The Sun. — London, England, 1871-02-10 00:00:00

. _ M]TROPOLITAN GOSSlP.—ThuropAy. The i n auguration of a most important and anxious ses sion has passed off in " Queen's weather," but scarcely in Queenly style. There was a good deal of cheering, to be sure, perhaps more than the majority of people expected, but nothing like the enthusiasm of yore. However, it might have been worse. The first day of this terrible session is dealt with by other hands than mine. I need only say that there is every prospect of a very busy season. London is getting as full of aristocrats as the disastrous effects of the Bankruptcy Law will per mit. You find a great difference between the leading West end thoroughfares a week or two ago and their ap pearance now. The crush of carriages increases daily. Paint and polishing goes on.• everywhere. The shops are putting their hest in the windows. We shall soon be in flame*, here, and ft will be remarkabe if the first six months of 1&71 are much less exciting than the last six of 1870. The Speech from the Throne contains the expected promise of a reform in the army. Speculation is still as much baffled as ever in endeavouring to forecast the nature of this measure—the measure of the session ; and certainly the Governmenthave kept their secret well. Their attitude is somewhat puzzling. The best " authorities " are agreed that the purchase system is doomed, wholly or in part, and that the short service and reserve system will come into force. But there are no signs of either Mr. Cardwell or the Duke of Cambridge withdrawing from their present posts, and how can their retention be com patible with an army reform of the kind most needed ? The question is perplexing ; nevertheless, I adhere to the belief that the purchase system will go. The Government have not failed to profit by the un mistakeable temper of public opinion in favour of France. If the prevailing statement be correct, as I believe it is, the work of mediation has been carried on very actively of late. The British Government did much to promote the armistice; it has through Mr. Odo Russell strongly supported the proposal for an extension of the time—it being clear enough that the work will not be got through by the 19th ; and it also strove to reconcile M. Gam betta with the Paris Ministers. The report is very current that something has been done in the way of urging moderation upon the victors. Such a task is au extremely delicate one, though it is necessary enough. Austria and Italy may have co-operated in this endeavour. Russia certainly did not. Great occasion as the opening of this Parliament is, far more interesting still is the convocation of the Parlia ment across the Channel. The meeting of the French National Assembly is an unparalleled event. But momen tous as it is we are able to get very littleinformation bear ing upon it. The silence of the wires is remarkable. It seems, however, that the Monarchists are allowing the Republicans to win simply through default. From the few particulars I can gather from letters and French papers, it would appear that only the Republicans were carrying on a regular plan of campaign in many of the departments. Even those districts most averse to a Republic can find scarcely anybody to represent them. There appears to be a general impression that the present Assembly will be discredited by the conclusion of a disas trous peace, and that power and influence will be best secured by waiting for the next election. lam far from sure that this policy will prove a wise one. The representatives of the people are not discredited, like a Government, by making peace. Moreover, what reason is there to believe that the body now being elected will be content to dissolve after merely performing this hateful task ? It will more probably proceed to nominate a form of Government, will draw up a Constitution, parties will form themselves, and—then ? The game, I am convinced, is in Gambetta's hands—at all events for the present. He has but to play his cards well in order to wiu. His chances of governing France for some time to come are far better than the chances of either Napoleon, or the Due d'Aumale. Consider the situ ation for a moment. There can be little doubt that the great majority of the active politicians of the country, those men who make its political life, are on the side of the Republic. In the great towns, this is notoriously the case. In the country the prevailing political belief is of the negative kind : the peasantry have no particular attachment to any dynasty, but they dread the Republic, simply because for twenty years their priests, schoolmasters, and prefects have systematically preached to them, justifiably or not, that the Republic is a bad thing, subversive of all notions of property, and to be avoided at any cost, no matter what kind of despeftisna may gain the upper hand. But though the peasantry live in this state of ignorant fright, they have no leaders,l2o other party possessing anything like an organisation is in the field, and there is no time to remedy the deficiency. The Republicans will 1)e , united, and have official countenance (even if they do not discre ditably copy the Imperialist vice of " putting on the screw"). The monarchical opposition will be scattered and disorganised. There can be little doubt er difficulty in determining how Gambetta can, if he chooses, utilize this position to his own benefit. If he is prudent he will wait until peace is made by the Assembly. He will then pre sent himself as the ablest and most energetic of the Re publican leaders. He was the only one " who did not despair of the Republic." He pronounces for the policy of winning back the two lost provinces. The Imperialist armies will return from Germany ; the Republicans from Switzerland; and these, with the scattered forces in different parts of France, will make over a million troops, all of whom have seen service, and who, with a proper amount of drill and organisation, may readily rival the formidable hosts of Germany. It may be said that it will be impossible to withdraw such a force from civil life. But what myriads were withdrawn from civil life in the wars of the First Napoleo n, when the population was much smaller than it is now ! In 1848 it was found neces sary to establish national workshops for the men out of employment. The army might as well be the great national workshop as any other. As to the finances, it is needless to repeat the plea that no nation was ever pre vented from going to war through deficiency of money. This is the programme which it lies within M. Gambetta's power to carry out. How long it would be before the plan was broken up by one of those catastrophes so com mon inTrench politics, I do not profess to say. Pro bably not very long. But he has the best chance o f gaining present supremacy, and this prospect bodes no good to the peace of Europe. So excellent are Gambetta's chances of leading the French people, smarting with injury and burning for revenge, into this injurious, possibly ruinous, but certainly seductive course, that I am quite inclined to believe what was told me byl an old Republican who came into xile during the Empire, and who is too advanced in years to go on the rampage amongst the Reds again. He says that Gambetta purposely contrived the rupture with the Paris Government, in order to get himself free, and afterwards refused all compromise and reconciliation, so that his design of breaking away might not be frustrated. It is needless to insist upon the political advantages of such a move. I have excellent private testimony to the effect that the summoning of the National Assembly is considered a grievous blow by the Imperialists. If the old Chamber had been re-convened, or if no Assembly whatever had existed, Napoleon might have come back. But he knows full well what a general election is in France. He is aware that he must learn to labour and to wait before his next opportunity arrives. The Empress, too, knows what a general election in France is. She was, I am informed, overwhelmed with grief when the full terms of the armis tice between Favre and Bismarck became known. Art students who take an interest in the South Kensington School of Painting, will be glad to hear that Mr. Collinson, the artist who is connected with the school, and who has of late years been very successful in gaining places on the academy walls for his pictures, is engaged on a large work of art, which he intends to "send in" for the forthcoming exhibition at an early date. Much agitation has arisen, as my readers are no doubt aware, in the metropolis, in consequence of the alarming spread of small-pox. I however have found that the deaths, though taking place in large numbers in the west end, are confined to the poorer classes, in whose familiei some, if not all, of the members have not undergone vaccination. The malady, moreover, has made its most serious ravages among children under ten. One of the most significant facts confirmatory of the prevalence of the smallpox is that the new hospital at Brixton, opened only on Satur day, was quite filled with patients by Monday evening. A friend has informed me that every one anywhere near the hospital has taken the precaution of undergoing a precautionary process, and one medical man made £95 in a morning this week by vaccinations. A curious story is going round London about a Surrey Regiment of Volunteers who all got vaccinated in their drill-shed at the liaMe time. The Men who tell the story say the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1871. MQNDTARY ARI-IORTS,YESTERDAY. Lou and N orth-Westeru 12911291 Madras guar 5P 0 1291 1031 Lott and South-Western 931 941 N. Railway of Canada, 94 6p c ist Pre( Bonds Man, Slid, and Lincoln 451 46 (hide and Ilohilkund g Metropolitan 6 4 2 Saluda, Punjanb. and M ((liana 1214 1011 North-tasternConsols.. 147 1471 North British 34, 31 g 7 p c 184 19 South-Eastern Belgian 11 Junction .... 2 1 21 Atlantic and St Lawrnce 76 78 261 771 Diumburg and Witepsk 19 191 Bombay, Baroda, and Dutch-Rhenish 221231 ventral ludic. g 5 p c.. 103 104 Eastern of France lB 20 Buff and Lake Huron .. 41 41 Great Luxembourg Do 51 pc 80nd5.1872-3-4 80 82 Lemberg Cxernowitzgita Cape guar 6p o East, Bengal guar 6 p c.. 103 104 16 East Indian. g 5 p 4 ..... 109 in Northern of France grand Trunk Canada .. 121 121 401, 40 Do Equip Mort Bad 1 Ottom(Smyrna to Aidinl 5 51 charge 0n o 93 (Limited) guar 7p a .. 15 151 Do 2nd do Bonds 86 South Austu k Loin-Yen 141 15} tut tat I'ref Bonds lB 59 151. 141 Do 2nd Pret Bonds lio lall rat Sleek Business on the Stock Exchange to-day has been of a very moderate character, owing to the progress of the fortnightly settlJtnent. Nevertheless, the tone on the whole has been healthy. The tenor of the telegrams from abroad has not been unpeaceful, and has been productive of an improved feeling, which was somewhat strengthened by the announcement in the Queen's Speech that the Ala bama question and the fishery dispute are about to be referred to a joint commission. No change has been made in the Bank rate, and the general position of the discount market has been unaltered, with the exception of a slight enhancement in the inquiry for accommodation in the open market, owing to the fort nightly aettlement. There is no doubt, however, that should peace be insured the demand for moaey would tlapidl t y Anorpase, and the rates on this side of the Manna would mote closely approximate those of the Conttnent, The railway market elate characterised by firmness, and an advance has tak in Caledonion Great Northern A, Midland and Great Western. In the foreign bond market Turkish have exhibited signs of weakness on the unfavourable rumours circulated with reference to the payment of the diviends. Consols have b e en steady at 911, 92 for deliv d ery, and 91 15-16, 921-16 for March. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 92, 921; Bank Stock, 244, 246 ; Echequer bills, 7s. to 12e. prem.; India Five per C ents., 110, 1101; and India Bonds, 225. to 275. prom. An increased amount of steadiness has been apparent in the English railway market. The movements have not been important, but they have been of a satisfactory nature, consisting of an advance of 1 in Caledonian and Great Northern A ; of in Midland ; and of 1 in Great Western. Metropolitan, 651, 651 ; Caledonian, 87/, 881 ; Brighton, 431, 44; South Eastern, 771, 78; Great Northern, 124, 1241; Great Northern A, 133, 1331: Great Eastern, 381, 39; North Eastern, 1461, 1471; Mid land, 1272, 127 g; North Western, 1292, 1292; and Great Western, 722, 73. Indian Railway Stocks have been quiet. East Indian, 1091; and Scinde, 1011. For Canadian shares there has not been much inquiry. Foreign Shares have been dull. Lombards have been lower, at 141 to 151 ; Bahia and San Francisco have marked 181 to 19; and Central Argentine, 201 to 201. In the foreign bond market very little business has been doing. Turkish have fallen about 1 per cent. ; otherwise no change of importance is noticed. French Scrip is quoted at 11, 1/ prem.; Egyptian (1868), 731, 74 ; Italian (1861), 541, 541; Spanish, 30 3-16ths, 30 5-16ths ; Turkish Five per Cents., 411, 412 ; ditto (1869), 511, 512; Mexi can, 132, 134 United States Five-Twenty (1882) Bonds, 902, 901 ; ditto (1885), 901, 902. There has not been much inquiry for Bank shares. Anglo-Egyptian have been done at 222, 1 ; Consolidated, 41 ; Imperial Ottoman, 111, ; London and Westminster, 62 4 , 4 _ Telegraph Shares have been in but moderate request. British Indian Extension, 7i, ; British Indian Sub marine, 7/, 7f ; Falmouths, 0a ; Silver's Indiarubber, 52, 52k. Construction, at 26, 26k, have been 1 lower. Miscellaneous securities have sold slowly. Credit,Foncier of England, 21, 3 ; General Credit and Discount, 7i, 7/ ; National Discount, 111. The liquidators of the County and General Gas Con sumers' Company have notified that a second dividend of 10s. in the pound (making with that already declared a payment in full) will be payable to-day, at the offices of Mr. W. J. White, 33, King-street. The Clearing House return for the week ending Feb ruary 8, shews a total of £75,057,000, against £74,177,000 for the corresponding period last year. There has been a good demand for discount to-day, and three months' paper has been charged 2a, 2i per cent. The supply of capital has been moderate. The City of London, from New York, has brought £30,550 in specie. The sum of £30,000 in sovereigns has been withdrawn from the Bank for shipment to Alexandria. At a meeting of the General Credit and Discount Com pany a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. was declared. At a meeting of the Lion Brewery Company a dividend of 7 per cent., making 12 per cent. for the year, was de clared. At a meeting of the British Australian Telegraph Company, the directors report, of which the following is an extract, was adopted :—The progress of the Company to the end of the past year includes the period in which the first section of the Company's cable (be tween Singapore and Batavia) was laid. This undertaking was completed. on 14th November, the section being opened for traffic on the 190. The Java-Austra lian cable is now being manufactured, and will leave England in June or July. The Government of South Australia is pressing forward the erection of a land line between Port Darwin and Port Augusta, which will connect the whole telegraph system of Australia with the landing point of the Cable. This line, it is expected, will be completed by the end of the present year, and will relieve the company from the cost of build ' ing and maintaining the originally contemplated line to Burketown. Since the Singapore-Batavia cable has been in work, the British Indian Extension Company's Cable, connecting Singapore, Penang, and Madras has been sub merged, thus establishing uninterrupted telegraphic com munication between England and the Island of Java. The sections to China and Australia will be completed in the course of the present year. The Birmingham Morning News states that yesterday afternoon a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Vernon and Co., ironmasters, Dudley Port, was held at the offices of Mr. Hipkins, a creditor. The liabilities were shewn to be £20,000, and the assets about £2OO, but hopes were entertained that property held by the four partners might realise £6OO, and so increase the dividend. An execution for rent was hanging over the premises, and Messrs. S. Hipkins and S. Bradley were appointed to watch over Le affairs, and take the best means for realising the estate. In the report of the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, to be laid before a meeting of the shareholders, nn the 15th inst., mention is made of the loss sustained by the company in the death of their respected chairman, Mr. George Wilson, and intimation is given that the directors will propose a resolution authorising them to apply the sum of £ 5,000 out of revenue for the benefit of Mrs. Wilson and family, "as some recognition of the very great services rendered to the company by the late chairman." The directors of the South Devon Railway Company at their meeting to-day agreed to recommend a dividend , the rate of 31 per cent. on last year. £l,OOO carried forward. The traffic returns of the Caledonian Railway shows an increase of £2,140 compared with the corresponding week of last year; the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire has increased £285 ; the Great Northern, £1,539 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, £3,191; the Great Western, £4;305 ; the. London and North Western, £5,877: the Bristol and Exeter, £1,120. The Great Eastern has decreased £1,382 ; and the London, Chatham, and Dover £494. volunteers, at a signal from their commanding officer, " presented arms," and were—vaccinated ! We are at present receiving something from Ireland for which we ought to be grateful, and which we are most of us yet in ignorance of. I refer to the new trade being carried on in Irish eggs. The war, happily for English men, has stopped the importation of French eggs, of which we used immense quantities. Indeed, eggs furnished to the markets before last Christmas nearly all came from Greece and France. On Christmas Day, 1870, be it said in justice to Ireland, about fifty per cent. of English plum puddings were flavoured by means of Irish eggs, and we in London find that the rapidity of the arrival of such commodities, enabling us to have eggs within ten days of their being laid, as a matter of course oonsiderably enhances their value to us, and renders it imperative that we should deal with Ireland ae long as the supply lade. Ice. this, 5 not for other reasons, Peru in time we map see the benefit of stack lug the Lyndonand Liverpool markets with Irish salmon fresh-caught instead of getting the fish, as we do, packed in ice, all the way from Norway. The preparations for the annual sluing campaign on the 14th are assuming a very forward aspect. The great emporiums of valentines, from sixpence to five guineas in price, chew no diminution in glory. There are some novelties. Religious valentines have made their appear ance, and have been very deservedly cut up in the news papers. The post card has been utilised in the valentine line ;so has the P. 0. telegram. But nothing is to be seen of those useful articles, which were recommended last year as a substitute for the conglomerations of satin, scent, and verses, so long in vogue. Further signs are noticeable of the slow recovery of the London stage from its lengthy period of demoralisation. Some of the most thrilling scenes in " Deadman'e Point," a sensation drama just produced at the Adelphi, provoked laughter on the first night. The play abounds with situ ations of the most approved order ; but audiences are accustomed to the mechanism by which these effects are worked. Never again in all probability will the excitement of the ducking scene in the " Colleen Bawn" be repeated. But what we shall do when audiences are utterly weary of these tre mendous catastrophes and leggy burlesques it is impos sible to say. The new race of dramatic authors has not yet given its first born to the world. The weather here has been more than usually change able : rain has followed frost, cloudless skies with a very high temperature have dried up the floods, and these three conditions have interchanged incessantly. The French colony do not like it. You meet them daily, muffled up to the eyes, and in a state of perenniel ant vle. Our bad climate has been at its worst lately, and has worked destructive effects amongst these visitors. The devastation has in some degree extended to Chislehurst, where neither the Empress nor the Prince Imperial is so well as in France. Indeed, it is said that a long residence in England would probably settle all trouble about the Bonapartist dynasty. The young prince, who is a deli cate boy, will most likely go abroad soon. For the last few days, however, we have had nothing to complain of. It may be worth remembering that when Parlia ment was holding its first sittings last year the river Thames was full of ice. Nothing of the kind is to be seen to day. The birds are returning to the parks where also the tiniest of buds have begun to appear. The fields about Rich mond, Twickenham, and Hammersmith look gloriously green. Milkmen have again dared to appear in the thoroughfares in white blouses. I have not yet seen any footmen or coachmen in scarlet or blue knee breeches, but I look for such a spectacle immediately. SIX LIBEL SUITS AGAINST A NEWSPAPER. At the Common Law Court held at Douglas, Isle of Man, on Tuesday, the first of a series of six suits for libel against the printer and publisher of the lifanx San news paper was heard. The plaintiffs in the case are six special jurors, before whom an action for libel against the Bishop of Soder and Man was tried about twelve months ago, and who amerced his lordship in £4OO damages and costs. The alleged libel was contained in a letter and lead ing article commenting upon the case. In the letter the jury were ironically styled as a respectable, honest, impartial Manx jury, and the verdict was described as simply monstrous and incredible, and the jurors as dormant beings who had ast3nished the island and shocked justice. Damages were laid at £5OO in each suit. The first case called was that of Mr. Wade. Messrs. Adams, Sherwood, and Dumbell were for plaintiff, and the Attorney-General and Mr. Callow for the defence. An apology, which had appeared in o subsecfkient issue of the paper, was read. Mr. Corlett, • one of the 'jurors, proved that there hat) been negotiations with to view to an amicable settlement, but the only term& upon which the jurors would consent to arrange matters were an apology from the writer of the leading article, signed with his own name, expressing regret for the strictures passed on the jury, this apology to be published twice in the paper, but to these terms Mr. Curphey would not consent. The court adjourned till Wednesday the 15th instant. THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY. At the Marylebone Police-court, on Thursday, Martha Tarpey was brought up on remand charged with being concerned in the robbery of jewels valued at £2,500, the property of Messrs. London and Ryder, of New Bond street. Mr. Lewis prosecuted, and Mr. A. C. Stainforth defended. The prisoner gave little outward evidence of having suffered from her incarceration. Arthur William Nichols, in the employment of Mr. Thomas Flight, of Broad-court, Walbrook, said that in January the man whose likeness was now produced came in the name of Tyrrell about a house in Berkeley-street. He gave as a reference Mons. de Maddilar, of the Royal Hotel, Bath. On the 10th January witness wrote to that gentleman and received a letter signed Emilie de Maddilar, stating that M. de Maddilar, not being well acquainted with the English language, had requested her to write and state that she had known Mr. I Tyrrell in Paris. The letter vouched for his respectabi lity. In consequence of this letter witness let him the house, on the condition that the housekeeper then taking care of it should remain as a guarantee of safety. He was a man of dark complexion, and had beard and whiskers. 'Pusan Cook, „the housekeeper at 4, Upper Berkeley street, proved that she was taking care of the place on Tuesday, the 10th January. She was there as cook to Mr. Tyrrell. On Thursday, the 12th, a man and woman came to the house about two o'clock. bhe was sent by the female prisoner . to Tulsehill with a letter addressed to a Miss Pearson. She could not find High field House not Miss Pearson, according to the letter addressed. When she came back the police were in the house, and the man and woman gone. Mr. Coe, assistant to Mr. Emmanuel, jeweller, of New Bond-street, stated that a man giving his name as Tyrrell, ealled on him, on the 12th January, and desired him to send a quantity of jewellery for the purpose of selection. He went there in company with another employd of the establishment. Mr. Tyrrell opened the door, and they went in. Tyrrell selected a diamond necklace valued at £1,200, and.other property, worth altogether £1,325. Tyr rell wished them to call the following day at the same hour with some opals to match some jewels which Mrs. Tyr rell had. He heardof the robbery the following day, and I consequently did not go. Miss Charlotte Pitt, of Leamington, with whom the defendants lodged, gave evidence as to seeing an an nouncement of the robbery in the Standard, and of the communication of her suspicions to the police authorities. The prisoner was committed for trial !for the robbery, and for the administration of a noxious drug for the pur pose of doing grievous bodily harm, Mr. Lewis stat ing that the latter offence involved a penalty of imprison ment for life. WRECK OF A NEW SCREW STEAMER.—lntelli gence of the wreck of the fine iron screw steamer Crescent City, one of a new line trading between Liverpool and New Orleans, was received at the first-named port. on Wednesday. It appears that when on her outward voyage she, on Tuesday night, during a very heavy fog, ran ashore off Gallyhead, off the south coast of Ireland. Her passengers, crew, and several b o xes of specie were fortu nately saved. The Crescent City was laden with upwards of 4,000 bales of cotton, and it is feared that she will be come a complete wreck, and that very little of the cargo will be recovered. LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1871. —Her Majesty's Commissioners have sent letters of invi tation to the following musical composers of European celebrity, requesting them each to compose a suitable piece of music for the opening of the Exhibition on the Ist of May next, viz., M. Gounod, Herr Wagner, Signor Verdi, and Mr. Arthur Sullivan. Since the Ist instant the quietude that has reigned in the buildings erected for the exhibition since their completion has been broken by the arrival of articles sent for the inspection of the com mittees of selection. Every day throughout this month is appointed to receive certain articles. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY.— This celebrated and most delicious old mellow spirit is the very cream of Irish Whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure, and more wholesome tha n the finest Cognac Brandy. Note the words, " KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY "on Seal, Label, and Cork. New Wholes Ole Depot, 6A, Great Titehfieldstreet, Oxford-street, W. LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE.-THURSDAY LATEST PRICES.—AF I% II OU' 010 tIL 110 U 1 N. The prices under the lines indicate the business done for Money, GOVEIINDIENT SECU SLUES. flute per Cent Consols 91 1 92 Viet bp a Jan & JulylB24. 1017102 917. 2 1021 Do for Account - - 92 931, 7 'three pei Cent Reduced 92 927 Egyptian 1862. 7po .. 2,2, 1 84 New 3 p e r Cent 92, 1 997, 100 Exchequer Bills, March 7 12prn Peruv i a n. p c pm 1 8 1 ) 5. 5o c Do, June 7 12 pm 901, 892, 90; 7s pm Portuguese 1869 iPa .. 32 33 Bank Sk 243 t0c 7 R u ssian. 1862, 5 p 0., per C en ts India b p 110, 7 DoNicollus 4 Li a .... 687, 1 ludia Bonds — Spanish pm Can 6pa J an &J u lylB77-84 104 105 307. 7, 7 1041 7 Turkish. 1851, ii p a..,. Do March &Sept. 104 106 807 Do. 18 bo 5p a Jan & July .. 98 99 15. 5p a . 8, 7 ' 411, 7, 1 981 Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 Do, 1805 ri p a Dorn of Can 5p c 1 903 .. 99 11)0 60, 1 S U.. 5-20 Ilmids,6 p a 1.334 901 90i Ceylon 6 p c May and November 1878 lO7 109 997, 1 .• ' Mauritius tp e Jan and Do do 1885 907 901 July 1873 New El Wales 5p clB7l-76 lOO 101 Do 10-40 tbids, spa 1931 89 891 New Zealand 6 pc 189 1 lOB 110 8 9 7, 9 Do 5p a Do 5p a Consolidated 987 937 Illinois Central Shares .. 1087109, Do 6 p cblar &SeptlB9l 109 111 103, 82 Do June& DeclB9l 108 110 Atlantic and UWIt Co Viet 6p c Jan & July 1891 113 114 Mortgage Bonds DoA.pril ,Oat 1883-8.5 ll2 113 1127 93] 83 85 85 86 68 68] .0 0, 79 81 G 3 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter 9l 83 Grand Trunk of Canada Caledonian Great Eastern Great Northern , l2B 115 1054 Do A 133 134 Great Western of (Unruh 15} 151 Great We 2 stern l 8197 72i 73 Do 7 Lancashire St Yorkshire 154;135} Do 54 do. 1571-8 • 95 97 Lou, 13rigb, and 8 Coma 434 44 Do 5 p °prat Issued 80 par 2pm Lon, Chat, and Dont 43AZIKING COMPANIITS. Pd Pd 1 Agra Bank (L) A Bl 9 20 Lou Mar of Anstrlia 23 1 241 25 Alliance (LI 10 Anglo-Austrian . 20 Anglo-Egyptian 114 221 23 15 London Joint-took .:',l 38 50 British N American 511 521 373. 1 20 Ch of India, Anstrlis 131.1411 20 Lon and Westmuster 62 63 25 Char Mero of India 22 24 62), I, ) 10 City 2 Colonial 4 Consolidated IL .. ! ii jpm 20 New Routh Wales- • . :1 36 20 Eng. Scot. and Ans . ° 161 17) 25 Orntal Bank Gorporn 42 43 2 Imp,lal % Ll In. i 25 Union of Australia.. 30 40 10 imperial unt.unan THE WAR. THE GERMAN TERMS OF PEACE. The Berlin correspondent of the Independance Beige, writing on the sth. referring to the German terms, says it may be considered certain that, so far back as the middle of December, Bismarck, in his famous circulars, plainly indicated the line of Metz, Strasburg, and Belfort as the frontier which Ger many would demand for her future security. But he said then that if the war continued the demands of Ger many might increase proportionately. Very certainly then she will not now abandon the line of the Vosges, with the two strong positions that protect it north. and south. As for the indemnity, it will be two milliards of tinders, or, se the Versailles telegram says, about aight milliards of francs which will be de manded bow Ftance. From this mat, however, he de ducted the contributions already raised, and the price of the raihvays of Alsace and Lorraine. France will have to compensate the Compagnie de l'Est, but this must be deducted from the sum total of the war expenses. The Luxemburg railway, which is worked by the Compagnie de l'Est, will, in consequence of these obanges, become a kind of boun dary. An arrangement will probably be entered into with the consent of the Society of Guillaume Luxemburg, proprietor of the railway, who has guaranteed to the Compagnie de l'Est a rental of three million francs for forty-five years. The consent of the State will be also requisite. THE ELECTION AT LILLE. LILLE, February 7. The brief electoral period has passed by tranquilly in spite of the controversies which it was feared would be raised by the vehement opposition existing between the candidates. The oriflamme and the tricolor were unfurled, metaphorically, by the Legitimists and the Revolutionists, but the danger brought its antidote. The bourgeoisie, who had troubled themselves very little about politics during the last twenty years, were aroused by the recollections of the past and they ar ranged a compromise. A list of candidates was pre pared, which contained a Republican majority. Eighteen names, among which were those of Jules Favre, Simon, Ernest Picard, Testelin and other notabilities, as well as those of Trochu, Thiers, Jules Brame, and others of their school, were selected, and the choice has been generally approved. During the last two days several travellers have arrived from Paris, who were authorised to leave the capital as being can didates for the Assembly. The greater part arrived too late to carry out their plans, but their accounts reassured the citizens. The state of Paris is critical, but not so disastrous as was represented. The travellers took three days making the journey partly by rail, partly by carriages, partly on foot. They criticise the conduct of the military political officials with great severity, especially as regards Trochu. The revictualling goes on with less regu larity than Bismarck's despatches represent. The Ger man authorities have she wn an or at best a nonchalance which is exhibited by the act that thirty trains which left Lille have not yet suc ceeded in passing Gonesse. The travellers who have arrived, it may be remarked, denounce the brutality of the officer in command of the Gonesse station, while they extol the courtesy of the officer at St. Denis. No letters or papers have yet been received at Lille from Pari e General Faidherbe has refused to be nominated for any election, despite the enthusiasm in his favour. He wishes to remain with his soldiers, but it is tolerably certain that he will be proposed in several towns notwithstanding his • refusal. NOTES FROM HAVRE. HAVRE, February 6. The news of the armistice, which reached this town through the medium of the English newspapers, was at first scarcely credited, but too soon it was confirmed by a telegram from the Bordeaux Delegation an nouncing the capitulation of Paris. It had been thought that Paris had supplies for at least another fortnight, and there was a vague expectation that the heroic defence would culminate in a grand military attempt. So the mortification and disappointment were propor tionately great. It became known, however, that the sufferings of the capital were too great to allow the sacrifice to be delayed for a single day, but it is greatly to be deplored that the Ministers in signing the capitulation were not better informed as to the posi tion of the contending armies in the provinces. The Prussians have thus been enabled to continue their operations in the East, and in several districts their positions have been extended far beyond the juSt limits. Dieppe, for instance, which has been several times vialted by the Prussians, and had to pa►y requisitions, has never been actually occupied, aad the road by the sea was free, so that troops could have been thrown into it. At the first news of the armistice the vessel Diamant received orders to occupy the port of Dieppe, and her commander, M. Carrey, who was ap pointed commandant of the place, could certainly have offered a vigorous resistance. But on Feb. 2 some Prussian officers presented themselves with a flag of truce, bearing the order of the Prussian Commander-in-Chief at Rouen to occupy the town with a corps of 4,000 men, under the terms of the armistice signed by Count von Bismarck and M, Jules Favre. In face of such an arrangement the commander of the Diamant had no choice but to yield the town to the Prussian authorities, and leave the port, taking with him a company of Mobiles sent by General Faidherbe. The Prussian troops took possession of the town the next day, and were quartered on the inhabitants. Dieppe will be during the armistice the head-quarters of the 2nd divi sion of the Ist corps, so that a port which really belonged to the French has been handed over to the enemy by the armistice, and the same bas been the case in several other directions, This has naturally created great discontent, and as soon as the decree respecting the elections reached Havre, the Republican Committee, thinking that it should take the initiative, as the Prefect of the Department, M. Carnot, was there and the principal, town was in the enemy's hands, published a list of sixteen candidates, which was placarded through the town. This was reckon ing without Bismarck however, for two days later M. _Netion, the mayor of Rouen, published a counter list of an altogether different class of candidates, including the name of Trochu, who will not certainly stand for Rouen, as he has refused to stand for Paris. Havre is highly incensed at the affair, and addressed an energetic protest to Bordeaux, which brought in reply a decree authorising Havre, in con sideration of its commercial importance, and the necessity of preserving its independence, in con sideration, too, of the communication with Rouen and Dieppe being interrupted, to elect the number of repre sentatives to which its population entitles it, the num ber of representatives for the rest of the department of Seine Infdrieure being reduced in proportion. This permission gave great satisfaction, and the committee proposed the names of M. Dufour, Communal Councillor, M. Le Cesne; former deputy, M. Penlevey, Procureur- G4n4ral at Rouen, and M. Quesnel, an agriculturist, at Go derville. It has long been a local ambition at Havre that the city should become the capital of the department of Seine Maritime, for which it is well suited. M. Achille Delorme, the prefect of Calvados, refused to Publish Gambetta's proclamation, and sent him a despatch saying it was a fine proclamation, but the part respecting the signature of the armistice was inadmissible. He was ordered to depute the service to the Chief Secre. retary, and to forward to him the order to publish the proclamation. The daily service between Havre and Honfleur has been resumed, as Honfleur is in the neutral line traced by the armistice. The work of repairing the railways goes on rapidly, and trains for provisioning Paris leave this evening. The death of M. Gustave Lambert is announced. He was killed in the attack on Montretout on the 19th. He was the promoter of the expedition to the North Pole, and his vessel, the Borealis, which he bought for the voyage, is now in the harbour. The Daily News correspondent at Bordeaux, writing on the 3rd, says there was then much talk of carrying on the war with renewed vigour. Sixteen new regiments had been created by decree ; 40,000 Mobiles and volunteers were, it was said, to be furnished by the department of the 114rault ; and a writer in the Emancipation of Tou louse had spoken of a new army of 300,000 men td be raised within three weeks. M. Gambetta had published several communications from generals complaining of the armistice. According to the Journal Ofticiel, notwithstanding the great and continually increasing difficulties of providing food which the directors of the Jardin des Plantes expe rienced during the siege, the losses sustained have been but slight. In default of fresh vegetables, the monkeys, apes, and other of the smaller animals from hot countries died in great numbers. A few of the carnivora, including a lioness and a jaguar, also succumbed to the unwhole some regimen to which they were reduced, as the meat supplied to the animals since the investment was of very inferior quality. 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Lypool (I, blf 6un 45 ludrblo,Gut Per.and 20 Union titeamship (L) 23 25 T e l W o rks L) .... 51 52 6 United Dis Corprn (I, Wig par 52 5 Univ Marine hum iLt 7 71Pm 5 InterulFinan Soo(L) n lldis 12 Warrart Finance.... 9 7 ills 20 It Irrig Cau Cavour 33 MARKETS. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, THURSDAY. -Consider able depression was observable in the cattle market to-day, owing to the mild weather and to the inactivity prevalent in the dead meat market; and prices were in an exceedingly weak state. The supply of beasts on sale was fair. The demand was dull and prices ruled in favour of purchasers. There was ft limited show of sheep in the pens. Sales were effected cau tiously at about Monday's currencies. Calves were purchased. quietly, but prices were not lower. Pigs met a dull sale at droop ing rates. Per 81bs. to sink the offal :-Coarse and inferior beasts, 35. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; second quality ditto, 4s. 4d. to 4s. prime large oxen, ss. 2d. to ss. ; prime Scotch, &c., ss. 6d. to ss. 10d ; coarse and inferior sheep, 3s. Ad. to second quality ditto, 2d. to 45. 6d. ; prime coarse-woolled sheep, 59. to ss. Bd. • p rimep Southdown ditto, 55. 10d. to Os.; large coarse calves, '3s. 88. to 4s. 48. ; prime small ditto, ss. to 6s. 4d. ; large hogs, 35. 68. to 4s. 10d. ; and neat small porkers, 55. to Os. ; Quarter -old store pigs, 225. to 265. each. Arrivals.- English :-Beasts, 780 ; sheep, 4,460 ; calves, 70 ; pigs, 35. Foreign.-Beasts, 710; sheep, 80; calves, 170. Total.-Beasts, 1,490 ; sheep, 5,290 alves, 240 ; pigs, 35. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, THURSDAY. -The market to-day was fairly supplied. The trade was steady, and prices were well supported. Prime meadow hay, 130 s. to 1405.; i n ferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime fresh-cut clover, 1355. to 1475. ; inferior ditto, 115 s. to 125 5. ; prime second-cut clover, 1265. to 1355.; inferior ditto. 105 s. to 115 s. ; and straw, 30s. to 40s. per load. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKET, THURS DAY.- -Sugar ; The market continues dull, at prices tending downwards. Coffee : A steady inquiry prevails, and full rates are realised. Plantation Ceylon, low middling, and middling, 61s. 6d. to 60s. ; good middling, and good, 705. to 80s. Tea : The market has been dull, on former terms. Rice ; With a steady demand, prices have been firm. White Ben gal, lls. to 12s. 68. per cwt. Jute : The market has been firm, at £l9 to £24 105 for common to fine. Metals: Scotch plg.iron h been firmer, at 525. d. eag Tin dull. Copper firm. Chili bars, common brands, lt £65. h. Oils Linseed oil firm at 121 spot. Rape £46 to £46 Os. Cocoanut firm at £4O to £4O Ss. for Ceylon, and 446 to 4 £7 for Cochin. Tallow: Trade dull at 455. to 45 5. 3 d. spot, March 455. ad., June 455. 64. BRADFORD TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.-Trade at this market has been in a fluctuating and uncertain state during the past week. The exorbitant terms of peace shadowed forth by the " Times " frightened operators, and the retire ment of Gambetta has again encuraged them. There is still uncertainty enough in the situaVon to inspire many with caution, but there are not wanting others bold enough to speculate in wool. Transactions have not been large. Staplers ask more money, and though they cannot establish a further advance, it is difficult to buy at late rate 4. Hogs have been rather more in favour, and skin wools sell freely. For export yarns speculators are inquiring, and operating where spinners will take old prices. They generally ask more, how ever, especially in single and two-fold forties. The piece trade is rather better. A little has been done for France, and Americans are again looking round SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE, THURSDAY.- There was a moderate attendance at the iron trade meeting to day. The rapid growth of anti-war feeling has recreated a hopeful feeling throughout the trade. The recent mild weather has made possible the opening up of the canal and communica tion to the works. Business is much brisker. The mills and furnaces are working about two-thirds at present, but a greater amount of activity immediately is anticipated. Pigs were in good demand, and a fair trade was done in sheets, plates, hoops and angles. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY.-At this market to-day there were 1,188 oxen. Top Scotch, 745. to 765. ; secondary, 70s. to 725. : middling, 60s. t 0655. Also 3,381 Sheep, at prices from 9d. to 90. top white faced ; black, 80. to 90. ; secondary, Bd. to 81d. ; middling, 61c1. to 71d. There was a full supply of cattle. The average trade was slow, with little change in price. The supply of sheep was considerably short, and prices advanced about id. per lb. BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY.-At this mar ket to-day there was a small supply of wheat, which sold slowly at last week's rates. Barley was firm ; but for oats, beans, and maize, there was little doing, but no cheaper. Peas were scarce. During the week large quantities of flour have been sold, for the supply td Paris, which were not less than 10,000 sacks. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. - Opening Report.-This market opens very quietly to-day. Sales will pro bably reach 10,000 bales. Closing report,-This market remains very quiet to-day, without change in prices. Sales, 10,000 bales, including 1,000 on speculation and export. CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR MARKET, THURSDAY. - At this market to-day business was done to a fair extent at firm prices. CORK BUTTER MARKET, THURSDAY. -Ordinary firsts, 1485., seconds 1485., thirds 1305., fourths 1149., fifths 963., sixths 665. ISO firkins in the market. Mild cured-No change. Two firkins. THE COMING MILITARY SESSION, It has become abundantly evident during the past few weeks that one of the most engrossing topics of the early part of the Session will be the condition of our Army and Navy, and that the attempts which have continuously been made by the military section of the House of Com mons (nearly one-fourth of the whole) will be renewed with great increase of vigour, under what they will deem the peculiarly favourable circumstances created by the present cond tion of European politics. For years past, whenever the estimates have been presented to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, we have heard their horseleech cry. " Give ! give ! " With all the pertinacity of hungry and even of greedy men, they have tried to persuade the British tax-payer that unless he was willing to pay for needless outlay more handsomely, there was nothing to prevent his being gobbled up at a mouthful by the first European ogre who might open his mouth at him. Re cently, we have had it dinned into us by journals under the control, or, at least, the strong influence of the mili tary class, that for want of a big army John Bull's ancient roar has grown too feeble to traverse the Channel which divides him from the Continent, and that that terrible thunder which was wont to make Europe shake in its shoes whenever he shook his mane, and pawed with his foot, and bellowed his displeasure, is now only an occa sion of laughter to the whole European world. Very carefully and continuously have these military gentlemen and their sympathisers in the press been preparing their ground for what will prove to be, we fear, the most despe rate attack on the British tax-payer that has been made for years. The tax-payer must therefore look out. It is the huge misfortune of this country that ;we have a large and influential class who are directly interested in war. It is the only profession which to their notions, befits " a gentleman." In fact, we have not had for years a war bloody and deadly enough to let in more than a handful of that crowd which is anxiously and clamorously waiting at the door of the Horse Guards and the Admiralty. What wonder then that we should hear the cry, alike from the beleagured officials and the beleaguering expecta,nts, More armaments ! A bigger army ! More supplies I Larger estimates ! Wolf ! wolf ! Europe is on us, and we shall all be piteously devoured. —English Independent. The Corporation of London have voted. that £2,000 be given from the treasury of that body to the French Relief Fund. 19 21 - - two hippopotami, the rhinoceros, the two Asiatic ele phants, the African elephant, and some of the antelopes, • have not suffered. M. Henri Rochefort's Mot d'Ordre publishes a protest which it says has received numerous signatures, against the interchange of visits between the Parisians and their armed enemies. "We have," says the protest, " loyally accepted the armistice. A line of demarcation was traced, but it is not observed, either by our enemies, who come cantering before the drawbridges, or by the curious and drunken among us. If we have no longer power of material resistance, leave us a least honour and dignity. Allow us within our dwellings to eat our black bread and prevent the cowards from going forth to barter the Gallic pride for a morsel of bacon. If that be not done, we are determined without delay to break the armistice and to destroy in detail the cowards and barbarians who are de molishing the works of our forefathers." The Paris correspondent of the Dully News says :—" I am myself strongly convinced that France is to be saved from utter ruin only by a Republic. When such men as Dufaure, Cochin, and their highly Conservative colleagues are found associated with staunch Republicans, and declare that they advocate the foundation of a Republic as the sole means of preserving the nation from anarchy and the neverending intrigues of Royalist pretenders and Imperialist ag ents, it is clear to my apprehension that they have weighed the chances of the two extreme parties in the political scale. and that royalty has kicked the beam. Nevertheless, circumstances may cause them to adhere to an Orleans candidature, for the resto ration of their family to power. We cannot tell whether any of their agents are at work in the provinces, our information from them being too capricious and restricted to enable us to form a judgment upon the rumours which now and then reach us of Royalist intrigues. Here no open advocacy of Orleanist pretensions has yet been put forth. The Figaro sounds the first blast of their trumpet. We shall soon learn the result. A LETTER FROM ABD-EL-KADER. Abd-Ei- Kader has addressed a letter to the Delegation Govern ment at Bordeaux, in which he says :—" May God grant victory to the members of the Government of France residing at Bordeaux. You have informed me that im posters used our name and seal to stir up Sahara and excite the disaffected to carry arms against France when a great number of our brothers are in your ranks to assist in sending back the invading enemy, and when you are endeavouring to make the Arabs as free as the French themselves. We desire to tell ycu that these attempts, whoever may be their authors, are made against justice, and against God's will and ours. We hope the all powtrful One will punish the traitors and confound the enemies of France." The original of this important document was sent to Algiers, after it had been reproduced by se\ r , l photographic processes. AN AUSTRIAN PAPER ON THE REPORTED PEACE TERMS.—The Neue Ireie Presse looks upon the alleged demand by the Germans of eight milliards of francs as monstrous. When Austria concluded peace with France in 1859 she ceded Lombardy, but did not pay a farthing; on the contrary, some money was paid to her. By the Treaty of Vienna the part of the Danish National Debt which fell on Schleswig-Holstein was taken over by the conquerors, and afterwards by Prussia alone. Thus Prussia adopted the principle that in cases of annex ation the conqueror takes over, together with the ter ritory, a proportionate part of the national debt of the conquered country. Therefore, in the present case, the annexation of French territory ought further to diminish the amount of the war indemnity. People in Prussia cite the example of Napoleon I. •in justification of their demand, but, judged even by that standard, their ed t p r esent claim for compensation apprs excessive. The Treaty of Champagny fixh ea e war 'indem nity to be paid by Prussia at 140 millions of francs, and the contributions which had been levied had brought in about 500 millions of francs. Moreover, Article 24 of the Treaty of Tilsit provided, ' The public debts of the territories ceded by Prussia to go over to the new owners.' If Prussia wished to mete with the same measure with which it was measured to her, she could not demand one milliard." NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. It is stated that next season all troops will be con veyed to and from India by the Suez Canal route, and that the present staff at Alexandria and Suez will be no longer maintained there. In a letter on the subject of our defences, Mr. H. C. Raikes, M.P., remarks that the order through which as man must go to secure a seat in Parliament makes it highly improbable that we shall ever again find, in the House of Commons at least, men with the professional knowledge and parliamentary position to enable them to dispense with professional assistance, which must vir tually amount to dual government of the army. General Peel was he adds, the last Secretary of State for War who could afford to be independent of advice, which is practically joint authority. Is has been arranged that the Sultan shall leave her moorings off Chatham Dockyard, to proceed to Ports mouth on the 17th inst. She was inspected on 'Wednes day by Vice. Admiral Elliott. The Post] publishes a long summary of the report of a committee upon the emyloyment of officers of Royal Engineers which, our contemporary says, is chiefly inter estingion account of its bearing upon the; question of the contemplated establishment of a Civil Engineer College to supply the Public Works Department in India. The committee recommend the adoption of certain specified regulations under which the Public W orks Department of India and all other Government depart ments at home or abroad could obtain as many officers of Royal Engineers as they might require. These regulations have, it is understood, been approved, and are about to be put in force. The question of the establishment Of the new college is certain to be raised in the presen t session of Parliament. Several cases of smallpox have occurred on board her Majesty's ships at Portsmouth. A great snowstorm has taken place in Copenhage% which has stopped the railway traffic and the pase a g' across the Belt. President Grant has sent a message to Congress recour f mending, in view of the growing power and importance ,34). North Germany, that the Berlin mission should be ta w ' a first-class mission. I, at THE CONDUCT OF WAIL—We are informed Mr. Buxton intends to call the attention of the House c u i Commons to the repeated violations during the rece n t campaign of those humane restrictions which mternatio o f law and usage have hitherto imposed upon the conduct war, and to move that, in the opinion of the House, 10 will be the duty of her Majesty's Government, whet' fitting opportunity shall arise, to invite the con curre % B of the Governments of all European States a nd of t United States of America in drawing up a co de of We) national law.—Pall Mall Gazette. Tie THE SMALLPDX AND THE METROPOLITAN A- ;0 PlTALs.—Owing to the prevalence of the s mall p ox used the metropolis many of the London hospitals are cl° s o . against all visitors. The authorities of the London , pital, Whitechapel-road, have strictly prohibited 1 0 , visitors except the near relatives of patients in a 11 „s• gerous condition, since the first appearance of the 'tile demic. It has been usual for the physicians of ow several hospitals to allow patients in a stat e of cias, valescence the privilege of a holiday with their frier to but this generous concession it was found necessail,os suspend, owing . to the great danger of the invalids tagio. the contagion in with them upon their return. Th e don culty of excluding a prevalent epidemic from the Lo o t, hospitals, which are daily crowded with the sick P is will be fully understood, but owing to the admirable I s 3 o cau tious taken by the several committees , the casebsve smallpox that have broken out among t he patients de been very rare. 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A., of a son. -- MARRIAGES. jolo i o k, to, On the 7th inst., at St. Stephen's, Clapham ~;13 -: 0 ~,tOl l, Frederic Hincks, of Barrington Villas, r 'Vs(l. , Sarah, fourth daughter of Edward Robinson, oer , 33alham-hill, Surrey. 0 l a On the 6th inst., at St. George-the-Martle° , t he , 4 1 Goodbehere, Esq. to Caroline Helen Jocelr l, DP" daughter of the 'late Hon. F ra ncis Cha rles Captain 52d L.I. DE Anis. 00 CIO On the Bth inst., at Upper Woburu-place, Wu J ovs Harnett, Esq., J.P., aged 75 . On the 7th inst., at 8, Canonbury-place, Islingt °l3 ' Nicholl, F.S.A., aged 81. _. ----------_ , . yeYm 0 London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND 06 No. 112, Strand, Printe r, and Published "t 0 f 0 o THE SUN Office, No. 112, Stran d, in the Frei° Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. Friday, FebruttrY 10) 1811.