The Sun. — London, England, 1871-02-14 00:00:00

AIOIsTUARY REPORTS.—YESTERDAY. The Stock Exchange to,day has been characterised by an increased amount of firmness. The peaceful news from Berlin. coupled with the satisfactory progress of the French elections, have assisted in strengthening the value of all classes of securities. Notwithstanding that business has been by no means brisk, in the market for English railway stocks there has been an absence of a y important feature. Transactions have been restricted, and the alterations have been trifling. Caledonian, Great Eastern, and South Eastern have each slightly improved ; but Great Northern A. has been rather lower. As regards foreign bonds, the tone has been firmer, and Egyptian, Turkish, and United States Five-Twenty bonds have advanced. ' For English Government securities the market has been steady. Consols have been quoted at 92, 92i t for delivery and the account ; Reduced and New Three per Cents., 92h to 921 ; Bank Stock, 244 to 246 ; Exchequer Bills, 7s. to • 12s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 110 to 1104 ; and India Bonds, 225. to 275. prem. Very few changes have taken place in Indian railway stocks, and the business doing has been limited. An ad vance of / has taken place in Caledonian, in South-Eastern and Great Eastern, and a fall of / in Great Northern A. Metropolitan 65k, 66 ; Caledonian, 88/, 88i ; Brighton, 43, 43i ; South- Eastern, 78i, 79 ; Great Northern A, 1331, 133.1; Great Eastern, 39, 39/ ; North-Eastern, 146/, 147/ ; Midland, 1271,127/ ; North-Western, 1291, 129 i ; and Great Wes tern, 73}, 73/. Next to nothing has been doing in Indian Railway Stocks. East Indian, 1091, ; Onde and Rohilkund, 101/; and Scinde, 101/, 1. Canadian shares have been steady. Great Western have been better at 151, 15g. Foreign shares have sold slowly. Great Luxemburg, 121, 121 ; Lemberg-Czernwitz, 154 ; and Lombards, 14f, 1. The market for foreign bonds has been in a steady state, and the movements have been favourable. Spanish have risen *, Turkish Five per Cents. 1, ditto (1869) 1, and United States Five-twenty Bonds /. Peruvian (1865), 9 0 , 90 - 1; Egyptian (1868), 74, 74/ ; Italian (1861), 541, 544; Spanish, 301, 301 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 41, 411 ; ditto 1869, 521. 527„ ; United States Five-Twenty (1882) bonds, 911, 911 ; ditto (1885), 901, 901 ; French Scrip, 2i, 2/ prem. ; German, 2i, 2 prem. ; ditto new, 1 prem. The transactions in Bank shares have been on a limited scale. Consolidated have marked 4 9-16 ; Imperial Otto man, ng to 11 k ; London Chartered of Australia, 24. The Telegraph Market has been firm. Anglo-Me diterranean, , 123 ; British Indian Extension, 71 ; British Indian Submarine, 71 ; Falmouths, 9 1 , i ; Hooper's, 6i ; Silver's India Rubber, 524; and Con struction, 261. Miscellaneous securities have been dealt in quietly. Credit Fonder of England 3,4, General Credit and Discount 7i, 15-16 ex div., Peninsular and Oriental Steam At Mark-lane to-day wheat was sold quiety, and inferior produce has been rather lower in value. The Shannon, from the West Indies, has brought £41,895, and the Holsatia, from New York, £BOO. The discount market has continued firm. Capital has not been plentiful, and, with a good demand, three months' paper has been charged 2i percent. A dividend of 10 per cent. has been declared by the directors of 'the National Steamship Company (Limited), £84,000 being carried to the credit of profit and loss. The Snowden, Captain Carrey, sailed from the Tyne on the 10th instant for Puerto Caballos with a large cargo of bridgework, permanent material, waggons, &c., for the Honduras Interoceanic Railway. The Maid Marian, Captain Richards, sailed from Gravesend on the 11th instant, with bridgework, telegraph material, &c., for Amapolis, Bay of Londeca, the Pacific side of the same line. The report of the London and Provincial Bank (Limited) (formerly the Provincial Bank Corporation), to be pre sented on the 20th instant, recommends a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum, which will absorb £4,556, and leave £1,946 to be carried forward: The paid-up capital is £101,250, and the deposits held are £482,507. The sixth report of the New Bank of Bombay, issued on the 18th ult., has been received. The profits available for distribution to December 31 amounted to 170,126 rupees, out of which a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was declared, absorbing 150,000 rupees, and leaving 20,126 rupees to be carried forward. The directors of the London and North Western have elected Lord Richard Grosvener, M.P., to supply the place of Lord Wolverton, who was the first chairman of the amalgamated undertaking, and who has, since his resignation of that office, been a director of the company. The half-yearly report of .the Metropolitan Railway Company, which will be presented at a meeting at the Cannon-street Hotel, (xi Wednesday, states that , the gross receipts from traffic for the past half-year are £204,876, as compared with "2109,826 for the half-year ending 31st December, 1869. The revenue account shews a balance of £103,731., and this will enable the directors to declare a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 34 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock, after pro viding for the dividends on the preferential capital. The reduction in the fares has proved beneficial, and other alterations in this direction will pro bably be made in the spring. The directors will apply to Parliament during the present session for power to make some openings in the Euston road, for the purpose of ventilation, between Gower street and King's-cross ; and also to obtain sanction to the arrangement entered into with the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, for the accommodation of that Company at Moorgate-street. Measures will be taken to protect the interests of the company in the matter of an Act about to be applied for by the Metro politan and St. John's Wood Railway Company. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-MONDAY. LATEST PRICES.—AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 93 921 Viet 6p c Jan &July 1891 113 114 92. 1 L:April &Oct 1883-85.. 112 113 Do for Account Three per Cent Reduced 921 921 Viet 590 Jan& JulylB9l. 10111021 921, 1 102/, 19 New 3 per Cent 92/, 1 941 Exchequer Bills, March 5 10pm Egyptian 1862. 7 pa .. ~5 3 85 6s pm oe Rail Deheu 7p c .. 99 100 Do, June 5 10pm Italian, 1865, 5p e 7s pm Peruvian. 1865, 5p c Bank Sto 246,ck 5 Portuguese 1869 3po .. 32 33 India 5 per Cents 1099, 9 Russian, 1862. 5 p c.. .. 85 86 India Bonds — 859, 6 27s pm Do Nicolas 4p e Can 6 pe Jan&Ju l y lB77-84 104 105 D o March &Sept. 104 106 Spanlsh 6B9, 9 209 31 Do 5p c Jan 8; July • . 98 99 30 9 , 9 , 9 989 Turkish, 1854, 6p c 79 81 Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 no. MIS. 5p 0 Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 99 100 419, 9, Z, i,, Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1865 t, e e November 1878 lO7 109 599, 60, 599, 601 Mauritius 613 c Jan and 11.8.5-20 Boucle.fi 0 u 1884 911 911 July 1873 lO3 105 911, 9, 9 New S Wales 5 p (41871-76 lOO 101 Do do 1885 909 901 1009 I. L New Zealand 6p c 1891 lOB 110 Do 10-40 Buds, spu 1901 879 88 Do 5 p c 9 ErleSha, 100 dole, all paid 9 D05 p e Consolidated 09 100 Illinois Central Shares .. 109 110 991. 9 Atlantic and 6 lt Uou Do 6p e Mar&Sept 1891 109 111 Mortgage Bonds — Do June & Deo 1891 108 110 RAILWAYS. AA/Mir. •• .-___ Bristol and Exeter 9l 93 .... Do 2nd Pref Bonds .. 411 421 'Valedonian 881. i Do 3rd Pref Stock .... 31 33 Great Eastern 3Bl 394 32 384, 84, 9 Grand Trunk of Canada Great Northern 1251 14 1.18 1:10 A 133 134 Great Indian Peng 540 105 106 Great Western 731 731 1051 731, 4 Great Western of Canada 151 151 Lancashire d o Yorkshire 13411351 1351 Do Op o Bonds, 1873.. 9911001 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 43 431 Do 51 cold 1877-8 95 27 431,1 x d Do 5 p re. issued 80 1 2nm Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 141 141 Madras guar , 5 p a 141, 1 1031, 1 Lon and North-Western 129 1 130 N. Ra ilway of anada 1291 6 Ist Pref B C onds Lon and S ou th-Western 931 941 Oude and Rohilkund g 941 5 pc Man, Shef, and Lincoln 461 461 1011 461, 1. 1 &hide. Punjaub, and Metropolitan 651 104 1,4, 1 Midland 12711271 Bahia and San Francisco 1273, 1 a 7 Du North Bsitish 11 orth-EasteniConsols 147 1471 Buenos Ayres Gt Sthrn.. 254 26 1471, 1 Dnnaburg and Witepsk 181 191 South-Eastern 781781 Dutch-Rhenish 23 24 783, 1 23/ Atlantic and St Lawmen 77 79 Eastern of France lB 20 Bombay, Baroda, Leinberg Cze and Great Luxembourg Central In 5 dia. gp c.. 103 104 121, 1 104, 31 rnowitzgua Buff and Lake Huron .. 41 41 7pc Do 51 pc 80nd5,1872-34 80 82 151 Cape guar 6n c East Bengal guar 5 p c lO3 104 Ottom (Smyrna to Aidin) 5 51 103/ Recife,and San Francisco East Indian, g 5 p o 1091, I. 2 San Paulo (L) guar 7p c 211 21 Grand Trunk Canada Do Equip Mortßnd 1 South Anstn 46 Lom-Yen 141 141 92 94 141 i charge 6 n c n o 2 n d do Bonds f.. 10 tat Fret Benda 5B 59 I BANKING COMPANIES. Pd , Pd 10 Atilt Bank (L) A Bl 9 20 Lou Char of Aneitrillt 24 25 25 Alliance (L) 10 Antlo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 221 23 • 15 London Joint-tock 37 SS 50 British N Ameriqan 511 521 371 20 Ch pf India, Austrlia 131 141 20 Lon andWestmnster 62 63 25 Char Merc of India 23 25 621 10 City 30 Colonial 4 Consolidated (L .... i ipm 191 x d 4 9-16 20 New South Wales .. 34 36 20 Ent. Scot. and Aus C 161 171 25 Orutal BankCornorn 42 4:1 2 , Imperial 11,1 10 Imperial Ottoman Ili, 1, I, i TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Pd Pd 100 Anglo-American Ll 76 77 10 Great Northern 10 Anglo-Medltrn (L) 123 125 6 Great N. China, and 123, 5, 4 Japan Extension.. 8 81 100 Atlantic — 5 Indo-European IL).. 11) 12 100 1)o 8p c — 10 Marseilles, Algiers. 10 British Australn (L).. 3) 3)dis and Malta (L) .... 61 6) 10 British Ind Exten (L). 72 8 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 4) 5) 7). 13-16, ), 8, 8 2 ) Pnma and S. Pete( L 4 3 dis 10 British Indian Sub- dis marine. (L) a 7), 7-16. ) 20 Soc Trans France (L) 132 14 10 ChinaSubmarine(L) 4) 4)die 100 Submarine 237 242 4), 4 Dn Scrip 2l 2; 10 Falmouth. Gibraltar, 2) and Malta (Li 9), 13-16, 11-16 6 1-16 111 12 MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES • Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian End- 20 It Irria Can Cavour $5 35 holders Certificate 1 3 100 Do 6p c Bonds. re -10 BerliuWaterworks(L) 16 165 deemable 1870 . 62 64 30 Bolckow-Vaughan L) 32 37pm 62 100 Boston City (U.S. 20 London Fin Assoc(L)lBsl7‘ dig p c Sterling Loan 93 95 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 25 25 4 Brit & Fgn Marine L 145 45pm 2 Lon & Prov Marine Li 5 fpm 25 Canada Company. 73 75 100 Madraslrrig. &Canal 10 Ceylon Company L) 31 35dis gsn c by Ind Gov. 101 102 55 City Offices (L) 255245 dig 2 Mauritius Land (L) sdts plr 95 5 NatnlDisetCornp L) 115 12 20 Colonial (L) 5 Corn Unton Assurnce 45 41pm Mere Agency tL) .. 5g pm 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 3 35 5 N Zealand Loan and 3 3-16, 5. 5, 11-16 Trust (L) 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 TM 6p c Pern Deb llO 115 50 P and 0 Steam 44 46 275 Ebbw Vale Steel L).. 10 91dis 445 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p c 10 Do do New. 1867 35 %dig Mortgage Loan.... 77 79 50 Rhymney Iron 785 15 Do New 9 95 100 Egyp 9 p eV'roy Loan, 91 guar by Egyp Guy.. 96 98 60 Royal Mall Steam 975 61, 60 11 Fore-st Warehouse (Li 75 85pm 12 Tel Con and Main L) 265 27 100 Fgn and Colonial Gov 265, 5, 5 Trust 6p c Bonds.. 98 100 2 Thames and Mersey 1005, 100 Marine Insur IL 75 GenCredt&Disot(L).. I ham 55 7 15-16, 5, 13-16, g Tobacco 6 v c Loan. 14 Gen Stm Navigation 28 29 guar by Italian Gov 88 90 7 Hooper's Tel Works 5 lolls 5 Trust and Loan Co of 65, lad Upper Canada .. _ 5 15 pm 17 Hudson's Bay ' 85 85 5(7 Marine, Lvpool IL 55 s!Pin 45 Indrbbr.GutPer.and 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 Tel Works Li .... 515 525 6 United Dig Corprn (L Wig par 52 5 5 UnivMarinelnsur (Lt 65 65pm 5 Intern) Finan Soc(L) 25 lsdis 12 Warratt Finance 8 6 dis 3, 25 a d MINING SHARE LIST.—FEBRIIARY 13. Messrs. WATSON BROTFIERS. Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. Market quiet. Van Consols opened 3 buyers, but leave off weaker. Taquaril flatter. West Chiverton, Cara Brea, Marke Valley, and Grenville firmer. -- • Cam Brea, 45. 50 Chivertou Valley, Chontalea (Gold), Cook's Kitchen, 19, 20 Devon Great Consols, Drakewalls, 19s, 21s Don Pedro North Del Rey, 21. East Caradon, 5,5 j East Lovell, 31, 32 East Wheal Grenville, 21, 3 Eberhardt and Aurora, 15, 16 , Frontino and Bolivia (Gold). Prince of Wales, 345, 36s Providence Mines. Roman Gravels, 91, 9 I Rosewall 11111 and Ransom° United. South Condurrow. 53. i S gw ou e th e%an Fra ci n&e e s, c e 3 ,? . 0 41 Tankerville, 12i. 13 Taquaril (Gold). 375, 39s Tineroft, Trumpet Consols. Van Consols, 2f, 3.1 West Chiverton. 45. 46 West Maria and Forteseue, 11, li West Seton. West Tankerville, Wheal Crebor, • Wheal Grenville. 31, 4 Wheal Kitty. St. Agnes, Wheal Margaret, Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Seton. Wheal Uny, 4, 43 --s., —S. General Brazilian, Great Laxey, 18, 188 Great Retallack. Great Wheal Vol*. 6, 61 Hingaton Down, Marko Valley, 7, 71 New Beldon, New I,ovell, North Crotty. 21, 2a Pary's Mountain, Ferran Wheal Virgin, Plynlimmon, 2, 21 FHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1871. LAW AND POLICE. THE ALLEGED LIBEL CASE AT RAMSGATE.-At Rams gate police-court, on Saturday, Mr. Purcell, on behalf of Mr. Edward Welby Pugin, Mrs. Pugin, his stepmother, and Mr. Whelan, late secretary to the late Mr. Pugin withdrew the imputations which had been made against Mr; Hodgson, postmaster of Ramsgate, and Miss Hale, his niece, and the criminal informations for libel against them were withdrawn. DARING ROBBERY BY MEANS OF CHLOROFORM. — Another daring robbery by means of chloroform has taken place. At five o'clock on Thursday afternoon, a lady named Newell went to ber bedroom at her residence at Stamford Hill, in the suburbs of London, and on the landing was confronted by a strange man, and a youth, one of whom held her while the other applied a handkerchief saturated with chloroform to her nose. She became insensible, and on recovery found that a gold watch, three £5 bank notes, and £35 in gold had been carried off. No trace of the thieves has been discovered. ROBBERY 'OF PILLAR BOXES. During the last three months a gang of London thieves have been exercising their ingenuity in extracting letters from the pillar-letter boxes erected in the streets in various parts of the metropolis, and so ingenious and successful have been their operations that they have suc ceeded in possessing themselves of a large sum of money, and also in baffling the combined exertions of the police and postal authorities to put a stop to their "little game" until Saturday last, when a scheme concocted for the apprehension of the thieves fortunately proved successful, though one of the prisoners afterwards contrived to effect his escape from the Hertford police station, and up to a late hour on Sunday evening had not been re-appre hended. The modus operandi of the thieves has been to steal letters from the pillar letter-boxes, to ap propriate those containing cheques and notes, to get them cashed as soon as possible, and, when practicable, to forge the endorsement. The scheme laid for the discovery of the robbery was this ;--The London police authoritiesput themselves in communication with Mr. J. W. Chesehyre, manager of the Hertford branch of the London and County Bank, by whom a cheque was drawn for the amount of £7 Gs. 3d., in the name of John Gardiner, and made payable at Hertford to Frank Summers. This cheque was placed in the hands of Detective-Sergeant Hancock, by whom it was posted at a pillar letter-box at Kennington. PreMising that the cheque would be pre sented at the Hertfori bank early on Saturday by one of a gang of suspected thieves, Sergeant Hancock, with two constables, arrived at Hertford by the first train reaching the town on that day. The two constables were posted in the vicinity of the bank; Sergeant Hancock took up his position in the window of the post-office, eford Norther n station the thee Th which commands a view of the bank entrance, and two constables os nt abo leae at about train ainn darrivingis twelveiu s e . of the local constabulary , with Superintendent Jarrett, watched the arrival of the trains by the Great Eastern andtehllt the Great r o'clock brought two of the suspected parties, who imme diately nmarradoewly watchedt heirway onb yto the Railways.n former London linen d County Bank, On arriving at the bank they made a pause for a few minutes, during which something was seen to pass between them, and then one of the fellows went into the bank and cashed the cheque which had been prepared by Mr. Chesshyre, and posted by Sergeant Hancock. Immediately the presenter had endorsed it a signal was given by the bank clerk, and the thief was quickly in the hands of Sergeant Hancock, his confederate being apprehended by the other constables outside. The man who presented the cheque gives the name of John Hall, aged 22, of the Walworth-road, London, , but is better known by the soubriquet of " Coley." The other man is named Benjamin Poulton, alias "Ben the Flat," and is about 35 years of age. He at first gave the name of John Jowkins. Although he is a short, slight-built man, he is known as a desperate character, and but for the fact that he was completely surrounded by con stables when apprehended he would doubtless have made a desperate attempt to escape. They were both well and neatly dressed. He and his confederate were at once taken to the Hertford police station and left in charge of a metropolitan and local constable, who received instructions from Superintendent Jarret not to allow the prisoners to leave their cells under any pretence whatever ; but, after they had been confined about an hour, the man Hall, who had been crying and protesting that he was not aware the cheque had been stolen, asked to be permitted to leave his cell to write a letter to his friends. This he was allowed to do, and after he had written his letter he was put back into the cell, but, although there were two bolts and a lock on the door, the constables forgot to either bolt or lock the cell door after replacing Hall. He observed this omission, and, quietly biding his time until there was no one in the police station except himself and his comrade, he opened his cell door and walked off unobserved. About half an hour after his departure his absence was discovered, greatly to the con sternation of the police, who raised a hue and cry in every direction, but, as we have already stated, the missing bird was still on the wing up till a late hour on Sunday even ing. It is estimated that between £5OO and £6OO, has been stolen from the London pillar-boxes within the last month or six weeks. Poulton was taken before Mr. W. P. Willson, the mayor of Hertford, on Saturday evening, and remanded. M. Marinoni, the well-known maker of printing machines in Paris, was a candidate for the National Assembly, and struck out a new notion in the way of canvassing. He caused all his posters to be adorned with his photograph. AN IMMATERIAL DIFFERENCE.—A correspondent gives it as the result of a private calculation of his own that to count the alleged _war indemnity of £400,000,000 sterling, paid in sf.' pieces, requires 20 years, and not 105 years, as reckoned in the paragraph quoted by us from a Belgian paper. THAI ACTION AGAINST MISS JEX-BLAKE.— The defences have been given in on behalf of Miss Jex-Blako in the action brought against her by Mr. Craig. The de fence, we understand, justifies the statements she made at the infirmary meeting, by narrating what was said and done in the row at the College. The defender also dis claims the imputation of malice, as she had no acquaint ance with the pursuer, and would not even know him if she saw him. —Daily Review. THE CONFERENCE.—A correspondent writes to a contemporary as follows : Turkey has been herself desirous, under existing circumstances, to surrender .the neutralisation of the Black Sea, in return for her own right of holding the gates of the Bosphorus and Darda nelles, and opening or 'closing them at her own pleasure.- This is, I believe, substantially the agreement to which the Conference has now come. It means, of course, that Turkey can at any moment admit the fleets of her allies, and confine Russia to the Black Sea. - FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENT.—An accident which happened in the hunting field in Essex, in the middle of January, to Mr. G. 3. Cockerell, has terminated fatally, Mr. Cockerell having expired at the house of his friend Mr. Peter Smith, of High Trees, High Boding. The deceased, who was the occupier of Ravens, at Little Easton, has left a widow and thirteen children, eleven of whom are at home. The deceased, it may be stated, was out with the East Essex hounds ; in riding over a drop fence his foot slipped out of the stirrup, and he was thrown on to the pommel of his saddle and very much injured. THE IRISH EDUCATION QUESTION.-It is stated that there has been a hint thrown out to the Irish members who have complained of the omission of the Irish educa tion question from the sessional programme of the Queen's Speech that the bill will he introduced, at least pro form 4 after Easter, even if business should compel it to be with drawn afterwards. But this is said to be the parting hope held out by Mr. Chichester Fortiscue: and is, on inquiry, repudiated by Lord Hartington. According to the latter, it will entirely depend on the state of business after Whitsuntide whether the Irish questicin of education be touched. ROYAL SPEECHES AND THE MARRIAGES OP PRINCESSES.—The engagement of the Princess Lou* i s only the second of the kind in the Queen's family that has been announced in a speech from the throne. The marriage of the Princess Royal, which took place in January, 1858, was not anticipated in the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament in December, 1857, nor was that of the Princess Alice in July, 1862, announced in the speech in. February the same year. Princess Helena's marriage was, however, foreshadowed in the Queen's Speech, in February, 1866, in the following terms :—" I have recently declared my consent to a marriage between Princess Helena and Prince Christian .of stein (&c.) I trust the union may be prosperous and happy." BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND CO3l - very agreeable character of this preparation has -.rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the 'natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills." Each packet is labelled—JAMES Errs & CO., HoMmo pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacaiiine, a very thin evening beverage.—Advt. THE USE OF FORTRESSES. Major Palliser, of artillery celebrity, regrets that the public attention should be diverted from the ,11-important questions of national defence by a wrangle about the ' purchase system. He thinks some important lessons are to be gained from the experience of Paris. There is a vast difference between fortifying Lon don and making London unassailable, by the use of fortresses. So far back as Sept. 21st, Major Palliser doubted whether the Germans would derive any benefit from the bombardment of Paris, and the result has proved that the bombardment did not accelerate the sur render by a single hour. On the contrary it has held out too lqng, producing risk of abs'olute famine. Had Paris been defended by a circle of heavily armed earthern forts, situated about four miles from the present enceinte, she would have been safe from bombardment, the German lines must have been greatly extended, and room allowed for making sorties. The extraordinary development of rifled artillery has only lately rendered such a system ,of defence possible by enabling forts to afford each other reci procal defence and to sweep all approaches, at distances never dreamt of by former military engineers. No scheme could be entertained for the defence of Lcndon, which does not protect the communication with the sea, but as the dis tance from Kingston-on-Thames, to the forts at the mouth of the river is only about thirty miles, it is evident the protection of the navigation is not an impossible problem, and Major Palliser holds the question should be at once committed per se to a Royal Commissicin. MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY.-Fresh up to Mark lane to-day the receipts of wheat from Essex and Kent have been small, and the quality generally has been inferior. There has been a thin attendance of millers, and sales have progressed slowly. Fine dry samples, from their scarcity, have com manded late rates, otherwise there has been a tendency to lower prices. Moderate supplies of foreign wheat have been on the stands. Transactions have been on a limited scale, and the value of inferior produce has been barely maintained. The market has been moderately supplied with barley. The business doing has been unimportant, and inferior parcels have been lower to sell. Malt has been quiet, at about late rates. There has been a fair supply of oats on the stands. Transactions have been restricted, and prices have had a drooping tendency. Beans have been quiet, at about late currencies. Peas have been disposed of at about previous quotations. For maize the demand has been inactive, at barely last week's prices. Flour has been dull, and in consequence of the falling off in the export inquiry, prices have tended in favour of buyers. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The cattle trade to-day has been in a quiet state. The supplies of beasts have been limited. The demand has been inactive, at about late rates. With sheep the market has been scantily supplied. Sales have progressed slowly, on former terms. About three hundred lambs have been on offer, for which 85. per 81b. has been required. Calves and pigs have sold slowly Per /lbs. to sink the offal :-Coarse and inferior beasts, Is. 4d. to 45. 2d. ; second quality ditto, 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; prime large oxen, ss. 2d. to ss. 6d. ; prime Scotch, &c., Is. Bd. to ss. 10d ; coarse and inferior sheep, 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; second quality ditto, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 6d. ; prime coarse-woolled sheep, Is. to ss. Bd. ; prime Southdown ditto, Is. 10d. to 65.; large coarse calves, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. ; prime small ditto, ss. to 6s. ; large hogs, Is. 6d. to 4s. ; and neat small porkers, 4s. 6d. to ss. 2d. ; Quarter-old store pigs, 225. to 255. each Arrivals. English :-Beasts, 2,230; sheep, 12,440; calves, 10; pigs, 100. Foreign.-Beasts, 230 ; sheep, 500; calves, 85. Total.- Beasts, 2,460 ; sheep, 12,940; calves, 95; pigs, 100. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, MONDAY.-The market has been moderately supplied. There has been a fair demand, at our quotations. The import into London last week consisted of 241 packages from Ostend, 87 from Harlingen -122 from Gluckstadt, and 7 cases from New_ Dieps. Per 81b. by the carcase ;-Inferior beef, 3s. 4d. to 3s. 8d ; middling ditto, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Od.; Prime large ditto, 4s. 10d. to ss. Od. : prime small ditto. ss. Od. to ss. 2d. ; inferior mutton. 3s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; middling ditto, 4s. Od. to 45. 4d ; prime ditto, 4s. Bd. to ss. 2d. ; large pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Oct. ; small ditto, 4s. Bd. to 6s. Od. ; veal, ss. Od. to ss. 4d. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, MON , DAY.—Large supplies of potatoes have been on sale. The trade has been rather quiet at our quotations :—English regents, 70s. to 90s. per ton ; Scotch regents, 70s. to 905.; rocks, 60s. to 70s. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, MONDAY.—During the past week this market has assumed a quieter tone ; nevertheless, the busi ness doing has been to a fair extent, and full prices have been obtained. The import into London last week consisted of 116 bales from Antwerp, 434 from Bremen, 245 from Gluckstadt, and 340 from Ostend. Mid and East Kents, £2 Os. to £7 ; Weald of Kents, £2 to £3 15s. ; Sussex, £1 15s. to £3los. ; Farnham and country, £3 15s. to £sl2s. ; Olds £1 to £2 10s. per cwt. LONDON WOOL MARKET, MONDAY.—There has been a con tinuance of animation in the demand for wool at the public sales. German buyers have operated with an increased amount of freedom, especially in Cape. Secured qualities have risen lid. per lb. Other descriptions are Old. to Id. per lb. dearer. Eng lish wool has been steady in value, with a fair inquiry. The im port into London last week consisted of 4,699 bales from the Cape, 4,897 Adelaide, 3,541 Port Philip, 2,955 Sydney, 1,078 New Zealand, and about 2,000 bales from the Continent. LONDON TALLOW MARKET, MONDAY.—The market has been quiet. Y. C., spot, 455. 3d. per cwt. town tallow, 445. per cwt., nett cash. Particulars :—Stock this day, 35,296 cwt. ; price of Y. C., 458. 3d. ; delivery' ast week, 2,149 cwt. ; ditto from June 1, 86,676 cwt. ; arrival last week, 298 cwt. ; ditto from June 1, 89,712 cwt. ; price of town, 465. 6d. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MONDAY.—Thii market continues very tame to-day, without any increase in the demand. Prices keep remarkably steady, and there has hardly been any quotable change in the values of cloth for a week past ; but the tendency is in favour of buyers where any change occurs. Yarns are hardly so steady, especially the lower counts. The daily demand seems still sufficient to clear off stocks, as they begin to accumulate in the hands of producers not working to contract. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.—At this market to-day the supply of cattle and sheep was less than on last week. The demands were fair for each, without change in the value of cattle. Sheep were much dearer. Beef. 61d. to 81-d. per lb. Mutton, nth to 91d. per lb. There were at the market 2,088 cattle, and 5,206 sheep. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The market opens to-day with a moderate demand, and the sales point to 10,000 bales. Closing Report.—This market closed to-day with rather more doing. There was a steadier feeling, but without improvement in prices. Sales 12,000 bales, including 2,000 bales on speculation and export. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, MONDAY.—This market opened steady to-day, with but little doing. Buyers 525. 90. cash, and 535. in a month. Sellers wanting ld. per ton more. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, MONDAY.—At his' market to-day a small business was done at steady prices. CORK BUTTER MARKET, MONDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1485., seconds 1485., thirds 1315., fourths 1165., fifths 985., sixths 71s. 100 firkins in the market. Mild cured—No change. Three firkins in the market. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Although, says the Mark Lane Express, there have been fitful frosts in the Baltic during the week, the weather here has continued mostly mild and damp, with a heavy fall of rain. Scarcely anything could therefore be done in the fields, and farmers are waiting for the opportunity to gent in their beans and peas. Wherever the late severe frost left the vitality of vegetation unhurt, that vitality, under the influence of the increasing power of the sun, has begun to chew itself ; so that the orchards, gardens, and fields will soon tell us, if in any way injured, what amount of damage has been sustained. One thing is clear, that we certainly begin the year amply provided against drought, every pond, reservoir, and well being abundantly stoclred. The grass-lands last seasen had so small a demand upon them, that, with a favourable spring, we may have an unusual cut of hay, the value of which we were made fully to understand last season. A sunny, dry time for a fortnight would set every farm in going order, and do incalculable good to the country. The first reports received of the loss of life through the wreck of the French transport Le Cerf, which ran on the rocks at Cape La Hague, were much exagge rated. Several of the crew have arrived here, and report that a considerable number were saved. The Gazette de France says that the Treaty of Commerce with England has not yet been denounced, as proposed by M. Dorian. It still remains in force until the 4th of February, 1872. The Government has refused to give notice of withdrawal, because to do so now would be to repay with ingratitude England, • who at the present time has collected by means of public subscription a sum of more than two millions for the purchase of pro Asions for the revictualling of Paris. SIR IT. STORKS AT RIPON. Both the candidates—Sir Henry K. Storks (L) and Mr. A. Cayley (C)—aided by their friends and supporters, prosecuted their canvass of the electors, on Saturday, with much vigour.- At noon the Liberal candidate addressed an open-air meeting of the electors held in the Market-place. He spoke from one of the windows of the Unicorn Hotel, and was accompanied by a number of the leading members of his party, who were greatly encouraged by the reception he met with. Sir H., K. Storks again expressed his entire concurrence in the opinions held by the Government, and spoke with the same confidence and hopefulness as to the tranquillis ing and beneficial effects of the great measures passed on behalf .of Ireland in the last two sessions of Parliament. After referring to his opinions in favour of extended education, his announcement that he was quite prepared to support the Government measure for the adoption of the ballot led one of the electors to remark, " Aye, and you are quite prepared to go against it if the Government should do so," and " You are sent here as one of Glad stone's hounds, and are afraid of his.whip." This sally was received with laughter, but Sir Henry replied with a readiness of retort that turned the laughter into cheers in his favour, by exclaiming, " No, I am not ; and I am not in the least afraid of your whip." He wanted, he said, to be perfectly understood on this question. He had always been an advocate of the Ballot, his principal reason for this 'being that in his time he had had to do with a rather unruly oppo sition which was greatly improved when the members came to be returned by vote by Ballot: Here again he was interrupted by the previous speaker, who declared him to be the' nominee of Earl de Grey, and that he durst not have visited Ripon had the ballot been in operation. To this Sir Henry answered decidedly that he was not the nominee of anybody. Having stated his strong desire to see the University Tests abolished, he expressed a belief that the time had arrived when we might hope to see peace established between France and Germany. He next ap proved of the neutral course pursued by Her Majesty's Government with reference to the combatants. The measures that were about to be introduced by the Government with regaid to the national defences would, he believed, be approved of by the country. He called the attention of the meeting to the recent throwing open of civil service appointments to all classes of the people, and said that now, if a man had that ability which would enable him to pass the Civil Service Commissioners, he could receive his appointment without the protection or the patronage of anybody. After referring to other points dwelt upon at the meeting already alluded to, Sir Henry concluded hisaddress by declaring that, if he had the honour to be returned to Parliament as the representative of Ripon, he would pay his best atten tion to the local interests of the city, and would, at all times and under all circumstances, be found performing his duty. His intimation that he looked to be placed at the head of the poll on Wednesday next was received with loud cheers. He told the meeting that he was prepared to answer any questions that might be put to him, and an elector immediately asked if he would vote for the abolition of the purchase of commissions in the army. His ready answer—" Yes, I will ; and not only so, but .I have been an advocate of it for twenty years "—met with much approbation. He also said his opinion was that we ought to make the best use we can of the volunteers ; that we ought to associate them with the regular forces as much as possible, while keeping and maintaining them as volun teers. To a persistent questioner, who wanted to learn if Mr. Childers had gone on his cruise for the benefit of his health at the expense of the nation, Sir Henry replied— " I should think he has not. Upon my word, I can't tell. but I will inquire and let you know." LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE. The Musical Standard hears that Madame Adelina Patti has been performing in" Otello" at the St. Petersburg Opera ; and the Russian papers with one consent declare the lady the greatest lyric tragedienne of the day. At Moscow the performances of Madame Artot have been crowned by a torchlight procession organised by a body of students. The lady is about to make herself heard in the opera-houses of Stuttgart, Carlsruhe, Cassel, Hanover, and Wiesbaden. The same paper adds that Mdlle. Sessi is performing in opera at Vienna. The Athenccum says Mr. Swinburne's new poem is en titled " The End of a Month," and will be published in a ' new magazine in March. A second edition of the " Songs before Sunrise" is in the press.—Mr. Simeon Solomon, the artist, has nearly ready for publication a literary work, entitled " A mystery of Love in Sleep." It is a prose poem, and will be illustrated by a photograph from an original design by the author.—Mr. O'Shaughnessy is preparing for the press a volume of poems, called "Lays of France," founded on the " Laies " of the early poet, Marie de France.—Mr. J. Payne is about to publish a volume of sonnets, under the title of " Intaglios."— Mr. David Laing, of Edinburgh, has just issued an in teresting little memoir of Milton's tutor from ten to fifteen years of his age.—Dr. Thomas, Young, the cele brated Puritan divine, Vicar of Stowmarket, Suffolk, a Scotchman by birth.—Mr. James Grant, the late editor of the Morning Advertiser,' is preparing a work on " The Newspaper Press ; its origin, progress, and present state." — It is, gratifying to record any recognition of scientific merits. Dr. Stenhouse, than whom few men have done more in chemical investigation, and in the practical ap plication of discoveriss, physical and chemical, to the use ful purposes of life, has, by her Majesty's ,direction, been granted a pension on the Civil List of £lOO, "in consideration of his scientific attainments. " Next Tuesday, in St. James's Hall, will be the first per formance in London of Mr. J. F. Barnett's cantata, " Paradise and the Peri."—The director and conductor of the National Choral Society, Mr. G. W. Martin, has re ceived a special note of thanks from his friends and sup porters at the general meetini, for having tarried on the society for eleven years at his own cost and risk. From the formation of the society one hundred oratorio per formances have been given, including the production of two new works.—A domestic drama, by Mr. H. J. Byron, is in rehearsal at the Gaiety Theatre. Mr. J. L. Toole and Miss Carlotta Addison will play important characters. The Parisian theatres will not, it is said, reopen until peace is settled. Plays on the subject of the siege of Paris are in preparation at the Palais Royal and the Gait.—Miss Glyn has arranged to give a series 'of Shak spearean readings in New York. The popularity .of her readings has rendered the forthcoming performances a matter of great public interest.—A new comedy is an nounced from the pen of Ada Christen, the poetess, which will shortly be produced on the stage. A. parliamentary return has been issued, giving some information as to the fishing boats which are regis tered at the ports of the United Kingdom. It shews that at the beginning of last year there were 42,960 boats, having a tonnage of 242,179 ; they employed 152,779 men and 13,969 boys. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION.—Lord Ten terden has been appointed Secretary of the Anglo- American Commission, not only because of the ability which he has shewn at the Foreign Office, but mainly on account of his particular acquaintance with the important questions which are about to he negotiated a'; Washing : ton. Viscount Goderich will act as private secretary to his father, Lord de Grey and Ripon. General Schenck, it is said, will not come to England until the work of the commission ha 4 been brought to a conclusion. If lam correctly informed, the transference of the negotiations from London to Washington is the result of a message from Mr. Gladstone to the President, which was convoyed to the latter by General Burnside. —London Corrrspondent of the Scotsman. TILE LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. The Grand National betting on Saturday took a rather narrow range, and the position of the candidates in the front rank shewed but little variation. The Doctor passed The Colonel in the quotations, 10 to 1 finding takers, while , a point more was laid against the " Prussian." The Lamb, after having 1,000 to 30 laid against him once, was backed in one hand at 3,000 to 100, and at the finish the longest offer reverted to 25 to 1. THE WATERLOO CUP. The sporting papers are generally in favour of Mr. Punchard's Pretender, or Mr. Swinburne's Countryman, fcr the Waterloo .Cup of 1871. The great ' coursing event will come off at Altcar, near Liverpool, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The gentleman who enters the list as Mr. Swinbarne is an Irish gentleman, well-known as the largest jeweller in Dublin. His real name is very different from Swin burne. Other Irish sportsmen, whose dogs will be let loose on the Altcar Plain, are L9rd Lurgan, Sir Cape] ; Mdlyneux, the Hon. C. C. Molyneux, Mr. Cunningham, and the owner of " Whittle." Mr. Punchard is a Twick enham gentleman. During Saturday's betting in London the nominations of Lords Lurgan and Haddington proved in great request, and an acceptance of 10 to 1 about the last-named, Bendinaere, made him almost as good a favourite as anything. Notwithstanding his disaster last year, when he was first defeated, and then nearly drowned in a ditch, Master I\i`Grath will again attempt to win the great event for Ireland; and the prestige of his victories in 1868 and 1869 has made him figure in the position of favourite now. He is, however, getting an old dog, and can hardly be expected to shew the speed and dash which distinguished him as a puppy. Last year's winner, Sea Cove, has gone amiss. Chivalry, who was in the last four in 1870, and was drawn rather unluckily into the bargain, was generally sup posed to possess a great chance, and Mr. Clark's nomi nation was consequently strongly supported, but unfortunately she has gone amiss quite recently, and will not be seen at Altcar. Another eminent performer of last year, Bed of Stone, will represent Mr. Briggs, and con sidering the almost uninterrupted success of this ' clever greyhound, it is surprising that the nomination is not quoted at shorter odds. Fritz, Smuggler, and, as we have said, Countryman and Pretender, are amongst the most prominent of the aspirants to Waterloo honours, and some think that on public form the first named of these has an undeniable chance. CONVEYANCE OF SMALLPDX PATIENTS. The following circular letter has been addressed by the Poor Law Board to the several Boards of Guardians in the metropolis : " As considerable apprehension has recently been excited in the neighbourhoods where the managers of the Metro politan Asylum District have erected hospitals for patients afflicted with contagious diseases, in consequence of the impression that patients are conveyed to the asylums in public cabs, the Poor Law Board have caused careful inquiries to be made on the subject by their inspectors at Hampstead, Stockwell, and Hometon. The Board are bound, in justice to the Guardians, to state that the result of such inquiries is to shew that all paupers sent to these hospitals by the Guardians have been sent in vehicles exclusively appropriated to the conveyance of contagious diseases: The impression to the contrary has been chiefly occasioned by the fact that in many instances these vehicles resemble in almost every respect ordinary cabs, and the Poor Law Board would suggest that so long as these vehicles are used, measures should be taken by the Guardians for distinguishing them by some evident mark (as, for instance, by the word Ambulance' painted in conspicuous letters) from ordinary carriages plying for hire. " The Board would at the same time observe that it is in the highest degree conducive to the safety of patients who are to be conveyed considerable distances that the carriage should be so constructed as to admit of their being placed in a recumbent position. " The Board would, therefore, earnestly impress upon all Boards of Guardians who may not have already done so the absolute duty which rests upon them of providing a carriage specially constructed for this pur pose." Mr. Charles Hammond died at his residence, at Isleworth, on Tuesday, at the age of 71. He was father of the eight brothers Hammond, whose business esta blishments in various parts of London are well known. City Pvess. SERIOUS ENCOUNTER WITH POACHERS NEAR COVENTRY.—On Friday night, as the police-constable sta tioned at Brinklow was going his rounds, and when near Berkeley Wood, on the estate of the Earl of Craven, he came upon a net which had evidently been spread for game. He was proceeding to examine it by the aid of his light, When he was pelted with stones and beaten with sticks by a gang of poachers, and very severely maltreated. The constable, who is a powerful man, defended himself, and uitima.tely the poachers left him. He was then in a very exhausted condition from sundry serious wounds on his head, but managed to get as far as Coventry, when, at the hospital, he got his wounds dressed. The affair occurred at about eleven o'clock. On Saturday the county police were making diligent search for the perpetrators of the outrage. REvENGE.--American women continue to take the law into their own hands against men whom they judge to be guilty of offence against them. The New York Times notices the course adopted recently by a lady of Wayland, Steuben County, in that State :—" Feeling herself aggrieved by certain remarks of one Mr. Lewis, a merchant of the place, she took the simple precaution of shooting him dead when, the other morning, he visited her house on business. Having eased her conscience by the performance of this duty she next proceeded to the house of her brother, and requested him to step outside, as she wished a private interview. This he declined to do, but invited her into the ouse, and led the way into a bedroom. Following him as he entered, she put a pistol to his head and fired. From the effects of this wound he, too, has since died. Finding her character not yet spotless, this worthy woman then determined to offer up a third victim on the altar of insulted reputation. •She directed her kind attention and her unerring aim towards her nephew in ar adjoining room. This time, however, fortune failed her, and before she could fire she was seized her weapon taken from her, and herself place in custody, with her fair fame not yet thoroughly vindicated. When asked why she had committed this double minder she is said to have replied rather inconsequentially, and with a serene oblivion of the laws of God and grammar, ' that she would learn Mr. Lewis not to be the cause of so much talk as there had been about her.' Whether her lesson will have the effect of diminishing the talk about her we do not know. There can be at least no doubt that poor Lewis has been effectually taught to hold his tongue for evermore." THE SMALLPDX AND THE METROPOLITAN ASY LUMS BOARD.-A proprietor of houses in Canning-terrace, Whitmore-road, Hoxton, applied to Mr. Newton, at the Worship-street Police-court, for advice under the fol lowing circumstances :—ln thirteen of his houses there had been cases of smallpox and several deaths. The sanitary authorities of the parish of Shoreditch had served him with notices to repair, disinfect, and otherwise im prove the premises. Still, howeVer, there were persons suffering from smallpox in the houses, and it was next to impossible, besides being dangerous, to perform the work required. He, therefore, wished to know what he was to do. Dr. Sutton, the medical officer of the parish, who attended with the sanitary inspector, stated, in reply to the magistrate, that in the street mentioned smallpox had found its way into every house. As many as six or or seven bodies had been removed a, day. He had visited the houses, and, having seen the state ' they were in, found the work necessary to dis infect them was considerable. He attributed the, spread of the disease to the want of suffi cient accommodation to isolate it. It was for the Poor Law Board to provide this, but the Metropolitan Asylum Board were in duty bound to see to the matter. The facts had been stated to the latter body in a letter, but no more than beds were provided in consequence at the Homer ton Hospital. A second letter was addressed to the Board last week, but at their meeting he was told that it con tained " gross misstatements." On the 10th inst. a third let ter was sent from the Vestry Clerk to the Clerk of the Board, giving a statistical return of the cases which had occurred within the last month. In that time only 72 persons had been removed to the asyluins at Homerton and Hamp stead, whereas 452 were left without hospital accommoda tion. Mr. Newton advised that a copy of the letter should be sent direct to Mr. Goschen, the President of the Poor-law Board, saying that doubtless something would come of that, especially as the matter might be brought under the public notice through the proper channels. He asked if the disease was not more prevalent in Shoreditch than any other London parish. Dr. Sutton replied in the affirma tive, adding that it had been so almost from the beginning. Mr. Newton said that only a few days ago he read in a report of a meeting of the Asylum Board a rather vaunt ing statement of what they had done, but he saw no refer ence to Shoreditch, Hackney, or Bethnal-green. THE WAR. THE STATE OF PARIS. PARIS, February 9. Letters still come:very slowly from the provinces. M. Victor Hugo has only just received one from Bordeaux, dated the Ist of the month, which offers him a candida ture. The appearance of the town has now become more animated, although great grief prevails everywhere. The streets are filled by numbers of unarmed soldiers, who have unfortunately nothing to do. The work of revic tualling proceeds very slowly. White bread has not yet been distributed to the general public, but many provisions have been brought by people coming from , the provinces, and the Prussians have established markets at the outposts, where goods of all sorts are sold. Departures from Paris are very numerous, fifty thousandhave alreadyleft for the pro vinces, or foreign parts ; and it is reported that the number of passes demanded has reached a hundred thousand. The Crown Prince of Prussia has visited the forts, and whenever he appeared, the strains of military music resounded in the suburbs, and caused a most painful sensation among the Parisians. On the 15th of the month two theatres, the Gymnase and the Vaudeville will be opened with the old repertoire. The Government has been blamed in some quarters for having prohibited the delivery of the Drapeau, the Assents blige •Nationale, and the Gaulois, of Brussels in France. All parties have a right to be heard, and there is no fear of the resuscitation of the Bonapartist dynasty in spite of the efforts which have been made on its behalf. There is a tendency among the journalists of Paris to put the blame of the surrender• entirely on Trochu. They seem to think it less painful to attribute the present misfortunes to the mismanagement of the Government of National Defence than to the faults of the Empire, the Prussians, fatality, or any other cause. The ingratitude which was shewn to General Cavaignac in 180 has been again revived in the treatment which General Trochu has received. It is the general opinion that the elections will result in the maintenance of the Republic or the return of the Orleans family, and which ever party succeeds will have a very difficult game to play. France will be apt to regard the establishment Of a monarchy as an entr'acte, while the Republicans them selves put many obstacles in the way of the formation of a Republic. CHANZY AND GAI\IBETTA. A correspondent of the Mot d' Ordre, Rochefort's paper; energetically defends Gambetta from the charge of having hindered Chanzy from marching to 4, 1 ) , ) relief of Paris. After the defeat of Le Mans, says this account, Chanzy, forced to fight in retreat, resolved at one time to reform his troops towards Carentan and Cherbourg, so as to ven ture, if it were possible, a march upon the flank of Frederick Charles's army, and to precipitate himself. upo Paris or die. Gambetta having consulted the military men round him, wrote to Chanzy, " a flank march to Paris would expose you to the fate of MacMahon at Sedan. A retreat on Cherbourg, throws you into a mousetrap. If you are forced to retreat choose rather the line of the Mayenne, which allows you to support yourself on the arsenals at Rennes, and on the troops on the West and South of France." Chanzy, according to the testimony of eyewitnesses, retreated from Le Mans to Carentan. Gambetta had merely said, "Retreat, if you must retreat, on Laval." This is the truth, which the 011iciel ought to have published, but light is easily, thrown on the matter. Let the Government publish the text of the despatches of Chanzy and Gambetta, respecting the two plans of retreat. It is bound, to produce these, since by it 4 unjust reticence it has allowed the Parisians to suppose that the head of the Delegation at Bordeaux paid no heed to the danger of the capital, but that he gave orders for a retreat when, in fact, all he did was to modify the course of the retreat already begun. The Municipal Council of Fecamp has sent a deputation to the Prefect of the Department to protest against the Prussians entering the town. Field Marshal Prince Frederick Charles arrived at Tours from Versailles on the evening of the Bth. The staff took up their quarters at Tours on the evening of the 7th. It appears that in his conversations with Jules Favre, Bismarck stated that Prince Napoleon did not propose himself to Prussia as regent in the name of the Prince Imperial, but as the successor of Napoleon 111., with full Imperial powers. A cavalry officer who has arrived at Berne was not able to say much for the bravery of the Mobiles. He asserted that the cavalry had to compel them to advance to the attack sword in hand, and that as soon as the enemy charged they threw themselves flat on the ground in com panies, and gave themselves up as prisoners. When Jules Favre met Bismarck at Versailles the other day, the latter spoke of Bourbaki as a traitor, because he had been untrue to his oath to Napoleon. " And was his country to count for nothing?" answered Favre. "In Germany King and country are one and the same," replied Bismarck. M. Louis Venillot, principal editor of l'Univers, has declared his adhesion to the Republican principle. In an article entitled, " The Republic throughout the world," he professes his faith in the Republic, because beyond its limits nothing is possible, but dictatorship is alike corrupt and incapable. However, the day after publishing this article, M. Veuillot prdposed that Henri de Bourbon should be proclaimed head of the Republic with the title of President, even of King ! THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN FRANCE. The details which the Marseilles papers publish of the terrible explosion on the railway line, enhance rather than diminish the horror of the first account. The express train to Marseilles was going at full speed between the stations of St. Nazaire and Alliontes, when four vans containing.munitions exploded with terrific vio lence. The rails were torn up for a distance of 150 metres, and the twenty carriages which formed the train were either totally destroyed or shattered. Roofs were torn off the houses at a great distance. The engine driver, who found himself standing in the midst of universal ruin, hurried to open the doors of the carriages, but foind only corpses. At first it was reported that there were 200 victims, of whom 140 were dead, but the official account says from 50 to 60 were killed, and from 40_to 50 injured. Crowds rushed to the station at. Marseilles, and were appalled to see the long line of stretchers coming out. Every exertion was made tcP mitigate the distress as far as possible. One touching sight was of a little child, three years old, who was un hurt, but kept calling for its father and mother, who were both killed. MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR WOMEN.—Three ladies offer a scholarship of the value of £5O, tenable for three years, to be awarded in March by competitive examination at Edinburgh.—British Medical Journal. THR NEXT MINISTRY. — Mr. Edmund Yates writes to a contemporary :—A coalition Ministry, in eluding Lord Salisbury and Derby, with one or two existing office holders, is spoken of as the next in suc cession. [ADVERTXSEMENT.] Holloway's Pills exercise most wonderful power in promoting appetite, improving diges tion, regulating the bowels, and removing nervousness and debility. The weakest will take no harm from the use of this alterative and tonic medicine, but will gradually re- , gain their health. The strongest will preserve themselves from many of the mishaps into which their b o asted strength and fearlessness of results often betray thew. Long buffering invalids may look towards this rectifying and revivifying medicine with the certain hope of having their maladies mitigated, if not removed, by their means. In short, for all ages, circumstances, and conditions, Hol loway points out the treatment which is competent to check the progress of disorders in, and expel its seeds from, the human frame. BIRTHS. On the 10th• inst., at Field House, Abbey Wood, Ken the wife of Wm. Weston, Esq., of a son. On the 11th inst., at 45, Minories, the wife of G. • 11 ' Fraser, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 9th inst., at the Church of the Sacred Net Camberwell, John Henry Wright, of Stock well -par road, to Marianne, daughter of Garrett French, Esq. , ° Brixton. On the 11th inst., at St. John's, Fitzroy-square, gellar3L William North, Esq., of Blackheath, to A nn, id o w of the late Samuel Fowell, Esq., M.D., of Milvwerto Somerset. DEATHS. On the 10th inst., at 1, Hanover-terrace, Itegeutis-Par' Lady Sarah Grimstead, aged 84. 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