The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-27 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REFUGEES.

London, in all times a city of refuge for the unfortunate
of all races, remarks the Daily News, is now full of fugi-
tives from France. This makes the fourth time in our
history that England has sheltered great immigrations of
French yxiles. Who can help sympathising with the
grief of these exiles; grief the most acute, the most
agonizing grief heightened by suspense, absence,
and silence ? They have- hurried over with only
a few necessaries snatched up in the panic—
their children and fathers and lovers and husbands
are with Bourbaki, or are immured in Paris. They can-
not write for advice, they do not know even whether those
hey love are alive ; their country is at her death grasp ;
it seems selfish even to mourn over their own wounds—
and in these Soho garrets, in a foreign land, in
our murky, and to them doleful city, amid
pitiless strangers, who raven upon their last few pounds,
i nder da harsher climate, at this inclement season,
hese poor exiles wait with breaking hearts for
news that may never come. Now it is not only the duty,
but the interest of London to watch over the wants of

these forlorn strangers, and to prevent their sinking into
the class of hopeless and irrecoverable paupers, from
whom, in ghastly and inevitable progression come the
thieves and degraded of both sexes. The French exile has
a sensitive nature, and will suffer deeply in these bitter
times of need ; yet he is buoyant and versatile, and the
smallest help will cheer his heart and speed him on to
efforts for those he loves and those he has left behind.
This help our countrymen and countrywomen, whose
hearts are always softened by the tidings of misfortune,
will, we are sure, render. A great calamity has
fallen on a sister nation ; a great sorrow clouds her eyes
and weighs upon her heart. It is not the time now to
think of her faults ; for them she has suffered enough.
Let us hold out a thousand hands tc minister to the wants
of her children, and add warmth to our own Christmas
firesides by feeling that we have helped to furnish their
humble boards, and have whispered some words of kind-
ness and consolation.

At one of the most recent sittings of the French
Institute a communication was made by M. Faye on the
intended departure of M. Janssen to join the eclipse ex-
pedition. The astronomer was to leave Paris in a balloon
constructed for his private use at the expense of the
French Government, and which was also to carry a
telescope constructed in eight weeks by the most skilful
workmen in Paris, and of the capacity of 2000 cubic
metres.

A. general order in Bankruptcy has been made,
which requires all bills to be taxed ur der liquidations. It
provides that the registrar shall not issue the certificates
of discharge under paragraph 10 of section 125, until he
has been satisfied upon proper proof that all bills in the
matter have been taxed. The paragraph in question is
as follows :—" The trustee shall report to the registrar
the discharge of the debtor, and a certificate of such dis-
charge given by the registrar shall have the same effect as
an order of discharge given to a bankrupt under this act"
—Law Times.

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