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London, England, 1871-02-02

not be allowed to cross the lines of demarcation dur-
ing. the Armistice. The National Guard will retain
its arms, an I be intrusted with the maintenance of
order.

"The gendarmerie, and other :similar bodies, to
the number of 35,000 men, will retain their arms.
Every facility was given to M. Jules Favre to make
arrangements for an armistice which has been ob-
served by our Generals for the last 48 hours.
"On the other hand, the Prussian armies con-
tinue their movements, especially in the East, and
have occupied various positions, notwitstanding
the legitimate opposition raised by our command-
ing officers. The Government Delegation which has
hitherto received but a single French official docu-
ment, is entitled and bound to communicate these
facts to the country, in order to cast upon those who
are at fault the responsibility for errors of interpre-
tation, of which the consequences, as affecting our
heroic army of the East, may prove irreparable for
France."

THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH OF
FRANCE.

BORDEAUX, January 31.
The Committee of Defence of the Gironde has
held a sitting, at which the following resolution was
passed :

" Convinced that it is the Government's supreme
duty to push forward with the greatest energy the
preparations for a war a outrance, unless France
obtains honourable conditions of peace, the Com-
mittee calls upon the Government Delegation to
remain at its post, and offers it again the most active
and devoted co-operation."
London, England, 1871-02-02

TRADE REPORTS,

Arrangements have been made for obtaining first-class trade
reports from the chief centres of industry, which are telegraphed
at the earliest period at which the tone and result of business
becomes known on the chief market days. These reports will be
found of great value for first-class newspapers and news rooms.
They will be forwarded direct from the following places, and
are supplied at ls. each:—
Belfast, Linen—Wednesday. Dundee, Linen—Tuesday.
Birmingham, Iron Trade— Leeds—Tuesday and Saturday.
Thursday. Manchester, Trade Tuesday
Bradford, Worsted Trade— and Friday.
Thursday. South Wales, Iron and Coal—
Cleveland,Tron Trade—Tneedo . I Friday.
London, England, 1871-02-02

GERMANY AVENGED.

The Daily News remarks :—The Germans have avenged
upon the Third Napoleon the contempt which the
founder of the Bonaparte dynasty avowed for
them. The First Napoleon had no great respect
for Prussian soldiers. In that terrible campaign
of only a few weeks which ended in the final break
up at Jena, he had struck them down as easily as
a lion would strike a dog. The old Prussian generals,
with all their traditions of victory, never for a moment
made head against the French conqueror. With the irre-
sistible impetus of a railway train, Bonaparte had
rushed from Paris to Berlin. He bad snatched from
the tomb of Frederick the sword that had won so
many battles, and with a blow had paralysed the
leader of German reaction, and avenged the rout of
Rosbach. In the life of that modern Cwsar, the Jena
campaign could be summed up in the three immortal
words, " Veni, vidi, vici." It deserved no more. In
those gloomy last days at St. Helena, when Napoleon re-
viewed his past life, explaining here, denying there; sof-
tening this fault, and extenuating that crime, he spoke
briefly and contemptuously of the Prussians, whose defec-
tion from his cause he never, indeed, forgave. Thatproud
man little thought that the day would come when three
hundred thousand French prisoners would crowd the
cities of Germany, with a French Emperor among their
number ; or that half France would one day be

under the heel of the Prussian trooper, while at

the same time three French armies (each larger
than the force with which Napoleon declared he could
overrun all Europe) would be hopelelessly endeavouring to
relieve blockaded Paris. The Gods madden those whom
they have doomed. The prospect of a Hohenzollern
Prince on the Throne of Spain roused the Imperial jea-
lousy to fever heat. The first blast of the trumpet
scattered all the Emperor's deliberately-formed opinions
of the boundless resources of Prussia. He forgot in
a moment the sound training and patriotism of the soldier
citizens of Germany. Wisdom, driven from the Tuileries,
left the door open for Vanity, False Confidence, and False-
hood ; and after the glittering army of France crept Ruin,
Death, and Despair. Rash and over-confident as Darius
of old, the Emperor hurried into the war, and suddenly
and hopelessly as Darius he fell.

THE LOSS OF THE HULL STEAMER BOLDERAA.

—An inquiry ordered by the Board of Trade was opened
on Tuesday, at Greenwich Police-court, before Mr. D.
Maude, the magistrate, and Captains Harris and Hight,
nautical assessors, relative to the stranding and loss of
the Bolderaa iron screw steamship, Read master, of Hull,
off the Island of Oland, Sweden. Mr. O'Dowd attended
as counsel for the Board of Trade ; and Mr. C. J. Cotting-
ham for the owner ; Mr. Norwood, M.P., for the master.
Joseph Stocke, chief engineer of the Bolderaa, said the
vessel was going at a rate of 8 knots when she went
a3h9re. He noticed a current setting up the shore to the
northward. Did not see the light. No lives were lost.
Mr. O'Dowd said he had no other witness to call, and the
inquiry was adjourned in order to allow the captain to
prepare his statement.
London, England, 1871-02-02

ITALIAN OPERA I3UFFA COMPANY
(LIAIITED)—LYCEUM THEATRE.
THIS EVENING (THURSDAY), February 2, will be produced
(for the ninth time hi any country), the New Opera of ALI
B ILBA (written expressly for this Company).
Tioxe3 on the grand tier, £3 35.; stall tier, £2 12s. f;J.: wirer
cir le, £1 Ta Cd.; orchestra stalls, l s 6d.: grand tier dress
seat t, is.: upper circle seats, Is : pit tic. eta. 2s. 6d. ; amphi-
theatre, ls.
London, England, 1871-02-02

DEPOSED DIGNITARIES.

A calculation has been made of the number of
rulers still living who have been pushed off their
thrones by the violent convulsions of modern
times. The present generation can boast of no
less than fifteen of these deposed dignitaries,
whose forfeited titles range from Emperor to elector,
the dates of their decheance reaching from the fall
of Prince Gustave Wasa of Sweden, in 1809,
to the downfall of Napoleon in 1870.
There is one ex-Emperor, whom of course we
all know, one ex-empress, the unfortunate
widow of Maximilian of Mexico. Two deposed
Queets are in the list, oile a Queen Regent, Isabella
11. of Spain ; the other, another widow, the Queen
Consort of Otho of Greece. The Count de Paris is
included in the names, as is the Count de Chambord,
though neither ever ascended the Frenc'i throne,
but there are two actual ex-Kings, one of
wh(;m reigned for many years, Francis 11. of
Naples and George of Hanover. Italy and Ger-
m:thy contribute the rest, with the exception of
Gustavo Wasa of Sweden ; and a good many of them,
like the King of Hanover, may thank Count Bis-
marck and his now Imperial master, for their su ,si-
deuce mto private life.
London, England, 1871-02-02

SIR COLMAN O'LOGHLEN, BART.

It is more than probable that Sir Celina]
O'Loghlen, late Judge-Advocate-General, will, at al
early date, be reinstated in office under Mr. Glad
stone's A.dmiuistration.

TIIE SPRING CIRCUIT OF THE JUDGES.
The remaining Spring Circuit is now fixed as follows,
viz.:—The North Wales (Mr. Baron Bramwell)—Welch
pool, March 7th ; Bala, 10th ; Carnarvou, • 14th ; Beau.
marls, 16th; ; Ruthin, 20th ; Mold, 23rd ; and Chester,
26th.

The Duke of Richmond has issue,' cards for a
full-dress parliamentary dinner on the Bth inst., at the
Clarendon Hotel.
There is a report in circulation to the effect that a
rupture has taken place between the Empress Eug6nie and
the Duc de Persigny.
Earl Percy, M.P., has consented to preside at the
next anniversary festival of the British Orphan Asylum,
Slough, to take place some time in March next.
London, England, 1871-02-02

THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.

The usual weekly meeting of the School Board was
held on Wednesday at the Guildhall, Lord Lawrence
presiding. The following appointments were made : Mr.
George Attenborough, Jun., accountant ; Mr. E. H.
Bromley, minuting clerk ; and Mr. Newton H. Nixon,
junior clerk. With reference to the debate ad-
journed from the last meeting relative to the
appointment of a committee to consider what arrange-
ments could be made to enable members to unite in prayer
before the meetings of the Board, the Rev. J. Mee
said he thought he should prevent further discussion
by reading a memorial asking the Board to set apart a
room for members of the Board who might wish to engage
in prayer. He thought it best, with the permission
of the Board, to withdraw his motion on the subject.
Professor Huxley and Mr. Smithers then withdrew their
amendments, and the matter dropped.—Mr. W. H.
Smith, M.P., gave notice that on the 15th February he
should move that the Bible should be read and taught in
all schools provided by the Board. This, he said, was a
most important question, and he therefore thought
it desirable to give early notice of it. Mr.
Hepworth Dixon proposed, and Mr. MacGregor seconded
a resolution, declaring "That means should be provided
for physical training, exercise, and drill in every public
elementary school, established under the authority of
' the Board." The resolution was carried in a modified
form.
London, England, 1871-02-02

HUNGARY AND GERMANY.

In the debate at Pesth on the extraordinary credit
for the military vote, on the 31st, Count Beust
said :—" Although I agree with the views expressed
that we have no cause for apprehension, seeing
that our relations with Germany have become most
friendly, the object of the Government must,
nevertheless, be not only to maintain, but also to
strengthen these relations. It is not sufficient that
our new friend is aware that we neither fear nor
suspect him, but our great care must be that one
friend must not only not fear the other, but also
respect him, and we require this respoct in order to
arrive at a complete friendship with him."
London, England, 1871-02-16

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
JOHN GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one
of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this
wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more con-
centrated form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 5s , 7s. 6d., and 15s. each,
including brush.
Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street,
London, E.C.
London, England, 1871-02-16

THE FISHERIES QUESTION.

Earl Granville's answer to Lord Cairns leaves no
ambiguity as to the scope of the commission which
is to investigate the fisheries 'grievance of the United
States, as well as the Alabama claims and other
questions at issue between the two nations. The com-
mission, which consists of five representatives from
erch country, is not to settle anything, but to discuss
the means of settlement. No arbitrator is to bd
appointed, because the respective Governments
will arbitrate for themselves. It the com-
mission can .come to an agreement, the
results of its labours will be •referred to Wash-
ington and London, and the two Ministries will, if
they see no reason to differ from their represen-
tatives, order a treaty to be drawn up in accordance
with the agreement. If the two sides of the Coro
mission differ on any point, they at once suspend
operations, and telegraph for instructions. Thus
there can be no voting, or decision by
a majority of a disputed question. The
Commission commits us. to nothing. After the
insult offered this country by the House of Repre-
sentatives in the matter of the Fenian emigrants,
any larger concession would have been intolerable.
There is probably no other State in the world that
would not at once have cancelled the arrangements
for this inquiry, and have left the Americans to
settle the Fisheries and other difficulties for them-
London, England, 1871-02-16

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
leer Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity iu
Situations of Trust.
Chief Office-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income, £300,000.
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
£BOO,OOO.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.
The Rev: A. Alston, D.D. R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P.
E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, Esq.
A. R. Bristow, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq., M.D.
This Society are now ISSUING COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES.
The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years.
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured.

HENRY B. PARMINTER, Manager.
London, England, 1871-02-16

WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith,
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earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on
their useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup

CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES
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Number of beds now occupied, 120.
Number of beds available with proposed addition, 164.
"he Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support.
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HENRY SEWELL, Hon. Sec.
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in every Poor Law District in the metropolis, such office to be
the recognised centre of charitable organisation in each district.
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Society, or to Messrs. Coutts and Co., 50, Strand, W.C.
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London, England, 1871-02-16

BONUS YEAR.--SPECIAL NOTICE,

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participate ; so that persons who complete such Assurances
before June 30th next will share in that Division, although
one Premium only will have been paid.
Report and Balance Sheets, Forms of Proposal, and every
information, can be obtained of
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London, England, 1871-02-16

COMMUNICATION WITH PARIS.

A. telegram from Lille says :—Passenger commu-
nication from the provinces to Paris, which had been
interrupted by the Prussian military authorities, is
not yet re-established. Only travellers who have
come from the capital with permission from the Ger-
man head-quarters at Versailles are allowed to re-
enter the city. Inhabitants of the provinces and
strangers are still rigorously excluded.
A telegram from Berlin February 15th, Saye :—An
order has been issued by the General Post Office
stating that closed letters can be forwarded to Paris
at the same postage as that charged before the out-
break of the war. This order clops not apply to
registered letters.

DEPARTURE OF GENERAL
GARIBALDI,

BORDEAUX, February 14.

General Garibaldi left Bordeaux on Monday even-
ing for Marseilles, whence he will sail for Caprera.
A popular demonstration was to have been made on
Tuesday in his honour. On his arrival at Bordeaux
General Garibaldi addressed the following letter to
some of his friends :—" My programme is as follows :
—lst, I shall vote for a Republic, for a Government
of honest men, for a Government which
falling through corruption, maintains itself by. its
virtue, and which alone can prevent a revolution in
France before six months ; end, As conditions of
peace, I want the status quo antebellum, but the war
expenses must necessarily be paid by the twenty-
seven millions of ayes which were in favour of a war,
and more especially by the Imperialists and the
priests who have instigated the people to vote in that
sense : the war indemnity to be determined by an
equal number of neutral Powers on both sides at the
option of the contending parties."
General Garabaldi has requested the Siècle to pub-
lish the following, dated Bordeaux, the 13th,
addressed to the Departments which have elected
him to the Constituent Assembly :—"I had accepted
your trust to record my vote in favour of the
Republic. That last duty accomplished, my mission
is at an end, and I place in your hands the power
which you had conferred upon me.—With gratitude,
I remain, yours, GARIBALDI."

TIIE COUNCILS-GENERAL IN FRANCE.
BORDEAUX, February 14.
_

It is said that M. Jules Simon has cancelled M.
Gambotta's decree dissolving the Councils-General.
These bodies will, it is believed, shortly be convoked
to render an estimate of the ravages caused by the
war. Their reports would then form the bases for
determining the proportion of the war indemnity
payable by each department.

EXPECTED DISTURBANCES IN NICE.
GENOA, February 13.
In consequence of anticipated disturbances in Nice
a battalion of the 47th Regiment and other troops
have been sent in haste to San Remo and Ventmiglia,

THE ROUMANIAN QUESTION.
VIENNA, February 15.
The official Wiener Zeltung announces that the
political agitation in Roumania has greatly decreased.
The dynastic question is settled, and the best under-
standing exists between Prince Charles and the
Great Powers.—Daily News Telegram.
London, England, 1871-02-16

POPULAR LAW.

We are glad to see that the firm of Heywood are
issuing a series of " Penny Statutes " for the people.
In a small penny pamphlet, the substance of an
important Act of Parliament is given in plain
language, with careful explanations. Competent
men have charge of the work. The series com-
mences appropriately with the Married Women's
Property Act. Stich aids are within the reach of
all ; so that in future the maxim, " Ignorance of the
law excuseth no man," will hold good more than
ever. It would be well if a population which now
has the full control of Government in its hands
were to give its attention to the laws which are
made by the Legislature of its own electing. It is true
that many members of the said Legislature know very
little about the subject themselves, but their de-
ficiencies render competence on the part of the
general public the more necessary.
London, England, 1871-02-16

TRADE REPORTS.

First-class Trade ReiOrts from the chief centres of industry
are telegraphed at the earliest period at which the tone and
result of business becomes knovin on the chief market days.
These reports will be found of great Value for first-class news-
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following places, and supplied at is. each :
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Birmingham, Iron Trade Leeds—Tuesday and Saturday.
Thursday. Manchester, Trade—Tuesday &
Bradford, Worsted Trade— Friday.
Thursday. I South Wales, Iron and coal—
Cleveland, Iron Trade—Tuesday Friday.
London, England, 1871-02-16

TELEGRAPHIC SERVICES.

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Articles of the London Papers—£l 19s. per quarter.
4.—FULL SUPPLIES OF NEWS, including telegrams and extracts
from Foreign Journals, with the text of the Queen's Speech and
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large news rooms. A telegram is always despatched in connec-
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S.—EVENING NEWS, at 6 p.m., suitable for newspapers in
Ireland, Scotland, and other places at great distance from
London—L3 18s. per quarter.
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Sunday. This service gives all the War News, and any impor-
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in Bank rate of discount, or any great rise or fall in Stocks or
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selves.

TIIE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

Such slight indications of the temper of the
Assembly now sitting at Bordeaux are not promising.
Much exasperation exists between the various par-
ties, and there is as yet no sign of a conciliator,
unless N. Thier-, assumes that character. It will be
well if the deputies get safely through the work of
making peace. When that is done and a constitution
has to be constructed, it will need the wisest guidance
and the most delicate tact to prevent an intestine
conflict. Hero, for example, is one source of dis-
cord : the advance,' politicians will demand the
transfer of the Assembly to Paris as soon as
peace is made; but the monarchists may,
and very probably will, decline to remove
into the midst of a revolutionary and socialist capital
whilst the constitution remains unsettled. There is
another source of difficulty. The Reds complain
that the votes which are given them in the towns are
swamped by the electors in the rural communes, and
they intend to demand that the towns be left
to themselves and that the country districts vote
separately, as in England. The Monarchists
will assuredly not part with such a source of
strength, if they can help it. Strange fluctuations
of politics ! The division of the country into
electoral districts, which is thought so revolutionary
here, is the great safeguard of Conservatism in
France.
London, England, 1871-02-16

Nov ready, No. 9, of
THE ILLUSTRATED REVIEW.
Price Threepence.

CONT:

.NTS :

➢iemoir and Portrait of the late
Dean Alford.
..... LEADING ARTICLES :

REVIEWS (continued) :
Strange Dwellings.
Poems. By F. D. T
Friswell's Modern Men of

_ .
Usury.
Tenniel's Cartoons.
Valentine's Day.
Unromantic Excursions. No. 1.
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REVIEWS :
Lord Lytton's "King Arthur."
The Paradise of Birds.
The Scottish Minstrel.
Homes without Hands (Four
Illustrations).
Life of General Lord Fairfax.

Letters.
Old Merry's Travels
A Lonely Life.
Mendelssohn's Letters.
Campbell's Poems—Heartsease.
Memorials of S. Laurence,
Jewry.
Texts from the Times.
February Magazines.
Literary Gossip, &c.

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A. CHINESE MITRAILLEUSE.

The Europeans have not the credit of all the
destructive inventions. It appears that the mitrail-
leuse on which we moderns are priding ourselves
as a discovery of our decade has existed
in China for ages. Father kmiot, a Jesuit
missionary at Pekin in the last century, gave a
description of a kind of rifled cannon which he
found there, and which he represented as one of the
most tArrible weapons that could be employed. It
is called by the Chinese, he says, the Bee's Nest,
or more correctly, the swarm of Bees, and holds a
middle place between guns and cannon, producing a
greater effect in battle than either. Its charge is a
hundred balls, and these balls reach a range of from
four to five hundred paces. A. man can bear it on
his shoulders. The illustration which accompanies
this description, published in the Jesuits' Memorials
of Pekin, bears a strong resemblance to the French
mitrailleuse of the present day.
London, England, 1871-02-16

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THE WAR CONTRIBUTIONS.

A telegram from Dieppe dated Tuesday, says :
Another body of about 600 Prussian troops came in
here yesterday. A deputation of three town
councilors left for Rouen on Sunday to obtain a re-
lease from the contribution of 1,100,000 f. demanded,
but they were unsuccessful. Several other depu-
tations from the surrounding towns and villages
were at Rouen for the same purpose, but were
equally unsuccessful. Extreme measures being
threatened in case of non-payment, a snm of
100,000 f. was paid by Dieppe at two o'clock to-day,
and the remaining million in hills of exchange on
London at three months' date. A. detachment of
thirty men was despatched to the Custom-house to
seize the, funds there, but only 60f. were found.
Great indignation is felt.

HAVIIE, Feb. 15.

The Prussians have imposed a contribution of
18,000 francs on Bienfaite, and 16,000 on La
Chapelle sur Yon, in the department of Calvados.
The districts not having paid, the Mayors were taken
prisoners. A. Prussian contribution of 100,000 francs
has been imposed upon (lace. The Sub-Prefect M.
Lisieux has protested energetically.

THE NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, February 15 (3,55 p.m.)
In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Representa-
tives the Minister of War, replying to a question,
said that orders had been given to send home all the
classes of Militia that had been called out for service
on the frontier during the war.

THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR OF
GERMANY.

ROME, February 13.
The Osservatore _Romano denies that the Pope has
written a letter to the Emperor of Germany con-
gratulating his Majesty on the assumption of the
Imperial title.
London, England, 1871-02-16

THE PARIS ELECTIONS.

The Mayor of Paris has published the following
results of the elections, giving as finally retnrned :
MM. Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc, Edgar Quinet, Ldon
Gambetta, General Garibaldi, Henri Rochefort,
Delescluze, Admiral Saisset, MM. Joigneaux,
Schcelcher, Folix Pyat, Henri Martin, Gambol],
Admiral Pothuan, MM. Dorian, Pane, Edcuard
Lockroy, Malon, Henri Brisson, Sauvage,
Marc Dufraisse, Bernard, Greppo, Langlois,
Floquet, Vacherot, General 016bault, and MM.
Cl6menceau, Cournet, Thiers, and Littr6. The
above candidates, having obtained a majority of
more than one-eighth of the votes, are therefore duly
elected. The returns from the 14th and 18th arron-
dissements and from some communes have not yet
been received. MM. Tolain, Baune, Edmond Adam,
Peyrat, and Ledru-Rollin will also probably be
olected.

A telegram from Paris, dated February 12th,
says :—The Paris elections in their general features
present a decided character as regards resistance and
the maintenance of the Republic in France. T hey
are also considered to denote strong disapprobation
of the incapacity and inactivity of the Government
of the National Defence. The number of absten-
tions is very considerable, especially in the Conser-
vative quarters of the city. Perfect tranquillity
prevails.
The Propagateur de Lille, in a leading article
upon the result of the elections in Paris, says it is
necessary that for the future the National Assembly
should not hold its sittings in the capital, as the
fact of the great military, judicial, and administrative
centres being constituted in the provinces, is the
guarantee against the recurrence of any violent attack
upon its authority.

NEWS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, February 11.

M. Schneider has arrived at Paris, and Mr. Odo
Russell is shortly expected here. General Chanzy
has left. According to the Soir, General Chanzy
considers the continuation of the struggle as
absolutely impossible. It is stated that the num-
ber of safe-conducts granted has increased to
140,000.

PARIS; February 12.

It is stated that the Government will publish the
minutes of its sittings from the 4th September
last until the conclusion of the armistice. The
Siècle urges the Delegate Government at Bordeaux
to do the same. The Liberty denies that the
Prussians have decided not to prolong the armis-
tice, except on the condition chat the Ger-
man troops should march through Paris.
The Paris elections in their general features present
London, England, 1871-02-16

ENGLAND AND THE BELLIGERENT'S.

The -Stcindard says:—The object of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, in July, 1870, was to "limit the area of the
conflict ;" and that object they pursued energetically and
obtained completely. They did " limit the area of the
conflict" to France and Germany. And how ? By using•
their utmost influence, vigorously and successfully, to pro-
vent any other Power from helping France. Denmark felt
towards Prussia a just and a deadly hatred. No doubt
it is well for her that she was persuaded to remain
neutral ; but the fact remains that England was instru-
mental in preventing her from joining France. Austria,
again, owed a deep grudge to Prussia. In her utmost
need France had interposed to help and save her.
Austria, then, was inclined at least to hesitate whether
she should not assist France more or less directly. England
again interposed; and her influence helped to keep
Austria strictly neutral. Italy owed a debt of gratitude
to France, and had strong political motives for obliging
her; but Italy, too, yielded to the instances of England,

and remained neutral. England, then, was instrumental
in depriving Franco of whatever help she might

-
have derived from the good will of Austria, Italy, and
Denmark. We do not blame her Majesty's Government
for taking this course. Now, we do not think
it can be denied that such service gives Eng-
land a right, and imposes upon her a duty, to
interfere now in the interests of Europe, and in
behalf of France, to obtain fair terms of peace.
She is bound to take care that the neutral Powers shall
not indirectly suffer by the neutrality she led them
to observe. She is bound to prevent her for-
mer ally from being ruined by the effects of
her policy. And on this ground, as well as on that
of general expediency and European interest, it is
the duty of her Majesty's Government to do their
utmost to extort from Prussia such terms of peace
as shall not prevent France from recovering her dilapi-
dated prosperity and her shattered greatness ; as,
shall not crush and ruin her ; as shall leave
her still an equal member of the European Councils
a first-rate Power, the effective ally of England, a for-
midable obstacle to German domination and Russian

aggression.,
London, England, 1871-02-16

CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS,

The class lists for the examinations held in Decem-
ber last are now completed. Of 1,634 junior boys,
1,904 satisfy the examiners, 555 fail, and 75 were
absent. Of the 1,004 who satisfy the examiners, 53
obtain a first class, 97 a second class, and 167 a third class,
The Wolverhampton and Finchley centres have eight
boys each in the first class, and Bloxham, Northampton,
and Sheffield, four boys each. No other centre has-more
than three. The Cambridge centre has one first
class of 301 senior boys. 174 satisfy the examiners,
112 fail, and fifteen were absent. The first class
consists of eleven boys, the second of twenty-nine, and
the third of sixteen. Bristol has three boys
in the' first class, • •Finchley and London two,
Canxock, Exeter, Huddersfieid, and, Manches-
ter, one each. The Cambridge centre has more
senior boys in the second class than any other centre.
Of 397 junior girls, 217 satisfy the examiners, 164 fail,
and 16 were absent. Of those who satisfy the examiners,
two obtain a first class, nine a second class, and 43 a
third class. The candidates in the first class
are from the Cambridge and Reading centres.
Of 217 senior girls, 112 satisfy the examiners, 148
fail; and eleven were absent. There are two candidates
in the first class, five in the seclnd class, and eleven in the
third class. The candidates in the first class are from the
Brighton and London centres. The Mill Taylor Exhi-
bition of £4O has been awarded to the Brighton candi-
dates.
London, England, 1871-02-16

BOILER EXPLOSION.

Last
,night a boiler on the premises of Messrs. Hipkiss
and Sons, Newton-row, Birmingham, exploded, laying
in ruins the greater portion of the works, damaging
several adjoining houses, and injuring, though not
seriously, thkee of the workpeople.

DEPARTURE OF IRISH POLITICAL
PRISONERS.

Last evening " Captain " Mackay, alias William Lomas■
ney, Michael Sheehan, and Mortimer Moriarty, three of
the released Irish political prisoners, left Queenstown
for New York, on board the royal mail steamer Parthia.
There was no demonstration, but a number of the rela-
tives and friends of the released men assembled to bid
them farewell. Mackay stated that their pardon was
entirely unconditional, and if the Government would
deny this, he would return from New York to finish the
term of his sentence. The three men each received from
the Amnesty Committee a great coat, travelling rug, and
purse containing ten sovereigns. Mrs. Mackay accom-
panies her husband.
London, England, 1871-02-16

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CANADA..

The Ontario Legislature has made a donation from
the accumulated surplus revenues of $1,500,000 in
aid of the new raifways to open the grant districts
and inland waters.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
THE DEAN OF EXETER ON NONCON-
FORMITY.

The Dean of Exeter, in presiding at a meeting of the
Devonshire Church Institute, held in Exeter last night,
denied that it was originally a principle of Nonconformity
that there should be no State interference in matters of
religion or education. He stated that on the occasion
when Lord John Russell introduced the minutes
on which the Education Board was founded,
he was sitting next to Mr. Baines, M.P., in the
gallery of the House of Commons, and heard him inform
Mr. Bright that the course the latter proposed to take
was based upon an incorrect view of the opinions of Non
conformists. Mr. Bright, however, resolved to adhere to
his policy, and when he addressed the House protested
against State interference in matters of religion or educa-
tion. Sir George Grey, in replying to Mr. Bright,
shewed from the writings of eminent Nonconformists of
past days that in their opinion the State would be
neglecting its duty if it did not apply itself to the promo-
,
tion of religion.
London, England, 1871-02-16

RAILWAYS.

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RIPON ELECTION.

The polling at Ripon
.commenced at eight o'clock on
Wednesday morning. At the nomination of the previous
day the show of hands was in favour of Mr. Cayley, the
Conservative candidate. The number of votes to be polled
was about 1,000. Sir Henry Storks, the Liberal candi-
date, held the lead at every return of the poll through-
out the day. The numbers at the close were—
Storks (L.)
Cayley (C.)

... 522
... 302

The Fishmongers' Company have just made a
donation of £lOO towards the City of London Volunteer

Fund.

It is stated that Mr. Boxall, R.A., whose term of
office as dire.ctor of the National Gallery expires this
month, will retire, although the trustees are very desirous
that he should resume the post.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day—Wednes-
day, February 15th, 1871.—Admission by season tickets,
2,253; and ditto on payment, 1,375 ; total visitors,
3,628.

A Cabinet Council was, held yesterday in Down-
ing-street. The Ministers present were—The Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount
Halifax, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, Earl Granville,
the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. Cardwell, the
Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Right Hon. C. Fortescue, the Right Hon. G. J. Gosch en,
the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. W. E.
Forster.
London, England, 1871-02-16

COURT-MARTIAL ON A SHIP'S STEW4IW.

The court-martial for the trial of William Henry
Mundy, a ship's steward of the Warrior, on the charges
of fraud, conspiracy, and receiving money from the con-
tractor for fresh meat without the consent of his com-
manding officer, was continued at Portsmouth yesterday.
The paymaster stated that it was the prisoner's duty to
be present when meat was weighed, and he obtained the
quantities from the prisoner's daily account book. The
prisoner prepared monthly certificates for the signature of
officers, but they did not know, of their own knowledge,
whether the figures were correct. The paymaster anu
staff-commander were questioned by the court as to
having signed the certificates without' being aware of the
accuracy of their contents. Wood, foreman to the con-
tractor, swore to the accuracy of the quantities of beef
supplied to the Warrior as entered in his book, and stated
that the monthly certificates represented larger
quantities than appeared in his book. The
prisoner told witness that he expected his money
at the end of the month for the surplus beef,
and he thought it very strange that it was not sent. He
said he should take the October certificates to the contrac-
tor and settle with him himself. Prisoner told him after-
wards that he had seen the contractor, and had got his
money. Court adjourned.
London, England, 1871-02-16

REPRESENTATION OF NORWICH.

Sir Charles Legard will contest Norwich in the Conser-
vative interest, and in opposition to Mr. J. J. Colman,
the Liberal candidate.

THE REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY.
The sheriff has fixed Tuesday, 21st of February, for the
nomination of candidates for the County of Galway.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF THE
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY

COMPANY.

The half-yearly meeting of the Lancashire and York-
shire Railway Company was held at the Company's
offices, at Manchester, on Wednesday. Mr. Dugdale,
the chairman, in moving the adoption of the report,
stated that the amount of revenue for the half-year ending
in December, was £1,376,005, shewing an increase of
£59,452 as compared with the corresponding
half of last year. The report, which was
adopted, recommended a dividend of 7 per cent. After-
wards a special resolutson was passed appropriating £5,000
out of revenue to the widow, and family of the late chair-
man of the company, Mr. George Wilson.
London, England, 1871-02-16

THE STRATFORD-ON-AVON RAILWAY.

The directors of the Stratford-on-Avon Railway recom-
mend a dividend of 6 per cent. The traffic receipts are
£550 in excess of last year. The company have arranged
with the Great Western Railway to substitute the narrow
for the broad gauge.

The Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on
Wednesday elected Mr. W. B. Forwood President of the
Chamber for the ensuing year.