The Sun. — London, England, 1871-01-16 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS,-SATURDAY. In the Stock Exchanges to-day a fair average business has been transacted, and the bulk of the alterations have again been favourable. Railway stocks have been steady. Metropolitan, Brighton, South-Eastern, Great Northern A, Midland, and North-Western have further improved; but North-Eastern have been slightly easier. Foreign bonds also have been in request, and an advance has been apparent in Peruvian, Egyptian, and Turkish. Consols have been steady, at 921, 920 for delivery, and the account. Re duced and New Three Per Cents., 921, 921. Bank stock, 235, 2371; Exchequer Bills, 10s., 15s. ; India 5 per Cents. 110,1101; and India Bonds, 225., 275. prem. In colonial Government securities the transactions have b een restricted, but prices have ruled firm. The railway market has been characterised by firmness, and the movements have, with only few exceptions, been favourable. Metropolitan has risen 1 . ; Brighton k ; South Eastern, 1; Great Northern A, 1 ; Midland, 1 ; and North Western, A ; but North Eastern, and Great Eastern have been 1 and lower respectively. After official hours, Metropolitan was quoted at 65, 651 ; Caledonian, 88, 881 ; Brighton, 42/, 431 ; South Eastern, 761, 762 ; Great Northern, 125, 126 ; ditto A, 1361, 1362 ; Great Eas tern, 411, 41g ; North Eastern, 1471, 1472 ; Midland, 1301, 130 ; North Western, 130, 1301 ; and Great Western, 721, 731. Very few transactions have taken place in Indian rail way stocks. East Indian, 1092 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1061, 1062 ; Madras, 1038, 4031 ; Oude and Rohilkund, 1011 ; and Scinde, 1011. Canadian shares have been steady ; Great Westerns, 151, 1. In foreign shares the business doing has been only moderate. Great Luxem bourg, ni , San Paulo, 212, I ; and Lombards, 151. The foreign bond market has been in a steady state, and prices shew a further improvement. Peruvian (1865) have advanced 1; Egyptian (1868), 1 ; ditto, 9 per cent., 1 ; Turkish Six per Cent. (1865), ; ditto (1869), 1. After official hours Brazilian 1865 were quoted at 93, 931 ; Peruvian (1865), 90, 901 ; Egyptian (1868), 79, 79}; ditto Nine per Cents, 96, 97 ; Italian (1861), 54g; 54k ; Spanish, 291, 30 ; Turkish (1865) 59/, 592 ; ditto Five per Cents, 42/, 42 ex div.; ditto (1869), 511, 51 ; Mexican, 132, 14 ; United States, Five-Twenty (1882) Bonds, 901, 901 ; ditto (1885), 89k, 891; French Scrip, 21, 2 dis. ; and German, 11, 12 prem. Bank shares have been steady. Imperial Ottomans have sold at 11k,1; London Joint Stock, 351,36 ; London and Westminster, 64, 611. For telegraph shares the demand has been quiet. British Indian Extension, 6g : British Indian Submarine, 7 ; Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta, 81, 9 ; French Cables, 1313; Hooper's, 61; Silver's Indiarubber, 461, 471; and Construction, 29g. In miscellaneous securities the business doing has been to a moderate extent. General Credit and Discount, 71,1; Royal Mail Steam, 55 ; and Universal Marine, 112. There has been a good supply of money in the discount market. The demand has been to a moderate extent, and three months' paper has been negotiated at 21, 21 per cent. • The Seine, from the West Indies, has brought £36,397 in specie. The Oneida has arrived at Lisbon from South America, with £36,400. The Nubia takes out £5,259 for the East. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank of England to-day. The report of the Alliance Bank, to be presented on the 19th inst., shews that the net profits for the half-year have been £15,417, making with £3,557 balance from the previous half-year, a total of £18,975. A dividend of 7s. 6d. per share, or 3 per cent. per annum, is recommended, which will absorb £14,559; and, after appropriating £336 on account of building and furniture, a balance of £4,078 will be carried forward. The report of the United Discount Corporation shews a gross profit of £23,050, including £2,453 brought for ward from June 30th. The directors propose to apply this balance as follows :—53,831 Is. 3d. in payment of all charges ; £8,169 12s. 7d. rebate and bills not yet due ; £4,841 Os. 10d. in payment of a dividend of 7 pet cent. per annum, or 9s. 2d. per share : £6,20915. 2d. to be carried forward to new account. The report of the Imperial Bank (Limited), to be pre sented on the 17th instant, shews that the profits, including £3,543 ss. Id. brought forward from the last account, amount to £30,694 9s. ld., after payment of current expenses, making pro vision for bad and doubtful debts, allowing rebate of interest on bills discounted not yet due, there remains an available balance of £17,177 11s. sd. Out of this amount the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, which Will absorb £13,600, leaving to be carried to profit and loss new account £3.677115. sd. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-SATURDAY. LATEST PRICES.—AFTER OFFICIAL HOUR 4. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 92i 92a DoApril &Oct 1883-85.. 112 113 92‘. a 1121, 1 Do for Account 921 102. 11 Three per Cell t Reduoed 921 921 Brazilian. 1865, 5p o .... 93 94 New 3 per Cent 92, 1 Egyptian 2. 7p0.. .. 80 82 Exchequer Bills. March 10 15pin 82 15s pm Do Rail Deben 7p 0 .. 2911001 Do. June ...... Italian, 1865. 5 p 0 Pm Bank Stook ............ Peruvian, 1865. 5p 0 90, 1 235 Portuguese 1869 3p 0 I n dia 5 per Cents 1101. i Russian. 1862. 5 p a.. .. 84 85 841 Bonds , __. . India A MII 27s pm Do Nicolas 4D a Can 6 pc Jan&Julyll77-8 4 10311041 671 1041, 31, 4 Spanish Do March & Sept. 104 106 291, 30 Do 5p c Jan & July .. 971 981 Turkish. 1854, 6p c 7B 80 98, 1 Do, 1865. 5p .3 Do Inscribed Stock .. 96 98 42*, 2,1 x d Dom of Can 5p o 1903 .. 98 100 Do, 1865 6p c Ceylon 6 p c May and 59. 60 November 1878 lO6 108 U. 5.5-20 Bonds. 6 p o 1882 901 901 Mauritius 6 pc Jan and 901, 1 July 1873 lO2 104 Do do 1885 891 90 891, I New BWales 5 p clB7l-76. 100 101 100* Do 10-40 Buds. spli 1901 881 881 New Zealand 6 p o 1891 lO6 108 881 Do 5p c Do 5p c Consolidated 10 1 101 1 Illinois Central Shares .. 10911101 1011, 1, 1 1101, 10 x d Do 6p 0 Mar &Sept 1891 109 111 Atlantic and (0 Wlt Con Do June & 1)ec1891 108 110 Mortgage Bonds — Viet 6p o Jau &July 1891 113 114 RAILWAYS. Bristol and ltzeter 9O 92 Do 3rd Pref Stock , ... 30 32 Caledonian 88: 4th Prof stook Great Eastern 41i, I, : 1061, i Great Northern — ii; A 136 137 Great Western c 151, Bo 1 nds. 1373.. 98 100 72i, i 721 73 Do Op 991 Lancashire & Yorkshire 135 136 Do 52 do, 1877-8 95 97 1352 Du 5 v. c twat. Issued 80 par loin Lou, Brigh, and S Coast 122 43 Madras guar spc 422, 2, 3 1032, 2 Lou, Chat, and Dover .. 132 141 N. Railway of Canada. 1;1, 14 6 p Ist Prat Bonds Lon and North-Western 1298302 Oude and Rohilkund g 1292, 302 5 p 0 Lon and South-Western 92 93 1011 921, 3, 21 &hide, Punjaub, and Man, Shef, and Lincoln 461 47 Delhi guar 5p c 462. I. 2 1011, 1, 2 Me t ro p o litan .......... 64 1 64 2 Bahia and San Francisco Midland .......... .... 12911303 . g 7 p c 130, 191 North British .......... HI 352 Belgian E Junction 352 Buenos Ayres Gt Sthrn.. 25i 26 North-Eastern Consols.. 14711472 Dunaburg and Witepak 181 181 1472. 2. 2 Dutch-Rhenish 22 23 S ou th-Eastern .......... 76 761 Eastern of France _ ktlantic and St I,awrnce 25 77 Great Luxembourg 3onibay, Bawds, and 111 Central India. g 5 p 0.. 103 104 Lembergl6 Czernowitzgua Buff and Lake Huron .. 4 41 7pc Do 52 pc 80nd5,1872-3-4 79 81 Cape guar 6 p c 64 66 Northern of France . ...... . East Bengal guar 5 p 0 .. 103 104 Ottom (Smyrna to Aidin) 42 52 5 East Indian, g 5 p c .... 109 110 Recife and San Francisco 1091 (Limited) guar 7p 0 Grand Trunk Canada .. 121 122 San Paulo 114 guar 7p c 211 22 Do Equip Mort 'lna I ii pc charge Do 2nd do Scrip 85 15, 2 Do Ist Pref Bonds 571 581 Southern of France .... Grand Trunk of Canada 2nd Pret Stock 401 30 Bolckow-Vaughan Li 23 33pm 30 London Fin Assoc(L) 19 18 its 100 Boston City (U.S. 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 29 3 p o Sterling Loan 93 95 3, 2 15-16, 9 4 Brit & Fgn Marine L) 4 41pm a Lon &Prov Marine 141 Ipm 25 Uanada Company. 71 73 100 Madraslrrig. &Canal 10 Ceylon Company LI 31 39dis gsn c by Ind Gov. 100 102 35 City Offices (L) 251211 die 101 20 Colonial (L) 5 Corn Union Assume° 4 41pm 5 NatnlDisctComp Li 111 12 10 Crdt Folic of Eng (L) 2 29 21 N Zealand Loan and 100 Crystal Palace 199, 9 5 N Zealand Loan and 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Pero Deb.. 109 114 69 N Britsh and Mere (L) 289 289 270 Ebbw Vale Steel Li.. 99 99dis 5 OceanMarinelnsur —141149pn , 100 Viceroy of Egypt 79 0 50 P and 0 Steam 46 43 Mortgage Loan 78 80 10 Do do New. 1867 3 241 is 100 iigyp 9 p cV'roy Loan. 50 Rhyinney Iron guar by Egyp 0 ay.. 95 97 15 Do New Bl 91 951, 69, 59, 69' 60 Royal Mail Steam 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 81 91pm 55 229 12 Tel Con and Main L) 249 '241 100 Fen and Colonial Gov 249 Trust 0p 0 Bonds.. 98 100 2 Thames and Mersey 981 Marine Insur (I. 71 Gen Credt ftDisslt IL) pettipm Tobacco 6 p c Loan. 14 Gen Sun Navigation 271 281 guar by Italian Gov 87 89 7 Hooper's Tel Works 1 dis 5 Trust and Loan Co of .17 Hudson's Bay 8 89 Upper Canada .... 9 Ipm 15 Indrbbr.GutPer,and 5 II Marine, Lvpool IL 5 591 in Tel Works L) ~... 46 47 20 Union Steamship ( L) 23 25 491, 9. 79 6 United Dis Corpru IL ldis par 5 InternlFinau Soc(L) 19 INN g 5 UnivMarinelnsur(L% 61 79pm 39 12 War7ar. t F l iejance..... 9 7 die 20 It Irrig Can Cavour 39 4 BANKING COMPANIES. I'd Pd 1 Agra Bank (L) A 8 81 10 Imperial Ottoman .. li liPm 8, 1 111, i 25 Alliance I/4 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 216 22 15 London Jolut-Stook 351 . 61 50 British N American 51 52 351, 6 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 13 14 20 Lou and Westtnnster 631 641 25 Char Merc of India 22 1 23 1 64, 1 221 10 Metropolitan Bl 91 10 City 25 Colonial 4 Consolidated (L- 20 Eng. Scot. and Aus C 16 17 25 I inion of Australia.. 40 41 21 Imperial;L) ....... • . 171 181 15 Union of London .. 371 381 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Pd I'd 100 A ugla-Anierleau 1.1 73 75 10 Great Northern .... 111 111 In, 41 6 Great N. China, and 10 Auglo-Meditru (14 11.6 119 Japan Extension.. 81 81 117(,18 81 100 Atlantic — 5 Indo-European IL).. 10 12 100 1)0 8p a - 10 Marseilles, Algiers, 10 British Australu(l4 4l 41dis and Malta (1.) .... 0 6 35 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 4} 5 10 British Ind Ratan iLI. 6 61 2} Puna and S. PcfelL 4 3 die 61 die 10 Eritish Indian Sub- 8 Reuter's marine, (C) . 7 131 10 ChinaSubmarinell.4 51 &Pis 100 Submarine 237 242 lu Falmouth. Gibraltar, Do Scrip 2l 2 and Malta (LI 9,8 i ---- -- ---- MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES Pd 100 Do 6p a Bonds. re. deemaNe 1810 r 61 63 61g. Pd Anglo-Austrianlind. holders' Certificate 3 5 13erlifiWaSenTOrktad 15 15 I'll LS UN, LON DON, MONDAY, JANITA R 16, 1871. THE WEEKLY PRESS. THE' WM?. The Saturd,ay Review thinks that if Chanzy has been thoroughly defeated, and if this is known at Paris, the feeling in favour of capitulation, which is already sheaving itself in a timid manner ; may gain rapid and sudden ground. France must judge for herself, and it is imperti nent for mere bystanders to offer their adVice to yield so long as she thinks she has a chance of ultimate victory. But the defeat of Chanzy; if it is of the character ascribA to it at Versailles, will offer an occasion to France for con sidering whether peace might not now be made, and Paris relieved from its profitless agony. Enough, and more than enough, has been done to save the honour of France, and to give a prestige to the Republic, if any prestige can be of use to it. It is stated that Austria is now prepared to come forward, and not only to mediate, but to suggest the terms of peace, and that Germany is prepored to counte nance her movement. The terms she would recommend have been laid down, although we presume that they are are given with much more precision than diplomatists would use in the first instance. The basis, however, appears perfectly reasonable, and as favourable to France as Germany could be expected to accept. This basis is that transfer of a portion of the French fleet, and that payment of a pecuniary indemnity, which M. Jules Favre was, it is understood, willing to admit after Sedan. Germany, on the other hand, is to give up the project of annexing Alsace and Lorraine, and merely to gain a small strip, including of course, Strasburg, along the left bank of the Rhine ; and thus that rivers, so dear to German hearts, would flow through none but German territory on its way from Switzerland to Holland, and the arrogant pretensions of the French to the whole left bank would be stamped with an incontestable and lasting rebuke. THE NEW FRENCH DISASTER. The Spectator says General Chanzy's defeat appears to imply that time is not working now, as it was some weeks ago, on the'side of France, but rather against her. The almost unbroken history of defeat is beginning to tell on the spirits of the soldiers. And French soldiers do not fight, like English or German soldiers, as well in defeat as in victory. They respond far more quickly to the thrill of success, and they also give way far more quickly under the paralysis of failure. The great significance, however, of this collapse is in its too probable effect on Paris. Now that, for a Bedew' time, the hope of relief is dashed aside, it is hardly to be hoped that the spirit of Paris will again rally to the emergency. We fear that the result of this calamitous defeat of the Army of Le Mans must be to put off indefinitely any chance of relief to Paris, and that the indefinite postponement of any relief to Paris will mean, under the existing circumstances of that city, the surren der of Paris. Of course, everything may be changed by the sudden appearance of one of those great commanders who sometimes manifest themselves in war, and suddenly turn calamity into success. But for this we have no right to hope. As far as we can judge the present situation of France, it is exceedingly gloomy. Paris, exhausted by long-deferred hope, can hardly be expected to hold out till another great army can be raised to attempt its relief ; and that either Faidherbe's or Bourbaki's, and still less Chanzy's, can do anything effectual for Paris, we have THE WAR. THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS. (BY BALLOON MAIL.-PROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE " CENTRAL PRESS." PARIS, JANUARY 10. General Trochu's proclamation is generally approved, and has had a good effect. The people are ready, if need be, to support a military dictatorship during the present crisis. They are determined to resist to the last, and this determination has been increased by the Prussian outrage of beginning the bombardment of the city without having summoned the garrison to surrender. There is a general desire that the Government should act with firmness in regard to the authors of the Red Poster which was placarded throughout Paris. It was calculated to excite the population to civil war. After accusing the Government of gross mismanagement, and of causing general misery and death from cold and hunger, it attacked the direction of military affairs as incom petent, and proclaimed that the Commune was the only safeguard for the people. The present Government, it said, intended to capitulate when the army and the National Guard would be sent prisoners to Germany. The Reds further demand gratuitous rations and an attack en masse, and the placard concludes with the words " Make way for the people ! Make way for the Commune !" General Trochu's proclamation is a complete answer to this. He says that while the enemy is redoubling his efforts at intimida tion, he also tries to mislead the citizens by trickery and calumny. "Nothing will make the arms fall from our hands. Courage, confidence, patriotism The Governor of Paris will not capitulate." The Government has decreed that all asphalte, bitumen, oils, pitch, tar, and tan, within Paris and the communes, or within the lines of investment, be declared within 48 hours. . The bombardment of the southern forts has been going on at the rate of about thirty rounds per hour. The St. Maur redoubt and the buildings near the Champigny bridge were shelled without much effect by the Prussians, and the damage done to Forts Rosny and Nogent has been very trifling. Fort Noisy, however, has done considerable damage among the Prussian batteries. Its shells burst in the entrenchments, and the Prussians were twice observed carrying away the dead and wounded. The French loss is generally unim portant, though several civilians have been wounded. A shell burst in a room occupied by the three daughters of a wood seller, and one of the large splinters fell on the bed between two of them, without wounding either ! The service of the small passenger steamboats on the river has been suspended in consequence of one of them having been bunk by a shell between the Point du Jour and the Pont de l'Alma. A Prussian officer has been arrested on the Place de l'Hotel de Ville dressed in the uni form of a captain of French dragoons. The pavement in the courtyards of the houses hi the Montrouge quarter is being taken up. The Governor of Paris has visited the whole of the ramparts under the enemy's fire, and was satisfied with the patriotism of the men. The calmness and the determination of the people are sur prising, and give France reason to be proud of her capital. MARKETS. LONDON HAY AND STRAW. SATURDAY.-Mr. Chailes James Eeston thus reports on the state of the hay market : -There were moderat e supplies of hay and clover on sale at to-day's market, which changed hands quietly at about previous quotations. Prime meadow hay, 130 x. to 1405.; inferior ditto, 1109. to 120 s. ; prime first-ca eluktr, 1355. to 1455. ; inferior ditto, 115 s. to 1255. ; priale second-cut clover, 1265. to 1355. ; inferior ditto; ioss. 1155.; and straw, 335. to 425. per load. LONDON HIDE AND SKIN. SATURDAY.-Market hifles--561b. to 641 b., net to 30.; 641 b. to 721 b., 30. to 3d. 721 b. to 801 b., nd. to 4d. ; 801 b. to 881 b., 4d. to 41d.; esib. to 961 b., 41n. to 40.; 961 b. to 1041 b., 41d. to 41d.; 1041 b. to 1121 b., nil. Horse hides, 10s. 6d. to 12s. 6d. Calf ps skin-light, 2s. to 4s. ; full, 7s. 6cl. Sheekins-polled, 7s. to Os. ; half-breds, 6s. to 7s. ; Downs, 4s. 3d. to ss. 9d. (TELEGRAPHED BY THE CENTRAL PRESS.) TRADE REPORT. LEEDS, SATURDAY. —The woollen cloth trade in this town and district is slightly improving, as the demand for spring goods is now settling. Buyers, however, are not operating very freely, and their purchases are made in small quantities. To day's markets in the cloth halls have been moderately well attended, and rather more goods were sold than last Saturday. The demand ran on no particigar class, but tweeds, meltons, and coatings sold to a greater extent than plain cloths. There were a few sales of black superfines anti a fair amount of bUsiness was done in hairlists and white goods generally of medium qualities. The country clothiers and the manufacturers generaliy are as well employed as for some time past, and those who Make pilots and other goods suitable for the French and Prussian arniies keep very busy. The prices of woollen yarns and goods cke alike firm. Olive oil has an upward tendency. The flax trade, though Irather quiet, is steady, and the new materials maintain last week's prices, as do also yarn and threhd. CORN MARKETS. • GLOUCESTER, SATURDAY.—There was a fair supp l y of English wheat at this market to-day, which was sold at last week's rates. Foreign, though in limited request, was held firmly. Barley, oats and maise were without change. READING, SATURDAY.—The attendance at this market to day was rather better than last week. The stands were not quite so well supplied with wheat, and a great deal of that shewn was out of condition. Sellers commenced by asking a small advrdce, but millers would not comply, hence a dull trade was done. There was, however, a demand for export, and this prevented prices f r om falling below those of last week. Malt ing barley was dull, and easy to purchase. Grinding barley and oats firm. NEWCASTLE, SATURDAY'. — There was less than an average supply of wheat from farmers at this market to-day, who in some cases obtained a slight advance on last week's priceS. Factors stood for an advance, but without success, While those who kept to late rates, effected sales. There was no change in other wares. Four thousand sacks of flour are being shipped in the Tyne for France, and 3,000 sacks at Stockton. DONCASTER, SATURDAY.—There was a large supply of serials at this market to-day. Wheat was again down 6d. per bushel. Good malting barley was also lower realising only 38s. to 395. per quarter, and grinding 84s. to 355. per quarter. NORWICH, SATURDAY.—The supply of wheat on offer to-day at this market was pretty good ; and former rates were about maintained. Barley, which was also brought forward tolerably freely, was unaltered in value. The weather has improved. LEITH, SATURDAY.—At this market to-day wheat was firm at late rates. Flour was unchanged. Barley brings extreme rates. Oats were scarce, and bring full prices. Peas and beans were steady. Arrivals for the week amount to 28,040 quarters wheat ; 1,027 quarters barley ; 6 quarters tares. CATTLE MARKET. DONCASTER, SATURDAY.—There was a poor show in beasts and sheep at this market to-day, with scarcely anything doing. The show of pigs was very fair, and the trade was much brisker, with an advance of 6d. to ls. in small ones. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—Opening Re port.—This market opens with a very good demand to-day, and the improvement noted yesterday is well sustained. Sales will probably reach 12,000 bales. Closing report.—This market has exhibited further activity, and an advance of fully per lb. has been obtained. Sales 15,000 bales, including 3,000 on speculation and export. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, SATURDAY.—HardIy any business done at this market to-day. Tone very quiet, and previous prices noted generally obtainable. CORK BUTTER MARKET, SATURDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1465.; seconds, 140 s. ; thirds, 123 e.; fourths, 1095. ; fifths, 935. ; sixths, 03s. 300 firkins in the market. Mild cured, no change. 3 firkins in the market. ANOTHER NEW OCEAN CABLE, The latest accounts from Heart's Content describe the weather there as of the most boisterous character, and that all attempts to grapple with the broken cables had up to that time proved unsuccessful. It was hoped that, should the weather become less tempestuous, the endea vours to raise both cables will be attended with more success. Another cable is to be laid, this time commencing from the western shores of America, across the Pacific, to the eastern coast of Asia. The New York Chamber of Commerce has taken the matter in hand, and with every appearance of speedily carrying out the grand project. Herepath's Journal, NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Army and Navy Gazette says : There is no truth in the rumour that Captain Hardinge, of the Valorous, will supersede Captain May on board the Northumberland. — It is announced at Chatham that the iron-clad vessels composing the Channel Squadron were ordered to rendez vous at Portland, previously to their being dispatched on a lengthened cruise.—lt is generally believed that we shall not for the present construct any more large large armour-plated ships, but content ourselves with adding to the Navy another batch of the Cyclops class, and one of the Blanche kind. We want the former for coast defences, and the latter for cruisers.— The Lords of the Admiralty, having arrived at the determination of superseding all officers who have been in command of any of her Majesty's ships for a period of three years, have intimated to Captain Charles May, now serving in the Northumberland, and Captain Armytage of the Prince Consort, that they must shortly go on half pay. Captain May has only been two years in his present ship, but he was in the Defence pre viously for one year, and will thus come under the new rule. The claims of the 54th Regiment'to the Indian Mutiny medal have at length been recognised, and the issue will be made as soon as the medals can be prepared. All are entitled to it who were with the regiment from November, 1857, to November, 1858. Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Morrison, Royal Engineers, has been appointed to examine the officers of the Engineer Volunteer Corps who may desire to obtain field officer's and captains' certificates of proficiency, as laid down in Reserve Forces Circular, dated 30th August, 1870. The Turkish Government have ordered a large armour plated ship of the Sultan class to be built in this country. This formidable vessel will be nearly 6,000 tons, and her engines will probably be of 1,200 horse power nominal. The Broad Arvow says the Channel Squadron will not be sent from England until the Conference is concludeds and that a reward for distinguished service will be shortly conferred on Brevet-Colonel R. H. Taylor, C. 8., one of the Assistant Adjutant-Generals of the Home District. It is stated that the Lord Chancellor is engaged in preparing a Bill f or th e re f orm o f the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council. THE MARRIAGE OF BANKERS' CLERKS.—At the half-yearly general meeting of the Union Bank of London the chairman (Mr. P. N. Laurie) said he wished to say a few words upon a matter which had occasioned some com ments lately—(ldughter)—but with regard to which some m isapprehension had prevailed. He alluded to the regula tion recently issued by the directors with a view of pre venting imprudent marriages amongst their junior clerks before they were in receipt of such a salary as would enable 'them to support the position into which they might otherwise enter. (Cheers.) He thought the shareholders would give them credit, as men of business and married men, connected, as they had been, with the bank for thirty years, for not having come to thi s resolution without having had severe and painful experience of its necessity. Th e U n i on B an k was not the only establishment in the city in which such a regulation prevailed, and the salaries and chances of promotion were such as to enable all the junior clerks to attain a position in which they could afford to maintain a family after five or six years' Lservice in the bank. What had been done had been clone in the interests of the clerks themselves, and he felt sure that any father who sent his son as a junior into the bank wou ld be thankful that there Was a bar placed by the directors to his being perhaps inveigled into undesirable connections, and hampering himself at the outset of life with the Irish I fortune of a mathertin-law. THE EFFECTS. The scarp of Issy is beginning to suffer considerably; the embrasures are knocked about, the front especially ; but the angle guns are still firing occasionally. Vanvres is very much in the same condition—rather worse than better. Montrouge, above which there is still smoke arising from the ruins of the Great Barrack, has mounted. fresh guns, and keeps up an enfilading fire from the west face. Bicetre is beyond my sphere of observation. Val4rien had up to yesterday, as well as could be seen through the snow cloud, escaped any serious imputation on its character as a very potent and troublesome work, and it fires all round as if it were a land Monitor. It is hazardous to state where damage has been done on this side, because the intelligence might fall into the hands of the besieged, who could turn it to good account. But places which were quite safe are now posts of danger and of no honour. The losses are small on this side, but the proportion of killed to wounded is very large, as might be expected, and men's bodies are torn into fragments and sent flying about in and outside the batteries in a way full of warning to the beholders. General Guern is of opinion that the French shells burst better than the Prussian officers are disposed to think ; he estimates, after a careful reckoning of a day's firing, that not more than 18 per cent. miss, and can be counted non-effective as explosive missiles.— Ti 17163 Corre spondent. at the same time to send him two xnitrailleuses. The General answers in a brief, soldierly fashion. "My dear C.—," he writes, "Thank M. IL for me for his flattering proposal ; but let us leave the subscription where it is. If you will send me the mitrailleuses, I shall accept them with gratitude.—Your devoted, " G. GARIBALDI." M. Lissagaray has brought out a Journal du Camp at Toulouse, saying that the staff, the engineers, the medical service, in short, every department of the army, have orders to open their offices to the journalists, as repub lican administrators ought to live in glass houses. In this journal the first contingent of the mobilised legions Ire estimated at 49,997 men, in 17 legions and 51 battalions. The strongest contingent is that of the Haute Garonne, which is over 10,000 strong, the weakest that of Tarn et Garonne, 3,000. The Prefect of the Loire has received another message from Bordeaux to expedite the departure of the mobilised troops. There has been so much stir about political matters in this direction that the more im portant question of armament has been somewhat slighted. It is said there is a strong concentration of French troops on the Doubs, and the Germans are massing at Montbe- Hard. There will be a dechiive affair in that quarter. Bourbaki is said to have transported his headquarters from Dijon to the centre of his military operations. A letter from Bourbaki himself, dated from Chalons-sur- Saone, January Ist, speaks of that place as his great head quarters, and thanks the sub-prefect for the kind reception given to his army. A mistake was made in the east. It was thought that Prince Frederick Charles was marching in person against Belfort but he remained in the West to face Chanzy. It is thought that part of his army was detached to assist Werder as soon as he learnedßourbaki was in the Vosges. This was the corps d'armee which reoccupied Auxerre, and whose avant gardes were seen near Dijon. Wer der wanted, when reinforced, to secure Belfort before the French army came up, but he was repulsed with heavy loss. He had to take his wounded to Porrentruy, on Swiss territory. The Mobiles of Saone and Loire are at Dijon, with their fine artillery. The 14,000 Mobiles of Isere are only waiting to exchange their present arms for the Springfields, just arrived at Brest, to rejoin them. may go on till the Ist of March if we eat up the horses of the cavalry and artillery, and make bread out of the oats which should have fed them. This calculation makes no allowance for the reserve of food which will be required after the gates are open. and before Paris can be revic tualled." A German correspondent says that the losses at Bapanme were heavy, especially in officers. A prepon derance of killed and wounded officers is a general feature of the German losses. The losses at Bepaume must have been greater than the official bulletins admitted, for a fusilier of the 33rd Prussian regiment says :—" Our bat talion, which went into battle with 590 souls, numbered after the battle 3 officers, 24 non-commissioned officers, and 322 men, the remainder being either killed, wounded, or missing." Apropos of the number of firearms said to be forwarded by " perfidious Albion" to the seat of war, we may advert to the supply of quinine for the sick and wounded sent from this country. Messrs. Cox, Son, and Co., of Brighton, recently received a telegram from a West-end firm to know whether they could undertake to supply a million quinine pills within a fortnight. The whole of the pills were made up by them in eight days. As each pill contained a grain and a half of quinine, the market value of which is 6s. per ounce, nearly £l,OOO worth of the alka loid was used.—The Lancet. The Augsburg Gazette publishes some details of the ap pearance of mutiny among the prisoners of war at Ras tadt. On the 2nd inst. it seems it was necessary to repress same attempts of this character by force, and some of the prisoners were wounded. Since then they have been more strictly guarded, and are in part shut up in the casemates. They are not allowed to go out into the town nor to re ceive visitors. It is believed that this movement was not wholly unconnected with the advance of the corps of Garibaldi and of the Army of Lyons, the emissaries of which had got as far as Delle, and even as far as Mul house. Heine's remarks on the fortifications of Paris are of interest at the present moment. Writing on the 13th of February, 1841, he said :- -" France has not yet come to its end, but, like all nations, like the human race itself, it is not everlasting. It has perhaps already passed its meridian, and is now undergoing a metamorphosis which cannot be disguised. On its smooth brow various wrin kles are shewing themselves ; its thoughtless head is get ting gray, stoops anxiously, and no longer busies itself exclusively with the present; it thinks also of the morrow. The decision of the Chamber on fortifying Paris indicates such a transition period of French national feeling. The French have learnt a great deal of late ; they have thus lost all desire of blind irruptions into dangerous foreign territory. They new wish to intrench themselves against the eventual attacks of their neighbours." A correspondent writes from Cherbourg : " The greatest activity prevails here both in organising troops and in sending them forward to join the armies in the field. About a hundred artillery horses, well harnessed and in splendid condition, passed my window to-day. The cavalry in this town are, as regards both the men and the ' mounts,' as fine as any I have ever seen. The line of railway has been ' requisitioned ' by the Government for the exclusive conveyance of troops ; passenger traffic will be suspended, I believe, for a week. Large numbers of wounded soldiers are being brought in. The principal hotel and the public ecole have been taken by the Govern ment for their accommodation. The Halle, a building about half the size of the Smithfield Market, is converted into a stable for cavalry. Gambetta, it is reported, is about to pay us a visit. He would be well received." FRENCH AND GERMAN DEMOCRATS.— The Re publican Union of the 12th arrondissement of Paris, on the motion of M. Guichard, formerly a deputy, have addressed a letter to Citizen Jacoby, formerly a member of the . German Parliament, expressing the strong feelings with which they have read his letter to the German people, which proves his true patriotism, inas much as he does not separate the cause of his country from that of justice and humanity. They say that "it is evident that if France and Germany had possessed institutions securing to them the right of self government, war would never have broken out between the two countries ; but while Napoleon 111. was compelled to defend his autocracy in France by stifling the progress of Democracy under a military rule, the German Govern ment misled German feeling by accusing France of threa tening the German territory. This was an imposition. French Democracy condemns all notion of conquest. In the month of May nearly three millions of French citizens, by their vote or by their ' abstention,' protested against it, and the 7,500,000 were only induced to vote the pl6biscite by the machinations of the Imperial Govern ment, which persuaded them that it meant the preserva tion of peace. The war was a crime of despotism, and was in fact finished on the 4th September ; but what re sults can the Germans now expect from a war with France ? Their victory will be as fatal to themselves as to the French, and they must not expect a final victory. The soil of France is the object of the worship of the French, and they will not submit to foreign conquest, but will defend their indivisibility just as a parent attacked in his house defends all his children." ALSACE AND LORRAINE.—The provisional admi nistration of Alsace and Lorraine will soon be replaced by a regular and difinitive organisation, and on this subject the Conseils Genera= will be consulted. What has been said as to the introduction under the Prussian Minister of a system of public education is unfounded, as M. Muhler, the Prussian Minister, will have nothing to do with Alsace, and the superintendence of instruction in the province is to be entrusted to a Minister who is not a Prussian. The present Adminis tration is anxiously occupied with the question of in struction, and is taking steps to obtain teachers. The execution of border railroads has been put off, but Baden and Alsace will combine for the improvement of the navigation of the Rhine. This navigation at present only extends as far as a little above Maya, the French commercial system having diverted the commercial relations of Alsace to the French ports on the Atlantic and Mediterranean by means of the internal canals. In 1869 Strasburg sent out by the Canal de l'lle towards the Rhine only 104,000 tons, but by the other canals to the south she sent 650,000 tons of goods. In future the province will free itself from its dependence on the French ports, and will receive consignments by way of Belgium, Holland, and the Hanseatic towns. These last named will do well to place themselves as soon as pos sible in direct communication with the new province, and to study its needs and resources.—Letter in the Augsburg Gazette. PTE THE OAVITULATIOIC. In a letter from the Crown Prince of Saxony's head quarters at Margenoy, January 10, the special correspon dent of the Daily News draws the following conclusions as to what may follow after the capitulation of Paris :—lt is not a German attribute to be taken unprepared for any contingency, and, therefore, it is not surprising that one hears discussions on the dispositions that may follow the inevitably early capitulation of Paris. No doubt everywhere there exists a strong hope that negotiations will immediately follow this event, but men do not dis guise from themselves the absence of tangible grounds apart from foreign intervention for such a hope. The capitulation of Paris will neither extinguish Gambetta nor alter that implacable determination of his for war to the bitter end. How, then, is this resolve, and what follows upon it, to be coped with? Not, certainly, by a retirement on certain Provinces of France, leaving meanwhile isolated garrisons in the strong places outside these districts. Nothing could be madder than that policy. It would involve a forepost line to which the circle around Paris is a bagatelle armies standing ever ready; waiting for the concentrated attack of French armies, choosing their own place and their own time. A French success in such circumstances need only require a pushing general to make an invasion of Germany practicable. Three or four days' forced marches from the Moselle would bring the red breeches again on to the exercise platz above Saarbruck. There would be no "masterly inactivity" in such a policy ; it would be pure fatuity. No ; if the French still obstinately refuse to throw up the sponge and own to the loss of the stakes, the punishment, sickening as it may be, must go on. Already, as I say, one hears of dispositions being arranged to follow on the capitula tion. The new appointment and destination of Manteuffel May be taken as part and parcel of these arrangements. While we wait here, it is judged wise that mean while steps be taken elsewhere in France to hasten the issue. Manteuffel's mission is the subjugation of Lyons and the south-west. You may remember that two days before the formal capitulation of Metz, the Second Army Corps took the road for action elsewhere, and was followed by other troops ere the ink was dry in which were written the signatures to the capitula tion document. A similar marching off has not yet been initiated before Paris ; but I know that the orders of readiness are already issued, that all the dis positions are made, and that all that is waited for is the right time in the judgment of the military authorities. This much may be relied on ; I am not inclined to speak more plainly. But it is permissible to suggest certain eventualities which circumstances render likely. It may be regarded as settled that the Royal headquarters will continue in their present location in Versailles, in the event of further warlike movements following the capitulation of Paris. The French capital will naturally require to be garrisoned— and that strongly. The fact that the allies of Prussia have suffered and lost, not perhaps, except in one case,disproportionately, but certainly very heavily pro rata, might incline to the anticipation that the garrison may consist of the Saxons, Bavarians, Wurtemburgers, Mecklenburgers, the Landwehr Divisions, now forming part of the besieging force, and it may . be the Guard corps also, which has had very laborious duties in the siege. NOTES FROM LYONS. LYONS, January 10th. M. Ernest Pinard, the former Minister of the Interior, has been arrested at Autun by Colonel Bordone, the head of Garibaldi's staff, brought to Lyons, and imprisoned in the prison of Saint Joseph. According to one account, he was arrested in consequence of some words spoken in the cemetery over the grave of M. d'Aligny, and cf the finding of a quantity of copies of the Drapeau at his dwelling place. Another ac count says that orders came for his arrest direct from Bordeaux, but no explanation was given. It seems, how ever, that it was Colonel Bordone's doing. It has pro duced a good deal of excitement both at Autun, which is M. Pinard's native town, and at Lyons. He has been interrogated by the Prefect of the Rhone at some length but no explanation of the affair has yet been accorded to the public. Another exciting incident has been the arrest of the Swiss mail cart between Bale and Roderdorff, which is obliged to pass through French territory at Leinen. The Prussian detachment stationed there captured it, and noti fied to the driver that henceforward he must not proceed without a Prussian pass. This has created some disturbance on the frontier. At Lous-le-Saulnier they still cherish the idea of giving ,Cratiliakli a sword, offering very slender hope. Paris has given time to the provinces, but the provinces have apparently failed to make such use of it as would be neccessary to overpower these hordes of hardy and disciplined Prussians. We fear it will turn out that the harvest is past, the reaping is ended, and that Paris is not saved. Of course, if France will fight on steadily, France must win in the end ; of that there is no doubt. But the symptoms in General Chanzy's army are hardly favourable to fighting on. Yet even so, the struggle will not have been in vain. France has gained self-respect, and knows whom to trust in her adversity. The country is not betrayed, helpless, and leaderless as it would have been had peace been made on the arrogant terms demanded by Germany after the surrender of Sedan. France will have shewn what vast sacrifices she is ready to make to prevent the conquest of even part of her terri tory. Alsace and Lorraine will no longer have it to say that they have been deserted by France without any sin cere struggle to save them from their fate. GENERAL SCHENCK'S MISSION. The Economist thinks if it be possible to settle the moot points between us and America, it is scarcely feasible to exaggerate the importance of doing so. It would make us far safer at home, if safety is what we want. It would make us far stronger abroad, if strength is what we want. It would establish a heartier feeling between two great branches of the same race. And it would prevent, or greatly postpone, the most inconceivably mischievous, hopeless, and murderous of all wars—a war very nearly a civil war in character, but yet stimulated by all the jealousies of national rivalry. And now, in General Schenck's mission, it would seem likely that we really are going to obtain a good opportunity of healing the old sore, and obtaining once more a cordial understanding with the United States. At least if we may trust all the reports which reach tie from the other side of the Atlantic, General Schenck is instructed to abandon all the more grotesque and absurd of the American positions on the Alabama question, and to ask, if not precisely for what we can give, yet for what at least there is a reasonable pretext for asking. And if only England can be persuaded to concede as much as, in our opinion, might be frankly conceded at once, we do not see why General Schenck should not solve the problem which has so long threatened to throw the two countries into war. Of course, we cannot and must not concede anything of tee real justice of which we are not convinced. The practice of buying off an enemy is the most dangerous and fatal, as well as immoral, which can be proposed ; and assuredly it will have no friends in this country. But we feel so sure that had we been at war—and had an Alabama escaped from New York under the sort of circumstances under which this Alabama escaped from Liverpool—England would never have ceased to denounce the gross negligence of America in the case, nor to believe it wilful, that there can be no real sacrifice of dignity in admitting at once the fault of which our administration was guilty. And as for the other cruisers, though no case of this ldnd has yet been produced, or as far as we know, can be produced, it is only fair that where two countries differ so widely as to the evidence, it should be submitted to the judgment of an impartial umpire. At all events, unless the accounts from many quarters as to General Schenck's instructions are utterly belied, the new American Ambassador will bring us quite reasonable, though not perhaps wholly admissible demands—demands which we certainly ought to consider most gravely, and of which we should do well to yield frankly and freely all that we should ourselves feel called upon, in the same circumstances. to press. If we do so, General Schenck's mission may make England safer and stronger than she has ever been since the close of the Civil War in 1865, and will give her a reputation for moderation and candour as well. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE. The Athenamm says :—A curious disco very has been made among Lord Palmerston's papers, namely, his manu- ript diary of two visits to Paris, in the eventful years 1314 and 1815. As the diary was found only after the publication of the Life by Sir H. Bulwer, the Hon. Cowper Temple will give it to the public through the Temple Bar magazine.—Miss. Austen, at her death, left a novel in manuscript, which has been held a sort of sacred treasure by her heirs. It is at length to be pub lished, under the title which the popular author assigned to it, " Lady Susan." It is in one volume, but the book will contain some sketches, also by Miss Austen. —Mr. Charles Cowden Clarke is preparing for the Gentle man's Magazine a series of papers on " The Comic Writers of England."—Real poetry seems to find readers a second edition of Mr. O'Shauglmessy's " Epic of Women " will appear next week ; and• the second edition of the fourth part of " The Earthly Paradise " is already nearly exhausted.—The director of the Alhambra Com pany is to be again summoned by the associated London managers for his performance of stage plays. The new entertainment called " Superba " is the snbject of com plaint. It is obvious that the whole system of theatrical licensing needs revision. The current number of the Graphic contains a sketch of the solar eclipse of December 22nd, as seen from Gibraltar. The funeral of the late Dean Alford will take place on Tuesday next. The early portion of the service will be performed in the Cathedral. Two nail manufacturers at Belper were on Wed nesday fined—one of them in the sum of £l7, including costs—for having unjust weights and measures in their possession, complaints on the subject having been made by their own workmen. The Homeward Mail gives reports of the earth quake that was felt in Scinde in October last. On October 28 two shocks are reported from various places. One report says " the earth quaked for fifteen minutes from east to west, and the people felt sea-sick while the pitch ing continued," and another ascribes it to the fact that the dwellers in Upper Scinde must have specially incurred the displeasure of the gods. Mu. Hours, M.P.—Mr. John Holms, writes a correspondent, in intends to overhaul the Consular depart dent. The theory is, that great reforms and a large .saving of public money might be effected in the depart• meat of the biplomatic Service. A GERMAN VOICE FOR PEACE. The Bavarian journals report a remarkeble speech by M. Kolb, member of the. Second Bavarian Chamber, in the course of the debate on army estimates. Expressing • his conviction that Germany, though victorious, stood in need of peace, he said :—" The representatives of a free people have never, gentlemen, allowed themselves to be deprived •of the right of freely de claring themselves for peace. The case has often occurred in England, the finest pages in the history of Fox being those in which he struggled for peace. . . . I have said victorious Germany is in need of peace. The opposite side replies, Yes, but we must have an honourable peace. Gentlemen, has there ever been a question of any other ? . . . Is every peace dishonourable which does not include a conquest ? I am not at all of that opinion. I rather consider, especially in the case given, that conquest and annexation are as unjust, as imprudent, and prejudicial to the interests of Germany. I regard the annexation of a people who do not wish to be annexed as an injustice. Since I have been able to form a political judgment I have been a partisan of the princi ple of the individual suffrage of nations, I have declared that I consider such annexation as disadvantageous to Germany. You cherish the hope of securing to it a safer frontier in the future. Is it, then seriously believed that the peace and tranquillity so much desired will be secured thereby ? I think the whole world is convinced of the contrary. And now, gentlemen, are the claims we advance on behalf of peace unjustifiable? The military annals of Bavaria are rich in descriptions of sanguinary wars. None among them, with one exception, has caused so much blood to flow as this. If the struggle • for which supplies are asked continues two or three months longer, you may be per suaded that it will have cost more blood than the Russian campaign. In the face of these human heca tombs, gentlemen, I lay aside every other consideration. I will not dwell longer on the other evils of this war, it is enough for me to shew the barbarous and savage customs its brings in its train, and which are about to invade society. How much trade and industry have to bear is not for me to tell. What perturbations are not produced in civil life by the interruptions to the traffic on our railways? It is also a mistake to think that the devastations committed in France injure French men only. Their retroactive and disastrous effect will soon reach our lands, and we shall suffer for long years from the ruins accumulated there. I have but one obser + vation to make in passing. No indemnities for the charges of the war are assured to us ; the expenses increase from day to day, and from day to day the French people will be less in a condition to pay the enormous sums required if the war continues." In the Paris bills of fare at restaurants appear, "con soma ale chien a /a Bismarck," and " ass's ears d la Faxon." One French Officer, imprisoned at Dresden, successfully wooed a rich burghers daughter. The Verlobuny was announced in the papers, the wedding day fixed, when a wife with three children appeared on the scene to forbid the banns. The anti-German element in Alsace, says a Strasburg letter in the Carlsruhe Gazette, is thinking of emigration into the interior of France. Former French officials, Chauvinist a g itators, and other opponents of Germanism are daily leaving. An enterprising house in Lille advertises coats of mail for those who are about to march against the enemy. They are said to possess all the suppleness necessary for yielding to any movement of the body, and to be shot and bayonet proof, besides being within the reach of any purse. - - A report has been current for the last two days in the north that a large number of troops are expected daily at Dunkerque from Cherbourg, to the number, it is stated, of 25,000, to reinforce the Army of the North. It is considered probable by some correspondents that this statement is true. A letter from Alsace says :—" The anti-German spirit comes out in Alsace in every shape ; the ladies in Stras burg wear all tricolour ties and cockades; but these pro testations are powerless ; and when I see the Prussian employes so coolly settled amongst us—when I think they occupy one-third of France, I would fain veil my face for shame and grief." The device proposed for General Moltke's patent, on his being created a Count, was, according to a Berlin paper, " Echt und recht bei Rath und That"—" Honest and right in counsel and action." The King, however, altered it to " Ent ?Dagen, dann wagen"—" First consider, then venture ;" or, to keep the play on the two words wagen and wager,—" First weigh, then up and away." The French officer who made his escape into Russia has been handed over to the Prussian authorities. Five offi - cers interned at Liegnitz have been sent to the fortress of Glogau on account of their having joined in the protest against the restoration of Napoleon which was promoted by the InNpendenee Beige. Why did not the Prussian authorities punish all the 3,000 who signed these protests ? According to the letter of a Bavarian engineer soldier before Paris, a subterranean telegraph was recently dis covered between Forts Vanvres and Issy. He was digging a rifle pit when he found, at a depth of about 18 inches, a cable resembling those laid across the Atlantic. In the centre were seven copper wires surrounded by indiarubber, with a coating of iron wires, hemp, and thin cord. The North German field post transmitted, between the 16th of July and the 31st of December, 67,600,000 letters and corresponding cards, or an average of 400,000 pet day. This represents the correspondence of the troops with their friends at home and vice versa, and also that between soldiers of different regiments with one another. The money orders during the same period numbered 27,885, the amount being 40,424,800 thalers ; of this sum 38,025,000 thalers were forwarded to, and 2,399,800 by the army. A correspondent recently spoke with some of the French prisoners in Germany :—My first question naturally was, what they thought of the Emperor ? The answer was unanimous, he was "un traitre fieffe!" "un coquin sans pareil." All the changes were rung on this theme. I told them that it had been proposed in certain quarters to restore the Emperor by the aid of their bayonets. They laughed, the idea to scorn. Most declared they would not purchase their liberty at such a price ; some few said they would endure even the Empire for the sake of peace. Most were from Sedan. They agreed in thinking MacMahon a great general, only he had been ham pered by the Emperor, and if he had not been wounded that morning, the fortune of the day would have been different. Those from Metz were pretty well unanimous as to Bazaine's treachery; but one or two stuck up for him. The Times correspondent in Paris makes pretty much the same calculation respecting food supplies as those ficnished by other writers. 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