The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-15 00:00:00

THE HERTFORD ESTATE.

This magnificent property, which for nearly two cen-
turies was owned by successive peers connected with the
Seymour family, has at length fallen into the hands of a
commoner; Mr. Richard Wallace, as this son of the
late Marquis of Hertford is called by his English friends,
is said to be highly educated, and to have been hardly less
respected at the Imperial Court than was his father. He
is upwards of 40 years of age, connected by marriage with
a high family, and has several children. Much specula-
tion is abroad among the tenantry as to whether the new
owner of the property will be even an occasional resident
among them. The income of the estate averages pretty
close up to £1 an acre, or a uet rental of sixty thousand
a year, and it is hoped that the inheritor of such a
princely fortune will be led to think that some respon-
sibility is attached • to his position; and that if ho is
legally entitled to draw that amount from the people'
who till his land, he will learn that he is morally bound
to spend a portion of his time among those from the
fruits of whose toil he derives that income. The per-
sonal property of the late marquis in cash alone, invested
in the funds and lying at his bankers', is said to have
exceeded £1,000,003. Thirty-four years, ago, when
known as Lord Yarmouth, he purchased ie very hand-
some residence of Bagatelle at a cost of 320,000f,......11e
subsequently made so much improvement on tilt:Amuse
and grounds that its value has been more than doubled,
His

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creased.

house property in Paris .hadequally
His pictures form one of the finest

collections possessed by any peer of thew realm ;
but it is still unknown to whom Bagatelle and
the paintings have been left. The Prince Im-
perial was said to have been the heir of the property in
Paris, as well as of the Fine Arts Gallery ; but we are in-
ehned to think
.that Mr. Wallace will have these as well
as the Irish estate. The English property that goes with
the inarquisite brings in a
.net rental of .E 5,000 a year.
This is small as compared with what the present marquis
had been led to look for at the death of his relative; but
to one who had never had the tenth of that income it
should be a. pretty fair share of the world's good things.
There is the greatest speculation among the Hertford
tenantry as to the possible results of the change of owners
—the religious denomination to which the new landlord
belongs forming no slight element in the curiosity which
is felt as to the future regulations of the estate.—Yorthei.n
ir'lciJ.

The death is annowice.l ul the Rev. Charles
king-tdn, 8.0. L., oue of the canons of Cl).iehe:Atou
Cathedral.

THE .WAR,

PARIS, TUESDAY.
Peace, says the Figaro, has for the last eight days
. resembled a wandering fire which alternately approaches
us and eludes ou<grasp. In any case, since the Parisians
I are resolved to resist an attack, they do wisely to prepare
for the struggle. The grand review of the National
Guard of the Seine and of the Garde Mobile, which took
place to-day, shewed that Paris does not lack defenders,
and that the spirit of her people is thoroughly
roused. Before eleven o'clock the 135 batta-
lions were massed on the Places de la Bas•
tile and du Chateau d'Eau. The boulevards, were
lined with troops, from the Bastile to the'Arc de
Triomphe. Several battalions were in plain clothes, with
rifles, but neither pouch, belts, nor side arms. There
were 200,000 men under aims, The want of police to
regulate the traffic was much felt. As soon os the general.
and Ids stall had passed the streets became blocked with
curbs and troops returning from the review. In front of
the New Opera .H.ouSe a National Guardsman was crushed
between two carts. Several battalions marched to the
Statue of Strasburg on the Place de la Concorde, and de-
posited bouquets of flowers amidst shouts of "Vive la
Republique!" " Vive Strasbourg !" and the singing of
the " Marseillaise." The popular enthusiasm was
'immense. The windows in all directions which could
command a view were put in requisition, and
, when General Trochu and his staff, preceded
and followed by mounted gendarmes, passed down
the ranks a universal shout of " Viva la Repub-
lique ! Vive Trochu ! " was raised. The Cosetitutionnel in
its account cills this acclamation a solemn and fervent
oath, which each one made' to defend Paris and France.
, The scene was a brilliant one, notwithstanding the anxiety
which depresses the great city, and many of the Gardes
had their gnus ornamented with little flags and flowers.
Some of them had not yet obtained their uniforms, and
were clad in the ordinary cap and blouse of the civilian.
The General passed along the Champs Elysees and the
quays on either side of the river. He returned by
the Rue de Rivoli, where three other battalions awaited
him. The whole course took just three hours, and the
good order observed, notwithstanding the excitement of
the people and the number of armed men, was something
surprising. The chief source of diecomfurt was the dust,
for the days of public watering are over, and every street
and avenue was clouded with it. A besieged city has
not much time for the refinements of civilised life, but the
Journal Officiel tells us that the Government has just
taken a wise and necessary measure in instituting a
hygienic commission to take charge of n utters affecting
the public health. Two other decrees just issued are
likely to prove beneficial. One of them abolishes the
commissaires of the cantons, who acted for the most part
as official spies, persecuting every one who opposed the
Government, however well disposed morally, and taking
'no trouble about real offenders. The other decree pro-
claims the complete freedom of the printer and
bookseller. The Sieele while rejoicing over this
concession to the press demands that the printer
should no longer be held responsible for the
works he prints. The armourer, it argues, is not respon-
sible for the persons who buy his arms, and break the
limiting laws by using them. The colporteur should also
be allowed free scope as he carries intellectual life into
the provinces. Several decrees connected with the
arrangements for the defence of the capital appear almost
daily. The important and long-looked for notice that
on Thursday the gates would be closed, and no
one allowed to pass in or out without special
permission has been affield, and has seemed to bring the
end nearer. The Ministers of England and Italy have
declared they will not leave until the last mornent, though
Lord Lyons has despatched the married members of his
Embassy homewards. Tours is to be the diplomatic place
of resort, and the Government will be represented there
by M. Crdnaieux, Minister of Justice, during whose
absence M. Lehmann, one of the advocates of the Court
of Cassation, will discharge his duties in Paris. The
Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation having bee

consulted by M. Crdmieux respecting the proposed re-
moval; declared their willingness to serve the Government
in any place, but said they did not think the necessities of
their office required the removal, and they considered it
more worthy the dignity of the first judicial body of the

country to share the perils of the capital. The new Garde
des Sceaux having consented to this, the criminal conrt
will continue to sit in Paris. What is more important,
we are informed that the Provisional Government has
made arrangements by which it can communicate with
the rest of France during the siege of Paris. The
Minister of War will remain in the capital, and pro-
vide for the wants of ti.e service, but General Lefort,
with twelve employes, will go to Tours as representative
of tie Ministry, and will decide on necessary points, his
decisions receiving the signature of M. Cremieux. The
archives of the Ministry of War and of the Ministry of
Marine, which include some very valuable historical
documents, have been removed from Paris, and taken to
a place of safety. Other national treasures of the same
kind will probably follow them.
Portugal has recognised the Republic, and Senor Lan-
caster, the Charge d'Affaires of the Lisbon Government, has
addressed a complimentary letter to M. Jules Favre,
who has, of course, returned a suitable answer. These
daily adhesions of foreign governments to the new regime
are of great importance. but France would gladly see
England, Russia, and Austria follow the examples of
America, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Portu-

gal. There has been some disappointment occasioned by

the exaggerated accounts of the interference of
the Washington Cabinet on behalf of France.
Some persons went so far as to say that
the United States had threatened an armed intervention

Prussia did not immediately withdraw her troops from

the soil of the new Republic. However, the population
of Paris are very sensible of the moral support given by
the States, and everything American is at the height of
popularity. A grand demonstration was made yesterday
before the American Legation, which took its origin,it

seems, in a visit paid by Mr. Washburn to the central
telegraphic office. While the Minister was sending his

message, he was, it seems, recognised by some of the
employo, and the word soon ran through the establish-

went. So spontaneony awlenthusiastic was the ovation
he received that , Mr. Washburn was deeply
moved. As soon as he left the building the
employ& clubbed together to purchase two mag-
nificent flags, one French the other American, and
being reinforced from tlxe suburban offices they started
for the American Legation. There were about 400
of them, but long , before . they reached their

destination they Were joined by G-ardes Mobiles
and National Guards, so that more than a thousand per-

cons presented the flags to Mri Washburn. He crossed
them in token of the alliance of the peoples and em-
braced then) several times. His address has been
already printed. In the course of it he
said the young Republic has united undissolubly
with the elder, and declared he had confidence in the
destinies of France/anti of humanitY. The employ& of
the telegraph office, before returning, marched in good
order to the Place4leia Concorde, and laid at the foot of
the Strasburg statue a splendid crown. On returning to
the office the employi43 were received by the chief superin-
tendent, and ex.Kessed their desire of placing themselves

at the service of the Government fsqr the ziationad defences.
The snperintendeut promised them that he wouln only keep
those indispensable to the work of the office, and that
the others shonld'he immediately armed. A grand mani•

festation was also made yesterday before the Swiss
Embassy, and an enthusistic address was made to M'
Kern, to which he replied In cordial and well-chosen lan-

' • •
nudge.
rprotest has'been sent to the King of Prussia by the
Society of Political Economy and the President of the
Presbyterian Consistory. In this the King is warned as
to the course which he is pursuing, and adjured to stop
the war he is s) ruthlessly waging. The scarcity of
paper in Paris causes great inconvenience to
journalists. The Hiitoire has suspended its publication
in oonseqUonce, and the Libertg is printed on two
pages with a notice, explaining the necessity that compels
them to resort to the expediency of printing in small type,
and compressing into two pages the amount of matter that
is contained in fourpages of the old size. A notice is affixed
to the Ft;garo, which states that M. de Villemessant is ill
and a,b;ent from Paris ; he therefore withdraws his name
from the journal.