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LITERATURE. COMPLETION OF " HER MAJESTY'S TOWER." manly distinctness. As a rule, however, he sees only one side of the shield. According to a good old proverb, incul cative of leniency even to the worst, in our always fallible judgments, even the devil is not so black as he is painted. In that good old proverb evidently Mr. Dixon has no belief. The Devil instead of being not so black, is blacker. Hence the Unjust Judge figures here as a sort of Caliban a monstrous imposthume on humanity. Hence the 'Merry' Monarchhas a hideous leer, never pos sessed a friend, and so onto the end,Rthe bitter end, of that one chapter. For all that the book is not only readable but reliable, for whenever either the prejudices or the predilections of the author carry him away into an exag geration, whether of praise or blame, the fact of its being so is apparent upon the very surface—his heart is worn upon his sleeve for claws to peck at, as we are doing here, upon - thetinstant, in the very fact of raising these objections. Another particular about the work we can not but regret, regretting it all the more because it is now, we fear, altogether irreparable, being in point of fact, as it is, in a technical sense " the head and front of its offending " its title, we mean, as " Her Majesty's Tower." A title that somewhat savours of—what Mr. Dixon especially abhors —an affectation ! If only—taking no heed of Harrison Ainsworth's historical romance—he had entitled it simply " The Tower of London ! " It is too late, however, now, we very much fear, for any such reasonable alteration. " Her Majesty's Tower " the work is called, and as "Her Majesty's Tower" it will henceforth hold its place among the most radiant and picturesque contributions of the last half -century to our historical literature. Her Majesty s 3 Tower 4. Burst and . Hworthett Dixon. Vols. andHepworth Dixon. Vol.s. 3 and 4. Hurst and Blackett. As laborious and as ambitious as any of the historical works yet undertaken by Mr. Hepworth Dixon, " Her Majesty's Tower," as he has been pleased to call his romantic record of the salient Incidents connected with the annals of the ancient Tower of London, is at the same time in many respects the most brilliant and fascinating of all his literary achievements. Nov that it is com pleted by the publication of these two remarkable volumes, the work itself, like the grand old structure of which it is the elaborate celebration, may be said to "stand, four square, to all the winds that blow." The building it up. sentence by sentence, chapter by chapter, volume by volume, has evidently been a labour of love throughout. And it had good need to have been so, for the research involved in the mere accumulation and authentication of the materials out of which it has been constructed, must have been obviously very considerable. A glimpse of this is afforded by our author in his brief, but suggestive Preface, dated upon this last New Year's Day, and written by him on his happily bringing his twenty years' toil to a conclusion. The work, the tells us, is mainly based on new materials : a statement of which the very freshness of the book all through is a complete authentication. Down to 1688, he adds, its authority rests directly upon papers preserved in the Record Office, upon pipe -rolls, doquets, warrant books, and council-registers. Sir Thomas Hardy, the Keeper of the National Archives, has afforded him every possible assistance. According to her open-handed and munificent wont, Miss Burdett Coutts has lent him freely, to the same end, her inestimable collection of pamphlets and caricatures. Others have done the like—to each and all of whom, as his .good friends, the writer's thanks are warmly tendered. As the proverb has it, you may take a horse to the water, but will he drink ? Hence, in these doquets, pipe-rolls, pamphlets, warrant-books, council registers and caricatures, stored up in such affluent abun dance between Fetter-lane and Chancery-lane, or in scattered private collections, there were undoubtedly the materials capable of being worked together by a forming hand : but only by a forming hand, the hand of a great literary expert, one whose skill had been in a manner perfected by experience, and who could scan the records of the past from the vantage ground of his own ripened knowledge, one, moreover, who could quicken the dry bones of the antique by the power of his own vivifying imagination. How far Mr. Dixon has been enabled to accomplish anything of all this his readers may now readily enough recognise for themselves. The work is at length before them in its entirety. It has been planned symmetrically, because it is chronological in its arrangement. The current of time flows past the gray old Towers of Julius, smoothly, broadly, ceaselessly like the current of the Thames past the granite original. Stained with blood occasionally; lurid now and then with flames ; surrounded often by 'tumult ; harbouring here and there, in its grim recesses an extraordinary diversity of historical per sonages, men and women, children sometimes, gray beards often, famous or infamous as the case m ay be, the hero Raleigh, ,the sage Bacon, the venerable Fisher, the witty More, the ex ecrable Jeffreys, gentle Lady Jane Grey, crack brained Lord George Gordon, dauntless Elio it li cone - t em ptible Thistlewood ! Reading the book, it s k watching—in two senses—a moving panorama. As we turn the leaves, as we open volume after volume—the manners, the customs, the very costumes of the age change almost imperceptibly ; reign follows reign ; century succeeds cen tury. The ringing armour and chain-mail of th e days o of f chivalry give place to th e buff jerkins and grey doublets the Roundheads ; these in turn being succeeded by the brocaded coats and flowing perriwigs of " the teacup times of hoop and hood," or by the buckskins and top-boots, still to this day always associated, in-the popular recollec tion of him, with one of the State prisoners in the Tower, Sir Francis Burdett, or by those latest and very least among them all, the ignoble and despicable gang of the Cato-street conspirators. In describing each and all of these epochs, these celebrities, or scoundrels, these incidents, more or less famous in our history, Mr. Hep worth Dixon is equally at home. And he writes so picturescpsely that he seems to clip his pen -not so much into ink as into p i g ments. His pages are in a manner coloured and e mblazoned. It is in a more vivid sense than Hans Andersen'n book " a picture book with out pictures." Its very letterpress is pictorial and realistic in a wonderful way of the scenes, the forms, the features therein described. It has all the fascination of a romance and all the authenticity of history. From first to last it i s never dull. The theme and the author alike render the risk of that simply impossible. Already, in our length ened notices of the two preceding volumes, at the time of their publication separately, we have taken occasion in these columns to indicate the attractive character of the work now again under review as a contribution to our national literature. The interest of the work is, if pos sible, yet more strikingly illustrated in the two con cluding volumes here more immediately under consideration. Within the compass of these particular volumes, Mr. Dixon has to deal with subjects as enthralling in their character, for example, as the rise and the assassination of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham ; as the fall and death in disgrace of Bacon, Earl of Verulam ; as the flight and cap ture of the atrocious Chancellor Jeffreys, the Unjust Judge, as he is here terribly designated—themes as diversified again as the robbery of the Crown jewels by Colonel Blood, as the execution of Sydney, or as the escape secured for her husband by the dauntless Countess of Nithisdale. Once begin the work and you are safe to finish it. Open any one of the four volumes at the first page, and you read on until its conclusion. As for the mere manner in which it is written, take the description of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham : "In form the man was like a god. Spare, tall, and straight, his frame combined a rare degree of strength w ith lines of perfect gracd. Few men could ride so fast, could leap so high, could dance so long as he ; and no man in the Court could ride, and leap, and dance with such unstudied ease. His hand was small and white ; a lady's hand, with taper fingers, ending in filbert nails ; and yet his grip on sword and rein was close and tight. His head was finely formed and firmly set. Young women were afraid to look at him, and painters sighed and said, they could not paint his face. A sly, unconscious gaiety flowed about him. In the galleries of White Hall he played his part of light comedian in a way to have made his fortune at the Globe. He was - the genius and embodiment of youth. By dress, by speech, by way of life, this fair outside was framed like a work of art. Composed of richest silk and ve lvet pile, his clothel were all but hidden under ropes of pearl. The buttons on his coat were precious stones. He wor e a diamond necklace with diamonds sewn into his belt and bands. His sword, his spurs, his plumes, were all alight with gems. One suit of unshorn, cloak and jacket, cost no less than eighty thousand pounds. Nearly all his wealth, when he was one of the richest men at court,was heaped upon his back." And so forth ! Is not that a picture ? Or take this other, the merest momentary sketch, a profile, A silhouette of " Steenie's " companion, " Baby Charles," the Prince of Wales, after wards King Charles I. : " His face was fine. His smile was sorcery. His voice was low and sweet. His figure, not a bad one, wasadorned with care ; ea ch point of light and shade being studied for effect, from plume to spur. Each caught the eye like a work of art." The fewest wards, b u t each word the aptest and most effective, bringing onteatleao. rl7 , t t h o e the instant, os n w st h ant e , "in the mind's eye, Hori fame has been wittily said to have been made by t wo men —Vandyke and the Headsman. fie is it, all through the book,which we are fain, had we but space for it, to pillage, in proof, in the way of abundant illustrations. 'hie fore going, however, must suffice ---the foregoing and one more extract that we cannot refrain from giving also, as con stituting in itself not one, but two contrasting pictures, according to Mr. Dixon, the true and the false limning , side by side, of Charles the Second : " Few men in story are so falsely figured to the , popular mind as Charles the Second , i n his guise of Merry • Monarch' of a merrie isle.' A bright young prince — with saucy eye and rosy cheek ; a fell of loose brown curls about his graceless brow ; a gay and bounding step, a laughing voice, a reckless hand : a youth with all the heat and prank of youth ; a wit, a gentleman, a courtier ; with uncontrollable delight in pretty girls, pet spaniels, and guitars;. as ready an his warmth of heart to help a fellow with his purse as to surprise a barmaid with a kiss: —behold the shape of Charles the Second as it haunts the boards of country theatres, and adorns the picture galleries every May I Another picture, closer to the facts, reports him as a dark, gaunt man, with hairless scalp, and bleary eyes, and sensual mouth, false teeth, false curls, f a lse colour : bald, be - wigged , and pa in t ed ; with a sunken cheek, a hideous leer, a pinched and saturnine face ; a man past middle age, and looking older than his years ; just hobbling to his grave with gouty leg and broken frame, amidst a rout of gamblers, courtesans, and pimps, who cheat each other and play false to him ; a prince who sells his country for a bribe, a ohurch man who betrays his faith, a man whom no one calls a friend, a lover whom his letnans dupe and cheat." Here, however, the corrective picture to our mind is out rageously overdrawn, the features are distorted, the leer is purely imaginary, the rouge is of the limner's own ap • plying, the construction put upon the death-bed shriving hardly justifiable in the instance of any fellow-creature under similar circumstanees. As illustrative of our author's skill in word-painting, however, the fragment here excerpted' from his pages is as effective as any that could well be cited. Entertaining strong opinions of his own, Mr. Dixon as a rule speaks them right out with CULTURE AND CHRISTIANITY. The zealous advocates of culture are wont to speak as though it not only were allied to religion, but included and thus, in one sense, superseded it. It is true, of course, that Christianity and civization have usually gone hand in hand, and that in the S present day the Christian nations of the world are also the most civilized. But nevertheless the two things are quite distinct. It is the tendency of Christianity in the long run to civilize both nations and iudividuals, but civilization does not necessarily Christianize them, though it may pave the way for Christianity; as might' perhaps be inferred from the fact that the early converts were more numerous among the inhabitants of towns, whence the name of pagani, or country people, gained its secondary sense of heathens. But it is, at all events, certain that if religion under favour able circumstances promotes culture, culture will not do the work of religion. It will not supply those moral forces without which sweetness and light are at best but a sickly bloom. The " Hebraists," especially as represented by modem Puritanism, may often be narrow, intolerant, and offensive, with little of sweetness and even less of light. But they have a vantage ground from which their "Hellenist " rivals will never be able to dislodge them, in their appeal to instincts and motives which Hellenism cannot touch. Few educated men would turn without a feeling of repul sion, almost of disgust, from " Faust " to a sermon of John :Wesley's, or let us say Mr. Spurgeon's. Yet for o ne who has been char med or elevated by Goethe's writings—thousands have had their whole moral nature quickened or transformed by the uncouth eloquence of the Nonconformist apostles who so naturally offend Mr. Arnold's cultivated taste. In every country and every age of the world of which we know anything, culture has been, as' it still is, the privilege of the few, and it seems morally impossible that it should ever be otherwise. No spread of education will exempt the toiling millions from the pressure of those physical necessities which absorb so much both of their labour and their thoughts; and that absorption is wholly incompatible with anything that can be called culture, as we are now using the word. The difficulty did not exist under the old Pagan civilisations, for the comparative handful of citizens were spared the burden and degradation, as they deemed it, of manual toil, by the forced service of a huge army of slaves, whose exclusion from the blessings of culture was justified by a philosophy which denied that they were moulded of the same clay as freemen. We are not able to cut the knot with the same facility. And till some method of doing so has been discovered, it will ever remain true, for this reason, if for no other, that the immense majority of man kind must look to some other source than culture for such grace as may sweeten and such light as may direct their path.—Saturday Review. A severe epidemic of smallpox is raging at Yoko hama. Efforts are being made to put Fleetwood in active c ompetition with Liverpool as a cotton port. Fleetwood, however, has no docks. We understand that Mr. Edward S. Gordon, Q.C., M.P., has been appointed arbiter in regard to questions arising between the North British and Caledonian Rail way Companies. Master M'Grath, by his recent victory at the late Waterloo coursing meeting, brings, it is said, to Lord Lurgan. £lOO,OOO. A policy of insurance for £6,000 was taken out upon the dog on its departure for Belfast on Saturday. The Pope's reply to the letter of King Amadeus is couched in terms of censure, his Holiness declaring that, in conformity with the jurisprudence of the Church, the King, as son of the persecutor of the Holy See, is subject to similar censure, unless publicly condemning the perse cution. SUICIDE OF A BOY OF NINE YEARS OF AGE. An inquest was held on Saturday ant Longton, on the body of William Ryding, a boy of ne years of age, who committed suicide in a most determined manner on the previous day. The evidence shelved that the deceased had been threatened by his aunt for misconduct. He ran across the yard and turned round and said, " I'll jump into Harry Sutton's pit and drown myself," which he did. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the lad had drowned himself whilst in a state of mind unknown. -- Preston Evening News. OUR ARMY IN INDIA.—The British forces in India (exclusive of depots in the United Kingdom) will consist, during the year 1871-72, of 2,500 Royal Horse Artillery of all ranks, 4,330 cavalry of the Line, 9,886 Royal Artillery, 339 Royal Engineers, and 45,809 infantry of the Line, making a total of 2,839 officers, 4,645 non commissioned officers, and 55,380 rank and file, or a grand total of 62,864 men, as compared with 62,963 men in the year 1870-7 1 . The changes consist of a decrease as to Horse Artillery, and an increase in all other arms, ex cept the Royal Engineers, which retains precisely the same number of officers and non-commissioned officers as heretofore. THE HERRING BRAND. Some correspondence laid before the House of Commons shews that Baron Gevers, the Netherlands Ministea at the Court of London, some little time since proposed to the British Government a simultaneous abolition in both countries of the system of officially branding herring barrels. It is urged that the brand affords no real guarantee of the contents of a barrel. and in practice tempts to fraud ; when Scotch herrinas are at a higher price than Dutch, barrels with the Scotch brand are sold in Holland filled with inferior Dutch h not er rings. Frauds of this kind may be supposed to be confined to one side. The British Government, after con sidering the proposal, stated, in reply, in a l etter dated Novembe 23, 1870, that they hold the system of the brand in Scotland to be quite indefensible, but they fear that the pressure of business will preclude them from taking measures for its abolition in the Session of 1871. THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT.—The spread of the co-operative movement seems to be more rapid than a large portion of the community are aware of. • Within comparatively few years large and powerful organisations have sprung up in almost every large town, city, and village, which have almost revolutionise d the mode of deal ing. A great and important change has also occurred in the manner in which these societies are themselves sup plied. Up to a few years ago the supply of these societies was in 'the hands of merchants, who, as a rule, supplied the trade. The majority of the stores are now members of the North of England Co-operative Society (Limited), whose headquarters are in IVlanchestet, with salesmen and buyers in Limerick, Tipperary, and other places. The extent to which the society's operations are carried on may be gathered from the fact that 209 societies, representing 89,880 individuals, are members, and own a share capital of £19,015, after the rate of ss. per share. The object of the organisation is to supply goods to all societies which become shareholders, the profits at the end of the quarter being divided on the purchases. The sales during the past twelve months amounted to £677,737, being an increase of £170,518, or 34 per cent., ovor the preceding year. The butter sales for the twelve months reached 50,742 firkins, while the business done in tea and coffee (luring the last quarter amounted to £14,875. The net profit realised during the quarter upon the business done was £1,931 15s. 2d. Among the largest shareholders are the Rochdale Society, who own 6,823 shares ; Halifax, 6,0 00 shares;. Manchester, Equitable, 2,298 shares ; Manchester Industrial, 2,200 ; , Bolton, 2,833 ,• and Heckmondwike, Accringt on, and Over Darwen, 2,000 s h are s each. 11 SPA.—In a va ll e y near the frontiers of Prussia lies foliage and althoughhills, on e i t o f o t n l y e n b r o e a t s t t i s e s of f little so m t e al; n v e s halfon t l h ad e d C e o 4 n tbiyn ef2lti t h ou sand inhabitants, it is the gm of Belgium, and the fashion able resort of its notabilities ; and not of them only, for when the season is at its height, titled and distinguished visitors crowd every avenue and every rendezvous. Not only Princes of petty States, ex:Potentates or the Counts and Barons which so pleninfull on ' • • crop Y a foreign soil, but the men of mark in society ; the statesmen, warriors, and leaders of their respec tive countries. The great men of Great Britain are amongst the number, for they gladly brace up their faculties and re-invigorate their systems at this health -restoring spot, after the fatigues of Courts, Parliaments, and Sessions. The roulette-table has its votaries, b u t the waters are more omnipotent still — strongly impregnated with iron, that needful auxiliary in renovating enfeebled constitutions ; an& those who esteem the waters too nauseous are glad to meet with that delicious substitute—the Elixir de Spa." This holds high rank as 'a table liqueur, possesses a delicate perfume and exq u i s it e flavour, and being distilled from the flowers and plants of the district, is at the same time greatly prized for its tonic, digestive, and gently stimulating qualities. The manufacture of this liqueur forms the chief part of the staple trade of Spa, which may be said to co nsist of the important Distillery of Messrs. Sghaltin, Pierry, and Cie, the inventors of the Elixir de Spa, and the manufac turers of ornaments in the pretty Spa wood. A " petit verve" of the Elixir de Spa is the favourite prelude in Belgium to a " dejefiner a la fourchette," in order to give zest to the appetite, for which purpose it is equal in efficiency to the nauseous a bsinthe ; and the burly Flemish burgomaster's admirable dinners are usually oapped with a wee glass of this invigorating native cordial, which is universally pronounced to our be the best of T a ble Liqueurs. It may be , obtained thr ou g h y winemer chant —Wh o l esa le DepOt—SCOTT BItOTHEIIS, 8, Duke-street, Adelphi, London. rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1871. MONETARY REPORTS.- YE STERD AY. TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. I'd Pd 100 Anglo-American Li 76 77 10 Great Northern .... 111, 11) 76, Is 6 G reat N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) 127 130 Japan Extension.. d 81 100 Atlantic — 5 Indo-European (L).. 12 14 100 lioilpg 10 British Australis (LI.. 4 32dis and Malta (L) .... 61 ' 7 4) ' 62, 2 10 British Ttul Exton (L). 72 8 10 Meditcrrn Ex (L) .. 41 51 7 13-16, 2,8, 7 11-16 2) Puma and S. radii 4 3 dis In 11ritish Indian Sub- dis marine, IT.) 7), 3-16 8) 10 ChinitSubmaritie(L) 42 41dis 20 Soc Trans Fran(*) (l) 132 14 41, 7-16 14, 13r,- 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 100 Submarine ' 237 141 w and Malta 11,1 ...., • 9a 9) 1)o Scrip 91?-16, 11-16 ' 10 W India k Boman-m(1,1 5) 6) NothWithsta,nding that there has been an absance of the warlike element in the telegrams received from the Conti nent to-day, the Stock Exchange has been in an unsettled state. Much caution has been used in concluding business, and a weakening tendency has occasionally been appa rent. 'rho foreign bond market has been without material alteration. As regards railways the announcement that the dividend would be as the rate of 3/ per cent., and that a sum of about £19,000 would be 'carried forward, caused a rise of 1 per cent. in Great Western, otherwise the tendency has been unfavourable. The dearness of money, coupled with the prospect of new loans, had a depressing effect upon the market for English Govern ment Securities. Consols , at , one time fell * per cent, being quoted at 91 to 91/ for delivery and the account, but they subsequently recovered to 914 .to 92. Reduced' and New Three per Cents., 91/, 91/ ; Bank Stock, 244, 246 ; Exchequer Bills, 3s; to Bs. pm ; India Five per Cents., 109 3 / 4 , 110 ; and India, Bonds, 20s. to 255. pm. In the market for English railway stocks not much business has been doing. The feature has been the advance of 1 in Great Western caused by the announcement of a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. On the other hand South Eastern and Great Northern A. have fallen /. Metropolitan is quoted at 65/, 65/ ; Caledonian, 861, 87 ; Brighton, 42, 431 ; South-Eastern, 78/, 78/ ; Great Northern A, 1341, 134/ ; Great Eastern, 381, 381 ; North- Eastern, 146/, 147/; Midland, 127, 127/; r North-Wes tern, 1291, 129,1 ; and Great Western, 75, 7/. For Indian railway stocks there has not been much I inquiry. East Indian, 109x,110 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 105 R, 105 R ; Madras, 103/ ; and Scinde, 101 g ; Canadain shares:have been dealt in quietly, Grand Trunk, 121, and Great Western, 15/, 154. Foreign shares have sold slowly, Great Luxembourg, 121, 12i ; Lemberg-Czerno witz, 151; San Paulo, 214. The foreign bond market has been depressed. No im portant change has taken place in the quotations, but the tendency has been unfavourable. Egyptian (1868) have fallen *, Turkish Five per Cents ditto (1869) *. Italian (1861) have been rather firmer at . 54/, 541 ; Egyptian (1868), 744, 741; Spanish, 30R, 301 ; Turkish Five per Cents, 411, 41a ; ditto (1869), 521, 521; Mexican, In, 14 ; French, 88, 88/ ; New German, IR, 14 prem. ; United States Five -Twenty (1882) Bonds, 91*, 91a ; ditto (1885), 901, 90/. In Bank shares transactions have been limited. Agra A, 9* ; Imperial Ottoman, 11/ ; London and County, 51; Joint Stock, 38 ; and Union of London, 401. Telegraph shares have been quietly dealt in. Anglo- American have marked 761; British Indian Extension, 7/, 74 ; British Indian Submarine, 71, 7 3-16 ; Falmouths, 9 13-16, and Reuter's, 8/. The Construction Companies' shares hetve sold slowly. Hooper's have marked 6 3.16 ; Silver's Indiarubber, 51/ ; and Telegraph Construction, 261. MISONLLANROUS SECURITIES Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian lind- 20 !Virile . Can Cavour 331 holders' Certifizate 1 3 100 1 3 0 6p c 13ouds. re -10 BerlinWat,erworks(L) 16 161 ' deernah:e 1870 62 64 30 Boickow-Vaughan L) 32 37pin 30 London Fin Ansi - 3 , 3(1;11417 In 100 Boston City (U.S. - 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 22 3 p 0 Sterling Loan.. 93 95 2, 15-16 4 Brit & Fgn Marine Lll.l 41ran 2 Lou & PrOV Marine Li I 11pm 35 Canada Company. 75 77 100 Madraslrrig. &Canal 10 Ceylon Company L) 32 31(lis g5u.3 by Ind Gov. 101 102 35 - City OffiCes(L) ..., 25 24 die 2 Mauritius Laud (L) itlis par 20 Colonial (L) 5 (;inn Tinton Aisnunce 45 45pin 5 NatnlnisctComp L) 111 121 95 21 N Zealand Loan and 10 Crdt Pono of Ting (Li 3 35 ' Mere Agency iL) . • I& Pm 3 3-16, - 1 , 5 5 N Zealand Loan and 100 Crystal Pal ' ace . 181 65 N Bri tsh and Mere (L) 281 29 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Fern Deb llO 115 5 OceaolVfarinolnsur .. 13!)14Pm 271 libbw Vale Steel L).. 10 %din SO P and (3 Steam 44 46 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7P 0 10 Do do New. 1867 .32 31dis Mortgage Loan.... 77 79 50 lthyinney Iron 78, 5, 5 15 Do New 9 9 1 100 Egyulip cV'royLoa.n, 60 Royal Mail Stearn 78 ' 12 Tel (10n end Main L) 251 06 guar by Egyp flov.. 96 98 265, 51, 5 97, it, 8 2 Thames and Mersey Is Fore-stWarehouselLl 73 Bpm Marine Insnr (1. 100 Fink aild Colonial floy Tobacco 6 p c Loan. Trust 6p c Bonds.. 100 102 guar by Italian Gov 89 91 71 (lenereilt&DisotlLL . 3 iPm 89 8, 7 15-16 x d 5 Trust and Loan Co of 14 Cell Sun Navigation 28 29 Upper Canada 71 1 ooper's Tel Works 1 !ills S(J Marine, Lypool (T, 5 51Pm 6 3-16, 146 x d 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 17 11 ndann'a Bay B5 85 6 United Dia Corpru (L ldis }pm 8 9 16, 1 6 tr , Indrbia.,(lutl'er,and 5 ITuivMarinelnaur (L 1 61 65p i» Tel Works L) .... 51 52 12 Warrant Finance.... 8 7 ills 512,4 5 Intern) Finan HoelL) 25 21dis 25, 11-16, 2x d Not much inquiry has been experienced. in miscellaneous securities. Credit Foncier of England, 3i, 31 ; General Credit and Discount, 71 ex div. ; Hudson's Bay, 8 9.16. Thursday, the 23rd inst., has been appointed special settling day in the second issue of the North German • Al INING SHARE LIST.—FEBRUARY 21. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Officet, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. Market rather quiet. - Grenville, South Frances, Van Consols, Great Laxey, and North Crofty in demand. Taquaril, South Condurrow, West Chiverton, and Cooks' Kitchen flatter. Cain Brea: 594, 55 Prince of Wales, 1 3 / 4 , 11 Chiverton Valley. Providence M hies, Chontales (Gold), Roman Gravels, Cooks' Kitchen, 19, 21 Rosewall Dill and Ransoms ' Devon Great Consols, Butted, Drakewalls, l, li South Condurrow, ni, 51 Don Pedro North Del Rey, 21, 2l South Frances, 32, 34 Fast Caradon, 51, 5 3 / 4 Sweetland Creek, 4, 41 East Lovell, 30, 31 Tankerville, 121, 13 East Wheal Grenville, 3, 31 Taquaril (Gold), 325, 34s Eberhardt mid Aurora, 15 3 / 4 , 16 3 / 4 Tincroft, Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), Trumpet Consols. Van, Van Consols, 21, 21 West Chiverton, 40, 42 West Maria and Fortesens, —s, —s West Tankerville, Wheal Crebor, Wheal Grenville, 4, 41 Wheal Kitty, St. Agues, Wheal Margaret, Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Beton. Wheal tiny, 41, 0 General Brazilian, Great Lazey, 18. 19 Great - Wheal Vor, sf, 5 11 ingston Down, Malice Valley, a n New Beldon, New I,ovell, North Crofty. a, 3 Vary's Mountain, Ferran Wheal Virgin, Plynlimmon, 2,2/ 'ours. ➢iARKETS. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, TUESDAY:-The marke to-clay was only scantily supplied with meat ; nevertheless the trade ruled quiet, and prices were rather ,easier. Beef, froni 3s. 46. to ss. ; mutton, 3s. 441, to ss. ; lamb, 7s. to Bs. veal, ss: to 55. 46.; and pork, 3s. 441. to 58. per 81bs. by the carcase. METROPOLITAN IIAY AND STRAW MARKET, TuEsnAv. -There were lair average supplies of hay and clover on sale at to-day's markets, which changed hands steadily ,at prices some what weaker. Prime meadow bay , 130 s. to 1405.; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime fresh-cut clover, 1355. to. 1475. '• • inferior ditto, 115 s. to 12 55 . ; p r ime second-cut clover, 1265. to 1355. ; and straw, 30s. to 40s. per load. , COLONIAL AND • FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET, TUES DAY, -Sugar : The market remains very quiet, at prices tending downwards. Belgian beetroot bold crystals washed bought in at 385., with 365. bid. Coffee : Sales have passed off steadily, without any feature of importance. Rice : Theakti steady. Tea : There is but little inquiry, and m prices • are rather lower. Indigo : The quarterly sales have this day terminated. Of the total offered (9,660 chests), 3,645 chests have been withdrawn, , 1,882 bought in, leaving 4,133 chests sold in the room, to which may be added 1%800 chests from the bought in lot, making the total sold 6,000 chests: Although rather irregular towards the close, the sales have resulted favourably. Prices, as compared with the last sale, have ranged for good and fine shipping Bengal at par ; defective shipping and middling to good consuming, 3d. to 4d. • higher ; low Bengsfl. and Oude, par to 2d. higher ; Kurpah, good to fine, 4d. to 6d.; middling, 4d.; low, 3d. to 3d. higher ; 'Madras, good to fine, 46. to 6d. ; mid dling, 4d. higher, and low, Ed. to 86. lower. Oils : Linseed oil steady, at 31s. LOndon ; 30s. 641. to 30e. 9d. Hull spot, and month, and his. 3d. February and April ; English brown rape continues quiet, at 46e. spot; Cocoanut firm. Tallow : The market remains dull. Y.C. spot, 445. ad. ; and March, sellers, 44s 6d.: buyers, June, 455. 66. last three months. Metals : Scotch pig Iron firmer, al 525..10. to 525. 3d. cash, Copper firm; Wallaroo, £74 ; Chili bar, £65105. to £6O : Speller firm, and slightly advanced ; Stioaian, £lB to £lB 2s. 6d. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.-This market is somewhat steadier in tone to-day, solely in consequence of the improvement reported in the cotton market. Some spinners are even asking a slight advance to-day for yarns, but we do not hear of any instance in which this has been paid ; indeed, buyers are only prepared as yet in a few cases to give Friday's rates. Cloth is also firmly held for full rates. Busi ness has been much restricted by the full rates demanded, by producers, and the actual transactions of the day are by no means large. In yarns, both for the home trade and export, there has been a dull demand. Forties, India mule, 'is not much inquired for. Water twist for China is almost neglected. Buyers for the Continent and Germany have not as yet increased their operations, but should peace be concluded, a large de mand will at once spring up. In cloth there is but a small daily general business doing, but no contracts of magni tude are reported. Neither buyers nor sellers seem inclined to increase their remaining . contracts, which are unusually large. Quotations to-day are nominally the same as those of Friday ; but they are now very firmly adhered to, which was the case on Friday. At the close the market was firm in tone, with but a small business in pro gress. LEEDS TRADE' REPORT, TUESDAY.-In . the cloth halls at Leeds, this morning, there was a fair attendance of local buyers, and rather more business was done than on this day week. The prospects of peace being restored between Fr ance and Prussia are deemed sufficiently hopeful to induce some operations. in purchase of more goods than of late by sonic of the shipping houses. The representatives of houses in the home trade are also more active in their dealings. Light Meltons, both all wool and union makes, mixture, twist, and other cotings, and ordinary plain goods were all more freely purchased, a so that at the close of the markets more than a late average amount of cloth was removed from the Halls. The deliveries direct from the manufacturers to the warehouses of the merchants is of a full seasonable character. Manufacturers in several villages are fully worked, and with a brisk demand for Meltons, Guiseley and 'one or two other places will be already prosperous. There is scarcely a large firm in Leeds which has not already its hands full, both of the ordinary custom trade and orders for Meltons, and diagonal and fancy coatings. Oil for mill use is again higher, and cotton warps are firm. DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.-At this market to-day there was a large supply of beasts and sheep. Prices were firm, and a brisk market was done with an upward ten dency. Beef was from Bs. 96. to Os: 66. per stone. Hoggets in the wool, from 96. to 916. per lb., and owes 716. to Bd. per lb. • NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY,-At this market to-day there was au average supply of beef and pork, but trade was sluggish, at 3d. per stone decline. Mutton firin, at extreme rates. Beef, 6s. 6d. to 9s. 6d. per stone ; pork, Os. to Bs. per stone ; mutton, 71d. to 911 per lb. HULL CATTLE MARKET; TIIESDAY.-This market to-day was fully an average one for useful horned stock, with a fair demand. Cows from £l6 to £2O; barren stock £9 to £1l; heifers £ll to £l4 ; good supply. Calves, superior ones, selling at from 51s. to ads. Improved show of sheep, but no important business was transacted. In pigs the market was inactive, with sales at 7s. to 7s. 3d. per stone. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.-At this market to-day the supply of both cattle and sheep was similar in num ber to last week, and a fair trade was experienced in cattle at an advance of Id: per lb. Sheep sold steadily, and realised about last market prices. There was on offer about 2,000 shorn sheep, which made from 716: to 86. per lb. The prices of calves also ruled In favour of sellers. The following are the quotations : Beef, Ist class, 816. per lb. ; 2nd class, Bd. to 81d. per lb. Sheep, in wool, 86. to Sid. ; ditto shorn, 7141. to 841. Per lb., Calves, 7d. to 96. per lb. • LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY. - Opening Re port.-At this market to-day wheat and flour are offered at rather under Friday's prices, but buyers hold off. Indian corn 66., and beans ls. lower. Closing Report.-White wheat was in steady demand at this market to-day, at a decline of 2d. per cental. Red wheat 141. lower. Flour is. down. Maize was a turn better. HULL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-At this market to-day there was a falling-off' in the supply of English wheat, which sold slowly, at a decline of Is. per quarter on the best sorts ; other sorts were neglectad. In spring corn there was no altera tion, excepting the first qualities of beans, peas, and oats, suit able for seed, which make rather more money. Barley was very scarce and much inquired for, and fully Is. Per quarter dearer. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-At this market to-day there were a few samples of wheat from farmers, .with a slow sale, at a further. reduction. Factors were willing to sub mit to a sale of ls. or 25., Nit buyers were shy.' Oats firm. Flour declining, DUBLIN CORN MARKET, TUESEAY.-At this market to-clay Irish wheat was 6d. cheaper. Foreign wheat in dull demand; and weaker to sell. Flour slow and unaltered in value. White oats were weaker inblack, 3d. dearer: Barley sl, with sales and prices unaltered. Maize neglected, and down 6d. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY. -Opening Re port.-This market opened With a good inquiry to-day. Sales probably 10,000 bales. Closing Report.-Sales, 12,000 bales, in cluding 300 bales on speculation and export. There has been an active demand, with less pressure to sell. American com mands rather higher rates. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, TUESDAY,-At this market to-day there was rather more inquiry, amid a fair business was done at firm prices. loan. Firmness is still the feature of the discount market. There has been a healthy demand for accommodation, and three months' paper has been taken at 23 per cent. At the Bank, to-day, the sum of £OO,OOO . has been withdrawn. A regards the exchanges bills have been rather offers(' and the rates have been higher. At a meeting of the Submarine Telegraph Company the directors' report was adopted, and a dividend of 71 per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax, was declared. At a meeting of the Marseilles, Algiers, and Malta Telegraph Company (Limited), it was shewn that the gross receipts from the opening of the line to the 31st December last amounted to £4,091, and the expenditure to £1,354, leaving a balance of £2,737, which it was resolved to carry forward to the next account. The directors of the Australian Agricultural Company have declared an interim dividend of 10s. Gd. per share, being at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the undertaking. The report of the British Land Company (Limited), to be presented on the 24th instant, recommends a dividend of 5 per cent. , making 71 per cent. for the year, which will take £12,000, leaving £4,103 to be carried forward. At the meeting of Melburn and Co. (Limited), a divi dend of 10 per cent. was declared for the past year. The Manchester Guardian of to-day says :—At an adjourned meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Liebert and Rogerson, held to-day at the Clarence liotel, it was resolved to wind-up the estate in liquidation, Mr. James Haliday acting as trustee, and Messrs. Linklater, Hack wood and Company, London, continuing to act as the solicitors in the matter. The traffic return of the London and Brighton Rail way chews an increase of £3,644 ; the South Eastern an increase of £4,098. FOREIGN EXCIIANGES.—Amsterdam, three months' date, 1201, 1202 ; ditto, short date, u. 171, 11 181 ; Rotterdam, three months', 1204, 1202 ; Antwerp, ditto, 25 471, 25 521; Paris, short date, 25 20, 25 40 ; ditto, three months', 25 70, 25 80 ; •Marseilles, ditto, 25 70, 25 80 ; Hanaburgh, ditto, 13 101, 13 11 ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine, ditto, 120/,1204 ; Vienna/ditto, 12 65, 1270 ; Trieste, ditto, 12 65, 1270; St. Petersburgh ditto, 301, 30,-; Madrid, ditto, 48, 48k; Cadiz, ditto, 49, 491 ; Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 2G 75, 26 80 ; Lisbon, 90 days' date and , Oporto, ditto, 521, 53. A WATERLOO ibilLo.— " Plaster McGrath," Lord Lurgan's celebrated doc , is spoken'of in Ulster as the " hero of Waterloo." He was welcothed on his return from England (a local paper states) by a " large crowd ;" " and it was looked on," adds the gushing writer, "as a special privilege to touch him with the hand." Only a comparatively few had this honour, but in alleviation of , the disappointment of the remainder, " he was escorted to the station by admiring crowds." So much for Belfast , At Lisburn, the News Letter says, "The wildest enthu siasm prevailed." " Tar barrels .were . lighted in the m arket-square," and the Lisburn brass band gathered " creditably round the burning embers," and demon strated their enthusiasm by lusty cheers." • BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCQA.—GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :--" By a thorough knowledge of the natural Liws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the line properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may, save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet lg labelled—JAMES EPPS & Co., Ifonicco pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin evening beverage.—Advt. THE ARMISTICE THE RELIEF OF PARIS. :FROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE " CENTRAL • PRESS.") PARIS, FEBRUARY if. Fear is still entertained that the habitual disturbers of public order will take advantage of the entry of the Prus sians to create confusion, panic, and disorder by throwing hand grenades among their ranks. Large numbers of these terrible instruments are known to exist, and it is said that the police are aware that they have been constantly and incessantly manufactured ever. since the proclamation of the Republic. In spite, how ever, of the vague rumours of seizures which I sent you yesterday, it appears that comparatively few have yet* been discovered. On the 24th the Prussians will occupy the streets through which the King will pass on the 26th. He will, it is expected, breakfast at the Ecole Militaire ; after that the troops will all defile before him. The proposed stay in the Palace of the Tuileries will not take place in consequence of the hospital fever, which is at present raging in that building and vicinity. At present Paris is very calm, almost lethargic, but should a few, bombs be thrown, the enemy will act at once with the greatest severity, and the violent republicans with whom I have conversed declare that the population would turn out to a man against them. With the streets crowded, as they will be, with sightseers, a cadre-temps of this kind would lead to results too terrible to be con templated. Victor Hugo, when en route far Bordeaux, was recog nised at the railway station of Etampes. The people shouted " Vive Victor Hugo ! " He replied, `• Non, non, vive la France !" Two Prussian gendarmes entered the railway carriage, and placed themselves, without speak ing, at the side of Victor Hugo, until the train arrived at Of course, after the entry of the Prussians, the question of food is the engrossing topic of the day. Civic organisa tion in France possesses about as much system as military organisation, and while the people are loud in praise of the liberality and generosity of England, they are equally loud in condemnation of the method in which it was applied. The Figaro of yesterday published an account of the various modes of distribution in the different arrondissements. In some the portions served out were infinitesimally small, in others extrava gantly liberal. For instance, a person living in the 10th arrondissement got 500 grammes of bacon, while his friend, who lived in the 6th, only got 33 grammes. In .consequence of these blunders, one of the mayors had to resign, and, finally, the attempt at organisation broke down utterly. Colonel Stuart Wortley and Mr. George Moore started depots of their own in various parts of Paris, and are assisted by a large number of philanthropic tradesmen. The most important of these depots, however, is at Mr. Moore's own warehouse in Rue Notre Dame des Victoires. Here the distribution was effected with the utmost rapidity, half a minute being the average time occupied, and a crowd of some four thousand women and children waited here for their turns with the utmost patience' and good order ; some of them, poor creatures, had taken up their stations over night. In the streets there appears to be no lack of pro visions—shops and stalls Fare teaming, but then among the lowest classes there is absolutely no money. Had , the English subscriptions been sent over in money, instead of in kind, I believe that the relief afforded would have been speedier and surer. The lower classes have lately been living in idleness upon the Government allowance of 45 sous,a day, and now, that this allowance is being stopped, of course, the misery will be dreadful. Many of these men belong to the loafing order of humanity, who pick up a liveli hood from the extravagances, follies, and vices of the wealthy. If work were to be had, and at present it is not, these are hardly the men to do it, and when charitable relief stops completely, I fear the real miseries of poverty and helplessness will assert themselves more conspicuously than ever. We shall then be in the position of so many parts of the country, only there is money without food, here food without money--a state of affairs that would thoroughly confuse Mr. Adam Smith. In spite of the craving for animal food, exhibited more especially in the lighter newspapers, during the late siege, the animals in the Jardin des Plantrs are all intact and well, though, like the rest of us, lean and gaunt. It was the Jardin d'Acclimatation which sold off all its stalk ; at present the former is used as an ambulance, and the botanical part is filled with long ranges of temporary wooden hospitals, devoted chiefly to fever pstients. DUNKERQUE IN PREPARATION. A letter from Dunkerque on the 18th says : " The town is full of troops. The whole of the 22nd Corps of the Army of the North has arrived for embarkation. It is that part of Faidherbe's army which consists of the divisions of Derroja and du Bessol. The staffs arrived yesterday morning, and rooms were kept for them at the Hotel de Flandre. The marine infantry began the march. Then came artillery, which occasioned much conjecture as to the object of the ex pedition. It was first supposed that it was intended to go to Cherbourg to occupy or reinforce the line of Carentan, in case of a resumption of hostilities. Another suggestion was that the expedition wag merely to touch at Cherbourg, to proceed afterwards to Bordeaux, with the sole object of Securing the internal tranquility of the country. The fleet was never larger than it is now. Two days since there were seventeen vessels, one of which left in the night for Cherbourg. The harbour is full of transports and other ships which ai e to carry out this corps d'arm4e, and embark it w ithout loss of time. It is singular tha t y esterday large quantities of cylindro-conical bullets arrived from Brest and were taken to the Arsenal. The night before, a quantity of cartridges came bearing the date of 1866. The armament and provisionment of the place are being pushed forward with extraordinary energy by Commandant Parjeu. other place, it is said, is armed to so formidable a degree. The engineers and the artillerymen of Lille work like old troopers. NAPOLEON AND THE GERMAN POWERS The New Free Press of Vienna hail' some curious revela tions respecting Napoleon's policy towards Austria and Prussia. It is a Mistake to suppose that Napoleon thought seriously, prior to the war of 1866, of sustaining Austria against Prussia, for if the latter Power had been willing to promise him assistance in conquering Belgium, he would have put 300,000 men at her disposal. Revelations made in the last sittings of the delegation prove that at the time when the Prussians occupied Brann, Bismarck intended to conclude a treaty of peace with Austria, whose fundamental condition would not have been the exclusion of Austria from. Germany. But in the interval, the perfidious intervention of the Imperial Cabinet had brought matters to such a point that that which Bismarck. did not intend to . do at Brunn was already stipulated in the French pro posals made at Nikolsbourg, It is nearly certain that Napoleon, whom ignorant publicists represent as the friend whose protecting arm prevented the complete dis memberment of Austria, -- that this" friend" pre vailed with Bismarck, and surreptitiously obtained that exclusion which Bismarck did not even then desire. Napoleon hoped by this to gain the acquiescence of Prussia in fresh territorial acquisitions. It is certain that in the last week of August, 1866, after the conclusion of peace at Prague, secret negotiations took place between France and Prussia, neg,otiations.to which doCUments found among the papers of the Empire refer, and which the Go - Vernment is not in a position to make public. These documents are two notes in the hand writing of Napoleon, addressed to M. Rouher " August 26 "My dear Minister Rouher, I return you the draft of treaty, with my observations on the margin. It will be necessary to add, in conversation, that as the Ger manic Confederation has ceased to exist, the Federal fortresses erected against France ought not longer to belong to the Confederation, but to each state whose territory they are situated in. Thus : Luxemburg to France, Mayence to Prussia, Saarlouis to the same, Landau to Bavaria, Rasta to Baden, Ulm to Wurtemberg. On the other hand, I think Prussia will have many difficulties with Saxony. Would it not be better for Prussia to annex Saxony, a Protestant country, and place the King of Saxony on the left bank of the Rhine. a Catholic country? But all this should only be insinuated in a friendly manner. The treaty must remain secret. The question of Luxemburg will make itself known as soon as the negotiations are opened. It is that which is the most pressing. Believe my dear Rouher, in my very sincere friendship, NAPOLEON. " P.S.—Benedetti may, with. the exception of a few trifling alterations, accept the principle." " St. Cloud, August 26, 1866. " My dear Minister B,ouher, —After having written this morning I felt a scruple respecting the article which reciprocally guarantees the territories of the two coun tries. This article not only makes us renounce the Rhine provinces, but obliges us, should they desire to give them selves to France, to march against them.—Believe in my sincere friendship, " NAPOLEON, On the 26th August, 1866, three days after the signature of the Treaty of Prague, which France regarded as a ,oNuoN STOCK iiiixotiANGE.—TrEsDAy, 4 ,AT EST PRICES.—AIe'rEItO 1(1 AI. 110 II z. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. UOVERNBENT SECURITIES. flare per Ceilt 001114044 918 92 I)oitrrilxz ,l ct 1833-85.. 112 911, 2, 11. 2 1121 1011102 j Do for Account k J01y1.391. Three pei Cala R 94 95 e d u ced 921 921 lO2, /, 21 921, 1, 1 Brazilian. 1.805. 5 o a .... New 3 per Cent 92, 1. / 10) Rail Dairen 7p a .. 99 EA Exchequer Bills, March 3 Bpm Italian, 1365, 5,0 a 4s pm Peruvian, 10.;5, 5o a Do, June 3 Spin 91. 1 Bs, 4s pm P or tuguese 1869 3uo .. 32 3 —.— 33, 21 Bank Stock India 5 per Cents 1091, / 86k, 6 BAH Bonds "— Do Nicolaa 4p a pm 68/ Can 6 po.lanSa u lylB77-84 10411051 Spanish , Ol 301 1051 30 g, 1, 1. Do Alarch &Soot. 105 107 Turkish, 18, 6v o 79 81 Do 5p a Jan & .Tuly .. 981 991 Do. 13 ;5 5 51 I. 0 , 4ll 42 Do Inscribed Stock .. 98 90 411, 1 Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 99 101 Do, 1865 6p a 1008 611, 801 Ceylon 6 p c May and 1.1.8.5.2011,md5.1 ocs 1331 991 9 11 November 1873 lO7 109 911, /A II Mauritius t; pc Jan and 1)o do 1885 901 901 July 1873 lO3 1(15 901, 1, 1 NewS Walessv 01871-74 lOO 101 Do 10.40 Rods, :i ~it i)1 87138 New Zealand opc 1891 lOB 110 • 811, i 3( a Do 5p a Do 5p c Consolidated 99 100 Illinois Central 411are 3 .. 108',1098 998 109 1/o 6p c Mar &Sept 1891 109 111 A tlatitlc and II Wit Con 1 , 0 inne & DeclB9l 108 110 Alortgage Bonds — Viet 6p c Jan &July 1891 113 114 S 5 86 60 62 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter 9O 92 Do Ist Prof 80nd5.... 59 50 Caledon i an 861, 7, 67 Do 2nd 're[ Honda .. 43 44 Great Elliterit 381 D o 3rd I'ref Stock . .. 32 33 Great Northern 126 4th Prof itook Do A 134 125 181, 1 134), 1 Great [ad i e u Pelt g 5. , o 105 106 Great. Western 741 751 1051 7, / 74, /, 31, 57.41, 7 Great Western oalans.dit 157 1.11/ Lancashire & Yorkshire 13111'51 151 7 1357 . Do 0p e 'Kotula. 1873.. 9911001 Lou, WWI, and 8 Coast 421 43 1)o 51 p do, 1877,-8 421, 7x d Do spo p r f. issned 80 1 2om Lou, Cl l4 at. , /, 1 1 and D ov er .. 14 1 4 1 Madras go3lr ua /, P 1 e , Lou and N orth-Western 129,0291 . N. Railway of Canada. 12016 a, 7 6p o Ist Prof Bowls Lou and South-W es tern 94 95 Huila and Itohilkutal g 5 Pc 947 Man, She, and Lincoln 461 47 101 40i, 7 Belittle, l' l unjanb, and Metropolitan .. . ....... 05/ 051 Delhi guar '5 0 0 lon AI Idland ............ .... 1201127/ 1271, 7 Bahia and San Praneisco North British North- Eastern Consols.. 146J47 Belgian E Junction 147, 61 . 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A B2 01 10 Imperial Ottommi .. 1", 11piii 91, 82 111, ?.., k 25 Alliance i 1( 10 Suglo-Anstrian 20 A ng lo-Egyptian 11.0, 221 231 20 London and County 501 511 23, 21 51 ad 50 British N American 59 53 15 London Joint-toclc 371 8 , , 20 Oh of India, Anstrlia 13t 10, 3 14 20 Lon and Westinnster 62 0:: 25 Char Mere of India 23 24 , 621 211, 3 10 Metropolitan Bl 81 10 City :0 Colonial 491 25 Orntal liatikOornorn 411 421 4 (.1) olidated if, 4 9-18 25 Union of Australia.. 39 40 20 Eng. Scot. and Aus 0 151 181 40 2 Imperial Ild 40Lo ndon .. , 91 401 401, defeat inflicted on her as well as on' Austria, Napoleon busied himself with a treaty by which France and Prussia undertook to guarantee each other's territory, and which probably contemplated the annexation of Belgium to France. It is evident that before that time the Emperor had designs on the Rhine provinces, and it is now asserted in Austria that it was engagements entered into with France which caused the conqueror's moderation towards Saxony in 1866. From these two letters it appears that, if Prussia had met his views, the King of Saxony was to have the post of head of the New Confederation of the Rhine. It results from all this that the Bonapartist policy, devoid of all conscience, had for its only object to turn the mis fortunes of Austria to advantage in the way of annexation and aggrandisement. All was right which led to this end, and if Prussia had surrendered a part of Belgium or the Rhine districts, she would have been able to go much further than she has done, since Napoleon would not have interfered with her in any way, but would, on the contrary, have lent his most willing assiztance in the work of conquest and dis memberment. Bishop Dupanloup has arrived at Bordeaux. We are informed that the Due Decazes is not a Legiti mist but an Orleanist. The six chief places of the district of Vaucigny, Switzer land, have asked to be occupied by Federal troops in con formity with the Treaties of 1815. The France says at Bordeaux it is thought probable that the Assembly will be dissolved as soon as the terms of peace are settled, and new elections will be held. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that the Emperor Napo leon wishes for the establishment of the Republic by the National Assembly, as he thinks this the speediest way for the restoration of the Empire. The Bordeaux cerrespondent of the Independance Beige writes that for the hundreds of journalists from all parts of the world only twenty seats have been set apart, while the galleries of the National Assembly are filled with women, who go there for amusement. General Herzog says in an order of the day to the Swiss army :---" You have seen the sad state of an army in which all the bonds of discipline were almost entirely loosened, which was the cause of that dissolution which we all have witnessed with regret. May this spectacle impress itself on your memory, and, as a deterring example, strengthen the conviction that without discipline and subordination there can be no good army !" The difficulties which the Germans put in the way of those who wish to leave Paris or go into the environs seem to increase rather than to diminish. They have changed the designation of the passports tint,. times since the armistice began, and it is lately announced that all the permits hitherto delivered are of no future use, and those who wish to travel must apply afresh to the proper authorities. The Verite mentions a significant circumstance in con nection with the supposed entry of the Germans into Paris. In several battalions of the National,Guard the men have been requested on superior authority to deliver up to the sergeant-majors all the cartridges which are in their possession. Great care will be taken in the carrying out of this measure, and the names of all the men will be placed' on a special register. It is believed that this measure will lead the way to more startling changes, The Crown Prince of Prussia the other day invited Mr. Odo Russell to Les Ombrages to breakfast, and afterwards drove him out to Valtirien and St. Cloud. Mr. Russell was treated to a lecture on shells by an enthu siastic and demonstrative officer, who was good enough to. proceed to screw out the fuze of the largest French shell in the magazine to shew how it worked. " Of course the shell is empty?" said Mr. Russell. "Oh dear no, quite charged and ready," replied the officer, screwing vigorously. As there are many shells unexploded, General von. Blumenthal has •ordered that they should be buried in holes three feet deep. The ploughman will be in more danger than he was in the days when he turned up a big bone to admire. SECRET PAPERS OF THE EMPIRE.—In onq divi sion of the Imperial papers are many letters addressed to the Ex-Emperor on the subject of " The Life of Caesar." One of the most curious is a letter from William, Prince of Baden, who acknowledges the receipt of the " magni ficent work." He feels the more sensible of the favour because he has been an eyewitness of the zeal with which his Majesty pursued the work which was then appreciated by the civilised world. He hopes to be permitted to keep the books as a proof of the benevolent sentiments which he felt for all mankind, and as a proof of his affection for the recipient. The Cardinal Archdeacon of Besancon says that in reading the astonishing work he arrived at the conclusion that Julius Caesar was fortunate in having coo' linered Gaul, and written commentaries on the event, for otherwise the Emperor Napoleon would have done both. These papers contain also two curious docu ments from a writer who styles himself Alberic Second. He writes as follows to a friend of the Emperor :—" I am about to drown myself for• want of four thousand francs. Oh, if you could let mY cry of distress reach his Majesty." In the second com munication, he says : " The Emperor has condescended. to hear and attend to m 7 cry of distress ; and and no w let Ine entreat you convey to his Majesty my feelings of joy gratitude." THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. A gentleman, writing from Bordeaux, says that be hag passed two days trying to catch the temper of the Assembly and make himself master of its secret intentions -- a task of great difficulty, as the deputies were elected in a hurry, without discussion, and under a painful and all absorbing impression. "First of all," continues the letter " the Chamber appears a regular chaos ; but one soon perceives that the Conservative element predominat es in a formidable manner and is master of the situation. The Republicans and the Ultras form an active but A very small and powerless body. . . . Three parties' are in presence at this moment—Bonapartists, Orleanist s r and Legitimists. The Legitimist party appears the be' organised. It has commenced to count its forces. At meeting held yesterday in the house of a rich merchant / Bordeaux, the partisans of Henri V., to the number . 126, discussed affairs under the presidence of M. Benoit d'Azy, and yesterday 146 members of the party were Pr e : sided over at a private meeting by M. d e Larc y . Th' party feels itself strong enough to sway M. Thief' The Orleanist party is much more reserved ths9 the Legitimists, who already impose conditions ; but when the discussion respecting the electV of the Prince, come on they will necessarily reveal the:. selves. . . . . M. Thiers speaks willingly of A difficulties of the position, of the uneasiness whic h Coo / Bismarck causes him, of the necessity of remaining unite' and of putting off all embarrassing questions." BIRTHS. vi e w On the 17th inst., at Adisham Rectory, the 1 ,5 " Villiers, of a daughter. of (his, On the 20th inst., at Belair , Dulwie.ki, the wife W. C. Hutton, Esq., of a son. MA.RRIAGTAS. rr t ilse -111.11 ' On the 18th inst.. at Holy T , ,:inity Ch urch ' NV. ter e3l'eoi George Henry Leane, C.E. third son of (10 0 Esq., of Fareham Park, to Ellen, young' 636 St. the late George Stent. of 'Barking, Essex' f i r onlic i Y ( ;,,sef On the 18th inst., at the, parish church ,°'• w burY Leonard's, Henry W l iiitaker, Esq., of 11%,stsleY, Bow-road, to Rachel, daughter of Jo sePP !Vest-terrace, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Ste t' DEATHS. 01° co On the 20th inst., Charles Doxat , Esq., °f 42, ' 7 ~,r a oru square, Hyde-park, aged 57 . ah On the 19th inst., at Church -place, Gl a l ) William Whiting, Esq., aged 77. o Y CE, as London : Printed by GIDEON .A.CLANn No. 112, Strand Printer , and in bll bY, tl 3 THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precincl, SavoY, in the County of Middlesex. Wednesday, February 22) la"' ef' OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS 1871 .—Tue v ;c o S. Edwardes, of Oxford, has issued the following 11 0 , t e lt1 relative to the above :—" The examinations will be this year at Oxford and also at t h e fo l l owin g placiefor London, Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Cheltenham ‘lO, girls only), Exeter, Finchley, Gloucester, Leeds, Liec9a , Liverpool, Manchester, Margate, Northampton, Natttioar ham, Southampton, Streatham Hill, Swansea, Tau ol n'. Truro,Westßuckland,Windermere,Windsor.The exag i , of tion will commence in each place on Monday , the 2"00- May, at two o'clock p.m. The printed forms whieb didates are to fill up will be ready by March tlo t bell' Candidates wishing to be examined at Oxford maYi le gep obtain them from the Rev. S. Edwardes, Merton C° Oxford. 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