The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-18 00:00:00

MANSION HOUSE RELIEF FUND.

A meeting of the committee of this fund was held on
Friday, the Loid Mayor in the chair. His lordship
stated that the last report spewed that the sum received
was upwards of £85,000, and up to Thursday night,
£92,480. He received daily large numbers of
letters from the bishops, clergy, and heads of
the municipal departments in Paris, stating that
they had received the requests of the committee,
and had put the machinery thoroughly at work for the
proper distribution of the funds received. One of the
letters he had received was from the Archbishop of Dublin,
who sent £5OO towards the Mansion House Relief Fund,
with the request that it might be placed as an Irish contri-
bution. Similar efforts to those in Dublin were general
throughout the country, and no doubt there would be
continued contribution from all quarters. Referring to the
complaints made in the papers that provisions sent out by
the committee, had been sold, his Lordship said their
representatives, Mr. Moore and Colonel Stuart Wortley,
entirely denied this statement. The cause of it seemed to
be this. A person who had been engaged to supply goods
to the Committee, had entered into a private
transaction for the sale of bacon, but not a single
thing forwarded through the instrumentility of
the committee had been sold. The statement had done
some damage, which the contradiction to it would doubt-
less repair. Further communications were read, shewing
that an increase of the fund was needed, inasmuch as a
large number of persons, on the arrangement of
the armistice, rushed into Paris, occupying
uninhabited houses, and being in a complete state
of destitution. This inrush continued, and it
was absolutely necessary that some distribution
should be made to alleviate the persons who took part in
it. A, telegram had also beea received from the Govern-
ment Office stating that there was the greatest demand
for fuel. The Governments of Prussia and France would
now give precedence to cargoes of this kind, which had
become an immediate necessity. In reply to a-question
by one of the committee, his lordship said letters
received from Paris completely corroborated the graphic
communication of a correspondent of the Daily News, who
stated that it was fearful, in a walk through the city, to
notice the amount of fever and famine, which was chiefly
confined to women and children. No one could take hia
daily walk without being struck with the number of per-
sons who were trailing their limbs in listlessness along,
and giving evidence that even a full meal would be too much
to save them, so advanced in weakness were they that it
would be too much for their exhausted constitutions. Mr.
Candy moved that the sub-committee be empowered to
expend £lO,OOO in fuel for the relief of Paris. This was
seconded by Captain Lynch and carried. A discussion
was moved as to the desirability of sending
£2,000 to the Versailles Committee to be distributed in
provisions. Archbishop Manning thought it would be
advisable, before entering into a distribution for the relief
of the districts around Paris, to collect some information
as to the amount of desolation existing, and whether or
not it would be desirable for the committee to enter into
that part of the question. He thought the time was come
for the nomination of some five of the committee as a sub-
committee, to make inquiries into the subject. A sub-
committee was accordingly appointed.
Lord Vernon and other members of the Seed Fund
Committee waited on the Lord Mayor to ask for aid in carry-
ing out their object. Seven hundred thousand acres would
according to present calculation, have to be sown not later
than the middle of March, and, taking the estimate at 10
per cent., £40,000 at least would be required to start with.
His lordship promised that after the immediate relief of
Paris had been attended to the provinces should receive
their consideration.

The marriage of the Hon. Arthur Hill to ➢iiss
Helena Ewing Trench, daughter of the Archbishop of
Dublin, was celebrated on Thursday in St. Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin.

WORK FOR LORD CAIRNS.—" R. L.," writing from
Leamington to the Birmingham Morning News, says :
"Probably many of your readers will agree with me that
if Lord Cairns would only apply his powerful mind to the
simplification of the law of real property_ he would be
more advantageously occd ir l than in criticising Lord
Granville's diplomacy."
The Princess Louise's Annuity Bill is published.
It empowers her Majesty to grant an annuity of £6,000 to
the Princess for life out of the Consolidated Fund, the
annuity to be free from all charges, and paid quarterly.
The Act speaks of her Royal Highness as the Princess
Louise, whereas " Burke's Peerage " gives the name as
Louisa.

LORD LISCAR'S TENANTS.—The tenantry:uo the
Barttieborough estates of the Governor-General of Canada
have forwarded to his Excellency an address expressing
their gratification at the honour conferred upon him by
the Queen in raising him to the peerage. They warmly

eulogise him as a landlord and a benefactor to the poor.
Such tokens of good feeling are the more gratifying, since
they cannot now be attributed to any interested motive,
as the Land Act gives the tenant independent rights.

THE " DARK BLUE" MAGAZINE.—The new maga-
zine, which is to commence its career on March Ist, is at
last to start into existence with every qualification neces-
sary to secure it a reputation. Though really emanating
from Oxford, having for its editor the eminent author of
the successful book, "By the Roadside," Mr. J. C.
Freund, the periodical will have upon its staff of writers
members of all the Universities. As, however, such men as
the author of "Tom Brown atOxford," Mr Vernon Harcourt,
Mr. Henry Kingsley and Mr. Arthur Helps occupy pro-
minent places in the list of contributors, it will be mani-
fest that Oxonians will have sufficient preference to

warrant the proprietors of the magazine in promising a
larger Dark Blue element in each issue than any other.
In the March number, probably the most important of the
articles will be oneon " Prussia and France," by an old M. P. ,
and in the April issue Mr. Algernon Swinburne's new poem,
"The End of a Month," will, doubtless, cause the pro-
prietors to publish a second edition. Our Oxford cor-
respondent informs us that an American firm are so
anxious to reprint the Oxonian articles in the States that
they have offered a sum of £BOO per annum for that
privilege. Doubtless University men across the Atlantic
expect to find as much power and skill in the writings, as
they found in Dark Blue oarsmen in' 1869.