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London, England, 1870-03-07

TnE MANCTIF.StER COMMITTEE AND THE BILL.

The, Manchester Education Bill Committee, too,
has drawn up its scheme. It, likewise, approves of
the Government measure in general, but would lip)
some, modifications introduced. —Ma tine required
to bring the provisions into operation—which
might reach three years —is considered
excessive. School boards ought to be called
into existence at once. Compulsory attendance
ought to be positive, and of universal application. It
is exceedingly undesirable, also, the committee think,
that religious teaching should be determined by the
school boards. In accordance with those principles, the
committee submit a series of amendments. The
provisions for enforcing compulsory attendance are
-very stringent, one providing that if an officer of the
school board finds a child playing in the streets during
school hours, he may at once trace the erring urchin
to his source. There are thus three schemes
of amendments between which Mr. Forster will
have the privilege of choosing—those of the
Union, the League, and the Manchester Committee.
The two latter, however, are alike in principle.
London, England, 1870-03-07

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

GUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid
of ono of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
ing; this woncirful liquid. It is now offered to the public
a more concentrated form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each,
including brush.

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street London. E.C.
London, England, 1870-03-07

THEATRE-ROYAL, lIAYMARKET.

'furs EVENING, at 7 o'clock, POPPING THE QUESTION.
After wh'ch, at 20 to S, OUR AMERICAN COLT,,IN: Messrs
Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Bc.: Mrs Chippendale, Miss
P. Wright, &c. Concluding with DEAF AS A POST
London, England, 1870-03-07

on Tuesday it rose on tho strength of Washington advices

of the prJbability of Cuban recognition, and fell.

The

concessiou of Cuban belligerency would have the temporary.

effect to unsettle the gold market; but the probability of a
consequent war with Spain is so small that no great ad-
vance in the premium would be justifiable. Foreign ex-

change is kept up at Ne w York by the remarkable scarcity

of cotton bills, which, in view of the immense export of
that staple, indicates tho large proportion that is being
shipped directly from Southern ports. Government
Bonds remain as high at least as they were last week, and

aro very film. The decline which would naturally fcllow
the weakness of gold has been staved off by high quota-
tions abroad, and by the general disposition of domestic
holders to hold fora rise—the Ilse inevitable on the ope-

ration of the Funding Bill if it should become a law.
There promises to be a liTely scramble for 6 per Cents.

about he time the 4 per Cents. are paid out, and those

who will invest is the latter will have previously reaped a
London, England, 1870-03-07

HANGING MITIGATION.

A. parliamentary paper shews the number of per-
sons who have been reprieved of late years from
capital sentences. This return was moved for by Sir
George Jonlcinson, who probably hoped to derive
from it a fine indictment against the excessive leniency
of Mr. Bruce. But notwithstanding the outcry against
the extraordinary "lettings-off" of the Home Sec-
retary, ho appears to have done quite an average
amount of hanging. In 1869 he reprieved eight
persons, and the same number in 1808.
But in 1867, before Mr. Bruce under-
their this -plensintr 'welt- there were- seventeen
reprieves ' • in 1866, fourteen ; in 1805, twelve ; and
in 1864, thirteen. In IW3 only seven persons were
reprieved ; but this was the year of the famous
Townley. In 1861 and previous years the number of
reprieves was much larger; but sentence of death
was then often passed for offences other than
murder.
London, England, 1870-03-07

FRENCH EDUCATION.

French legislative measures are generally of a very
simple character. Not unfrequently, the pre-
aiible, the vu this and vu that, occupies
by far the great part of the bill ; and.
nevertheless the French rarely seem to get into those
terrible messes which the hazy wording of our Acts
so often causes in England. The new measure on
primary education in Franco contains only two
clauses: one that instruction in all the com-
munal schools shall be gratuitous • another that
every parent who does not sen.l his cliil,lron between
the ages of six and thirteen to school, shall bo
required to furnish proof that he is educating them
at home. We are left entirely in the dark as to what
will happen if he takes neither alternative.

THE SUEZ CANAL SPECULATIO' r.

An important conferenPo on the Suez Canal ha's
been held at the Sec,: Ly of Arts. Sir Frederick
Arrow, Deputy Master of the Trinity House, calcu-
lates that the new route will be able to compete with
that by the Cape. A steamer can make the Canal
voyage to Calcutta in 47 days ; a sailing vessel would
occupy 99 days in getting round the Cape. Suppose
that the former carried 900 tons of goods, and the
latter 1,200. The dues on the 900 tons would
be—at Os. £270; 400 tons coal, at 355. a ton, would
cost £700; wages and other expenses would be
£3OO, making a total expense of £1,270. The freight
on the 900 tons would amount to £2,700, leaving a
profit of £1,430. The sailing vessel would make the
passage in 99 days, carrying 1,200 tons, and receiving,
say £3,600 for freight, out of which £7OO would be
deducted for expenses, leaving £2,900. As, however,
the steamer would make two voyages to the sailing
ship's one, the canal route would be able to compete
with the Cape. Captain Osborn pointed oat that
but for the canal America might hav competed in
carrying Indian goods by way of San Francisco. Sir
Thomas Bazley, M.P., thought the Great Powers
might contribute a million each for the purpose of
widening and deepening the canal. A Parsee mBr-
chant observed that the success of the work was a
matter of fact. He was receiving and sending goods
that way. It must be remembered, too, that
the expense of making the voyage is now at its
highest; the cost must decline, whereas the route by
the Cape can offer no prospect of further cheapness.
London, England, 1870-03-07

.THE UNION AND THE DILL.

Though the Education Union supports the govern-
ment measure in general, it, no less than the League,
his its own amendments to suggest. The League
complains of permissive, instead •of absolute compul-
son ; the Union objects to direct compulsion alto-
-0•J 9 9 ther preferring the indirect mode, which consists
in .
reqmring education as a condition of the hired em-
ployment of children. A. clause has been drawn up pro-
viding that the school board may require the parents of
such children as are between the ages of six and
thirteen to send them to school, if hired to work for
wa,::es, for a period of not less than ten hours a
week. Other stipulations provide for the education
of vagrant or pauper children,- and boards of
guardians are enjoined to require certificates of at-
tendance at school as a condition of giving out-door
Numdrous minor amendments are suggested,
but these are the principal.
London, England, 1870-03-07

ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE REGULATIONS.

The committee appointed by the Admiralty and
the Board of Trade to hold an inquiry into the work-
ing of the Royal Naval Reserve Regulations have
issued their report. They recommend the division of
ttlt3 duty of onrolutent which has existed since 1860
bitween the Board of Trade and :the Admiralty. as
ti a infit ttLat could b 9 arigpted. AEs2tivithaskg

the t2vidence collected on tue suuject, however, tllE'
committee state their inability to decide whether it
is desirable to continue the present arrangements, 01
whether it might not be undertaken by one depart-.
ment. With regard to the existing regulations of the
r3serve, the conclusions of the committee are numerous.
Among other things, they recommend that the standard
height should be definitely fixed at aft. sin., and that
instead of the existing regulation, which allows a
man to be enrolled by a chief boatman in charge of a
station and a civil medical practitioner, all candidates
should in future be examined by a naval com-
mander and a naval surgeon. Other divisions of the
report, under the heads of training, batteries, uni7

form, 'discipline while on drill, and retirement and
discharge from the reserve, contain•suggestions which
the committee consider will add materially to the
efficiency of the service.
London, England, 1870-03-07

THE IRISH LAND BILL.

The Standard declares that the very exceptional cha-
racter of the Irish Land Bill will be patent to anyone
who will take the trouble carefully to examine it, and dis-
regard the gloss by which its real nature has been con-
cealed in the Ministerial statement. And the
circumstances connected with its introduction are
not less exceptional. One of the members of the
Cabinet has favoured the public with an elaborate
disquisition on the Reign of Law, and the chief
of the Cabinet is entitled to the credit of having
fomented and encouraged a Reign of Terror, compared
with which the past history of Ireland scarcely affords a
parallel. The rights of the landed proprietors of the
country are practically in abeyance ; and between the
efforts of the agitators in Ireland and the connivance of
Ministers a state of affairs has been produced which may
any day end in open revolt. We can assure our readers
that they can little realise to themselves the state of
affairs now existing in Ireland, mainly brought
about by the unfortunate declaration of governing
Ireland according to Irish ideas." Extravagant and com-
munistic as is the new Land Bill, its promoter has now
learned that it falls far short of realising its promise in the
estimation of the great mass of the Irish people, and al-
ready it is threatened with the most serious opposition.
When will our statesmen learn in the government of Ire-
land to disregard every consideration of this false expe-
diency, which only promotes disaffection instead of
appeasing it ?
London, England, 1870-12-19

IT MOSES and SON'S

Ay INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to £5.

BOY'S OVERCOATS, 7s. 6d. to 455.

MOSES and SON beg to remind the public
1:..4• that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its
finality. and they venture to say that their prices will compare
favourably with those of any other no Ise tu England.

E. MUSES and SON'S

OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 60s.

CAMBRIDGE COATS, 19s. to 50s.

KERTCH JACKETS, 15s. to 425.

SUTHERLAND JACKETS, 19s. Gd. to 60s.

BUSINESS SUITS, 28s. to 60s.

EMOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system
. of self-measure enables them to execute orders by post
with the guarantee of a faultless lit..

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London, England, 1870-12-19

NO INFORMATION TO•BE HAD.

The Prussian official Staantnzeiger admits that the
vigilance of the French has completely cut off the old
sources of information :—" Notwithstanding the anxiety
that prevails at headquarters to obtain intelligence from
Paris, no news had arrived during the past week of the
impression produced in the capital by the late unfor-
tunate attempted sorties. All that is known authentically
up to the present moment is that General D.ucrot, who
commanded the recent offensive movements, prefers
remaining in the outer encampment instead of returning
to the capital. The news already published by us, that a
number of guns have been dismounted from some of the
forts—lssy, Vanvres, and Val4rien are mentioned—and
moved nearer to the enceinte of the town, has been con-
firmed. In other respects we are completely in the dark
as to the position of affairs in Paris, as since the, great
movements of troops which commenced on the 28th
November no Paris newspapers have reached us, and since
greater vigilance, has been observed by the French out-
posts, a stop has been placed for the present 'upon the
desertions from their garrison."
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE LATE SORTIES.

An important mistake seems to have been almost
universally made in this country with respect to the
great sortie from Paris on the 30th of November.
It has always been understood that the French
abandoned the advanced positions in the great bend
of the Marne which they held after three days'
fighting. It is true that they drew off the
great masses of troops which occupied them,
but it was a delusion to suppose that the
places were given up altogether. On the
contrary, it now transpires that fresh batteries have
been pushed out in that direction, and some of the
heavy guns in the forts removed to arm these new
works. The positions on the Marno are held, and
large bodies of German troops are watching them.
What may be the value to the French of Champigny
and the district round about it is another question.
It furnishes•an excellent starting point; but, on the
other hand, the Germans are forewarned, and able to
take special precautions.
FRENCH ANIMOSITY AGAINST GERMANS.

The animosity of the French against the Ger-
mans threatens to have a very injurious effect on
classes who are by no means responsible for the war.
It is well known that large numbers of Germans have
been in the habit of getting their living in France,
and these were among the very first sufferers by the
hostilities, as they had to give up their employments,
and leave their adopted country. But it now appears
that even with the restoration of peace their old
careers will not be open to them. Nearly 200
bankers, stockbrockers, and merchants of Paris
have come to a formal agreement not here-
after to take a German into their service. Some
persons maintain that Germans.ought not in future
to be admitted into France at all as resi-
dents. This, of course, is simply preposterous, but it
shews the strength of the prevailing feeling, and it is
certain that Germans will find it very difficult to get
employment in France. In some places all foreigners
are alike put under the ban. Marseilles has always
been a great resort of strangers, as was natural from
its position as a great trading port. But now it is
ordained that Frenchmen alone are to be employed
in public works.

NATIONAL DEFENCES.

At a gathering in the _Royal Artillery Institution,
Woolwich, General Eardley Wilmot pronounced in
favour of a combination between the Army,
Militia, and Volunteers. The regular army
felt that the service should not sustain the whole
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION.

The Telegraph says :—Luxemburg is no more going to
drag us into war, through the difficulties raised by her
alleged non-observance of neutrality, than 'Russia is
through her tampering with the neutrality of the Black
Sea. The fact having become known, that the question
of the Prussian protest against the Treaty of 1867 was to
be considered at the meeting of the Cabinet on Saturday,
the public naturally felt a keen anxiety to learn what
might be the course adopted, and there were not wanting
anticipations of a sufficiently alarming nature. It is
needless to say that we could not share any such appre-
hensions, since we knew that Count Bismarck's announce-
ment was really of a less sweeping Lind than that made
by Prince Gortschakoff, and we saw that it might not be
without some warrant arising from the exigencies of
war. The Grand Duchy was accused of the same
grave offence which Count Bernstorff had charged
against England—that of " aiding and abetting"
the enemy. We were not so neutral and passive
as we ought to be ; we sent to France rifles and ammu-
nition to be employed in the slaughter of German soldiers

—thus, at least, nil-4h° indictment against this country.
lu the same spirit itiva,s alleged that the little dpendericy
attached to the Crown of Holland had in various ways
shown itself partial and the reverse of indifferent.

Luxemburg had refused a passage to wounded German
troops through her territory, had assisted the
French in provisioning. Thionville, and had neg-
lected to detain French soldiers who took refuge
beyond the neutral frontier. We have no right to assume
without examination that the charges are absolutely base-
less ; but their very nature shews 'that they probably
admit of explanation. We have had our own experience
of the difficelties of neutrality. We know that the Eng-
lish Government and people have, from .the commence-
ment of the present calamitous contest, resolutely
determined to stand aloof ; yet we have not escaped
vehement censure from both belligerents, and we can
readily understand that poor little Luxemburg. placed
as she is between France and Germany, is peculiarly ex-
posed to suspicion. We now learn from the Luxemburg
Minister, what his representative will tell King William
at Versailles, that, if there has been any infringement of
neutrality, it has been against both the will and the en-
deavours of the authorities; and thus the affair is handed
over to the treatment of diplomacy proper, with every
disposition, we believe, on all sides to arrivelat a rational
and friendly settlement
London, England, 1870-12-19

KELLY'S DIRECTORIES FOR 1871.

The Messrs. Kelly's marvellous work " The Post Office
London Directory for 1871 " has just appeared. We have
so often had to speak in terms of the highest praise of
this positive necessity to the commercial and trading com-
munity that on the present occasion we can only repeat
our commendation for the care and accuracy with which
the whole of the vast information has been compiled. M
a specimen, we append a few instances of recent correc-
tions in the Directory, chewing the date to which the
information is brought down. . _

The name of Mr. George Hume, the late Taxing Master
in Chancery, whose death was announced Nov. 23rd, has
been taken out of Chancery Offices in the Law Directory,
p. 1860, and removed from the official index, p. 62.
Mr. Charles Cavendish Clifford, the new member for
Newport, Isle of White, gazetted Nov. 25th, is inserted
in the Parliamentary, pp. 2,163 and 2,173, and Court
Directory, p. 1,986.
Archdeacon Hale, whose death was notified Nov. 28th,
has been taken out of official index, p. 58, and Clerical
Directory, pp. 2,204 and 2,227.
The late member for Meath county (Mr. Corbally),
whose death appeared in the papers, Nov. 29th, has been
removed from the Parliamentary pp. 2,163 and 2,174, and
Court p. 1,991.
Lord Byron's death announced Nov. 30th, caused alte-
rations in the Parliamentary pp. 2,148, 2,151, and 2,158-
Mr; Walmsley, late of the Bill Office, House of Lords,
and Mr. Goodwin, late of the Privy Seal Office, whose
decease was announced Dec. 2nd, have been removed'frco
the official index and list of Government.offices.

The " Directory for the Six Home Counties " is also
another marvel of accuracy. In size it has vastly in-
creased, but this arises principally from the additional
number of. inhabited houses in these counties. The last
volume contained 2,386 pages, whilst the present numbers
2,860, being an increase of 474 pages. The work i 5
worthy the publishers of the Post Office Directory, and
the thanks of the pubic are eminently due to the enter-
prising firm that has produced such valuable and highly
useful information.
London, England, 1870-12-19

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1870.

IT is only of late years that sanitary science has
been in any way systematically applied to the
purposes of administration. A benevolent physician
of the last generation, Dr. SOUTHWOOD SMITH, ac-
quired during his eminently useful lifetime, the
reputation of having been one of the principal pro-
moters of this admirable movement. During his
career, he was one 'of the, world's practical bene-
factors. He helped to purify, to a considerable
extent, the homes and haunts of his fellow crea-
tures. He directed his energies to the emulation of
one at least of the mythical labours Oi HERCULES.
The proper drainage of London alone, and
the adequate ventilation of the dwelling houses
its three million inhabitants, reduce the task of
cleaning the Augean stables to insignificance, when
brought for an instant into comparison. Nothing is
more difficult to accomplish than the radical altera-
tion of the habits of a people. A trans-
formation of that kind requires time im-
peratively for its accomplishment. The endeavour
to effect it, however, was commenced in earnest not
many years after the beginning of the present
century. There had lung been a half-conscious
recognition of the truths of the latent or dormant
science, as evidenced in such a scrap of old-world
wisdom as that condensed into the immemorial proverb
that " Cleanliness is next to Godliness." The far-
seeing founder of Mahometanism—wise in his
generation—made daily ablutions part of his ritual,
made personal cleanliness an integral portion of his
religion. Strenuous as have been the efforts made
by our sanitary reformers the dissemination of
the really beneficent truths they have had
to enforce upon the popular recognition,
the fact, unhappily, remains, even now,
strikingly self-evident, that their emissaries have
all the while been talking in a language in respect to
the knowledge of which the people at large have not
as yet got through their primer, even if they
have advanced sufficiently far to acquire more
than the alphabet. Hence it is humiliating enough
to know that it is to the despised Turk, to the
Mussulman race—who:aro generally supposed"to by so
little advanced on the path of civilisation—that the
Christian communities of Western Europe have been
indebted for the revival, through the Hammam of
the East, of the classic baths of Pagan antiquity, the
most efficacious means the world has yet discovered
for ensuring bodily purification. The only difference
between the • classic bath of two thousand
years ago and the bath of now-a-days adapted
from Turkey, being the abandonment of: the striyil,
and the substitution for it of the system of manual
shampooing. Again, just precisely as the despised
Mussulmans were enjoying what the self-complacent
Christians of Western Europe were blindly groping
for until yesterday—in a totally opposite direc-
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE GREAT MISTAKE.

There can be little question that the Germans
have been subjected to what is termed " a sell"
touching the resistance of Paris. When the•siege
commenced it was stated in the French newspapers
that the city was provisioned for two months ; and
the calculation was universally accepted, not so
much from a feeling of trust in what the French
papers said, as from the difficulty of believing that
large provision could have, been made for such an
immense population. The delusion proves to !lava
been complete. The correspondents of the Cologne
Gazette and the Daily News—two of the best war
writers—agree that the Germans were completely
at fault. The siege has already lasted three months,
and the Germans now seem convinced that they had
better prepare for several weeks' more work. •Some
of the calculations now made seem, indeed, to be
too favourable to the French. The Spectator says :
—"After a careful comparison of all statements, we
come to the conclusion that the city retains enough
meat, principally horse, to give the people two full
meals a week, and the soldiers four, till March ; and
enough bread, chocolate, and wine for three months."
This is perhaps too liberal ; but it is clear that some
weeks' resistance is left in the capital, and there Is
no knowing what may turn up in that time.
London, England, 1870-12-19

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—THIs DAT.

ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF • THE POLICE.—An Irish
labourer, named James Lynch, appeared for the second
time before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, to
answer a charge preferred against him by Macdonald, a
constable of the H division, for assaulting him on Friday
evening last in Leman-street, near the station-house in
that street. While it was raining fast on Friday evening,
the prisoner was rolling about very drunk and making a
great noise. The constable laid hold of him and led him
towards the station-house. The prisoner struggled and
struck right and left, and kicked the constable, who was
soon joined by the reserve man, James Sorrell, 30 H,
from the station-house. The police-constables turned the
prisoner over and carried him in a quiet and gentle man-
ner to the station-house. The prisoner was unhurt,
and he preferred no complaint of ill-usage. His
dress was also perfectly clean, but a man
named Clarke, foreman cooper in the dock, said
the prisoner was knocked down repeatedly, kicked, and
trampled upon, and that he was dragged across the road
in a most barbarous manner. Mr. John Budgett, jun.,
surgeon, saw the whole affair, and said no violence was
offered to the prisbner, and that he was treated humanely
and with proper discretion. Mr. Paget had no doubt of
what had happened, and was not sorry he had adjourned
the case for the attendance of Mr. Budgett. The evidence
of Clark was worthless and untrue, and. in a fit of excite-
ment got it into his head that the police were ill-using a
man who was very disorderly and violent, whose clothes
were not soiled, and upon whom there was not a mark.
He sentenced the prisoner to seven days' imprisonment.
PICKING POCKETS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEL—Three
well dressed women, who gave the names of Jackson,
Thompson, and Phillips, but who refused their addresses,
were charged, at Westminster police court, with picking
pockets in the above Abbey on Saturday last. From the
evidence of two detectives, who are specially employed in
the Abbey in consequence of the numerous robberies com-
mitted there of late, they watched the prisoners acting in
concert, and from their manner they were suspected, and
followed to a public house in the neigbourhood. After
leaving a detective searched the closet and found three.
purses, one containing money and the others emptied of
their contents.—Remanded for inquiries.
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE AVAIL

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

THE GERMAN POSITIONS.

The Correspondance Havas publishes an account of the
observations made by a Parisian at the Prussian advance
posts. Behind Bourg-la-Reine the Prussiang have fortified
themselves strongly. The railway lines have been cut,
barricades erected, and moats dug. The most important
position in this direction is Croix-de-Bernis, which is
situated near Bourg-la-Reine, and is the chief point in the
second Prussian line. The road from Choisy de Croix de
Berths is of the first importance to the Prussians. Four
other roads join it, and it secures their communication
with Versailles by Chatenay, and preserves direct com-
munication between Choisy and the camp of
' Antony. Croix de Berths is the key of the two
roads, and is the constant care of the enemy.
On the road from Sceaux to the village there are no less
than five barricades, and in front of the village is an
abattis of trees , with two embrasures, through which two
cannon command the road to Paris, while the village
itself is defended by a series of epaulments and a battery
armed with French 12-pounders commands the whole. At
the bridge situated at Croia a mass of fascines and trees
render it possible to repair the bridge -in a few minutes
Following the Chatenay road, the railway to Sceaux is
traversed by a formidable bariicade. At Croix de Bernie
the rails taken from the railway have been used for case-
mating the powder of the battery. Antony haaaJbeen
partly abandoned, part of the cavalry encamped there
having been sent southwards. The infantry has gone to
Choisy, to replace Genera Turupting's corps, gone to
Montargis. A formidable Prussian battery was' unmasked
the other day by accident. It was believed that the
enemy intended establishing one at Argemont, and many
'attempts were made, though fruitlessly, to discover it.
Numbers of bombs were sent in various directions without
finding out where the battery was. A few days since a
French officer, examining the ground before him from the
redoubt at Charlebourg, saw, near the mill of Argemont,
something which made him believe the enemy were
stationed near there. A heavy piece of artillery had been
put in position the night before, and this was fired, when
a most .unexpected result was produced. A whole row of
trees fell as if by a sudden stroke, and a formidable broad-
. side 'replied to 'the French cannon. The Prussians,
believing their secret discoverdd, had at last unmasked
the mysterious battery.
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE COTTON TRADE.

A. great conference has been held at Manchester
by delegates of the factory operatives. Eighty-nine
deputies were present, representing sixty-five or-
ganized bodies of all branches of the cotton trade,
and twenty nine districts in the four counties of
Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire.
The greater part of the mills are now running full
time,.but the spinners and weavers complain that the
badness of the material produces a sensible effect on
their wages in consequence of the frequent'stoppages.
The prospects of the trade are on the whole gool.
Resolutions were passed at the meeting of the, dele-
gates in favour of the reduction of the hours of
labour on Saturday, and of the settlement of all dif-
, ferences between employers and employed by arbi-
tration. The operatives are anxious to bring the
hours of labour to fifty-eight per week, and they are
supported in this view by a number of the employers,
while others oppose it on commercial groufids. In
presence of these conflicting views, and. in the ab-
sence of Boards of Arbitration, the delegates re-
solved to submit the question to Parliament.
London, England, 1870-12-19

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 18.
The Queen drove not yesterday afternoon, accompanied
by Princess Beatrice..
Her Majesty, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prin-
cess Beatrice, attended Divine service this morning in
the private chapel.
Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included
their Royal Highnesses the Princess Louise and Prince
Arthur, Earl Granville, and M. and Miss Van de Weyer.

ILLNESS OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.
We regret to hear that his Royal 'Highness the Duke
of Cambridge is seriously ill with his old complaint, the
gout.—Standard.
London, England, 1870-12-19

A NIGHT IN A BALLOON.

M. Jules Buffet and some other aeronauts left Pari; a
few days ago in the Archimedes balloon at four in he
afternoon. It was dark consequently when they started.
M. Buffet writes of the voyage :—" Paris, seen by night
and from the height of one mile and a quarter, to which
we . rose, has something very striking about it ; the
lights of the ramparts seemed to combine together.
so as to surround the city with a girdle of fire, and the
streets appeared like brilliant lines cutting each
other. Soon, however, all these lines of light mixed with
each other, and Paris became only a brilliant spot, then
it sank to a shining point, and then it was lost altogether.
Nothing round the city indicated the Prussian positidns.
The balloonran rapidly towards the north; its managem:ent
was an easy matter, and the aerial machine proved itself
an excellent one. Roads spread themselves out
whiteish lines on the black base of the picture, and re
lit up here and there by luminous points. Towns, w ch
always appeared like lines of fire, succeeded each of er.
Suddenly the whole earth appeared illuminated ;
a great number of red lights attracted our atlen-
tion, and distant noises made themselves heard. This vas
as I have since learnt, the coal' basin of Charletoi ;
and it was. the innumerable forges and blast fur-
naces of that district which caused these lights
and these ,startling noises. The night glided away with
alternations of darkness and artificial twinkling lights ;
and now, from the faint light which invaded the sky,
we perceived that day was about to break. The weather
continued beautifully fine, and at a height of nearly two
miles we saw the sun arise in his glorioUs majesty—
a spectacle never to be forgotten. The change was
marvellous. Little by little the earth appeated, 'and
amid the perfect silence of the regions through which we
passed we distinctly heard the cock crow. The spectacle
which we witnessed reminded one of a beautiful picture
from which little by little the covering was removed.
Woods appeared like tufts of grass, houses were like
white points. Here and there were small glittering spaces
—water, doubtless,; and from the flat and uniform aspect
of the country we agreed unanimousely in recognising
Flanders."
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE APPRENTICE BOYS AT LONDONDERRY,

There was great excitement in Londonderry, yesterday,
but little disturbance. The Apprentice Boys, in great
number, marched from Corporation Hall to the Cathe-
dral, the latter place being crowded. The Rev. Mr. Scott
preached. The Boys afterwards walked through the
principal streets, headed by their governor and Lord
Antrim. A number of boys and females hooted them.
The constabulary and military occupy_ the streets.
The effigy of Lundy is not to be burned
to-day. At one time the Apprentice Boys demanded
admission to the walls of the city, but were forcibly pre-
vented from gaining access to them by the military and
the police, the rear part of the procession and a number of
Roman Catholics coming into collision. Brick bats and
stones were freely thrown, but no one was seriously hurt,
and the disturbancb was speedily quelled. Several arrests
were made:'

The notice of Lord Lawrence, which appeared in
our publication of Saturday, was taken from the Rock
newspaper, ansinot, as stated, from the Record.
The health of Sir Roderick Murchison has
so much improved that he is now pronounced to be out
of danger, although 4s complete recovery will be some-
what slow.

The American rlkgisOr says qWe doubt of its
truth, but the report comes from verygood sources, that
an AMerican firm in New York. named Fisher and
Parish, has obtained the privilege of introduciiig our
street railway, or horse cars, in London, Liverpool, Glas-
gow, and other cities of Great Britain."

Speaking of the unfriendly feeling of the Germans
towards England, the correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says :—" Lord Augustus Loftus, who six
months ago was extremely popular at the Court and in
society at Berlin, and who it is known does not conceal his
personal admiration and liking for Count Bismarck, has
of late found his position so changed that he has sent his
family to England, and taken a country house some miles
from Berlin, in order to be out of the way of disagreeable
collision with acquaintances that once were friendly and
agreeable."
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE VALUE OP.TREATIES.

No one can pretend, remarks the Standard, to mistake
the signs of the feeling, which are equally palpable in the
impudent threats against Luxemburg as in the deliberate
measures taken by the German commander at Dieppe, to
render the presence of his troops as burdensome as pos-
sible to the English residents. The complaints of the ex-
portation of guns to France—complaints which the German
authorities must know to be false in substance, and to be
of no legal force even if they were true—can only be
meant to keep up an irritation in the German mind
against England. It is universally believed, in spite of
the existence of the " Quaker Government," that Eng-
land is the only obstacle to the complete triumph
of the Bismarck policy, and the consolidation of
the German influence as supreme on the conti-
nent of Europe. This is the danger, which those who
admire the German character and those also
who do not must equally admit. How is it
to be met, aill by what influences turned aside?
Are we to accept the Bismarckian programme in full,
and follow submissively after Von Moltke'scar of victory?
We have almost done this already, and yet we perceive
that we have not propitiated the German poweas ers.
he Ger-
What
more must England do to thoroughly app
e t
man rage and to secure to ourselves peace? We have
exhausted all those pacific arts which we were told were
henceforth to temper the quarrels of nations. We
have invited peace by reducing our own already
feeble armament to the lowest possible state. We have
endeavoured to substitute arbitration for war. We have
promoted the rational settlement of disputes by treaties
and conventions, as w e were advised was the better course.
But what is the precise value of these guarantees now?
Do we not see treaties broken, and the right to break
them claimed, every day by the Power which happens to
be presently strongest in arms ? How can we rely upon
arbitration again as a substitute for war, when we
find that the most solemn compacts are to be binding
only at the pleasure of the nation wiThrn they most
nearly affect ? No better guarantee can any treaty have
in the future than the Treaty of 1856 was supposed to
have secured. It is only three years since we congratulated
ourselves on having prevented a great war by the neutra-
Dation of Luxemburg. These great diplomatic achieve-
ments are no* se) much wastepaper. They have gone to utter
wreck, and left Europe in a more dangerous condition
than before. They did not prevent, they only put off,
.the inevitable arbitrament of the sword. Any treaty which
we could make to-morrow would be subject to the same
fate. It is certain that we can never more rely upon
treaties, and that if we enter into them at all again we
must be prepared at a short notice to teaintain the en.
gagenaMit,by force of anus.

COLISWE 'OF. PRECEPTORS.-A meeting of the
Council' of this Corporation was held on Saturday last.
The Rev. James Hunt, M.A., deputy head-master of
Faversham Grammar School, and Mr. D. Morris, of
Worcester, were elected members of the College.
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE JEWISH ABDUCTION CASE.

At the Cardiff Police-court on gaturday, the hearing of
the case in which the Rev. N. Thomas and Mrs. Thomas
were charged with perjury, which had been adjourned
from Friday, was resumed. After further evidence for
the prosecution had been called, the magistrates retired
to consider whether they would call upon Mr. Ingledew,
the solicitor for the defence, to reply. After an absence
of about an hour, they returned into court, having decided
to hear the defence. Mr. Ingledew replied at great
length, and argued that at the most there was but a sus-
picion, and they would not be justified in sending the
defendants for trial on such a charge, under such circum-
stances. The summons was dismissed, but a certificate of
dismissal was refused the solicitor for the defence. Each
side will bear their own costs.

THE BARNSLEY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
ANOTHER DEATH.
Robert Gregory, another of the sufferers by the railway
disaster at Stairfoot, near Barnsley, died on Saturday,
after great suffering. An inquest was opened.on the body
the same evening, and after evidence of identification had
been given, it was adjourned.

THE RELEASE OF THE FENIAN PRISONERS.
'The evening edition of the Irish Times publishes the
following special telegram from Mr. McCarthy Downing,
M.P. for Cork :—" Skibbereen, Saturday. The Prime
Minister has written to me saying that the Cabinet have
decided on the immediate release of the Fenian prisoners.
Some of them, however, are to reside abroad."
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE DEMOCRATIC DEMONS FRATION.

A public meeting, convened by the International
Democratic Association, and numbering about 4,000
persons, was held in Trafalgar-square yesterday
afternoon, to make a " solemn recognition of the
the French Republic by the people, and to condemn the
policy of the British Government." Platforms were
erected, at each of which resolutions were
unanimously carried expressing sympathy for
France in her struggle for liberty against
despotism ; and protesting against the indifference shewn
by the British Government to the sufferings of
our tried ally, the French nation. M. de Fonvielle
addressed the meeting, and stated that he had authority
for declaring that the watchwordof the Republic would be
" No surrender."

A Cabinet Council was hold on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—The
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
de Grey and Ripon, Viscount Halifax,, the Right Hon.
H. A. Bruce, Earl Granville, the Earl of Kimberley, the
Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers,
the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Harting-
ton, and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster.
MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—The Premier leaves
town to-day for Hawarden Castle. The Earl de Grey
left on Saturday for Nocton Park. The. Earl of Kim-
berley has gone to Kimberley Hall, Norfolk. The Earl
Granville went to Windsor on Saturday, and returns to
town to-day. ,The Marquis of Hartington returned on.
Saturday to Chatsworth. Vis Count Halifax'left town on
Saturday for Mickleton Hall, Yorkshire. The Right,
Hon. W. E. Forster left on Saturday for Weybridge, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer for Caterham, the Right
Hon. H. A. Bruce for St. Leonard's-on-Sea, and the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell for his seat in Surrey. The Duke
of Argyll, the Lord Chancellor, the Right Hon. Hugh
Childers, and the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen remain in
town.
Mr. E. B. Michell, 8.A., of Magdalen College,
Oxford, has brought 'out a work on the state of Paris,
where he has been confined during the siege. Mr. Michell
has given his work the title of " Siege Life in Paris, by
One of the Besieged."
London, England, 1870-12-19

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN THEATRES.

Recently a discussion was undertaken in the papers,
respecting the 'difference in the prices of admission to
theatres in America and England. Mr. Boucicault
wrote in favour of the American cheap tariff, and
urged that a fee of 2s. for admission to all parts of a
theatre would be profitable. Several London ma-
nagers declared that high fees paid, as a rule, better
than small ones, and some members of the theatrical
profession threw doubt upon Mr. Boucicault's allega-
tion that a- two-shilling price of admission was most
general and remunerative in America. - Mr. Bouci-
cault, according to his own account, , " was so
astonished" that he waited to see what the Anieri-
can press said on the subject, and as the New York,
Clipper has just declared that Mr Boucicault "in the
main was right," and that persons can always get a
good seat in a respectable part of the house
at a much loWer rate than in England, the distin-
guished 'playwright publishes another letter in the
Daily Telegraph with some degree of uncalled-for
cruelty, and says: " As to the letters addressed to
you by some of your self advertising correspondents,
I could have wished, for the credit of the theatre,
that they had been addressed to you from
a circus." This is very hail' language, but Mr.
Boucicault is a terrible man to argue with.
London, England, 1870-12-19

THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS.

DIIIIRY-LANE--A Domestic Hercules. Romeo and Juliet.
Phobus's Fix.
HAYmAnKET—The Wolf and the Lamb. Tho Palace of
Truth. Uncle's Will. Blue Devils.
VAnDEviLLE--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.
OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predihment. Nell and (Bur-
lesque) Paul and Virginia.
ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his
Sensation Cat.

GAlETY—Happy Village. Fra Diavolo. Trombalcalzar.
QUEEN'S—Aunt Charlotte's Maid. Richelieu. Day after
the Wedding.

"Ballot.

Vicar of

STANDARD —The Wife's Tragedy.
Wakefield,
HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor. The 0(.1,1A. Jezabe'
London, England, 1870-12-19

THE FOOD SUPPLY.

One grand point is that bread is plentiful and bestowed
where required with a liberal hand. The mills set up by
the Government are working admirably, and the flour
produced, though not of the usual whiteness of the best
Paris make, is excellent. Some people complain that the
bread is coarse, but in reality it is better than usual, there
being no potatoes in it. With a view to meet this com-
plaint of the colour of the bread a committee
of the Central Hygienic Commission, consisting
of MM. Bouchutat, Saint Claire Deville, Tr4lat,
G. See, Ad. Wurtz, De Montmahon, H. Baillon,
Cubeer, Chauveau-Lagare, Reynal, Onimus, Du Mesnil,
Behier, and Gavarret, have issued the following note
Making bread of flour completely deprived of every
particle of bran, as is usual in Paris, takes away from the
bread a notable portion of its alimentary principles, and
causes a regrettable loss. Taking this into consideration,
the Com Mission reminds the public that brown bread, far
from being injurious as many people imagine, is more
wholesome and more nourishing than white bread." It
should be added that the bread produced here at present
is not brown bread, properly speaking, but only brownish.
—Food Journal.
London, England, 1870-12-19

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GERMAN OFFICERS IN PARIS.

General Schmitz, a staff-officer, has ordered a notice to
be posted in Paris with respect to the German officers,
who are prisoners in that city. He says that complaints
have been made that they should be allowed free access to
to the restaurants and street's. He says that these officers
have given their word of honour not to leave Paris or to
hold any secret correspondence with the besieging army,
and adds that it may prove advantageous to lot
Germans learn for themselves the true state of affairs
with regard to the provisioning, and the spirit of the
Parisian population. As these officers had, however,
been assaulted in a restaurant where they were dining,
he had ordered them to be sent to prison at La Roquette,
in order to protect them from the annoyances to which
theymight have been subjected by the excited state of the
popular feeling, and which could not fail to produce
serious consequences.