The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-18 00:00:00

THE SECRET TREATY.

Count Bismarck has just addressed to the North Ger-
man representatives abroad, a circular respecting the
Secret Treaty proposed by M. Benedetti. He says :
In the archives of the Foreign Office at Berlin is
presitml.... a letter from Count Benedetti to me,
dated Auglst 5, 1866, and a draft treaty en-
closed in that letter. Copies of both are appended
to the present communication. The originals, in Count
Benedetti's tufarlsariting, .1 shall eubrnit to the inspect:4ou
of the represetdatives of the neutral Powers, and I will
also send you a photographic fac-simile of the same. I
beg to observe that, according to the Monieur
the Emperor Napoleon did pass the time from
the 28th of July to the 7th of August,
1866, at Vichy. In the official interview which
I had with Count Benedetti in consequence of this letter
he supported his demands by threatening war in case of
refusal. When I declined, nevertheless, the Luxemburg
affair was brought upon the tapis, and after the failure
of this little business came the more comprehensive pro-
posal relative to Belgium embodied in Count Benedetti's
draft treaty published in the Times.

FINE ART INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION' AT

CARDIFF.

A grand exhibition has been opened at Cardiff for fine
arts and manufactures. The opening ceremony was per-
formed on Tuesday by the Marquis of Bute, in the Drill
Hall, which has been chosen for the scene of the exhi-
bition. It is a building about 120 feet long
and fifty feet wide with a gun shed and suites of apart-
ments which are very useful for the display of machinery
in motion, and other articles taking much space. The Mar-
quis of Bute, who is a warm patron of all matters con-
nected with science and art has readily consented to
allow the exhibition, which is for the benefit of the
public library, to be held in the drill hall, and very
cordially congratulated the assembled company on
the successful termination of their labours, when
he declared the exhibition open. The South Kensington
museum has contributed etchings, water-colours, and
some very beautiful works of art in bronzes, metals, and
carved wood, have been furnished by students
of the Central Training School at Cardiff.
There are some good specimens of sculpture
exhibited, as well as porcelain, machinery of various
descriptions, works of national industry, and other objects
of especial local interest. The Marquis of Bute, in the
course of his brief address, said he believed the exhibition
Was inferior to none which have been held in the princi-
pality.

Miss Hatfield, of Northampton Massachusetts, has
left 300,000 dollars to found a college for women.
The death is announced of the Rev. Mr. llacre
senior chaplain to the forces at Colchester.

Miss Charlotte Jackson (who, during her profes-
sional career, was known as Miss Cubitt) has left £3OO
to the Royal Society of Musicians.

Mr. Swinburne is busy on Bothwell, the second
drama of a Trilogy of which Chastelard was the first and
Elizabeth will be the last instalment.
Mr. Justice Blackburn was engaged at Guildford
Assizes the whole of Tuesday in trying actions of
ejectment brought by the Earl of Onslow against some of
his tenants.

The Royal Dublin Society's Grand National Horse
and Sheep Shew opened on Tuesday. The number of
horses shewn was greater than last year, and the leading
breeders and stud owners in every part of the country
are amongst the competitors. The chew of sheep was
also good.

The Birmingham Town Council have resolved to
apply to the Education Department to cause a school
board to be formed for the borough of Birmingham at the
earliest possible date. The council have resolved by a
large majority to put the Workshops Act in operation.
"Lotbair " is an old hero of Mr. Disraeli's. In
Heath's "Book of Beauty" for 1835, among other equally
worthless contributions, is a sentimental story, "by the
author of ' Vivian Grey,' " which derives its name of
" The Carrier Pigeon " from the mode of communica-
tion adopted by the enamoured "Lothair " and his fair
correspondent, who is not a " Corisande," but an " Imo-
gene.'

The local journals in the Channel Islands speak
apparently with much confidence of the anticipated
arrival of a large body of artillerymen (numbering, ac-
cording to one account, some thousands), from England,
as an addition to the force already available for the de-
fence of the Islands. This, it must be known, at present
comprises a regiment of the line, two batteries of royal
artillery, and a militia force of nearly 12,000 men.

A Frenchman's knowledge of geography is gene-
rally of the vaguest. A young lady of Bonn asked one of
the prisoners there whether he would not like her to write
home for him. The poor fellow was delighted, and when
writing materials were brought at once began solemnly to
dictate : "My dear parents, lam sorry to say that I am
at present a prisoner in Bonn, in Spain !" We shall hope
that this is a confusion of ideas not very common even in
the Frenchsarmy.---Globe.

HANDSOME DONATIONS TO LOCAL AND
NATIONAL CHARITIES.—Mr. Thomas Rochester, of Whal-
ton, near Morpeth, has instructed his bankers (Messrs.
Hodgkin, Barnett, and Co.), to pay over the munificent
donation of £12,000 to the following local and national
institutions :—Morpeth Dispensary, £1,000; Newcastle
Dispensary, £l,OOO ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newcastle,
£l,OOO ; Hospital for Sick Children, Newcastle, £l,OOO ;
Blind Asylum, Newcastle, £lOOO ; Ragged and Industrial
Schools, Newcastle, £lOOO ; National Life Boat Institu-
tion, £lOOO ; Church Missionary Society, £lOOO ; British
and Foreign Bible Society, £lOOO ; Girls' Jubilee School,
Newcastle £6OO ; Home Mission, Newcastle, £6OO ;
Sailors'Home, North Shields, £6OO ; Wellesley Training
Ship, £600; and the Tract Society, £6OO.