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London, England, 1871-01-24

SALIIT ARY.

A military writer complains that whilst the regu-
lar privates are obliged to salute volunteer officers,
volunteer privates do not salute officers of the line.
"In the regular army a guard has to turn out and
salute a volunteer corps passing it, and a private
soldier of the regulars is bound to salute an officer
of volunteers, or is severely punished if he does not;
yet a private of volunteers hardly ever salutes an
officer of the army." lt is hard, indeed,
that volunteers will not keep up to the mark in this
point of military etiquette, even though our enter-
prising war authorities have lately invented a new
form of salute, which they doubtless think deserves
extended application. There can be no occasion for
volunteers to salute line officers whilst in civilian
costume, but when in uniform they assume the
character of soldiers, and it would display more
public spirit if they maintained that character as
much as possible. The time seems come for the
volunteers to take their position towards the military
authorities into general consideration, to settle not
only questions of salutes, . but many other points,
such as whether it is proper for them to attend poli-
tical demonstrations in uniform against the orders of
the War office.
London, England, 1871-01-24

FA IDHERBE'S DEFEAT.

In a communication from Douai, January 22, the special
correspondent of the Standard observes :—The crisis for
the North has at last arrived. After two days' fighting
at St. Quentin, and notwithstanding the unprecedented,
and in some instances marvellous, gallantry of the French
troops, the result was a decided defeat for Faidherbe.
A large body of the army was obliged to fall back
on Cambrai, and numbers came on to Douai. For

ie moment the situation is beyond a doubt critical in the
extreme, but it would be madness to pronounce it hope-
less. Since I heard the news I have been to
Cambrai and Arras, and passed through a large
portion of the intervening country, and I have
never before felt so proud of the men of the North.
Their attitude is simple and grand. They do not
make the least attempt to disguise the fact that
they have received a terrible shock ; on the contrary, it
seems to me that they rather exaggerate the gravity
of the position, and they feel it all the more bitterly
following so quickly upon the fall of Peronne.
But it is quickening their pulses with a savage
determination to do all that is in their own
power to see this struggle out. They say it is
in the hands of the Provisional Government to turn the
tables on the enemy, by doing what they should have done
a month ago—sending them immediate reinforcements, and
losing no time in solidly reorganising the army. Had
Faidherbe received the promised troops from Cherbourg
the day after Bapaume, he would have broken up
Von Goeben's army, and rendered the position of the
besieging troops round Paris more perilous than Von
Moltke would have liked. But, to the fatal incapacity
and mischievous ignorance of the Government, and
to the instinctive sagacity and prudence of the
Germans, that makes them anticipate events, is owing
entirely and completely the disaster at St. Quentin.
Von Goeben, the moment that Bapaume was over,
felt that Faidherbe was too strong for him, and so he
retired at, once and fell back upon the fresh thousands
that were without a minute's delay sent up to strengthen
him. Then, when he felt more than confidence in his superior
numbers and increased artillery, he swung round with all
the freshness of a new army, and even then, only towards
the end of the second day, succeeded in driving back a
small arm y, numbers of whom had been thirty-six hours
without food or sleep. A report is everywhere believed
that Trochu has got clean away with 150,000 men, and
is marching north.
London, England, 1871-01-24

IHE SUN, t

constitution of the army. He s
letter by affirming that the Duke of „„e, ,etsB
by general consent " the right man in the right
place." It would be interesting if Earl Russell would
write another letter telling us what he means. The
Duke of Cambridge has repeatedly opposed, both in
words and action, the very reforms which Earl Russell
aivocates, and likewise all others in the same direction.
Is the Earl commissioned to announce the Duke's
conversion to modern ideas? If not, what can we
think of the statesmanship which puts forward a
set of proposals, and lauds their uncompromising
1 adversary as " the right man in the right place" ?
London, England, 1871-01-24

SMALLPDX IN LONDONi

The Metropolitan Asylums Board have been 1
anxiously engaged in the consideration of the best
means of facing the increasing epidemic of smallpox
in London. At the last meeting it was stated
that the increase of the number of cases was re-
markably rapid, and the facts as seen at
Hampstead point to still worse results.
The type of the disease skews no improvement, the
proportion of fatal cases to admissions being larger
in the last fortnight than in any previous. The
statistics with respect to vaccination. are so conclu-
sive that they must, one would suppose, remove all
prejudice. Of 433 vaccinated patients in the
hospital; only sixteen have died, while of
117 unvaccinated, no fewer than 49 have died, and
those who survived suffered in all castes much more
severely. The rate of mortality in one case
is only 5 per cent, and in the other 41 ; or, in other
words, almost every other unvaccinated person
attacked, died. It is a remarkable. feature of the
, epidemic that in the hospital no vaccinated
child has died. No one connected with
the institution has been touched by the disease.
It is to be noticed that the fatality in regard to the
unvaccinated is rising in intensity, as a fortnight ago
the fatal cases were 30 per cent., and are now 41.
The Board discussed several plans for securing the
vaccination of all children, and for increasing the
temporary arrangements for the accommodation of
smallpox cases.
London, England, 1871-01-24

SPREAD OF THE DISEASE.

A. correspondent mentions a case which shows how
effectually contagion is cpread by infected
persons travelling about from one place
to another. A little girl recovering from
smallpox was placed by her father in an omnibus at
Holloway. She had just been dismissel from the
Smallpox Hospital, and had nine miles to travel be-
fore she could reach home at New Cross. To get
over this distance it was necessary for her to take
two or three public conveyances, where she
might convey the infection to several persons. It is
urged that the Smallpox Hospital authorities should
not send out their patients at the convalescent stage
of the disease, because they are certain to get into
the first cab or omnibus they meet with. If
they do not provide conveyances for the
patients, and cannot retain them for a longer
period, they should make known the great evils
which follow upon the premature discharge of
patients. The. Lancet some time ago reported a case
in:yrhich a patient- who was recovering from small-
Poicwetit fo her native village from Sheffield, anal
spread the disease among twenty people, in some
iir-
stances with fatal results.
London, England, 1871-01-24

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THE DISASTER AT ST. QUENTIN.

The defeat of Faidherbe's army proves a far more '
serious affair than it was at first represented. The
Prussian telegrams, as in the early part of the
war, underrated the extent of the success.
An enormous number of prisoners fell into the hands
of the Germans, so that in killed and wounded a
large fraction of Faidherbe's whole effective must
have disappeared. The remainder are broken and
disheartened. They have fled into the northern
towns in confusion, shoeless, weaponless, and disor-
ganised. ft will take a long time to get them ready
for the field again. Thus the three great French
provincial armies have all been beaten. Yet there
are no signs of the war coming to an end.
London, England, 1871-01-24

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THE OLD FRIEND.

It appears that the body of paupers are mita
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workhouse which require a coroner's inquest. In
eleven other metropolitan workhouses there were
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VICTORY OF THE GARIBALDIANS.

LILLE, January 23.
f Gambetta has received the following despatch
I.°lli the Inspector of Telegraphs at Dijon
Au engagement was fought yesterday near Dijon,
eoa, though not decisive, was, in the words of
general Garibaldi, glorious to all engaged.
the
Our troops shelved great bravery, and at six in
td-ei,Yening were. victorious at all points. The enemy
ro' 1° .flight and abandoned strong positions at
a I,l.ateville, Aix, and Plombieres, leaving behind
large quantit
Boners, y of materiel and a number of pri-

troops "'he eneray i 8 in full retreat, pursued by
.o. our
. General Garibaldi has returned to Dijon
amid the
cheering of an immense crowd."

TAB BOMBARDMENT
A. OF ST. DENIS.
"Ys telegram from Ro3al headquarters', Sunday,
:—The bombardment of St. Denis has achieved
good results. To-day the enemy's fire has been
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main line. But they arrived two hours too late, and the

simultaneity of the attack was marred.

When the

three corps were in action together an attempt was
made to converge them on La Bergerie, while the
bastions of the 6th secteur opened on Sevres and the
park of St. Cloud. But it was now too late, and the
Prussians had time to bring up their reinforcements of
infantry, and a formidable mass of artillery. For two
hours an artillery duel was kept up, the French guns
were mastered, particularly by the powerful battery of
Garches, and, night coming on, the troops had to be with-
drawn out of danger of an offensive return. At half-past
six Montretout had to be abandoned. Its momentary
victors were unable to get their heavy guns into position
on it. The sortie had failed !
London, England, 1871-01-24

MR. FORSTER'S FRIEND.

Sir John Pakington has come to the rescue of Mr.
Forster. The member for Droitwich is disgusted
with the censure pronounced by the electors of Brad-
ford and Halifax upon the policy of the Education
Minister in introducing so much Conservative
element into the Education Act. Sir John chiefly
regrets " that there should have been any section
of the people of the country to assume the pro-
fession of a public opinion which was entirely,
in his mind, fictitious, and which did not represent
the real opinion of the country." It may be doubted
whether Mr. Forster ought to be thankful for this
kind sympathy. Rightly or wrongly, the Bradford
Radicals returned Mr. Forster in the hope that he
would further Radical measures, and their com-
plaints are not likely to become weaker
when a Conservative leader thus expresses his satis-
faction with their member. It is true that the great
balance of public opinion was on the side of the
measures proposed by Mr. Forster, and supported
by Sir J. Pakington. But then the Yorkshire Radi-
cals do not profess to express the opinion of the
country, but only their own.
London, England, 1871-01-24

THE HORRORS OP BO3IBARDMENT.

The Telegraph says :—Those inside the circle of wrath
tell us that the city has not bated a jot of her determina-
tion under the tempest of fire. Splashed with her
children's blood and gaunt for want of wholesome food,
Paris prepared a sortie en masse. The attempt was made
only to fail, only to recoil in carnage and dismay from
the living wall which ever draws closer and closer ;
so that, to all the agony of hope deferred, to all the
heart-sickness of endurance, the hapless capital has now
to mourn the dead of her last effort, while she writhes
again under the " bombardment " which " continues."
Who, we ask again, in busy London or any other
European capital, realises the nameless awe and unpa-
ralleled terror of the tragedy now daily perpetrated
in the French metropolis ? Nay, even the
Parisians, who suffer from the thunder and lightning of
the besiegers' guns may be little conscious of the tremen-
dous issue at stake, or of the true moral taught by their
sufferings. The same might be said of the besieging
leaders. Half active, half passive, in the hands of
prodigious influences and deep-seated national pas-
sions, they wreak their vengeance upon the bright
city, which may die like a heroine, but will never dis-
grace her splendid renown. Could the voice of humanity
reach the gallant citizens, it would cry, "Enough has
been done and suffered to redeem the past—enough to
chew that Paris has noble qualities, and cannot be de-
throned as a queen of cities." But even now no one can
foretell when and how the evil will come. " The bom-
bardment continues "—that is the perpetual mes-
sage, and by the law of history neither we
nor the heroic sufferers clearly comprehend the
full meaning of the words. When the story of
the war is written clearly from the first line to the finish
—when there is nothing to avert by concealment and
nothing to gain by desperate endurance—then the im-
mense events of the time will define themselves, and
the terrified conscience of Christendom will begin to
realise what warfare means in days of science, between
races that ought to be rivals in works of peaceful pro-
gress, not enemies thirsting for each other's blood and
degradation.
London, England, 1871-01-24

FRANCE AND THE CONFERENCE.

The Lords Justices have reversed th 9
he Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, who a
rowle and Co.'s claim for £,052115. 8
4 Messrs. Jourdain and Co., hosiers
A fire happened on Sunday morning at the new turers, of Wood-street, Cheapside4
Royal Court Theatre, which is about to be opened in whether the relation between the r
Little George-street, Sloane-square. Some plumbers who dor and purchaser, or that of pe
were at work caused a fire in the roof. Fortunately, but Lords Justices were of opiniore
little damage was done. Towle and Co. failed. ~

Count Bismarck's purpose in refusing M. Favre a safe
conduct, the Standard asserts, is to prevent him from
pleading the cause of his country in London, and to finish
his purpose of stewing the Parisians in their own gravy.
That in this particular act he should break faith with and
grossly insult England was only a temptation the more to
the step he has taken. The attitude of the English
people excites the anger of Germany, whilst the conduct
of the English Government provokes its contempt. Count
Bismarck believes that he can be guilty of any. imper-
tinence he pleases to the present English Go-
vernment, and it must be allowed that the policy
of Lord Granville has justified that belief. The
ready acceptance by the British Foreign Minister of
any suggestion made by Prussia, his active interference
in the earlier stages of the war to prevent Austria and
Italy from taking part with France, whilst perfectly aware
that Russia was in truth the ally of Prussia, his pathetic
insistance at Vienna that no pressure should be put upon
Prussia, his eager acceptance -of the proposal of a
Conference, naturally fostered such an idea. But
Count Bismarck may be assured that the English
nation is as tired of Lord Granville's weakness and
servility to German interests as it is of the Te Deum of
his Emperor over the carnage he reports to his wife,
and the offensive untruths of his own circulars.
We cannot tell what Lord Granville may do.
He may kiss again the hand which has chastened
him anew. He may even be glad that France is
not represented in the Conference, in order to shuffle
through it that wretched apology for his own retreat
which he received from Russia through Count Bismarck.
But if he takes that course there will be an end
to his public life, and we would fain hope that
in spite of Mr. Glyn and Mr. Lowe, he will pluck up
courage to take the course which the honour of England
imperiously demands. After Count Bismarck's reply to
M. Favre, it is impossible for the Conference, with the
assent of an English Minister who has the faintest
regard for his country, to enter upon the Black
Sea Question. Earl Granville should at once propose
its adjournment sine die, and he should at once, ,too,
notify Count Bismarck that England does not consider
the question of peace or war one regarding France and
Germany aione, but will insist upon a due regard being
paid to her special interests, and to general European
'interests, in any peace that he may negotiate with the
present or any possible Government of France.
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THE CONFERENCE.

The Advertiserremarks: It isWithastronger feeling than
one of regret that we find our anticipations regarding the
Conference even more than confirmed. The imbroglio that
is evidently being concocted between Prussia and Russia
seems to justify something beyond mere apprehension.
The latest intelligence which reaches U 3 from Berlin
on this subject goes to prove that Prussia is straining
every nerve, not only to put off the transaction of busi-
ness, but to render the proceedings of the Conference
altogether abortive. If France; one of the prin-
cipal signataries of the Paris Treaty, should not
be represented together with the other Powers, any
arrangement that may be come to by the rest
must be considered as defective and without binding
force. This at least is the Prussian view, and a spe-
cious and plausible view it undoubtedly is. England,
France, and Russia were the chief parties to the Paris
Treaty. The two former were the victors who dictated
the settlement of 1856; Russia was the vanquished, upon
whom that settlement was imposed for the purpose of
securing the independence and safety of Europe and to
Protect Turkey and India from the ambitious and
dangerous policy of the Czars. Turkey and Sardinia
were virtually but secondary parties, whether in a military
or in a diplomatic sense; the former being the State seek-
ing shelter under the aegis of the Anglo-French protecto-
rate, the latter being at that time quite a small, third-rate
Power, and only indirectly concerned, while Austria and
Prussia were not belligerents in the Crimean war at all.
It is essential, therefore to consider the final cause of
holding the Cenference—its raison d'etre, in short.
Prussia, who is operating in concert with Russia,
desires that the Conference should miscarry and come to
nothing, or at any rate that its protocols should be
nugatory, and such as both Prince Gortschakoff and
Count Bismarck could have a plausible pretence for
treating as a nullity whenever it might suit their
purpose. We can well understand why Count Bismarck
refused IC,I. Jules Favre's request for a safe-conduct to
enable him to come to London to attend the Conference
as the representative of France. Is it not patent to all
the world that Prussia, in confederacy with Russia, is
resolved that the Conference shall come to nothing ?
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CONSERVATISM AT CAMBRIDGE.

The dinner of the Cambridge Junior Conservative Club
took place last night, when about a hundred and forty
were present, presided over by Mr. Neville. Messrs.
Powell and Gorst were enthusiastically received, and
toasted as the future Conservative members for the
borough. Mr. Powell attributed the war between France
and Germany to the destruction of the Conservative
element in, France. Mr. Douglas Straight, M.P. for
Shrewsbury, was present, and replied to the toast of the
Houses of Parliament.

EMIGRATION OF FRENCH REFUGEES TO
JERSEY.

The emigration of French refugees to Jersey, is assum-
ing great proportions. Every boat from Granville and
St. Malo has brought many of them. About sixty persons
who had fled from towns in the north of France arrived at
St. Helen's by the steamer Wonder, from St. Malo on
Tuesday morning. A large number are expected by the
Granville boat.
London, England, 1871-01-25

THE CAPITULATION AND THE CONFERENCE.

In the opinion of the Daily News, there is a general con-
viction in the public mind that the long resistance of
Paris is drawing near its end. We have now actually
entered on the fifth month of the siege, and it is naturally
felt that in the absence of relief from without or of
successful efforts from within even the most heroic
and determined endurance must come to an end.
All the misfortunes of the city seem to be coming to-
gether. The messengers who came one after another to
tell the old patriarch of his calamities were not more dis-
heartening and had no sadder story to tell than those to
which the people of Paris have had to listen for the past
week. The very Bills of Mortality tell a story which
might appal stout-hearted men. The great sortie was beaten
back ; and the army which went out to break the be-
siegers' lines came home again, with no other trophy
than broken ranks and multitudes of wounded
men. From outside even worse news came.
Chanzy's rout at Le Mans dashed one great hope ; and
probably by this time another hope has been destroyed
by the arrival of news of Faidherbe's crushing
defeat at St. Quentin. If to this intelligence should have
been added news of Bourbaki's failure, and of the danger
in which his whole army finds itself, Paris may well be
low-spirited and despondent, and even some ebulli-
tion of popular despair might be forgiven to the
people. Hope deferred makes the heart sick ;
what must we expect when hope is not only deferred,
but at the very last extremity of suffering which
that hope has sustained and justified, it disappears en-
tirely, as a will-o'the-wisp vanishes in the marsh? With
such a crisis in the war as that which is now approaching,
it is an immense calamity that the Conference now sitting
in London should be unable to take a step in favour
of peace. The crisis is one in which neutral nations
ought to be prepared with mediating proposals. At any
moment Paris may fall, and when that event takes place
the time for mediation will have come. But it is useless
speculating on the future. The fact of the present is,
that the trial of Paris grows hotter every day. The Ger-
man batteries creep nearer and nearer to the city, and
the bombardment it has already suffered is only a
foretaste of what is to come. It is demonstrated now
that the provinces cannot stop the bombardment ; it is
almost proved that the army of Paris cannot beat the be-
Aiegers back ; is the world, therefore, to look on and see
the great fortress city battered to pieces ? Ought not the
neutral Powers at least to make one great and final effort
to save civilization from so great a disaster?
London, England, 1871-01-25

WRECK OF A BRIG.

On Monday evening, during a fresh breeze from
E.N.E., the brig Lizzie Ann, of and from Sunderland
for Alexandria with coals, struck on the Corton Sand, and
sunk. The crew burnt flares for assistance, and took to
their boat, and landed in Lowestoft at eleven o'clock.
The lifeboat was launched, hut passed the ship's boat in
the darkness. One of the crew, numbering nine, was
drowned.

The Manchester Courier last evening announced the
failure of Mr. Robert Lund, manufacturer, Blackburn.
The liabilities are estimated at £3,000.
On Monday the directors of the Liverpool North Wes-
tern Bank declared a dividend of six per cent per annum,
free of income tax, which was ratified by the yearly
meeting.

It is officially notified to-day that the Marquess de
Rothwell, of Sharpies Hall, near Bolton, patron of the
living of Sefton, has presented the same to the Rev.
Engalbert Horley, vicar of Lever Bridge Church, Bolton.
The living of Sefton is valued at £l,BOO per annum.
London, England, 1871-01-25

THE GERMAN LOAN.

BERLIN, January 24.
The subscription to the second issue of 50,000,000
thalers of the 5 per cent. North German. loan will
be opened on the 26th inst. in London and Berlin,
and close on the 27th instant. The issue price is
96i. The instalments are to be paid as follows :
One-third (less 'lO per cent. deposit, :payable on
application) :on the 7th of February, one-third on
the 3rd of March. and the remaining one-third on
the 3rd of April next. it is believed the elections
to the North German Parliament will be held on
the 3rd of March, and the Parliament will be con-
voked on the 9th of March. The Federal Council
will meet on the 20th of March.
London, England, 1871-01-25

PARIS BILL OF FARE.

The following are a few of the curiosities of the shops
in the way of prices :-Preserved calf's head (? heel)
2s. Gd. per lb. ; sirloin of beef, in tins, at 6s. to Bs. per
lh. ; pate de foes gras, white puddings, etc., 4s. per lb. ;
horse fat, refined, 3s. per lb. ; mushrooms, fresh, 3s. per
lb. ; small tins of prepared chicken, rabbit, etc., 7s. to
10s. ; tins of veal and ham pate, 245. ; pots of preserved
larks, 245. to 30s. ; fat larks, 2s. each ; dry haricot beans,
Bfr. the litre (7s. 6d. per quart) ; extract of meat ex-
hausted, but a soluble soup, selling at Is. Bd. a box-
suffi cient for seven quarts ; butters, fresh, 245. to 265. per lb.,
salt, 21s. to 28s. ; extra fine salt, 28s. ; fresh eggs-, 2s.
each ; a fine turkey, 120 fr. (C 4 165.) ; rabbits, 325. to 365. ;
and fowls, anything but large, 265. to 325. ; pigeons, about
one third as dear as fowls. The Boucherie Anglaise, which
deals in the greatest eccentricities of all, sells elephant
meat at ss. to 16s. per lb. ; stag, at ss. to 10s. ; Thibe4
goat, at 8.. ; porcupine, at 6s. Bd. ; pate of elephant's
tongue, from 2s. The elephant has had immense success,
and the pate made from the liver is pronounced finer than
any goose or duck foies gras ever eaten. The prices of
some extra delicacies placed on sale by the Gcvernment the
other day will give an excellent idea of the true value of
such articles, as they were probably sold at cost price.
Dutch and Gruyere cheese, 2s. 6d. per lb. ; pure
refined grease, 2s. Gd. ; rice, sd. ; salt pork, 2s. per lb.
A good dinner may still be had in Paris provided you can
or choose to pay for it at the rate of a shilling or two per
mouthful ; in this case you may still enjoy beef, mutton
and veal, potiltry and game, not quite au naturel however.
The carte of a dinner on the 26th of December, at a
famous restaurant, included calf's head, turtle, and fillet
of beef ; another dinner included stewed eels, roast rabbits,
galantine of beef, etc., with horse sausage, dos d'anon en
relere sauce chasseur and croquettes de rats a la duchesse
The following is the carte of a restaurant, where usually
the only difficulty is the multiplicity that embarrasses
choice :-Soups, rice and onion ; hors d'oeuvre, beef sausage,
horse tongue; horse a-la-mode, braise and aux choux ;
terrine de rats de Norvege ; filet d'eine au beurre d'anchois ;
cotelettes de millet a la soubise ; gigot de chien ; rice with
chocolate, and in half a dozen other shapes. Fancy, if
you can, ye who have studied or amused yourselves in
Paris, the whole city without one traiteur or cremerie
where an omelette, an ceuf a la coque, or a biftek aux
pommes can be had for either love or money.-Food
Journal.
London, England, 1871-01-25

THE SIEGE OF CAMERAL

LILLE, January 24.
The Prussians have raised the siege of Cambrai.
Thirty thousand Prussians are stated to be in the
North of France.

ADVANCE ON HONFLEUR.

lIAVnE, January 24.

The Prussians have advanced to Foullebec, on the
opposite side of the Seine, about nine miles from
Honfleur, and an action fought there is reported to
have resulted in the occupation of that town by the
Prussians.

It is expected that the Prussians will advance o
Honfleur.

EVACUATION OF. ORBEC.

HAVRE, January 24.

The Prussians have evacuated Orbec, after having
fined the town 40,000 f., shot four of the inhabitants,
and carried away the Mayor and three municipal
councillors prisoners.
London, England, 1871-01-25

PROFESSIONAL BEGGARS.

The trade of habitual mendicity is not by any
means unprofitable, -bnly, like other trades and pro-
fessions, it requires study and- practice. Profes-
sional beggars have a recognised code of
signals, as well as soldiers, sailors, or dip-
lomatists. A stone placed on a gate, a wisp of
straw by the wayside, a bunch of grass in a hole in
the wall, these serve to indicate the nature of the
reception which tramps and beggars may expect at the
neighbouring houses. Happily, a plan has been
devised in Dorsetshire which effectually defeats I,
all these elaborate calculations, and sends the
discomfited beggar elsewhere. The piteous tales of
want of food are familiar to hospitable country
housekeepers, but as a rule bread is the very last
thing these worthies wish to get. Consequently a
bread ticket supplied by the Mendicity Society
is a very unwelcome gift. They like best of all to
get money, and next to that cider, but
thanks to the exertions of the Chief Constable of
London, England, 1871-01-25

THE APPROACHING END.

The special correspondent of the Standard thus writes
from Paris January 21 :—There seems to be no hope of
any army coming to our assistance, and the Governor of
Paris evidently considers the game lost. The Parisians
cannot forget, however, that he repeatedly affirmed that
he had a plan for the deliverance of the city ; that he
begged them to have patience and that all would come
right, and that only a few days ago he stated at the end of
one of his proclamations that he would never capitulate,
I pity the inhabitants of this city. They have certainly
deserved a better fate ; it is they who have forced the
Government and military authorities to cast cannon, and
finding how slowly this was effected, it is they who have
collected large sums of money, ordered cannon of pri-
vate firms, and brought them to the Hotel de
Ville in an incredibly short space of time. They have
borne the numerous privations of a long siege with-
out a murmur, trusting in the continued assurances of
the Government ; they have been patient and quiet, when
their nature is excitable and averse to long delays ; they
have put down sedition with a strong hand ; in fact, they
have done all, and it now remains to be seen how they
will take what will appear to them nothing short of
treason. I must, however, leave this subject, and say
something on the rationing of bread which came into
force yesterday. It is evident that we are not far from
the end of our provisions by the small quantity allotted
to each person-300 grammes for grown-up people, 150 for
children under five years of age. It is calculated that 250
grammes is the smallest amount at which bread can be
rationed during the last stage of a siege, and the difficulty
of obtaining even the little that we are permitted to buy
points already to a diminution. No one is satisfied with
this measure. The Government is continually re-
minded that it has broken its engagement that the
sale of the articles of consumption should not be
interfered with. The Halles (the great market) now pre-
sents an animated sight. A fortnight ago nothing was
offered for sale by the cunning merchants, who hoped to
realise an even greater profit than it was then possible.
The idea of a capitulatkn has, however, caused them to
produce from their cellars things which have not been seen
for two months or more—cheese, butter, eggs, fowls,
Potatoes, &c., can all be purchased.
London, England, 1871-01-25

CHANZY'S RETREAT.

Writing from Rennes, the special correspondent of the
Daily News remarks :—General de Chanzy issued a
proclamation to the army the day before yester-
day, in which he calls upon the soldiers to
overcome those shameful falterings, " ces horteuses
faiblesses," and he concludes by entreating them
to shew that they are still soldiers of Coul-
miers, Beaune-la-Rolande, &c., and enumerating the
battles in which they were victorious. The great mistake
in this has been to assemble men with a view to their
n•unbers rather than to their worth. The consequence
has been that they have had an army composed of one-
third brave and faithful soldiers, and the rest a rabble
who thought of nothing but of running away.
The good have been carried away in the rout of the bad. It
is the total absence of esprit de corps which makes these
men not mind running away. Then again it must be
acknowledged that troops ought to be distributed in a
way which allots to them a task proportionate to their
moral strength. Le Mans was lost mainly by the giving way
of the Mobilised National Guards of Brittany who held
an important position called the Tuileries, on the right of
Pontlieue. But why have entrusted the key of the whole
battle to troops of this kind, armed with muzzle-loaders ?
Admiral Jaur4guiberry, who commands the 16th Corps,
is a man of the greatest intrepidity. I have heard
soldiers say that, mounted like the monkey (he can't ride)
on his horse, he gallops about in the very thickest of the
shot and shell, and does not seem to know it. The other
day, followed by his staff, he galloped up to a point
whence he wanted to make an observation ; his field-glass
up to his eyes, he looked around him; his chef d'etat-major
falls dead; his own horse was killed under him. and horse
and rider rolled on the ground ; but the Admiral soon
freed himself from the dying animal, and not having
completed his investigation, mounted upon some rubbish
which was there, the glass having scarcely left his eye a
minute. De Chanzy asks for reinforcements loudly, but
he won't have any more Mobiles or Mobilisds ; so
these are to be taken to a camp of instruc-
tion to be made something of. But they are past
redemption. All the other troops are to return to
to Laval. Poor de Chanzy won't have a very large army
when shorn of the Mobiles and Mobilisds. Then his junc-
tion with the army coming from the North has been spoilt,
the troops from the North having stopped at St. Lo for
want of orders !
London, England, 1871-01-25

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