The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-08 00:00:00

MARKETS.

LONDON- CORN EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY.—There was very
little doing in the wheat trade to-day, but the continued wet
weather had the effect of imparting rather more firmness to
the quotations. Prices, however, were unaltered from those
current on Monday last for both English and foreign wheat. Bar-
ley was quiet, but no further change took place in prices.
Malt was dull at drooping currencies. There was a good show
of oats, which sold slowly at the late decline. Maise tended
downwards in value. Beans and peas sold slowly on barely
former terms, The flour trade was very quiet, but no altera-
tion took place in the quotations for either foreign or country
markets. Arrivals.—English ; Wheat, 490 ; barley, 10; beans, 40.
Foreign Wheat, 4,890 ; eats, 26,200 ; flour, 500 sacks and 14.990
barrels.

BOUTIIALL CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Thert were
good supplies at this market to-day, but trade was dull, at
lower prices. Primebeasts made ss. 6d. to ss. Bd. per stone ; second
qualities, 4s. to 4s. Od. There were good supplies of sheep.
Trade was dull. Prime sorts made ss. Bd. per stone. A few
beasts and sheep were left unsold.

WAKTFIELD CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—A small
show of both beef and mutton was made to-day ; prices were
from a farthing to a halfpenny per pound dearer. Small pigs
were eheaper, but fat animals were 7s. 6d. to Bs. per stone.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Opening
report:—lmports per bill of entry, 4,494 bales. The market
opened to-day as it closed last evening, with a quiet demand.
The sales are not likely to exceed 10,000 bales.
MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.--This
market to-day was very flat, and in order to sell producers
had to rest satisfied with the lowest prices current last week,
and even at these only a small business could be done. In view
of the startling political events which are now occurring on the
Continent, buyers seemed inclined to pause or limit their
operations to present wants until a more settled state of affairs
is arrived at.

LONDON TRADE REPORT, WEDNESDAY.—The tallow mar-
ket has ruled quiet, at 425. 6d. for old ; 445. 3d. to 445. 6d. for
new on the spot ; 445. 6d. last three months. Linseed oil is
quoted at 295. 6d. London; 295. Hull spot ; 295. 3d. last three
months. English brown rape, 41s. 6d. ; spot, 41s. ; month,
30s. 6d last four months: French turpentine, 28s. 64.1. ;
American, 28s. Saltpetre has not been inquired after.
LONDON COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—
The demand for sugar has ruled quiet to-day, but prices are
without material alteration. Floating cargoes are held firmly.
Barbadoes on the spot, 245. to 325. St. Lucia, 20s. to 225. ; St.
Kitt's, brown, 21s. Stocks of coffee continue on the increase,
owing to large imparts. Deliveries are good, and prices •are
firm, Cocoa has ruled steady in value and demand. Rice is
very dull, and drooping in value. Stocks have largely increased,
Tea Is without change of importance.

GLASGOW- PIG IRON MARKET WEDNESDAY.—This mallet
was steady ilso-day. Business was dono at 51s. Bd. cash. Closing
Sailers.

CLYDE CRUMED gt/GAR MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—There
liras a uonadembLe hi:whams done at this market to-day, and
pieta wore OM

FRENCH PREPARATIONS FOR CONTINUI4D

WAR.

There is great aethilty in the mechanical and metalhir.
glual establishments In the Basin of the Loire. At Rt.
Etienne, Rivetlegior, &c., the various firms are working
to the utmost csa etymons, armour-plates, bayonets, bul-
lets, &n. One lions° is also making armour-plates to be
used hi the protection of the mitrailleuse when opposed to
the fire of a hostile forte. In the case of one leading firm
the order to proceed with the manufacture of weapons is
unlimited.

Wilhelmshohe, where Napoleon has been directed to
take up hie residence, is one of '.he grandest palaces of
Germany. It is situate near Cassel, and with its cele-
brated park, adjoining chateaux, and horti•ultural
wonders, is an abode fit for an Emperor in the acme of
his prosperity and greatness.

The Prussians will shortly be before Paris. They will,
on arrival, cut the Lyons and Mediterranean and the nor-
thern railways, Our eastern mails will then be unable to pass
via Marseilles and Paris. "Is it not desirable," asks a
correspondent, " that the Post Office: should, by tele-
graph, arrange for the transport of the Eastern mails—
in the punctuality of which vast interests are concerned—
via Brindisi, the Brenner, Mayence, Cologne, Brus-
sels, and Ostend, until the route through France is again
free?"

Napoleon 111 is the seventh French Sovereign deprived
of his liberty by the fate of battles. Louis le Ddbonnaire,
in 829, was confined by his sons, with his second wife,
Judith, in a monastery, In 846 Charles the Bald was
made prisoner by the revolted nobles. John I. was made
captive at the battle Poictiers. He delivered up his sword
to a Belgian knight, Denis de Morbecque. Louis XI
was forcibly conducted by Charles the Bold in the
suite of the Burgundian army, which was going to
besiege the Li4geois, the king's own allies. Francis I.
was made prisoner at the battle of Pavia. Like King
John, he gave up his sword to a Belgian, Count de
Imumoy, Viceroy of Naples. Lastly, Napoleon I. sur-
mendered twice, in 1814 and 1815.

The Times correspondent says, " You will see In the
papers various accounts of the Empress's departure from
Paris. The facts I believe to be simply as follows :—To-
wards twelve o'clock on Sunday she left the Tuileries in a
plain carriage, accompanied only by M. Pietri, the Prefect of
Police: They drove to a station outside Paris,and there she
took the railway to Belgium. If Pietri accompanied
her beyond the station he did not go far, for he was back
in Paris in the afternoon, She may have left before
noon, or else she travelled fast, for she was at
Namur at 4.31 In Belgium the Court carriages
awaited her, and every deference was paid to her rank.
Before quitting the Tuileries she took leave of the
officers and ladies of the Court who were coming on and
going off duty, and thanked them graciously for their
services, ac. Some of them would fain have accompanied
her, but she said " No," that nobody could go with
her. Meanwhile Pietri was close at hand, in an inner
room, and they went off together. By a rather
curious coincidence, the three principal members of •
the Imperial family were at one and the same time in Bel-
giutn, but without communicating. The King of Prussia
asked the Belgian Government to be allowed to send, his
prisoner, Napoleon Bonaparte, through that country to
Germany, and the permission was granted. The Prince
Imperial is said to have gone to Brussels. The mob is
said to have done no mischief inside the Tuileries.

A five-year-old has won the Liverpool Summer
Coup, for the first time since 1851.

THE PROTECTORS OP THE PEOPLE.—An extraor-
dinary scene, which requires to be explained, is stated by
a contemporary to have occurred at the funeral of a
volunteer at the Ardwick Cemetery, near Manchester, on
Sunday last. 4 great concourse of people having as-
sembled to witness the spectacle of military obsequies,
the authorities of the ground determined to exclude some
of the crowd. An uproar took place, and it is alleged
that the volunteers used " the butt-ends of their rifles to
expel the people."
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THE -WAR.

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THE NEW REPUBLIC.
PARIS, Tuastaay.
We are back in the old citizen -days of the eighteenth
century, though whether we are to have another
Citizen King or not, remains to be seen.
We have all dropped the Monsieur, and though
the accidental introduction of the title will no
longer run the risk of bringing you to tho guillo-
tine, it is the order of the day to call everybody by the
old Libertas, Egalitti, and Fraternitti title, only we make
jokes over it instead of threatening to denounce one
anobiaer fog aristocratic tendencies. It is not the time
for jests, however, but for serious and united action. The
new Government have assumed a tremendous responsi-
bility In accepting office at the present crisis, and frean
what can be learned they seem to be fully aware of it.
The eentatioe In whislathey declared that they had been
eanunoned not to power but to peril, has already become
historical. Their organs express a full sense of the neces-
sities of thesituatian. The Elecksr Libre, which is tire
organ of M. Ernest Picard, the new Finance Minister,
who unites the professions of politics and lrltters, gives a
very interesting summary of the position of military
affairs. It says—" Sixty thousand men, composed of
General Vinoy's corps and the iranant of MacMahon's,
are concentrated at Laon, ready to march on Paris,
whilst one hundred thouiand of the army of
Lyons have been called to Paris. The depots
can furnish fifty thousand, these giving a total
of 210,000, all armed with chassepots. 20,000 volunteer
workinen in the service of the Republic are to make ready
the fort of Montretout and its defences within, a week.
In short, enlistment offices are to be opened in every Mairie
throughout the extent of the Republican territory.
Volunteers will be enrolled, and immediately despatched
to their posts in the army. A superior pay of three francs
a day will be allowed to the volunteers. of the Re-
public. A loan of two thousand milliems of francs,
guaranteed by a proportional tax, is opened by the
National Ministry. A commission of military supplies
will act immediately throughout the whole country.
The fleet will bombard Hamburg, or levycontribution.s on
that city. Private enterprise, free from all interference,
will furnish arms and draw supplieS from abroad. The
90,000 Remington guns for Sweden have been purchased;
Marshal Leboeuf shall be arraigned before a supreme
military tribunal, it not killed by the enemy. Three
national faxtories are opened at Tulle, St. Etienne, and
Paris ; 100,000 working gunsmiths are convoked for the
. manufacture of arms for the national defence. The
Prussians are proscribed from the rights of nations." No
effort is being spared within the capital itself to prepare
for the threatened siege, for the idea of surrender is as
far off n ever. The parks and woods within the Melts of
Paris now contain nearly 300,000 head of cattle, or nearly
150 times the amount of the city's daily consumption.
The stores of flour, salt, rice, coffee, vegetables, preserved
meats, tic., are in equal proportion, while an efficient
medical service has been installed is all the forts which
surround the capital. The enemy is advancing, on that
point there is no doubt. As the Patric emphatically_ ob-
serves, it- .is on Paris that the invading army is now
marching ; it is on Paris that the national hopes are to-
day centred. The proclamations which have been issued
by the heads of the several departments are full of into-
rest. That issued by General Trochu to the army, and
signed by the whole administration, declares that the
Government is not the Government. of one
party, but of the whole nation, and calls for
the close alliance of the army and the people for the
national defence. M. Arago, the new Mayor of Paris,
has appointed twenty mayors provisionally, as, under the
exceptional circu.mstances,it is not passible to wait for the
municipalities to elect them. He desires the new
officials to spare no exertion to arm the citizens in their
several arrondissements, and to hold themselves ready to
assist the national defences in every way. M. lidon
Gambetta, the new Minister of the Interior,
has addressed a circular .to the prefects—those
much abused prefects who have been so often and so un-
favourably before the public since the days- of Imperialism
began. M, crambetta after remarking on the perils which
surround them, says the new Republic has nothing to do
with political dissensions and idle quarrels. He desires
the prefects to surround themselves with men animated
by patriotic sentiments who will discharge their duties with
coolness and resolution. All prohibitory laws, including all
thosedisastrous laws which h aveso long hampered the manu-
facture and the sale of arms, are abolished. Every French.
man should take his gun and put himself at the disposition
of the authorities. The country is in danger. A number
of minor orders have been issued, all tending to the same
end, the organization of an efficient system of internal
defence.

The news. of the fall of the -empire and the pro.
olamation of the Republic has been very well received
throughout the great towns whose sentiments
Parisians were naturally anxiorts to learn. Lyons
in fact anticipated Paris and the Republic was
actually proclaimed in that city on the 4th. No
sooner was the news of the disaster of Friday known than
the people lost all patience and surrounded the prefecture
and proclaimed the Republic. There was some slight dis-
turbance, and the "Marseillhise " was sung, but no rioting
took place, though the people shouted loudly for arms to
defend their country. The tricolour flag which waved
over the Hotel de Ville was replaced by a red standard.
The Prefect left for Paris, the troops fraternised with the
people, and the following brief notice was speedily affiche.
" French Republic. Commune of Lyons. '
" The misfortunes of the country dictate to us our
duty. We decree the immediate arming of the nation,
the deposition of the Emperor, and the proclainatlan of
the Republic.
Lyons, September 4th, 1870.
- (Signed by the Provisional Committee tsf
_ Publics Safety)."
When the wonderful news arrived from Paris, Lyons
had not much left to do. At Bordeaux there is very
little pity felt for the fallen Emperor, and the crowd
seemed to -feel considerable satisfaction in destroying
his statue. There was very little attempt at
disturbance only towards nightfall, when a party
endeavoured to take vossessidn. of the Prefecture
to instal a triumvirate, they were opposed by the national
Guard. At Marseilles the terrible defeat of MacMahon's
army plunged the town into consternation. The second
batch of news announcing the proposition of Jules Favre
and the probable overthrow of the dynasty was received
with enthusiasm. Everywhere the whole blame of the '
national misfortunes seems to be laid upon the Empire.
At La Havre the enthusiasm was unbounded, and in all

directions, strange to say, the news of the sudden
anc violent change of Government seemed to

produce a feeling of confidence and to lull
anxiety. Since the terrihle revelations of the last few
weeks men have lost all confidence in the authorities
whether verbally or practically. The most in-
vidious stories of the malfeasance of high personages
and officials of all ranks are readily accepted. The affair
of the cartridges discovered to be filled with sand instead
of gunpowder is now explained by the statement that the
cases had been sent by mistake to the barracks instead of
to the Military School. This may be true buethe inci-
dent has left an awkward impression. •
Yesterday the gardens of the Louvre, those of the Place
Napoleon and the Tuileries were shut. On the doors of
the Louvre Museum were placed these words in writing, •
" Shut provsionally." The Senate and the Corps Legisi
latif aye closed. Peremptory orders were given that no
attempt on the part of the Senaters. and Deputies for the
purpose of meeting should take place► Several Senators
and Derutiev appeared• at the various entrances' of the
Palais Bourbon and the Luxemburg, but they -were
not permitted to enter. Barracks are in course
of erection on the esplanade des Invalides. They
Will serve for an encampment of troops. The
approaches to the Prefecture of Pelice are strictly .
watched, as rumours have been circulated to the effect
that attempts would be made by the .deputies of the
Right to take possession of the Rotel do Ville and Pre-
fecture of Police.

Victrtr Hugo arrived in Paris last night, the news
having boon spread that he would arrive by the Belgian
train at nine o'clock, an immense crowd assembled to
greet his appearance in Paris after an absence of nineteen
years. When Victor Hugo arrived the excitement was
so great that the crowd would not allow him to enter a
carriage and drive off, but insisted on his addressing
them from a window. He said :—" Words fail me to
express the feelings with which I receive this enthusiastic
greeting. Citizens, I said that the day the Republic
returned I should also return. Here I am. Two things
have called me hither—first the Republic, and next
bhe datigen Z have come to do My duty, 'AK is that
of yours, and of till—to defend and to s4a.ve- l'arrs:
To save Farb is to do more thail to save Prance, it is to

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA_Y, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870.