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London, England, 1871-01-27

MEETING OF THE LEICESTER SCHOOL
BOARD.

The first meeting of the Leicester School Board, which
consists of thirteen members, was held on Thursday. The
first business transacted was the election of a chairman.
Mr. Alderman Alfred Burgess was nominated.
The opposition then nominated the Rev. Canon
William Fry, churchman. The former gentleman
was elected by seven votes against five, but the
vote not being unanimous, he declined to accept the office
The Rev. David James Vaughan, churchman, brother of
Dr. Vaughan, of the Temple, was then nominated by the
Dissenters. Canon Fry opposed Dr. Vaughan, although
the latter supported the Canon. Ultimately, Dr. Vaughan
was appointed by six votes against five. For the
vice-chairmanship, the Rev. Dr. Hogcroft (Baptist), and
Mr. James Roscoe (railway engineer, a Primitive
Methodist), were nominated, and the votes were equal.
The chairman refusing to vote, Mr. Roscoe was elected by
six votes against five. It was decided to, admit reporters
to all the meetings on condition that they retired when
requested. A sub-committee was appointed to consider
the standing orders to be made, and for the appointment
of clerk, solicitor, and treasurer. It was decided that the
seal of the Board should be the Borough Arms, with the
words Leicester School Board round. The next meeting
to be held on February 15.
London, England, 1871-01-27

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SCHWEPPE'S BOTTLES
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BINKO'S PATENT IMPERIAL PH€ENIX
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venting danger to life. In Canisters, 6d. and is. each.

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lady who has used it is charmed with its cleanliness, simplicity,
and cheapness. Sold in Penny Packets, and is far cheaper than
any other Blue.

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London, England, 1871-01-27

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London, England, 1871-01-27

ALLEGED BRIBERY AT A SCHOOL BOARD
• ELECTION.

At the North Shields Police-court on Thursday, sum-
monses were granted against Ralph Turnbull, Catholic, and
the Rev. Thos. Featherstone, Episcopalian, both members
of the Tynemouth Borough School Board, for alleged
bribery at the recent School Board election ; also against
two other gentlemen for treating at the same. The Tyne-
mouth Municipal Registration Society Prosecuted.
London, England, 1871-01-27

TREASON AT BELFORT.

A French provincial paper, the Progres de Saone-
et-Loire, gives the following account of the discovery
of attempted treason said to have been made at
Belfort. A. very compromising letter was found upon
the commandant of the Fort Des Barres. It came
from the Prussian headquarter?, and contained a
detailed scheme for the surrender of the fort by
allowing the Prussians to get possession of it. The
manoeuvre was to take place on the very day on which
the discovery was made, and at the time the
treacherous commandant was arrested, it had already
London, England, 1871-01-27

OUR CAVALRY.

A. cavalry officer in a letter to the Times calls
attention to the state of our cavalry. The uniform
is ridiculous, and the men have no idea of campaign-
ing until they are actually sent into the field, when
it is too often found that their horses are entirely
unfit to undergo the hardships and exposure which
they Suffer in open warfare. Numbers of the officers
join this branch of the service for tho mere sake of
London, England, 1871-01-27

FIRST LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.

H.R.H. the Comte de Paris
H.R.H. the Duc d'Aumale .
H.R.H. the Duc de Chartres
Lady C. A., by Mme. Guenea
aE s. d.
H. Perceval, Esq. 6 0 0
T. Coster, Esq. 5 0 0
Mrs. J. Freeman 5 0 0
W. H. Yatman, Esq 5 0 0
V. Givry, Esq 5 0 0
Leroy et Fils
Eugene Rimmel, Esq 5 0 C
A. G. M.
C. Arundel, Esq. 2 2 0
Mme. Catillon
C. P. Carter, Esq.

al de Mussy .... 40 0 0

s. d.
C. Downes 2 0 0
Anonymous ........ 2 0 0
Rev. W. H. Hooper I 1 0
Rev. J. Fairfax 1 4 0
Renard, Esq. ..
Mrs. Mason
Miss Gregory
Miss Hawkins ..
Sums under £1

Total of First List £238 8 0

Further contributions in money, food, or clothing, are
earnestly solicited, and can be forwarded to any of the following
members of the Committee of the " French Subscription " :
Messrs. C. Devaux and Co. ; A. Casella ; A. Gagniere ; E. Lazard ;
Paul Pierrard ; A. Chauffourier ; T. Dromel ; Leroy et Fils ;
Dr. Gutneau de Mussy ; L. T. Piver ; Eugene Rimmel ; Dr. A.
Vintras ; or to the Hon. Secretary, Paul Pierrard, 60, Moorgate-
street, E.C. These contributions will be transmitted to M. de
Melun s Committee at Lille, which possesses an organised staff
of agents throughout Germany and Belgium to attend to the
proper and immediate dispensation of relief to the prisoners.

Q EAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought)._
Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE-
M.) VED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green-
.vich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
ne admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in-
troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re-
moved from the City to the same building.
KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.
London, England, 1871-01-27

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London, England, 1871-01-27

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London, England, 1871-01-27

LETTER OF GARIBALDI.

BORDEAUX, January 21.*
The following letter from General Garibaldi to
Colonel Frappoli has been published :-
4' DIJON, January 18.

" Let us not think of the past, but only of the
future. Organise as many Italians as you can, and I
shall be grateful to you. Send them to me, and we
shall march together. If you do this, publish these
lines if you think they will be useful."
* Delayed in transmission.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE
CONFERENCE.
BOiIDEAUX, Jan. 25.
The following official announcement is made :--
"Count Bismarck has decidedly refused to grant
a safe conduct to M. Favre to attend the Confer-
ence, on the ground that Count Bismarck does not
acknowledge the existence of any Government in
France competent to take part in a European
Conference. Count Bismarck at first delayed the
invitation sent by Lord Granville to Paris, and
finally refused to forward the promised safe conduct•
The French Government is not at all dissatisfied
with this decision, regarding all modifications of
existing treaties which may be made under the cir-
cumstances as null and void."
London, England, 1871-01-27

THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS LOUISE.

We learn on good '
authority that Tuesday, the 21st of
March, has been fixed for the marriage of Her
Royal Highness Princess Louise and the Marquis of
Lorne.

HEALTH OF MR. CHILDERS.
Mr. Childers is still at Bedwell-park, and was visited
there on Wednesday morning by Mr. Robert Ellis. The
report given is that his health has improved a little since
the last visit. It is confidently expected that with a more
complete and prolonged rest, and with entire change of
air, this improvement will continue. There is, in fact, a
good prospect of the renewal of his strength, and that he
will be able hereafter to transact business,
London, England, 1871-01-27

THEATRES AND AMUSEMENTS.

ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LYCEUM—AII Baba.
DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley.
COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty.
ADELPHI— Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe
Bough.
HAY3IARKET—The Poor
Spectre oom.
VAUDEVILLE -Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the
Invisible Armada.
OPERA COMIE Blue Devils. Found Drowned.
QU
The Lottery Ticket.
STRAND—On and Off.
Lion

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London, England, 1871-01-27

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the very root. Price 45., sent by post for 60 stamps. 248, High
llolborn, and all chemists.
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London, England, 1871-01-18

BROKEN CABLE LINES.

Great disappointment is felt at the prolonged'
delay in repairing the two broken Atlantic cables.
It seems, however, that it arises from no especial
difficulty in the case itself, but entirely
from the stormy and unfavourable Mate of
the weather. A fine calm day is a sine gna non for
repairing a submarine telegraph, and it is quite p6s-
slide, off Heart's Content, that a .fine day may be
waited for the whole winter through in vain. Dense
and blinding fog, tempestuous seas and raging winds,
are the rule at this season, and the atmosphere is sel-
dom clear for many hours together. Those best quali-
fied to form an opinion think it likely that the desirei
opportunity will not be obtained before the spring,
though when it does come the splicing will be quickly
effected. Both the 1865 and 1866 cables are believed
to have been broken by the dredging apparatus

of —the fishing vessels, and it is, there-
fore, proposed, in future, to have a very
lit.nit intermediate line- between the shore end, which

is always enormously thick to resist the 'Sing and
the breakers, and t 1.19 slender cable for the deep sea.
The repair of the two cables will most likely be fol-
lowed by a substitution of a strong connecting link,
and the deep sea cable I etween the Newfoundland
shore end. At the present moment telegraphic commu-
nication with India is temporarily interrupted, owing
to a fault in the Falmouth and Gibraltar cable, but
this, it is hoped, will soon be remedied.
London, England, 1871-01-18

THE WAR.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS.

EFFECTS OF THE BOMBARDMENT.

The Times correspondent at Versailles writes on the
12th :—The siege is going through its regular phases like a
fever. One day is like another, and one night Is like
another. At dawn the French, who have worked to re-
pair damages, open from new batteries and
repaired embrasures. They have mounted new
guns in the enceinte works, run up new gabion-
nades—and where they get the wood for gabions is
rather a puzzle—established guns in positions which give
them more or less power to meet the Prussian guns.
In this opening concert, Bicelre, Villejuif, Montrouge,
Vanves, Issy, reported quite . silent or nearly so the
previous day, are sure to join, having broken out in fresh
places and recuperated a little; and this phenomenon is
regular. The efforts to reduce this fire by the establish-
ment of rifle pits in front on the flanks of the enceinte
works have been only partially successful. But the want
of complete success is due more to the nature of
the weather than to the vigilance of the besieged.
The snow, frost, and ice baffled the working parties.
The main point is that thoughthe Prussian guns establish
-in most cases a superiority of fire in the course of a day,
and reduce the French works to silence, they are not able
at these distances to demolish the works of the enceinte.
Therefore they are occupied in force during the night,
and, in spite of the artillery fire directed against them—,
the French having any number of workmen—are able to
do just as the Russians did at Sebastopol; so that the
battered ghost of a fort is covered with flesh, and finds
life and voice in the morning. Not one of the French
emplacements is quite silent.
London, England, 1871-01-18

ARMY REFORM.

" Rumour is busy with a project which causes con-
siderable disquiet to Army Reformers. It is said
that a Committee, or Board, is to be formed,
nominally to assist the Secretary for War, and to
ensure the harmonious working of the Horse Guards
and the War Office. But the real 'object of this
proposal, it is further hinted, is to enable
the Commander-in-Chief, and the system which
he practically controls, to tide over the disaffec-
tion which is openly expressed towards both."
The Daily News, which prints this remarkable state-
ment, does not guarantee its accuracy; but it would
hardly give it currency unless there was some fire
behind the smoke. There can be no harm in making
it plainly understood that such a trick would deceive
nobody, and would have no ,effect beyond discre-
diting its originators. The demand for reform (with
or without increase of strength) the army is not
mere shuffling of administrative
cards.thbe 11
Undoubtedly by a
doubtedly such devices have been tried
before, and it may be well, therefore, to anticipate a
repetition of them.
London, England, 1871-01-18

BIRTHS.

On the 11th inst., at Aldershot, Hants, the wife of Colonel

Laffarr, R.E., of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., at Argyll Villas, Brixton, Mrs. Frederic
J. Cornwell, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 12th inst., at Carlton-on-Trent, Mr. John Lee, of
Gardham, to Ann Elizabeth, second daughter of the
late Joseph Smith, Esq., of Carlton-on-Trent.
On the 12th inst., at Terrington St. Clement's, Norfolk,
the Rev. Charles Holt Wilson, vicar of Upavon, Wilt'
shire, to Catharine Ellen, youngest daughter of the late
Rev. T. T. Upwood, of Lovell's Hall, Terrington St.
Clements.
DE ATH S.

On the 15th inst., George Baldock, Esq., of 8, Grove•
road; Brixton, and 35, Milk-street;
On the 16th inst., at 13, Dorset•square, James Rhodes)
Lsq., aged 73.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, 0,
No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by hint
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THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the
Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.
Wednesday, January 18, 1811,
London, England, 1871-01-18

THE MILITIA.

Lord. Airlie considers that by our present mode of
dealing with the Militia we cut ourselves off from
the agricultural labourers, who ought to be one of its
main sources of supply. They are engaged
by the half-year ; and it cannot, there-
fore be expected they will sacrifice the
chance of four or five months' wages. If
instead of the Militia being called out for a month
each year, for five years, every man who enlisted fur
military service were required to undergo six mouths'
training this obstacle would be avoided. So long
London, England, 1871-01-18

FRANCE AND THE CONFERENCE.

The Standard says —England cannot consent to any
modification of the contract until her partner in making
it can give a vote upon the question. She owes that to
France and to herself. It is to France that she must
naturally look for the main support of the
opinion for which material guarantees were taken in
the treaty. It was a mean and unworthy surrender,
to accept the very proposal of a Conference to con-
sider the question raised by Prince Gortschakoff's
circular repudiating the article of the treaty relative to
the neutralisation of the Black Sea at a time when
France was placed in such an embarrassing situation
that her Government could hardly devote any attention
to such a question, and when the English Minister was
aware that it - was the situation of France
which induced the Emperor to take that step.
Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues must have known
that in a Conference to be held under such conditions the
different interests of Europe could not be fairly repre-
sented, and that the position of England would be excep-
tionally disadvantageous. But they longed for an
opportunity of escaping from a question which required
vigorous and decisive treatment ; and when Count
Bismarck suggested a Conference, and actually
made the repudiating Russian circular the basis of the
negotiations, thus giving the Conference the character of
an assembly called to accept the repudiation, and consider
those means of maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman
Empire which Prince Gortschakoff declared himself so
anxious to concert with the other signatories
of the treaty, they rose at once to the fly,
and compelled Aiistri, willing enough to treat,
but upon worthier bases, to accept the Prussian proposal.
The mischief has been done. The English Government
has actually done the dirty work of Russia and Prussia,
whose "loyalty" a Government organ ventures to pro-
claim, and summoned a Conference, the mere convocation
of which is ali admission that Russia had a
.right to
trielpeuccoli-asitgenaththeriterseiastyto,
samn,d)otthhtaht
et
mheattoearloyverimassinwesesll ofas
they can. But if the English Government may accept
such a humiliation for itself, it cannot venture to ask it
even of France in her present position. The Conference
can do nothing until France is represented. We shall
need the help of France, even to complete the measure of
our own humiliation.
London, England, 1871-01-18

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London, England, 1871-01-18

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

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rik_ to its Destine hue, no matter at what age.
J NO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of
the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder-
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London, England, 1871-01-18

THE GERMAN LOSSES.

"Reports from the 2nd Army up to to-day state
the total German loss in killed and wounded during
the victorious engagements from the 6th to the 12th
to be 177 officers, and 3,203 rank and file. The
Germans have taken from the enemy more than
22,000 unwounded prisoners, two colours, 19 guns,
and more than a thousand loaded conveyances, be-
sides a large quantity of arms, ammunition, and war
Material.

" Evening.
"The German batteries before Paris coutiuued
an effective fire to-day, and suffered but little loss."

" THE KING TO QUEEN AUGUSTA.

VERSAILLES, January M.
"General von « erder was yesterday attacked by
General Bouioaki with four Corps in his position
before Belfort, near Montbeliard and Chargey, but
has, with constant fighting, withstood all attacks, so
that on no side was the enemy able to break
through the position. General Von Werder's
loss was only from 300 to 400 men. The number
of prisoners taken in the fight near Le Mans has
arisen to 20,000. During the retreat of the enemy
to Alencon northwards and Laval westwards, war
material and stores, as well as four locomotives and
4,000 waggons, were captured."—Times.

The following telegrams come through Reuter's
agency
CONTiNUED FIGHTING IN, THE EAST OF

FRANCE.
(FRENCH ACCOUNT.)
BORDEAUX, January 10

The army of General Bourbaki fought the whole
daY yesterday, and occupied Montbeliard, Sas-le-
Chateau, Vyans, Savey, Bians, Corporveaux-conte-
Rinant, and Oh a.sey

BORDEAUX, January 16 (Noon).

General Bourbaki, in a despatch dated the 15th
instant, says his army had fought all that day, and
ciceupied different positions, as well as Montbeliard,
With the exception of the Castle. General Bourbaki
adds : --" We shall re-commence at daybreak.
Although we have opposed to us very large forces of
416'1, and moreover a powerful artillery, I hope to be
able to gain ground still and to advance."

(GERMAN ACCOUNT.)
CAILLBEITHIC, January 17.
The folbwing telegram, dated Brevilliers, 16th,
n
P.m., and addressed to the Minister at War, Gene-
ral Beyer, has been received here
"Yesterday and to-day our positions in front of
45elfort were successfully maintained against violent
attacks of the enemy. Our losses are comparatively
8111411.—GLUMER."

GENERAL CHANZI'S RETREAT.
(FKENciI ACCOUNT.)
BORDEAUX, January 16 (Noon).
General Chauzy announces that part of his
arrnY was again attacked yesterday in a most de-
termined manner. The 21st corps fought well
until night, and made prisoners, one of whom is a
eullef of battalion. The 16th corps sustaided a
desperate struggle. Admiral Jaureguiberry had
W'lrbil horse killed under him, and the chief of his staff
as also killed at his side. The other troops opposed
ella resistance to the enemy, the centre losing
bgrQuad. In spite of the bad weather and the trouble
red by these attacks, the retreat continues without
b°a of mat6riel, but our march is greatly retarded
3sa of mat6riel, but our march is greatly retarded
Y 111:1 snow and glazed frost. Prisoners and persons
leulnag from Le Mans, assert that the forces of
eneBluerablmy with which we have to deal are con-
la,
London, England, 1871-01-18

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Now Ready, in 2 vols. Bvo.,

ANNALS OF OXFORD.
By J. C. JEAFFRESON, 8.A., Oxon.

Author of " A Book about the Clergy," &,c

"No one can read these "Annals of Oxford" without feeling
a deep interest in their varied contents. The book contains a
series of sketches of amusing scenes and incidents out of the
records of Oxford, and a large amount of interesting informa-
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C. H. CLARKE,

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London, England, 1871-01-18

PRESENTATION TO MISS CARPENTER.

The people of Seinde have just shewn their appre-
ciation of the valuable services which Miss Carpenter
has rendered to the Indian empire by her exertions
in promoting the progress of female education.
They have presented her with a tablecloth
most elaborately embroidered- in gold and
silver. The design of the whole is beauti-
ful, and has been carried out with great skill in
all the details. .31. a inscription worked in the centre
of the cloth in silver letters contains the words,

" Presented to Mary Carpenter, from. Scinde,"
while verses in Persian characters surround the
border. The cloth was contained in a silver box,
and accompanied by a splendid engrossed address.
Many signatures were attached to it, including those
of six native female teachers, and the address itself
bears strong testimony to the value of the work
which Miss Carpenter has performed in India.
London, England, 1871-01-18

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London, England, 1871-01-18

THE IRRIGATION COMPANY OF FRANCE.

Lords Justices James and Mellish had before them an
appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Malins with
respect to the Irrigation Company of France. Originally
Mr. Charles Burton Fox, of Newport, Monmouthshire,
the holder of three hundred shares with £5,500 paid up,
presented a petition for the compulsory liquidation of the
company (with the alternative of a voluntary winding-
up under supervision); for the renewal Of the present
liquidators; Mr. T. Cave, M.P. for Barnstaple, and Mr.
Alexander Young ; and for liberty to take legal proceed-
ings for setting aside the scheme for the conversion of the
company into a French company. The company was
brought out in 1866, under the auspices of the Credit
Foncier and Mobilier of England, four of whose directors
—Mr. R. Stuart Lane and three others—were appointed
to act on the Irrigation board, whose object was to
acquire concessions granted by the Imperial Government
of France. The petitioner alleged that the business of the
company was fraudulently conducted for the benefit of
the Credit Foncier, as evidenced in the dealings which
led to the acquisition of the first concession,
when the shareholders were charged £90,000, of
which £60,000 was retained by the Credit Foncier, and, in
addition to which, the directors were to receive large
pecuniary benefits, in the shape of commission at the
expense of the shareholders. The concerns of the com-
pany were conducted so recklessly that eventually a
liability of no less than half a million sterling was
created ; and in this state of things the directors nego-
tiated for the transfer of the company to a body of
-Frerch---specut.xtbrs; --tbe-'-effv-a-, Of-which-' would -bo :to
prevent by the change of jurisdiction any investiga-
tion by English tribunals into the conduct
of the directors, as well as to deprive those who should
effect au.exchange of shares of half the amount they had
paid in. At the same time, in spite of the remonstrance
of the petitioner and other shareholders, the voluntary
liquidation of the English Company was proceeded with ;
and Mr. Fox sought to impugn the conduct of the direc-
tors, on the ground that the whole transaction was ultra
vices, and in direct contravention of the 161st section of
the Act of Parliament. But Vice-Chancellor Mathis
dismissed the petition, on the ground that it was not
shewn that the compulsory liquidation would be more
beneficial to the interests of the shareholders than a volun-
tary one. Against that decision Mr. Fox now appealed,
and it is expected that the proeeedings will occupy the
attention of the Court for some considerable time.

KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, 9 6J. to 403.

ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s.

BR. GIITON SUITS, 18s. to 48s.
London, England, 1871-01-18

SERGEANT HOFF.

Some excitement has been produced in Paris by
the discovery, or supposed discovery, that the notable
Sergeant Hoff was a Prussian spy. A short time
ago he became very popular on account of his
exploits among the enemy. He wont out at
night, and returnel declaring that he had
shot two or three Prussians, and brought
their helmets to exhibit as trophies.
He disappeared at the battle of Champigny, and his
mistress, a Frenchwoman, whom he left behind, has
disclosed some suspicious circumstances in connec-
tion with h;m. His accusers declare that his real
name was Henze], and he was a lieutenant in a
Bavarian regiment. People now -remember
that the expeditions which gained him so
much credit were carried on in rather ft strange
fashion. He started with several companions, but
generally returned alone, saying that his friends were
shot. Thcee who returned without him report that he
always carried on his business alone. He made them
stop at a particular point, and went by himsolf on
what seemed to be the dangerous part of the under-
taking. A shot or so would be heard, and
Hoff would return with the usual trophy of
success. When he fired shots in the presence of
others, they were always without sueceas., This
daring individual, who exhibited a dexterity worthy
of a better cause, is said to have met his late at the
hands of those whom he betrayed. A detach,
ment of Free-shooters of the Seine say they
could not mistake hi i identity, and that
they took him prisoner a few days ago at Bezons,
recognised him, and shot him. Sergeant Hoff's
name will figure prominently in the annals of the
spy system which the Prussians have carried on with
such extraordinary success during the present war.
It would, however, be interesting to know whether
all these romantic adventures are true. There seems
to be some doubt on the point.
London, England, 1871-01-18

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18,

meeting. Lord Howard of Glossop was amongst the
speakers.

BEFORE THE WAR,

The resolutions recently passed by the Southampton
Town Council was complied with yesterday, by hanging
in the Council Chamber an illuminated document contain-
ii g the Emperor Napoleon's reply to an address of the
corporation, congratulating him on his escape from as-
sassination. The translation is as follows :—" Nlais des
Tuileries, ninth Jeune, seventy. Mr. Mayor,—l have re-
ceived with great satisfaction the address which you have
forwarded to me in the name of the Municipal Council
of Southampton. The sympathy which you manifest
towards me with reference to the recent design upon my
life touches me deeply, and in it I see a fresh proof of the
friendship which unites France to England. I trust most
heartily they may ever continue so, for modern society
has to depend for its progress upon our union
and efforts. Accept my thanks for the interest you
take in the well-being of France and the happiness of my
frmily, and bear, as their representative, to your fellow-
townsmen my utmost appreciation of their kind sentiment.
—" NAPOLEON."

THE-BOMBARDMENT.

The special correspondent of the Daily News, at the
headquarters of the Crown Prince of Saxony, sends the
following by special despatch :

MARGENCY, January 14.

Yesterday was very hazy, and the firing on the
East and North-East was sluggish and without
visible results. It was still slower during the night.
The Paris Journal of the 12th states that on
the night of the 10th orders were issued for a sortie.
The ambulances, &c., were to be in readiness ; but early in
the morning there came a countermand. The same morn-
ing a balloon was despatched, and the populace con-
temptuously alleged that General Trochu had gone away
in it. The direction of the intended sortie is not indicated.
The Francs-tireurs now occupy the French outposts in
our immediate front here, and make themselves rather
troublesome, especially about Villanteneuse.
LE BOURGET, January 14 (Evening,).

At ten o'clock last night considerable French forces
made a sortie from Drancy to Le Bourget, coming
within one hundred yards of the outposts occupied
by two battalions of the Queen Elizabeth Regi-
ment. A fierce musketry fire was exchanged for
some time. It resulted in the retreat of the French
troops. They advanced again from Drancy, and once
from Courneuve, with the same result. The officers were
heard entreating the men to advance—" Pour l'amour de
Dieu en evant," they exclaimed ; but it was all to no pur-
pose. Forts de l'Est, du Nord, Aubervilliers, and
Romainville, and two field batteries at Drancy,
fired heavily into Le Bourget for three hours.
The German loss was six men wounded ; none killed.
The French took back with them whatever killed and
wounded they had. From their exposed positions they
must have suffered considerably. To-day all has been
quiet. The weather is very misty. Our north-east
battery steadily fired into Drancy.
London, England, 1871-01-18

THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LiroEum--„Ali Baba.
DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley.
COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty.
ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe
Bough.
HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth.
Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom.
VeunEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or
the Invisible Armada.
OPERA CoMIQUE
—t
Blue Devils. Found Drowned.
The Lottery Ticket.
STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. Coeur-de-

Lion.
ST. JAmEs's—To Oblige Benson. War. Bombastes

Furioso.
OLYmPic—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY—Dora's Device, Whittington Junior and his
Sensation Cat, and Diamond Cut Diamond.
GAlETY—Operetta. A Christmas Story. Alladin 11.
QuEEN's—Charles 11. Richelieu.
GLOBE—Rights of Woman. Delicate Ground. The
White Cat. Rely on my Discretion.
HOLBORN—Ticket-of-Leave Man. Jezabel.
PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked
In.
PRINCESS'S—Peep o' Day. Little Gil Blas. He's
a Lunatic.
ASTLEY'S—Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemouse.
SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack.
NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to
Banbury Cross.
SADLER'S WELLS—Sinbad the Sailor.
EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panoratho of the
Franoo-Prussian War.
AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS 4Holholll)—Scenes in the
Arena.
ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening.
ALHASIBRA—New Musical Entertainment, "*Superba..'
POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
noon and Evening.
PALMS RoYAL—Perfonning Gorilla.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Bakor-street) —From 10 a. in. till 10
p.m. is.; extra room,, 6d.
London, England, 1871-01-18

FATAL ACCIDENT WITH A GUN.

Yesterday, at the hamlet of Lordswood, Hampshire, a
boy, twelve years of age, named Massey,[took up a gun
with which a soldier on furlough had been shooting spar-
rows, and fired it. The charge lodged in the head of
Elizabeth Knox, the soldier's wife, who was coming up
the garden at the time, and caused her almost immediate
death.

A SHIP WRECKED OFF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
About seven o'clock on Monday morning a French
lugger, the Hannah, of Rixniers, went ashore on the ship
ledge in Brixton Bay, Isle of Wight. She was bound
from Marseilles to Rouen, with a cargo of salt, but in
consequence of the war, was making for Cherbourg. Her
crew consisted of her master and four men, who were all
saved by the coastguard. She now lies under the cliff a
complete wreck. Her cargo has been washed out of her.
London, England, 1871-01-18

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with WHITTINGTON JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT.

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THE PRUSSIANS AT HAVRE.

Writing from Havre, under date January 16, the cor-
respondent of the Standard says :—The Prussians continue
to prowl all over the department with the same utter
absence from molestation as the tigers in the jungle
about Singapore. There was a smart brush
between one of their pickets and some Francs-
tireurs, yesterday, both at Bolbec and St.
Romain. The casualties on either side were merely
nominal. At Dieppe and Fecamp the enemy has also paid
recent visits, without doing any material damage, save
" requisitioning " breakfasts. When we consider that
both these towns are seaports, and that the French have
unimpeded command of the sea, the fact of these raids
being possible reflects anything but credit on the French
authorities. A few hundred men would be able to pro-
tect Dieppe against these almost daily visits of a few
Prussian raiders. The authorities here are very savage
with the mayors and inhabitants of small villages
for being civil to the enemy and complying with his be-
hests, but it is not to be wondered at. All the population
of these localities capable of bearing arms have been
drafted into the army, or the Mobile, or the Mobilised
National Guard. They are frequently visited by the
Prussian cavalry, but they never see a French
soldier by any chance, and naturally form their
own conclusions from the utter inability of the
military to protect them. Of course, troops cannot be
everywhere, but it is not easy to comprehend, why, if the
road to Rouen is left in possession of the Prussians, they
should be allowed to make themselves at home at Fecamp,
Dieppe, and St. Valery en Caux. Let us hope that the
new general will take steps to prevent a few hundred
Prussians being masters of the sea coast as well as of the
inland portions of Upper Normandy.
London, England, 1871-01-18

HABITUAL CRIMINALS ACT.

The Ordinary of Newgate, in his recent report,
alludes to the difficulties which are put in the way
of discharged prisoners obtaining work by the
Habitual Criminals Act. He does not think it
was ever intended that a person who
had only committed a slight offence should be
photographed, and a description of him sent
to the police, and feats that injurious results
will follow from this indiscriminate practice. No
one should be treated as an habitual criminal, unless
he has given conclusive evidence to that effect by
having been frequently in prison, or by associating
with thieves. Those in charge of prisoners
can readily furnish such tests of character,
more especially if the prisoners are care-
fally classified. The consequence of the police
following closely upon the steps of the discharged
prisoner is that the unfortunate man can gain no em-
ployment, and his attempts to lead a reformed life
are quite unavailing. The Ordinary is in favour of
a scheme for letting offenders come gradually to the
enjoyment of complete emancipation. The Dis-
charged Prisoners' Aid Society does much, but cannot
meet all the requirements of the case. Industrial
hemes are greatly needed for those who have no
respectable friends to go to, when discharged from
prison on license. Their labour might pay for their
maintenance, and what was over be saved for their
benefit at the expiration of the license. Others
might emigrate or be sent to different parts of the
country where there is a demand for labour. It may
be remarked that though it is undoubtedly an un-
fortunate thing that prisoners cannot find employ-
ment, most prisoners for whom the Habitual Act
was intended, never sought any work, nor coul dthey
be induced to do it.
London, England, 1871-01-18

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

A locomotive engineer calls attention to the insuffi-
cient supply of sidings as one great cause of railway
disasters. Where the traffic is heavy, and the
trains numerous, a complete rearrangement should be
adopted. In some places separate lines might be
made to connect several sidings together, and the
number of communications with the main line might
thereby be reduced. Refuge sidings, upon which
goods trains could he placed when the line has to
be cleared, should be provided upon a much more
comprehensive scale than has yet been adopted.
Few railways in this country, says this authority,
arc, provided with sufficient " lay-by " sidings, and it
frequently happens that the only way of clearing the
line for a passenger train is by shunting the goods
trains from one main line to another, thereby block-
ing up the opposite line of rails, and totally impeding
the traffic on the other line until the train shunted
for has passed, and the train shunted has resumed
its proper line of rails.
London, England, 1871-01-18

STOCK EXCHANGES,

LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE.—Opening price of Consols at 11.15
and statement of business done at 12.15, with remarks—
£2lBs. 6d. per quarter.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.—Report and Closing Quotations—
£2 18s. 6d. per quarter.
PROVINCIAL STOCK EXCHANORS.—Two reports are forwarded
daily from Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Leeds—charge,
£ll9s. per quarter for each report.
London, England, 1871-01-18

THE GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY AT KATTYWAB.

Sir Seymour Fitzgerald has been making a tour in
Kattvwar, and has held a grand durbar at Rajcote,
at which all the principal chiefs of the State were
present, besides the political, military, and civil ,
officers. All the due formalities of a great State
reception were observed, the four chiefs of the first
rank being receivLd with salutes of eleven guns each,
and after the presentation of an address (in English)
and his Excellency's reply, each of the chiefs was
presented to him, and gave the usual offering of
embroidered cloth, &c. A more interesting ceremony
afterwards took place at Rajcote, when the Governor
opened the Raj koomar College, an educational institu-
tion for the young princes of Kattywar. This is an
establishment which has long been wanted, for the
sons of the native chiefs are brought up in the midst of
their courtiers, seeing and learning nothing of the outer
world in which they are to rule. Sir Seymour Fitz-
gerald, in his speech at the Durbar, impressed upon
the chiefs the importance of providing a good cvl uca-
tion for their sons. The college is a ncblo building,
constructed of the white sandstone of Rajcote. The
young students will have the opportunity of develop-
ing their physical as well as their mental powers
there ; and the Governor brought this point especially
under the notice of the fathers. The Erpeeciles
delivered at the inauguration were full of interest,
and the whole affair passed off most brilliantly.
London, England, 1871-01-18

MESSAGE TO MOLTKE.

5.30 p.m.

On the 15th General Trochu sent out a parelmen-
taire with a letter to Count Moltke, remonstrating
against the damage done by the fire of the batteries
to schools and hospitals which were under the pro-
tection of international humanity. Yesterday Count
Moltke replied that it was by accident, owing to the
great distance and fog, that such buildings had been
struck, but that when the batteries were nearer the
gunners could be more discriminate in their aim.
The fire continues methodically. The frost is gone.

PURSUIT OF CHANZY.

BERLIN, January 16 (7 p.m.).

General Von Werder again, on the 10th, held his
position south of Belfort against renewed attacks of
the enemy. General Schmidt, in pursuit of the
enemy, who is retreating on Laval, has pushed for-
ward as far as Voiges, and has again made 2,000
prisoners. Alencon was occupie 1 alter little resist-
ance on the night of the 16-17th.
The following telegram 3 have been received
here :

ROYAL HEAD-QUARTERS, VERSAILLES,
January N.

" Before Paris the enemy fired from the southern
front with nine batteries. Their fire, however, was
successfully returned. Our loss was two officers and
seven men. Major Koppel], of the 77th Regiment,
yesterday encountered 1,000 Mobile Guards near
Marac, north-west of Langres. After a fight, which
lasted an hour and a half, the enemy was driven
back upon Langres in wild flight, and with the loss
of one standard.
London, England, 1871-01-18

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London, England, 1871-01-18

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

An accident occurred last evening between Kettering
and Rushton, on the Midland Railway. A waggon of a
ballast train got off the line, by striking a point near
Rushton, and throwing over several of the other trucks,
caused a block for a considerable time. The three
o'clock express from London to the North was delayed for
an hour.

Another accident happened yesterday morning to the
express from the North to the South, due at Leicester at
9.27 a.ni. The tyre of one of the wheels of the leading
break van broke as the train was approaching Draycott
at full speed, the consequence being that the van and two
adjoining carriages were thrown off the rail. The guard
had a narrow escape, as the bottom of his van was
knocked out. Some of the passengers in the fore part of
the train were severely shaken. Mr. Ellis, a director of
the line, was travelling by the express,but he sustained no
injury.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.
It is announced from Plymouth that warrants are in the
hands of the Stonehouse police for the arrest of Mr.
Tremiles, chief clerk of the Three Towns Banking Com-
pany, who disappeared on Monday, some suspected
irregularities having to be investigated by the directors
to-day. The warrants charge him with embezzling £45
in cash, and Turkish Securities of the value of £lOO.