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

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The total number of messages forwarded from
the postal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom
during the week ended the 11th of February was 180,880,
chewing an increase of 52,008 on the corresponding week
in 1870.

The Woman's Suffrage Party will shortly bold
their first public meeting in London. Admission to the
meetings they have hitherto held has been by invitation.
Mr. Mill will not preside, as was expehed, but the chair
will be taken by Sir Robert Anstruther.
The House of Lords sat to hear appeals on Thurs-
day morning. The list is an unusually short one.
Thirteen appeals are English, sixteen Scotch, and seven
Irish ; the whole number of appeals thus being less than
half of that in last year's session.

--
A would-be school teacher in Alabama recently
replied to a question by one of the examiners, "Do you
think the world is round or flat ? " by saying, " Well,
some people think one way and some another, and I'll
teach' round or flat, just as the parents please."
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The Merchant Shipping Code, otherwise entitled
"A Bill to Consolidate and Amend the Acts relating to
Merchant Shipping and Navigation," has been prepared
and brought in by Mr. Chichester Fortescue and Mr.
'Arthur Peel. The measure is a voluminous one, consist-
ing of 696 clauses, and filling more than 300 pages.
At the North Dublin 'Union meeting, ou Wednes-
day, a letter was read from the Poor Law Commis-
sioners, stating that a greater tendency to epidemic
disease exists at 'present in Ireland than at any time
since the Irish famine. The guardians were called
upon to prepare temporary accommodation for fever pa-
tients.
MANSION Housir..—On Thursday evening the
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress of London gave a
grand- ball at the Mansion House. The company was
about 800 in number. The guests began to arrive about
ten o'clock, being received by the Lady Mayoress and the
Misses Dakin in the saloons, after which dancing com-
menced in the Egyptian Hall, which was brilliantly
lighted up for the occasion. Towards twelve o'clock
supper was served, and the dancing was afterwards
resumed. The greater part of the guests took their leave
shortly after midnight.
London, England, 1871-02-18

SAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE,
• Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This Institution
affords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin,
especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home
for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED.
Bankers, London and South Western (Holloway Branch).

HUGH R. GOUGH. Hon. Sec.
London, England, 1871-02-18

CHESHIRE CHEESE IN PARIS.

A new taste has sprung up in Paris which, along
with balloon travelling and photographic lett'rs,
will henceforward mark the epoch of the great siege
of 1870-71. The great commodity which has become
the prevailing fashion is no other than—Cheshire
cheese. The markets are full of it, the shop windows
exhibit it in the place of honour. The restaurants
insert it prominently in their cartes. Those who are
fortunate enough to have recoived the precious
comestible as a gift exhibit it in their windows or door-
ways if they bo tradespeople, although their ordinary
wares are altogether distinct. Half-a-crown a pound
is considered a reasonable amount to charge for
frontage de Chester, and one of the unfailing in-
quiries between two friends meeting after a pro-
longed absence is now, 44 Have you tasted
Chester ' cheese ?" The question of provi-
sions has necessarily occupied a paramount place
in the thoughts of the Parisians, but the passion for
Cheshire cheese supplies the humorous side to the
picture. It is only to be hoped the consequences of
such unwonted fare may not be serious. It has
been hinted that a national attach of indige,tion
might pro lace alarming results on the great question
of peace or war,
London, England, 1871-02-18

TNRIFF FOR 1871.

THE CENTRAL PRESS.-TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS.

The liberal arrangements made by the Post Office for the
transmission of news have largely increased the demand for
telegraphic intelligence. The Proprietor of the CENTRAL
PRESS is now supplying upwards of seven hundred newspapers
and newsrooms, whereas the total number of subscribers sup-
plied by all the telegraph companies under the old system did
not exceed 306.

The following services of news have been arranged with the
view of meeting in the most efficient and economical manner the
requirements of newspaper proprietors and the managers of
Exchanges,, News Rooms, and Hotels.
It will he seen that for 395. per quarter, or 6d. per day, all
important news that transpires „from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. can he
telegraphed to any part of the United Kingdom where there is
a postal telegraph office. . _ _

A full supply of news for first-class News Rooms and Evening
Newspapers,including extracts from the London Morning
Papers, with the text of all important foreign telegrams and
official communications, such as the Queen's Speech, are com-
prised in Services 2,3, 4, and 7, and are supplied for £ll 14s. per
quarter, or £46 16s. per annum.
Full supplies of News for Morning Papers are comprised in
Services 5, 11, 12, and 15, which are supplied for £l7 lls. per
quarter, or £63 4s. per annum. If Foreign News (No. 15) is not
required, the cost will be £lB 13s. per quarter, or £49 3s. per
annum.
London, England, 1871-02-18

THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP.

The New Orleans Picayune, which is usually an
authority, on the cotton crop, has an interesting
article on the cultivation. The produdtion of
cotton, it says, has reached a point at
which it is likely to bring loss to the
planter, unless India, Brazil, and Egypt
turn to other pursuits. The advantages of soil and
climate in the Southern States of North America
are so favourable that they counterbalance
the high price of labour. The rival cultivators in
other countries are, however, content with small
profits, • and the world, according to the
Picayune, is likely to be overstocked with cotton
when the American crop exceeds 2,500,000 bales.
It is generally believed in the South that if prices
do not improve, less will be planted, but at
present there is a great demand for labour.
Louisiana, which is an important cotton producing
state, is turning its attention to sugar, and in some
parts the planters are engaging labourers and making
their preparations, waiting for indications of the
probable rates of profit before they decide whether
they shall put their land finder cotton, corn, or other
staples.
London, England, 1871-02-20

(-14„, SAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE,
►• Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This Institution
affords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin,
especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home
for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED!
Bankers, London and South Western (Holloway Branch).
HUGH R. GOUGH. Hon. Sec.
London, England, 1871-02-20

THE "PATRIE" ON THE REPUBLIC.

The Patrie, the old Imperialist organ, rejoices over the
convocation of the National Assembly, which it has been
loudly advocating ever since September. The newly-
elected Assembly has, it affirms, full rights, fullprivileges.
No constitution limits it, no form of government circum-
scribes it. It is the only legal authority of the country.
It even exceeds in influence and authority the British
Parliament, since it is the only institution which remains
to France. The elections have been a great
'triumph of the party of Order, for whatever
the exceptions in three or four great towns, the
immense majority of the country has pronounced against
the wild extremes of the Republicans. As a regular and
legally constituted party the Republicans by birth and
profession stand to-day disqualified. They may conspire
and attempt coups de main, but cannot possibly retain
the power they usurped on September 4th. Will this
1 elimination of the Republicans by the sovereign hand of
the nation entail the abrogation of the Republic ? We
reply frankly that we think not. Hitherto the
Republicans, from their sectarian and tyrannical
spirit, have presented the chief obstacle to
a Republic which was not a permanent revo-
lution, and under which it was possible to live. The
elections have removed this obstacle, but the prejudice in
favour of a moderate Republic still exists among many
honest men, whom it is not desirable to affront. The
.Republic, under the control of the Republican sect, is
acknowledged to be a permanent danger to all Legitimist
' interests. It has proved the most tyrannical . and the
most incapable of governments. It remains to be seen
whether the Republic, as generally understood, the Re-
public governed by a kid of syndicate, in which
the conservative influences are represented, and which can
consequently withstand demagogues and sectaries, if this
combination is capable of offering a sufficient
guarantee to Conservative interests and to the security of
social order. We speak, adds the Patrie, of such a com-
bination with complete impartiality, convinced that with
the traditions of the country on one hand and the troubled
state of society at the present moment on the other, it
would always be precarious and insufficient, but all the
rest of France is. not of that opinion and the various
classes must learn by degrees. Notwithstanding our
bitter past experience all are not equally wise. The Re-
public of the Republicans has fallen under public denun-
ciation, but the honest, moderate, and Conservative
Republic, which still is so high in favour with many
estimable and enlightened people, must be tried before we
can settle down to anything definite and stable.
London, England, 1871-02-20

THE TROUBLES AT NICE,

The Avenir de la Province gives the following account
of the outbreak at Nice on the 10th. In the afternoon
a judicial visit was paid to the office of the Diritto di Nizza
in the street Pont-Neuf. The Procureur of the Republic
the President of the Municipal Council, and other, officials
accompanied by two police agents and two gendarmes
London, England, 1871-02-20

STABBING IN CORNWALL.

On Saturday night, a young woman named Catherine
Jose was stabbed by a young man named Crowgery,
whose offer of marriage she had refused. She was returning
to her home at Lanner, near Redruth, accompanied by a
friend, when Crowgery attacked her with a knife, which
fortunately missed the jugular vein, an4truck the breast-
bone. The young woman lies in a very precarious state.
The assailant has been arrested.
London, England, 1871-02-20

THEATRES AND AMUSEMENTS.

•
DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley.
COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty.
ADELPHI—That Rascal Jack. Deadman's Point. Our
Female American Cousin.
PRINCESS'S—The Happy Man. King o' Scots. He's a
Lunatic.
HAYMARKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth.
Uncle's Will. Family Jars.
VAUDEVILLE -Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the
Invisible Armada.
OPERA COMIQUE—The Welsh Girl. Found Drowned.
The Comical Countess.
ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Naval Engagements.
Vesta. An Unhappy Pair.
OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY—Dora's Device. Whiitington Junior and his
Sensation Cat. Diamond Cut Diamond.
GAIETY—A Christmas Story. Alladin 11.
QUEEN'S—A Day After the -Wedding. 'Twixt Axe and

Crown.
ROYAL COURT THEATRE—Turn Him Out.
Thumb. Q.E.D.
HOLBORN—Jezabel. Ticket-of-Leave Man.
STRAND—Who Speaks First ? Up in the World.
Coeur-de-Lion.
PRINCE OF WALES'S—Ours. Locked In.
ASTLEY'S—Englishmen in Paris. Little Tom Tittlemouse.
SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack.
NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to
Banbury Cross.
SADLER'S WELLS—Jeannie Deans.
AMPHITHEARE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Lulu. Scenes
in the Arena.
ST. JAMES'S HALL— Christy Ministrels. Every. evening.
ALHAMBRA—Grand Concerts.
POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
noon and evening.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street)—From 10 a.m. till 10
p.m. Is. ; extra rooms, 6d.

Randall's
London, England, 1871-02-20

London—W. TWEEDIZ. 337. Strand.

RNEST GRAHAM : A Doctor's Story. Contain-
ing the Experiences of a Medical Student in the.. Wards, Dis-
secting and Operating Theatres, sheaving the Pleasures and
Peculiar Temptations of Student Life, and intended to warn as well
as divert the youth of the Profession. Written by a Physician.
Crown Bvo., in handsome cloth, price ss. Post free for stamps.

LOnann--W. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand.
London, England, 1871-02-20

WIFE MURDER

On Saturday night, at Manchester, a scavenger named
Whelan, being drunk, and annoyed at his wife—who had
followed him to a pablic-house to endeavour to persuade
him to accompany her home—when at last he reached his
house, locked all the doors and beat her about the head

with a poker so severely that she died almost immediately
after the neighbours had forced an entrance into the
dwelling. Whelan has been apprehended.

RELIEF FOR THE FRENCH.

The Council of the Warwickshire Chamber of Agricul-
ture, on Saturday, decided to take steps to raise contribu-
tions, both in the shape of seed, corn, and money, in aid
of the distitute French peasantry in the districts ravaged
by the Franco-Prussian war. The chairman, Sir Robert
Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., introduced the above proposal,
which met with the cordial approval of the Council, whose
members represent the principal agricultural districts
throughout the county. A novel system has been started
by the Berkshire farmers for supplying the French
peasantry with wheat, barley, and oat seed for this
year's crop. On Saturday three sacks, for wheat, barley,
and oats respectively, were placed in the Reading Corn
Exchange, and each attendant farmer was invited to
empty his sample bag into the sacks. A large quantity
of seed was soon collected. The sacks, when full, will be
conveyed t- the railway station ; and the railway direc-
tors will be invited to transmit them to France free of ex-
pense. The sacks for samples or any other quantities
will be at the Exchange every Saturday. The originator
suggests that this plan should be carried out in every market
town in England. By this means the whole of France
would be supplied with good seed for the coming season,
and the quota presented by every English farmer would
not be missed.

Her Majesty's troopship Crocodile sailed yesterday
from Queenstown for Alexandria, with the 72nd High-
landers on board.

Sir Stafford Northcote and his two sons left Liverpool
on Saturday in the Rizzio, for New York. Sir Stafford is
one of the commissioners in the Alabama and Fisheries
questions.

The United States mail steamer Idahoe arrived at
Queenstown on Saturday last. She landed a large quan-
tity of mails and proceeded onwards. She had 310,500
dollars specie on board for Liverpool.
Five cardsharpers were sentenced to three months' im •
prisonment each, with hard labour, by the Liverpool
county magistrates, on Saturday, for swindling at the
recent coursing meetings at Altcar, by means of the three-
card trick.

THE ARMY ORGANISATION BILL.—It H prO-
bable that an amendment will be proposed on the motion
for the second reading of the Army Organisation Bill, an
Thursday next, to the effect that the house of Commons,
while willing to sanction any expenditure which may be
necessary for the abolition of the system of purchase,
is opposed to any increase in the Army Estimates.—Daily
News.
London, England, 1871-02-20

GEOLOGY MADE EASY. A Sheet chewing
the various strata upon which London is built, commonly
known as the London Basin. Shewing also the localities where the
various strata come to the surface. The Diagram represents the
various Epochs, Systems, and Characters of Rocks, from the
Plutonic, through the whole Serie's, to the latest Alluvium, coloured
so as to represent real specimens, with the organic remains to be
found in each, and the localities in Great Britain where they
severally occupy the surface. Being the most concise and instructive
publication on the science that has ever been before the public.' 11l
Smith Evans, Esq., F.G.S. Price ls.

London—W. TWERDTE. 337. Strand
London, England, 1871-02-20

E MOSES and SON'S

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YOUNG ENGLAND. Complete in three hand-
somely bound Volumes, ss. each ; or in one handsome
Volume, full gilt, bevelled boards, price 10s. 6d. Containing 1,000
pages, and 645 wood engravings. The work in its complete form
presents a most attractive repertory of instruction and amusement
for young persons. Post free, Is. extra.

tondon—TW. TWEE MIC 337. Strand.

GOUGH AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND ORATIONS
OF J. B. The Autobiography and Subsequent Life of Mr.
Gough are here given, with Fourteen Orations and Portrait.
Ilandsome cloth 3s. 6d. Post free, 3s. 10d,

London—W. TWEEDIF. 337. Strand•
London, England, 1871-02-20

SPORTING.

19.— LONDON BETTING, daily-4 19s. per quarter.
20.—RESULTS of the fifty most important Race Days during
he season—£2 10s..for the year.
MANCHESTER BETTING—£I 198. per quarter.
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order.

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Nos. 5, 11, 12, and 15, which are supplied one day per week for
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Any of the news services supplied on one day per week for
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discount), provided an order is given for twelve months, with
quarterly prepayments. _ _

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STOCK EXCHANGES.

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London, England, 1871-02-20

load live of vessels, and other points of the kind. Of
course the objection is urged against the measure,
that it interferes• with the freedom of trade, and

that seamen are quite capable of judging for them-
selves whether a vessel is safe or not. The answer
to this is that there are always hosts of men eager

for employment, and if one man refuses, the ship-
owner knows a dozen will take his place. Men get

reckless with constant exposure to danger.

A WORKMAN'S VIEW OF CANADA.
Mr, Thomas Connolly, stonemason, whose intelli-
gent comments on the position and wages of the
working man in America, have excited much interest,
has now given Ili the results of his researches in
Canada. He gives a preliminary sketch of the
country, its public works, which, thanks to _Robert
Stephenson and Thomas Brassey, would do honour
to the rich States of the old world, the principal

towns, and the chief productions of the soil. The
Victoria Tubular Bridge is nearly two miles long,

taking the trains seven—minutes to pass through it.
There are three million cubic feet of masonry in the
abutments and piers, 8,250 tons of iron, and 3,500,000
rivets in the tubes. Its costwas 21,250,000. Mr. Con-

nolly was especially interested in the memorial raison
by the workmen who constructed the bridge to the
0,000 emigrants who died from ship fever in 1847
and 1848. He is very favourable to emigration.
The man of moderate means in Canada is the equal
of any one, and the working man, if he keeps from
drink and lays in food and fuel in the summer, can
rest and recreate himself in the winter. The cost of
a working man's living is on the whole cheaper than
in England, and there is less competition. The
20,000 emigrants who went out last year were
quickly absorbed in the population. There are
poor people there, as everywhere, but not the squalid
hopeless poverty to be found in European towns.
The class who would profit most by emigrating are
the agricultural labourers, who would at once get
double wages, with the prospect of owning land.
London, England, 1871-02-20

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London, England, 1871-02-20

ADMIRALTY MINUTES.

Mr. Reed, in a letter to the Times, points out that
a passage in Mr. Childers's Minute, quoted in inverted
commas, as if it was in the literal terms of the com-
mittee's report, and showing that Mr. Reed and Mr.
Scott Russell saw nothing in the construction of the
Captain to lead them to believe that her stability
would be different or inferior to any other armour-
plated ship of similar dimensions, does not only not
appear in the committee's report, but is in distinct
contradiction to the conclusion the committee had
arrived at. Mr. Reed thus ends his letter :—" I
should not have adverted to this point had it borne
upon my own case only, but so many public officers
are falling before the pen of the First Lord that it
has become a question of public interest to inquire
what description of weapon it is that he wields with
such deadly effect."
London, England, 1871-02-20

PROSPECTS OF PEACE.

The Telegraph thinks that peace may now be considered
certain. The Bordeaux Assembly has at last been brought
face to face with the question whether peace could be
accepted on conditions involving the cession of French
provinces, and has decided the question in the affirmative.
The defeat of the Republicans is Complete ; and
it seems to have been mainly due to the fact that
they were understood to be in favour of prose-
cuting the war. Such being the case, it would be
idle to question the supremacy of the peace party. One
of the first acts of the new Administration has been to
transfer the duty of protecting the Assembly from the
hands of the Bordeaux National Guard to those of the
regular army ; and when this change was protested against
by M. Rochefort, the Assembly refused to grant him a
hearing. Last night M. Thiers was to leave
for Versailles, and to-day the formal discus-
sion respecting the terms of peace will com-
mence in the Assembly. At the last moment, no
doubt, some claim might be put forward of so exorbitant
a character that the Commissioners would refuse to
accept it, or the Chambers to endorse it until they
should be subjected to, further pressure ; but such a con-
tingency is not probable. The amount of the war
indemnity, as we have previously stated, will not, we
believe, exceed one hundred and fifty millions in
all ; and we trust that the requisitions already
levied on French cities will be deducted from

the gross total. The question, where the frontier line
shall be drawn, is of immense importance to the ultimate
welfare of France and to the prospects of European
peace. But we doubt whether the cession of a few miles
more or less of territory will appeal strongly to the minds
of the French. If they be forced to accept the necessity
of ceding Alsace and part of Lorraine, the
issue whether Nancy, for instance, should belong
to France or to Germany would hardly seem
adequate cause for the renewal of the war. Moreover,
since the contention of all Frenchmen is that
Alsace is not less thoroughly French than any part
of the country, the importance of drawing the frontier I
line at the borders of German Lorraine will hardly com-
mend itself to the French,, Commissioners. The chief
point on which the negotiations are likely to encounter
any difficulty is undoubtedly that which concerns the
possession of Metz, and here there is still some possibility
of a compromise. These, however, are matters of detail.
The principle of the cession of French territory has now
been admitted, and this admission removes the last chance
that hostilities will be resumed.
London, England, 1871-02-20

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THE ARMY OF THE VOSGES.

BORDEAUX, February 18.
Menotti Gaiibaldi has the provisional command of
the Army of the Vosges. Menotti and Ricciotti
Garibaldi are at Chalons. The Army of the Vosges
is echeloned between Chalons, Macon, and Bourg,
London, England, 1871-02-20

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London, England, 1871-02-20

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VEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith,
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their Y aPPeal the benevolent to assist them in carrying on
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CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES
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Amount still required, -04,000.
Number of beds now occupied, 120.
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celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient
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W. Graves, L. Sil..,,,rberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr.
Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.C.
Admission, ls.: Reserved Seats, 2s.
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London, England, 1871-02-20

SOCIETY for ORGANISING CHARITABLE
RELIEF and REPRESSING MENDICITY.
President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.
- Chairman—The Earl of LICHFIELD.
Vice-Chairmen—Major Gen. Cavenagh—Alsager Hay Hill, Esq.
Treasurer -H. B. Praed, Esq.
Onject of the Society.—The establishment of a Charity Office
in every Poor Law District in the metropolis, such office to be
the recognised centre of charitable organisation in each district.
DISTRICT COMMITTEES in union with the Society :
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Society, or to Messrs. Coutts and Co., 50, Strand, W.C.
The funds of the central office are for purposes of organisa-
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London, England, 1871-02-20

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any other Blue.
London, England, 1871-02-20

LATEST INTELLIGEN CE.

SUN OFFICE, '8
A.M.

THE ARMISTICE.
VERSAILLES, February

The Moniteur of Versailles says—"A prolongation of
the Armistice would only injure the position of the

German armies.

" France knows the conditions of Peace, which
are ccmpensation for the past and guarantees for the
future, and Germany is resolved to continue the war
if these conditions are rejected.
" Let Bordeaux understand there is no middle
term."

Referring to preparations for continuing the war
reported from the South, the Moniteur observes that
Germank must insist all the more on guarantees,
especially those to be procured by an occupation of
Paris.

No food is allowed to leave Versailles.
BERLIN, February 18

The prolongation of the Armistice was only ac-
corded in return for the surrender of Belfort, which
was ordered by the French Government.

February 19.
The German terms of peace in the definitive form
to be communicated to the new French Government
are an ultimatum.--Tines Telegrams.

FOREIGN MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS
BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

• BORDEAUX, February 18 ( 4.50 p.m.)
Le Francais asserts that M. Guizot had accepted
the appointment of French Minister to London. The
Government have already appointed fresh Ministers
at Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Constantinople, but
the names of the Ambassadors to these Courts have
not yet transpired.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF M.
GAMBETTA.
.BRUSSELS, February 18 (8 p.m.)
Reports have been received here that M. Gambetta
attempted suicide by poison, and that although his
condition was improving, he was still labouring
under the greatest excitement, and fears were enter-
tained for his recovery.

NEWS FROM BRUSSELS.

BRUSSELS, February 19.
The Berlin Provincial Correspondence says that
the Emperor's G ivernment will carefully avoid the
fault committed in 1814, of imposing a Government
upon France. No Government will be recognised
which does not represent the wishes of the French
people.—Daily News Telegram. -

THE ENTRY OF THE GERMANS INTO
PARIS.
The determination of the Emperor-King to make
a triumphal entry into Paris at the head of his
troops, as soon as peace is concluded, is said to be
inflexible ; and it is reported that the members of the
late Government of National Defence are well aware
of this determination.

THE ARMISTICE.
The official text of the agreement entered into
between Jules Favre and Count Bismarck for the
prolongation of the armistice states that it will be
extended to the 24th inst., with power to renew the
extension should the circumstances demand it.—
Lombard Telegrams.
London, England, 1871-02-20

ST. THOMAS'S FLOATING DOCK.

An important engineering feat has lately been
accomplishe 1 in the harbour of St. Thomas, West
Indies, in the raising of the floating dock, which
was sunk in 1867. The dock is three hundred feet
long and a hundred wide. It is capable of docking
the largest steamers in the merchant service. The
contractors undertook to raise the dock for the sum
of twenty thousand pounds, and asked for no pay-
ment unless successful. Mr. Blaxland, jun., was the
engineer, who superintended the arrangements of
the difficult business. He had large air pumps
made from his own designs, and when these arrived
from England the work was begun on the morning
of the third of January last, and the pumps were
continued in constant operation until the next morn-
ing, when the dock commenced to rise. The work of
raising was completed by the next day, and the clock
towed across the harbour to. Long Bay, where it
was safely grounded. Only those who have been in
the tropics can fully comprehend the difficulties of
this arduous undertaking, which has resulted in the
recovery of a most valuable property.
London, England, 1871-02-20

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE,

AQUA 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, Is. each ; also 5s , 7s. ad., and 15s. each,
including brush.
Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-street,
London, E.C.
London, England, 1871-02-20

Canada has now 2,000 miles of telegraphic wire,
and the number of her telegraphic offices is 675. Th 3
wires are carried on cedar poles twenty-five feet to thirty
feet high.

The production of wool in California, in 1870, ex-
ceeded 20 million lb. The average price was about 20
cents, the whole clipping being worth four million dols.
It is estimated that 1871 will see an increase of 25 per
cent. in the quantity produced.

The Rev. Dr. Miller, of Greenwich, has been
appointed by the Bishop of Victoria (China) to act as his
commissary under the direction of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, for the entire settlement of the question of a
Missionary Bishopric in China.

OYSTER FISHERIES OF IRELAND.—The report of
the commissioners who have made inquiries respecting
the oyster fisheries of Ireland, has been issued. The
principal oyster fisheries are those of Arklow and Wex-
ford, which extend for forty miles along the coast. They
were injured by over dredging, but were improving at the
date of the last report. The yield at Arklow last season
was valued at £28,000. The Wexford fisheries are a con-
tinuation of the Arklow, and their yield was over £2,000.
Twenty years ago the price was only six shillings a
thousand, but it now reaches forty shillings. The
whole value of Irish fisheries is only about
£50,000 a year. The commissioners recommend the with-
drawal of many of the licences issued by the Board of
Works. The grants which they have made have not pro-
duced a good effect, and there has been little increased
production. The commissioners think the banks are in
better condition, as regards stock and other matters, than
those of Froome, or other parts of the United Kingdom,
and they attribute this to the regulation of the Board of
Works during their management of the fisheries. After
careful examination of the sea and the soil, the conclusion
was arrived at that the Irish coast was favourable to the
production of healthy oysters, and that the soil was well
adapted for the cultivation of oysters.
London, England, 1871-02-20

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London, England, 1871-02-20

TIIE AMERICAN CENSUS OF 1870.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times now gives
us, with apparently a pretty near approach to accuracy,
the results of the cenus taken at the end of last year in the
United States. The general summary consists
of 38,500,000 against nearly 31,500,000 in 1860
—an increase of between 20 and 30 per cefit.
The Americans, it is said, are disappointed at
finding the augmentation no greater. The large
amount of immigration from Europe during the last few
years encouraged, no doubt, higher anticipations ; but
against this was to be set the loss of life occasioned
by four years of civil war, not to be measured by
the mere returns of deaths in the field. On the whole,
therefore, the Republic is to be congratulated on having
fully maintained and even exceeded its ordinary rate
of growth, under circumstances which might almost have
crushed for the time a commonwealth possessing less
natural power of recovery. The central States, in which
we include Maryland, have more than 9,500,000, against
7,500,000 in 1860. This region comprises not only the
three great Atlantic cities, New York, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore, but also the mining and great part of the
manufacturing interests.
London, England, 1871-02-20

M. THIERS.

The Standard remarks :—lt makes one almost despair of
the future of France when we find such a man as M. Thiers
selected in her greatest emergency to be the representative
of the national mind. What chance is there of her
speedy resurrection when she voluntarily resigns her
destinies into the hands of M. Thiers ? Why, even
Gambetta were a more respectable name ; for Gambetta
has at least done some real work in resisting the
invaders. Gambetta has a definite programme,
and has stuck to it resolutely. But what is M.
Thiers's plan for rescuing France from her present despe-
rate plight ? He is so placed by his antecedents that it is
impossible but that he should be a traitor to some one of
the parties into which France is divided. If he pro-
nounces for the Republic he will belie the whole of his
past career. If he is for the Monarchy, he will be
equally untrue to the majority of those who
have raised him to his present position. In
regard to the first and great business which he
will have to transact—namely, the obtaining of
the most favourable terms possible from Germany, it is
difficult to see what is the source of the confidence which
is placed in M. Thiers. Judging from his recent circuit
among the Neutral Courts his powers as a diplomatist
cannot be rated very high, even although he has had
such a model before him as Lord Granville's father.
In dealing with Count Bismarck France requires a
man of tenacity of purpose, of variety and subtlety
of resources. M. Thiers hag never shown that
he is such a man during his forty years of
public life. There is nothing to prove that he has
unlearnt the lessons of his youth and manhood—that he
is not as great a Chauviniste as when he wrote his foolish
and fatal histories. It must have been in very despair
that the French people could have deposited the destinies
of their future into such hands, and it is hoping almost
against hope to indulge in the belief that anything else can
come out of M. Thiers's dictature than further misfortune
and misery for France,
•
London, England, 1871-02-20

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248,' High Holborn, London, opposite Day and Martin's.

"Tale of a Hair," 6d.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought)._
Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE-
doVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green-
.vich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in-
troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re-
moved from the City to the same building.

KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary,
London, England, 1871-02-20

M. ROCHEFORT.

M. Henri Rochefort, on leaving the National
Assembly at the close of Friday's sitting, received
a perfect triumph from the crowd, which wanted to
carry him on their shoulders. A. body of sergents-
de-ville had some difficulty in dispersing the crowd
and re-establishing the traffic.

FAREWELL SPEECH OF GARIBALDI.
BORDEAUX, February 18.

Gazibaldi, at the moment of leaving Marseilles on
board the Egyptienne, delivered the following
speech :—" Have confidence ; it is especially now
that you should redouble your efforts. Whatever
may be your present misfortunes, France will still
be France, and will again become a great nation—
leader of peoples. Let us hope that the majority
will understand that the Republican form of govern-
ment is alone suited to the country ; is the
only one that can elevate it morally and mate-
rially. In any case, you who are Republicans, pre-
pare for the struggle ; know and love one another
and make ready to take the revenge which is your
due. We shall meet again."

THE GERMAN REQUISITIONS.
LILLE, February 18 (3.40 p.m.)

At Sedan the Prussians have demanded paymeht
of the taxes for the last quarter of 1870. On
the municipality refusing to comply with this
demand they threatened to take away the leading
citizens as prisoners. The Municipal. Council
thereupon gave way, and has contracted a loan of
210,000 francs to meet this requisitions.

OUTBREAK OF SMALLPDX IN LILLE.
LILLE, February 18.

Smallpox is raging in the districts of the Northern
Department, especially in this town, where the deaths
are fifty a day.

THE FRENCH PRISONERS IN SWITZER-

LAND.
BERNE, February 18.
The subscriptions to the 41 per cent. Swiss
Loan of 15,000,000 francs required for the main-
tenance of the French prisoners exceed 20,000,000
francs.
London, England, 1871-02-20

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