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While most of the reports that have been published of the terms of peace to be offered to France by G er many are purely imaginative, there is good reason to believe that the following conditions have, after mature deliberation, been favourably viewed by the German authorities: — The cession of Alsace and of sixty German square miles of Lorraine, including Metz—the whole extent of Lorraine being 437 German square miles; a con tribution of one milliard and a half for war expenses ; about thirty millions for captured war ships; some forty millions for German workmen, clerks, and small industrials expelled from France ; and a certain Rente of a few millions for a limited period for the crippled, maimed, and orphans of the war. LILLE, February 10. Private letters from Paris give some interesting particulars relating to the effect of the news of Gambetta's proclamation, which reached the city on the 4th inst. The Parisians believed the armistice to be broken, and suspended for an entire day the surrender of arms which had already begun. On the other hand, Count Bismarck prepared to denounce the armistice, and suspended the revictualling. M. Jules Favre proceeded in all haste to Ver sailles, where, after explanations had been ex changed, the m isunderstanding was cleared away; and the revictualling was continued.— Telegraph Telegrams. DISTRESS AMONG THE PARISIANS. PARIS, Friday Morning, February 10. Result of elections here still unknown. Not so many votes as usual cast, but general result decidedly Conservative. Distress among famished population so great and general as to withdraw immediate interest from elections. Very few trains of provisions enter Paris from the north, by reason of restraints imposed upon them at Amiens by the Prussians. Relief fund w o oats are actively engaged every morning in dispensing provisions from Lord Mayor's fund to deserving cases. Poverty and destitution so great as to make clos e scrutiny into cases impossible. Above everything else, coals and charcoal are wanted. Groat indignation is expressed among English residents about the inconvenience to which absence of British Consul has exposed them during siege. Telegraph Telegrams. THE PARIS ELECTIONS. PARIS, Friday. The number of voters is not so great as was ex pected, but as the candidates were very numerous the votes will not have been added up until this evening. There are 72 separate lists of names pub lished by different committees. General Leflo has loft Paris for Bordeaux. Mr. Washburn() left this morning for Brussels to rejoin his family. The Prussian Moniteur of the 7th publishes the text of the letters signed by Generals Barrel and Cremer, in which they pledge themselves not to take any part in the war against Germany. —Daily News Telegram. PROLONGATION OF THE ARMISTICE. VERSAILLES, February 10. Arrangements have been concluded by which the armistice will be prolonged one week beyond the time ereviously specified. GENERAL DTJCROT'S PAROLE. BORDEAUX, February 7. It is reported that an international tribunal will be summoned to decide the question raised by the escape of General Ducrot. No decision will be arrived at until after the meeting of the National Assembly. Count Bismarck and General Moltke are !aid to attach great importance to this matter.--Lom bard Telegrams. The following telegrams ; come through Reuter's 4e/icy : THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. Dufraisse has declined the candidature of n ice, refusing to couple his name with that of i l aribaldi, representing the idea of cession of Nice to taly and war a outrance. The results of the elections in the errondisse -lent of Brest, except Ploudiry and Lannilis, are as follows Jules Favre 13,212 Rosseau (Engineer) . . . . • . 12,889 Le Breton (Sen.) . . . . . . 11,941 De Pompery (Th6ophile) . . . . 11,480 Leon Gambetta .. • • .. 12,022' Flagelle • . . • • • • • 11,200 116mon (Advocate) . a • • 11,283 Brinayme (Engineer) .. .. 11,159 Fenigan (Barrister) .•• ... 10,982 De Pompery (Edouard) .. .. 8,300 Verchin (Barrister) .. • • 10,937 Swiney (Landed Proprietor) .. 10,656 Audran (Notary) .. .. ... 8,062 SECOND LIST. General Trochu 15,309 15,245 14,564 13,523 13,795 13,575 Thiers General Le FlO Du - MamaEach (L'Abb6) i.envenue (Lawyer) Dumarnay (Landed Proprietor) • De lierminguy (Emile) (Landed Proprietor) • De Legge, H. (Landed Proprietor) De Treveuue (Orderly Officer) . De . Chamaillard (Barrister) 1)8 Kerjegu, Francois (former Deputy) .. • • .. 12,970 1/ e Forsanz, Paul .. • a 13,314 De liersanson de Pennendreff .. 13,218 tf k i t _Lyns all attempts of the Reds of the quarter t 44 Crolx Rousse to intimidate the electors were h:Neticall; repressed by the National Guard ; and „ electio ns resu l te d l arge l y i n f avour o f th e D uf gera te Republicans and Constitutionalists. Jules a t , e, Thiers, Duke, Decazes, and Jules Simon t t i ai te Perted elected for Bordeaux. The Monarchists 41 1 3 hed at Perigeux. 13,692 13,278 13,423 13,584 BORDEAUX, February 9 (Evening). corplile Conservative list of candidates has been Aa -Plet elY successful in the Department of the yehe. 4 11 , 1 th e Maine-et-Loire the Conservatives have 4 Jority of 60,000. ir ie ? a t he Rud e th e l i st of the Lib era l U n i on , w hi c h ent' ll " MM. Thi ers , Gi urau d, a nd others, has been r ely negl ec t e d . llist Ill h th e D e partment of the Tarn the Conservative 1 8 ,,,,a2 been successful by about 55,000 votes aga i nst Zud .g i ven to th e R epu bli cans. the ti . leeB A...en (Lot-et-Garonne) announce Thie-111113h of the Conservative list, including MM. of 30lit ije Chaudordy, B ay e , an d others, by a ma- 37 about ;5,000. des t hat v_ P at el' from A ud i o f t o -d a y's date shews DDjk__,lle enti re Conservative list has snccessfully vu with about 08,000 votes: THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, ,1871. Berry last night to make arrangements for raising funds in aid of the distress in France. THE ADMIRALTY FRAUDS. The court martial assembled at Portsmouth, proceeded yesterday with the trial of William Arthur Carline, ship steward of the Pembroke, who is arraigned on eight charges of fraud and conspiracy. A considerable amount of evidence was taken, and the court again ad journed. LITERATURE. ANNALS OF OXFORD.* In these two volumes Mr. Jeaffreson completes the task which he set himself twelve years ago, that of writing the social history of Oxford. He has in his former volumes dealt with doctors, lawyers, and parsons. In the work now before us he deals with dons and undergraduates. When we say that Mr. Jeafferson has finished his task we mean that he has completed all that portion of it which he in tended to undertake. There still remain to be written a good many volumes which should treat of the army, the navy, the merchant class, the farmer, the mechanic, the agricultural labourer, and the pauper. Each of these classes would form the subject of a separate work, but some of them perhaps, especially the two first, might require greater professional knows ledge than would be attainable by most civilians. In his " Annals of Oxford," Mr. Jeaffreson sets out with giving the finishing blow to the old theory that the uni versity on the Isis was founded by Alfred, and to the old belief that in very early times it contained 30,000 students and professors. Mr. Jeaffreson believes that the univer sity took its rise at the close of the 11th century, shortly after the Norman Conquest, and arose out of the necessity which the conquerors felt for some place of learning. Not that Oxford was in any way a royal foundation. It was no more founded by a Norman than by a Saxon king. In a sort of allegory Mr. Jeaffreson describes the way in which Alma Mater was born. It was a very humble birth. Some seven way-worn travellers might have been seen one day trudging with sore feet into the city of Oxford, taking up their abode in the humblest quarters, and then setting to work to get scholars, in order that they themselves might earn a livelihood. In process of time they succeeded so well that Oxford became known as a place of education, and othor teachers resorted thither on the principle that like will to like, and two will thrive where one will starve. As the schoolmasters prospered, they opened houses or hotels of their own, and received scholars into them. It was not all, however, who could afford to pay the master's terms. These poverty-stricken thirsters after knowledge were often hungry for want of bread, and they used to huddle together in some miserable room. The boarders, or "inmates," looked down with supreme contempt upon these " chums," or " chamberdeykins," and it was not till the time of Eliza beth that the word" chum" ceased to be a word of reproach. The two classes of students bore little love to each other, and many and serious were the quarrels which took place between them. There was an other source of discord, the varying nationalities of the students, wh o , b ecause t h ey were Welsh or Scotch, thought it their duty to beat the English or Irish, an obli gation which wan fully reciprocated. But after all, these quarrels, and the fi g ht s t o w hi ch they gave rise, were as nothing compared with the really formidable battles that took place in later years between " town " and " gown." The antagonism between the citizens and the collegians was based upon far snore substantial foundations than those between the " nations," or between the " inmates " and the " chums." The burghers and the students differed on all the great questions of the day, differed utterly in matters pertaining both to the Church and the State. Oxford dons were always Church and Tory. Oxford shop keepers were always Radical and Puritan. It is only lately that Town and Gown riots have ceased, Yet even to this day the antagonism continues in one form. The university sends two Conservatives to Parliament, the city, two Liberals. As the schoolmasters, for such the original professors were, increased, they grew exclusive. As was the fashion of the traders of that day, and of the operatives of this, they combined to keep out intruders, only instead of calling it a guild, as was the mediaeval custom, or a trades union, which is ours, they called it a university, and sore were the penalties which they inflicted upon those who attempted to wield the birch or the ferule with out authority from themselves. We say advisedly.tho birch and the ferule, for these instruments of torture were actually used in mediawal Oxford, as many an under graduate of less than 18 years knew to his cost. In fact these two weapons were considered as much the insignia of the Oxford Don as the ball and the sceptre are of the British Sovereign, and they were formally handed to him by the authorities when he was first admitted into the teaching guild. The second volume of these " Annals " treats of Oxford after it became thoroughly established. The two visits of Queen Elizabeth—the first when she was young and undergraduates had no objection to be smiled upon, and even kissed by her; and the second, when she was wrinkled in face and troubled in mind, and her smiles were ghastly to see—are well described. But, perhaps, the best portion of the . Se volumes is that devoted to the history of Oxford during the Parliamentary War. We could have wished that Mr. Jeaffreson had not passed over altogether the Oxford of Wycliff's and of Latimer's day. The reason that he has don; so is, we presume, to be found in the fact that he treated of their times very fully in his " Book about Clergy." As regards the Oxford of the future, Mr. Jeaffreson ha• great expectations ; but they are ' based upon the belief that the change which has already begun will be completely carried out, and that the colleges will no longer be everything and the university nothing, but that students will be able to obtain really from the university what it always professed, but of late years lamentably failed to give —a sound, instruction at a moderate cost. In the Departments of Dordogne and Aveyron the Conservative candidates have all been elected. A telegram just received from Dijon announces that the three cantons of the town of Dijon have given 9,000 votes to the Republican candidates and, about 2,500 to the list headed by M. Thiers. The results from a few of the country cantons have been received, and do not differ from those of the town. In Morbihan the moderate list has obtained 54,000 votes against 14,000. In the Loire the Moderate list, comprising the name of General Trochu, has passed. Of the Re publican list M. Dorian is the only successful can didate. In the Hautes Alpes the Republican list is suc cessful. In Haute Savoie the lists entitled " Liberal" and "Conciliation " have passed. In Bordeaux the final result of the voting is as follows :—Conservatives, about 68,000 ; Republicans, 34,000. In the Bouches du Rhone the probable result is that five candidates put forwarded by the Republican Committees are returned, viz., MM. Gambetta, Eugene Pelletan, Ledru Rollin, Tardien, and Del pech, while of the mixed list the following six are elected :—M. Thiers, General Trochu, M. Grevy, General Oharette, and ➢I. Cambray. (One name omitted.) February 10. The following are the results of the election, as so far known : At Oran the Republican list chews that M. Gam betta had been elected at the head of the poll by a large majority. At Pau, up to the present, the election of six Re publican candidates is assured. The result of three other elections is still uncertain. At Poitiers, M. Thiers was elected by a majority of 354, the number of registered voters being 78,281, and of votes recorded 56,674. At Montauban the list of the Union Liberals com prised M. Malleville and others, who were elected by about 37,000 against 22,000 polled by their oppo nents. In the Department of Ariolge the result as known shewed a majority assuring the election of the Con servative list. In the Department of Indre 17 cantons out of 24 have given a majority to the Liberal-Conservatives with about 37,000 votes. At Perpignan the Republican list has been elected. Emmanuel Arago obtained 22,598 votes, (liter 22,061, Pierre Le Franc 20,181, Etienne Arago 18,870. The Opposition list only obtained 8,500 votes. In the Ilerault the Conservative coalition, com prising M. Thiers and Dufour, appears to have a majority of 4,000. February 10. The following candidates have been elected for linisterre :—M. Thiers, General Le Flo, M. Bienve nue, M. Dumanay, De Chamaillard, De Kersanson, Du Mariallach, De Treveneue, De Kerjegu, De Ker minguy, General Trochu, M. de Forsanz, and M. de Legge. M. Tbierei obtained 62,305, General Le Flo, 58,840 and General Trochu 53,013 votes. LILLE, February 10. The total numerical results of the elections in this Department will not be officially announced until to-morrow. The counting of the votes is a long and difficult operation. The Monarchical list will be entirely carried. The appruximato results are a Republican majo rity in the Canton of Lille of 25 per cent., but a Monarchical majority of 60 per cent. in the Depart ment. The city is quiet. NEW GERMAN ARMIES. VERSAILLES, February 8. It is stated that an Imperial German Army is in course of formation. The proposed 13th Army Corps will be formed of Wurtemberg and Hessian troops. THE WAR CONTRIBUTION. A telegram from Berlin states that the war contri bution of the city of Paris will be apportioned as follows :-150,000,000 francs to the North German Confederation, and 50,000,000 to South Germany. ITALY. The Chamber of Deputies has adopted the clause of the Guarantee Bill relating to the Pope's dotation. The committee of the Chamber bas approved the bill for a financial convention between Austria and Italy. THE LIGHTS IN THE NORTH SEA. A telegram from Hamburg states that during the armistice, as far as the condition of the ice will allow, the light-ship and pilot boats below Cux haven will be re-established. The lighthouses at Newark and Cuxhaven will also be re-lit, and the pilot boats will again ply. THE FENIANS IN AMERICA. NEW Yons, February 10. A. large and enthusiastic procession, organised by the Irish residents, took place here yesterday in honour of the recently-arrived Fenians. AMERICA AND ENGLAND. A telegram to the Times, dated Philadelphia, February 9th, says :—From correspondence, which has been transmitted to-day to Congress by the Pre sident, between Mr. Fish and Mr. Thornton, it appears that England and the United States have agreed upon the appointment of a joint Commission to settle the fishery troubles, Alabama claims, and all other disputes between the two countries, the matters for considerati n being limited to such as as are pre sented by the respective Governments only. The Commission is to meet at Washington. The United States' Commissioners, all of whom the Senate has confirmed, are Secretary Fish, General Scnenck. Judge Nelson, of the Supreme Court, Ebenezer R. Hoar, late Attorney- General, and Senator Thomas Williams. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Jan. 30. Ayan bin Ghias, the chief of Muscat, has been killed in battle with the troops of Synd Torkee, who is now likely to establish his .authority over Muscat. —Times (CENTRA4CESS TELEGRAMS.) QUEEN. The Queen has subscribed £2O to the Newport (Isle of Wight) Bluecoat School, and £25 towards the contem plated improvements in Carisbrooke Church. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY CREW. An important change in the crew took place yesterday afternoon, Furneaux rowing two in the place of Moss the first time out, and Armitstead rowing two the second time, the president coaching from the stern. The crew seems in a very unsettled state, as yesterday the presi dent rowed stroke for a short time. Weather most un favourable ; drizzling rain all day. DEATH OF MR. J. D. MORTON. Mr. J. D. Morton, secretary of the National Reform Union, died at Sale, near Manchester, last night. THE FRENCH RELIEF FUND. A large and influential meeting wag held in Loudon- THE KELLY NAVAL COLLEGE. The trustees of Kelly College have at length definitely decided to erect a college, for which purpose Admiral Kelly left £200,000 for the education of the sons of naval officers, at Tavistock, Devonshire, on a site given by the Duke of Bedford. IMPRISONMENT FOR SELLING BAD MEAT. A case of selling bad meat came before the county justices at Coventry on Friday. Mr. John Moor, butcher, of Attleborough, was charged with exposing for sale on Tuesday last in Bedworth market a quantity of meat which was utterly unfit for human food. There were twenty-five joints which the medical officer of the union declared to be at the time of seizure in a putrid state. Inspector Austin said that the defendant had been fined in that court twenty pounds for a similar offence in 18G2, and in April last he had been sent to gaol for three months by Sir Robert Carden, at the Guildhall, London, for sending diseased meat to the London market. The bench severely remarked on the enormity of the offence, and sentenced the defendant to three months' imprison ment with hard labour.) SCHOOL BOARD AFFAIRS. The School Board matters in the district round Ply mouth continue to excite considerable interest. The Devonport School Board by way of compromise have elected Mr. Methain, a Liberal Churchman, as chairman. The same Board have fixed the Secretary's salary at £lOO per annum. The Dartmouth School Board have elected the Mayor of that town as chairman ; and are negotiating with a view to acquire the British Schools in the same place. At Falmouth it has been resolved to hold a public meet ing to decide as to the necessity of a School Board. At Launceston and Barnstaple, elections for School Boards are about to take place.' At the former place it was settled, at a public meeting, who should be the candidates; but one clergyman declares he will go to the poll, thus necessitating a contest. A meeting was held at Barn staple on Thursday night, when it was decided to elect three Churchmen, three Dissenters, and one Roman Catholic. THE ORLEANS PRINCES. In telegrams from Brussels transmitted last night, both by Mr. Reuter and by the Lombard Agency, the Gaulois was quoted for a despatch from Antwerp, asserting that M. Jules Favre had arrived in that city incognito, in order to hold a pre-arranged interview with one of the Orleans Princes. We have the most direct authority for stating that the assertion in the Gaulois is without any foundation whatever.—Daily News. THE GALE. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) A severe gale, the wind being from the south-east, was raging at South Shields last evening. The sea on the bar of the Tyne along the coast had risen to a great height. Later at night the wind veered round more to the east, and it was anticipated that the storm would become more violent. At Grimsby a destructive gale, with snow and rain, prevailed yesterday. It is said, indeed, that the storm has been not less violent than the October gale of 1869. A large number of vessels have gone ashore. As the brigantine Queen, of and from Youghall, Ire land, for Southampton, was running into St. Ives Bay during the north-west gale which prevailed yesterday afternoon, she let go her anchor in rounding the new pier head, and the cable parting, she drifted fast to leeward. The Queen was brought up by a second anchor, and the crew rescued. Subsequently the cable of this anchor also parted, and the brigantine was driven ashore. No less than six vessels went ashore at the entrance of South Shields Harbour during the gale yesterday. The Jabez, of Wbitby, which got on the rocks could not be ap proached by the lifeboat, and her crew, consisting of six, were left struggling in the sea when she went to pieces. Two of them who were lashed together succeeded in getting ashore, but the other four were drowned in the presence of thousands of spectators. Late last night a perfect hurri cane was blowing. A very heavy gale from the north-west, with frequent storms of rain, has been blowing for fourteen hours, and is still raging. Accounts from Plymouth and Falmouth represent all vessels at anchor there as in safety; but from Pa,dstow, and other ports on the Bristol Channel coast, the gale and the sea is so terrific that no ship can approach the coast without danger, and although no casualties are yet reported, some appear imminent. During the terrific gale which prevailed yesterday afternoon the schooner Mary, of North Shields was wrecked at Filey. The crew, consisting of four men, were saved by the lifeboat. The schooner Henry, coal laden, from Goole to Ports mouth, was wrecked at Withernsea. The captain was saved on a spar, but two of the crew were lost, though the lifeboat attempted their rescue. It is stated that the new halfpenny postal cards are now distributed at the rate of two millions a week, Lord Derby has given 1,844 additional yards of land (making nearly ten thousand altogether) for the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool. The Jersey Militia is shortly to be increased about 1,500, which will raise the total strength to about 4,000 men, infantry and artillery. Major Palliser, who has already received two pay ments of £15,000 and £7,500 for his invention, is, it is stated, to be still further recompensed. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Friday, February 10th, 1871. Admission by season tickets, 1,058 ; ditto on payment, 489 ; total visitors, 1,547. The French Relief Fund collected at the Mansion House has now reached £67,000. On Friday Mr. A. De Rothschild handed in to the committee subscriptions from various sources amounting to £4OO. "A_ memorial of the leading citizens of London has been addressed to the Lords of the Treasury, asking them to institute an inquiry into the discontent among the offi cials of her Majesty's Customs at the present time. The steam-tug Blazer, of Liverpool, laden with provisions for Cherbourg, for re•victualling Paris, has seriously damaged her machinery by a strain whilst lying in the harbour of Jersey. She is unable to proceed, and is therefore discharging cargo before being brought to England for repairs. A. remarkable case of official liquidation has been mentioned in one of the courts. It is admitted that the remuneration of the liquidators of the Imperial Mercan tile Credit Association up to the present time amounts to £55,000, and it is alleged that the other costs of winding up will swell the sum to £130,000. At Prestbury, on Wednesday, the wife of Isaac Ryan, a coachman, killed her only child, an infant a month old, by beating it about the head with a bill-axe. A surgeon has certified that Mrs. Ryan is not of sound mind, and the poor woman has been placed for the present in the workhouse at Macclesfield. A correspondent points out that the Dean of St. Paul's (Dr. Mansel), the new Archdeacon (Bishop Claughton), Canon Gregory, and Canon Liddon, are all Oxford men. If therefore Mr. Gladstone should appoint an Oxford man as successor to Canon Melvill, there will not be a Cambridge man on St. Paul's Capitular staff. The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed a letter to the Bishops stating that in consequence of the Irish Church Act the title " United Church of England and Ireland" is to be discontinued, and that of " The Church of England" simply to be substituted as the name of the English establishment. Captain Hall, who succeeds Sir Spencer Robinson as Controller of the Navy, will not, according to the Civilian, fill the latter's seat at the Board of Admiralty. The vacancy will probably be offered to the Hon. J. R. Drummond, who will become Junior Sea Lord, and the estimates will thus be increased by £1,500 per annu MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—The following letter has been receivad by the Honorary Secre tary of the Borough of Greenwich Advanced Liberal Association. "10 Downing-street, Whitehall, Feb. 8, 1871.—Sir—Mr. Gladstone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th inst., and of the accom panying resolutions adopted by the Advanced Liberal Association of Greenwich. I am directed to convey Mr. Gladstone's thanks to those on behalf of whom you write, and his satisfaction at learning that they have seen no reason, on considering the acts of the present government, to withdraw the confidence which they had been pleased to place in him.—l remain, your obedient servant, W. B. Gurdone—Mr. T.A 1). Floyd." * Annals of Oxford by John Cordy Jeaffreson, B.A. 2 vols, London ; Hurst and Blackett. TAMWORTH CHURCH.—The re-opening services in connection with the restoration of Tamworth Parish Church, diocese of Lichfield, were held on Thursday. The Bishop preached in the morning, and in the after noon there was a cold collation in the Town Hall. Dr. Millar, the late vicar, was presented by Mr. Woody, on behalf of the parishioners, with the drawings of a memorial window which had been placed in the church to commemorate the esteem and respect in which he is held in the parish. Dr. Millar replied feelingly.—Birmingham, Morning News. BIRDS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—The annual exhibition of British and foreign birds commenced at the Crystal Palace on Friday, and will close on the 16th instant. From a private view, our reporter is enabled to state that although in point of numbers the entries will not be equal to those of previous years, the quality of the various classes is excellent. The cause of diminution is the dry season which has been against breeding, and the war, which has prevented CA importation of interesting species from the Continent. Still, there will be found a great attraction for those who take an interest in the feathered tribe in all its classes. SUPPRESSION OF BETTING AT LIVERPOOL.—The authorities fu Liverpool have been rivalling each other in efforts for the suppression of betting. Raids were some time since made by the police upon several public houses, and some persons were fined by the magistrates for bet ting therein. The quiet back streets, where the less dis tinguished members of the betting fraternity were wont to assemble, have also been cleared. The Corporation, with a view to the further suppression of betting, intro duced a clause into the draft of a new bill, with which they are going to Parliament, to the effect that any con stable might take into custody without a warrant any three or more persons assembled in the street for the pur pose of betting. The delinquents were to be subjected to a fine of £5 for this offence. The Corporation debated the point on Thursday, but it found but one supporter. A LABOUR REGISTRY IN LONDON.—In connec tion with that laudable institution for poor labourers, the Boardmen's Society, there is about to be established a London Labour Registry Office. All members of that branch of the Sobiety who are out of employment will be registered on the books according to their occupations and references, and information specially obtained for their use, as to the conditions and requirements of the labour market will be tabulated and rendered avail able for the members, or other persons willing to pay a small fee for the privilege. The terms of membership are, 2d. at entrance, and a fee of a penny weekly. We believe that this admirable undertaking, having for its object the alleviation of the troubles of the classes most in need of work, has been mainly projected by Mr. Alsager Hay Hill, the respected treasurer of the Boardmen's Society. " ASCENDANCY " IN IRELAND.-At the banquet given by the Lord Mayor of Dublin the other night both the Anglican and Roman Archbishops of Dublin were present. The Lord Mayor, after he had replied to the toast of his own health, said : I have now the great honour to propose the health of ' the illustrious Prince Prelate of the Catholic Church who honours us by his presence to night. Paul, Cardinal Cullen has attained his present exalted position in recognition of his great attainments and his many virtues, but chief amongst those *virtues are his Christian charity and meekness. The deference paid to the opinions of his Eminence is due to the cer tain knowledge we all possess, that •no selfish thought ever biases those opinions, but that a desire for the good of his fellowmen is the mainspring of all his actions. I propose "The health of his Eminence the Cardinal Arch bishop."' ft does not appear that the' presence of the learned and amiable Archbishop Trench, who was among the company, was publicly recognised. IN AND AUOUND PARIS, Writing from Paris, February 8, the special correspon dent of the Daily News with the Saxon Army says : There is no want of food now in St. Denis ; where the want lies is as regards the money to buy it wherewithal. A few of the rich inhabitants are trying what they can to stem the torrent of misery, but they are utterly unable to cope with it with any success. You can buy mutton for 15 sous a pound, and beef for 20 sous ; but then if you have got never so much as a single sou, the prices might as well be ten times as much. In their rough hearty way the German soldiers are doing a great deal to help to tae off starvation; but the place is full of misery of the most abject kind. The station of St. Denis is already in full working order, and passengers are for warded from it, although the class of carriage is not guaranteed. " Why, they have got over it already ! " Such was the remark I made to myself as I rode through Paris in the; dusk—a Paris no more like the Paris I had seen a week before than is Niobe to a clown grinning through a horse-collar. Paris has in a great measure recovered her spirits, and with them her complacency. The general population looks no more as if all was lost. Groups form and converse—they even enliven into gesticulation. The wineshops get up quite a creditable illumination, and they are the reverse of empty. But they are: not so full as are the public soup-kitchens, from which as I ride past, I reason that the contents of the twenty seven trains have not quite diffused themselves so widely as to bring plenty. into every household, and there still are cries outside the bakers' shops ; but there is something better to wait for than in the old days. True the bread is still brown ; but it is not like glue, jam, starch, molasses, brown paper, bill-stickers' paste, and printers'ink, blocked together, as it was the other day. There is in it a goodly proportion of wholesome British flour, and It is a toothsome morsel compared to the stuff that I loathed here the other day. There are many more shutters down from the shop fronts than on the occasion of my first visit. It is true there is not much food about yet, and prices are " famine ; " but still the look ahead is toward a harbour of plenty pretty soon, not to misery,- cold, hunger, bombshells, and despair. So Paris has got over the terrible twinge which the surrender gave her at first, and has owned to herself that things are looking up. " After all," says Paris, " I do well to get rid of my moping humour, and to abjure my intention of jumping into the Seine and finding my way into the Morgue. It cut me very deeply, no doubt, to have to sign that convention, but only just think what I have braved, done, and suffered. You can't in common decency refuse to own that-I am at least some thing of a heroine ; that I have deserved well of my country and of my traditional reputation. Well, vive la glory; I have the glory if I have not the success ; so let one smooth my face and pluck my spirits a bit, and go out for a week on the Boulevards, and once more assert the tongue gift I am endowed with." Who can blame Paris if she reasons thus, providing only her tongue-gift, her gloire, and her shortness of memory do not combine to make her forgetful of the terrible ordeal she has gone through ? Keep that memory fresh in the mind of Paris, and you may be easy about any more war on the part of France that Paris can help. Even now, while the last act of the tragedy seems thickenings and there is the possibility of a hitch and a postponement in the dropping of the curtain, Paris wants peace at almost any price. and wishes Gambetta dead. The entente cordiale between the autho rities is not on the increase, rather the reverse. There are hitches about the exchanging of prisoners and then it seems as if Paris in her great strait will eat up the environs, and superinduce a want of anything but bare rations among the Germans. This is nearly done already. THE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE. Commenting on the French elections, and the prospects of peace, the correspondent of the Standard, under date February 6, thus writes from Bordeaux : —I have not heard a single prophecy as to the probable result of the elections here. The shortness of the time for the com pletion of the arrangements, the impossibility of any canvass, a ( nd the confusion as to the rules, and still more, the all-absorbing interest of the contest between Gambetta and the Central Government, render it impossible to ascertain how the votes are likely to go. The number who vote will undoubtedly be very small compared to the population, and it may be pre dicted with certainty that of the middle and upper classes the great majority of those who vote will do so for the Liberal-Conservative list, while of the lower class the bulk will go for the Republicans. The result will' therefore, greatly depend upon the proportion in which the middle and lower class will vote. In the mean time, war preparations are very properly being hurried on with the greatest speed and energy. It is only by being prepared to continue the war that France can hope to obtain possible conditions of peace. It is certain that Bismarck will give nothing from pity, nothing from moderatian, nothing from respect to European appear ances. It is also certain that a continuance of the war would be so highly unpopular in Germany that even Count Bismarck will riot willingly force Franbe into a continued struggle. France is badly beaten, of that there is no doubt ; but her means of resistance are still formid able, her resources very great, and her courage indomi table. She may prolong the war for months, and her command of the sea enables her completely to cripple— indeed to destroy—the commerce of Germany. However the elections may be conducted, I am convinced that the Assembly will not accept an absolutely humiliating peace. Ido not, for instance, believe that they will consent to the cession of either Metz or Belfort.. To de so would be to leave France at the mercy of the enemy. Ido not believe that they will consent to a cession of a portion of the fleet, and they cannot consent to the payment of an impossible sum of money. France is eager for peace, she acknowledges being beaten, but she will not consent to being annihilated. BOURBAKPS ARMY. The special correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Basle, February 4, thus describes the condition of the French prisoners in Switzerland :—I had an oppor tunity of seeing what these soldiereof the once redoubt able Bourbaki, who were to have done so much for France—to have destroyed the communications of the Germans and annihilated their armies—were like. And I am bound to say that anything more pitiable than the spectacle they presented I never witnessed in my life. If they were at all a fair specimen of the troops which Bourbaki had under his command, it is no wonder that that General failed to accomplish what M. Gambetta promised for him. Some of them were mere boys ; others appeared quite old men. Most of them were foot sore or leg-weary, and many were coughing in a most painful manner. Yet, thoroughly broken down and ex hausted as they were, most of them were encumbered, not merely with their knapsacks, blankets, and rugs, but with their cooking tins, and the half-dozen or more odds and ends which it seems to please the French soldier to carry with him wherever he . goes. Arms. of course, they had none. Some were slightly wounded, but I fancy not many. Exposure, fatigue, and sickness seemed to be the cases which had reduced most of them to the unfortunate condition in which they found themselves. They had marched long distances, as Frenchmen estimate distances at all events, had suffered from exposure to weather, and had, t.t times, ndeed, as a rule, gone very short of provisions. It was all triste, very triste in war, and as they made this assertion, which was abundantly confirmed by their hag gard and miserable looks, their interlocutors decidedly expressed their concurrence in this opinion. Yet the men were not all equally downcast. Some stronger, perhaps, or better seasoned than their fellows, maintained a loftier port, and marched along stoutly enough, and with the regular military tread. Others—and these were the majority—limped painfully along, some propping their footsteps with sticks, and others resting upon the arm of a stouter or more healthy companion. As far as I could judge in the darkness, the men seemed ill-clad. They most of them wore the bluish grey great coat, red trousers, and kepi, which have been made by this war so familiar to English readers ; and some of them carried blankets or rugs, in which they had enveloped their heads and shoulders. In this matter of rugs, however, great inequality appeared to prevail. Some had one, some two, or even three one wrapped round their shoulders and the other or others attached to the kuapsacks—while many had none at all. Many of their coats were sadly torn, and some of their trousers were litezally in rags. How they were retained upon the legs of the men it was difficult to say. Their shoes were, if anything, still worse. The soles had either gone altogether, or were so near demolition as to afford no comfort to the wearers. There were representa tives of several regiments in the ranks, one or two men in blouses, and two or t hree in a uniform which _T imagine belonged to sonic regiment of Francs-tireurs. These men seem ed better off for clothes than the regular soldiers, and to be altogether in better condition. The statement that a Turkish army of observation is being formed at Shumla on account of the unsettled state of affairs in Roumania is incorrect. A violent shock of earthquake, which lasted for four seconds, has occurred at Darmstadt, which was followed after a short interval by another and a weaker shock. OUR COTEMPORARIES—Thig Morning THE ALABAMA COMMISSION. The Times says is, we confess, with mixed feelings that we contemplate the proposed reference of the Ala bama claims and the fisheries question to a joint commission. On the one hand, we heartily share the desire so unanimously felt in this country for a settlement of the only tangible grievances outstand ing between Great Britain and the United States; nor do we believe that without tangible grievances it will long be possible to keep alive the spirit of mutual distrust. On the other hand, we cannot forget that a convention formally concluded two years ago on behalf of her Majesty and the President of the United States was deliberately set aside by the American Serrate in a manner that betokened little disposition to remove the former and tar more serious cause of difference. We hive yet to learn what the basis of the new convention, if any, may be; how the objections which proved fatal to the last one have been overcome ; and what instructions have been given to Lord de Grey and his colleagues. We are bound, however, to presume that President Grant's over tures have been made in sincerity, and there is no reason to apprehend that such party motives as influenced the Senate against his predecessor will prejudice the adoption of any course he may recommend. Ono more condition, howcrer, is necessary for the restoration of a thoroughly amicable understanding between America and Great Britain. It is the reciprocal cultivation of good feeling and courtesy on both sides, especially by those who are supposed to represent popular opinion, whether as speakers or writers. Can there he any compari son between the ordinary language of a Queen's Speech regarding America and the ordinary language of a President's message regarding England ? Would any English Minister, or politician in Mr. Sumner'a position, dare to utter such invectives against a friendly nation in Parliament ? Would any English public meeting tolerate an address like that of General Butler ? It is time for educated men in the United States to consider how far these practices are consistent with national self-respect. What is certain is that nothing contributes so much to weaken the respect which all educated Englishmen desire to feel towards the United States. It is vain to say that all this ill-feeling dates from the war. Long before the war traducing and vilifying England was a profitable trade iu American politics, though it was not then so great an object to purchase the " Irish vote." For this grievous wrong—for a grievous wrong it is—we ask no damages, though we are ready to pay damages, if they shall be found due, for our failure to lay an embargo on the Alabama. We claim but one thing, and that is that with the Alabama claims may be also buried the unworthy and unmeaning jealousy of Great Britain which is the besetting weakness of American patriotism. In the opinion of the Standard, very important func tions indeed devolve on the Commissioners just appointed by her Majesty. It would seem that all the questions at issue between the two nations are to be referred to the tribunal of this mixed commission—and much as we may rejoice at any arrangement that promises a prospect of a quiet and friendly settlement, we cannot regard the present plan as altogether satisfactory. For many reasons it appears to us unwise to mix up the Alabama claims and the fishery dispute together. In the first place, the fishery question is one in which law and right are confessedly and entirely on our side ; while the right, and even the law, of the Alabama case is open to grave dispute. Next, the fishery question is a colonial question, and properly referred to a commission in which Canada is powerfully represented; whereas the Alabama question is purely Imperial, and should naturally have been left to statesmen directly responsible to the Im perial Parliament, and influenced only by Imperial considerations. Finally, we do not wish to see either question settled by a compromise including both. We do not wish that the Canadians should pay the price of a modification or abandonment of the Alabama claims by a sacrifice of their exclusive rights in the fisheries. We wish to see the issues involved in the former settled by a re ference to a competent tribunal, so that we may at once vindicate our own honour and neutrality, and obtain a clear declaration what the law was in the, past, before we proceed to determine by negotiation what it shall be in the future. We look forward, therefore, with considerable anxiety to the proceedings of the commission, and the only feature of the curse which appears altogether satisfactory is the indication given, by the assent of the American Government to the British proposals, of a sincere desire on their part to terminate a dispute which heretofore they have seemed to think it more convenient to keep open. FRANCE'S REVERSES. The worst enemies of France cannot deny, the Daily News observes, that the later phases of the war evolved many of the nobler qualities of the French national character, There has been something grand in the con tinued resistance that we were at first almost in clined to lament. In this almost hopeless attempt to save the honour of France, generous blood has been shed in deluges. But it was not men that were wanted, but genius. At a glance Napoleon would have seen where to plant the battery that would have scattered Moltke's finest plans like so many cobweb. A glance, and his columns would have fallen like thunderbolts on Saxon and Bavarian, and struck the German army in two as a scythe chops a snake. The road was there by which that critical march could be taken ; the road v 4 as there by which those guns could be dragged into position : but the great man did not come from east or west, and at last the worn-out nation yielded Paris and threw up its arms. Who can foresee the evils that will result from this war ? the dragon's teeth of future discord it will sow? The good which it will generate is less difficult to imagine. How far it will cure France of the habit of military promenades through Europe, and of alarming poor, weak, and easily alarmed Prussia, we do not know. But this we do think, that out of the furnace of war Franca will emerge a nobler nation. The vices and selfish ness of the Empire will have passed away with its frauds, deceptions, and tyranny. Hardened to a more Spartan mood, young France will pursue a nobler ideal, and strive for more worthy prizes. Trade will be less greedy —wealth less self-seeking—the nation will become more tolerant of truth. If these changes follow sorrow and suffering, the war will not have been in vain. Horrors that seem like a dream, slaughter that one shudders to think of, will have had great results. The lessonhas been a bitter one to France, the punishmenthas been as sudden as it has been terrible—the foray on an unoffending people has been cruelly expiated. One result, at least, is certain, that unless Europe is rolling backwards fast into barbarism, all civilised nations must have learnt from the events of last year the folly, savageness, and progressive wickedness of war, and how soon the fresh gloss and glitter of its chivalrous professions and its pre tences of justice wears off as it passes into lower and more ghastly phases of cruelty and retaliation. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.-THE ORLEANS PRINCES. The Telegraph remarks : —lf our estimate be correct, the election o f t wo o f th e O r l eans P r i nces i s a ma tt er o f historical importance. W11 , 4 1, Pr on. election they could talce their seats in the A, ,nbly would be a nice question for Constitutional jurists to discuss. The membt.rs of the House of Orleans are banished from France in virtue of a law passed in 1848, and which has never been repealed to the present day. The Committee of National Defence has declared, on the other hand, that the freedom of choice by the constituencies is unlimited. But, whatever abstract opinion may be entertained as to the weight of the disabili ties imposed upon the Princes by the law of 1848 or by the Bordeaux decree, it seems to us impossible, in the face of the whispered successes of the Orleanist candidates, that any serious attempt will be made to contest the right of the Duke d'Aumale or his brother to fulfil the electoral mandate with which they have been entrusted. We expect, therefore, that when the Assembly meets at Bordeaux, the Princes will be found amidst the Deputies summoned to decide, in the first instance, on the issue of peace or war, and, in the second, on the nature of the instituticns by which France is henceforth to be ruled. In such an Assembly, met at such a crisis, the sons of Louis Philippe cannot fail to play a conspicuous part by the mere fact of their presence. It is reported that the Pre sidency of the Chamber may be offered to the Duke. The tribute thus paid to his character for ability and patriotism would be well deserved ; but the honour would be, to say the least; a doubtful advantage. To take the lead in arranging a peace which in volved the cession of French territory would be an ungrateful and unwelcome task ; and it would seem more natural to impose the duty on some veteran statesman, associated with the destinies of France in the past. Be this as it may, the world will watch with interest the part that the sons of the citizen king play by their votes, if not by their speeches, in the delibe ra ti ons o f an Assembly convoked to decide on the destinies of France in the hour of her supremest need. BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable . charaeter 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 EPPS & CO., Homoeo pathic Chemists, London. Also, makers of Epps's CacaOine, a very thin evening beverage.—Advt. sad, any ern- Her the to little That no," d by r the eater real exact d not their were