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London, England, 1870-11-12

A RESTORATION SCHEME.

The Independance Beige publishes a letter which is said
to have been addressed to M. Gambetta by a French
diplomatist on the events of the day. The writer tries to
prove that a restoration of the Emperor is
connived at, and that it has every chance of success.
Previously to Sedan all seemed lost. But there the Em-
peror saw clearly, and what would have been a total ship-
wreck for any other man, became for him the commence-
ment of a fresh chance. " Consequently, what eagerness
there was for capitulation and surrender ! The capitula-
tion of Sedan was the first act of the restoration of the
Empire. Conqueror, the Emperor would have been none
the less lost, conquered, he carried with him a whole army
which he can utilise later on, whom he dishonoured in
the eyes of Frenchmen, to attach more strongly to him-
self as their companion •in misfortune, who could not re-
proach them. The capitulation of Bazaine, which
he foresaw, was the second marvellous act of the
Imperial restoration, conquered a second time in Bazaine.
Here then we have the man of Sedan and his marshals,
leaders of 320,000 men. The last act of the
restoration approaches, it is here you and
the Prussians will be the principal actors. The
armistice is refused, Prussia having taken care that
it should be you who refused it. Despite the heroism of
the French, who are without organisation, the invasion
extends. Paris surrenders at last, but even bombarded
and exhausted by terrible struggles, Paris cannot find
one hand to sign a humiliating aud. burden-
some peace. On the other hand, the Prussians
agitate, anarchy threatens, the Republic is about to
perish. Then, the play being played out, Prussia returns
to her captive at Wilhelmshohe, and makes better con-
ditions with him. She restores his soldiers their arms, his
marshals their dignities. With • him the officials wiil
return to places and honours. Escorted by 320,000 men,
Napule9n re-enters France, bringing peace, tranquillity,

security. The evils of war will end, the agriculturist will
return to his fields, the trader to his customers, and a
second time as liberator and saviour the Em-
peror will consolidate his dynasty. This, mon-
sieur, is the comedy, or rather the drama,
now being played. The only mewls to avert the
denoument are, I believe, to make peace at any cost, to
exile the Emperor, his family, and his marshals, for an
indefinite time ; to recall the army, and consolidate the
the republic by a legal constitution. You need not trouble
yourselves about a few leagues of territory, more or less,
the Republic has no limits ; all peoples are brothers. By
acting thus you will defeat at once Prussia and the Em-
pire, and will establish a Republican regime whose econo-
mies will speedily atone for the Imperial defic it."
London, England, 1870-11-12

THE COST OF WAR.

Professor Leone Levi has been calculating the cost
of the present war. When hostilities were declared,
two votes were taken by the French for about
£2,000,000, and three days atte: votes amounting to
upwards of £20,000,000 were added. In August
another sum of £40,000,000 was voted. This large
amor tit was followed by a national loan of £35,000,000,
an•( quite recently another loan of £10,000,000 was
negotiated inLontion. In addition to this Paris raised
£2,000,000, and many departments and cities of
France borrowed considerable sums for local defence,
to say nothing of what may have been taken from
the Bank of France. If the expenditure incarred
for armaments from 1868 to 1870, estimated at
£40,000,000, be added, the direct expenditure, if the
war should cease to-day, would far exceed
£150,000,000. The Processor estimates the direct
losses from destruction and waste at £150,000,000,
making a total of £300,000,000. £he indirect
losses consist of two distinct items—men and
industry. The losses of the French in men, Pro-
tesqtr Levi puts down as 150,000 at least, and
the capitalised value of that number of men would
represent a sum of £90,000,000; bull, since every in-
dividual produces at least twice as much for the
country as ho produces for himself, the
total loss to France is not less than
£270,000,000 from this source only. The injury
in respect of national production and trade, he esti-
mates at £30,000,000. The result is that in three
months France has lost nearly £600,000,000, irre-
spective of what she may yet have to pay to Prussia
to indemnify her for her loss, amounting to about
£300,000,000, making the total cost for both countries
betweeen 900 and 1,000 millions sterling.
London, England, 1870-11-12

RUSSIA AND THE TREATY OF 1856.

According to a letter from Berlin, dated the 9th
of November, Prince Gortchakoff has addressed a
Circular to the Great Powers who were parties to
the Treaty of of 1856, respecting some of its provi-
sions, which, it is thought, might now be modified in
the interests of Russia.— Times.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
SPOLIATION OF THE HOLY SEE.

A requisition for a public meeting of the city and
county of Cork, to protest against the spoliation of the
Holy See, was published in the Cork papers yesterday. It
bears the signatures of the May or, the city High Sheriff,
the Bishops of Cork, Cloyne, Ross, and Kerry, four
members of Parliament, a large number of magistrates,
and nearly ten thousand other persons. The meeting will
be held on Thursday.
London, England, 1870-11-12

WELTER.

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A. SCHOONER ASHORE.—About twelve o'clock on
Thursday night the Russian schooner Ystava, of Nystadt,
Captain Sotka, from London for Newcastle with ballast,
broke from her anchors during a stiff breeze from the
north-east, and came upon the beach at the South Ham.
The crew, seven in all, were saved by the Gorleston life-
boat, and were subsequently received at the Sailors' Home.
An agreement for 2120 has been made with the Gorleston
beachmen to get the schooner off.
London, England, 1870-11-12

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Good accounts continue to be received froir. the larg
batches of emigrants who have been sent to Canada during,
the last two years. They have, without difficulty,
obtained employment at good wages, and it is more than
probable the next season will witness a larger influx than
ever. The opening up of the lied River territory, now
happily rid of Riel and his IJ:int will increase the demand
for labour in Canada. Mr. Dixon, the emigration
agent for Canada, has been in the colony for several
months past, arranging his plans for the ensuing sprolg.
Population is the only tiling which the Dominion wants to
make it a great and wealthy nation, and, of course, the
more its population is increased, the greater would be its
power to hold its own as an independet t State. The fac-
tors of the Hudson's Bay -Company have not yet
settled their differences with the official repre-
sentatives of the company. It will be remem-
bered that they, or come of their number, set up a
cicim to a share of the purchase-money paid by Canada.
A correspondent informs us that they recently held a
meeting on the subject at one of the forts, but that the
result of their deliberations was unknown. It'would be
better for all parties if this controversy were amicably as
well as equitably settled. There is no worthier, as there
is not a more hardy set of men on the earth's surface, than
the factors and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company.
The correspondent of the Scotsman writes, I am informed
on good authority that although the number of those in
Canada who are favourable to annexation to the United
States is extremely small, yet that there is a large end
growing party in the Dominion which desires indepen-
dence. From what I hear, it would not surprise me if,
before long, politicians of this class were to put forward
their views more openly than they have yet done.
On the other hand, the well-known loyalty of the
Scotch population of Ontario will doubtless induce caution
on the part of these gentlemen and their sympathisers.
Hitherto, it has always been an argument with the
loyalists that annexation and independence were synony-
mous terms. For years past the whole subject has been
privately discussed between leading citizens of the two
countries, but with rare exceptions the Canadians have
always ended by avowing their strong preference for the
British connection.
London, England, 1870-11-12

THE EDUCATION ACT.

A difficulty in the election of School Boards in
agricultural districts is now pointed out, which
seems never to have been dreamt of in the philosophy
of the Legislature. In large towns it will be easy to
secure a number of men well qualified to conduct the
operations of a School Board, but in many of the agri-
cultural districts it is by no means an uncommon thing
to find a farmer and large landowner unable to
write his own name. A midland counties in-
cumbent says he is at a loss to conceive how in his
parish five men can be scraped together competent
to act as a school board. He suggests that in many
of the rural parishes persons nominated for the
school board should undergo an examination in order
to test their fitness for the office.
THE IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS.

Increased anxiety is felt in Ireland concerning the
political prisoners. So far the Amnesty Association
hai abstained from any demonstration, but there is
no doubt that it is watching with deep interest the
movement in favour of the release of the prisoners,
and that it is prepared to arouse the
country whenever it may be deemed de-
sirable. An appeal has been addressed by Mr.
Maguire, the member for Cork, to the Prime
Minister for the liberation of the political offenders.
The hon. gentleman believes that were Mr. Gladstone
to yield to his own impulses, the prison doors would
be thrown open to them. He points out that, unlike
the appeals of last year, there is nothing objection-
able in the representations now made to the Govern-
ment, and declares that men who a year ago were
opposed to an act of clemency now think the pri-
soners have been sufficiently punished. Punish-
ment, be argues, when carried too far, becomes
vengeance, or at least it wears that aspect in the
popular view. It is said that Mr. Maguire, in his
letter to Mr. Gladstone, faithfully represents the
general-opinion of the country.
London, England, 1870-11-12

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

'the war, which extends its influence in every
directim, reaches oyen to the returns of the
Registrar-General on the public health. The
weekly returi.s from Berlin have been discontinued
for 114 days, those from Paris for 49, and there does
not appear much probability at present of the re-
sumption of either. The valuable information to be
derived from the comparison of the returns of the
several great cities of Europe is therefore
diminished in interest. •By a recent improvement
in the returns we now get the registration of Bombay,
from which it appears that the deaths in the week
ending October 11 were 300, or at the rate of 19 per
1000, a very low rate for an Anglo-Indian city. This
proves that life in India under proper sanitary condi-
tions is not so unhealthy as has been believed. In
Vienna the death rate was 25 per 1,000, or the same
as Edinburgh. In Glasgow, which used to be
re;.rarded as an.unhealthy city, it was 24 ; in Dublin
only 20. In London so vast is the population that
though 1,343 deaths were registered in the week the
rate of mortality was only 22 per 1,000. Sonie of
these certainly come under the head of preventible
deaths, and may serve as warnings to the residents of
all large towns. No less than three deaths were
returned by coroner's juries as due to unwholesome
dwellings, one child of four months actually dying of
suffocation from want of fresh air in a close room.
Five fatal street accidents certainly indicate careless-
ness on the part of drivers or passengers. A boy
five years old was killed by a velocipede and man
falling o❑ him. The terrible prevalence of scarlet
fever, which caused 174 deaths, shews how much
care is needed in the prevention of infection, care
which, it is to be feared, is very seldom taken in
the poorer and more populous districts.

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BALMORAL, Nov. 9.
The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice.

Her Majesty drove out in the afternoon, attended by
the Duchess of Roxburghe.
The officers of the 93d Highlanders dined at the Castle,
and had the honour of being received by her Majesty
afterwards.
London, England, 1870-11-12

FOOD NEWS.

The correspondent of the Times at Berlin, under date
November 8, writes ;—lntelligence from inside Paris
certifies that provisions will be exhausted not long after
the new year. Under these ' circumstances the
advantage to the Parisians of having their de-
fence prolonged for a month by a fresh supply
of comestibles would have been very great. And so would
the disadvantage to the Germans have been. Assuming
our advices to be as correct as I have every reason to be-
lieve they are, the late negotiations in reality turned on
the question whether the siege was to terminate in the
middle of January or the middle of February. In other
words, whether numbers of lives were to be sacrificed
to the inclemency of the coming season, or to be preserved
by a timely setting to work. Were it spring, and
had we the summer before us, matters would be dif-
ferent ; but on the Bth of November time is precious
to those employed in the open, and delay tile worst of
enemies.
London, England, 1870-11-12

MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859).
4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON,
And SS. BRIGHTON,
ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale,
Freehold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years,
payable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis-
counted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

THE GREAT WESTERN HOTEL.
(SNOW-HILL STATION),
"One of the moat elegant, comfortable, and economical hotels
in the three kingdoms."—The Field, July 81, 1860.

THE GREAT WESTERN HOTEL.
(SNOW-HILL STATION),
BIRMINGHAM.
"One of the shoat elegant, comfortable, and economical hotels
in thethree kingdoms."-The Field, July 31, 1869.

LIEBIG COMPANYS EXTRACT OF MEAT.
London, England, 1870-11-12

CHARGE OF MURDER AT CARDIFF.

George Harding, a boatman, who on Saturday, the
22nd instant, pushed a man with whom he had been
quarrelling in reference to a woman into the canal, thereby
causing his death, was yesterday committed by the Car-
diff magistrates on a charge of wilful murder. The
woman, who was the cause of the quarrel, and who stood
by whilst her compauion was drowned, was called as
evidence for the Crown.

MR. GLADSTONE'S REPLY ON THE RELEASE

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FENIAN PRISONERS.
The Cork Town Council yesterday received a letter
from Mr. Gladstone's secretary, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of their resolution in favour of the release of the
Fenian prisoners. He says :—" I am directed by Mr.
Gladstone to inform you that Mr. Gladstone will not fail
to communicate the contents of your letter to the Irish
Government."

THE OXFORD FOUR OAR CHALLENGE CUP.
The winners of the previous heats for the four-oar Chal-
lenge Cup—Pembroke and Balliol—contended in a time
race yesterday afternoon. Pembroke, who had the first
place, was the favourite, and justified the judgment of the
aquatic public by winning a splendid race by half ' a
length.

MR. TALBOT, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.
Mr. Talbot, member for the county of Glamorgan,
addressed his constituents at Bridgend last night. Re-
ferring to the armaments of England, he commented upon
the neglect which was manifested by the Government
towards the Militia, and held that it was absurd to call
the volunteers an army of reserve.
London, England, 1870-11-12

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London, England, 1870-11-12

ARRIVAL OF THE SERAPIS.

A telegram from Portsmouth says :—Her Majesty's
Indian troopship Serapis, Captain Grant, has arrived
from Alexandria and Malta with the Ist Royals, militarl
invalids, and time-expired men.

STRAND NEWS Rooms.--These rooms, situated at
352, Strand, are now open, and The Sun can be seen daily
by gentlemen.—ADVT.

Mr. R. Eykyn, M.P., has so far recovered from his
recent accident as to permit removal from London to his
seat, The Willows, Windsor.

AURORA IN AMERICA.—Reports received frolu
Cincinnati and from Cleveland describe a magnificent dis-
play of the Aurora Borealis at 5 a.m. on the 24th October,
varying from north to east. it will be recollected that it
was on the evening of the 24th that the remarkable Aurora
was seen in England.
THE WEATHER IN YORKSRIRE.—After three
nights of hard frost, snow began to fall on Wednesday
night, and on Thursday the whole of the moors and wolds
and the flat grounds also were covered some inches deep,
and at 2.30 snow was still falling. The lGwest tempera-
ture has been 26 deg.

A. Brussels correspondent writes :—" Viscount
Vilain XIV. has been re-elected President of the Chamber
of Representatives. As the title of Vilain XIV. goes
from father to son without ever becoming XV., I observe,
to explain the apparent difficulty, that the addition of
XIV. was conferred by Louis XIV. as a permanent dis-
tinction, in allusion to his own title. The Belgian budget
for 1871 amounts to 178,124,000 francs."
THE FIRST CHRISTY MINSTREL.—None of the
sons of him who bore the name, are, I believe, alive at the
present time. Not more suggestive of melancholy reflec-
tion to Hamlet is the tossing up out of the grave the skull
of poor Yorick, than was it to • see in a lart
court of the United States the last ghastly jest
in which the originator of the Christy's figured.
In a fit of mental aberration, Mr. E. P. Chris_ty
threw himself out of the window of his house. 3de
was not killed by the fall, but lived for many weeks, and
while so living made a will. After his death, the amount
of property he left being large, the will was contested. It
was argued that the injury he had sustained by the fall
from the window had been of a nature to render it impossible
that he should afterwards be of sound mind. In his life-
time he had often handled dexterously the " bones " with
which mock Ethiopians are apt to " discourse most elo-
quent music." After his death two of his own bones—the
atlas and axis of the cervical vertabrm, were tossed across
the table from lawyer to lawyer in the course of the dis-
cussion in open court, as to whether or not the injuries
they evidenced were not sufficient to prove that the ner-
vous system of the poor minstrel must have been se
affected as to have rendered him. incapable of performing
any legal act or deed.-7'he (kraal Showman. By E. F.
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Nv INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to £5.

BOY'S OVERCOATS, 7s. 6d. to 455.

MOSES and SON beg to remind the public
E. 'that the chearness of an article depends entirely on its
nuality. and they venture to say that their prices will compare
favourably with those of any other u, iu England.
London, England, 1870-11-12

llig ANNIHILATION OF WAItFAIIE,

On a certain evening every November the ancient
dining hall of Trinity College, Dublin, is filled by an
audience of the most distinguished of Irish Govern-
ment officials and orators, the occasion being
the opening of the annual session of the His-
torical Society. This society, which correspon is
to the " Union" Societies of Oxford and Cambridge,
boasts a majestic roll of historic names illustrating
its annals, and two magnates now famous for their ora-
torical powers in England, Lord Cairns and the
Bishop of Peterborough, may be mentioned as types
of the class of men the society annually elects as
itk auditors. This year the chief officer of
the Historical Debating Union is a Mr. Gibson, a
scholar of the college, and a gentleman who, though
still very young, has achieved high academic distinction.
Mr. Gibson, in his address, considered the influence
of war in retarding the moral and material progress of
nations, and discussed the possibility of preventing a re-
sort to that dread arbitrament by the development of
pacific agencies and the adoption of a means of settling
international disputes upon equitable principles. He
thought such a happy consummation might assuredly
be realised, if our systems of education embraced the
study of political economy in a more important de-
gree than they do.• Why such studies should be
thrust aside in the universities, when the very

intercourse of nations, and the structure of
society itself, depended upon them, he could
not in the least understand. Mr. Gibson further
contended as a means towards this humane end that
feelings of international sympathy should be more
sought after and extended.
London, England, 1870-11-12

TELEGRAMS BY CARRIER PIGEONS.

The service of carrier pigecns is now open to the
French public. Each despatch being limited to
twenty words, curiosity has been excited to know
how many despatches a single pigeon can carry to
hii destination. It appears from the inquiries which
have been made that each carrier pigeon can carry
seventy thousand words—that is to say, 3,500
despatches of twenty words each, which, at fifty
Centimes a word, represent the sum of 35,000 francs.
Tois extraordinary result is brought about by the
adoption of a simple and ingenious process. The
d'spatches and written in very small letters, one
alter the other, without wasting space, on
the same sheet of which a photographic
copy is then taken on thin paper. It is this
photography which is afterwards sent by the pigeon
and carried by it to Paris. This is not all the pro-
ces. The scheme can be further developed by the
aid of abbreviative signs in cipher, such as are often
employed in telegraphic establishments, and espe-
cially in submarine telegraphy. It is expected
that, in consepaence of the perfection to which the
system has been brought, increased advantages may
be obtained, and that thus a single pigeon may be
able to carry despatches of the value of 310,000
francs. •
London, England, 1870-11-12

RAILWAY COLLISION.

As the half-past five o'clock train from Exeter was
entering Bristol station last night, through an error in
the points it ran into a siding, coming into collision with a
goods train standing there. Both the engines were smashed
and several of the goods trucks destroyed. The driver of
the passenger train had one foot cut clean off, while the
driver of the goods train escaped harm by jumping off
his engine. Several of the passengers received bruises
and cuts, and two guards were seriously contused. It is
asserted the signals were wrongly set.

LORD ROBERT MONTAGU AND HIS
CONSTITUENTS.

A correspondence has taken place between Lord Robert
Montagu, one of the members for Huntingdonshire, and
Mr. Read Adams, secretary of the Hunt's Protestant
Association, on the subject of his lordship's joining the
Roman Catholic Church. In reply to Mr. Adams's first
letter, October 13th, inquiring whether his lordship's
secession were true, Lord Robert, on October 15th, asked
the object of the inquiry, and what religion Mr. Read
Adams professed. The rejoinder, October 18th, stated
that the inquiry was instituted by the Protestant Associa-
tion, and that the object was to point out to his
lordship that if he had become a Roman
Catholic, he could not well represent so Protestant a
county, actually and traditionally. Up to the 31st of
October, Lord Robert had not replied to the letter of the
18th, consequently Mr. Adams pressed for an answer. In a
short letter dated November Ist, Lord Robert said,
" I don't mind telling the Association what I have also
told many persons in the county, viz., that I am a Roman
Catholic." A meeting of the Association has since been
held, at which it was resolved ",That the committee learn
with the deepest regret that Lord R. Montagu has
abjured the Protestant faith, and has joined the com-
munion •of the Roman Catholic Church ; that in
consequence of this act, however conscientious it
may be, he has ceased to enjoy the confidence of a Pro-
testant constituency ; and that this committee do therefore
originate a movement amongst the electors and others (if
that be not already done), the object of which shall be
the presentation of a requisition to Lord It. Montagu,
respectfully calling upon him to relinquish his seat in
Parliament." It was also further resolved that a sub-
committee, consisting of the treasurer and secretary, be
appointed to give effect to the foregoing resolution ; to
report to the committee; and that a general meeting of
the association be called at the earliest convenience to con-
sider the whole subject.
London, England, 1870-11-12

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THE GERMANS BEFORE PARIS.

The construction of fresh batteries by the
Germans has been somewhat impeded by
the number of projectiles thrown from the
forts. Rarely as they damage the work-
ing parties, concealed in many ingenious works
they yet compel caution and retard progress. The
sums already speht by the French in keeping up this
cannonade must be enormous. Each discharge from
tbi big guns, such as abound in the forts, costs no
less than £l4.

REPORTED JOURNEY OF EARL
GRANVILLE TO VERSAILLES.
The correspondent of the Telegraph sends the fol-
lowing from Amiens, dated Nov. 11:--
" I am informed on excellent authority that Lord
Granville has passed through Amiens on the road
to Versailles. His Lordship, it is added, at first
tried the route by Creil, but the Prussians
turned him back, and he has now gone on by
Rouen.

Ido not vouch for the truth of this, but it was
told me by a person in whose credibib ty 1 have cou-
fidehce.

THREATENING THE LIFE OF THE PRINCE

IMPERI A L.

The case of the individual charged with uttering
threats against the life of the Prince Imperial has
been tried at Brussels, and the accused condemned to
six months' imprisonment.
London, England, 1870-11-12

OPEN COMPETITION.

The system of open competition for Civil Service
appointments devised by the Government does not
give perfect satisfaction to the advocates of this kind
of reform. It is complained that the change, as it
is proposed: to effect it, keeps the word of promise to
the ear, and breaks it to the hope, that whilst the
Government professes to give up patronage, a large
amount of the most valuable kind is retained by the
Treasury under the Bth clause of the order in Council.
At all events it is desirable that an answer should be
given to the following question put by one writer :
Why have the situations of second-class assistants of
Excise (averaging 300 vacancies annually), of out-
& or officers of Customs, and of clerk in the Customs
Office (representing a staff of about 100 persons)
recently figured in the Gazette as removed from
Schedule A ? It may be remembered that some time
agij a Liberal member of Parliament condemned the
order in Council as not worth the paper it was
written on, and was severely taken to task in conse-
quence by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It yet
remains to be seen, however, whether the Civil
,Service appointments are thrown open or not.
London, England, 1870-11-12

BIRTHS.

On the 9th inst., at 64, Chester-square, the Hon. Mrs.
Arthur Ellis. of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at Hornsea, Yorkshire, the wife of F. S.
Tudor, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.' .
On the 9th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, the
Hon. Wm. Sydney Hylton-Jolliffe, Capt. Scots Fusilier
Guards, second surviving son of the Right Hon. Lord
Hylton, to Gertrude Henrietta, eldest daughter of the
late Richard Eaton, Esq., M.P., of Stechworth Park,
Cambridgeshire.

On the 9th inst., at Walcot, Bath, Major-General Sir
Andrew Scott Waugh, R.E., to Cecilia Eliza Adelaide,
third daughter of the late Lieut.-General Sir Thomas
Whitehead, K.C.8., of Uplands Hall, Lancashire.
London, England, 1870-11-12

THE CATTLE PLAGUE ON THE CONTINENT.

The progress of the cattle plague continues to
excite the greatest anxiety on the Continent, although
in some parts of Germany there is a sensible diminu-
tion. In Brandenburg, Prussia, and the affected
districts on the left bank of the Rhine the disease is
almost extinct. From France the news is not
equally good. In the departments of the north-east
the epidemic is still raging, and many villages have
suffered severely, especially in the valleys of the Meuse
and the Moselle. In 0 uilly, in the French Ardennes,only
thirty beasts remain out of a stock of three hundred,
and in a faubuurg of Mouzon, typhus has spared only
twenty-one animals out of two hundred and eleven.
The disease has shewn itself at Tremblois, near
Mozieres. Great uneasiness is felt in Luxem-
bourg, which borders closely on the infected dis-
tricts, and in Belgium, where the Government are
taking severe preventive measures. The import of
articles packed in hay or straw is forbidden, and the
commercial world complain loudly of the incon-
venience thus inflicted on them. As yet
the authorities have shewn no inclination
to relax their regulatiohs, and the agri-
cultural journals urge them to stand firm,
as experience has proved that straw is one of
the readiest conductors of cattle disease. The wine
merchants and others who are in the habit of using
large quantities of straw for packing, can have resort
to those substitutes which were generally employed
in the years 1865 and 1867, when straw was forbid-
den. Any temporary inconvenience to commerce is
abundantly compensated by the exclusion of the insi-
dious and destructive disease.
London, England, 1870-11-12

THE BLOOD PURIFIER— Old Dr. JACOB
TOWNSEND'S SARSAPARILLA. This extraordinary
Medicine has a singular influence over the blood, which it
enriches and purifies. It removes all pimples and blotches,
purifies the system, and acts like a charm, As a sustaining and
purifying tonic it is invaluable, and highly recommended in
long-standing cases of indigestion, nervousness, coughs, scro-
fula, gout, dropsy, and wasting of flesh. Sold by all druggists.
Chief depot, No. 131, Fleet-street, London.—Caution : Get the
red and blue wrapper, with the Doctor's head in the centre.
No other genuine. In bottles 2s. 6d., 45., 4s. 6d., 7s. Sd., and
ils. The old Dr.'s Sarsaparilla Pills are the most popular
medicine known for all bilious affections, liver and stomach
complaints, and indigestion, as proved by thousands. Also,
Sarsaparilla Ointment, the best soother of all sores, burns, and
scalds ; each in boxes, is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 45. 6d. ; by post,
15, 30, and 60 stamps.
London, England, 1870-11-12

citizens.

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AND THE
GERMAN CLAIMS.
BERLIN, November 10.
The correctness of the document published by the
London papers relative to the attitude of the
Empress Eugenie since her arrival in England is
officially denied in Berlin. No envoy, it is asserted,
was ever sent by Bismarck to the Empress, neither
were any territorial claims !of the description men-
tioned in the document ever made by Germany.

ACHY PILLAGED BY PRUSSIANS.
HAVRE, Thursday.

It is announced from Formerie that 2,000 Prussians
coming from Beauvais, have pillaged Achy, near
Marsailles (Oise).
London, England, 1870-11-12

MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMENT. Office, 6,
Red Lion-square, W.C., London.—During the last 10 years
this Institution has been instrumental in rescuing a vast number
of poor girls from a life of degradation and misery. The plan
adopted has been to seek the wanderers in the streets of London
and gather them together at the midnight hour, when short and
faithful addresses have been given.
During the present year the Meetings have been held nearly
every week in some of the most frequented districts of the
metropolis.
The promoters have abundant evidence that these efforts have
been most successful in effecting a great moral change in many
fallen ones.
To enable them to continue their important work, FUNDS are
earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by Mr. John
Stabb, Hon. Sec., 5, Red Lion-square, W.C., London ; and at tke
Union Bank of London (Carey-street Branch), W.C.
London, England, 1870-11-12

dieted; he is still at Dole. The communications
from Lyons are partly broken. The Uhlans are at
Nuits.

All proposals of intervention are unanimously
condemned, and the ill-feeling toward; England
is on the increase. The resolution is universal
to hold Alsace and Lorraine against all the world.
The Reichstag, it is now reported, will meet at
Strasburg.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

BERLIN, Nov. 10 (11.20 p.m.)

Deserters from Paris state that General Trochu
is preparing a grand sortie, in order to restore his
prestige with the populace.
The Germans have constructed fresh batteries
on the heights of Rainey, opposite Noissy, and on
the heights of Montmangy, opposite St. Denis ; and
at Bezons, and near Courbevoie.
A. number of Swiss officers of the late Papal army
have joined the Zouave force forming under Baron
Charlitte, late Colonel in the Papal service, the
Comte de Chambord expressly permitting Baron
Charlitte and other Bourbonists to fight under the
Republican colours against Germany.

In accordance with a new decree of M. Gambett 1,
the drill-of the infantry recruits must be completed
in a fortnight or 20 days at the utmost.

MARSHAL BAZAINE.

The Municipal Council of Lille have unanimously

passed a resolution, stating that Marshal Bazaine,
in announcing in a proclamation to the army which
he treacherously surrendered at Metz, that Lille
and the whole of the north of France demanded
peace at any price, was guilty of a signal falsehood,
which the municipal representatives spurn, with the
utmost indignation, in the name of their fellow-
London, England, 1870-11-12

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SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT•

A collision serious in its nature, though fortunately un-
important in its result, occurred on the Midland Railwal
near Derby, on Wednesday night. A passenger train left
Derby for Manchester a few minutes after seven o'clock,
and, consequent on the line being blocked by luggage
trucks, was detained near Little Chester for some thus
On the line being cleared, the Manchester train
proceeded on its journey but had not gone far
before the Ripley train, which leaves Derby at seven
o'clock, ran into it, and smashed a couple of carriages•
None of the passengers received fatal injuries, but several
were hurt, and the guard of one of the trains is said to be
in a critical condition. Under ordinary circumstances the
Manchester train would have been a quarter of an hour
before the Ripley train ; but on this occasion the dense
fog made slow travelling necessary, and the delay caused
by the blocking of the line is also to be considered. The
general 'adoption of the block system is one safeguard
against such accidents.
London, England, 1870-11-12

AN IRISH FRACAS.

An inquest was held at the Cork Barracks yesterday on
the body of William Gibson, private Ist Royal Dragoons,
who died on Thursday, from the effects of a fracture of
the skull. Evidence was given that the deceased had
made a statement to the effect that he was attacked on
Sunday night by some civilians, with whom he, being in-
toxicated, had a dispute, and that he was struck on the
head with a stone. A verdict of wilful murder against
some person or persons unknown was returned by the
jury.

CRUELTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE
BOARDING-OUT SYSTEM.

The "boardidg-out" system of pauper children has been
adopted in Southampton for about a year, and has been
generally attended with great success. Yesterday, how-
ever, David Teague, a superannuated police constable,
and his wife, were charged before the Southampton
magistrates with cruelly illtreating Flora Frampton, six
years of age, who had been entrusted to them by the
Guardians at half-a-crown weekly, with allowances for
school fees, medical attendance, and clothes. The
case was brought to the notice of the board
by the schoolmistress, who called the relieving
officer's attention to some bruises on the child,
who was taken away. She said that she had been
beaten with a stick for three days in succession. She was
in a very bad and dirty state. The woman was fined the
extreme penalty of £5, or two months' imprisonment.
The man was dismissed.
London, England, 1870-11-12

FOUR GOLD MEDALS.

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THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S SHIP.

In the Indian papers we meet with a brief
descriptiVe account of the Galatea's cruise to
Wellington Harbour, which occupied forty-four
days, from the Cape of Good Hope. In the nava-
tivo the officer contributor says :—" The Galatea has
shown that she can roll as heavily as an iron-olatif
and we have been in a continual state of anxiety
as to our ability to keep her right." Se-meth/Pg.
was likewise reported wrong with the rudder posts.
At a time when, we at home have just realised the
extent•of disaster that may ensue from faults in our
vessels of war, this intelligence respecting the shiP
commanded by the sailor Prince is at least alarming.
"We may, however, feel assured that every care will
be taken of the crew of the Galatea, from a stater.
meat made by the same officer who chronicles the
vessel's faults. He thinks that as the ship has sailed-
over 48,000 miles since she was last in dock, it is
probable many serious defects will be found
in her, and consequently the officers and
men expect to spend a long visit at Syd-
ney, "instead of among- the islands." One of
the chief members of the Galatea's Company, We
are informed, is the Duke of Edinburgh's elephant,
who appears after his long sea voyage as "lively as
a kitten," and who shews every sign of thriving on
his "favourite drinks of cocoa, and bottled porter."
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WHAT CONSTITUTES A LODGER.

At Ilford a publican was summoned for serving an
omnibus conductor with beer during the prohibited
hours on a Sunday. The evidence shewed that the
defendant's servant supplied the drink to the con-
ductor, and in defence it was argued that the man
lived more at the Swan than at his own home,
which was onlysoo yards away. He lived in what was
denominated the 'bus-room, which he used for domestic
purposes, having all his meals therein. The defend-
ant's solicitor held that, putting a fair construction
upon the law, the 'bus-conductor was a lodger. The
Bench took that view of the case, and the summons
was dismissed. A great many habitual fuddlers will
be delighted to hear of this decision. They, too,
live more at the " house " of their affections than at
their own homes.
London, England, 1870-11-15

TIM MARQUIS OF LORNE.

It may be well to state that there is no foundation
whatever for the rumour that the Marquis of Lorne is to
assume the Viceroyalty of Ireland after his marriage.
There is no reasot to believe that Lord Spencer has any
present idea of surrendering the reins of government in
Ireland, and therefore the suggestion of a successor wants
the first essential element of probability. It may be added
that no party in Ireland would desire to see such a
change, while all would most heartily welcome the Royal
Princess and the young Marquis who has been honoured
with her hand if they visit the " Green Isle."-2 imes'
Dublin Correspondent.
London, England, 1870-11-15

WRECKS IN THE NORTH SEA.

Several wrecks are reported during the late storm in the
North Sea. Yesterday, two of the crew of the barque
Lord Raglan, of Exeter, arrived in the Tyne. They
report that they left the Tyne about a month ago, bound
for Gothenburg. In a few days they were caught in a
severe gale. 'They had a narrow escape ; were, indeed,
just saved by a Norwegian vessel as their own ship foun-
dered.
London, England, 1870-11-15

TIIE ALLEGED 0 L TBREAK AT A.LLAHABAD.

Notwithstanding the very circumstantial accounts
concerning the alleged insubordination at Allahabad,
we have it on the authority of the Commander-in.
Chief that nothing has reached him, either publicly
or privately, that could give a shadow of foundation
for the injurious reports regarding the con'
duct of the 4th Native Infantry. It was
said that the enforcement of the Contagious
Diseases Act amongst the women whom the
soldiers regard as their second wives, was the
cause of the insubordination ; but this statement /3
authoritatively denied. Lord Napier, in a general
order, sympathises with Lieutenaut-Colonel Stubbs
and the officers and men of the regiment in the feel-
ing of distress with which they learnt the nature of
these reports. As a mark of his entire confidence in the
regiment, and his sympathy with them, his Excel-
lency has notified that his personal escort during his
tour in Assam and Cachar will be selected froth
the 4th.
London, England, 1870-11-15

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THE FIGHTING AROUND ORLEANS.

Whatever may be the 'ultimate fate of the Loire
Army, there can be no doubt that its first operations
were conducted with great skill. The force which
compelled der Tann to retreat was in such a wretched
condition a short time ago that Bourbaki refused to
have anything to do with it. General Aurelles
de Palatine was more courageous. He accepted, the
command, -and by shooting - every soldier who mis-
behaved, soon restored obedience. The organisation
was improved, artillery and equipments procured.
At length the French leader took the field, and by
accumulating a great preponderance of force,
threatened to intervene between Der Tann and Paris.
The Bavarian leader was too quick to be thus
trapped, but he was beaten with loss and driven
back. The net result of the two days' fighting was
that Aurelles de Paladinie interposed between der
Tann and the army of Prince Frederick Charles ad-
vancing from Metz, and was at liberty to at-
tack the former singly, if he thought fit. The
French fought well ; and what is likewise.
admirable, the newspapers, though indulging in a
little exaggeration, discussed the business, on the
whole, with commendable moderation.