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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-20

THE " EDINBURGH GAZETTE."

Scotland, we are glad to learn, is in future to have an
official Gazette of its own published in Edinburgh twice
a week. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
at Edinburgh on Friday, a letter was read from Mr.
Miller, M.P., stating that the Government had
resolved that this should be the case. As London
and Dublin rejoice in official Gazettes, as every
K. 0.8. and insolvent in each capital well knows, it
is surprising that the chief city 'of Scotland should
so long have been denied the advantages of such a
paper. The insolvent Scots, in particular, must have
bewailed the lack of a Gazette.
°HYMENS AND DRUGGISTS.

The appendix to the Privy Council Health Report
has some interesting particulars on the examination
of chymists and druggists. It is essential that per-
sons employed in the dispensing of dangerous drugs
should have an accurate knowledge of the properties
of the medicines they make up. Until a compara-
tively recent period, however, there was no kind of
restriction on the trade, and it was not uncommon to
find a chymist's business carried on along with a
grocer's. The accidents arising from this general
carelessness were so frequent, that at last the Phar-
maceutical Society, which had long carried on a sys-
tem of voluntary examination, succeeded in obtaining
an Act rendering such an examination compulsory
on all who deal in drugs. There are three kinds of
examination,. the "major" examination, as it is
called, admitting those who pass it to be registered
as pharmaceutical chymists, and the " minor " as
chymists anddruggists. The "modifiei " admits those
to be chymists and druggists who were practising
the trade before the Act was in force. We must
hope in the latter case that the experience acquired
by practice will lessen the dangers incurred by the
public. As medical practitioners are more and more
abandoning the habit of supplying their own medi-
cines, it is absolutely necessary that there should be
some security for the proper supply, and that such a
guarantee is now furnished is evident from the re-
ports of the inspectors.'
London, England, 1870-12-20

THE CAMPAIGN ON THE LOIRE.

General Chanzy has fought so obstinately in re-
treating from Orleans that Prince Frederick Charles
has found it needful to send two out of his own three
corps to assist the Duke of Mecklenburg, who is
opposed to Chanzy. Thus, only the Ninth Corps,
credibly reported to be not more than 15,000 or
16,000 strong, is left on the Loire above Orleans, or
between that river and the Cher, to observe the
First Loire Army of the French under Bourbaki.
Even with the aid of the decimated Bavarians, who
have been sent back to Orleans, the Germans in this
quarter cannot at present muster more than 22,000
or 23,000 men. Bourbaki must have at least 80,000
opposed to this latter army. Such an arrange-
ment of the forces suggests the idea that Chanzy
may have been doing all this hard fighting in order
to draw off the bulk of the Germans in his direction,
thus leaving Bourbaki free to rush at the 22,000
Germans with at least four times their number. But
what sort of troops has Bourbaki under his charge ?
We know little of them, but what we do
knew points to the conclusion that they are
much more disorganised and demoralised than
Chanzy's force, and therefore incapable of movements
requiring great rapidity and vigour. •
London, England, 1870-12-20

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THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

The sharp frost, the Mark Lane Express says, having
closed with a very decided thaw and an almost continuous
rain through the past week, the country in many parts
has been quite flooded, several rivers overpassing their
boundaries, while agricultural operations have been
mainly suspended. The clouds have thus paid in full
the balance that was due on the score of last summer's
drought, and we are embarrassed as to the disposal of the
surplus. With labour limited almost to thrashing,
farmers naturally hesitate before they lower the quality of
their wheat, which in very many instances has lost weight
fully 21b. per bushel, and the declining price which they
must take as the consequence by no means satisfies the
miller, who wants a dry sample and must look for it in
granaried foreign.
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THE DRAGON OF, WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin
Old Mother Shipton, will be produced on MOIS DAY,
December 2f, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February
26. Places can be secured from the first until the last date.
HORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and
SATURDAY therefore, to prevent disappointment, an early
application for seats is respectfully requested. Box-office
open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-
LANE.
London, England, 1870-12-20

THE POPE'S FULMINATION.

The Pope's Encyclical, which excommunicates the
Italian Government, is addressed to the whole body
of Catholic bishops throughout the world. It alludes
to the different attacks which were made upon the
States of the Church by the sub-Alpine Government,
and declares that the Papal subjects were in a most
prosperous condition when the King of Italy
took advantage of the Franco-Prussian war to
seize upon the Papal territory. The Pope states
further on that events had already justified his
refusal of the offer made by the king in his letter
Before his answer could reach Victor Emmanuel
towns belonging to the Pontifical State were occupied
by his army. After the 20th of September when
the Italian troops entered Rome, the most diaastrous
state of things had prevailed. Besides the violence
committed against Church property the Pope
complains of the introduction of immoral
books and newspapers, and especially of the
Plebiscite of the 2nd of October. After as-
serting his intention never to agree to any transac-
tion which implies a relinquishment of the Church's
territory, the Pope pronounces his excommunication
against all who have been instrumental in accomplish-
ing the invasion of the provinces of the Holy See.
London, England, 1870-12-20

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and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates.
All Goods marksd in Plain Figures.
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List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and
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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1870.

A PRESIDENT'S Message is unlike a Speech from
the Throne, both in the manner of it and in its
dimensions. Instead of running off in a dozen para-
graphs, consisting most of them of a single sentence,
it extends to twice as many closely-printed pages
octavo. Instead of being read glibly in ten minutes,
it requires a good stiff hour and a-half's earnest
consideration. It is comprehensive in its character
and searching in its scrutiny. It treats, of course,
de omnibus rebus, but, like the one proverbial phrase,
requires also that there should be added to its syllabus et
quibus duns aliis. Even a Soldier-President, like
ULYSSES GRANT, accustomed to be as laconic AS the
Roman Centurion in the Gospel, saying, " Do this,"
or "Go there;" uttering short, sharp, trenchant,
incisive words of command, when he gets pen in
hand, according to annual custom, for the composi-
tion of his Message, -finds the document grow under
the goose-quill, in spite of all his professional
efforts to ensure its compression or conden-
sation. General TROCRU, in the same way,
instead of contenting himself with an epigramatic
order of the day, or proclamation to the Parisians,
writes, it is objected against him, despatches as long-
winded, and as highly elaborated, as though they
emanated from a lawyer and publicist like GAMBETTA.
Returning to the American President's Message, how-
ever, it must surely be acknowledged for onee-'-even
by those accustomed like ourselves to the starveling
utterances of a Speech from the Throne, concocted
by the Ministers, and delivered in the House of
Lords either by the SOVEREIGN or by the LORD
HIGH CHANCELLOR—that if ever a President of the
United States bad excuse for exceeding the
ordinary limits iu a document of this kind,
General GRANT has now at the close
of this annus mirabilis. Remembering the
portentous magnitude of the events he bad here
summarily to take into consideration, and re-
membering also that 'a President's Message must
in a great measute be exhaustive in ill;
character, it must be said at once that the
message signed U. S. GRANT, and dated on the lith
of December, 1870, from the Executive Mansion, at
Washington, lengthy as it is compared with a Speech
from the Throne, is brevity itself; when compared
with other messages composed .at epochs in no re-
spect whatever of similar importance. The compre-
hensiveness of this message is appreciable at a glance
upon the mere enumeration of the varied themes
to which it has reference. It comments
i❑ rapid succession upon the Protection
of Foreigners in France, upon the Recognition of the
French Republic, upon the maintenance of the Non-
intervention Policy, upon•the Cuban war, upon the
Spanish and American Claims Commission, upon the
South American Peace Conference, upon the San
DomingO Trotty, upon the Extradition Treaties, upon
the Venezuelan atims, upon the Tien-Tsin Massacre
upon the Ratifi;ation of the Treaties with Great
Britain, and upon the N orthern Boundary
London, England, 1870-12-20

THE MINERAL WEALTH OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Probably few persons whose employments•do not
bring them into immediate contact with the facts
realise the full extent of the national underground
treasury, though the mineral wealth of England
is often talked of. The statistics just pub-
lished by Mr. Robert Hunt estimate the total value of
the metals, coal, and other minerals, excepting build-
ing stone, lime, and slates, produced in the United
Kingdom in 1869 at £45,954,691, coal, of course,
far outstripping all the rest. The coal raised in 1869
exceeded that of the preceding year by four million
tons, though the exp3rt was r9ther less than
greater. The increased consumption is at-
tributed to a very satisfactory cause—.
the revival of our home manufactures. The increase
in iron ore is about 1,340,000 tons, the total produc-
tion being 11,508,525 tons, of the value of £3,732,560.
The great increase is in Scotland and North Stafford-
shire ; in the former the iron ore of 1869 amounted to
close upon 2,000,000 tons, and in North Staffordshire
it was over 1,200,000. The tin ore produced in
the United Kingdom is valued at £1,027,805 ; the
copper ore at £519,912 ; the lead at £1,189,030 ; and
the zinc at £49,366. The pig-iron is valued at
£12,381,280, an 1 a rapid increase is perceptible in
the number of iron works and furnaces in blast.
The salt, 1,250,000 tons, is valued at £687,500.

ARCIIBISHOP MANNING ON THE SICK POOR.

A very seasonable sermon has been preached by
Archbishop Manning on the duties which the more
fc rtunate and wealthy members of a Christian com-
munity owe to the sick and the destitute. The
Charity whose especial claims the Archbishop was
advocating was the very excellent Free Hospital,
London, which admits foreigners or any persons who
apply, without ticket or preliminary investigation,
the only requisites being sickness and °poverty.
The value of such an establishment to the friend-
less sufferer in London is very great, and
the Archbishop informed his hearers that it was
the means of providing every year for 1,000 in-
patients, and 50,000 out-p vtients. During the 42
years of its existence, it has relieved no less than" a
million and a half sick persons. The most reverend
orator did not, however, restrict his eloquence to one
particular, object, taking the opportunity to enforce
the claims of all destitute sufferers on the sympathies
of those above them, and saying a special word in
favour of humanity to dumb animals, a warning
which in spite of our improved morals and manners
is still greatly needed.
London, England, 1870-12-20

THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

DRURY-LANE—A Domestic Hercules. Romeo and Juliet.
Phobus's Fix.
HAYMARKET—The Wolf and the Lamb. The Palace of
Truth. Uncle's Will. Blue Devils.
VAUDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or
the Invisible Armada.
STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle
'Prentice.
ST. JAmEs's—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Christ-
mas Eve.
OLYMPlA—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his
Sensation Cat.
•
GAIETY—Happy Village. Fra Diavolo. Trombalcalzar.
QuEEN's--Aunt Charlotte's Maid. Richelieu. Day after
the Wedding.
STANDARD —The Wife's Tragedy. Ballet. Vicar of
Wakefield.
HoLsonN—The Married Bachelor. The Odds. Jezabel.
PRINCE OF WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked
In.

POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After-
- noon and Evening.
EGYPTIAN HALL---Poole and Young's Panorama of the
Franco-Prussian War.
London, England, 1870-12-20

A.UDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees-- Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.
THIS EVENING, at 7 CHISELLING, Mr. David James; after
which TWO ROSES (171st night), by James Albery. Conclude
with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. 11. J. Montague,
David James. and T. Thorne, dr,c. ; Mesdames AmyFawsitt, A.
Newton, and Nelly Power, drc.
London, England, 1870-12-20

THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION.

LUXEMBURG, December 19.

In the Chamber to-day, M. Servaia, the Minister
of State, said that the note of Count Bismarck had
arrived. It contained nice complaints, based
upon incorrect information. The rumours of nego-
tiations at the Hague were without foundation.
His own words had been misrepresented by the
newspapers. A telegram had been received from
the King of Holland approving in every respect
the course pursued by the Luxemburg Govern-
ment, and declaring that the Treaty of London
must be defended, and the honour and indepen-
dence of the Grand Duchy. The Minister added
that until his note had reached Versailles, and the
reply had been received, he could not lay any of the
papers before:the Chamber.
The next sitting of the House will probably be on
Thursday next. There is a strong patriotic feeling
here.

BERLIN, December 19.

Germany will probably accept arbitration in the
setlement of the Luxemhurg question. The re-
ported negotiations between Holland and Nasshu are
unfounded. Annexation is, however, popular.
The Kreuz Zeitung denies that Prussia has any
designs on Luxemburg, and affirms that it has been
resolved to,submit to arbitration the complaints of
breach of neutrality and the claims for compensation
on that account.

SPEECH OF THE KING OF WURTEMBURG.
BERLIN, Deoember 19.

The King of Wurtemburg, at the opening of the
Parliament at Stuttgardt to-day, said the brother-
hood in arms had stimulated the desire for
political unity ; and he exhorted the members to
discuss the Federal Treaties with regard to the
future development of the relations they estab-
lished.

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.

NEW YORK, December 19.

,According to the New York Tribune General
Schenck is instructed to demand the payment of the
claims of American shipowners for vessels lost, with
interest added ; the reimbursement of the
expenses incurred by the United States in
consequence of the depredations of the Con-
federate cruisers which sailed from England
ports; and the recognition of the principles of
neutrality heretofore insisted upon by the United
States.

The Tribune: says " Negotiations will be carried on
in a firm and friendly manner. General Schenck will
demand nothing extortionate, and will make no
threats of non-intercourse, and demand no re-
paration which Great Britain will not willingly
accord.

The New York World congratulates the country
on having secured an envoy whose manliness affords
a reasonable guarantee that he will neither presume
upon, nor be cajoled by, the conciliatory spirit re-
cently manifested in England.
London, England, 1870-12-20

ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.

Mr. and Mrs. German Reed last night resumed their
popular entertainment at this Gallery, entitled " Ages
Ago," which was performed for the 312th time, and
in which they were assisted as heretofore by IViiss Fanny
Holland, Mr. Arthur Cecil, and Mr. Corney Grain.
The neatly written little legend was as well received as
ever, and the various songs which are freely interspersed
throughout the dialogue were heartily applauded. The
second part of the entertainment was to have consisted of
a musical sketch, entitled " Baden-Baden," described as
" a warning in several jodels collected by Mr. Corney
Grain," illustrative of the adventures of Mr. and Mrs.
Tiptoe of Tiburnia ; but pleading an attack of nervous-
ness he begged to be allowed to substitute another song,
which permission the audience good-humouredly accorded,
and a metrical version of the " Lady of Lyons " was
offered by Mr. Grain instead; who accompanied himself
upon the piano. The final part of the programme was
the farcical sketch, by William Brough, entitled "The
Two Rival Composers," in which Mr. German Reed and
Mr. Arthur Cecil represented the competing musicians,
and Mrs. Reed the part of Pamela Dibbs, " a friendless
and forsaked middle-aged maid of all work or no work,"
which evoked shouts of laughter, and Mrs. G owl, whose
unexpected arrival brings the story to a close. The room
was well filled, and this latest addition to the programme
seemed to be thoroughly appreciated.
London, England, 1870-12-20

THE NEUTRALITY OF LUXEMBURG.

We are able to state that the freedom of decision
relative to the neutrality of Luxemburg which Count
Bismarck has claimed for the North German Con-
federation referred only to such militaay operations
as might be j udged necessary during the continuance
of the present war; and not to any politioali action.
London, England, 1870-12-20

rim SUN, LONDON, TUESDAI, DECEMBER 20, 1870

THE MONEY MARKET.

CITY, Two o'cLooK.,

Business in stock markets is not extensive, but quota-
tions are well sustained. Consols, 91 13-16 to 91 15-16
ex. di v.

Foreign stocks also are dull. Egyptian, 77,1 to 78 ;
Khedive Seven per Cents., 70i to 711;' French Defence
Loan, a die, to i; prem. ; Russian of 1870, 83 to 85 ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 334 to 31i ; Turkish Five per
Cents. of 1865 is 44; to 44, and ditto 1869, 50a to 50k.
The North German Loan is prem.
According to the Madrid telegrams the statement of
Senor Moret, the Finance Minister, confirms the advices
regarding the falsehood of the various reports recently
circulated by adverse speculators, and indicates a full in-
tention on the part of the Government, as regards its
foreign debt, to uphold the restored honour of the corm-,
try. It appears that the deficit of the last two years has
amounted to £3,220,000, and that to meet certain existing
internal engagements an issue at intervals of 12 per cent.
Treasury bonds to the amount of 29,000,000, redeemable
in 18 months, is proposed.
The bonds of the new Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Loan of
Messrs. C. de Murrieta and Co. are now advertised for
delivery against the fully paid-up Scrip. The price
stands at 90k, being 23 prem., the market having acquired
great firmness from the limited amount available, coupled
with the fact that many investments have lately
been made in exchange for other stocks by persons in-
fluenced by the consideration of the security being free
from all ,possible European or American war contin-
gencies.

The Stock Exchange will be closed on Saturday and
Monday next. The corn market will also be closed on
Monday, and Lloyd's will be closed in the afternoon at
two o'clock, instead of five.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states :—" Among
the local firms who have this week filed petitions for
liquidation by arrangement is that of Messrs. Ridley, Son,
and Co., engaged in the Newfoundland fishery trade, a
meeting of whose creditors is fixed for the sth of
January."
At the meetings of the Bank of London and National
Provincial Insurance Association and Family Endow-
ment Association and Annuity Society, the plan of re-
construction of the Albert Life Assurance Company,
which has been proposed by Mr. James Thomson's Com-
mittee, was agreed to, subject to such modifications as
may be decided upon by the Court of Chancery.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
BANQUET TO MR. ASLIBURY,

A banquet in celebration of the return to England of
Mr. James Ashbury, owner of the yacht Cambria, which
won the Atlantic race, was given in Manchester lakt
night. The American Consul was present, and responded
to the toast of "The President of the United States."
Mr. Ashbury stated that he expected that the Americans
would comply with his request to sail the race with the
selected champion yachts of both nations.
London, England, 1870-12-20

THE CANADIAN FISHERIES,

The course pursued by the Canadian authorities
toward the fishermen of the United States during the past
season has not been marked by a friendly feeling.
By the first article of the convention of 1818
between Great Britain and the United States
it was agreed that the inhabitants of the United
States should have for ever in common- with
British subjects the right of taking fish in certain waters
therein defined. In the waters not included in the limits
named in the convention (within three miles of parts of
the British coast) it has been the custom for many years
to give to intruding fishermen of the United States a
reasonable warning of their violation of the technical
rights of Great Britain. The Imperial Government is
understood to have delegated the whole, or a share of its
jurisdiction or control of these in-shore fishing groundi, to
the colonial authority, known as the Dominion of
Canada, and this semi-independent, but irresponsible,
agent has exercised its delegated powers in an unfriendly
way. Vessels have been seized without notice or warning,
in violation of the custom previously prevailing, and have
been taken into the colonial ports, their voyages broken
up, and the vessels condemned, There is reason to believe
that this unfriendly and vexatious treatment was designed
to bear harshly on the hardy fishermen of the United
States, with a view to political effect upon this Govern-
ment. Th, statutes of the Dominion of . Canada assume
a still broader and more untenable jurisdiction over the
vessels of the United Stat Cs. They authorise officers or
persons to bring vessels hovering within three marine
miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours f
Canada into port; to search the cargo, to examine the
master, on oath, touching the cargo and voyage,
and to inflict upon him a heavy pecuniary pe-
nalty if true answers are not given ; and if such a
vessel is found " preparing to fish," within three marine
miles of any of such coasts, bays, creeks, or harbouis,
without a license, or after the expiration of the period
named in 'the last license granted to it, they provide that
the vessel, with her tackle, &c., &c., shall be forfeited. It
is not known that any condemnations have been made
under this statute. Should the authorities of Canada
London, England, 1870-12-20

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SALISBURY AND THE EDUCATION ACT.

The Town Council of Salisbury, after a lengthened dis•
cussion yesterday, resolved, by a majority of twelve tc
eight, to apply for the establishment of a School Board.

SUICIDE) OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

An inquest was held at Camoridge last night on the
body of Mr. Blenkie, a commercial traveller, of Hull.
who jumped out of the window of a coffee-house on Sun.
clay, and was killed on the spot. The evidence showed
that the deceased had suffered from delirium tremens,
and had made a previous attempt to cut his throat with a
penknife, which was found covered with blood. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased corn
milted suicide in a fit of temporary insanity.

MR. WILLYAMS, M.P., ON PUBLIC MATTERS.
Mr. E. , Brydges Williams, Al. P., speaking at St.
Columb last night, defended the economical measures
adopted by the Government, believing that they were
fully justified in what they had done by the voice of the
country at the last election. He, however, condemned
the policy of discharging skilled artisans from the dock-
yards, holding that their services ought to have been
retained at any price. The army, he thought, ought not
to number more than 100,000 men.

MR. GRAVES, M.P., AND THE VOLUNTEERS.

At Liverpool, last night, Mr. S. R. Graves, the senior
member for the borough, distributed the annual prizes to
the sth Lancashire Volunteers, one of the most popular
and efficient of the local corps. There was a distinguished
company present, including the. High Sheriff and Mrs.
Rigge. Mr. Graves, in the course of his speech, spoke of
the general belief in the necessity for army reorganisation.
'The • time had gone by when ws could hope
to repair at , tho end of a campaign the
errors made at the commencement. He would
favour a more compulsory system if necessary. They
had no sympathy with those who wrapped themselves up
in their sense of insular security. We should have an
army able to defend our diplomacy abroad, and our
colonies. He had great faith in a powerful militia, and
hoped an early Act of Parliament would strengthen that
force.
London, England, 1870-10-12

ITALY AND FRANCE.

The assumption that Italy would take advantage
of the present difficulties of France to reclaim
Savoy and Nice has not as yet found much con-
firmation. Several leading citizens of Nice protest
againQt such an ungenerous idea. An Italian
deputy, who is now at Tours writes that not one of
the Ministers now governing his country counten-
ances such a project. He asserts this as matter
of certainty, and adds that he is not one of the
Ministerial party, and therefore has no interest in
crediting them with magnanimous motives.

THE NEW UNITED STATES

LOAN.

A preliminary Government circular has been pub-
lished at Washington relating to the issue of the New
National Loan, under the provisions of the Funding
Act, approved on July 18th, 1870. It recites the pro-
visions of the Act, and announces that a deposit of
2 per cent. wiil be required with all proposals of
subscription.

ROME.

ROME, OCT. 9, 1 P.M.

General Della Mannora arrives to-morrow morn-
ing with a Council of Lieutenancy of Under
Secretaries of State. For the Interior, Giacomelli ;
for the Finances, Brischi ; for Instruction and
Works, Bonacci.

Fresh trains of Prussian wounded have arrived in
Brussels.

Five-frano pieces bearing the effigy of the French
Republic are already in circulation.
L'Etoile Beige says that Sedan is garrisoned by
four battalions of Rhenish Landwehr, under the
command of an officer of the line, who exacts most
severe discipline, by which the greatest order in the
town is established.

The Gazette de Frankfort says that colossal bombs,
destined for the head-quarters of the Prusian army
before Paris have passed through Frankfort. They
absorb 1401bs. of powder. -

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
MR. TREVELYAN, M.P., ON MILITARY
AFFAIRS.

Mr. G. 0. Trevelvan, M.P., for the Border Burghs,
addressed the electors at Selkirk yesterday. He said the
present was no time for the advanced Liberal party to
be silent. Unfortunately that party had very little to
say upon army questions, and appeared to imagine them
out of its province. The military system of England had
fallen into such a plight that it was contemptible to all
foreign observers, and would speedily be in a
hopeless condition unless the people took into
their. own hands military questions as they
had done questions of Parliamentary Reform
and religious equality. If ever England was engaged in
a war to the knife with a first-class Power the result would
certainly be disastrous for her. As long as the Com-
mander-in-Chief was opposed by constitution and training
to army reform, the tendency to reform would be kept in
check. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had
a great knowledge of military duties and a high public
spirit, but his ideas were not in accordance with the age.
Mr. Trevelyan also spoke against the purchase system.

SHIPMENT OF WAR MATERIAL AND FOOD
FROM LIVERPOOL.
Food supplies and war material are being shipped to a
large amount from Liverpool, it is conjectured, for
France.
London, England, 1870-10-12

SEIZURE OF ARMS.

CALAIS, TUESDAY.
1211 e Custom llcuse authorities hive seized 65
ft—i'ges from England, addressed Blucker, Pre-
ore Epernay, on suspicion that the contents were
de ended for the Prussians. Telegrams have been
lia-diVelled to detain a portion of the goods which
,r been already sent forward.
labr,lleA Police of Antwerp have seized on board the
ettir Antelope, I, which had cleared for Havre, several
,xes of arms and munitions of war.
pr. be five franc pieces bearing the effigy of the
eueb Republic are already in circulation.

LOSS OF ARMS AT STRASRURG.

BERLIN, OCT. 11, 10 A.M.
6 itk addition to 1,100 cannon, 12,000 chassepots,
'o °O cwt. of ammunition, and 50 locomotives were
ea
rlred in Strasburg.
talY IS about to address a circular note to the
si:erB) Proposing that all States having Catholic
p, Jeeets shall contribute towards the civil list of the
up.

THE BONAPARTIST RESTORA-

TION.
~ The German Ministerial papers of Monday pub-
118hed a statement, according to which the Prussian

Government cannot acknowledge the present Pro-
visional Government in France as sufficiently
endowed with authority ; but at the same time they
disavow all plans for bringing about a Bonapartist
restoration.
London, England, 1870-10-12

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THE LAST GERMAN MANIFESTO.

Can one regard, asks the Standard, the communication
relative to the consequences of a prolongation of the war
made to foreign
.Powers in the name of the " Com-
mander of the German Army "—King William I.
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and conveying the calculations of his Majesty
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to answer the question in the negative, and there
would be some justification for such a conclusion. There
is an amount of absurdity underlying the cold-blooded
ferocity of this astonishing document which compelled a
doubt, in the first instance, as to its authenticity, now
removed, and which suggests that it can only be an
attempt to frighten France into surrender, or Europe
into an intervention which Count Bernstorff
would consider " benevolent." But the game
would not have been worth the candle. Count
Bismarck would not, merely for such a forlorn
hope, have branded himself and his Royal master
with the ineffaceable stigma of a cruelty so enormous
and so wanton that no parallel can be found for it
even in those darkest of ages, when cruelty was almost
esteemed a virtue. No, we must believe that
Count Bismarck has said what he and his master
think and hope. We must believe —we wished
for their own sake, for the sake of Germany, we could
doubt it—that their memorandum tells the truth, that
they are confident that any considerable prolongation of
the siege of, Paris will have for its inevitable consequence
the starvation of hundreds of thousands of human beings,
and that, seeing this clearly, perfectly certain of the un-
exampled destruction of human life which it will entail,
they intend to prosecute this siege merely to gratify at
once a criminal ambition and the worst passions of an ex-
cited people.

The Daily News observes that, so far as probabilities
go, Count Bi'smarek depicts too truly the consequences of
a persistence in war on the part of the French people.
Victorious Germany will not offer them better terms
than are now at their disposal. If they are to
have a more favourable peace they must conquer it. Au
what is their chance of conquering it? In the judgment
of nearly all observers the Prussian Memorandum does not
paint it t Jounfavourably. It may be painful to France to
surrender Alsace and Lorraine ; it may be impolitic
—because as a reversion to the bad traditions of times
more barbarous than the present—and unnecessary to the
security of Germany to insist on the cession. But if the
demand is made, and cannot be resisted, why not face the
fact ? It seems clear that Alsace and Lorraine can
be kept by France only through being reconquered by
her. Does any sane Frenchman believe that the thing is
possible ? There is often a truer courage in recognition of,
and submission to, the inevitable, than in fruitless
struggles against it.
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CAPTAIN OSBORN AND THE CAPTAIN.

In a letter to the Times Captain Sherard Osborn says
it rests with the friends of Captains Colts and Burgoyne to
ask the following questiolis :—First,—By whose order
was it that the Captain was inclined in Portsmouth
Harbour early last August, for the purpose of ascertain-
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stability; and what was the date of that order?
Secondl3r,—Whether these calculations ought to have
occupied sixteen days for an expert to work out? An
eminent shipbuilder whom Captain Coles was in the habit
of occasionally consulting, Captain Osborn says, told
him that the necessary formula should not have required
more than eight hours' hard work. Thirdly,—To whom
was the report on the results of the experiments
of the 6th of August communicated ? Did the Board
of Admiralty ever receive them ; if so, on what
date? Captain Osborn has reason to believe that the
experiments were ordered, very wisely, by the Board of
Admiralty. With whom, then, he asks, lies the blame of
the report and necessary diagrams of the defective
stability of her Majesty's ship Captain not having
been brought to _ the knowledge of the admirals
in the fleet of which she formed a part, or to that
of the gallant officer commanding her? On these points,
Captain Osborn maintains, the whole question turns of
whether the blame of her loss lies with those on board the
Captain or with the Controller's Department of the Admi-
ralty, who now, like other prophets, are so wise after the
event. Captain Burgoyne, however, Captain Osborn adds,
though blessed with great nerve and calmness, was never
foolhardy, and with such a high sense of responsibility
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been the last man in the navy to treat with indifference
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