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London, England, 1871-01-26

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IREN OH PRISONERS IN GERMANY,

FIRST LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS,

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London, England, 1871-01-26

EMIGRATION OF FRENCH REFUGEES TO
JERSEY.

The emigration of French refugees from the north-west
of France to Jersey continues. Nearly forty persons
arrived on Wednesday morning by the steamer from
Granville. In that neighbourhood the Prussians do not
appear to have shewn themselves. Extra boats are run-
ning between the island and the French ports.
London, England, 1871-01-26

wehr men were soon overpowered, only some 20 escaping '
up the line towards TouL The chamber in the third arch
from the right bank was now-opened, filled, and just before
the train was ready a railway train filled with 750 cavalry
under the command of Lieutenant Campbell, of the 17th
Cuirassiers passed at full speed. The mine exploded as
the last waggon gained terra firma. By the explosion two
arches were completely destroyed, and will take at least
fifteen days to repair. In the meantime a pontoon bridge
has been built, and the mail trains run to either side. The
Garibaldians made good their retreat, carrying :off forty
Landwehr men prisoners. Ten were left dead on the
spot. —Manchester Guardian.
London, England, 1871-01-26

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CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES
of tht CHEST, Victoria Park.
Special APPEAL for the NEW WING
Amount still required, £4,000.
Number of beds now occupied, 120.
Number of beds available with proposed addition, 164.
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London, England, 1871-01-26

ALSACE AND LORRAINE.

•
The Allge»zeine Zeitung, of Augsburg, has striven
to ascertain the reason why Alsace and Lorraine,
which were originally German provinces, and are now
inhabited by a German speaking race, should display
such inalienable attachment to France. Undoubtedly
the French Government have striven hard to un-Ger-
manize these two provinces. The Roman Catholic's were
favoured at the expense of the Protestants.
Litigants who spoke in standard German were
ordered to use the Alsatian dialect. In girls board-
ing school a fine was imposed on every German word
which was inadvertently uttered. German books
were excluded as far as possible from infant schools
and free libraries, and fortunate was the mistress
who shewed that her pupils occasionally prd,ttled
in French. Village schoolmasters found where
their interest lay, and made a parade of their
French-speaking scholars. More potent still in
bringing about the desired change were the com-
mercial and social advantages derivable from a
knowledge of French. Another powerful influence
was the political liberty enjoyed in France since
1830 compared with the repression of Liberalism
in Germany. It was this, in the opinion of the
Allgenzeine Zeitung, which gave Germanism in
Alsace its most deadly blow. There can be little
doubt of the fact. It is a pity that the Rrussians do
not apply this lesson in their treatment of the Poles,
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London, England, 1871-01-26

SUSPECTED ROBBERY OF DIAMONDS.

Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance and
foreign aspect was arrested at Northampton, where he
had called at a jeweller's shop and offered a large quantity
of old gold for sale. On being searched, he was found to
be in the possession of a very handsome brilliant ring,
several large loose diamonds, and large clusters of the same
gems, as well as a quantity of gold. The prisoner, who
arrived in Northampton on Tuesday night, in company
with a young woman, stated that he had found a box
containing the articles in question, and had brought it
from Germany.
London, England, 1871-01-26

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London, England, 1871-01-26

THE ARMY OF THE NORTH.

The special correspondent of the Daily News, in a letter
from Lille, January 21, remarks :—As days roll on, the
effects of the battle of St. Quentin shew themselves even
more disastrously. The scattered soldiers are cowed, and
notwithstanding any number of orders of the day from
the general, they know very tvell that his con-
gratulations upon their prowess and courage are
undeserved. Any attempt to rally them would be
utterly useless just now, for the Prussians have struck
terror throughout the districts. Many officers say in
private that they are quite willing to fight if they see any
object or a chance; but they object to being simply
led out without fair prospects of success. The
rumour to-day bas heen that the enemy is making
its way to cut off the railway between Hazebrouck and
Lille, so as to prevent any of the Army of the North
escaping by sea to Cherbourg. If I may judge from what
I have gathered, the majority will infinitely prefer being
forced into Belgium than being allowed any
chance of being sent to fight elsewhere. The
'feeling is they have done their duty and shewn
their courage, and that it is useless to struggle against
the force they have to contend with. This runs through
all, excepting the sailors and marines, both of whom, I
believe, would march out to morrow morning with wil-

lingness if they were ordered. The TJhlans are prome-
manading all the country in the angle formed by Cambrai,
Arras, and Douai, and were this afternoon within six
miles of the latter place.
London, England, 1871-01-26

INDIA.

BARRA CKP 0 OR, January 24.
Yakoob Khan, after surrendering, and while on
his way to Cabul, tried to stipulate for the Governor-
ship of a province. The Ameer's servants, including
Asluni Khan, pleaded their inability to give any pro-
mise, and on this ground, or suspecting treachery,
Yakoob attacked them, and, after a crushing defeat,
escaped with a few followers. Whither he has gone
is not known.
London, England, 1871-01-26

THEATRES AND AMUSEMENTS.

ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LYCEUM—L'ltallana in Algeri.
DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Drag Wantley.
COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Slon ofeeping Beauty.
ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe
Bough.
EIAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth.
Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom.
VAUDEVILLE -Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the
Invisible Armada.
OPERA CoMIQUE Blue Devils. Found Drowned
The Lottery Ticket.
STRAND—On and Off.
Lion.
London, England, 1871-01-26

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THE EUROPEAN WAR.
The SUN is Published Every Morning
at EIGHT O'CLOCK, with SOME
HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other
paper." This Edition will always contain
the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and
of all other events.

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COUNT BISMARCK'S SCHEME.

We have more than once expressed the belief that
Count Bismarck has been once more making a tool
of the deposed Imperial family, in order to
frighten the Republican Government to make
peace. The tone of his- last disgracefully
insulting note to M. Jules Favre—a document of
almost unparalleled brutality—did not weaken this
suspicion. The Times, in a leader positively an-
nounces that such is the case. Count Bismarck "is
at this moment" (i.e. yesterday morning) seeking to
obtain from M. Jules Favre, not only the surrender
of Paris, but also the conclusion of peace. "M. Favre
will, of course, refuse, protesting that he and his col-
leagues in Paris, having failed in de.ending the
city, have no more authority to bind France
than the Commandant at Belfort or at Longwy ;
but Count Bismarck will thereupon produce
another weapon from his armoury. He will tell M.
Favre that he yesterday obtained from the exiled Em-
press, with the full consent of the captive of Wilhelm,
shoe, a complete acceptance of his terms, awl that M.
Favre and his associates have no choice but to yield
and save the chance of maintaining a Republican
organization, or refuse and admit an Imperialist re-
storation." Of course, however, such a scheme can
come to nothing if the Government of Defence per-
sist in its determination. But when Paris surrenders
and its garrison become prisoners of war, Count Bis-
marck will still have the agreement of the Empress
in his pocket, and may attenip% an Imperialist resto-
ration if the Republican Government yet hold out.

WAR A OITTRANCE.
Whether the feeling of the French nation is ix
favour of peace or war is a question much in dispute,
London, England, 1871-01-26

THE NEGOTIATIG/IZEIFOR SIIREEITDER.

The Time; in an article on the present situation of
Paris, says :—lt was confidently annotinced yesterday
morning that M. Jules Favre would arrive in London in
the course of the afternoon, only twenty-four hours after
his presence was reported at Versailles ; and his hurried
journey was taken as a sufficient proof that he had either
broken off his negotiations for the surrender of the capital,
or that he had left them to be carried on by some of his
colleagues in the Provisional Government. It was, indeed
hardly possible to imagine that he could have brought the
matter to any terniination in so short a time, especially
considering the nature of his original proposal. M.
Jules Favre, however, is still at Versailles, and there
can be little doubt as to the eventual sense of the trans-
action which his journey has initiated. The capitulation
of Paris cannot be long postponed. We hare not for-
gotten that, on the eve of the fall of Metz, Marshal
Bazaine put forward demands almost identical with those
of which the French Minister for Foreign Affairs is said
to be the bearer—that he claimed permission for the
besieged army, which he affected to regard as something
apart from the garrison, to quit the place with all the
honours of war. These terms were not granted, and
Bazaine, who knew very well they were not reasonable, had
to be satisfied with that mere show of honour to which
by the usages of war he was entitled, and to resign
himself, with ev an bearing arms under him,
to captivity. It o, rardly be doubted that the
eScilitipi
men at the head of affairs in Paris, whoever they may
now be, will have to undergo the same fate and
submit to the same conditions. The only alternative
is to continue to fight and to suffer, and we believe Paris
is at the end both of its material strength and of its moral
power of endurance. Whatever, indeed, may have
been the clamour in some quarters of the -city,
we must be allowed to question whether the
real fighting men were ever as eager for
a sortie as they were represented to lie.
The loss of the garrison at the last sortie is estimated at
6,000, of whom 1,000 dead were left lying in front of the
German works. The honour of Paris, and even of
France, may rest satisfied with this fearful sacrifice. M.
Gambetta may think otherwise, but before he asks for
more blood, he is bound to ascertain whether the
country's thirst for it is as unslacked as his own.
London, England, 1871-01-26

LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1870.

PARIS IN EXTRFMIS.
The statement that negotiations hal been opened
for the surrender of Paris could take nobody by
surprise. The precise day on which terms might be
arranged mattered little. The main fact was patent—
that unless the armies could break out the food supplies
would be exhausted, and surrender at discretion must
be a matter of necessity. The end of January has
always been fixed by reasonable calculations as the
period when the resistance must break down. The
Germans expected to spend their Christmas within
the walls ; sanguine French sympathisers believed
in a defence until the end
,of March ; mode-
rate estimates struck the mean between these
extremes. The end has come now. The food supplies
would probably last until the middle of February,
but some few days reserve must be kept in order to
feed the inhabitants during the period of re-
victualling. Therefore, if the resistance were pro -
longed to the uttermost, it would seem that • it
could not go beyond the early days of February
without producing a famine.
London, England, 1871-01-26

THE JERSEY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.

Another incident happened in the Jersey Legislative
Assembly yesterday afternoon. After the members had
transacted Nome business, great confusion occurred, and
some of them left without permission of the President.
Business could not be proceeded with for want of quorum.
One rector wished a fine to be inflicted on absent mem-
bers. The Constable of St. Heliers urged that the law
was too strict, and another member immediately intro-
duced a bill for modifying the same by lessening
quorum. Discussion on the bill was postponed, and the
Assembly adjourned.

CARRYING FIREARMS IN IRELAND.
A circular, signed by the lieutenant and several
magistrates of the county of Londonderry, to the Govern-
ment, has been issued, urging the necessity of directing
the constabulary to aid in carrying into force the Act im-
posing a license of ten shillings on all persons, other than
those specified who use and carry guns, and stating that
the statute will remain a dead letter, and be openly and
knowingly violated by great numbers of persons, if left
solely in the hands of the Excise Department.
London, England, 1871-01-26

WRECK OFF LOWESTOFF.

Yesterday morning the sloop John and Susannah, of
Lowestoff, left that port laden with herrings for London.
Two hours after she had got out of harbour she struck on
the Barnard Sands. She went to pieces in five minutes.
The crew of three men were all drowned. The vessel is
reported to be ninety years old.
London, England, 1871-01-19

MARKETS,

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Bristol,
Corn—Thursday. a week.
mristol, Cattle—Thursday. • „ Potatoes—Daily.
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Thursday. „ Provision—Daily.
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Cork, Butter—Daily. „ Corn—Tuesday.
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PRUSSIA AND FRANCE.

The Prussian Government wishes it to be understood,
remarks the Standard, that it will treat for peace only
with France. What Count Bismarck means by France it
is difficult to say after reading his circular in reply to
Count Chaudordy. In that document, remarkable in so
many respects, and written in a forcible feeble style very
foreign to the great Prussian statesman, he practically
denies all authority to the present Government of
France, and appears to contemplate a legitimate expres-
sion of the national will in a future general election con-
ducted by his agents. But this question is comparatively
etuotrtarleapto a
wt
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unimportant. With whatsoever French Government
same Count t
inof the Bismarcksome,may treat,a t h e will leave
The German pretension that the matter is one
which Germany victorious and France vanquished
least,
have to settle between themselves, and in which other
nations have no right to interpose, is preposterous. Its
acceptance by those neutrals would, of course, be conve-
nient, and considering the servility and the cowardice they
have shewn, the Prussian calculation that they might be
frightened into submitting to it was legitimate enough.
When Lord Granville was stimulated into the ex-
pression of a desire for the restoration of peace by
Count Bismarck's expatiating with a grim jocoseness
upon the deaths from starvation which must follow the
surrender of Paris, he anxiously urged in the dispatches
he addressed to the Neutral Courts that no pressure
should be put upon Prussia. Prussia was victorious, and
the pressure, therefore, was to be applied to the
Provisional Government. Can anybody be surprised if,
after these experiences, Count Bismarck should
receive all suggestions of mediation with the re-
fusal which his organs proclaim he has given to the
recent overtures of the Courts of Vienna and St. James ?
We expect to hear from Lord Granville worthier and
manlier language than he has yet attempted to use. We
expect an assertion of the rights of England, and a decla-
ration that England will have her wishes
as well as her interests consulted in any
treaty of peace. If that expectation should be
disappointed—if Lord Granville, after intriguing in
every court in Europe, nominally in favour of neutrality,
but really in favour of Prussia—if after employing all his
influence to prevent France from obtaining allies, should
now look idly on whilst Prussia determines, so far as she
can, the future of France, or intervene no further than
with his counsels, the Government will not survive that
meeting of Parliament which they have postponed to
the latest possible day, but which is now near at
hand.
London, England, 1871-01-19

THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, LYCEUM—Crespino e la Comare.
DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley.
CovENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty.
ADELPHI—Smoke. One Touch of Nature. Mistletoe

Bough.
HAYmAnKEI,—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Tenth.
Uncle's Will. The Spectre Bridegroom.
VAuDEvaLß—Chiselling. Two Roses.

Elizabeth, ar

the Invisible Armada..
OPERA COMIQUE Blue Devils.
The Lottery Ticket.
STRAND—On and Off.
Lion.
ST. JAMEs's—To Oblige Benson. War.

Found Drowned,

Living at Ease. Coeur-de

Bombastes

Furioso.
OLYMPlC—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. Merchant of Venice.
GLOBE—Rights of Woman. Delicate Ground.
White Cat. Rely on my Discretion.
HOLBORN—Ticket-of-Leave Man. Jezabel.
PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours.
In.
PRINCESS'S—Peep o' Day.
a Lunatic.
ASTLEY'S—Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemoust,
SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack.
NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to

Locked

Little Gil Blas.

Banbury Cross.
SADLER'S WELLS—Sinbad the Sailor.
EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the
Franco-Prussian War.
AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)--Scenes in the
Arena.
ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening.
ALHAMBRA—New Musical Entertainment, " Superba."
PoLvnomm—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
noon and Evening.
PALMS ROYAL—Performing Gorilla.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10
p.m. in.; extra rooms, 6d.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1871.

THE FAMOUS PLAN.

General Trochu's " plan," so far as anything is
known of it, seems to have been formed on the
assumption that assistance would arrive from the
provinces. He had no idea of getting away from
Paris unaided. He meditated forming an army in-
side Paris whilst others were forming out-
side, and at the proper moment the two
would join hands. But at least five conditions
were necessary to success in this enterprise :-1. To
form a solid army in Paris under severe discipline.
2. To extend the defences of the place, and to make
it what is called impregnable. 3. To prevent or
suppress all efforts at risings or revolutions. 4. To
rouse the provinces from their stupor and bring
nearly all the available me❑ beneath the flag, so as
to constitute at least four armies, which would con-
verge at the same time upon Paris, while a fifth
army would manoeuvre in the East to intercept the
communications of the enemy. sth. To have suffi-
cient food to wait. All these have been complied
with more or less ; but the fourth and fifth do not
combine very well. There are armies in the pro-
vinces, and there is food in Paris, but the one doeA
not appear likely to last until the other can
get up. The work has been bard and most
honourably performed, but it all goes for
nothing unless the provincial armies and the food
supplies keep in tolera'ile accord. Trochu, now that
his plan has failed, appears from all accounts to know
not what to do.
London, England, 1871-01-19

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

SUN OFFICE, 8 A.m.

THE WAR.

TIIE SUNKEN BRITISH SHIPS.

BERLIN, January 18.

A letter from the King of Prussia to Prince Henry
of the Netherlands, Governor-General of Luxem-
burg, expresses the hope that the questions pewling
between Luxemburg and Germany will be amicably
settled. The letter also assures the Prince that Ger-
many has no intentions to imperil the existence of
Luxembourg as a separate State.
Lord Granville, in a communication to Count
Bismarck, accepts the proposlll of the German
Chancellor to pay for the British vessels sunk at
Duclair.
London, England, 1871-01-19

SEIZURE OF WATCHES.

The Glasgow police has made the largest
seizure of supposed stolen watches which has ever
taken place there. The police took possession of
two hundre 1 gold end silver watches which
composed nearly the whole stock of a
maker named M'Courty. They were in-
duced to search the shop on account of a
stolen watch which was pawned having been traced
to M'Courty's possession. The police ha 1 long sus-
pected that watches were "reset" in the shop, but
until the other day had no opportunity of proving
such to be the fact. The watch in question had
been given by WCourty to a man to wear while his
own was being mended. It was pawned by
this man, and the detectives recoverei it as stolen
,property. Upon a minute examination of the
watches, thirty-five have been identified as ha"ing
been stolen in different parts of the city during the
last six months, and a great many others have been
altered; or "doctored," as it iS called. When the
police came into the shop, they found i\l'Courty and
his workmen engaged in altering watches. APCourty
is supposed to have been connected with the business
of a jeweller who was outlawed for resetting at the
last Circuit Court. He and his workmen have been
apprehended.
London, England, 1871-01-19

THE LATE EXPLOSION AT WITTON.

At the adjourned inquest on the bodies of the persons
who died in the Birmingham Hospital, from the effects of
the injuries received in the explosion on the 9th December
at Messrs. Ludlow's ammunition manufactory at
Witton, the jury yesterday found a verdict to the effect
that there was not sufficient evidence to show how the ex-
plosion was caused. They expressed the opinion that
the proprietors of the manufactory had been negli-
gent in the general conduct of their works,
more especially in allowing an unprotected
stove and paraffin lamps in the workshops.
The jury recommended that the workpeople should wear
non-inflamable clothing ; that fewer of them should work
together in the shops where dangerous processes were car-
ried on ; and that more stringent rules for their guidance
should be framed, frequently read over to them, and
strictly enforced.
London, England, 1871-01-19

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London, England, 1871-01-19

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London, England, 1871-01-19

TRADE REPORTS,

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reports from the chief centres of industry, which are telegraphed
at the earliest period at which the tone and result of business
becomes known on the chief market days. These reports will be
found of great value for first-class newspapers and news rooms.
They will be forwarded direct from the following places, and
are supplied at is. each :
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Thursday. Manchester, Trade Tuesday
Bradford, Worsted Trade— and Friday.
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London, England, 1871-01-19

LIBEL.

At the Liverpool Police Court yesterday, an application
was made on belMlf of Police Inspector Southwell, to com-
mit Charles Willmer, the proprietor of the Liberal Review,
for libel, in stating that the Inspector had knowingly
recommended an unfit man for a publican's license. A
qualified explanation was accepted.
London, England, 1871-01-19

NEW RAILWAYS FOR JERSEY.

At the sitting of the Jersey State yesterday, the Con-
stable of St. Heliers brought forward a bill for the
construction of a railway from St. Heliers to Gorey, and
afterwards from Gorey to St. Catherine's Harbour, on the
north of the Island. The line is to be constructed by the
Jersey Eastern Railway Company, with a capital of
£40,000 as regards the line to Gorey, and £20,000 for the
line to St. Catherines. The bill was opposed by some
members, and laid on the table.

INQUEST.
The inquest on Elizabeth Knox, the young married
woman who was shot by her nephew on Monday last, at
Shirley, near Southampton, was held yesterday. The
boy's evidence proved that the affair was entirely acci-
dental, and a verdict was returned accordingly. The
London, England, 1871-01-19

CATCH V. SHARN.

The public will not have forgotten the case of
Catch v. Sheen, in which the plaintiff, the master of
Lambeth Workhouse, sued Mr. Shaen for pub-
lishing defamatory statements respecting Mr. Catch's
proceedings towards paupers. The jury found £6OO
damages, whereupon the judge stayed judgment.
The foreman of the jury explained that this large
sum was not thought excessive for " a man and his
wife earning the equivalent of £3OO a year."
Most people will be of opinion that two
whole years' income is rather excessive in the
way of damages for libel; but the foreman mistakes
the real cause of the judgment being stayed. The
disclosures in court respecting the management of
Lambeth workhouse were such as to provoke from
the judge strong expressions of condemnation.
Evidence more or less trustworthy was adduced in
favour of various bharges of ill-treatment. The
judge himself saw some of the cells, and denounced
them in no measured terms.. For publishing an
account of this state of things Mr. Shaen was
condemned in damages of £6OO, and the enlightened
jury think the sum not excessive. The moral is clear.
Let no imprudent. philanthrop'st turn hie attention
to workhouse affairs. A jury of British ratepayers
will teach him that the management of paupers is
not to be lightly meddled with.
London, England, 1871-01-19

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The SUN is Pubiished Every Morning
at EIGIT F O'CLOCK, with SOME
lIOURS' LATER NEWS than any other
paper. This edition will always contain
the LATEST NEWS ot the WAIL, and
ot all other events.
London, England, 1871-01-19

CHINESE APPEAL TO PRUSSIA.

The last mail that arrived in France from China
brings the following news. Rear-Admiral Duprei
has demanded an indemnity of two hundred and
forty millions for the victims of the late massacre.
The admiral has besides demanded the demolition of
the fortress of Ta Kou, which protects the entrance of
Petchelee, and prevents small French vessels ascend-
ing to Tientsin. As a national satisfaction he claims
the heads of the three mandarins guilty of complicity
or indifference. The Chinese Government having
asked the protection of the Prussian
Chargé d'Affaires, the French Admiral blockaded
the German frigate Medusi in the port of
Yokohama, Japan, under threat of sinking her
if e attempted to leave. Admiral Duprd was
preparing to attack the ports in the Chinese Em-
pire, and only awaited to commence his ope-
rations the arrival of the ironclad corvette
Alma, which was at the end of October at Singa-
pore, ready to start to reinforce the admiral in the
north of China. The screw corvette D'Assas, cruis-
ing in-the Archipelago of the Sonde, was keeping up
an active chase of German merchantmen. Numbers
of Prussian prizes were laden at Saigon, mostly large
fine vessels richly laden, and more were arriving
constantly.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
SUPPOSED MURDER IN HULL.

At twenty minutes past ten o'clock on Tuesday night, a
young woman named Emma Starkie, aged about 20 years,
was founcjilead in Caughly-street, Hull, with an axe
deeply embedded in her skull. The deceased, who
resided in Clarendon-street, in that town, left home about
8 o'clock on Tuesday night. No clue has been obtained of
the murderer.
London, England, 1871-01-19

PRUSSIAN REPULSE.

A
body of Prussians, with.two guns, attacked the
French troops in the direction of Saint Romain on
the 17th. They threw shells into the village.
Alter a severe engagement they were repulsed

with heavy loss.
and ten wounded.

The French had five men killed

CAPTUIM OF ALENCON.

The town of Alencon was captured on Monday
afternoon by the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin and the thirteenth corps.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

Paris, according to news on the 14th, has still
resources for two months at least.

The France and the Constit utionel agree with
the Radical journals in approving of M. Jules
Favre's not going to the conferenee at present,
while the Debats and Patrie urge him to take
advantage of this opportunity in order to negotiate
an honourable peace.
Some petroleum bombs have been thrown into the
city, but no great results have been obtained. Fires
are unusual and quickly extinguished. The pro-
jectiles reach as far as the Seine, and the inhabi-
tants on the left bank of the river have been
removed to the right bank.

GERMAN NAVAL REPRISALS. -
BERLIN, January 18.
The North German Gazette of to-day confirms
the intelligence that in consequence of the French
treatment of German merchant vessels contrary to
international law, the Prussian Government has
resolved to abandon its intention of abstaining
from capturing French merchantmen proclaimed
at the commencement of the war. As, however,
neutral goods may have been shipped in French
vessels in consequence of that abstention, the mea-
sure will only be carried out after a lapse of four
weeks, dating from the 12th instant. The necessary
orders for giving effect to this resolution are said to
have been already issued.

BAVARIA AND THE FEDERAL TREATIES.

MUNICH, January 18.

The debate an the Federal Treaties was renewed
by the Lower House to-day. Herren Huttler, Fran-
kenberger, and Wulfert spoke in favour of the trea-
ties. Kerr Kobb opposed. Herr Huttler said :—" The
King of Bavaria took the initiative in offering the
Imperial Crown. Where the Kirg is true patriots
ought to be." The final motion from the patriotic
side was strongly opposed and rejected by a large
majority.

AUSTRIA ANI) THE POLITICAL
SITUATION.

The Austrian Delegation continued yesterday the
general discussion of the Budget of Foreign
Affairs. Herr Pieper, . Dr. Herbst, Herr Rech-
berg, Ilerr Sturm, and Dr. Rechbaum spoke in
favour of the maintenance of peace, and also of
friendly relations with Prussia. Dr. Kuranda
lamented the destruction of the European Pentarchy
by the war. Herr Greuter cautioned Austria against
a Prussian alliance. Count Beust refuted, in a
long speech, the objections raised against his policy,
and said :—" Our friendly relations with Prussia
will be obtained without the loss of our dignity,
since friendship has Wen offered to us. We may
also be reassured on account of our relations to
Prussia, since with Italy we are on a more friendly
footing." Count Beust cautioned the House against
Pessimism, the greatest enemy of Austria.
London, England, 1871-01-19

MR. BAXTER ON DIRECT TAXATION.

Mr. Dudley Baxter has been reading a treatise on
direct taxation before the Statistical Society. Our
whole system, he maintained, required consolidation
and reform, being both irregular and anomalous.
As regarded Imperial taxes, what could be more
absurd than the treatment of leasehold pro-
perty, subjected to double taxation as real
estate and as personalty ? What could be
more anomalous than the law that personal property
passing by will paid probate duty, but passing by
settlement paid none ? What could be more irregu-
lar than the whole system of the imposition and
adminiAration of local rates ? Everyone would agree
that it would be ft good thing to relieve
the dwellings of the poor from bearing so much of
the burden of pauperism. Further, we ought
to do something to remove the great inequality which
existed between the burdens of real property and
personalty, and still more as compared with earnings.
Land paid 15 per cent. by direct taxation, houses
14i or 11 per cent., according as they were
leasehold or freehold, while personalty paid
only 8 2-3 per cent., and earnings 2i. Mr. Baxter
held that this excess was out of all reasonable pro-
portion, and considered it especially disadvantageous
as discouraging improvements, and hindering the
poor man from acquiring a piece of land. The
mode of levying the poor-rate should, he thought,
be altogether altered. A common fund should be
raised throughout the kingdom, and Schedules C
and E, and the unrated portion of Schedule D
should contribute.
London, England, 1871-01-19

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MR. FORSTER AT BRADFORD.

Mr. Forster's fiel !-day at Bradford furnished ample
evidence of the great schism which is gradually
coming to pass in the Liberal ranks. The majority
at the meeting on Monday expressed in the amend-
ment which they succeeded in carrying their disap-
proval of the Education measure passed mainly
by Mr. Forster's exertions, and their grief
at the means employed to secure its
adoption. That is, several leading clauses
of the Act were passed by the help of the coin-
mittees, and in order to get this help the said clauses
had to be very Conservative in tor.e. This feeling
will probably not much affect the relations between
Mr. Forster and his constituents, but it represents
very plainly the great influences at work. Be-
tween the Radicals and the class of politi-
cians who furnish most of the present Ministry
there is little sympathy, and them can be little
affinity. The two have worked for many years
together, because the Radicals were weak: they
commanded no important section of voters. The
enfranchisement of the " residuum " has made a
great difference. As fast as the new electoral element
develops its power, so will the reconstruction of
parties be brought about.