The Sun. — London, England, 1871-02-21 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.-YEST/SRDAY. Much quietness has been noticed in the Stock Exchange to-day. The movements have been few and mostly unim portant. In the railway market Great Northern A has risen 11, and a fractional improvement has been apparent in Great Eastern, Midland, and Great Western. The foreign bond market has been depressed. Spanish have declined, and the French Loan has also been lower, but Turkish have been somewhat firmer. The demand for English Government Securities has been steady. Consols have risen *, being quoted at 92 to 921 for delivery and the account. Reduced and New Three Per Cents, 921, 921; Bank Stock, 244, 246 ; Exchequer Bills, 2s to 7s pm ; India Five Per Cents, 1091, 110 ; and India Bonds 18s to 23s pm. Colonial Government Securities have been in limited request, but prices have been unchanged. Although the demand for English railway stocks has been restricted the tone of the market has been favourable, and prices have improved. The principal alteration has been in Great Northern A, which has been 11 higher, at 1341, 135; Midland and Great Western have advanced I and # respectively ; Metropolitan, 65#, 65# ; Caledonian, 87, 871; Brighton, , 421, 431; South-Eastern, 781, 782 ; Great Northern A, 1341, 135 ; Great Eastern, 381, 382 ; North-Eastern, 1462, 1471; Midland, 127, 1271; North-Western, 1291, 1291; and Great Western, 731, 732. The demand for Indian railway stocks has been inactive. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, 104 ; East Indian, 1091, 110 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1051, 2 ; Oude and Rohilkund, 101# ; and Scinde, 101/. Canadian shares have been quiet. Great Western, 152, h. Foreign shares have been fiat. Great Luxemburg, 121. Very few transactions have take; place in foreign bonds, and prices have been without material alteration. Spanish have falleii i t , but Turkish (1869) have been per cent, higher. French has been dull, at 871, 88 ; Brazilian (1865), 94k, 94 ; Peruvian (1865), 91, 911; Egyptian, 1868, 745, 74a ; Italian, 1861, 541, 54:1 ; Spanish, 301 34 ; Turkish, 1865, 61, 611 ; ditto Five per Cents, 41k, ; ditto 1869, 522, 53 ; Mexican, 131, 141; United States Five-Twenty 1882 Bonds, 911-, 911 ; ditto, 1885, 901, 90,t ; German Scrip (New), 1, pm. There has not been much inquiry for bank shares. Imperial Ottoman 11k, L London and County, 50L Joint-Stock, 38, London and Westminster 621, 2. Telegraph shares have sold slowly. Anglo-American have been firm, and 1 better at 761, 77; Anglo-Mediter ranean have risen 2, or to 127, 129. French Cables have marked 14 ; Silver's Indiarubber have been 1 better at 514, 52, and Constructions, , at 252, 26i. ' In Miscellaneous securities transactions have been restricted. Berlin Waterworks, isf, 16g ; Crdelit Foncier of England, 3 1-16, 3 3-16 ; General Credit and Discount, 7i, 8 ; Hudson's Bay, 8 7.16, 81,-; and International Fi nancial 213-16, 2,T. The discount market has been scantily supplied. There has been a good demand for accommodation, and three months' paper has been taken at 2i per cent. No bullion operations have been reported at the Bank to-day. The Rangoon left Melbourne, on the Ist inst., with £240,250 for Galle, and the Great Britain with £164,500 for England. At Mark-lane to-clay wheat was dull, and ls. to 2s. per quarter lower. Flour also gave way is. The New Zealani Finance Minister left that country, on the 7th of January, for England, via San Francisco, to negotiate a loan for £4,000,000 on this market. At a meeting of the Paris bankers it was resolved to. petition the Government to postpone the payment of bills until four and six months after the signing of peace. The Idaho, from New York, has brought £62,099 in specie. At a meeting of the Berlin Waterworks Company Limited, it was shewn that the balance available for distri bution was £38,121, of this sum £3,006 has been placed to credit of the Russian Government, £31,500 will be absorbed by the payment of a dividend at the rate of Di per cent, £3,000 will be added to the reserve fund, leaving £614 to be carried forward. In reference to Messrs. Houghton and Company, cotton brokers, Liverpool, whose liabilities were £23,900 and assets £1,900, the solicitor for the trustees stated that there was no ground for a public examination of the bank rupts, who were, therefore, allowed to pass. The report of the Submarine Telegraph Company states that, notwithstanding the war, there has been an inerease in the receipts for the half-year of £9,057, and in the ordinary working expenses, exclusive of repairs to cables, £1,319. A dividend is recommended of 7A per cent. for the six months, leaving £527 to be carried forward. We are informed that the arbitrators, the Marquis of Salisbury and Lord Cairns, have intimated that, under the forthcoming and final award, the first ordinary general meeting of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, after the date of the award, will be held on the 13th of March next, and that the meeting will be in lieu of separate meetings of mortgagees and shareholders under the Arrangement Act of 1867. The directors of the Salisbury and teovil Railway Company at their next half-yearly meeting will be enabled to shew a clear balance (after deducting dividends on five per cent. preference capital) of £13,852 16s. 2d. Out of this sum the directors will recommend that a divi dend be declared, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, amounting, on £326,715 of ordinary capital, to £11,435 Os. 6d., leaving to be carried forward a balance of £2,417 15s. Bd. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-MONDAY. LATEST PRICES.—AFTER 0 F PIC [AL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 92 929 Viet 6p c Jan & July 1891 113 114 92, 19, 29. 2 DoApril &Oct 1883-85.. 112 113 Do for Account 919, 2 Viol Spa Jan & .TulylB94. 10191029 Three pet Cent Reduced 929 929 1019, 29 929, 9, 9 Brazilian. 1865, 5p o .... 94 95 New 3 per Cent 929, B 9. 4 Egyptian 1862. 71)a • • • • 84 86 Exchequer ills, March 2 7pm 851 pm Do Rail Deben 7pc .. 99 100 Do, June 2 7pm 999. 9 4s pm Italian, 1865, 5p a Bank Stock 245, 49 909, 19 India 5 per Cents 1099, 9, 9 322 India bonds — Russian. 1862. 5 p a.. .. 859 865 pm i Can 6po Jau&JulylB77-84 10491059 DoNlcolas 4p o 105, 1 659, 9 Do March &Sept. 105 107 Spanish 109 109 106, 5 399. 9,9, 9 Do 5p c Jan & July :. 989 999 Turkish.lBs6. 6p c 79 81 98: Do, 1845. 5 p c Do Inscribed Stock .. 98 99 419, 9 98 Do, 1865 6p o Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 99 101 61, Ceylon 6 p c May and U. 5.5-20 Bonds. 6 p o 1884 91 919 November 1878 lO7 109 919, I, 9 Mauritius 1 pc Jan and Do do 1885 909 909 .Tuly 1873 lO3 105 - 909, 9 New SWaless p clB7l-76 lOO 101 Do 10-4013tids. spti 011 879 88 New Zealand 6p o 1891 lOB 110 ErieBtni,,loodols, all paid Do 5p o Do 5p c Consolidated 99 100 1099, 9 995, 4, 9 Atlantic and (4 W It Con Do 6p o Mar &Sept Dec 1891.1081891 109 11 1101 Mortgage Roods Do Jut a & RAILWAYS. 20 Eng. Scot. and Ans 016 17 25 Union of Australia.. 39 40 21 Imperial il,) 16 a d 15 Union of London .. 39 40 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. I'd I'd 100 A n glo- A merican L 1 76 77 10 Great Northern .... 11/ 111 76, j 6 Great N. China, and 10 Auglo-Meditrn (L) 127 130 Japan Exteusimt.. 8 81 1281 5 Indo-European (Li.. 12 14 100 Atlantic •— 10 Marseilles, Algiers, 100 Do Bpc — and Malta (L) .... 61 61 10 British Australn(L).. 4 31dis 61, it 41. 1 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 41 5i 10 British Ind Rxten IL). 71 n 21 Pnmaand S. PcfclL 4 3Ms 7 13-16, 11-16, 1 dis 10 British Indian Sub- 8 Neuter's marine, (L) 71, 1 14, 131 10 Clthinfinbmarine(L) 4/ 41(115 100 Submarine 237 '4l 4 7-16 Do Scrip 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 10 NV India &PatiatnalL) 53 6} and Malta (L 1 Bristol and Exeter 9O 92 Do Ist fret 80nd5.... 59 60 91 591, 1 Caledonian 87, 65 435 Great Eastern . 331 ! 5. 1 Grand Trunk of ()amnia thern Great Nor 1201 Great Indian Pen g 5 • a 105 106 134 Do A 135 1051. 3,4, 2 t eat 3 Great Western of Canada 151 155 Great Westerii 731 735 155, 5 7 3 2. - 4.. 1 Do 5p c Bonds, 1873.. 9951005 Lancashire ez Yorkshire 13451351 995 1351, 1 Do`ss do, 1877-8 95 97 Lon, Brian. and S Coast 421 431 Do 5p a prof. issued 80 1 Zu ni 43 x d 51 Lon. Chat, and Dover .. 14 145 Madras guar spa 145 1032 Lon and North-Western 12911292 N. Railway of . Canada. 1295, 5 6p a Ist Prat Bonds Lon and S o uth-Westeru 94 95 Dude and Rohilkitud g 942 5 ID a Man, Shef, and Llnaoln 461 47 1011 465, 75, 2, 7 &hide. Punjaub, and Metropolitan '2, 2 Bahia• 1011 Midland ... 12611271 and San Francisco 1271 g 7 P n North British North-EasterliConsols 1461147 Buenos Ayres at Sthrn.. 26 20 1175, 7 26i S ou th-Eastern 781, 9, 85 D u t c h-Rh en i s h 23 24 Atlantic and St Lawrnce 77 79 Eastern of France lB 20 Bombay, Baroda, and Great Luxembourg Central India, g 5 p a.. 103 1 0 4 125 104 Lemberg Ozernowitzgua Buff and Lake Huron . 44 45 7pa Do 55 pc 80nd5.1872-3 1 4 80 82 Northern of France ..: 39 41 Cape guar 6p a East Bengal guar 5p a 103 4 1041 Recife and San Franc i sco 1045 (Limited) guar 71' o .. 15 151 East Indian, g 5 p o 1095. 4, 10 San Paulo IL) guar 7p a 211 215 Grand Trmik Canada Do Equip Mort Bild 1 10 charge 6n a Do 2nd do Bonds 875 103 104 BANKING COMPANIES. ' Pd I'd 10 A gr a, Bank (L) A. • l 8 9/ 10 Im ia per Ottoman .. 11 1/piu 25 Alliance IL) 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 221 232 20 Loudon and County 50 51 173,',: 502 x d 50 British N A m erican 52 53 15 London joint-took 571 'Bl 53 28, 7/ 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 131 141 20 Lon and \Vestmnstor 62 63 25 Char Nero of India 23 25 621, 1, : 10 City 30 Colonial 492, 50 20 New South Wales .. 33 35 i Consolidated. (L ~ .. i ipm 25 Oratalßankaorporn in 421 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1871. PASTORAL FROM ARCHBISHOP MANNING. - - - - At the Roman Catholic Churches in London a pastoral letter from Archbishop Manning was read, on the due observance of Lent. The Archbishop warned those whom he addressed against dwelling on the sins of those in other countries on whom calamities had fallen, but to look at home. The chief sin in England was the " pride of life." No nation possessed such self-gratu lation, and she was deluded by insular security, tradition of success and exceptional prosperity into the belief that these things would last for ever. He next referred to the great increase of luxury in domestic society, in which splendour in furniture, exquisite wines, costly banquets, sensuous music, and end less pleasure were to be found. Elaborate self-lindul gence had invaded the higher ranks of men. There had also crept in habitual excess in wine, by which (even without drunkenness) the mind and body became inflamed and diseased. This often arose from mistaken kindness or imprudent advice. The excess which was covered by refinement was intolerable, and altogether without excuse. The Archbishop also spoke of the ex travagant fashions that prevailed in female dress. Men had improved since the last century in this respect, but the attire of women had become more costly, ostentatious, and singular, even to strangeness, and thus money was wasted which would clothe the naked, feed the poor, or educate children. The pastoral concluded with an appeal for the Catholic orphanages at North Hyde, Norwood, and at Hampstead. RATING OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. An important meeting was held on Monday afternoon at the Westminster Palace Hotel, for the purpose of pro moting combined action, and making a general represen tation to the Government on the question of the rating of Government property. _ _ . Mr. Scourfield, M.P., presided, and said as he repre sented a locality in which was situated one - of Her Majesty's dockyards (Pembroke), he felt it to be his duty to take part in what was felt to be a common grievance. Mr. Hughes, vestry clerk of Plumstead, said that the Local Board of his district had taken the initiative in the matter, and it was their desire that a permanent standing committee should be appointed, to hold meet ings in London as occasion might require until a settlement of the question was obtained. The government had promised to introduce a general measure with regard to taxation ; but they were afraid it would include the rating of charitable and other institu tions about which there was a great deal of feeling. He considered they should not rate charitable institutions, but confine the question to the rating of Government property. There were 50 or 60 towns interested, and it was thought that joint action would have the best result. There were representatives present from several metro politan districts, from Birmingham, Canterbury Devon port, Dover, Manchester, &c., so that altogether they had a fair representation of the different towns inte rested. The subject had been before Parliament for fifteen years, and it was time it was settled. He pointed out that not only did the Government property not pay rates, but it increased the poorer population. Dr. Brewer, M.P., Mr. Talbot, M.P., and others having pointed out the great injustice which existed in the non-raitng of Government property, Mr. Hughes said the promoters desired that the rating of Government property should be separated from other public property, such as charities, &c., and secondly they desired to know what principle of valuation should be adopted to ascertain the rateability of Government pro- THE PRESERVATION OF INFANT LIFE. Lord Derby presided at the anniversary dinner in aid of the Funds of the Hospital for Sick Children on Saturday evening, at Willis's Rooms, and enforced the claims of th' hospital at considerable length. Having sketched the argu ments in favour of hospitals generally, he alluded to the special need of such institutions in populous cities. What ever we may do in a sanitary way, he said, we can never make a crowded community healthy as the open country is healthy. No great city could keep up its numbers but for the influx from outside. Build a wall round London, and let no one come in to reside in it from outside, and allow none to go out, the population would dwindle down till the evil of overcrowding had remedied itself. It followed that, though we had hospitals everywhere, we had them most in large towns. And we had them for another reason, connected with social rather than sanitary considerations —that, do what you will, the tie of neighbourhood will never be felt in the same way in a city of three millions of people that it is in a country village, where everybody knows everybody. You cannot rely to the same extent on the spontaneous individual charity—the help given direct, from the giver to the receiver; therefore, though there is more distress than elsewhere, it is mostly out of sight of the rich. Now I carry the argument a step further, and I contend that children are exactly those for whom medi cal help is most wanted in London ; because it is among children that the high death-rate exists which makes the difference in mortality between town and country. Adults live and thrive very little the worse for the smoke; but that smoke and all that goes with it kills off the babies and those under five years. There is no more delicate test of pure air than whether a child will thrive in it. Now, in London the air is not pure; you may test it in the Parks. With all the attention that can be given and unlimited outlay, only a few of the hardiest kinds of trees will grow, the others dwindle and die. Now, it is reasonable to suppose that the atmosphere which kills an oak is not exactly suited to a child. Add to this overcrowding, frequent want of work in the poorest class, want of proper care and nursing in illness—not from neglect, but ignorance and want of means—and the case seems to me made out for an institution such as the Hospital for Sick Children. Some people are alarmed lest, •if by improved sanitary resources our death-rate should lessen in a great degree, as it might and ought, we should be overdone with a population which could not find employment. I don't share in that fear. We age an emigrating country, and as our labouring class becomes more instructed, more wide-awake, more aware of the state of things in the out side world, the attractions of a new country will be stronger, and emigration will increase. In Ire land it is even now enough to' balance, and rather more than balance, the natural increase, and population there is stationary, if not diminishing. I think it will be the same in England, and, certainly looking to the advantages which a colony offers to an energetic man of the poorer class, my wonder is not that so many go, but that so many stay at home. Now as to this institution. Its progress has been very gradual and not very rapid, but it has been steady. In 1870 the subscriptions were over £3,000, donationd nearly £3,400, donations to the building fund about £3,400 again ; total receipts, not including balance from the year before, about £10,900. In the same year £5,000 was spent iu buying the freehold of the hospital, and if I gather rightly from the report, the ordinary outlay seems to have been about £6,000. But we are in the unfortunate position of having to build, and though that is a kind of outlay which one regrets, for it is generally easier to get into bricks and mortar than out, I believe there was no help for it. The funds available' for that purpose are stated at £lB,OOO, and I believe I may say, to the credit of the hospital, that, though often poor, it has never yet been in debt. I am not sure how many patients the present building will take in ; the new one is intended for 200. I find that in 1868 there had been over 7,000 in-patients, and nearly 150,000 out-patients atttended to since the foundation, and that the annual number was then about 700 of the former and 12,000 of the latter. There is, in addition to the new hospital, one for convales cents at Highgate, holding from 50 to 60 patients, and always full. These are all the facts, and they speak for themselves. Besides this, I will simply give you one thought to carry away. We talk about the waste of life in war—do we ever think of the waste of life in peace? I doubt if the most sanguinary battle ever fought has swept off as many human beings as die in England in one year from preventable causes. We cannot change that state of things in a day, but we can mitigate it. This institution is one of the blessed agencies at work for that purpose. It is inadequate, of course. What are 200 beds to all the mass of disease and suffering in London? But it is a beginning, and that is better than nothing. Support it, and you will not find that your sympathy or money has been thrown away. Support it, and you will have done good to those whom you relieve, good to the community, and best of all for your selves. The recent loss sustained by Mr. Walter, AL P., was feelingly alluded to in conjunction with a recognition of the valuable services he had rendered the hospital. The subscriptions announced during the evening amounted o £2,700. perty. Mr. Shaen thought Government property should be rated just as private property was, mid moved, "'That in the opinion of this meeting Government property ought to be rated for local purposes, exactly the same as if it was in private hands." Colonel Learmouth seconded the proposition, which was carried. On the conclasiou of the meeting at the Westminstel; Palace Hotel, a deputation numbding between seventy and eighty gentlemen proceeded to Whitehall, for the purpose of laying before the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, President of the Board of Trade, the resolutions adopted by the meeting. Mr. T. H. Scourfield, M.P., in introducing the depu tation, alluded to the unanimity of the meeting. The Mayor of Portsmouth, in expressing the feeling of the deputation, pointed out the unfairness of Govern ment property being exempted from rating, when the Government services contributed so largely, from accident, &c., to the heaviness of the rates. From the great expe rience of the right hon. gentleman, they hoped for some equitable %rrangement being made, so that this anomaly should be removed. Mr. Shaen observed that there was substantially no difference of opinion between the Government and the deputation, and impressed upon Mr. Goschen the size of the deputation, which was a proof of the wide and deep interest taken in the question. It was of vast importance to the ratepayers where Government held large masses of property. The burden of proof lay upon Government to chew why its property should be treated differently to that of private parties. If Government wished for arbitration in the matter of valuations, that. would ,be adopted by the deputation, both parties to name arbitrators, and the arbitrators to appoint an umpire, instead of the Govern ment naming the umpire. Dr. Brewer, M.I ~ said that Colchester was very anxious that this matter should be fully considered by the Government, which held a great deal of property in that borough. If that property were let to private enter prise it would. yield a considerable sum to the rates, while now it yielded nothing. Mr. Goschen said the question as to the mode of valua- tion had not been touched, except to suggest the yearly value, which the arbitrators would have to determine. To do that would be extremely difficult. He might say that the Government was prepared to accept the principle that would make Government property rateable like any other property. (Hear, hear, and applause). Government were now considering the principle of valuation ; but, it was their wish that it should be on equitable • terms, such as would apply to any other property. Mr. Stone, M.P., said they would not go beyond the principle that Government should be treated on the same footing as other owners. Mr. Goschen said that the Government had a plan; but they wished to know what plan of valuation other people had to suggest. (Laughter and applause.) Mr. Hughes, vestry clerk of Plumstead, suggested a re valuation; but Mr. Goschen said it was not to the interest of the public to ask for a re-valuation. A Voice : You had better take it for granted that the bill will pass, Mr. Goschen. (Applause.) Mr. Goschen said it would not be a separate bill, but was part of their general plan. The deputation, after thanking the right hon. gentleman for the courtesy with which he had received them, with drew. At Paris the theatres Palais Royal and Gait 4, will bring out pieces relating to the siege of Paris. The drama which is to be played at the Gaite has already been con tracted for in London. THE NEW KNIGHT.— Sir William Harrison Walker, senior professional member of the Marine and Harbour Department of the Board of Trade, on whom Her Majesty has just conferred the honour of knighthood, is the son of the late Mr. Benjamin Walker, of Sitting bourne, Kent, by Sarah, daughter of Mr. William. Harrison, of Sandwich, in the same county. He was born in the year 1800, and has been twice married—first to Frances, daughter of Mr. Richard Bathurst, which lady died in 1839; and secondly to Miss Isabella Thomasine Rider, daughter of the Rev. Ralph Carr Rider, and niece of Mr. Thomas Rider, of Boughton-park, some time M.P. for Kent. Sir William Walker commenced his career as a midshipman in the Hon. East India Company's service, and was an officer in that service until the expira tion of the Charter in 1834 ; be afterwards commanded various ships on their passage between England and India, and has always borne the character of an able and effi cient officer. THE REV. 11In. VOYSEY.—The Rev. Charles Voy sey, vicar of Healaugh, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, upon whom the sentence of deprivation has just been pro nounced by the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council, on account of heretical opinions advanced in his work, "The Sling and the Stone," was born about the year 1828, and was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1851. He was admitted into Holy Orders in 1852, having been ordained‘deacon in that year by the Archbishop of 'York, and admitted to the priesthood in the following year. From 1852 to 1859 he held the curacy of Hessle, in York shire, after which he held for a short time the stipendiary curacy of Craigton, Jamaica. In 1861 he was appointed curate of Great Yarmouth, but in the same year was transferred to that of St. Mark's, Whitechapel. In 1863, having held for a few months the curacy of St. Mark's, Victoria Docks, he was nominated curate of Healaugh, and was appointed vicar of 'that parish in the year' following. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills.—Nervous De rangements.—The delicate, nervous, and over-sensitive ate very prong to illness at the change of seasons. Not only is the nervous system affected by variation of tempe-' rature and atmospheric vicissitudes, but it also intensely sympathises with disorder in any part of the body. These excellent pills, so long noted for their powers over diges tion, regulating secretions, and enforcing excretions, have likewise proved themselves the most certain of neurotonics, and the best preservers of the vital energy. In winter Holloway's pills are especially useful in guarding the sys tem against malaria,_ and its consequences, diarrhoea or fever. This medicine also protects the frame against gout, rheumatism, colds, coughs, and congestive complaints. MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES - Anglo-Austrian Bud- 100 Do Gp c Bonds. re holders' Certificate 1 3 deeinable 1870 62 64 17 - '3O London Fin A ssoc( LllBll7 (lie 10 BerlinWsOarworkt(L) 16 167 11 7 167, 7 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 27 3 30 Bolckow-Vaughan L) 32 37pm 27, 15-16 100 Boston City (U.S. 2 Lou & Prov Marine L) 1 limn p c Sterling Loan 93 95 100 Madraslrrig. &Canal 4 Brit & Fgn Marine L 147 42pm g 5 n c by Ind Gov. 101 102 25 Canada Company. 74 76 1017 10 Ceylon Company L) 37 31dis 2 Mauritius Land (L) 74is par 35 City Offices(L) 251247 dig 5 NatnlDisctConin L) 117 127 20 Colonial (L) 5 Corn Union Assurnce 47 47pin Merc Agency ILI .. 71 pm 10 Crdt Folic of Fog (L) 3 37 5 N Zealand Loan and 37, 3-16, 1-16 Trust IL) 100 Crystal raison 100 1)o Pref 100 Do 6p c Pern Deb llO 115 50 P and 0 Steam 44 46 27/ Ebbw V ale Steel LI.. 10 Mix 10 Do do New. 1867 37 3Flis 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7 p co 6) Mortgage Loan.... 77 79 50 Rhymney Iron 100 itgyp 9 p crroy wan, 15 Do New 9 n‘ 78 60 Royal Mail Steam guar hyEgyp Gov.. 96 98 12 Tel Con and Main Li 252 167 13 Fore-stWarehouselL) 77 Bpm 257, 7, 6 f, 57 100 Fyn and Colonial Gov 2 Thames and Mersey Trust 6 p c Bonds.. 10,1 102 Marine Insur IL 102, 1 57 71 GenCredt&Disot(L).. 7 7pm Tobacco 6 o a Loan. 8, 77, 13-16, Bxd guar by Italian Gov 89 91 14 Geu Stui Navigation 28 29 5 Trust and Loan Co of 7 Hooper's Tel Works 1 Nis Upper Canada 17 Hudson's Bay Bl 82 S(J Marine. Lvpool IL 51 52pin 8 7-16, 1 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 45 Indrbbr,Gut Per,and 6 United Dig Corpru (L Nis }pm Tel Works L) .... 51 52 6 517, 2 5 UnivMarinelnsur (LI 67 62pin 5 Intend Elwin SoolL) 21 21dis 117 x d 213-16, 7, fad 12 Warraxt Finance.... 87 Ms 20 It Tufa Can Cavour 3 37 MINING SHARE LIST.—FEBRUARY 20. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London . Market very quiet. West Chiverton receded. Cain Brea. 52L 55 Chiverton Valley, °bon tales (Gold), Cooks' Kitchen, 20, 21 Devon Great Consols, Drakewalls, 1, lit Don Pedro North Del Rey, 2i. 21 East Caradon, sf. 5i East Lovell. 30. 31 East Wheal Grenville, 3. 31 Eberhardt and Aurora, 15). lei Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), —s. General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 18, 19 Great Iletallack. Great Wheal Vol*. 5. 5i Hinge ton Down, Marke Valley, 71. 7) New Beldon, New Lovell, North Crofty. 21, 3 Pary's Mountain, Perran Wheal Virgin, Flynt inunon, _Prince of Wales, 31s, 33a Providence Mines, Roman Gravels, Rosewall 11111 and Ransoms United, South Conclurrow, South Frances, 31, 3 Sweetland Creek, 4*, 411 Tankerville. 121. 13 Taquaril (Gold), 338, 35s Tiucroft. Trumpet Consols. Van. Van Consols, 2, 21 West Chiverton, 40, 42i West Maria and Fortescue, —B, — s West Taukerville, Wheal 'Crebor, Wheal Grenville. 3L 4} Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Margaret, (Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Seton. Wheal Uny, 41, 48 MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY.—The grain trade al Mark-lane to-day has been in a depressed state. The demon( for English wheat has been dull, End prices have given way Is. to 2s. per quarter. In foreign wheat transactions have been restricted, at a similar reduction. The market has been mode rately supplied with barley. The business doing has been trifling, and difficulty has been experienced in realising late prices. Malt has been dull, on former terms. Oats have not been freely offered. The trade has been firm, and prices have been well maintained. Beans have fallen ls. per quarter, and flour has given way ls. per sack and barrel. Peas have sold slowly, at late currencies. Maize has been firm in value, with a fair inquiry. For flour the demand has been to a very moderate extent, and American barrels ex-ship do not make more than 28s. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The sup plies of stock have been large. There has been very little demand for beasts, and prices gave way 2d. per 81b. Sheep have been in limited request, at drooping currencies. Lambs have sold at Bs. per 81b. Calves and pigs have been dull. Per 81bs. to sink the offal :-Coarse and inferior beasts, 3s. 2d. to 4s. Od. ; second quality ditto, 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. ; prime large oxen, ss. 2d. to ss. 4d. •, prime Scotch, &c., ss. 6d. to ss. 8d ; coarse and inferior sheep, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; second quality ditto, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; prime coarse-woolled sheep, ss. to ss. Bd. ' • prime Southdown ditto, ss. 10d. to 65.; large coarse calves, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. ; prime small ditto, ss. to 6s. ; large hogs, 3s. 6d. to 4s. ; and neat small porkers, 4s. 6d. to ss. 2d. ; Quarter-old store pigs, 225. to 255. each. Arrivals. English :-Beasts, 2,470; sheep, 15,020; calves, 20; pigs, 130. Foreign.-Beasts, 550 ; . sheep, 700 ; calves, 110. Total.- Beasts, 3,020 ; sheep, 15,720 ; calves, 130 ; pigs, 130. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, MONDIY.-The market has been fairly supplied with meat. Trade has been quiet, at our quotations. The import into London last week consisted of 104 packages from Gluckstadt, 24 Antwerp, and 346 Ostend. Per 81b. by the carcase :-Inferior beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Od middling ditto, 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d.; Prime large ditto, 4s. Bd. tb ss. Od. : prime small ditto. ss. Od. to ss. 2d. ; inferior mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Od. ; middling ditto, 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d ; prime ditto, 4s. 10d. to ss. 2d. ; large pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 2d. ; small ditto, 4s. Od. to ss. Od. ; veal, ss. Od. to ss. 4d. ; lamb, Gs. to 7s. 6d. LONDON WOOL MARKET, MONDAY. — At the public sale of colonial wool there has been a good attendance of buyers. Bid dings have been animated for all descriptions, and the general advance has been maintained. There is still a strong export inquiry. English wool has been steady. The impoi t into London last week consisted of 5,005 bales from Adelaide, 3,934 from Melbourne, 3,407 from Port rifle, 752 from Odessa, 313 from. Mossel Bay, and 554 from Wellington. Current prices of English wool—Fleeces : South Devon hoggets, ls. lid. to is. 2d. ; half-bred ditto, is. 30 to ls. 4d.; Kent fleeces, ls. 3d. to Is. 34d.; South Down ewes and wethers, ls. Old. to ls, id. ; Leicester ditto, is. ld. to is. lid. Sorts : Clothing, ls. to ls. 41d.; combing, 11d. to ls. 3d. LONDON TALLOW MARKET, MONDAY.—This market has been quiet. Y.C. spot, 455. 3d. per cwt. Town tallow, 42 5. 6 d. nett cash. Particulars, 1871 :—Stock this day, 33,483 casks ; price of Y.C., 455. 3d, ; delivery last week, 2,308 casks ; ditto from June 1, 88,914 ; arrivals last week, 495 ; ditto from June 1, 90,287 ; price of town, 455. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, MONDAY.—These markets have again been well supplied with potatoes. There has been a want of animation in the inquiry, and have prices have ruled as under : —English shaws, 80s. to 110 s. ; English regents, 70s. to 90s. ; Scotch regents, 755. to 90s. ; rocks, 655. to 755. - • THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. 19 21 BOROUGH HOP MARKET, MONDAY. Throughout the past week considerable firmness prevailed. Choice hops, being scarce, experienced a healthy inquiry, at extreme quotations. Other grades were purchased to a moderate extent, and full prices were obtained. The import into London last week con prised of 358 bales from Antwerp, 254 Bremen, 74 Gluckstadt, 752 New York, and 102 from Ostend. Mid and East Kent, £2 Os. to £7 Os. per cwt. ; Weald of Kent, £2 Os. to £3 155.; Sussex, £1 15s. to £3 10s.; Farnham and country, £3 158. to £5 12s. ; olds, £1 Os. to £2los. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET, Mori- DAY.—Business in the market has been restricted, and no material alteration has taken place in quotations. The indigo sales also have passed off without quotable change. In six days 3,820 chests have been sold, 1,852 bought in, 3,078 withdrawn, 8,750 have passed, and 910 remain, snaking together a total of 9,060 chests. The auctions will terminate early to-morrow. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MONDAY.—No change whatever has occurred at this market since Friday. The actual business doing is below the usual average of late ; but spinners and manufacturers have numerous contracts still running, and are therefore under no particular necessity to sell, except when full rates can be obtained. Buyers decline to give this, and prices consequently are nominally unchanged since' Friday, though the tendency is still tending downwards. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY,—At this market to-day the supply of cattle and sheep was about the tame as on last Monday. The demand was very good for both at full prices. Beef, 60. to 8141. per lb.; sheep, 71d. to 9d. per lb. There were at market 2,013 cattle and 5,945 sheep, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—Opening Re port —There is a fair general demand at this market to-day, and the sales will probably reach 10,000 bales. Closing report.— Sales, 12,000 bales, including 2,000 for speculation and export. There has been a better demand, and prices are steadier. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, NIoNDAY.—At this market to-day there was a fair business done, at steady prices. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, MONDAY.—Market firmer, 525. to 525. I.ld. cash, and 525. 3d. to 525. 41d. paid in a month. Closing rather. Buyers at the higher quotations. CORK BUTTER MARKET, 3.loNDAY.—Ordinary firsts 138 s seconds, 148 s. ; thirds, 1345.: fifths, 945. ; sixths, 70s. - Mild cured firsts, 150 s. ssconds, 1495. ; thirds, 1495. Ninety firkins in the market. Although the previous week finished with a frost of 8 degrees, the weather broke rapidly, and the past week has been one of unusual mildness, with fine days oc casionally, which have helped farmers to make a begin ning with their beans and peas, and to prepare the land for sowing. Already the meadows have a bright and pi omising look, and seem likely to soon afford a bite to the cattle, so much needed, while with a tempera ture of 40 degrees a foot deep in the soil, a general movement in vegetation may be expected. The three visitations of intense frost have, however, already left their mark. Winter beans and oats have, in some instances, wholly perished, so has the mangel wttrzel planted out in the autumn for seed, as the wheat itself on light lands has suffered, but no harm is reported on the heavier soils, and the winter tares appear to have escaped. This is a very material thine: under our present scarcity of fodder.----Mark Lane Express. • „, CHARLES M ATHEWS' FAREWELL TO AUSTRALIA. —Mr. Charles Mathews has terminated a most successful series of performances in Australia, and took leave of the Melbourne audience on Christmas-eve. The Australian papers consider that a new era in the dramatic history of the colonies will date from the visit of the distinguished comedian, and declare that the dramatic public regard it as a privilege to have had him amongst them. In his closino. address, Mr. Mathews said, to sum up the result of his long stay iu the colonies, he would mention that the result had been unalloyed satisfaction. H e h a d experienced perfect pleasure, tcgether with plenty of profit. Mr. Mathews added that he had never passed a more agreeable time anywhere, cr met with more friendly people in every grade, the intelligent working classes forming one of the most striking features of the colonies by their civility and kindness. With his usual facetious ness, Mr. Mathews begged his audience not to think he was flattering, as he had nothing to gain further. His benefit was over. Instead of visiting a foreign coun try, he found himself at home, for there was nothing to be got in London that could not be procured in Melbourne, except a real November fog. THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYROS. Archbishop Alexander Lycurgus has addressed to the Greek Synod a very interesting account of his last year's visit to England, which has been published in the original, with an English version, by Messrs. Cartwright, of 21, Broad-street. The demonstrations made by English Churchmen in his honour seem to haye given him, as well they might, the liveliest satisfaction. The rites of conse oration solemnised by him in the case of a new Greek church in Liverpool were, he records with Oriental fervour, sanctioned by the presence of the representatives on be half of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York :" a learned clerical Philhellene was deputed by the Piimate to attend him as ecclesiastical cicerone ; the Premier, "great in learning, full of faith, and pre-eminent in virtue," welcomed him as a,. guest : bishops, peers, theologians, from Dr. Pusey to Dr. Stanley, and all sorts of ecclesiologists overwhelmed him with compliments and dinners, culminating in the banquet at the Jerusalem Chamber and the " Attic salt " of the Philhellenic Dean of Westminster ; the elder universities invested him with the right to teach law and divinity : he had addresses presented to him by Church associations, and processions pataded up and down churches in his honour ; his assistance as a bishop and his episcopal blessing were sought at English Church ceremonials ; the Queen commanded his presence, and, last of all the Arch bishop of Canterbury himself, attired in archi episcopal robes, gave him the kiss of peace and fraternity. It might well be that all this enthu siasm would have made some men overweeningly vain. Archbishop Alexander kept his composure through out it all, and always recognised that the honours were paid to his Church through him. But even he appears to have been startled and somewhat bewildered by the ardour of joy which, as he says. " as if by elec tricity," pervaded the Church of England at the news of the arrival of "au Orthodox Archbishop." The feeling, as Dr. Lycurgus, with his Greek acuteness, probably understood very well, proceeded not- so much from gratitude at the liberality of, the Patriarch of Constantinople in directing the Greek clergy to bury deceased Anglicans when there happens to be no English chaplain in the neighbourhood, as from the desire of English Churchmen, on the one hand, to claim kinship with an older Episcopal Church than their own, and, on the other, to remind themselves and the Chris tian world in general, while the (Ecumenical Council was serenely proclaiming its universality at Rome, that there existed a branch of the Catholic Church coeval with that of Rome, and which had never recognised Roman supremacy. The Archbishop with good sense admits he does "not believe that the union of the two Churches (the English and the Greek) can be the work of the present day ;" but if his visit has only reminded Englishmen outside the Church of England that there are other Churches with precisely as good historical claims to orthodoxy as the Church of Rome, the Archbishop's visit and this careful and read able translation of his report to the Synod, issued by one of his principal English friends, will not have been with out their use. ' BELFORT.—Vauban, who spent twenty years of incessant labour in fortifying the northern and eastern line of the frontiers, from Dunkirk to Besancon, pro nounced the gap of Belfort the heel of the French Achilles, the most vulnerable point in the threefold iron. panoply of France. Belfort opens up Paris by its most defenceless route; it directly overawes Lyons, it threatens and neutralises to a great extent Strasburg, it turns the entire hue of the fortresses constructed .to menace and to repel Germany. So at least thought, wrote, and planned the great military engineer of Louis XIV. In his eyes Metz was secondary and subor-; dinate. Enjoying those local conditions which render Metz impregnable from assault, it has had the advantage of being a fortress of the first class, maintainable by a small garrison and with a civic population to correspond ; hence the difficulty of starving it out. Smallpox and typhus are known to be raging frightfnlly within its walls. —Times Correspondent. THE ARMISTICE. NEWS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, February 18. Paris has, •to a great extent, recovered its usuat demeanour. The shops are re-opened, almost without an exception, the streets are filled with wheeled vehicles, the boulevards are crowded in the day-time and in the even ing, and, finally, the theatres have again opened their doors to a public addicted beyond all other, to the love of novelty and excitement. The Palais Royal, which has been shut up for the last four months, on Thursday again com menced its performances, and the rush of spectators, and the shouts of laughter with • which they greeted the play, made it appear to an on-looker that the 'Parisians scarcely realised the present dreadful position of France. So cynically, indeed, do the people treat the memories of their misfortunes that a melodrama entitled the " Siege of Paris," which is an nounced shortly to appear at the Theatre Gait& is jocu larly expected to have as long a duration as the horrible tragedy on which it is founded. The proclamation of the ex-Emperor has excited the utmost contempt and disdain. A cafe concert in the Quartier Latin, known among the students as the " Cpfe Beuglant," is making a sensation through the striking resemblance of its chief actor to Napoleon 111. He dresses as a French general, sings a song anything but complimentary to the prisoner at Wilhelmshohe, and, by way of a chorus, dances round the stage with a sword between his legs, amid shrieks of laughter and shouts of " Badinguet ! Badinguet !" " Bravo," and " Encore." The police, however, have interfered, and the performance has been stopped. Various rumours are afloat about the future entry of the Prussians ; the police are said to have seized a quan tity of hand grenades in the disaffected parts of Paris ; and the authorities generally seem determined to prevent any disturbance. It has been proposed that all the inhabitants en masse should wear mourning that day, as if for a national funeral. Indeed, some enthusiasts go so far to insist that the blinds of all the houses should be close-drawn, the shutters firmly barred, and that the inhabitants, as in a memorable case at Coventry, should keep within doors. Even at Coventry, however, there was a Peeping Tom, and here where all, women as well as men, are of an essentially Peeping Tom-like nature, there is little chance of this modest blindness being adopted. The very 'pavement in the streets, they further urge, should be taken up as soon as it is once polluted by a Prussian foot. Ora dit that General Fleury, before leaving St. Peters burg, sold by public auction all the furniture, silver, &c., in the French Embassy, which was, of course, the property of the State. General Trochu gives a farewell dinner to his friends, and will leave Paris to-morrow for Bordeaux. The inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine, who are at present here, have held a meeting, at which, before France, and the whole civilized world, they solemnly declared themselves to be French, and express their desire to remain Frenchmen. It was determined that a protest, without loss of time, should be sent to the National Assembly at Bordeaux. Figaro is seriously trying to reform the levity of the Paris press. Though a startling case of Saul among the prophets, Figaro is really earnest in its tone; and peaceful and Conservative in its views. It has recently published a letter from Bismarck, pointing out the danger and folly of indulging in braggadocio and invective, now that the papers circulate freely in Prussian mess-rooms, and has endorsed it with sensible editorial remarks. You will, of course, have heard the precise results of the elections long before this, and you will probably know as a fact, while we can only surmise, that the armistice has been officially prolonged. The Times correspondent telegraphs from Paris, Sunday afternoon : "The Halles-Centrales have resumed their wonted appearance. Horse flesh hai disappeared from them, and there is a large supply of beef and mutton. The former may be had at about the same prices as before the siege, beginning at from 7d. to Bd. the pound, legs of mutton 110. the pound. Fresh vegetables are scarce. " Last night nearly 50 bankers held a meeting for the Purpose of proposing to Government that the payment of bills should be further postponed until four and six months after the signing of peace. " The Journal des Debats believes the National Assem bly to be fully impressed with the fact that it has but one question before it—the life or death of France. " The Patric learns that petitions to the National As sembly, requesting it to occupy itself without delay in considering the question of peace, are being signed in a great number of departments. " Let Verite and other Parisian journals state that In several battalions of the National Guards the men have been requested by an order from their superiors to give up to the sergeant-majors the cartridges at present in their possession. This order, which is to be rigorously carried out, is believed to have reference to the approaching entry of the Prussian troops into Paris. The Moniteur states that apartments in No. 52, Avenue Malesherbes, have been taken for a General attached to Count von Moltke's staff. " L'Electeur Libre observes that in the Queen's speech there is evidence of an uneasiness which is attempted, but unsuccessfully, to be disguised. The loss sustained by France, a natural ally of England—the increased power of a formidable military Power on the Continent—and the helplessness of Turkey, oven under the safeguard of England, to impose obstacles to the pretensions of Russia —cannot but be a cause of anxiety to English statesmen. England commences to understand that she ought to abandon the theories of the Manchester School, and the Gladstone Ministry, which proceeds from it, begins to recognise that economic science alone will not suffice for national policy. •` La Senzaine Financiere states that Count Bismarck required the payment of 200 millions of francs in this way • —5O millions in billets de banque, 50 millions in cash, 63 millions in bills on London, and 37 millions in bills on Berlin. The 50 millions in billets de banque were paid im' mediately. Up to the 19th February was given for the payment of the cash, but payment then had to be guaranteed by seven bankers. The Semaine Financiere gives much credit to Baron Alphonse de Rothschild for the part he took in arranging the matter." THE SPEECH OF M. JULES FA.VBE. On placing the resignation of the late Ministry in the hands of the Assembly, M. Jules Favre said .—" In thus placing the powers of the Government of the National Defence in the hands of the representatives of the country, I perform a most pleasing duty. Ever since we under- . took this responsibility it has been our earnest desire to hive the opportunity of meeting the representatives of the people face to face. We are now placed in most sad and unfortunate circumstances, but thanks to your patriotism, and to that unity of feeling to which I am convinced I shall not make a vain appeal, and which is dictated to us alike by the misfortune, the good sense, and the interests of our dear country, we shall succeed in binding up our wounds and in achieving our future regeneration. (Loud applause.) This great work is entrusted to your hands, gen tlemen. As for us, we are nothing further, except that we are ready to give an account of all our actions, fully con vinced that you will acknowledge they were all inspired by the loyalty which will characterise your deliberations, and you may be sure that no other thought will influence, us in the explanations which we shall give you. In awaiting the construction of a new Power which will be the real legitimate power to decide the destinies of France, I have the honour to make this declara tion to the Assemhly. The members of the National Defence Government in their own names and that of their colleagues, have the honour to give up their authority into the hands of the President of the National Assembly. They will remain at their post for the purpose of maintaining order and watching over the execution of the laws until they have been regularly superseded. Each Minister gives in his resignation on condition that his successor is appointed by you, and until that time arrives, which I trust will be shortly, each enters into an engagement to fulfil his duty. My duties allowed me to come before 'you as soon as possible. During most painful circumstances into which I shall enter further on, I named the Bth of February as the period of the election of the French deputies, and the 12th for their day of meeting. It seemed almost impossible to carry this out, but I depended on the patriotism of the Chamber, and I was convinced that in requesting them to make this stupendous effort we should not meet with refusal. The best proof that I was right in my conjectures is that you are here now. I was anxious that we should be ready at the appointed time for the credit of the Government, which I represented before you, before the enemy, and before Europe. For this reason I came to Bordeaux from Paris. I ask permission to return in a few days to my post, where I have some difficult tasks to perform. I cannot give more precise explanations in the midst of the complications in which we are involved, but you will realise that having began the work on our own responsi bility, we would not relinquish it until we could hear from you what judgment you had formed of our conduct. Our first care s as it is our first duty (and I . need not consult you in a matter upon which you are certain to be unani mously agreed) will be to inform those with whom we are -'4 carrying on negotiations that France is ready, whatever may happen, to perform her duty in the most courageous manner. (Applause.) The Assembly will form their decisions with full liberty, as it becomes those who are representatives of the country, who only consult the safety of France, and have no thought but for her honour. (Bravo.) This is what the enemy should know. At the same time, it is essential that they should be told they are no longer addressed by citizens who assumed. their powers during the recess, and were afterwards , elected by one city, but that we ask in the name of the whole country, and in the name of an assembly which: legitimately represents it, that we may have time to. complete the work we have begun. You are aware that a time had been previously fixed, but. the Oonvention stipulated that the armistice might• be renewed. In my opinion this prolongation should be for the shortest possible time. We ought not, to lose a minute. We must not forget our unhappy countrymen who are ravaged by the enemy without our being able, in spite of all our efforts, to improve their position. You may rest assured that their tears and their sacrifices weigh heavily, I will not say upon my con science, for I can declare before Heaven that I am innocent, but upon my sense of responsibility, and I am most anxious to come to the encl of this misery. lam certain that you will assist us to do. so. I will, tell those with whom I have to treat that the Assembly of France wishes for an extension of time short ; but of sufficient duration to enable you, with a full knowledge of all the circumstances, to decide on the destinies of France." (Applause.) THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE REPUBLIC. The Echo du Nord, after announcing the appointment of Thiers as head of the Executive, says :—So far as we can judge by the summarized report which the tele graph brings us irregularly enough, the pre dominant opinion in the Assembly has declared itself favourable to a Conservative Republican Government, and if this desire becomes more' strongly marked it can readily satisfy itself. For the time• being the principal question is not to ensure the triumph this or that shade of opinion, of to bring about this or that reform, or to practise this or that favourite doctrine. All this is of little consequence. The great National interest, which supersedes everything and ought to silence all theoretical differences, is the definite establishment of a form of government which will save the present and guarantee the future. The experience ac quired since the beginning of the century has shewn that the Monarchial regime is povierless to give France internal stability and security of frontiers. Napoleon I, after having, during fifteen years, bathed Europe in blood, left France less than he found her': the reign of Charles X., which may be regarded as the completion of that of Louis XVIII., was an incessant encroachment of the royal authority on popular rights, and ended by a revolution. The reign of Louis Philippe, often troubled by insurrectionary movements, was born on a barricade and died on a barricade. In conclusion the most refined efforts of a systematic corruption, however temporarily successful, did not preserve Napoleon 111. from a greater /nd more disastrous fall than all his prede cesgars. ' The deduction is evident. Monarchy is dead in France. The kings themselves have killed all respect for the institution, and have destroyed the prestige without which the institution could not exist. The Republican form is the only resource which remains to us. Whether or no it has the sympathy of some parties matters little. It is imposed on us by the impossibility of finding any other solution it is imposed too by the necessity of a strict financial economy. Whether the Republic assumes' an aristocratic or democratic form is absolutely secondary. The Empire affected a certain democratic tendency, which did not prevent it from being extremely despotic and Caesarian. We care little though the Republic should be governed at its outset by the partisans of old preju dices, the country will complete its political education by degrees, and the progress will be made in spite of all obstacles under the protection of liberty. The vital ques tion is that the Republican system should be installed, that the French Republic should not be again transformed into a monarchy destined to perish speedily in fresh revolutionary convulsions. That is all. The tree once firmly rooted will produce sooner or later its beneficent fruits. It is but a question of time. Le Francais announces that the Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Aumale have arrived at Bordeaux. The deaths from smallpox at Lille are said to reach fifty per day. - - - • Active preparations are being made in the Palais Royal, which is designated as the future residence of M. il'hiers. Alphonse Karr has addressed a letter to the Sala Public, in which, after reviewing the situation, he an nounces himself as an advocate of peace at any rice. General Chanzy is completing a full and detailed report of his operations and the condition of his army f o r pre sentation to the National Assembly on the fi rst opportune occasion. A singular coincidence has been noticed by the French papers. The war began on July 28 th , Strasburg capitu lated on September 28th, Metz on October 28th, Paris on January 28th ! General Von Goeben has given orders that no requi sition is to be made on seed sent to the North of France by the London Aid Society, but, on the contrary, assistance is to be given in distributing it. The railway service between Abbeville and Amiens is suspended. It appears that at the Paris elections only 328,97 0 electors out of 547,858 voted. " General" Cluseret, who became so notorious for his attempts to incite the people of Lyons to insurrection, positively found 20,000 Pari sians to vote for him. Flonrens received 42,000 votes, Blanqui 52,000, so that these two prominent members of the advanced party are for some reason unpopular with it. at Some statistics, just furnished, relative to the fisheries Boulogne, the most important fishing port in France, silo their growing importance, as well as the severe shock he trade has this year sustained from the wa r, b y which , fishermen were draughted off to the service of the ,st%etl and the most productive markets in the interior, 3 o f especially Paris, were for months cut off. The nuraberea 1 fishermen in the maritime district of Boul o g ne incressblo. from 3,106 in 1860 to 3,597 on the I st of January, .03 In the snme period the numbei of fishing-boats We re— a from 138 to 219. The money value of the fish, fret ) 10 salt, landed at Boulogne was 4 , 658,900 f. (£186,3:450), 1860. In 1869 it had increased to 6.811,250 f. (0' but in 1870 it was only 4,705,550 f. (2118,222). sanne. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., of 3, St. George's-3quare, Pim lico, *5. Edmond St. John-Mildmay, of a daughter. the On the 17th inst., the wife of C. N. Luxmoore, D"' Hove, Torquay, of a son. MARRIAGES. Ar'lliA ll3 On the 18th inst., at St. Michael's, Stockwell, ‘• 1 to Lawford, Esq., The Crescent, Clapham-corn h l na Catharine Jane, the eldest daughter of J• F. -1.-c Esq., Walliligford, Berks. va On the 16th inst. at St. Thomas's, P o rtman -s q ll— , To cif ward Owen Tullor; Esq., eldest son of 1 4(1nr. ' daug'"" Esq., of Portland-lace, to Ellen Blanche, o nly f Lowe r ter of the late William Henry Surman, Bsq'' ° Berkeley-street. DEXTIIS. r ~ EA'' On the 17th inst., at Maldon, Essex , George l'xa aged 83. • 'l 'l' e 0' of On the 18th inst., William Jackson, B 611; Penge, and 38, Leadenhall-street , age" ",............... _--- - ------ or -1 BOVVrbt 1: London : Printed by GIDEQN ACL2-1 , -- 1- ' by hil'ihe No. 112, Strand, Printer , and r uhris he Precinct of THE SUN Office, O. 112, Strand, in the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex , • Tuesday, February 21, Ib7l, Count Bismarck has taken the Paris press in hand, "The tone of the Parisian Press," says he, in a communi - cation addressed to it, " which is in great part responsible for this war, is a serious obstacle to the conclusion of peace; it prevents the French nation from recognising the necessity of peace, and produces the most prejudicial effect upon the disposition of the German mind in regard to it." Figaro supports the Prussian's representations. A telegram from Paris to Brussels on Saturday says that a letter from Versailles states confidently that Prussia has proposed the following conditions of peace. France i' 4 to surrender Alsace and part of Lorraine, with -MeV' Thionville, and Belfort, and to pay seven milliards, indemnity. The telegram adds that the news was received in Paris with incredulity, as it was not thought ilk& • Prussia would put forward such exorbitant pretensions. The Phare de la Loire says that the Count de Chambor a is living under the name of K Aubry at Grand Saccoues: close by Geneva. The ex-Queen Isabella is at the Hots,' de la Pain at Geneva. The Princess Clotil de, daughter 0' Victor Emmanuel, and wife of Prince Napoleon, is alf, at Geneva, at the Hotel de la Metropole. Prangins, svittfP its furniture and all its belongings, has been sold for b r , a million francs. Prince Napoleon himself is movilt about. A month ago M. Rotion , the PlenipotentiarY, of the French Republic, invited him to dinner at La ar . N me cal chi poi OAF -1 1- ] ti t tlf, tv th all, , v'l°3 In e tilu A ehaF Ana