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London, England, 1870-10-24

THE FIGHT AT CHATEAUDUN

The Times correspondent at Tours says : If faith can be
placed in the report addressed to the Tours Government
by the officer commanding the battalion of Parisian
Franc-Tireurs who fought at Chateaudun, the defence
of that place was a very gallant affair. He estimates
the German force at 6,000 infantry, 1,500 cavalry, and
two latteries. It will be curious to compare this statement
with the Prussian report. Opposed to them were the
Paris battalion, the National Guards of the place, and
a few Freeshooters from Nantes and Cannes. They
defended the place from noon till 7 p.m., when the
enemy forced a barricade, and got in ; but the fight
was continued in the streets till 11.30. The French say
they fired away 60,000 cartridges, lost 200 men, and
killed or wounded nearly ten times as many Germans—
which last estimate could hardly be anything but
a guese. Under cover of the night they were
able to retreat, covering the flight of the inha-
bitants, who had abandoned their dwellings. The town
was shelled and burnt down. In to-day's Gazette appears
a decree, declaring the inhabitants of Chateaudun to have
deserved well of their country, and granting 100,000 f. to
aid them in their houseless misery. It is most grievous
and afflicting daily to read of the destruction not only of
villages and hamlets, but of small towns, not always, like
Chateaudun, destroyed in the course of a long fight,
but often intentionally set on fire in punishment of at-
tempted fruitless resistance or other alleged offences of the
inhabitants. A shot fired from a house is sufficient to
insure its destruction, and perhaps that of the whole
village. At a village near Orleans some shots were fired,
and fifty muskets were found concealed under the
altar of the church. Thereupon fifty of the inhabitants
were ordered to be shot, as were also an old man and a
boy of 16, accused of having fired at Prussians. Bishop
Dupanloup was so fortunate as to obtain their pardon
from the General commanding, but
_they had a narrow
escape.
London, England, 1870-10-24

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1870.

THE Times tells the British Cabinet something
must be clone, but is very careful not to give any
inkling as to what that something shall be. It would
appear that our contemporary does not even care, and
that there is only one course which it disapproves,
inaction. Ministers are taunted because they have been
in the Highlands instead of sitting enpermanence round
a green baize table in Downing-street. They ought,
the Times seems to think, to have been in a perpe-
tual state of telegrams. We have no doubt that so
far as Mr. GLADSTONE and Lord GRANVILLE are
concerned, this arduous condition has been fulfilled
to a degree that would satisfy the exigeant
journal. Why their colleagues should have
been exposed to the same hardship does
not appear. Naturally one would suppose
that there was no use in calling the Cabinet together
until the two chiefs had determined that the time
was come for action. The fact that a Cabinet Council
has just been held, and that another is to assemble
this week, would seem to imply that the PREMIER
and the FOREIGN MINISTER thought that at all
events Ministers should confer. Even this, however,
will not satisfy the Times. Unless they resolve to
"do something " they will stand condemned in the
eyes of the leading journal.

To all this Ministers may, if they care to do so,
make a good reply. They may say that in staying
their hands they are doing only what every other
Power in Europe is doing. M. THIERS has been going
the round of the Continental Courts, but everywhere
he meets with the same polite refusal to interfere.
Even M. DE KERATRY has failed to persuade
Pami to allow the export of arms from Spain. The
truth is, the Powers see that it is useless to inter-
pose. The victors demand certain terms; the van-
quished say that 1U ey will sooner destroy France
London, England, 1870-10-24

BENEVOLENCE IN ENGLAND.

Wretched as was the condition of the poor in
England, and especially in the metropolis, last
winter, it will probably be much worse during the
ensuing months. A. very aristocratic assembly was
held at the London Mansion House on Thursday,
with a view to raise funds for the relief of the dis-
tress prevailing among the thousands of emigres from
France who have reached our shores. A. letter
fzom Lord Clarendon was read at the meeting, and in
it his lordship stated that a very large number of poor
English families resident for many years in Paris,
being unable to remain there any longer, had been
forwarded by the diplomatic representatives
to this country, where they had arrived with-
out friends or resources, and in many cases in a
state of extreme destitution. The troubles
of last winter were only relieved to a very
small extent, owing to the preponderance of
distress amongst us, what may the sorrows and
struggles of this Christmas be, if the poor refugees
from other countries are to be located here with our
own ? The meeting on Thursday was presided over
by members of the class most able to afford assist-
ance where it is needed, and it too clearly manifested
that we as a nation could 'not be indifferent to an
emergency which touched our common humanity ;
but many more such meetings will have to be
held before January for the alleviation of
suffering, and the regular stock of winter obligations
must not be forgotten.
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THE PRUSSIANS AT MULHOUSE.

A letter from Mulhouse gives some interesting details
of the recent Prussian visit to that town. Among other
demands the Prussians required 30,000 f. in money, 100
horses, 40 carriages, 2,000 loaves of bread, 15,000 Havana
cigars, and 6,000 flannel waistcoats. The Prussian colonel
vowed that if all were not delivered at the camp in an
hour's time he would burn the town. M. Dallas, the
former Mayor of Mulhouse, undertook to represent to
the Prusaian commander the impossibility of satisfying
his demands. He went alone to the Prussian camp,
and told the colonel in command that his
conduct towards Mulhouse was unworthy of a
civilised people. Taking from his pocket the
Cross of a Prussian Order, he threw it at the colonel's
feet, declaring he would no longer wear the insignia of a
barbarous nation. However, Mulhouse was obliged to
submit to the demand. Twenty-seven thousand francs
were paid the same evening, and the rest the next day,
all being in gold. The fresh crime of the citizens, who have
already suffered from several similar demands, was that
three Uhlans were pursued, though not attacked by the
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THE IRISH AMBULANCE CORPS.

Although' what has already transpired relative to
the " Irish Ambulance Corps" leaves no doubt in
the ptiblic mind as to its real character and object, a
prosecution instituted at the Bow-street Police-
court by the Treasury against John Patrick
M'Donald, described as a journalist, for a breach of,
the Foreign Enlistment Act, will in the course of
judicial procedure disclose many interesting facts.
The evidence of a sailor who seems
from the first to have doubted the word
of the promoters of the corps, and to have
formed a shrewd guess at its objective functions, gave
evidence which warranted a remand. The man
Cotter, who, accompanied by his brother, conducted
the expedition to Havre, when taxed with duplicity,
laughingly acknowledged the non-existence of an
Irish Ambulance Corps, and coolly told them they
were expected, as patriotic Irishmen, to fight for the
French Republic. When the witness objected to
take service in the French army, Cotter, with a
laugh, told him that he did not know him. The
large majority of the dupes returned. to England by,
the assistance of the British Consul.
TIIE COLOURING OF WATER.

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peared a paper from Professor Tyndall, in which the
latter attempts to discover the origin and causes of
almost equally important matters of scientific dis-
cussion. Mr. Tyndall's essay chiefly relates to the
differences of colour in lakes and seas. With a view
of studying thoroughly the qUestion he wishes to solve,
Professor Tyndall had conveyed to him two bottles
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of water taken from the lake of Geneva.
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order to confirm, if possible, the popular supposition
that the scattering of light by minute foreign
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so entirely competent to produce and explain the
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London, England, 1870-10-24

'BE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1870.

than yield those terms. Does the Times mean to say
that England is to send her little army into France
in order to support the Republic in its resistance.? Is
it possible to do this ? Would it be right if it were
possible? As that profoundly statesmanlike writer,
Hr. WILLIAM RATHBONE GREG, wrote in Friday's
Pall Mall Gazette, why are we to go to war to save
France from the loss of territory whiei she
made war with the intention of inflicting upon Ger-
many ? We may wish that BISMARCK would be
content with something less than " Elsass" and
" Lothringen ;" we may even think that he
would act more prudently if he did not
force the inhabitants of those provinces under
a yoke which they detest. But that is his affair,
not ours, and if he insists upon making what we
believe will prove a blunder, we are no more called
upon to prevent it than we were to prevent that
most stupendous and disastrous blunder, the Duke of
GItAMONT'S declaration of war on July 15.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

was at St. Cloud that he celebrated his marriage.
with. Marie Louise. Later on, the waning of his
fortune was marked in one of its rooms by the sig-
nature of the capitulation of 1815. His nephew and
successor, the present Napoleon, was christened at
St. Cloud by Pope Pius VII., and it has been already
mentioned that it was in that palace he signed the
fatal declaration of war against Prussia—a fact almost
sufficient to excuse the French for shelling it.
London, England, 1870-10-24

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week,

OCCUPATION OF ST. QUENTIN.
After a brisk cannonade yesterday, the Germans
succeeded in taking posses4ion of St. Quentin.

THE GERMANS IN THE NORTH.

AMIENS, Sunday Afternoon.

The rumour of the enemy's approach on Friday
was a false alarm. He hai fallen,back on Beauvais.
The Francs-tirenrs report that the Germans are not
coming to Amiens yet.
London, England, 1870-10-24

MARRIAGES.

On the 20th inst., at St. John's, Notting-hill, Jas. Harmer
Hayes, Esq., of 11, Caroline-street, Bedford-square, to
Mary Anne, only daughter of James. Woodward, Esq.,
of 53, Norfolk-terrace, Bayswater.
On the 20th inst., at Highbury, George, the eldest son of
the late George Train, Esq., of Compton-road, High'
bury, to Julia, youngest daughter of the late G. Elwick,
Esq., of Wilmington-square, and Nottingham.
London, England, 1870-10-24

BIRTHS.

On the 21st inst., at 26, Onslow-gardens, S. Kensington,
the wife of Wm. Reed, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at 9, Devonshire-road, Balham, the
wife of J. H. Pontifex, of a daughter.
London, England, 1870-10-24

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THE BURNING OF ST. CLOUD.

St. Cloud has been utterly destroyed. Bare walls only
remains. A hazy smoke rises from the ruins as is usual
in cases of complete gutting by fire, and so thorough is
the disappearance of the building's gorgeous contents
that it is possible to stand on the further
side and see Paris through the opposite windows.
The position was always one of danger. When the Ger,
mans first took possession of the palace, the sharpshooters
on the French side were always popping at it. It was
in the park that Duke Max of Wurtemberg was wounded
by a tirailleur, and a wish was then expressed that
no one, not on duty, should visit the spot.
" Further approaches were made by the Prussians,"
says the correspondent of the Daily News, " the French
grew uneasy as to what the palace might shelter in way
of besieging force, and shells were discharged into it,
which quickly set it on fire. The flames lose high
above the roof. Far away outposts, to the east
and north, saw the blaze, and wondered what building
could be burning so fiercely. The outposts nearer
at hand did their best to carry forth and save the hand-
some furniture. Not a moment could be spared, for the
flames were licking up the floors and pannelling with ter-
rible swiftness. Pictures were shrivelled in an instant,
mirrors were splintered in the glowing heat. The State
Apartments, the Empress's boudoir, all the pride
and splendour of the Palace, vanished into empty
air."

•
The correspondent of the Standard with the Prussian
headquarters, writing on the 14th inst. says :—The
Palace of St. Cloud is a heap of ruins. It has
perished by the hands of its children. Shells
hurled from Mont Valerin set it ablaze yesterday
morning at eleven, and it has been burning ever
since. It will not burn much longer, for now
little of it that is consumable remains. To-day it has
presented a strange sight. Of all the glories and luxuries
of that favourite Imperial abode—the Empress loved it
beyond all others—what was there to be seen? A house
utterly gutted, black with smouldering walls, and on the
green grass outside it confused heaps of what had been
saved from destruction. Comfortable chairs of gilt
frames, softest padding, perfect springs, and red velvet
coverings, stood out in the open, some occupied by Prus-
sian officers, some at liberty for the next comer. Close to
them were piles of priceless tapestry, snatched from the
burning. But, perhaps, the objects which most caught
the eye were the rows and heaps of handsomely bound
books, with gilt leaves, and " N "—ominous letter 1—
stamped in rich gold on the back.
London, England, 1870-10-24

.tome,

The Daily News is of opinion that the condition of
Europe is itself sufficient to reveal the subject of the late
Cabinet deliberations. In the view of her Majesty's
Ministers the time has come when another effort may be
made to stop the effusion of blood in France with at least
a chance of success. It would be weak to be over
sanguine of the issue, but if the overture is
accepted, no small portion of its success will be
Sue to the prudence and tact with which Lord
Granville and his colleagues declined the incentives to
premature and fussy meddling with which they
have been sedulously plied. We sincerely trust that
the Government of the National Defence in Paris
will see its way towards the adoption of the proposal of an
armistice to be made by England in conjunction with the
Jthe r neutral Powers ; and that Count Bismarck will
facilitate this sensible course by not. making its
zouditions needlessly burthensome. The delay which it
will interpose in active operations will not relieve
Paris or Metz. They will have no opportunity of pro-
visioning themselves for further repentance ; and so far 'as
their power of holding out is a question of food, the lapse
A time will place them in a worse position than
they occupied before. But the armistice, if it be adopted,
will allow the opinion of France to be taken as to the
policy of continuing the war ; and it will probably supply
it with Ministers responsiblesto a Representative Assembly
and therefore competent, not merely to discuss terms, but
also to negotiate a treaty of peace.
London, England, 1870-10-24

IRISH PECULIARITIES.

An Englishman who has spent many years in the
careful study of Irish national peculiarities, sends the
conclusions at which he has arrived to the Spectator.
England, he considers, underrates the value of
Ireland as a mere possession. The island is belted
with harbours and natural docks, and if occupied by
a maritime race would be a great naval Power.
Coming to the land, he thinks the great landlords
are beneficial, as they keep up the standard of culti-
vation, and their magnificence delights a people who
are incurably aristocratic. The small landlords are,
according to this estimate, the worst element
in the population, and though the Land Bill
has improved matters, it has not removed the hatred
between the peasants and this class, which, if not
forcibly repressed, would result in a jacquerie. The
priests are beneficial in keeping up the tone of morals,
but they keep back education, which is much desired
by the people. The administration of the com.try
is bad, being a botch-potcli, in which power is
divided. The Irish police is good, but wants
strengthening. The agrarian struggle is due, not to
the sDcialist principle, which has no force in a
country cherishing the traditions of the " ould
families," but to a peculiar belief respecting the
ownership of the soil. The evicted peasant thinks
himself robbed, and no man was ever yet punished
for prosecuting a theft of his spoons. Ireland,
says this observer, needs compulsory education, and,
provided real compulsion was forthcoming, denomi-
nationalism and secularism would be minor questions.
The people would benefit greatly by military train-
ing, and organisation on the Swiss system would
speedily " civilise" the country. Among the mental
and moral peculiarities of the Irish, the writer
specially notices their capacity for gratitude, their
plaintiveness, and their tendency to exaggerated ideal-
ism, which produces their apparent mendacity.
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DEATHS.

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HISTORIC INCIDENTS AT ST. CLOUD.

The burning of the famous Palace of St. Cloud is
variously accounted for. Some persons say that the
Germans attracted fire to the place by using it as an
observatory; others, that the French thought the
building might serve as a screen to the enemy's
advance, and therefore destroyed it. the Palace
was originally formed out of the house of a banker
named Gondi, but
.in its recent state it was more
than two centuries old. Naturally, from its
long association with the royalty of France,
it was replete with historical associations.
Many of these are of tragic interest. Henry
111. of France was assassinated there, in the
midst of the war of the three Henrys, and Henrietta
Maria, the widow of our Charles 1., died there in
exile and dethronement. Many political incidents of
great importance occurred within its walls. The First
Napoleon there virtually put an end to the Republic
by driving out the Council of the Five Hundred, on
the memorable 18th Brumaire. When the daring
First Consul had reached the zenith of his power, it
London, England, 1870-03-08

AMENDMENTS.

Though the present stage is to pass off thus quietly,
abundance of work is promised in committee. The
Irish members are not satisfied with the result
of their interview with Mr. Gladstone, and they
are combining to effect great alterations in the
measure. After the deputation to the Premier, a
meeting was held, and one scheme which was pro-
pounded met with a very favourable reception. It is
designed to establish a Land Court, and to accept the
present rents as a basis of settlement. A. landlord may
claim before this court to raise his rent on any
exceptional state of things arising, and a tenant
may, on the other hand, impugn, before the same
court, what he considers to be an exorbitant charge.
In either case the court is to settle the amount of
rent by arbitration. Rent is to be periodically revised
by reference to the price of agricultural pro-
duce • the tenant may sell the goodwill of his hold-
ing, ;hough the landlord may have the first right to
buy it ; and the landlord may likewise veto the
incoming of a tenant on good grounds. This scheme
will apply to the whole of Ireland. Besides such a
comprehensive change, a multitude of individual
amendments, more or less decisive, have been
announced. These are almost all in the names of
Mr. Synan, the member for Limerick, and
Mr. Pim, the representative of the City of
Dublin • only' Mr. Lambert, Mr. Stacpoole, and
Mr. William Johnston having a share in the spoils.
Both Mr. Yim and Mr. Synan design an entire
reconstruction of the bill. '
London, England, 1870-03-08

A NEW APPOINTMENT.

Mr. Kernan, Q.C., of the Irish bar, has been ap-
pointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Madras.
The salary is £4,000 per annum.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCITE-

QUER'S SURPLUS.

A petition has been forwarded to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer by the Manchester Home-trade
Association, asking the right hon. gentleman, if he
had any surplus, to consider the claims of sugar
and coffee for a further reduction of duty.
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE MISSING STEAMSHIP.

No news of the City of Boston steamer has yet
been received. The nominal premium is now
seventy guineas, but no business has lneu done.
The Helvetia steamship, just arrived at Liverpool,
reports great quantities of field and berg ice,
which is six weeks earlier than usual. The most
sanguine are now beginning to feel hopeless as to
her safety.
London, England, 1870-03-08

METROPOLITAN FIRES.

Three fires only took place in the Metropolitan
district during last night. One was in Feather-
stone-buildings, Holborn ; another in the City-
road ; but they were each attended with trifling
injury. A very destructive fire, however, happened
in the premises belonging to Mr. J. Gibbs, a fur-
niture broker, &c., situated Nos. 1 and 2, Wells-
street, Hackney. The flames originated from some
unknown cause in the house No. 1, and in the
course of a few minutes the building was in flames
from the bottom to the top. In spite of the exer-
tions of the firemen and the London Salvage Corps
the fire could not be extinguished until No. 1 was
burnt out and the roof off, and the contents con-
sumed. Some damage was also done to the con-
tents of No. 2 by water, &c.
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE COLLISION 07P TAPAN.

The Central Press telegram respecting the collision
between the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Bombay and the United States corvette
Oneida is confirmed by a message to the
owners of the Bombay. The latter vessel did
steam on without attempting to rescue any of the
sinking ship's crew. The captain of the Bombay
says he felt the shock so lightly thitt he thought the
Oneida could not be much damaged. She sank,
however, with 115 men. It is to be feared that
this explanation, however plausible, will meet with
no favourable recepti9n-in the United States. The
Americans will judge, and not unreasonably, that so
serious an occurrence as a collision ought not to be
disregarded altogether, even when the shock is
lightly felt.
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE HARDSHIPS OF THE SEA.

There are said to be ax) vessels that save long
been tossingabout in the chops of the Channel, unable
to make their ports until a change comes of wind and
weather. Twenty large ships, all grain-laden, from
San Francisco to Liverpool are long overdue. The
Channel fleet has left Lisbon, with orders
to disperse over a wide space in search of the
missing steamer City of Boston, and, it is also thought,
to relieve the wants of numbers of vessels whose
crews must be existing on a very scanty allowance of
food. A letter to the Times contains some comfort
with regard to the missing steamer and her passengers
and crew. By professional men in Liverpool she is
not even expected yet. Being reduced to the con-
dition of an under-sparred sailing vessel,
she will probably not arrive until ten
days after a change of wind to the westward.
Much anxiety is beginning to be felt respecting the
Smidt, a steamer trading between Bremen and Now
York. She is now forty days from the former port,
and by a telegram received in London on Saturday
morning it is announced that she had not arrived
out. She has, it is stated, about 300 emigrants on
board.
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE LAND BILL.

It is expected that there will be plenty of debate
071 the second reading of the Irish Land Bill. Tho
re.egranla anticipates that the talk will last till
Fridav ; but no organisd opposition is threatened.
The Standard says that a meeting- of Conservative
Ty3,!:'s and members of Parliambnt was held at the
(.I:triton Club on Saturday to consider the matter.
Thero was considerable discussion; but it was
v determined not to oppose the second reading.
-Standard itself, however, takes very serious
ex,ATLion to the measure. It is communistic and
extravagant. In addition to the right of compensa-
tion for improvements and other privileges, it gives the
t.,:2arit an occupation right amounting to several years'
p ,11-chase of the rent. "Of this newly-acquired right to
th[3 tenant the landlord, moreover, cannot relieve him-
fd, or rather he cannot relieve the estate ; for
fah ough ho may purchase the occupation right of
tlia new tenant, possession " cannot be given to
arAlier without a fresh right vesting in him, and
aiv contract with the new tenant that he would
oltiim no such right would be null and void!
Although a farm may be let at half its value, no
addition to the rent can be obtained without the
pAyment of several years' rent to the existing occu-
pier, as a condition of terminating his tenancy ; and
when the increased rent is arranged, either with the
former tenant or with a new one, the farm again
becomes chargeable with the occupation right in
aldition to any other covenants between the con-
tracting parties." The Standard evidently thinks
that the second reading might well have been opposed.
London, England, 1870-03-08

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

1U or CRIMIS ittltals7'
•
The Advertiser makes a very important annottned&
m mt. It understands that the Government will ask,
within the next ten days, " for special powers to en-
a'ilo the Executive to cope with the shamefully dis-
or,;aniBed state of society in Ireland." The establish-
iu.2nt of a detective branch of the Royal Irish Con-
s:tbulary will be one of the remedies proposed.
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE TORNADO CLAIMS.

Mr. Forbes Campbell, who represents the ofTl2er3
and crew of the Tornado, desarves credit for per-
severance. Years of fruitless negotiation have not dis-
couraged him. He recently suggested that the whole
case be left to the arbitration of the French Emperor;
but the Earl of Clarendon refused. Mr. Campbell,
however, ogain makes the proposal, notwithstanding
that the Spanish Government have offered a fixed sum
as compensation to the officers and crew, and that Lord
Clarendon recommends the acceptance of the money,
small as it is. There is no prospect that the arbi-
trittion scheme will bo seriously thought • of. Nor is
there the slightest reason to hope that the Spanish.
Government will offer any larg,or sum. The amount
nhich they do consent to give is undoubtedly very
trifling; but it is better than nothing.
London, England, 1870-03-08

MB. VOYSEY AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that Mr. Voysey
.has
written a letter to his solicitors expressing.his determina-
tion to abide the result of his appeal to the Privy Council,
instead of, as has been suggested to him, compromising
the matter by the resignation of his benefice. Into the
reasons which ho gives for taking this step it is unneces-
sary here to enter; we have only to congratulate
ourselves on the conclusion at which ho has arrived.
Mr. Voysey's line of defence in the court below
raised a question of the utmost importance to 'religious
freedom in the Church of England, and it would bo
serious misfortune to lose this opportunity of having it
definitively settled. That question was, it will be remem-
bered, whether a particular interpretation of certain doc-
trines enforced by the Articles and Formularies is of
necessity to be adopted by all members of the Church,
however popular and widespread that interpretation
may be. in the case of the doctrines at present in issue,
a vast majority is opposed to the latitude of interpretation
claimed by Mr. Voysey and his party, and the doctrineg
themselves are on both sides admitted to be vital. A
decision, therefore, either refusing or confirming the liberty
claimed by the minority must deeply affect one way or the
other the interests of the Church.
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION.

Prince Christian and Dean Stanley were again pre-
sent on Saturday to hear Professor Max Miller. The
lecturer explained the intimate connection between
language and religion, and advocated a classification of
religions such as had been adopted in the classification
of languages. For Asia and Europe he established
three families of relig►ion—the Aryan, the Semitic,
and the Turanian—and detailed some of the charac-
teristic features of each. He then endeavoured to shew
that by collecting a number of words which hay: the
same form and the same meaning, in Sanskrit, Greek,
Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, and Slavonic, it was possible
to put together some kind of mosaic picture exhibiting
the state of civilisation of the Aryan family before it
was broken up into different languages, religions,
and nationalities. He applied the same method to
the Semitic languages and arrived at various conclu-
sions regarding the religious sentiments of that family
before it was broken up.
London, England, 1870-03-08

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam. Short ... 11 17f ... 11 18
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 i ... 12 1
Antwerp — ... 25 35 ... 25 421
Brussels — ... 25 35 ... 25 42i
Hamburg h — ... 13 10 ... 13 10i
Paris
Ditto

Marseilles
Frankfort-On-the-Main ... 120/ ... 1201
Vienna — ... 12 70 ... 12 7o
Trieste — ... 12 70 ... 12 75
Petersburg
Copenhagen. — _,. 9 21 ... 9 24
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — •... 49 ... 491
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 40 .., 26 45
Genoa — ... 26 40 .., 26 45
Naples
Palermo --, ••• 26 40 ... 26 45
Messina
Lisbon — ... 511 ~ 52}
Oporto — ... 52 ... 521
Rio J anoiro — ... •••
New York "Os.. ....... ••, •• -

Preliminary arrangements have been made for
the es+ablisbnient of a new Liberal club.

Summonses were issued last night for a Cabinet
Council to be held on Saturday.
Mr. W. Hart Dyke, M.P. for West Kent, is en-
gaged to be married to Lady Emily Montagu, eldest
daughter of the Earl of Sandwich,
PROPOSED PISII MARKET AT SMITIIFIELD.—The
question rta to the desirability and practicability of pro-
viding accommodation for the s-tie of fish brought to Lon-
don by railway on sumo portion of the vacant land not in.
the possession of the Corporation, on the northern and
so...thorn sides of the new street constructed under the
Western Approach Act, 18G2, will be brought before the
Court of Common Council at its meeting on Thursday
next, when Mr. Thomas Rudkin is to move that the matter
be referred to the Markets Improvement Committee to
consid,r and report thereon to the Court. At the same
meeting an important motion, of which notice ban been
given
Mr. Creseens Robinson, will be submitted to
tmlteeet Court, to the effect that the best way to secure effi
dent municipal government for the metropolis would
be to extend the present jurisdiction and powers of the
Corporation of the City of London ovor the whole me-
tropolitan area.
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE STATE OF IRELAND.

The Government, it is confidently stated, have
decided to at once ask Parliament to suspend the
Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. The Grand Jury
of Westmeath have recommended the adoption of
the following suggestions :—The suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act in the proclaimed districts, and
the formation of a detective force independent of,
but connected with, the police; the power of local
taxation for outrages against property, to be ex-
tended to outrages against the person ; and a
change of the incidence of taxation from land to
residence.
London, England, 1870-03-08

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 7.
Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds
this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and
Prince Leopold also went out.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday.

LATEST INTELL LUENCE

(lIEC'"ER'S TELEGIZAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, March 8.

In yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Body,
General Lebauef, the Minister of War, in reply to
an interpellation of Count Sabon, made the follow-
ing announcement in reference to the Algerian
Administration :

" Until a new order of things shall be established,
all military affairs will remain subject to the excep-
tional measures of the present day ; but as regards
civil affairs the authority of the General in com-
mand will be limited as in France.

" The Prefects will be dependent only on the
Governor-General of the Colony, and will no longer
be subordinate to the military commanders."

BOURSE, March 7.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

II per Cent.
per Cent
End of month 74 571
Credit Mobilier ~ 245
Transatlantic 217 50
Credit Fancier 1330
Paris Gas 1770
Suez Canal 346 25
RAILIVAI
Orleans

Bank Shares 2890
Ital'an rives 55 80
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan 332 50
Do. Debt 46 25
Spanish Threes ~„ 26i
Homo Debt —
Deferred ......
'6, Cash
... 100.8-}

Western ~
Northern.,

,-.-... 6464
I•••• 1170

Strasburg • • 6lO
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 625

Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard.

7974
5064

North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

SPAIN.

MADRID, March 7.

In to-day's sitting of the Cortes, the Minister of
the Colonies brought forward the Cuba and Por-
to Rico Budget.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, March 8.

The resignation of Prince Hohenlohe was ac-
cepted by the King yesterday, and Count Bray has
been appointed as his successor.
Prince Hohenlohe has been appointed Councillor
of State, and Capitulaty of the Royal Order of
St. Hubert.
London, England, 1870-03-08

rAitiSIAN GOSSIP.

The Journal des Dibats refers to the despatch which
was sent last week to a journal in the South of France
announcing that the Cabinet had resigned. This false
news was believed for some hours in three or four
departments, and it called forth addresses of confi-
dence and regret for the Liberal Ministry about
to leave office. The Gaulois says that M. Daru has sent
a special courier to St. Petersburg on the part of the
Cabinet, Int that the dispatches he bears must remain a
profound secret to the public, for M. Darn wrote them
with his own hand, and no one is acquainted with
th :ir purport. The Liberte repeats its previous
remark that the French Government, and more
especially. M. Darn, are daily occupied for some
hours in the consideration of the affairs of Germany. M.
Darn seems to be quite in accordance with the Foreign
Office, particularly with re:Tect to a general disarmament,
that would compel Prussia to adopt the same course. There
s some excitement in the e ccle iiasti cal world on the subject of
the nomination of Mgr. Ginouilha.c to the Archbishopric
of Lyons: Mgr. de Bonald had scarcely breathed
his last when the Emperor received from the Vatican
a despatch which suggested a candidate as the
successor of the venerable cardinal. The Emperor
immediately sent the expression of his regrets
to the Holy See, and Etated that the communication had
been made too late, and that his decision had been already
made. The new Archbishop of Lyons is one of the most
learned prelates of France ; he has been distinguished for
many works on the dogmatic history of the Church,
and with Dupanloup and others has resisted the ten-
dencies of the Ultramontane party. His appointment to
the see of Lyons, to which is attached the honorary title
of Primate of Gaul, will 11.., looked upon with great cold-
ness by the extreme party in Rome. The manager of the
Mfopme and six of the editors have been sentenced to fines
and terms of imprisonment varying from four months' impri-
sonment and 2,00tf. for Vermorel, an editor, to one month's
imprisonment, and 500 f. to Morel and Gaschief, two of leas
prominence. Malespince, the manager, who received the
heavier sentence, was fined 500 f. additional, or having
delayed to send a copy of his journal to the official register.
Another sale at the San Donato Gallery took place on
Saturday, when Hiram Powers famous Greek- Slave
was sold for 53,000 francs. Among the more noticeable
vaintings were a portrait of Murillo, by himself, sold for
o;1•20f., and " Fruits and Flowers," by Velasquez, sold
for 4,350 f. The total of the day's sale was 178.140 f.
London, England, 1870-03-08

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

THIS EVENTING, at 7, YOUR LIFE'S IN DANGER. After
which, PAUL LAFARGE; Messr3 W. Vignola. G. Be!more,
Voltaire; MPsdimes It. Leelereq and Lethiere. Followed by A
DARK NIGH S WORK: Messrs Rignold, Belmore, Crellin ;
Miss Roso Lecaereq and Miss Barnett
London, England, 1870-03-08

THE OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.

The Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, 0-{ford,
propose to offer ono exhibition to be 'competed for this
year at the Oxford Local Examinations of the annual
value of £7O, and tenable during residence for four years.
It will be given to those senior candidates successively
who obtain the highese places in the first division
of the general list, provided they aro in the first
division of one, at least, of the four first sec-
tions of the examination. The exhibitioner will com-
mence residence in January, IS7I, and will be required to
pass the first University examination (Responsions) not
later than the second term. Beyond the cost of living and
personal expenses, which will be under the exhibitiOner's
control, the only payment to be made will be an entrance
fee of £2loa to the University, and certain annual charges
amounting in all to £52. .
London, England, 1870-03-08

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

'nits EVENING, at 7 o'clock, POPPING THE QUESTION.
After which, at 20 to 8, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN; 3leesrs
Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale fie.; Mrs Chippendale, Miss
F. Wright, &c. Concluding with DEAF AS A POST
London, England, 1870-03-08

CLERICAL INFLUENCE IN POLITICS.

There is likely to be a lively encounter within the
week respecting the Sligo election doings. Tho
Advertiser says the Royal Commission will report
that at the last election the Roman
Catholic bishop, Dr. Gilhooly, and two of his
clergy exercised undue influence and intimidation
within the meaning of the Elections Proceedings
Act, and that in consequence of their conduct several
voters abstained from recording their votes for Major
Knox, the Conservative, who was defeated by a small
majority. Ministers will be asked "what their inten-
tions are " respecting this violation of the law.
London, England, 1870-03-08

1-10NIPENS.,,kT1ON IN C kSE OF INJURY,
AND
A FIXED STM IN CASE OP DEATH
Caused by ACCIDENT OFPolley ANY KIN- , may be secured by
of the
RAILWAY P ASSENCORS ASSURANCE COMPANY.
An Annual Payment of £3 to £5 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death,
and an Allowance at the rate of £5 per week for Injury.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may be provided against
by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies.
For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to
the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 54, COltN HILL and 10, REGENT
STauDT, LONDON.
WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary.
London, England, 1870-03-08

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.
GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
JNO. GOSNELL and CO. Lave at length, with the aid
of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
in;; this woncirful liquid. It is now offered to the public
in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15e. each.
Including brush.

Red Trull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames-
3treet London. E.O.
London, England, 1870-03-08

RAILWAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS

at Birkenhead lOO 93 95
00 Do. 4* per cent. Prefer.., all 98 100
st Buckinghamshire
at Chester and Holyhead lOO a; 6
st Do. 5* per cent.
at Do. 6 do.
st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... ...
at Colchester Stear Valley
at East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 13:2 13*
20 Gloster and Dean Forest all ... ...
a Gt. East*. Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 ... ...
a Do. E. IJ. Harwich, 4 p.c 100...
...
at Do.do.Woodbrg.Ex., do 100
.. ..
at Gt. West ,W. Mid., Hera 100 97 99
50 Hull and Selby all 110 112
st Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 217 222
at London and Blackwall lOO 93 95 91i
at Do. 4* per cent lOO ... ...
... ...
at London, Chat., &c. 41 p. c lOO
st Do. Com. Fund, 5 do 100
„. ...
at London and Greenwich
at Do. do Preference lOO ... ...
at London, Tilbury, & Scuth 100 83 85
st Lowestoft, gua 4 percent.— 100 79 81
st Do. 0- 6 do
5* Mauch., Bt.— Ma all
... „.
at Midland, 13radtord, Pref , 100 92 91
10 Mid Kent Cray Line)
50 Northern& East.,s percent all 53 56
50 Do. do. 6 do. all .. ..
st N. Eastern—Hartlepool ... 100
... ....
st N.West.A peril. prof, 5p c. 100 101 109
at Du B minimum 11 p.c lOO ... ...
st Notting. & Granth R. & C lOO 91 93
25 Preston and 11' yre . all 41 4G
... Royston, Hitch., mind Shop. 100 132 134
st Shrewsbury and Hereferd 100 132 1:14
10 De do 8 2 91p
0 S. Yorlish. and River Dun 100 100 105
1.) 4 per cent gua... 10) 78 80
5 do ... all 98 100
at Viet. Station and Pimlico... 100 .
at West Cornwall
20 West London, Class A all 13 14
20 Do do B all ... ...
20 Do do C all ... ...
st
Weymouth and Portland lOO ... ...
at Wilts and Somerset

DOCKS.
et East and Weal
Loudon and St. Katherine 100 49 51
100 D oDcb. stock, 4 par cent all
blillcvall Freehold Land
Dock lOO 20 33
Southampton lja 72 75 2
Surrey conmet eta)