The Sun. — London, England, 1871-02-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1 METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.-TLIIIRSDAY. Your readers will have learned ere this the character and prospects of the Army Reorganisation Bill. People in London are at this moment full of 'hope a feeling engendered by the remarkable declaration of the Duke of Cambridge last night that he not only was a reformer, but always had been one. This announcement beats even the Emperor Napoleon's proclamation. The astonishment which it excites amongst those who know the Commander-in-Chief is unbounded. Why, it is but a very short time since he flatly declined the responsibility of selecting officers for promotion by merit, as if it were not the business of a Commander to take responsibility. Probably the Duke bases his claim to be considered a reformer on the fact that a new form of salute was lately introduced. I can recollect no other achievement, save a few in the backward direction. The Ministry were fearfully nonplussed on Tuesday night by the attack in the Upper House, to which Mr. Gladstone's indiscreet utterances touching the Black Sea stipulations gave rise. I was in the House at the time, and never remember seeing the generally adroit Granville so much at a loss. The expression of annoyance on his face was most unusual. In fact, he wns compelled flatly to admit that Mr. Gladstone ought to have remained silent. Of course the scheme was arranged beforehand. The Premier was wise enough to know in 1856 that the neutralisation of the Black Sea could not be maintained. Knowing the probability that his impul sive nature would lead him into some avowal, Mr. Disraeli got up to draw him out, and having succeeded too well, the Conservative leaders of the Upper House proceeded to finish the work. As a party move it was a considerable triumph, but its conse quences are most unfortunate. The Conference has long been a doubtful business. It is now simply laughable. Our excitement over the elections in France was in some respects cooled down through the difficulty of obtaining any news of the results. But now it is clear that the Ultras have won in Paris, and that moderate men of different shades have won almost everywhere else. In formation from Bordeaux, on which I can place the best reliance, leads me to the conclusion that Thiers is completely master of French destinies. Your readers will probably know before these lines are in print what kind of Government the Assembly has chosen. I can only say that if M. Thiers be not at the head of it, his abstinence is because he feels confident that he will do better after somebody else has signed the peace. He can take office if he chooses. There is no one else. The Republicans who have just resigned, have had enough of it. The Communist gentlemen from Paris have not a majority on their side ; and the Conservative party, notwith standing their great strength in numbers, are far too weak in ability to construct a Govern ment without Thiers. The famous historian is now a believer in a moderate Republic. That will be the form of Government established in France, unless Thiers finds his own popularity waning and hopes to re-establish his power by seating an Orleanist Prince on the throne. He is, however, too old to regenerate France. I need scarcely say that the accession to power of M. Thiers is the death blow to the Treaty of Commerce be tween England and France. He is an uncompromising advocate of protection, and, indeed, it is this portion of his creed that has determined the manufac turers of the North so decisively in his favour. It is not so many months ago since the Treaty was discussed in the old • Corps Legislatif. Thiers made a great protection speech. What a crowd gathered to hear him ! What applause greeted every one of the ingenious, points he made. It is noteworthy that the finest speech on the other side was by M. Jules Simon, the moderate and enlightened Minister of Public Instruc tion in the Government which has just resigned. I hear that the Queen may be expected in town for a few days together shortly. This will be a great event amongst the West-end tradesmen. Her Majesty devotes more personal attention to the arrangements for the wedding of the Princess Louise than she has done on any former occasion of the kind. The Queen is much gratified at the reception she met with last week. Though far from enthusiastic, it was much better than most people expected. No doubt a little more appearance in public on the part of the Queen would soon bring round her faithful subjects from their gradually developing penchant for the forbidden sweets of Republicanism. The feeling in favour of the latter form of government does not manifest itself in any regular form. No great danger is to be apprehended from the Birmingham Club. The real peril to royalty lies in that feeling of indifference so prevalent in the ranks of the householders. All the old veneration has vanished. The only question about the throne in the minds of working men is—does the institu tion pay ? and a very large section of the class have decided that it does not, and that it would be best to dis pense with it. The hostility is of a negative kind. How , ever, as I mentioned in a former letter, we should probably have been blessed with a regular Republican organisation, if the September Ministry had remained in power in France. In that case M. Favre and his colleagues would have found it necessary to conciliate the Louis Blanc section, and some of this conciliation would, I have reason to know, have found its way over to our side of the Channel. The International organisation is widespread, and the revolution in France is its great opportunity. That its ramifications reach England is sufficiently proved by the fact of our well-known friend, Mr. Bradlaugh, being proposed as a candidate in Paris. It may be satisfactory to your readers to know that, according to my information, the gentlemen of the International Democratic Association do not entertain great hopes of success in England, but they think it as well to keep the "pot boiling " here. Now, however, they will have enough to do to combat the Republic of M. Thiers, with whose party they are in open hostility. Englishmen, who mostly class all Republicans together, much as all Dissenters of yore were regarded as unbelievers, should know, that there is as much difference between the principles of a Simon and a Milliere as there is between the Governments of England and Russia. In addition to the efforts at the Mansion House, and at other places, to raise a handsome fund for the relief of the French, charitable attempts of a more private character to swell the sumo of English philanthropy are being under taken in LOndon: This is notably the case in the churches, in all of which appeals have been made and cheerfully re sponded to. At St. Jude's Church, South Kensington, consecrated only three weeks since, and at which Mr. Forrest, an Irish clergyman, for merly of Liverpool, and more recently of the Lock Hospital, Paddington, is the incumbent, a sum of £72 was collected last week. This gentleman's eloquence is, I may add, commented upon by all Low Church families in the West-end who have had the privilege of hearing him. Talking of this locality, I may mention that the S. W. district, owing probably to the fact that this year, and every year henceforth, there are to be inter' national exhibitions within its bounds is being largely built upon, and increases in importance and size weekly. The fact is most perceptible in the West Brompton district, where row upon' row of fine buildings are being reared, the most magnificent perhaps of late erections being the " Redcliffe Mansions," which furnished the illustration to last Saturday's Builder. A movement has been s its o foot for thenpur posef extending to girls the advantag It is a middle class corporation schools. matter of regret that so many scholastic endowments are available only for boys, the effect of which is that much diffculty is experienced by widows in destitute circumstances in making proposition for their girls. Miss Buss, who has for many years conducted very successfully a collegiate schools for girls, has made over her establishment to trustees to be carried on in future on principles similiar to, those adopted by the Rev. W. Rogers in the middle class co-operative schools for boys recently set up in London. It would be well if the result of this movement were the introduction of a system of mixed schools, which have been found to work well in Scotland and on the continent. By the adop tion of this plan it is probable that some of the endowments now in existence might - made available for girls, and as much advantage has been derived from the sexes working together, similar good might be expected from their learning together. The experience at the Post-office Telegraph-office in this way is valuable. When Mr. Scudamore took the management of the telegraph department, one large room was occupied by women and another by men. By breaking down the barriers and allowing both classes to work together, good results have followed. The operators show much more readiness ro assist each other, and the necessity for correct behaviour during working hours creates good habits which are not lost at other times. Ladies holding what are sometimes impertinently called rather advanced opinions, will doubtless be surprised to learn that several lady practitioners in medicine are now working very successfully in London. The moment Mrs. Garrett-Anderson had obtained her diploma, the medical schools for some mysterious reason passed a resolution, denying the privilege to other ladies. This, however, (lid not prevent many from pursuing their studies, and they are now in some cases doing an extensive practice. One 'lady, residing in Maddox-street, Piccadilly, is thoroughly believed in by invalid ladies, and as a children's doctor. Since the smallpox epidemic set in, her drawingroom has been regularly besieged. This lady is as much admired for her ladylike humility and condescension to the poorest stranger as for her skill. I went last Sunday evening to hear Mr. Moncure D. Conway lecture on " The Poor Man's Sunday." Mr. Conway is the prophet of a new movement, and, perhaps, attracts attention more from the mental calibre and literary attainments of many of his followers than from any inherent merits of his own. Though an American, in many things an ultra-American, his manner and his jerky method of delivery, struck me as being decidedly French. He declared the present observance of the Sabbath was opposed to the doctrines of Christianity, and that, had Christ himself lived in Scotland, he would have been taken up by the police every Sunday as an habitual Sab bath-breaker. It was amusing to me throughout to watch how unconsciously Mr. Conway, when he quoted the Bible, assumed the tone and the manner of a professional preacher, though in his "Earthward Pilgrimage," recently published, he declares that Christianity has become effete, and must be carted away forthwith, and that all creeds, dog mas, and doctrine whatsoever must be abolished, including the " dogma " of matrimony. After the le.sture we had a selection of music from various oratorios, and I came home wondering what Mr. Conway was purposed to give us in lieu of the world-old fallacies which are, however, part and parcel of every man's life. Very little stir is manifest in art circles, so far as in ternal matters are concerned. There never were so many exhibitions of pictures and statuary open in the metro polis, and the furnishing of these and the general excite ment propagated among artists by their existence prevents more private and individual exertions. This fact may be only taken as generally true, for there are instances this week of labour on the part of some of our best valued sculptors and painters. Mr. Weekes, IL A., for example, ectured on Monday night on " Sculpture " at the Royal Academy to a very large class, and several well-known men have been all the week presiding over the "Certificate " examinations for ' • Ornament," " Botany," and " Perspective," at the South Kensington Museum schools. Mr. C ollinson also is busy at his large painting intended for exhibition this summer. It will be a work in water colours, and will represent a p i c t ures que scene of heath and heather, perhaps the most diffi cu lt of things to paint well, owing to the delicate colours needed, and the number of them. It may be remem bered that it was in heath scenes and sketches by the sides of brooks,embracing multitudinous plants of the tiniest order, that the late Mr. Maclise so excelled. With respect to the new R.A's. your readers are perhaps unaware that Messrs. Walters, Marks, and Woolner, are the artists just elected to hold the new honours. Mr. Westma,cott has re tired upon his laurels, and from his duties as a Royal Academician. The first fashionable art sale in the neigh bourhood of St. James's this season, takes place on Saturday at Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods, which has not known any great sale since the auction of the late Charles Dickens's art effects in August. On Saturday the works of Continental painters will be disposed of, and among them I may mention some highly-finished landscapes of Russian and Italian scenery, and several striking little drawings from the easel of Auguste Bonheur, a brother of the eminent animal painter, Rosa Bonheur. Messrs. Christie and Mansell will on Saturday week have another important sale, chiefly of works in water and oil, for the most part executed by English hands. The success of the pamphlet entitled " The Fight at Dame Europa's School," has called forth a host of imi tations. One of the ablest and most amusing is " Dame Europa's Report to the International School Board on the Fight in her School, after hearing both sides." The dame pronounces entirely in favour of Germany, a view of the case which it is just as well to look at now that opinion has turned so much on the other side. The names of ten more specimens of the Europa school of literature are before me. It is satisfactory to know that the publication of the best serial ever issued, the " Revue des Deux Mondes " was carried on uninter ruptedly during the Paris siege. The editor is M. Alphonse Esquiros, an advanced Republican, who has found a seat in the National Assembly. The general literary issues are still ,very poor—army books, war books, and novels — Lord Elcho republishes his letters on military organisation, Col. Owen deals with modern artilley, Captain Bracken bury compares foreign armies and home reserves, the Old Shekarry chews how to render England impregnable &c. Let us hope that the conflict of opinion as to what ought to be done will be settled, when it is known what really will be done. 0. W. Holmes' " Mechanism in Thought and Words " will be appreciated by all admirers of that excellent writer's books. Messrs. Sampson, Low, and Co. are about to publish an important work of reference—a stupendous biographical dictionary. It will contain one hundred thousand names— a number which exceeds by many thou sands those contained in the most voluminous existlng works upon the subject—and upwards of a quarter of a million references. The chief letters run as follow :—ln B, 12,600 names ; C, 9,397 ; G, 5,640; L, 5,481.; M, 6,816 ; S, 7,800. B always heads the list amongst proper mames. Dark Blue, the new Oxford magazine, will have a very fine list of contributors. Speaking of literary matters, one should not forget the efforts made by the booksellers and publishers to relieve their brethren in Paris. Their arrangements were very well carried out, and, indeed, were more successful than any other. That member of a wonderful family of authors, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, has a poem in the current number of the Academy, "On the Site of a Mulberry Tree." Professor Max Muller is also a contributor. ACCIDENTS IN •THE FIELD. It would appear that our hunting gentry were driven nearly frantic by the long spell of frost in the shins, and when the thaw came they went after the fox in such a thorough-paced style that many of them were near dying gloriously in pink and scarlet. One gentleman is with difficulty rescued from drowning as he strives to clear a river; another is shot out of his saddle by the horse putting his leg into a " blind drain," and he is now " thought favourably of," i.e., he may recover possibly. Following the chase in a whirlwind is capital fun, but attended with slight drawbacks. "On Friday, during the violent storm, Mr. Fenwick, of Swinton, and his horse were fairly swept aw a y by the wind into the Rye. A precisely similar accident occurred in Kirkdale, in which the horse was so hurt that he is not expected to live." Other accidents in the field, it seems, have been too numerous to mention. It is very doubtful whether the fox gets the worst this kind of amusement, and at any rate his " brush" is amply revenged. No doubt as the weather continues soft the ardour of the squires will be proportionately mitigated. We wonder what our foreign guests think of a mode of taking pleasure which includes the prospect of being drowned, the chance of being killed, and a reasonable certainty of breaking your collar-bone in the course of the season. — Daily News. A CLERICAL DAMPER.—At a children's soirtSe held in a village in the county of Kincardine the other night, a clergyman, addressing nearly 300 young people, checked the exuberance of their youthful spirits by for bidding them to applaud, telling them " there would be nothing of that kind and no laughter in heaven," and that these manifestations of feeling were " inconsistent with religion."—Dundee Advertiser. LADY STUDENTS AND THE EDINBUEGII INFIR mAgy,—It will be in the recollection of our readers that the resolution carried at the meeting of the infirmary contributors, and the carrying of which has since been confirmed by the scrutiny of votes, left the question of admitting students, whether male or female, to clinical instruction in the wards of the infirmary entirely to the discretion of the managers. The question being thus left open, so far as the reconstituted board of management is concerned, another attempt is being made to obtain far the lady students the facilities which they require. On Wednesday a deputation, consisting of Mr. Coventry, Admiral Sir W. Ramsay, Mr. James Cowan, Dr. Macnair, Leith, and Dr. Niven, waited on the managers for the purpose of pressing the matter on their attention. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Charles Cowan, Mr, James Cowan, acted as spokesman of the deputation, and presented a petition, respectfully urging upon the managers, as a new board, the desirableness of considering, de novo, the question of adMitting lady students to their wards. The managers resolved to take the question into consideration at their next ordinary meeting. Scotsman. , MONETARY REPORTS. ---YE ST ERD AY, The Stock Markets to-day have been animated with a more active spirit. Business has been entered into with increased freedom, and prices have improved in many instances. At the same time, however, the movements have not been important. Rather less stringency has been noticed in the discount market, and to this circum stance coupled with the fact that no change has been made in the official minimum, must be attributed the tendency to improvement. In the railway market Metropolitan, South-Eastern, North-Western, and Great-Western, have risen in value, but Great- Eastern and North-Eastern have been rather easier. Foreign bonds have commanded rather more attention, and Italian, Spanish Turkish, United States' Five. Twenty bonds were in demand. The French and German I loans have also been steadier in value. Eng lish Government Securities have been firm ; Consols have been q uoted at 911, 92 for delivery and the account. Reduce 243 d and 5 ; ew Three p ßills , e 25., er Cnts, 92k, 921; Bank Stock, , 24NExchequer 7s. p`rem. ; India Five per Cents, 1091, 110, and India Bonds, 225., 275. prem. In Colonial Government securities transactions have been restricted, but prices have ruled firm. The market for English railway stocks has been rather firmer. The business doing has not been extensive, but the bulk of the alterations have been favourable. Metro politan, North-Western, and Great Western, have risen ; and South-Eastern has •been better ; but Great Eastern and North-Eastern have declined 2 and 2 respectively. Metropolitan, 642, 65 ; Caledonian, 872, 88 ; Brighton, 422, 43 ; South Eastern, 78f, 782 ; Great Northern, 1242, 125 ; ditto A, 1331, 1332 ; Great Eastern, 381 ; North Eastern, 1461, 147 ; Midland, 126 g, 1261; North Western, 1292, 1292 ; and Great Western, 731, 731 Very few transactions have taken place in Indian rail: way stocks. East Indian, 1091, and Scinde, 101, 102. Next to nothing has been doing in Canadian shares. Great Western have marked 152. Foreign shares have been dull. Central Argentine, 20# ; Dutch-Rhenish, 231 ; Lemberg- Czernowitz, 152, 16 ; Recife and San Francisco, 151; and Lombards, 141, 2. The market for foreign bonds has been in a steady state, and prices have again improved, but in no case have the fluctuations been of an important nature. Italian, Spanish, and United States Five-twenty Bonds have risen 1, Turkish 1, and Peruvian (1865), 2. French scrip has advanced #, or to 22, 3 prem. ; and the New German has been better, at 11, 1i prem. Egyptian (1868) are quoted at 742, 742 ; Italian (1861), 542, 55 ; Spanish, 302, 301 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 421, 421; ditto (1869), 532, 531 ; Peruvian (1865), 902, 911 ; United States Five- Twenty (1882) Bonds, 911, 911 The demand for Bank Shares has been to a moderate extent, and prices have ruled firm. Agra A, have marked 8/ ; Anglo-Egyptian, 23 ; Consolidated, 4 9-16, 4Ft; Imperial Ottoman, 11k, 11i; London and County, 501, 51; Joint Stock, 372, 38. Telegraph shares have been dull. British-Australian have fallen 1. British-Indian Extension have marked 7#, 11-16ths ; British Indian Submarine, 7 3-16ths ; Silver's India Rubber, 511 ; Telegraph Construction, 252, #. . For miscellaneous securities the inquiry has been restricted. General Credit and Discount, 7 13-16, 15-16 ; Peninsula, and Oriental Steam, 441, 5 ; Hudson's Bay, 8 7-16ths. The demand for accommodation has not been so active to-day, but a moderate amount of animation has still been apparent, and three months' paper has not been taken under 22 per cent. The sum of £13,000 has been sent into the Bank to-day. The Clearing-House return for the week ended February 15th, shews a total of £90,716,000 against £85,960,000 for the corresponding period last year. The report of the English and Australian Copper Company (Limited), to be presented on the 22nd instant, shews an available total of only £344, the war having forced the price of copper to the lowest possible point ever known, and thus prevented the declaration of a dividend. A reaction is now in progress. At a meeting of the Midland Wagon Company, an interim dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1870, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, was declared. The directors of the Stratford-on-Avon Railway Com pany recommend a dividend of 6 per cent. The traffic receipts are £sso . in excess of last year. The company have arranged with the Great Western Railway Company to substitute the narrow for the broad guage. At the annual meeting of the Mutual Life Assurance Society, the new business of the past year was stated to have consisted of 275 policies, covering £124,216, at annual premiums of £4,814. The accumulated fund is £723,113, and the assurances in force are 4,198 for a total of £2,391,955, yielding in premiums £75,806. The Eastern Steamship Company (Limited), recently registered, purposes establishing a line of screw steamers to trade between London and Calcutta, and have already contracted with the Barrow Shipbuilding Company for four steamers of 3,500 tons each. The traffic return of the Great Northern Railway shews an increase of £3,239 ; that of the North-Eastern, £5,163 increase ; Great Western, £5,112; London and North Western, .£7,219 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, £842 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, £1,253 ; Caledo nian, £1,087 ; the Midland, £3,250 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, £3,419 ; Bristol and Exeter, £543. A decrease was observable in the Great Eastern of £2,894. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.—TnuroDAT LATEST PRICES. —AFT.EB. OFF 10 AL 110 Lti. The prices under the lines indicate the basine ' ss done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. flisee per Cent Consols 91/ 92 Viet 6p c Jan &July 18'31 113 114 914. 2 DoApril &Oct 1883-85.. 112 113 Do for Account 92 Viol spo Jan&JulylB9l. 1011102! Three per Cent Reduced 921 921 Brazilian. 1865, 5v a .... 931 944 924, 4 New 3 per Cent 921, 2, 1 i)o Rail Debeu 7p o .. 99 102 It Exchequer bills, March 2 7Pul alian. 1 865 . 5 P a Is pm Peruvian. 1805. 5 I) o Do, Juue 2 7pm • 91, 904, 11 ?s, 4s pm Portuguese 1869 3Po .. 32 33 Bank Stock 241 Russian. 1862. 5 p 0.. .. 85 1 86 J India 5 per Cents 1094, 10 Do Nicolas 4 p o ludic Bonds — 69 pm Spanish Can 6pc JanSattlylB77-84 10411051 • 304, 1. 4 1044. 54 Turkish.lBs4, 6v 0 Do March &Sept. 105 107 801 Do 5p o Jan 8; July .. 981 991 Do. 1865. 5n o 981, I 414, 24. 2 Do inscribed Stook .. 98 100 Do. 1865 6p o Dons of Can 5p c 1903 .. 9911001 603, 19 Ceylon 6 p c May and 0.13.5-20 lioluls, 6 v o 1832 91 91 November 1878 lO7 109 Mauritius i, po Jan and Do do July 1873 lO3 105 904, 3 New SWaless polB7l-75 lOO 101 Dolo-40 Buds, spo WI 874 88 New Zealand 6 po 1891 lOB 110 871 x o 1)o 5p o Do 5p c Couselida.ted 99 100 Illinois Central Shares .. 100 110 99/. 4 1094, 4 Do 6p cMar&SetlB9l 109 111 Atlantic an Wlt Con Do June &De p do clB9l 108 110 Mortgage Bonds— 1885 901 1 90 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter 9O 92 Do Ist Pre 11011(111.... 588 59 Caledonian 878, 8 Do 2ud Pref Bands .. Great Diatom 3B 381 Grand Trunk of Canada 381, 1,1, 1,1 3rd Pref Stock Great Northern 4th Prof Stock 1251, 1 A 1 3211331 181, 1 eatG Western 73 73 ) Greatlndian Pen g 5...0 105 106 738, 1. 1, 3.4 Great Western of Canada 151 151 L ancas hire & Yorkshire 134 135 l5l • 1341, 5 , ... Do op c Bonds. 1873.. 9911001 Lou, Brigh. and S Coast 421 43 Do 58 do, 1877-8 96 97 .s :iier 5 p c 43, 21, x d Do 5p C twat limited 80 1 gum Lon. Chlatitind Dover .. 14 148 Madras L o n and North-W e stern 1291129/ 103/ 1291, 1 N. Railway. of Can a d a , Lon and South-Western 931 941 6p a let Prof Bonds 94, 1 Onto and Roliiikund g Man, Shef, and Lincoln 48 468 5n c 46f, 6. 8, 1 Solute, Pinijailli, and Metropolitan .......... 642 651 Delhi guar 5p o 641 1018, t. i Midland .... 1261127 Bahia and San Fra n ci s co 1261, 2, 1 g 7 p 0 North B N orth-Eastem Consols 1468147 Buenos AYrestlt Bthrn . .. 26 260 1468 261, 6 South-Eastern 7B 788 Dunaburg and Witepsk • 181 191 781, 1 Dutch-Rheulsh l3 24 Atlantic and St Lawrilee 77 79 231 Bombay. Baroda, and Eastern of France lB 20 Central India, gsp c.. 103 104 Great Luxembourg Lemberg Oxernowitzgua 104 Buff and Lake Huron 41 48 7Pa Do 51 pa 80nd5.1872-3-4 80 82 16, 151, I Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 511 0 lO3 104 Ottom (Smyrna to A idiu) 4i 51 1038 Recite a nd San Francisco East Indian, g 5 9 0 1091, 2 151 Bland Trunk Canada 121 South Austu & Loui-Ven 14: 144 Do Equip Mort Bud 1 141, 1 charge oii a I 1)o :hut do Bonds 42i 431 103 104 19 21 4 Consolidated IL I pin 25 Orntal Bank Ooroo r n 41 42i 41, 9-16, 7-16, 25 Union of A.ustralla.." 39 40 20 Eng. Scot. and Aus 0 16 17 39i 2J Imperial ‘L) n 90 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. P4l Pit 100 Anglo-American L 1 751 761 10 Great Northern 76, i 6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrn IL) 124 126 Japan Extension. 8 81 1261, 51 5 ludo-European:. 12 14 100 Atlantic — 10 Marseilles, Algiers. 100 Do 3ii c 13 British A ustraln (L) . 31 31dis 61 4 8-16, 5-16 10 Mediterru Ex (L) .. 41 51 10 British hid ltxten (L). 71 71 '2l Pnma and S. Berea, 4 3 dis 7 11-16, j , dis 10 'British Inian Sub- 8 ILeuter's 8 4 marine, (L) 7 3-16, 1, 1 90 Hoc Trans Trance (L) 131 141 10 OlibiaSubmarinelLl 41 41dis 100 Submarine 237 242 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, Do Scrip 2l 21 ' and Malta (L 1 8 11 16, 1 6 Il}, 12 MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian Bud- 20 It Irric Can Cavour il 31 holders' Certificate 1 3 100 in 6p c Bonds. re -10 BerlinWie•erworks(Ll 10 161 deemsale 1870 . 62 63 30 Bolokow-Vaughau Li 32 37pin " 30 London Fin Assoc(L118117 ill. 100 Boston City (U.S. ' 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 23 21 p c Sterling Loan 93 96 21, 13-16 4 Brit tz Fgn Marine Ll4l 41pni 2 Lou &Prov Marine L) 3 Ipin 25 Canada Company. L, 74 70 3 x d 10 Ceylon Company L) 31 31flis 100 Madraslrrig. &Canal 35 City Oflices(L) 251241 die g 5 n c by Ind Gov. 101 102 20 Colonial (L) 5 Corn Union Assume° 43 4:pm 5 Natnl DisctComp L 1 113 121 91. 1 . 123 21 N 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 3 31 Zealand Loan and 3 3-16 , 1-16 Mere Agency iLI . • it Ipm 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6 n e Porn Bob.. 110 115 61 N Bri tsli and Mere (Li ni 29 271 Ebbw "ale Steel Li.. 10 91dis 5 OcesiiMarinelnsur —l3l 141 Pm 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7P c , 187, 191 a d Mortgage Loan.... 17 79 60 Pand 0 Steam 44 46 781, 1 45, .41 100 Egyp 9 p &Troy Loan, 10 Do do New. 1867 4 0 1ie 3. guar by Egyp Gay.. 96 98 50 Rhyinney Iron 98 , 15 Do New 9 91 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 71 1 Bpro 60 Royal Mail Steam 8 pm 12 Tel Con and Main L) 251 253 100 Egli and Colonial Gov 2 5 1. 1. 1. 1 Trust 6p c Bonds.. 99 101 2 Themes and Mersey 7i ClenCredtitnisct(L).._ i (pm Marine Incur ( L 14 Gen Stm Navigation 28 29 . guar by Italian Gov 89 91 7 Rooper's Tel Works 1 idis 5 Trust and Loan Co of 6.1-16, 5-16 x d Upper Canada 17 Hudson's Bay B3 81 6 ' 8 1-16 5 (7 Marine, IRpool (TA 51 s . ipm 45 In drbbr, GutYer, and 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 Tel Works Id ..., 501 51 6 United Dia Corp rn (T, idis }pm 511. 501 5 UnivAlarinelnsur (LI 61 61pm 6 Interni Finan BocIL) 21 2dis 11 Warrart Finance.... 8 7 dis 3 x di. MINING SHARE LIST.—FEBRUARY 16. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. • Milting °film, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. Market rather quiet. Carn Brea, Uny, Cook's Kitchen, Gren ville, and East Grenville in demand. West Chiverton flatter. Cam Brea. 50. 55 Prince of Wales, '338, 35s Chiverton Valley, Providence Mines, Chou tales (Gold). Roman Gravels, Cook's Kitchen, 21, 22 Rosewall Rill and Ransoms Devon Great Consols. United. Drakewalls, South Condurrow, 51. 51 Don Pedro North Del Rey. 21. 21 South Frances, 29, 30 East Caradon. 5.1. 51 Sweetland Creek, 4. 41 East Lovell, 31, 32 Tankerville, 121, 121 East Wheal Grenville, 3, 31 Taquaril (Gold), 365, 335 Eberhardt and Aurora, 151, 181 Thicroft. Frontino and Bolivia (Gold). Trumpet Consols. Van Consols, 21, 3 General Brazilian. • \Vest Chiverton, 44. 45 Great Limey, 18, 181 West Maria and Fortescue. Great Betallack. 11, 11 Great Wheal Vor, 6, 61 West Seton. Kingston Down. West Tankerville, Malice Valley, 71, 71 Wheal Crehor, New Boldon, . Wheal Grenville, 3L 4 New Lovell. Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, 9, 91 North Crofty. 21, 2: Wheal Margaret, Pary's Mountain, Wheal Mary Ann, Ferran Wheal Virgin, Wheal Seton. Plynlimmon, 2,2/ Whealßuy, 41. 41 MARKETS. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY.-The cattle trade to-day presented a rather firmer appearance, although the business transacted was far from being extensive. Prices, however, were without much alteration from Monday last. There was a fair show of beasts on sale, the general condi tion of which was good. The liemand, influenced by the steadiness prevalent in the dead-meat market, was slightly im proved, and full prices were realised, the best Scots and crosses selling at ss. 10d. per 81b. With sheep, the market was again only scantily supplied. Sales were effected more freely, but no decided enhancement was noticeable in values, the choicest Down and half-breds selling at ss. 10d. to es. per 81b. Calves and pigs were unchanged in value. Per to 45 .12 d .to sink the quality do., offal.-Common 4s. 4d. to and inferior beasts, 3s. 4d. . ; second • prime large oxen, ss. 2d. to 55 . ed. ; p rime Scots. etc., ss. Bd. to ss. 10d. Common and inferior sheep, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; second quality, do., 4s. 2d. to 4s. 6d ; prime coarse-wooled sheep, 55. to 55. Bd. ; prime Southdown ditto, 55. 10d. to Os. ; large coarse calves, 3s. Bs. to 48. 4d. ; prime small ditto, ss. to 65. Od. ; large hogs, 3s. 6d. 4s. Od. ; neat small porkers, 4s. 6d to 55. 2d.; quarter old store pigs, 225. to 255. each. Arrivals : English-Beasts, 860 ; sheep, 5,440 ; calves, 35 ; pigs, 80. Foreign : beasts, 60 ; Total : beasts, 920 ; sheep, 5,440, calves 35 ; and pigs, 80. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, THURSDAY. -Fair average supplies of hay and clover were on sale at the market to-day. The trade ruled steady, and prices were main tained. Prime meadow hay, 130 s. to 140 s. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime first-cut clover, 1355. to 1475. .; inferior ditto, 115 s. to 1255. ; prime second-cut clover, 1265. to 1355. ; infe rior ditto, 105 s. to 1155., and straw, 30s. to 40s. per load. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET, THuits- DAY.-Sngar : The market continues much depressd and sales were effected at a further decline. Jamaica, 30s. d, 6d. to 335. 6d.; Demerara, 285. 6d. to 311.; Mauritius crystalised (duty Os.), 405.; 6ommon Men, 495. Coffee : A steady demand prevails, and previous rates are well supported. Plantation Ceylon, tourage, 505. to 548.; and mill, 58s. to 595. 6d.; middling, 665. 6d. to 705.; good middling, 735. to 775.; good bold, 815. 6d.; pea berry, 78s. ed. to 813. Tea is pur chased cautiously at about previous currencies. Rice : The market is quietet, without change in prices. Tallow : The market remains flat. Y.C. spot, 455. 3d.; March, 455.: June, 455. 3d.; October-December, 465. to 455. 9d. Oils ; Linseed oil steady, at £3l London ; Hull, £3O 10s. to £3O 155.; February-April, £3l ss. to £3l 10s. Rape oil continues quiet. English brown at £45 to £45 10s. London spot; March-June, £45 16s. ; September-December, £45 paid ; refening £47 108.; olive steady. Metals : Urmeneta copper, lO5. cash. Tin quiet. Straits, £.131 10s. ; Banca, £132 to £133 spot. Scotch pig iron flat, at 525. 6d. cash, and 525. 9d. month sellers. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.-This market has shewn much quietness to-day, and few enquiries have been made, and these chiefly with the view of testing the value of goods and yarns. The very large imports of cotton into Liverpool yesterday alone being 42,00 0 bales, are at last influencing prices here, and producers are more anxious, sellers being now fully alive to the fact that present values cannot be longer main tained. To-day's business was insignificant, with prices favouring buyers. BIRMINGHAM IRON TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.-At the Birmingham ironmasters' meeting, to-day, there was a fair attendance, but trade was still very dull, the demand for pigs having again fallen very low. Sheets, hoops, and various kinds of finished maintain the improved position they obtained last week, but are still rather dull in many cases. The trade is in a state of suspense, but should the armistice lead to peace, there will be great activity in nearly all branches, BRADFORD TRADE REPORT, THURsDAY.-This market is to some extent slightly better than on Monday, owing to the more confident feeling which exists as to Continental affairs. Buyers are evidently posting themselves up with a view to pur chasing, should the present armistice result iu peace. The de mand is pretty general in character, good wether skin wools, and even hogs, having the favour of buyers. Prices present no appreciable alteration, Stocks are not unhealthily large, and holders shew no anxiety to press sales. Country quotations are close up' to those current here, and though the upward tendency is still arrested, there is great stability, and no sign of weakness so far as value is concerned. There is no material difference to notice in the yarn trade. In export sorts there is still an inquiry, but it is limited, owing to the difficulties which yet exist as to transit ; but merchants here, even in the face of this, would be inclined to operate were they able to place orders at anything like old prices. Super thirties in good, and medium spinnings and carded yarns are amongst the sorts principally looked after. Two-folds-also command attention. In the stuff trade there is likewise little change. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, TIIIIRSDAY.-At this market to-day there were 1,155 oxen, being an average supply. The demand was not brisk, and there is no quotable change in prices. Top Scotch, 758. to 765. ; secondary, 70s, to 735. ; mid dling, 60s. to 655. 2,982 sheep ; this was about 400 short of last week. Ready sales were effected, at slightly advanced quota tions. Top white faced, 9d. to 91d. per lb. ; black, Bd. to 9ld. per lb. ; secondary, Bd. to 8i d. ; middling, 6.,d. to lid. per lb. BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY. -At this mar ket to-day there was a fair supply of wheat, which was generally firmly held at last week's rates. Sales made were at a decline of fully is. per quarter. Barley was 6d. to ls. per quarter lower. Oats, 6d. cheaper. Beans and peas unaltered. Maize only maintained its value. Very little business was done. MAIDSTONE CORN MARKET, THURSDAY.-At this market to-day trade was dull, and prices for all descriptions of grain ruled at ls. lower than last week's quotations. BRISTOL CORN MARKET, THURSDAY.-The arrivals this week are to a fair extent. There was a good supply of English wheat at this market to-day, and slow of sale at is. to 2s. per quarter reduction. Foreign wheat was dull at Is. per quarter lower. Good malting barley was in fair request at full prices. Grinding sorts 3d. to 6d. per quarter cheaper. Indian corn the same. Oats were in moderate demand at late quotations. Beans and peas without alteration. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, fIiIIRSDAY.-Opening Re port.-This market opened with a depressed feeling to-day, Sales probably 10,000 bales. Closing report.-Sales 10,000 bales, including 1,000 for speculation and export. The market has been dull and heavy, and prices of American are about 1-16th easier. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, THURSDAY.-Trade to-day has been flat at 528. 6d. cash down to 525. 74d. a month accepted. Closing sellers at 525. 7id. a month and 525. 44d. cash. Buyers a fraction less. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, THURSDAY.-The business done to-day has been at previous prices, but there has not been much buying. , , CORK I3I.ITIER MARKET, THURSDAY. -Ordinary, no change. 160 firkins in the market. Mild cured : firsts, 1525. ; se conds, 150 s. ; 52 firkins in the market. The first pad of mackerel obtained this season- on the Cornish coast was forwarded to London from Pen twice on Friday evening. Price 455. per six score. The benefit of Madame Julien, relict of the well known composer, will take place at Drury-lane on Monday and Tuesday, the 27th and 28th ulto. -" Amy Robsart" and " The Dragon of Wantley " are announced. THE NNW CANON OF ST. PAUL'S.—TIIO Echo has authority to state that Dr. Lightfoot, late Hulsean Pro fessor of Divinity at Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, will be appointed to the vacant Canonry at St: --- The North London or University College Hospital has just received, through their bankers (Messrs. Coutta and. Co.), the munificent donation of £l,OOO frona G. W. S., being the second of the like amount from the same anonymous benefactor. BREAKFAST. — L` PPS'S COCOA. —GRATEFUL AND Con- FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general 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 cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES Errs & Co., Homoeo pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacafline, a very thin evening beverage.:—Advt. BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 10 Agra Itaiik (14 A.' 81 9 10 Imperial ()U n man .. 1( 17prn li. t, 9 1., i 25 Alliance IL) 12/ 23 London and ()minty 50 51 10 Auglo-Auntrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian (1.1 22 231 15 London Joinc-tocir 371 . 11 23 372. 8 50 British N American 51 1 52 1 20 Lon and ‘Vestmneter 62 63 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 131 141 62i, 2 25 Char Mere of India 24 26 10 Metropolitan B 2it 10 City 30 Colonial THE REVISION COMMITTEE. The Bishop of St. David's has resigned his position as member of the Revising Commission of the Scriptures, of which he was chairman. He announced his intention at the meeting of the Upper House of Convocation on Thursday, and said it was in consequence of the damaging resolution carried the previous day by their lordships. Much surprise and regret were expressed. THE MARQUIS OF LORNE. A correspondent of the Scotsman writes :—" There are all sorts of contradictory reports about the Marquis of Lorne. It is on one hand confidently said that he is to be immediately raised to the peerage. There is quite a controversy as to what his title and rank in the peerage is to be. He cannot, as is the custom in the case of the eldest sons of peers, be called to the Upper House by a barony of his father, because the Duke has only one barony in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and by that alone he sits in the House of Lords. It is all guess work, of course, but it is assumed that he will be either created a Baron of the United Kingdom, as Lord Inverary, or be made a Marquis complete by his present title. In the latter case, he would have precedence of his father in the House of Lords, unless that anomaly were cured by making a United Kingdom Peerage of the Dukedom of Argyll. All this, however, is summarily disposed of by certain persons, who are equally confident that Lord Lorne will remain just as he is. TIIE ROCKET APPARATUS AND THE LATE GALES. Captain Nicholas Riddle, of the South Shields Volun teer Life Brigade, has written a letter to the Shipping Gazette, complaining of the disgraceful ignorance that exists amongst merchant seamen as to the use of the rocket apparatus. Captain Riddle says four sea men were lost at Tynemouth on Friday last, during the late gale, through not knowing how to handle it ; and it frequently happens that, out of a crew of ten or twelve hands, only one iman be found capable of adjusting the apparatus properly. It is certainly a very necessary thing that all seamen should have a proper know ledge of the mode of working it. Monthly drills are held both at Tynemouth and at South Shields, and though they are properly advertised, it rarely happens that we see the face of a seaman present. Such a state of matters should not be'permitted to exist. When we see such efforts being made all over the kingdom, both by lifeboats and rocket apparatus, for the saving of life, is it not a pity that these efforts should be partly rendered nugatory through the carelessness of the seamen themselves ? MARRIAGE WITH A. DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. A meeting of persons opposed to the legalisation of marriage with a deceastd wife's sister was held at Willis's Rooms on Thursday, Earl Percy in the chair. There were besides on the platform the Earl of Devon and several other noble lords ; the Bishops of Gloucester, Winchester, Norwich, Salis bury, Lichfield, Oxford, &c., &c., The secretary announced that many other reverend divines were absent in consequence of being engaged in an important debate in Convocation. The Chairman expressed his regret that the indisposition_ of the Duke of Marlborough placed him in the position which he held to-day. It was a consider able time since the first attempt was made to to bring in a bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister, And he thought the repeated failures to carry that measure was a proof that it was neither popular nor needed. It was, he held, contrary to the Holy Scrip tures, contrary to the unvarying rule of the Church in all ages, as well as to common sense and rig ht feeling ; and, e believed, if such became law, would be productive of the greatest evil, both morally and socially. —Earl Beauchamp moved the first resolution, to the effect that the carrying of such a law would be the destruction of moral and social purity in all households where it might operate.—The resolution was seconded by the Bishop of Chichester, who said if this ill-omened bill should pass the Lords as it had the Commons it would be productive of the greatest misery.—The resolution was carried, as well as others of a like tendency. NEWS FROM IRELAND. The Primitive Methodist Chapel of Dundalk was broken into on Sunday night by some persons who col lected the bibles and hymn-books, carpets and cushions, and, piling them in a heap, burnt them, as well as the reading-desk in front of the pulpit, and a part of the pulpit itself. They also carried off the collection plates. About 40 door knockers were wrenched off on the same night, and several of the public lamps destroyed. A meeting of the Representative Body of the Disesta blished Church of Ireland was held on Tuesday. Among various matters of business discussed was the question raised as to the soundness of the tables for commutation furnished by the Temporalities Commission, about which considerable perplexity and distrust exist, and it was resolved that measures should be taken to obtain, if possi ble, a more liberal scale. A very serious affair was discovered in Cork on Tues day. The body of a respectable farmer, named Buckley, living in the south liberties of the city, was found in the river. He was seen about the town up to a late hour the previous night apparently well. How he got into the river is still a mystery. Along with him was an English gentleman, said to be missing. The body of Buckley bore no marks of violence. An inquest will be held on the body. The remains of the late Canon Melvill were in terred at noon on Wednesday in St. Paul's Cathedral. The Very Rev. the Dean (Dr. Mansel) was the chief offi ciating clergyman. The space under the dome was occu pied by a large number of the public, who were anxious to pay a tribute of respect to the deceased. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The Company of Pew terers have subscribed the sum of 10 guineas towards the fund being raised for the completion of the interior of the Cathedral. Eighteen of the city companies have now sub scribed towards this great national work. INCOME TAX.—Some four years 'back one of the income tax collectors at Liverpool was a defaulter to the extent of about £14,000, and an announcement has been made that the deficiency is about to be recouped by a new levy upon the section of income-tax payers included under schedules A and D. It is intimated that for the future the tax will 'oe payable at the Inland Revenue Office only, and that any possible defalcations will not have to be made good out of the pockets of a particular class. TRAMWAYS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.—The Constan. stantinople Tramways Company has just published the first yearly report of its proceedings. It deals in detail with the difficulties it had to encounter in an enterprise so entirely new to this city, and the success with which it has overcome them ; it anticipates great public conve nience and advantage from the establishment of the tram ways, and is sanguine of the financial and general success of the company.—Levant Herald, Feb. 1. CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT WHITBY. - - A Conservative demonstration was held at Whitby on Tuesday evening, upwards of 2,500 persons being present. There was a tea, followed by a meeting, at which a piece of plate was presented to Mr. D. R. Ramsay, in acknow ledgment of his services to the Whitby Working Men's Conservative Association, and the proceedings were wound up with a ball. Mr. T. Bagnell presided at the meeting, and Major Worsley, the Conservative candidate at the last election, delivered an eloquent speech, chiefly bearing upon the necessity for strengthening our means of defence and on the duty of the Conservative party to see that the work undertaken by the Government was properly done. — Yorkshire Post. CRIME IN THE AUMI.—The charge for the esta blishment of military prisons during the year ending the 31st of March, 1872, is estimated at £11,714, of which £6,340 is required for the home and £5,374 for the colonial stations. The home prisons are at Limerick, Cork, Dublin, Gosport, and Greenland, and -the united esta blishments employ four governors, three medical officers, six chaplains, five chief warders, 16 warders, and 46 assistant warders and servants. The colonial prisons are s it ua te at Bermuda, Canada (pending withdrawal of troops), Gibraltar, Malta, Mauritius, Nova Scotia, and the Windward and Leeward Islands, and the staff con sists of two governors, one chaplain, seven chief warders, 17 warders, and 35 assistant warders and servants. pAULIANENTARY REPORTS.—The report of the Select Committee on the Telegraphs Acts Extension Bill has just been printed. The committee state that after examination they find the allegations of the bill to be true, and that they have made amendments thereunto. A return also has been issued sheaving e the number of clerks a - al messengers employed, also the number of the various telegraphic instruments in use, and telegraph offices open to the public, all up to the 31st July, 1870. The following bills have also been printed :—A Bill to Exempt Charities from Local Rates, a Bill to Remove the Electoral Disabilities of Women, a Bill to Provide for the Vesting of County Property in the Clerk of the Peace, a Bill to provide for the Elementary Education of Blind, Deaf, and Dumb Children, and a Bill to Repeal an Act for preventing the Assumption of Certain Ecclesiastical Titles. TI-1 AR. THE ELECTIONS IN PARIS. PARIS, February 13. So late as this evening the definite results of the elec tions are not clearly known. The first five-and-thirty - names, indeed, may be supposed to be certain, but with the last names on the list the case is different, and M. Peyrat, the writer, for one, cannot leave for Bordeaux, not knowing whether he is elected or not. A good many candidates have started for the seat of the Assembly, knowing in general terms that they have passed the Rubicon, but not having yet received their official mandat. Among these are Louis Blanc and Victor Hugo, an d the y are wise, for they will be at Bordeaux when the debates open, wheteas those who wait for the regular form will not reach their destination until some days after meeting. If we do not know the exact state of affairs in • regard to the Paris elections, we are better informed respecting those in the provinces. They have been altogether different from 'ours, which have been Red Republican, or 'advanced Socialist for the most part.- In the provinces, on the contrary, they have been Orleanist, Legitimist, or Moderate, and the hopes of the Republican party in Paris are cruelly balked. How ever, there is no attempt at disturbance. The Parisian Moderates are highly indignant that some twelve or fifteen extreme men should have been sent into the Assembly from the capital. Their nomination was, in fact, a matter of regret ; but they can do little mischief when they are so largely outnumbered by the moderate members, and may even be of service by presenting an invincible obstacle to the restoration of the old regime. The Paris vote is an implacable protest against it and all through France no more than' five or ten former Bonapartists can be reckoned. Prince Napoleon has been elected in Corsica, but there has beer , a talk of a separatist agitation in the island. There is a. general belief here that a Monarchy is imminent, but some good judges believe there will be at least an attempt at a Republic. Imperialism is done for, there can be no question on that point, and the Assembly alone can decide on the future. The Orleanists gain ground in many quarters, and in the Manche the people compelled the Prefect to reckon the votes. given to the Prince de Joinville, which he at first refused to do. Great surprise has been excited by the unlooked for defeat of the Demccrats in some of the departments of the South, where their success was considered certain. One explanation given is that Gam betta, when he heard of the armistice, declared in, the first outburst of his ang e r that riere would be not Assembly, and told the democrats of .lie South not to vote. When he grew cooler, wiser thoughts prevailed, and he retracted his orders, but it was too late to organise the electoral campaign. The intimation that closed letters may be sent. through the post has just been made. . Does this signify th.o the enormous accumulation of letters at Versailles will be allowed to proceed to their destinations? The last rumour says that Bismarck, who is heartily weary of the warp which is growing very unpopular in German y , was quite cheered by the pacific character of the electoral returns , and at once gave orders that letters might be sealed, and decided that the Prussians should not enter Paris. Such, at least, is the report. When the French troops left the fort of Montrouge, the commandant, Captain Lamabiquie, remained behind. ge had only arrived a short time before th e surrender, and had carried on the defence in a spirited manner, a midst the increasing fire of the Prussians. He had hoped t° meet with a signal triumph or a glorious death. He leant against the gates of the fort until the sad procession 1e5 41 ., passed out, and then shot himself with a pistol. He fell dead on the threshold of the place which he was forced to give up. THE FRENCH IN SWITZERLAND.—For some tid e past the journals of Switzerland and South Ge rman y hsT u indulged in recriminations on the subject of the Free° armies in Switzerland. The Ge rmans com p lain of the sympathy which the majority of the Swiss population have manifested for the French Republic, and on th e other hand the Swiss papers denounce the exaggerate, s t a tements of the Germans, who have evinc e ° e a spiteful satisfaction at the mbarassments which tb ° arrival of Bourbaki's army have occasioned to tlit' Swiss. The Government of Baden has adopted more friendly policy, and reassurred the Federal CouncY o on the subject of the supposed annexation' of Oa canton of Schaffhausen, and of these parts of Switzerlse‘R which are situated on the right ba nk of the Rhine. t.-- Baden authorities availed the mselves of the same opt°, tunity for deprecating the discussions which had teA",, place between the journals of the two countries, especial blame to the German press on account of bitter spirit which it had displayed. THE FUTURE FRANCE.—In a communic ati l from Bordeaux, the special correspondent of the; Stan the says :—There is a report here that in the event of elections proving that France has no intention of settl, down under a Republic Count Bismarck will offer terms 'PA finitely less onerous than those hitherto spoken of. I 110;7.. this morning from an authority whose infortnati7 has more than once proved singularly corre ct, th Bismarck will, if F rudiates a Republic, demair„ only three miliards o rance f indemnity the consent of Fran{ to the acquisition of Luxemburg, and the neutralisation u; Alsace, guaranteed by Europe. These terms seem to le er too good to be true,' and had it not been for the chary and authority of my informant, I should a ltogether * believe them. If they be really true Count Bisma h rck returned to his right min d, and 'has determined disregarding the clamour of the war party upon sec 0 4 Germany against the certainty of another war, and sr,o restoring her somewhat in European opinion. Fr an e y could accept such terms, and could devote her energiye to peace ; whereas if any portion of her s oil bet taken, she will as unquestionably prepa re for anciteei war at the earliest opportunity. Alsace can !be of no r verge utility to Germany. The population are intenselysvea to Prussian rule, and the province is ruined for 1,1" , years to come. Its neutralisation would be an infi_lllr, greater benefit to Germany than its acquisition, u'oe. many were calm enough to judge fairly of her ow n intere Now, in my humble opinion, the mo ne y questiosoce a much more vital one for the fortunes of r r . n or ° ' than the cession of a few square miles of territory re° or less. Sympathising with all my heart in Franees of luctance to abandon a portion of her territory population ardently attached to her, still the cessi° this p r ovince would but sligntly affect eithe r her p rosP co ic or her national strength. The crushing weigh.t„,.., ever, of the interest of the sum of say five raw', e acti borrowed at seven per cent., in addition to her act/ heavy taxes, and her own war expenses, would comp paralyse her trade, manufactures, agriculture , le l commerce. Even under her present imp 6 ,c manufactures are so crippled that she is„v e ' in a very few specialities, wholly unaW, v otl, compete with England in the open market of the_Ail One thing is perfectly certain—such import duties nioe, imposed that England will pay for her cowardly selP,;y' by an entire loss of her trade with France. OnlY o ofir total exclusion of foreign competition will her Dr at til e j turers be able to carry off their home trade unu: t le enor mous imposts, and as M. Thiers , the 31 0 ° ,1 0 4 . 0 p ro tection, is apparently going to take the hel l chester, at present so fondly congratulating. its? t rpj the peace - at - any - price • con duct of her Nlislsi,;if likely to find that the price w hich the natio have to pay for its desertion of France will be s' heavy one. I ) . Pt, There has been presented to Parliament n a containing the tabulated returns of 648 unions all te parishes under boards of guardians. The aggreg.,%6l , lation of the 648 places, by the census of - 1 tIO 20,053,676 ; and the total number of paupers °ll rtiiit July, 1870, was 987,872. This gives the preP°„olar paupers as 1 in 20, or 4•9 per cent. onthe actuadl3°l" according to the census of 1861. Old Sores, Ointment a- 00, k e Old Sores, Wounds, and Tlcers.—The re 3( 1° . 00 0 I P A which Holloway's unguent removes all obstruct!,,;o s circulation of the vessels and lymphatics exi 3P 7ol o 'o ll s irresistible influence in healing old sores, bad sy ° e indolent' ulcers. To insure the desired effect tileirle•l; rounding the diseased part should be fomen ted, immediately well rubbed with the ointm ent. w e to n o', a give purity to the foul blood and stren g th to th tolef nerves, the only conditions necessa r y for the v4t tic, those hideous ulcerations which renderl ife go t° ro s4 e i ll able. No sooner is this oi ntment's prote c tiv,e e 0 0 0 erted than the destructive process ceases, and ~eg tive business begins. New healthy gr owths al ) r up the lately painful excavated pit. 11, BIRTHS. , IV I s , t of ,, a at da ß u ar gh t t le e y r. , On the 13th inst., at Woodford, the wife of *" 111. , i fe' On Wat the h e l l ith E 5 it ' n th e ' Major-General Henry Smyth, C. 8., of a son. ef e° Southan3lo-' MARRIAGES. o ter? l ,lo 4 , On the 14th inst., at Kirk Sandal!, near Dc c r s to," Bryan Cooke Yarborough , late 14th 1-11155a0:hi' Elizabeth, youngest daughter of H. Yarbor° ' f lit Esq., of Streetthorpe. ve p urel l ' rlfai On the 14th inst., at St. Andrew's, Litcli o ior go t Gustavus Irwin Knight, Esq., Dcorldq,t Stilille Hay, eldest daughter of the late Jo' n t o sbi r ' Newton, Esq., of Newton Rall, I-raiding e ,e DEATHS. On the 14th inst., at Rugby, John Bdri" A,' Esq., late Captain 7th Dragoen Guards. St rewth the 13th inst., at Streatham Lodg,l-11 Aff d 7 • r.' Surrey, Nicholas Coulthurst, Esq. , e .. „,-- 7 , of P t 0' he ° , OP - l oft /3e London : Printed by GIDEON ACT-i_.,lisbd I)ev No. 112, Strand, Printer, and u. r the ro e° THE SUN Office, No. 112, _Stradlesex. 173 ond, m Savoy, in the County of Mid a. Friday, FebrusTY