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London, England, 1870-12-12

AFFAIRS AT LYONS.

A letter from Lyons on the 6th says that the success ob-
tained by the two legions in the departments of Saone-et-
Loire and Cote d'Or had been confirmed to the general
satisfaction. These legions are under the com-
mand of General Cremer, who is very popular
among the citizen soldiers: In his order of
the day the general speaks highly of some of the
companies of Freeshooters as being full of courage and
vigour. M. Hyppolite Pout, formerly a Parisian jour-
nalist, who is a native of Lyons, has offered to the
Municipal Council of that city 500 f. for the wounded,
500 f for the widows and orphans, a like sum for the
clothing and equipment of impoverished soldiers,
another for the French prisoners, and 3,000 f. for the pur-
chase of a cannon for the use of a Lyonnese corps. In
the letter making these offers, M. Pout says he considers
it to be the duty of each citizen to do his best in the pre-
sent crisis, and he is doing his utmost in confi-
dence. A second Lyonnese ambulance has been
established at Chambon Loiret, on the road to Loury,
The cannon have been heard firing constantly, but there
is a strong French corp d'armde which is expected to keep
off the enemy. The writer of the letter saw a spy brought
in by four engineers. A quarter of an hour later he
was shot. A letter from a Lyonese garde mobile
captured at New Briesach, who is interned at
Dresden, speaks highly of the good treatment he has
received in the Saxon capital. All prisoners, he adds,
could not say the same. Smallpox continues its ravages
in Lyons, and is very fatal. An attempt has been made,
with partial success, to arrest its progress by employing
tincture of belladonna.
London, England, 1870-12-12

THE NEW MASTER OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

The successor to the late Dr. Plumptre, in the
Mastership of the University College, Oxford, is a
son of the Rev. Charles Bradley, one of the most
respected of the old evangelical clergy. The Rev.
George Bradley was educated at Rugby under Dr.
Arnold, and from that school was elected to an
open scholarship is University College. He was a
pupil of Dean Stanley's then tutor there. After a
creditable university career, Mr. Bradley became as-
sistant-master at Rugby School, under Dr. Tait,
a post he held for some years. He after-
wards became head-master as Marlborough Col-
lege. Mr. Bradley was distinguished there for a
successful administration, sound scholarship, and
great efforts to improve the school. He promoted
the study of modern languages and science, and on
his examination before the Public School Commis-
sioners, he was believed to have suggested many
important reformi, which have since been, or are
about to be, carried into effect.
A NEW DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Advantage is about to be taken of the Limited
Liability Act to carry out a somewhat new and sin-
gular dramatic scheme. It is proposed to form
an acting dramatic company or corps with
fixed or portable theatres and properties for
the purposes of dramatic representations, or other
entertainments, in towns or villages where no regular
theatre exists. The directors of this company,
which is to bear the name of the Prince of Wales
Dramatic Company, are to to be not more than seven
nor less than three in number. Their qualification
is fixed at 100 shares, and every member
of the directing committee must hold at least twenty
shares.
London, England, 1870-12-12

A TIMELY RESCUE.

Eight of the crew Of the brigantine Bessie, of St. Ives,
200 tons burthen, were landed at Penzance on Saturday
night by the ship City of Tanjore. The Bessie, laden
with wheat, from Baltimore to Falmouth, met with heavy
gales in.the Atlantic. Her foremast had to be cut away.
Several men were washed from their stations, and when,
on the 29th of November, she was sighted by the City of
Tanjore, fifty miles west of the Azores, she had five feet
of water in the hold, and her pumps were choked. She
was expected to sink almost immediately after being
abandoned.
London, England, 1870-12-12

COMMAND OF THE LOIRE ARMY.

There can scarcely be any doubt that General
Chanzy has succeeded D'Aurelle to the supreme
command of the Loire Army. In the official decree
it is said that he takes the leadership of the " Second
Army," but there is a reason for this expression.
D'Aurelle is superseded, and Bourbaki, who was
lately removed from the command of the Northern
Army, is sent back again. It, perhaps, would not do
to state these facts in plain terms. Bourbaki, there-
fore, is nominated to the " First" and Chanzy to
the " Second army." But there can be no error in read-
ing. " North "for "First" and "Loire" for "Second."
General Chanzy's promotion is well deserved. He
has fought excellently on the Loire, and almost
every glimpse of success the French had was gained
by his corps. Like most of the French commanders
now in the field, his deeds are not written in the
book of Vapereau. Gambetta's generals are almost
all new men, or old men made new again.
London, England, 1870-12-12

THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS.

The Dally News remarks:—lf we look at the spirit which
has governed the conduct of the Prussians- towards towns
which they have captured, and at the claims which Ger-
many and the German armies are alike urging upon head-
quarters, it may fairly be concluded that no private senti-
ments will be allowed to interfere with "militaryreasons,"
should it be found practicable and prudent to bombard Paris.
Such an event would cause more dismay and horror
ttmcing neutral spectators than anythingthat has happened
during the War ; and it would probably bring down a
weight of opprottinin on the Prussian commanders which
they are anxious to avoid ; but should the position of
the German armies in i?tartee demand it, and
should there be a reasonable chance of a
bombardment coercing the population of the capital into
a speedy submission, it is only too likely that Europe may
have to look on, helpless and horrified, at by far the most
terrible and tragic spectacle of the war. What are
Trochu's chances of breaking the line of invest-
ment before the curtain rises on this final act
of the siege ? The French are strongly fortifying
their position on the right batik of the Marne, where,
indeed, they are protected by Forts Nogent and Charen-
ton, and a series of earthworks which are not of recent
formation. The fact is, that the troops of General
Ducrot, after having had their sortie of Wednesday " re-
pulsed along the whole line," fell back on one or two
villages which were, in the phrase of 'a correspondent,
mere "man traps." The sortie having totally failed,
there was no advantage in their retaining possession of
these villages, and they accordingly retreated to a more
secure position in the Bois de Vincennes. There Ducrot,
who has sworn to re -enter Paris either dead or victorious,
may even now be preparing, according to the terms of his
proclamation, to strike another blow. But if he has
been gathering together his forces once more, the Germans
have been firmly strengthening that portion of their lines
which the French deomed most susceptible to attack.
Hence we are again confronted on every side by prepara-
tions for another stage of the campaign, and the end is
not yet.
London, England, 1870-12-12

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE,

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to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
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London, England, 1870-12-12

ITALIAN SLAVE FAR➢LING.

People have no doubt often wondered at the large
number of organ players and other street musicians
that Italy is able to afford us. It was fondly hoped
that the system of white slave farming under which
lads were taught to play on instruments and
wcre drafted in herds from the shores of Italy to
less hospitable climes, was about to be crushed
out. More than a year ago Count Charles Arrviabeno's
speech in the Parliament House at Florence caused
the Minister of the Interior to promise that effectual
measures should be taken to stop the practice
among parents of contracting with organ grinders
for the expatriation of their offspring. Such mea-
sures were, we understand, put in force, and the
joint acts of parents and padroni in this direction
wcire properly made penal offences. The disgraceful
system, however, we in England know, was zot
seriously checked, and now through a case
brought forward at one of our police courts thi4
week, we are struck with the enormity of the evil
deeds resorted to by bands of Italian padroni, and
their proteges in our very midst. It is imperative
that the case investigated in London, during
tl e hearing of which evidence was given that
twelve human beings, Italian musicians, slept in a
room twelve feet square in a thickly populated
aud unhealthy part of the metropolis, should be
noticed, as it ought to be, by the Italian Minister.
London, England, 1870-12-12

Pius.

The agricultural journals regret the poor nature
of the exhibition of pigs at the great Smith-
field Show. When the winter cattle of
all descriptions are brought up to London each year
before Christmas sales set in, for the public view,
the classes of animals shown are generally
taken to • represent the best. specimens that
our fanners can produce. Hence arises the
gloom in the agricultural mind when any
of these classe3 aro below their usual standard
of excellence. The best pigs shewn at Isling-
ton in the past week were from Dorsetahire,

an, t these were by no means wonderful animals. The
Dorsets received the cup. At Smithfield the pigs this
year were divided into white and black varieties,
an i the latter apparently had the competition all
their own way. The collection, however, altogether
wai small, and were it not for the 'Earl of Ayles-
bury's pens, and Messrs. Duckering's famous black
sow from Suffolk, the exhibition would have dis-
sal isfied even the general and inexperienced visitors
at blington.
London, England, 1870-12-12

A DEFAULTING SECRETARY.

A communication was received at Worcester on Satur-
day by Mr. Power, the chief constable of that city, from
Mr. Adcocks, the missing secretary of the Stourbridge
Railway Company, stating that it was his intention to
surrender himself to-day. This news is authentic ; and
little doubt is entertained that he will fulfil his promise.
His address is known to Mr. Power, but for obvious
reasons he declines to make it publii.
London, England, 1870-12-12

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OUR COTEIVLPORARIES—This Morning

THE PROPOSAL FOR AN ARIIISTICE.
Thd rifiag says : With respect to the proposal for an
armistice, vms stated on Friday to have been made'
by M. Gambettai we believe that no step what-
ever was taken by 1111,tat gentleman to put himself
in communication Witki the German 'Leadquar-
ters at Versailles. The french Minister of
War simply signified to her MalePtes Ambassador at
Tours-that France could not be duly represented at the
London Conference unless a regular Government was
instituted by a Constituent Assembly ; and that, there-
fore, it was the duty of the English Government to
negotiate an armistice with a view to allow the elec-
tions to tee heti As the re-victualling of Paris was
included arriorig. the conditions of the armistice, it
was, of course, impossible that M. Gambetta's
proposal could be entertained. As, indeed, we have
often stated, it is not an armistice, but a peace, that
France should negotiate. There can be no doubt that
the Germans are as anxious to accept as the French
can be to offer it, and the course which military opera-
tions have lately taken allows no doubt that peace is
for France rather a matter of necessity than of
choice. Everywhere, away from Paris, the re-
sistance of the French is overpowered ; and, as for
Paris, General Ducrot evidently thinks he has fulfilled
his vow, " never to re-enter the city except dead or vic-
torious," by stopping outside at Vincennes, which is,
indeed, no more Paris than Kensington is London.
It will be well for France if her enemies have
mercy' upon her, for her professed friends have
none. Incapable or unscrupulous domestic rulers
' might seem a calamity heavy enough for that
sorely-tried nation, without the addition of dangerous
foreign advisers. No despotism ever cost a country more
blood than AL Gambetta's dictatorship has caused France
to shed, and to shed in vain. Had France made peace
after Metz and Sedan she might have looked upon herself
as the victim of an undescrifed disaster. But after Metz
and Sedan, thanks to Gambetta's misrepresentations, it
was the nation itself that entered the lists; and it is now
irretrievably overpowered.
London, England, 1870-12-12

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms of
the past eleven months the National Lifeboat Institution
has contributed to the saving of 918 lives from various ship-
wrecks and 24 vessels from destruction. It has also expended
£23,287 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in
addition to granting £2,023 for rewards.
The Institution has now 223 Lifeboat Stations under its
management.

Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully
received by the London and Country bankers, and by the Secre-
tary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street,
Adelphi, London.
London, England, 1870-12-12

THE GREAT FIRE AT HULIIE.

It is stated that the fire at Messrs. Reilly's chair manu-
factory at Huline on Friday consumed property to the
amount of from £1.0,000 to £15,000. About 300 work-
men will be thrown out of employment. The Manchester
Guardian says :—" It may be well to call attention to one
of the incidents of the fire. In close contiguity to the
faCtory was the magazine of the cavalry barracks—so
close that the entrance to the magazine could not be
approached, and the soldiers had to pull down a wall at
the back, and so remove the ammunition to a place of
safety. But to this source of danger—and this is the point
which is of supreme moment to us all—was added. an
insufficient supply of water from the mains."
London, England, 1870-12-12

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London, England, 1870-12-12

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Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr.
C. J. Phipps, F.S.A, is now Open for the An JM N UltAMMfg
SEASON, THIS EVENING, Des. 12. Doors open at half-past Six,
commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past
Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from
eixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four
Guineas. Bom-office open from Ten till Five daily.

AMY ILOBSART.—Miss VICTORIA VOICES.
In consequence of this lady's great success in the above
character on the occasion of Wednesday evening, Nov. 9th,
and on Wednesday morning, Nov. 23rd, Mr. Chatterton begs
to announce that Miss Vokes will REPEAT the IMPERSONA-
TION on WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, on the occasion of the
BENEFIT FOR THE SUFFERERS OF H.M.S. " THE
APTAIN."
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.
London, England, 1870-12-12

THE GALE ON THE NORTH-EAST COAST.

The gale on the north-east coast was greatly abated,
though the sea is very rough at present. All the vessels
which have come ashore at South Shields are breaking
up. No more bodies have come ashore from the schooner
which went down on Friday night. A report is current
there that a screw steamer belonging to the
Tyne has been run down off Flamborough
Head and all hands lost.—lt is announced
from South Shields that the weather last
night indicated the approach of another storm. The
glass was rapidly falling. A captain who arrived in the
Tyre yesterday reports that the schooner Samuel Bar-
nard, which went down with all hands on Friday, had on
board a crew of four men, besides the captain and his two
sons. The captain's wife and two infants may also have
been in the ill-fated vessel. Half of a child's foot was
washed ashore yesterday.
London, England, 1870-12-12

NOTICES SENT BY POST.

A question of considerable interest has been raised
in the Rolls Court respecting the validity of notices
sent by post. On the formation of the Constantinople
and Alexandria Hotels Company in 1863 (limited),
a Mr. Reidpath applied for 30 shares. Notice of
allotment was sent to him in December two months
after the application; as he did not pay the deposit
a second letter was sent to him; and in the subsequent
July the company's solicitors wrote, threatening
proceedings. In June, 1805, the company was ordered
to be wound upy but in answer to a summons
to settle his mime on the list •of contributories,
Mr. Reidpath pleads that he never received
notice of allotment or heard anything of his applica-
ti,n, which he supposed was rejected, until the pre-
sent time. Proof was furnished that two of the
notices had been duly posted, but the Master of the
Rolls said he could not lay down a rule that every
letter posted to the right address must be taken to
have been delivered. Such a course, he said, would
be inconsistent with the Acts of Parliament, which
declare that in certain:cases only proof of posting the
letter to the right address shall be sufficient. His
lordship, therefore, decided that the notices could
not be counted as given.
London, England, 1870-12-12

FREEDOM IN PRUSSIA.

Though the protests in the North German Parlia-
ment against the violence shewn to Dr. Jacoby,. for
protesting against the annexation of Alsace and
Lorraine, came to nothing, one " advanced" member
made an excellent speech. The arrest of Dr.
Jacoby, it will be remembered, was the work of
General von Falckenstein, Konigsberg being under
martial law 'since the opening of the
war. Herr Schultze Delitsch declared that
the deepest gratitude was due to the men who have
guarded Germany by the sword; but .they had no
claim to a reward which involved the sacrifice of the
nation's holiest rights. " That, assuredly, is the
ni,blest testimony of real worth a nation can give, if,
w.iilst staking everything in the struggle with
a foreign foe, she preserves her custo-
mary calmness in the administration of
internal affhire and a full consciousness of
what is due to her as a nation; if she calmly and
resolutely guards the holy rights of all citizens, and
allows no military man, high though his rank and
great though his merits be, to trample them under
foot." The deputies on all sides loudly applauded
these excellent words; but they passed no vote, nor
did anything. And such is generally the way with
the German deputies. They applaud exalted speeches.
and declare for principles of liberty. But no sooner
is a despotic measure proposed in a contemptuous
speech from Bismarck, than straightway all resolution
vanishes.
London, England, 1870-12-12

ME AR➢IY OF PARIS.

It is generally acknowledged that the French
fought exceedingly well in the late fights before
Paris. it must not be forgotten, however, that the
whole force positively engaged around the villages of
Champigny and Brie did not exceed 30,000, so that,
though promising, those actions cannot be held to
afford testimony of the quality of the whole army.
It would be hard, indeed, if General Trochu could
not find 30,000 good troops out of half a million.
What it would be interesting to know is, not
whether the Paris generals have an army corps, but
an army of 150,000 men, that can' be depended upon
to make a stand. Nothing like a gigantic movement
is noticeable in these sorties. Though it was
announced in the Tours telegram that Ducrot crossed
the Marne with 150,000 men, no such number did
cross. Tho troops who came under fire could hardly
have exceeded the figure we have just given.
London, England, 1870-12-12

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London, England, 1870-12-12

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Lamberts Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved
on the stamp.

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RELIEF and REPRESSING MENDICITY.
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Chairman—The Earl of LICHFIELD.
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way, S.E.
ST. MARY, NEWINGTON.—Office, 188, Walworth-road, S.E.
ST. GILES'S-IN-THE-FIELDS.-office, 7, High-st W.C.eet, St. Giles'.
ST. PANCRAS.—Office, 17, IN oburn-buildings,
CONTRIBUTIONS toward. the extension of this organisation
throughout the metropolis may be paid at the office of the
Society, or to Messrs. Coutts and Co., 50, Strand, W.C.
The funds of the central office are for purposes of organisa-
tion only, not for relief.
C. B. 2. BOSANQUET, Secretary.
C. J. RIBTON-TURNER, Organising Secretary.
Office, 15, Buckingham-street, Strand, W.C.

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London, England, 1870-12-12

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and contains in due proportion all the sub-
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earthy phosphates ensuring healthy develop-
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more sustaining than Arrowroot, Corn Flour,
&c., which are often rejected, when the Entire
Wheat Flour is taken with relish.
Retail of Family Grocers, &c., in 31, 6d., and is. packets, and
• 3a. tins. Wholesale of
ORLANDO JONES and Co.,
18 Billiter-street, Manufacturers of the GOLD MEDAL
RICE STARCH.

THE BLOOD PURIFIER,— Old Dr. JACOB
LL TOWNSEND'S SARSAPARILLA. This extraordinary
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fula, gout, dropsy, and wasting of flesh. Sold by all druggists.
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Us. The old Dr.'s Sarsaparilla Pills are the most popular
medicine known for all bilious affections, liver and stomach
complaints, and indigestion, as proved by thousands. Also,
Sarsaparilla Ointment, the best soother of all sores, burns, and
scalds ; each in boxes, is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. ; by post,
15, 30, and 60 stamps.

NATEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith,
W.—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee
earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on
heir useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup.

k)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, ndon and South Western (Holloway Branch).
HUGH R.GOUGH, Hon. Sec.
London, England, 1870-12-12

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1870.

STRATEGICALLY, the Generals of the Defence have
been as completely at fault as the Generals of the
Imperial Government. The history of the war since
the 4th of September has been a succession of
failures, just as it was prior to the advent to power of
Messrs. FAVRE and GAMBETTA. It is true that
General TRocurr is still holding out inside the Paris
io

Ttitications. But so, also, for a long while
did Marshal BAZAINE inside the equally
formidable and, as the phrase is, impregnable
fortifications of Metz. Otherwise than in the capital
London, England, 1870-12-12

THE SCRAP TRADE.

Great interest has been excited in Sheffield by the
revelations of a wholesale system of plundering
which has been gcing on at the Atlas Steel Works,
belonging to Sir John Brown, and Co. The company
employ a number of boys, many of whom
have been induced to steal " scraps" of iron
and steel from the works, for which they received
a few pence. Five persons were apprehended on the
charge of receiving this stolen material, an I two of
them, a man named Palmer and his wife, were com-
mitted for trial. Their method of action was in-
genious. They professed to get. their living by selling
chips of firewood, which they took out in a cart,
lqut a sharp-eyed detective discovered that the
firewood served to ~onceal the more valuable " scraps "
on their way to the marine stores. One of the wit-
nesses said there was not a general dealer in the
town who could say that one out of twenty lots
brought to him bad been come by honestly. The
stipendiary magistrate, on the conclusion of his
examination, told him he might congratulate him-
self that he was not standing in the dock instead of
in the witness box.
London, England, 1870-12-12

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in
one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This pre-
Daration gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing
the very root. Price 45., sent by post for 60 stamps. 248, High
riolborn, and all chemists.
Face Powder, la.

lIAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn.—
ALEX. ROSS'S Depilatory removes superfluous hair from
the face, neck, and arms without effect to the skin. Price,
6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6ds. Sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps
'l .
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DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII Diseases of the Skin
are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGETABLE
al(IN PILLS. They remdve redness, sallowness, &c. 2s. 9d. and
78. 6d. ;or post for 40 and 100 stamps. Alex. Ross, 248; High
flolborn, London, and all chemists.
Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. Od.

GREY HAIR, 248, High Holborn, London.
ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour im-
mediately it, is used. It is permanent, and perfectly natural in
effect. prices 3s. 6d., sa. 6d. and 10s. 6d. ; sent by post for 54
84. and 144 stamps ; and all Chemists. Bloom of Rosser, 3s. 6d.

I_IAIR CURLING FLUID, 248, HIGH HOLBORN.
London. ALEXANDER ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's Hair immediately it is applied. Sold at
4. 6d., 58. 64., and los. 6d. Sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.
ad of all Chemists.
Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet.

HAIR COLOR WASH.—By damping the head
with this beautifully perfumed wash, in seven or ten days
he hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occa-
sional using. 10s. 6d.; sent for stamps.—Ales. Ross, 248, High
liolborn, London, and all chemists.

;„113AMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).—
si Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE-
40VED to Our 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 COOS, House-Governor and Secretary.
London, England, 1870-12-12

BAZAAR IN AID OF THE REFUGEES
BENEVOLENT FUND.

PATRONESSES:
H.R.H. the Prinsess of Wales.
11.R11. the Princess Christian.
H.R.H. Couitesse de Paris.
H.R.H. Duchesse de Chartres.
H.R.H. Princesse Marguerite D'Orleans.
Mdme La Baronne de Beaulieu The Lady Herbert.
Duchess of Buecleuch. The Hon. Mrs. Pereira.
Marchioness of Lothian. The Hon. Mrs. Warren Vernon.
Dow. Marchioness of Lothian. Mdme. Gueneau de Mussy.
The Countess Erownlow. Mrs. C. W. Price.
The Lady Anna Loftus. Mrs. J. Hungerford Pollen.
Toe Lady Geergiana Fullerton. Mrs. Somerled Macdonald.
An EXHIBITION and SALE of WORKS OF ART and Fancy
and Useful Articles will be opened, under the above distin-
guished patronage, at the BAKER-STREET BAZAAR,
THIS DAY. Contributions will be thankfully received
by the Committee, addressed to the Superintendent of
the "Refugees Fund Stall," at the Bazaar, Baker-street, W.
Articles manufactured or consigned by Refugees will be sold for
their individual account.
London, England, 1870-12-12

THE NEW JUDGE ADVOCATE.

We believe we are correct in announcing that
Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Q.C., and M.P. for Oxford,
will succeed Sir Colman O'Loghlen in the office of
Judge Advocate General. Mr. Harcourt was edu-
cated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where lie
graduated in 1851. He was called to the Bar at the
Inner Temple in 'May, 1854, and first sat in Parlia-
ment for the city he now represents in 1868. Mr.
Vernon Harcourt was elected Professor of Interna-
tional Law at Cambridge in 1869. He is a member
of the Royal Commission for amending the neutrality
laws, and also o 1 the Royal Commission for amend-
ing the naturalisation laws. Mr. Vernon Harcourt is
accomplished in his profession, and there is little doubt
that his elevation to the Judge Advocateship will give
satisfaction generally.
London, England, 1870-12-12

MR. HELPS AND EMIGRATION.

Mr. Helps contributes to the current number of Good
Words a paper upon emigration, and in it draws attention
to several points of special interest. His ideal condition
of a colony would be realized where the union with the
parent State should be so complete that the difference
between the colonist , and the citizen at home
should be a difference of distance only from
the centre of government. He admits that there are
few if any perfect instances of this condition of a colony,
but sees no reason in the nature of things why there should
not be a complete assimilation of purposes and interests as
affecting the colony and the mother country. Mr. Helps
revives the scheme, which has been already discussed in
these columns, of colonial representation either in the
Imperial Parliament or as at the India Office. But
the most useful portion of this article is that in
which he distinguishes between our colonies and our naval
and military stations. There is much confusion of
mind on this branch of the subject, and it is difficult to
convince some people that the abandonment of a military
settement is something wholly different from casting a
colony adrift. Mr. Helps avows himself most unwilling
to relinguish any of our colonies, but he is none the less
ready to admit that some of our settlements of offence and
defence may be untenable, or, at any rate, not worth the
money annually expended on them.—Pall Mall Gazette.
London, England, 1870-12-12

WRECKS AND CASUALTIES ABROAD.

The immense extent of British maritime traffic
necessarily entails a corresponding amount of disas-
ter, and accordingly we find, from the abstract of
reports received from British consuls and colonial
authorities, that 664 British ehips were totally lost,
and 297 partially damaged, abroad in 1869. The loss
of life was naturally very great, but it might have
been much greater, for though 1,682 lives were lost,
11,927 were imperilled. Many were saved
by assistance from shore tr from other
ships, and a great number were preserved by
remaining on board at the time of disaster.
Still we may fairly conclude that had the efficient life-
boat system of the United Kingdom been imitated in
other countries, the mortality would have been much
diminished. A melancholy item in the death list is
the large amount of 765 lives lost during 1869 by
vessels sailing and never heard of after. Unhappily
the year 1870 will be able to show a similar amount,
for it must include the .passengers and crew of the
ill-fated City of Boston.

A NEW BREAK FOR RAILWAY TRAINS.

One of the last wonderful machines invented in

that land of inventions, America, is the " Olmstead
Oriental car break," which, we are told, has been
designed to supersede all human contrivances for
stopping a train while in motion. This break, which
has been in operation on some of the minor lines for
two years, is about to be applied to the carriages
upon the great Erie Railway, so that we may take
it for granted there are peculiar excellences about
the apparatus. The recent experiments with the
break were tried upon the Erie railroad with light
trains, which caused the stoppages to be more diffi-
cult. The directors, however, pronounced the trials
most successful. At a time when so many deplor-
able casualties are said to be almost unpreventible in
England, in great part because of the inability to
bring trains while in motion to an immediate stand, the
new American break might, it strikes us, be intro-
duced into this country, and_ tested by some of our
railway authorities. The latter need not be appre-
hensive of entering upon the venture on the grounds
of probable enormous expense, as we are assured that
the new apparatus will enable directors to dispense
with the breaksmen. It can be worked satis-
factorily by the conductor, engineer, baggage-
master, or, indeed, anyone on the train, and from
any part thereof.
London, England, 1870-12-12

PROTECTION IN AMERICA.

The cause of Free Trade in the United States looks
very hopelul. It is calculated that there will be a
majority in the new Congress in favour of "Revenue
Reform," (for the Americans cannot tolerate the
essentially English expression, "Free Trade ") and the
Spectator urges one or two good arguments in
favour of such a calculation. The bulk of the people
in the west have discovered that while corn is unpro-
tected, they have to pay enormously for every article
they consume. They desire, therefore, to reduce the
tariff which their opponents wish to keep up, and
are greatly assisted by the immense extent of the
surplus revenue, which during the last fiscal year
amounted to £20,000,000. Part of this surplug, it is
urged, can be spared to reduce the Protection duties.
The plea, whatever may be its general merits, is
most effectual in gaining votes.

CANADA AND THE FISHERIES.

A Canadian correspondent of the Standard sum-
marises the fisheries difficulty in a very succinct
manner. During the eleven years of the Reciprocity
Treaty, from 1854 to 1865, the Americans had the
same rights and privileges in the fisheries as British
subjects. Since the Americans terminated the
treaty the Canadians seek to exclude Americans from
the fishing grounds, unless they will grant reciprocal
advantages. They were at first allowed to fish on
payment of a licence fee of fifty cents. per ton, but
as this licence was trebled and quadrupled the
Americans grew unwilling to take it out. The
British Government had several• steamers to
protect the St. Lawrence fisheries, but they never
made a capture, as the smoke gave the Americans,
notice. This year the Canadian Government
abolished the licence system, and forbade Americans
fishing in their waters within three miles of the shore.
They fitted out and armed seven schooners and a
steamer as a marine police, and ordered them to
seize any vessels fishing on the prohibited grounds,
and to order off from Canadian harbours any such
vessels, unless they were coining for water or repairs.
The new system was brought into operation early
this season, and when this account was
written nine American schooners had been
seized, the total value of the nine seizures
being eighty thousand dollars. A great outcry
has been raised among American politicians, but
the Canadian Government has acted with
caution, and when each case is investigated, it proves
to have been well warranted. The Americans, say
the Canadians, are disappointed that, by shutting
them out of their- markets, they have not succeeded
in making them desire annexation ; but the Cana-
dians, are resolved not to surrender without an
equivalent which the Americans might, if they would,
have enjoyed on equal terms.
London, England, 1870-12-12

NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

One of General Trochu's aides-de-camp, who left
Paris in a balloon, has arrived at Lille. His ob-
net is said to be to communicate to the com-
manders of the East, the West, the North, and the
Loire: the new plans adopted in Paris. He also says
)1 the fighting on the 30th November and 2nd
)1
v_ecember, which he describes as two great victories,
" Prussian hisses are declared to have been 15,000
kill
and wounded, a proportionate number of
Prisoners, and six guns. The measures of defence
complete, and the city is absolutely safe from
s.ttack.
itlight hundred Prussians arrived yesterday (the
t2l) at Albert. They blew up the railway viaduct
uleche neighbourhood, and left again for Amiens in
evening.
London, England, 1870-12-12

VATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

An accident occurred at a cdllidry at Accrington on
Saturday afternoon, which resulted in the death of one
man, and serious injuries to five others. The men were
on a scaffold, sinking a new pit, when the scaffold gave
way, and precipitated them to the bottom of the pit, in
which there was water to the depth of fifteen feet. Five
of them were got out alive, but the sixth was dead when
extricated.

OPENING OF THE CITY OF_ GLASGOW UNION

RAILWAY.

The City of Glasgow Union Railway was formally
opened on Saturday by passenger trains running over the
full extent of the line. The passengers were the Lord
Provost, the magistrates, officials of the city,- the rail-
way directors, and others. This railway is intended to
connect the old railway system of Glasgow ; though only
the North British and Glasgow and Southern companies
have carried out the undertaking. Messrs. Brassey are
the contractors. The line will be worked by the Glasgow
and South-Western Company, most of whose trains
will run over the line into a fine station in Dunlop-street,
Glasgow. The passenger traffic commences to-day.
London, England, 1870-12-12

THE NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION.

The Standard says : The North German Confedera-
tion now belongs as completely to the past as the old
"Bund," which came to such a violent end in
June 1866. Before the Parliament—the first and
the last regular Parliament of the Confederation—
separated on Saturday, it had approved the
treaties with Baden, Hesse, Wurtemburg, and
Bavaria, containing together the constitution of the new
federal state which embraces the whole of Germany, as
the Treaty of Prague marked its limits, and given to the
new combination the great name of German Empire.
The Empire is, therefore, established. King William has
nothing to do but to nodify his assumption of the
Imperial title, and to supply his representatives
abroad with fresh letters of credence. No one
will refuse to recognise his new dignity, and
William the First of Germany, the first Emperor of
that name the world has known, has but himself to please
as to the time at which he puts on the purple. It is
true the treaties constituting the new Confede-
ration or Empire have not received the assent
of the Legislatures of the four South German
States, but that assent, unwillingly as it may be
given, is but a question of a few weeks or days.
Assume, what is practically an impossibility, that the
Bavarian second or popular Chamber should reject tho
treaty as a whole, or 'make some material amendment
in it, the German Empire is nevertheless established,
and Bavaria, though nominally outside, will, for all
practical purposes, be a member of it. Count Bismarck
caused it to be understood that he deemed the question
one of confidence, and so in the end the partisan, of
unity changed their mind, and will not have it
on their consciences that they prevented the unity of
Germany—that to gratify theories of their own, for the
realisation of which, however desirable, Germany can
afford to wait, they rejected a union which assures. as
far as any union can do, the safety and the prestige of
Germany, the secure development of all her resources, the
practical dissolving of all local, we might almost call them.
national, prejudices and hatreds in the common senti-
ment, and, moreover, gives to that union a form and an
expression in the creation of the German Empire, which
will touch the heart of the people and console it for many
sacrifices.
London, England, 1870-12-12

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—Twen-
tieth Night of a NEW PAIRY COMEDY.—THIS
EVENING (Mondayito ColtAihttice at Seven, with the V OLF
AND THE LAMB. 4gsYs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Gordon,
Madame R 'VOA' lam ; after which, at a quarter to
Eight -o'Ootk a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts,
entitled TM& PALACE OF TRUTH. Characters by
Mr. Buckstone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, Clark, Rogers,
Braid, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny
Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. After which UNCLE'S WILL—
Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with BLUE
DEVILS. Box office open daily from 10 till 6,

OPERA COMIQUR—Grand Entitahce, 299,
Strand.

Messrs. H. Ist stAg, C. gibs .s, and W. NORTON, Lessees.
. This, the most btataiftil Theatre in London, is now acknow-
ledged as THE fashionable house of the day. Mdlle. DEJAZET
in Fret Plays Every Evening, supported by her Great French
Company. Entire Change of Performance. Free List Sus-
pended, except Press.

OgERA COMIQUE, 299, STRAND.
Lessees—ll. LeSLIE, C. STBELE, and W. NORTON.

OPERA COMlQUE.—Lessees, 'Messrs. H. Leslie,
C. Steele, and W. Norton.—FAREWELL NIGHTS of
Mdlle. Dejazet and the French Company.—To-night, at Eight,
LA SOLE FAIT PEIJR. Mdlle. Riel as "Blanche." Conclude
with the Comedy-Vaudeville, "Le Vicomte Letorieres." Mdlle.
Dejazet in the title role.

IVIADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-
street.—On view Portrait Models of the ex-Emperor and
Empress of the French, and Prinee Imperial. Also, Marshal
Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &c.
Admission, Is. Children undei Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra
Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.

MADAME TUSSA UD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-
street.—On view Portrait Models of the King and
Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. Also
Count von Bismartk and Count von Moltke.—Admission ls.
children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. extra.—
Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. Professor Pepper
"ON THE WAR, AND THE DESTITCTIVE IMPLE-
MENTS USED THEREAT," daily at quarter to 3 and quarter to
8, with Elaborate Pictorial Illustrations, which have been sup-
plied by the War Correspondents of the Polytechnic, &c. Mr.
Suchet Champion will sing the German, French, and English
Patriotic Songs.—The Explanation of the Ghost as usual.—THE
PRAEGER :AMILY give their CONCERTS daily at quarter past
4 and quarter past 9.