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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-13

A Word of Warning.

A correspondent advises those who may chance
to have sons inclined to a military career, and clever
enough to seek admission into Woolwich, to pause
before they allow themselves to be swayed in
their choice by the tempting name of a
scientific corps. He points out two cases
in justification of his warning. One of them is that
a very distinguished officer of artillery was lately
recommended for the post of Chief of the Staff
College, now about to be considerably enlarged.
He had been tested in high educational
situations, and his name as a military
writer was known all over Europe. Moreover, the
choice was said to be approved by the War Office,
and admitted by the whole army to be putting the
right man in the right place. But it has lately been
announced semi-officially that Colonel Hamley is not
chosen because " the head of the staff college must
not be an artilleryman." The writer thinks that the
words are stereotyped for further use on similar
occasions.. And yet he says the Duke of Cambridge
is nominally colonel of the Royal Artillery, and we
see announcements that he is to preside at the
annual meeting of that " distinguished " corps.
Distinguished, lie suggests, unpleasantly just now by
these rejections of its picked men from offices for
which they were specially chosen and specially
fitted.
London, England, 1870-05-13

present session.

Mr. GLADSTONE replied that the Government expected
to be able to do so.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH AMERICA.
In reply 'to Mr. BAINES,

The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he had received a
communication from the Postmaster-General of the
United States with reference to the mail service between
the two countries, but he was sorry he could hold out no
hopes of any acceleration in the transmission of the mails
so long as the two packet companies declined to accept the
terms proposed.

(LEFT SITTING•)

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
AMERICA.

NEW YORK, May 13.

Public meetings have been held here, and in other
Cities, to express indignation against the Spanish
authorities in Cuba for the summary execution of
General Goicouria. Resolutions were adopted me-
morializing Congress to protest against further
barbarity.

It is rumoured that the Fenians are assembling
near St. Paul for the purpose of invading the Red
River Territory,.
A terrible conflagration has occured in the moun-
tain forests of Madison and Sullivan counties, in the
State of New York. The loss is estimated at
$5,000,000.

WASHINGTON, May 13.
The Senate has passed the bill fixing the total
strength of the army at 30,000 men.
London, England, 1870-05-13

The New Irish Church.

The agitation among the churchmen in Ireland
with respect to the tendencies to ritualistic practices,
alleged to have been already manifested by members
of the Church governing body, has become very
serious, and now not only the " Manual of Short
Prayers," but also phrases in the Book of Common
Prayer itself; are condemned. Several meetings of
indignant parishioners, finding that "certain expres-
sions in the prayer book are capable of being
distorted by _Ritualists for the purposes of their doc-
trines," have resolved to pay all subscriptions for the
maintenance of their respective churches to trustees
and not to the representative authorities, unless
certain rules and canons in the existing Prayer-book
are altered. Much painful controversy has arisen on
account of the differences among those who are
anxious to remodel. a substantial and independent
Church establishment; and the ecclesiastics who
have had the temerity at the present juncture to
exhibit partiality for observances objected to, are
meeting with much grave and apparently just
censure.
London, England, 1870-05-13

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London, England, 1870-05-13

THE DASHER.

Mr. WILLIAM GREGORY asked if it was true that her
Majesty's forces by land and sea had been employed in
preventing the landing of a submarine cable at Guernsey;
and if so, to know what was the prineiple recognised and
sanctioned by her Majesty's Government in regard to the
landing of submarine cables on British dependencies.
Mr. K. HUGGESEN said the ship Dasher had been so
employed by order of the Treasury. The foreshores at
the point referred to were the property of the Crown, and
necessary to protect certain rights. Correspondence
however, was,going on on the subject.
RICHMOND PAR

Mr. _A ',lnman LAWRENCE asked the First Commissioner
of Wor nether Roehampton Gate of Richmond Park
would be open to the public this season.
IVIr.AvuToN said the owner of the property leading to the
gate refused to allow it to be used by the public, and there-
fore it would be necessary, if the expense was not objected
to, to open a new gate to get over the difficulty.
London, England, 1870-05-13

THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE.

The Telegraph says the Sappho is a splendid specimen
of the broad but shallow model which was so triumph-
antly introduced to our waters by the America. It may
well be believed that the early risers on board the Vectis
steamship saw a gallant sight when the two stately rivals,
thus prepared, spread their snowy wings to the breeze, and
stood away, beam and beam, for the open sea. Unlucicily,
the Vectis—which was to be the goal or turning-point of
the race, and the winning post of the preliminary beat out
to seaward—lost sight -of the yachts; and thus the first
heat of the match ended in a manner satisfactory to no-
body. The Sappho, we believes beat out her sixty miles,
and then, finding nothing to round, ran back
again, arriving at the winning-buoy an hour and
a half behind the Cambria, and, nevertheless, indubitably
the winner. Mr. Ashbury refused to entertain for a
moment any idea of disputing her triumph in this, the
the first of the three heats. He struck his flag on Tues-
day evening, because it was abundantly clear that the
Sappho had outsailed the Cambria for that day upon
her best point ; and that, " goal or no goal," she was
clearly the winner. Something, the salt-water
authorities say, mast have been the matter with the
beautiful English schooner. She was out of trim, in
spite of every every experiment, or else unlucky with
slants of wind and the hundred shifting currents of a
Channel tide ; for she went sluggishly all day, and after
the first three hours was passed by the Egeria—a yacht,
which, although a fine craft would never match
herself ordinarily with that of Mr. Ashbury in
beating to windward. There is a vast deal, too, in the
handling of a schoonor's sails. A yacht captain in a match
might quote Mr. Browning's lines, " A little .more, and
how much it is ; a little less, and how much is away !"
and the Sappho was splendidly sailed by her master and a
crew of forty or fifty picked men from the Solent. If
Tuesday's match were final, we might find some comfort
in being thus beaten with British aid—killed " with a
feather from our own wing ; " but we must be as generous
as Mr. Ashbury, and hope to win a similar race in the
second heat, and after that, in the triangular and crowning
contest which is to follow ; while we freely grant that the
Sappho won all the honours on Tuesday, and spewed her-
self a noble sea-boat.
London, England, 1870-05-13

Escape from Fire.

A correspondent points out the serious risk in-
curred by the employes in large establishments in
which no proper precautions for providing
means of escape from fire have been taken.
One place of business with which he
is acquainted stands considerably higher than
the neighbouring houses, being about ninety
feet high. In the upper stories some fifty young
women sleep, being locked in their part of the build-
London, England, 1870-05-13

Moving Heavy Guns.

A trial has been made at the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich, of a new method of moving
very heavy guns, invented by Lieutenant B. Brown,
of the Royal Artillery. The means are a portable
tramway and friction balls, on which a slide or
carriage bearing the weight rests, thus being quite
independent of the nature of the ground over which
the weight has to be conveyed, and doing away,
to a great extent with the many pre-
judicial resistances which now render so
difficult the transport of heavy ordnance.
The gun manipulated weighed 121 tons, and the plat-
form 12 tons, making a total weight of 14 tons,
which passed up and down inclines with the greatest
ease, a detachment of about ten men alone Leing re-
quired to carry out the experiment. These
men were entirely unacquainted with the
invention having been taken from other duties
The tramway or iron gutters over which
the gun passed were merely placed on the
ground without any previous preparation, and after
it had passed over a portion of them they were
taken up and relaid, thus forming a continuous tram-
way for any distance.
London, England, 1870-05-13

THE VICTIMS OF THE GREEK BRIGANDS.

A special meeting of the Southampton Town Council was
held 3 esterday, to make arrangements for receiving the
bodies of Mr. Herbert and Mr.Vyner from Greece, expected to
arrive by the Delta to-day. It was resolved to receive the
bodies from the Delta, and if friends consent, to convey
them to the nearest parish church, minute guns being fired
and muffled peals rung. The ships in port will fly their
flags half mast high. The Mayor read a letter from the
Earl of Carnarvon, stating that though the idea of a demon-
stration was unexpected so far as he was concerned he did
not feel at libery to refuse any mark of respect which was so
kindly suggested and so welcome to the feelings of all Mr.
Herbert's family, and so appropriate to the circumstances of
the case.

DEATH OF THE REV. DR. DILL, OF DERRY.
The death is announced of the Rev. Dr. Dill, Professor
of Theology in Magee Presbyterian College, Derry. The
deceased clergyman was one of the foremost of the Irish
Presbyterian Churchmen, and was looked upon since the
death of the Rev. Henry Cooke as the leader of what is
termed the Conservative party in the General Assembly
of the Irish Presbyterian Church Body.
London, England, 1870-05-13

Mortuary Fees.

The Daily Telegraph undertakes to enlighten a
correspondent on the subject of mortuary fees. "A.
Dissenter " writes to our contemporary to ask whether
the clergyman of a parish has power to claim a
mortuary fee from the estate of every one who
during his lifetime has had an income of £4O and.
upwards. He supposes a case :—A gentle-
man who, during his lifetime, has attended
a dissenting place of worship, and owned
no allegiance to the vicar of his parish, dies.
He is buried in the unconsecrated part of a general
cemetery by the minister of the chapel where he
formerly attended. The clergyman demands from the
widow a sum of money as mortuary fee due to him-
self. Would the law of the land sustain
the clergyman in his olaim ? The Daily
Telegraph answers this question by another,
The editor asks whether such a custom exists in the
place referred to. An Act of Henry VIII.,
he says, declares that these payments shall
be demanded only in places "where mortuaries
have been accustomed." There was a case
in the Consistory Court of London in 1839, when the
Marylebone guardians were refusing to pay the
burial fees of paupers to the rector of the parish.
The suit was dismissed because it was governed by
particular Acts of Parliament.
London, England, 1870-05-13

It
OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
it Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, WIDOWS' WEEDS. Messrs.
Crouch, Turner, and Mesdames E. Bufton and Anstiss.
Followed by SIR GEORGE AND A DRAGON. Messrs. James,
Terry, Fenton ; Mesdames Santley, Dashwood, Goodall, Hughes,
Anstiss, and Metcalfe.
And A FISH OUT OF WATER.
London, England, 1870-05-13

Iron as a Material for Shipbuilding,

At the annual meeting of the members of the Iron
and Steel Institute, Mr. Charles M. Palmer read a
paper on " Iron as a material for shipbuilding, and its
influence on the commerce and armament of
nations." The value of land for Agricultural pur-
poses had, ho said, tended to diminish very
greatly the growing of timber for ship building,
and foreign nations were unable to supply in suf-
ficient quantities and at a reasonable price good wood
for the purpose. Dr. Fairburn in a work on iron ship-
building had pointed out the superior advantages
which wrought iron possessed over all other mate-
rials. So superior, in fact, were the facilities for
uniting different pieces of iron to those of com-
bining wood, that a plate 1/ inch in thickness
would be 134 times stronger than the wood sheath-
ing combined in the ordinary manner.
London, England, 1870-05-13

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LYCEUM THEATRE (under the managemen
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THIS EVENING, at 7.30, BREAKING THE SPELL.
After which, at 8, LITTLE FAUST : Mr. T. Maclagan, M.
Marius, Mr. Aynsley Cook, Mr. Odell, and Mr. Wilmot ; Mdlle.
Debreux, Mesdames Lennox Grey, Lawson, Lee, and Emily
oldene.
London, England, 1870-05-13

Escape from Fire.

A. correspondent points. out the serious risk in-
curred by the employes m large establishments in
which no proper precautions for providing
means of escape from fire have been taken.
One place of business with which • he
is acquainted stands considerably higher than
the neighbouring houses, being about ninety
feet high. In the upper stories some fifty young
women sleep, being locked in their part of the build-

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ing, and the whole establishment is left in charge of
two porters and a few servants. In case ola fire these
young women would have no chance of escape, since
they would be out of reach of a fire escape, and the
adjoining roofs are far distant. This case is only one
of many which exist in London and all other large
towns, and the owners of such buildings appear per-
fectly indifferent to reiterated accounts of death
and disaster from fire.

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every Evening, at Eight o'clock, at Mr. GILLMAN'e, " The
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London, England, 1870-07-28

A MINISTER OF EDUCATION.

It appears tolerably certain that we shall have a
Minister of Education, and Mr. Gladstone in his rem arks
on the subject the other day seemed to look upon the
creation as the natural sequence of the law now
passing the Legislature. The Premier was, of course,
careful not to commit himself by making a precipi-
tate statement, but confined his observations to
the expression of a general opinion. It
is quite evident that Mr. Forster cannot
possibly undertake the supervision of the
working of the new measure in addition to the
business of his own department. The question that
presents itself to our notice is whether Mr. Forster
should not be intrusted with the responsibility of
the affair, and made Minister of Education, in order
that his scheme may have the best chance of
success. He has the interest of the question so much
at heart, and is so intimately acquainted with the
practical working of the matter, that he is the best
calculated to promote the objects of the measure.
Should the Government decide on this course, their
selection will meet with public approval.
London, England, 1870-07-28

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London, England, 1870-07-28

ENGLAND'S DUTY.

The Telegraph remarks that her Majesty's Ministers
have to-night a duty beyond that of affording the anxi
ously expected informaticn. Be their statement com-
plete or incomplete, it will be, at all events, seasonable
that France and Europe should hear from responsible
lips a declaration which shall express the universal senti-
ments of the British nation in view of the past, present,
and future eventualities. It is probable that we are much
misconstrued by foreign politicians. We are known to love
peace ; our island life keeps us from meddling with business
which is not our own ; and when neighbouring countries
have fallen out, or plans of ambitious diplomacy have
endangered the Continent, our voice is always heard more
anxiously for accord and reconciliation than for this or
that side in the quarrel. Thus we are liable to fatal mis-
apprehension as a people. It is eminently necessary,
therefore, that the words heard this evening should
correct such a misappreciation, if it prevails anywhere.
Most true it is that the policy favoured by the entire British
population is that of a dignified and vigilant neutrality.
most true that we love and value peace as the best of all
blessings, and that we have learned to look upon war as
the direst of calamities, even where it is just and succes-
ful. But those will perilously mistake our present spirit,
and those have strangely misread our past history, who
dream that England could basely pawn her honour and
her friendship for selfish prosperity on the day when a
cause for warfare should arise through the violation,
by whatever Power, of territory guaranteed under her
signature—or through pushing too far the exigencies
of belligerency on either side.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE TYNE CHAMPION CHALLENGED.

- - -
The American champion sculler, Coulter, has chal-
enged Renforth to a five mile match, and the English
enaropion signified his willingness to row on any suitable
river during his stay in Canada in September next, when
the four-oared race between the Tyne and the New
Brunswick crews is fixed for decision. The match will
probably de duly ratified. The Tyne champion four are
in active work, and their new boat, launched on Tuesday,
is said to suit th-ia capitally.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THIS EVENING'S NEWS.

THE WAR.

ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL GUARD.
The Emperor has sent the following letter to the
Commandant of the National Guard of the Seine :

" I beg you to tell the National Guard of Paris how
much I reckon upon their patriotism and devotion. At
the moment of leaving for the army, I am anxious to ex-
press the confidence I place in them to maintain order,
and to watch over the security of the Empress.
" At the present time everybody must contribute to the
best of his powers towards the safety of the country."
General Darieu is appointed Governor of Algeria ad
interim.
London, England, 1870-07-28

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London, England, 1870-07-28

CRYSTAL PALACE.-GRAND PYROTECH-
NIC DISPLAY AND ILLUMINATION of GREAT and
OTHER FOUNTAINS. The display of Monday evening was so
entirely successful, and was received with such enthusiasm by
the 30,000 visitors then present, that it will be repeated in its
entire magnificence on Thursday next, the 4th August.
Notwithstanding the extended preparation and the consequent
great cost the admission will still be ls. ; guinea season tickets
free ; children half-price. Reserved seats and stalls, 2s. ed., and
is., may be at once secured at the Crystal Palace, or at Exeter

Note.—Full particulars and bills forwarded on application to
Parties desirous of undertaking excursions.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE BENNETT PROSECUTION.

The judgment delivered on Saturday, according to the
Church Herald, by Sir R. Phillimore in the case against
Mr. Bennett is a cause for deep thankfulness. We have
all along reprehended the very great laxity of expression
used by Mr. Bennett, which gave quite needlessly a great
advantage to those who deny the Real Pre-
sence, but a decision against the main points of his
teaching would have boen most injurious to all who
believe in the doctrine itself. Sir R. Phillimore entered
in an elaborate manner into the various points, and
while severely condemning Mr. Bennett's laxity of ex-
pression and erroneous statements in the first edition of
his work, gave him full credit for the retractation
evidenced by his emendations in later editions. His
exposition of the Catholic teaching of our Church
is able, learned, lucid, and thoroughly satisfactory.
The evidence he brings forward is most conclusive as to
the breadth of opinion rightly allowed by the English
Church within those limits needfully laid down by
Catholic Tradition. He ably points out that while
a certain attempt to . define the manner of
Christ's presence is condemned under the term
Transubstantiation, the reality of that Presence is
plainly set forth, and the Zuinglian notion of a mere com-
memorative rite utterly repudiated. His exposition of
the reception by the wicked was especially lucid, and
well supported by undeniably weighty quotations. The
explicit statement that it is not unlawful to
teach " the objective, actual, and Real Presence,
or the Spiritual Real Presence—a Presence ex-
ternal to the act of the Communicant," as also the
adoration of Christ present in the Sacrament, covers a
large part of the case. The remark that to condemn this
latter would be to condemn a long list of illustrious divines
who have adorned our universities and fought the battle of
the Church from Ridley to Keble, comes as'a heavy blow
to those who accuse us of a novelty in asserting the prac-
tice to be a duty.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE CANDIDATURE OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.

The Telegraph considers it a mere misleading fiction to
contend that the North German Government was abso-
lutely ignorant and absolutely unconcerned about 'a great
political event which positively owed its existence to
the sanction, if not to the intiation and encouragement,
of the King of Prussia and his Premier. To talk of
distinctions between the King as Head cf the Family
and the _King as Head of the State, therefore, was to
throw dust in the eyes of France and of Europe ; and
the Telegraph would be disposed, if it differed in any de-
gree from the admirable course pursued by Lord Gran-
ville in these negotiations, to think that his lordship
was somewhat too hard upon France when he said that,
after the indirect and dubious withdrawal of the Prince,
the French Government was incurring tremendous re-
sponsibility to gain a mere point of form. Indeed, our
Foreign Minister practically reversed in act his own writ-
ten judgment; for. as the public knows from the papers,
he actually asked from Prussia, though under a kind of
protest, the concession of the King's consent to
what he had himself called a mere point of form.
But this much is plain—that the candidature of the
Prince now appears to have been encouraged in Prussia
after a fashion which justified France in regarding it as a
deliberate attempt to disturb the balance of power for her
disadvantage, and that the cool, contemptuous, and inso-
lent silence of Prussia was not to be reconciled either with
conscious innocence of guile, or with conscientious regard
for the general peace.
London, England, 1870-07-28

AN AMERICAN LEGION.

The Gaulois announces that the Government has autho-
rised the formation of an American Legion of 500 men
for French service, all of whom are to be Americans, ex-
cepting the commander, who will be a Frenchman nomi-
nated by the Minister of War.

WITHDRAWAL OF FRENCH TROOPS
FROM ROME.

A telegram from Rome states that the French troops
have received orders to leave the Pontifical territory very
shortly. In announcing this resolution to the Holy See
the French Government represented the necessity of
France having the services of all her available troops at
this moment, and announeed that the Italian Govern-
ment, in conformity with the September Convention,
would undertake to secure respect for the Pontifical terri-
tory on the Italian frontiers.

The statement of the Gaulois is corroborated by a tele-
gram from the Paris correspondent of the Standard. It is
added that Italy will form an alliance with France.

A letter from Rome informs us that great alarm pre-
vails in the Pontifical States. On all the frontiers enrol-
ments are rapidly going on, especially at points such as
Terni or Perugia, which were centres of action in 1867.
"No great alarm," says our correspondent, " could be
excited by this announcement but for the ominous
silence of the French official organs on the Roman ques-
tion, and for the fact that two squadrons of Light
cavalry were suddenly embarked on Saturday night from
Civita Vecchia for Toulon in consequence of a despatch
from the War Office to General Dumont, who commands
the French occupatiou there."
London, England, 1870-07-28

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THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.

It is announced that no change will be made, in conse-
quence of the war in Europe, in the arrangements for the
Conference of the Evangelical Alliance which will
assemble at New York on September 22. Over 400
European delegates have signified their intention of
attending.

THIS MORNING'S NEWS.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
BUSINESS IN LIVERPOOL.

Business was worse than ever in Liverpool yesterday.
Seven failures were announced on the Stoek Exchange,
and in the cotton market business was limited at a still
further decline.

WAR DEMONSTRATIONS IN LIVERPOOL.

The Mayor of Liverpool has informed the local repre-
sentatives of France and Germany that no patriotic de-
monstrations will be allowed in the town in future either
on the part of one or the other nationalities.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE IRISH CENSUS.

The census is to be taken in Dublin upon the Bth
of April, 1871, and the work of collecting the neces-
sary information from house to house is to be
entrusted to the Dublin Metropolitan Police Force,
and in the country districts to the members of the,
Irish Constabulary. A penalty not exceeding Rtj
will be incurred, according to the terms of the Irish
Census Bill, by all men or women who refuse to
answer the questions put to them for the purposes of
filling up the returns, or by those who give incor-
rect answers. If any of the constabulary employed
in the work of the census, on the other hand, wil-
fully neglect.to place a full statement on record, or
wilfully falsify certain particulars, they are to forfeit a
sum not exceeding fiN e pounds. To guarantee the
bond fide nature of the returns furnished, the collec-
tors will, at the conclusion of their labours, have to
make a solemn affirmation before a justice of the
peace that their accounts have been truly and faithfully
taken by them, and that they are, to the hest of their
knowledge, correct. These provisions 'are all detailed
in the bill issued yesterday, under the sanction of the
Irish Government.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS ON
UPPER-CLASS EDUCATION.

Yesterday afternoon the Duke of Cleveland presided at
the distribution of prizes to the pupils of Sydney College,
Bath. Besides the members of the council, the Bishop of
the diocese (Lord Arthur Hervey) and Major Allein,
M.P., were present. The Bishop presented the prizes,
and urged upon the pupils the importance o; the upper
classes keeping ahead in the education race, now that the
lower classes were about to receive a larger measure of
education. His lordship dwelt on the necessity of attend-
ing especially to classics and mathematics, if only for the
discipline. These branches of study gave to the mind
the precision and accuracy of thought they superin-
duced.
London, England, 1870-07-28

LARGE FAILURE IN BRADFORD.

The failure of Messrs. Halliwell and Crabtree. I,
merchants and importers of mohair, Bradford, Is —.
nounced, with liabilities estimated at two hundred thou-
saa d pounds. The firm has been in existence fifteen
years. The stoppage is attributed to the failure o
Messrs. Leagler and Co., of Constantinople, who were
also engaged in the mohair trade. Mr. Halliwell, the
senior partner, died some years ago. The firm was one
which enjoyed excellent credit. Much sympathy is ex
) .ea_el for the surviving partner.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-

SHIRE RAILWAY.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway, held at Manchester yesterday,
Sir Edward Watkin, chairman, in moving the addiption
of the report, said they were met under circumstances of
great anxiety, with an important European war, in which
this country might become embroiled. They must ex-
pect the political circumstances for a time to affect
the income and revenue of the company. He was some-
what hopeful, for though the ports of Prussia and France
might be closed, the industry of England would find
vent in some other way; and the directors would do
what they could to secure a fair share of traffic. The
accounts showed that in the December half of 1869 the
company earned £376,800, and for the present half
£325,263, making a nett profit upon the whole year of
£712,000. From this sum certain deductions had to be
made bringing the balance of nett profit down to £696,000.
The report was adopted, and a dividend on ordinary
stock at the rate of one per cent. was declared.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Manchester and
Liuerpool District Bank, held at Manchester yesterday the
usual dividend of 15s. per share, with bonus of Es. per
share, was declared.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

Advices from Metz state that the Emperor Napoleon
is expected to reach that 'town this morning, and it is
thought from the military movements which have re-
cently been made that a great battle will take place almost
immediately afterwards.

REPORTED PURCHASE OF BELGIAN ARMS

BY THE FRENCH.

A telegram from a correspondent in Berlin says :
" There is a report here that the French Government is
purchasing arms at Liege, in Belgium. The purchase is
made, it is asserted, through an American, .and the pre-
text put forward is that the arms are for shipment to the
United States."

THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT ACCUSED.
The New York papers publish a despatch from Wash-
ington, stating that Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister,
has received the following telegram from his Govern-
ment :—" Public opinion in England is favourable to
North Germany, but the British Government is not
favourable ; it acts with the Neutrality Laws against
North Germany as it did against America with the Ala-
bama."

THE SECRET TREATY.-THE PRUSSIAN

VERSION.

-The Correspondance de Berlin of Tuesday gives the
-text of the treaty offered by France to Prussia, in
which the former declares that she will not oppose
the unification of Germany if Prussia would faci-
litate the acquisition by France of Luxembourg, and
assist her in the conquest of Belgium. The Correspondance
says the draft of the Treaty in question is in the hand-
writing of M. Benedetti, and is in the archives of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs at Berlin. Already before
the war of 1866 France had offered her alliance to Prussia
with a promise to declare war against and to attack
Austria with an army, of 300,000 men, provided that
Prussia would consent to make certain territorial cessions
o France on the left bank of the Rhine."
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The return of the Registrar-General for the week
ending Saturday, the 23rd, chews that 4,964 births
and 3,733 deaths were registered in London and 19
other large cities and towns of the kingdom, the
aggregate mortality of the week being at the rate of
27 deaths to the 1,000. Leeds had the unenviable
precedence in the list, having 33 deaths per 1,000;
but it was closely followed by Liverpool with 32.
London had 28, while Portsmouth bad only 17, and
Wolverhampton 15. In Vienna, where returns
are now regularly made, the rate of mortality
was 31 per 1,000. Similar registrations are made in
Bombay, and we find that in the week ending June
28th the deaths were 243, the death rate being 16
per 1,000, a low rate for India. In London, zymo tic
diseases caused 747 deaths in the week just
ended. Smallpox occasioned 15, scarlet fever,
more fatal than in any week since January, 130 ;
and diarrhoea, 385, of which 356 were cases of chil-
dren under five. The deaths from the latter cause
have risen.steadily during the last 'eight weeks, and
the Registrar-General thinks it necessary to call the
attention of the water companies to the neces-
sity of securing a gooa and pure water
supply. No less than forty-eight deaths were
attributed to violence, five fatal accidents in the
streets being recorded. Strangely enough the same
paragraph records the. death of a female pauper of
"exhaustion from wart of food," a case generally
supposed to belong to the winter months,
and a death from sunstroke, testifying that
we are still in the very heat of the
year. We need not wonder at a death from this
cause when we find the highest temperature in the
sun 153 deg., the highest day temperature in the shade
. being 88.1 deg., which was on Thursday. The lowest
recorded night temperature in the returns was at
Salford, 49 deg., and the highest day temperature in
the shade was at Manchester, where it was no less
"than 90 deg.
London, England, 1870-07-28

DEATHS

On the 25th inst., John Bass, Esq., of Ivy Villa, Thistle-
grove, Brompton, aged 85.
On the 24th inst., at Cheltenham, General Podmore, of
H.M.'s Indian A rmy, aged 91.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at
THE SUN Office, No. 112, Stiand, in the Precinct of he
Savoy, in t County of Middlesex.
Thursday, July 28, 1870.
London, England, 1870-07-28

TIIE SECRET TREATY.

The Brussels corresposnient of the Pall Mall Gazette
says :—The deepest inidEt nation had been caused by the
project of treaty published in yesterday's Times.
\Vhatever synipeathY fot: France has previously existed
among the lower classes has now vanished. It
is instinctively felt that there is no occasion to doubt
the authenticity of the document, as it is corroborated by
the attacks made on the King of the Belgians by the
French official press. The Berlin Borsenzeitung brings
also the news that the four days from the 15th to the
19th of tuly were employed by the French Government
to extort front Prussia as the price of peace the con-
sent to the cot qiiest of Belgium. It is believed, too, that
the Belgian Government had knowledge in time of the
project broached by France, god that the very energetic
measures which it has taken to protect its neutrality are
due to this timely information. The spirit of all classes
of the Belgian people is superb, and they are ready to
make any sacrifice for the protection of the national
independence.

i'llE 6USYEUTED RUBBERY. AND NUIII3EIr
OF A FRENCII GENTLEMAN. _

It will be recollected that last week an inquest was held
by Mr. Payne at the Essex Head, Essex-street, Strand,
en the body of a young French gentleman, aged 19,
named Sweeting Mortef!l, whose body was found floating
in the Thames off the Temple Pier, on Sunday morning,
th; 17th inst. It was proved at the inquest that the
hitt.;eased was at the Oxford Music-hall on Friday evening
the 15th inst., at which t'7ne he had a £lO note and a.
quantity of gld and silver in his posseston, together
a valuable gold watch and chain. When the body
w.-ta taken out of the water there were only a few half-
p3:lc4; in money iti his pockets, anti no watch or chain
oo.ild lie found. The inquest was adjourned to enable the
p >lice to fit& out, if-possible, where and with whom the
al.:eased had been between the Kalay night and the
Sividay inorui, I. 'Elle police hay, since aseeitairied that
on Sbtilrcrigr, tha der3:4 was driving about ill
taw, • Drqty- in a oab, with two
wAn.en siotpribstaly load itharsatv and they are as al
at- ,t 7 edavt to produce the cab-'driver, and th• two
+f,4146/1 the adPurned whinia takes place
to day. Up to yesterday thr polio) had not founst any
trace of the watch and Alain. They state, however,
they, are in possession of important' information,
wandi it is not prudent to make public. If all th
is reported be correct, there appears to be but Mat
doubt that the death of the deceased Wall the result of
f play.
London, England, 1870-07-28

OFFICIAL FRENCH NEWS.

An Imperial decree, dated July 23, appoints the Em-
press Regent during the absence of the Emperor
with the army. Another decree dated the 16th
instant declares the departments of the Moselle
and the -Upper and Lower Rhine in a state of siege.
A third decree calls out 90,000 men, who form the con-
tingent of the class of 1869. The Official Journal contra-
dicts as absurd a rumour circulated on the German side
of the Rhine, that the Emperor had given an order to
treat with extreme rigour the prisoners of war,
without the benefit of international law. On the contrary
the Emperor had recommended that prisoners should be
treated with the greatest humanity. The Official Journal
recalls the provisions of Article 77 of the penal code,
whereby any person in communication with the enemy or
conspiring to furnish the enemy with money incurs the
penalty of death. A circular of M. 011ivier to the
Procureurs-Gtnlraux has been published replying to the
attacks of tie press, and points out that the law does not pro-
hibit the announcement and recital of military events accom-
plished, and only forbids the revelation of movements
preceding and preparing for action. A circular has been ad-
dressed to the archbishops and bishops in France, re-
questing that public prayers should be specially offered up
or the Emperor, the Prince Imperial, and the success of
the French arms.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE PARIS PAPERS AND THE WAR.

The editors of the Paris papers announce that, in pub-
lishing their correspondents' letters from the head-
quarters of the various corps d'armee, they suppress any-
thing that, if published, might render them liable to pro-
secution, under the recent Ministerial order. The letters
are therefore devoid of all interest as records of the mili-
tary operations. The papers continue to protest against
the arbitrary and sweeping nature of the official prohibi-
tion against the publicatfon of war news, and represent
that it will be impossible to enforce it. The Journal des
Debats ceusures the exceeding brevity of the official
news pf the cavalry skirmish at Niederbronn, and con-
demns its omission to mention whether or not the French
cavalry sustained any loss.

THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE
ENGLISH PRESS.

Special information has reached the Daily News from
Berlin that the Prussian Government does not intend
to follow the policy of exclusion towards correspondents
of the English press which has been adopted by the French
Emperor. Germany has of course as much to lose as France
from indiscreet disclosures of military movements,
but she evidently does not fear that such disclosures will
be made by the accredited representatives of English
journalism. The public may therefore rest assured that
they will have full and impartial accounts of the opera-
tions of the Germany forces from independent observers
dhspatched to the scene of action by the press of this
country.
London, England, 1870-07-28

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees—Messrs H. J. Montagu'. D. James, and T.
Thorne.—THlS EVENING, at 730 CUPBOARD LOVE, by F.
Hay. After which, at 8, a new and original Comedy, in Three
Acts, entitled TWO EOztES, by James Albery. To conclude
with the new and successful i'urlesque, DON CARL' iS ; or,
The Infante in Aims Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H.
Irving, G. Honey, W. H. Stephens, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames
Nally Power, Amy Fawsitt, T Lavis, and A. Newton.
Doors open at Seven. Commence at 7.30.
London, England, 1870-07-28

THE FRENCH VERSION.

The Journal Officiel of Tuesday says :—The Times has
published an alleged treaty between France and Prussia,
having for its object to facilitate the acquisition of Lux-
embourg and Belgium by France on condition that France
would not oppose the union of the South German States
with the North German Confederation. After the
Treaty of Prague several negotiations in effect took place at
Berlin between Count Bismarck and the French Embassy
on the subject of a scheme of alliance. Some of the
ideas contained in the document inserted by the Times
were raised, but the French Government never had cog-
nisance of a written project, and as to the proposals that
may have been spoken of in these conversations, the
Emperor Napoleon rejected them. No one will fail to
see in what interest and with what object it is now sought
to mislead the public opinion of England.
London, England, 1870-07-28

MARRIAGES.

On the 25th inst., at Haverstock-hill, Warwick, the
youngest son of the late Thomas Savage, Mansfield,
Notts, to Mary, younger daughter of Thos Copeland,
Hanley, Staffordshire.
On the 23d inst., at the parish church, Rotherham, H.
D'Oyley Foote, Esq., M.D., of Rotherham, to Anne
Maria, second daughter of W. Corbitt, Esq., Elm Tree
Bank, Rotherham.
London, England, 1870-07-28

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London, England, 1870-07-28

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