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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-30

GERMAX CAVALRY.

The Telegraph, speaking on the subject of the Prussian
cavalry, says :—The Uhlan is merely a light horseman,
whom the astute Prussian generals emplcy as cavalry ought
to be employed. They have well-nigh abandoned* to the
French comtnanders the fatal custom of launching
horsersoldters against fnf.sutry. The utter destruction of
4he Fre,nch Cuirassier regiments, which charged in the
face df ttje needle-gun and the shrapnel batteries at.
Woerth, has sheOn what must for the future be the
fate of heavy cavalry_ when matched against foot sol-
diers armed with the breech-loader and supported
by artillery. The Germans, it is true, have also
their ponderous squadrons of hore, which they have
once or twice flung against the French line, only to,
waste noble stuff ; but the major part of their splendid
dal/vary ;s light, and it is so numerous that.
it can be used to mask all their own move.
Ments, and, like a swarm of spies, to search
the country of the enemy ; to gather in-
formation from all quarter's ; to facilitate, and
often f4i fender' unnecessary, an armed at-
tack and to lieffikler, while harrassing the foe. General
Sheridan, who is noif litritir the Prussfan army, must be
wonderfully interested to see how Sherman's example,
with his renowned "raiders," has been developed
1.):-;t the eelaireurs of the Crown Prinf.e. Nelson
called his frigate the "eyes of his fleet," but the
Uhlans are eyes`, ears, and hands all in one; for, besides
picking up information from every point of the compass,
they have, by sheer andacltYl And the prestige of their
übiquity, also picked up towns villages for the main
army in their rear. It would be muilfs accurate, perhaps,
to call them the antennce of the host, fc,r. they at once
inform and shield the mass which sends them forth..
London, England, 1870-08-30

THE ARTILLERY FORCES.

A special army circular issued from the War Office was
received at Woolwich on Saturday last. Her Majesty
has approved of the following augmentation to the estab-
lishments of the undermentioned corps :—The Royal
Regiment of Artillery will be increased as follows,—viz.,
ten horse batteries each to be augmented by two shoeing
smiths, five gunners, 11 drivers, and 32 horses ; 12 field
batteries, each to be augmented by two shoeing smiths,
five gunners, five drivers, and 32 horses ; eight field bat-
teries, each to be aug-mented by one shoeing smith, five
gunners, and five drivers ; 16 garrison batteries, each
to be augment€d by 44 gunners ; 68 garrison batteries,
each to be augmented by five gunners. The Army Service
`'ores to be augmented by ten sergeants, ten corporals,
ten wheelers, ten saddlers, ten farriers, ten second cor-
porals, ten shoeing smiths, 400 privates, and 200 horses,
making the establishment 396 non-commissioned officers,
2,261 rank and file, and 1,104 horses.
London, England, 1870-08-30

THE EMPIRE DEFENDING ITSELF.

The Empire, it seems now evident, if it dies, will die
hard. It is defending itself unscrupulously and not un-
successfully against its internal foes. When the 011ivier
Cabinet fell, at the very time that the Liberals were con-
senting to postpone the day of reckoning, a new Ministry
was appointed by the Empress, taken exclusively from the
Right of the Chamber. A Committee of Defence was se-
lected in obedience to the, same rule. The Imperia
Government, whatever its adversaries might do, ab-
jured no enmity, laid aside no distrust. Every effort of
the Left to obtain a share in the direction of affairs has

been thwarted. The Emperor is rewarded for having
kept his packed Parliament, and his official candidates
have done him good service. Even to-day, when, at the
eleventh hour, MM. Daru, Talhouet, and Thiers have
been added to the Committee of Defence, they have been
obliged to accept their nomination at the hands of the
Government, and not from the Chamber. Count Palikao
holds his own against General Trochu, and declared to-day
in the Chamber that he would suffer no distribution of
arms to the National Guard to be made by " one of his
subordinates." So far this may be said to be lawful war-

fare, but other means which cannot be defended on any
score have been resorted to. The whole Administration
is Imperialist, and in France the Administration is all-
powerful. Praets and Sous-Praets have sedulously
pointed out to the population that the Opposition
is the cause of all our misfortune. It was the
Left who would not hear of war at first, who
wanted to reduce the number of soldiers and the money
votes in order that we might be beaten, and now it is the
Left which wishes to carry on the war a routrance in the
hope of upsetting the Empire. The Opposition is com-
posed of traitors—Legitimists, Republicans, Orleanists—
who desire the triumph of the enemy to overthrow Napo-
leon. They have sent money to the Prussians and
will open the gates of Paris. To stimulate this
Imperialist propagandism a number of Conseillers d'Etat
have been despatched into the provinces, where they per-
form the same sort of service that the Commissaries
of the Republic discharged in 1848. The effect. has
been wonderful, especially on the peasants. We are now,
in fact, threatened with a kind of Imperialist Jacquerie.
I could mention a dozen Deputies of the Opposition
whose lives would not be safe among their constituents.
M. Tachard, the deputy for. Mulhouse, was denounced
the other day as a friend of Prussia in a local paper. M.
Jouvencel, the representative of Seine-et-Marne, was
nearly stoned to death ; M. d'Estournel and M. ,
d'll4secques, both Deputies of the Somme, had a narrow
escape. All landed proprietors who are suspected of being
hostile to the Imperial Government are designated to
popular vengeance as friends of the Prussians.—Times'
French Correspondent's Letter of Sunday.
London, England, 1870-08-30

THE MISERIES OF WAR.

Here is the account of military glory which a delegate
of the Frankfort Society for the Relief of the Union
gives, in a letter dated from Remilley, August 21, where
he arrived after a twenty hours' journey :—" Remilley
is a pretty hamlet on the Nied, of one thousand inhabi-
tants, occupied chiefly by the well-to-do rentiers of Metz
and Nancy. The situation is charming, recalling Baden-
Baden. It has been selected as the centre for the wounded,
since here a good broad road leadsto Pont-6-Mousson, over
which all ambulance waggons have to be forwarded
from Mars-la-Tour and Rezonville. On our arrival we
found all the houses over-filled to the roof with
wounded. Many hundreds lay still in the streets,
the greater part wet through and without shelter.
A shelter for ourselves was not to be found. ' The only inn
—the Hotel cjes Voyageurs—was choked with wounded
officers. Nothing was to be had for money. We concluded
to pass the night in the railway carriage which had
brought us.'" Wt:soop'folind there would be no such re-
fuge. A little later 400 peasant waggons arrived filled
with wounded. As no cover could be hunted out

in any direction, and as no train could be despatched
with them through want of carriages, it was decided
to leave them all night in their waggons. One
can conceive their dreadful plight—they had taken
two whole days to travel from Rezonville to
Reinilley. The scene was heartrending. Few had any
covering but straw; the rain poured on them in torrents.
For their refreshment nothing was at hand but meat—no
bread, no wine was to be got. The male population had
flown some days past ; only old men, women, and chil-
dren remained. Luckily, the provisions we had with

us were available, and all night through we nourished
them with wine, brad, and other refreshments.
The twenty Sisters of Mercy present helped us most
energetically. Most of the new arrivals were badly
wounded in the engagement of the 18th, and the miserable
condition of the endless
,waggon-loads of these severely
wounded soldiers is simply indiscribable. And yet, what
we have seen is merely a small foretaste of what we have
to expect. The number of our dead and wounded at
Rezonville amounts to at least 20,000, and of the two pre-
vious days probably as many more."
London, England, 1870-08-30

PERILS OF RESIDENCE IN FRANCE.

The English chaplain in Marseilles writes to ex-
plain the difficulties which beset those unfortunate
strangers who find themselves at the present moment

in France. Too great reticence is looked upon with
as much disfavour as too great loquacity, and it is
extremely difficult, it not impossible, to keep the
juste milieu which may convince the authorities that
you are not a Prussian spy. The Marseilles chap-
lain merely entered a café and asked for a cup of
coffee, remaining ten minutes without speaking.
He had scarcely left the place when he was
followed by two men, who arrested him on the
charge of being a Prussian spy, and insisted on his
accompanying them to the Prefecture. He was
enabled to give satisfactory proof. of his innocence,
and sheaved that he had resided in the place upwards
of a year as an English chaplain, when he was set at
liberty. The men said they arrested him believing
him to be a stranger, and that from his silence in the
café, and his quiet and hurried way of leaving it, they
supposed he was a Prussian spy who wished to escape
observation. The moral which the writer draws is
that in the present excited state of feeling which
prevails throughout France, it is the duty of
foreigners who wish to escape even the possibility of
such annoying treatment to avoid all places of public
resort. It understinds that an Englishman is now
in custody through losing his pas!ports.
London, England, 1870-08-30

FRENCH PATRIOTISM.

In the extreme dullness of the London season just
at present, it is refreshing to find instances where
the housholders of certain fashionable streets have
not yielded to the general rule of allowing their
residences and shops to look dusty and miserable. It 3s
particularly enlivening to come across a street where
cheerfulness so predominates in some of the houses,
that flowers are even cared for on the

window sills, and doorsteps and panes of
glass are kept remarkably clean. There is
one building in New Bond-street, Messrs. Piesse and
Lubin, which seems to redeem that street, not only
by its general tidiness, .but also by the additional
ornamentation of a huge French banner hung from
the roof. Night and day, since the opening of the
present war, this banner hag' been floating in the
breeze, evidencing that, however prosperous
a home the tenants of this particular
New Bond-street house have found in
Englan3, their sympathy with their native land
in a time of peril has not diminished. Of this fact,
the tricolour is not the only evidence. Messrs. Piesse
and Lubin have already collected large sums for the
benefit of their sick and wounded countrymen, and
the energetic and patriotic manner in which they
have endeavoured to raise supplies for the French
is highly creditable. In the last appeal of Messrs.
Piesse and Lubin, for instance, it may
be observed that they assure those who
are willing to offer assistance that they themselves
will undertake to pack and transmit every article,
even " pale ale," that may be offered to benefit
the soldiers of France. It may here be stated that
although Prussian sympathy is believed to be very
strong in London, in no single case has a Prussian
firm exemplified its devotion to the Prussian cause
by elevating a handsome banner over its portals or
making it known that within those portals " anything
useful" to relieve German combatants will be
thankfully received.
London, England, 1870-08-30

FIRE AT CHATHAM.-NARROW ESCAPE

At two o'clock yesterday morninga serious fire occurred
at Chatham. Two houses were burnt and others much
injured. The fire originated at Mr. Tadman's beerhouse,
and seventeen persons who were asleep at the time were
with difficulty rescued. The inmates of the other houses
were in great danger.

TWO DEATHS BY A COLUIIItY RXPLOgiOIk.
Two men batted Artdiur arid Shires, both, Unionists,
died •Ydi'erciity from the effects of injuries received by
an explosion of fire damp, which occurred on Friday, at
the Newbiggin Colliery, Thorncliffe. Both men had just
resumed work after a lock out of seventy-three weeks.

THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS ON THE
TRUCK SYSTEM.
. _

The Roy6l Conith'issioli, appointed to inquire into the
thick system, and the alleged disregard of the acts which
prohibit in certain trades the payment of wages in
goods, commenced their work yesterday at Hamilton.
The proceedings were conducted in public. There were
nine witnesses examined, three of whom were on the mas-
ters' side, and the others on the part of the woikpeople.
The evidence went to show that stores are kept up to a
great extent by the system of cash advances, which are
asked generally by those men who misconduct
themselves. Thane-folicths of these advances are expected
to be expended at the store. It was affirmed on the em-
ployers' side that the articles supplied at the store were
as cheap and of as good a quality as those obtained
elsewhere. This was denied on the part of the
men. Weekly payments were objected to by the em-
ployers, as involving expense and inconvenience. The
Commissioners will sit at Hamilton until the end of the
week, when they will proceed to Glasgoi.v. They will
afterwards visit England.
London, England, 1870-08-30

CHINA.

•SHANGHAI, AUGUST 4.
Advices from Tientsin state that the foreign officials
are awaiting instructions from Europe in reference to
their future action. Meantime much evidence is being
collected, but no decisive steps have as yet been taken to
bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice.
Mr. Wade, the British Minister, has visited Tienstin.
It is reported that Tseng Iwo-fan, the Governor of
Chihli, has written a letter to Chung-how, the superin-
tendent of trade for the three northern ports, and the
Governor of Tientsin expressing his belief in the inno-
cence of the missionaries, and that the magistrates were
guilty of not restraining the outbreak.
No further attack is reported.

INDIA.
(By British Indian Submarine Cable.)

BOMBAY, AUGUST 29.
Mr. Donald McLeod starts for England on the 25th o;
September.

The ship Richmond has gone ashore near Kurrachee.
[The Times' correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs that
Mr. Justice Norman, in asserting his right to issue a writ
of habeas corpus outside Calcutta in the case of natives,
refused an application from the Whahabee prisoner. The
judge decided that the Indian Legislature had power to
pass the State Prisoners Acts of 1818 and 1858. The
Viceroy has the same power as Parliament, when it sus-
pends habeas corpus. Mr. Anstey asked for his client's
discharge under a writ of mainprise.]

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
PURSUIT OF GERMAN MERCHANTMEN.
The Yarmouth correspondent of the Central Press
telegraphs that two German merchant vessels have put
into Yarmouth Roads for safety, having been hotly pur-
sued by a large French ironclad. The. French ship
remains outside the sands on the watch.
London, England, 1870-08-30

OUTWITTING ENGLAND.

An uneasy feeling is said to prevail in political
circles respecting Belgiuli. Under the terms of the
New Convention England is bound to assist either
belligerent to drive the other out of that gallant
little State, and consequently neither of the com-
batants would be very sorry to see their adversary
infringe the treaty and outrage Belgian neutrality.

Prussia, with all her needlegtins mid her Landwehr,
France with all her high spirit and her indignation
a _ainst "perfide Albion," are both of them very
well aware, that England is a very formidable foe
and a very p9werful ally. It is, therefore, suspected
by some persons that there may be a mutual design
to drive the enemy on to Belgian ground. A few
d tys since it was thought that the Prussians in-
tended to aim at doing this, but it is now believed to
be, more probable that -the -French desire to bring
about the result. If by any means they could get
the Prussians into Belgium, and so secure English
assistance in driving them out, the uninterrupted
successes of the Prussians might receive a check.
London, England, 1870-08-30

ESTABLISHED FIFTY YEARS,

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London, England, 1870-08-30

QUEENSLAND AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The last accounts from Queensland state that the
northern gold-fields are rapidly developing, and the
mineral wealth of the colony appears in greater pro-
portions every day, more especially as regards gold
and copper. It is anticipated that the diggings at
Ravenswood may rival the famous Thames diggings
in New Zealand. The Queensland limes
states that the cotton crop will be a very indifferent
one this year. Tobacco-growing appears likely to be
one of the permanent industries of the colony. At the
Gympie diggings recently 140 tons of stone from the
New Zealand reef yielded 1,842 ounces of gold. The
stone was taken from a level of 150 feet from the
surface. In South Australia the Government is
prosecuting the project of carrying a line of telegraph
across the centre of the continent. Three parties
are to start forthwith to Mount Margaret to form a
line 75 miles north of Central Mount Stuart, where
they are to be met by a party working southward

from Port Darwin. The Commissioner of Crown
Lands has tabled in the Assembly his land regula-
tions providing that all lands available for agricul-
tural purposes be surveyed in blocks of 640 acres,
offored for selection at is. Per acre, and payable in
ten yearly instalments of 2s.

(II Du t
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London, England, 1870-08-30

DEaI'HS

On the 26th inst., at Sion Hill, Bath, James S. Fond&
vier, Esq., aged 65.
On the 26th inst., at Stockwell, Joseph Hawkins, Esq.,
of Hatfield-street, London, aged 76.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of
No.. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at
THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of be
Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.
Tuesday, August 30, 1870.
London, England, 1870-08-30

LAW REFORM IN INDIA.

' Legal reform in England gets on but slowly, but
in Anglo-India its progress is still more tardy. It is
true that the concentration of our law courts, which
has been talked about for a generation, is still a
vision of the misty future, but we are better off in
regard to the practical administration of the law
than our fellow subjects across the Pacific. Mr.
Fitzjames Stephen, the law member of the council
at Calcutta, is busy endeavouring to remedy the defi-
ciencies of Indian law by a supplement to the penal code
and a scheme of reforming the judicial establishments.
The first of these measures is very much wanted, if
we may judge from the list of omissions in the exist-
ing code. There is no punishment for manslaughter
by negligence, none for seditious language, none for
treasonable conspiracy. It is said to be a fact that
Sir Barnes Peacock forgot• the clause about sedition,
and it was left out of the code by mistake. This
was rather an awkward oversight in a
country like India, and it is quite time that
it was remedied. Then, again, a bankruptcy
bill has been ion; wanted. 'the changes proposed
in the judicial establishment will be very comprehen-
sive, and appear to be most desirable. The separa-
tion of the service into judicial and executive
departments will be suggested. by which means a di-
vision will be effected between the system of civil and
of criminal procedure. It would be surprising that
such reforms had not been carried out king since,
were we considering any country but India.
London, England, 1870-08-30

with twenty years of war, they seriously hampered
the allied forces by rising in insurrection around-
them. Now the people remain helpless in the provinces,
. and Paris wastes its time in political squabbles. It is
true that the conditions of war are now very diffe-
rent; but it is highly probable that an armed people
might have offered such resistance as would have
delayed the German march. A gain of time is all
that could have lee❑ expected or needed. The
Government might then hive drilled new levies,
and opposed a succession of fresh fronts to the ilk-.
vaders. No attempt of the kind, however, has been
made.
London, England, 1870-11-23

THE GAIUBALDIANS.

One has only to take up a batch of French papers
to be convinced that Garibaldi must be having a very
uncomfortable time of it. He is obnoxious to that
large section of the French people who are under
clerical influence, and thus lie impairs that unity of
action which is, before all things, needful at the
present crisis. He gets no efficient assistance from
the French Generals 5 he is involved in constant
squabbles with local authorities; and his men are
accused rightly or wrongly of bad conduct, At
Autun lfty of them broke into the palace of the
Bishop and ransacked the bedroom in which the
prelate was reposing. A private letter . says :
" Garibaldi . seems to have made more enemies than
friends in this part of France. His expulsion of the
Jesuit Fathers from Dole appears to have been
most arbitrary and unjustifiable in every'
way. The • Jesuits had bean lodging and
reeding, at their own expense, no fewer than 800
Mobiles for npwards of a mouth ; and there were in
their college at the time nearly a hundred lads, sons
of the most respectable people in the Department.
Some of the boys were ill with severe cclds, and a
few with fever." In general, the charge against the
Garibaldians is that they behave like brigands, and
against Garibaldi himself, that he Meddles with
administrative and judicial business, whilst his func-
tions are purely military.
London, England, 1870-11-23

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London, England, 1870-11-23

THE SDANISH PRESS AND THE NEW KING.

The general tone of the Spanish press is anything
but favourable to the new monarch. The military
precautions taken on the day of the vote gave great
offence to the independent papers, and they
revenge themselves by commenting satirically on the
total absence of popular enthusiasm. The Eco de
Espana says that since the 2nd of May, 1808, no
spectacle equal to that of the day of election has
been offered to the people, who looked on with pro-
found silence and supreme disdain. Madrid, it
adds, was influenced by sentiment of disgust
impossible, to conceal. The Discussion thinks
it was a poor result after so much exertion only to
obtain 191 votes in favour of the new king, when so
many of these belonged to public functionaries, A
king should not be elected without acclamation by
the people, and their sanction of his sovereignty. The
Pueblo cousiders it a gloomy augury for the
new dynasty to restore the old Conserva-
tive elements and interests. Two years of anarchy
have passed in seeking a man to accept the
Crown, and the first reception made him is the
threat of civil war. The Pais thinks the result of
the sitting scarcely satisfactory to the partisans of
Aosta, and makes especial allusion to the coldness
with which the proclamation of the votes was
received. Not a word, not a phrase, not a gesture
indicated the satisfaction of the Chamber, and
the President might rather have been pronouncing
an epitaph than an epitlialamium. The Politica ob-
serves all the diplomacy in the world could not con-
vince the great majority of the Spanish people that
the Europe of 1870, which could not even imagine an
English king in France, a French king in England,
a German king in Belgium, or a Latin king in
Austria, can expect to force an Italian king on Spain,
as if Madrid were Athens, or 'Bucharest, or the
capital of one of those improvised nations which
exist on the charity of the great Continental
Powers.
London, England, 1870-11-23

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London, England, 1870-11-23

ANTICIPATION IN THE PRUSSIAN LINES.

There was a general alarm last night, says the corres-
pondent of the Telegraph, in his letter from the Prussian
head-quarters at Versailles, dated November 15, to the
troops all round Paris. The men were supplied with
what is in Germany called " the iron ration "—that is,
rations for a couple of days, but of the minimum quan-
tity ; all the supports were ea pied till daylight, field
batteries horsed and limbered up, and so on. The same
state of things awaits the men to-night. Moreover, for
the third time since the King moved hither from
Ferrieres, his Majesty's personal luggage has all been
packed up in readiness for moving at ten minutes' notice.
The French are at Mantes, Vernon, and Dreux, in con-
siderable strength; a Prussian cavalry division retired
before them yesterday to Houdan. The Guard Landwehr
seven battalions and two batteries —received
orders this morning to march to the support of
the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg; but I have
just been told that their orders were countermanded, and
that they have not yet moved from their cantonments.
Part of Prince Frederick Charles's army arrived at
Etampes to-day, and is therefore within one day's march
of the Grand Duke's little host, and within two of the
enemy. There has been a great deal of n.ovement
round Valerien all day, and we hear that the Paris
army has had new colot.rs presented to it. An
early day will probably witness some hard fighting both
in our front and rear ; but the French have lost their
chance of doing great things, and will assuredly be
driven back on all points. The Prussian positions on
this side of Paris I believe to be absolutely , impreg-
nable, if held in sufficient force and with determina-
tion. St. Cloud is converted into a fortress—
the woods have been cut down, trenches cut, and
batteries erected for field guns, as well as breastworks
for infantry, rifle pits, &c.—every house and wall has
been loopholed, and the roads are strongly barricaded.
Some of the make-shifts employed in constructing the
square piano serves
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London, England, 1870-11-23

OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning

OUR MILITAI:V rkiGoE;;.
The Timis, in considering Lord Itusse .letter on

Russia, says his lordship renders, at all events, good
service by urging the necessity of getting our resources
to some extent in hand, if we are to speak with due

weight in the councils of Europe. The genius of
Force seems at this moment dominant in Europe,

and though the voice of reason is heard, the atten-
tion it commands is hi no small degree. proportioned
to the material power there may be behind it. if our
interposition in any quarter of Europe should, unhappily,
become unavoidable, what would be the lowest estimate of

our need ? Would it be unreasonable to require, first, v.

strong army, with a well qualified commissariat.; secondly,
an embodied Militia of 120,000 men, with 480 guns and
good officers ; and, thirdly, garrisons of British troops
in some colonial fortresses? Without some such
provision, could we pretend to interfere anywhere with
material effect ? And is there anyone, we ask again, who

can venture to give us an assurance that wo have any
such force available? It appears to us that these prac-
tical inquiries cannot be too strongly urged on the attention
of the Government. They have acted in a manner worthy
of themselves and of the country by taking a course, in

answer to the Russian demands, which placed it in the
power of others to force us to the arbitrament of war.
But, having done this, they would grievously neglect

their duty to the country if they did not look

the danger in the face, and at once commence prepara-
tions to meet it. In one word, Europe ,is .in such

a state that it becomes us to make sure we are not

taken unawares. We are not called upon to make
complete preparations ; but we are certainly called on to
place our establishments in such a state of efficiency awl
readiness that, if the decisive moment arrived, we could
move with promptness and without confusion.
London, England, 1870-11-23

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London, England, 1870-11-23

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London, England, 1870-11-23

FRENCH SHIPS OF WAR.

Four French ships-of-war are lying in Torbay, under
shelter, off Berry Head. One of them, being in want of
coals, has been supplied with forty tons from Brixham,

THE ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.

A telegram says, "The schooner yacht Cambria, be-
longing to Mr. James Ashbury, anchored hi Cowes Roads
at midnight on Monday night. She left Staten Island, New
York, on October 27th, and had a very rough passage
across, with head winds all the way. She is painted
white, and is flying the American ensign at her fore-
mast head, her racing and prize colours being at the

main."
London, England, 1870-11-23

TRADE IN IRELAND.

If Ireland has been good in collecting sums of
money for distressed France, the trials of the latter
country have materially benefited the Green Isle.
Now that the British supply of silks from France is
virtually suspended, ladies are taking to Irish poplins
with a kindliness which could scarcely have been
conceived, and not only is the demand for these
fabrics a home one, but requests for them come even
from America. To make the impetus to • trade
complete we are told that "Royal Patronage" has
not hem withhold, and that only last week Messrs.
Atkinson received from the Queen an order for
poplins, "ono of which, a very costly white and gold
tissue was to •be specially manufactured for the

trousseau of the Princess Louise." One of the effects
of the strong reaction, even in this one branch of
Irish manufacture has been to find full employment
for every one connected with the particular business
of poplin weaving, and also to compel the introduc-
tion of new hands to the extent of causing a violation
of sundry trade restrictions. Hitherto weavers have
only been allowed to take their eldest sons as appren-
tices, but the rule is about to be relaxed in favour of
second sons. At present about 1,509 persons aro
employed in the poplin manufacture, but it is said
that work for many more might be found did the
trade regulations sanction their employment.
London, England, 1870-11-23

LORD SHAFTESBURY ON THE CRISIS.

The Earl of Shaftesbury expresses himself some-
what fearful of the influence which may be exerted
by Mr. Mill's and Mr. Froude's denunciation of a
war policy against Russia. Undoubtedly the wish
of the nation is for peace. But Lord Shaftesbury
points out that all which Russia seeks to abrogate
rests on the basis of solemn Treaty, and
he trembles to see that so high an authority
as Mr. Mill, though widely different in spirit and in
style, is, in respect of the binding nature of cove-
nants, at one in principle with the Russian Chan-
cellor. Russia, his lordship says, is determined to
violate by force the terms of a treaty because they
are burdensome to her. Mr. Mill is not disposed
to observe them, when called into question, unless
they be so convenient that the country would be
ready to enter on them afresh. Such prin-
ciples as these are absolutely fatal. Every
future treaty may be signed with mental reser-
vation. It will be well, remarks his Lordship,
that England, having got rid of the present Treaty,
should take good care never to contract another for
any purpose or with any people.
London, England, 1870-11-23

PROFESSOR CAIRNES.

If the English nation go to war it will not be for
lack of warning from the leading. English writers
and thinkers. Mr. Mill and .Mr. Fronde have pro-
tested against a war with Russia on such a pretext
as that now offered. Professor Cairnes and Mr.
Freeman support their literary contemporaries. The
former puts the case neatly :—" What com-
pletes the Quixotism of the situation is, that it is
admitted that the substance of the Russian demand,
or something tantamount to it, must be conceded.
We should, therefore, go to war, not to accomplish
any definite practical result, but to compel Russia, to
ask our permission to do something—a permission
which, we announce beforehand, we are prepared to
grant if only the request be respectfully preferred."
Professor Cairnes suggests that the real origin of
the war cry is the desire to correct the
continental impression that England is afraid of war,
and that she may with impunity be treated as if she
were of no account in Europe.
London, England, 1870-11-23

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LAST WEEK OF THE ENGAGEMENT.

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THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.

Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, in retiring from the candidature
for a seat at this Board, has forwarded the following
letter to Mr. Joseph Guedalla

" Reform Club, Nov. 17th, 1870.

" Mx DEAR SlR,—Whatever strength I may have must
be joined to yours. -I know your energy and experience
in the good cause, and both will be of great service in
helping to keep the Board from being all that it should
not be. I yield my own claims to secure, at least, one of
the right men in the right place. I hope and believe that
I can be of service to the cause of that unsectarian
education which can alone be made compulsory (and
therefore of universal application in our country) outside
the Board, in the ways in which I think you have per-
ceived me working during many years. Indeed, my
time is so much occupied with the literary labour I
have to do, and my strength has been so tried with
that which I have done, that I have been advised by
many friends to pause before taking up a new burden.
You, however, will hold steadily to the winning post,
and snatch at least one seat from the coalition of secta-
rians, that threatens to establish a free fight of sects iu a
deliberate assembly, intended by Parliament to be. a
with the childrenntiai—e the
of
sad
gathering of wise, known, liberal-minded and sympathetic
men,
twhheoirlwit ltson, and—which is more essential—the
egb familiar
lives and dismal prejudices of their unfortunate parents.
I ventura to commend your candidature to the many
distinguished friends in Marylebone who promised to
work for me, and also to the voters who were gather-
ing round me.—My dear, sir, yours very faithfully,

" BIANcHARD JziaitoLv.'!.
London, England, 1870-11-23

F.REEMAN.

Mr. F. A. Freeman, the historian of the Norman
Conquest, holds that the real object of the
Crimean War was to serve the crafty policy of Louis
Napoleon. We were inveigled into supporting him
on his usurped throne, whilst we imagined that we
wore pursuing some tangible Eastern policy. Why
repeat the error now that the tyrant has passed
away ? Let us keep clear of any quarrels that Russia
and 'turkey may engage in. ague should never er.-
(lure those restrictions on the common rights of inde-
pendent nations which Russia is now trying to throw
ofr. Russia may have chosen an improper way of
trying to throw them off; but we are not to plunge into
the horrors of a needless war because of diplomatic
»iceties. The plain fact that .the treaty is one
which no nation ought to have imposed on another."
London, England, 1870-11-23

THE LEI)BUJIY SCANDAL.

The hearing of the case " Jackson v. Martin " was
resumed yesterday before the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsford,
the Archbishop of York, and the Bishop of London were
present.—Sir John Karslake, Q.C., continued his
address on the part of the appellant. The learned
counsel argued the impossibility of the girl Parry's
statement being true, and illustrated his remarks by a
model of the Lodbury rectory house. He drew their lord-
ship's attention to the contiguity of the various rooms in
which the offences were alleged to have been
committed, and submitted that the pretended
secrecy stated by Parry was utterly impossible. Yet
it was upon such evidence that the official
Principal of the Court of Arches formed his judgment.
The course which Mr. Jackson adopted when Parry first
complained of illness was such as told strongly in his
favour upon that occasion. Dr. Griffin accused her of
being enceinte, and Mrs. Jackson being made acquainted
With the fact, gave the girl notice to leave. She said
nothing then to incriminate Mr. Jackson, which, if the
rest of her story was true, she would have done. After
having occupied the attention of their lordships for some
time by reading extracts from the affidavits, the learned
counsel submitted that he had shewn that the opinion of
the Dean of Arches, with regard to the straightforward-
ness of William Joy as a witness,, was not supported by
the evidence. The learned counsel's address not being
completed at four o'clock, the further hearing of the case
was adjourned.
London, England, 1870-11-23

EDUCATION IN ►SCOTLAND.

Before we have by any means satisfactorily dis-
posed of the education difficulty in England, we are
threatened with a re-opening of the whole question
next year in the shape of a Scottish Education Bill.
Mr, Grant Duff; the Rector of Aberdeen University,
has recently censured severely the system,
almost exclusively . classical, on which the
course of 'instruction in that institution is based.
Many leading Scotchmen share this view.
In Scotland, at leaskreformera have not to complain
of the apathy. and. obstructiveness of parents or of the
public indifference. From the days of John Knox
ignorance has been regarded as a common enemy.
The sturdy reformer himself and his associates
designed a complete system of national education.
Part of the revenues of the Church lands was to
maintain the clergy, the rest was to be devoted to
paying for secular instiuction. Every large town
was to have its university, every parish a group of
schools, and, as the value of the lands would natur-
ally have increased along with the population, the
educational machinery would have been sufficient to
supply all wants. The greed of the Scottish nobles,
who wished to keep the ecclesiastical lands for
themselves, defeated the purpose of the early Re-
formers, but national education in Scotland has
always been far in advance of neighbouring nations.
Every pariah has a good school, and even the
peasantry, with industry and talent, can make
their way to the Universities. llowever, the people
have now outgrown their system, and the national
demand for au improved and extended educational
London, England, 1870-11-23

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NEWS VIA BERLIN.

In BERLIN. November 22 (11.55 a.m.)
Austria the soldiers whose term of service is
TLaN being sent on furlough.
Zit," Paris Journal Officio! avows that since the
avi.,,l Of October the city has been so closely invested
ba:"" I
Possible.
render c mmunication with the Tours Govern-
Llt
1001:3Patches were regularly sent to Tours by bal-
q but no answers were received.
No I3neral Manteuffel having reached Gisors, the
ertketandy force, under Bourbalii, is prevented from
A ing the contemplated juncti n with the Loire
I‘l,lll.
k;;Ille two Polish Bishops of Prussia have petitioned
hiragn_Williain in behalf of the Pope, reminding
th, that the German Emperors always protected
"i.,131Y See.
Strftsburg-Kehl Railway is re-opened.
The BERLIN, November 22 (Afternoon).
is -kreutz Zeitung says that the end of the war
at band.
rlle
French Army of the Loire is doomed, -and
tb, ;Is abandoned to famine. The journal quotes
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London, England, 1870-11-23

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

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London, England, 1870-11-23

AMERICAN EXPORTS OF ARMS.

A memorandum from a trustworthy source shews
that the United States have sent to France
since last September nearly 400,000 rifles, with up-
wards of 50 million cartridges, about 60 cannon, five
Glatlina mitrailleusss, ar.d 2,000 revolvers. In this
memoranduth the names of the vessels and the
extent of their cargoes are given ; but it is matter
of no question that many shipments have not been
reported. Llas the North German Minister at Wash-
ington made any. representations similar to those ad-
dressed to the British Government ? We believe
not. The inconsistency of reproaching England with
exporting a few hundred arms, whilst remaining on
good terms with a nation that exports them whole-
sale, is so absurd that for the present the German
papers are silent Oil the subject.
London, England, 1870-11-23

A CAUTION TO POSTMEN.

Tho Post Office letter carriers are admittedly a
deserving and well-conducted class of men, and a
drunken postman during official hours is a phenome-
non. At Manchester a letter carrier
has been fined in the heavy, but not too
heavy, sum of £5, for being helplessly
drunk. The man was discovered in a warehouse
during the forenoon, and ho had with him fifty
undelivered letters. For an offence of this character
a magistrate can inflict a penalty of £2O, such is the
importance which the Legislature attaches to a sober
corps of letter deliverers,
London, England, 1870-11-23

THE RETURN OF THE CA3IBMA.

Everyone will hear with pleasure the news that
Mr. Ashbury's yacht has arrived safely at Cowes,
after two perilous Atlantic voyages, undertaken
chiefly to prove English yacht superiority on the
ocean. The Cambria, on the return trip, occupied
twenty-five days in making the passage, and the
greater part of the distance must have been gone
over iu heavy sea weather, Wo believe we. are
correct in stating that Mr. Ashbury himself has not
now come over with the Cambria, as in the
American papers we find that the members of the
San Francisco Yacht Club gave him a cordial recep-
tion on the 2nd of November. After the dinner given
on this occasion Mr, Ashbury declared his intention
of sending out an English prize to be competed for
by vessels of the club. He also informed his audience
that a new ship was now being built for him in
England with which he expected to win back from
America finally and for ever the great prize carried
away from Great Britain fourteen years ago by a
United States yacht.

A correspondent of a contemporary tells an anec-
dote respecting the circumstances which led to the ter-
mination of the relations between the Foreign Office and
Mr. Henry Labouchere, who is now in Paris :—When at
the Court of Florence, Mr. Labouchere received an order
to present himself without delay, at the British Embassy
at St. Petersburg. In reply Mr. Labonchere wrote to
the Foreign Office, stating that, as no allowance was
made to attaches for travelling expenses, and as he could
not afford to pay the railway fares, he intended to walk
from the Italian to the Russian capital, and might, there-
fore, be expected at St. Petersburgh in about three
months.