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The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-27

THE CHANCES FOR FRANCE.

The Standard argtles that the condition of France
very far from hopeless. The fortune of war may change.
The advantages which Prussia has hitherto commanded
in the field are likely to be less every day. The further
she marches the more equal she makes the struggle.
Her legions cannot always hope to preserve Ureic
numerical superiority. They have suffered terribly
already in the three bloody days of Metz, and there must
be a term to the resources in flesh and blood of the Prus-
sian generals. The German reinforcements now hasten-
ing :cross the Rhine to refill the thinned ranks of the
King's army can hardly be equal in quality to the troops
who fought at Forbach, at Woerth, and at Grave-
lot`-e. Moreover, the longer the war continues,
the less capable will the Prussian system of
org-anisatien be to bear the enormous strain to
which it is now exposed. Admirable as the Prussian
military system is for a short and sharp war, we know not
as yet how far it is able to stand a long campaign in an
enemy's country. At present it is a race against time
on the part of the Prussian strategists. They are
playing boldly, but tne SLilas.to the ame
is far from. ended. Even should the Crown Prince,
leaving the main army of the King exposed
to the joint attack of MacMahon and Bazaine, risk an
immediate advance to Paris, the solution of his task will
not be reached. It is certain that Paris is not to be taken
by a coop de main, and that the appearance of a few
Uhians in the Wood of Vincennes will not produce
precisely the same effect as at Nancy or Bar-le-Due.
The. capture of Paris can only be attempted by
regular siege, and for such a siege it would
require an aimy at least three or four times larger
than that which the Crown Prince will bring with him.
in the meantime France is adding to her armies by thou-
sands every day. She is repairing her breaches and dos-
ing her ranks. Ber capteity fur making soldiers is, at
least, equal to that of Prussia, and in a little time she
will have a force to match even the vast host which
Prussia has poured into her eastern provinces. The
conjoint armies of MacMahon and Bazaine, if
they should effect a junction, must number as many men
as the King of Prussia has under his command. They
will go to battle on their own soil, in defence of their
country, in the midst of a sympathetic popula-
tion; with every odds in their favour. They will
risk even less in defeat than the Prussians, with
whom a single disaster in the field would mean irreparable
ruin —the total loss of all the fruits of the campaign, if
not absolute annihilation.
London, England, 1870-08-27

Tut SUN, LON DWI, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, :870.

ourt DANGEROUS CLASSES.

A formidable blue-book has just been issued con-
taining the judicial statistics for 1869. The first
part gives the report of the police and criminal pro-
ceedings for the year, the second part of the common
and civil law. In the total numberof indictable offences
reported by the police there is a slight decrease as
compared with the previous year. Unhappily this is
owing to a decrease in the offences against property,
as in the number of murders there is a considerable
increase. In the class of known and suspected cri-
minals, exclusive of those persons known to have
been living honestly for one year after their dis-
charge, there has been a decrease of 29,354, or 35.1
per cent. on the total for 1857-8. In the Metropo-
litan Police district the decrease on the year
amounts to no less than 1,436, or 24.8
per cent., which is attributable in a great
measure to the destruction of low streets and
rookeries and the dispersion of their habitues, to the
greater accuracy of the returns, which now only in_
elude persons known to the police, to the conviction
of many notable offenders and to stricter vigilance
forcing others to remove. One point in connection
with this branch of th e subject deserves, however,
special notice. The total amount of the criminal
classes throughout the country in 1868-9 was
54;249, or in the proportion of 2.70 to every
one thousand of the population. These dangerous
classes are greatly assisted in their way of life by the
low public houses, lodging houses, and other places
of bad character to which they resort. These,
including the houses of receivers of stolen goods,
number 15,030, notwithstanding all our demolitions.
Of these 1,921 are public-houses and 1,030 beer-
shops. The Wine and Beerhouse Act of 1869, says
the report, has already produced a considerable
effect in reducing the number of beerhouses of low
character, but it seems from the official returns that
there are still 3,851 houses enjoying licenses which
are deliberately classed among the " Resorts of
Thieves." This does not say much for our present
licensing system.
London, England, 1870-08-27

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London, England, 1870-08-27

RAILWAYS.

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London, England, 1870-08-27

MARRIAGES.

On the 23d inst., at Bridlington-quay, David Chambers
MTall, Esq., 34th Regiment, to Fiances Elizabeth, the
second daughter of the late Commander E. J. Benen-
den-Clarke, R.N.

On the 24th inst., at Kentish-town, Richard D'Oyly, the
eldest son of Richard Carte, Esq., of 2, Dartmouth-
park-read, to Blanche Julia, youngest daughter of Wm.
Prowse, Esq., of Stroud-green, Hornsey.
London, England, 1870-08-27

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—TaIe DAY.

NIGHT CABS AND NIGHT HORSES.—James Adams, a
cab driver, No. 6340, was charged at the instance of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at the
Westminster Police Court, with cruelly torturing and
abusing a horse, and George Bent, the master, was charged
in aiding and abetting and procuring the commission of
the offence. The officer proved that at one o'clock in the
morning of the Ist August he was in Brompton, and saw
the defendant Adams driving a horse and cab at Thurloe-
square ; the cab had just been called off the Bell and Horns
rank. Examined the horse and found it very much blistered
under the neck and chest, and there was a heavy dis-
charge from the nostrils. It had evidently been badly
used, as there were marks of wales on the neck from the
whip. In reply to witnesss, Adams said the cab was his,
but the horse was Bent's. It was totally unfit to work.
Defendant promised to take the horse home and led it
part of the way, but when apparently out of sight of the
officer he took a fare and went in the direction of Regent-
circus, but on the attention of the fare being called to it►
he agreed the horse was unfit and would not ride. The
evidence being confirmed, the defendant was fined 10s.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—Mary Ann
O'Briant, a strapping and turbulent Irish woman, was
charged, at the Thames Paliee-court, with attempting
self-destruction. Coulson Harwood, a dock constable,
said that he saw the prisoner, who was very drunk and
excited, running down New Gravel-lane, towards the
swivel bridge, and people were running after her, and
said that she was about to drown herself. He
followed her, and when he reached the bridge
she was about to throw hex self over the railings. He
seized her, and prevented her accomplishing her object.
She then became very violent, threw herself in the road-
way, and screamed and hallooed dreadfully. She struggled
and released herself from his grasp, and made a second
attempt to mount the bridge and jump into the water.
He seized her again, and procured further assistance and
carried her away. The prisoner said she did not intend
to drown herself, but she had much trouble. She was
remanded for a week.

WYLD'S WAR MAPS.—TWO additional maps illus-
trative of the War have just been issued by the Royal
Geographer. For completeness there is nothing like them.
One represents the present seat of war—between Metz and
Paris. The other the recent seat of war—showing the battle
field of Saarbruck Aug. 2, and Wiessenbourg Aug. 4—as
well as on the 6th August the cluster of victories, here
at Forbach and Speicheren, here at Woerth, Reichshoffen
and Freschweiler. Highroads, railways, rivers, cities,
forts, towns, villages, even hamlets, are all indicated:
Wyld's Mars are at once mkunte and comprehensive.
London, England, 1870-08-27

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On the 24th inst., atWaltham Abbey, Essex, Mr. Richard
Bates, aged 79.
On the 24th inst., at Great Yarmouth, Riehd. Cotgraye,
Esq., Commander R.N., aged 70.

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London, England, 1870-08-27

PROGRESS OF SIR SAMUEL BAKER.

Sir Roderick Mnrchison writes to the Times to
say that he has received a long letter from Sir
Samuel Bakor, dated the 15th of June, at Towfi-
keeya, on the banks of the White Nile. He has
established a station in the Shillock country, where
he will pass the rainy season. Sir Samuel has been
satisfactorily joined by all branches of the expedi-
tion via Khartoum, Mr. Higginbottom, his chief
engineer, haying conveyed the vessels and stores
across the Nubian desert on the backs of more than
1,800 camels. Sir Samuel lost the favourable sea-
son for the voyage up the White Nile, through the
delay caused by the abstraction of conveyances at
the opening of the Suez Canal and the absence of
preparations at Khartoum. Since the traveller was
there, in 1865, the course of the White Nile has
been obstructed, and the slave traders have dis-
covered a passage to Gondokoro by way of the Bahr
Giraffe, which proved to to be an arm of the main
river. Baker tried to proceed up this arm, but
was forced to return by the shallowness of the

water, the stream being passable only in the rainy
season. Sir Samuel Baker will employ his 1,500 men
to 'sow and reap corn for the advance to Gondokoro,
in November next. He has stopped a boat laden
with 150 slaves, who were packed as close " as
sardines in a cask." He has already freed 305 of
these unfortunate creatures, mostly women, and he
writes with satis'action that one of the first labours of
his English blacksmiths was to cut through the chains
which bound these unfortunates together, all -of
whom on obtaining theii freedom were duly.
registered.
London, England, 1870-08-27

CATTLE DISEASE.

That the cattle disease is a terrible plague no one
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the Legislature, unfortunately, cannot provide the
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subject of this malady. The honourable
member, with a dexterity which would do
credit to an accomplished professor of legerdemain,
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He admitted that efforts had been used to
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attempt had been made to prevent the introduction
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their cattle, and that the sale and transmission of
the animals should be as unrestricted as possible.
Were the Government to stamp out the disease in the
fashion suggested by those who think like Mr. Read
on this subject, the poor would soon find the taste
of beef and mutton a novelty.
London, England, 1870-08-27

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THE IRISH IN FRANCE.

A gentleman named Leonard, who calls himself
"delegate and inspector of ambulances," gives, in a letter
to the Cork Examiner, some account of the exploits of the
Foreign Legion in the service of France. He met with
them in camp at Salbris the day after the action
at Orleans. They went in the field, he was told,
1,500 strong, and brought out scarcely 500.
" Never did soldiers fight more bravely, and I of
proud to say that, from the reports given to me by the
officers, the Irish portion distinguished themselves par
titularly. lam sorry to add that they were it is to be
feared, nearly all shot or taken prisoners. The follow
ing are some of the names I have been able to procure
of the men who went into the field of battle, but who
are unaccounted for, and have not turned up :—Thomas
Kelly Conway Scott Michael Finigan, O'Donovan Elliott;
Maurice Moriarty, Ryan, Ward. The three who survive"
and escaped unhurt are Donelan, John M'Evers' and
Michael Wade. From the remaining officers and sub'
officers I have been assured that the three survivor°
fought for six hours or more constantly under fire in the
g
vines near the town, and afterwards in the faubourg o'•
Orleans. Donelan, one of the finest men I ever savrf
made himself conspicuous for his coolness and braveil•
He stood in the centre of the street, taking aim as coolli
as if he were practising at a target for a wager, measuring,
his distance. He is to be made Knight of the Legion 01
Honour. He assurred me, as did the officers, that
M'Evers and Wade fought beside him with great firmness
and bravery. Both received bullets in their clothes and
knapsacks and their escape was quite miraculous."
If Mr. Leonard's information be correct, some of the
Irish volunteers have paid a heavy penalty for mixing
themselves up in a quarrel in whichthey have no concern
My pen hesitates to give what I was told in the caulP
by Prince Carl Vargirorger, sub-lieutenant of the batty
lion, who was prisoner and escaped, that three soldiers of
the Irish company were shot by the enemy when
prisoners, because they didnot know how to speak French.
I hope for the honour of Prussia that such is not the
case ; but I am making full inquiries, and will, as soon as
I can ascertain the truth, report the matter to high quar-
ters, 'and, if true, to civilized Europe."

THE TICHBORNE BARONETCY.—The great case of
Tichborne v. Livington is appointed to be heard before
Lord Chief Justice Bovill on the 18th instant at We!-t-
-minster,Sand will occupy some time. The propertx)"
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London, England, 1870-11-02

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

CAssEil October 31 (9.10 p.m.)
is The Empress Eugenie arrived incognita at Wil-
Imshohe yesterday noon. General Clary alone
ilecolllPallied her.
Marshal Bazaine had an inter view with the
Emperor at 3.30 p.m.
London, England, 1870-11-02

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London, England, 1870-11-02

FEVER IN LARGE TOWNS.

Fever is said to be very prevalent in several of our
large towns, especially in Liverpool and Glasgow.
In the latter town the authorities are greatly per-
plexed with relapsing fever, which has spread so
rapidly as to necessitate increased hospital accommo-
dation. The number of reported cases during the
past fortnight is 398, as compared with 315 in the
previous fortnight. Food, medicine, and other
requisites are supplied to the sufferers, but the ap-
proaching cold weather will, it is anticipated, assist
in the propagation of the disease. The sanitary
authorities contemplate the purchase of 25 acres of
ground, at a cost of £15,000 on, which to erect a
permanent fever hospital.
London, England, 1870-11-02

GIVING IN MARRIAGE.

In the quarterly return of the Registrar-General of
Marriages, Births, and Deaths, just issued, we are
enlightened as to a circumstance of which we were,
perhaps, with many others, heretofore ignorant. It
is stated that in April, May, and June, marriages in
the British Isles are always more numerous than in
the three previous months. A significant note is
then appended, from which it appears that in these
three months of this year there was noticeable an
increase of nearly ten thousand marriages over those
in the first quarter of the year, no fewer than
92,982 persons having been united in marriage in 92
days, or on an average, a thousand people each day.
The Registrar's report further informs us, that the
revival of the marriage rate has been most observable
in London, in Cornwall, and in the counties of
Gloucester, Stafford, Lancaster, York, Durham, and
Northumberland. A happy time is indeed dawning
once again in England! and from the words of the
chronicle before us we are enabled to assure our
readers that marriages mean, without any doubt, the
prosperity of the country, else why is the following
congratulatory expression made use of :—" The popu-
lation engaged in the production of coal and iron are
recovering from depression, and are again marrying
and giving in marriage at their usual pace."
London, England, 1870-11-02

WHAT THE TROOPS WERE TOLD.

The Indipendance de la Moselle says the march out of
the troops was the most mournful spectacle. The officers
wept, and the men wept. France was killed by the hands
of the general who ought to have saved her. At Metz the
statue of Marshal Fabert was covered with an immense
crape veil. In order to make the officers and men agree
to the proposal of a capitulation of the place and army,
they were told that in a few days there would be no more
flour, bran, wine, nor brandy, that the horses would die
of hunger, and that wood would fail for cooking the food.
Besides that, salt had failed for some time, and it was im-
possible to preserve horseflesh. It would be difficult, it
was declared, for the cavalry and the artillery to cut a
passage through the enemy, and yet the Prussians were
so strongly fortified that the operation could hardly be
effected without them. However, if the resolution were
taken every one would do his duty, were nine-
tenths of the army to be left on the ground.
But, it was asked, what would be the use of the debris of
the army ? French honour would be safe, but would is
not be wiser to preserve their forces in order to render the
country more important services hereafter ? France, it
was declared, was convulsed by anarchy. Paris was the
victim of unheard of disorders ; Lyons was in the bands
of rioters; Marseilles the prey of the Reds; Bordeaux
and Toulouse were the theatre of violence ; and finally.
Havre and Rouen demanded that the Prussian garrisons
should be re-established there. The army was urged to
save their property and their families, and assured that
their mission was to protect society. They would be per-
mitted to leave with the honours of war—with their
arms and eagles, and would become the "army of order."
After this fashion the mind of the army was poisoned,
but it did not suit the views of Prussia for an army of
more than a hundred thousand men to leave Metz with
its arms or its eagles, in order that it might re-establish or
found a Government. Bazaine was deceived. His deep
calculations were not verified; the place was in want of
food, and during five days the men had no more bread
left, and could eat 'nothing but the flesh of the dying
horses. At last on the 29th of October, at the same time
that the troops were given up to the Prussian authorities,
the Prussian Commissioners received the materiel of the
place—that is to say, all the guns and sabres of the
Garde Nationale, the artillery of the forts, and the reserve
of the arsenals.
London, England, 1870-11-02

RUMOURED BATTLE NEAR LE MANS.

BRUSSELS, November 1.
lhe Tours correspondent of the Btoile Belge says
ti_
, at a rumour is current at Tours that a sanguinary
battle has taken place on the route from Le Mans.
Polignac, who served with the Confede-
rates during the American war, is about to receive
Command in the East of France, and will com-
ll'e his operations with Generals Oambriels and
Garibaldi.

GARIBALDI AT FAULT.
Te Moniteur, in announcing the capture of Dijon,
°lnnients severely upon the absence of Garibaldi's
f C)ces and Cambriel's troops, which should have
~
'o'rered the town.

I'IJRCHASE OF THE FRENCH FLEET BY

RUSSIA.
It is generally rumoured in Tours that Russian
e
iBnaries are tempting the Republican Government
Wlth offers to buy the French fleet in return for an
offensive: and defensive alliance in certain contin-
'elleies• At present the proposal meets with no
attention.

THE PROVISIONS IN PARIS.
communications dated Paris, October 28th, say
04
11—, the resolutions of the defenders remain
411184aken• Money is flowing in, and enough has
ready,„ been received to buy 1,000 cannon. It is
the
that the fresh meat rations will last until
47 15th of December, after which the provisions
and B&Lt meat will last five weeks. There remained
7,900 horses. 168,000 oxen, and 410,000 sheep.
With respect to bread, the Francals says it will not
be
vil.llecessary to ration it until January 1, up to
"101 date horse meat and wine will be abundant.

13A.ZAINE'S REPLY TO GAMBETTA.
I, Brussels the Proclamation of the Tours Go-
"nnaent has produced much interest and excite-
-31_1(3Ilk The Independauce Beige of to-day publishes
:letter from Gen. Boyer, one of Marshal Bazaine's
2(le:de-camps,lrefuting the chargepf,treason bro aght
7eainst the Marshal by the Tours Provisional Go-
_rnment. says the capitulation of Metz was
ot caused through any fear or want of bravery, but
Which
in consequence of the state of famine to
Ida the place was reduced.
London, England, 1870-11-02

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'BETE WAR.

THE NEGOTIATIONS AT
VERSAILLES.
BERLIN, November 1 (10.34 a.m.).
The negotiations between Northern and Southern
Germany at Versailles are progressing favourably.
The Icing of Prussia will probably assume the
title of Emperor of Germany.
, The railway bridge between Strasburg and Kehl,
'4B been repaired.
The siego operations have begun at Neu Breisach.
Wooden huts have been sent out to the troops
before Paris.

7.50 p.m.
Bazaine has just visited Wilhelmshohe, where the
Ahpress is asserted to have quite recently passed a
few hours.
Allecustro, the Portuguese Envoy, has left Paris
With eighty American families.
The Landwehr Brigade hitherto before Metz will
''e sent home and disbanded, its services being no
I°llger required.
The French news of a German defeat at Mont-
beliard is an invention, as the Germans never pene-
trated to Montbeliard, but marched to Dijon, which
they took.
The German geographical names are officially re-
tutroduced into Alsace.

tSIGNATION OF GENERAL BOURBAKI.

ToDEs, November 1.
General Boutbaki has sent ili his resignation,
Which it is said has been accepted by the Govern-
-lent of Defence.
Rear_Admiral Bouet de Villaumez has resigned
the command of the Northern squadron on ac-
count of ill-health, and his successor has been
appointed.

ANOTHER PROCLAMATION BY GAMBETTA.
Another proclamation has been issued by M.
'ambetta. It is addressed to the French army.
The soldiers, he says, have been deceived, not dis-
-1
riluoured. No longer betrayed by folly or treason
their
may now advance under leaders worthy of
confidence, and save the country from the
'Placable fury of the enemy. Having denounced
the "treason of Sedan and the crime of Metz," M.
'"latnbetta now calls upon them to avenge their
uc4lour, which is the honour of France. When they
'ave restored the country to her rank among nations
they will remain citizens of a peaceful, free, and
respected Republic.
London, England, 1870-11-02

THE PREMIER AND THE TIMES.

The Times remarks : Mr. Gladstone expressed a hope
yesterday, at the Agricultural Hall, that on the next
occasion of an I nternational Working Men's Ex-
hibition " Europe may not be distracted, and the
minds of men pained, astonished, and bewildered at
the events of which we daily hear." These were almost
the only words in a long speech delivered by the Prime
Minirter which revealed a consciousness that a war was
being waged in the country of our nearest neighbour, and.
tis somewhat unfortunate that they should be open to
grave objection. Distraction and bewilderment do not, as
it seems to us, describe the frame of mind that should be
experienced by intelligent spectators before whose eyes
the great drama in France is being enacted. Its events
are colossal, its movement is on the largest scale, the war
is a war of giants, but in the midst of the shock of
empires and the fall of dynasti es there may be traced a
definite purpose on each side, and the relation of scene to
scene as the tragedy progresses is clear and transparent. The
accuracy of this statement may be tested by the fact that
we have been able to forsee the progress of the drama
before it has bsen made evident by the actual succession
of events. The defeat of the aggressive army, the fall
of the Empire, the resurrection of the Republic,
the beleaguerment of Paris have been foreseen be-
fore they occurred, and it requires little gift of prophecy
to predict the general course of the future. Paris, after
resisting to the uttermost, will fall, and the King of
Prussia, or, as he may by that time be sty led, the Emperor
of Germany, may, if he chooses, migrate from Versailies to
winter quarters at the Tuileries. But the South will not
submit instantaneously because Paris has submitted.
With a frantic disdain of consequences, Lyons,
Marseilles, and Bordeaux will court the fate
of the capital, and, unless Count Bis-
marck prefers to retire on the Provinces he in-
tends to retain, laying his hands at the same
time on such ether sureties for the payment of a
war indemnity as he thinks adequate for the pur-
pose, he will be compelled to pursue his career of victory
until from the centre of Paris all the chief points of re
sistance throughout the country have been subdued and
occupied.
London, England, 1870-11-02

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COURTS MARTIAL.

Lieutenant Joseph Allison Fraser, of the Valorous, was
tried by court martial yesterday on board the Duke of
Wellington. He was charged with negligence in the per-
formance of duty, and with wilful disobedience of orders
given by Captain Harding. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and
urged that at the time he was overcome with drink. He
handed in certificates of excellent service. He was sen-
tenced to be dismissed her Majesty's service.—Thomas
Ashbury, seaman, of the Minotaur, was tried by the
same court-martial for stealing a blanket from a shipmate,
and was sentenced to imprisonment for one year.

ELECTION OF REGIUS PROFESSOR OF
DIVINITY, AT CAMBRIDGE.
The Rev. B. F. Westcott, D.D., late Fellow of Trinity
College, was yesterday morning been elected Regius Pro-
fessor of Divinity of Cambridge University.

CAPTURE OF THE ESCAPED PRISONER
FROM HERTFORD GAOL.
- -

The man Squires who escaped on Monday morning from
Hertford gaol, was recaptured between 7 and 8 o'clock on
Tuesday night. On leaving the prison Squires made
for a succession of woods leading to Potter's Bar. When
passing through Brookland's Park at Hatfield, he was
seen by two of the Herts County Constabulary, who gave
chase for some distance, but they did not succeed in
coming up with their prey. Within fifty yards
of this narrow escape Squires seems to have
lain in the woods until dusk, when he recom-
menced his journey towards London, but on reach-
ing Potter's Bar he ran into the arms of three policemen,
who were anticipating his arrival in that neighbourhood.
After a sharp struggle, Squires, who was much exhausted;
was secured, and conveyed back to his old quarters, in
Hertford Gaol, at half-past ten o'clock on Tuesday night.
London, England, 1870-11-02

BEET SUGAR MANUFACTURE IN . ENGLAND.

The introduction of beet sugar into England
and Ireland has of late occupied the serious
attention of our leading agriculturists, especially
since Mr. Arnold Barnchson, of Liverpool, read his
paper on beet sugar before the Social Science Asso-
ciation, and since Professor Church treated the
scientific and economic aspects of beet root culture
before the Cirencester Chamber of Agriculture.
Mr. Belieroche, too, has contributed very valuable
information on the question. Judging from the
results produced in the manufacture of sugar from
beet-root on the continent, the industry is a
profitable one, and there is a concurrence of
opinion amongst British agriculturists that the pro-
duction of the article in England would prove
remunerative. Few serious attempts have hitherto
been made by British growers to establish sugar
mills, the cost of plant and machinery appearing,
larger on inquiry than was anticipated. It is, how-
ever, an ascertained fact that the larger the mill the
more profitable is the business carried on.
London, England, 1870-11-02

SALE OF DRINK TO CHILDREN.

At Glasgow a spirit dealer has been fined for con-
travening the law which prohibits the sale of ex-
cisable liquur to children under fourteen years of
age. In this instance a boy nine years of age had
been sent by his mother, who declared that she was
suffering from toothache at the time, and therefore
dared not venture out of doors, for half a gill of
whiskey for the father. The defendant's salesman
served the boy, believing, as it was contended in
defence, that he was fourteen years of age. Mr.
Naismith, who appeared for the dealer, tried to con-
vince the bench that the master under such circum-
stances was irresponsible for the action of his servant ,
and argued that the defendant could not be rasp in-
Bible legally unless he had commanded or co-
operated in the commission of the offence. He
also said the salesman had acted in good faith, and
that he had had orders never to supply drink to
children under age. The bench, however, refused to
accept the plea, and imposed a fine of 255.
London, England, 1870-11-02

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HURRICANES IN THE WEST.

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tive hurricane at Cuba in no way mitigate the first
impression of its severity. By accounts from Key
West, Florida, it seems that the hurricane began on
the 7th, continuing for five days from the north-east.
At Habana groat damage was done to property.
When intelligence was received by a messenger
from Matanzas it was learned that the heavy rain
and tremendous wind caused the junction of the San
Juan and Yumun Rivers, which flooded immense dis-
tricts, submerging parts of the town of Matanzas and
especially the intervening ground between that place
and Habana, where the railway depots were located.
The depots, the trains, and their passengers, the
houses, everything in the neighbourhood disappeared,
with a loss, it is believed, of two thousand lives. The
destruction of bridges, churches, and other public
buildings is of necessity great, and the
rice fields, plantain groves, and cane fields
have suffered heavily. Houses have been
unroofed, and warehouses even in the less severely
visited parts have been stripped of their contents by
the immensely high tides. Cuba is famous for its
hurricanes, 355 having been recorded between 1493
and 1855, of which 245 have occurred in August,
September, and October.' Since 1855, however, there
has been the fearful hurricane of 1858—also an
October storm—which meteorologists believe to have
exceeded all others in diameter, reaching from the
vicinity of New York to the shores of Europe. It
is a marked peculiarity of these storms that they
never touch either the poles or the equator. The
great Cuban hurricane of 1846 was traced mere than
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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Oct 30.
The Queen was present at Divine service at the parish
church of Crathie.
Princess Beatrice was also present.
The Marchioness of Ely and Viscount Bridport were in
attendance.

Professor Lister, Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen,
arrived at the Castle.

His Excellency Monsieur, Madame, and Miss Van de
Weyer, and the Rev. Donald Macleod, had the honour of
dining with her Majesty.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended
by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey.
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