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

MONETARY REPORTS.-SATURDAY. An increased amount of firmness has been noticed in the Stock Exchange to-day. Business, as usual, has been much circumscribed, but the continuance of investments is gradually lessening the supply of stock afloat, and is imparting a corresponding degree of steadiness to the quotations. The principal movement to-day has been in railway stocks, which have improved on the average 1 per cent. Foreign bonds have been free from any note worthy change. The market for home' securities has been fair. Consols have been in request, and have risen A per cent. For delivery the quotation has been 89k, 89i, and for the September account 89k, 90. Reduced and New Three- per-cents 89k, 891. Bank stock 232, 234. In Exchequer bills par to ss. prem. India Five-per -cents 107, 108, and India bonds par. In Colonial Government securities next to nothing has been doing. Notwithstanding that the actual business concluded has been very moderate, the market for English railway stocks has been very firm, and a general advance has en sued. Great Northern A has recovered 3, Great Eastern li, Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire 1, Lon don and Brighton 1, London and North-Western Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 1, Metropolitan 1, Midland North British 1, and North-Eastern 1. Indian railway stocks have been dealt in to a very moderate extent, and prices have shewn no change. For Canadian shares the demand has been very quiet. In foreign shares very little business has been doing. Buenos Ayres, Great Southern, Salado Extension, have fallen but Pacific and San Francisco have risen 1. The foreign bond market has been characterised by much quietness, and the quotations have been without quotable variation. Turkish and Italian have been rather easier, but Spanish and Egyptian have continued firmer. American securities have been in request. The Five twenty bonds have risen i, and Erie shares i. The market for bank shares has been firm, but business has not been brisk. Central of London have fallen i, but Imperial Ottoman have risen i, Oriental 1, and Union of Australia 1. Telegraph shares have been rather firmer. Atlantic Eight per Cent. Stock has risen 1, and British Indian Submarine shares have been * better. Miscellaneous securities have been firmer. Commercial - Union Assurance have risen Hooper's Telegraph Works /, and Peninsular and Oriental Steam 1. There has been a continuance of firmness in the money market to-day. Capital has been scarce, and three months' paper has not been taken under 6 per cent. At the same time, however, the demand has been very quiet. The Scotia, from New York has brought £.509,531 in specie. • The bullion operations at the Bank to• day comprised the purchase of £15,000 in bars, and the withdrawal of £50,000, in sovereigns, for Lisbon, and of £60,000, also in sovereigns, from France and Germany. The sum of 14,000,000 francs, which some Paris firms had dispatched to Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Eng land has been seized by the French Government, ancl all export of bullion has been prohibited. The stoppage of Messrs. Green, Hnmphrey, and Co., of Cannon-street, engaged in the silk trade, is announced, with liabilities estimated at £30,000, and a favourable liquidation is anticipated. The books of the firm have been placed in the hands of Messrs. Honey, Humphrys, and Co., who are preparing a statement of affairs, to be submitted at the first meeting of creditors on Thurs day next. At the first meeting of the Central Queensland Meat Preserving Company, Sir William Denison, K.C.8., in the chair, it was stated that the total receipts had been £8,959, and the expenditure (including steam plant and supplies shipped to Rockhampton) about £5,000. The manager and assistant-manager are now in Australia, and operations will be speedily commenced. The adarices from Paris states that the Minister of Finance is soliciting subscriptions to the Treasury bills, which are to represent the new war loan of 500,000,000 francs. They are to be issued at par ; are to bear 5 per cent, interest, payable half-yearly, and are to be re deemed at not sooner than two or three years at choice, and not later than ten years. In consequence of the mode of redemption, which is imitated from the Ame ricans, they are designated two-tens or three-tens' bills. They may be negotiated like other public securities, and the Bank of France is to accept them as security for ad vances. Subscribers before the Ist September next, the date from which the coupons are to run, are to receive interest on their payments to that date, and those who may subscribe afterwards will, on the contrary, have to pay interest. The object of these speculations is stated to be "to preserve the entirety of the coupon." The Finance Department is now also offering to the public' ordinary Treasury bills at higher interest than that men tioned last week-3i per cent. for those of from three to five months, 4i for from six to eleven months, and five for a year. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-SATURDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GCVERNIIENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 898 893 Viet 5p c Jan & JulylB94. 96 99 891. 1. i Brazilian. 1865, 5p c .... 85 87 Do for Account 893.8 Egyptian, 1862, 7 p c.... 77 82 Three per Cent Reduced 898 898 82 894, 1, 8 Do Rail Deben 7 p New S. per Cent 898, 8, i Italian, 1865, 5p c Exchequer Bills, March par, spm Peruvian, 1865, 5p c pm Portuguese, 1869, 3p c 261 27i Do, June par, spm Russian, 1862, 5 p c.. .. Bank pm Stock - Do Ni 64 colas 4p c India 5 per Cents — Spanish, 1867, 3pc India Bonds — -• 2 41, i Can 6pc Jan&JulylB77-84 99 102 Do, 1869. 3p c 100 241, 3f Do March & Sept. 102 105 Turkish. 1851, 6p c — Do 5p c Jan & July .. 90 92 81 Do Inscribed Stock .. 88 92 Do. 1865, 5p c 39, 8/, Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 93 95 Do, 1865, 6p c Ceylon 6 p c May and 58, 6, 7 November 1878 lO6 108 U.S. 5-20 Bonds, 6p c 1882 83 3 / 4 84 Mauritius 6 p c Jan and 833, 41 July 1873 lOl 103 Do do 1885 828 831 New SWales 5p clB7l-76 96 98 828 New Zealand 6p c 1891 lO5 108 Do 10-40 Bnds, spc 1904 79 81 Do 5p c Do 5p c Consolidated 93 95 Illinois Central Shares .. 96 98 94 978 Do 6p c Mar &Sept 1891 105 108 Atlantic and GW R Con Do June & Dec 1891 104 107 Mortgage Bonds lB 20 Viet 6p c Jan &July 1891 107 110 18. 19 DoApril & Oct 1883-85.. 106 109 109, 81 . 93 96 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter BO 82 Do Ist Pref Bonds .... 53 56 Caledonian 69/ 2nd Pref Stock Great Eastern 28, 91 Do 3rd Pref Stock ' , . Great Northern 111/ 13 4th Pref Stock Do A ll6 119 16 117, 18 Great Western 6O 61 103 591 64, 60 Great Western of Canada 121 122 Lancashire & Yorkshire 324 126 121 125 Do 8p c Bonds, 1873.. 97 99 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 32 33 Do 51 do, 1877-8 95 97 32, 11, 21, 2 Do 5 p c pref, issued 80par 2 pm Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 12 13 Madras guar 5p c r 4 on and North-Western 120 121 N. Railway of Canada, 1201, 191, 21 6p c Ist Pref Bonds Lon and South-Western 84 86 Oude and Rohilkund g 86 5 p c Man, Shef, and Lincoln 34 36 1012 34 , 11 58 Scinde, Punjaub, and Metropolitan 63, 4 Bahia and San Francisco Midland l2O 121 g 7 p c 120, / Belgian E Junction North British North-Eastern Consols 127 129 Dunaburg and Witepsk 16 17 1282, 9j Dutch-Rhenish lB 20 South-Eastern 62 64 Eastern of Frame 2l 23 63 Great Luxembourg ... • 132 91 Atlantic and St Lawmen 75 80 911 Bombay, Banda, and Lemberg Czernowitz gua Central India, g 5 p c.. 101 103 7 p c 14 15 101 i Northern of France Buff & Lake Huron Pref 31 4 Ottom ( Smyrna to Aidin) 41 51 Do 51 p c Bonds, 1872-3 - 4 41 Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5p c lO2 104 (Limited) guar7 pe..14 16 East Indian. g 5 p c 106, 2, 6 191 Grand Trunk Canada Do Equip Mort Bnds, I 132, 14 charge 6p a Do 2nd do Scrip .... 2 dis, par pm 30 33 16 18 BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 10 Agra Bank (L) A Bl 91 20 Lou Char of Austrlia 211 221 4 7-16, 1 20 London and County 49 51 25 Alliance (L) 10 Ang10-Austrian . 20 Anglo-Egyptia n . (L) 18 20 20 Lou and Westmnster 59 61 50 British N American 51 53 60 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 15 16 10 Metropolitan 7 l/ 81 25 Char Merc of Indi a 25 2 7 20 Midland (L) 10 City 25 Colonial , 41 43 25 ()natal Bank Corporn 39 41 Consolidated (L) _ 1 :Pm 25 Union of Australia. . 38 40 20 Eng, Scot, and Anse 17 18 15 Union of London .. 35 37 20 Imperial IL) 10 Imperial Ottoman 101, 10, i TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Pd Pd 100 Anglo-American L) 82 85 10 Great Northern .... 91 10 831 6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) lll 12 Japan Extension., 12 25 Indo-European (L).. 100 Atlantic 100 Do 8p c 3 British Australn (L).. 4 4 dis 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) 4'.l 5f 10 British Ind Eaten (L) 5 51 21 Pnma, and S. Pcfc( L) 3 2 dis 10 British Indian Sub- 8 Reuter's marine (L) 2 China Submarine (L) 51 sdis 100 Submarine 230 240 dis 1 Do Scrip 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 10 Wlndia &Panama(L) 51 6 and Malta (L) .... 81 9 4 3 dis 13 17 MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. ' Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian End- 30 London Fin Assoc (L)191181dis holders' Certificate 1 2 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .... 21 21 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 11i 12 21, 1146 30 Bolckow-Vaughan (L) 25 35pm 2 Lon & Prov Marine (L) 11 pm 100 Boston. City (U.S.) 5 100 Madras Irrig & Canal, p c Sterling Loan 83 90 , gsp c by Ind Gov. 99 102 4 Brit & Fgn Marine (L) n 21pm 2 Mauritius Land (L)..1 die, par 27 Canada Company. .. 65 70 "Natnl Disct Comp (L) 101 111 10 Ceylon Company (L) 61 41 die 21 N Zealand Loan and 35 City Offices (L) .... 261 251 dis Mere Agency IL) .. 11 pm 20 Colonial (L) 2 1 die 5 N Zealand Loan and 5 Com UniOn'Assurnce 1i 21pm Trust ftj --- —1111 pin 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 2 21 01 N Britsh and Mere (L) 24 27 q 5 OceanMarinelnsur .. 12 14pm 100 Crystal Palace Igo Do Pref _9O __9 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb.. 109 114 10 DJ - do New, 1867 5 3dis 271 Ebbw Vale Steel (L)..12 10 dis 50 Rhyrnney Iron 100 Egyp 9 p oV'roy Loan, 15 Do New 9 10 guar by Egyp Gov.. 86 83 60 Royal Mall Steam 87, 61 20 Tel Con and Main (L) 201 21i 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 4 4}pm 21, 1 10 Fgn and Colonial Gov 2 Thames and Mersey Trust 6p c Bonds.. 87 92 Marine Insur (L) 71 Gen Credt &Disct (L) 1 1 dis St Tobacco 6p c Loan, 14 Gen Stm Navigation 29 31 guar by Italian Gov. /6 81 7 Hooper's Tel Works 413$ dis 5 Trust and Loan Co of 20 Hudson's Bay 7l 71 Upper Canada .... 12 pm 72 1:7 Marine, Lvpool (L 5 6 pin 45 Indrbbr, Gut Pet and 20 Union Steamship (L) 21 23 Tel Works (L) .... 36 38 6 United Dis Corprn (L) 2 ldis 361, 6, 1 5 Univ Marine lnsur (1, 1 21 31 pm 20 Intern' Finan Soc(L) 21 2 dis 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p c It Irrig (Can Cavour) 21 31 Mortgage Loan.... 66 69 100 Do 6p c Bonds, re. 70 deemab:e 1870. 55 60 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 dis MARKETS. NORWICH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—This market to day opened with a brisk demand for wheat. The supplies were good, and an advance of fully ls. per quarter was realised. Spring corn held firmly at extreme rates. Before the close best wheat advanced farther. Harvest has commenced in many parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. Averages : Wheat, 1,236 quarters 4 bushels. 545. 9d. per qr. DONCASTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—Trade was slow at this market to-day, but prices were firm. Red wheat realised from 19s. to 20s. per load. White wheat, from 215. to 234. 6d. per load. A good sample of new wheat fetched 245. per load. READING CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—This market' opened with a dull trade to-day in wheat, which was in rather short supply. Farmers asked higher prices ; and some few transactions had taken place up to this period of the day, averaging from is. to 2s. per quarter higher than the rates of last week. There were a few samples of new wheat on offer in bad condition. Oats, beans, and peas were firm in price, and sold at the full rates of last week. LEITH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—Wheat was again is. per quarter dearer at this market to-day. Flour was rather higher. Barley brought extreme rates. Oats were slow at late rates. Peas and beans were unaltered. Arrivals for the week : —Wheat, 27,834 gra. ; barley, 241 qrs. ; oats, 500 qrs. ; beans, 346 qrs. ; peas, 11 qrs. ; flour, 4,571 sacks. dLOSTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—There was 'a good supply of English wheat at this market to-day, for which farmers asked an advance of from Is. to 2s. per qr., which millers refused to give. Sales made were at the extreme prices of last week. Foreign wheat was a limited sale, without change. Indian corn and barley was ls. cheaper. Oats were firm, DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET, SATURDAY.—The continued drought seems to have nearly dried up this trade; there being very few, either cattle, sheep, or pigs offered, and scarcely any buyers. ABERDEEN CATTLE MARKET, SATURDAY,—The supplies during this week have been fair for this season of the year. The trade was rather slow, owing to the warm weather and con tinued drought. Best beef sold at quite 70s. per cwt., but there was very little of prime quality in most of the district markets ; second quality, from 655. to 68s. per cwt.; inferior was lower, according to condition. Mutton, from 6d. to 7d. per lb. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, SATIIRDAL—The supply of meat has been moderate. The trade has been quiet, at about late rates. Beef from 3s. Bd. to ss. Od. ' • mutton, 4s. Od. to ss. 2d. ; lamb, ss. to ss. Bd. ; veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. ; and pork, 4s. Od. to ss. 4d. per 81bs. by the carcase. LIVERPOOL STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY, 12.10 p.m.— The markets are all better. London and North-Western Rail way, 120 k; Great Western, 60i- to 61 ; Midland, 120} ; Berwick, 1291 ; Great Eastern, 291 ; Erie, 14 to 15. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY.—The markets are firm. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 351 to 36 ; Midland, 120 to 121; Great Eastern, 291 to 29} ; North-Eastern, 129 to 130 ; London and Brighton, 32 to 321 ; and Great Northern A, 116 to 117. COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS, SATURDAY.—Tho markets are quiet in the extreme, business being almost entirely sus pended. Tea has been neglected, and the demand for coffee, as well as sugar, has been to a very moderate extent. The metal market also has been depressed, and the tendency of prices has been in favour of buyers. Iron has sold slowly. Tin has been in limited request, and the demand for copper has been in active. Linseed oils have sold slowly. Rape has been firm. Tallow has been quiet, at 445. 9d. per cwt., spot. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SATURDAY. There was a fair supply on sale at to-day's market. The demand was animated, at a slight enhancement in prices. Prime old hay, 120 s. to 1325. Bd. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to , 110 s. ; prime new hay, 106 s. to 115 s. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 105 s. ; prime old clover, 1355. to 1455. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime new clover, 120 s. to 128 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s. to 110 s. ; and straw 245. to 325. per load. LONDON WOOL MARKET, SATURDAY.—In the wool market no feature of importance has been noticed. The demand for colonial produce has been restricted, and there has been very little inquiry for English. Prices are without change. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—Opening re port :—lmpoits per bill of entry, 12,304 bales, of which ten thousand bales are Surats. The depreasion of the last two days characterises the opening of this market. Holders are still pressing sellers. Prices still tend downward, and the sales are estimated at 8,000 bales. Closing report—Estimated sales, 10,000 bales ; speculation and export, 2,000 bales. 7,170 American bales, 300 Pernambuco bales, 30 Santos bales, 50 Macao and Bahia bales, 100 Maranham bales, 350 Egyptian bales, 2,000 Surat bales, &c. Total, 10,000. LEEDS TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY.—The markets in the cloth hall this morning have been of a quiet order. The de mand has been chiefly confined to Union meltons, plain and fancy coatings, tweeds, and heavy goods, for autumn and winter, but the purchases of each class were small. There is scarcely any business doing for the Continent. The home trade is con fined almost to the completion of recent orders, buyers limiting their purchases to little more than immediate require ments. There is a moderate business doing for Canada and some of the other colonies. Prices are steady, but without any tendency to advance. With respect to the heavy goods trade of Dewsbury, Batley, and the district, business is flat, the conti nental war being the cause of the withdrawal of many orders. Probably some improvement will soon be felt, owing to the de mand for army cloths ; in the meantime there is a good deal of short time working in the mills. There is not much change in the price of raw materials. Wools, cotton warps, and olive oil are lower, but shoddy's mungo support late rates. The flax trade is rather unsettled, and prices of the raw material are irregular. The various branches of the iron trade keep CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, SATURDAY.—This market closed dull to-day, and small business was doing. Since this day week a decline irregularly, of 6d. to ls. 3d., has taken place, principally on medium sorts. It is stated that the Fishmongers' Company have promised a donation of £2,000 to the St. Paul's Comple tion Fund, provided that £lOO,OOO be raised by Decem ber 3L LIVERPOOL AND THE WAR.—The rising of the Bank rate on Friday, combined with local causes, pro duced another panic on the Liv er p oo l Stock Exchange, and prices touched the lowest point they have marked since the declaration of war. Matters were similarly gloomy and depressed in the cotton market. There were barely 8,000 bales sold, and the prices given were below those of the two previous days. HER MAJESTY AT COWES.—The East Cowes Regatta took place on Friday, and at five o'clock it was honoured by the presence of her Majesty, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, attended by Lord Alfred Paget;Viscounteris Clifden, the Hon. Miss Phipps, and Sir Thomas Biddulph. They came from Osborne in carriages, and then embarked on board the Alberta steam yacht, which lay at anchor. After remaining for about two hours, her Majesty went for a cruise as far as the Needles. THE SEAPORTS.—The Eugene steamer, which arrived at Grimsby on Friday, reports that the forts at Antwerp are being mounted with additional guns. More troops are also being concentrated at Antwerp. War pre parations are being hurried on at Hamburg. Guns and mortars are being shipped for Cuxhaven for masked bat teries. The Elbe is perfectly clear. Coal is very dear and scarce at Hamburg, being quoted at 58s. per ton. The North German vessels lying in the Tyne are being stripped and laid by, and the masters are bringing their wives and families across. 'The North German vessel the Carl arrived in Hartlepool on Thursday from Riga. Soon after passing the Scar the master reports that while in company with about 100 sail of other ships, s e ven F renc h ironclads hove in sight, but the war-vessels took no notice of the merchant ships, and passed on. The Hamburg steamship, the Uhlenhorst, which left West Hartlepool on Tuesday night's tide, laden with 1,000 tons of coal for Hamburg, has arrived at her port. There appears to be no disposition on the part of the French navy to interfere with the navigation of the Elbe at present. FRENCH TRADE.—The French iron trade is feeling more and more the effects of the war. In the Champagne district there is still a certain amount of business doing, but in the Moselle group matters have changed greatly for the worse. Thus some of the Longwy ironmasters have decided on blowing out their furnaces ; at Stiring the forges and furnaces are stopped ; and at Ars a furnace has also been stopped. The mineral workings of the Moselle are, it may be added, pretty well deserted. Thehe French Government has out an order for a large quantity of bullets and cannon balls to Messrs. Petin, Gaudet, and Co. ; the order to be executed with the utmost possible despatch. Fresh orders for armour plates are also spoken of. The Belgian iron trade is also beginninc , to suffer more and more from the war, scarcely any fresh p orders having come to hand. The Luxemburg ironmasters propose, however, to make efforts to keep their blast furnaces going ; the construction of some new works at Esch will also be con tinued. The Belgian coal trade still displays considerable activity ; thus orders have been received from Dutch un takings which formerly used Prussian coal. The Eastern of France Railway Company, which has for some time received a large tonnage of coal from Saarbruck, is also about to use increased quantities of Belgian coal.. CONTRABAND OF WAR. - -The Solicitors' Journal considers that Prussia has no right to complain of the export of coal from England to France, considering that during the Crimean war Prussia carried on a large trade in "exporting munitions of war" to Russia. Neutral Governments have never made it their duty to interfere with their subjects' trade, but have contented themselves with passing a Foreign Enli s t men t Bill , and warning their subjects not to furnish the belligerents with material aid. America was quoted the other day in the House of Commons as a country which carried out the principles of neutrality to a proper extent, but she has done no more than pass an act similar to that of the Eng lish Legislature. It was once believed that the force of law was attached to the sovereign's proclamation concern ing belligerents, and blockade running, &c., was looked upon as illegal. The rule which held that contracts relating to such acts were illegal, has, however, so far as English municipal law is concerned, been defi nitely abandoned. In a case referring to this matter Lord Westbury distinctly-laid down the principle that exporta tion to belligerents is not contrary to all municipal law, unless in terms forbidden by it, and the Queen's procla mation does not make that unlawful which was not so before, StN, LONDON, MONDAY IVIORMNG, AUGUST 8, 1870. THE WAR. THE FRENCH DEFEAT AT WEISSEMBURU. PARIS, FRIDAY. After the hot fit comes the cold fit, We have just re covered from the ill effects of our extreme, delight at the Saarbruck triumph, only to be afflicted with the opposite evil. The news of the battle at Weissemburg has over spread every countenance with gloom. Great was the crowd on the Boulevard this - evening; woeful was the aspect of the entire throng. True to its policy of secrecy the Government published no news of the engagement until the truth was known all over Paris, and this reticence has caused the affair to be represented as much worse than it really is. Moreover the extremity of the Saarbruckian exultation naturally had the effect of bringing about a correspondingly severe reaction. For, after all, the defeat is not very bad. There can be little doubt about the meagre news supplied, for both parties publish substantially the same account ; and according to both, it appears that a single French division of about 8,000 men was assailed by portions of no fewer than three army corps. Each army corps numbers 80,000 men ; and it is therefore clear that a fragment from each would, united, greatly out number the French. It cannot be doubted that the dis proportion of numerical strength was really very great. Moreover, the Prussians came upon our troops unex pectedly ; for, had they not done so, the French would not have given battle on such unequal terms. The pro portion may have been two or three to one. The Government papers call it ten to one. Even on these un favourable conditions the French fought well, and sus tained their ancient name, inflicting severe loss upon the ranks of their adversaries. After a long resistance the French retired. They lost (though the official bulletin says nothing of it) many prisoners, and General Douay was killed. Well, there is nothing particularly disgraceful or alarming in this defeat. It is an unfortunate loss of prestige, but it proves no superiority on the part of the Prussian soldiers, arms, or generalship. But the grave 9uestion is the mistake, the blundering, the oversight which led to the isolation of a single division, at no great distance from Strasbourg, and other places where strong bodies of troops are posted. Surely it is no sign of good management to leave an unsupported body of 8,000 men opposed to a general who has evidently 100,000 at immediate command, though of course in this particular action there was no need to use so many. Thus, whilst the populace are enraged at the simple check to the French arms, the generalship is an ugly fact which thinking men deplore. Altogether this is our unfortunate quarter of an hour. The iublic is eagerly demanding the' restoration of French honour, and, what is scarcely less important, more light in future respecting the operations. Marshal M`Mahon is said to have gone against the Oros n Prince, and we are in hourly expectation of great news. There has been a panic amongst the money dealers. A large number of packets of bullion have been seized by the police agents. They were said to be dispatched to Eng land, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy, by several great financiers, Messrs. Raphael Rothschild, Hirsch, Bischoff sheim. &c. The amount seized is estimated at fourteen millions of francs. In addition the police went to the counting-house of M. Hirsch, and placed his strong box under official seals. This embargo was raised on the interference of the banks of France, and the sums seized yesterday have also been released.. The public are asking whether the Government claim the right of thus meddling with business operations. It is hoped not. At the end of - last week, the Emperor found himself face to face with a numerically superior ,force. And if he was willing but unable to move forward then he may be both unable and unwilling to advance now. That he is not unaware of the strength of his opponents is hinted at by the report from Paris that 250,000 Prussians are messed between Saarlouis and Neuenkirchen. What there is between Neueukircben and Kaiserslautern the Parisian telleth not. It is there- fore possible that the inactivity of the French army up to Thursday last has been partly caused by it change in the plan of campaign; that instead of attacking, the French in- tend to remain on the defensive, and to take advantage of the greatly increased strength which breech-loaders and rifled artillery give to an army awaiting an attack in an en trenched position. But if this be resolved upon, it will be a very disappointing commencement of the campaign for the French. To sacrifice half Lorraine and Alsace without a pitched bat,le—and we doubt that any good position for such a large army can be found nearer the frontier than about Metz— is a serious undertaking for the Emperor. Against such a movement of the French the Germans would develop the , plan explained before. They would attempt' o entangle their opponents into a great battle before Metz could be reached ; they would push forward between Saarlouis and Metz. They would try in all cases to outflank the French entrenched position, and to inter rupt its communications towards the rear. We repeat that we start from the supposition that both French and Germans have brought up every available man to the front to take part in the first great battle. In that case, our opinion is still that the Germans will have a numerical superiority sufficient to insure them the victory—barring great mistakes on their part. We are confirmed in this supposition by all reports, public and private. But it is manifest that all this does not amount to absolute certainty.—Pall Mall Gazette. A military critic in the Neue Freie Presse thinks the Prussians made a mistake in dividing their troops into three separate armies instead of keeping them together. This, he says, is owing to the traditional Prussian policy of bringing up as many members of the Hohenzollern dynasty as possible to the art of war. The King, who fought at Waterloo in his youth, naturally wants a separate com mand for himself ; while the Crown Prince, who has a reputation to make, and Prince Frederick Charles, who shewed such great military qualities at the battle of Mis sunde, are also ambitious of a similar position. But such a division of commands, observes the critic, is very preju dicial to the movements of an army, and has often caused its defeat. It is true that in the last German war the Prussian tactics were the same in this respect as they are now : General Herwarth, Prince Frederick Charles, and the Crown Prince each entered Bohemia separately. But it was the fault of the Austrians that they did not take advantage of this mistake. Even at Kiiniggratz the army of Prince Frederick Charles had to bear the whole burnt of the battle, * and it was all but too late when the Crown Prince arrived, and secured the victory to the Prussians. This victory (at Weissemburg), apaA from any effect it may exercise on the French Army, is most important, as admitting. the first of the three great columns into which the German Army has, we believe, been divided, into France, and making the railway between Haguenau and Saarbriick useless. We should now hear of the advance of Prince Frederick Charles from some point near Trbves with 120,000 men, and then of the King's with the still larger Reserve. All must have some common point within France, probably Luneville, and each to reach it must fight his way. Next week ought to be full of battles, as it is now clear that, as we have steadily maintained would be the case, Baron von Moltke has decided, as in 1866, on a policy of magnificent audacity—an advance on French soil upon the French Army. —Spectator. about this weapon having cleared an embankmeht of troops at 1,500 metres may be accepted as quite apocryphal. every one who has had any experience of the kind can remember scores of such accounts of troops being swept away by artillery, of other artillery being "shut up" in a round or two, and so forth, but these results have certainly occurred only in the imagina tions of perfervid gunners. Artillery fire is a very useful aid, but battles are won with musketry, and unless the Chassepot is vastly superior to the needle-gun, the Prus sians have not much td fear in the way of their opponent's armament. The United Service Gazette expects great things of the mitrailleuse, if the account of its ravages in the French bulletins be true. The German army, it must also be remembered, is composed to a great extent of conscripts, torn suddenly from the field, the shop, or the counting house ; men of comparatively high literary culture; and of a highly-imaginative temperament. If, therefore, the French bulletin be true, if the mitrailleuse has actually swept away, say two-thirds of a Prussian battalion, we may suppose that the stories carried back by the survivors to their comrades of its terrible powers of destruction will not increase their fighting zeal,- or much fortify their courage. THE REPORT ABOUT COAL.—The Railway News understands that there is no foundation for the report that colliers had been chartered at Newcastle to convey coal to the French fleet in the Baltic. A correspondent writes : —" It having been definitely stated on the quay-tide at Newcastle yesterday (Thursday) that a Tyne collier had been chartered on the previous day to convey coal to the French fleet in the Baltic, the repretentative of the French Government, in answer to inquiries, has authoritatively denied that such was the case, and further stated that the news which appeared in the papers to the same effect one or two weeks ago was totally without foundation. The supply in French ports was quite sufficient to meet all the exigencies of the fleets." ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT'S DIFFICULTIES.— We have no further details of the affair at Saarbruck. The one correspondent of the French press whose accu racy and reliability form a brilliant exception to the general rule, M. Jannerod, of the Temps, has been unable to describe what took place in consequence of his excessive zeal. M. Jannerod formerly belonged to the army, and advanced with a French picket into Saar bruck when it was supposed to have been evac uated by the Prussians. But they made a "retour oftensif, and captured M. Jannerod. He was released after thirty hours, after having gone through all manner of in cidents. He returned to France by the road from Saar louis to Boulay. On his arrival at Merten, the first vil lage on the French frontier, as a matter of course he was taken for a spy, and very nearlylynched by the infuriated natives. After a great deal of difficulty he succeeded in persuading his patriotic but misguided captors to take him to the French advanced posts, where he easily established his identity. He telegraphs this information to the Temps but announces that he is too tired to write.—Standard's Paris Letter.. INTERNATIONAL USAGES IN THE WAR. There are already gratifying indications that the present war in Europe will do something towards the advancement of more humane and just principles of international law than have heretofore found acceptance outside of the books. The principal points that need to be covered by well-de fined rules in time of war are such as relate to the respec tive rights of thosd who are, and those who are not, en gaged in actual hostilities—of belligerents and neutrals; but these are the very points upon which any general agreement has been found most difficult, because different nations at the same time, and the same nation at different times, as belligerent or neutral, have conflicting interests. The vast extension of commercial pursuits and intercourse in modern days has made the interests of neutrals, on the whole, so much more important than those of belligerents, that their views of international relations have gradually become incorporated into the recognised Code. Previous to the treaty of Paris, in 1856, usage had fluctuated be tween two rules, favourable respectively to belligerents and to neutrals. They were : first, that the nationality 'of "property" on the sea determined its liability to cap ture ; and, second, that the nationality of the "vessel" determined the liability of the cargo to capture. Under the former rule an enemy's goods on the sea were liable to capture wherever found, in a neutral as much as in a hostile vessel, while a neutral's goods were every where safe. Under the latter rule, a neutral flag pro tected an enemy's goods, while a neutral's goods under an enemy's flag might be seized. The treaty of Paris, as is well known, bound the contracting parties to the observ ance of the second of these general rules, with this modification in favour of neutrals—that neutral goods, except contraband of war, should not be liable to capture under an enemy's flag. Briefly stated, the rule, thus adopted is that free ships make free goods, but hostile ships do not necessarly make hostile goods. The United States, being invited with other nations, declined to join in this declaration, although it secured the freedom for neutral shipping which our policy had uniformly favoured for the reason that the abolition of privateering was coupled with it, and the two must be accepted together or not at all. Mr. Marcy, then Secretary of State, declared, however, that our Government would agree to place privateering "under the ban of the law of nations," if an arrangement could be made by which all private property, except contraband of war, should be exempted from cap ture. This proposition, known as the " American amendment," was understood to be favoured by all the parties to the treaty except Great Britain, and her opposition defeated it. Now, however, the principle seems in a fair way to be adopted. Prussia has officially announced that she will observe it, " without regard to reciprocity," and the late new French Minister at Wash ington is reported to have felt himself justified in saying that Napoleon would do the same. If this important gua rantee of the immunity of innocent private property and pursuits should thus become a recognised, rule of interna tional law, it will be a matter of just congratulation to the people and Government of the United States.—New York Times. THE 'LAST OF k MEMORABLE SHIP. The first merchant vessel that ever displayed from her peak the flag of this republic is reported sunk in the har bour of Payta, Peru. She was built in 1782, barque rigged, about. 300 tons, and called the Maria. A few years ago the writer of this paragraph saw her in a har bour on the South American coast flying the Lone Star flag of the prosperous little Repubhc of Chili, where, after many vicissitudes of fortune, she was employed in the grain trade with the surname of one of the aristocratic families of that country, Pacheco, added to her original designation. As might be expected, the Maria Pacheco was a quaint-looking craft, reported a good sailor, and notwithstanding for eighty-eight years she had ridden the stormy seas of ocean and withstood the violent blasts of Boreas, was sound and staunch, giving no more evi dence of old age in her live oak and locust frame than many of her juniors by half a century that were floating about her. Her history would be interesting if it could only be faithfully recorded. After long services in the merchant marine, she was purchased by a firm in Nan tucket, and for a number of years, was a successful cruiser of the adventurous American whalin g e , fleet from that island and the p or t o f N ew B e dford. Subsequently she was purchased by a Chilian merchant, who named her for his wife, and after serving him as long as many a modern ship just from the stocks, a treacherous leak gained the Mastery, and the brave old bark now rests beneath the waters of the Pacific. —Norwich (U. ) ENFORCEMENT OF OUR CLAIMS AGAINST VENEZUELA. From present appearances it looks very much as if our government was about to take definite action in regard to our claims against the Republic of Venezuela. If such should prove to be the case the sooner the step is taken the better. We have been too patient with these Vene zuelans all along, and our patience has been misinter preted and regarded as weakness. These claims have been of long years standing, and yet no attention has been bestowed on them though re peated efforts have been made by the United States government to have them amicably adjusted. No other government would permit itself to be treated as this government has, and in proof of this we see that the custom duties in certain Venezuelan ports are even now devoted to the payment of claims made by French and German citizens. In order, however, to arrive at this, both the French and Prussian Governments found it necessary to make a demonstration such as would convince the Government of Venezuela that the citizens of these two countries should have their rights, even if force had to be employed to enforce them. This is just exactly what the United States should have done years ago. It is altogether wrong to permit our citizens abroad to be imposed upon. Our policy in this respect has been weak and timid in the extreme. We trust the government has become alive to the importance of deci sive action, and that even the republic of Venezuela will be made to understand that while we sympathise with her in her present troubles we cannot permit our citizens to be imposed upon with impunity.—New York Herald. MR. MOTLEY'S RECALL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES. Sir, —The summary dismissal of the United States' Minister to the Court of Great Britain has caused pro found surprise among all who do not know, or had forgotten, some incidents, in the history of the foreign diplomacy of the United States relating to Mr. Motley's connection with the Austrian mission ; and as your contemporaries are casting about for adequate reasons for this sudden change, it may be well briefly to recite them. It will be remem bered that Mr. Motley resigned his post as United States' Plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna, on receiving from Mr. Seward, then Secretary of State, an extrordinary letter of inquiry, if he had not been guilty of rather free expressions of opinion concerning Mr. Seward's fitness for the place he occupied in the United States' Cabinet. At the time public opinion ran high in favour of the Minister, who declined accountability for his private opinions or expressions, and for more than two years following Mr. Seward was not able to find a successor accept able to the United States Senate. On the election of Gen. Grant to the Presidency, the choice of Foreign Ministers fell quite justly to Mr. Sumner and other chiefs of the dominant party ; and we may well conceive the doubl e pleasure the chairman of Foreign Affairs in the Senate had in paying off an old score against Mr. Seward and serving his friend, Mr. Motley, at the same time. The new President, all uninitiated in State craft and wholly unacquainted with the new appoint6es, accepted them on recommendation, reserving for himself the unquestioned prerogative of review, and recall as time and their record should indicate. In Mr. Motley's case, although there had been sympathy by reason of Mr. Seward'r treatment of him, yet there were not wanting prophets who foretold that a gentlemen who had distinguished himself only as a historian would not fulfilthe expectations of the practical man who had so rapidly acquired the confidence of his countrymen in hardier fields than literature. The well nigh unanimous action of the Senate in confirm ing Mr. Frelinghuysen his successor is the best evidence that the President has but carried out the wishes and judgment of the American people, although the instance, we believe, is without parallel of the removal of a Foreign Minister who had but barely entered upon his duties, without the especial cause of his dismissal coining to the knowledge of the country to which he was accredited.—l am, sir, yours &c., AN AMERICAN. MILITARY OPINION. The Army and Nary Gazette holds that neither of the two actions yet fought afford any indication of the strategy that will be adopted, for the Saarbruck affair was contemptible, and the action at Weissenburg was but a partial one, for the Prussians were opposed by only one French division—itis impossible, therefore, to say whether this Weissenburg movement was a reconnaisance or a feint. But one thing seems clear, the Prussians are prepared, at the very least, to defend the frontier, and have no present intention of fall ing back on the Rhine ; and politically, and as regards moral effect, there can be no question of the superiority of such a plan over a more backward one. It is als? quite clear that the difficulty of feeding the troops, far from being overcome, is only just beginning. Already we may he sure that many a soldier on either side does not get his stomach filled regularly. With any reverses plundering will commence, and if the war is prolonged for three months, the sufferings from want of food and shelter and sufficient medical treatment will be enormous. These immense armies create their own embarrassment. We are indisposed, then, to believe that the delay in the French advance is due to want of preparation, for the deficiency of supplies. is likely to increase rather than diminish, but the diffi cu lti es of an advance on either side ace very great, certainly enough to make a naturally undecided man still more so. At any rate, it is plain that on the narrow front where the two armies have met there is little room for outwitting the adversary by manoeuvring ; victory must be earned by hard fighting. And while on this subject we may observe that so fai there is not the smallest evidence that the Prussians have any extra ordinary opponent in the mitrailleuses. The story. PRUSSIA AND THE WAR. I The King of Prussia, in his speech to the North Ger man Parliament on the opening of the session, alluded to the war as a struggle "without which Europe can never be at lasting peace." Tnis is a very candid'commentary on the situation. The policy of Prussia being what it is, and the -interests of France being what they are, war was inevitable. Even if it could be averted now—and nothing short of a miracle could do it—the contest would have to be fought out at some future time. Two very ambitious powers are anxious to take the leading place in Europe. We do not now say which we ought to sympa thize with. That is a matter of feeling and of opinion. What we have to deal with is the fact that the war has been as clearly foreseen by Count von Bistharck as by the Em peror Narposliea naw onn.ltarisearnßseinsmseatrk laid down ocsaythatN a courseapoleon has taken of action which it would require years to complete, and he has been steadily pushing on his plans, .well knowing in what quarters he should provoke opposition. First of all, Austria had to be cleared out of the way. That was a matter of no great difficulty. But that was not the end. France had grave interests at stake, and it was only a question at whot point of Bismarck's design she would step in and interfere. • Per haps the Prussian Minister did not anticipate thot the Spanish plot would be the critical move—more probably he did foresee it, and determined to provoke the unavoidable conflict on that very question. He has not been caught in a trap. He knew very well that a war witn France would complete his great project of " German unity" by bringing over the South German Confederation in a body—and he was content to take the risks of a war asthe price of this advantage. "Not Prussia alone, but the entire German nation, rises in its full majesty against the audacious man who presumes to trample nations into the dust to gratify his princely lust." Such is the language of the preamble to the resolutions passed at the meeting of the Germans held in this city. The "audacious man" is, of course, Napoleon 111. In other quarters the opinion is confidently expressed that the result of the war will be to extinguish Napoleon. That looks simple enough on paper, but it is among the peculiarities Napo leon that he is not easily " extinguished." It is in his favour at present that the French people are at his back, not to mention the possibility of Austria and Italy likewise ranging themselves on his side. The support of England is counted upon for Prussia—no one can say with what justice, for the foreign politics of England are alWays a muddle. England went into a costly war for the'pur pose of maintaining a Mahommedan Prince in Europe. She gave her sympathies to the Southern States at a time when it was very necessary for her future well-being that she should have supported the North. She looked on and saw Denmark crushed, notwithstand ing that a Danish Princess is to be the future Queen of England. No one would be surprised if she now decided to make deadly enemies of her nearest neighbours and her most powerful ally. Prussia would receive her aid, and leave her to settle her own score with France. We are told that the cause of Prussia is the cause of liberty. It may be so—we do not propose to go into that question at present. But Bismarck was not always above making terms with despotism. It was only the other day that liberty of speech and of the Pcess was suppressed in Prussia. When the war against Austria was decided upon, it has been stated, and never contradicted, that Bismarck promised the Emperor Napoleon the Rhine Provinces as the reward of his neutrality. The bargain is said to have been concluded at Biarritz. The Emperor has waited for the fulfilment of the contract, and, instead of getting his promised spoils, he has seen Prussia endeavenring to extend her protecting arms beyond the Pyrenees. We say nothing of Hanover and the Elbe Duchies, for, after all, they wer e . German. But there is such a document as the Treaty of Prague in existence, and instead of fulfilling the stipulations it involved, Bismarck has treated it with derision. These are among the causes of the war which historians will have to con sider, and which we may as well keep in sight now. We commend the Germans here and elsewhere for the patriotic spirit they are displaying. From their point of view they are quite in the right. They pursue a course which is highly honourable to .them— only outside observers • may be permitted to recognise the truth that some excuse may be made for the present feeling of the French people. The two great intriguers of the age are now standing with crossed swords. We, as spectators, may sympathise with which we please, but the fact remains that both are seek ing territorial conquest. The lust of power is not con fined to either side. Nothing is easier than to predict the overthrow of Napoleon. After him, however, France will survive. And before she can be overthrown we must expect a war on a scale which even this blood stained , century has never seen surpassed.—New York, Timm. OUR NAVY, It is to be regretted that Congress did not, before adjournment, adopt some measures calculated to increase the efficiency of the navy. The war between France and Prussia renders it important that our European, South Atlantic, and other squadrons should be strengthened, but the number of sailors allowed by law is so small that no new ship can be placed in commission until some other goes out. The Guerriere, now lying at the Brooklyn yard, was ready to go to sea two or three months ago, but still cannot leave for want of a crew. For the same reason the Practice Squadron, which sails from Annapolis this yeai with the naval cadets, will go with one or two ships less than usual. It is in conse quence of this actual need of sailors that the exaggerated report found currency that Vice-Admiral Porter had asked for 18,000 men. He probably said he wanted 1,800 men, and a suitable appropriation for equipment, con struction, &c., as he would thereby be enabled to send to sea six vessels of the Guerriere class, which would be enough to supply our present requirements. But the en• listment of these men, and the expenditure necessary to fit out the required ships can only be authorised by Con gress. We have good ships and experienced officers. Under ordinary circumstances, there should be little diffi culty in increasing our present naval force from 8,000, its present number, to 11,000 men. There yet remain many vessels in our navy of which we may well be proud, and which are fitted to make our flag honoUred wherever they may carry it. When we built the Merrimac, the Colorado, the Minnesota, the Wabash, and other frigates of that class, they excited the admiration of the world, and Eng land, ever prompt to recognise improvements in naval architecture, endeavoured to copy their models. They contained all the improvements of their day, and as to battery power and stowing of the crew and supplies, they have never been ex celled, while they attained excellent speed by the use of sails and a screw propeller, which could be traced up when found unnecessary. Vessels like the Madawaska require, it is true, many changes in their rigging and• internal arrangement, but with proper alterations they can be used to advantage. It is generally conceded that our navy is at present not in as efficient a state as that of a a first-rate power, such as the United States should be ; but if the necessary supplies can be authorised, and the enlistment of the required number of men be ordered, it will not be long before we shall have afloat and in com mission a sufficient number of vessels to support the dig nity of the United States in every quarter of the globe.— New York Times. WAR TOPICS. It may be said that the whole available effective mili tary force of France and Prussia is in their respective ar mies. The defeat or overthrow of the army of one or other of these nations would practically imply the subver sion of its military power for the time being. In the event of one of these armies being defeated in battle, the successful side would follow up its victory quickly prevent the re-establishment of the enemy's shattered ranks, and attempt to push onward to the enemy's capital whether it be Paris or Berlin. Louis 'Napoleon, in de claring war without " a Pretext," has a most illustrious personage to keep him company—a monarch named Ako Jumbo, residing and reigning somewhere upon the western coast of Africa. His Majesty Ako has marched against the tribe called the Ooobos, and has announcedhis gracious intention of exterminating that unhappy peopl. Before this he has probably slaughtered most of the Ooobos, has burned their villages, ravaged their fields, reduced to slavery their young men and maidens, and returned to his own dominions covered with blood and glory. .There this to be said for Ako Jumbo, that he may possibly have a real grievance ; whereas the person upon the French throne is making war without any respectable motive whatever. It was impolitic in the French Em peror to attempt to sting German pride by say ing that the " victors of Jena still survived." If the Germans still remember the humiliation of Jena, they have not forgotten the tremendous i demon stration of power and patriotism that followed t. It is now certain that the South German States—Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Baden—about whose attitude the French papers assumed a doubt, are as firmly united in support of the German side as Prussia herself. All these Governments have been very prompt in putting their forces under the control of Prussia; and we ,learn by Cable that the authorities of Bavaria, in putting the Bavarian army at the command of King William, con gratulated the monarch, and issued a patriotic exhorta tion to the army. It - was supposed that, as th e an ti- Liberal and anti-Prussian party are in power at Munich, there might be some difficulty in regard to this .matter; but all doubts are dispelled by the latest dispatches. Since Prussia is so greatly inferior, to France in naval power, she will; doubtless, so far as the naval defence of her rivers and coast is concerned, resort to some of the expedients that were so successfully tried in the Ameri can war by one side or the other. It will be remembered that the Rebels improvised some very effective and for midable war ships by taking old wooden vessels and covering them hastily with iron plates, railroad iron or bars, or any sort of iron plating or railing they could get hold of. The havoc-playing Merrimac was got up in this way, and so also were some of the , destructive Rebel rams used at Mobile, New Orleans, and else where. By means of this sort, the Prussians could make good fighting naval ships for service on their coast and rivers. When Napoleon was wrangling with Bismarck four years.ago, he was foolish enough to proclaim his desire to carry the French frontier to the Rhine. This announce ment of his aggressive determination has been kept before the German people, and has produced i n th em the °feeling that the present war is a war of territorial defence and ,unity, as well! as self-government and independence.— New York Tribune, , `l4i THE WAR IN EUROPE The news of the day tends to confirm the belief pre viously expressed that the first conflict between the main armies of France and Germany will be on the frontier which lies between the Rhine and the Moselle Rivers. On the west of the latter stream lie Belgium . and Luxem bourg, whose neutrality both combatants are disposed to respect. The line of the Rhine from Rastadt, near which the French northern frontier reaches the river, to Swit zerland, is so closely guarded and so strongly fortified that neither army is likely to attempt to force a passage. It is, therefore, along the frontier between the two rivers that the armies are concentrating. This line is naturally less difficult than that of the Rhine frontier, and is guarded on the Prussian side only by the fortress of Saar luis. This morning's despatches indicate that Stras bourg is to be the right and Metz the left of the French line. The German army, accommodating itself to this line, has established its left at Rastadt, where the Baden forces were concentrated, w,hile its left apparently rests on thd Moselle, and Saarluis being its centre. It is stated that Germany means to make its defence on the Rhine, from Coblentz southward ; but as such a disposition of its army would surrender all Rhenish Prussia without a struggle the statement cannot well be blieved. On the contrary the reports of skirmishing along the line of the Moselle to the Rhine indicate with more certainty the presence of the Prussians on the southern frontier of their Rhenish provinces. That the two armies are face to face, and that a battle cannot long be deferred, is evident. Our corre spondents in London and Berlin add materially to our knowledge of the temper and purpose of the Prussians. Nothing like the Prussian feeling, says our representative at Berlin, has been anywhere witnessed since the upris ing of the North, at the firing on Sumter. Luckless Napoleon ! to lend such aid to his enemy at the outset.— New York Tribune, July 23. THE GERMANS IN AMERICA ON THE WAR. The meetings of Germans throughout America tell the one stereotyped tale—the marvellous unanimity of the German race wherever assembled, be it in Berlin or in New York, Cincinnati or Frankfort, Hamburgh or St. Louis. What was said at the mass meeting in Steinway Hall might have been said at a mass meeting in any city of Germany, except, perhaps, there would be found a shade more enthusiasm among the Ameri can Germans. Ex-Governor Soloman was chosen chairman, and opened the meeting. The pre amble and the resolutions—independently of that for the organization of a society for furthering the cause of Ger many, and nursing wounded Germans, and the support Of widows and orphans—are as follows :—" Common sense demands that international relations be governed by the interests of nations and not by those of princes. Every nation has the right to determine its own destiny, and no other people is authorised to cripple it. If Germany is weary of its internal discords of many centuries, and if the one nation desires a consolida tion under one Government, no right of veto is given to any power on earth. If France covets the leader. ship in Europe, Germany is not therefore bound to do it the favour to remain in weakness. If France chooses an Emperor, and if the throne of this Emperor is on a firm foundation but so long as he is the mightiest of princes, this does not bind the German people to lay the insignia of their inalienable sovereignty at the feet of the Gallican Caesar. Not against Prussia, but against strengthened Germany, his ire is directed. To Germany he has thrOwn down the gauntlet to mortal combat. Therefore not Prussia alone, but the entire • German nation, rises in its full majesty against the auda cious man who presumes to trample nations in the dust to gratify his princely lust. The Germans of America have become citizens of another country, but they have not divested themselves of their nationality. The national cause is their cause. Unanimously they stand by it, firmly resolved to do all in their power, not incon sistent with their duties as American citizens, to turn the war which has been commenced by France, without any cause whatever, to a triumph for Germany. It is therefore—' Resolved--That humanity and modern civili zation demand that the inviolability of private persons and private property be recognised by belligerent powers also at sea ; that the exertions of the United States and of other Powers to embody this principle in the laws of nations deserve the highest regard, and that, considering that this principle was first brought to recognition by the United States in their treaty with Frederick the Great in the year 1785, was subsequently, after various other efforts, brought to the attenti on of the Powers of Europe by the well - known amendment proposed by Mr. Marcy to the Treaty of Paris of 1856, and has thereby obtained in history the name of the American Amendment;' considering further that this principle has already heretofore been recognised by all the great powers of Europe, with the exceptiod of England, that particularly Napoleon I. and also the pre sent Emperor of France, ha v e gi ven their unconditional adherence to its righteousness, and that the King of .Prussia has even, in case of reciprocity, elevated it in the year 1866 to a permanent law, we deem this the proper time for the Government of the United States to use at once all peace ful means at their command to secure the adherence also of France to this principle, and its respects by the belli gerents during the present war, and also, as soon as possible, its recognition by a ll civilized nations, for all future time, as a principle of international law." The speeches were alike marked by eloquence and good sense. Senator Carl :Schurz reviewed the cause of quarrel, shewing how base ' less was the pretext. Germany, where factions still rankled and glowed, was instantly united. The victory of Prussia would be the fall of despotism—of a system which made slaves of Europeans, which spread poverty and ignominy ; but, above all, it will be the erection of a great kingdom in the centre of Europe, which will in reality, and not word only, be peace. For this cause America is with Germany. A keen instinct teaches the American the fact. He knows that the balance of power in Europe will soon be a name ; that in case of need he can rely on German arms. America has not forgotten German help in the late struggle ; it was a duty that all should help. I call on you as German born, and do not fear that America will mistake or misconstrue such action, for Germans could not love their new country, the land of their adoption, if they forgot the old, the land of their birth. Let us help and act at the same time in accordance with the laws here. These laws do not forbid our sympathy nor do they forbid us to help the sick and the wounded. Let us then be united and give what we can, and let us daily send to our brothers over the water the message, ' Fight for Fatherland.' The Germans of the whole world are with you." Oswald Ottendorfer, in an elegant speech, remarked that " a a victory of Prussia over a self willed and despotic nation cannot be without in fluence on Europe and the United States—for the in terests of humanity are equally dear to both—we acknow ledge that neutrality is the only course open to the Government here, and as citizens of the United States we will do nothing contrary to its laws and usages. Even then a large field is left us to show our sympathy with the land of our birth. The expression of that • sympathy will be a help." Dr. Von Holst said the reply to Napoleon was not the hoped-for " Here Guelph—here Ghibelline," but has been drowned in thunder from the Alps to the Memel ; yea, from the Atlantic to the remote shores of the Pacific. He predicted the certain victory of Germany, and shewed that the Empire was war, not peace; that it was peace only as long as the word of France was the law of the world, and the Emperor's will the law of France. When the Empire ceases to control, then it means war. A strong and united Germany in the heart of Europe 'is, in itself, the death of such an empire, and it means peace for Europe, while the other means war for Europe. The former is the cause of the world, struggling on the road to genuine liberty—the other is the cause of medieval barbarism, supported only by bayonets and cartridges. The final address was delivered by General Siegel, who remarked that by acts, and not by talk, will the German Americans be judged, who could strengthen the cause by contributing money, not in hundreds, or thousands, but in millions of dollars, from which subscription list .no single German should be missing. They must not de ceive themselves, for the French are a foe not to be despised. They are a great nation • but if there are 40,000,000 of Frenchmen, the re ar e 54,000,000 of Germans. Napoleon has forgotten to count the Germans of South Germany, of Austria, of the United States. The American Germans expect for Germany the sym pathy of America, in the name, of the services rendered to the United States ; in the name of the 200,000 German soldiers who fought for the preservation of the Union ; in the name of the mediators of the future close alliance between the American and German nations. In Newark a German war-club has been organised, and meetings were held at Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, at Buffalo, at Memphis, Brook lyn—inileed, all over the Union, and vast sums are being collected, and all telegraph to the Ministers of King William their brief but pithy words of sympathy, en couragement, and devotion.—Anglo-American Times. The new Conservative Club will be known as the St. Stephen's Club. The name of Lord Garlies has been added to the committee. BIRTHS. On the 4th Aug., at 71, Prince's-gate, the wife of Hugh G. Smith, Esq., of a son. On the 4th Aug., at 49, Upper Bedford-place, Russell square, W.C., Mrs. S. M. Cantor, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 4th Aug., at St. Leonard's-on-See, Edward Gower Vane, eldest son of E. B. Sutton, Esq., of St. Leonard's on-Sea, to Mary Emily, second daughter of John Starkey, Esq. of the same place. On the 4th Aug., at St. Mark's ' Church, Hamilton-ter race, John Frederick Rogers, Esq., of Liverpool, to Agnes Matilda, fourth daughter of Joseph H. Dart, Esq., of Carlton-hill, St. John's-wood. DEATHS On the 4th Aug., at 6, East-cliff, Dover, Henry Carr William Hamond, Captain in her Majesty's 46th Foot, aged 63. On the sth Aug., at his residence, 42, Compton-road, Islington, Denny Gardner, Esq., formerly of Wood street, Cheapsidu, aged 82. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at THE Su Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. Monday, August 8, 1870. C RI beautifu Admissii °reheat' Terrace No ear Children In the English Pictorial nthision Pomp( ( - IRE Bt FETE, tnents. C. Works. other po: ALL A. 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