The Sun. — London, England, 1871-01-03 00:00:00

MARKETS. (TELEGRAPHED BY THE CENTRAL PRESS.) METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, MONDAY.-The market has been moderately supplied with meat. There has been a good demand at full quotations. The imports into London last week consisted of 36 bags from Antwerp, 150 packages from Rotterdam, 100 from Harlingen, and 537 from Hamburg. Per 81b5. by the carcase :-Inferior beef, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. : middling do., 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d.; prime large do., 4s. 10d. to ss. ; prime small do., ss. 2d. to ss. 4d. ; inferior mutton, 3s. 4d. to 35."8d,; middling do., 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d. ; prime do., 4s. 10d. to ss. 6d. ; veal, ss. Od. to ss. 4d. ; large pork, 3s. 4d. to 35. Bd. ; small pork, 45. Sd. to ss. Od. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, MONDAY.-Business in the hop market has been limited. Nevertheless, the tone throughout has been steady, and full prices have been realised. The imports into London last week consisted of 25 bales from Antwerp, 186 from Rotterdam, 72 from Dort, 243 from Hamburg, and 55 Bremen. Mid and East Kents, £1 15s. to £7 ; Weald of Kents, £1 15s. to £3 ; Sussex, £1 105. to £3 105. ; Farnham and country, £3 15s. to £6 6s. ; Olds, £1 to £2 10s. per cwt. LONDON WOOL MARKET, MONDAY. - Business has not been extensive, but a fair amount of steadiness has been apparent. Colonial wool has been dealt in quietly, and most descriptions of English have sold heavily. Prices, however, have ruled firm. The imports into London last week consisted of 2,572 bales from Melbourne and about 1,500 bales from the continent. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, MON DAY.—These markets have been sparingly supplied with potatoes. The trade has been - firm, at steady currencies :—Eng lish regents, 60s. to 90s. ; Scotch regents, 60s. to 85s. ; rocks, 60s. to 70$. per ton. LONDON TALLOW MARKET, MONDAY.—The market has been firm. Y.C., spot, 455. 3d. per cwt. Town tallow, 445. nett cash. Stock this day, 38,622 ; price of Y.C., 455. 3d. delivery last week. 1,429 ; do. from June 1, 72,768 ; arrivals last week do. from June 1, 79,130 ; price of town, 465. 6d. CORK BUTTER MARKET, MoNDAL-Ordinary firsts, 1465. ; seconds, 139 s ; thirds, 1225. ; fourths, 112 s. ; fifths, 96s ; sixths, 635. 48 firkins in the market. No change in mild cured. 20 firkins in the market. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY.-At Mark-lane to-day the grain trade has been in a steady state, and although business has not beet brisk, prices have had an upward tendency. The show of English wheat has been rather short, and the demand has lacked actively, but the few transactions effected have been at an en hancement of is. per quarter. With foreign wheat the market has been moderately supplied. With a firm inquiry, Is. per quarter more money has been obtained. The supply of barley has been moderate. The trade has been steady, at fully rate rates. Malt has been inactive, on former terms. With oats the market has been fairly supplied. Sales have progressed steadily, and prices have ruled rather higher. Beans have been firm, and quite as dear. Peas have reached extreme rates, with a lair inquiry. Flour has been firm, and prices have had an upward tendency. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-Although business in the cattle market was not active, prices, owing to the cold weather, ruled firm. 'there was a limited supply of beasts, which sold cautiously, at an occasional advance. The show of sheep was small. The inquiry was slow, but prices were well sustained. Calves and pigs were sold at nominal quotations.- Per 81bs. to sink the offal.-Coarse and inferior beasts, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. ; second quality do„ 4s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. . - prime large oxen, ss. 4d. to ss. Bd. ; 'mime Scots, &c., ss. 10(1. to Os. ; coarse and inferior sheep, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d. ; second quality do., 4s. to 4s. Bd.: prime coarse woolled sheep, ss. 2d. to ss. 10h. ; prime South Down do., 6s. to 6s. 4d. ; large coarse calves, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. ; prime small ditto, ss. to 6s. 2d. ; large hogs, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. ; neat small porkers, ss. 6d. to 6s. 4d. Quarter old store pigs, 225. to 265. each. Arrivals.-English : Beasts, 2,530; sheep, 15,150 ; calves, 7 ; pigs, 65. Foreign: Beasts, 10; sheep, 80. Total : Beasts, 2,540 ; sheep, 15,230 ; calves, 7 ; pigs, 65. --- LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.—The supply of stock was larger than on last Monday. The demand was slow for both cattle and sheep, without much change in prices. Beef, 71d. to 8/d. per lb. Mutton, 70. to 91d. per lb. There were at the market 2,492 cattle, and 8,200 sbeep. THE CROPS. The Mark Lane Express, reviewing the results of a troubled year in the corn trade generally, sums up by saying :—As to wheat the yield could hardly be more variable. Our wants, of course, must be made up by imports. We find for the past year they have been, flour included, about 9,000,000 qrs., and the probability is we shall require as much in 1871. There has been a great falling short from Prussia, and the Minister of Agriculture has furnished statistics shewing that wheat is only three-fourths of an average, while the quality this season is poor, it being badly gathered. America, we are assured, though producing an unusually fine quality, has grown 6,000,000 quarters less than last year. Russia, if peace remain undisturbed, may send her usual quota, and there appears no fear eventually about supplies, if only France be spared the waste and devastation now threatened. We are not therefore in a position to make low prices reasonable, but having already risen 14s. 4d. from our lowest point in March, when it was 40s. 7d., to 545, 11d. in August, and now still 12s. better than we have been, there is of course so much less chance for a heavy ad vance. All our other crops have gone short, oats, beans, and peas seriously so ; and as this is the case in Ger many with all grain, it is clear that as the season ad vances we shall be pretty well cleared out of everything. The past week being a holiday one but little business was generally passing, but the sudden and intense frost put more heart into the country trade, and generally prices were ls. per qr. higher. Such was the case at Hull, Leeds, Newark, Birmingham, Bristol, Brigg, Gains borough, Louth, Market Rasen, Manchester, &c., while Stockton made the advance is. to 25., and Melton Mow bray even more. Liverpool was 3d. to 4d. higher per cental on Friday. A NEW INDIAN SCANDAL. Two important official papers, deeply affecting the Public Works Department, occupy the chief place in the news from India. The Homeward Mail says that last May a building, in course of erection at Allahabad, intended for a gun-carriage factory, fell, killing several labourers. A:committee of inquiry was appointed, and its duties extended to an examination of the new barracks at Allahabad, about which there had been many rumours, The committee having made its report, the Government passed two important resolutions which are now made public. As regards the factory fifty-four paragraphs con vey the opinion of the Viceroy in Council in a manner which must be keenly felt, not merely by those to whom personal allusion is made, but by the whole department. The superintending engineers in charge of the circle whilst the various buildings for the factory were in progress were—Lieutenant-Colonel C. D. Newmarch, R.E., from January 6, 1868, to October 31, 1868 • Major F. H. Cobbe, R A., from November 1, 1868, to April 13, 1869 ; Lieutenant-Colonel H. Rose, S.C., from April 13, 1869, to May 2, 1870 ; Li eu t ena nt-Colonel F. Alexander, S.C. from May 2, 187 0 , to the present time. The first-mentioned officer died two years ago ; Major Cobbe's services in the department are dispensed with ; Colonel Rose is found to have signally failed to pay due regard to the responsibilities of his office ; and notwithstanding long service, two other instances of failure of duty having come before the Government, his services are also placed at the disposal of the Military Department. Colonel Alexander is removed to a lower grade ; Major J. Jackson's unfitness necessi tates his removal from the department ; and Mr. R. J. Clarke is cautioned—not being held free from blame. Colonel Hodgson, who occupied the position of Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the N or th-Western, Provinces in the Public Works Department, and whose "ability zeal, method, untiring industry,. and devotion to this work" during long service in the Public Works Department are fully appreciated, still comes under censure. The Government regrets that a sense of duty renders it necessary to animadvert strongly also on his conduct in relation to these unfortunate public works. His Excellency in Council feels it impos sible, under the circumstances, to absolve the head of the department from blame for a failure which has resulted in the severe punishment of so many of the officers subordi nate to him." The whole affair is described in the resolution as a " de plorable history of negligence, incapacity, and corruption— negligence in the conduct of every superior officer who was connected with the supervision of these buildings from the beginning ; incapacity to a greater or less extent of almost every subordinate concerned in the work of construction, corruption on the part of those who supplied the worth less materials ' • and it is impossible to avoid the suspicion that some of the inferior subordinates must also havebeen aware of the organised system in the adulteration of the lime which was practised throughout." This notifica tion has produced a great sensation in official ranks in The Municipal Council of Moscow, having in their congratulatory address to the Czar on the Black Sea question asked for the liberty of the press and the tolera tian of all religions, besides other reforms, their address has been returned to them with a reprimand. The Right Hon. J. Stansfeld, M.P., Secretary to the Treasury, has arranged to address his constituents, at liplifax, on or about the 19th instant. in conjunction with his colleague, Colonel Akroyd. Mr. Stansfeld is expected also to preside at the annual soirée of the Halifax Mechanics' Institute, to be held about the same date. A SCHOOL BOARD FOR BRISTOL.—An order has been received for the election of a school board which is to consist of fifteen members. The two political parties are engaged in negotiations to prevent a contest on the basis of admitting eight Conservative Churchmen, and seven Liberal-Dissenters. The working roan candidates, if proposed, will stand no chance. THE INFLUX, OF ORGAN-GRINDERS INTO THE METROPOLIS.—At the Clerkenwell Police-court, several padrones, the masters of Italian organ-grinders, were summoned for " unlawfully 'reeeiving divers lodger's in a common lodging-house" whichNird not been approved and registered according to the Common Lodging -house Act, 1851. Mr. Ricketts, wh) defended in all the cases, contended that the defendants not come under the Lodging-house Act. 'ltalians were called, who asserted, on behalf of three of the defendants, that they gave all their money, and no fixed sum, to their pads-ones. The magistrate said he should take time to consider his judg ment in three of the cases, but, he had no doubt in one case. He fined the defendani.2os. with costs. FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN OFKICEII IN JAPAN.— A deplorable accidert, which teannnated fatally, oc curred at the Camp Yok o ha ma o h the 22nd of October. Lieutenant Wedge, of her Majesty's Ist-10th Regiment,. was examining the barr e l s o f his pistol, when one exploded, and the ball passed through his b o dy, piercing the panel of a neighbouring hut door, and wounding a seijeant of the regiment on the head. Medical assistance was at once rendered, but death ensued within a few hours. The sergeant is doing well. An inquest was held on the body at the camp, and a verdict of Accidental Death returned. The funeral was per formed i with full military honours , and in accordance with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church , of which the de ceased was a member. It was gratifying to see that a large number of French officers were in attendance.— Japan Weekly Mail. THE REVENUE. The revenue tables for the quarter and the year ending the 31st of December are published. The revenue re ceived during the whole year is is £71,268,955, shewing an increase over 1869 of £553,581. There is a decrease in customs of £1,868,000, almost covered, however, by an increase of £1,698 in excise ; shewing that while our trade has fallen off our consumption of alcholic beverages and luxuries has largely grown, There is also a decrease of £345,000 from stamps, £71,000 from property tax, and .£50,000 from the Post Office. On the other hand, there is an increase of £197,000 assessed taxes, £500,000 telegraph service, Crown lands; £16,000, and miscellaneous £476,581. The actual receipts for the year have been :—Customs, £20,205,000 ; Excise, £22,437,000 ; Stamps, £9,020,000 ; Taxes, 2,971,000 ; Property Tax, £7,460,000 ; Post-office, £4,650,000 ' • Tele graph Service, £500,000; Crown Lands, £379,000; Mis cellaneous, £3,646,955 ; total, £71,268,955. The total in 1869 was 270,715,374. The balances shew a net deficiency of £5,911,303; but :.flowing for the reductions in the budget, there seems, to the Times, every prospect that Mr. Lowe will be able in April to shew a surplus on his estimate of something like £4500,000, MR. RUSKIN AND THE WORKMEN OF GREAT BTITAIN. Under the title of " Fors Clavigera," Mr. John Ruskin, the eminent art critic, has published, in a pamphlet form, the first of a series of letters "to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain." Let ter 1 is dated " Denmark-hill, Ist January, 1871," and commences : " Friends, —We begin to-day another group of ten years, not in happy circumstances. I am not an unselfish person, nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, neither do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else that I like, and the very light of the morning sky, when there is any— which is seldom nowadays, near London—has be come hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of, and see signs of, where I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too bit terly. Therefore, as I have said, I will endure it no longer quietly ; but henceforward, with any few or many who will help, do my poor best to abate this misery. But that I may do my best, I must not be miserable myself any longer ; for no man who is wretched in his own heart, and feeble in his own work, can rightly help others. Now my own special pleasure has lately been connected with a given duty. I have been ordored to en deavour to make our English youth care somewhat for the arts ; and must put my uttermost strength into that business. To which end I must clear myself from all sense of responsibility for the material distress around me, by explaining to you, once for all, in the shortest English I can, what I know of its causes ; by pointing out to you some of the methods by which it might be relieved ; and by setting aside regularly some small per centage of my income, to assist, as one of yourselves, in what one andall we shall have to do; each of us laying by something, according to our means, for the common ser vice; and having amongst us at last, be it ever so small, a national store instead of a national debt. Store which, once securely founded, will fast increase, provided only you take the pains to understand, and have perseverance to maintain, the elementary principles of human economy, which have of late not only been lost sight of, but wil fully and formally entombed under pyramids of falsehood." Mr. Ruskin is anxious that working men should understand " what money is and how it is got, and what it is good for, and bad for." Mr. Ruskin begs those he specially addresses to convince themselves of the greatly comfortable, greatly formidable fact, that their prosperity is in their own hands—that only in a remote degree does it depend on external matters, and least of all, on forms of government. He points out what he considers the ridiculousness of the divi sion of parties into Liberal " and " Conservative,' and maintains that there is no opposition between those two kinds of men. " There is," he says, "opposition between Liberals and Illiberals ; that is to say, between people who desire liberty and who dislike it. lam a violent Illiberal ; but it does not follow that I must be a Conser vative." MR. FAWCETT, M.P., ON THE CONDITION OF EN6L kND. In the .Fortnightly Review for this month, Mr. Fawcett has written a very able article, headed "To what extent is England prosperous?" of which the following is an extract :—"The well being of a country cannot be mea sured by its exports and imports ; the true test is to ascertain how many people are there in it who have made a proper provision for inevitable con tingencies, and are in a position to discharge the responsibilities which they have assumed." It is idle to congratulate ourselves upon our vast national wealth when we know that as each winter recurs there are in the richest metropolis in the world 150,000 paupers. Except in two or three exceptionally situated counties, the agri cultural labourers are unable to save from their wages sufficient to maintain them for a fortnight. And that this applies with almost equal force to other employ ments, is shewn by the rapidity with which, upon any depression of trade, as, for instance, in Lancashire during the American war, the operatives were compelled • to apply for relief. This unfortunate state of things is not to be remedied by State assistance to emigration. The Statr must either grant assistance to all who apply for it, or to those only who are unable to emigrate. In the first case, we should empty the country of all its most energetic and enterprising labourers ; in the second, we should be imposing a tax upon the industrious and prudent for the benefit of the improvident and the idle." SALE OF RACING STUD AT. TATTERSALL'S. The first sale of horses for the new year at Tattersall's took place yesterday, two lots of which excited more than ordinary attention. The first lot was that of horses in training sold without reserve, by order of the exe cutors of the late Mr. Joseph Luxon, which went at the following prices :—Woodland Mary, f., 3 years old, by Defender, out of Calot, 17 guineas ; Plenipotentiary, g., 5 years, by Musjid, out of Mary. by Idle Boy, 50 guineas ; Devizes, g., 3 years, by Defender, out of Hopeful Duchess, 24 guineas ; Miss Barrington, 4 years, by Skirmisher, out of Mary, by Idle Boy, 17 guineas ; Oxygen, c.m., 4 years, by Defender, out of Madeline, 26 guineas ; Aynho, g., 3 yeais, by Defender, out of Ada de Clare, 17 guineas ; Several brood mares, the boxes, and two-year-olds went for similarly low prices, and the auctioneer said the ani mals were being almost "given away." The sale of stallions belonging to the same owners met with no better luck. Defender, by Melbourne or Windham, out of Ellen Horne, went for 80 guineas ; Ariel, by Voltigeur, out of the Wizard's dam, 42 guineas ; and Langham, by Rattle, out of Subterfuge, for 31 guineas. The next sale was a draft of horses in training from the stud of T. E. Walker Esq. ; those having engagements to be sold under Lord Exeter's con ditions—no forfeits for not running, Sir George, 3 years, by Claret, out of Columbine ; engage ments for 1871, The Derby, 12th Stamford Bien nial at Wolverhampton, Great Yorkshire Stakes, St. Leger, and Doncaster Stakes ; 3.5 guineas. Fresh man, 3 years, by Oxford out of ild Beauty; engaged in the Column Stakes, Newmarket Craven Meeting, Epsom Derby, and the Grand Prize of Paris ;_ 15 guinea. Ainsty, 3years, by Lord Clifden out of Lady Grosvenor ; engaged in the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, New market First Spring Meeting, Midsummer Stakes, July Meeting, St. Leger, Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, Drawing Room Stakes at Goodwood, Great Yorkshire Stakes, St. Leger, Doncaster Stakes, and Second Year of the Third Beaufort Biennial ; 690 guineas. Notwith standing the dulness of prices, the attendance was large. WKECK OF A BARQUE.—The barque Coromandel of Liverpool, from Philadelphia, laden with petroleum/ oil, went ashore on Sunday, at one o'clock, and became a total wreck. The crew of nineteen hands were all saved. Part of the cargo is likely to be saved. THE LAST AMERICAN GRIEVANCE.—It is under stood that the Government has issued instructions to the cruisers in the Canadian waters to the effect that, while the inquiry into the action of the Fishery Laws is pending, they are not to seize any more United States ships.-- Dundee Advertiser. CANADA—THE WITHDRAWAL OF BRITISH TROOPS. —The New York Times of the 20th ult. says " The Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, in reply to a deputation who asked permis sion to open a railroad through grounds formerly used by the British troops, in Kingston, Ontario, said he was convinced British troops would be back within five years." A WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.—On Sunday the wife of a gardener named Handley was burned to death in Stirling. Handley and his wife had, it is alleged, been quarrelling, and he left the house, locking the door. On returning, an hour and a-half later, he called in assistance to lift the charred corpse of his wife, which was lying on the floor near the fire. Handley has been lodged in prison, charged with complicity in his wife's death. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS CHRISTIAN.—Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, accom panied by Colonel and Mrs. George Gordon, left Frog more at 12.20 p.m.,yesterday, and drove to the Slough station of the Great Western line, at which place the 12.30 p.m. train from Paddington specially stopped for the purpose of conveying their Royal Highnesses to Rea.ding, from whence they proceeded on the Basingstoke line to Gosport, en route to Osborne, to visit her Majesty and the Royal Family. SMUGGLING CASE. —At nine o'clock yesterday morning two customs' officers stationed at St. Aubyn's Quay, observed a boat pushing off towards the Henri, a French vessel, which had not obtained a clearance note. The officers having suspicions, gave chase, and coming up with the boat jumped into it, and found in it 2501b5. of tobacco, which had not passed the Customs. The vessel was taken to St. Helier's, and detained, pending orders from the Department, Somerset House. EXETER CATHEDRAL.—Exeter Cathedral is to be restored, and towards the cost one member of the chapter alone has given.£s,ooo, and four other individuals subscribed £2.000 amongst them, The chapter gave 40,680, but the nobility and gentry of Cornwall and Devon only subscribed £3,390. The architects, Mr. Gilbert Scott and his son, will devote their attention simply to therestora tion, preservation, and better display of the ancient features of the sacred edifice. The works will be com menced at once. TRUCK COMMISSION AT BIRMINGHAM. The Truck Commission opened at the Town Hall, Birming ham, yesterday morning. Persons in the service of Messrs. Griffiths and Foster, Wednesbury, gave evidence. Henry Dudey, the shop cheque clerk, said that others than employes dealt at the company's shop ; did not know what workmen did. or did not deal there.— George Holloway, shop manager, attended fairs, and bought cattle. The company had a farm for grazing. Witness bought the best he could. Private persons often gave the company's shop the preference. The names of the men who did not deal at the shop were not taken domin. Witness had never known men spoken to for not dealing there. Silas Lees, cashier, said in 1869 £24,500 waxspent itthe shop. £4,000 of this was spent by Butties, £1,900 by managers and foremen, £17,000 by workmen and £3,500 by private persons. - _ UNUSUAL PUBLIQATION OF BANNS 1W A CLERGY MAN.—The Irish Timls remarks : A very unusual occur rence took place in Castleknock Church on Sunday last, and will be repeated, we presume, on the next two Sun days. The rector published his own banns of marriage, and also those of his son. The former is to be united next month to a rich heire*s. in Sussex, shortly after she comes of age, and the latter to the eldest daughter of one of the masters in the Court of Chancery, who is nearly related to several of the noblest familieS in Ireland. It is a strange coincidence that the two fathers of the younger couple are about to marry their grandnieces, which, though an un usual connection, has beeu pronounced by Dr. Stephens, the highest legal authority on the subject, to be strictly in accordance with the laws of God and man, and is, we fancy, more remote than that of first cousins, which has been sanctioned by the example of some of the highest dignitaries in Church and State. SUN, LONDON, T IJES DA Y , JANUARY 3, 1871. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The War Office has at last made arrangements for the immediate production of a large number of Henry-Mar tini rifles for the army. The Flying Squadron, under the command of Rear Admiral F. B. Seymour, C. 8., will leave England to-day. It is feared that the Psyche, which struck on a sunken rock off Cape Molino, with the Eclipse Expedition, is like to become a perfect wreck. SERIOUS CHARGE OF PERJURY. At the London Mansion House, John Roberts, an accountant's clerk, appeared before the Lord Mayor to answer a charge of perjury. rine case was opened for the prosecutor by Mr. Straight, and the circumstances appeared to be of a peculiar character. The prosecutor was Mr. George Scott, an accountant of high standing, carrying on business in Bond-court, Walbrook, and the defendant had been a clerk in his service. Mr. Scott had been employed in connection with a number of public companies, and in July, 1866, he was appointed liquidator of the Finance Company, (Limited). On receiving that appointment, he employed Mr. Ditton as solicitor to the liquida tion. Eventually Mr. Scott employed Mr. Mayhew, another solicitor, to act in the matter. In July 1870, Mr. Scott sent in his account to the Court of Chancery, amounting to £479185. 7d., and in the usual course it went before the Chief Clerk, before whom Mr. Ditton attended to oppose it, bat the amount was paid on the 3rd of August. Subse quently a summons was filed in the Court of Chancery by Mr. Ditton,t calling upon him to refund £250 of the amount that had been paid to him for his services as liquidator, and this summons, which was afterwards dismissed, was supported by an affidavit sworn by the defendant Roberts. In it he stated that the account ought not to have amounted to more than about £250. The books of Mr. Scott, it was alleged, had been made to correspond with the account so sent in. This was the statement upon which the charge of perjury was assigned, and Mr. Straight said Mr. Scott would state that the assertionssontained in the affidavit were utterly untrue. Mr. Scott, the prosecutor, was called, and positively denied the truth of the statements in the affidavit made by the defendant, and said that to the best of his belief the account was perfectly accurate. After some further evidence the inquiry was adjourned. NEWS FROM IRELAND. The chairman of County Down quarter sessions—Mr. Robert Johnstone, Q.C.— took the opportunity on Friday, in opening the sessions for the Downpatrick district of the county, to make some observations on the provisions of the Land Act and their probable operation. It was, he said, a startling fact that there were no less than 36 eject- ment cases set down for hearing, a number for that one district exceeding the entire number he had ever had at one session in the four towns. The Land Act was perhaps the most important affecting the farming classes which had been passed by the Legis lature during the present century. The changes would not be so much felt in that part of the country, he said, where the relations of landlord and tenant stand in such a favourable light, compared with other parts of Ireland. Yet, nevertheless, this startling programme of cases stared him in the face, which he presumed were, for the most part, merely brought to test the Act. He could not see how any Legislature, having due regard for the rights of landed property, could be expected to go further to secure to the tenant the fruits of his labour and the stability of his tenure, because he apprehended when the landlord knew that he could not disturb or remove the tenant without compensating him for the disturbance and, at the same time, paying him for improvements made upon the farm, there would be few found to encounter such an expense as would be r ecessary to evict. A strong guard of police still continue night and day to hold possession of Walker's Pillar and the bastion on which it stands, so that no civilian can be admitted. The Waterford Militia is being recruited, as well as the other regiments of the force. A local paper says that the other day the staff and band paraded the city at an early hour, to announce an order received from the Government to enrol for the cows. During the day nearly all the old hands were taken on, and about forty new recruits. The regiment is to be called out early in February for three months, and in all probability much longer. The moving bog near Castlerea, County Mayo, con tinues to excite apprehension. There is fear that the town may be destroyed if the efforts to arrest the march of the bog are not successful. Numbers of labourers are employed to prevent such a catastrope. A goodly area of the upland has been covered, and some houses and farms, with the crop of the late harvest, literally de stroyed. The mass of peat and mud has spread over a course of some miles, covering, it is computed, between 2,000 and 3,000 acres. A Dublin correspondent writes :—On Sunday in almost every Episcopal Church in Dublin reference was made from the pulpit to the altered circumstances of the Irish Protestant Church, the Act disestablishing it having now come into force. It was generally made matter of congratulatiln that during the year 1870 so much had been done, with tolerable success, to reconstruct it on a new basis. There was very little political matter in the sermons, and collections were made everywhere in aid of a Sustentation Fund. In a mercantile point of view, the year 1870 has been favourable for Ireland. The agricultural classes have been benefited by the high prices for all descriptions of live stock, and there is no want of money in the country ; credit is sound, and bankruptcies and insolvencies are comparatively rare. Railway traffic, too, has increased in all directions, including the lines in the North, where the dulness in the linen trade was calculated to produce an adverse effect, and several projects for branches and extensions will come before Parliament in the ensuing Session. When some of these proposals shall have been carried out, and it is stated they are partly supported by the London and North-Western Company, there will be unbroken communication by rail between North, South, East, and West, as the principal lines will be then connected together on the north side of Dub lin. The scheme of " The Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway Company," which was intended to do this, and to join all with the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford line by a tunnel under the River Liffey, will in effect be carried out, with the exception of the tunnel. It seems also worthy of remark that the port of Dublin is becoming every day more important, and the connection of the northern and southern lines of railway, now pushing their way down to the river side, as has been long since done by the Midland Great Western, will add to its facilities and consequent value.—Times' Dublin Correspondent. DEATH OF LORD HENRY BENTINCE.-011 Satur day night Lord Henry Bentinck died suddenly at Tath well Hall, near Louth, Lincolnshire. His lordship was in his 67th year. He was well known in that county, and all over England, as a great sportsman. For many years he was master of the Burton hunt, and was also a celebrated deerstalker and angler. GUN LICENCES.—Since the herd weather has set in the post offices in suburban districts have been be sieged by small bird shooters for a ten shilling gun licence. , Hitherto the Gun Licence Act was a complete blank. The lowest penalty for using a gun without a license is 505., and the highest £lO and costs. THE LATE MR. GEORGE WILSON.—It is said that the late Mr. George Wilson might many times have been returned to Parliament ; but he always contended that he could serve his party much more effectually out of doors. It is a singular fact that, although often consulted by the leaders of political movements in London, he hardly ever addressed a public meeting in the metropolis, at least since the period of the anti-corn-law demonstrations in Covent Garden Theatre. THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.—lnstead of there being only five candidates for the secretaryship of the Lcindon School Board, there are at least twice or thrice that number. As for the lesser clerkships, the candidates for these are so numerous as to provoke the committee al most to despair, and many of them, moreover, are men of high qualifications. Until these preliminary matters are settled, it is impossible that the Board can get to work on the education of the metropolis. The solitary clerk whose services they now command has been lent to them by the Corporation of London. In the list of candi• dates for the secretaryship we find the names of the Rev. T. H. Lindsay Leary, M.A., D.C.L., lately the editor of the Rock newspaper, and of Mr. George St. Clair, F. G.S. NOTES FROM INDIA. By the Brindisi route we have received the Indian mails to date December 10. We extract the following heads of intelligence from the Bombay Gazette : Mr. Hume, Commissioner of Customs at Calcutta, has been appointed to act for Mr. E. C. Bayley as Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department during Mr. Bayley's short period of leave. The ap pointment has been unfavourably criticised in some quarters. There has been a report in Calcutta, apparently not well founded, that Sir William'Muir, at present Lieute nant-General of the North Western Provinces, was likely to succeed Sir William Grey as Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. - The reduction of postage on letters to England rid Brin disi to eight annas (from ten annas eight pies), beginning with the present mail, has given much satisfaction. There is no reduction for papers. It is understood that the equipment of all fortifica tions, inland and seaboard, in India has occupied the attention of the home authorities, and that detailed instructions have been sent out by the Secretary of State, with orders to have them promptly acted upon, in view to thorough efficiency against any possible necessity for being called into requisition. The Bangalore Hera'd tells us that two gentlemen bearing her Majesty's commission behaved in a manner the reverse of decorous at St. Andrew's Kirk, Bangalore, on Sunday evening last. One of them has been placed under arrest. Colonel Layard, who went to England on special duty with the Nawab Nazim, and has returned to India, is re• posted to Bengal, as a superintending engineer, 2nd grade, in the Public Works Departmeot. The British India Steam Navigation Company is about to commence running a regular monthly line of steamers between Mauritius, Galle, and Bombay. Caytain Beyts left on the lst December to take up the appointment of agent at Mauritius. General Tom Thumb and his wife arrived at Madras on the 3rd December. The Rev. R. P. Greaves, of the Church Mission Society, has died of fever, contracted whilst pursuing his duties at Burdwan. Telegraphic communications are re-established between Bordeaux and Lille. The Russians, when their last order shall have been completed, in April, will, says the Standard, be in posses sion of 420 Gatlings, whereas up to the present moment the British Government has only ordered twelve. A court martial is to be held at Bordeaux, uuderal General Jaureguiberry, on the soldiers and officers who have failed in their duty in the last campaign. This is in order to secure in that town those fugitives who have abandoned_their companies. Mr. Richard Wallace, who has inherited the large for tune of the late Marquis of Hertford, has shewn great lberality to the Parisians. He has just added to his former donations the sum of two hundred thousand francs, which he desires may be spent in procuring firing for the poor. M. Charnal, editor of a Lyonnese paper, the Guapron, has just been arrested at Marseilles, under the assumed name of Robert. He has published a list of the great fortunes of Lyons, which is found to tally exactly with a document seized at Dijon among the papers of a Prussian staff officer. The Municipal Council of Toulouse has presented its collective resignation to the Prefect of the Haute Garonne, because the Government hai not appealed to universal suffrage. The Prefect, while protesting against the com plication of the political and military situation by electoral agitation, has agreed to transmit the resignation to the Government. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says : " When at last the Christmas boxes arrived in France it was decidedly melancholy, and a tear came into many a stern warrior's eye whon he thought of home. Yet it cannot be helped, for it is the warrior's lot. Winter has reached its turning point, the sun will come again, and perhaps find us still in France, for the contest must be fought out once for all." An amusing story is told of a Marine of the Paris army who took a Prussian soldier prisoner. They were talking together in a friendly way, and the Prussian asked, "What do you eat in Paris now?" " Everything of the best," was the reply. " Beef ?" "No ; our beef was finished some time ago." " Mutton ?" "No : there is none of that left." " Horseflesh ?" "No ; all our horses are eaten up." " What do you eat, then?" "Why, we eat our prisoners, and we find Clem excellent." The manager of the Luxemburg railway, says that the Grand Ducal lines have transported much more food for the use of Germans than for the French. In fact twenty five times as much has been sent for the former as for the latter. It is true that provisions were sent by Thionville for France ; but a neutral country has the right to use its railways for the transport of regularly authorised merchandise, and neither the railway company nor the Luxemburg Government could justly refuse to serve either the one state or the other. The Emperor's secret papers reveal the curious fact that M. Glais-Bizoin, a member of the present French Govern ment, composed seven years ago a comedy entitled, "True Courage ; or, a Triangular Duel and a Woman for Stakes." It was to be acted at the Thdatre du Gymnase, Paris, but the Government censor passed the following judgment on it, which of course prevented its performance :—" These scenes where the shameful recriminations of socialism against law and order are displayed in all their violence and brutality, and which recall to us the worst days of revolutions, seem to us inadmissible." In the address presented to M. Crdmieux on the 23rd ult. by the Municipal Council of Bordeaux, he was urged to make the Republic respected by enforcing the laws against all who profit by the national disasters fo make disturbances. Crdmieux replied in a long speech, and agreed as to the necessity of such severity, but said that Paris, the seat of the Government of which the Ministers at Bordeaux were but delegates, did not understand this other danger, and said, "Let us drive out the Prussians first ;we will see to the rest afterwards! " There had been so little change in the officials throughout the country that, except in the invaded districts, there was, Crd mieux said, little change in the aspect of France. The semi-official Provincial Correspondence is of opinion that if Paris falls in a few weeks the French operations and preparations in the west and south need give no ap prehension, but that if a longer interval elapse new cam paigns will have to be undertaken, the bare possibility of which ought to induce as large reinforcements as possible. These would convince the enemy of the uselessness of further resistance, and, if necessary, would render prac ticable an advance southwards immediately on the sur render of Paris, without prejudice to the occupation of the northern provinces. At Berlin numerous recruits are being collected, who were enrolled early in October, and have since been thoroughly drilled. Every regiment will thus be strengthened by from 400 to 600 young and fresh soldiers. The reduction of Paris by famine, remarks a German paper, will be no new phenomenon in history. De Thou says of 19A, when Henry IV. lay before Paris, "the con sternatiox of this city had indeed become extreme. The want of rrovisions had so weakened not only the inhabi tants but also the troops which had come to their help, that they were no longer in a position to defend them. selves. People in Paris forgot what meat was, and the army mild only subsist on leaves or roots which they dug up between the citones. Saucepans stood in the public scuares and at the corners of streets, in which the only kini of nourishment, oatmeal gruel, was prepared. The most terrible diseases broke out. In three months more than 12,000 persons died." THE EX-EMPRESS.—On New Year's Day the Duc de Persigny, the Marquis de Lavalette and his son, Baron termite David, M. Itouher, M. Bouville, and fifty or sixty of the principal French families now residing in this cotntry were received by her Majesty the Empress of the French at Chislehurst, • GEAm A N OPINION OF THE FRENCH.-1)l'. Rus sell writes from headquarters at Versailles : —lt -affords occupation and amusement to the Staff to read the letters in the captured balloons. The study has had a curious result. In former letters I remarked on the extraordi nary ignorance which prevailed in and among Germans of French literature. It is not, of course, anything profound as the Bceotian darkness of the Gallic mind concerning Germans and Germany, but still remarkable on the part of such a well-instructed people. When we were before Phalsbourg I found no one had ever heard of Erckmann- Chatrain's novels. The study of sacks full of letters which has been forced on the Staff has very much altered their ?iews of the character of their enemies. They are astonithed to find that there are French husbands who love their own wives and French wives who are devoted to their own husbands. They are as tonisted to discover evidences of noble qualities of heart and head on the part of a people whom they have despised as frivolous, false, and evil, and to meet with an intensity of domestic affection and family love—a depth of filial and paternal love which Germans highly appre ciate. They are struck, too, by the heroic spirit—a far ' higher feeling than the display of desperate and reckless obstinacy—which animates them in resisting an enemy who appears to be irresistible. The result is, I may safely say, that the German officers of whom I speak have a greater respect than they ever had for the French nation. MARSHAL PRIM. Marshal Prim, whose melanclioly death has just startled Europe, has filled a prominent place in the his tory of his time. He was a hatWof Reus, a small town in Catalonia, where he was bOrn on the 6th of December, 1814, having just completed his fifty-fourth year. The first military exploits of the future Field Marshal were performed in the civil war which followed the succession of Isabella 11. to the Spanish Throne in 1833. He espoused the cause of the Regent Maria Christina, and was re warded four years later with the grade of colonel. After the flight of the Regent he joined the Progressists, in opposing the dictatorship of Espartero, and was forced to fly into France in consequence of his complicity in the Saragossa outbreak of 1842. While in France he assisted Maria Christina in scheming for her restoration ; but in 1843 he was able to return to Spain. being elected deputy by Barcelona. He was soon in difficulties again, however, for having instigated an insurrection in Reus, his native place. He was driven thence by Espartero's agents, and took refuge in Barcelona, until the fall of Espartero and the triumph of the Regent elevated him to the rank of general of the Spanish army and Governor of Madrid. The alliance which, during the days of opposition, had I united the moderate party and the Democrats, did not, however, last long under the sunshine of success. Barce lona, which had sheltered Prim, broke out into insurrec tion on behalf of liberal principles. It was hoped that Prim's popularity would enable him to pacify the malcontents, but the hope was vain. For a whole year Prim had to dispute Catalonia inch by inch against his old comrade Amettler. This ungracious office brought him into disrepute with the people, who regarded him as a traitor, while the Queen on her side was not likely to for give his liberal opinions. He was accused of conspiring against the Government and of plotting the assassination of Narvaez. He had no difficulty in clearing himself from the latter charge, but was less successful with regard to the former, and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. This was afterwards 'educed to six months on the intercession of his: mother, the mother whom the kingmaker turned aside fronian.official journey to visit last year. After being released Prim held aloof from politics for nine years, but in 18531ae went to Turkey, and took part in the Russian war. The first successes gained by the Turks on the Danube were at tributed to him. Spain, fruitful in revolutions, had re joiced in one during his absence, but when lie returned to Madrid, being again elected Deputy, he was faithful to his monarchical sentiments, and voted with the rest of the Progressist party for the maintenance of the throne, upholding, however, a liberal policy. He had the distinction of being the only member of, the Progressist party re-elected to the Cortes in 1857, after the final triumph of royalty and the ap pointment of Narvaez. During the next few years Prim distinguished himself as a soldier rather than a politician,, and the brilliant successes he achieved against the Moors, at Marabout and elsewhere won him the title.of Marquis of Castillejos, with the rank of a Spanish grandee.• At 1 • the close of 1861 he was sent to Mexico at the head of an expeditionary force, and was one of the, principal authors of . the Convention of Soledad in• February, 1862., He soon found himself in an awkward: position, as the French were scheming to establish a; Mexican throne for an Austrian. archduke. Prim took' ) upon himielf the responsibility :of breaking, off all rely-; tions with the French, and after protest favour of Mexican Independence, he returned with his whole force to Spain, where his condu.at - wa.s fully ap 7 ; proved by Government and Cortes. His political vicisSi-: tudes were as yet but half done. In , August,:lB64, he, was imprisoned at Oviedo, for sharing in a. military plot;, and for his vehement opposition in the Cortes. • He went , abroad, having escaped from his prison, but was recalled to Madrid the next year, and then waged a fierce opposi-, tion to O'Donnell. After this he led the movement for Iberian unity, and the substitution of the House of Braganza for the Bourbons. A revolt was clued in 1866, but the government • took „active, measures, declared a state of siege, and gave orders that Prim should be , pursued" /into the mountains of Aragon and Catalonia, where- he was making his arrangements for retreating to Portugal. The Senate gave leave to summon Prim before a military tri bnnal; but he had by this time crossed the frontier with :some hundreds of men, and had reached -Lisbon. His . silty mis not long, for a. manifesto which he addressed to the-Spani;h nation - forced him to leave Portugal, and; drove him to London.- In September the same year he re- , app,earedinSpain to assist another revolutionary movement- , but it again broke down, and the leaders were compelled. to embark hastily in order to avoid the consequences. The often-repeated attempt was, however, made ,with success two-years later, and Prim was . one of the prime, movers in the yeyolution- which sent • Isabella 11. from her ; throne; It was he who.issued the official bulletin of the. - xeyblution;. and who compelled the surrender of Cartha gega:by the threat of bombardment with three insurgent frigates. When he returned to Madrid, after this achievement, he was received with the greatest enthu siasm, and cries of " Viva Prim Emperador !" were raised. Prim's great wealth was • always liberally dis pensed, and it was believed this had something to do with the vehemence of his partisans. For his own part he always proclaimed his readiness to accept the will of the nation whatever. it might be, though he made no secret of his personal preference for a constitutional monarchy. The rest of the Provisional Government accepted the same programme. Prim was War Minister and Captain-General of the army, but it was felt from the first that though Serrano was the nominal Regent, Prim was the 'real head of the government. He had a difficult task to restore order; especially in the army, and ditt.not shrink from rigorous measures to enforce discipline, which the repeated insurrections had greatly weakened. Whatever were the changes of the Government, he re tained the head of the War Office and the Presidency of the Cabinet. It needed a firm hand to repress the troubles which broke out in Valencia, which entailed a bombard ment and the proclamation of a state of siege. General Prim, however, was the first to propose this should be raised after two months. On the resignation of Admiral Topete, Prim held the office of Minister of Marine ; and, in fact, during any crisis he was ready to fill any of the temporary vacancies of the Cabinet. The various plots and conspiracies, Isabellist, Carlist, and others, kept him constantly employed. The Ultramon tanes were an especial source of trouble, but Prim met them by declaring firmly that all decisions of the (Ecumenical Council opposed to the votes of the Cortes would be considered null and void. Prim paid a visit to Paris in 1869 to obtain the support of France in the Cuban difficulty, and its attendant complications. His schemes as King maker are well known, and he has been ridiculed for his rapid changes of candidature. In refe renCe to the Hohenzollern candidature, it is said that the suggestion, at first made more than a year ago, bad been altogether laid aside, and by the Spanish Cabinet and Cortes had virtually been forgotten, when it was secretly revived by an intriguing agent of Prince Charles of Roumania, and adopted by Prim, chiefly, it is believed, because at the moment he was at fault for a king, all his other candidates having successively refused to be put in nomination. The King of Prussia, had nothing to do with, nor did he bestow on the matter a serious thought until the Regent Serrano had actually given the. plan his sanction. It is, moreover, a curious faet not generally • known, that the first assurance given to the French Government that Prilice Leopold withdrew from the perilOus position into whmc he had been; .with out any volition or effort Of Mary 8%6, thrust by his own ambitious brother, was pirest&fic3tileDuke de Gramont by an agent of Prince CharlesCharles,'specialy sent for the purpose, and not by algy'mei4er - cif the Legation at Paris. One who knew Prim well during his residence in England, says that he always spoke forbearingly of the faults and errojs of Queen Tsalaella,. to whose cause he. had been devoted, and Whose ,son he would have been personally wiliing tO °. see eleVated to the throne, had he believed it Possible': tO, extricate -the -Prince from the influence of ' r the surroundings which. had. slowly but effectually deStroyed all cdnfidence, respect, and pity - for the B 4 bon race in the heart of the Spailish people. Tliere'oannokbe a doubt that in 1869 the Project of pro jecrt of. procl4nOngr the Prince of Asturias King, with Prim as i rede - a ,or,, protector cturing his minority, was urged by the Emperor Xapoleen as thq best solution of the difficulties of the situation; but Prim, however he may have thought it prudent to finesse, upon the subject, could never be persuaded that the scheme was practicable.. Personally he was. :a handsome and dignified man of middle height, somewhat stoutly built, and with a pleasing expression of countenance, though not deficient in firmness. When he rode into Madrid in his triumph on the .7th of October, 1868, he had beside him his son, a fine handsome litfle.fellO i w'4Of.:lo, or 11 years of age. His aged mother carry gt: him on his triumphal entry into Barcelona ,inl.A, lis family affections were strong and his personal i chprq,ctcyhel.:, It may be remembered that the great RetinlAriit sra•p9r 2: Castelar, in his recent powerful attack on the- Gue,m-,. meat in 'opposition to the candidature of theDuko d'Aosta, while unsparingly denouncing the yu s l.dli. .c. 4935 of Marshal Prim as having no faith, policy, or.princi - plie,..,s passed a high eulogium on the excellence of his private character. On December 18 Paris inaugurated the r6gime of brown bread. Neither rich nor poor can now get any other kind, THE SINKING OF BRITISH SHIPS . BY THE PRUSSIANS. STATEUENT BY ONE OF THE CREWS. The seizure and scuttling of seven - British ships - in the Seine by the Prussians has, as might be supposed, created a profound sensation amongst seafaring men ofthe_Port of London. Thirty-nine of the crews of the vessels sunk have arrived at the Sailors' Home in Well-Close-square, where they have been ordered to remain by the Board of Trade pending official proceedings, and they are the centre of much interest aniongst the maritime community. Mr. William Mingay, mate of the Sylph, and the mate of the Alice, both of Sunderland, have made statements detailing the circumstances attending' the seizure of their vessels. From these it appears that a French gunboat going up the Seine sighted a. Prussian detachment advancing along the banks, and fired into them, killing 150. This caused a- cer tain commotion amongst the Prussians, and it was,: no doubt, with a view to put a stop to the movements of the gunboat in the river that the Prussians' resolved to sacrifice the British ships. The manner in which the Prussians took possession of the Sylph is described by Mr. Mingay as follows :—The Sylph was , at Rouen on Saturday week in the river, when a detachment of about 30 or 40 Prussian soldiers, headed by an officer, I boarded her from a steam-tug. The Sylph had discharged . her cargo of coals, and was taking in ballast. The men had, unfortunately for themselves as it ultimately turned out, been paid. The Prussian officer addressed Captain Ramsdale, the owner of the vessel, and the mate, in a mixture of French and English. St r iki ng hi s h an d on the flan, said, y “ e y ur ot s i t ca companion pnna l m ad sd d a e i r e , , h i e )o s in ai t d in , g7o le the m fl u a s t not have my ship—it is an English ship." • The Prussian officer, whose men had at once proceeded to cut the ropes' that tied her to her anchor, roared out, "We don't cam if she is English, or French, or Dutch, or Norwegian, me want her to couler in the river." He re peated the French word couler (to sink) several times, and announced his intention of seizing the brigan tine, whether its captain would permit him or not. During this altercation the utmost confusion prevailed on board, the soldiers proceeding to knock holes in the bottom'of the vessel. The captain cried out to the officer, "If you want my ship, pay me the £2,000. s he's worth." " Yes," said the officer, " I will." He then produced a printed form, and calling for pen and• ink, pointed to a vacant place on it, and directed the . captain to fill it in, which he did. The form seemed to be an order on the Prussian Government. During the time this paper was being filled up, the sailors were trying to save what they could of clothes and money, but without much success, for in less . then ten minutes from the boarding of the vessel, the sailors were hurried over the side into a boat, which was cut adrift. A good deal of their clothing was left on board. The officers stepped on to the tug, leaving some soldiers in charge of the Sylph ; these men hauled down the British flag (they had previously ordered the captain to do so, but he had refused), and they trampled on it, and wiped their,, feet on it, making remarks, as - they did so in German. They then floated her down the river. They did not sink, her immediately, in fact, not till the next morning., but, getting drunk on the ship's stores, set her partially on fire. Though the captain had received a paper promiiing' him £2,000 for his ship, the sailors receiving no compen saiion for their losses. When they got on shore at Rouen Ithey reported themselves to the British consul, who went 'to the Prussian authorities and remonstrated. Through his exertions two omnibuses were procured, and the men were despatched en route for Dieppe. When they got to' COlbec, between twelve and one at night, they were : stopped in the bitter cold, the snow lying thick on the ground, by a body of Prussian soldiers, who ordered them to get down. Presenting the points of their bayonets, and rudely vociferating, they directed the sailors to undo their bundles. The mate distinctly affirms that the Prus sians took not only the men's tobacco, but part of their clothing and even their money : he himself was robbed of several pounds' worth of clothes, as well as his wages. The other men were likewise pillaged. One unfortunate sailor, who was compelled to lower down some luggage from the top of the vehicle for the Prussians to overhaul, slipped, and falling to the ground, got concussion of the , brain. He had to be left behind at Colbec. Ultimately, they were allowed to resume their journey. When they arrived at Dieppe the Consul and the English chaplain received them very kindly and gave them a shilling each ,to buy their dinner's at Newhaven. Having been deprived by the Prussians of nearly everything they pos sessed, the poor men, had nothing to eat from the time they arrived at Newhaven until their arrival in London. The mate of the Alice, which is one of the six ships sunk on the 21st of December, states that the vessels were seized in the most peremptory manner, and the crews Put ashore, where they had to remain, exposed to the cold and to the rain which wetted them through, for eleven or twelve hours. Those vessels were sunk at once. but as they were not sufficient to block the passage of the river • entirely to the satisfaction of the Prussians, the Sylph was subsequently seized, and after her- the Paragon. When the crews arrived in London they went to the Home office, and were sent thence to the office of the Registrar - General of Seamen, Mr. Mayo. a Most of them being married men were anxious to get to their families, but Mr.. Mayo sent an officer with them to the Sailors' Home, where they have beenrequested to stay pending the action of the -G-oVermilent. - tie; Due F a a d i d e h : G er r b a e m . , ont, has b e en aplo.fiditedGinthents'tasff°il of of General A correspondent of the Independance Beige says :—" conversed yesterday with a person who has come from Versailles, and according to what I heard the Germans are not very numerous b e f or e P ar iS , b u t th e i r ex cellent organisation perinits them td cbllect in a few hours great masses of troops on one point." A French cavalry officer, with ten men, rode into a village near Havre, and asked for the Maire. That functionary mistook his countryman for a German, and, in reply to a polite question about the " enemy," gasped out all he knew or could tell, about the positions and forces of the French. He will' be tried by court martial, and will probably be shot within four-and-twentY hours. . • • A correspondent writing from Lorraine on the 28th ult. says :—"ln-consequence of the fortresses in Germany being filled, to overflowing with French prisoners, and the unjustifiable hardship of transporting them in open un covered coal trucks while the thermometer registers from 10 to 12 degrees, stridt orders have been given to avoid such barbarities for the future, and the large forts at Metz arc being prepared for their reception." The Emancipateur of Cambrai. says. that the Prussian scouts continue to roam about the neighbourhood ; their demands are reported - to .be . moderate, but the smallest resistances is severely visited. At Fins they burned the , forge of a smith who refused to shoe their horses. At Gonnelieu they threatened to exact a large sum unless the trenches made by the engineers were filled up before evening. At • Mceuvres they requisitioned oats, bread, coffee, and brandy. A native -. of Geneva,' who served as subaltern in the French Foreig,ir•Legion, took part in the campaign on the Loire, was four dayfi a"' prisoner, and then escaped to Orleans, writes from Bourges to a S wiss paper :—" I re' mained four days in the hands of the Prussians, and mr 3 s, treated throughout with the greatest civility , p rovided with brandy, tobacco; and the best meat, and in spite of all that is . alleged - 4gainst them, I can assure you that they treat our wounded;and prisoners better than our French.' officers treat ifs." , . _ .[ADvEnnsmEst.]—Holloway's - Ointment and "pil ls Never at Fault.—ln all. irritations of the _ skin, so res, , ulcers, burns, and scrofulous enlargements of the glanciSs' Holloway's Ointment presents a ready and easy means cure, which' neyet 'disappoint the most favourable exPec . tations. It manifests a peculiar power in restraining hid flawation, removing stagnation, cooling the blood, ?L i t checking all acrimonious, or unhealthy discharges, whir thus acting locally, the-Pills are no less remarkable igrt their power in improving the general condition and hap' of the body, which render the cure complete and p ernl3 : nent. Under the genial influence of these potent rol a *? dies, the puny infant becomes the robust child, the ' and emaciated regain Colour and rotundity, and ~the yg peptic eats freely without fire. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult., at 1 , Great Cumberland-place the LadY . - Emily Van de Weyer, of a son. On the 30th ult., at 1, Ennismore place, the wife: of er• Archer, Esq., of .a daughter. .• MARRIAGES. On the 29th ult. at St. Mary's, Kilburn, William Strickland, of. Priory-road, and Clifford-street, B°11..,(1. street, to Martha, eldest daughter of Be n j . W. We""' of Bridge road, St.-John's-wood. On the 29th ult., at Holloway; Arthur, third son of Phi/ Sutton, Esq., of Totteridge, Herts, to Eliza Louis Coopg, of 22, Canonbury-square. i • ... - , :s , 0 , DEATHS. • 1\ l ' ' • 91 0 4,,,,pQui tilt., _At, 280, Liverpool-road, Islington, t James Edit, ,t, asred 72. . On the:29th ult:7 .at Elm Tree-avenue, Hull, Arthur 1 Leirett - ,.Esq., aged 70. , _..—....•!- LOndon Printed by G IDEON ACLAND BOYC E, I No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by hinledr THE Suig , Office, No. 112, Stranclidn , the Precinct of , Savoy, in the County of,Kiddlerx. Tuesday, Januhry 3,1871,