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

PRUSSIAN REQUISITIONS.

The Prussians are installed at the Custom House
at Dieppe, and receive all payments.
An application having been made to the Emperor
William at Versailles, supported by the most
inflnential members of the department, he has
reduced the war contributions for the whole of the
Seine Inferieure by two-thirds.
A telegram from Havre says the Prussians have
exacted 300,0001. at Bernay under a threat to born-
bard the town. Prussian impositions continue in
Normandy, notwithstanding the Armistice.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE RETURN OF
THE GERMAN ARMY.
STRASBURG, February 15.
Orders have been received here to make prepara-
tions for the transit of a large number of troops
from France to Germany ; food and quarters are to
be held in readiness.

ITALY AND ROME.

FLORENCE, February 16.

An adlitional proposal to he embodied in the bill
for guaranteeing the position of the Pope has been
signed by eighteen Deputies, and was presented to-
day to the Chamber. Hs object is to effect the
expulsion of the Jesuits from the whole of the Italian
territory.— Telegraph Telegram.
THE MURDERS AT MARATHON.

ATHENS, February 16.
The Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentence
of the Court of First Instance against the accom-
plices of the Delessi murderers. The Englishman,
Mr. Noel, will therefore be brought before the
Assizes.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
MR. GLADSTONE AND THE POPE.

The Huntingdonshire Protestant Association has re-
ceived a remarkable letter from the Premier. In conse-
quence of Mr. Gladstone's having expressed an opinion
that it might be politic to uphold the dignity of the Pope,

Le Association asked the Premier whether he . was a

Roman Catholic. His private secretary sent the following
answer :—"yhitehall, February Bth. Sir,—Mr. Glad-
stone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the Ist instant, and to inform you that he does not
think it necessary to return any answer, direct or indirect,
to the inquiry recommended by the Hunts Protestant
Association.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, W. N.
GIIRDON.—To the Secretary of the Hunts Protestant
Association." This letter did not quiet the zealots, for on
the 11th inst. they sent another letter to the Premier.
In reply to a letter from the Glasgow United Presby-
terian Presbytery, Mr. Gladstone's private secretary
writes "that Mr. Gladstone is unable to admit the con-
struction that is put upon his letter to Mr. Dease by the
Presbytery when they say that he `has expressed himself
in such a manner respecting the spiritual independence of
the Pope as to produce an impression that he considers it
to be the duty of our Government to interfere in behalf
of a system which, under the pretext of spiritual rights,
is hostile to the best interests, civil and sacred, of man-
kind.' "

EXETER SCHOOL BOARD.-THE BISHOP OF

EXETER'S SISTER.

It having been resolved to apply for a School Board
for the union district of St. Thomas, which comprises the
environs of Exeter, Miss Temple, the sister of the Bishop.
has allowed herself to be put in nomination as a candidate,
A technical informality, it will be remembered, prevented
MSS Temple being returned as a member of the city of
Exeter School Board.

Two men were yesterday fined £6O and £3O respectively
by the Liverpool magistrates for being in possession of
illicit stills.

At the meeting of the Victoria Philosophical In-
stitute, 8, Adelphi-terrace, on Monday next, the Rev. G.
Henslow will read a paper on " Phyllotaxis, or the Ar-
rangement of Leaves in accordance with Mathematical
Laws," illustrated with diagrams,