The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-09 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAN, NOVEMBER 9, 1870.

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self weak, holds down her head, and covers, with the holy
flag of William Tell, her money chests and her banks.
Grant, who by a single sign of his finger could have
despatched the soldiers of Prim home to Madrid, permits
peaceably an entire population belonging to the grand
family of Washington to be massacred and to be destroyed,
and barely allows the great Republic to utter a word of
sympathy for the valiant sons of Lafayette.
And thou, proud and classic ground, refuge of the exile,
thou who has first proclaimed the emancipation of races,
and who to-day enjoyest the triumph of thy courageous
initiative, wilt thou leave alone in its gigantic struggle
that sister nation which, like thee, marches, and will
march, in the van of human progress ?
In the heroic struggle which France is sustaining there
can only be found the debris of an army of brave men,
which the most stupid of tyrants conducted to defeat.
But the nation is there ! risen like one man, she will
cause the old autocrat soon to repent of his determination
to continue his butchery of men.
What a noble mission therefore is ours ! Sons of liberty,
elite of all people. Oh, no I would not change my title
of militiaman of the Republic for a crown.
Apostles of peace and of the fraternity of peoples, we
are compelled to fight, and we shall fight with the proud
consciousness of justice, whilst consecrating the formula
of the illustrious Chenier : "Republicans are men, and
slaves are children."

Your courage I do not doubt ; all I ask of you is
coolness and discipline—indispensable in war._

GARIBALDI AND THE GREEKS.

the Manchester Examiner's Berlin correspondent,
on the Bth, telegraphs that Garibaldi has invited the
Greek nation to come to the assistance of France,
promising them in return the liberation of Thessaly
and Epirus. Also, that tue German Reichstag is
summoned to meet at Strasburg, where Bismarck
intends presiding.

INDIA.
CALCUTTA, November 8.

The Viceroy arrived at Calcutta to-day.
Yakoob Khan is lying ill near Giriskh. There
are rumours of an intended flight to Turkestan. The
latest telegrams are imperfect, but are favourable to
the Ameer. A General of Yakoob Khan has been
shot.

Mr. Forsyth left Yarkland according to instruc-
tions from the Viceroy. The honour of England is
reported to have been maintained, although some
evasions were attempted, but failed. The reception
was hospitable everywhere. Shaw collected
materials for his book, Henderson plants and birds,
and Forsyth geographical facts.

Brockbank was proved to have tried to bribe the police
with the offer of 10s.

ASSAULTING A POLICE SUPERINTENDENT.
The case of the fishermen who were recently com-
mitted on a charge of assaulting Superintendent Head,
of the Oxford police, during an affray on the river, again
came before the magistrates yesterday at Oxford, when
they were charged with using a net of an illegal descrip
tion by the Thames Conservancy. The professional ser-
vices of Mr. Charles J. Barrett, of Eton, were, by
direction of the Board of Conservators in London, re-
tained. After lengthened arguments with Mr. Walsh
on the various statutes, the seven defendants were each
fined in the mitigated penalty of is. and costs.

A special committee of the Liverpool Select Vestry
reported on Monday in favour of a greatly restricted sale of
liquor on Sunday, and a restriction of the hours of sale
during the week.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE IRON CROSS BY
THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA..

The correspondent of the Standard at the headquarters
of the Prussian army, in a letter dated Versailles,
November 5, describes as follows the proceedings con-
nected with a distribution of the Iron Cross by the Crown
G. GARIBALDI. Prince :

A more favourable day for a display of cavalry on such
a spot as had been selected could not well be conceived.
Clear days we have now had, three in succession, but the
other two, besides being piercingly cold, were disagreeably
windy, fraught with dust, and buffets, and whirled-about
leaves. Yesterday, when an autumn leaf did fall, it fell of
its own weight, and fell through sunshine as brilliant as
itself. Not a branch stirred, not a ripple dimpled the
water. Autumn and winter had met and shaken hands,
and for a day there was a truce to their unequal strift.;.
Everybody who has ever been at Versailles knows the
pretty lake in the form of a cross beyond the basin of
Apollo, and remembers the A11.6e des Matelots,
and the Avenue de la Porte Venice. The latter stretches
from the canal to the point at which, by way of continua-
tion, commences the Avenue St. Antoine, and the abso-:
lute junction of the two is just prevented by the Avenue
de Trianon, running at right angles between them. In
the Avenue de la Porte Venic then, from the Canal
down to the entrance to the Grand and Petit Trianon,
were drawn up in double line the three regiments I have
named. The avenue consists of what I may call a nave
and two aisles—the latter paved with sward and densely
overhung with arching branches, the former a carriage
way, well roofed by leaves in summer, but yesterday more
or less open to the blue sky. The troops were drawn up
along the left aisle, taking the gateway at the Canal as
our entrance. First came—most of them very much in
the sunshine—the Cuirassiers, with their glittering calques
and bright burnished breast plates, yellow facings, yellow
saddle cloths, mighty boots, naked blades, and thundering
big chargers. Next to them were the 13th Dragoons, blue
and white, who looked almost modest after the mailed
men to their right, but whose
rdeeds were as doughty and
whose losses fully as heavy as those of their steel-
clad neighbours on the famous field of Gravelotte. Their
horses were worthy of themselves. Bringing up the left
were the Hussars, retaining a headpiece that we once used
to know, but have got to regard as antiquated, but look-
ing cap-a-pie like business. They have not been in what
is properly called action in this campaign ; but the
übiquitous usefulness of their well-poised lances, and
the terror inspired by their little black and white
pennons—are they not written in thirteen scoured depart-
ments, in villages overawed, in towns glad to purchase
peace with golden ransoms, in secure communications for.
a hundred leagues? A Prussian cavalry regiment
consists of four squadrons of 140 men each;
There ought, therefore, did we his e in normal days,
to have been over 1,600 cavalry on the ground.
But all the squadrons were not there, and it is a
difficult thing, even with the splendid system of filling
up gaps organised by these mighty makers of modern
war, to keep squadrons up to their full strength during a
campaign. I did not take any actual count when on the
ground yesterday, but I should think that those present
would be fairly represented by half the round numbers I
have just written. I cannot say why they were drawn
up so early as a little after one, for I was at first told
that the inspection and distribution of crosses would
not be till half-past two, and afterwards not till three.
The Crown Prince did not make his appearance till some.
time after the latter hour; the only incident which pre-
ceded it worth recording being the inspection of his own
regiment, the Cuirassiers, by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg,
the brother of our "Albert the Good." The shrill
sound of trmmpets, scarcely musical, announced the
coming of the Prince, and each regiment took up the
piercing notes as lie and his staff advanced, swollen by
those many affable non-combatant soldiers who se sort
donnes la peine de naitre. The important part of the
military ceremonial was reserved for the last. Those
happy fellows who were to receive the cross were
summoned from the ranks and drawn up in single file in
the road, and facing their comrades. To each one in suc-
cession surely the pleasantest faced Prince that ever made
war addressed himself personally; putting those flatter-
ing questions which are supposed to be the peculiar gift
of men born to command, and ending the little interview
with a warm grasp and shake of the hand,. which doubt-
less each separate individual will remember to the last
day of his life. Then there was a plunging of beautiful
steeds, a blending of uniforms, and a scamper, for the
thing was done.

THE ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION IN PARIS.

A correspondent of the Dully News, writing from Paris
on the 4th instant, thus remarks on the attempted revolu-
tion in that city :—Since Monday night, when MM.
Flourens, Pyat, and Company, were expelled from the
Hotel de Ville, the peace of this metropolis- has suffered
no interruption. The episodes of that day werq
numerousat one time menacing often ridicu-i.
bons. It is now quite clear that the movement in
favour of the Commune was premeditated and precon-
certed in most of the details of its execution. When these
coups de main, mis-called revolutions, are closely investi-
gated, one is astounded how much of their success is due
to momentary audacity and accident. From the coup of
the 18th Brumaire, which placed the destinies of France
in the hands of a Bonaparte, to the coup of the
4th September last, which dethroned the Third
of the name; from the coup which brought the Convention
to an end, to the one which has abolished Flourens and
.Co., audacity, accident, and surprise, aided by a show of
military force, have been the chief elements of success.
Each has been but a parody, more or less successful, of the
first. Some popular grievance or disaffection, taken skil-
ful advantage of by one or more bold intrivuers ; a
demonstration on the part of a section of the people ;
the invasion of the Representative Assembly or of the
Municipality, a decree, and the trick is done. The
latest Bonaparte regime expired under a blow like this. A
victory at Sedan, in lieu of a disaster, would have
altered the situation here. In actual point of fact,
MM. Flourens, Blanqui, and Co. had as much right
to attempt to depose MM. Jules N'avre, Trochu,
and Co. as Jules Favre, and his colleagues had to demand
the decheance of Napoleon 111. on the 4th of September,
and to proclaim the Provisional Government for the
National Defence in lieu of the Imperial regime. But
for the appearance of the National Guards—at least
such battalions of them as were under the control of
M. Jules Ferry's brother on the 4th of September—it is
doubtful whether the victory would have: remained in
the hands of the Republican" party. Had M. Flourens's
battalions been sustained by the people, St is probable
we should to-day bo under the Commune. But such
was not the case. Whatever irritation existed in the
public mind, the popular sentiment was unprepared to
substitute untried men for those who at a most terrible
crisis had undertaken the stupendous task of organizing
the defence of the nation. The grievance of the
Flourens party was not of the calibre to determine
a great popular movement against the Government.
One of Flourens' grand ideas is a sortie•ut)on an immense
scale ; but, as General Trochu very emphatically
asserted, this would be exposing the troops and National
Guard to certain butchery, and Trochu is an authority.
Another cry of his party was, "No armistice !" They
misled the public as to the true character of this transac-
tion, branding the members of the Government, Trochu
particularly, as traitors for entertaining a proposition
which, looked at seriously, is an actual homage paid to the
attitude of the French nation, and especially to that of her
metropolis. The Government took not the earliest but an
early opportunity of pointing out this fact by a statement
in Tuesday's Official Journal.

The Musical World says that Mdlle. Ulna di Murska
left London on Tuesday for Moscow, where she is en.
gaged for the winter season.—Mdme. Szavardy (late
Wilhelmine Clauss) is among the artistic refugees from
unhappy Paris at this period.—Mdlle Nilsson has had an
immense success in Baltimore and Philadelphia, and will
give two concerts in New York on the 24th and 26th
instant, when she will be assisted by Miss Cary, Vieux
empe, and Brignoli.

THE CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AG RI-
CULTURE.

A council meeting of the Central Chamber of Agricul-
ture was held yesterday at the Salisbury Hotel, Salisbury -
quare, Fleet-street, . There was a very good attendance
of members of the Council and deputed members from
provincial Chambers. In the absence of Colonel Toulmin,
M. P., the President, the chair was occupied by Sir
Massey Lopes, M.P., the Vice-President. Among
those present were the Hon. F. Walpole, M.P.,
Mr. Read, M.P., Sir G. Jenkinson, M.P., Mr. A. Pell,
M.P., Mr. H. Neild (Lancashire), Captain Cragie (York-
shire), Mr. 1). Long (Gloucester), Mr. H. G. Andrews
(Somerset), Mr. T. Duckham (Hereford), Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Bennett (Leicester), Mr. Hewitt (Northampton), Mr.
C. Walford, Mr. Martin (Lincoln), Mr. Whittaker, Mr.
Wrensfordley, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson (Suffolk), Pro-
fessor Blind, Mr. Morrison (West Riding), &e.
The Chairman then read the report of the Local Taxa-
tion Committee, in which report it was expressed that
several important counties were still unrepresented,
notably Lancashire, Northumberland, Berkshire, Derby-
shire, Dursetshire, Kent, Shropshire, and Staffordshire.
The committee congratulated the members and all in-
terested in obtaining a reform in the present mode of
levying local taxation. On the success which had at-
tended the suggestion of the chairman that the attention
of magistrates at Quarter Sessions should be drawn to the
very large, and increasing charges of recent years upon the
ratepayers for county rate purposes ; particularly for
Police, Prisons, Lunatic Asylums, Militia &c., which
being for the general Government, should be more largely
supplemented from the national exchequer. The sugges-
tion had been very favourably received, particularly in
Devonshire, Denham, Gloucester, Cornwall, and the com-
mittee suggected the desirability of presenting a petition
on the subject, to the House of Commons, in preference to
memorialising ally individual member of the Government.
Mr. Neild moved the adoption of the report.
Mr. Muutz seconded the proposition, which was carried.
Mr. Pell moved " that this Council recommend pro-
vincial chambers to memorialise their respective courts of
Quarter. Sessions on the subject of the increased taxation
arising from rates levied under the authority of those
courts.

Captain Cragie seconded the motion, which was adopted,
Mr. Andrews urging that it was the duty of every pro-
vincial chamber, and of every ratepayer, to support the
committee, and to provide liberally in the shape of funds
to carry on the agitation, if a satisfactory result was to be
obtained. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Read, ➢I.P., moved "that the `Average Clause,'
as insisted upon by the new regulations of the principal
Fire Insurance offices, is inapplicable to a property so
variable in amount and in value as agricultural
produce." He pointed out the unfairness of the regula-
tion to the farmer, and said it was absurd to say that
the risk was equal in the case of those who built their
ricks in the field with those who built them all in their
rick yard. No doubt the insurance of farming stock was
very risky and uncertain. It was also said to be unprofit-
able, and that might probably be true, but under any
circumstance the system of averaging was unequal in its
bearing and unjust in its application. Let the in-
surance offices raise their rates if it was
necessary, but he was sure the offices would find that it
was not to their interest to do anything to damage the
farmer any more than the farmer desired to injure the
offices.

Mr. Hewitt seconded the proposition.
Mr. C. Walford, Q.C., pointed out the working of the
average clause, and said that many of the offices suggested
that the farmer should insure for three-quarters of the
value of their stock instead of for half only • but there
was another method by which the whole question might
be adjusted. They had hitherto endeavoured to arrive at
a basis which would be fair, but had never succeeded in
doing so. He thought if the officers were to appoint
county directors and take insurances on the basis of
their recommendation that that would most fully and
most completely meet the case.
Mr. Read, M.P., replied, and the motion was carried.
Captain Catling (Cambridgeshire) moved that the secre-
tary be instructed to invite from other offices a declaration
of their terms for the insurance of farming stock.
Mr. Turner (Peterborough) seconded the motion.
Mr. Vardan moved as an addition to the resolution
" that a committee be appointed to confer with the various
insurance offices as to the most equitable mode of insuring
farming stock and produce."
Professor Bund seconded the proposition.
After some remarks from Sir G. Jenkinson, the resolu-
tion was carried, " non-associated" being added instead of
" other " offices. The rider was put as a separate motion
and also agieecl to.
The following were appointed the committee : Colonel
Towline, Mr. Pell, M.P., (Leicester), Captain Catling
(Cambridge), Mr. J. Turner (Midland), Mr. T. Brown
(Norfolk), Mr. Muntz (Warwick), Mr. Morrison (York-
shire), Mr. Walford, Mr. Read, M.P., and Mr. Vardan
(Worcester).
Mr. T. Duckham next moved—" That the thanks of
this Council are due to the Right Hon. W. E. Forster,
M.P., for the prompt manner in which the powers of the
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act were put in force upon
the outbreak of Cattle Plague on the continent ; but
that the interests of both producers arid consumers demand
that effective regulations for waterside slaughter should
be permanently extended to all imported fat
animals, with quarantine for store stock." He
urged that, while looking to the imported stock, pre-
cautions should be taken to prevent the spread of disease
at home, and regretted that there was great laxity in this
respect. He knew that a diseased animal was taken from
Bristol market into Cornwall, and spread the disease
throughout the county and in the adjoining county to that,
but little notice was taken of it.
Mr. Martin seconded the proposition, which was carried
with the following rider : "That the regulations should
be applied with the least possible delay at every port at
which foreign animals are admitted."
Mr. Bennett moved "That this Council express a hope
that her Majesty's Government will not hesitate to adhere
to and support the provisions of the Contagious Diseases
(Animals) Act, with reference to the establishment of a
permanent Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market, and trusts
that when such market has been opened, the present re-
striction against the removal of cattle from the metropo-
litan area will be rescinded."
Mr. Dixon seconded, and the resolution was carried.
Mr. Wilson moved that the Council should direct special
attention to the exorbitant charge of railway companies
for the conveyance of dead meat, and express a
hope that by a reasonable revision of their tariff
they would facilitate the supply of mtat to populous dis-
tricts. He considered that Lancashire, Yorkshire, and
the great consuming districts had good cause for com-
plaint. In Liverpool they were paying a penny per
pound more fOr meat than they were in London, and he
could not see upon what ground railway companies
charged four or five times more for the carriage of dead
meat than they did for live stock.
Mr. Read, M.P., seconded the motion, and
thought the charges were very heavy, especially as the
risk of carrying dead meat must be less than the convey-
ance of live stock.
The motion having been put and carried, the proceed.
ings terminated.

ANOTHER FAILURE IN THE WORSTED TRADE.—
Mr. G. T. Latimer, manufacturer, of Portland Mill,
Bradford, has been obliged to suspend payment, Nothing
is at yet known as to either his liabilities or assets. It is
supposed, the liabilities may be £13,000, and that a good
dividend-10s. or 12s. in the pound—will be realised from
the estate.
GREAT FIRE IN MANCHESTER.--A fire occurred
on Monday evening in •the large seven-storied mill of
Messrs. R. Haworth and Sons, East-street, Lower
MoSley-street. The sixth and seventh floors, which were
filled with cotton, cotton maqhinery, and cotton goods,
were completely destroyed. Owing to the insufficient
supply of water, the fire lasted for two hours before it was
subdued. The origin of the fire is attributed to careless-
ness in lighting the premises. The property is insured,
but the amount of damage is not known.
MR. SAMUEL MORLEY, M.P., ON THE WAR AND
EDUCATION.—Mr. S. Morley presided on Monday evening
at the opening cf the winter course of weekly lectures at
Surrey Chapel. Referring to the war he said that though
the war was wicked-in its origin, and deserved to be met
as it had been, Prussia must take care not to run
counter to the public opinion of Europe. In Germany
itself there was a feeling against prosecuting the war
further if only sufficient guarantee could be secured for
the continuance of peace. It was time this devilry should
cease. While he maintained the right of a people to defend
themselves against violence, he thought the time had
come when they should refuse to be led out to be slain at
the dictum of any human being, and that they themselves
had something to say about it. Referring to the educa-
tion, he hoped that working men would not lend them-
selves to the election of mere fussy pretenders, who only
sought the opportunity of enforcing their own crotchets.
They should elect those who had already proved them-
selves true hinds of education, and try to carry out what
he believed to be an honest measure ; and while securing
religious training, guard against sectarianism arid protect
the conscience of all.

THE REMARKABLE CHANCIERY SUIT.—In the Court of
Appeal, the cause of Weston v. Weston was resumed
before Lord Justices JE‘mes and Mellish, it being an
appeal by Mr. W. H. Purcell Weston, a gentleman of
large fortune, residing at Dorchester, from a decision of
the Master of the Rolls, ordering the payment of £l,OOO
par annum for the maintenance of his wife, from whom he
has been separated. The deed contained a proviso
that the allowance should be discontinued in the event
of the wife committing adultery after the separation.
`Sir R. Baggally, who appeared for the appellant, con
tinned his opening statement, in the course of which he
read affidavits in support of the allegation of adultery
subsequently to the parting. It seemed that the wife pro-
, ceeded to Paris with Mr. Andrew Quicke, who was her
suppbsed paramour, and his aunt, the excuse for this being
that she lived with Miss Quicke, inasmuch as her allow-
ance was insufficient to enable her to maintain a separate
establishment. The appellant being informed
of this, sought the assistance of a Mr.
Ignatius Pollaky, the proprietor of a private in-
quiry office at Paddington, who employed, at a
salary first of £2O, and afterwards £3O per week, a confi-
dential agent to watch the 'movements of Mrs. Weston
and Mr. Quicke, during their stay at the Grand Hotel.
This agent obtained, it was alleged, the assistance of Mrs.
Weaon's maid, named Lenlitte, who made periodical re-
ports of her mistress's proceedings, which were
duly transmitted to England, by the adoption of a
kind of initial correspondence. Sir Richard said he differed
from Lord Romilly, and believed the evidence obtained in
this way to be quite reliable • and he refuted the argu-
ment that the woman Lenlitte had been tampered with
by the defendant, who could have no object in view to
prove his wife guilty of adultery.—Lord Justice James :
None but to save £l,OOO a-year.—At one o'clock the Court
adjourned, Sir R. Baggallay having occupied two sittings
by his opening statement.