The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-29 00:00:00

COST OF THE WAR TO FRANCE.

The Pays gives the following estimate of the expenses
and losses of France in the present war :—" War arma-
ments from 1868 to 1870, £40,000,000 ; fortifications des-
troyed, which will have to be rebuilt, £60,000,000 ; losses of
muskets, cannons, and other war materials de-
stroyed or captured, £60,000,000 ; destruction of
buildings and fields by both sides, £80,000,000 ;
total or partial ruin of manufacturers and other
proprietors, £40,000,000 ; war indemnity& to Germany,
£100,000,000 ; losses in consequence of the influence
of all these disasters, £Bo,ooo,ooo—total, £460,000,000.

The Birkenhead Commissioners have reduced the
salary of their medical officer of health by £2OO a year.
The Law Times has authority to state that Mr.
J. 0. Griffits has been appointed Recorder of Reading.
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During the past week 71 additional messages were
transmitted from the postal telegraph stations in the
United Kingdom than in the previous week.
It is stated that Professor Huxley has not with-
drawn his candidature for a London School-Board.

Scarlatina has broken out in an epidemic form at
Liverpool.
The first number of the Cambridge University
Reporter has just made its appearance, and will be con-
tinued every Wednesday during term.
We understand that Dr. Wesley's forthcoming
" European Psalmist" is dedicated " by special permis-
sion" to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.—Musical
Standard.
Mdlle. Nilsson, with the aid of the Handel and
Haydn Society, will (says the Musical Standard) give four
oratorio performances in Boston (U.S.) during November,
and four more in January.

A. correspondent of the North Wilts Herald
asserts that the sanitary condition of the town of Ciren
cester is simply deplorable. There is no sewerage, aud-
the town is said to be honeycombed with cesspools.
The health of Mr. Macnamara, Q.C., who was
recently appointed a magistrate at one of the metropo-
litan police-courts, but had to relinquish his duties on ac-
Count of illness, has considerably improved.

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We understand that Captain A. 11. Walker, the
senior professional member of the Marine and Harbour
Department of the Board of Trade, will shortly have the
honour of knighthood conferred upon him.
Mr. Gladstone returned to town on Thursday from
attending the wedding of his niece Edith Ellen, daughter
of the late Captain J. N. Gladstone, R.N., M.P., at
Bowden Hill, Gloucestershire, with Mr. W. A.
Dumaresq.
The Workmen's International Exhibition will be
closed on Tuesday next. As the prizes are very nume-
rous, it will probably be necessary to have a further
meeting after the close of the exhibition for the prize
distribution.
John Walter, the Liverpool pilot who accompa-
nied the yacht Cambria across the Atlantic.* the contest
with the Dauntless, has been dismissed from his boat,
besides losing his claim to a share of the boat's earnings
during his voyage.—Liverpool Courier.
A banquet was held at Bolton on Thursday even-
ing in honour of the opening of the new Conservative
Club in that town, the erection of which had cost up-
wards of 210,000. Upwards of 150 of the leading Con-
servatives of the district were present, amongst whom
were the Hon. Algernon Egerton, M.P., Mr. Hick, M.P.,
Lieut.-Colonel Gray, M.P., and Mr. Assheton, M.P.
A. circular .has been addressed to magistrates
throughout Ireland from the authorities at Dublin Castle,
in reference to the hardship inflicted on prisoners, and
the hakassing.duty.imposed on the constabulary conveying
them, by their being required to travel on foot, instead
of by some more expeditious and convenient mode of
travelling.
Since Thursday the barometer has risen briskly at
all stations, principally in the west and north. Tempera-
ture has risen generally, mostly in Scotland. Wick is,
however, still 14 degrees colder than Valencia. North-
westerly breezes are now prevalent on our coasts, light
generally, but strong in the south of Ireland. A heavy
ground swell" is again reported from the south of Ire-
land, and the sea is rough at Brest. Elsewhere it is
nearly calm.
FOREIGN CATTLE.—The report of the veterinary
surgeons at Brabant has shewn that the changes of the
atmosphere, and the unwholesome conditions to which
domestic animals have been subjected during many
months of the present year, are the causes of the prevail-
ing complaints. The easterly and northerly winds and
rains have affected the horses employed in the fields. As
for the pleuroneumonia of the cattle, that has been spread
by the carelessness of dealers, who place fresh arrivals in
stables that have been contaminated by diseased animals.
Thousands of cattle from all parts are placed in the meadows
between Firlemont and Leau, and it is not considered
prudent to send new animals among these troops without
having subjected them to a quarantine.