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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-26

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

The grace accepting the statue of the Prince Consort
as chancellor of the university from the Duke of Devon-
shire on behalf of the subscribers, was carried at congre-
gation yesterday without opposition. The following degrees
were conferred :—Masters of Arts.—William Douglas
Dodkin (King's), Henry Bruce .Armstronge, Edward
Bell, Charles Samuel Chilver, Alfred Thomas
Coore, Harry Harbord, John Mills, M. Francis,
Henry Latham, and Claude Cecil Thornton,
(Trinity), Alfred Grainger ( Caius ), William
Marsdam Du Rieu, Wm. Hatfield Green, Robert Ker-
shaw Judson, Herbert Radcliffe, John James Thornley,
John Mills Walker (St. John's), Charles George Barr (St.
Peter's), Wm. Edward Mirehouse Clare, James Jardine,
Henry John Leach, Thomas Cunningham M`Laren,
John Martyn, Joseph Charles T. Smith (Caius), Edward
Daniel Mellor, George Linton, Henry Drury Warr
(Trinity Hall), John Langley (Corpus Christi), Alfred
Maline, George Gilbert Scott (Jesus), Geo. Shaw (Christ's),
Hugh Fortescue, George William Botham (Magdalen),
John Freeman (Emmanuel), William Yatesfoot, Arthur
Patteson Wharton (Downing).—Masters of Law : Tracey
(Trinity), J. T. Seabrook Johns, 8.A., W. G. Simpson
(Caius) LLB, Ward Malik (Caius). The Chancellor's
gold medal for the best English poem in the present year,
has been awarded to Edward Anthony Beck (Trinity
Hall); the Powis medal to F. C. Huddlestone (Kings) ;
the Porson prize to Edmund Gurney (Trinity) ;
and T. E. Page (St. John's), equal, Sir William
Browne's medals have been adjudged as follows :—For the
Latin Ode, T. E. Page (St. John's) ; for Greek epigram,
Charles (Dixon) Caius ; for Latin epigram, H. W. S. Wood
(St. John's).
London, England, 1870-05-26

FREEHOLD LAND, £lO per plot, free convey-
ance, 20 feet frontage, 100 feet deep, close to two Stations
S.E and S.W. lines, 33 miles from London, return, fares 2s. Bd. to
Bs. Pleasantly situate in a proverbially healthy neighbourhood.
The soil is gravelly; water pure. Houses of all classes, from the
cottage to the mansion, are in great demand, and command high
rentals. H. J. E. BRAKE, Auctioneer, Aldershot.
London, England, 1870-05-26

ARRIVALS AT STAMFORD.

Anton, Aftermath, Eddish, Finley, Jeanne d'Arc, Faith,
Forget-me-not, Ironstone, Jersey, Juliet, Johannisberg, Vex,
Knight, Lady do Trafford c, Lady Scarle, Moccolo, Miss
Sharp, True Blue, Tibthorpe, Vagabond.
London, England, 1870-05-26

ATTEMPT TO UPSET A PASSENGER TRAIN

At the North Shields Police-Court yesterday John
Keenan, a private in the 98th Regiment, was brought up

on a charge of having attempted to upset' a passenger
train on the Tynemouth branch of the North Eastern
Railway, en Good Iriday last, thereby endangering a
great many lives. From the evidence it transpired that
while a heavily laden passenger train was about 300 yards
from the North Shields Station the engine driver ob-
served several large stones and bricks placed on the rails,
but fortunately he was able to pull up before any serious
damage was done. The prisoner, who was loitering about
the spot, was pursued and captured. He was committed
for trial at the ensuing Northumberland Assizes.

BRISTOL ELECTION.
The hearing of the Bristol electionpetition was resumed
this morning. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine opened the case
for the respondent, and contended that a pure election
was never fought. He said he should disprove the evi-
dence cf Frost about the rabbit ; and also Kemp's evi-
dence about treating. The only point worth fighting for
was the legal one as to treating at the test ballot. By
the request of the Judge, Munday, who had not been
called was sent for.

Lord Mahon, the Conservative candidate for East Suf-
folk, addressed the electors of the district at Saxmund-
ham yesterday afternoon. His lordship confined his
remarks to the topics mentioned in his address, but stated,
in contradiction to reports, that he was neither a Roman
Catholic, Irishman, not Fenian. Later in the afternoon
Sir Shafto Adair, the Liberal candidate, also addressed a
meeting of electors at the same placer
An extraordinary general meeting of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company was held at Manchester
yesterday. The Directors were authorised to raise seven
hundred and eighty thousand pounds additional capital
The new shares will be issued to existing shareholders at the
rate of six pounds five shillings a share to every holder of
the ordinary hundred pound shares, the calls to extend
over rive years. Shareholders paying in advance will
receive four per cent. interest of the money paid up
until 1875, and new shares will then be converted
into ordinary shares, so that if the company's stock
maintains its price and 130 ordinary shareholders investing
now will have obtained as the chairman explained at the
rate of ten per cent. on their money at the subsequent
meeting. Bills were approved for acquiring lands for ex-
tensions in the West Riding of Yorkshire for running
steam vessels between Belfast and Fleetwood, for the ex-
tension of Preston station and other purposes. The two
last specifiedbills are promoted in conjunction with the
London and North-Western Company.

THE CAPTURE OF ENGLISHMEN IN SPAIN
Intelligence has been received from Madrid stating that
the captured Englishmen arc a gentleman named Borell
and his nephew and their servanig, They were carried
off near Furm Sabar And no trace of them has been found.
London, England, 1870-05-26

CRYSTAL PALACE, Saturday next, May 28
(Queen's Birthday).—COMßlNED ATTRACTIONS.—Grand
Summer Concert, Fashionable Promenade, and Great Display of
3,000 Roses in pots by Mr. William Paul, of Waltham-cross.
This interesting rose exhibition will be arranged in the garden
corridor, overlooking the grounds of the Palace, which is being
specially adapted to the purpose.
The roses will be arranged in banks and beds, relieved by the
most effective pictorial trees and other plants remarkable for
the beauty and variety of their foliage.
In addition to the special feature of the show there will be ex-
hibited some particularly rare and interesting specimens of trees.
The following new roses will be exhibited
Hybrid Perpetuals.
Devienne Lamy
Madame Lierval
Julia Touvais
Souvenir de Francois Ponsard
Victor le Bihau
Adolphe Brogniart
Andre Fresnoy
Henrey Ledechaux
Berthe Baron
'OBES.

Princess Christian
Perfection de Lyon
Mons. Journeaux
Madame Creyton
Souvenir de Porteau
Leopold 11.
Madame Marie Cirodde
Madame Alice Dureau
Madame Decour

Marie Dueller
Adrienne Cluistophle
La Tulipe
Madame Celina Nirvey

Marie Sisley
Reine du Portugal
Jean Pernet
And many other novelties.
London, England, 1870-05-26

ARRIVALS AT CROYDON.

Antipodes, COprolite, Contempt, Electricity, Elferon, Miss
Polly, Election, Guile c, King Theodore, Lady Clinton, Tit-
bit, Lincoln, Trifle, Vivandiere, Royal Princess, Sarcolite
South Durham, Sophio: Walmer, Wilful.
The Epsom horses will arrive in the morning.
Expected—Transgressor.
London, England, 1870-05-26

THE EXCLUSION OF REPORTERS.

The Telegraph considers there are several reasons way
die privilege of excluding strangers should not be
abruptly abrogated, at least without the utmost delibera-
tion and. care. But is obvious that the whole house should
have a voice in the matter, and a decisive voice. We are
glad to see that the subject will not be allowed to lapse,
Mr. Gilpin having already given notice of a resolution to
condemn the continuance of the power in any individual
member. Perhaps Parliament may be thought to have
quite enough of work for the rest of the session ; but it
may be hoped that, on the next occasion when the Stand-
ing Orders have to be passed, the point so strangely
raised by Mr. Craufurd will be reconsidered. It
is not likely that even Mr. Craufurd will repeat
his exploit of excluding strangers. Were he to do so,
the good people of his burghs would probably take
counsel about the propriety of excluding him. We can,
therefore, afford to await a more convenient opportunity
for mitigating the rigour of a rule which has become an
anachronism. This was in former times a practice—
when questions of great importance were about
to be discussed, which from their nature
required secrecy—to order the doors of . the
House to be locked and the keys to be put on the table,
in order that no member might go forth and give informa-
tion of the subject in debate. Yet even in these cases,
where public safety seemed to be immediately interested,
no member had a right to insist that the doors should be
locked. It was necessary to make a motion, and take the
sense of the House on the subject. If a similar rule were
adopted with reference to the clearing of the galleries,
Parliament would retain all the privilege of secrecy which
it can reasonably require, while the nation would lose
none of the publicity which is due to a proper regard for
the common interest.
London, England, 1870-05-26

Injury-to the Telegraph Wires.

The appeal which Mr. Scudamore has thought it
necessary to make to "schoolmasters and all those
who have the charge of youths," with reference to the
practice of stone-throwing at telegraph wires reveals
a destructive spirit among the boys of England,
the positive existence of which it is hard to believe
in. That an insulator here and there was wilfully
aimed at and destroyed is possible and even natural,
but that "500 insulators were wantonly broken in the
course of six weeks at Newcastle," and one
hundred and fifty smashed "in the same period
between Loughborough and Leicester," causes
serious astonishment. In the name of all that is
vigilant, what were the telegraph authorities doing
when they allowed the work of demolition to proceed
at the places mentioned, after the first weeks'
damages ? Ordinary minds would have imagined
that after twenty-five insulators had been
destroyed, " between Loughborough and Leices-
ter," an inspector or two would have been
detailed to watch for the ladtras who perpeted the
outrage.
London, England, 1870-05-26

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
J NO. GOSNE LL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of
the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder-
ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated
form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s each ; also 55., 7s. ed., and 15s. each, includ-
ing brush.
Red Bull Wharf ,Angel-passage, 13, Upper Thames-street, Lon-
don, E.O.

TURN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
tl TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ;
gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay,
and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—
Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.---During the storms of
the past 17 months the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITU-
TION contributed to the saving of 1,592 lives from various ship-
wrecks and 43 vessels from destruction. It has now 210 Lifeboat
Stations under its management. CONTRIBUTIONS for their
support will be thankfully received by Messrs. Willis and Co ,
Coutts and Co., Henries and Co., by all the London and country
bankers, and by the Secretary, BacHAunLxwis, Esq., at the Insti-
tution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, NO SONG NO SUPPER • Mr.
Kendal, Mr. Compton, Mr. Edward Osborne, Mr. Clark; Miss F.
Wright, bliss Francis, Miss Fosbroke, and Miss F. Gwynne.
After which, at 8 precisely, BA RWISE'S BOOK: Mr. Sothern,
Mr Chippendale, Mr Compton, Mr. Kendal, Mr. Buckstone; Miss
a. Hill, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Fanny Gwynne.
And (by desire) A REGULAR FIX: Mr. Sothern, &c.
condluding with A lIISS IN THE DARK.
London, England, 1870-10-07

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London, England, 1870-10-07

LETTER FROM AN ENGINEER,

By a private letter from Paris we learn that
the staff of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers
is employed on the manufacture of small-arms
ammunition. A scientific commission has been appointed,
consisting of the following engineers : President, M. Tresca,
of the Arts et Mdtiers; Members MM. Martelet,
Puillemin, Martin, Saurens, and Paul Lecceun-e. It has
the following duties : "1. To organise the civil
engineer volunteers. 2. To form engineer corps
for special services during the siege. 3. To super-
intend the (private) manufacture of mitrailleuses,
and of shells for heavy guns." The letter states that
the public is becoming calm and determined ; and its
writer, an engineer of European fame, says that he
could never have believed that Paris would have shewn
in so admirable a light under such circumstances.—Daily
News.
London, England, 1870-10-07

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN CORK.

CoRK, Thursday, 10 a.m.—At five o'clock this morning
a fire was discovered in the large soap and candle manu-
factory of Messrs. Clark and Son, tobacconists, Cork. On
account of the combustible nature of the materials stored
in the building, the flames spread with remarkable
rapidity, and for some time threatened the destruction
of the adjoining buildings, of which the Blind Asylum
stood the most in danger. The efforts to confine the fire
to Messrs. Clarke's premises were ultimately successful,
although by nine o'clock these were totally destroyed.
The amount of property consumed is immense, and it is
impossible at present to estimate the damage.

The Levant Herald says the Sultan has sent a
splendid jewelled snuff-box, bearing the Imperial cypher,
to Mustapha Fazzyl Pasha, and his Highnes had au audi-
ence of his Majesty to thank him for this new token of
his favour.

The'London Ladies' Educational Association,which
will be.in full work again next November, with courses of
English and French Literature and Language, Logic,
Experimental Physics and Chemistry, by Professors of
these subjects in University College, opens next Tuesday
evening.

It is rumoured, says the Inverness Advertiser that
the Prince of Wales has some intention of making an
early purchase of a Highland residence, and he looks
favourably on Auchnashellach, as one of the most lovely
and i oma,ntic, and at the same time the most retired, spots
in the Highlands.

ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-A train from
Garston to St. Helens ran into a pilot engine, at Widnes,
at midnight on Tuesday. Considerable damage was done
to railway property, and the line was blocked for some
time, but no one sustained serious injury. The accident is
attributed to the engine driver of the Garston train having
left his engine in care of a fireman who was unacquainted
with the signals.
London, England, 1870-10-07

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THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

The 74,1egraph remarks that Paris places her hope not in
the six hundred thousand fighting men said to be within
her walls, nor in her omt vast lines of defence, but iu
some external aid which is to come up from the
north, south, or west, and suddenly " save her."
She is told by her Government and journals
alike, that France is rising, and that for the " thirty or
forty thousand Prussians " disengaged at Strasburg, two
hundred thousand men from the Loire and the Rhone will
arise and march to her deliverance. In apparent sym-
pathy with the belief, General Trochu allows the foe to
strengthen himself with the formidable earthworks which
the Prussian engineers construct so well ; and, indeed,
the Government seems rather amused that the enemy
should entrench so busily. Where are the two hundred
thousand French troops for whom Paris
waits ? There are fitful levies here and there,
feverish attempts at resistance which melt away
before a handful of Uhlans : but the only
solid regiments to be heard of are around
Tours and in Normandy. If the people will not or can-
not rise, the inference seems to be that Paris must
succumb, and, in her turn, have a statue of brass instead
of marble._ In fact, look where he will, to the beleaguered
capital, the bewildered country, or to the great border
fortress just yielded, the heart of France appears
ossified, and her quick brain dull mad corrupted. It lives
to-day, as before, on false statements and fictitious
hopes; and, ineradicably sentimental when it should be
most serious, it is going to cast a bronze Strasburg to
commemorate the drunken mutineers who forced the
brave Uhrich to open his gates.
London, England, 1870-10-07

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London, England, 1870-10-07

MARRIAGES.:

On the 3d inst. at St. Paul's, New-cross, Augustus, son
of the late W. Priest, Esq., of Addlestone, and Tudor-
street, E.C., to Jeannie Isabella, daughter of the late
J. Wightman, Esq., of Addlestone.
On the Ist inst., at Little Berkhampstead, H. J. D. Horne,
Pgq., F+)11 of the late Sir W. Horne, Q.C., of Epping
house, Herts, to Margaret Selina, daughter of the late
Hon. and Rev. G. Hastings, rector of HertingfordburP
London, England, 1870-10-07

DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS.

Mr. Ayrton has signified hid intention of
doing something which, so far as the metropolis, at
any rate, is concerned, will meet with geheral appro-
val and satisfaction. During the autumn the First
Commissioner will cause to be distributed among the
working classes and the poor inhabitants of London
the surplus bedding-out plants in Battersea, Hyde,
the Regent's, and Victoria Parks, and in the Royal
Gardens, Kew. It is announced that on the applica-
tion of the clergy, school committees, and other bodies
interested in the matter,to the superintendents of the
London, England, 1870-10-07

A FIGHT NEAR LUNEVILLE.

It is not often that we hear anything of Luneville now,
though the place was familiar enough in the days of
Woerth ; but it appears that a skirmish took place there
a few days ago. According to the German accounts it
ended very favourably for them. A French force
of Freeshooters and Gardes Mobiles had come up
and established itself in the wood at Baccarat,
where, in a strongly entrenched position, it caused great
annoyance to "the enemy." A very motley force it was—
composed not only of Mobiles and Freeshooters, who,
whatever their merits, are not very " regular" in their
appearance and accoutrements, but likewise of various
Zouaves and Turcos who had run away after
Woerth and Weisseuburg. There were also a
couple of Line officers who rendered very good
service by getting three cannon nicely into position.
These guns, with the entrenchments, which were very
regularly made, rendered the wood very difficult to ap-
proach. The French force altogether numbered from
1,800 to 2,000 men. At first up came a German patrol of
the 31st Landwehr. A few shots were exchanged, but
.the patrol could do nothing with such a force.
The French, secure in their position, played
away merrily with their three guns. A couple
of days passed and then the Germans brought up a larger
force. It consisted of one hundred cavalry—Hussars of
the line, and of the Landwehr and Cuirassiers of the
Landwehr—twelve hundred infantry (a company of
Guards, and two battalions of Saxon lagers), with two
guns. The fight commenced. The Mobiles held the town
of Baccarat, and speedily sent back a
dozen
.Uhlans, who advanced upon it. The
German artillery played into Baccarat, whilst the infantry
advanced on each side. The French did not hold out
long. They speedily retired, leaving six Freeshooters in
the hands, of the Germans. These captives, according to
the German account, were to be shot the next, morning.
The Germans then tried to force the wood, but here the
case was quite different. The fire of the French was hot,
and their position so strong that no progress could be made
against them. After losing several men the Germans gave
up for that day. They left the artillery and infantry in Bac-
carat, and these the next day were strengthened, in order
to hold the French in check until sufficient troops could be
brought up to surround the wood and capture the whole
party. Whether this interesting experirpent succeeded
remains to be learned. The sick in the neighbourhood of
Luneville are very numerous. The roads from Nancy
are covered with trains of invalids from Metz and Paris.
Typhus and dysentery prevail. and in the Luneville dis-
trict the hospitals are all full.
London, England, 1870-10-07

NEW COMBINATIONS.

BERLIN, OCT. 6.
1414 troops who besieged Strasburg are ordered to
test Belfort, Schlettstadt, and New Breisach.
°3B who took Toul will beleaguer Soissons.
tj'ng Corps despatched by the army before Paris to
Orleannias, Maine, and Picardy have found no
• , of fresh levies.
Thiers called upon the Italian Envoy at St.
ob,tersblirg, and, telling him that his only motive for
ie`aTilig Italian unity had been his fear that it would
t° German unity, expressed his intention to
4 Florence on his return journey.
bee4llo Russian Artillery Captain Bunyapowski has
otdeall dispatched to Birmingham to receive the rifles
\r'recl his Government.
cie'"gotations for the admission of the South
be rlllarl States into the Northern Confederacy will
theah l3er tly opened at Royal Headquarters. As yet
atitiavarian Government is unwilling to place its
tie and diplomacy under Federal authorities in
f Peace.
aidl.e" Russian War Office is drawing up a law con-
eh:4lY restricting the rights of conscripts to pur-
e substitutes.—Times Telegram.

C°IINT BISMARCK AND THE
FRENCH REPUBLIC.
f,,,r• Reuter has received the following telegram
'33:1 Count Bismarck :
" VERSAILLES, OCT, 6 (1.35 P.M.)
;,_`` do not hold the opinion that the Republican
feititutions of France constitute a danger for
the nor have I, as asserted in a letter of
eve -`7th ult. published in the Daily Telegraph,
a
person.
r expressed such a view to Mr. Mallet or to
"Y other
" (Signed) " BISMARCK."
London, England, 1870-10-07

THE CAPTAIN COI7HT-MARTIAL.

It has been ascertained that H.M.S. Captain
lies at a depth of 900 feet from the surface of the sea.
Some of the most scientific engineers of the country
have moreover expressed their belief that the vessel
could be raised and brought back to England. If she
could, perhaps the best way of deciding finally as to
the qualities of the ship would be to have the vessel
itself elevated from its watery bed -and tested by
skilful authorities. If such a plan were resorted to,
we might have the extra satisfaction of giving a
burial in their native land to the gallant crew who
lost their lives in the ship. It is admitted that thc
act of raising a huge iron vessel would be costly, but
the expenditure in such a case as this might to
well compensated for hereafter, by our knowing
beyond doubt the true causes of the calamity.
London, England, 1870-10-07

A FRENCII SUCCESS.

The fight on the 30th was a pretty brisk affair,
ex tending from Villeneuve-le-Roi to Villejuif and
a little to the west of that place. The French
fought well and inflicted considerable loss on
the Germans, the latter having lost about seven
hundred men with a large proportion of officers ;
the former left about 200 men killed and wounded on the
field, and lost 300 or 400 prisoners. Of these I saw a
number coming into Villeneuve-le-Roi ; and a more mise-
rable, woebegone, undersized set of men, I have
rarely beheld. I was, unfortunately just in time
to be too late to see anything of the fight, and am
not in a position to give any details about it.
In the meanwhile, people are eating, drinking,
and enjoying themselves at Versailles, and the
town is quite gay, The inhabitants attend to
their usual work ; there is no lack of food and
drink ; and everything goes merry as a marriage
bell. The army of Strasburg is, I believe, marching
3n Lyons. It will do the " Reds " some good to have a►
little taste of the pleasures of war. The present state
iaactivity cannot last long. In a few days the bom-
bardment will commence, if nothing can be done in the
meantime to effect a peaceful solution of difficulties. I
cannot help thinking that t here is still some chance of
the fair city of Paris escaping the horrors of a regular
siege. They claim to have two months' provisions in the
town. It is nat likely that they have so much, neither is
it likely that the snob will submit to half-rations ; and I
think we may expect the close of the war before the chill
blasts of w inter shall have stripped the trees of their sere
anti yell° W leaves.- -Telegraph's Coy ral:ancient at time Ger-
wan, Headouarters.
London, England, 1870-10-07

THE WAR.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS. -

A COOL RECEPTION AT VERSAILLES.

There can be no ambiguity about the feelings with
which the inhabitants round Paris regard the invaders.
The Germans themselves bear testimony to the hatred
with which they are confronted on all sides. Herr
Wacl-enhusen, one of the correspondents of the Cologne
Gazette, states that nearly all the women in Versailles
wear mourning, in token of their patriotic feeling, and do
not favour a Prussian even with a look. The old women
go about the whole day in tears. In the hotel where he is
staying the three women of , the house sit behind the buffet
and weep. If asked a question in the street, they hardly
deign an answer. Even the children are taught to fly from
all contact with a Prussian. The inhabitants of Versailles
admit that the army will enter Paris, but they predict
that then the struggle will but begin, and that even if
the men are all killed the women will resort to sword,
'poison, and treachery, in order to rescue the capital.
The King has remitted the sentence of death passed on
several peasants and artisans who fired on the troops.
At Meudon a soldier of the 47th Regiment was found a
few days ago, whom the peasants had tied to a tree, in
order then to cleave his skull with a hatchet. The
guilty parties are not discoverable. The order which a
General has given to his men is, therefore, quite justi-
fiable ;—" If you catch a franc-tireur, shoot him on the
spot, for they are the fellows who lie in ambush for our
people wherever they find them singly, therefore, no
mercy for them." They promised to act accordingly,
but Herr Wachenhusen is sure they will, nevertheless,
have mercy on the armed French rabble. This writer
explains the present inaction of the Germans by the
theory that they are waiting for siege guns. A fortnight
may elapse before they arrive. He fears the
troops must make up their minds to a long
siege ; but the railway round Metz being com-
pleted, the communication with Germany is materially.
facilitated. While the Parisians carry on aerial inter-
course with the provinces, that by water is beginning to
be cut off by the German pioneers. At Borugival they
fished up, to their great delight, the cable in the Seine,
cut it, and thus prevented any further despatches by the
Government to Rouen. There was great surprise in
Paris at no answer being received. "We require an
answer," was repeatedly telegraphed ; " your batteries
are too weak, strengthen them." Unluckily, it was not
possible to fetch a telegraph operator, so as to deceive the
Paris Government and entice them into farther messages,
which would no doubt prove interesting.
London, England, 1870-10-07

'ME SUN, LONDON, FRIDAI, OCrOBER 7, 1.870.

parks nearest to their respective parishes, or to the
director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the case of
persons residing in the neighbourhood, an early in-
timation will be given of the number of plants that
can be allotted to each applicant, and of the time and
manner of their distribution.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, OCT. 4.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, drove
to Morven.

The Marquis of [Lorne and the Marquis .f Hertford
had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal
Family.

TEIE ENGLISH CABINET AND THE
ORLEANISTS.

The London correspondent of the Birmimyham, Gazette
credits the English Government with a desire to see the
Orleanists reigning in France. When the recent action—
or non-action—of our Cabinet is weighed up, this preva-
lent idea of placing a son of Louis Philippe on the Throne
of France must not be too hastily set aside. A return of
Imperial power is .now considered oat of the question—no
solitary voice has been raised in France for the
fallen Emperor ; a republic can only be the
government of a short period; there is nothing
left but monarchy. Our Ministers have there-
fore elected to wait and watch events. The Prussian
hosts will be suffered to thunder at the gates of Paris,
nay, to overrun the " gay city," ere England interferes.
She knows full well that the greater the humbling, the
less chance for the Napoleonists, and that the fall of
Paris when in the hands of the Republicans must lead to
a powerful distrust of that party. The hour will then be
ripe for intervention. Territory to the conquerors and a
settled form of government vall be demanded.
London, England, 1870-10-07

DEATHS.

On the 29th ult., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Mr. Markiand,
Esq., of Loraine-place, Holloway, aged 68.
On the Ist inst., at Cambridge-gardens, Kensington-park
J. C. Clendon, 111.R.C.5., aged 60.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at
THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the
Savoy, i❑ the County of Middlesex.
Friday, October 7, 1870,
London, England, 1870-10-07

EMIGRATION.

The Emigration Committee had hard work during
the past year. With the exception of 1854,the number
of departures was the largest that ever left the United
Kingdom in a single year. One of the most notice-
able facts in the statistics is the large increase in the
number of Scotch and English emigrants. It ap-
pears that 258,027 persons emigrated from the United
Kingdom in 1869. The Irish emigration in 1869,
though absolutely larger than in 1868, bore a less
proportion to the whole British emigration than in
the latter year, for in 1868 it formed 47 per cent, of
the British emigration, but in 1869 only 39-3- per cent.
Foreign emigrants also increased considerably. The
Commissioners report that so long as the 'Continent
is healthy there can be no objection to this
emigration, which is beneficial to shipowners, but
when epidemics prevail in the countries from which-
the emigrants proceed, they© is risk of the introduc-
tion of sickness through this means. The advantages
which emigrants obtain by passages in steamboats are
very great, though the cost is from 30 to 50 per cent.
higher than in sailing ships. The mortality in
steamships appears to be very small. The emigrant
tax in New York is sufficient to defray all the ex-
penses of a large depot, and to leave a surplus out of
which a hospital has been built. Government emi-
gration appears to be regarded with jealousy by both
the Dominion of Canada and by the United States.
The Report of the Commissioners states that the actual
demand for emigrants in the Australian colonies is
small. Last year a request was made from Western
Canada for 25,000 emigrants, and less than 14,000
arrived. In a recapitulation of statistics it is re-
marked that during the past ten years the mortality
among emigrants sent out by the Commissioners has
been but 82 per cent., and that of 1,008 ships dis-
patched, five have been lost, but in one instance only
with loss of life.
London, England, 1870-10-07

A ZOUAVE'S LUTER.

A Havre paper publishes a letter which a Zouave, who,
was with the army at Sedan, has written to his father.
He writes from Lille, which he had succeeded in reaching
after most perilous adventures, having escaped from the
Prussians after the capitulation. He speaks of General
ly as a traitor, and says that his own company did
not take part in the engagement of the 30th,
having only arrived at five in the afternoon. in
the evening Marshal MacMahon came up to their
encampment, and said to a group of Zcuaves who stood
by, " This is unfortunate, is it not?" " Yes, somewhat,"
replied one of them. "We shall take our revenge," said
the Marshal, alluding, the writer believes, to the treason
of de Faiuly. The Zouave's company took a prominent
part in the great fight on the Ist, and were decimated.
When the flag of truce was hoisted by Napoleon's orders,
part of aregiment stationed near the gate fired on the officer
who waved it, and cut their way through the enemy.
When the men learned they were all prisoners, their rage
and grief were indescribable. They wept, they broke
their guns, they were furious. imprisoned in the Maud
which is formed by the Meuse, they remained seven days
with only a few biscuits and some horseflesh without salt.
On the 10th they started for Prussia, but the Zouave
and two comrades escaped. Hiding in a church, they
obtained food from the peasantry. His clothes were in
rags, his shoes had to be tied round with string, but at
last he reached Belgium. He consoles his parents by the
remark that if bullets were to kill him he would have died
at Sedan, where only 150 men were left out of his regi-
ment of 1,200. He has learned since his arrival at Lille
that the 300 men who dashed through the enemy's troops
at Sedan reached Paris in safety, bearing the Lieutenant-
Colonel's flag.

REVELATIONS RESPECTING MACINIAIION'S

MARCH.

In the Emperor's correspondence seized at Dieppe are
documents which shew that Napoleon had made arrange-
ments for the Empress or Prince Napoleon to be Regent
if the Prince Imperial came to the throne before attaining
his majority. They also show that up to the 21st of
August it was intended that MacMahon should retire to
Paris instead of attempting to relieve Metz. The follow-
ing outline of a letter from the Emperor to Marshal Mac-
Mahon is in the handwriting of M. Rouher :
" Marshal,—Our communications with Marshal Bazaine
are interrupted. The situation is becoming difficult and
serious. I call upon your patriotism and devotion, and
confer upon you the command of the army of Chalons
and of the troops which will assemble around the capital
and in Paris. You will have the great glory of combating
and repulsing foreign invasion. As to myself, no political
consideration will be placed above the safety of the
country. I will be your first soldier, conquer or die at
your si& in the midst of my soldiery."
The following is the draught of a proclamation to be
issued by Marshal Mahon :
London, England, 1870-10-07

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THE CAPTAIN RELIEF FUND.

A town's meeting to consider the propriety of raising
subscriptions towards this fund was held at the Sun
Hotel, Chatham, yesterday afternoon, the High Consta-
ble, Mr. George Winch, presiding. Most of the influential
inhabitants were present. It was stated that a number
of the crew of the Captain belonged to Chatham.
Resolutions were passed, appointing a committee and
officers for raising subscriptions.
London, England, 1870-10-07

PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE.

It is stated in Dover that Prince Pierre Bonaparte
crossed yesterday from Ostend in the mail packet, and
proceeded to London by South-Eastern mail train.

MISS RYE ARRANGING FOR ANOTHER
VOYAGE.

Miss Rye, who has just returned from Canada, had an
interview yesterday with the Mayor of Liverpool and
leading gentlemen of the town. It is expected she will
shortly be assisted to take out to Canada a number of
London, England, 1870-01-21

:.;:t`U.RIII4G INTELLIGENOE-THIS DAY

CITY BETTING.—This DAY.
WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP.

7 to 2 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (offered—
take 4 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Mr Blanshard's nom. (taken)
1000 to 50 agst Mr Clark's nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr Bland's nom. (taken)
30 to 1 agst Mr F. Johnston's nom. (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr Hodson's nomination (taken)
LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.
10 to I:agst The;Colonel (offered)
25 to 1 agst The Lamb (offered—take 30 to 1)
300 to 12 agst Nuage (taken)
23 to 1 agst Tathwell (taken to £5O)
to 1 agst, Q.C. (offered)
1600 to 35 agst Snowstorm (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Costa (offered)
40 to 1 agst Doctor (taken)
40 to l agst Pearl Diver (offered)
40 to 1 agst Little "toga( (taken)
40 to 1 ast ‘Vild Fox (taken)
40 to 1 agst Scipio (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Summertime (wanted)

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4 to 1 agst Kingcraft (offered)
9 to 2 agst Sunshine (offered)
Bto 1 agst Astolfo (offerod-9 to 1 wanted)
100 to 7 agst Bridgewater (taken)
200 to 3 agst Macgregor (taken)

DERBY.
5000 to 50 agst Scarboro' (taken)

DOUBLE EVENT.

2000 to 100 agst Sunshine for Two Thousand Guineas
and Derby •

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAQE-
MENTS.

Jan. 17, at 9 a.m., Master Tom. and Pyrehees, out of
West Drayton engagements.
Jan. 18, at 9 a.m., King's Cross, out of all Steeplechases
and Hurdle Races for which he is nominated by Mr.
Osborne.

Jan. 18, at 9 a.m., Vici, out of Grand National Steeple-
chase, Liverpool.
Jan. 19, at 9 a.m., All Mr. F. G. Hobson's horses, out of
all engagements.

FOBFEIT Lisz.—The forfeits of the following horses
have been paid : Caprice (to qualify), Dick, Hector,
Juanita, Merry Monk, Metaphor, Nanny Thormanby, Pate,
and Vicar.

STEEPLECHASE FORFEIT LlST.—Ada's forfeit has been
paid to qualify.
COLOURS OF RIDERS.—COI. W. T. Moore: White, blue
spots.
NOMENCLATURE.—The following names have been
given :—Mr. br e by Lord Albemarle—Yule Cake, 3 yi s
Silvershoe. Mr. J. B. Dennis's b e by Umpixe, out of
Thalestris, 3 yrs--Why-not.
31ANcunsTER.— The Silver Cup at this meeting has been
awarded to Barbara Bell.

THE SPRING HANDICAPS.
We shall publish the weights; for tho Spring Handi-
caps on Thursday next.

RACING FIXTURES-1870.
FEBRUARY.

Lincoln...-. l5, 16 I Derby
Harrow 17, 18 I Nswtou 95., 26

MARCH.
Nottingham... 1, 2 1 West Somerset l6, 17
Liverpool B, 9, 10' Warwick 22, 23, 24
Pontefract 14, 15 i Epsom 29, 39
Cambridgeshire l4, 15 I Bromley 31 and April ]
London, England, 1870-01-21

AIARRIAGES.

HAUBISON—PAIN—On the 19th—inst., at St. Andrew's'
Holborn, George Henry, fifth son of the late WilHaul
Hari ison, of Upper Thames-street, to Jane, the second
daughter of the late Oliver Pain, of Stratford, Essex.
WHITE —WHITE—On the 20th inst., at New Shoreharat
.liard White, of Watling-street, London, to Rose, the
third daub.
hter of Thomas White, of MidlAtrst, Sussex'
London, England, 1870-01-21

A LANDLORD'S VIEW.

An Ulster Landlord and Tenant (Mr. Sinclair)
returns to the Irish land question in another letter
to the Standard. He refers to the alleged inclination
of Irish landlords to turn their lands from
tillage to pasture, thus causing diminished sustenance
for man, and diminished employment for labour. He
admits both consequences, but cannot say that he
wonders such should be the case. As an em-
ployer of labour, he says he has found it almost
impossible to get work done by task, save when
starvation was the alternative. Tho endeavour
of the Irish day workman is to do as little as pos-
sible in a given time. He adds to this the pleasant
prospect of being a mark for the waylayer or assassin,
which stares in the face the overseer who is conscien-
tious enough to seek for his employer a fair day's
work for a WI. day's pay. The ox and the sheep, he ob-
serves, endeavour to serve their masters by covering
their bones with beef and mutton, to the best of their
ability ; if they suppose themselves badly treated, as
they often are, they do not avenge their wrongs by
arson alai murder. There is, therefore, he argues, a
strong inducement for an active owner of land to keep it
as pasture in his own hands. The writer adds that
he quite agrees with the right hon. member for
Birmingham, that the more closely such a state of
affairs is looked at the more difficult does it seem to
make legislative enactments which will satisfy
tenants, with their present ideas, and preserve the
legitimate rights of the owners of the-,sml.
London, England, 1870-01-21

ROCHDALE POLITICS.

Mr. Potter addressed his constituents on the topics
of the day on Wednesday evening. He pronounced
in favour of those changes which have long been
part of his political creed—the ballot, the abolition
of nominations and the official declaration
of the poll, and the reform of the licensing
system. Mr. Potter is an advocate of the
Permissive Bill, and though he cannot hope for
such a measure from the Government, he still relies
upon some concessions to temperance principles. Mr.
Potter declares for a purely secular system of educa-
tion ; he will strenuously oppose the extension of
the Contagious Diseases Act ; and is in favour of the
bill to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
Mr. Potter ridicules the reciprocity cry. Other
causes than free trade must be adduced to explain
the depression of trade :

A return was presented to the House of .COmmons last
year of joint-stock companies which had been in liquida-
tion during the last six or seven years, and the amount of
loss sustained by their failure. He desired his reciprocity
friends to direct
_their attention to these figures. There
had been, at the date of the return, 480 joint-stock com-
panies in Chancery, of which the whole property was
lost. Their paid-up capital amounted to £1,116,000;
and the number of contributories was 61,900.
If there were 61,900 families in Great Britain
whose average loss was £5OO, they might imagine
to want extent that loss affected their purchasing powers.
The amount stated, moreover, w.ts ependent of calls
of from £1 to £430 per sliare in other companies, number-
ing 218; and of many companies not in Chancery which
wert! making calls but paying no dividends. This,
although not the sole cause of the stagnation of trade, ac-
counted for much of it, and he believed the sufferings of
the people had been mitigated rather than increased by
our commercial policy.

MIL PELL, ON THE IRISH LAND QUESTION.
At tie annual meeting of the Lutterworth Conser-
vative Association, Mr. Pell, Conservative mem-
ber for South Leicestershire, spoke on the
Irish land question. He said, astho owner and
occupier of land in England, he thought he might
fairly go into Ireland, confer with the tenantry
there, and see for himself how far Mr. Bright's
statements were correct. Mr. Bright had always
held that what the Irish tenants wanted was to be
the proprietors of the land. With all due deference to
Mr. Bright, he did not think Irish tenants wished to
h rish landlords. Ile thought their view was that
by status, and not hy contract, they were entitled to the
occupation of the land in Ireland. Mr. Pell expressed
a hope that whatever measure Government brought
forward, it would be one that the country would un-
derstand, and which would teach the people of
Ireland once for all that the law of the land must
not be trilled with, and that order must be main-
tained.
London, England, 1870-01-21

T IFS:ANNUITIES.—AIANCTIESTER CUR-
-11 PORATION WATERWORKS.
The Waterworks Committee of the Corporation of the
City of Manchester is prepared to issue, free from all
official charges, ANNUITIES forLIVES, jointly or sepa-
rately, in such amounts as may suit investor* on security
of the Borough Rates of the City, and the Rates, Rents, and
other Waterworks Property.
Applications, personally or in writing, may be made or
pent to the City Trensurr, or to Mr. Berrey, Waterworks
Offices, Town Hall, Manchester.
By order,
JOSEPH HERON, Town Clerk.
Town Hall, Manchester, January 6, 1870.
London, England, 1870-01-21

(NE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHAN CHILDREN aro being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary'
Office, 54, Cheapside, London. &Os

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out-patients.
Treasurer—Geo. T. Hertslet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's
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Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
By order, H. J. JUPP.

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The private medical attendants of the patients are
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