The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-23 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1870.

At the same time immense sheets of flame were belching
forth from the ground floor and rising to the first
story. The staircase and the upper landing were also on
fire, which prevented any one from either ascending or
descending to render the least assistance. The poor crea-
tures at the second floor window could see the top of the
fire escape coming to their rescue, when the flames entered
their rooms with such rapidity that to avoid being burned
to death the whole of the endangered persons jumped
out of the windows. By so doing they were all seriously if not
fatally injured, and they were removed to the hospital. Their
names are Henry Cox, aged 22, a greengrocer, who occu-
pied the front shop and the front rooms on second floor;
Henry Welsh, aged 20, and Frederick Thomas, aged 13.
The other portion of the premises, which stood at No. 6,
Church-street, belonged to Mr. T. Lewis, a tobacco pipe
maker, and upon the alarm being given two men, one
named Thomas Dennie, 60 years of age, and his son Thomas,
aged 14, were unable to effect their escape, and
unfortunately both were burned to death. The
flames were not extinguished until the premises, con-
sisting of seven rooms, were burned out. When the ruins
were suffieiently coded Mr. Dennie and his son were
found burned in a fearful manner, and, of course, quite
dead. Their remains were placed in shells and removed to
the workhouse to await the coroner's inquest. The other
parties who jumped out of the window before spoken of
still remain in the hospital, and were pronounced to be
in a very precarious state.

ICHE MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY; Two o'CLocx.

Business in the Stock Market is very depressed,
Government securities being lower. In foreign there is
little change.
Consols are now 911 to 911 for moneyiand 911 to
911 for account; 'Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 to 91k;
New Three per Cents., 911 to 911 ; India Five per
Cents., 1111; ditto Four per Cents., 101 to 1001 ;
Metropolitan Board of Works, 31 per Cent. Stock, 921 to
921.

In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of 1865 are
91 ; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864, 85 to 87 ; ditto
of 1868, 75 to 744:; Spanish of 1867, 27 to 261; ditto of
1869, 2641t0 252 ; ditto Quicksilver, 744 to 74 ; Peru-
vian, 87 to 86i; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 44 to 434;
ditto of 1869, 58 to 574; and Five per Cent.. Italian of
1865, 77 to 82.
The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 65 4 ; Great
Eastern 354 to 344 ; London and Brighton, 394 to 404 ;
Caledonian, 754 to 744; South-Eastern, 69; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 414 ; Great Northern, 1224 to
1224 ; ditto (A), 181 ; North Eastern, 140.; London
and North-Western, 1272 ; Midland, 127 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 131 ; Great Western,l6Bl.
Canada Six per Cents. are quoted 1064 ; New
South Wales Five per Cents., 102 to 1014; New
Zealand Five per Cents., 982 to 99; Queensland, 106 8;
Victoria Five per Cents., 111; and ditto Six per Cents.,
113.

Anglo Mediterranean, are 131 ; British Indian Exten-
sion 6 to 61 ; Falmouth, n to 91; British Indian
Submarine, 71j.
In American Securities, Five-Twenty Bonds are quoted
at 88 to 88i; Ten-Forties, 82 to 83}; Erie Shares, 171
to 17i ; Illinois, 107} to 108 i.
In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 14 ; Anglo-
Austrian, 22 ; Chartered Mercantile, 25 to 27 ;
Consolidated, 41 prem.; Imperial Ottoman, 12
,; Lon-
don and County, 49 ; London and Westminster, 60} 591 ;
London Joint Stock, 33i ; and Union of London, 36 37.
In Miscellaneous Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted
141; Viceroy of ,Egypt 7 per cent. Mortgage Loan, 76};
National Discount Company, 111; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 42.
The incomprehensible delay in laming the new French
Loan has caused the intended price to be reduced every
day as events hurried on. The price, which was fixed a
few days back at 62, is now to be 60 6-10, with interest
from the Ist of July. The amount is to be equal to 30
millions sterling in cash, of which 25 per cent. is to be
paid on application, and the balance in eight instalments
extending from the 21st of October to the 21st of May,
interest at the rate of 5 per cent. being allowed for prepay-
ment. Subscribers will receive the full amount
of their applications so long as the whole
amount has not been absorbed, but when the ap-
plications shall reach a point in excess of the 30
millions a proportionate reduction will be made for that
day. Making allowance for prepayment and the interest
accrued from the Ist of July the price will be below 60,
and the impression of Parisian capitalists seem to be that

will be readily taken and will go to a premium.

Operations in anticipation of the new French Loan,
coupled with the effect of the large payments to be made
from this side for stocks and manufactured goods now
being sent here from France, have caused a demand for
gold for Paris, and consequently, in addition to the
50,000 sovereigns withdrawn from the Bank of England,
all that is offered in the market is taken for transmission
thither.
According to the Australian advices by the present
mail, the Government of Victoria have sent an order to
England for 120 miles of steel rails.
The half-yearly meeting of the Mutual Tontine (West-
minster Chambers) Association (Limited) will be held on
the 6th of September.

The ordinary general meeting of the Mediterranean
Hotel Company (Limited) is called for the 24th of
August.
....

The ordinary general meeting of the Surrey Corn
mercial Dock Company will be held on the 15th of
September.

HELP FOR THE WOUNDED.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

you kindly give publicity to the fact that
on Saturday morning next at two o'clock we intend giv-
ing a representation of our comedy of the " Two Roses',
for the benefit of the fund now being raised for the sick
and wounded soldiers of the French and German armies.
Per haps it may induce Rind-hearted people to add their
mite, especially when they are told that everybody on
the establishment has given their gratuitous services in
so laudable a cause. The proceeds will be handed over
immediately to the Lord Mayor, and the amount
announced from the stage, in the course of the morning.—
We are, sir, your obedient servants,

MONTAGUE, JAMES, and THORNE.
August 22nd.

OUR RESERVE FORCES.

TO THE EDITOR OF 'TUE SUN.

SlR,—The subject of our reserve forces calling for
public attention, will you allow me to offer a few sugges-
tions, which may make them available and useful. Almost
every Line regiment has a county distinction, as have
also the Militia and Volunteers. Take, for example, the
67th, or Hampshire, Regiment of the Line ; let that be
styled the Ist Battalion Hampshire ; the Hampshire
Militia 2nd Battalion, Ist Reserve ; the Hampshire
Volunteers 3rd Battalion, 2d Reserve. The recruiting for
the Line regiment, or Ist battalion, to be entirely from
the 2nd battalion, Ist Reserve, the vacancies in which
should be filled up as they occur by volunteers from the 3d
battalion 2d Reserve. If the Volunteers were distinctly
informed that they were looked upon as forming a com-
ponent part of our regular army there would never be a
lack of men obtainable by the Volunteer officers to
speedily fill up vacancies caused by the absorption of the
2d battalion or militia by the Ist battalion or line regi-
ment. Let the Militia and Volunteers be formed into
brigades, with a proper staff, and drilled in brigade for a
fortnight, assisted by any line regiment available. The
drill might take place in the autumn, after havvest ; this
drill would create as it were a perfect unit out of a
number of infinitesimal particles ; appoint officers
to the vacancies in the reserve from the half-pay list ;
increase the half-pay of those officers 2s. per diem the whole
year round; let the appointment of all officers rest solely
with the War-office ; by giving the Militia 28 days'
training in the spring, as well as fourteen days in the
autumn with the Volunteers and Line. An increase of
expenditure would of course take place, but it would be
counterbalanced in a measure by the reduction of the
expence in obtaining recruits, as being transfers from their
several battalions, the expense of bringing money and
other incidentals would be done away with. The Artillery
and Engineer Volunteers and Militia might act as reserves
for supply of men to the regular forces of that arm. The
Welsh Rifle regiments might form reserves to the Rifle
Brigade and 60th Rifles, those corps having no county
distinction. Any Militiaman or Volunteer joining the
Ist Battalion should be allowed one-third previous ser-
vice towards pension or discharge.
I will say nothing as to the manner in which many of
our Militia regiments are at present officered, but while
the present system of selection and appointment exists,
there will never be a change for the better.—Yours
obediently, DANIEL M`CAY,
Late Captain 55th Foot, and Denbigh Militia.
79, Tavistock-crescent, Westbourne-park,
19th August, 1870.

THIS MORNING'S NEWS.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.)
FALL OF A GRAND STAND.

During the meeting of the United Athletic Sports and
Pony Races, inaugurated at Leicester, yesterday after-
noon, a stand containing about a hundred persons sud-
denly fell. Several were severely injured, but fortunately
none were killed.

OAPTURE OF A PRUSSIAN BARQUE
OFF PLYMOUTH.
(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
2, Prussian barque was captured yesterday out•
side Plymouth sound, about five miles out-
by a French paddle-wheel steamer. The opera-
tion was distinctly seen from Plymouth. The
barque was taken in tow by the steamer, and they
steered eff in the direction of Cherbourg. The North
German consulate at Plymouth know nothing of the
Pei3sian ship.. When first seen she had all sail set, and
was making with all speed for neutral waters.
The steamer, however, ovevtook her and steamed
round her twice, making a signal to stop. The signal
I,:,:nts disregarded the steamer fired a shot across the

Prussians bows, and steamed up close as if about to board.
The barque then surrendered, and a boat's crew from the
French vessel put off to her, took possession and left a
crew on board. Sail was then taken in, and the barque
put in tcw. Many of the spectators who watched opera-
tions from the shore believe that the barque succeeded in
reaching neutral waters. The crew of the Iron Duke,
which was cruising near the spot at the time, will be able
to give a more trustworthy opinion upon that point.
Another Prussian barque, which, having discharged
her cargo, left Dartmouth on Wednesday, hoping to creep
round the coast to some port where she would find a pur-
chaser, or else seize a favourable moment for running to a
German port, was, it is announced by a telegram from her
English pilot, captured by a French steam ram of? the
We of Wight. She was taken to Cherbourg, where her
;aptain and crew are imprisoned.

AT THE IMPERIAL CAMP.

A correspondent of the Standard, writing from Mour-
melon, whicu is not far from Chalons, on Saturday, gives
some details of interest respecting the accumulation of
the second French army before Chalons. He says :
" Knowing that the communications from Montmedy to
:Iheims were not interrupted, and that I had plenty of
time to catch one of the trains within twenty-four
boars, I started yesterday morning from Virton,
in the direction of Longuyon, and from there to
Briey, where I knew fighting had been going on all
day, and also with the hope to make direct for the French
army, and if not successful to retreat on the Montmedy
railway line, the only one now 'by which you can com-
municate from the frontier with Chalons. At Longuyon
some peasants gave me the positive information that the
Prussians were at Pierrepont, a few miles distant, and
on the railway line to Vionville. I continued to advance
as far as I could judge, as far as the village of Beuveille.
The road to that village runs through a continuation of
undulating grounds, thickly wooded. The village was
abandoned, and from the summit of a hill I could dis-
tinctly see the Uhlans making for the railway line, and
at another distance a lot of men working on the railway
- the Prussians cutting the rails, as I have ascertained
since ; so the only communication remaining with Metz to
convey the'wounded, via Vionville, must be now entirely
cut. I retreated at full speed on Montmedy, where I
arrived at night in time to start for Rheims, and from
thence I came at once.here, the camp at Monrmelon, five
leagues, from Chalons, the 'present quartier Imperial and
general. The camp is now occupied by a force, it is said,
of 200,000 men. The Guard Mobile is at St. Maur, under
Paris, and the troops of all descriptions are congregating
here, including Marshal MacMahon and his corps d'armee,
&c. It is said that this very night a great stra-
tegic movement, in preparation of a battle, will take
place ; that the Emperor is leaving ; that all the troops
are leaving, and that all is nearly prepared to face the
enemy in the great struggle which has been pending
for the last few days. Hundreds of carriages
and carts of requisition, that I know so well
since my incidental voyage on Monday last, are loading,
or staying around the immense camp. It looks exactly
the same as on the now famous Sunday last, when we
thought of leaving Metz at once, and when I was witness
of a great combat. I believe my calculations to be right
and my movements in the right direction. I firmly
believe I am going to be present at a great battle, perhaps
decisive. I am at my post, and I shall stay.
The camp is so large that I have had scarcely
time yet to meet many friends, and I cannot give
you any more details than those you have already
about the retreating army, followed by the Prussians,
under Prince Frederick Charles. The fighting has been
going on up to yesterday morning, and some p eat stra-
tegical advantage must have been obtained at the cost of
many thousand victims on both sides. Up to Thursday
night the advantage has been on the French side ; but it
is impossible to know what was done on Friday by the
different Prussian, armies. The Crown Prince has been
probably maiming our right wing, and I expect a great
battle is imminent. Everywhere in the vast tract of
country I have just travelled through I have met country
people emigrating, with their goods—all having the
appearance of desolation and terror. Sad sight I Imn'ense
misfortune