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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-06

LONDON, IHURSDAY, JAN. 6, 1870.

THE changes which are now coming into force in
the mode of collecting certain taxes were from the
first a perplexing problem for JOHN BULL ; and by
this time the explanations which he has
been kindly favoured seem to have ren-
dered his state of mystification well - nigh
complete. Doubtless, if he wait patiently,
the tax-gatherer will bring home to him the full
force of these alterations in the most effective and
unambiguous manner. But there is really no reason
why the nature of the demands which are to be made
during the next six months should not be sufficiently
understood beforehand. The erroneous notions which
are so prevalent have arisen not so much
from the complexity of the changes themselves, as
from mistaking one alteration for another. 'Hence-
forth paterfamilias must be prepared to pay his
Assessed Taxes, Income Tax, House Duty, and Land
Tax on a system different from that which
has hitherto
been pursued. But the alterations affecting the
three latter differ altogether from the very material
changes now being made in the collection of the first.
The Assessed Taxes, in fact, form one category, and
the Property Taxes—on Income, Land and Houses

—another. The modifications in respect of the last-
named are very simple. Hitherto the Income Tax
I.' en assessed for every ensuing year in
:iLit7) of April, afid the collection ken
made in_th e instalraeDts, two_quarters being paid_ 41
London, England, 1870-01-06

THE MISERIES OF BALLET GIRLS.

Mr. E. T. Smith, the manager at istley's Theatre,
replies to the protest of "A. Ballet Girl" against
being skewered up on "those dreadful Ions" as
statues in transformation scenes. n the
first place, he affirms that the accident
to a girl at his theatre—of which so much has been
made—had, in reality, no worse consequences than
the crushing of her head dress. Secondly, it is
not the custom "in any well-regulated theatre
for any lady to be placed in an elevated posi-
tion against her inclination ; and there is in
general a desire among them to be selected for
those situations which bring them most prominently
into the notice of the audience." In short, the girls
like the skewering, and if they did not, they need not
be subjected to it. Every precaution, says Mr.
Smith. is taken against accident.

i;OURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam - Short ... 11 141 ... 11 19
Do • 3Ms .. )f 1.2 11
Rotterdam — 12 lf 12 11
Antwerp 25 ... 25 42f
Brussels 25 371 25 421
llamburgh ... 13 104 „. 13 1
Paris
Ditto .........
Marseilles -
Frankfort-on-the-Main 11 ... IWeAli A
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburg
9 18
Copenhagen..
Berlin
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London, England, 1870-01-06

N FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN
and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-
square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women
2,746 patients were treated last month without letters of
recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much
needed ,and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard, Picca-
dilly ; Si r Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs-, Derelayi oon4tet
Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary.
London, England, 1870-01-06

ANCIENT TENURE.

Dr. Brewer and Mr. Buxton are disputing about
land matters. Their argument, however, refers not
to the condition of things that exists now, but to the
state of land tenure under James I. Mr. Buxton said
at Croydon that " under James 1., the landlord was
not the sole proprietor of the land in Ireland; the
-Irish farmers or tenants were joint owners with
him of the soil, from which he had no power to expel
them." Dr. Brewer pronounces this assertion to be alto-
gether unfounded, and quotes Judge Saxey and the poet
Spenser, deputy clerk to the Irish Council, to strew
that the Irish farmer of that time was only a tenant-
at-will, enjoying a precarious holding of one, or at
most, three years. More than this, says Dr. Brewer,
the country was in a most wretched condition, the
people were in a savage state, oppressed and at the
mercy of their landlords. So - miserably did
they live, that some proposed to establish. the English
usages in place of the native ones. The assertion
that tenure under James was favourable to the
farmer, and that it has since degenerated, is all
nonsense.
London, England, 1870-01-06

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London, England, 1870-01-06

Bank of France.

PARIS, Dec. 30.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.
Dec. 30.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
Capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank

Dec. 23.

182,500,000 -

22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14

and its branches
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation 1,398,557,800 1,848,369,150
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
sight 45,881,189 53 46,271,819 62
Treasury 'account cur-
rent creditJr 210,725,935 42 231 458,259 57
Current account; Paris 374,167,210 13 361,360,028 85
Do. branch banks 46,061,119 43,650,081
Dividends payable 10,991,393 791,076
Discounts and sundry

interests
Rediscounted the last

428,095 61 96,425,546 67

six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

1,305,522 15 991,660 38

6,09,613 89 8,827,320 79

-----
Total
CILEDITOR.
Dec. 23. Dec. 30.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills , dis-
counted, not yet due 310,082,
Do. branch banks 287,275,214 292,125,580
089 19 355,546,451 35
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks 1,725,900
Do. on French Public
Securities 22,410,100
Do. by branch banks 9,089,900
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-

227,669 23 260,931 37

22,457,800 -
1,099,880 -

22,642,700 -
9,051,800 -

39,380,1t0 -
32,946,170 --

1,131,800 -
1,299,000 -

187 21
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Renter Immobalisees 80595,187 21 80,595,
(Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 -- 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Btstik and landed
propel ty branches
Expenses of manage-

60,000,000 -

9,048 897 -

went
Sundries

2,948,103 50 2,554,010 93
6,873,525 63 9,995,002 42
London, England, 1870-01-06

SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN
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recommendation. SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS
are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard,
Piccadilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay,
Coats, Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary.

NORTH LONDON or UNIVERSITY
LA COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Accidents and Sickness.
—CONTRIBUTIONS earnesly solicited to meet the
annual expenses, which exceed the income by £4,000.
The committee also plead for help for the sick children,
the little victims of starvation, neglect, and disease, who
enjoy in the new wards, devoted to them, the privileges
of nourishing food and careful nursing. Donations thank-
fully received by Edward Enfield, Esq., Treasurer, 19,
Chester-terrace, Regent's-park; and at the office of the
charity.
HENRY J. KELLY, R.N., Secretary.
London, England, 1870-01-06

MARRIAGES.

HAMMOND —BUCUMASTER— On the 4th Jan., at St. George's,
Hanover-square, Henry Blyth Hammond, Esq., Of
Bamagate, son of George Hammond, Esq., J.P., of Dealt
to Dlarion, youngest daughter of the late William Buck"
master, Esq., of Kensington.
nonsox—EELLEY—On the sth Jan., at St. Mary's Catholic
Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Robert Robson, of
London, to Margaret Ann, only daughter of James
Kelley, Esq., of Newcastle.
London, England, 1870-01-06

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THE DUBLIN REVIEW. New Series.
No. XXVII.

CONTENTS:
I. The Theory of Denominational Education.
11. Rome.
111. The English Protestant Marriage Law.
IV. Mr. Aubrey do Vera's Irish Odes.
V. Father Faber's Work in the Church.
VI. Mary Queen of Scots. The Casket Papers.
VII. The Landlord and Tenant Question in Ireland.
VIII. Infallibility and the Council.
IX. Notices of Books :—M. Renours new Pamphlet
on Pope Ilonorius; Mr. Ffoulkes ; the Roman
Index and its Proceedings; Adelaide Capece
Minutolo ; Writings of Madame Swetchine,
hc. etc.
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London, England, 1870-01-06

THE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square.
_ll_ —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.;
Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Committee
APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The
Hospital is now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
days to out-patients who are treated without letters of
recommendation.

HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary.
London, England, 1870-01-06

TRAMWAYS IN LONDON.

The opposition to tramways in London is still being
vigorously carried on, especially by the local autho-
rities. The Paddington Vestry has been the latest
to order an official attempt to prevent the scheme
being carried out. The " trams were opposed on
the ground that their working would interfere so
prejudicially with the ordinary street traffic as to
render such traffic difficult.
London, England, 1870-01-06

DEATHS'.

-
ABRAHAM —On the 3d Jan., at 3, Mansfield-square, W.,
George Frederick Abraham, solicitor, aged 88.
141OLLETT —On the 17th Doc., at his residence, Gold-hill,
near Slough, Bucks, John Mollett, Esq., of Austinfriare,
London, aged 65.
London, England, 1870-01-06

MISCELLANEOUS,

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In the large Room EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly.
Plan of Stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-
street.

ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN.
Proprietor—Mr. J. S.Swe,sey.
On MONDAY NEXT and DURING the WEEK.
• Miss Lizzie Graham, the new Serio COMiC .
Funny Little Lewis, who has been received nightly with
roars of biughter ;
West, the celebrated Stump' Orator, and Emma W st ;
E. D. Davis, with his sons Tommy and Joey, tae Funniest
of Funny Folks:
Great Success of the Murray Parnily, the Fascinating Trio;
Jolly Nash, the well-knoWn laughter provoking
comique ;
Madlle. Carlotta Verte, acknowledged to bo the Premier
Dansenso of th t Music Hall Stage ;
Mr. Rowland Lascelles, the accomplished Tenor ;
Great success of Metzo Redman and Metze in their re-
fined Burlesque Operatic entertainment; the 108th of the
Wonderful Performance of Le Petit Blondin and Blanche
on the Tight Rope, acknowledged by the whole of the
Public Press the most Wonderful Performance over
attempted ;. also Le Petit Blondin's unsurpassed imitations
of Ancient Statuary.

Chairman—Mr 'W. Hamilton.
Mr. P. Corti, Musical Director.
SPECIAL NOTICE.—W. ard's (Musical Instrument
Maker) Benefit, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1870.

ADAME T USS AUD 'S EXHIBITION,
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ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET,
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of the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of
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Music Selections presented -irclbe often-changed programmes,
have had the gratifying effect of making the ir. sent one the
most extensively patronized season since its first opening. The
celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient
chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest com-
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assigned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Mosca ; Messrs.
W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr
Thomas Pitts. Professor Ilalliman M.O.

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London, England, 1870-01-06

A WELSH MEMBER.

Mr. Watkin Williams, M.P. for the Denbigh
boroughs, is one of many representatives of the popu-
lar Chamber who have conferred with their consti-
tuents of late. At Holt, on Tuesday, he declared
himself against the extension of the franchise to
women; but in favour of the Ballot. "The last
time he was in London he heard from one he believed
to be as reliable authority as one could have for
such a matter, that vote by Ballot would not be op-
posed by Mr. Disraeli and the Conservative party."
The Game Laws came in for a share of Mr. Williams's
wrath. Respecting his proposals to disestablish the
Church in Wales, the member for Denbigh said he
was a Churchman, and had been brought up as one,
but he fully believed that the great Reformation
which took place a long time ago was most incom-
plete in one thing, and that was in leaving the
management of religion and the Church associated
with and in bondage to the State.
London, England, 1870-01-06

THE IRISH LAND AGITATION.

Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., in another letter up-
nolding his system of granting long leases as a settle-
ment of the land question, points out how intense
and enduring is the present agitation in Ireland.
It has already lasted without intermission beyond
living memory, and it has now attained a
strength far exceeding that of any such
movement which the present generation has seen.
" Already the tenantry of twenty-seven out of the
thirty-two counties in Ireland have declared their
determined :adhesion to the tenant-right movement.
Many of the leading landowners have joined them.
The whole press of Ireland is on their side. No Irish
member, so far as I am aware, has ventured to
express his dissent." Such a manifestation of feeling'
says Mr. Buxton, cannot be trifled with. Though
fixity of tenure cannot be conceded, Parliament must
inevitably grant a good deal, and security for a suffi-
cient term of years is, he thinks, decidedly the best
resource.
London, England, 1870-09-02

FRANCE DEFEATED.

The Telegraph, speaking of the last Prussian victory,
remarks that a substantial chance for the Imperial eagles
lay with the divisions of MacMahon ; but every fresh
item of intelligence confirms the impression that those
divisions have been so broken and discomfited as to render
the remains of them incapable of offering further serious
resistance. If we turn our eyes to Metz, we see there a
body of perhaps 100,000 soldiers, thrice defeated, and
closely imprisoned under the guns of their for-
tress, which is full of " useless mouths," and
of wounded and dying men, among whom stalk
famine and disease. There are two courses between
which Marshal Bazaine may choose, when the enemy
sends him French messengers, to tell the truth about the
rout of MacMahon. He may collect his starving troops
to make one more desperate rush against the ring of steel
around him ; or he may surrender where he
stands, and thus spare a perfectly fruitless effu-
sion of blood. When the Marshal knows that the
victories upon the Meuse have made his relief
and his escape alike impossible, it must be hoped
that he will not sacrifice the gallant regiments under his
command to a mere point of pride. It is an hour of most
bitter trial for the proud and beautiful metropolis—a
" day of awakening" to all those grim truths which her
rulers have hidden from her. Those who have talked
know by this time how Germans can fight ; it waits now
to see whether they can be as noble in their day of con-
quest as they have been self-respecting and honest on the
line of march and valiant in the field of battle.
London, England, 1870-09-02

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London, England, 1870-09-02

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

The attendance at the Birmingham Musical Festival
yesterday numbered 2,325 as against 2,228 at the last
festival. The receipts were nearly £3,000 as against
£2,700. At the evening concert 1,614 persons were pre-
sent, the number on the last occasion being 2,436. The
receipts were £941 as against £1,571.

THE DEFENCELESS STATE OF LIVERPOOL.

The inhabitants of Liverpool are still uneasy about the
defenceless state of the port. At the meeting of the
Mersey Dock Board yesterday, it was resolved that the
Chairman should again write to the Home Secretary,
calling upon him to take measures for efficiently pro-
tecting the borough from a seaward attack.
London, England, 1870-09-02

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THE DEFEAT OF MACMAHON.

The Daily News remarks that it is difficult even for
lookers-on to realize the full meaning of these stupendous
events. It may almost be said that France has no longer
an army. Paris has been denuded of troops as
far as Imperial fears would allow, in order to
swell the forces of the General who was first
to relieve Metz and liberate Bazaine, and then
to combine with the liberated army in making the Ger-
mans rue the temerity.with which they were pushing
on for Paris. Paris has, in fact, depended on MacMahon.
The Ministry, who knew his real position, and
have vigorously pushed on the preparation for the
defence of Paris, may or may not have hoped much
from him; but it may fairly be doubted whether even
they or M. Thiers have ever really believed that
Paris would be called on to defend itself against attack.
The invincibility of France has become a superstition,
and, like all superstition, is believed in altogether apart
from reason or evidence. The Prussians could not
possibly get to Paris. The soil would devour
them.; the populations on the way would hover round
them and slay them in detail ; the army of
MacMahon would burst upon them and cut them
off ; Bazaine would plunge among them and scatter
them to the winds. Up to yesterday Paris believed firmly
in MacMahon, and had not given up hope of Bazaine, and
tnay perhaps believe in them still. But if one fact in this
war is more certain than another, it is that neither of
these Generals will lead an army to the succour of the
capital. So far as Paris is concerned they are out
of the field. There may be a new army gathering
at Lyons, there may be raw forces mustering
behind the Loire, but there is nothing whatever that can
withstand a single German regiment anywhere between
them and the fortifications of Paris. MccMahon did
.succeed in diverting their march ; but they turned aside
to crush him, and having done it, they will resume their
progress to the capital. Paris must now make up its
mind either to defend itself or yield to the mere summons
of .the foe.

The Manchester Examiner says that MacMahon may
incur the risk of another battle ; perhaps more than one
is probable enough, since he has no other alternative
between fighting and surrender. His only chance
of escape is to fight his way through ; and how despe-
rate that is must strike every one. The road to Paris is
no longer open to him. Were he to attempt to
reach it by way of Laon his pragress would
certainly be barred by the Crown Prince, who has
established his headquarters at Grandpre. The
reports of the strength of the French army are
vague, not to say conflicting. That the greatest portion
of it was hastily organised is certain, and if the rumours
from the Belgian frontier are trustworthy, the numbers
of fugitives seeking the shelter of neutral territory is very
great.
London, England, 1870-09-02

THE DISESTABLISHED CHURCH.

The Rev. Dr. Reichel, a Churchman of some
eminence in Ireland, contributes a paper to the
Contemporary Review on the prospects of the Irish
Church. He considers it discouraging that the largest
subscribers to the Sustentation Fund (which has not
yet reached two hundred and fifty thousand pounds)
have been with three exceptions bishops of the
Church itself. He points out the ill effects which
are sure to follow the delusion now dwelling too
widely in the public mind, that the Irish
Church has been permanently left two-thirds of its
endowments, simply because the Irish Church Act
respects the interests, vested interests, of its present
clergy. Dr. Reichel, in his remarks on this subject,
says:—" Probably nothing but the stern logic of
facts, as one clergyman after another dies, leaving no
funds to provide for a successor, except in the hitherto
unexorcised liberality of the parish, will teach men
that it is God's law that the Church shall be
maintained, not by the clergy, but by the people."
Dr. Reichel does not make any allowance for the
ignorance of the Protestants of Ireland with
respect to the full action of the Church Bill. It
is stated that although all church-going people in
the sister country are aware of the Church being dis-
established, one half do not know what
disestablishment means, or the exact require-
ments of the Church in the future. It is all very well
for Churchmen to grumble at the laxity of earnest-
ness, but it can scarcely be expected that laymen will
comply with all demands for help,• until they know
under what circumstances their clergy are to be sus-
tained in their livings, or cashiered, or whether they
themselves can exercise any choice in the distribution
of rent charges. When laymen, and clergy-
men themselves even, are thoroughly cognisant of all
the changes that will begin to be experienced on
January Ist, and of the line of conduct
necessary to be pursued by the former,
the general support to the Sustentation
Fund will probably no longer be withheld.
The very fact that the bishops, who must ere this
know the effects the Church Act is likely to cause,
have so munificently lent their aid, gives somewhat
of confirmation to this supposition.
London, England, 1870-09-02

DISCOURAGEMENT OF VOLUNTEERS.

A volunteer officer in a corps of 1859 writes to the
Pall Mall Gazette on the condition of his corps after
so many years' anxiety and cost. It consists chiefly
of recruits, for older men disappear every year. Few
can join in prize shooting, which is the only inter-
esting part of the work, because the rifles are such
that a good shot cannot be sure of hitting a hay-
' stack at five hundred yards. Battalion drill is
attended three or four half-days in the year. Not a
man in the corps has a great coat, or ever heard of a
kit, or knows what rations mean, or has the slightest
idea of encamping, except with three meals a day ,
provided on tables and their railway fare'.
paid to and fro. The expenses have been
heavy, though if the corps continue till

next summer the remaining debt may perhaps be
paid off, but this will only have been accomplished
by the hateful help of bazaars, balls, and concerts,
begging and receiving subscriptions as a personal
favour, and the unceasing contributions of the
officers to current or extraordinary expenses. There
is little reason to expect the accession of good
recruits, because the bourgeois class justify
their unwillingness to allow their people to join by
quoting the contemptuous opinion which has been
expressed by the authorities with reference to the
volunteers' work as a whole. it is not surprising to
fled that the writer has resolved to resign his com-
mission by next spring, unless means be officially
organised for turning their work to real account.
He intended in 1869 to do the State some service,
but did not reckon on making himself ridiculous, or
being assured, on competent authority, that he was
simply useless.
London, England, 1870-09-02

AID FOR THE WOUNDED.

The amount received in Bristol for the war fund
reaches £1,500.

An influential meeting, with the object of aiding the
wounded in the war, was held last evening, at the Town
Hall, Christchurch. The Mayor presided, and was sup-
ported by the clergy and magistrates of the town. Reso-
lutions were carried expressing the sympathy of the meet-
ing with the sufferers, and appointing a committee to
collect subscriptions of money and material to be for-
warded to the National Society.
London, England, 1870-09-02

THE DEMAND FOR TERRITORY.

The Standard says that if the annexation of Alsace Is
to form a condition sine qua non of peace, the war must go
on till France is not only beaten, but paralysed and dis-
armed ; for never, while she can maintain an army in the
field, will she consent to the dismemberment of her
territory. The prolongation of the war by such demands
would be a matter cf the deepest regret. Already it has
lasted too long; lasted until both sides are becoming
ferocious and unscrupulous ; till Prussia strains the right
of belligerency to the uttermost, and France is all but
frenzied with hate and rage ; till the neutrality of Bel-
gium is in hourly peril ; till the lower classes of the
French people, demoralised by panic and suspicion,
threaten the owners of property, as enemies of their
country, with another Jacquerie or another Revolution
and Reign of Terror. The bombardment of the town of
Strasburg may be a measure allowed by the laws of war,
but it is one repugnant to humanity. In the
American war the North certainly fired shells at
the town of Charleston, as its troops burnt and sacked
defenceless villages; but both acts were regarded as out-
rages on the feeling of the age, and proofs of the hor-
rible savagery engendered by three years of internecine
war. In like manner, the fact that the Germans have
chosen to direct their fire on the dwellings of citizens
rather than on the fortifications, in the avowed hope that
the sufferings inflicted on their countrymen and country-
women will compel the garrison to surrender, may be
justified by military law ; but it is a fact on
which history will pass judgment, and of which
its perpetrators assuredly will not be proud here-
after. It proves how great is the danger that a pro-
tracted war should degenerate into brutal outrage and
cruel reprisals. It has helped to endear Strasburg to the
heart of France and to embitter the neighbouring coun-
try against Germany; it has awakened in. the French
Chamber a passionate burst of feeling, and a resolve that,
come what may, Strasburg and Alsace shall remain
French ; and has rendered it simply impossible that they
should ever become sincerely and loyally German.
London, England, 1870-09-02

THE PRUSSIANS IN CHALONS.

Accounts from Chalons detail the treatment which that
town received when it fell into the hands of the Germans.
The 23rd was an unlucky day for Chalons, as three Prus-
sian regiments took possession of the place. The avant
garde of the Uhlans, the Hussards, and the Ist Dragoons
informed • the mayor of the near approach of their
regiments, and by three in the morning the
three cavalry regiments appeared, followed by a detach-
ment of artillery. After parading by the Hotel de Ville,
they retired to the barracks. There were from that
moment two authorities in the town, that of the Mayor
and that of the military rulers, who gave their orders
en maitre. All the neighbouring villages were visited, and
during the day many officers arrived to take orders from
the head-quarters,which were established at the prefecture.
By 12 o'clock proclamations in French and in German were
posted up all over the town, and an hour later a printed
proclamation in French, only signed by the Crown Prince,
set forth the terms of the military jurisdiction established
in the conquered country. In the course of the afternoon
the inhabitants were ordered to give up all the
arms that were in their possession. Six persons
were taken prisoners, and charged with contravening
the orders of the proclamation. Their relations made
every effort to obtain their release by Prince Albert, but
in vain. They were not shot, but the Prussians took
them away. A coach which started in the
morning with passengers for Epernay returned in the
evening with three wounded Prussians. The driver had
been compelled to take charge of the wounded men.
The next day the Prussians were joined by other forces,
and went off with all possible speed to Suippes.
Altogether the number of Prussian soldiers who sojourned
at Chalons and in the environs amounted to seven thou-
sand.

The Peuple Francais publishes an address to the
Minister of the Interior, signed by " all the inhabitants
of Chalons." It runs as follows :—" The town of
Chalons learns, with as much regret as indigna-
tion, that an attack upon the proclamation of
the Mayor of that town has been made in
the Chamber. The Municipal Council unanimously
agreed to this proclamation, and all the town understood
its motive. The people, therefore, protest energetically
against such an attack. Chalons is a town completely
open ; the military division, the intendance, the garrison,
everything had disappeared, only the company of
firemen (eighty men) had some old guns, but
not one cartridge ; while a whole division of the
enemy, forming the advance guard of the Crown Prince's
army, was at our gates. The next day it occtrpied the
town.—Chalons-sur-Marne, August 27th, 1870." Some
guns, however, must have been left in the town, to judge
from the brief notice issued by the Prussian commandant
of division :—" For all arms found in the town of Chalons
after noon, the town will pay a fine of £4oo.—Major von
Versen." The arms were carried in front of the Hotel de
Ville and burned.
London, England, 1870-09-02

OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning

THE DIFFICULTIES OF FRANCE.
The Times &dares that the present generation has seen
nothing that can be compared with She position of the
French nation at this hour. Unhappy France ! It is as
if the accumulated evils of twenty 'years had burst at
once upon her. The first and most urgent need of the
nation is a man who can take the helm and weather
the storm. We look about, and what is the result
of the quest ? The melancholy truth is revealed
that France has not been in the way of rearing
statesmen for the better part of a generation. She has
been governed by one man, who has preferred to use as
his instruments supple officials ; and whereas we all
looked forward to a period of trouble and commotion
when he should quit his post, even if the accident should
happen at a time of profound tranquillity, we find our-
selves in the midst of a crisis of unequalled difficulty,
and he who has been, and in name still is, master
remains silent, as if he had vanished from the world.
The Empire has had other aims besides the prohibition of
Parliamentary Government. It has sought to divert the
Press from the consideration of national politics, and the
country is deprived of cultivated and intelligent cirisicism,
as well as of responsible statesmen. Even local self-
government does not exist to serve as the germ for the re-
organisation of the nation, France requires to be freed
from the presence of the foreigner, and to be re-edified
from her foundations, and no one appears equal to
either of these colossal tasks. As we look from our
vantage ground cf safety upon the horrible confusion of
the present moment, and the gigantic labours that must
be immediately undertaken, we are overborne with sym-
pathy for the unhappy nation. A people of so many
virtues, gifted beyond all other races with vivacity, swift-
ness of intelligence, and emotional energy—a people which
has carried into the lowest ranks of life the education of
social civility, threatens to become once more politically
bankrupt. What element is it that is wanting in the
national character that produces this recurrent catas-
trophe? If it be the passion for military display and
predominance, may we hope that the fearful experience of
this war will uproot it for ever, and give France stable
happiness and Europe stable peace ?
London, England, 1870-09-02

CHILD MURDER AT NEWCASTLE

A young woman named Mary Robson, residing with
her widowed mother in Grosvenor-street, Gateshead, was
delivered of a child on Wednesday. Unnoticed by any-
one, she seized the child and threw it out of the window
into the street below, where it died. She afterwards ex-
pressed sorrow, and now lies in a precarious state. She is
considered weak-minded.
London, England, 1870-09-02

THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.

General Lindsay telegraphed, under date of the Ist of
September, to the Secretary of State for War that the
Red River Expedition entered Fort Garry unopposed on
the 24th of August. Reil had quitted the fort just
before. The Regulars left on the 29th of August. The
Expedition was welcomed by the inhabitants. All
wall.
London, England, 1870-09-02

THE SCALES OF ENGISH JUSTICE.

Whether or no the First Napoleon was right in
calling the English "a nation of shopkeepers," it is
certain that our laws are apt to take a very commer-
cial view of the relative value of life and property.
The sentences passed by our magistrates shew us
sometimes singular contrasts between the punish-
ment received by the man or woman who is suf-
ficiently depraved to defraud the State or his neigh-
bour of money or property, and the
much smaller offender who only half kills
his wife or disables his companion. Our
Metropolitan police records of Wednesday give
us an instance of this. A labourer, named James,
was brought up at the Westminster police-court,
charged with assaulting his own son, a child ten years
old. The neighbours who had called the police in
gave a terrible account of the father's brutality. He
had apparently become alarmed himself at the con-
sequences of his violence, for he had put the boy in a
pail of water to wash the blood from his wounds,
and the police found the water reddened with
blood. The shirt the child had worn
and a thick broom-handle, broken with the
blows, were smeared with blood. The boy was
stripped in court, and was found covered with wounds
and bruises, his head being cut open and both his
eyes blackened. The man, who had told the police
he had a right to correct his own child, said, in his
defence in court, that the boy had gone out to play
in the street while left to mind the house, and the
fire was out when he himself came in from work.
The magistrate said that correction was necessary in
moderation, but the prisoner had inflicted it im-
moderately. He, therefore, ordered him to find two
sureties in £2O, to keep the peace towards the boy
for three months, apparently thinking the offence so
very trifling that no punishment for the cruelty was
necessary. Meanwhile, in another metropolitan
court a labourer and his wife, who had sytematically
defrauded the Hackney Union by representing them-
selves as totally destitute, when the man had work and
the woman did washing, were sentenced respectively
to six and nine months' imprisonment with hard
labour. We have not, after all, advanced much
since Hood's days, when "flesh and blood " were "so
cheap" in comparison with material things which
represented money.
London, England, 1870-09-02

THE FRENCH PEOPLE AND THE WAR.

The war which is likely to prove so disastrous for
France was only too popular in the capital and the
cities, but there seems good reason to doubt whether
the rural and agricultural classeswere as well pleased
to leave their farms and their flocks to face the
needle gun. Mr. Howard, M.P. for Bedford, assures
us frcm his personal experience in several parts of
France that the industrial classes have had quite enough
of warfare in times past, and are now only desirous
of cultivating the arts of peace. The French people
as a body did not want this war, and the declara-
tion of it was made without their knowledge and
consent. As during the last few weeks Mr. Howard
has been travelling through France on agricultural
business, he is well qualified to speak with confidence
of the sentiments of the classes with whom he came
in contact. His constituents are so much in earnest
in their resolution to relieve the sufferings of the
wounded, whose numbers are every day unfortu-
nately increasing, that they have resolved to institute
a house to house visitation for the collection of
funds, linen and suitable articles for their assis-
tance.
London, England, 1870-09-02

THE IRISH PRESS.

The Irish Times considers the Prussians as the high-
waymen of Europe, and says that the dismemberment of
Frame by the annexation of her provinces would reduce
her to a third-rate power, and such an event should not
for a moment be contemplated by the neutral powers of
Europe. The same paper says the question of home rule
for Ireland has now been fairly started, and cannot be
ignored by any government or party. The Morning
Mail regards the home government meeting as
the expression of the desire of the Nationalists 'and
Conservatives to act in concert, and considers the move-
ment full of hope. Other Conservative journals express
the same opinion. The Freeman attaches no importance
to the movement

Two MIIRDERS.—A few days ago a woman named
Mrs. Mitchell was found lying in a pool of blood on the
floor of the door passage within her own house, No. 65,
New Church-street, Southwark. She was evidently dying
from wounds on the head, probably inflicted with
a broom which was lying by her. The woman, how-
ever attributed her injuries to having been pushed down
stairs by her husband. The surgeon stated that the skull
was fractured with a blow such as the broom would pro-
duce. Th• inquest was adjourned. Mitchell, the hus-
band, has absconded. Another murder, which is also
attributed to jealousy, was the subject of an inquiry
in Southwark yesterday by the coroner. The prin-
cipal witness was a woman named Emma James,
who had lived with the one-armed man Bailey
as his wife, and left him on account of his illusage. She
then entered into a similar connection with George Meyer,
a porter at the Borough Market. Bailey became ac-
quainted with the fact ; came to the house where they
were living, and having picked a quarrel wits- 'yer,
stabbed him fatally in the abdomen. The = ,ed
a verdict of "Wilful Murder."
London, England, 1870-09-02

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THE BATTLE OF TUESDAY.

MacMahon had ventured into the lion's mouth. He
had advanced against a force which was already quite a
match for his own, and be had been immediately fallen
upon and closed in by other forces. He began to see
himself compassed round by a circle of iron through
which it daily became' more difficult to break—a force
to which he could not give battle, and from which
there was not much hope of escaping. MacMahon's
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that from which he was attempting to rescue Bazaine,
with this difference, that Bazaine was at least in a strong
place—a place from which, if he could not break loose, he
could also not be driven, in which he was unassailable by
any other force than famine ; while MacMahon was also
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himself by fighting, but to whose attack he was
exposed in open ground—a force which he bad
to face with his back upon a frontier line, and from
which, if worsted, be had no other escape than across the
frontier into neutral ground, where he would have to lay
down his arms, and where his campaigning must come to
an end. So far as we can rely on the first intelligence
that reaches us of the battle things turned out precisely
as all precedents led us to expect. MacMahon took
counsel only from despair when be offered to give battle.
It was the last card of France that he played on what
had hitherto been a losing game. He thought his own
personal honour was at stake.—Times.
London, England, 1870-09-02

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