The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-31 00:00:00

THE REPUBLICANS AND PEACE.

The correspondent of the Daily News, in a letter from
Tours, under date Oct. 26, writes : What will take place
if, as I fear, are again badly beaten on the Loire ?
As I expected, the Republicans won't hear of peace.
The Government know very well that if they make
peace under a reverse, those who have put them up
will knock them down again without any scruple.
Yet it is difficult to see what they really expect to do.
If they win the next battle—and nothing is impossible—
all may go well, for the French troops will thus take a
little courage. But we have yet to gain that battle, and
I am arguing in the much more probable hy-
pothesis that they lose it. That battle then
being lost and the troops scattered in the way
they were at Reichshoffen, what will become
of the Government. We shall immediately have
all kinds of strife and contentions. What took place
after Sedan with the Imperial Government, will perhaps
take place with this. But this Government will, no
doubt, dispute its seat with those who may attempt to dis-
lodge it. At the same time the Prussians will be running
over France more than they are now. As yet it is only one-.
third of France which is ruined, and out of that third most
of the rich people have fled, taking their money with
them, which they are spending here and in the uninvaded
parts of the country. In the invaded parts there is misery,
no money but paper money, local_ banks have stopped
payment, everything is at a standstill and ruined;
but here there is nothing of the sort. Here, and in
all the South, there is abundance of money, abun-
dance of food, tradespeople are coining money ; that is
why they do not realise what will probably come upon
them ere long. Here, I think, everybody who possesses
anything would be quite ready to make peace.. In the
South, where they are farther off from the immediate perils
they are perhaps more enthusiastic for war; but, on the
whole, all thinking, and all substantial people, are for peace.
It is the Republican 4 who swear they will not make peace,
it is the Republicans who (in a word) only exist through
this war, who declare " Not an inch of ground or a stone
of the fortresses shall be surrendered." As for the army, I

tell you it sighs for peace at any price. We are verging
towards such a chaos of conflicting parties, that it is im-
possible to form any idea of what this country is to become.
I think the Government are in a terrible fright about the
Army of the Loire. They have propped up the hopes of
their party so much upon it, that if it were to fail, the
consequence would be terrible 1

WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ExIIIBITION, AGRI-
CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON.—The number of visitors,
exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors, and
others, on the 29th inst., was 8,037.

The Bishop of Winchester has nominated the Rev.
Canon Gregory to be Rural Dean of Camberwell.
INGRATITUDE.—it is said that Captain R.A. E.
Scott, RN., has been placed upon the retired list with-
out any reward being given him for the signal benefits he
has conferred upon the navy by his inventions of gun
carriages, &c.
The Orchestra states that Mr. Sothern's brother-
in-law, the Rev. Thomas Cowan, of Everton, Liverpool,
has died suddenly from heart disease. It may be remem-
bered that Mr. othem comes from a Liverpool family ;
that his father was the head of one of the merchant firms
that of Messrs. Sothern, Bromilow and Company. Mr.
Sothern himself was born and educated in Liverpool.

ACCIDENT TO MR. R. EYKYN, R.
Eykyn, M.P. for Windsor, sustained an accident in the
hunting-field on Friday. A horse standing near the hon.
gentleman suddenly lashed out, kicking him severely
in the leg. He was removed to his town residence in
Upper Grosvenor-street, and is now under medical
attendance. It is hoped that the accident is not of a
serious nature.

Mr. John Gorrie, of the Scotch Bar, who was a
member of the editorial staff of the Morning Star (Lon-
don) up to the time of the decease of that journal, and
who since then has held the office of Substitute to the
Procureur and Advocate-General for the Island of Mau-
ritius has just been raised to the Mauritius Bench. The
appointment is stated to have been made by the Colonial
Secretary on the recommendation of the local authorities.
Mr. Gorrie, who was educated at the University of Edin-
burgh, was admitted a member of the Scotch Faculty of
Advocates in 1856. His salary as Substitute to the
Procureur-G6neral of the Mauritius was £720, while a
puisne judgeship of the Supreme Court is worth £1,200
per annum.

The Bonn Gazette announces that Professor Tyn-
dall has sent to a friend in Bonn £5O for the wounded.
In the letter accompanying the gift he expresses his regret
at the desperate position of France, but acknowledges
that it has been incurred through her guilt. He also
quotes the following sentence from a letter addressed to
him by Mr. Carlyle with respect to the war It is such
an instance of Michael versus Satan as I have never read
in all history before."
THE MANAGEMENT OF BUILDING SOCIETIES.—Some
disclosures of importance in relation to this subject have
been made in the Chambers of Vice-Chancellor Bacon.
An application was made for the appointment of an officer
for the liquidation of the Durham County Permanent
Benefit Building Society. It transpired that, although
the rules clearly made it illegal, the directors had invested
£23,000 in the purchase of a freehold estate at. Middles-
borough, Yorkshire, as well as borrowed money to the ex-
tent of £35,000. The real object of the society was to ad-
vance money to members and shareholders to facilitate the
acquirement of house property; but in consequence of the
independent speculations of the directors, the society had
become so involved as to be quite insolvent. Another
medium adopted for procuring money was the establish-
ment of a penny bank ;. and it was stated that the direc-
tors had no pecuniary Interest whatever in the society,
being merely paid officers. The appointment was deferred
for a fortnight, so as to ensure the selection of an
independent person for investigating the affairs of the
society.

LOSS OF A FISHING BOAT.—While the herring-
boat Jim, Clovelly, North Devon, was riding to her nets
on Friday morning, in a heavy sea, the weather being
squally at the time, she suddenly foundered, and her
crew of two men, father and son, were left clinging to her
spars and oars. The lifeboat Alexander and Matilda
Boetefeur, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution,
was immediately launched, and proceeded towards the
two men, who were about three miles from Clovelly. In
the meantime a man named John Whitefield, who was
also fishing in the vicinity, had observed the accident, and
he in the most praiseworthy manner at once cut away his
own nets, and proceeded to the spot, and succeeded in
rescuing the father, who was afterwards transferred to the
lifeboat, brought rapidly ashore, and on account of this
prompt proceeding, the medical man was enabled to
rescuscitate him. The younger man had unfortunately
disappeared before he could be succoured by either of the
boats.

PROPOSED MONUMENT TO CAPTAINS COLES AND
BURGOYNE, R.N.—lt is proposed by the under-mentioned
captains, as a token of their esteem for their lamented
brother officers Coles and Burgoyne, that every captain
on the Active list shall subscribe one guinea to erect a
private memorial, the style of which and the place of erec-
tion to be hereafter settled :—Charles Murray Aynsley,
Elphinstone D'O. D'A. Aplin, William Armytage, Henry
H. Beamish, Henry Boys, Thomas Brandreth, William C.
Chamberlain, Thomas Cochrane, John E. Commerell,
V.C., Charles Fellowes, Hon. Fitzgerald A. Foley, Lord
Gilford, Hon Henry . Glyn, George Hancock, James
G. Goodenough, William N. W. Hewett, V.C. ; Henry
S. Hillyart C. 8., St. George C. D'Arcy Irvine, H.S.H.
Prince Leinengen, G.C.8., Charles H. May, Sherard
Osborn, C. 8., F.R S., Edward B. Rice, A.D.C.,
Augustus C. Strode, Francis W. Sullivan, C. 8., and Fre-
deric W. Wilson.