The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-10 00:00:00

THE LONDON DEMOCRATS.

A meeting of the Anglo-French Intervention Council
has been held at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey, for the purpose
of taking steps for "demonstrating " the feeling of the
London working classes in the event of the Germane
bombarding Paris. Mr. Weston. who presided, speaking
of a paragraph which had appeared in a weekly paper,
stating that a portion of the council were in favour of
" interviewing " Count Bismarck against the continuance
of the war, said that this paragraph really anticipated a
proposal which was held to be a deep secret, but he
believed the project had fallen to the ground. In dis-
cussing the proposed demonstration, one member said that
the season was unfavourable for outdoor meetings, and
the indoor meetings cost money, and this the London
Democrats did not seem willing to subscribe. A Volun-
teer, in the uniform of a Middlesex corps, also spoke ; and
ultimately a resolution was passed thclaring that an out-
door demonstration should be held, and that means should
also be taken for holding an indoor one.

The " Advanced Liberal Association of Greenwich "
has issued an address appealing to the " calm judgment,
unbiassed sense, and brotherly sympathy of the great
democracy of England on behalf of the suffering people
of France." It appeals also to the Germans to put an
end to the war, and, on referring to the declaration of the
King of Prussia with respect to his not making war
on the people of France, the address holds that it
became the duty of Prussia to accept a fair and
honourable peace ,when he fell who was most to blame c
but as the war has since that time been carried on more
pitilessly than ever against the French people, the English
nation is called on by all its agencies to assure the French
of our active sympathy. Our Government, the address
says, is afraid to move without the support of a largemase
of public opinion, and it therefore calls upon the people
by " public meetings and large assemblies " to make its
sentiments known. " The great democracy of the
world," it adds, " know nothing of the divine
right of kings, they believe in the Heaven-born
rights of peoples and nations to govern themselves, and
they regard military conquest, coercion, and brute force
as infernal agencies employed to rob mankind of their
greatest blessing. Peoples have no desire to struggle for
mastery, for supreme dominion, for despotic conquest ;
the interest and well-being of one is the interest and well-
being of all; universal freedom is essential to progress and
civilization. The popular leaders across the Channel ex-
pect but little sympathy from our Government ; it is to
the people they look."

ILLNESS OF THE DUCIIESS DE MONTPENSIER.-•
We are sorry to announce that the Duchess de Mont-
pensier is at present seriously ill.—.lforning Post.

ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS.—Her
Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 notify
that an act, entitled " The Protection of Inventions Act,
1870," 33 and 34 Viet., cap. 27, has been passed for the
protection, amongst other things, of the exhibitors at
the annual international exhibitions, and contains provi-
sions similar in character to those which were effectual for
the protection of inventors at the Exhibition of 1862 in
pursuance of " The Protection of Inventions and Designs
Amendment Act, 1862."

THE BISHOPRIC OF MAITRITIUS.—The Secretary
State for the Colonies has nominated the Rev. Constan-
tine Huxtable, of King's College, London, to the
Bishopric of MauritiuS, vacant by the death of the Right
Rev. Dr. Hatchard. Mr. Huxtable became Worsley
Scholar and the Royal Associate of King's College in 1849,
and in the same year was ordained by Dr. Blomfield, then
Bishop of London, and almost immediately afterwards
went to Christianagram, in Tennevelly, Southern India,
as a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts. In - 1852 he was appointed
Principal of the Missionary Institution at Sawyerpooram,
Madras. Returning to England, he was nominated in
1859 to the rectory of BelEsconibe, near Crewkerne,
which he held until 1867. Since that time he has been
incumbent of St. Mary, Port Lewis, Mauritius, and
Secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
He will probably be consecrated in conjunction with the
Rev. Dr. Henry Cheetham, vicar of Quarndom, near
Derby, who has been appointed to the Bishopric of Sierra
Leone.

REPORTED Loss OF THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE
SHENANDOAH WITH ALL ON BOARD.—Considerable alarm,
according to the latest advices from New York, was being
felt in the United States concerning the fate of the frigate
Shenandoah, Commander Clarke H. Wells, which sailed
from Boston for Lisbon on the 3rd of September last, and
has not since been seen or heard of, beyond the fact
that a large American frigate was seen on the 12th of
September in a dismasted condition, which bore every
resemblance to the Shenandoah. Captain Grace, of the
barque Argo, which had reached St. John's, N. 8., from
Boston, reports that he encountered a terrific gale on
Sunday, September 18th, the wind blowing from the
E.N.E., with a heavy sea from the S.W„ and that on
Thursday, the 22nd, when the vessel was in lat. 42.25
N.. long. 62 W., he passed two' boats, supposed to be a
man-of-war's launch and cutter : the former was
bottom up, with mast and sail visible ; the latter was
•apright and full of water, and had seven rowlocks
on each side. Both boats were painted dark on the out-
side, and white inside, and evidently belonged to the same
vessel, as they were of the same build, and one was sighted
within an hour of the other. Captain Grace at once put
off a boat, and succeeded in getting the launch in tow,
but the wind blowing very fresh at the time, and being
to the leeward, it could not be got to the
ship, and Captain Grace was compelled to leave it. From
the fact that the launch's mast was stepped, and the sail
set, it is evident that the boat had been manned after
having been launched. There can be no doubt that there
has been a terrible calamity at sea, and indications point
to the total loss of a large man-of-war, with a probability
that it was the corvette Shenandoah. When the latest
advices left New York the Shenandoah had been out

over fifty days, whilst sailing vessels, which left
American ports after her, had already reached Lisbon and
Cadiz.

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