The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-25 00:00:00

TUE SUIN, LONDON, MONDAY iViORNi., JUICY 25, 18A).

NEUTRAL CONGRESS.

The following telegram, dated Paris, July 23, 11.15
p.m., has been received at the Foreign Office from her
Majesty's Ambassador at Paris:—

"A note from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs
informs me that the French Government cannot extend
to enemy's vessels with neutral cargoes the privilege
granted to enemy's vessels with French cargoes, and says
that the line of conduct adopted by France in the present
war is in strict conformity with that adopted at the sug-
gestion of England in 1854."

LATEST TNT ELLIGENCE.

OUTLINE OF TREATY.

His Majesty the King of Prussia and his Majesty the
Emperor of the French, deeming it careful to tie faster the
bonds of friendship which 41re6dy unite them, and to con•
salidate the accord of good neighbourhood happily exist-
ing between their two countries, convinced, on the other
hand, moreover, that to attain this result calculated
above all things to ensure the maintenance of the general
tranquility, and desirous, if possible, of arriving at
some good understanding between them upon those ques-
tions which mainly affect their future relations, have re-
solved to conclude a treaty to this effect, and have named
in consequence for their respective plenipotentiaries :
His Majesty, &c.
His Majesty, &c.

These, after having exchanged the full poWers accre-
dited te there in gold and due forni, are convened to decide
upon the following articles :

ARTICLE I.—His Majesty the Emperor of the Freud
admits and recognises the acquisitions made by Prussia at
the close of the last war undertaken by her against
Austria and against her allies.

ARTICLE IL—His Majesty the King of Prussia pro-
mises to facilitate for France the acquisition of Luxem-
bourg; to this end his Majesty will enter into negotia-
tions with his Majesty the King of the Low
Countries, in order to determine the latter
to make to the Emperor of the French the
secession of his rights of sovereignty over that
Duchy in return for such compensation as shall be deemed
sufficient or otherwise. On his side, the Emperor of the
French engages to assume the charge of the pecuniary
responsibility involved in this transaction.
Article lll.—His Majesty the Emperor of the Vreneh
will not oppose the federal union of the Confederation of
the North with the other States of Germany, excepting
Austria, which union can be consolidated on the basis
of one common Parliament, respecting throughout in a
just manner the sovereignty of the said States.

Article IV. Upon his part his Majesty the King of
Prussia, in case his Majesty the Emperor of the French
shall be compelled by circumstances to cause his troops
to enter into Belgium or to Conquer it, shall
accord the assistance of his arms to France and he shall
sustain her with all his forces, both by land and sea,
towards and against•all the Powers that in that eventuality
may declare war against her.
ARTICLE V.—To ensure the complete execution of the
foregoing arrangements, his Majesty the King of Prussia
and his Majesty the Emperor of the French contract
together by this present treaty an offensive and defensive
alliance which they solemnly engage themselves to main-
tain. Their Majesties beyond this expressly eti;age them-
selves to observe it in any circumstances in which
their respective states, the integrity of which they hereby
mutually guarantee, shall be menaced with any aggres-
sion, holding themselves bound in any such conjuncture,
to take without any delay, and not to decline under any
pretext those military arrangements which shall be dic-
tated by their own interests conformably to the clauses
and provisions hereinbefore specified.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DERBY.

On Saturday evening the Earl and Countess of Derby
made their first public appearance since their return to
Knowsley after their bridal tour, having been present at
a volunteer inspection in the Kensington Parade Ground,
Liverpool. The Earl and Countess arrived on the ground
about six o'clock and remained two hours, being loudly
cheered by a vast assemblage both upon their arrival and
departure.

THE VOYAGE OF THE RAGUSA,
Captain Hart, of the barque Number 2, from Quebec for
Wexford, report having spoken in latitude 49.15 north,
longitude 44 west, the boat City of Ragusa, two tons
burthen, 26 days from Liverpool. The hands, two in
number, were all well.

STRIKE AT THE GLASGOW CORPORATION

GAS WORKS.

The men employed at three of the four gas works of the
Glasgow corporation have to the number of 350 struck for
an advance of sixpence a day, their present rate of wages
being five shillings a day, which they say is under the rate
paid in England, their chief complaint, however, is that
by a new system of working introduced by the new
general manager, Mr. Fowlis, their labour has been
nearly doubled, and a return to the old system is asked.
Arrangements are making to supply the places of those
who are gone and whose demands are refused.

OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning

The Times, speaking of the revelation of the proposed
treaty between France and Prussia, says it sheds a new
light on the- Proclamation of the Emperor, and on the
petty occasions of dispute which have been paraded before
Europe during the last fortnight. The riecle is right in
reproaching M. de Grainont for still dwellitg on the
incident of the Hohenzollern nomination as the only
cause of the war with Prussia. Unfriendly as it is to
the Empire, it demands, as the condition of peace, the •
rectification of the frontier by the cession of
Saarlouis,, Landau, and the adjacent cantons. The
Proclamation of the Emperor scarcely conceals this aim.
It does, indeed, assure the inhabitants of France that the
quarrel is theirs, that they have taken it up, and almost
forced it on the Government. Peaeeful diplomacy was
met with eonteMpt, which Ilia eduiitO• resented
it with ProfOund irritation. If this be true, the Pinto 1
asks, who has made it true ? If France be on fire, who
has fanned the flames? But the Proclamation goes
on to deal with the settlement to be insisted upon in the
future. The Emperor asserts that France does not make
war on Germany, whose independence she respects ; and
he desires that the peoples composing the great German
nationality may freely dispose of their destinies. " For
ourselves we demand the establishment of a state of
affairs which shall guarantee our security and
assure our future." How is this language, apparently
inconsistent with itself, to be understood? How is the
independence of Germany to be respected simultaneously
with the establishment of new guarantees of French
security ? The simplest explanation is found in such an
interpretation of the word " Germany" as shall confine
the German nationality within the bounds of the Rhine.
If this be the meaning of the Emperor, the Times cannot
contemplate it without reitembering the ulterior aims
manifested in the draught Treaty..

THE EMPEROR'S PROCLAMATION.
The Daily News thinks the English people ought to
understand that the pretexts upon which France has
declared war against Prussia are a covert threat
addressed to every nation in Europe. The can-
didature of 'a prince of a certain House for a
vacant thrones aft ,Uutoward incident ill the per-
sonal intercourse of diploniacy, a word WO Much
from an ambassador, di a *Ord tod little from a sovereign
—if war is to spring mit of these things, let every coun-
try be armed. No nation can be certain df keeping out
of a quarrel; so ldng as such points as these afford a cause
of 'war. If breaches of politeness are to entail such con-
sequerleee, Eriglish diplomacy, partaking as it some-
times cities of our irisular curtness and hauteur; may
prove a source of peril rather than a safeguard of peace.
It is worth remembering that the Emperor of the French
has found a pretext for war with three out of the four
great Powers that were leagued against the first
empire. Russia and Austria have • been humbled,.
and have •had to ask for peace and to cede territory.
The issue of battle is now to be tried with Prussia.
The Imperial ethics do not remove the misgivings which
are occasioned by the Imperial policy. From the time of
Grotius to that of Wheaton, to speak only of the still
living literature of International Law, jurists have
laboured to define the conditions. of a just war. The
Emperor of the French in his speech to the Legislative
Body cuts the knot of this entangled question. A popu-
lar war is a just war; and artifices, such as those of M.
011ivier and the Duc de Gramont, which make a war
popular, make it just.

The Dublin Freeman, commenting on the demonstration
of sympathy with France at Dublin yesterday, says I—
"If any doubt existed as to the indignation which the
attacks of the London papers on France has created in
the Irish heart, the demonstration of the citizens of Dub-
lin yesterday must convince all that Ireland does not for-
got the past, and to=day warmly syinp4thises with the
French. The thdusands who collected on Sandymount
strand, who thronged the city, and the tribes who massed
in thousands in Cork yesterday tell with an empressment
not to be misconstrued that Ireland indignantly repu-
diated the calumnies of our English contemporaries. In
the struggle of France Ireland feels a deep and
an abiding interest. To be apathetic or indifferent
would be the blackest ingratitude. That this
should be the feeling of Ireland is intelligible
to all who are acquainted with the history of their coun-
try. In past times France was our refuge and our
shelter from a proscribing and a persecuting Government.
In France the Irish found protection and hospitality,
which were ruthlessly denied them at home. And above
all, it is not to be forgotten that in the land of France
thousands of our exiled countrymen laid down their
lives in attestation of Irish sympathy for that glorious
country."

' put clearly and tersely. the exact interpretation
which any impartial and intelligent - observer of the
Prussian policy would liaslie Made of /ts conduct: The
French Government had heard long agO of tile Hohenzol-
lern candidature, and as-soon as it heard it, so Says M.
de Gramont, it informed Count Bismarck that it would
not permit a Prussian prince to reign in Spain. M. Bene-
detti, according to M. de Gramont, after making this an-
nouncement, received the most satisfactory assurances.
Count Bismarck declared the combination one incapable of
fealisation, and Baron Thile, who is nominally Foreign
Secretary, gaVe hig word of honour that the Prince of
Hohenzollern was not and would rictperiously become a
candidate for the Spanish Crown. Ndit; ttgstitriitig again
M. de Gramont to 'do what it is almost iniiloclsible to
doubt, tell the truth, here is a sufficient and indeed
the one intelligible and satisfactory explanation of the ve-
hemence of his famous declaration upon the subject. The
French Government, assured by Count Bismarck and his
locum tcnout, that the candidature of the Prince was not
serious, would naturally have considered itself tricked and
insulted when it learned that the Prince was about to
be redomineilded to the Cortes, and that in conse-
quende df zieghtlati?fie in Which the King. of Prussia
and his Priiiie 41inihei ,hdd taken an active part.
It is all very well fOt the Ring hf Prussia to declare
solemnly that he is not respOiisibl fl i this war, but
we say frankly, and we are confident gist iv 6 extress
the feeling of all thoroughly impartial men, iilesti we
.say that if, after such assurances had been given
to France by his Minister, be first repudiated all
part in this candidature, then allowed he had approved
it, but refused to interfere to withdraw it, and subse-
quently rejected the demand that he should not again
authorise it in a manner sO offensive that it necessitated
war, the provocation of this contest is all his head, and on
that of the Minister of whom he is the instrunultit:

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GOODWOOD SCRATCHINGS.

Out of all Goodwood Engagements.—Stockw ater, Fair-
mitister, Blue Stocking, Salamis, Stray, Merry Wife filly;
all Mr. _Blue Stocking,
horses, except the Brown Duchess filly in
thg Fitidoti Stakes j Sunlight, Sunshine.
Stewards Cup,-=-Demidolf, Flyaway Jaek, Podestai
Coeoa Nut.
Halnaker Stakes.—Knightly, -
Ham Stakes.—Filly by Trumpeter- -The Roe.
Lavant Stakes.—Miss Ellis.
Goodwood Stakes.—Five per Cent,
Nursery Stakes.—Feronia.

KATY BETTING-SATURDAY.
StEWA tip:

- - -
9to 1 agst Tabernacle (taken)
9to 1 agst HathCr Bell (taken and offered)
10 to 1. Eigst TibtliorPe (taken)
100 to 8 agst Albuera, (taken)
100 to 8 agst Ida (taken and offered)
100 to 6 east Moorlands (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Vandezilioff (offered)
20 to 1 agst ChawbaCon (offered).
25 to 1 agst Cefdiigne arid *anted)
25 to 1 agst Knutsford ((Aided)
25 to 1 agst Hawthornden (taken and dffered)
25 to 1 agst Badsworth (wanted)
500 to 5 agst Lady Sophia (offered)
20 to 1 agst A. Taylor's lot (offered)
20 to 1 agst A. 'Taylor's lot bar Heather Bell toff,
GOODWOOD SITJ'' AKIN:

6 to 1 agst Capitaliste (offered)
7 to 1 agst Toby (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Indian Ocean (offered—take 15 to 2,
Bto 1 agst Prince Henry (offered)
10 to 1 agst John Davis (offered—take 100 to 8)
100 to 8 agst Miss Sheppard (taken and wanted)
20 to 1 agst Chivalry (taken freely(
20 to 1 agst Paganini (taken)
50 to 1 agst Laird (wanted)
GOODWOOD CUP.
7to 4 agst Sabinus (offered—take 2to 1)
to 1 agst Siderolite (taken)
ST. LEGER:
2to n the field (offered)

BE 1 TING AT MANCIISTER—SATURDAY
STEWARDS' CUP.
10 to 1 agst Tabernacle (taken)
100 to 8 agst Tibthorpe (taken)
100 to agst Albuera (taken)
100 to 6 agst Heather Bell (taken)
100 to 6 agst Ida (taken)
100 to 6 agst Lady Sophia (taken)
20 to 1 agst Morphia (taken)
20 to 1 agst Chawbacon (taken)
20 to 1 agst Vandenhoff (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP.
2to 1 agst Sabinus (offered)
3to 1 agst Siderolite (taken freely)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
9to 2 agst Capitaliste (taken)
7to 1 agst Indian Ocean (taken)
8 to 1 agst Toby (taken)
10 to 1 agst John Davis (taken)
10 to 1 agst Prince Henry (offered)
100 to 6 agst Paganini (taken)
100 to 6 agst Miss Sheppard (offered)
20 to 1 agst Chivalry (taken)

GrOODWOC
The Goodwood Cup, value 3
tion of 20 sous each; h ft.
subs. (Weights calculated
Age st lb
Knight of the
Garter .. 6 9 10
Pero Gomez ... 4 9 7
Brigantine 4 9 3
Siderolite
Border Knight 4 9 0
Starter 4 9 0
Morna
Sabinus
Champion .... 3 7 7
Muster

ID RACES.

DO sots, added to a subscriP-
Two miles and a half. :33
up to July 21.)

Acceptances for the Goo,

and

Age st lb
Brigantine
Kidderminster 6 (pd)
Paganini
Capitaliste
Strathnairn 4 8 0
John Davis
Acaster 4 7 7
The Laird ... .......
Fleets 4 (pd)
Chivalry
Bonny Swell 3 7 0
Prince Henry
Toby
Sweet Sound ..
Newsman 3 6 9

Age st lb
Normanby ........ 3 7 7
Recorder
Musket ..
Chawbacon
Bonny Swell 3 7 7
Sweet Sound 3 7 3
Patti
Sunshine
Hester ......... .... 3 7 3
Restitution
Argyle
[wood Stakes. Two miles
half.

Age st lb
Bertha
Miss Sheppard 3 6 5
Rattlepate 3 6 4
Dairymaid 4 6 4
Indian Ocean
Five per Cent. 3 5 12
Nightjar 4 5 11
Revenge 3 5 11
Sulphur ...... 3 5 10
f by Tim Whiffler
—Maud 3 5 10
Jasonia
lonia
Moccolo 3 5 7

1 HE GREAT FIRE IN LAMBETH.

On Saturday evening Mr. Carter, the coroner for East
Surrey, held an inquiry at the Henry VIII. Tavern,
High-street, Lambeth, respecting the deaths of the six
children.

Police-constable Woodrea, 55 L, deposed that, at about
half-past three o'clock on Saturday morning, he was on
duty in the Waterloo-road. He then observed the light
of flames making their way from the ground floor into
the upper apartments of Mr. Hill's business premises
which were situated at the corner of Granby-street,
Waterloo-road. He at once sprung his rattle and aroused
the inmates. Immediately afterwards he saw one of the
top-floor windows thrown open, and both Mr. and Mrs.
Hill jump out of the window. They fell upon a pent-
roof over the front shop. Mr. Hill, when she leaped
from the window, had in her arms a child of about a
month old. Witness managed to get them off the top of
the pent-roof by means of a fireman's ladder, and
Mrs. Hill then informed him that in the top
attic of the house were six of her children.
Every effort was made to get into the house, in order to
save the lives of the children, but ii was found impossible
to do so. The engines played upon the premises for a
considerable time ; and, after the fire was subdued, the
bodies of the six children were found in the top attic of
Mr- Hill's house. They were all frightfully charred.
Mr. Shepherd, coroner's officer, said that he had visited
the scene of the fire, and that he had found the two houses
both ten-roomed ones, in the occupation of Mr. Hill
burned out. The walls were left standing. ,
The Coroner said that he would adjourn the inquiry
for a week, in order to give his office: and the police an
opportunity of discovering, if possible, the cause of the
fire.
The court was accordingly adjourned.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles
Marquis of Huntly, to be one of the Lords in Waiting in
Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Robert Adam
Philip Haldane, Earl of Camperdown, resigned.
4r,,JFIRE IN THE LONDON DOCKS.—Yesterday a fire
broke out near the Shadwell Basin of the London Docks.
Heaps of seasoned railway sleepers which, were lying on
the quay were found to be in flames, and a large quantity
of them were destroyed. It is supposed that the pickle,
as it is called, by which the sleepers were seasoned was
acted upon by the heat of the sun so as to cause ignition.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—A grand firework display
will he given this evening without increasing the usual
is. admission. A new troupe of Japanese (the Royal
Tycoon Troupe) will perform at six o'clock. A special
display of all the great fountains will be given at three
o'clock for the Calais excursionists. On Tuesday the
"Lily of Killarney" will be played, and on Thursday
" Lurline." The last of the series of summer concerts
takes place next Saturday, when Mdlle. Ilma de Murska,
Mr. Santley, and other artistes of the Drury-lane Opera,
will appear. The admissions on Saturday were 4,723.
ANOTHER FATALITY IN WATERLOO ROAD.--011
Saturday afternoon, while the volunteers were passing
along to the Waterloo Station, a horse attached to one
of Reddin's dust carts took fright from the noise from a
band of music, and darted off down the road at a rapid
pace. Several persons were standing in the road looking
A the ruins of the fire which occurred at Mr. Hill's. A
man about 30 years of age was knocked down, and one of
the heavy wheels passed over his body. He was carried
into Dr. Brooks's, but he expired in 40 minutes.