/ 68. 71 x d India Bonds — Spanish. 1867. 3pa pm 311, 34 1, 3 Can 6pc Jan&Julyll77-84 10511063 Do, 1869, 3p o 1131, 141 303, 1, 301, 1. 1 81 83 Do March & Sept. 103 105 Turkish. 1851, 6p a Do 5p c Jan & July .. 98 99 818 981, 1 Do. 1865. 5 p a ... Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 481. 3, i Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 96 98 Do, 1865 6p c Ceylon 6 p c May and 651, 6, 51 November 1878 lO7 109 U. 5.5-20 lionds,6p c 1332 881 831 Mauritius t, p c Jan and 891, 1 July 1373 lO3 105 Do do 1835 88 881 New b Wales 5 p clB7l-76 10111021 881 New Zealand 6p c 1891 lOB 110 Do 10-40 Buds, spa 1331 67 873 Dos pc Do 5p c Consolidated 98 99 ErieSha„ 100 dols,all paid 981. 3 Illinois Central Sharai .. 11231121 Do 6p c Mar &SeptlB9l 107 109 1121, 8 Do June & DeclB9l 109 111 Atlantic and GW R Con Viet 6p c Jan &July 1891 114 116 Mortgage Bonds — DoApril &OctlBB3-85.. 11111121 1121, 12 RAILWAYS. and Exeter BB 90 Do Ist Pref 80nd5.... 56 58 89 573 Caledonian 773, i 2nd Pref Stock Great Eastern 11 391, , 3 Grand Trunk of Canada Great Northern Do A 134 135 Great Indian Pen g 5, c 106 107 135 1 063, 3,7, 63 Great Western 7Ol 71 Great Western of(Jamada 143 143 71, 703 143 Lancashire & Yorkshire 13131323 Do Op c Bonds, 1873.. 100 102 1321, 3 Do 53 do, 1877-8 94 26 Lon, Bile. and S Coast 42 423 Do 5p c pref. issued 80 Idisipin Madras guar 5 p c Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 13 14 N. Railway of Canada, Lou and North-Western 123 1283 6p o Ist Prof Bonds 1283, 3 Oude and Rohilkund g Lon and South-Western 89 91 5n o 901, 90 &hide, Punjaub, and Man, Si 451 mi ,, and Linooln 453 46 Delhi guar 5p c 3 1043, 4 Metropolitan Midland,633 i 127 1273 131 g 7 p c 1273, i Belgian E Junction North British 33 Dunaburg and Witepsk . 181 19 North-EasteniConsols 14321443 Dutch-Rhenish 223 233 144, 32. 4, 33 23 South-Eastern 743 753 Eastern of France — Atlantic and St Lawrnce 77 78 Great Luxembourg Bombay, Baroda, and 113 x d Central India, g 5 13 C.. 105 106 Lemberg Czernowitzgua 1053 p Buff & Lake Huron Prof 4 4 3 17 Do 53 nc 80nd5,1872-3 - 4 81 83 Northern of France -_ 81, 2 Otto m (Smyrna to Aidin) 5 5i Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5p c 10551063 (Limited) guar 7po .. 143 15 East Indian. g 5 p o 1103, 1, 1 San Paulo In guar 7p c 203 203 Grand Trunk Canada Do Equip Mort Bud 1 South A ustii & Lom-Ven 143 143 charge 6n o Do 2nd do Scrip .... par 2pm Southern of France .... BANKING COMPANIES. 1 Agra Bank (14 A 8 9 n ll3 Imperial Ottoman .. n 21pm 85 12i, I 25 Alliance (Li 10 Anglo-Austrian 17 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 235 24 15 Lond o on Joint-Stock 33 34 231, 5, 4 341, 35 50 British N American 53 55 20 Lon aiid Westmuster 635 64; 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 14 145 635, 4 25 Char Merc of India 23 24 10 Metropolitan. - B5 9 23 20 Midland IL) 10 City 105, 5 25 Orntal Banko , rnorn 405 415 25 Colonial 47 25 Union of Australia.. 41 42 4 Consolidated IL 20 Eng. Scot. and Aus 0 16 17 20 Imperial IL) • B Th 185 39 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. _ _ Pd 100 Anglo-American L) 85 87 6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditru (L) 131 131 Japan Extension.. 21 2 lis 100 Atlantic — 5 Indo-European (14.. Az 11 100 Do 8p c 13 British Australu (L) 4i sidis and Malta (L) .... 6 61 10 British Ind Exten (L). 6 6i 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) . 4 i b 10 British Indian Sub- 21 Puma and S. Pcfc(L) 3 2 ais marine, (L) 71, 7-16, 5-16 8 Reuter's 2 China Submarine (L) 4141,11 s 20 Soc Trans France (L) 14} 141 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 141 and Malta (L 1 101 Do Scrip 10 Great Northern .... 111 12 10 W India& Pal/4.114(1J 41 -ix 111, 12 MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES, Pd 11 5 ... ~. Anglo-Austrian Bnd- 20 It Irrig Can Cavour 31 4 holders' Certificate 11 21 100 Do 6p a Bonds. re -10 BerlinWat,erworks(LV 141 151 deemab:e 1870 61 66 15/ ' 30 London Fitt Assoc (L)181171tt P, 30 Bolckow-Vaughan (L) 33 38pm 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 21 31 100 Boston City (U.S.) 5 3, 1-16. 3 p c Sterling Loan.. 91 93 2 Lou & Provldariue L) 1 / p.i. 4 Brit & Fgn Marine (Ll 25310 m 100 Madras Irrig. &Canal 25 Canada Company. 74 76 gsp c by Ind Gov. 99 IA 10 Ceylon Company (L) 4 Adis 2 Mauritius Laud (L) 1 [lts ear 61, 5, 1 5 Natnl Disct Comp (L) 11 It. 35 City Offices (L) 24l24dis 111 20 Colonial (L) 5 Com Union Assuruce 25 3pm Merc Agency IL) .. 1 1 pu , 71 5 N Zealand Loan and 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 21 21 Trust (L) 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb lO9 114 P and 0 Steam 49 51 271 Ebbw Vale Steel (L).. 81 Bdis 50 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p c 0 Do do New. 1867 2 dis par Mortgage Loan.... 821 831 0 Rhytuney Iron 835, 1, 24 5 Do New Bl 91 100 Egyp 9p &Troy Loan, 0 Royal Mail Steam guar by Egyp Gov.. 100 102 53i x d 101, 4 2 Tel Con and Main (L) 275 tsB 13 Fore-st Warehouse (Li 65 71pm 271 201 2 Thames and Mersey 100 Fgn and Colonial Gov Marine Insur IL Trust 6p c Bonds.. 97 100 St Tobacco 6p c Loan 981, 8 guar by Italian Gov B7 90 71 Gen Credt &Disct (L) 1 1 dis 5 Trust and Loan Co of 14 Gen Stm Navigation 27 29 Upper Canada 7 Iloopees Tel Works 11 Nis 5 0 . Marine. Lvpool IL 41 5 pm 61, 5 15-16 20 Union Steamship (L) 22 24 17 Hudson's Bay Bl 9 6 United Dia Corprn (L) 2 1 di. 81 5 Univ Marine Incur (L‘ 6 8 pm 45 Indrbbr, Gut Per, and 111, 1, 11, 1 Tel Works LI .... 38 39 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 dis 381,1 sln tend Finan Soc(L) 2 lidis 31 ;MINING SHARE LIST.—NOVEMBER 11. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mininglicet, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Coruhill, London. Good demand for East Lovell, at an advance. West Frances, Tankerville, Providence, and Tincroft firm, at quotations. Pails Mountain, Prince of Wales, 11s, 13s Providence Mines, 39, 40 Rosewall Hill and Ransome United, 1, 11 South Cam Brea, South Condurrow, 3, : , 1 South Frances. 27, 29 Tankerville, 141. 141 Taquaril (Gold), 495, sls Tincroft, 46, 47 Trumpet Consols. Van. Van Consols, 1.1, 2 West Caradon, 1, 11 West Chiverton, 53, 54 West Drakewalls. West Frances, 35, 37 West Maria and Fortescne, 11, lf Wheal Crebor, Wheal Grenville, 21, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Setou, Australian United, Bwich Consols, Chivertou Moor, 2i, 3 Chiverton Valley, Chontales (Gold), Cook's Kitchen, 19, 20 Devon Great Consols, Drakewalls, 1, If Dolcoath, Don Pedro North Del Itey, 23, 21 East Caradon, 41, 5} East Lovell, 27(, 283 East Seton, 1, If East Wheal Grenville, 23, 23 Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), -8., —B. General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 171, 181 Great Rata!lack, Great Wheal Vor 5, 51 Hingston Down, Illarke Valley, 61, 61 New Lovell, North Crofty, Pacific, MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.--The Corn Exchange to-day was thinly attended by millers, and the grain tr de throughout was characterised by quietness; nevertheless, a fair amount of firmness was observable in values. The market was fairly supplied with English wheat, which came to hand in rather better condition. Purchases were effected cautiously at fully Monday's currencies. Foreign wheat was in moderate supply and similar request, on former terms. There was a good show of barley on the stands. Choice malting, grinding, and distilling qualities experienced a fair inquiry, at extreme prices. Inferior descriptions were in limited demand, but unaltered in value. Malt was dull, but not quotably lower. Oats, the supply of whichwas large, wiet with a quiet sale, at present quotations. Beans and peas were moderately active, and prices were well supported. Flourwas active, at fully the rates previously current. Arrivals :—English and Scotch.—Wheat, 1,240 qrs. ; barley, 2,130 ; oats, 450 ; beans, 70 ; and peas, 100. Foreign.—Wheat, 7,740 qrs. ; barley, 6,280 ; oats, 49,020 ; maize, 2,260 ; peas, 340 ; flour, 160 sacks and 10,050 barrels. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—This market opened quiet but steady to-day. Imports :—Wheat, 4,347 quarters ; beans, 5,393 quarters ; peas, 45 quarters ; barley, 245 quarters ; Indian corn, 26,093 quarters; flour, 1,010 sacks and 1,018 barrels; oats, 763 quarters ; oatmeal, 1,975 loads.—Closing Report.—ln wheat there was a fair amount of sales for consumption at this market to-day, at Tuesday's extreme quotations. Fine wheat was a shade dearer. Flour was steady, and unchanged in price. Barley and beans were unaltered. Peas were ls. per quarter dearer. Oats and oatmeal were a dull sale. Indian corn was held for 6d. per qr. more, but the advance was difficult to get, and sales were checked. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—The Wheat trade is quiet to-day. Last Friday's prices are steadily maintained. In barley there has been no material change, but secondary sorts are difficult to quote. Beans and oats are fully as dear as last week. LINCOLN CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—At this market to-day wheat declined ls. The trade was rather slow. Barley was at is. advance. Peas were at 6d. more money. Beans and oats sold at late rates. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.-The market to-day . was rather more freely supplied with meat, conseque tly the trade was not quite so brisk, but prices were without any important alteration. Quotations :-Per Blbs. by the car case :-Inferior beef, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd.: middling do., 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. ; prime large do., 4s. Bd. to ss. Od. ; prime small do., ss. Od. to ss. 2d. ; inferior mutton 3s. Bd. to 4s. ; middling do., 4s. to 4s. Bd.; prime do., 4s. 10d. to ss. 4d. ; veal, 55.5 d.; large pork, 33. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; small pork, ss. to ss. 6d. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.-In the hop market no feature of importance has transpired. Fine qualities have been somewhat scarce, and nave commanded full prices. Other descriptions have sold slowly. Mid and East Kents, 10s. to £7; Weald of Kents, £2 10s. to £4; Sussex, £2 ss. to £3 10s. ; Farnham and country, £3 15s. to £6 6s. ; and olds, £1 to £2 10s. per cwt. LONDON WOOL MARKET, FRIDAY.-At public sales of colonial' wool biddings have progressed with less animation, owing to the thin attendance of foreign buyers. English houses have operated to a fair extent, but their purchases have not been of sufficient magnitude to maintain quotations with firm nsss, and inferior qualities have, in consequence, continued to droop in value. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, Far- DAY.-These markets have been fairly supplied with potatoes. The trade has been quiet, as follows :-English regents, 455. to 805.; ditto shaws, 90s. to 100 s. ; Scotch regents, 60s. to 70s. ; rocks, 453. to 555. per ton. LONDON METAL MARKET, FRIDAY.-Scotch pig iron has been quiet, at 51s. 40. cash. Copper has sold slowly ; Chili bars, good brands, £62. Tin has been quiet; Straits, and Banca, £126105. LONDON OIL MARKET, FRIDAY.-Linseed oil quiet, at £29155. spot. Rape firm. English brown, spot, £43s. 15s. to £44. Refined, £46 ; foreign, £47. Other oils have sold slowly. . LONDON TALLOW MARKET, FRIDAY.-The market is firm Y.C., spot, 425.., December, 425. 3d. to 425. 6d. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAY. -Not much inquiry has been experienced for tea, at about late quotations. Raw sugar has commanded but little attention, but prices have ruled firm. Jamaica, 255. 6d. to 295. 6d. ; An tigua and St. Vincent, 245. to 28s. ; Demerara, 265. 6d. to 275. 6d. Coffee has been in fair request, at full prices ; middling colony plantation Ceylon, 625. 6d. to 665. 6d. ; good to fine middling, 675. to 745. 6d. ; good to fine old, . 6s. to 80s. 6d. ; and pea-berry, 71s. 6d. to 78s. 6d. Rum has been steady ; Jamaica, 3s. 6d.; Mauritius, Is. sd. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.-Opening Re port.-This market opened with a fair inquiry to-day. Probable sales, 10,000 bales. Imports, 6,050 bales. Second report.- Total imports, 45,068 bales. Sales, 67,290 bales ; reported on spec dation, 5,150 bales ; for export, 14,150 bales ; actual export, 21,891 bales. Taken by the trade, 47,960 bales ; stock, 438,820 bales ; last year, 434,800 bales. Closing report.-The market closed firm in all positions to-day. Sales 10,000 bales. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—This market still continues extremely Sat, with very little business in progress. The news from India and China not being favourable, there has been no buying of magnitude for these quarters, though pro ducers have tempted buyers by offering to make concessions in price for new contracts, with plenty of time for delivery. The home trade is still buying to a fair extent, especially in cloths for the spring trade. For the Continent there is no im provement to note. A number of petty orders are being placed since the fall in prices, which were previously impracticable at the limit given to buyers ; but the principal strength of the market is not in the daily business doing, but in the engage ments held by producers, which enables them to refuse the long offers making by some buyers mu. h under cost. Quota tions to-day are—for 39in. shirtings, 71bs. ordinary to best makes, 7s, 74d. to Bs. 3d.; ditto, 9s. lid. to 9s. 9d,; 40s. mule yarn, ls. lfd." 30s. quarter twisl, ls. ld. The market closes dull, with prices in buyers' favour. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, FRIDAY. —There is not much improvement in the demand at this market to-day. Prices are steady. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, FRIDAY.—This market to day is stead Business is done by buyers atfils, 44d. cash, which is the closing price ; sellers, however, held for 51s. sd. Closing report :—There was almost nothing doing at this market to day. Sellers, 51s. sd. ; buyers, 51s. 40. CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Ordinary, no change ; 211 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts, 1355. ; seconds, 1265.; thirds, 115 s. 100 firkins in the market. The Western Mail speaks of the " wonderful success" of a " ten days' revival mission " at Swansea, conducted by the Rev. R. Aitken, vicar of Pendeen, Cornwall, and his two sons, the Rev. R. W. Aitken, vicar of St. Paul's, Penzance, and the Rev. W. H. Aitken, curate of St. Jude's, Islington. THE FRENCH LOAN.—The _Eleeteur Libre, the organ of M. Ernest Picard, the Minister of Finance in Paris, has an article on the French Loan, which it con demns altogether. We were, it says, much surprised at such a step. The Running Accounts of the Receivers Generals, centralised at Tours owing to the absence of communications with Paris, appeared sufficient for the requirements of National Defence in the departments. The official journal has given no intimation of so serious a measure, and we should have thought the credit of the State required more reserve and less precipitancy, especially when a loan contracted in Paris might have been resorted to. Facts of this kind give too much reason for criticising the Delegation at Tours, and everyone must support us in insisting on an armistice which would put an end to the division of Powers which now occasion serious evils. The armistice would, at least, enable us to replace the Tours Delegation, and arrange a better system which should prevent decrees of this kind, which we only learn through provincial journals. MM. Cremieux, Gambetta, and the others seem to have und e rtak en thi s res p ons ibility some what lightly. We must await their explanations before passing a final judgment. - BREAKFAST.----EPPS'S COCOA.--GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re 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 coooa. Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-lined packets labelled—JAMES EPPS & Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London,—Advt. RE SUA, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1876. SIR W. STIRLING-MAXWELL ON THE TWO NAPOLEONIC EMPIRES. " A certain collector," said Sir W. Sterling-Maxwell, in his lecture on the " Two Napoleons," at Stirling, on Tuesday, " keeps in a cabinet of coins a drawer which he calls his history of the French Revolution. You find there twelve five-franc pieces and a few vacant spaces. The first of these coins, dated 1788, exhibits the mild features of Louis XVI., by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre ; the last, dated 1853, a pair of well-known and well.waxed moustaches, now at Cassel. Each of the pieces represents a change or a transfer of power ; nine of the twelve represent revo lutions, always violent, generally bloody." On this text Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell proceeded to found some interest ing remnrks. How far the stereotyped phrase which has so often been reproduced of late, that the Emperor was " our firm and faithful ally," must be received appears (Sir William went on to shew) from the following balance •)1 accounts between us and the Second Empire : "We ,we the Ernisiror the Russian war, into which we drifted in his wake, with its losses in blood,- and £80,000,000 added to onr debt, and with the check given to the designs and the power of Russia. Sonic, I believe, will be doubtful whether we ought to set down this item to profit or loss. We believe we owe the Emperor such free trade as we enjoy with France, and much intercourse which has engendered, and will continue to produce friendly feeling. We had to thank him for an offer of passage for troops through France during the Indian Mutiny, an offer which happened to be coupled with an extraordinary flood of abuse in the French press, of which the Emperor was at that time the absolute controller, in fact the 'responsible editor. We owe him, in a great part, that Italian revo lution which gives Italy a chance of becoming a great and prosperous country such as our philanthropy and commerce love. On the other order, we owe him our im mense share of those bloated armaments, and that huge military expenditure which his example forced upon Europe. Our fleets and armies being the most costly in the world, our share was proportionally greater than those of our neighbours. In the year of the coup d'etat, our naval and military estimates amounted to £13,000,000. Since Louis Napoleon became our firm and faith ful ally, they have seldom been much under £26,000,000. There has been, besides the costs, very large, and possibly still unknown, of fortifications ; and the costs, impossible to calculate, of our volunteers. Last of all, there is the secret treaty:by, which he proposed, with the assistance or connivance of Prussia, to seize upon Belgium, a neutral State which Great Britain had guaranteed, thereby entailing ' upon us a choice of war or dishonour. Such is, I believe, the state of the account." The preparations with which the Emperor embarked in the present war, Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell illustrated by the following anecdote : "In the `Confessions' of Rousseau, there is a story how that singular man, being then ignorant of the art of musi cal composition, gave out that he had written an important piece, and invited his musical friends at Lausanne to per form it. The piece was written out in several partitions, on the usual ruled paper, and had all the appearance of music. But when the musicians came to try it, they found that they produced nothing but a medley of discord, and that they and not their instruments were played upon. As Rousseau arranged his musical signs-and assembled his performers, so Napoleon seems to have surrounded himself with the terrible machinery of war." The results, now known to all, were shewn to have been anticipated by Napoleon himself. Some time after his establishment on the throne, one of the chiefs of the British Museum saw him at the Tuileries, and told him that the Duke of Aumale had been lately occupying, for the purposes of study, the room at the Museum which the Emperor had used during his exile. " Ah," said the Emperor, " I shall very likely one day replace him, as lie replaced me." LAW AND POLICE. THE SERIOUS CHARGE OF STABBING.—DEATH OF THE INJURED MAN.—Edward Kennock, a shoemaker, of Saville-street, Marylebone, who was stabbed in the abdo men by another shoemaker named Edward Searey, residing in the same house (a report of the case having appeared in The Suu on Monday last) expired this morning in the Middlesex Hospital from the injury he received. Searey is now under remand in the House of Detention from the Marlborough-street Police-court. A DISHONEST BARMAN.—William Hatton, a lad, aged sixteen years, who has been under remand from time to time for six weeks in consequence of the illness of a witness, was brought up for the last time at the Thames Police-court, before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a gold watch and gold chain, value £l6, the property of Mr. Aledrick Wetger, the landlord of the Green Man public-house, in Jane street, St. George's-in-the-East, The prisoner was in the prosecutor's service. Oil the 26th September last he obtained leave of absence from his master in the latter part of the day, • and he ought to have returned on or before 10 o'clock the same evening. He never returned at all. On the same night a watch and chain were missing from the house. A young man, named Lucas, swore that the pri soner gave him the watch and chain, and told him to pawn them. He gave the property to another man. Mr. Henry Botiman, manager at the old and respectable pawn broking establishment of Mr. John Decker, adjoining Limehouse Church, said the watch and chain were offered to him in pawn on Wednesday, the 28th of September, by a respectable-looking young man, who in answer to his queries said the watch and chain were his own, and he bought them on the tally system, anu gave his address, James Stubbings, 4, North street, Poplar. A police-constable named Isaac Pawsey said that he had made inquiries at 4, North-street, and no such person as James Stubbings lived there. The father of the prisoner reminded the magistrate that his son was in custody in that court on the 28th of September. Mr. Paget said that was so, and recalled Lucas, who said the prisoner gave him the watch and chain on Tuesday, the 27th of September. He gave the watch to a dock labourer, whose clothes were begrimed with dirt and sugar. Mr. Bodman : The man who pawned the watch for £1 only was a well-dressed man, not at all like a dock labourer. J had a long conversation with him and should know him again. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial. THE BANKRUPTCY OF LORD ALFRED CLINTON.—In the Court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart the case of Taylor v. , Yates was heard, it being taken by the creditor's assignee acting in the bankruptcy of Lord Alfred Clinto n , younger brother of the Duke of Newcastle, with the view of testing the validity of certain transactions with two money-lenders, named Yates and Dicker, residing a t Harley-street, Cavendish-court, and Craig's Court, Charing-cross, respectively. The defendants advertised that they were willing to advance money to noblemen and heirs to entailed estates, in consequence of which the late Lord Arthur Clinton, Lord Alfred being then a minor, applied to them and became security for advan ces amounting to between £2,000 and £4,000, the security being a charge on the interest of £30,000 in reversion on the death of his mother. Several bills of exchange were given by the defendants, who, although it was expressly understood that they should do so, declined to discount them. The contention was that no action, either at law or equity, could be sustained with respect to the security, and that the debts were merely debts of honour. Th e argument is yet unfinished. RAILWAY LAW CASES. —Judgment was given in the Court of Common Pleas on an appeal by the Great Western Railway Company against a county court judg ment, by which the company had been held liable for the loss of certain articles stolen from a passenger's port manteau. The passenger (Mr. Talley) left the carriage in which he was riding Swindon, where the company's trains stay ten minutes, and got into another carriage to resume his journey. He thus lost sight of his luggage, and some articles were stolen. The court held that as his own negligence contributed to the loss, the company were not liable ; the decision of the court below was therefore re versed. In the Court of Exchequer an action against the Brighton Company was again on the lists for hearing. The plaintiff, a Mr. Leishmere, a city merchant, was descending the steps at the New Forest sta tion, when, owing, as it was alleged, to the worn state of the steps and their general dilapidated condition his foot slipped, and being precipitated to the ground, he had several ribs broken and sustained other bodily injuries for which at a former trial he was awarded a satisfactory and substantial solatium by the jury. The verdict, Mr. Lopes, Q.C., M.P., on the part of the com p an y, n o w attempted to set aside by a rule for a new trial, which the court refused to grant, the Lord Chief Baron holding that the company were bound either to repair or replace all steps on their railway properly when they became so worn as to be dangerous. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales again honoured the Opera Comique with their presence on Wednesday evening, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, and attended by, a nume rous suite. THE OPERA COMIQUE.—The following distin guished visitors honoured the Theatre with their presence last week : H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, H.R.H. the Princess of Wales, H.R.H. Princess 'Peck, and suites. Lord Clonmeh, F. Knollys, Esq., Dr. Quin, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Hon. Oliver York, Captain Little, Count Lutterworth, the Prince Galitzin, Henry Peke, Esq., Lord Hardinge; Colonel Kennard, Viscount Cartherosse, Earl of Ellesmere, Colonel Lomline, Princess de Soly Koff, Lady Moles worth, Horace Farquhar, Esq., Duchess of Newcastle, Colonel Greville, Henry Villebois, Esq., Lady Barron, George Drummond, Esq., Lord Albert Gower, Mrs. Arabin, Earl of Mabnesbury, Earl of Rosslyn, Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton, Raphael Sturgis, Esq., Butler Johnson, Esq., Earl of Rosebery, Marquis Graham, F. J. Walker, Esq., Mrs. D. Williams, Lady Violett Greville, S. Reynolds,' Esq., Sir A. Slade Duchess of Montrose, Sir Lionel Dare)], Colonel Chaloner, Countess of Waldegrave, Hon. F. Bertrie, E. Cavendish, Esq., R. S. Vivian, Esq., F. C. Howard, Esq., Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Lucan, Major Qucade, Lady Jenkins, Hon. Mrs. Abbutt, and Captain Bradley. THE WAR. THE SIEGE OF PARIS. DEATH OF COUNT WALDERSEE. The Prussian Staatsanzeiger repeats the affirmation that Colonel Count Waldersee was killed by treachery during the attack on Le Bourget. There was a very bloody fight in the village, and the Germans only got a footing after great sacrifices. "A detachment was about to advance into a house when the colonel, Count Waldersee, ordered his men to halt, as from the windows white handkerchiefs were waved in token of surrender. The Count had ten days previously so far recovered from his wound at Grave lotte as to rejoin his regiment. He sprang towards the 'house to speak with its occupants. While so advancing 'a ball from the windows of the house struck him and killed him on the spot. An officer was hasten ing to catch the falling leader in his arms when he too was shot. When the troops saw this they were greatly exasperated, and the enemy repulsed at all points by the vigour of their attack. Over 1,200 un wounded prisoners were made, and 30 officers. Our Augusta and Elizabeth regiments lost 30 officers killed and wounded, and about 400 men. The whole depot, which the enemy evidently intended to fortify, as large quantities of bread had been sent from Paris on the pre vious day to the advanced troops south of the Bourget, fell into our hands. The great number of prisoners 'chews that the French who made the sortie were closely surrounded." FOOD NEWS. The correspondent of the Times at Berlin, under date November 8, writes ;—lntelligence from inside Paris certifies that provisions will be exhausted not long after the new year. Under these ' circumstances the advantage to the Parisians of having their de fence prolonged for a month by a fresh supply of comestibles would have been very great. And so would the disadvantage to the Germans have been. Assuming our advices to be as correct as I have every reason to be lieve they are, the late negotiations in reality turned on the question whether the siege was to terminate in the middle of January or the middle of February. In other words, whether numbers of lives were to be sacrificed to the inclemency of the coming season, or to be preserved by a timely setting to work. Were it spring, and had we the summer before us, matters would be dif ferent ; but on the Bth of November time is precious to those employed in the open, and delay tile worst of enemies. MEDICAL MATTERS, The correspondent of the Lancet inside the capital notices the extensive practice of conservative surgery. • " Conservative surgery is having, in some instances at least, a fair trial, and is doing wonders ; in fact, limbs shattered by bullets are being saved in cases where, some years ago anything but instant amputation would not have been thought of. A considerable amount of dysentery, rheumatism, fevers, and chest affections have arisen from exposure of the troops in bivouac and in the testes d'abri. There is very little disease, however, when we consider the great fatigue our troops have had to undergo, and the wet, inclement weather we have had during the greater part of October. Meat is now decidedly scarce ; butter and milk are luxuries for the very wealthy, and eggs difficult to be had and dear. The daily ration of beef or mutton now allowed to each adult inhabitant is reduced to 35 grammes—that is, about an ounce and a half, including bone, and in con sequence of imperfect arrangements there are many who have been unable to obtain that little scrap. The sick and wounded troops, except hi the purely military hospitals, are insufficiently supplied with meat, except, perhaps, in the American ambulance and one or two others, where private energy supplies what official routine fails to furnish. This state Of affairs is injurious to the wounded themselves, and cal culated to give rise to ill-feeling among their effective com rades. It is, therefore, to be hoped that it will soon be rectified. Great abuse had crept into the system of taking the wounded off the field. It has been asserted that some persons, who have established private hospitals in their houses for selfish purposes, have actually paid money to infirnziers for carrying wounded to their carriages near the field of battle. This has now, it is hoped, been put a stop to." • The last bombardment of St. Cloud by the French ex tended over three days. All this firing cost the Germans only one man killed and five wounded. As a discharge from a big gun costs £l4, the French can hardly get their money's worth. It was stated by a Berlin correspondent that General von Moltke expected to be home again soon. Such is not the hope of some Saxon 'Officers who have just written home. One says there will certainly be a winter campaign. Another observes that " the wish for a speedy, secure, and honourable peace is general among the army." The Nene Preuesische Zeitung announces that when the bombardment of Paris does begin, it will open on all sides, '• in order to occupy fully the force and attention of the garrison, and divide them in every direction, so that the moral impression of the attack may be felt generally upon all sides, lest by the enormous extension of the capital it might be entirely lost upon small quarters of the city." The outskirts of Paris are extensively mined. At Cour bevoie the system extends in all directions. Everyone is warned not to smoke while going over the bridge—an extreme piece of precaution, as the mine is said to be on the island which the bridge traverses, and is covered, moreover, with a wooden shed roofed in with earth; an electric wire communicating with this will blow up simply the one arch the moment such a step becomes necessary. At Arnouville, before Paris, some of the German officers got up a fete champetre. A theatre was erected in the open air, and patriotic plays were performed, spiced with political allusions to the present war. Napoleon was introduced as paying his addresses to the virgin Germania, a damsel six feet high. Before she could reply to his offer two grenades were lounched from St. Denis and exploded near the spot, but everybody being accustomed to such interruptions, the piece proceeded. The reason why artillery did not arrive in time ,to enable the French to hold Le Bourget was that though the French general asked for a supply, he could not obtain it. Says a " besieged resident," in vain Bellemare's officers went here and there.. They were sent from pillar to post, from one aged general to another, and at eleven o'clock on the day when Bourget was taken, after the troops had been driven out of it, the artillery, every formality having been gone through, was on its way to the village. It is pleasant, whilst one is cut off from the outer world, to be reminded by these little traits of one's native laud, its War Office and its Horse Guards. The correspondent of the Globe takes a most unfavour able view of the food question in Paris.—" The rations have long since been a mere mockery. They are not worth the trouble of sending for—an ounce a day ; and might much more reasonably have been suspended alto gether. They are only kept up as a pretext to meet an outcry of the populace. The sick and the delicate have a terrible time of it. Funerals are as common in the streets as cabs. Once attacked by any lowering fever or disorder, there is very little chance for you." A RESTORATION SCHEME. The Independance Beige publishes a letter which is said to have been addressed to M. Gambetta by a French diplomatist on the events of the day. The writer tries to prove that a restoration of the Emperor is connived at, and that it has every chance of success. Previously to Sedan all seemed lost. But there the Em peror saw clearly, and what would have been a total ship wreck for any other man, became for him the commence ment of a fresh chance. " Consequently, what eagerness there was for capitulation and surrender ! The capitula tion of Sedan was the first act of the restoration of the Empire. Conqueror, the Emperor would have been none the less lost, conquered, he carried with him a whole army which he can utilise later on, whom he dishonoured in the eyes of Frenchmen, to attach more strongly to him self as their companion •in misfortune, who could not re proach them. The capitulation of Bazaine, which he foresaw, was the second marvellous act of the Imperial restoration, conquered a second time in Bazaine. Here then we have the man of Sedan and his marshals, leaders of 320,000 men. The last act of the restoration approaches, it is here you and the Prussians will be the principal actors. The armistice is refused, Prussia having taken care that it should be you who refused it. Despite the heroism of the French, who are without organisation, the invasion extends. Paris surrenders at last, but even bombarded and exhausted by terrible struggles, Paris cannot find one hand to sign a humiliating aud. burden some peace. On the other hand, the Prussians agitate, anarchy threatens, the Republic is about to perish. Then, the play being played out, Prussia returns to her captive at Wilhelmshohe, and makes better con ditions with him. She restores his soldiers their arms, his marshals their dignities. With • him the officials wiil return to places and honours. Escorted by 320,000 men, Napule9n re-enters France, bringing peace, tranquillity, security. The evils of war will end, the agriculturist will return to his fields, the trader to his customers, and a second time as liberator and saviour the Em peror will consolidate his dynasty. This, mon sieur, is the comedy, or rather the drama, now being played. The only mewls to avert the denoument are, I believe, to make peace at any cost, to exile the Emperor, his family, and his marshals, for an indefinite time ; to recall the army, and consolidate the the republic by a legal constitution. You need not trouble yourselves about a few leagues of territory, more or less, the Republic has no limits ; all peoples are brothers. By acting thus you will defeat at once Prussia and the Em pire, and will establish a Republican regime whose econo mies will speedily atone for the Imperial defic it." WARLIKE WOMEN AT MARSEILLES. The woman of Marseilles are just now playing an important rule in the affairs of their town, and as their meetings are held in the Grand Theatre, so that all who take an interest in the new function of the gentler sex may attend as often as they like, I have made it my duty to be present at one of these debates. Gentlemen's tickets are sold at a high price; but I raised no objection to it, for the amusement was certainly in proportion. was glad to see that there was a full house. At the ap pointed time the curtain was drawn up, and revealed Madame Louise Collet seated in a pensive attitude, and dressed in her uniform of commander in chief of the Amazons—a tunic of black velvet striped with gold, loose trousers of the same material, enclosed in black leather gaiters reaching to the knee, and a scarlet cap with a long black tassel ; and she made, I can assure you a ruost picturesquegeneral. Her appearance was greeted with great applause and cries of admiration from both sexes. For a moment the Amazon remained in profound meditation ; then, in a deep low dramatic voice, uttered the one word, " Bazaine." The effect was instantaneous. Like a clap of thunder after a flash of lightning, shrieks and groans followed the mention of the Marshal's name. " Oh, if I had the traitor here" (and as the "general" spoke these words she held out her hand as if to seize the Mrrshal by the hair), " I would ask you to erect a guillo tine on this very spot, that he might be executed this very hour !" Intense applause on the part of the audience and cries of " Yes, yes," "We would do it." " Let me give you that creature's history in all its revolting im morality, that you may understand why he was a favourite with Louis Napoleon," said the fair Amazon ; but here I must stop, for to continue a report of Madame Collet's speech might shock your less advanced opinions. Suffice it to say that the audience were greatly moved by this overture to the business of the night. After this opening speech, ladies were invited to- mount on the stage and speak from the tribune. A general rush was imme diately made from the body of the theatre, and the gentlemen were requested by the " general " to help the ladies over the stalls and orchestra. When some twenty Amazons had been seated in the tribune, a most animated discussion arose as to who had got there first, and had thus obtained the right of speaking. This point being at last settled by " General " Collet, a genuine Marseillaise rattled off an address in the dialect of the country a kind of mixture between Greek and Latin ; most sonorous, but quite incom prehensible to one half the house, who, nevertheless, cheered the action which accompanied the words. She was followed by a married woman, who comp.ained bit terly that her husband would not let her join the corps, upoh which Madame Collet declared that such a husband must be either a Prussian . or a traitor, and the observa tion received loud cries of assent from the Amazons. But this little interlude brought out a lithe active little man from one of the side boxes, who declared that he was the husband in question, and was prepared to justify his conduct. His appearance caused much uproar among the ladies, who told him he had no right to speak in a woman's club. He insists, however, on defending himself, and begins a discourse on the family duties of woman. He is immediately pounced upon by th. 3 " general " for using bad grammar, and for meddling about matters of which he knows nothing ; and, amidst shouts of " Hold your tongue " and derisive cheers, he is com pelled to sit down and to retire within himself for the rest of the evening. Very Red declamations are made against the priests and bishops who ornament their churches with precious metals and paintings, which might be turned to account in buying guns and uniforms for the "phalanx of Marseilles." At the end it is announced that a collection of money and jewels will be made amongst the spectators, whose names will be graven in letters of gold in the records of the club. A panic then seizes the spectators, who chew a shameful want of patriotism by leaving the house and the Amazon collectors who fail to obtain the smallest jewel. —Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. A well-known merchant of Catalonia has given a million of francs for equipping and arming a battalion of volunteers in the French Basque provinces. The London correspondent of a German paper says it is positively ascertained that Mr. Gladstone wrote the article on " France, Germany, and England " in the Edin burgh Review. The German Allgemeine Zeiturtg declares Mr. Gladstone's article in the Edinburgh Review to prove that " Germany cannot expect any furtherance of its national claims from the present Government of England." The French Progres of Lyons says, " our felon ally dares to dash her bucket of water upon the brasier of our patriotism." Unfortunate England I It is said that the Prussian staff at Versailles were aware that disturbances would take place at Paris the next day. They expected a regular skirmish in the streets of the capital, and looked out for the news of the disturbance in hopes of profiting by it. The scouts from Sevres and other environs of Paris did not bring the desired intelli gence however. In consequence the Nouvelliste de Versailles did not appear with the news of a Revolution in Paris. Mr. George Francis Train was waited upon at Marseilles by a ladies' deputation. One of them was unmarried, one married, the third a mother, and the fourth a widow, so chat they may be taken fairly to represent the various categories of female kind. They presented him with a bouquet, and asked him to use his influence to procure a female levee en masse in France. The " Citizen Train " replied thus to the address of the maid, the wife, the mother, and the widow :—" A thousand thanks ! To arms I Forward ! March ! Vive les filles de Sarragossa and Jean d'Arc ! To Berlin ! War to the knife ! Vive la R4publique ! Down with Prussia ! Yours sincerely till death, George Francis Train." It is said that the Germans in capturing Verdun have got possession of nothing better than the dust of a town. The place was completely destroyed, the ramparts alone standing. Food supplies had disappeared. Among the latest offerings for the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers are included :-1,000 thalers from Prince Charles of Roumania, 15,000 thalers from New York, 675 thalers from Virginia and Nevada, 10,500 thalers from Port Elizabeth (Cape of Good Hcpe), and 1,687 thalers from Calcutta (third contribution). The Francais thus sums up the Emperor's pamphlet on the Sedan campaign :—" It is a very wretched attempt, on the part of the principal author of the war, to justify himself at the expense of the Army, the Liberal party, and the Council of Regency. What we gather frbm it princi pally is, that after the first disasters Napoleon 111. lost his head, and not daring to return to Paris, became for the Army, for his own Ministers, and for France a most com brous inutility." How LIEUTENANT DE VALCOUItT ESCAPED PROM METZ.—An " English Surgeon" gives an interesting account of the disguise in which Lieutenant de Valcourt escaped from Metz. He met the lieutenant in the rail way train at Frouard, the junction between the Chalons and the Metz-Strasburg railways. He said he was an. American journalist, and had escaped from Metz. After wards he begged the surgeon, whose papers were all right, to accompany him to Switzerland, as his life was in danger on account of his having no papers of his own. At Basle the " American " jumped out of the carriage, saying, "I am free, I am free ; thanks, thanks a thousand times. Will you take a turn with me on the platform?" He then said, Allow me to present myself to you in my true colours ; I am the Count de Valcourt an officer in the French army, and on the staff of Marshal Bazaine." Could this be a Frenchman, with his flaxen hair, beard, and whiskers ; his mild, light brown eyes ; his soft, almost girlish, complexion ; his perfect command of the English language?" He saw the look. "You don't believe me ?" forthwith he brought out two false teeth, made in Metz for the occasion, a little rolled-up piece of tissue-paper, which, when opened, was as large as the palm of one's hand : " A despatch from Marshal Bazaine to the Army , of Tours." I said, "Is this your word of honour ? " It is," was his retort ; " and to prove it is not against Prussian interests here are its contents I must give up Metz in a day or two ; make peace as soon as you can.—BAZAINE, Mar6chal,' &c." A. DARING Spy. —That Prussian spies, however, and daring ones too, do penetrate into Paris is quite cer tain ; for the other day I myself saw one under somewhat peculiar circumstances. It was at Courcelles, where I had gone, intending to leave Paris by the porte of that name, on my way to Asnibres. Hearing several shots fired, on turning round I saw half-a-dozen Gardes Mobiles peppering away apparently at a stick of chimneys on the top of a very tall house facing the railway. A more i attentive inspection, how ever, discovered to me a man n military uniform holding a blue flag in one hand and a red flag in the other, and wearing in front of him a long apron painted dull red, with the narrow white markings to resemble the brick work of the neighbouring chimneys, between which he was crouched. lie had, it seems, been observed waving the flags in question, and had thus become the target of the Gardes Mobiles, all of whom, however, fired of their mark. in an instant from the time wil d I had first observed him he had slid down the long slat t° roof, and, clinging to the stone cornice, had dropped the iron balcony of the floor beneath and disapPe ar 't through one of the windows. The Gardes Mobil w i t h, once obtained admission to the house--a large one, ~, apparently, all its apartments occupied—which th e y searched from top to bottom for upwards of an hour, Wi t ?: out, however, encountering the smallest trace of the daring Prussian officer—for so he was pronounced to be -- who had signalled to his comrades in a populous quarter of Paris in broad daylight.—Times Correspondent. ADVENTURE OF A GERMAN OFFICER.- - Wickede, a Prussian officer, who acts as corresponden t te l the Cologne Gazette, relates an adventure he met wit h it the village of Agrigoncourt, near Espinal. He was w.' three other officers and two privates, and halted at this village for food. Their appearance created some s tir ' The women and children collected, and several Wel hastened up from the fields. The landlady .. ., ()..: the inn curtly refused to entertain them, but Wickede followed her into the kitchen, and by a few ad compliments induced her to prepare them a s ubstantt meal. Meanwhile 30 or 40 m'-n in blouses ' ar med writ' pikes, dung-forks, and partially with guns, laid siege toithall house, He went out, the hostess by his side, and O. 9 ° A what they wanted, but was assailed with abuse an threats, one of the crowd, appirently the village tailq, pointing .his gun at him, and swearing that tie wh ole six should be shot. Herr Wickede told them that in and his companions were in their power, but reminde d them that their captivity or death would certa inly be avenged on the village. Thereupon differen t of opinion arose, there was a lively discussion, an eventually the tailor: was outvoted, it being deterniines that the priest should decide on their fate. r -r he priest was sent for. He proved an intelligent 1 1 1„' foresaw the certain destiny of the village in case 111 Germans were illtreated, ordered the peasants to dispers e ' and even mounted the waggon to protect the strangers' Herr Wickede took a friendly leave of the landlady, wh e i though she had a brother in the French army who 1 1 , 3 " been captured at Metz, had been resolutely on his Si The priest accompanied them to the next village, wh er e he handed them over to the protection of another car 1 and he in turn transferred the charge to a third. Th e / consequently escaped molestation, though encounteri n g many black looks, and safely reached Besoul. " NO °. ever," he remarks, " has the p"riests and women for him in the French villages is sure to come off well, for both 0 ' them wield an unlimited power." DETERMINATION OF THE FRENCH TO FIGHT. —The Tours correspondent of the Standard, in a letter dnted the 7th inst., declares : If possible, France is more than ever opposed to peace—that• is a peace involving a cession of territory. With her increasing strength , and the gradual utilisation of her resources, sh e recoils from the thought of any peace whi c would be an admission of her inferiority. After Sedan, when she was literally without an aria,' except that shut up in Metz, France might, without 3Cii mission of inferiority of courage and resources, have sign et ` a peace on the ground of surprise. Now she can 11° longer do so. She has many more men in arms through' out her territory than have her German invaders. 611° has had timeto recover from her first surprise, and, e O3 sequently, she would feel even more degraded hi her own eyes, and in those of Europe, if she were t.,1 submit to terms which she indignantly refused then. the Germans have absolutely and finally made up their minds to take Alsace and Lorraine with the consent 0 f France, they may may make up their minds to an owl' pation of France which will be counted by years rather than by months. For once the Latin is as obstinate as,. the Saxon. I question whether, in the end, he will 0, 1 : prove himself to be more so. I believe that imports , " movements are taking place in the Army of the Loire, bu t what they may be is more than I can tell. My authority is only the vaguest of rumours, but they gain a certain consistency from a notice in the Moniteur of last nigh t ' M. Gambetta complains that certain newspapers have, in spite of orders, been publishing notices o f the movements of the Army 'of the Loire, and that if this is repeated, he shall declare. the place in a state of siege and suppress the newspapers. All I can say 15 .that unfortunately, in spite of a most diligent search, I have not been able to discover any of thse notices of which M. Gambetta complains; upon the oontrarY, for the last fortnight I have not seen a single which, were I a stranger here, would lead 1310 to suppose that such an army existed. M. Gambetta 's edict, therefore, shews how extremely anxious the Gc r vernment are that no whisper shall go forth of what is going on in front, and certainly gives a consistency to and report that the movements are both extensive anu important. word ENGLAND AND GERMANY, LETTER FROM TIM, CROWN PRINCE, Colonel Loyd Lindsay, M.P., has received a letter from the Crown Prince of Prussia, of which the following is 14 copy :-- " Head-Quarters, Versailles, Nov. 2. " The noble contribution brought by Colonel Loyd - Lindsay for the use of the sick and wounded from the English Society of which he is the director deserves semewhat more than a simple acknowledgment . On this, as on other occasions of distress, the hell ) of the English public has beeen poured out with a liberal and impartial hand. The gifts, which have been offered in a truly Christian spirit, have excited a feeling of heartfelt gratitude among those in whose names I speak. In doing so lam repeating the feelings of the whole of my country people, in this instance representefl by those for whose special benefit these gifts are destinea• " FREDERICK WILLIAM, Crown Prince. "To Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, V.C., &c." The death is announced of Sir William Curtis, 1 0 his 70th a year. He was the third baronet, and was eat' cated at Eton and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1825. He was married in 1831 to a daughter of Mr. John Shatton; of Farthing' hoe Lodge, Northamptonshire, and is succeeded by his son Philipp Julian, who was a captain in the 60th Bef," 1 " ment. The first baronet was an alderman of London, Lord Mayor in 1798, and M.P. fox the City of London from 1790 to 1826. POLICE ESPIONAGE. —On Thursday four publicans from various villages in Cheshire were brought before the county magistrates at Birkenhead, charged with offencf° contravening their licences. A peculiar circumstance 111 connection with the proceedings was that the information was laid by a constable named Wharmby, who, acting se he stated under the instructions of the chief eon" stable, pla- ed the spy at the houses of the defendants, representing himself as an agent for agricultural implements. This character he supported hi displaying the circulars and advertisements of certain manufacturers, while he lulled suspicion by drinking with the persons he found in the inns. The charges were met by the genial of many witnesses ; but, perhaps, it is not too much to say that the decisions of the magistrates con' veyed a marked disapproval of the system of espionage employed by the informer. All the cases were di sm i s sed, and in one instance Wharmby was directly censured for tempting a number of people to drink.—Liverpool Courier. NEW STEAM LINE TO THE WEST INDIES.—The screw steamship Konig Wilhelm L, built and engined by Messrs, Caird and Co., of Greenock, for the North Ger man Lloyd, had her official trial trip on Saturday last, when she ran the measured mile at Skelmorlie at the rate of 12 knots per hopr, at a low steam pressure, with 1,20 0 tons dead weight on board. She measures 2,450 tons (registers 1,690 tons), is 330 feet in length, 39 feet beam , and 314 feet depth from spar deck, and is fitted with engines of 350 horse power. Accommodation is provided for 103 first class passengers, 50 second, and 500 third, and she will carry from 1,800 to 2,000 tons of dead weight (fuel and cargo), her draught of water being about 2 0 feet when so loaded. The Konig Wilhelm I. is the first of a new line of steamers on the eve of being started by the North German Lloyd to the West Indies, commencing at Bremen, calling a t Southampton, and proceeding thence direct to Colon, Savanilla, Porto Cabello, La Guayra, and then back to Savanilla and Colon. At the last-named place the return voyage begins, only interrupted by calling at St- Thomas, the next ports being Cherbourg, Southampton, and Bremen. The second vessel for this line, the Kohn, was to have her trial during the present week, :Ind another, the Graf Bismarck, is just launched. These steamers are built and fitted with special adaptation for the passenger and cargo traffic of the station on which they are to be placed. The Konig Wilhelm I. leaves Greenock for Bremen on an early day. - - [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Indi gestion, Lassitude.—Persons constitutionally weak are so much depressed by damp weather, that the ordinary offices of life become a labour, the necessity of thinking becomes a toil. The nervous system is unhinged, and each day brings to such pitiable objects nothing but 5 succession of real or fancied miseries. To escape from such torments it is only necessary to take Holloway's Pills, which purify and strengthen a debilitated, shaken constitution more than any other medicine in the world. They cleanse the body from all impurities, give tone to the stomach, regularity to the liver, activity to the kid' neys, bladder and bowels, they remove dejection of spirits and bodily lassitude, restoring to the mind decision and cheerfulness. BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., at 64, Chester-square, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Ellis. of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Hornsea, Yorkshire, the wife of F. S. Tudor, of a daughter. MARRIAGES.' . On the 9th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. Wm. Sydney Hylton-Jolliffe, Capt. Scots Fusilier Guards, second surviving son of the Right Hon. Lord Hylton, to Gertrude Henrietta, eldest daughter of the late Richard Eaton, Esq., M.P., of Stechworth Park, Cambridgeshire. On the 9th inst., at Walcot, Bath, Major-General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh, R.E., to Cecilia Eliza Adelaide, third daughter of the late Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Whitehead, K.C.8., of Uplands Hall, Lancashire. DEATHS. On the 9th inst., at Rodbaston, Penkridge, Thomas Shaw . Hellier, Esq., aged 69. On .the 7th inst., at Nice, Sir William Curtis, B ar t., a ged 67. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Publish e d b y hi m at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the P rec i nc t o f the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. Saturday, November 12, 1870. A e j Ad in , Pesti Chi Galle Cou r , and 1311 st; sent rt: tel l] Co tr a , I n In Pi