The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-19 00:00:00

THE CORPS LEGISLATIF.

At the sitting of the Corps Legislatif yesterday, the
Minister of War made the following statement : --
" An event has occurred which may seem to you to be
of some gravity, but which is really very simple in its
nature—it is the nomination of General Trochu as
Governor of Paris. You are all aware that we could
not afford to lose time, and that it is impor-
tant to place Paris in a state of defence—not
that we have any cause to fear the arrival of
the enemy between this and to-morrow, but it
Was necessary to place at the head of the defences of the
eaPital a resolute and energetic man. I had appointed
General Trochu to the command of a corps d'armee, but I
recalled him from the camp at Chalons. That is the sole
ream for the appointment.
•A• despatch informs us that the dragoons and
""antry soldiers of the Prussian army made a re-
eftoaissance in the neighbourhood of Schelatadt. The
peasants hastened to meet them, and killed 10 of the
ilragoons besides making some prisoners. The
:ore of the Prussian movement is proved by
e circumstance that the official Prussian Ga-
:tte simply mentions the fact of the battle,
and if they had gained the slightest advantage it
oltolild certainly have been paraded as a triumph. With-
ut being able to give you extremelg good news, we can
tell
You that the Prussians have experienced such losses
that they have demanded an armistice in order to bury
tliair dead and remove their wounded.
The accounts I have received from St Mihel inform
me that the corps of General Steinmitz bas not been able
tti
° effect a junction with the Crown Prince."

-Ile Opinion Nationale says :—" In spite of the great
lees we have suffered, the victory of Vionville is the
salvation of France."
1. The Gaulois gives a few particulars of the battle of
'colgeville, said to have been received from an eye-wit-
-1,88. He estimates the Prussian loss there at 16,000 to
,(3 0 0 men, and says that nearly all the enemy's cannon
feu into the hands of the French. According to the
ria'llle writer, the Emperor had a narrow escape of being
men Prisoner by a body of Uhlans, who seem to move
about with the rapidity and impunity of charmed spirits.
The Prince Imperial, Prince Napoleon, and Prince Murat
accompanied the Emperor to Chalons. •
.A correspondent of the Carlsruhe Zietung gives an
14eident of the war :—" In a hop plantation lay a cc:m-
llthof the 95th Regiment and some pioneers of the
1; Battalion, the latter armed with the short-
;attelled needle-gun.. The lieutenant-commander of
17" e last was described to me as a man of dauntless
tnravez'Y and coolness, and some of his men related
me with admiration how shortly before they
ad to cross an unsheltered tract under a hail of bullets, and
44Lthey involuntarily ran, crouching and ducking down, he
they
along majestically and bolt upright. To these troops,
1-ered by the hops and tree truni:s, presently approached
Retitle trot a splendid and perfectly fresh regiment of
I,,oirassiere, Until within a distance of 50 paces, when the
tench word of command to push forward was called out,
our
Men held the French to be Bavarians. No further
a 'e
°,!lbt was possible, and for the moment our position seemed
I:arful one —it looked like madness to withstand these
1t8,3°8 of cavalry, charging with uplifted sabres—fine,
0 evir46*, and for the most part gigantic figures, for a
, ;,,
to th7antrY to withstand ; and so our fellows turned
right about, to real-4 as fast as possible. But
Our Pioneer lieutenant stood firm and cried out, ' Children,
are
You going to leave me here alone?' And his brave
`!ll°Nys instantly stood still, the infantry also, and at a few
_
I'elas' distance fired rapid volleys. The regiment was
Polirlect
away as if by an earthquake, wiped out like a
Pencil-stroke of indiarubber. The few who charged through
,'?•ere shot down by other troops. About 200, including
the colonel and other officers, were made prisoners."

Carlist disorders have taken place at Tarragona;
eenthouereseuni arlisedt has been killed and three wounded. Next
the transport of troops to Cuba and Porto Rico will

FIE MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

CITY; Two O'CLOCK,

The Stock Markets generally are maintaining the im-
proved prices of yesterday, and in several cases a further
advance has been established. The Funds are firm, and
Railway Stocks are improving.
Consols are now 91k to 92 for money, and 911 to
92 for account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 912 to 92 ;
New Three per Cents., 91 to 921; India Five per
Cents., 1111; ditto Four per Cents., 101 to. 1001 ;
Metropolitan Board of Works, 31 per Cent. Stock, 92k to
921.

In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of 1865 are
92 ; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864, 84 to 86; ditto
of 1868, 741 to 75 ; Spanish of 18V, 261 to 261; ditto of
1869, 26 to 25a ; ditto Quicksilver, 71 to 73 ; Peru-
vian, 84 to 861; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 431 to 43k;
ditto of 1869, 571 to 581 ; and Five per Cent. Italian of
1865, 77 to 82.
Anglo Mediterranean, are 132 ; British Indian Exten-
sion 61 to 61 ; Falmouth, 91 to 911 ; British Indian
Submarine, 71.
The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 65 ; Great
Eastern 351 to 351 ; London and Brighton, 39i to 89 ;
Caledonian, 74 to 741; South-Eastern, 69; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 421 ; Great Northern, 118 to
120 ; ditto (A), 129.; North Eastern, 1401 ; London
and North-Western, 1271 ; Midland, 1271 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1301; Great Western, 69.
Canada Six per Cents. are quoted 106 ; New
South Wales Five per Cents., 101 to 1011 ; New
Zealand Five per Cents., 991 to 99; Queensland, 1061;
Victoria Five per Cents., 1014; and ditto Six per Cents.,
113.

In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 13-i ; Anglo-
Austrian, 8 10 premium ; Chartered Meroantile,,26i ;
Consolidated, 4 9-10 pm ; Imperial Ottoman, 12111 ; Lon-
donand County, 49 ; London and Westminster, 61; Lon-
don Joint Stook, 34 ; and Union of London, 35 37.
In American Securities, Five-Twenty Bonds are quoted
at 88 to 881 ; Ten-Forties, 82i- to 831; Erie Shares, 171
to 18 ; Illinois, 105 to 107 ; Atlantic and Great Western
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 18 to 20 ; and ditto De-
bentures, 24 to 26.

In Miscellane3us Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted
14 ; Viceroy of Egypt 7 per cent. Mortgage Loan, 76i ;
National Discount Company, 11; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 41.
The advices from the River Plate mention that the
Montevidean Government have granted to Senor
Marcoartu an exclusive right for 50 years to lay down a
submarine cable from that Republic to the Brazilian
Empire, to communicate with the West Indies and
Europe.

The United States' Congress at the late session appro-
priated $30,000 for an examination and survey of the
Nicaragua and Tehuantepec routes, in order to ascertain
the practicability of ship canals between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans. It is understood that Captain Shufeldt
will command the expedition, which is to be fitted out
this month and leave in September. The Nicaragua
route has long been considered by practical en-
gineers to be the one destined for completion. The
attention of the European public was first
prominently directed to it by a treatise written by the
Emperor Napoleon while he was a prisoner at Ham, and
it may be hoped that, notwithstanding his present peril,
he will yet live to see in the consummation of that bene-
ficent project for the advance of commerce and civilization
cause for a satisfactory retrospect denied' to military
ambition.

At the meeting of the North Australian Company
(Limited) it was resolved not to depart from the claim of
the subscribers for a return of the money paid to the
Government of South Australia for the lands at the
northern settlement of Port Darwin, which the Govern-
ment three years ago admitted to have been a failure, and
which was then abandoned.

At a meeting of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph
Company (Limited) a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent.
per annum was declared on the ordinary capital for the
half-year.

The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway
Company will be held on the 31st inst., when several
agreements will be submitted for approval.

The general meeting of the Varna Railway Company
is called for the 15th of September.
The half-yearly meeting of the Titanic Steel and Iron
Company (Limited) is convened for the 31st instant.

MARKETS.—Tats DAY.
MARK-LANE.

The grain trade to-day has been quiet. The supply of
English wheat has been short, but there has been a good
show of foreign. For all qualities the demand has been
inactive, at Monday's prices. The supply of barley has
been moderate. Sales have progressed slowly on former
terms. Malt has been inactive at late rates.
There bas again been good supplies of oats in the market,
for which the inquiry has been restricted, at late curren-
cies. Beans and peas have been quiet. Flour has been
less sought after, the demand for barrels on French ac-
count having subsided.

'THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, :870.

THIS MORNING'S NEWS,

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
THREATENED STRIKE OF MINERS IN
FIFESHIRE.

THE BATTLE ON SUNDAY.

A correspondent of the Standard, who writes from
Verdun, witnessed the battle near Metz on Sunday. He
gives the following account of the engagement :—"At one
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the 13th instant, the
French army, 180,000 strong, was encamped all
around Metz. Since the day previously a battle
was considered as imminent. Several attempts had
been made to draw the enemy out of the woods they
occupied. The Prussian army of Prince Frederick Charles,
or rather the c, rim, now united, of Field Marshal Stein-
metz, 150,000 men strong, had taken its position on the
road to Boulay, at the point intersecting that to Borny.
The road from Bellenoir and Borny, up to the forest of
that place, was occupied by the Prussians, part of their
divisions being concealed by the woods. Skirmishing
had been going on all the Morning, bnt it was probable
that no serious engagement would take illace. At
half-past one the French troops received the orders
to retreat from their pusition, to go in the
direction of Verdun, it was said. At two o'clock the
the:avant-garde division were crossing the Moselle on a pon-
Oon bridge thrown across a few hours previously,and the
luggage, material, and provisions of the army were cross-
ing the other bridges in the direction of Longeville. The
equipages of the Emperor had already left, and Prince
Napoleon first,and half an hour after the Emperor himself,
were leaving Metz on horseback in the same direction.
At three o'clock p.m. the 3rd Corps Decaen, the 4th
Corps Ladmirault, and In Garde Imperiale Bourbaki
were preparing also to leave their encampments,
when suddenly the Prussians were seen to prepare for
battle, some of their regiments taking positions as tirail-
leurs, some others preparing offensive movements in front
of the woods of Borny, and in the direction of Grizy and
Mercy les Metz. The intention was unmistakable. I
was in it, in the very heart of it. I made up my mind to
remain; in fact, all retreat was for me impossible, and it
leaves me the advantage. to give you my ocular impres-
sions ; but I am so fatigued you must excuse my style of
writing. The French troops, under the command of
Marshal Bazaine, were composed of the 3rd and 4th
corps and la Garde' Imperiale. They were fronting
Borny, Grigy, and Mercy les Metz, the Imperial Guard
forming tire reserve near the Fort de Quentin. At a
quarter past four the attack commenced. A heavy fire
of artillery was at once heard in every direction, the
soldiers of the Prussian Landwehr heading the Prussian
corps d'armde. The rnitrailleuses began their deadly
work on each side. For me, confusion all around,
mon falling in every direction, columns whirling around
us, bullets whistling their deadly work through the ranks.
It is awful to be cool in the middle of such a bloody holo-
caust, the cries of the wounded; the imprecations of the
falling soldiers, the rage of their friends all seems
fantastic and demonaical ; but no, it is not the night.
snare ; a friend of my infancy is close me
at the head of his battalions, the well - known
Baron de Vatry, commander of the Voltigeurs de
la Garde ; he reminds me of the danger I am incur-
ring without reason ; but his wordi sound like a murmur
of the wind, he himself disappears in the smoke, and I
continued to look and be certain that I should not come
back to tell you my tale. A battery of artillery
with a mitrailleuse was making fearful havoc in the
Prussian ranks. I heard frantic bravos announcing its new
exploits. The fire was so well directed, the prechtion so
great, that each fire was positively mowing the Prussian
ranks, who were fighting in a desperate. way, their artil-
lery replying to the other, and destroying French bat-
talions right and left. At seven o'clock p.fis. the
Prussians were making a movement of retreat.
A mitrailleuse had been twice taken from the French,
and although it is only one of the hundreds of incidents of
the battle, I mention it, as it led to an important
result. For the last hour one of the greatest efforts of this
French had had for object to dislodge the Prussians from
the woods of Borny, their troops being protected by that
natural rampart. The brave colonel of tr e 4th Infantry,
2ud division, in retaking the mitrailleuse, was the cause of
an immense body of Prussians emeresing suddenly from the
woods, and precipitating themselves as an infuriated tor-
rJut on the French divisions ; it was only a pretext, for
it was expected that the Prussians would follow the
same tactics as at Forbach and Froeswiller, which con-
sists in keeping out of sight their masses, their best divi-
sions, and when the result of the battle seems to be in
favour of their opponent, to change defeat into victory by
that powerful movement of immense bodies of troops
plunging suddenly on the enemy, but this time Marshal
Bazaine had prepared a match for them. The Imperial
Guard, commanded by Bourbaki, had been kept in reserve;
their artillery, from a strong position, began the defensive,
the grenadiers advanced, and from that moment till a
quarter to nine you might have thought you were in the
middle of the irruption of Mount Vesuvius; Fort
de Quentin sweeping with its powerful batteries the
flank of the advancing columns, regiments of cavalry
charging on the wings ; at a quarter to nine precisely
the Prussians were retreating, leaving from 23,000 to
24,000 men hors de combat. The French have lost close
on 4,000 men killed or wounded. One hundred and forty
thousand Prussians took part in the fight against 70,000
Frenchmen (positively). Owing to the Fort Quentin
slaughtering the enemy, the guard, except its artil-
lery and a brigade of grenadiers, did not fight;
they were kept in reserve to the last. During the
combat the rest of the French army was retiring on the
route to Verdun, and at nine o'clock I followed the
Imperial Guard, retreating in the same direction, the
day's work over, Providence having preserved me in
safety. I did not fight. I Was a spectator who ought to
have been near the staff or ambulances, but I was fairly
caught in it. General Decaen has been wounded in the leg ;
General do Castagny had an arm cut, and Marshal
I3azaine himself received a slight contusion on the head.
heard the sight of the champs de bataille was horrible in
the morning. In retiring they marched over on dea

A large meeting of miners employed at the Dysart
collieries took place at Gillatown on Wednesday. After
hearing the report of a deputation who had had an
interview the same evening with the proprietor of
the collieries, Lord Rosslyn, regarding certain grievances
which they had complained of, the miners
present employed at Lady Blanche pit, agreed to stop
work on Monday if not allowed additional pay on account
of the extra labour which the drain of the pit entails.
The men engaged at another of his lordship's
pits resolved to strike in forty-eight hours if
not allowed one penny per ton additional for hewing
head coal, or if the general working of the pit was not im-
proved. Great excitement prevails in Dysart in conse-
quence of the stand made by the men, who have also
given their employer a fortnight's notice as a demand for
an advance of wages to the extent of sixpence per day.

loclies, who were in heaps in some spots.

THE BATTLE AT VIONVILLE.

How is it possible to reconcile these statements—so
utterly opposed to each other ? Each army claims the
victory. Each claims to have keld its ground. The
French say the Prussians have had to seek an
armistice; the Prussians that the French were
driven back to Metz. How can we believe the
French army retreated to Etain, if it was driven
back into the fortress it had only just left ?
How that the Prussians won a great victory if they had
to seek an armistice? Can it have been that the French
army was separated ; that a portion—the bulk, as
Palikao calls it—retired towards Verdun, while a portion,
intended, most likely, to remain at Metz, retired into
the fortress? This is the only conceivable idea by
which both can be reconciled. We cannot believe
that there was any very marked success on either side.
If the French checked the Prussians and made good their
retreat, they practically gained a victory. If the Prus-
sians lost heavily, and yet prevented the Frenoh from
carrying out their retreat, they practically gained a vic-
' tory. Where are the French head-quarters? That is
all we want to know to answer the' questions at
issue. At all events, we are quite sure that, in
spite of all difficulty of supply, the Prussians
have pushed an army across the Moselle large enough
seriously to impede Bazaine ; to force him to fight a
general action facing to a flank, and to delay, if not
entirely to prevent, his retreat. Bazaine held his
ground with more or less success in a most
critical situation. Suppose he had been really beaten,
and driven northwards down the valley of the Mo-
nello' towards Vionville. In that case his army would
have been hemmed in against the neutral territory, and it
would have been foreed, sooner or later, to surrender.
We have for days shown how this has been evidently the
Prussian strategy. It has, up to Thursday, at all events,
been foiled by the energy of Bazaine's troops. Why that
commander was so late in retreating,—Why, before retiring,
he allowed the Prussians to cross the Moselle in force is
a mystery we cannot solve. If he had some deep suheme
for using his fortress as a pivot to act on both sides of
the river, he overreached himself. To have retired safely
to Chalons, and there joined the reserves, was the best
and only chance of success for the French army. Is it,
or is it not, too late for this now ? Is the military situa-
tion of France really hopeless ?—Standard.
The Imperial main army—still called " of the Rhine"—
has been overtaken by what strongly resembles a grave
disaster. On Tuesday it was aktacked by the Prussian
Armies of the Centre and Right, and, after a fierce
and gigantic struggle, lasting " from morn to dewy eve,"
was constrained to desist, at least for the time,
from its attempt to retreat upon the Meuse. So,
despite the differences with which the fact is set forth
hi the German and in the French accounts, must
we interpret the statements of the result that
,we made on both sides.. The first point whiel
strikes the student of the telegrams is the fact.
that the scene of combat was close to Metz—from
which the official announcements of Tuesday in
Paris led us to believe that the army was fully
twenty miles away. The two extreme points of the
French line, says Marshal Bazaine, touched Vionville on
the left and Doncourt on the right, the mean distance
being little more than ten miles from Metz. Thus the War
Minister's announcement that the bulk of the army was
concentrated at Etain, which is twice as far from the
fortress as the actual battle-field is, turns out to have
had no foundation ; and the hopes of a safe retreat to
the Meuse, whichlthe Parisians were led to nourish, have
vanished into thin air at the touch of yesterday's news.
TAU difamilt to exblain why Marshal Bade bad not

mace more rapid progress. We were told by the .em-
peror Napoleon that on Sunday afternoon half of the
French army had crossed the Moselle ; and we know
that at nightfall of that clay the rearguard, composed of
Decaen's and Ladmirault's corps, had regained the cover
i of the works. Yet on Tuesday morning, 36 hours later,
the whole of the French army is found echeloned on the
right and left of Eezonville, ten or eleven miles on the
road to Verdun ; and when it was attacked by the
Prussian cavalry of the Third Corps, it seems to have
been continuing its retreat westward; that is, to have
lingered in the neighbourhood of Metz for no profound
strategic purpose, but simply through the fatal tardiness
and trust in chance that had done so much mischief
already to the armies of the Empire. Bazaine or the
Emperor alone can explain why, having to deal with
an active and a stealthy enemy, the army was sim-
.ply swung round with its face to home and the
capital, and left in waiting for the attack which its
commanders must have known was certain to come.
The Prussians say that the enemy was greatly superior
in forces; and if the whole of the troops we have named
were engaged—as would appear from Bazaine's own
despatch—At least 120,000 or 130,000 men fought on the
French side. On the Prussian side we know that all the
3rd Corps, with parts of three others, took a share in the
tight ; and such a force could not well number less than
100,000—though it would seem that some of the German
divisions arrived only when the day was far spent.
Two things are evident—that the battle was close and
unattended with actual decisive victory on either side,
so far as the fighting went, and that the French did
not continue their retreat—Marshal Bazaine himself
explaining that " he would delay further movements
for a few hours, in order to largely complete his
ammunition." But during the whole of Wednesday, ac-
cording to the Prussians, " the greatest tranquillity pre-
vailed ;" so that we are led to suspect that something more
serious tnan mere expenditure of cartridges has embar-
rassed the French retreat. The official despatches have
spoken lately of a great movement of concentration, on
which the highest hopes were founded; but, if the Prus-

sians stand in front of Mars-la-Tour, while Bazaines line

stretches to the north-east of that place, and MacMahon
and De Failly are moving westward towards Blesmes
and Vitry, four days' march to the south-west, it
is difficult to see how the movement is prospering,
Let it be noticed, specially, that Bazaine's despatches
describe the battle as raging between Vionville on the
southern, and Doneourt on the northern, of the two roads
from Metz to Verdun, which diverge at Gravelotte, seven
miles west of the former city, and we shall find in the
despatches themselves ground for the belief that he
has been cut off. We have seen that he speaks
of bringing up the corps echeloned to the
right and left of Rezonville ; and Rezonville is three
2r four miles in rear—to the east—of the line from Vion-
ville to Dane,ourt. If, therefore, troops were so moved
up from Rezonville, it must have been to face an enemy
coming from the westward or south-westward—that is
from the very direction towards which the French must
advance to gain the line of the Meuse. The
inferences from to-day's news are three : That
the army of Bazaine has been cut off from the two
other Fremth armies, seeking to effect a concentric
movement and join behind the Meuse and in the plain of
Chalons ; that he has been driven back on the fortress he
quitted on Sunday, and now, to avoid starvation or sur-
render, must fight his way through ; and that the perfect
quiet which reigned all day on Wednesday is but the pre-
lude to another huge conflict, the result of which will
finally determine the question in whose hands rested the
real victory of Tuesday.—Telegraph.

The importance of this sanguinary battle rests precisely
on the point upon which the reports differ, whether the
French were, at the close of the combat, masters of
the field, and free to march whithersoever they liked,
or whether they were, after all that bloodshed,
forced back on their former position at Metz, and
there to all intents and purposes shut up as in
a prison. In order to satisfy ourselves on that score we
have only to consider the date of Marshal Bazaine's offi-
cial telegram. The intelligence comes from Verdun,
but it is forwarded from that place as coming from
Marshal Bazaine's headquarters, about the locality of
which we are left in the dark. Had the Marshal
been at liberty to continue his route, either upon
Conflans and Etain, or upon Mars la Tours and Man-
heulles, he would hardly have failed to inform the world
of his happy release from his difficult position. The
terrible problem how the Army of the Rhine is to extri-
cate itself from the trap into which it has fallen at Metz
remains as far as ever from a satisfactory solution. The
fortress and the army round it are now invested on all
sides. Twice, and twice in vain, the French have
attempted to fight their way through their foes. A third
or a fourth effort can scarcely bring better success ; and
the Army, even previous to its present close investment,
had already been placed on short rations. The alterna-
tive seems either starvation within the fortress, or release
by a capitulation. To this apparently inevitable conclu-
sion the French Commanders have been brought by their
inability to choose between a timely fight and a timely
retreat.—Times.

Neither commander employs the word victory, although
the Prussians speak exultingly of success. The Prussians
declare that, besides having taken 2,000 prisoners,
two Imperial eagles, and seven cannon, they
have " completely succeeded, as the French have
been prevented from continuing their movethent of
retreat." This is the critical point in the despatch,
and the Prussian statement is confirmed to a great extent
by Marshal Bazaine himself when he forbears that he is
waster of his line of retreat. The Marshal gives one
most extraordinary reason for not moving ; he has used
up his ammunition. It was so at Woerth, where
it became impossible to continue the battle because
the infantry had no cartridges. However the
fact may be explained, these despatches make it
clear that the French army, which three days ago we
were told had reached Etain, had got on Tuesday, before
this battle began, only nine or ten miles out of Metz.
The resistance it met with on Monday must have
been more effectual than was generally supposed.
It is important to consiier the effect of this
battle on the assumption that the Prussian state-
ment is substantially true, and that Bazaine's retreat is
actually cut off. The Marshal's army was wanted
at Chalons to form a compact and well-or-
ganized body of seasoned soldiers, around which
the new levies of Garde Mobile, Gendarmes, Porn-
piers, and others might form themselves, and to give
stability to the line on the field of battle there. For
this purpose its presence is indispensable. No
stand can be made at Chalons if the Army of the
Rhine be not there. No General would think of
opposing the enemy with only the raw troops to be
found at Chalons. But further, the Army of the
Rhine ie not urgently needed at Chalons, because
another army than that of Prince Frederick Charles
that of the Crown Prince is fast approaching
that city, and Bazaine has been relied on to hold
it is check. But Marshal Bazaine, if his position
has been correctly apprehended, can only get to
Chalons, or even to Verdun, by walking over the army
which he fought on Tuesday, tint army holding the road
against him. Under these circumstances there must be
another bloody battle near Metz, for the army of France
will never fail in its duty by abandoning the defence of
the capital.—. Daily News.