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The postal and relief trains for Paris from London, arrested by mistake, were at once released, by orders from headquarters.—Times Telegrams. NEWS FROM BRUSSELS. BRUSSELS, February 12. Prince Napoleon has arrived in Brussels. On and after to-morrow two trains will run daily from Lille and Valenciennes to Paris. Passengers will require passports. Only hand luggage will be allowed. The Duke of Aumale has been returned by a large majority in the Oise. If admitted, it is believed that he will be elected President of the Assembly. AI. Valentin, the ex-Prefect of Strasburg, has been appointed Prefect of Lyons. ARRIVAL OF PRINCE DE JOINVILLE AT BORDEAUX. BORDEAUX, Februaty 11. Prince de Joinville has arrived at Bordeaux with General Changarnier. They are a t the Hotel de France.—Daily News Telegrams. THE PRUSSIAN WAR INDEM- NITY. - - A Lombard Telegram from Berlin says :—lt is affirmed on the• Berlin Bourse that the indemnity to be demanded from France will not exceed 1,000,000,000 thalers (£150,000,000) which will de fraythe actual war debts incurred, and the pensions of disabled soldiers. M. Bleichroder, banker in Berlin, has been summoned to Versailles to confer with the Ministers respecting the most practicable arrange ment to make for payment of the indemnity. Most extensive preparations are being made for brilliantly illuminating the city on the return of the army. The Town Hall will be lit up at a cost of £l,OOO a night for gas alone. The following telegrams come through Reuter's agency : THE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE, PARIS, February 11, 9 p.m. The following are the results of the scrutiny of the battot-boxes :—M. Louis Blanc, 102,000; M. Gam betta, 90,900 ; Victor Hugo, 90,300 ; Garibaldi, 8 0,100; M. Henri Rochefort, 80,400; M. Edgard Quinet, 84,000; M. Delescluze, 81,000 ; Admiral Salsset, 78,000 ; M. Schoelcher, 72,000 ; M. Dorian, 72,000; Toigneaux, 71,000; Admiral Pothaun, 69,000 ; M. Lecroy, 68,000 ; M. Bernard, 66,000 ; M. Felix Pyat, 65,000 ; M. Gamboa, 57,000 ; M. Brisson, 57,000 ; and M. Floquet, 51,000 votes. PARIS, February 11. An official announcement of the Hotel de Ville, dated noon to-day, states that the counting of the votes is still unfinished in all the arro n dissements. The partial results will be published when known. Returns from 27 out of 71 of the suburban communes were received this morn ing. The Paris returns thus far known show that the full list of 43 candidates have received sufficient votes. There will be no second election necessary, except to replace those deputies who decide to sit for other districts. Louis Blanc heads the list with 102,000 votes. Next come Gambetta, Victor Hugo, Garibaldi, Henry Martin, and Rochefort. In the Department of the the Somme, the success Of the candidates brought forward by the Liberal Commitee is assured. Among these candidates are Generals Changarnier and Faidherbe. The 'Moderate list of candidates has been carried 1 4 . _ the D e p ar t men t of the Rhone, comprising Trochu, Favre, Ducasse, Banger, Roer Laprade, Ferrel, St. Victor Glas, Margini, de Mortimard, Flottard, a nd Morrili. C aen Limoges has voted for the independent Liberal list, for the Liberal parliamentary list, St. Marc m itardin at the head. The Department of Saone et Loire carried the c(3 hibined Republican and Conservative list. The li berals at Moulins were victorious. In the elections 311 the Department of Allier the Conservative list /c as carried, with General D'Aurolles de Paladine at t he head. The Moniteur, at Bordeaux, speaking of the gene -411 Conservative character of the elections, says 4 .,:\Ve wish before all that no misunderstanding should prevail abroad on the significance of these elections. The foreign Powers, and especially Ger - i hany, would commit a great error were they to con clude from the comparative electoral defeat of the Partisans of war a outrance, that the future majority of t he Assembly is resigned beforehand to subscribe to any co nditions it may please M. Bismarck to dictate. t en like Thiers, Dufaure, De Carayon, and Latour, t 0 mention only some of the candidates for whom the beater portion of the votes given in the department cf the Gir o nde were recorded, are not less jealous of the honour of France than the most determined ' e Publicans; and, although they will express their re solution not to yield to any unjust demand in more tis cc lerate terms, their determination will not for all gat be less sincere or firm." The first four candidates of the Republican list, h y el icling M. Beauregard, have been elected in Savoy e ' 6 ) 0 00 votes. Prince Joachim Murat obtained )1)00 votes. h st n the Department of the Creuse the Republican % it has been d e f ea t e d, and th e w hole C o nservative been successful. NI , the Department of the Uautes Alpes, the list b„ ' g luing the names of MM. Thiers and Michael Chartreau has been carried by a majority of In the Department of the Maaenne all the Con servA a , tive candidates have been elected. 1 * Nantes th e li s t o f th e coa litio n Conservative Part y h as been entirely successful. t he Department of the Vendee, General Trochu, e• ' l (: ) det, and the other Conservative-Liberal can `ll(lates have been elected. In th e - apartment of the Lozere, MM. Concombat h av , s ",anibre n and Theopbile Roussell (Republicans) .13eee returned. )3 the eth el Department of the Charente Inferieure M. ele ctpd "t) the Republican candidate, has been in 4 ' and all the other candidates returned belong th_ . t te r , 1 7 Liberal Union, among whom are MM. At L ufa ure, &c. Nvi th ;Tann the Republican list was elected entire p er "; o ll n ajority of 5,000. Dlibli ea . arriving from Orlbans state that the Re /4 th ti l ist was there in th e m i nor ity. 4 ervati v e r‘ ePartment o f th e A rne th e w h o l e Con th: it 9 Was carried. 11 ..I)epartment of La Manche the results h ale beat present shew that the Conservatives p .t , a the Cotes by a large majority. t e yene, 4,;:otes du Nord General Trochu, M. 13 100 h ay and all the candidates of the Liberal o .ele cteui e been elected. Iwo candidates remain to tion. orld, Icrip- Fohn. :hest :en a ►fight waEg ►f all Their was I and there llant's ement at was words stained nippers 1 prin as God to as ser- opinion, )pellant ?lore of proved, ounced. 1 costs. even at given to ppellant he had of the Lnwiffing ;hey had :f he had do so at .pon 'him n of the being en- made an of Edgar am. On Sacturing ;, was in- SHIP. er says :- 0-clay (Fri 'ednesday, ;transport cee leagues ,usand and A the crew mber how slinging to LIVES. of the loss lamer, in a he vessel, Bombay, ;er twenty as on board Carr (sup adras Staff 3e and Co., Bombay, are among ed are the v, and two pitible con bay to Goa, caster and and several h was coin rom London cident took few weeks fiery for th Western Pis; ordeaux, anu th the head- In the department of the Cher the election of MM Ledru Rollin, Thiers, Gambetta, and others, com• prising the coalition list, is considered certain. February 11. The following is the result of the elections in the Department of the Gironde :—At Bordeaux the Republicans polled 17,588 votes, and the Conserva tive-Liberals, 9,883. In the Department of the Alpes Maritimes, General Garibaldi and Messrs. Duffaise, Burgondie, and Piccon have been elected. In the Puy de Dome the list of the Republican Committee who took as their motto " Order by Liberty " has been entirely successful. MARSEILLES, February 10 (Evening). The successful candidates are believed to be MM, Pelletan, Gambetta, Thiers, Trochu, Perrier, Grevy, Lanfray, Tardieu, and Delpech. Some of the last named may, however, be displaced by the votes of the Mobilised Guard, which are not yet counted. The results, as far as known, have been well re ceived on the Bourse. TOULON, February 9. MM. Gambetta, Ledru Rollin, Laurier, flarbacoux, Brun, and Admiral Jaureguiberry, the Republican candidates, are elected. HAVRE, February 11. The Conservative list has achieved a complete success in the circumscription of Rouen. AMIENS, February 11. In the Department of the Somme the success of the candidates brought for ward by the Liberal Committee is assured. LILLE, February 11. M.M. Martel, Thiers, Deporte, Adam Wartelle, Douay, Defoule, Paris, Deboyas, de Diesbach, Declercq, Haman°, Kussansoy, Derinsert, and St. Malo have been elected for the Department of the Pas de Calais. The Republican list was beaten. The returns for the •Department of the North are still incomplete, but it is certain that the Monarchists have been elected by a great majority. February 12. The final and official result of the Elections in the Department du Nord shows that the Monarchical list has been successful, the candidates composing it receiving an average of 195,000 votes; the Republi can list obtained an average of 47,000 votes. STRASBUItd, February 10. The result of the voting in Strasburg is ss fol lows :—The Mayor of Strasburg, 9,937; the Mayor of Schelestat, 9,288 ; hi. Reutsch, 9,218 ; M. Gam betta, 8,633; M. Schneegans, 8,577 ; M. Melsheim, 8,348 ; M. Fevre, 8,180 ; M. Boell, 8,079 ; M. Bouguignon, 7,657; M. Eckmann, 7,228; M. Valestin, 7,162; M. Seinguelet, 6,229. SAAR.BRUCK, February 11. At the elections in the Department of the Bas Rhin about 107,000 votes were recorded. M. Keufs received the greatest number—namely, 48;000. In the arrondissement of Metz-Briey and the Canton of Forbach the following are elected :—MM. Rehm, Dechange, Bardon, Gambetta, Andre, Bam berger, Humber, and Noblet. In the Department of the Cote d'Or the success ful candidates are :—MM. Dubois, Magnin, Carnot, 0. Goigneaux, Mareau, Garibaldi, Cari,on, and Fridon. DEPRESSION AT WILHELMSHOHE. Napoleon 111. is reported to be much depressed by the result of the French elections, which leave no hope for the restoration of the Bonapartist dynasty. The French officers prisoners of war in Germany are becoming impatient under their captivity, and ex press ardent desires for peace. M. JULES FAVRE AND COUNT BISMARCK. CARLSRUHE, February 11. The Baden Gazette publishes the following as the terms in which M. Jules Favre replied on the 4th inst. to Count Bismarck's remonstrance respecting M. Gambetta's decree of exclusion : " You are right in appealing to my honour; in that you will never find me fail. It is true that you urged me to accept, as the only possible combination, the reassembling of the former Corps Legislatif—a proposal which I declined. T replied to you that I felt perfectly safe in affirming that the country de sired only free elections. You may, therefore, rest assured that if the decree you mention has been issued it shall be annulled." THE FRENCH ARMY IN SWIT ZERLAND, Count Bismarck has declined to grant the request made by the Federal Council that the German head quarters should assist in arriving at an understanding for the return to their country of the French troops interned in Switzerland. MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN FRANCE. A decree dated February 5 has been issued at Bordeaux announcing that the calling out of the class of 1871 will be at once proceeded with, and that all youug men will be compelled to serve in the active army without drawing. THE FRENCH MINISTRY. General Le Flo has arrived at Bordeaux, and undertaken the direction of the Ministry of War. M. Lionville has been appointed Director-General ad interim of the Ministry of the Interior, replacing M. Laurier, who has resigned. THE FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. There is au opinion entertained at headquarters that the Assembly at Bordeaux will most probably set up a provisional government, with a member of the Orleans family at its head, and provide for a future plebiscite to decide between an Orleanist and a Bonapartist resto ration or a Republic. The re-victualling of Paris goes on very slowly, and there is reason to* fear that the suffering in the capital is greatly on the increase. Manchester Guardian Telegram. THE TREATY OF COMMERCE. The Bordeaux papers state that the Government has determined to reserve for the decision of the National Assembly whether the Treaty of Commerce with England is to be continued or abrogated. RESIGNATION OF 111. CREMIEUX. DI. Cr6mieux has sent in his resignation, but will remain in office until the next meeting of the National Assembly. COMMUNICATION WITH PARIS. The Orleans and Paris and Lyons and Mediter ranean Railway Companies have announced that they will issue tickets for Paris at all stations of their lines. The Northern Railway Company is working day and night actively pushing forward the repair of its lines between Arras, Amiens, and Abbeville, between Amiens and Budigny, between St. Quen tin and Creil, and also between Chintigny, Creil, and Poutois. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO RESTORE THE TEMPORAL POWER. FLORENCE, February 9. It is announced hero that a Catholic committee has been formed in Belgium with the view of pre paring an armed expedition against Italy. Connec tions and branches of the society are said to be esta blished in Austria, in Spain, and in some of the French provinces. The seat of operations will be in an island of the Mediterranean. It is believed that the Italian Government is aware of these pro ceeding:.. FLORENCE, February 11. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties Signor Lanza, replying to a question of Signor Crispi, as to the rumours of enrolments of troops being made for the re-establishment of the tem - poral power of the Pope, and also of concentration of individuals at the Vatican, said that, so far as was known at present, these rumours were uncertain, and he believed much exaggerated. Nevertheless, the Italian authorities wonld promptly punish any per sons guilty of any overt act. REPORTED DISTURBANCES AT NICE. FLORENCE, February 11. The International publishes a despatch asserting that serious disturbances have broken out at Nice. A. collision occurred between the troops and the people, a crowd having besieged the Prefecture, shouting :"Evviva Italia!" The troops charged theni with :the bayonet, and several persons were wounded. The newspaper !Diritto had been sup pressed. Garibaldi had been elected at Nice for the French National Assembly. ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. The Senate has confirmed the appointments of Mr Secretary Fish, General Schenck, ex-Attorney General Hoar, Senator Williams, and Mr. Justice Nelson as members of the high joint commission for the settlement of the difficulties between Great Britain and the United States. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) RELIEF FOR THE FRENCH. The screw steamers Knapton Hall and the Sweden left Liverpool on Saturday morning last' direct for Havre, with a full cargo of breadstuffs, &c., for Paris. At a meeting of the Brecon Agricultural Chamber, on Saturday, it was resolved : " This meeting pledges itself to do all in its power to support the movement in iconnection with the French peasant seed fund. A committee was formed to carry out the intention of the proposition. At a meeting held at Nottingham, convened by the Mayor of that town, on Saturday afternoon, it was re solved to raise a fund in aid of the distressed in Paris. £3OO which had been raised for the sick and wounded in the war, is now to be devoted to the relief of the French. PROFESSOR FAWCETT ON THE PRINCESS'S DOWRY. Professor Fawcett, M. P„ has written to the Birming ham Labour Representation League reiterating his determination to oppose, the grant of a dowry to the Princess Louise. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAI, FEBRUARY 13, 1871. PROCLAMATION OF THE EMPEROR N iPOLEON. The Emperor Napoleon has issued the following pro clamation to the French people, dated from Wilhemshohe on the Bth : - " FRENCHMEN, " Betz ayed by fortune, I have preserved since my cap tivity that profound silence which is the mourning of mis fortune (le deuil du malheur.) So long as the armies were in face of each other, I abstainM from all proceedings, and from all words, which could have caused divisions in the public mind. To-day I can be silent no longer, in presence of the disasters of the country, without ap pearing insensible to its sufferings. At the moment when I was obliged to constitute myself a prisoner, I was un able to treat for peace. Being no longer free, my reso lutions would have seemed to be dictated by personal considerations. I left to the Government of the Regent, sitting at Paris, in the centre of the Chambers, the duty of deciding whether the interest of the nation required the continuation of the conflict. "In spite of unheard-of reverses, France was not sub dued ; our strong places being yet untouched, only a few Departments being invaded, and Paris being in a state of defence, the extent of our misfortunes might still be limited. But, while all eyes were turned towards the enemy, an insurrection broke out in Paris. The seat of the National Representation was violated, the security of the Empress was menaced, a Government installed itself by a surprise at the Hotel de Ville ; and the Empire, which the whole nation had just hailed by accla mation for the third time, abandoned by those who ought to have defended it, was overthrown, Making a truce with my just resentment, I exclaimed : ' What matters the dynasty, if the country can be saved !' And, in place of protesting against the violation of the right, I earnestly desired the success of the National Defence, and admired the patriotic devotion which the children of all classes and of all parties have displayed. ° " Now that the struggle is suspended, that the capital, in spite of a heroic resistance, has succumbed—and that every reasonable chance of victory has vanished, it is time to demand an account from those who have usurped power of the blood shed without necessity, of the ruins heaped up without reason, of the resources of the country squandered without control. The destinies of France cannot be abandoned to a Government without sanction (sans mandat) which, while disorganising the administra tion, has not left erect a single authority emanating from universal suffrage. A nation cannot long obey those who have no right to command. Order, confidence, a solid peace, will be re-established only when the people shall have been consulted with regard to the Government most capable of repairing the misfortunes of the country. "In the solemn circumstances in which we find our selves, in face of the invasion and of attentive Europe, it is of moment that France should be one in her aspirations, in her desires, as well as in her resolutions. Such is the end towards which the efforts of all good citizens should tend. As for myself, bruised by so many injustices and bitter deceptions, I do not come forward to-day to reclaim rights whichfour times in twenty years you have freely conferred upon me. - In presence of the calamities which surround us, there is no room for a personal ambition. " But sb long as the people, regularly assembled in its comitia, shall not have manifested its will, my duty will be to address myself to the nation, as its true representa tive, and to say to it, All that is done without your direct participation is illegitimate. There is but one Government, sprung from the national sovereignty, which, elevating itself above the self-seeking of parties, has the power to heal your wounds, to re-open your hearts to hope, as the profaned churches to your prayers, and to bring back into the bosom of the country industry, concord, and peace.' •" NAPOLEON." ENTRY OF THE GERMANS INTO PARIS, The correspondent of the Telegraph forwards the fol• lowing by special despatch : IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS, VERSAILLES, February 10. The entrance of the German troops who will be told off to occupy the houses along the line of route to be followed by the Emperor and the German army in their triumphal passage, will take place on the 19th instant, at noon. I am to-day informed that his Majesty will enter ' Paris on the 22nd, by train from Ver sailles, taking horse at the Paris Station, and proceed. ing to the Tuileries, where he will lunch with his Court and the general officers of his army. He will then inspect the army of investment, which will march through Paris, with bands playing and colours displayed, along the line of route which I have formerly indicated to you. His Majesty, after the triumphal march, will return to Versailles, where he will sleep ; and he will re visit the city on the two following days. His return to Germany will take place in the last week of the' pre sent month. These are the arrangements at present enter tained; but should it prove impracticable to put the Tuileries in a proper state for the Emperor's reception during the three days allowed for preparation, his Majesty will most probably put up at the Palace of the Elysee. From trustworthy information which has just reached the Prussian police authorities here, as well as myself from private sources, I am encouraged to hope that no untoward demonstra tion on the part of the Parisian population will occur during the Emperor's sojourn in Paris, or the triumphal defile* of the troops. The Emperor is suffering from a slight attack of lumbago. Prince Frederick Charles has left Versailles to return to his army ; and Prince Al brecht, junior, has arrived. The Grand Duke of Saxe- Altenburg will depart to-morrow. If the terms of peace determined upon by Count Bismarck, and confidentially communicated by him to M. Jules Favre, but to no one else, be not agreed to by the Government which is to be nominated by the National Assembly, hostilities will be renewed immediately upon the expiration of the armistice; and a very rigorous procedure will then be adopted towards Paris in the matter of taking pledges for the war indemnity. The amount of the latter will, I am led to believe, be fixed at four milliards (2160,000,000) at least ; but I anticipate that concessions will be made on other points. I am officially assured that the statement of terms lately indicated by one of your London contemporaries was based on no authority, All the troops now before Paris have been fully reinforced, and brought up to their complete war strength. Many of the regiments have received new uniforms for their march into the city. The Guards will enter Paris looking as smart as they do at a church parade in Potsdam. The new draughts are universally made up of unusually fine young fellows, even for Prussians. Altogether, the army presents a splendid appearance. The Landwehr especially, is in wonderful form. The Fourth Corps is under orders for Chartres. The 22nd division, of General Wittich, has just arrived here, where reinforcements were awaiting it. Should 'peace be proclaimed, all the Landwehr regiments of infantry, and reserve cavalry and artillery, will at once be sent home and broken up. The Line will remain in the annexed provinces, and in such part of France as may be held until the war indemnity shall be paid up. The grrisoning of the Alsace and Lorraine fortresses will require about 60,000 men. The results of the Paris elections are not yet known here. A heavy rain storm has set in. February 9. The 58th and 59th Regiments take their departure hen . ce this morning for the South, the Emperor having taken leave of them at nine o'clock in the morning. The German troops ate being drawn in more closely all around Paris ; and difficulties have been thrown in the way of food supplies being conveyed into the city from this portion of the lines of investment. M. Gambetta's resignation has allayed in great measure the apprehensions recently entertained in regard to the turn that the elections might take through his intervention, but a somewhat gloomy foreboding still hangs about head quarters. General Chanzy went into Paris on Tuesday evening, and General Faidherbe is also expected there. A council of War is to be held by the chief Generals of France within the walls of the capital. All this, I believe, is symptomatic of submission. Indeed, nothing but the madness of a faction can rekindle the dying ember of the war feeling. Paris, I am quite con vinced, will agree to submit to any sacrifice rather than risk the resumption of hostilities. A similar resolve is shown, by the latest accounts from the North, to prevail in the chief cities of Normandy and Picardy. The probable conditions of peace I have already indicated to you. It is quite possible that one or two of them may be somewhat relaxed in severity, should the National Assembly display resignation, dignity, and a temper of conciliation. The whole of the sth Army Corps has marched for Orleans, and I believe that the 11th is also under orders to follow. It is understood that the son of Lord Wenlock will offer himself for the vacancy in the representation of York caused by the retirement of Mr. Westhead. The Madras 7imes of January 19th publishes a telegram, stating that Ensign Gilbert, of the 60th Rifles, who was recently tried by court-martial, has been cashiered and that the sentence is confirmed. A. public meeting of workmen will be held at Exeter Hall on Tuesday "wit, under the presidency of Mr. George Potter, to consider the desirability of rendering immediate relief to the distressed artisans of France. COURT MARTIAL. The court-martial for the trial of William Arthur Car line, steward of H.M.S. Pembroke, on charges of fraud and conspiracy and fraud, was resumed on Saturday at Portsmouth. Captain Wilson, of the Pembroke, proved that he had not given permission to the prisoner to receive £4 6s. from the contractor's agent on account of meat supplied to the Pembroke. No officer was present when the meat was received on board, but, according to the Admiralty instructions, Captain Wilson thought some one should have been appointed for the purpose. It was proved there was a difference between the amount in the contractor's foreman's book and the monthly certificate on which the contract had been paid, for the months of July, August, September, October, and November, of 2,0001 b., which, at the rate of 465. per 1001 b., the rate the con tractor said was to be paid the prisonr, amounted to £46. On Friday the contractor's man deposed that he had paid prisoner the above sum in September, October, and November. I 3 was found that on eleven different days the quantities of fresh beef stated to be issued largely exceeded the number of men victualled. The case for the prosecution having been concluded, the court granted the prisoner until to-day (Monday) to prepare his defence. ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF A PRISONER. On Friday evening a man named Charles Champion, of Reading, made an attempt to escape while being con veyed to Reading Gaol by Police Sergeant Field, of Windsor. It appears that the prisoner was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at the Windsor Quarter Sessions, held on Friday, for stealing boards. The pri soner and the police sergeant left Windsor in the evening by the 4.30 train. Shortly after passing Twyford station the prisoner asked permission to rest his leg, which had. been recently broken. The sergeant allowed him to place his leg on the seat, and almost immediately after wards the man forced himself out of the window. The sergeant caught hold of the man's trousers, and held him for about a distance of fifty yares, when finding it impossible to pull him into the carriage, he pushed him right out to prevent him being killed. The train was stopped, and the sergeant and Inspector Chad went back ; they found the prisoner not hurt, in the custody of two men who had chased him into a copse. The remainder of the journey was performed in a cab, and the prisoner was safely lodged in Reading Gaol. THE OXFORD CREW. A great number of people were attracted to the water side on Saturday afternoon to witness the rowing of the Oxford crew. The boat was occupied as follows :—Bow, Woodhouse ; 2. Giles ; 3. Baker ; 4. Malan ; 5. Edwards- Moss; 6. Payne ;7. Lesley ; Stroke, Bunbury. The President coached the crew, and it was stated that the above gentlemen would represent the University at Putney. THE MISSION TO AMERICA. The English portion of the American legation to inquire into the Alabama and fishery claims, left Liverpool on Saturday in the steamer Cuba. A SCHOOL BOARD FOR READING. The Reading Town Council have decided to apply to the Educational Department for the formation of a School Board for the borough of Reading. Eleven members voted for and eight against the motion. Amongst the arrivals from New York on Saturday by the Cunard steamer Russia, were the Count and Countess Estherhazy and suite; and also the secretary to the Aus trian legation at Washington. Mr. T. Cooper, county magistrate of Nottinghamshire, died suddenly at his residence at Bulwell Hall, on Friday last. On Friday last the remains of Colonel Peace, K.G., one of those who served so faithfully in the battle of Beulah, and who, upon the same occasion, was successful in obtaining an eagle, was buried at Ffrwdgrech, near Brecon. The deceased was 81 years old. ROYAL COURT THEATRE.—His Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, princes, and suite, honoured this theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. SAFETY OF HER MAJIIIITY'S SHIP STARLING.— The Starling was found by Her Majesty's ship Salamis at Tinhora, and towed to Hong Kong on the 21st December last, and was paid off there. THE BALLOT.—We are informed that there is no authority whatever for the statement in the Observer of yesterday, that Mr. Forster will propose a compromise on the Ballot question, making the adoption of secret voting optional with a constituency except in cases of proved corruption, when it should be compulsorily introduced by way of punishment. — Times. DEATH OF MR. GREENWOOD, SOLICITOR TO THE TREASURY.—We regret to have to record the death of John Greenwood, Esq., Q.C., who has for many years filled the important office of Solicitor to the Treasury. Mr. Greenwood died yesterday afternoon, in consequence of the bursting of an abscess in the throat. In him the country loses an able and conscientious public servant. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday in Down ing-street. The Ministers present were—The Right Hon. W. F. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Halifax, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, Earl Granville, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, tha Right Hon. C. Fortescue, the Right Hon. 0. J. Goschen, the Marquis 'of Hartington, and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster. The Leeds Express says that the Naval Estimates will exceed by £400,000 those of last year. Mr. G-. A. Cayley, of Brom - pton, near York, is a candidate for Ripon in the Conservative interest. It has been decided to reseat the choir of Canter bury Cathedral as a memorial to the late Deau Alford. At the last meeting of the Alhambra committee it was finally settled to take out a dramatic licence. The South London Press says that in one local union the vehicle which carries the workhouse bread is also made to do duty as an ambulance for smallpox patients. The Pope has written a letter to Archbishop Spalding, of Baltimore, expressing his satisfaction on receiving the resolutions of sympathy passed by a meeting of itionian Catholics in Baltimore. PRUSSIAN DEPREDATIONS: The Paris " Besieged Resident" correspondent of he Daily News, describing a visit to Versailles, says :—The Prussians appear to be carrying on the war upon the same principles of international law which formed many thousand years ago the rule of conquest among the Israelites. They are spoiling the Egyptians with a vengeance. Even in this town, under the very eyes of the King, there is one street—the Boulevard de la Reine—in which almost every house is absolutely gutted. The Prussian army may have many excellent qualities, but chivalry is not among them. War with them is a busi ness. When a nation is conquered, these LI to be no sentimental pity for it, but as much is to be made out of it as possible. Like the elephants which can crush a tree or pick up a needle, they conquer a province and they pick a pocket. As soon as a Prussian is quartered in a room he sends for a box and some straw ; then carefully and methodically packs up the clock on the mantelpiece and all the stray ornaments which he can lay his hands on ; and then, with a tear glistening in his eye for his absent family, directs them either to his mother, or his wife, or his lady-love. In vain the proprietor protests ; the philosophical warrior utters the most noble sentiments respecting the horrors of war ; ponderously explains that the French do not suffi ciently appreciate the blessings of peace ; and that he is one of the humble instruments whose mission it is to make these blessings clear to them. Then he rings the bell, and, in a mild and gentle voice, orders his box of loot to be carried off by his military servant. Ben Butler and his New Englanders in New Orleans might have profitably taken lessons from these all-devouring locissts. Nothing escapes them. They have long . rods, which they thrust into the ground to see whether any thing of value has been buried in the gardens. Sometimes they confiscate a house, and then resell it to the proprietor. Sometimes they cart off the furniture. Pianos they are very fond of. When they see one, they first sit down and play a few sentimental ditties. They go away, requisition a cart, and minstrel and instrument disappear together. They are a singular mixture of bravery and meanness. No one can deny that they possess the former qualify, but they are courageous without one spark of heroism. After fighting all day for Fatherland they will rifle the corpses of their fallen foes of every article they can lay their hands on, and will return to their camp equally happy because they have won a great victory for Fatherland, and stolen a watch from one of the enemies of Fatherland. They Shave got now into such a habit of appropriating other people's property that I confess I tremble when one of them fixes his cold glassy eye upon me. I see that he is meditating some new phi losophical doctrine which, some way or other, will transfer what is in my pocket into his. His mind, however, fortunately works but slowly, and I am far away from him before he has elaborated to his own satisfaction a system of confiscation applicable to me. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that the army is to enter Paris on the 19th of this month, march over the Bridge of Jena, and then along the Rue de Rivoli. Bismarck regards this as a piece of idle folly, but the King is bent on it. He says that it will be a disappoint ment to every soldier not to be able to say, when he re turns home, that he has been into Paris. It would be cruel, he thinks, to deprive them of this gratification. Kind old man ! THE GALE. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.) The gale on the East coast appears to have bean very disastrous. At Bridlington Quay over 20 vessels are known to have been lost ; and it is feared others have sunk in deep water. Two crews were saved by the National lifeboat, and five crews by a smaller boat presented by Count Balthainy. Amongst the vessels known to be lost are seven brigs, seven schooners, and four small vessels. The major portion of them were colliers, bound south. In one of its journeys the small lifeboat capsized, and six men were drowned. It is feared over forty lives have been lost. Fourteen bodies, two of them lifeboat-men, have been washed ashore. The beach for miles is strewed with wreck. In the Humber, and outside, in the blinding snow squalls, the crews could not see, and the ships were run on Clee Ness. The Sicily, of Shields, and the brig Euphemia, from Hartlepool. with coals for London, both leaky and abartdoned, were brought in to Grimsby by Clee thorpe fishermen. A schooner from Leaham, with coals for Lowestoft, was assisted into the same port by the pilotboat. One of the crew was washed overboard, and the decks were clean swept, except the masts. The German schooner Alpha returned with loss of the master, who had been washed overboard and drowned. The following vessels came in for repairs :—the barque British Merchant, in ballast, the schooner Dolphin, coal laden, a Tyne steamer, coal laden, the schooner Hero, in ballast, the schooner Richard and Elizabeth, coal laden, and the schooner Woodville, coal laden. The master of the Moor of Venice, riding in the Roads, reports that on Friday after noon he saw a schooner, name unknown, sailing in the Humber, strike the ground and immediately disappear with all on board. The Kate, of Hull, was abandoned in a sinking state, and the crew were brought in by the brig Whynot. The vessel that sunk off Blasquet, on the coast of Kerry, Ireland, is proved to be the three-masted schooner Mary Ellen, of Liverpool, from Demerara, with a cargo of rum and sugar. She struck on Tuesday night last. The captain and crew of eight hands escaped in the long boat, and were beating about for twenty-four hours, during which time they suffered great hardships. They landed at eleven o'clock on Wednesday night on the south side of Dingle Bay, and proceeded to Cahirsiveen, Kerry. THE ALABAMA. CLAIMS. A usually well-informed writer (the Washington corre spondent of the New York Evening Post) telegraphs on January 24 that the real cause of the unexpected post ponement of General Schenck's departure for this country is said " upon good authority " to be the receipt at the State Department of a communication from Sir Edward Thornton to the effect that instructions had been received by him from Lord Granville to make overtures for reopening the Alabama claims questions, and to sub mit the propositions upon the basis of which the British Government is ready to come to a final settlement of the controversy. This letter, the correspondent goes on to say, was considered so important by the President that he deemed it advisable for General Schenck to remain until the matter assumes some definite shape. The propositions submitted by Sir E. Thornten, he adds, require certain concessions on the part of the United States on its position heretofore taken on this question, and the President is said to be willing to yield in his anxiety to get the subject settled. What the terms are the correspondent is unable to say, but they are regarded as very favourable by the Administration. On the other hand, he tells us, it is reported that Mr. Sumner, when made acquainted with the contents of Sir E. Thornton's letter, assured Mr. Fish that if a treaty was negotiated on the terms proposed, it would be rejected not only by the Senate but also by the public at large, so excessive did he consider the concessions demanded. The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, at their last court, held February 9, made a grant of twenty guineas to the City Orthopcedic Hospital, Hatton Garden, E. C. It is hoped here that there will be no division on the Princess Louise's dowry, several members who ex pressed their intention to oppose it having already inti mated that they will abstain from voting. Mdlle. Nilsson, on dit, will return to London with a troupe froth America to perform Italian Operas, so that a third company may possibly be heard, during the ap proaching London Season.—Orchestra. A new romantic drama of London life by Mr. Charles H. Ross is in active rehearsalatthe Surrey Theatre, gud is said to contain some strikingly realistic scenes of a very novel character.—Orchestra. A. terrible explosion has occurred in Brooklyn, New York, by which the city gas works were partially destroyed, and one man was killed. A terrible conflagra tion resulted, which destroyed property amounting to 150,000 dols. Baron Liebig has so far recovered from his furun- culoid affection as to be able to resume his lectures at the University -of Munich. He is conducting the present Course on experimental chemistry with all his old energy and effect. —Lancet. GARIBALDI'S RETREAT FROM DIJON.-A letter from Pontarlier says :—Old Garibaldi, withdrawing in time from the girdle of troops that had been admirably placed to surround him, evacuated Dijon in all haste with his band, consisting of some thousand men, and re treated behind the line of demarcation. This is, however, just as well, as we should not have known what to do with so many thousand Garibaldian prisoners, being already at a loss how to provide for the numerous prisoners already in our hands in this thoroughly-ex hausted district, and where supplies are difficult to procure. Dijon, which is now for the third time in the occupation of German troops, is said to look most deplorable, and dis tress and want prevail there to an enormous extent. The position of affairs here is really terrible. The departments of the Jura and Cote d'Or are, with the exception of a few half-famished broken•up bands, entirely freed from French troops, and the armistice comes into effect here as well. The capitulation of Belfort. now that every chance of relief has vanished, will certainly take place in a few days. OUR COTEMPORARIEf.';--This Idczainv NAPOLEON'S PEOCLAMATION. The Ties says :—Those who aspire to the honour of presiding over the future fortunes of France are wonder fully reticent as to tire policy they would pursue if in vested with power. They can talk freely enough of the past; they can lament, with effusion, the miseries of the present; but they give no hint as to the way in which they would endeavour to re trieve the calamities of the last six months ; nor do they afford an anxious people a glimpse of their own opinions, if they have any, as to what should be done now. The dethroned Emperor is as careful to avoid re sponsibility as Henry V. or the Due d'Aumale. He has issued from the heart of Germany a Proclamation to the French people. What is its purport?' Instead of dealing with the questions of the hour—the questions which put to the test the pretences of statesmanship and the qualifications of the aspirants for power—he has the hardihood to denounce the Provisional Government, " a Government without a mandate," as the cause of the present degradation of France, and to inform the people that it lies with them to place in their stead " the Government most capable of repairing the naticnal disasters." He who wantonly brought upon France the war under which it suffers, he whose corrupt and corrupting administration struck at the roots of public virtue, de bauched public life, and even ate away the strength of the army on which it relied, he whose chosen diplomatists were as blundering and inefficient as his chosen Marshals, and whose favoured officers of State were selected for their subseviency in accepting all the contradictory impulses of his policy, ventures to tell France that he has been "betrayed by fortune." Nay, he takes credit for the condition in which he left the country at the time when he himself surrendered at Sedan, when Bazaine was shut up in Metz, and no regular forcss were left in the field, when the single point of support found in France—the fact that Paris was left in a state of defence—was due to the opponents of his dynasty, who in the moment of peril stepped in to direct and control his Ministers ; and, taking credit for leaving France in such a condition, he attributes all the disasters that have befallen the nation to the victory of violence over right in setting up tha Government of Defence. While, too, thus freely censuring what is past, the captive in Cassel has no word of advice on the direction of the future. He will wait to see what time will bring forth. Other men may under take the labours of the hour, and if they fail he will come in with tardy wisdom to expose their errors, and to ask the people of France to put them aside and make way for his tried and approved judgment. The Daily News observes :—The Emperor Napoleon's Proclamation to the French people, launched in the middle of a general election, will be read by most Eng lishmee with profound astonishment. The imprudence of it if even more striking than its injustice. The Emperor, we learn from his Proclamation, is not moved by personal ambition in coming forward to pronounce judgment on the men who have been endeavouring to save the country. But he claims to be the real representative of France. The present Government "installed itself by surprise"—a pro ceeding which is naturally regarded with indignation by the Emperor Napoleon. He protests against all acts emanating from the present rulers of the country as being illegitimate, and bases his protest on the charge that they have destroyed the last institu tions which derived authority from universal suffrage. When we consider what sort of universal suffrage was brought in to condone the deeds of December—when we turn to the spectacle of France, after twenty years of despotism, making her first bewildered effort to breathe freely and express the wishes of her children, it is impossi ble not to regard the sublime forgetfulness of this strange manifesto with something of awe. Should France determine to decide who is responsible for the recent grievous misfortunes of the country, we are not at all sure that the Provisional Government will be the chief object of her accusations. We do not wish to heap obloquy on a sovereign whose personal misfortunes have been great. England has even gone out of her way of late to find excuses for the ex-Emperor. He is a fatalist, we are reminded—which seems to imply a vague notion that a fatalist is an irresponsible being, whom Providence has cm-sed with a fixed idea, certain to bring him great fortune, or a crushing downfall. It is not, however, a safe thing for a nation to be governed by irresponsible persons ; and at the present hour, when France is invited to recall the only Government which, in the Emperor's estimation, can bring her happiness and prosperity, she will probably count the cost of a pos sible mistake. And this is likely to be aided considerably by the fact that the Emperor's Proclamation yin force his late subjects into a minute examination of riae causes which produced the war and its results—an examination which can scarcely be expected to foster the Napoleonic legend. THE ERENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. The Telegraph remarks :—The Provisional Government considers its authority at an end from the day when the Assembly commences its deliberations. The first duty of the " Constituent " will therefore be either to reinstate the present Ministers in office or to nominate substitutes in their place; and, from the very great preponderance of Orleanist deputies in the Cham bers, we may expect that the -new Provisional regime will contain a large infusion of men favourable to the restoration of the Monarchy of July. It is, hoWever, too soon to speculate decisively on the character which the Assembly may assume when it enters on its mission as a " Constituent " only. Its immediate and all-absorb ing duty is to decide upon the question whether peace shall or shall not be made upon such terms as Prussia may propose. The armistice concludes next Friday at midnight ; and, though an extension of time is probable, no official announcement has, we believe, yet been made by the Prussian authorities of their readiness to prolong the truce. It seems probable that Count Bis marck does not intend to explain the terms he is prepared to ask until the Assembly is actually in session. Th e policy of reticence may be wise from a German point of view, but it has the obvious disadvantage that it furnishes candidates with a plausible excuse for avoiding the expression of any positive opinion as to the expediency or inexpediency of concluding peace. To all outward appearance, a resumption of the war is impossible ; but it is an awkward circumstance that, up to this hour, no leading public man of any party in France has declared himself distinctly in favour of making peace on the basis of territorial cession. It will be the duty of the influential body which will now assemble at Bordeaux, with powers conferred directly by the nation, to ponder well the momentous claims of the occa sion. A free interchange of views among men so emi nently representative of all France will, we have little doubt, result in a decision fitted to secure the confidence of their countrymen as one dictated by enlightened and fearless patriotism. THE ARMY ESTIMATES. Reviewing the Army Estimates for the forthcoming year, the Standard concludes !—The main thing to observe in the military estimates is L. t they have been framed without the smallest reference whatever to any such sweep• ing and radical measure of army reform as the country has demanded. The Government, we perceive, has really no military policy. It is content to go on in the beaten track of its successors as though it had never heard of the war of 1870. lts measure of military effi ciency is simply the amount which it costs. It has no other way of gauging the difference between a sufficient and an insufficient army than by the money test. Just as its sole idea of economy is re duction, so its only theory of efficiency is increased ex penditure. The country has asked for a thorough remodel ling of its defensive forces. The answer it gets from Mr. Cardwell is, that two millions more are to to be expended on the army. Is it possible that we can be satisfied with this mode of solving, or, rather, of evading, the problem? If the only fault which had been detected in our military system was that we did not spend money enough on it, there might be some reason in the contemplated measure of increase. But it is obvi ous that if a genius for war administration consists merely in taking off a million or two from. the military estimates when there are no signs of immediate danger, and clapping them on again when war has bryken out, nothing is so easy as to be a Cardwell. It is a policy which can be regulated and set agoing by any office clerk who has attained to the arithmetical rules of subtraction and addition. It leaves untouched the great want of the day, and leaves t he country in as dangerous a condition as ever. For what guarantee have we that in a few months the military estimates may not be once more reduced, and thus the whole • fabric of Mr. Cardwell's war reform be tumbled to pieces ? A system which has no other law and foundation than the amount of each annual vote—which is only capable of being good or bad according to the money spent on it—can never be anything else than imperfect, dangerous, and expen sive. CRYSTAL PALACE—HaIfa-Crown day, February 11, 1871. Admission by season tickets, 6,079 ; ditto on payment, 1,240 ; total visitors, 7,319. METROPOLITAN FREE, HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE SQUARE, CITY.—The aggregate number of patients relieved during the week ending February 11 was—Medical, 865 ; surgical, 595 ; total, 1,460, of which 542 were new cases, ' lent 1 an ugh, the I on Ltion the dis- 5 SS