The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,- JULY 30, 1870.

darkened over, be both ready and willing to place his ser-
vices at the disposal of his country ; and there is au equal
probability that the First Lord of the Admiralty will not
fail to avail himself of them in case of need.
—Captain J. W. Hozier, Scots Greys, is to have the
coveted appointment of Brigade-Major of Cavalry at
Aldershot, about to be vacated by Captain and Brevet-
Major W. Arbuthnot, 14th Hussars, who has pur-
chased his regimental majority. Captain Hozier (elder
brother of the writer) is known not only as an excel-
lent regimental officer, and a very distinguished Staff
College student, but for his late exertions as secretary
to the Royal Commission on Military Education, and
especially for the valuable report made to that body,
since published, on the military schools of France and
Prussia. Rear-Admiral Hornby's flying squadron left
Honolulu for Tahiti on the 23rd of June, and will soon
make its way with all possible speed to. Valparaiso.
The ships will, no doubt, be hurried home in conse-
quence of the critical state of affairs in Europe, and
will probably arrive in England some weeks before
they were originally expected. The health of Mr. Childers
is completely restored, and he is now capable of
giving his undivided attention to business. We under-
stand that from conscientious motives Captain
Charles Stirling, R.N. (1863), has resigned the
commission he held in her Majesty's service.
Lieutenant-General Sir William Mansfield, G.C.8.,
G.C.5.1., takes over the command of the troopS in Ire-
land, vice General Lord Strathnairn, G. C. B. , G. C. S. I. ,
from Major-General Sir A. A. T. Cunynghame,
K.C.8., on Monday, and will assume the command
of an army in the highest state of efficiency.
The two divisions of the Channel Squadron will
shortly rendezvous off Plymouth, and wilt proceed to
sea to meet Sir Alexander Milne, who will assume the
command of the combined fleet, .and retain it for a
certain period, returning afterwards, as we have previously
said, to England in H.M.S. Bellerophon.— The chief
clerk at the Admiralty, Mr. Thomas Wolley, and Mr.
Robert Bell, one of the senior clerks, have been recom-
mended by their lordships to the Lord-Chancellor
to be placed on the commission of the peace.—Colonel R.
Carey, C. 8., half-pay, late 40th Regiment, succeeds
Colonel C. G. Mein, as Deputy Judge-Advocate at Man-
chester on Monday.—Major R. Harbord, half-pay, late
7th Fusiliers, recently promoted to a half-pay majo-
ity, has been oppointed Garrison Instructor at Oork.,—
Major-General L. S. O'Connor, C. 8., lately in command
of the forces in the West Indies, arrived home from
Jamaica on Wednesday.—Colonel C. Nugent, Deputy
Judge Advocate at Dublin, will we are informed, remain
in his present position.—ln future the consolidated pay and
allowances of the Military Secretary to the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief will be £1,500, instead of £2,300 a
year as heretofore.—Colonel J. H. Laye, Deputy Judge-
Advocate, will not be succeeded for the present. It is, in
fact, probable that he will retain his appointment
until his promotion to the rank of Major-general.—
We have it upon excellent authority that as yet,
although the present condition of our army has received
the serious attention of both the Secretary for War and
the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, nothing has
been done to prepare us for taking any steps towards the
protection of Belgium, should our services be required.

'THIS MORNING'S NEWS.

• (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
BUSINESS IN LIVERPOOL•

• Another failure was announced yesterday in the cotton
trade at Liverpool, and there was great depression in the
market, with a still further fall in prices. The feeling on
the Stock Exchange was better, and the settlement was
easier than had been anticipated.

LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING.

THE FORCES OF ENGLAND.

, The following was on Thursday. night telegraphed to
the Birmingham Post:—" It is understood that a sub-
committee 'of the Cabinet—composed of the Premier,
Lord Granville, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Childers; and Mr.
Lowe have met this evening, and agreed upon
the necessity of quietly giving orders for strengthen-
ing our means of national defence. Your Birmingham
manufacturers may expect some large orders during the
next few days. Recruiting for the army will be carried
on vigorously. A Cabinet Council will be held on Satur-
day, at which a supplementary estimate for additional
naval and military preparations will be taken into con-
sideration.

DANGER OF THROWING FUZEES IN THE

STREET.

Two serious fires occurred yesterday morning through the
dangerous practice of persons smoking throwing the re-
mains of lighted fuzees into the street. One happened in
the premiSes of Mr. G. A. Christmas, a florist, No. 257,
. Camberwell-road. In the course of a few minutes the
front shop and the first floor were in flames, and the fire
quickly extended to 257, belonging to Mr. T. P. Hubble,
a dyer, as well as to No. 353, in the occupation of Mr. E.
Field, a furrier. The flames were not subdued until two
houses were partly destroyed, and the last named greatly
damaged by fire, water, &c. The principal loss will fall
upon the County Fire Office. The other fire took place
at No. 71, Marylebone-lane, belonging to Mr. G. Fuller-
ton, a tobacconist, and Mr. J. W. Edgar, a gas fitter.
The shops were in a blaze before an engine had time to
arrive. Both shops were burned out, and the rest of the
buildings seriously damaged.

The Attorney-General has appointed Mr. H. T.
Cole, Q.C., to be leading counsel to her Majesty's Post-
office in the Western Circuit, vacant by the death of Mr.
Serjeant Kinglake, M.P.
The Post is authorised to state that a marriage is
arranged to take place between Captain the Hon. Sydney
Hylton-Jolliffe, Scots Fusilier Guards, second son of Lord
Hylton, and Miss Gertrude Eaton, eldest daughter of the
late Mr. Richard Eaton, M.P., of Stetchworth Park,
Cambridgeshire.
THE FREE CHURCH MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA.
A letter has been received by the Council of the National
Association from the Rev. R. B. Webb, of Lyndock,
South Australia, who has been appointed one of the
Society's local treasurers, stating that the subject of free
churches was to engage the attention of the Synod, and
requesting papers and full information on the workings
of the system.

THE ORDER OF ST. GEORGE.—The Queen has
been graciously pleased to make the following appoint-
ments to the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael
and St. George. To be ordinary members of the Third
Class or Companions of the said Order :—Lieutenant-
Colonel Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, R.E., C. 8.,
Governor to his Royal Highness Prince Arthur William
Patrick Albert ; Donald M`Lean, Esq., Member of the
Executive Council of the colony of New Zealand and
Minister for Native Affairs in that colony.
THE WAR AND STORE CATTLE.—The hostilities
between France and Prussia have had the effect of en-
hancing the value of store cattle and sheep at the various
local cattle markets, as the stock-breeders and flock-
masters anticipate that the war will materially check the
importation of Dutch cattle and sheep and other stock
from Holland and the Continent to the London markets,
and that an increased demand for home-bred cattle will
be the result. There is already an advanced value de-
manded, and an active speculation prevails amonggraziers
and dealers in store cattle and sheep.

THE NEGOTIATIONS or 1866.—The Despatches
from her Majesty's Representatives at Foreign Courts,
having refenence to the negotiations of 1866, which have
been asked for in the House of Commons, will be found,
when laid before Parliament, to throw much light upon
the transactions of that period. What is now published
to the world as such new news will be shewn to have been
then brought under the attention of the Government,
and to have been placed at that time in its true light.—
Post

OPERATIONS AT CHATHAM.—The/authorities have
commenced engaging a crew for the turret-ship Cerberus
at Chatham Dockyard, but the time for her departure for
Australia is not yet fixed, A grand review is to take place
at Chatham on the Bth August, when extensive siege ope-
rations will take place, in which some of the London
volunteers are expected to take part. A number of men
employed in this dockyard, in the chief engineer's depart-
ment, commenced working overtime from Friday night,
for the purpose of preparing torpedoes.
THE CATTLE DISEASE.—The Government veteri-
nary department has just received information of the
prevalence of scab and smallpox among sheep in several
of the districts around Stettin. The British Consul at
that place, writing on the 16th instant to Earl Granville,
says that, according to an official notice in the Provisional
Gazette, the sheep in the following localities, within the
consular district, are affected with scab and smallpox,
viz., Raidon, Saatzig, Griefenburg, and Dummin. The
Customs' officers at all the English ports are instructed to
exercise the utmost vigilance in the examination of sheep
imported into this country from the districts referred to.
The Chancellor of the Diocese of York held a
Court on Friday, to which Mr. Edmund Mellor, church-
warden of St. Clement's, Rochdale, was cited. The charge
against him is that on the 12th of June last, without any
just cause or lawful authority, and contrary to the ex
pressed injunctions of the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, he
forcibly removed a cross attached to a ledge fixed on the
reredos, the position of which cross had been approved by
the late Bishop of Manchester. Much excitement pre-
vails on the subject in Rochdale, St. Clement's being
what is called a High Church, where many practices are
observed which are distasteful to the parishioners.

THE HOLBEIN EHXIIIITION,—We are ques,ed to
state that, owing to the disturbed state of the Continent,
it has been decided to postpone the proposed exhibition of
the works of Hans Holbein, the younger, at Dresden till
next year. Her Majesty had graciouly promised to con-
tribute a number of original paintings and drawings from
the collection at Windsor Castle, and other possessors of
genuine works of Holbein in England had also signified
their willingness to lend them. It is hoped that the delay
will result in. the formation of a much more important
series of works than would have been possible had the
undertaking been carried out as proptised. A committee
will, at the proper time, be formed in London to co-ope-
rate with the promoters of the exhibition in Germany.—
Athenceum.

A WOMAN'S GRIEVANCE. - The degree of
" Bachelor " of Laws has been conferred on a married
lady in America. Mrs. Kepley, the lady in question, is
the wife of Mr. 11. B. Kepley, a practising lawyer of
Effingham, in Chicago. Having for some years had a
desire to be admitted to the bar, she commenced at her
own home reading various legal text books. Wishing to
take a thorough course, she, with the full consent of her
husband, went to Chicago, entered the law department
of the university, and pursued the regular course of study
prescribed by that institution to the end, and then passed
a creditable examination. She obtained her diploma, but
in consequence of a recent decision of the Supreme
Court, was unable to obtain a certificate to practise.
Law Times.

CONTRABAND GOODS.—The Right Honourable
the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, a copy of an Imperial Decree, dated the 24th
instant, prohibiting the export of certain articles from
France during the war. The following are articles of
which the exportation, the re-exportation, and the transit
are prohibited, subject to the exceptions which shall be
authorised by the Minister of Finance Arms of war
of every kind. 2. Lead, sulphur, powder, saltpetre,
nitrate of soda, fire stones, percussion caps, gun stooks,
projectiles, and other munitions of war of every kind,
articles of military clothing, camping equipment, and
harness. 3. Horses. 4. Sailing and steam vessels, ma-
chines and parts of machines belonging to navigation,
rigging and artillery•of ships, and all other articles, raw
or manufactured, of naval and military material.

M. I'REVOST-PARADOL.—There is a curious pas-
sage in an anonymous work of M. Prevost-Paradol. Some
years since he wrote a serial in the Revue des Deux
Mondes, called " Madame de Marcay." There is in this
novel a character named Ferni, which was generally sup-
posed at the time of the publication to be intended by the
author as a type of himself. The following is the fanciful
end of Ferni :—" In the design he conceived there was
something insensate and criminal, and bearing the
stamp of the fatal night in which it was engendered.
But once resolved, Ferni found for its execution all his
habitual energy and presence of mind. He went to
St. Petersburg, and had no sooner arrived there than
he feigned those signs of mental derangement which
readily deceived bystanders- Ha blew out his brains,
and then it was stated in the papers that the rash act,
committed in a fit of insanity, threw a gloom over society
in St. Petersburg, and caused in Paris, where Ferni was
well known and generally esteemed, the most painful sur-
prise. All the journals in Europe deplored his premature
end."

COAL.—The Time., correspondent says :—" It is
reported that the French have chartered many vessels at
Newcastle and elsewhere to load with coals with which to
supply their fleet in the Northern Seas. The news has
caused great commotion in the cities, and the Prussian
authorities have, I hear, called Lord A. Loftus's attention
to the transaction in energetic terms, regarding such an
employment of neutral vessels as a breach of neutrality.
Undoubtedly, it would seem that such a chartering of
neutral ships would come within the terms of the Act of
George 11. cited in her Majesty's proclamation, The use
of British vessels as " store-ships " for belligerents is
distinctly forbidden in case of war. It is difficult
to argue that vessels chartered with cargoes of coal for
the use of a French fleet engaged in hostile operations
against a Power with which we are at peace, and sent out
to put their cargoes on board that fleet in the open sea are
not acting as "store-ships" for au enemy. It is unfortunate
that some clear understanding as to the nature of coal has
not been arrived at by all the great Powers. It would
be rather a stretch of terms to hold that, if coal be con-
traband of war, the trade in it between neutrals and bel-
ligerents should cease, and that England, for instance,
should not sell coal to the merchants of France because
the French Government might buy it for war
purposes. Such theories pushed to conclusions
would inflict on neutrals a good deal of the evils
of war for which they were not responsible. Horses
may be and are considered contraband of war, but
it will be hard to persuade a Yorkshire breeder
that he ought not to sell his horses to French-
men or Prussians because they are fighting
each other. It is obvious that considerable complica-
dons and difficulties may arise from these questions. I
believe that Great Britain is bound by the French Treaty
not to prohibit the export of her coal, yet coal is the life
of steam, without which a fleet is of little value.