The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-02 00:00:00

Four ran.
NORWOOD STEEPLECHASE.

Moose
Magnum Bonum
Droxford
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1
2
3

Eight ran.
HANDICAP HURDLE RACE.

Charon
Dog Fox
Capitalists

Fifteen ran.
SELLING HURDLE.

Artist ..
Planet...
Ben Nevis

Fourteen ran.
CROYDON CUP.

Brick
Keystone
Hippolyte

Five ran.

1
2
3

SELLING HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE.
Irritation
Balder
Princet
Seven ran.

THE SECOND ANGLO-AMERICAN CABLE

BROKEN.

The Globe regrets to hear that the second English
Atlantic cable is broken. It is supposed that the vessel
sent out to fish up the cable previously injured, has hooked
the sound one and so caused the accident, but communi-
cation is carried on by the French cable.

NAVAL AND 11IILITA.R1. INTELLIGENCE.
On Thursday an order was received at Woolwich from
the Horse Guards authorising the first portion of the
augmentation of the Royal Artillery. The order, dated
November 29, states that the following increase to the esta-
blishment of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, has
been authorised—nine sergeants, nine corporals, nine
bombardiers, 450 drivers, three farriers, six shoeing
smiths, three collar makers, three 'wheelers, and
180 horses. Steps are to be at once taken
to complete the Brigade to its new establish-
ment, the additional numbers being applied to
the formation of three field batteries by the conversion of
three of the present batteries of the 2nd Division Depot
Brigade into mounted batteries. The mounted batteries
will drop their present numerical distinctions, and be
known in future as A, B, and C Batteries.
It has been resolved to convert a considerable number
of the old pattern 56-pounder guns into 64-pounders, on
Major Palliser's principle. At the Royal Gun Factories,
Woolwich, relays of men are working day and night, and
additional hands are to be entered for service.

The Flying Squadron will probably sail about the
middle of next month.

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST COLLIERY

PROPRIETORS.

A case of considerable importance to colliery proprie-
tors and managers came on for hearing at the Leigh petty
sessions on Wednesday. Messrs. John Fletcher and Co.,
large colliery owners, were summoned by Mr. Dickinson,
inspector of mines, on three charges arising out of
an explosion which took place at the collieries of the firm
on the Bth of October last, and which resulted
in the death of two of the workmen. At the
coroner's inquest, it will be remembered that a verdict
of manslaughter was returned against the underlooker,
who stands committed for trial at the next Liverpool
assizes. The defendants were charged with not having
provided an adequate amount of ventilation, with not
fencing off a place suspected to contain gas, and with
not baying the safety lamps securely locked by a duly
authorised person before they. were used. These
charges were recapitulated in summonses which
had been taken out by Mr. Dickinson against Mr.
Ralph Fletcher, jun., manager of the colliery. For the
defence it was contended that the proprietors had spared
no expense in the management of their colleries, that they
had done all they could to secure efficient officials. The
magistrates did not consider there had been sucn a wilful
violation of the general rules and the Act of Parliament
as to justify them in convicting either the owners or the
manager, at the same time expressing the opinion that the
latter had not exercised that active supervision which was
required of him.

THE MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.— The Lord
President of the Council, Earl de Grey and Ripon,
left town on Wednesday evening for Nocton-
park. The Earl of Kimberley has left town for
Kimberley-hall, Norfolk. The First Lord of
the Admiralty has gone to his uncle's seat, Cant-
ley-park, in Yorkshire. The Home Secretary has left
town to make a series of visits. The right hon. gentleman
will pass a few days with Lord de Grey and party at Noc-
ton. The Marquis of Hartington has left Devonshire
House for Chatsworth, Derbyshire. Mr. Gladstone dined
last evening with the Earl and Countess Granville,
and is expected to-day or to-morrow to leave town
for Hawarden Castle till after Christmas. Mr. Card-
well has left town for his seat near Godalming, Surrey.
The Duke of Argyll, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen,
and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster remain in town for
the present.
THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.—Lord Howard, of
Glossop,- the Roman Catholic candidate for Westminster,
has not been elected. Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., was at
the head of the poll.
THE MAYOR OF Conic.—The election of the
Mayor of Cork—an event which usually produces much
excitement—was held yesterday, and Alderman John
Daly was unanimously elected Mayor. He is a Liberal.
The Conservatives abstained from voting. In his open-
ing address the new Mayor carefully avoided politics.
COLLISION ON THE HIGH SEAS.—The Spanish
steamer Alfredo El Granedo, which has arrived in the
Tyne from Carthagena, reports that on the 28th ult. she
came into collision with the schooner Eleanor, of Aberyst-
with, from Antwerp. The schooner sank. The steamer
succeeded in rescuing the crew, five in number, and
brought them to Shields.
It was resolved on Tuesday at a meeting of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to memorialise the
Postmaster-General for the removal of the restrictions
imposed under the new Act on the sending of small
parcels by inland pattern post. A committee was
appointed to inquire into the present delays and
inaccuracies in the telegraph service.
The Glasgow Herald announces the failure of
Messis. White and Douglas, produce commission agents,
of New York, in consequence of heavy losses in butter
and hops ; also of Messrs. David Gibson and Co., of
Cincinnati, liquor dealers, with liabilities estimated at
£120,000.

The French Suez Canal Company, in all proba-
bility, will be turned into an English joint-stock enter-
prise, with the Duke of Sutherland as the chairman. The
negotiations have been carried on for some little time, and
the immediate obstacle is the detention of M. de Lesseps
in Paris. The Duke of Sutherland is expected to start
for Egypt very shortly.
The Peace Preservation Act has, we learn from
Ireland, been effectively put in force in the case of the
attack made on Friday night upon a constabulary patrol
near Ic.ilbeggan, county Westmeath. Two men, who
were arrested nextmorning on their return home after the
night's exploits, have been sentenced to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour by the magistrates of the
district, and another has been sent for trial at Quarter
Sessions.

OUR COTEMPORARIES—This Morning

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

The Times sayi : What happened at Paris on Wednes-
day, in short, was, in all probability, only repro-
duction of the exploits of Bazaine's army at
Metz on the 31st of August and the Ist of Septem-
ber. Trochu, like Bazaine, reckoned on the efforts
of an army advancing to his rescue from the open
country, and s'ixove to aid them by a desperate outbreak
on his part. The sortie from Metz was undertaken
upon a more or less clear understanding with MacMalion;
the sally from Paris was attempted with a view to co-
operate with D'Aurelles de Paladine. But in both cases
the relieving army acted at too great a distance from the
distressed garrison. The Germans at Metz had not been
so greatly disturbed by .MacMahon's advance as not to
have still a force on the spot which might prove more
than a match for all Bazaine's troops ; and the Germans
at Paris have not so imprudently thinned their line of in-
vestment as to render it impossible for the beleaguered
army to break through it unaided. As a double attack on
the last day of August led to a double German victory, so
the movement combined between D'Aurelles and Trochu
on Wednesday may be found in the end to have ended in a
double French failure. - We must, nevertheless, wait for
more positive intelligence before we express an opinion as
to the decisive character of these conflicts, and as
to the probability of the French renewing their attempts
at Paris, and fighting fresh battles near Orleans. For
what concerns Paris, we are inclined to think that
nothing is gained till the sallying garrison has cut
its way completely through the lines of the besieging
army—an achievement which has not as yet seemed prac-
ticable, and which appears fraught with a variety of
almost insurmountable difficulties. The commander-in-
chief of the Parisian forces is so fully carried away by the
exploit of Ducrot that he decrees to him a vote of
thanks ; but if it turns out that Ducrot's exploit
is only half a success, and that the circle of iron by
which Paris is encompassed is as unbroken as ever, we
shall not be surprised if a new fit of despondency again
gains hold of the unenthusiastic Breton General in com-
mand of the capital, and if, upon
.the Army of the
Loire not making its appearance, hope deferred makes
sick not only the heart of Trochu himself, and of a great
part of the Paris population, but even that of the gallant
Ducrot—of that brilliant leader of Wednesday's sortie
who, before setting out for his hazardous enterprise,
vowed, in the words of his late Imperial Master at Metz,
that he " would not re-enter Paris unless dead or vie-

,orious. "