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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-19

LORD RUSSELL'S PAMPHLET.

The long expected pamphlet, by Lord Russell, has ino.d°
its appearance. It examines in two divisions the military
and political conditions of the Empire ; in the first place
it criticises the now famous article in the Edinbu)P
Review, which it condemns as expressing a policy ino•d
quate to the times. Passing to the war and the question
of German annexation, it fastens the guilt of the carnage
upon France, welcomes the prospect of the liege
mony of Germany in Europe, and pronounces
that Alsace and part of Lorraine ought to be re°
garded as the just and neutral provisions for security".
If Count Bismarck should demand more than
this, it proposes a joint and armed opposition. It con'
eludes with a series of axioms :—We must have an army
of reserve, founded on the militia ; a strong garrison,
and a good general in Quebec, and a peace enforced
upon the basis of the surrender of Alsace and North
Lorraine.

DWELLINGS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL
CLASSES.

Yesterday afternoon another extensive block of bad;
ings, intended for the accommodation of the industrial
classes, was opened in Ebury-street, Pimlico. They welt
erected at great cost by the company, at the head of which
is Sir Sidney Waterlow, whose liberality and energy in
providing suitable houses for the working classes are we
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very noble frontage. The ground floor mis
devoted to shops, and the upper storeys
accomodate no less the one hundred and twenty families,
the greatest attention having been paid to the sanitary
arrangements. Among those present at the opening
were his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the
Earl of Shaftesbury, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress,
Sir Sidney Waterlow, and the Sheriffs of London. After
the building had been inspected by the company, a large
party partook of luncheon, to which they were invited bi
Sir Sidney Waterlow.
London, England, 1870-11-19

SCARLET FEVER.

The prevalence of scarlet fever throughout England
and Wales has led Dr. Lankester to make some
observations explanatory of the means by which the
disease might be checked. It is only, we are told,
by intelligent apprehension on the past of
the public who are infected, that any hope
of the arrest of the disease may be ex-
pected. Dr. Lankester calls attention to the fact
that in every body affected with scarlet fever
there is produced poisonous matter, which, passing
from the diseased body, is capable of generating the
malady anew in others. The great point of im-
portance here is to know how long the " poison
germs " of scarlet fever retain their vitality. Dr. Lan-
kester could mention several instances in which the
poison lay dormant in woollen clothes for years
without having lost its power of communication.
From tie patients themselves, too, the danger of
communicating the fever to others, lasts until the
total desquamation of the cuticle whicli always
follows that malady is completed. Attention to
these two facts by the public, Dr. Lankester
thinks, might result in hundreds of lives being saved
weekly. By means of certain substances which
are well known, poison germs can be
killed in their birth. The isolation of patients from
the first moment they become ill he recommends
most strongly
London, England, 1870-08-03

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

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The Jouriet de St. Petersbouro of yesterday mentions
the rumours current at Ruchareattf an intended military
ecupation of the Roumanian Principalities, and declares
the rumours to be mischievous inventions,

The Times correspondent at Berlin says that no
.lorrespondents will be allowed to accompany the Prussian
army.
A special telegram in the Manchester Examiner
jays :—Masters of German vessels arrived at Rugenwalde
Ponvrania, from Copenhagen„state that the men-of-war
at anc. or in the port of Copenhagen have been- actively
arming ever since the 15th instant. There is at Copen-
hagen great excitement against Ger Many, which exhibits
self in insults to German seamen and others there,

THE EVACUATION OF ROME.
Prot,' Florence we have news that the military measures
required by the September Convection are in full course
4 execution. A cordon of troops is forming on the
frontier to prevent aggression.

FRENCH FEELING TOWARDS ENG
MONDA Y.LAND.
PARIS,

The most interesting feature at this moment in the
aspect of affairs is the state of feeling amongst Frenchmen,
from the highest to the lowest, about the public mind in
England. I have known Paris for thirty years, and have
been a fixed resident for seventeen. I knots, people in all
classes of society—ministers, barristers, military men,
bankers, noblemen, and gentlemen. They all have for
many years conversed and still speak to me with a freedom
which is not common and not even safe. Well, just now
I meet people every hour, not to say more frequently,
who appeal to me about the "animus of the English
press (they allude especially to the Times) and the dispo•
sition generally of England, I succeed almost invariably
in calming their irritation, and assure them that it would
be very difficult to embroil the two countries. If there
be one point on'which the Emperor has been true, it has
been in his resolute resistance on certain 0CC040114
London, England, 1870-08-03

THE LATE STRIKE AT CORK.

The twelve men convicted of taking part in the riot in
connection with the late tailors strike were sentenced by
Judge Keogh on Tuesday to twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour. Two, who seemed to have been ring-
leaders, got eighteen months, and three six months.
Two, convicted of a violent assault upon tailori who had
abandoned the strike, were sentenced to eighteen
months' imprisonment. His lordship strongly cen-
sured the inactivity of the mayor and of the local
magistrates at the commencement of the disturbances, be•
lieving that the mischief might have been checked earlier
by proper measures. He said there were too many magis-
trates, and that their responsibility was too much
divided. He exempted the stipendiary magistrates from
censure.

DECAPITATION ON THE RAIL WAY AT
CAMBRIDGE.

An inquest was held at Cambridge on Tuesday on tile
body of Thomas -Mclntyre, who committed suicide on
onday night by deliberately laying himself across the
rails of the Great Eastern Railway at Cambridge in front
of the Norwich train. Both his arms and his head were
severed from his body. Deceased took up his position in
front of the train with his eyes wide open looking at the
approaching engine. He is stated to have been rather a
dissipated character, and was frequently in gaol. He had
been liberated from prison the morning of his death.
The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.
London, England, 1870-08-03

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THE WAH

GREAT BATTLE AT SAARBRUCK

A special telegram from the correspondent of the
Standard, dated Metz, Auguat 2, 3.55 p.m., says:—" An
important engagement has taken place to-day at Saar-
bruck, resulting in the victory of the French."
The official bulletin, issued at Paris yesterday morning,
states that news from the army to the Ist instant, men-
tions no change in the military situation. The 7th Prus-
sian Army Corps, under General von Zastrow, was said
to be advancing on TreVes by way of the Eifel range
of hills.

The correspondent of the Telegraph, in a telegram dated
Paris, Tuesday, says—lt is
,believed here that there will
be no action for some days unless the Prussians attack.
The Prussian organisation is reported to be faulty, and
their supplieS deficient They liaye strengthened their
position by Hues, 36 leagues of 'which are said to be
finished.
London, England, 1870-08-03

HER.MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Am 2.
Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon, accompa-
nied by Princess Beatrice.
The Queen walked out this morning, accompanied by
Princess Louise and Prince Arthur.

The competitive examination for the entry of
assistant-surgeons into the navy will commence at the,
University of London on Monday next.
London, England, 1870-08-03

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

Governor Holden, of North Carolina, having proclaimed
martial law in several counties, has organised a force of
negro militia for the alleged purpose of bringing to jnstice
the perpetrators of the Ku-Klux outrages. Colonel
Kirk, who commands the militia, is committing great ex-
cesses, arresting a large number of respectable citizens,
ordering courts-martial to be held for their trial, refusing
to recognise the writs of the civil courts, and administer
ing torture in order to extort confer ions. Several com-
panies of Federal cavalry have been sent to North Caro-
lina from Washington to sustain General Holden. The
press generally, including the New York Times, strongly
condemn the course pursued by Governor Holden, and
tonsure the Administration for supporting him.
London, England, 1870-08-03

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

A return containing certain particulars relative to
the South Kensington Museum shews that fine col-
lection as being patronised by an increasing number
of visitors, and also as becoming a more and more
formidable item in the Budget. In the year 1866
the number of - visitors was 756,000. In the next
year this total sank to 646,000 ; but in 1868 it rose
to 881,000, and in 1869 to 1,043,000. This is a
clear and promising improvement. The ad-
vance in cost is equally clear, though it
may not be exactly promising. In 1866 the
cost of buildings, repairs, and the like was
£38,743, and by 1869 this -item had gradually risen
to £43,273. The expense of arrangement and mana-
gement has advanced from £57,874 in 1866 to
£86,520 (it had been gradually "improving " be-
fore); and the amount expended in purchases of books
and objects of art, has progressed from £17,740 to
£21,097—an item at which nobody can well
grumble.
London, England, 1870-08-03

FALMOUTH, GIBRALTAR, AND MALTA
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Half the 20 word rates for every additional ten words.
From the Provinces and Ireland, ls. extra.
Messages are received at the Company's Office, No. 74, OLD
BROAD-STREET, and sent direct to their destination.
Messages are also received at all the Postal Telegraph Offices
in Great Britain and Ireland. The public should order them
to be sent " VIA FALMOUTH." These words will be transmitted
free of charge

By order,
JOHN T. BURT, Secretary.

London, July, 1870.
London, England, 1870-08-03

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

A. horrible story is being circulated inDublin,with
reference to the decapitation of the man Carr, in Rich-
mond Bridewell. The shameful nature of this tale,
whether the particulars are true or not, considerably
increases the necessity for a rigid inquiry into the
circumstances of the unfortunate man's death. The
gaol officials and Dr. Minchin, surgeon of the gaol,
are not, it is said, to blame directly in the matter, but
it is alleged that "several surgical amateur execu-
tioners," were the concoctors of the mode of strangula-
tion employ3d. It is said that " medico-mathematical
questions" were mixed up with the unhappy incident
connected with the death of Carr, and that the
surgical results expected from the preparations made
under the surveillance of the "surgical amateur
executioners " were freely and open ly discussed the
day before the sentence on the prisoner was carried
out, by certain parties who attended at the gaol on
Thursday last. Instead of the ordinary thick
hempen rope user], a thin silk one is reported to have
been, for the first time, adopted, as a result of
the elaborate calculations allowed to be undertaken
by persons whose right to interfere in the transac-
tions at the city prison, is at least open to question.
The people of Dublin are extremely indignant that
the terrible fate which Carr met with has been per-
mitted to take place to the dishonour of their city,
and they are now demanding that the Lord
Lieutenant will order a thorough investigation to be
held, the more especially as his Excellency a fort-
night since refused to comply with their earnest
request for a commutation of the sentence.
London, England, 1870-08-03

HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
Golden-square, W.
President—the Right Hon. the Earl of STRAFFORD, F.R.S.
This Hospital has relieved upwards of 24,000 patients since its',
foundation, and is in great NEED of FUNDS to meet the heavy
current expenses. EDMUND WYLD, Secretary.
London, England, 1870-08-03

PASSPORTS FOR FRANCE.

The following communication has been received by
Lord Granville from the French Ambassador at this
Court :

" London, August 1, 18:0.
"My Lord,—The Emperor's Government has de-
cided, in consequence of existing circumstances, that
the formality of the passport should be univer-
sally re-established during the war, as regards
every foreign traveller desiring to leave or to enter
French territory. I have the honour to notify to
your Excellency this decision, which is justified in
the interest of British subjects themselves, as well
as by considerations of public safety. The Empe-
ror's Government, as your Excellency is aware,
although it consented, at the request of a certain number
of foreign States, mutually to suppress the formality of
the passport, expressly reserved the right of re-establish-
ing it when circumstances required.—Receive, &c.,
LAVALETTE."
London, England, 1870-08-03

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
JNO. GOSNE I,L and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of
the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder-
ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated
form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s each; also is., 7s. ed., and 15e. each, includ-
ng brush.
Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, P 3, Upper Thames-street, Lon-
don, E.C.
London, England, 1870-08-03

THE AGES OF THE COMMANDERS.

Should the Franco-Prussian war last for more than a
single campaign, it is probable that the majority of the
commanders who are now conspicuous will sink out of
sight, and that new men, whose names have not yet even
been heard of, will rise into prominence. It is a curious
fact that nearly every officer of high rank in both the
Prussian and French armies is over sixty years of age.
Marshals M`Mahon, Canrobert, and Bazaine, General
Lebceuf, and Admiral Rigault de Genouilly are all between
sixty and sixty-three; Marshal Forey is sixty-seven,
and Marshals Bandon, Baraguay d'Hilliers and Vaillant
are all more than seventy-five. On the Prussian side,
General Moltke is seventy, General Manteufel is sixty-
one, General Van Roon sixty-seven, and Prince Frederick,
who commanded the Army of the Elbe at Sadowa, sixty-
nine years of age. Among so many venerable officers it
would not be unreasonable to look for tactics of the Fa-
brian pattern, since age is prudent, and military leaders
of past sixty have, personally speaking, more to lose by
defeat than to gain by victory. Still, it is already plain,
even had we not been in a position to guess as muchbefore
the late events, that behind these veteran leaders
there are two min Is intensely alive to the value of time,
and to that of the first prestige of success. This is to be
a war of moral impressions and dramatic effects, as well
as of hard fighting, and if any man knows this as well as
Napoleon 111. it is Count Bismarck. The situation as
regards the age and experience of the principal European
commanders promises to be not nnlike what it
was when Napoleon I. . took the command of the
Army of Italy, and it would not be surprising
if some genius appeared, whose rise would depend, like
that wonderful man's,. upon disregarding military tradi-
tions, and snatching victory while trampling upon profes-
sional conventions. No leader ever turned to greater
profit the art of not doing what is expected, or what by
all recognised rules ought to be done, and of substituting
novel and bewildering combinations. Youth and audacity
as well as genius are essential to the power to do this, and
these qualities will perhaps soon be forthcoming in men
as obscure at the present moment as was the young
Corsican, Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1790.—New York
Times.
London, England, 1870-08-03

RECONNAISSANCE AND SKIRMISH.

Oft Monday mo-rniiig, according to the official Bavarian
account, a reeonnaissance was made by Bavarian cavalry
and Prussian hussars towards Stuerzelbruenm They came
into conflict with a French patrolling party, and one of
the enemy's Qffirs and several of their men were
wounded. Tyro Prussian soldiers were wounded, but no
loss was sustained by the Bavatians.
London, England, 1870-08-03

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DEATH FROM DROWNING.

An inquest was held at Brompton, Chatham, on Tuesday
by Mr. Hill, coroner, on the body of Lieutenant Charles
Edward Turner, of the Royal Engineers, who was
drowned iu the River Medway, on Monday, at Would-
barn, where he was stationed for instruction in pontoon-
ing. The deceased, with Lieutenants Peacock, Maxwell,
and Dobson; who had been watching the men working at
the pontoons, agreed to swim, with their clothes on,
to a pontoon raft in the river which was about thirty
yards off. The tide' was running strong at the time,'but
all succeeded in reaching their destination with the excep-
tion of Mr. Turner, who said he could not reach the. raft.
Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Peacock plunged into the water to
kris assistance, and Mr. Maxwell caught hold of him,_ but
was obliged to let go, as he was himself exhausted, -and
the deceaeedeank. The body was not recovered for three
quarters of an hour, when every effort was made to restore
animation, but without effect. The: }airy returned a ver-
dict of accidental death.

THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA
AT IYDE.

Tuesday was fixed for the opening of the Royal Yacht
Squadron Regatta at Ryde. The race for her Majesty's
Cup was to have been sailed, and every pre,paratiou was
made. But early in the forenoon a thick fog gathered,
and not a breath of wind stirred. The regatta, had it
been possible to sail at all, would have been without
interest. As. therefore, the weather improved but little,
it was determined not to start the yaohts, and the Pe-
gatta was postpones.

RUMOURED ABSCONDING OF LIVERPOOL
COMMERCIAL MEN.

tumours of au unpleasant kind were afloat in Liverpool
en Tuesday respecting commercial men of high standing.
Two men, well known on 'Change; have, it is said,
absconded, one having duped a bank .of about .120,000,
and the other having embezzled £lO,OOO of his employer's
money.
London, England, 1870-08-03

THE OBJECT OF FRANCE.

The wee* bulletin of the Official J:aurnai of last
evening contains the following :—" We are making war,
lint against Germany, but against Prussia, or rather against
Count Bismarck's pat,. Before Sadowa, the Emperor
had already expressed ideas favourable to the wishes and
interests of the German nation, reconciling at once the
rights of Prussia, and those'of the secondary states, and
maintaining Austria in her great position among the
German people. The realisation of this programme would
have spared,Germany the evils 'IV despotism and of war."
The Official Jounial further criticises the violent policy of
M. de Bismarck, and regrets that King William
should submit to the domination of an un-
scrupulous minister. It adds " France quite as
much deplores the situation imposed by Prussia
on the German Southern States, the integrity of which
Was protected by the Emperor after Sadowa. The Em-
peror desires that the German States should exercise their
awn free will in disposing of their destinies ; he wishes to
rescue Germany from Prussian oppression to conciliate
the rights of the Princes with the legitimate
desires of their people ; to put a stop to successive
encroachments whfcit threaten Europe ; to preserve
the Danish nationality from complete ruin and,
finally, to obtain an equitable and durable peace, based
upon moderation, justice, and right. Such are -the
general ideas which govern the present conflict.
The war which commences is not waged to satisfy ambi-
tion, but to establish an equilibrium; it is the defence of
the weak against the strong, the reparation of great
iniquities, and the chastisement of unwarrantable deeds.'
London, England, 1870-08-03

NATIONAL INSTITUTION for DISEASES
of the SKIN, Gray's-inn-road and Mitre-street. Physi-
cian, Dr. BARR MEADOWS, 49, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Ave-
rage number of Patients under treatment, 1,000 weekly. Free
letters are available for necessitous applicants.
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London, England, 1870-08-03

THE DERRY APPRENTICES.

Is th ere no means of putting a stop to the dis-
graceful scenes that periodically turn the city of
Derry into something worse than a bear-garden P
Surely if the authorities were to exert their power
with more energy, these unruly celebrations might
he quelled without the desperate fights which accom-
pany the so-called historical recollections. The latest
of these displays took place on Saturday, when the
rioting exceeded anything that has taken place even
in that town of misrule for some time. The affray
commenced with the playing of party tunes in the
streets, followed by the usual stupid cries. In a very
short period stone-throwing was begun, and firearms
having been found, shooting was also indulged in.
The mob then proceeded to wreck the houses of
those who were obnoxious to them, and this con-
tinued till the military were called out. It is to be
hoped that the punishment of those taken into cus-
tody will be sufficiently severe to act as a caution to
those preparing for the 12th of August.
London, England, 1870-08-03

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HELP FOR THE WOUNDED.

Whatever may be the conflicting opinions which
prevail with respect to the rights or wrongs of the
belligerent parties on the Continent, there can be no
doubt as to the urgent necessity which exists for due
provision to be made for the wounded. Among the
many suggestions which have beenmade on the subject
is one of a simple kind, but, like many simple things,
it is well worthy of attention. In the fearful scenes
which will soon be enacted upon the Continent it
will be most important that there should be a due
provision of lint. Victor Hugo, writing from his
retirement the other day, impressed upon the ladies
of Guernsey the desirability of theis sending their old
linen for the purpose of making lint to those societies
which are established for the benefit of the wounded.
lt has also been suggested that the lint may be sent
ready made to the scenes of suffering, and that child-
ren can suitably be employed for the purpose,
The International Association for the Relief
of the Wounded will send their agents to the
battle-fields of the Rhine ; they will be protected by
tlithr red and white flag, which will proclaim them as
the workers of a mission of peace and mercy. It is
satisfactory to reflect upon the vast amount of good
which the " Sanitary Commis ion" effected during
the terrible struggle between the North and South
States of America. Their example may be worthily
followed in the European conflicts, about to ensue,
and those who would emulate their success will do
well to remember that thy worked in unison with
the regular military staff, thereby avoiding the risk
of coining into collision with the authorities.

AN UNWILLING MARTYR.

Among the heroes of the present situation of
affairs on the continent, there is an individual who
London, England, 1870-08-03

ARCHEOLOGY IN LEICESTERSHIRE.

The archeologists, while all the rest of the world
is busy speculating as to the movements of monarchs
and their legions in the present day, are occupying
themselves in the less exciting, and less dangerous task
of ascertaining what Claudius and Aurelius did, or
had done, some sixteen centuries ago in Leicester-
shire. If they could induce our modern potentates
to join them in the study it would be all the more
profitable. Europe would just now prefer the pur-
suits of a Gallieuus, who only drank out of gold and
never tasted the same wine twice at dinner,
to those of our imperial aad royal treaty—
makers and treaty-breakers. Leicestershire, says one
of the archaeologists, was a very different Leicester-
shire when the now disinterred coins (bearing date
270) were buried ; " but the geological formation
remains identically the same, and so human nature
in a Claudius and Gallieuus is the same ingredient
we recognise in ourselves, wanting only the elevating
influence of our religion." Certainly the unscrupu-
lous ambition we suffer from at the present day was
not wanting in those earlier ages. The reigns of
the different emperors represented on the coins found
in Leicestershire furnished the subject of an
interesting paper. These coins are 254 in
number, and were found in. .Lut terworth.
They bear the effigies of many different emperors,
including Aurelius, Valerian, Quintillus, and Marius.
These last are more rare, and bear date 267. The
archmologists, whose congress has now reached its
close, have found several other objects of interest in
other parts of Leicestershire, which boasts the re-
mains of a Roman city under the town of Leicester
itself.
London, England, 1870-08-03

TRAMWAYS BILL.

The Lords' Amendments to this Bilt were considered.
Ain amendment to one of the Lords' proposals was
no ved by Mr. Shaw Lefevre, providing that the same
iotice should be given to the owners and occupiers of pre-
nises in streets, through which the tramway was proposed
dbe made, as was now required to be given by parties
goceeding under a private bill.—A division took place,
End the proposition of the Secretary of the Board
if Trade was carried by 35 to 14 votes.—.
11r. Dodson. moved that the House disagree with
me of the Lord's amendments, which he said would pre-
ieribe by Act of Parliament the time when a private bill
should or should not be introduced. The words of the
Lord's were " not later than the Ist May in any year,"
Mr. Dodson's amendment was adopted,

MERCHANT SHIPPING CODE BILL,
Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE moved that the Speaker leave the
:hair in order that the above bill might be committed
oro forma with the view of reprinting and circulating it.
several amendments were made in the Bill, and the
Ight hon, gentleman promised that towards the close of
.he year it should-be reprinted with amendments.
SUNDAY TRADING BILL.
Mr. TALBOT moved that the Speaker leave the chair in
rrder that the bill might he committed. He remarked
hat it was a measure which had received the support of
11 the prominent members of the House, and he believed
hat the Government would support it.
Mr. TAYLOR asserted that the bill was based upon no
ninciple, and it would do nothing but mischief. If it
vere good for the metropolis, why, he asked, did not pro-
noter of the measure extend it to the
.country.
Mr. BRUCE, although he spoke in favour of the bill,
•nd alluded to the fact that no metropolitan member had
ender the circumstances of the session it would be
nade any representation as to its unpopularity, thought that
udicious of Mr. Talbot not to press his motion.
Mr. WATKIN WILLIAMS, in a somewhat-excited manner
leclared that the bill would be most unequal in its
perai,Vons, whilst the well-conducted poor, he pointed
'ut, would be prevented obtaining refreshments on the
Sunday, the rich could drive about, go to such places as
he Star and Garter, or have recourse to their wine cellar.
After a few remarks from Alr. Candlish, the motion
vas negatived without a division,
CONSTABULARY (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
THE NAVY.

Mr. BAXTER, in reply to Mr. Duff, said there was no
ntention to propose an increase in the naval armament of
he country. There was an abundant supply of seamen
►nd marines.. He asked the House to have confidence in
he Government, and he believed that from what had
alien place they had confidence in the naval adminis-
rition..
London, England, 1870-08-03

A DILEMMA.

An occurrence partaking of the ludicrous took
place on Tuesday last, at the Goodwood meeting.
For the future the Jockey Club may think it neces-
sary to engage "a professor of hydraulics to assist the
judge in giving his decision on a wet day. Jockeys,
when they return to be weighed, are allowed two
pounds for contingencies, but, in one race on the day
mentioned, all the riders were found to be more than
the regulation weight, owing to the severe drench-
ing they had received, Here was a dilemma. The
rules were silent on the subject, and the Solons of
the Turf were non-plussed. Books on racing were
consulted, but no light was shed on the momentous
question. Mr, Charles Weatherby had never heard of
such a thing, and confusion reigned supreme. Some one
proposed that the jockeys should be hung up to dry,
but this was objected to, on the ground that it might
cause serious inconvenience to the persons suspended.
At last a sudden ray of light flashed on the brain of
on 3 of the gentlemen present, that the best way
,to
deal with the matter would be to leave it alone.

COMMERCIAL FRAUDS IN BOMBAY.

The Anglo-Indian commercial world has lately
been sorely troubled by the discovery of systematic
frauds on a large scale. The burning of the Aurora,
in which a firm of brokers, the captain of the vessel,
and the carpenter were all implicated being condemned
to varying degrees of penal servitude, was but one of
a series. The story of the Teresa, of which full
accounts are brought by the Bombay papers, is even
more painful ,than that of the Aurora, as the
young wife - of the captain, who was in delicate
health, has died since her husband's arrest on a
charge of signing bills of lading and obtaining an
advance of £20,000 before shipping the cotton. This
dangerous practice has no doubt led to numerous
frauds, although in the case in question we must not
anticipate the decision of the court. Another tragic
story is that of a Parsee merchant and broker of
some standing, named Manockjee Kaka, who com-
mitted suicide by opium, owing to his having
incurred immense liabilities by becoming guarantor
for several shipments of cotton before the cotton
was bought, and the shippers failing to carry out
their engagements. A Hindoo, Cursondass
Madhowdass, who has been arrested in connection
with the Teresa affair, was formerly in partnership
with, this unfortunate man, and was the shipper of
the Greyhound, the only vessel mentioned in con-
nection with these transactions. Other inquiries are
afloat. Three Bhattias are now in custody at Bom-
bay on a charge of fraud to the extent of £1,380 by
shipping rubbish in place of cotton. This plan was also
tried, it is said, on board the Teresa, some of the rub-
bish in the bales actually putrefying and betraying
itself to the surveyors. Two native merchants have
been charged with obtaining a lakh of rupees on a
consignment of opium for which bills of lading were
produced which had not really been shipped. Other
frauds are spoken of involving ten lakhs of rupees
(2100,000,) but it is said the area of these transactions
is comparatively limited.
London, England, 1870-08-03

ENGLAND AND BELGIUM.

The Times, thinks that Lord Granville's last statement
marks a great advance on Mr. Gladstotie's speech of the
evening bef-ofei and on his own attitude last Thursday.
Without in any was' overstepping the discretion of a
responsible Minister, Lord Granville declared in the most
positive manner that the Government of the' Queen
aro aware of the duty this country owes to Belgium>.
and his perfect confidence that if the Government follow
judiciously and actively the course Which the honour,
the interests,. and the obligations of the country dic-
tate) they will receive the full support of Parliament
and the ziation. But Lord Granville said even
more than this. He intimated that the Ministry had
taken steps last week, after the painful revelations
that were then made, to convey to other Powers
in the clearest manner; though without adopting an offen•
sive or menacing tone, what Ungland believed to be due
from and to her, and he made an emphatic appeal to the
confidence of the Peers to believe that when once the
Govemmeist hadinade a clear intimation of their Inten-
tions in any respect nothing,wonkl induce them to with-
draw froth such an intimathm. ]very considera-
tion of policy and pf principle combine to support the
conclusion upon which lord Russell inistecl, and which
Lord Granville accepted in the language we have already
cited.

The Daily News observes that Lett Granville's lan-
guage was clear and unmistakeable. It would be a great.
injustice to tho present Prime Minister to suppose that.
natural and decorous reluctance to speak freelj upon
Certain transactions between foreign Powers is incom-
patible with a fixed and resolute purpose to make
for to mild words by the silent energy of acts that cannot
be misunderstood, such as the strengthening of our avail-
able naval and military forces, and securing our neutrality
by material guarantees in the shape of ships and gun 4..-
London, England, 1870-08-03

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London, England, 1870-08-03

THE STATE OF LONDONDERRY.

The city of Derry has calmed down a little after the
•noting, and is now comparatively tranquil. Several
mobs paraded the streets on Tuesday, chiefly, hoWever, out-
side the walls. They amused themselves by throwing
stone bottles and other missiles ; but all conflict between
the rival parties wasprevented. Large patrols of police
paraded the principal streets and prevented the people
from congregating. St me half-a-dozen rioters were
airrested at night; per contra, there are in the infirmary
about a dozen sufierin frtm injuries—some of them
from gunshot wounds. One boy has been stabbed. A
large force of military and police are in the city ready to
prevent further riot. Mr. Justice Fitzgerald opened
the assizes on Tuesday, and iu the course of
his charge stigmatised the proceedings t childish, dis-
graceful, and barbarous. His lordship also spok.!. .•trongly
against the inactivity of the police, who did not slo=w that
zeal in arresting rioters that was needful. If (added the
learned judge) such conduct was persisted in, it would be-
come the duty of the Government to put the city under
that portion of the Peace I"reservation Act which
ordered all persons to keep within their houses after nine
o'clock.
London, England, 1870-08-03

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AN 74111 P. ON ENGLAND'S POSITION.

Mbar a volunteer inspection of uesday at Henley, Col.
Roden, M.P., sakl-Hbin my opinion. we shall have to
„ shew sooner than many of us expect that our drilling is no
sham, but reality. This matter is becoming serious, and,
many besides myself are of opinion that- it is only a quee-
don of time wiled this country will by at war, and we
voltenteers will have to chew that we oan do our duty as
well as our drills" The remarks were r.,,leived with
cheers.
London, England, 1870-08-03

TE ItRIBLE STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION.

A telegram received here- from Philadelphia announces
another of those terrible steamboat calamities which are
so common on the Western rivers of the United States.
The Silver Spray, one of the passenger boats running
between New Orleans and Cincinnati, when on the up-
ward passage near Memphis, at midnight on Sunday, ex-
ploded her boilers and then caught fire. Twenty-six per-
sons lost their lives, either drowned or burnt to death.
London, England, 1870-08-03

MONDAY night's debate consisted of two subjects,
distinct in idea, but inseparable in fact. Our duty
as an ally bound by treaties to protect a particular
Power, and the state of our armaments, are perfectly
separate in conception, but there is between them a
close interdependence. It cannot be said that the
debate was wholly satisfactory on either point. Mr.
DISRAELI'S whimsical theory with regard to the Treaty
of Vienna and the Saxon provinces of Prussia, was like
most of that very ingenious politician's discoveries
made to astonish rather than to convince. It was a
display of rhetorical and historical fireworks which
somewhat dazzled for a minute, and then subsided
into obscurity and forgetfulness. But there are
other treaties whose obligations are still binding.
Nothing that has occurred in Europe since 1831
has relieved us of the responsibility of protecting
Belgium. This responsibility weighs heavily
upon us. Fortunately it is not at present borne by
ourselves alone. It is only too probable that it
may have to be so. It is only too likely that the
war which has broken out with such startling sud-
denness may close with equal abruptness, and that
the two foes may make a peace of which the prime
condition shall be the partition of Belgium
and Luxemburg. It would then be for
Russia and Austria to join us in preventing this
great crime. The obligation is one thing, the fulfil-
ment of it is another. Unhappily, there is nothing
in the history of those two Powers which inspires us
with absolute confidence in their willingness to do
their duty, They themselves have been accomplices
in another great crime, in another partition, and in
dividing Poland they violated more than one Treaty.
It will easily be understood, therefore, how grave is
our position. It will easily be understood why states-
men, who would have the responsibility of giving
effect to their pledges, retrain for a while, and, until
they have ascertained the intentions of the other
protecting Powers, from making statements as to
what they will do in certain eventualities.
It would, indeed, be a heavy burden, almost too heavy
to be borne, if this country were called upon to defend
Belgium alone against the brunt of armies number-
ing more than a million of men. Lord RUSSELL
said in 1864 that the reason why we did not go
to war for Denmark was because we bad no
allies. Much worse would our position be if,
Belgium being attacked, we found ourself es
not only -without allies, but with the State= that
should have been allies, and those states the strongest
military Powers in the world, arrayed against us.
We can readily understand the dissatisfaction ex-
pressed by men like Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE and Sir
IiENRY BULIVER at the want of precision with regard
to this most important point. We can even more
readily understand the feeling which makes Mr.
GLADSTONE shrink from repeating the blunder of six
years ago, shrink from bluster about the Channel
Fleet in the Baltic before he has ascertained if he
has the power to do what he is asked to
promise. The time may come *hp the
London, England, 1870-08-03

ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Last night, about half-past six o'clock, a special trail.
from Cupar Fife to the north ran off the line about two
miles from that town. The train was chiefly filled with
farm servants, who had been attending Cupar hiring,
market. Thirty persons have been injured, a number of
them severely.
London, England, 1870-08-03

SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION,

There was a railway collision on the London and North-
Western Railway at Crewe yesterday morning. A goods
train started by mistake in advance of the mail from the
south, due in Manchester at three a.m., and the latter
overtook it at Sandbach, and smashed several waggons.
The van of the mail train was broken, and the officials
hurt. The mail was detained four hours.
London, England, 1870-08-03

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London, England, 1870-08-03

CHARGE AGAINST COTTON BROKERS.

Thomas Blackburne and Richard Holland Schofield,
cotton brokers, Liverpool, had received five thousand
pounds from William Johnson and Co., Wigan, who
instituted (under the seventy-fifth section of the Larceny
Act) proceedings against them yesterday for misappropria-
tion. The case was dismissed, the stipendiary saying that
the account appeared an open one, and that the ordinary
receipt given for the money was not tantamount to
an agreement to apply the cash to a specific account.

VERDICT IN THE LATE CARLISLE RAILWAY

ACCIDENT,

The verdict- was given yesterday by the jury appointed
to make inquiry into the causes of the late accident at
Carlisle. • They returned a verdict •of Manslaughter
against Rowell, the- driver ; and said they considered.
Pattison, who should have driven the goods train, seri-
ously to blame in not doing so. Michael Shields, the
breaksman, is strongly censured for allowing Rowell'to
leave without Pattison ; and the evidence shewed
a culpable want ( f supervision on the part
of the heads of the department of the
North-Eastern Railway. 'Men were placed in responsible
positions who were incompetent to hold them. Rules
had been systematically broken, and no adequate attempt
made to enforce them. The jury trusted that in future'
the public would not be placed at the mercy of reckless
and incompetent persons. Rowell was committed for
trial, but was admitted to bail. The Coroner expressed
satisfaction with the patience of the jury.

At their meeting yesterday the Liverpool Select Vestry
confirmed a resolution of the Industrial Schools Corn-
wittee, approving of the boarding out Of orphan pauper
children.

I)CNV I I,LE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders
of whisky in the. world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommeniled
the medical profession in preference to French brand .
iied in casks and cases for home use or exporiation. Quotations
on application to Messrs DUNVILLE Co., Royal Irish Dis-
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London, England, 1870-08-03

THE POLLUTION OF RIVERS.

The seeond report of the Royal Commission on the pol-
lution of rivers has just been issued among the parliamen-
tary papers, and it contains some important observations
on the AB C process of treating sewage. The Commis-
sioners when opening their inquiry were directed to include
selected river basins illustrating different classes of ern,
ployment and population. Those selected were the
Thames Valley, as an example of an agricultural river
basin with many navigation works ; the Mersey
Valley as a river basin polluted by cotton
manufacture ; the Aire and Calder Basin as a sample
of the pollution of woollen and iron manufactories ; the
Severn Basin as a seat of the iron trade, the Taff Valley.
in connection with mining and metal industry, and
a river basin comprising a mining district in Cornwall. The
cogclusions at which the commissioners have arrived after
their prolonged and labourious inquiry, are altogether unfa-
vourable to the A. B. C. process, both in respect to its
alleged power to hinder the pollution of rivers by town
sewage, and as to the value of the manure which
it manufactures. Their investigations into the
system as carried out at Leicester and Leamington con-
vince them that the process removes .a large proportion
of the suspended impurities from sewage, but never so
completely as to render the sewage admissible into
running water. It does not repay the cost
of manufacture having a low market value, and
the process required for the extraction and
drying of the manure would occasion serious nuisances
in warm weather. It would be rash, say the Commis-
sioners, to set bounds to the possibilities of chemistry, but
at present there is no hope that the foul matters
dissolved in sewage can be got rid of by the
application of chemicals. The different results of treating
sewage by any such method, and of applying it by means
of irrigation to the action of the soil, • whose surface is
covered with plants, which it feeds, and whose
substance provides for the neutralisation of its
objectionable qualities, are strikingly evident. In
the one case the best result that can be obtained is
the conversion of a polluting into a non polluting stream.
In the other, not only does the nuisance vanish, but
a fertilising influence of vast agricultural- make.
is retained and utilised. " Irrigation," says the report
"is the only process of cleansing sewage which has stood
the test of experience, and unless it be extensively adopted
there is but little hope of any substantial improvement in
our sewage-polluted rivers."
London, England, 1870-08-03

THE ELECTIONS IN BRUSSELS.

The following are the results of the general elections as
far as at present known :—For the Senate, 24 Catholics
and 11 Liberals have been returned; and for the
Champer of Deput es 47 Catholics and 22 Liberals.
The Catholic candidates have been successful at Antwerp
and Bruges, and the Liberal tandidates at Liege. At
Charleroi the result is equally divided. The balloting for
two circumscriptions in Brussels has not yet terminated.
The majority of the Catholic party iu the Senate will be
eight, and in the Chamber of Deputies probably twenty-
four.