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London, England, 1871-02-14

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London, England, 1871-02-14

THE NEXT WIMBLEDON MEETING.

A terrible misfortune threatens to attend the next
great Volunteer assembly at Wimbledon Common.
The gallant defenders of our hearths and
homes may possibly be deprived of the re-
gular supply of refreshments, and, like . the
soldiers recently confined within the walls of Paris
may have to endure hardships of a decidedly un-
unfavourable character, through want of bread, beer,.
and beef. The Messrs. Spiers and Pond have, we
understand, declined to renew their contract in conse-
quence of the refusal of the National Rifle Associa-
tion to remove certain restrictions. As the erec-
tion of the necessary buildings, and the pro-
vision of the plant and staff incurs a
first cost of £B,OOO or £lO,OOO, it is doubt-
ful if any new firm . will be found to
make a venture th6y are unaccustomed to, and
likely to lose by. It remains to be seen whether
the volunteers will not consider that much of the
glory of Wimbledon must be wanting if Messrs.
Spiers' and Pond's buffets no longer find a place
in the camp.
London, England, 1871-02-14

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London, England, 1871-02-14

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London, England, 1871-02-13

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London, England, 1871-02-13

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London, England, 1871-02-13

M.HE ALHAMBRA.-STRANGE'S N ONSTRE
-1. PROMENADE CONCERTS.—The inspiriting WAR SONGS
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open from 11 till 7.

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private messages. This is a great hardship, but all that
can be done is to call the attention of the Prussian,
French, and Belgian authorities to the question in order
that they may hasten the completion of the modes of com-
munication with Paris.

The Journal de Rouen of the 7th states, on good autho-
rity, that M. Etienne Arago started that morning for
Italy on a Government mission. From thence he will
probably proceed to Spain.
-

It is said that the official compte rendu of the French
Chambers will be suppressed. There will be a steno-
graphic compte rendu published by the Journal Officiel, but
the journals will not be obliged to take it.
REVICTUALLING OF PARIS.— A. private corre-
spondent of the Etoile Beige, who arrived in Paris with
the first train of provisions, has furnished an account of
his adventures. .He joined the train from Dieppe at
Amiens, and was obliged to get his pass countersigned by
General von Goeben. The train left at seven in the
morning, and did not reach Paris until half-
past eleven at night, so that it took nearly
seventeen hours on the road, which was nearly
six times the length of an ordinaiy journey. At Creil there
was a stoppage of three hours. The head of the railway
station there had received orders from :Rheims
not to allow any train to pass without inform-
ing the authorities of that town. At last the autho-
risation came, and the train proceeded a short distance,
when a new difficulty presented itself. The French had
blown up the bridge of Chantilly, but the Prussians had
constructed a new line by the side of the bridge, which
was, however, very difficult to pass over. The train was
obliged to be divided into three parts before it could
pass. On arriving at Chantilly another delay of
three hours occurred. The Duke of Mecklen-
burg was expected at Versailles, and no train
was to be permitted to pass along the line until he
had gone by. In vain the French authorities said that
their train would be in Paris before the duke reached
Chantilly. There was nothing for it but to wait. It was
worthy of note that on this occasion, as on many others,
all the German employes spoke French, but none of the
French employs could speak German. The Prussian
flag waved over the railway station at Chantilly, and all
the necessary directions at a railway station were in Ger-
man letters and language: The employ& were all German.
At Gonesse there was another halt, and a fresh examina-
tion of papers. It was night when they arrived at last,
and the station which was once so animated was dark and
silent. It took half an hour before two men could be
found to take charge of the baggage. Paris seemed to be
enveloped in deep gloom.
London, England, 1871-02-13

TELEGRAPHIC SERVICES

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London, England, 1871-02-13

STEEPLECHASING IN ENGLAND.

_
We are reminded by our sporting contemporaries,
that this is the first year in which steeplechasing in
this country is about to receive on our racecourses,
"the importance it deserves ;" and which hitherto,
Ireland alone, of the British isles, has given to it. The
fact that flat racing, the great mode of racing heretofore
in England, is now interdicted during the earlier part of
the year, has conduced to the prosperity of " cross
country" enterprises. Already two £5OO stakes find
a place in the fixtures, whereas until the present time
the largest amount ever added to a steeplechase stake
has been £3OO. Since last season, moreover, the Doc-
tor and the Colonel, the two famous Aintree steeple
chasers have been sold for higher sums than have
ever been given for " flight " horses in England, and
the class of animals entered for the forthcoming
Grand National Race at Liverpool is of so superior a
kind we learn, on good authority, that 1,800
guineas have been refused for a mere outsider entered
in it. This week will be an active one in the sporting
world as, in addition to the Waterloo Coursing
Meeting, for which Lord Lurgau's black dog, Master
Magrath, seems the favourite, the Birmingham
steeple chases, the first races in• England alter the
winter recess, are set for decision.
London, England, 1871-02-13

TRADE REPORTS,

First-class Trade Reports from the chief centres of industry
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 news-
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Thursday.
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Thursday.
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London, England, 1871-02-13

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London, England, 1871-02-13

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Museum. _

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London, England, 1871-02-13

STOCK EXCHANGES.

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and statement of business done at 12.15, with remarks—
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PROVINCIAL STOCK EXCHANGES.—Two reports are forwarded
daily from Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Leeds—charge,
£1 19s. per quarter for each report.
London, England, 1871-02-13

SPORTING.

19.— LONDON BETTING, daily— £1 19s. per quarter.
20.—RESULTS of the fifty most important Race Days during
the season--£2 10s. for the year.
MANCHESTER BETTING-41 19s. per quarter.
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London, England, 1871-02-13

MR. CA.RDWELL'S ARMY BILL.

A London correspondent of the Manchester Courier
writes from the Houses of Parliament as follows :
" There is a rumour about the lobbies that Mr. Cardwell's
Army Bill will be on a large scale, and conceived rather
in the spirit of those who desire to see the country great
and powerful, than in the economical v i^w. In fact it
appears to be a scheme which appeals primarily to Con-
servative support. The total abolition of the puzchase
system is said to be contemplated at an expense of about
nine millions."

MR. REED ON THE STRAINS OF SHIPS.
Mr. E. J. Reed, C. 8., late Chief Constructor of the
Navy, has read a paper, at the Royal Society, on th e
result of his investigations of the strains which ships
undergo at sea. He pointed out that since the beginning
of the century but little progress had been made in the
subject, but it was necessary to examine it in consequence
of the introduction of iron and steel as shipbuilding
materials. As types of modern vessels he se-
lected the Victeria, and Albert, the Minotaur,
the Bellerophon, and the Audacious. The smooth-water
strains of these ships were shewn by numerous diagrams,
and it was remarkable that the strain in the lightly-built
Victoria and Albert was greater than that of either of the
ironclads. Mr. Reed said that his investigations
had shewn the falsity of the princigles laid down by
former investigations, and particularly the notion that
there was a compensating action between the strains of,
and the wave actions ',exerted upon, very fine, long, fine-
lined vessels. He had entered upon these investigations
on account of the weakness of many modern ships, and
he believed that it would be necessary to attend to calcu-
lations which had hitherto been neglected.
London, England, 1871-02-13

was traitor number one. Bazaine sold Metz to
the Prussians, and he was traitor number two. The
Government of National Defence signed the capitu-
lation of Paris, and the Convention of January
28th, and they were traitors number three. It only
needs a National Assembly to sign peace with a
cession of territory, and then the Parisians will be
able to point to traitor number four, and the honour of
France will be saved. The interests of vainglorious
rhetoric will not have been imperilled, and it will still be
possible to speak of Paris as Saragossa, as a city com-
pounded of Athens and Lacedmon, and as the chosen
abode of genius, generosity, and valour, sacrificed by the
minions of incapacity and treason.
London, England, 1871-02-13

THE ERENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

The Telegraph remarks :—The Provisional Government
considers its authority at an end from the day when
the Assembly commences its deliberations. The first
duty of the " Constituent " will therefore be either to
reinstate the present Ministers in office or to nominate
substitutes in their place; and, from the very great
preponderance of Orleanist deputies in the Cham-
bers, we may expect that the -new Provisional
regime will contain a large infusion of men favourable to
the restoration of the Monarchy of July. It is, hoWever,
too soon to speculate decisively on the character which
the Assembly may assume when it enters on its mission
as a " Constituent " only. Its immediate and all-absorb-
ing duty is to decide upon the question whether peace
shall or shall not be made upon such terms as Prussia
may propose. The armistice concludes next Friday
at midnight ; and, though an extension of time
is probable, no official announcement has, we believe, yet
been made by the Prussian authorities of their readiness
to prolong the truce. It seems probable that Count Bis-
marck does not intend to explain the terms he is prepared
to ask until the Assembly is actually in session. The
policy of reticence may be wise from a German point of
view, but it has the obvious disadvantage that
it furnishes candidates with a plausible excuse for
avoiding the expression of any positive opinion as
to the expediency or inexpediency of concluding peace.
To all outward appearance, a resumption of the war is
impossible ; but it is an awkward circumstance that, up to
this hour, no leading public man of any party in France
has declared himself distinctly in favour of making peace
on the basis of territorial cession. It will be the duty of
the influential body which will now assemble at
Bordeaux, with powers conferred directly by the
nation, to ponder well the momentous claims of the occa-
sion. A free interchange of views among men so emi-
nently representative of all France will, we have little
doubt, result in a decision fitted to secure the confidence
of their countrymen as one dictated by enlightened and
fearless patriotism.
London, England, 1871-02-13

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.

On Friday evening a man named Charles Champion,
of Reading, made an attempt to escape while being con-
veyed to Reading Gaol by Police Sergeant Field, of
Windsor. It appears that the prisoner was sentenced to
seven years' penal servitude at the Windsor Quarter
Sessions, held on Friday, for stealing boards. The pri-
soner and the police sergeant left Windsor in the evening
by the 4.30 train. Shortly after passing Twyford station
the prisoner asked permission to rest his leg, which
had. been recently broken. The sergeant allowed him to
place his leg on the seat, and almost immediately after-
wards the man forced himself out of the window. The
sergeant caught hold of the man's trousers, and held
him for about a distance of fifty yares, when finding
it impossible to pull him into the carriage, he pushed him
right out to prevent him being killed. The train was
stopped, and the sergeant and Inspector Chad went
back ; they found the prisoner not hurt, in the custody
of two men who had chased him into a copse. The
remainder of the journey was performed in a cab, and
the prisoner was safely lodged in Reading Gaol.
London, England, 1871-02-13

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London, England, 1871-02-13

COURT MARTIAL.

The court-martial for the trial of William Arthur Car-
line, steward of H.M.S. Pembroke, on charges of fraud
and conspiracy and fraud, was resumed on Saturday at
Portsmouth. Captain Wilson, of the Pembroke, proved
that he had not given permission to the prisoner
to receive £4 6s. from the contractor's agent
on account of meat supplied to the Pembroke.
No officer was present when the meat was
received on board, but, according to the Admiralty
instructions, Captain Wilson thought some one should
have been appointed for the purpose. It was proved there
was a difference between the amount in the contractor's
foreman's book and the monthly certificate on which the
contract had been paid, for the months of July, August,
September, October, and November, of 2,0001 b., which,
at the rate of 465. per 1001 b., the rate the con-
tractor said was to be paid the prisonr, amounted
to £46. On Friday the contractor's man deposed that he
had paid prisoner the above sum in September, October,
and November. I 3 was found that on eleven different
days the quantities of fresh beef stated to be issued largely
exceeded the number of men victualled. The case for the
prosecution having been concluded, the court granted the
prisoner until to-day (Monday) to prepare his defence.
London, England, 1871-02-13

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.

Reviewing the Army Estimates for the forthcoming
year, the Standard concludes !—The main thing to observe
in the military estimates is L. t they have been framed
without the smallest reference whatever to any such sweep•
ing and radical measure of army reform as the country
has demanded. The Government, we perceive, has
really no military policy. It is content to go on in the
beaten track of its successors as though it had never
heard of the war of 1870. lts measure of military effi-
ciency is simply the amount which it costs. It has no
other way of gauging the difference between a sufficient
and an insufficient army than by the money
test. Just as its sole idea of economy is re-
duction, so its only theory of efficiency is increased ex-
penditure. The country has asked for a thorough remodel-
ling of its defensive forces. The answer it gets
from Mr. Cardwell is, that two millions more are to to be
expended on the army. Is it possible that we can be
satisfied with this mode of solving, or, rather, of evading,
the problem? If the only fault which had been
detected in our military system was that we did not
spend money enough on it, there might be some reason
in the contemplated measure of increase. But it is obvi-
ous that if a genius for war administration consists
merely in taking off a million or two from. the military
estimates when there are no signs of immediate danger,
and clapping them on again when war has bryken out,
nothing is so easy as to be a Cardwell. It is a policy
which can be regulated and set agoing by any office clerk
who has attained to the arithmetical rules of subtraction
and addition. It leaves untouched the great want of
the day, and leaves the country in as dangerous a
condition as ever. For what guarantee have we
that in a few months the military estimates may not be
once more reduced, and thus the whole • fabric of Mr.
Cardwell's war reform be tumbled to pieces ? A system
which has no other law and foundation than the amount
of each annual vote—which is only capable of being good
or bad according to the money spent on it—can never
be anything else than imperfect, dangerous, and expen-
sive.

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METROPOLITAN FREE, HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE-
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London, England, 1871-02-13

THE OXFORD CREW.

A great number of people were attracted to the water-
side on Saturday afternoon to witness the rowing of the
Oxford crew. The boat was occupied as follows :—Bow,
Woodhouse ; 2. Giles ; 3. Baker ; 4. Malan ; 5. Edwards-
Moss; 6. Payne ;7. Lesley ; Stroke, Bunbury. The
President coached the crew, and it was stated that the
above gentlemen would represent the University at
Putney.
London, England, 1871-02-13

BOURBAUFS ARMY.

A correspondent of the New Zurich Gazette, writing
from Couvet on the 3d instant, says :—" For the last
three days the terrible spectacle of a routed army
has met our gaze. Early on the Ist instant
the head of the French artillery column made its appear-
ance in the Valle de Travers, winding its weary way
along ; guns, caissons, fourgons, and mitrailleuses
and still continued rolling, with a dull sound on the
miry road, drawn by miserable animals—scarcely the
shadow of horses, whose subdued energies had to be con-
stantly aroused by spur and whip. Every now and again
one of the poor brutes fell exhausted to the ground, and
after its harness had been removed was allowed to die on
the roadside. Yesterday evening we had to lodge from
5,000 to 6,000 men and 600 horses. Of course it was not
possible to bring such a mass under roof, and hence
bivouacs had to be arranged. We led these poor devils
on to a small plain, sheltered by the railway embank-
ment, but covered with a coating of snow a foot and a
half deep. There they formed themselves into groups of
eight or ten men, and after clearing a space in the snow
lit their fires and made their arrangements for the night.
I visited these bivouacs in detail at about one o'clock in
the morning. Nothing could be more heartrending than
the sight. The great majority of the soldiers were suf-
fering from a dry, hacking cough, which produced a by
no means melodious effect. If food is given them ac-
companied by kind words, they appear to be struck with
astonishment at meeting with any sympathy under a
Swiss officer's uniform, and they shew their gratitude in
a truly moving manner. A few sitting in a crouching
posture and wrapped in miserable blankets sleep until
they are suddenly disturbed by a violent fit of coughing,
or perhaps by a part of their body being singed by the
fire. How terrible must the former sufferings of these
people have been to make them rejoice at passing the
night thus ?"
London, England, 1871-02-13

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London, England, 1871-02-13

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London, England, 1871-02-13

COMMUNICATIONS WITH PARIS.

- - _
It would appear from information which has reached us
that the railway communication between London and
Paris has again been opened to travellers provided with
the necessary official passports and papers. We learn that
the Northern of France Railway Company have decided
upon at once running a daily train from Boulogne to
Amiens, and vice versa, at about 9 a.m., and that the
Prussian authorities, on the other hand, have arranged a
service of daily trains from Amiens to Paris
so that passengers leaving Boulogne in the forenoon
may arrive at Paris in the evening. The trains and boats
of the South Eastern Railway Company to and from
Boulogne have never been discontinued, so that visitors
and travellers are again in a position to pass and repass
between London and Paris. The munificent gifts of pro-
visions, &c*, sent by the Mansion-house Committee are
conveyed that way daily, and it may possibly be useful
to explain that the consignments to and from Dieppe have
equally to be sent through Amiens, whence to Paris they
also pass over the same line of the Northern of France
Railway Company.—Times.
London, England, 1871-02-13

A CONVICT'S DISCOVERY.

Accounts have lately been received in this country
from Midnapore, in Bengal, reporting that coal of
first-class quality had been found in abundance at
that place. The story of this discovery, as now
told, is sufficiently remarkable, though anything
but gratifying to merchants and meneralogists.
An Australian convict named Henderson, who was
serving out his sentence in the Presidency Gaol, was'
sent to Midnapore to assist in sinking a well for the
Central Prison. Soon after his arrival, he reported
that he had come upon excellent coal, and produced
lumps as specimens which were pronounced in Cal-
cutta as "fully equal to the best English steam," a
fact which the sequel proved to be very natural!
The Geological Department at first doubted that coal
could be found there, but afterwards became con-
vinced,
for borings were made round the prison, and
specimens of coal were brought up. Great and
general was the excitement, and every exertion
was made to improve the discovery. The convict, now
out of his time, became Mr. Henderson, with a salary of
150 rs. per month for assisting in the
,work, and the
news, as we all know, was duly sent to England. Un-
fortunately the mail just arrived tells us that Mr.
Henderson has disappeared with a fair share of
booty, and, what is worse, has carried the coal
mines with him ! No more specimens are
forthcoming, and the native well diggers have
confessed that the lumps of coal went down the well-
shaft before they ever came up, and that occasional
handfuls of coal-dust were shoved into the borer on
favourable opportunities. Under these circumstances
it is not surprising that the Midnapore coal should
have been "fully equal to the best English steam."
London, England, 1871-02-13

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THE FRENCH MINISTRY.

General Le Flo has arrived at Bordeaux, and
undertaken the direction of the Ministry of War.
M. Lionville has been appointed Director-General ad
interim of the Ministry of the Interior, replacing M.
Laurier, who has resigned.

THE FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE.
There is au opinion entertained at headquarters that
the Assembly at Bordeaux will most probably set up a
provisional government, with a member of the Orleans
family at its head, and provide for a future plebiscite to
decide between an Orleanist and a Bonapartist resto-
ration or a Republic. The re-victualling of Paris
goes on very slowly, and there is reason to* fear that
the suffering in the capital is greatly on the increase.
Manchester Guardian Telegram.

THE TREATY OF COMMERCE.

The Bordeaux papers state that the Government
has determined to reserve for the decision of the
National Assembly whether the Treaty of Commerce
with England is to be continued or abrogated.
London, England, 1871-02-13

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