The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-12 00:00:00

Governmt. Debt...£11,015,100

Other Securities
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

3;98000

£33,230,325

?ARTMENT.
Governmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) 412,483,861
Other Securities 22,207,571
Notes 9,449,585
Gold and Silver
Coin

L 44,991,388

THE ERIE RAILWAY.--The absence of Mr. Burt
in England has not caused the war of the English stock-
holders against the Erie Railway managers for the re-
covery of their own to falter. Judge Brady has just pro-
nounce(' an important decision in their favour, by which
the shares held on the company's books in the name of
Heath and Raphael are to be entered to the credit of their
rightful English owners, who will, of course, vote here-
after adversely to the interest of Fisk, Gould, and Tweed.
This is the firs step toward the suppression of the present
management. If others are as promptly taken we shall
soon see the Erie road redeemed from misrule.—Tribune.
THE EMPIRE AT STAKE.—YeS, It has Come to
this. The fate of the Empire—not of France, remember
—depends on the issue of a battle. See how the Empire
has faded away already. Not one of• the numerous pro-
clamations issued in this hour of danger speak of it ; not
one calls on France to rally round her Emperor. hat
say the eight millions of plebiscitary voters now? They
curse him as having brought ruin on the country, and
quite forget their own complicity. It was a a true Gaul
who spoke the cruel words, " Vae Victis." A
great victory can alone save the -Empire ; even
a great defeat would not ruin France. But
in the defences of Paris, if once the Prussians are
at its gates, I can put no trust. No wealthy and luxurious
capital can be expected to defend itself by the help of a
garrison reduced to a minimum, and 40,000 National
Guaids. Indeed, the paper's have overdone the thing
rather, and have' made the appeals to patriotism a great
deal too strong for 13ourgeois readers. The
idea of " Victory or Death," and the proposal
of "making such a rampart of their dead bodies that
the enemy could not overstep it," is not alluring to
peaceable middle-aged traders. If the army is beaten,
why should they be expected to conquer ? The de-
cision which has been taken to arm all citizens with-
out distinction—Republicans' Socialists, and all—
not excepting the turbulent lovers of peace which
compose the Internationale, has not given satisfaction to
the bourgeois. They are armed for the defence of the
territory.• Mais apres ? Who is to disarm them ? What
if we have a Republican pronunciamiento ? This is one
of the forms which our great "if " assumes in thought-
ful minds.— Parisian Correspondent of the Pall Mall
Gazette.

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