The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-01 00:00:00

I'BE SUN, LONDON, T HURSDA Y , DECEMBER 1, 187&.

the Government is extremely confident as to the
result of the engagement about to take place on the

Loire.

General Bourbaki has accepted the command
of the 18th Corps d'Arnie'e now stationed near

NeVerS.

THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE. .
BERLIN, November 30, (10.45 a.m.)
The papers begin to demand that the impending
capitulation of Paris shall nut be accepted, unless the
German conditions of peace are ratified at once by the
Paris section of the French Government.
'111,: three days' bombardment of Thionville de-
stroyed one-third of the town.
Prussian judges are being sent to Alsace and Lor-
raine to fill up vacancies occasioned by the emigration
of their French predecessors.
In accordance with the announcement of the
Prussian Finance Minister, a portion of the new
Federal Loan will probably be allotted to English
ban Lers.

THE TREATY OF 1856.
IUSSIA ACCEPTS A CONFERENCE

A telegram has been received by Her Majesty's
Government stating that the Russian Government
had readily accepted the proposal for a Conference.

VIENNA, November 30.

Advices from Constantinople state that General
Iguatieff being questioned as o the recent Russian
armaments, said they were insignificant, and for
defensive purposes. Russia was prepared to give
better guarantees for the safety of the. Porte than
those of the Paris Freaty. _ _ _

VIENNA, November 30.

The semi-official Frembdenblat says that the
Conference will probably be accepted by the
Powers. The Neue Freie Presse says that Austria,
in conjunction with England, will then demand
that Russia should positively disavow the form in
which the neutrality question was first brought for-
ward, or give adequate guarantees against a repeti-
tion of such arbitrary actions. The guaranteeing
Powers must be secured against Russia arbitrarily
declaring that treaties are not obligatory.

TOURS, November 30.

No reply has yet been given to the communication
of Lord Lyons relative to the Government of France
sending a representation to the Conference to be
held in London on the Eastern Question.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CROYDON, NOVEMBER MEETING. •
THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM)
HUNTERS' STEEPLECHASE.

Harmony • •
The Dybbol
Titterstone.

Four ran.
NORWOOD STEEPLECHASE.

Moose
Magnum Bonum
Droxford

Eight ran.
HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

Fifteen ran.
SELLING' HURDLE.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

The special correspondent of the Telegraph,. sends the
following by Submarine Telegraph, dated Berlin,Tuesday,
midnight :—ln official quarters at Berlin the Eastern
question is not at this moment considered to threaten
war., The Cabinet of St. Petersburg professedly and
apparently •has no intention to place in jeopardy the
independence and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.
No additional conquest of territory at this moment
seems desirable to the men who control the affairs of Rus-
sia, ; and those statessn have quite relinquished the idea
of creating a Greek Empire at Constantinople under the
Protectorate of the Czar. At the same time it is not
their seeming intention to establish any extensive
naval arsenal or military fortifications upon the
northern coasts of the Euxine. The case being so, it is
believed, and with some confidence,_ in well-informed
circles in this capital, that, through the medium of diplo-
matic conversations, it may be possible to attain a plain
and peaceful understanding on this very thorny ques-
tion. By such an understanding, it is said in
those circles of which I have spoken, the Powers
that signed the Treaty of Paris in 1856 would
accede to the Russian demand regarding neutralisation
of the Black Sea. The Government of Prussia main-
tains that, since, like the Sardinian Government, that
Power signed only the Treaty of March 30,
1856—the Treaty which was concluded, as its preamble
purports, to guarantee the independence and integrity
of the Turkish Empire—she' is not in the same
position as England, or France, or Austria, who
together concluded the additional Treaty of mid-
April, 1856, binding themselves to consider that
any infraction of any stipulation in the Treaty
dated March 30 would constitute a cases belli. By such
a clause those who signed were obliged to fight in
order to maintain—so people hear and say— a clause
to which a great Power cannot submit in perpetuo which
in no way infringes upon the principle of the original
Treaty.
The special correspondent of the .Daily News telegraphs
from Vienna on the 25th ult., as follows :—The news that
has reached us of Gortschakoff's answer to Lord
Granville is not very reassuring. Apparently Russia is
willing to do everything except the very thing we ask of
her. She will condescend to talk politely, she will
shew her desire for peace by ordering a partial disarma li
-
ment ; but she shews no signs of willingness to retire
from her first position. Notwithstanding, there can be
no doubt that a warlike solution of the difficulty has be-
come much more improbable since the contents of this
last Note have been made known. The Neue Freie Presse
is rapidly changing its tone. This morning it says :
"According to all appearances the alarm is likely to blow
over, and the matter will end in a Conference. But it is
as clear as daylight that a Conference will only paste
up the breach, and bring about a state of things which
can be but temporary. Diplomacy is no longer the potent
engine that it was, and is thankful enough if it can avoid
the pitfalls that stand daily in its path. Still there can
be no doubt that the present moment is the most un-
favourable possible for a sharp settlement of
the Russian question." This last sentiment is
curiously inconsistent with the earlier views of the
same journal. The Berlin Cabinet, like the Russian, seem
to be willing to give us everything but what we want.
Telegrams daily arrive, giving us assurances .of the peace-
ful intentions and mediatory efforts of Prussia, but we have
heard at present of no answer to the categorical question
that Odo Russell was to have put to Count Bismarck,
viz., whether he was prepared to maintain the
breach or the • observance of the Paris Treaty. But the
English way of looking at things is becoming too pre-
valent here as elsewhere on the Continent, for such
slippery diplomatic ways to furnish occasion for war.
The impression which the perusal of the Red
Book has produced on me is on the wliole a favour-
able one. In it Austria has shown her desire for
the extension of religious freedom, and has done her best
in the interests of peace. On two occasions we find her
endeavouring to combine with other nations—in the first
instance, to resist the Pope ; in the second, to stop the
Franco-Prussian war. In both these cases efforts were
rendered futile—the first, through the resistance of France;
the second, through the resistance of England. Ger-
many already charges us with one national sin—that we
did not do our best to prevent the war. Now, Austria
apparently charges us with another—that we did not' do
our best to stop it. I hope England will not have
to plead guilty to these two charges at the bar of
history.

KELLY'S DIRECTORIES OF THE BUILDING

AND IRON TRADES FOR 1871.

The Messrs. Kelly, have made a most important addi-
tion to their invaluable serifs of Directories published
annually. We have now before us two goodly volumes,
which bear respectively the titles of " The Post-office
Directories of the Building Trades," and " The Engineers
and Iron and Metal Trades for England, Scotland, and
Wales." These works differ from the London and
Country directories hitherto published, inasmuch as
being class directories. A more thorough division of the
trades has been given than is possible in a general direc-
tory. In the building trades the manufacturers of every
article used in the trade are given, and in the engineers
the manufacturers of particular articles are named, thus
—steam engine makers, ploughing, pp. 194 and 794 ; steam
engine makers, portable, pp. 194 and 794 ; steam engine
makers, traction, pp.l94and 796 ; steam hammer makers,
pp. 195 and 800 ; steam road roller makers, pp. 196 and
800. Usually these trades have been included under the
title of Engineers, but in the present volume they are
detailed in a manner never before attempted. The labour
of collecting and arranging this great mass of information
must have been immense, but the enterprising firm have
accomplished their task in a most perfect and complete
manner, and henceforth the two new directories will be
looked for as positive necessaries to the office or counting-
house.