The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-27 00:00:00

1 lOYAL MILITARY ACADEMY; 'WOOLWICH.
The following are the successful candidates for admis
sion to the Royal Military Academy :—Francis Curtis
Fowns, John William Hastings Potts, Maurice Charles
Barton, Edwin Capel Currie Sandys William Charles
Godsal Thorny's Digby, John Neville, Conyngharn
Ellis, Danid Leland Litton, john Denis Kirwan, Ronald
Charles Maxwell, John Burn Murdoch, Henry John
Lyster, Ernest de Vismes du Boulay, James Birch
Sharpe, Fitzgerald Muirson Banister, Josceline Heneage
Wo(lehouse, Auguus Frederick Liddell, Algernon
Campbell Foley, Albert Henry Callwell.

THIS M

UHE MONEY MARKET

AND

-,11 AL INTELLIGENCE:

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The tone of the markets is rather better. Government
securities are better. Railway stocks are held with more
firmness. Foreign bonds are steadier, but the business
doing is not extensive.
Consols are now 891- to 8H for money, and 89f to 89
for accounts; Three per Cent. Reduced, 891 to 89i; New
Three per Cents., 89/ to 89k ; Exchequer Bills,t2s. prem.;
India Five per Cents., 1091 ; ditto Four per Cents., 1011
to 1011.
In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of ate
87 to 871; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864,
801 8186 ; dit
of 1868, 661 to 67 ; Spanish of 18C7, 23 to 23a ; ditto of
1869, 23 to 231 ; ditto Quicksilver, 681 ; Peru-
vian, 82 to 83/ ; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 37
371 ; ditto of 1869, 47 to 471 ; and Five per Cent. Italian
of 1865, 771.
The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 64 to 641 ;
Great Eastern is 31 ; London and Brighton, 351 ;
Caledonian, 73}; South-Eastern 651 to 67 ; Manchester,
itheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3i to 39f ; Great Northern,
1141 ; ditto (A), 119; North Eastern, 122 to
idlan 131
London and North-Western, 121 to 1211 ; Md,
121 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 126 to 1261 ; Great
Western, 60.
Canada Five per Cents. are quoted 100 to 101
New South Wales Five per Cents., 96 to 97 ex div. ;
New Zealand Five per Cents., 93 to 931 ; Queensland
Six per Cents., 103 to 1031 ex div. ; Victoria Five per
Cents., 98 to 981 ex div. ; and ditto Six per Cents.,
108/.
10-American, 80 to 80k ;British
Telegraph Shares—Ang
Indian, 6to 6/ ; China, 41 to 4 dis.; Falmouth, 81 to 81 ;
French Cable, 141 to 15 ; and Construction and Main-
tenance, 221.
In American Securities, Five-Twenty Bonds are quoted
at 801 to 811; Ten-Forties, 78 to 80 ; Erie Shares, 14
to 15; Illinois, 97 to 99 ; Atlantic and Great Western
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 19 to 20 ; and ditto De-
bentures, 25 to 30.
In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 122
Anglo-
Austrian, 4 to 6 prem.; Chartered Mercantile, 26 to 28 ;
Consolidated, 41 ; Imperial Ottoman, 101 to 101 ;London
and County, 49; London and Westminster, 591; London
Joint Stock, 33 ; and Union of London 361.
In Miscellaneous Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted
12 ; Viceroy of Egypt per cent. Mortgage Loan. 69 :
National Discount Company, 10(: and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 39.
Mr. Ball, the official liquidator of the South-Eastern of
Portugal Railway Company, has announced for the 2d and
3d of August the authorised distribution of Portuguese
Government Bonds, 1869, by order of the Court of Chan-
cery, to the respective holders of the securities of the
company. The total is £1,850,000, of which 2512,500 will
be to the holders of the railway bonds of the first issue,
£487,500 to the second, £270,000 to special creditors, and
£580,000 to general creditors.
The report of the liquidators of the Scinde, Punjab, and
Delhi Bank Corporation (Limited), to be presented on the
3d of August, notifies a further return of ls. per share,
which, added to previous returns, will make 26 13s 6d per
£lO share, and £ll3s 6d per £5 share, being equal to a
total return of £264,799 to the shareholders, and with 6d
per share of the original estimate. A further small dis-
tribution is expected.
The Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta Telegraph Com-
pany have notified that during the war between France
and Prussia telegrams may be sent to Italy, Germany,
Turkey, and other countries on the Continent, via Fal-
mouth and Gibraltar, thus affording an alternate route
much needed from the uncertainty of communication by
the land lines.
At a meeting of creditors at Manchester of Mr. Morel
de Perceval the liabilities were stated at £7,000, and the
assets equal to about 10s. in the pound. The estate is to
be wound up in bankruptcy.
San Francisco advices of the 13th inst. mention that two
Chinamen had been arrested there for counterfeiting notes
of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China. A
sum equal to about £7,500 of these notes, almost exactly
was seized.
like the genuine ones,
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce says : " The con-
dition of financial affairs in Liverpool does not improve.
Further failures have been announced, and it is fully ex-
pected that others will follow. Among those already
mentioned are Messrs. Blackburn, Schofield, and Co.,
cotton brokers, whose liabilities, it is stated, will exceed
£50,000.
The Council of Administration of the Kharkow Krem-
entchoug Railway announces that the first drawing of
obligations has taken place in the presence of a delegate
of the Minister of Public Works. The payment of the
obligations in sterling will be made on and aft er the 20th
August (Ist September), 1870, in London, at Messrs. J.
Henry Schroder and Co's.
Although business to a large extent has been transacted
for the Continent in bar silver at 611 d. there are signs
that the market is becoming decidedly weaker. The
amounts now offering for immediate delivery -are not very
large, but much silver in various forms is soon
expected,
and it does not appear likely that the high prices of the
last few days can be maintained. There is also less de-
mand for gold of all descriptions, and the difficulties in
the way of forwarding specie into the interior of Germany
are excessively great.
The Manchester markets have opened with a continued
suspension of general business, and at nominal prices.
At Liverpool several failures have been announced in the
cotton trade and on the Stock Exchange.

THE BISHOP OF ELY
LON THE EDUCATION
The Bishop of Ely spoke on Tuesday at a luncheon,
after the opening of a church at Conington Cross. His
Lordship expressed an opinion that the Education Bill
which has passed the Commons, though imperfect, is as
favourable as could have been expected. He believed it
would pass the Lords with little material alteration.
They ought to have had a year of gracn e,
a b
but that
being denied, he strongly urged upoll, oth
clergy and laity, the necessity of bestirring themselves
during the next six months to supply the deficiencies in
existing schools, sous to prevent their being given over to
the " secular arm." He might be deemed to belong to
the Dark Ages, but his feeling was that a great
amount of ignorance would be far better than a great
amount of learning without religion. (Applause). Step
in s
were being taken his own diocese to obtain educa-
tional statistics, to which he attached the greatest impor-
tance.

GERMAN DEMONSTRATION IN
VERPOOL.
The dispatch of a number of German recruits for
Fatherland was made the occasion of an outdoor demon-
stration of German enthusiasm in Liverpool on Tuesday
morning. Several batchgs of volunteers and those liable
to military conscription have previously taken their de-
parture in a quiet and unostentatious
ha manner, butd
the
nauticalthe
gathering of a much larger number than usual
element,ln
presence among them of a strong
led to the display of patriotic feeling. The
outbreak of the war has detained a number of
German ships in Liverpool, and as
the period
of their detention here is of course at present indefinite,
the great bulk of their crews have been thrown out of
employment. There is not very much doing in English
shipping, so that under these circumstances it was the
most natural thing in the world that, instead of seeking
to be shipped on board English or other vessels, the
German seamen should patriotically volunteer to go
hom • and assist in fighting their country's battles.
Accordingly a number of them offered themselves
to Mr. Otto Burchardt, the consul at this port for the
North German Bund, and there being n number of other
Germans about to be sent home at the call of their
Government, a party numbering seventy-two in all was
made up for despatch on Tuesday. The greater portion
of them, of course including nearly all the sailors, made
a night of it" at a German guesthaus oxturem, in Mersey-
street, on Monday night, and on Tuesday morning, having
appropr'ately engaged the services of a German
ng baloft
and°,
and provided themselves with a pole beari
the flag of the North German Confederation, the whole
body marched in procession to the railway
station.
Arriving there, a scene of hand-shaking and much singin
the
about the Rhine and the Fatherland took place before
volunteers departed by the Lancashire and Yorkshi ly
re
train for Hull, whence they will find their way, probab
by various routes, to Germany.

Thirteen persons (natives) have been drowned by
the upsetting of a boat on the river Godavery.
Peter Joseph, who robbed his Royalllighness the
Duke of Edinburgh of notes and property to the value of
2,500 rupees has bean sentenced by the session judge of
Mirzapore to seven years' imprisonment.
A young gentleman named Gregory, aged 19,
was drowned on Saturday near Hayle, Cornwall, while
bathing. He was an indifferent swimmer, and soon after
he got out of his depth he sank, and his body was not
recovered until life was extinct.
A party of Shan monks, a hundred and eighty in
number,are at present travelling on pilgrimage in
British Burmah. Upwards of eight hundred left
nuket
Shan country three or four months ago, but a great
ber fell sick, and others lost heart upon the road.
The marriage of W. G. F. Phillimore, E
ssq.,
barrister-at-law, and Miss Agnes Lushington, wa
solemnised on Tuesday in Westminster Abbey, the Rev.
Dr. Lei„lhton officiating. Nine bridesmaids attended the
bride. Lord Harris gave the bride away, and the Dean
of Westminster pronounced the Benediction.
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador received
the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brunnow, the
Prussian Ambassador and Countess Therese BernstoAmerff, the
Austrian Ambassador and Countess Apponyi, the r
can, Portuguese, and Italian Ministers, &c., at dinner on
Tuesday evening, at the Embassy in Bryanston-square.
RECOVERY OF TREASULE FROM SUNKEN SHIPS—
HONG-KONG, July 7.—Ninety thousand dollars' worth of
cargo has been recovered from the wreck of the Dunmail.
Shanghai, June 2. One hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars have been recovered by divers from the
Hamilla
The Grand Duke Vladimir, son of the Emperor
of Russia,. accompanied by a numerous suite,
arrived on
Saturday in Brussels, and was immediately visited by the
King and Count de Flandre. A grand dinner was given
the same evening, in his honour, at the palace, at which
were present the Russian Minister and other dignitaries.
On Sunday he accompanied the King and the Count of
Flanders to the opening rifle competition of the Civil
Guards.
REVOLVER.—On Tuesday, at the police-
court, Liverpool, George Starkey, chief officer of the steam
ship Norseman, belonging to the Pacific Steam Naviga-
tion Company, was charged with shooting one of the
crew, named Richard Forsey. Whilst the ship was on the
voyage to Valparaiso the men had some trifling dispute,
when the mate deliberately took out a revolver, fired at
Forsey, and lodged a bullet in his back. The prisoner was
committed for trial, charged with shooting with intent to
Tuesday Dow nsla ir e
morning a a
mmaiTismsh ,Ge baileo r gbiaen
marriage
a refbeing
of
Balfour used.
tsh et 0
Marquisok pia e oonf
at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The wedding
attracted a very large congregation. The bride was attended
by six bridesmaids, and was given away by her father,
John Balfour, Esq. Captain Charles F. Hawker acted as
"best man "to the bridegroom. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Hon. A. J. Campbell, rector of Knipton,
assisted by the Rev. G. 0. Gordon, rector of East Hamp-
stead. The breakfast was given at Mr. John Balfour's
residence in Belgrave-square. In the afternoon the happy
pair left London for East Hampstead Park, the seat of
the Marquis, where they will spend the honeymoon.
THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. Professor
Burggraeve has sent a letter to the Jounral de Gand,
stating that in the hospital of that city wounds are
treated with the greatest success by simply covering them
with thin sheets of lead which are kept in their places by
sticking plaster. The lead is cool and pleasant to the
wound, unlike a bandage, which must produce heat and
irritation. It becomes coated in a short time inside with
sulphate of lead, which acts as a prevention of putrefac-
tion and keeps away vermin. Moreover, cold water can
be applied to wounds so dressed without disturbiq the
dressing, and this plan is said to be a means of avoiding
the need of hasty operations.
A PAINFUL STORY.—A. married woman named
Hollis has been charged at Lambeth with killing her in-
fant child, aged three months. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner had been in the habit of getting
intoxicated and going out for hours, leaving her baby
uncared for. She came home one day after some hours'
absence much the worse for drink. The child was
in a miserable state, and its wretched moter was too
much intoxicated to feed it with sop, as retried to do.
The next day the child was so ill that a neighbour took it
to the doctor, and when she reached his house it was
dead. The surgeon refused a certificate, and a post-
mortem examination proved that the child had died from
want of proper food and nourishment, having been born
healthy. It only weighed 31b. with its clothes on.
The
mother was committed for manslaughter.
The
.7 intes says there is, we understand, a prob-,
ability of the Active, unarmoured iron corvette, and the
Glasgow, unarmoured wooden frigate, being placed in,
commission at Portsmouth at once, to strengthen our.
naval force on the home station. The possible contin-
gency of the formation of a British squadron of observa-
tion for service off the coasts of Belgium and Holland or
in die Baltic, renders it very possible that other ships
than the two named may be commissioned as speedily as
trice Admiralty can find seamen and stokers to man them.
The commnd of a fleet of observation at a critical time
like the present could not be entrusted to abler hands
than the officer who has been named
as likely
Cto receive
than ceive
it—Pear-Admiral F. P. Beauchamp Seymour, .B.;
does it appear that the
ton-ch of the Channel
Fleet could well be deputed an abler offioer than Vice.
Admiral Hastings R. Yelver t on , C.B.
FRENCH ENTHUSIASM FOR THE \V klll3.—The
Prase gives an account of an episode in the war move-
ments which occurred at the Eastern Railway Station on
the departure of the 3d Regiment of Voitigeurs. Just as
they reached the station a private carriage drove up, from
which came an elderly gentleman, wearing a decoration,
who immediately commenced taking from a huge sack
parcels oarbacco, which be handed iu succession to the
soldiers, d the cheers of the assembled crowd. At
length, having exhausted his sack, and many of the men
yet remaining unserved, he went up to the colonel and
told him that he had exhausted ,the stocks of all the to-
bacco shops in the quarter to fill his bag, bat h4d not been
able , ,ugh for the whole regiment ; finally he
begged oim to itteept 200 lonia in order to purchase to-
bacco for them, and handed him 4,000 francs ind,
gold,
which the colonel after some hesitation accepted, and
thanked him on behalf of the men.
cire iihoarss 0 b eGeunarrase-
v ed at at
TROOPS
cOhNThHain EAlACli'•Ek from
garrison
stating that the attention of the Field Marshal —ei ttliilear
Com-
manding-in-Chiefc
has been seriously attracted by recent
circumstances to the subject of removing troops by march
route. The circular states that it is pot expedient that
any rules should be so rigidly laid down that the exercise
of a just discretion should not be left to the commanding
officer. The exigencies of the military service, and the
ever varying circumstances attending it, demand that
such discretion should be placed in the responsible officer,
but such officer must be prepared to justify his acts, and
to shew that when departing from general instructions,
he has either been compelled to do so by force of cir-
cumstances, or that he has done so for some obvious ad-
vantage to the service. While his royal highness
fully concedes this discretion to officers in command, en
the other hand he will exact the responsibility which it

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(Tins DAY.,
CAUION TO CARMEN.—Isaac Matlocks, a carman, living
in Upper Rathbone-place, was charged at the Marl-
borough-street Police Court, by the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, as follows :—An officer
saw the defendant in charge of a horse attached to a
pianoforte van in Regent-street. The horse had
down, both its knees were cut and blood running
from
them, and it was standing with one foot on the ground.
The officer spoke to the defendant, who drove away and got
out of sight, but an hour afterwards the officer saw the
defendant with the horse at work again, it then having a
pair of knee caps on to prevent the condition of its knees
being seen. Mr. Henry, veterinary surgeon, spoke of the
horse being lame and suffering great pain, its knees being
badly cut. The defence was that the injuries were only
recent. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was shameful to use a horse
in such a state, and that the defendant was wholly reck-
less as to the condition of the horse was shown by his
having used the horse after being spoken to by the con-
stable. The defendant, who was liable to three months'
imprisonment, would have to pay 10s., or seven days.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY wasOREIGNE.
at
Eugene Hirsch, a young foreigner, charged
the Westminster Police-court with attempting to
commit suicide by shooting himself, at the house
of Mrs. Bethell, No. 20, Stanley-street, Pimlico, as
far back as the 24th of June last. From th
that he was
evidence
of Joseph Case, a constable 142 B, it appeared
called to the house at half-past eight in the morning, and
in the upstairs room found the prisoner lying on the bed
naked ; he had a severe wound in the forehead. In his
pockets were found caps, powder and shot, and a pistol
on the mantelshelf, and there was a prostitute (a
foreigner) In the room with him. Case took the
prisoner to Westminster Hospital, where ,he has since re-
mained. The woman spoken of informed the constable
that the prisoner met her in the Haymarket and went
home with her, but she did not wish to be a witness in
been
the
case, and left England for Paris, where it
ascertained she has since died of small-pfound aox. The prisoner
said he was destitute, and on him was packet of
papers directed to the chief of the London policeca. Dr.
Chambers proved that it was a gunshot wound, rrying
away a great part of the scalp. He was remanded for a

week.
ONE Too MANY IN THE FAMILY.—A girl named Eliza
Allerton was brought before Mr. Lushington at the
Thames Police-court, charged with creating a disturbance
and breaking two panes of glass in the dwelling house of
Mr. Richard Allerton, a Custom House officer. It
appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Allerton that the
prisoner was her niece, he
t
and illegitimate child of the
witness's sister. Some persons said that Mr. Allerton
was the girl's father, but she did not believe it. The
prisoner was adopted by the witness at two years
of age, and she had brought her up ever since
among her own children, nine in number. Latterly
the girl had behaved very badly, and was in the
practice of leaving home, and absenting her-
self for several days. The girl stopped away a week and
came home last night, made a disturbance outside the
house, and broke two windows. The prisoner in defence
said her aunt and uncle did not use her
well, and made a servant and slave her h
cousins.
and
she was treated contemptuously by her
Mrs. Fanny Brown said the prisoner was well treated by
her uncle and aunt, but a Mrs. Lloyd gave
ht the filler-
evidence to
the opposite effect. Mr. Lushington thoug
tons, having adopted the girl at two years of aoo'e, ought
to look after her welfare. On the other hand the girl
must work for her living, and not expect to be kept like a
lady. He remanded her for a week to look out for an
asylum to which she might be sent.

TUE SITS, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEINING,- JITIA 27, 1871,

ORNING'S NEWS.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
THE WAR-
Business at Liverpool yesterday both on the cotton and
Stock Exchange was exceedingly gloomy, and some
additional failures were reported. Every other branch
of business is in a state of stagnation.

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Yesterday afternoon the steamer Lerd Raglan left the
Tyne for Rotterdam with seventy North German seamen
on board on their way to take part in the war. As the
oessel proceeded down the river, and steamed out of
Shields harbour, she was saluted by the North German
vessels in port. The men cheered heartily, and sang
patriotic songs.

SHOOTING ON BOARD SHIP.
George Starkey, chief mate of the ship Horseman, was
committed for trial by the Liverpool magistrates yester-
day for firing a revolver at one of the crew during the
voyage flora Liverpool to Valparaiso on the 20th April
last.

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ROYAL ARCHROLOGICAL CONGRESS.
The Royal Archaeological Institute commenced its
annual week's congress in Leicester, yesteday afternoon,
when the inaugural meeting took place in the Guildhall,
under the presidency of Lord Talbot de Malahide. The
attendance was very large and influential, inducting Sir
Thomas Kennington, Archdeacon Trollope, Professor
Nicholls, &c. An address of welcome was read by the
town clerk, after which the Mayor, Mr. John Stevenson,
expressed the gratification of the town at receiving
the assembly.—Lord Talbot, on behalf of the Society,
thanked the town and corporation for the reception
they had given. He admitted that it
difficult in such a thriving town to preserve its antiqui-
ties, but he thought that few persons who valued them
would destroy them. He regretted that in the
,work of
progress the memorials and glories of our forefathers
should be destroyed. He congratulated the institute on
the cordial reception given to it by corporate bodies.
Changes were inevitable in all civic bodies. It was diffi-
cult to trace their origin, but some said there were traces
of the Romans in our corporations. There could be
no doubt that they were of Roman antiquity, but
they could boast of greater and much nobler
things than many continental countries. They had
not lent themselves in submission to any
unprincipled
blic
despot that wished to stifle the expression of pu feel-
ing. On the contrary they had banded themselves with
those who were in favour of moderate reforms and the
improvement of the country. No one was more promi-
nent in this than Simon de Montfort, first Earl of
Leicester, who, at the head of the barons, and backed
by the burgesses of Leicester, began his career by
laying
the foundation of the British House of Commons. The
institute was also welcomed to the town by
Archdeacon
Fearon on behalf of the clergy, by Professor Harley on
behalf of the Literary and Philosophical Society, and ac-
knowledged by Archdeacon Trollope and Sir Thomas
Kennington. Visits to several objects of interest in
Leicester then took place, and in the evening papers were
-Id in the Masonic Hall.

was

GERMAN SAILORS LEAVING FOR THE WAR.
A number of sailors from the German vessels in port
at Liverpool, who are liable for sen ice in the Prussian
fleet, left that port yesterday by railway for Hull and Rot-
terdam. Several German gentlemen who have been active
in connection with the German Patriotic Fund, addressed
the sailors at the Tithebarn-street Station, and eulogised
their promptitude in obeying the call of their country.
Considerable enthusiasm was displayed by the men.

FATAL .FIRE AT LEITH.
The oil works of Mr. M'lntosh, of Leith, were destroyed
by fire yesterday, The fire was caused by the explo-
sion of an oil still. Three men were killed, and one was
seriously injured. Four others escaped from the building
in time.

A farmer's flock was carried away by the tide in the
Severn, on Monday evening. A flock of sheep, 150 in
number, belonging to Mr. W. C. Wetmore, Awre, near
Newnharn, strayed from the marshes to the Severn sands,
when the tide came in and washed them away. A few
were saved, but the greater part were drowned, and the
loss will be great.
The River Dun Company have given notice of motion
for an injunction in Chancery to restrain the Corporation
of the borough of Doncaster from discharging its sewage
into the river Dun. The Council, in committee, met
yesterday, and instructed the Town Clerk to obtain counsel's
opinion, and oppose the application. The Corporation are
engaged in concentrating the sewage, and bad previously
agreed with the Dun Company to perfect the work as
early as possible.

THE FRENCH BALTIC FLEET.
It was stated yesterday that the French fleet, under the
command of Admiral Count Bouet Willaumez, had passed
Dover and proceeded to the North. It appears that the
Deal cutter, with its pilots, spice the fleet at Dungeness,
and, as a matter of course, the pilots offered their services.
At first the Admiral was inlisposed to take any, as he
said he was well provided, but at length he engaged the
services •of one of them, Mr. Crowhurst, who went
on board the flagship Surveillante, and proceeded
in her, piloting the fleet so far as off the Gallopers,
some distance from Ostend, where he left them pro-
ceeding northwards. A French pilot was on board
the flagship, who spoke English almost as well as Mr.
Crowhurst, and appeared well acquainted with the coasts
on each side. All the ships had Baltic pilots on board.
The fleet had no troops on board, and passed off Dun-
kirk 1 \ Flout communicating, but after leaving Dover
one of the gun vessels was sent to Calais with de-
spatches. Going up the Channel the fleet passed several
German merchantmen, which hoisted the North German
Confederation flag. Their capture could have been easily
effected, but the French admiral took no other notice
of them than to remark that he supposed the poor
fellows had not been warned of the declaration of
war. The French admiral said on the pilot leaving the
flagship that he should like to send his compliments
to Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres, the senior Naval
Lord of the Admiralty, with whom he was ac-
quainted when he served as Flag-Captain to Admiral
Hamelin in the Black Sea during the Crimean wanar.d
Five out of the seven ironclads are rams,
are formidable ships. It was no secret that the destina-
tion of the gallant Admiral's fleet is the Baltic—first
communicating with the cruisers that are already in the
north. It is reported that before this day
week no less
than 30 French men-of-war will have passed Dover, on
their way to the north, Dunkirk being the rendezvous of
a squadron of men-of-war and troop-ships.

GREAT FIRES IN DORSETSIIIRE.—For some days
fires having been raging in the fir plantations upon the
Merly and Canford estates, the properties of Willett Edie,
Esq., and Sir Ivor Guest, Bart. It is computed more
than 1000 acres have been swept by the flames. Nearly
the whole of the large fir woods, extending on either side
of the main road from Wimborne to Poole, have been
destroyed, involving most serious loss and destruction of
pxoperty.
The Florence correspondent of the indeperidance
Beige fully believes that negotiations are in progress for
the evacuation of Rome. If this step be not taken there
is no doubt that the attempt of 1867 will be resumed
under circumstances much more favourable to its success.
On the recomendation of the Lords of the Ad-
miralty the Royal Humane Society has just awarded its
silver medallion to Sub-Lieutenant A. A. Taylor, of
H.M.S. Zealous, for his gallantry in jumping overboard
to save the life of a boy during a heavy sea.
Mr. Spurgeon, after laying the foundation-stone of
a chapel at Peckham, invited Napoleon and the
their King of
Prussia to come over to England to fight out own
quarrel :—" lam sure the police would win killiatng to
the
matter, and for my own part I would be quite w
hold their coats I
and I would cheer each one on, and say,
Hit him hard ; think he deserves it !"
A Priest was drowned on Monday at Bundoran,
Ireland whilst bathing ; the other bathers rushed out
of the water, leaving him to his fate. An inquest was
held on the body being recovered. As it was pro-
ceeding, some tourists came up, and the people took
offence, it is said,. at the blue veil one of them wore.
dleßutd
for the parish priest he would have been roughly han,
the people being for hours about the house where he took
refuge.
SMALLPDX IN PARIS AND 'NEW YORK.—The
almost entire absence of small-pox in this City formed a
most gratifying feature in the report of the Sanitary In-
spector just presented to the Health Board. As a very
significant set-off against the single case in New York,
there comes by cable the announcement of 267 deaths
from a form of smallpox in Pa merits of
ris last week. While the
French doctors have been disp
uting. over the me
mode
Jenner's great discovery, and discussing the proper
of obtaining the vaccine, the dreadful scourge which they
have failed to make due preparations to meet has effected
a lodgment in their midst. Perhaps people who oppose
vaccination here will perceive the moral conveyed.—New
York Tim'es_.____—.---------------

t. PAULIA EN I'.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuEsDAY.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.
THE SECRET TREATY.
Lord CAIRNS said be believed a statement had been
made in the other-House on the subject of the document
which had excited so much public attention, and which
was mentioned in their lordships' House last night.
i He
e
wished to know whether the noble earl opposite was n
position to communicate to their lordships the information
which had been made elsewhere.
Earl GRANVILLE said he bad received a message from
Lord Augustus Loftus, stating that it was the intention
of Count Bismarck to publish, in the official papers of
Berlin that morning, the text of the draft treaty which
bad appeared in the Times, and also stating thatß the draft
treaty was in the handwriting of M. etti.
Within the last hour he had had an interview with
M. Lavalette, the French Ambassador, and a conversation
took place onthe subject of the treaty,of which conversation
he had taken a note. M. Lavalette said that now war
was declared between France and Prussia there only re-
mained two objects for France to attain in reference to
this country, viz., to maintain friendly relations between
the two Governments which of late years had existed be-
tween the two countries. The plan contained in the draft
treaty was one he said originated by Count Bismarck,
that it had been the subject of some conversation with
M. Benedetti, but that it had never had any serious
basis, and had been rejected by both. M. Lavalette
added that France had respected the nationality of
Belgium even when she had reason to complain of the
conduct of that country. He stated further that during
the last month the Emperor had pledged himself in a
manner which was binding upon their honour to respect
the neutrality of Belgium unless that neutrality was first
violated by another belligerent, and the declaration had
been communicated by the Emperor to Lord Lyons, her
Majesty's Ambassador at Paris.
On the motion of Lord Houghton, the Clerical Distri-
bution Bill was read a second time.
Lord NORTHBROOK moved the second reading of the
Army Enlistment Bill, the object of which was to en-
large the area of enlistment, and to bring about an army
of
of reserve by making the enlistment for 12 years, i
which were to be passed under the colours and six in the
reserve. The Act was not to apply either to cavalry or

stances
W;`'

THE RIFLE COMPETITION•

engineers.
The Duke of Cambridge approved of the measure,
as did also Earl Grey, Lord Dalhousie, and Earl Dela-
warr.
The motion was agreed to.
The Sugar Duties (Isle of Man), the Stamp Duty on
Leases, the Exchequer Bonds (21,300,000), and the
Paupers' Conveyance Bills were severally read a third
time and passed.
Their lordships adjourned at a quarter past eight.

lIOUSE OF COMAIONS.-TUESDAY.

The Speaker took the chair at ten minutes past two

o'clock.
CHARGE AGAINST THE ENCLOSURE
COMMISSIONERS.
Mr. FAWCETT remarked that a petition had been placed
in his hands, very influentially signed, by the inhabitants
of Fake.nham, in the county of Norfolk, making a serious
charge against the Enclosure Commissioners. The peti-
tioners were prepared to verify their statements on oath,
and he moved that the petition be read and printed.—The
petition was accordingly read, and the order made for

printing it.
THE SECRET TREATY.
Mr. SAMUELSON, the member for Banbury, drew
attention to an article in the Times that day, in reference
to the projected Treaty between France and Prussia, and
inquired whether the First Lord of the Treasury was
able to give the House any further information on the

subject.
Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply, said ; Mr. Speaker—Upoi
the first portion of the question which tmy hon. friend hates
put to me, I can only say
that
not in my power, when I spoke yesterday,
to give the House any information which
in the view of the Government would have been of
value to them, or of course that information would have
been given. With regard to the latter part of the question
of my hon. friend, I will now state that the Government
have received this morning a telegram from Lord Augustus
Loftus, dated yesterday. According to the purport
of that telegram, there was to be published this
day in the Berlin papers the text of a document
corresponding with that which appeared in the Times of
yesterday, namely, what purports to be, although without
the name of the author or any date, or any means except
indirect evidence, upon which each gentleman may have
his own opinion, a treaty in five articles. The first recog-
nising or acknowledging on the part of the Emperor of the
French, the North German Confederation, and the acqui-
sitions made by Prussia, the second involving the
consent of Prussia to the acquisition of Luxembourg by
France, the fourth setting forth the consent of the Em-
peror to a more intimate union between Prussia and the
South German States ; fourth, the annexation of Belgium
in terms so far as I am able to judge, corresponding
with that in the Times; fifth, an offensive
and defensive alliance. This being so, unless
the telegram is erroneous, we have every reason to
believe that the document is published in Berlin at the
time I speak. It is evident that the anticipation formed
by the Government yesterday has been fulfilled, namely d
,
that the matter would be taken up at head quarters, an
therefore full, direct, and authoritative information will
be given to us without doubt on the circumstances con-
nected with the origin of this paper. It is also stated by
Lord Augustus Loftus to have been heard by him that
the minute which is published is stated to be in the
handwriting of M. Benedetti. Of course it must not be
understood that I affirm the correctness of that statement
It is the information conveyed to him, and conveyed to
ous in this telegram. (Cheers).

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
Mr. W. M. TORRENS asked the First Lord of the Trea
sury if it was true, as publicly stated, that overtures re-
cently made by the Government of the United States for
a resumption of the negotiations regarding the Alabama
claims were declined by the late Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
Mr. GLADSTONE replied that he was not aware that it
had been publicly stated that overtures recently made by
the United States Government for the resumption of
negotiations respecting the Alabama claims had been de-
clined by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; but
he had no doubt, from the language of his hon. friend,
that such was the case. There was, however, no substan-
tial truth in the statement. It might possibly have
arisen from the circumstance that Lord Clarendon gave an
opinion— in which, however,the United States Government
through its organ Mr. Fisk entirely concurred—that there
would be Lo advantage in continuing a controversial cor-
respondence. The position of the question, so far as the
Government were concerned, still remained as it was. It
was the same as they had already taken in the correspon-
dence which had already been laid before Parliament,
namely, that having made their offer, an offer which was
declined by the United States under circumstances of
which the House was aware some eighteen months ago,
it now rested with the United States to make any pro-
posal for the resumption of the negotiations. With re-
gard to the second part of the question there was no
'retention to lay any further papers before the House.

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH
INTERVIEWED.

Sir TOLLEMACHE SINCLAIR asked the Under-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention had
been directed to the statement made in the Daily Tele-
graph newspaper of Monday, that the Emperor of the
French had held a conversation with two Englishmen,
which he authorised them to publish, and in which he
stated that Count Bismarck had asked him what compen-
sation France would expect if Germany was to annex
Holland: and, whether he believes this statement to be
authentic. The hon. member also asked the Under Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs whether it would be a breach
of neutrality and an infringement of the Royal Procla-
mation if the Heligoland pilots should conduct French
Chan-
men-of-war to German ports, or if the pilots of the Chan-
nel Islands were to conduct Germen men-of-war to French
ports; and whether in the event of any
such men-of-war
endeavouring to retain the services of such pilots measures
would be taken by Government to prevent them from
being so employed.
Mr. OTWAY : With regard to the first question of my
hon. friend, I have to say I did see in the Daily Telegraph
of yesterday the letter to which he refers. I read it in

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with some other very startling statements which
erred in the newspapers of yesterday. (Hear, hear.)
't my hon. friend asks me what my opinion is as to the
henticity of that statement as welL I am not awarethat
pinion is more valuable than that of any other member'
,t the lion. gentleman is very desirous of hearing it he
II accuse me of discourtesy under existing cireum-
net if I abstain from giving it to him. (Laughter.)
',ls regard to the question of my hon. friend as to
whether it would be a breach of neutrality and an in-
fringement of the Royal Proclamation, if the
Heligoland pilots should conduct French men-of-
war to German ports, I apprehend there can
be no doubt at all that that woul I be a breach of neu-
trality, and in direct violation of her Majesty's pro-
clamation. (Hear, hear.) I assume from the question of
my hon. friend that he is of opinion that the Heligoland
pilots do not understand English. If it is so, no doubt it
is desirable that a proclamation should be circulated in
the German language. I will inquire whether it is con-
sidered necessary that any further steps should be
to inform them, and if it is so considered
necessary, my hon. friend may rely that every effort shall
be made to circulate the Queen's proclamation, to snake
it known to those whom it may concern. (Hear, hear.)
Sir T. SINCLAIR remarked that his question was whether
measures would be taken to prevent pilots from conduct-
ing vessels to German ports.
Mr. OTWAY : It is rather a strong assumption on the
part of my hon. friend. It is to be hoped that all her
Majesty's subjects will obey the proclamation when it is
nade known to them.

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Colonel WILSON PATTEN asked the Secretary of State
for War, whether any report had been made to the Horse
Guards or to the War Department of trials made at
Aldersnot of the Martini as compared with other rifles;
and, if so, whether the report was favourable to the
Martini or to any other rifle.
Mr. CARDWELL replied that he had heard that the
general officer commanding at Aldershot instituted a
trial between the Henri-Martini rifle and the rifle of a
particular inventor. A report had been made, but as the
trial was not authorised by his Royal Highness the Com-
mander-in-Chief, the report had not been forwarded to
him (the right hon. gentleman).
GLEBE LOANS (IRELAND) BILL.
The order for the second reading of this bill gave
rise to a great deal of discussion. On the
one hand it was argued that the measure was
essentially necessary to complete the legislation which
disestablished the Irish Church, and on the other
that it was inaugurating a system of con-
current endowment. —Mr. Candlish moved that
the Bill be read that day three months.—On a division
being called, the amendment was rejected by 101. to 58
votes, and the Bill was read a second time.
HARROW AND WINCHESTER SCHOOLS.
On going into committee of supply on the Civil Servic6
estimates, Mr. Stevenson moved that, in the opinion of
this House, it is inexpedient that the revised statutes for
the constitution of the new goverhing bodies of Harrow
and Winchester Schools should require that any person,
in order to be qualified to be elected or nominated a
member of the governing bodies, must be a member of the
Church of England.—The Solicitor-General contended
that it was a matter of law and not of expediency, and it
was not for the House of Commons to set aside the law by
a mere resolution.—After some discussion, in which Mr.
Forster, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Winterbotham, and Mr.
Fawcett took part, the House went to a division, when
the motion was lost by 85 to 73 votes.
THE SECRET TREATY.
In reply to Mr. BAINES, Mr. GLADSTONE said—Theis
day M. de Lavalette called upon the Secretary of Stat
for Foreign Affairs. He stated now that war had been
declared between France and Prussia there remained for
him but two objects in the position he occupied at this
Court. These were to maintain intimate relations be-
tween the two Governments, and to preserves he friendly
feeling which had been the growth of late yrs between
the two countries. (Cheers.) He stated that the plan
contained in the alleged draft of a treaty which
was published in the Times newspaper had been origi-
nated by M. Bismarck—(cheers)—and that it had been
the subject of conversation with M. Benedetti, but that
it had never any serious basis, and was rejected by both
parties. M. Lavalette said that the Government of the
Emperor absolutely respected the neutrality of Belgium
even when there was reason to complain about it last
year with regard to the railways. During this month the
Emperor had made a declaration of neutrality with regard
to Belgium, and it had been communicated by
M. Gra-
mont to Lord Lyons, and it was absolutely binding on the
honour of the Emperor of the French, unless the neu-
trality was violated by the other belligerent. That was the
nature of the communication. (Hear, hear.) The sitting
was then suspended.

THE EVENING SITTING.
When the House reassembled at nine o'clock the at-
tendance was very small. The House immediately went
into committee of supply on the Civil Service Estimates,
and a number of votes was taken.
Progress was reported at half-past eleven, and the
House went into committee on the Census Bill. An
amendment proposed by Dr. Ball in clause 4 to insert
" religious profession " was reject..d on a division. Sir
John Lubbock, the member for Maidstone, moved an
amendment, the object of which was to secure an inquiry
as to marriages with first cousins. - The proposition was
pressed to a division, and the object of the hon. baronet
was defeated by a majority of 92 to 45 votes.
Other amendments were considered, and the bill passed
through committee. Several other measures were ad-
vanced a stage, and the House adjourned at a quarter to
three o'clock.

FEARFUL COLLISIONEA. AND LOSS OF LIFE
AT S

The particulars of a very fearful collision near the
Equator, which resulted in the foundering of the royal
Berkshire, of Sunderland, and the loss of seven lives, have
been received. The ill-fated vessel left Port Louis,
Mauritius, about the 9th of April, with a cargo
of sugar, for England. She crossed the line at
midnight on May 27th, in long. 23.44 W., and
on the 28th, at 1.40 a.m., weather thick with rain,
wind at W., the ship going between four and five knots,
and heading about N. by E. half E., on port tack, the
look-out man reported a light on the port bow, which
proved to be a red light within a quarter of a
mile. Captain Grant, the commander, came on deck
at the moment. The helm had been put hard aport, and
the captain repeated the order to put the helm hard up.
In the course of a minute, and whilst the ship was still
falling off, a greenlight came in view, and almost instantly
the strange sail struck the barque right abeam on the port
side, and she immediately began to sink. Six of the board
who were forward, had just time to jump on
the stranger, which proved to be the ship Bengal,
of Boston, United States, Captain Burgess. She
lowered her boats, and remained by the spot till
after daylight. Two more of the crew were picked up on
a spar the next morning by a boat from the Bengal.
Those who perished were the master, Captain Grant, and
his sister, two seamen, and three apprentices. Captain
Burgess, of the Bengal, treated the survivors with every
kindness, and landed them at -Rio on the 16th of June,
The Royal Berkshire was built in the Wear in 1862, and
was owned by a Sunderland firm.

The authorities at Genoa have seized a clandestine
magazine of arms, ammunition, and bombs. Several
arrests have been made.
A. London correspondent says that should the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reverse the judg-
ment of Sir R. Phillim or e, and condemn even Mr.
B
-
hen-
nett's modified views, a secession from the Churo
England is anticipated.
THE ARCHDEACON OF LONDON.—The health
of the venerable Archdeacon Hale has improved during
the week, but .he was not sufficiently recovered to enable
him to ke his duty as the Canon in en
e.
GrHis
place on Sunday was supplied bynt the Rev. i
Canon
hde-
ea-
gory. At the close of the prese Arc
con will be relieved by the Rev. Canon H. Parry Liddon,
M.A.—Rock.
The Bishop of Ripon, in reply to a memorial
from the clergy of the rural deanery of Wakefield, has
declined to sanction the holding of a diocesan conference
or sey
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da uyteuamr nb,
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ehaer caan large see iiinoe pm rose ose paesc th
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ha a
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vantage, under existing. circumstances of the Church,
re
from attempting to call into action a synod which would
neither have power to prescribe any rule or to enforce any
submission.
Mr. Allday Kerrison, the late Sir R. Harvey's
principal partner, appears to have been completely igno-
rant of the state of the affairs of the Crown Bank at Nor-
wich nntil the day on which payment was suspended.
! or the profits of the bank, but never verified the balance-
sheefs which were periodically put before.him ; and it has
now transpired that the amount divided was largere
than the profits. The average profits of the bank wer
about £20,000 a year. There are no less than three thou-
sand creditors of the bank, and it is expected that
the dividend will amount to from 12s. CA. to 15s. in the
pound.