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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-23

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-
street.—On view Portrait Models of the ex-Emperor and
Impreee of the French, and Prize. ImperiaL Also, Marshal
Benin& Marshal Canrobert, General Troche, &c., dro.
Admission. ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, ed. Extra
Rooms, 6d. oxbow. Open from 10 &m. till 10 p.m.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-
street —On view Portrait Models of the King and
CrownTrince of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. Also
Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke.—Admission la. ;
children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. extra.—
Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.
London, England, 1870-12-23

WRECK OF TWO SHIPS.

Two ships, the Blossom, of Aberdeen, and the Reno-
vatio, of Portsmouth, were wrecked at North Berwick,
yesterday. John Williams, of the Renovatio, was the
only person saved out of the two crews.

THE EDUCATION ACT IN CAMBRIDGE.
A meeting was held in the parish of St. Andrew the
Great, Cambridge, last night, when it was decided by a
large majority that a School Board should be established.
It was further resolved that the Mayor should be re-
quested to convene a meeting of the whole town to con-
sider the subject of School Boards.
London, England, 1870-12-23

THR CONTROL SYSTEM.

An officer, whose initials, A. L. H., will probably
bo recognised as those of Major-General Sir Alfred
Horsford, defends in the Times the Control Depart-
ment against the aspersions cast upon it by the Duke
of Manchester. The gallant soldier amuses us by
saying that the story of the nozzle- of a bel-
lows and the flagstaff anecdote, referred to as
instancing the present circumlocution incident to
the control system are both old fables, which were
narrated in the House of Commons before the Con-
trol Department existed, and which were even then
too good to be true. The Duke of Manchester alto-
gether has been too severe upon a new organization
in our army, and in his severity, he misunderstands
much of the constitution of the scheme. The Control
Department was established to decentralise. Officers
of high rank and experience were to be attached
to each command, having full power to issue
stores and money on behalf of the Secretary of
State without previous reference to the War Office.
They were to be held responsible only on the ground
that the circumstances justified the steps they might
take. By their wisdom in this respect these officers
were to rise or fall in their department. Unfortu-
nately, this was the theory, but such has not been
the practice. The Duke of Manchester is right in
assuming that something is wrong, but it only wants
a stroke of the pen from Mr. Cardwell to give vita-

lity to the oontrol service. The officers have been
appointed; they are at their posts; but at present
they dare not move one inch beyond regulations
without a previous reference to the War Office.
London, England, 1870-12-23

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THE EUROPEAN WAR
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at ElGif F O'CLOCK, with SOME
HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other
paper. This edition will always contain
the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and
of all other events.
London, England, 1870-12-23

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

Notwithstanding the presence of a " white "
Christmas season the death rate in London has
within the past few days been unusually high com-
pared with the average of other years. The number
of deaths registered was 1,737, but after making due
allowance for increase of population, the average, as
compared with the deaths recorded in the same week
for ten years past, was as 1,572 to 1,429. The rate
of mortality, usually very high at Liverpool in
December, owing to the proximity of that town to
the fogs of the Channel, its low position and
consequent susceptibility to retain damp in the
atmosphere, and the large ingress of foreigners in
winter time, is exceedingly alarming just now. Last
week 43 persons in 1,000 of the population are
reported to have died. This excessive mortality may
be properly judged of when we state that in London
only 28 of every 1,000 people, and in Hull only 20
of every 1,000, succumbed to disease or- accident.
The smallpox is very prevalent in Liverpool however,
the deaths this week being 26 against 10 in the last
weekly return.
London, England, 1870-12-23

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English resident at Bordeaux, who giv s it as his
opinion that Count Bismarck, on the c nclusion of
peace, will endeavour to stipulate for t e repudia-
tion of the recent French Loan contracted in Eng-
land.
The Vienna Tagespresse publishes a letter from a
French officer escaped from Prussia, who says that
he broke his parole when he found that the Napo-
leonic paper, Le Drapeau, was officially distributed
among the captive officers, all other French papers
being denied them.
London, England, 1870-12-23

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WITH THE BESIEGERS.

From Margency, under date December 18, the special
correspondent of the Daily News at the headquarters of
the Crown Prince of Saxony writes :—For the last few
days we have lived here in a quiet, presenting a strange
contrast to the bustle and excitement of the early part of
the month. The French have seemingly taken to
economise their ammunition. We hear their
stock of villainous saltpetre is exhausted, and that,
therefore, they can make no more powder—this
may be the reason for the unprecedented paucity of fire.
If you want to hear any shooting at all you must go down
to Argenteuil. There there is no cessation of the crackling
fire across the river, but it is almost wholly musketry
fire. Some casualties occur, but so far as I can learn
they are very few. Can the French sharpshooters
on the other hand have some occult means
of discerning their countryfolk ? I can't tell,
but I can testify to the briskness of their practice
against those who are not their countrymen. The
other day I went into a house which overlooked the es-
planade on our bank of the river. It is about one
hundred feet wide : then comes the stream, and on the
other side are the Frenchmen ever ready. I
incautiously shewed at the window for less than a minute,
and drew quite a brisk fire, more than one of the
bullets striking the walls of the house. When I went
down into the street I found a Frenchman composedly
posting up a proclamation issued by the com-
mandant. There was nothing between him and the
river but a loose barricade of timber. It turned out that
it was his house in which I had been. Now how was it be
accounted for that he lives there without being shot, while
I, wearing like him civilian clothes, could not show for
half a minute at a window without being fired
at? -Activity continues in the transport tawards
Paris of guns and ammunition, in view of the
bombardment, the anxiety for the commencement of
which is daily on the increase, and is shared in univer-
sally. A bombardment, so far from being barbarous,
would be an act of the truest humanity. Not a single
day passes while this war endures which does not claim
more victims, with the inevitable train of widows and
orphans, than by any computation such a bombardment
as that to which, according to my thinking, Paris would
succumb, would demand. Shorn of sentiment, the
question becomes one simply of the relation which a large
mortality, with its consequences, bears to a comparatively
small mortality with its consequences. The only compli-
cation arises from this, that what I estimate to be a com-

paratively small mortality is an unknown quantity ; but
it is impossible to hold that it can approach the mor-
tality caused by the prolongation of the siege. I can only
repeat my firm conviction that very little actual slaughter
would be involved in the reduction of Paris by means of
a direct bombardment. This opinion I share with those
here who have perhaps as good means of judging as any
outside Paris.
London, England, 1870-12-23

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London, England, 1870-12-23

GERMAN KNOWLEDGE OF GEOGRAPHY.

A. suggestive story is told of a visit which some
Uhlans paid to the town of Saint Roman a few days
ago. Six Prussian horsemen rode up to a certain
cafe and demanded a bottle of wine each. The worthy

landlord, on supplying the enemies of his country
with the wine, scrutinised their appearance
sharply, and immediately he thought he recog-
nised features that were not unfamiliar to him•
He looked again and exclaimed, " Ah, monsieur, I
thought I knew you ; I recollect often seeing you.'
face in this locality before the war." It turned out
that the landlord recognised two of them as clerks
who were in some commercial house in Havre. Well

may the Germans easily find their way about France,
well may they gat a reputation as excellent
geographers, when they are served by men who per-
sonally knoW the territories through which they
pass.
London, England, 1870-12-23

THOSE UNJUST DIRECTORS.

It is almost needless to 34 that tho fiat of the
bank directors who have prohibited their clerks from
marrying with a stipend under £l5O a year has been
followed by a series of letters in the Daily Telegraph.
Those epistles detail a variety of hardships, such as
that the money given by customers of banks for
Christmas boxes does not always reach those for
whom it is intended. One writer says that the mar-
ried clerks are by far the steadiest and most trust-
worthy, which we can quite helieve, seeing that one
unmarried gentleman writes, " perhaps some,
wishing to be entirely on the safe side,
will dispense with any marriage ceremony,"
and signs himself "One of Them." The leading
fact which comes out is that very few clerks indeed
get £l5O a year, so that if the directors' resolution

is universally imitated, bankers' assistants will be as
as celibate as monks. Of forty-eight clerks in one
estAblishment, not one receives £l5O. It would,
th. refore, seem best to give up the rule of expecting
clerks to appear to be something they are not, and
then let them do as they like.

BANK HOLIDAYS.

'he fact of Christman Day falling on a Sunday

depriveS the bank clerks, like many others, of one of
their few holidays, and this has raised the question
of making the 20th of December a holiday by Act
of Parliament in such a case. The Americans have had
inure foresight in this respect, and the Legislature of
Ne .v York passed an At last April providing that bills
of exchange, bank checks, and promissory notes,
maturing on the 25th and 20th December, 1870,
shall be payable on the 27th, and those due on the
Ist and 2nd January shall .0e payable on the 3rd:
The Americans keep New Year's Day as a holiday as
well as Christmas, and also the 4th of July and
Washington's birthday, so that the clerks are well
off. In France there are four general holidays be-
sides Christmas Day, so that the English are far in

the rear. In Liverpool the banks are closed on New
Year's Day, not for holiday-making, but for balancing
the books. In Ireland the Queen's Birthday is ob-
served as a holiday, and kept on the Monday
if it falls on a Sunday. It has been proposed
to make the 26th of December a national holiday,
and in Ireland it is already observed as such, but at
a meeting of bankers, held in Edinburgh, it was
resolved to object to the bill extending to Scotland.
It has been suggested that the accumulation of
business would produce a pressure which must be
set off against the gain of the holiday, but this sug-
gestion does not appear to have emanated from the
clerks themselves.
London, England, 1870-12-23

THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

HAYMARKET—The Wolf and the Lamb. The Palace of
Truth. Uncle's Will. Family Jars.
VAUDEVILLE—Chiselling. Two Roses.
the Invisible Armada.
STRAND—OR and Off.
Lion.

Elizabeth, or

Living at Ease. Coeur-3e•

ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernando. Christ-

mas Eve.

OLTheio—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his
Sensation Cat.

Gaurr-r—Zampa. The Waterman.
HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor. The Odds. Jezabel.
PRINCE OP WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked
In.

POLYTECHNIC—Professor Popper's War Lecture. After•

noon and Evening.
EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the

Franco-Prussian War.
AmnirrlurATaz AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the

Arena.
ST. Jamrs's HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening.
PALAIS RovAL—Professor Faber's Talking Machine.
ALHAMBRA—Promenade Coucert.

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London, England, 1870-12-23

WORKHOUSE REFORM.

The proceedings of the Lambeth Guardians fur-
nish some explanation, if any were needed, of the
yet disgraceful state of our workhouses, even after
some efforts to reform them. The Lord Chief
Justice, in summing up a recent case, male certain
very strong comments upon the condition of the
Lambeth poorhouse, whereupon the Guardians met
in solemn conclave and drew up this extraordinary
resolution :

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" That this Board deeply regret that the Lord Chief
Justice of England should have felt himself justified in
the language which he uttered from the judgment-seat,
with the weight of his great authority, in reference to
this house; and that the Board record their emphatic
protest against the severe condemnation passed by his
lordship, and do not hesitate to characterise it as grossly
unjust. "

The Chief Justice visited the workhouse himself, and
his observations with independent testimony in
court, established the conclusion that the workhouse
was, to put it mildly, a filthy hole. Yet, because a
judge gives facts their proper name he is an unjust
judge. The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor
the leopard his spots, and it would seem therefore
that the only way is to change the Ethiopian or the
e I leopard.
London, England, 1870-10-29

DEATHS.

On the 25th inst., at 7, Alfred-place west, South Ken-
sington, John Tharp, Fsq., aged 73.
On the 25th inst.' at his residence, Petton Park, Shrop-
shire, William Sparling, Esq., in his 94th year.

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at
THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the
Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.
Saturday, October 29, 1870.
London, England, 1870-10-29

MA DAME T USSA UD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER STREET.

On view Portrait Models of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the
Empress Eugenie, and Prince Imperial ; • King William of
Frussia, and Count von Bismarck. Admission, Is.; Children
under 10 years of age, 6d. Napoleon Rooms 6d. extra. Open
from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
London, England, 1870-10-29

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SCHWEPPE'S MINERAL WATERS.
London, England, 1870-10-29

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. During the storms of
the past nine months the National Lifeboat Institution
has contributed to the saving of 542 lives from various ship-
wrecks and 29 vessels from destruction. It has also expended
£17,428 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in
addition to granting £1,540 for rewards.

The- Institution has now 223 Lifeboat Stations under its
management.
Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully
received by the London and County bankers, and by the Secre-
tary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John Street,
Adelphi, London.
London, England, 1870-10-29

MOSES-and SON supply every description of
LA • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages,
all occasions, and all classes; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats
and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates.
All'Cloods marked.in Plain Figures.
Any ticle,exchangedlif not worn or injured.
List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and
Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free.
E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday
evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi-
ness is resumed until Eleven o'clock.
The following are the onlyc addresses of E. MOSES and SON

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London, England, 1870-10-29

MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMENT. Office, 5,
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 the
Union Bank of London (Carey-street Branch), W.C.
London, England, 1870-10-29

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London, England, 1870-10-29

A FRAUDULENT COAL-DEALER.

Thanks to the vigilance of two police-constables, a
coal dealer at Glasgow has been prosecuted for sell-
ing bags of coal which were understood to contain a
cwt. each, but which fell short of that quantity by
151 b. The dealer had a cart holding 40 bags,
and it was admitted in the court that the greater
portion of them were short of the proper weight.
The magistrate inflicted the full penalty, namely,
405., with the alternative of 60 days' imprisonment
A few such zealous officers in every town would
speedily check the system which is notoriously pre-
valent in the coal trade, of giving short measure
when that article is purchased in small quantities by
the poor. But here the old difficulty presents itself.
If the coal-dealer had a large trade in bags 151bs.
short, he would soon recoup himself the amount of
the fine. The penalty must be heavy, in order to
counterbalance the profits of a fraudulent trade ; and
unfortunately, the Legislature has not yet resolved
to make it heavy.
London, England, 1870-10-29

DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.—
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this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of
the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion ; and
as the best mild aperient for delicate constitutions, especially
adapted for Ladies, Children, and Infants.
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throughout the world.

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enriches and purifies. It removes all pimples and blotches,
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fula, gout, dropsy, and wasting of flesh. Sold by all druggists.
Chief depot, No. 131, Fleet-street, London.—Caution : Get the
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lls. 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, ls. 171 d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. ; by post,
15, 30, and 60 stamps.
London, England, 1870-10-29

THE PROPOSED ARMISTICE.

Lorc,l Clanricarde has written to the Times on the
subject of the proposed armistice. He regrets that
our Government should have applied to Prussia to
grant an armistice,on the basis of a surrender of her
conquests. Under existing circumstances it was not
reasonable to make such a demand, and it could only
have the effect of encouraging the pretensions of the
French leaders. While sympathising deeply with
France, he cannot see upon what historical precedent
we can urge Prussia to accept these terms. It is prepos-
terous for the French to maintain that the soil which
has once become a portion of her Empire should be
inalienable for ever after. M. Guizot suggests that
reasonable limits should be assigned by the neutral
Powers to the resistance of one belligerent and the ,
claims of the other, but the Government of Paris are
not likely to examine German claims. It is not an
extravagant proposition, to outside observers,
that the French should cede some por-
tion of the territory of which the Prus-
sians have possession. Lord Clanricarde is
surprised that M. Guizot should seek to draw a dis-
tinction between the Imperial Government and the
nation which elected and supported it for so long,
because such a notion would render all international

acts void in the event of a revolution taking place.
The true friends of the French will seek to convince
them that the territorial question before them is how
much should be restored of what they have lost by
the fortune of war.

MR. C. BUXTON, M.P., ON THE WAR.

Mr. Buxton M.P. has delivered an address at
Cromer, from which it appears that he, like many
others, accounts the Emperor Napoleon responsible for
the war. It was perfectly clear, argued the member for
East Surrey, that had the Emperor meant peace, the
French people would have acquiesced in a pacific
policy ; one could hardly imagine, he observes,
greater guilt than that of the man who could deli-
berately doom to death or horrible suffering
some 200,000 of his fellow men and in-
flict such a calamity on his country. It
seemed to be regarded as an excuse for the
Emperor's conduct that he thought the war would
increase the security of his throne. " But surely,"
exclaimed Mr. Buxton, " a motive so utterly per-
sonal and selfish rendered his conduct worthy of
abhorrence." The speaker expressed his contempt of
those members of the French Cabinet who, disap-
proving of the war, had not the manhood to resign
their offices. He thought the celebrated proposal of
the Times, which has excited so much ridicule, that
the basis of peace should be the dismantling of the
strong places of Alsace and Lorraine, and that the
neutral Powers should enter into an engagement
to join either belligerent against the other in case an
attack were made without first submitting to arbi-
tration, was worthy of deep consideration.
London, England, 1870-10-29

CAP FACTORY.

Another disastrous explosion took place at Messrs.
Kynock's percussion cap manufactory, Witton,
Birmingham, where cartridges for the Chasse-
pot gun were being made in large quantities.
A boy when carelessly handling one of them caused it to
burst, and immediately the whole stock of cartridges,
numbering thousands, ignited and caused a shocking ex-
plosion. About a dozen boys and girls received terrible
injuries, and they are now in the hospital suffering great
agony. The roof of the shed where the party were at work
was blown clean away from the building.

The American General Burnside crossed from Ostend
to Dover yesterday afternoon, and left per South-Eastern
mail train for the Metropolis.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT---TEus DAY.

The trial of James Stevens -Tripp, who was indicted
yesterday for stealing certain Turkish bonds, of the value
of £2,900, and conspiring with one Richard Taylor to
defraud the prosecutor and others, was resumed this
morning. Mr. Giffard, the counsel for the prosecution,
summed up the case for the prosecution ; but the jury had
not returned their verdict when we went to press.

The Great Western of Canada Railway have
invited applications for £750,000 in 6 per cent. bonds, at
96, to construct the Glencoe line.
WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI-
CULTURAL HALL, ISLINGTON, 1870.—The number of
visitors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors,
and others, on the 28th inst., was 4,C64. _

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Friday,
Oct. 28, 1870. No. of visitors by season tickets, 981; do.
on payment, 562 ; total visitors, 1,543.

A. meeting has been held of the creditors of the
Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Charteris, the accountant, being
in the chair. A composition of 4s. in the pound was
offered by his lordship, but it was rejected by a large
majority. It was remarked that if the litigation were
continued by the assignees, the estate would not yield
more than is. 6d. to 2s. in the pound.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—This afternoon's concert will
be of a very attractive nature. Mr. Sims Reeves will
sing Beethoven's " Luderkreis," (or circle of songs) and the
scena from Sullivan's " Prodigal Son." Beethoven's
three overtures to " Leonora," and that to " Fiacho,"
and the same composer's symphony in C minor (No. 5),
will be the orchestral pieces. A new series of fifty
original sketches, by artists of the Illustrated News and
the Graphic, will be added to the collection of war pie-
tures this afternoon.
London, England, 1870-10-29

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AS TO MONEYS BORROWED FOR THE PURPOSES OF
THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AT COLNEY HATCH.
DR.
Balance in the joint names of Henry Pownall, Esq ,
Henry Morris Kemshead, Esq., and the County
Treasurer, on 2nd July, 1870 . £1,362 2 9
Received the sum authorised by the Court to be
borrowed (on Bond No. 112) on mortgage of the
county rates . 4,000 0 0

£5,362 2 9
CR.
Paid Messrs. Barclay and Co. for sewage irrigation
works from Ist April to 30th June, 1870 ........ £179 5 3
Paid Mr. William Henshawe the final instalment
due to him under his contract for constructing
new drains and improving the drainage........ 199 12 7
Balance in the names of Henry Morris Kemshead,
Esq., Francis Brockman Morley, Esq., and the
County Treasurer, on Bth October, 1870 ...... 4,983 411

£5,362 2 9
AS TO MO/ YS BORROWED FOR ENLARGING THE
HOUSE OF CORRECTION AT COLDBATH-FIELDS.
RECEIPT.
Balance in the joint names of Henry Pownall, Esq.,
Henry Morris Kemehead, Esq., and the County
Treasurer, on 2nd July, 1870 .. £B,OBB 4 11
- EXPENDITURE.
- - -

Paid Messrs. B. R. and T. ICl4;OelorsiipPlying and
fixing a Turret Clock in the new buildings......
Balance in the Bank of England in the names of
11. M. Kemshead, Esq., F. B. Morley, Esq., and
the County Treasurer, ou Bth October, 1870....

220 0 0

7.862 4 11

£B,OBB 4 11
AS TO MONEYS BORROWED FOR ENLARGING THE HOUSE
OF DETENTION AT CLERKEN WELL.
DR.
Received the sum authorised by the Court to be
borrowed (on Bond No. 111) on mortgage of the
County Rates .. £40,000 0 0

Paid the freeholders, leaseholders, and occupiers
of houses in Corporation-row and Woodbridge-
street .. .. 490,909 10 0
Paid Arbitrator's and Surveyor's charges .. .. 250 19 0
Paid on account of the costs of the Vendors'

Solicitors
Balance in the names of H. 31. Kemshead, Esq.,
F. B. Morley, Esq., and the County Treasurer, on
Bth October, 1870

400 0 0

. 18,379 11 0

£40,000 0 0
The Accounts, of which the above is an abstract, were pre-
sented to the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex on the
10th instant, and were audited on the same day by the following
Justices of the Peace for the said county, namely :—Francis
Brockman Morley, (Chairman), John Savery Brooking, Thomas
Jervis, and William P. Bodkin, Esquires, and were audited and
allowed by the same Quarter Sessions on the 20th instant.

CHARLES P. ALLEN,
Treasurer of Middlesex
London, England, 1870-10-29

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THE ATCACK OF PARIS.

The special correspondent of the Daily News at the
German headquarters at Versailles states that the pre-
parations for the attack on Paris are still proceeding.
Long waggon trains are to be seen creaking up to
the front laden with timber or gabions, the store
of ammunition is daily increasing, and it is said that when
the fire does begin it will be such as has never yet been
seen. It is certain in the first instance there is to be a
fair fight between the batteries and the forts, "with-
out any attempt to commit wholesale murder
by sending shells flying over head into the city."
The King would never consent to allow Paris to be bom-
barded as Strasburg was bombarded. Preparations for
attack have taken longer than was expected ; but this is
accounted for by their extent, which is described as some-
thing marvellous. The French fire is to be utterly silenced
and overwhelmed.
London, England, 1870-10-29

TO THE ELECTORS AND RATEPAYERS OF MARYLEBONE.
GENTLEMEN, present myself as a Candidate
for Election to the London School Board as one of the
Representatives of Marylebone. I have incessantly and actively
advocated a system of National Unsecterian Education. For
twenty years I have studied the wants, the claims, the rights of
the people ; and have all that time been in the habit of expres-
sing my opinions, as a public journalist, on the questions which
havo arisen affecting their moeal and material well-being.
I have been led to believe that my humble services to the pub-
lic cause will recommend me to the place of honour I seek at the
new Education Council.

I represent no sect, no party,'no clique, and am not specially
supported by any organisation. I base my candidature broadly
on my known participation in the political progresses of the last
twenty years, of which the Elementary Education Bill of 1870 is
the most important.
Trusting to be favoured with your support on the day of
election, _ .

I remain, Gentlemen,
Yours, faithfully,
BLANCIIARD JERROLD.

Reform Club, Oct. 17th 1870.
London, England, 1870-10-29

-`IEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).—
Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE-
AWED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green-
rich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in-
troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re-
moved from the City to the same building.
KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1870.

IT is reported that the splendid aurora borealis
which appeared this week caused much affright
amongst the uneducated people at Tours, who re-
garded it as a portent of some great calamity. There
is no connection between one of the most beautiful
of natural phenomena and human disaster, but no
doubt the superstitious at Tours, will be confirmed
in their delusions by the event which followed.
The capitulation of Metz is another fearful
blow to the French nation. Never before was there
such a military event as the surrender at Sedan. In
this war the Sedan catastrophe has been repeated.
Half the whole regular army of France was captured
at one place, and now the other half has fallen. The
event, has long been expected, but the fulfilment of
London, England, 1870-10-29

TIIE RESULTS• OF A BOMBARDMENT.

The Berlin correspondent of the Times, under date
October 25, says : The Frankfort Society for the Relief
of the Strasburgers has sent some of its members to the
unfortunate city to Inquire into the condition of the
inhabitants. Their report has been printed, and
the details contained in it exceed all the harrowing
descriptions we have already received. According
to the official statistics, Strasburg had 3,598, or,
including the suburbs, 5,150 houses. Of the
3,598 structures of the town proper, 448 are entirely
destroyed, and between 2,000 and 3,000 more or less
injured. Those which have remained uninjured count
only by hundreds. In many cases houses appa-
rently
_intact have only a few habitable rooms
left, bombs having fallen upon the roofs and
burst inside. The value of the 448 houses in ruins is
estimated at 16,500,000 f., and the damage occasioned
to the others at from 3,000,000 f. to 4,000,000 f. To
the loss inflicted upon private persons must be added that
sustained by Corporations. The devastation caused to
churches alone amounts to 4,000,000 f. To repair the
schools, 400,000 f. will be required. The Museum origi-
nally cost 500,000 f. ; the Prefecture, 500,000. ; the Court
of Justice, 500,000 f. ; the Theatre, 875,000 f. ; the shat-

teret bridges and torn-up roads and streets, 2,000,000 f.,
&c. Most of the gates are impassable, the gasworks de-
stroyed, and whole quarters of the town such a complete
head of rubbish that it is impossible to distinguish the
imits of the individual houses. The catalogue of the
guns employed and shot fired in the siege for more
reasons than one deserves to be generally known.
There were 241 pieces placed in battery outside the
walls. During the 31 days over which the regular opera-
tions extended these fired 193,722 shot—that is, an aver-
age of 6,249 per day, or 269 per hour, or between four and
five per minute. Of the total of the shot fired, 45,000
grenades came out of the riffled 12-pounders,
28,000 grenades out of the long rifled 24-pounders;
23,000 7-pound bombs, 20,000 25-pound bombs,
and 15,000 50 pound bombs out of smooth-
bore mortars ; 11,000 shrapnels out of the
rifled 12-pounders, 8,000 grenades out of the rifled
6-pounders, MOO shrapnels out of the rifled 24-pounders,
4,000 shrapnels out of the rifled 6-pounders ; 3,000 long
grenades out of the 15 centimetre guns, and 600 long
grenades out of the 21 centimetre guns. Are we
to witness a repetition of the same sorry spec-
tacle in the case of the gay capital on the Seine ?
Up to a few days ago the number of French un-
wounded prisoners in Germany amounted to 123,700 men
and 3,577 officers. In addition to these, a large number
of wounded prisoners, variously estimated at between
20,000 and 50,000, are either in German hospitals or on
French territory occupied by German troops. The cannon
taken reaches the fabulous figure of 2,500; the horses
exceed 30,000.
London, England, 1870-10-29

THE GREAT ClTY.—Grand Realistic Drama,
in Two Acts, written by Andrew Halliday, THIS EVEN-
ING (Saturday), Oct. 28.—PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

R 0 YAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH.
This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE.
Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough,
E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly-Burly-Esque,
"THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton,
and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley,
Lee, Goodall, &c.

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.
THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING. Mr. David James.
After which, at 8, the Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled TWO
ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful
Burlesque, DON CARLOS ; or, The Infante in Arms. Supported
by Messrs. H. J. Montague, H. Irving, G. Honey, W. H.
Stephens, C. Garthorne, and T. Thorne ; Mesdames Nelly Power,
Amy Fawsitt, T. Lavis, and A. Newton.

GLOBE THEATRE.—Manageress, Miss Alleyne.
This evening at 7, THE SECRET ; at 7.45, MARCO
SPADA. Messrs. Walter Lacy and Fairclough. Madame
Colonna and Troupe in a grand BRIGAND DANCE. TAMING
OF THE SHREW—Miss Alleyne and Mr. Fairclough. To con-
clude with BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
London, England, 1870-10-29

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London, England, 1870-10-29

rrillE WAR.—TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. All
portant events telegraphed DAILY, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
to Newspapers, Clubs, Exchanges, and Reading Rooms, for
THIRTY-NINE SHILLINGS per QUARTER prepaid. Two or more
telegrams sent every day.
Commercial News and Markets on moderate terms.

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London, England, 1870-10-29

HEATRE ROYAL DRL; .. Y-1, A N
-I- Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTaRTON.—This
Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr.
C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUTUM N DRAMATIC
SEASON, THIS EVENING, Oct. 29. Doors open at half-past Six,
commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at halt-past
Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from
Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four
duineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily.
London, England, 1870-10-29

PALAIS ROYAL.-GRAND FASHIONABLE
BILLIARD EXHIBITION by the CHAMPIONS, W.
COOK, and J. BENNETT, EVERY EVENING, commencing
at eight. Tickets ls.; stalls, 2s. ad.; reserved seats, ss. ;maybe ob-
tained of Messrs. Cook and Bennett, the principal hotels and
billiard rooms, and at the PALAIS ROYAL, Argyll-street,
Oxford-circus, W.
London, England, 1870-10-29

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REFUGEES' BENEVOLENT FUND.
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PRESIDENT.—The Archbishop of CANTERBURY.
CHAIRMAN.—The Right lien. the LORD MAYOR.
PRESIDENT OF LADIES' COMMITTEE.—The Dowager Marchioness
of LOTHIAN;
TREASURER. —Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P.
HON. AUDlTORS.—Chatteris, Nichols, and Chatter's.
To Clergymen and Ministers of all denominations, Mayors,
Councillors, and Corporations, Masters and Wardens of Corpo-
rate Guilds, Bankers, Merchants, Traders, and all able and willing
to assist, we urgently APPEAL for HELP.
The number of applicants for aid in a state of penury and
physical exhaustion—strangers in our land, and frequently
strangers to our language, excites in all the deepest feelings
of commiseration. Having sought an asylum within our shores,
let us, by a prompt and spontaneous effort, prove that they
will not be allowed to add to the penalty of exile the pain of
starvation.
It is only by prompt and liberal support that we can cope with
the many distressing cases craving relief.
It is to be distinctly understood that all money collected
under the authority of this fund shall be expended in this
country.
Subscriptions received to date :
Central Committee .. £1,277 8 8
Ladies' Committee ....... ..... 790 1 5
The Committee will meet at the Central Office every week-day
(Saturdays excepted) from One p.m. till Four p.m. (from Two
p.m. till Three p.m. to receive applications for relief), meanwhile
Contributions will be received [by all Bankers, or by cheques to
lion Secretary, crossed "Robarts and Co." Post-office Orders
to be made payable to Francis Bennoch.
All subscriptions of £1 and over will be publicly advertised.
FRANCIS BENNOCH, Hon. Sec.
London, England, 1870-10-29

MARRIAGES.

On the 26th inst., at St. Mary's, Ealing, Captain HenrY
A. Trollope, Royal Navy, to Mrs. Tomline Gordon.
On the 26th inst., at the parish church, Whitgift, Richard
Lechmere Wilberforce Spooner, late of the 35th Regi-
ment, eldest son of the late Richard Spooner, Bombay
Civil Service, to Elizabeth Empson, eldest daughter of
R. C. Lister, of Ousefleet Grange, Esq.
London, England, 1870-10-29

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

GREAT REDUCTION OF FA RE S.-
IsT NOVEMBER.
CITY and PORTLAND ROAD,
CITY and REGENT'S CIRCUS,
CITY and BAKER STREET,
CITY and EDGWARE ROAD,
CITY and BISHOP'S ROAD, PADDINGTON.
CITY and PRAED STREET,
CITY and QUEEN'S ROAD, BAYSWATER
FARRINGDON STREET and QUEEN'S ROAD, and
RING'S CROSS and QUEEN'S ROAD, RoYAL OAK.
SINGLE TICKETS. RETURN TICKETS.
Ist Class I 2nd Class I 3rd Class. lat Class I 2nd Class I 3rd Class
6d. I 4d. I 3d. 9d. 6d. I bd.
MYLES FENTON, General Manager.
Westbourne-terrace, 27th October, 1870.
London, England, 1870-10-29

THE LOSS OF THE CAPTAIN.

- -
We are requested to state that the Admiralty
has determined to award pensions to the mothers
and sisters of those officers who were lost in
her Majesty's ships the Captain and the Slaney, and
who did not leave widows provided such mothers
and sisters were dependent on the officers who
perished. Gratuities will also be awarded to the
relatives of the men who did not leave widows,
under similar regulations. The widows and chil-
dren of the officers will be awarded the usual pensions,
and the widows of the men the usual gratuities granted
when officers and men are "drowned on duty."—Daily
.News.

ESCAPE OF A WHOLE HOUSEHOLD FROM

FIRE.

Yesterday morning, about 40 minutes past 1 o'clock,as a
Police-constable was passing along his beat in Charles-
street, Middlesex Hospital, he discovered the shop of
Mr. Young, a confectioner, in a general mass of fire.
The house contained 11 rooms, and each floor was rented
by separate families,, all of whom were at that time
fast asleep. The officer at once gave the necessary
alarm, but it was not until the flames and heated
smoke had taken possession of the ground floor, and
bottom of the stairs, that the large number of inmates
could be made sensible of their impending danger; and
then a great difficulty arose as to how they were to escape
being burned to death—the heat from the ground floor
being so great, and the smoke of such a suffocating cha-
racter. Many appeared at the windows in their night
dresses crying for help. Owing, however, totheindomitable
perseverance of the police and the escape conductor, the
whole of the endangered persons were enabled to reach the
street uninjured, except being deluged with water. The
engines arrived in rapid succession, and the fire was
quickly extinguished. The whole of Mr. Young's pro-
perty is destroyed, and the other inmates will be serious
loosers. The origin of the fire is enveloped in obscurity.

OUR COTEDIPORARIES—This Morning
London, England, 1870-10-29

£2.3 12 0
1 16 0

Industrial School at Felthain :
By Sale of Farm Produce, Cows, &c.
Towards the Maintenance of Juvenile
Offenders in the School, viz.:—
From the Lords of the Treasury £1,497 5 0
Collected from the Parents or
Relations of the Boys

43 10 8

Militia :
A Year's Allowance to Ist April, 1870, by the War
Office for the Quarters provided by the County
Weights and Measures :
Fees received by Inspectors........
Fines and Pena1tie5.......... ..... .
Produce of forfeited Weights and
Measures

£73 7 1
144 11 6

15 10 0

Sundries
For costs of Prosecutions ordered by the Court to
be paid by persons convicted . ..

Total Receipt
London, England, 1870-10-29

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

WORCESTER AUTUMN RACES.

On THURSDAY, November 3rd, a SPECIAL FAST TRAIN,
Ist and 2nd class, will leave WORCESTER (Shrub Hill Station)
at 6.15 p.m., for OXFORD, READING, and. LONDON, calling at,
Evesham, Honeybourne, Moreton, and Chipping Norton Junc-
tion, arriving at Paddington at about 10.40 p.m.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, October, 1870.
London, England, 1870-10-29

SAFE CONDUCT TO TRIERS.

T, • Tours, October 28.
It• Luers has received his safe conduct to Paris
e Versailles. He will be accompanied by M. de
1411 sat,

;THE FRENCH FLEET.
The Q BREMEN, October 28 (Evening.)
iefor "mate of this town has received telegraphic
pre Illation from Belgium, according to which 12
left4el
' Lll2eu-of-war, with 800 men on board, have
kirk to-day in a northerly direction.

PRUSSIANS REPULSED.
The AWNS, October 28 (Evening).
oil the mobiles of this town, at Formerie (Oise)
Part- road to Rouen, have reoulsed a foraging
latter of 500 Prussians, with geat loss to the

MORE FIGHTING IN PARIS.
telegramto from Versailles. dated the 28th, says
D the afternoon of Thursday sday the outposts on
tow 1318 , °eramon saw shots fired from Montmartre
he arch Villette, and thatfor three or four hours
tio4vv "fie firing was observed in the same direc-