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London, England, 1871-01-19

RATING GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.

The question of rating Government property was dis-
cussed by the Southampton Town Council yesterday, the
opinion being that the present' exemption was unjust. A
letter from the Right Hon. Russell Gurney, one of the
borough members, states that he was, and always had
been, strongly in favour of Government paying rates.
London, England, 1871-01-19

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deceased was 20 years of age, and only recently married.
She had between twenty and thirty shot wounds in her
head, face, and neck.

SIR WILFRID LAWSON, M.P., AND HIS
CONSTITUENTS.

Last night Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., addressed a
meeting of his constituents at Carlisle. Referring to the
war, he said that England's policy might be summed up
in the expression, " Her strength is to sit still and do
nothing." He trusted that the Government, while taking
advantage of every opportunity of mediating, would in-
terfere in no other way. Sir Wilfrid said he should sup-
port the Ballot, and Mr. Miall's motion for the disesta-
blishment of the English Church. The meeting passed a
resolution approving the policy adopted by the Govern-
ment in relation to the war. Mr. Potter was prevented
being present by the death of his son.
London, England, 1871-01-10

THE CONTEST IN MEATH.

Mr. John Martin, M.P., informed his constituents
on Saturday that although he had come forward at
the last hour his election bad not cost him one shil-

ling. He could not at present tell them, he
added, what use he would make of the p,sition
they had chosen him for. It neither
suited his means, nor was it agreeable to him to go
further to Parliament than to College Green,
Dublin. If the electors caa.ed, however, to have
confidence in him, be would resign. Mr.
Martin is, moroever, a Presbyterian, and there-
fore the influenge of the Roman Catholic
voters of Meath have been partially, at least,
opposed to him in the late election. The cir-
cumstances of the election and these ex-
pressions of Mr. Martin are sufficient proofs
that the measures of justice held out of late years
to Ireland are not yet considered to be adequate.
The feeling in favour of Repeal is or.ce more
likely to assume the importance given to it in the
days of O'Connell, We may add one more signifi-
cant fact, and it is this, that the greatest majority of
votes recorded for the Repeal candidate was given in
the district of Navan, where lies the estate of Lord
Russell, the tenants of which have in a body come
forward to express their sympathy with what are
termed Nationalist opinions.
London, England, 1871-01-10

suffer further molestation. Lord Harris thought

the neutrality of England might be affected by our
assisting one of the contending parties. It was
finally decided that a fund should be raised in money
and kind, but that nothing should be given until
peace was concluded, when it would be handed over
to the Central Chamber. Two hundred pounds
were subscribed at once, and large quantities of seed
corn promised.
London, England, 1871-01-10

ENGLISH MERCHANTS IN CHINA.

English merchants in China are somewhat dis-
satisfied with the position of affairs in the settle-
ments. At Hopg Kong a meeting of the Chamber
o Commerce was held, at which the chairman spoke
strongly about the Tien-tsin massacre and the mission
of Chung How, and a report was adopted calling on
the British Government to tape the lead in exacting
new guarantees for the safety of foreigners in China.
At Shanghae the Chamber of Commerce prepared a
memorial to the committee of London merchants
re pecting the mission. The merchants protest strongly
aoainst the official reception of Chung How by any
civilised Power, on the ground of his complicity in the
atrocious massacre at Tien-tsin. He was the head
of the executive, civil and military, at the spat, but
withheld all protsction from the Europeans, though
he had six hundred disciplined troops under his
immediate command. There have been no more
active demonstrations against foreigners, but
it is thought the anti-foreign party are gaining
ground. Prince Kung at Peking refused to receive
Mr. Seward, and many foreigners in Peking anticipate
war. Thirty thousand Chinese soldiers have been
massed near the Taku forts, but these have Rot,
it appears, been strengthened as much as was sup-
posed. In connection with the mission of Chung
How to Europe, it is mentioned that he has been
Superintendent of Trade for the Three Northern
Ports ever since their opening to foreigners under
the Convention of 1860.

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OSBORNE, Jan. 9,

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royaj
Highnesses Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice,
walked out to-day, attended by the HOP. Flora Mac-
donald.
Lord Ronald Levenson Gower has arrived at Osborne
on a visit.

Lady King, of Madingly Hall, near Cambridge,
died on Sunday, after a few days' illness.
The death is announced of Mrs. Edward Thomas,
whose five-act drama, " The Wife's Tragedy," was a few
weeks since brought out at the Standard Theatre. Mrs.
Thomas, who was the widow of a clergyman, was the
author of several poems and other works.
London, England, 1871-01-10

COUNCIL OF WAR SUMMONED.

The following is the full text of the note which
appeared on the Ist instant in the Official
Journal :

"At the moment when the enemy threatens
Paris with bombardment the Government, resolved
to make a more energetic resistance, has summoned
a council of war, under the presidency of the Go-
vernor, and composed of the Generals commanding
the three armies, the Admirals commanding the
forts, and, the Generals at the head of the artillery
and engineers. The council has been unanimous in
the adoption of measures which unite the National
Guard, the Mobile Guard, and the army for the
most active defence. These measures will demand
the co-operation of the whole population. The
Government knows that it can reckon upon the
courage and inflexible will of the people to fight to
the last. It recalls to all citizens that in the deci-
sive movements which are about to be made, the
energetic maintenance of order is more necessary
than ever, and it can rely upon that not failing."

THE GERMANS IN THE NORTH OF
FRANCE.
LILLE, January 9.
The Germans are massing south of Bapau me.
Yesterday there was an engagement at Manche be-
tween sharpshooters belonging to Lille and a body of
lans. The latter were defeated, 43 of their num-
ber being taken prisoners, including two officers.
There were four of the enemy killed or wounded, a
Captain being among the latter.
The Prussians have raised the siege of Langres.

NEWS FROM HAVRE.

HAVRE, January 9.

Yesterday 600 Germans, with artillery, entered
PoScamp. They left to-day, after having levied re-
quisitions. They announced that they would shortly
return. They cut the telegraph wires and boarded
an English brig lying at anchor. which however they
found laden only with coal.
The Francs-tireurs have captured about forty
thlans at Berles-aux-Bois.
No Prussians are reported between Lillebonne and
olb ec.

To-day a floating battery struck against Havre
pier, and went down. The crew, numbering 400
flier, were saved.
London, England, 1871-01-10

NORWICH ELECTION PETITION.

The hearing of the Norwich election petition was re-
sumed. Mr. Tillett, M.P., was examined. He said that
he distinctly understood that in 1868 no persons were
to be hired to attend the nomination. Mr. Coaks had a
bitter personal feeling against witness. Witness said he
gave positive written instructions in 1870 that Mr. Ray
was not to be employed as one of his agents.

TRADE AT BIRMINGHAM.— The trades in the
Birmingham district are busier than ever on account of
the war. In Birmingham the demand for military
guns and ammunition is prodigious. The Small Arms
Factory at Small-heath, the largest of its kind in the
➢Tidland Metropolis, which, in the early part of the
year, was only employing a portion of its machinery,
has now its enormous producing power taxed
to the uttermost, and the other gun factories in
Birmingham are so pressed with military orders that
the local merchants are actually sending to Belgium for
a supply of " birding " and other description of sporting
fire-arms.

SUPERSTITION IN COUNTY DOWN.—At the New-
tonwards Quarter Sessions last week, Hugh Kennedy
sued his brother John for payment of a sum alleged to
be due to him for wages and other " services." What
these services were is explained in the plaintiff's exami-
nation. He stated that his brother's house and land
were frequented by witches, and that he had
been employed to banish them. The witches did not
belong to the " good people," and were maliciously
inclined towards his brother—the consequence of which
was that his land got into a bad condition, and his cows
into a state of settled melancholy. There was a certain
charm of great repute in the neighbourhood for put-
ting to flight these unwelcome visitors ; but it was only
useful when properly applied and performed, and no
other person but plaintiff could be got to undertake the
task. The method pursued was this : The plaintiff
locked himself in the house alone ; he stopped up the
keyholes, closed up the windows, stuffed up the chim-
ney, and, in fact, left no mode of egress to the unfor-
tunate witches whom he was to summon into his
presence. He then ilea Ore and put a pot of milk on
it, and into the pot he put three rows of pins ari4 needle's,
which had never been sullied or contaminated by use.
These he boiled together for half an hour, duriug which
time the witches were supposed to be suffering the most
excruciating tortures, and had at last to take to flight.
They had never been seen or heard of since. The cows
resumed their former healthy condition, and the land its
wonted fertility. The case being one of a rather "com-
plicated" nature, it vas left to arbitration. Subsequently
it was announced in court that the sum of 10s. had been
awarded to the plaintiff.
London, England, 1871-01-10

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MARK-LANE.

MONDAY.—The grain trade has been in a depressed state to-
day, and the quotations have given way. From Essex and Kent
the receipts of wheat have been limited, and the quality has
been indifferent. There has been a poer attendance of millers,
and sales have progressed slowly in all qualities, at a decline of
from is. to 2s. per qr. With foreign wheat the market has been
fairly supplied. The trade has been dull, at ls. to 2s. per qr.
advance. The show of barley has been moderate. The demand
has been limited, and prices have given way ls. per qr.
Malt has been inactive, at barely late rates. Oats, the show of
which has been good, have been in sluggish request, at a reduc-
tion of one shilling per quarter. Beans have been dull, and one
shilling lower, and a similar fall has taken place in the value of
peas, for which there has been but little inquiry. Flour hiss
been dull. Country marks have been ls., and American barrels
6d., lower.
London, England, 1871-01-10

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LAT EST INTELLIGENCE.

SUN OFFICE, 8 A.M.

THE WAR.

THE BOMBARDMENT.
FORTS VANVRES AND MONTROUGE ON

FIRE.

ROYAL .HEAD-QUARTERS, VERSAILLES,

January 8.
The King telegraphs to the Queen as follows :
" Prince Frederick Charles is still continuing hic3
victorious advance against Le Mans.

" In the North everything has bean quiet since the

3rd inst.

" The bombardment here is proceeding favourably.
A barrack in Fort Vanvres has been set on, fire by our
guns."

Evening.

German columns advancing against Gen. Chanzy
have reached Nogent-le-Rotrou, Sarge, Savigny, and
La Chartre, having had at certain points to encounter
severe resistance.

The bombardment before Paris has to-day been
warm, and is being successfully continued. The bar-
racks in FortMontrouge have been set on fire. It is
stated that German shells have fallen in the gardens
of the Luxemburg.

French accounts represent. the loss of the Army
of the North in the fight of the 2nd and 3rd against
General Goaben as about 4,000 men, and the Ger-
man losses as about 9,000. But reports received here
to-day from the let Army state tnat our losses in
those engagements were 11 officers, 117 men killed,
and 35 officers and 667 men wounded, while 236
men were missing.

BOUROGNE, January 8.
On the night of the 7th Daujoutuis, to the south
of Belfort, was taken by storm. The Schneidemiihl
Battalion, under Captain Manstein, especially dis-
tinguished itself on that occasion. Two staff officers,
16 officers, and more than 700 unwounded prisoners
were captured.
Our loss was, one officer and 13 men killed, and 65
wounded.—Times.

The following telegrams come through Reuter's
agency :
ENGAGEMENT NEAR LA FOURCHEE.

WEIMAR, January 9.
The Grand Duke telegraphs to the Grand Duchess
as follows: -

"On the 6th inst. the 44th Brigade had a sharp
engagement near La Fourchee. The 94th Regiment
stormed and took the village of Naliin, capturing
3 guns. Two officers and nine men were kiled, while
2 officers, 1 sergeant, and 85 men were wounded.
On the Bth inst. the 94th Regiment occupied Nogent
le Rotrou."
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THE STATE OF PARIS.

Hunger and cold are rapidly doing their work in Paris.
The number of deaths in the week ending December
31st, was 3,280—ten per cent. on the whole popu-
lation in the year. The extraordinary cold of the
week did much to bring up this total. The average
temperature during December was lower than has
been known for many years. The break-up of the
weather will probably produce some diminution in
the rate, but it must still remain very high, The
' bombardment has excitel no notice in Paris. It has
certainly done very little damage. But the famine
and the elements are foes against whom no resist-
ance can avail.

THE BATTLE AT BAUPAUME.

Further reports respecting theßattle of Baupaume,
in the North, are all to the advantage of the French,
It is now clear enough that Faidherbe carried all
the positions he assailed, that he retired chiefly
because his troops carried only three days' rations,
which they had consumed, and that the German
story of damage inflicted during " the pursuit" is
all moonshine. General von Giiben, the Prussian in
command, states that too few troops came into action,
from the over-slow marches of the forces; and also
that the new regiments appeared to be weaker. Ile
demands from the commanders of regiments a list of
the officers who fled, that they may be instantly
cashiered. This is not a very victorious relation, It
not only admits the advantage of Faidherbe, but
makes the important acknowledgment that the new
levies are inferior. This is particularly the case with
the men from South Germany.
TIIE GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY.

The growing strength of public opinion respecting
the advisability of Mr. Cardwell and the Duke of
Cambridge, withdrawing from their present positions
is a fact which calls for notice. The demand is one
which ought soon to become irresistible. The Daily
News says :—" The time has arrived for plain speak-
ing, Mere peddling changes or abortive plagiarisms
of continental systems must not be suffered to
divert the pUblic mind from the main
question—the reconstruction of our army on a basis
of merit, of instruction, of capacity." Amongst the
elements of this reconstruction the Daily News puts
the withdrawal of the Commander-in-Chief as one.
The Morning Advertiser, a paper whose position has
much improved of late, terms the British army an
4travagance, s jumble of incompetency, a job, The
TAo ndon correspondent of the Manchoter Gyardian
says, "every rumour is caught at eagerly that hints
at the retirement of the Duke of Cambridge from the
Horse Guards, and of Mr. Cardwell from the War
Office." We can only say, let the waters rise.
There are many different opinions respecting our
military armament ; but there is no difference on
this point : that the best possible result ought to be
had for the fourteen millions vent, and that the
actual result is almost the worst possible,
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

The sudden manner in which the recent experi-
ments with mitrailleurs at Shoeburyness were
brought to a close, and all discussion respecting them
ended, doubtless astonished soma of our readers. We
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THE FENIAN PRISONERS.

Many will be inclined to concur with O'Donovan
Roma.
in the opinion that the Government on
the whole have dealt fairly with the
Fenians who bave just taken their depar-
ture from these islands. On the ,mail-boat
the Cuba, one of the most comfortable of the Cunard
steamers, first-class accommodation was provided
by the Government for their late captives, and
instructions, we understand, were given to the
ship's officers to allow the men to want for
nothing on their passage out. Added to
these acts of kindness, each prisoner was allowed
to select his own winter and travelling outfit,
and was supplied with a sum of £4 qs pocket
money. Under thp terms of expatriation attending

the liberation of the four chief Fenisns, Rosso. and
M'Olure, are ordered to remain away twenty years. In
the case of O'Connell and Devoy the limit of absence
is only fixed at four years.
THE BLOCK SYSTEM.

A locomotive engineer gives an alarming list of
collisions which have happened on lines where the
block system is in force :—A passenger rain ran into
a goods train at Colney Hatch, on the Great Nor-
thern Railway, in 1865; a collision occurred on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in a tunnel near
Huddersfield; there was another collision on the
same railway in the Bowling tunnel, near Bradford ;
there was a very disastrous collision on the London
and Brighton Railway in the 'Clayton tunnel;
another collision occurred in the Welwyn tunnel,
on the Great Northern Railway, the vehicles
catching fire, which raged with great fury for many
hours. The most recent example of this kind is the
accident at Birmingham on December 24. Mechanical
forgetfulness is a human failing against which even
the block system is not proof, Signalmen allow
one train to pass into a block before another has got
out, and they have been known to do this several
times, though no accident followed.

SEED CORN FOR FRENCH FARMERS.

Not the least distressing of the miseries inflicted
on the French peasantry by the ravages of the
war is the wholesale destruction of crops,
prospective as well as present. The farmers
of the invaded districts have not only seen
their fields trampled down and their supplies
taken from them by forced contributions and by the
raids of the soldiers, but they have naturally lost all
their seed corn for another year. The Central
Chamber of Agriculture has set on foot a movement
to raise funds for the relief of this distress, and the
local Chambers throughout the country are taking
it up vigorously. A. meeting of the East Kent
Chamber has just been held to discuss the question,
but though all were agreed as to the necessity of
assisting the French agriculturists, there was some
uncertainty as to whether the relief should be give!,
at once, or withheld until the war was over. Lord
Fitzwater urged that if it were given now it
would be almost wasted, as very likely the lands would
London, England, 1871-01-10

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

MoNDAY.—The cattle trade has bsen quiet to day. Beasts
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prices have had a drooping tendency. As regards sheep, the
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calves, 10 ; pigs, 60. Foreign —Beasts, 120 ; sheep, 300. Totals
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OUR COTEMPORARIES---This Morning.

ENGLAND AS A MEDIATOR.

The Times says :—Peace may be contemplated as pos-
sible, and perhaps probable, a week, a fortnight, a
month hence, but at this moment we are in
the midst of a crisis of the war which must
be overpassed before the suggestion can be entertained.
Paris must fall. At a time when everything points to
an early capitulation of the city, it is useless to
dwell upon the supposition that the Germans
will allow anything to interfere with their course be-
fore its surrender. For more than three months they
have sat down before Paris. For a yet longer time it
has been a fixed idea of the German mind that France
must be humiliated by the subjugation of the city
which has been the chief offender in nursing the French
jealousies of German unity and growth. Now at
length the consummation is at hand. It is ap-
parently demonstrated that the Provincial Armies of
the Republic, brave and ardent as may be their soldiers,
are unable to advance to the relief of the city in time
to prevent its surrender. The long delay has doubtless
taught the Germans many things. It has led some of
them to doubt whether it was wise to march upon the
capital after thy` destruction of the last regular
army in the field. It has produced a general
agreement of opinion that when Paris shall be
taken there shall be no attempt made to carry
the war further into France. But Paris must
be taken, and not until the few days or weeks yet re-
maining to it shall be accomplished can negotiations for
peace be profitably mentioned. Referring to the various
courses open to England, the Times says:—We may, as
we did, propose an armistice, but we made no suggestion
as to the terms and conditions of the armistice. So we
might now urge the necessity of peace, but we could
offer no opinion on the proper terms of peace.
Another position of a Neutral Power involves an
assumption, on befitting occasions, of the right of
judgment. We have refrained from asserting this right
from a fear that it would be undignified to express an
opinion where we had no intention of enforcing it ; but
thongh the judge who can order execution of his
decrees is exalted above the moralist who simply
pronounces condemnation or acquittal, yet the
latter is preferred to the man whose sole care is to ex-
press no opinion whatever in any cause. Our silence
deprives us of all opportunity of usefulness. Most of
us can see the opportunities we have missed already,
and it is not too much to ask whether the fall of P.sris
may not be another opportunity to be seized or to be
neglected.
London, England, 1871-01-10

PRUSSIAN TORPEDOES.

The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News, writing on
January 6, remarks :—lt appears that the attempts to
block up the Seine by sinking ships are to be given up, at
least a far more effective means for the same purpose is
now resorted to. A detachment of 50 pioneers and 30
sailors, commanded by Captain Vincenz, of the Navy,
has left Kiel by a special train, conveying a
great number of torpedoes to Paris. Unfortu-
nately this will mar the project of bringing pro-
visions to Paris after the surrender, by means of
river navigation ; for experience has already
shewn that it takes time to remove torpedoes when once
placed. The French have to thank the originator,* of the
fortification of their metropolis for the growing sufferings
and dangers to which the whole population of France,
including the innocent, is exposed ; for it is solely this
avowed preparation for war to the knife, which every
other civilised nation hitherto has shrunk from
resorting to, that has given to the present war
its character. One almost feels as if some new
light had been thrown on the fate of fortified Nineveh and
the Assyrian Empire. Between States that are to recog-
nise one another's existence there ought to be, in the
interest of humanity, some limit fixed, at which the
refusal to acknowledge defeat in war ceases to be valour
and becomes crime. And a very natural limit of this
kind is to protect the great hives of population,
and particularly the metropolis itself, by resistance
in the open field. The question now has assumed
this shape : are other nations, particularly Germany and
Austria, to imitate the French example, and fortify their
capitals, thus making, like the Romans, war the supreme
rule of life, and peace a mere lucky accident ; or is it
once and for ever now to be proved that even a fortified
capital may delay, but not altogether prevent, a final,
and all the more complete defeat? I wish that the
people of Paris could listen for but one evening to
the talk of the people of Berlin about them. They would
discover what they, perhaps, might expect, no animosity,
but still less of what they believe the whole world owes
them, namely, admiration. They are talked of as harm-
less fools, as children, irresponsible for their acts, and that
even by the least educated classes, among whom never-
theless every third man has been in Paris.
London, England, 1871-01-10

THEATRES. AND AMUSEMENTS.

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.
VAnDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or
the Invisible Armada.
STRAND—On and Off.

Living at Ease. Coeur-de

Lion.
ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Bombastes
Furioso.
OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY Wealth, Whittington Junior and his Sensa.
tion Cat, and The Rendezvous.
GAlETY—Tartuffe. A Christmas Story. Alladin IL
QUEEN'S—Charles 11. Merchant of Venice.
GLOBE—Rights of Woman. Delicate Ground.
White Cat. Rely on my Discretion.
OPERA COMIQUE Blue Devils. Found Drowned,
Nothing to Nurse.
HOLBORN--The Married Bachelor. A Breach of Promise.
Jezabel.
PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked
In.
PRINCESS'S—Peep o' Day.

The

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—Farce. 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, " Snperba."
PoLrrEcHNic--Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
noon and Evening.
PALAIS RoYAL--Performing Gorilla.
MADAME TUssAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10
p.m. Is.; extra rooms, 6d.
London, England, 1871-01-10

STATE OF THE CITY.

Writing from Paris under date of January 4th, the cor-
respondent of the Telegraph says :—There is much talk of
a permanent Council of War, which is to sit almost daily,
and to confer with General Trochu upon every step which
he takes. I fear that we have little to expect from the
deliberations of this new Aulic Council. We all know
what the great Napoleon thought of the instructions sent
to him in Italy by the Directory sitting in Paris, and
with what profound contempt he treated their sugges-
tions. I believe that we shall attempt something like
another sortie ; but we are absolutely at a loss what to
do by reason of the long delay which has elapsed since
we had any news. Two nights ago General Ducrot told
Poulizac, the commander of a body of Eclaireurs, that he
wanted a few Prussian prisoners, in the hope that upon
their persons might be found some German newspapers.
Poulizac pounced upon a Prussian post near Le Bourget,
and brought back eight prisoners, but whether they had
any letters or journals upon them we have not yet
learnt. The entire absence of news weighs, I think, more
heavily on the Parisians even than hunger or cold.
But that which most oppresses us, and especially dis.
turbs the more thoughtful portion of our population,
is the alarming increase in our weekly mortality. Novel
since Paris was a city did she exhibit so dismal a
record of deaths as that made public yesterday. The
population, exclusive of the Line, the Mobiles, and
the war battalions of the National Guard, was
carefully reckoned last month, and found to be as nearly
as possible two millions and five thousand souls. All
English registrars and statists will be aghast to learn
that last week there died out of this aggregate no fewer
than 3,280 souls ; and this computation does not include
those who died in hospitals or ambulances, who, I am
told, may be reckoned at 500 more. It will thus be seen
that, were the present rate of mortality maintained,
the Parisian population would be decimated by
deaths during the present year. The figures will come
home to us more sensibly when I state that the death:rate
of very healthy places in England, such as Eastbourne or
Sidmouth, is 17 or 18 per 1,000 in each year. Fancy,
then, the activity of the King of Terrors, claiming for his
own, within twelve months, no fewer than one hundred
souls out of every thousand ! If Paris has greatly
sinned, it may already be said that never yet was a city
so punished and humiliated—so scourged and brought
low.
London, England, 1871-01-10

11IIE BLOOD PURIFIER— Old Dr. JACOB
TOWNSEND'S: SARSAPARILLA. This extraordinary
medicine has a singular influence over the blood, which it
enriches and purifies. It removes all pimples and blotches,
purifies the system, and acts like a charm, As a sustaining and
purifying tonic it is invaluable, and highly recommended in
long-standing cases of indigestion, nervousness, coughs, scro-
fula, gout, dropsy, and wasting of flesh. Sold by all druggists.
Chief depot, No. 131, Fleet-street, London.—Caution Get the
red and blue wrapper, with the Doctor's head in the 'centre.
No other genuine. In betties 2s. 6d., 45., 4s. 6d., 7s. Gd., and
Ils. The old Dr.'s Sarsaparilla Pills are the most popular
medicine known for all bilious affections, liver and stomach
complaints, and indigestion, as proved by thousands. Also,
Sarsaparilla Ointment, the best soother of all sores, burns, and
scalds ; each in boxes, ls. id., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. ; by post,
15, 30, and 60 stamps.
London, England, 1871-01-10

CATTLE MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The supply of cattle and sheep at
this market to-day was less than last Monday. The demand
was good for each, at the extreme prices of last Monday. Prime
cattle and sheep were very scarce. Beef, 6d. to Bd. per lb.;
mutton, 7d. to 91d. per lb.; 2,005 cattle and 765 sheep at the
market.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—Opening Report.
—This market opens with an improved tone, and holders are
unwilling to sell at last week's rates. Sales, probably 12,000
bales —Closing report. —There has been a good demand, both
on the spot and to arrive. Prices about 1-16th dearer than on
Saturday. Sales, 15,000 bales, including 3,000 bales on specula-
tion and export.

CLYDE CRUSHED SUGAR, MONDAY.—There was an active
demand, at about 6d. advance on Saturday's prices, on low
yellows, which are very scarce. Fully that advance has been
paid.

GLASGOW PIG-IRON MARKET, MONDAY.—This marker
opened steady to-day. Sellers, 51s. 6d cash, buyers 51s. 44d.

CORK BUTTER ➢iARKET, MONDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1465.
seconds, 140 s. ; thirds, 121 s. ; fourths, 1075. ; fifths, 935. ; sixths,
635. 112 firkins in the market. Mild cured ;no change
Five firkins in the market.
London, England, 1871-01-10

THE FINANCES OF FRANCE.

The financial position of the French Government
is becoming extremely difficult—more so, says the
Patrie, than the military :situation. A. recourse to
as3ignats is confidently expected as the only remain-
lug resources.—Telegraph Telegrams.

PRUSSIA. AND LUXEMBURG.
BERLIN, January 9.
Count Bismarck has caused the Government of
the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to be officially in-
formed that on the first breach of neutrality—parti-
cularly on the occasion of the siege of Longwy—
part of the Grand Duchy will be occupied by
German troops. In any case a demand for indem-
nity will be addressed directly to the Luxemburg
Government.— Telegraph.
London, England, 1871-01-10

QP.A.NISTI FLY is the Acting ingredient, in
k) ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which speedily pro-
O uccs Whiskers and Thickens Hair. Price, 3s. 6d., ss. ad., and
Los. 6d. Sent by post for 84, 84, and 144 stamps.—Alex. Ross,
48, High Holborn, and all chemists.
Tale of a Hair, 6d.

ITONDERFUL DISCO VERY.—Corns cured in
one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CLIIROPO. This pre-
paration gradually dissolves the Corn 'in a few hours, removing
the very root. Price 45., sent by post for 604 tamps. 245, High
Holborn, and all chemists.
Face Powder, is.

Li AIR DESTROYER.-248, --High -11olborm—
IL Aux. Ross's Depilatory removes superfluous hair from
the face, neck, and arms without effect to the skin. Price,
Oss. (3d., 6s. 6d., and 10s. 6t Sent, for 64, 84, and 144 stamps.
Rad of all chemists. Skin 'lronic ss. 6d.
London, England, 1871-01-10

LONDON WOOL.

MONDAY.—The wool market has been devoid of activity. The
increasing abundance of money, however, tends to exercise a
salutary effect upon prices, and the value of all quantities rules
firm. The demand is principally for choice lusts e sorts. The
imports into London last week consisted of 1,423 bales from
New Zealand, 1899 Sydney, 009. Buenos Ayres. Current prices
of English wool :—Fleeces Southdown hoggets, ls. op. to
is. lid. ; half-bred ditto, is. 3d. to is. 4d. ; Kent fleeces, ls. 2d.
to is. 3d. ; Southdown ewes and wethers, is. to is. Old. ; Leices-
ter ditto, ls. id. to is. lid. per lb. Sorts ; Clothing, is. to
is. ; Combing, is. to is. 3d. per lb.
London, England, 1871-01-10

TRADE. REPORT.

MANCHESTER, MONDAY.—This market is quiet to-day, With-
out any change in prices. Values of both yarns and goods have
been but slightly influenced by the continuous heavy imports of
cotton into Liverpool. Spinners, however, are rather more
willing to sell out at a reduction only of one-eighth to a farthing
per lb. on medium counts from the highest point last reached.
There is no pressure to sell, as stocks hardly exist, and engage-
ments are still heavy.
London, England, 1871-01-10

BRRECRLOADING GUNS FOR THE NAVY.

Captain Sherard Osborn still strongly maintains
the superiority of breechloading guns for the navy
over muzzle-loaders. He complains that military
men should have been allowed to decide a momen-
tous naval question, and attaches very little weight
to the anterior decisions of the Admiralty.
They had, he asserts, a strong prejudice against
breechloaders, based on certain reports, and on the
frequent accidents which occurred from the defective
mechanism of Armstrong breechloaders. The Admi-
ralty, says Captain Osborn, are always in the rear of
the improvements of the times. Tenyears ago they
would hardly consent to put the navy into armour.
live years ago they tried to shunt the turret system ;
and now they stand up for muzzle-loading guns.
Captain Osborn maintains it will be "a wicket waste
of public funds," and what is worse, it will
be putting our fleet in needless jeopardy if

we send it with muzzle-loading guns to cope
with the 11-inch breechloaders which are now
being manufactured for Prussia and Russia. It is as
reasonable to condemn all breechloaders because the
Armstrong have proved defective as it would be to

issue an edict insisting on our reverting to sand hour
glasses because our timepieces got out of order. It
a good reward were offered for the best breechload-
ing apparatus, English or foreign, we should soon, the
Captain thinks, get what we want.

MR. GLADSTONE AND GREENWICH.
A meeting has been held at Greenwich by the ad-
vanced Liberal Association for the purpose of
considering Mr. Gladstone's position as mem-
ber for the borough. The chairman explained
that the requisition lately published on the subject
bad emanated from those who had always been op-
posed to Mr. Gladstone. A resolution was carried by a
large majority to the effect that the advanced Liberals
unanimously protested against the spirit of the docu-
ment which had been put forward. They acknow-
ledged that some regret had been felt at Mr. Gladstone's
non-appearance in Greenwich, but they accepted as
a justification of his absence the great pressure of his
official duties. One of the speakers at the meeting
said that Mr. Gladstone's foreign policy was not po-
pular, and unless the French Ropublic were speedily
recognised he would lose the support of many elec-
tors. Mr. Matthews believed it was for the general
good that the dockyards were closed ; they were pro-
ductive of extravagance and waste, and those who
worked in them were time-servers, incapable of ex-
ercising political independence.
London, England, 1871-01-10

THE QUAKERS AND THE WAR.

The members of the Society of Friends have just
held a meeting in London, at which it NVIS resolved
to put in circulation an address on War and
Christianity, in consideration of the appalling waste
of human life, and the wretchedness inflicted
on two of the principal nations in Europe
by the present war. Is war, ask the Friends,
consistent with the spirit and obligations of Chris-
tianity ? They answer that war fosters anger,
revenge, ambition, cruelty, and even a thirst for
blood, to say nothing of the other passions which

follow in its train, whereas Christianity requires
the exercise of compassion, forgiveness, long
suffering, and love. The two classes of
motives appear to be- irreconcilably incon-
sistent, for to expect war to be carries on under
the influence of compassion, mercy, and forgiveness,

involves a practical contradiction. It is not by mili-
tary renown or the arts of mutual slaughter that the
progress of civilisation or the cause of human happi-
ness can be advanced. They therefore plead wiih their
fellow-Christians to discountenance it as far
as possible, as being opposed to human progress,
essentially a backward movement in all that is
civilising, and good, and holy, and in its varied
aspects and its entire spirit opposed to the teaching
ol Christianity.
London, England, 1871-01-10

now learn, through the Calcutta Examiner, that
England may possibly have to go without
a mitrailleur, in consequence of certain dealings of the
Government with Major Fosbery. In the
midst of this officer's important experiments
with his gun, he was " packed off " to India,
although the value of the experiments was fully
recognised by the authorities in this country. The
Calcutta Examiner says :—" Trio most flagrant
waste is more tolerable to the British Government

than the acceptance of the most trifling charge that
might be saddled upon British India." It seems
the India Office authorities, knowing that
Major Fosbery was an Indian officer,
and that if his services were retained here by the
Home Government, the latter ought to pay for
them, notified the fact to the War Department. The
result has been that Major Fosbery was ordered to
leave England, and the country, it it is ever to
possess a mitrailleur will, the Calcutta paper states,
"pay much more to some one else for it then she
would have had now to pay to Major Fosbery."
London, England, 1871-01-10

LONDON TALLOW.

MONDAY.—The market has been quiet. Y.C., spot, 455. td.
per cwt. Town tallow, 445. nett cash. Stock this day,
40,137 ; price of Y.C., 455. 3d. ; delivery last week. 1,558 ; do,
from June 1, 74,326 ; arrivals last week, 4,069; do. from June 1,
83,199; ➢rice of town, 465. 6cl.
London, England, 1871-01-10

METROPOLITAN MEAT.

MONDAY.-The supply of meat has been short. The trade has
been steady at full prices, Per Blbs. by the carcase:-
Inferior beef, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Od. : middling do., 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d.;
prime large do., ss. to ss. 2d. ; prime small do., ss. 2d. to Is. 4d. ;
veal, ss. 4d. to ss. Bd.: inferior mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 4d.;
middling do., 4s. 2d. to 4s. 6d.; prime do., 4s. 10d. to Is. 4d. ;
large pork, s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; small pork, 4s. 4d. to 4s. Bd.
BOROUGH HOP.

MONDAY.—A fair average business has been transacted, at
steady currencies. Choice qualities have realised full quotations,
with a healthy Inquiry. Other descriptions have sold quietly.
Mid and East Kents, 15s. to £'7 ; ‘Veald of Kents, £1 153. to
£3 15s. ' • Sussex, £1 10s. to £3 10s. ; Farnham and country,
R 3 15s. to £6 68. ; and olds, £1 to £2los. per cwt.
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO.

MONDAY.—OnIy moderate supplies of potatoes are on sale at
these markets. There has been a fair inquiry, at full quotations.
English regents, 60s. to 90s. ; Scotch regents, 60s. to 85s. ; rocks,
60s. to 70s. per ton.
London, England, 1871-01-10

DEATHS FROM WANT.

The painful cases of deaths from want of the
common necessaries of life which annually reveal
themselves in this wealthy country, seem to be
growing more frequent instead of less so. A. farm
labourer in Hartlepool, who was thrown out
of employment by the frost, and had a blind
wife to support, died, according to the verdict, "from
natural causes, accelerated by want of sufficient food,
nourishment, and warmth." In this case the man
had not applied for parochial aid. In - London a
widow, 78 years of age, in Clerkenwell, died
of absolute want. She received three shil-
lings a week from the parish, but naturally this
was' not enough to enable her to endure the extreme
cold. A. similar case occurred the other day in
Bethnal-green, where a woman, incapacitated for
work, received 2s. weekly, and died from cold and
want of food. It would be well if our elaborate

parochial system could contrive some means of occa-
sionally inspecting the condition in which these
aged and infirm pensioners live during extremely
severe weather. Persons who can earn a shilling or
two during the week for themselves, to eke out their
parish allowance in moderate weather, lose the
chance and the ability to do so in the frost, while
they need more fire, food, and clothes. A shilling or
eighteen pence, more or less, in such a weekly
income makes the difference between bare living and
absolute starvation.
London, England, 1871-01-10

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