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

RIS.

THE SUN, LONDON, TITESD Al ,

Paris in a balloon, has issued from Tours a proclama-
tion to the citizens of the departments. This some-
what remarkable production is dated Sunday, and
runs thus :

" By order of the Republican Government, I have
left Paris to convey to you the hopes of the Parisian
people, and the instructions and orders of those who
accepted the mission of delivering France from the
foreigner.

" For seventeen days Paris has been invested, and
offers the spectacle of two millions of men who. for-
getting all differences to range themselves around
the Republican flag, will disappoint the expectation
of the invader, who reckoned upon civil discord.
The Revolution found Paris without cannon and
without arms. Now 400,000 National Guards are
armed, 100,000 Mobiles have been summoned
and 60,000 regular troops are assembled
The foundries cast cannon, the women make
one million cartridges daily. The National
Guard have two mitrailleuses for each battalion.
Field pieces are being made for sorties against the
besiegers. The forts are manned by marines, and
are furnished with marvellous artillery, served by
the first gunners in the world. Up till now their
fire has prevented the enemy from establishing the.
smallest work. The enceinte, which on the 4th
.September had only 500 cannons, has now 3,800,
with 400 rounds of ammunition for each.
The casting of projectiles continues with vigour.
"Every one is at the post assigned to him for
fighting. The enceinte is uninterruptedly covered by
the National Guard, who from morning till night
drill for the war with patriotism and steadiness.
The experience of these improvised soldiers increases
daily.

"Behind the enceinte there is a third line of
defence, formed of barricades, behind which the
Parisians are found to defend the Republic—the
genius of street fighting. All this has been executed
with calmness and order by the concurrence and
enthusiasm of all. It is not a vain illusion that
Paris is impregnable. It cannot be captured nor
surprised. Two other means remain to the Prus-
sians—sedition and famine. But sedition will not
arise nor famine either. Paris by placing herself
on rations has enough to defy the enemy for long
months, thanks to the provisions which have been
accumulated, and will bear restraint and scarcity with
manly constancy in order to afford her brothers in
the Departments time to gather."
The proclamation then proceeds to state that the
Republic requires the co-operation of all citizens.
Arms was the chief want, but this is being rapidly
supplied, rifles being obtained from all parts of the
world.

"We must bring to bear all our resources, which
are immense ; we must make the provinces shake
off their torpor, react against foolish panics,
multiply our partisans, offer traps and ambushes
to harass the enemy, and inaugurate a national
ar. The Republic demands the co-operation of
all. It will utilise the courage of all its citizens,
employ the capabilities of each, and, according
to its traditional policy, will make young men
its 'chiefs. Heaven itself will cease to favour our
adversaries. The Autumn rains will come, and
detained and held in check by the capital, far from
their homes, and troubled and anxious for the future,
the Prussians will be decimated ono by one by our
arms, by hunger, and by Nature."

THE NEW UNITED STATES
LOAN.

A preliminary Government circular has been pub-
lished at Washington relating to the issue of the New
National Loan, under the provisions of the Funding
Act, approved on July 18th, 1870. It recites the pro-
visions of the Act, and announces that a deposit of
2 per cent. wiil be required with all proposals of
subscription.

ROME.

ROME, OCT. 9, 1 P.M.

General Della Marinora arrives to-morrow morn-
ing with a Council of Lieutenancy of Under
Secretaries of State. For the Interior, Giacomelli ;
for the Finances, Brischi ; for Instruction and
Works, Bonacci.

EXECUTION OF' MARGARET
WATERS.
'.THIS DAY.

All efforts for a reprieve having been fruitless, IVlarg,aret
Waters was executed this morning within the precincts of
Horsemon ger-lane Gaol.

The melancholy preparations, which were the work o
a few minutes only, were then gone through, and Mar-
garet Waters ceased to breathe, almost immediately, and
apparently, without a struggle.

The convict died protesting her entire innocence of all
intention to commit murder. She left behind her a
document, written last night with her own hand, relating
the circumstances under which she entered into the
business of baby-farming, and the publication of which
document she earnestly desired.
She exhibited great firmness on the scaffold, and her
last words were to express regret for all her sins, and the
deeds she had been guilty of.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
THE GALE ON THE NORTH COAST.

A telegram from South Shields says :—The severe
weather of the past few days culminated in a heavy gale
on Sunday. A strong wind blew from the north-east,
and the sea was very rough in the bar. The brig Hart,
of Shields, which left that port for London on Friday, was
abandoned in a sinking condition off the Yorkshire
coast. Intelligence was also received in Shields last night
of the total wreck at the mouth of the Humber of the
North Shields steamtug Alacrity ; the crew were saved.
Yesterday afternoon the Golden Age ran aground at Tyne
docks, doing damage to herself and the pier. Several
vessels have broken adrift from their moorings, but no
serious loss is reported.

TTE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON THE SIEGE
OF PARIS AND PARISIAN IMMORALITY.

The Bishop of Manchester, preaching at Radcliffe,
spoke again upon the war, referring especially to
the wonderful development in Paris of vice,
libertinism, and profligacy. He said that splen-
did and beautiful as Paris was architecturally
social and political immorality had long been eating at
its heart, so that it had become a moral plague-spot in
Europe. He desired to avoid sitting in judgment over
the unfortunate city, but it was difficult to
help seeing that in regard to it the story
of Sodom and Gemorrah was being repeated.
It mattered little whether the instruments of judgment
were fire and brimstone from heaven, or the shot and
shell of an hostile army. The effect was the same in
both cases.

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER ON
EDUCATION.

The Bishop of Winchester yesterday distributed the
prizes of the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations of
the Southampton centre. He said he regarded those
examinations as of the deepest importance to universities,
as bringing them back in a great measure to what was
undoubtedly their original intention and work—namely,
being helpers forward of the education of the whole of this
country, and not of a single particular class. One of the
dangers of the present age was amassing wealth, tending
to the separation of classes. We wanted to cut a path
through the opposing jungle of the differences
of rank in England—to let those possessing
the gift of genius rise honourably and natu-
rally, not spasmodically and by those convulsions
which tear society. This, these examinations were doing.
They also gave a test of merit above suspicion. Great
efforts were being made to educate the manual labour
class. If these were educated for the class next above
them socially, we should see one of those contradictions in
society that cannot long exist without convulsion. There-
fore it was extremely important that the middle class, the
great stratum of strength of this country, should keep
ahead. These examinations would help them to do so.

OCTOBER 11, 1870.

THE MONEY Ai ARKET

CITY, Two o'CLecic.

Business on the Stock Exchange is quiet, but firm.
Consols are 92g to 921 for money, and 92 7-16 to 22 9-16
for account. Italian Stock of 1861 are 541 to 541; Lom-
bardo-Venetian, 14 to 141; Spanish 28 to 24 ; ditto of
1869, 271 to 27i ; Turkish Five per Cents., 44 to 431;
ditto of 1869, 51 to 511 ; Egyptian, 761 to 761 ; and
Peruvian, 84 to 89.
Subscriptions for a Montevidean 6 per cent. loan of
£3,000,000, at the price of 80 or 77-1, reckoning allowances,
have been invited by Messrs. Thomson, Bonar, and Co.,
the instalments extending to the 15th of April next. A
sinking fund of 21 per cent. per annum is to redeem the
whole at par in 21 years, and the rate of interest it will
yield irrespective of this advantage is 7 per cent. The
objects are to carry out the law of 1868 for the with-
drawal of the paper currency, amounting to £1,561,000,
to pay off certain public debts, amounting to £441,000,
and to provide for the erection of a custom-house and
bonded warehouses.

At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Thomas Routledge,
of Cannon-street, Esparto importer and paper manufac-
turer, a *statement of affairs was presented disclosing
liabilities for about £90,000, of which £30,830 are unse-
cured. The assets unencumbered amount to £35,574,
showing a surplus of about £4,750 ; and it was resolved to
leave the estate in the hands of Mr. Routledge, the busi-
neess to be carried on by him under the supervision of a
committee of the creditors, until the whole of the debts
shall have been discharged.
Of the £731,500 in gold which recently reached Point
de Galle from Australia by the steamer Avoca, £673,000
is for England, and may be expected to reach Southamp-
ton in about a month.

Berger, Spence, and Co.'s weekly report says during
the past week the business done in chemicals has been
quite up to the average of the few,weeks previous. There
has been a good inquiry for, home consumption, but
buyers do not operate much beyond supplying present wants.
In minerals generally there has been a well supported
demand, but the inquiries for some products have slightly
fallen off. Scotch and Cleveland pig irons remain at
about the same values. In tin there is little doing, and
lead and spelter both continue dull.