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

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Anist3rdam,-„ Short ... 11 181 ... 11 19
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 lk ... 12 11
Antwerp — ... 25 3if ... 25 421
Brussels
Hamburgh — ... 13 10} ... 13 11
Paris Short ... 25 15 ... 25 221

Ditto
Marseilles

Frankfort-on-the-Main
V ienua —
Trieste —

• 1201 120 i
12 60 ... 12 70
I' ▪ . 12 65 ... 12 70

Petersburg
Copenhagen — ~. 9 18 ... 9 22
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — ... 49 ... 49k
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 75 ... 26 771
Genoa
Naples
Palermo — ... 26 75 ... 26 77i
Messina
Lisbon — ••• MI ... 52
Oporto — ••• 51} ... 2
Rio Janeiro

New York ...... —

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—The Massachusetts So-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has com-
menced operations by securing convictions and fines
to nearly $1,200, for beating horses 33, overdrive
ing horses 21, working old, galled, and lame horses
19, cruelty in transportation 11, bagging cows 11,
overloading horses 5, failing to provide food 4,
cruelty to cows 2, abandoning horse, abandoning cow,
cruelty in breaking horse, cruelly killing horse, cruelty to
calf, dog, and sheep, failing to provide shelter one each, 8 ;
in all, 114. The society is discussing whether clipping
horses for the winter season is kindness or cruelty.
One writer maintains the kindness provided that
the animal is covered with blankets. Mr. Bergh,
who is always on the look-out for cases of cruelty,
gave the following testimony in a New York
court against the New York police. "On Monday night,
the 6th instant (that very stormy night, sir), at the
junction of the Bowery and Third and Fourth Avenues,
I saw a roundsman—beastly drunk is the usual way
to say it, but no boast gets that way ; he was outra-
geously drunk ; three days afterwards I saw the
same man, in broad daylight, walking ta what is by
courtesy called a sample room, but which I call it
rum shop, and drank his rum there. I constantly see offi-
cers inside of a doorway in the close embrace—ay, sir, em-
brace—of the most abandoned prostitutes; and I say now
that I have witnessed repeated cases of officers in a state
of drunkenness, and associating with debauched women
while ou duty."
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times observes that Paris will forget for a few days
the peaceful revolution which has been accomplished by
the accession of M. 011ivier to power; it will, perhaps
cease to talk even of the murders of Troppmann. A
Prince of the Imperial blood has shot a journalist, has
been sent to the Conciergerie, and awaits his trial for
homicide. The circumstances are in the highest degree
dramatic, and in any other country would throw the public
into a fever of curiosity and excitement. The present
affair is taken out of the ordinary class by its tragical
result, and by the mystery in which it is at present
involved. It has arisen, like so many others, in the in-
dignation which is evoked by a scurrilous press. The
attacks on the Emperor and his family have gone beyond
anything that ought to be tolerated in a civilised com-
munity. We do not expect all Frenchmen to be Impe-
rialists, nor even that they should refrain from carrying
on the anti-dynastic opposition in all its inevitable bitter-
ness ; but a true French gentleman, if he were the deadly
enemy of a street sweeper, would hardly sail against
him as these rhetoricians of liberty have attacked the
Bonapartes. We need hardly say that we are not yet
in a position to give an opinion on the tragic affair.
The degree of culpability which belongs to the homicide
remains to be ascertained. Yet there are some strange
circumstances which stand out conspicuously. It is
almost incredible that M. Victor Noir, coming in the
formal, the very formal, character of a French second,
should slap the Prince's face ; it is equally incredible
that the Prince should slap the face of a gentleman
who, according to the laws of duelling, was invested
with the sanctity which has attached to the herald
of every age. Then it would appear that pistols were
at hand and ready loaded. Whether Prince Pierre
Bonaparte drew his from his pocket, according to one
account, or took it from " a panoply decorating
the saloon," according to another;we are as yet uncer-
tain ; but it is evident that a pistol was ready somewhere,
and was only too near at hand when the dispute began. It
further appears that when M. Noir was shot, his friend,
N. Fonvielle, also "took from his pocket a pistol to defend
himself." That seconds should wait armed upon a prin-
cipal, and he should receive them equally prepared, is a
novelty in the history of European honour. We have
heard of such things in Missouri and Texas, but it startles
us to find such a degeneracy here. A catastrophe like this
may have its good effect if it gives a check to the revived
practice of settling every difference, even of opinion, by the
sword or the pistol.

In the present instance, says the Post, the act of a
Prince and a Bonaparte, which would have passed little
cared for as among French brother journalists if one of
themselves had been the perpetrator, and which would
only furnish matter for a small paragraph in the United
States papers if it had occurred at some liquor bar of
New Orleans or New York, assumes dimensions of an-
other character, and has all the gravity of a political
event. Where all this is to end, and how it is to
be cured, it is difficult to say. • What is certain, how-
ever, is that the duels between comparative no-
bodies which have been lightly passed over in France, the
insults of the press and their vindication or punishment
at the point of the sword, which have hitherto been care-
lessly attended to AS the subjeet9 of senaatiomi pArnfrr,rbs,
now receive a deep and national attention when so
great a name is dragged before the tribunals in so mean a
squabble. The corpse of M. Victor Noir will be attended
to the grave by every Red Republican in Paris, whilst
Prince Pierre Bonaparte lies in the prison of the
Conciergerie. These unpleasant facts will be apprehended
in their most offensive sense by thousands of
the common people, and in this acute proneness
to judge ill of the powers that be lies the most
serious danger of the melancholy mishap which has cast a
gloom over Paris. We can hardly bring ourselves to
doubt that the Prince will be able to vindicate himself, if
not according to English ideas, at any rate to the satisfac-
tion of the French code of honour. But his escape from
the consequences of his deplorable act will never free him
or those connected with him from the shafts and stings of
the brothers of the pen of M. Noir. His homicidal shot,
which deprived a mere small journalist of life, may have
cc,nbcquences of the greatest moment to his family and his
country.

The Standard declares that ministers still continue to
think that this is the time for an economical policy equi-
valent to the pauperising of entire neighbourhoods. The
discharge- of workmen goes on at Sheerness and Chatham;
numbers of hired labourers, who are not entitled to pen-
sions, strictly speaking, but who have been so long on tho
establishments that they had acquired a moral right to at
least some consideration, are constantly dismissed from
our dockyards ; the Imperial steam machinery is
being brought to a comparative standstill ; the
shipwrights, fitters, and ironworkers will have to leave
until several hundreds have been thrown out of employ-
ment, and this pitiless process is going on precisely when
their prospects must be most dreary. The policy of
Ministers is to play a parsimonious budget in the eyes of
the people. In this again we hardly think they will succeed.
It is rather too much of an inconsistency to collect
more taxes than are due, and simultaneously to cry
out for a reduction of expenditure. Meanwhile, what
is to become of the hard-working mechanics who
are thus suddenly deprived of a livelihood ? Their
abilities, no doubt, will make them welcome to such firms
as have employment to give; but an aggregate discharge
of 500 or 600 men is a serious affair to a trade so special
as the shipbuilders. It might have been otherwise had
the country demanded those measures. We heard
nothing of their necessity, however, until they were
bragged about by the Liberal press. And in the result it
may safely be affirmed that while taxation has been ren-
dered more offensive and intolerable than ever to the
community, the total of all this vaunted economy will be
a ridiculous disappointment.

The Telegraph thinks Mr. Bright seldom spoke with
more combined skill and force than at Birmingham on
Tuesday. He was naturally reticent in alluding to the
intentions of the Government. The Irish land question,
he said, seemed more difficult the more closely it was
scrutinised; and he frankly confessed that, although he
had studied the subject for twenty years, he still found
it full of perplexities. That he should state how the
Government intended to deal with the question, his hearers
could not have anticipated, and, of course, Mr. Bright
had discreetly to content himself with an enumeration
of general principles. He said that in the course
of next month the provisions of the bill would be stated
by Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons. One impor-
tant word of warning, however, he gave to agitators.
Nature and the course of history had, he pointed out,
indicated that England should be the best customer of
Ireland. England could pay more for the produce of Ire-
land than any other country. England could sell to Ireland
the appliances of industry more freely than any other State.
When he added that the Government meant to effect
another conquest of Ireland— a conquest which
should be bloodless, and should employ the holy
weapon of a frank and generous justice—the entire mass
of his listeners responded in a vociferous and long-sus-
tained shout of approval, which was full of political mean-
ing. No passage of his speech was more rapturously
cheered than the sentences in which he eulogised Free
Trade as the herald of international peace. Mr. Bright
has learned that Governments cannot do everything for a
people, and that the wisest laws are comparatively power-
less in a nation which is destitute of economy, fru-
gality, and the practice of virtue. These words were on
Tuesday night spoken with a sadness which implied that
in past years the great Reformer may have been lured on
by visions too brilliant when he predicted the results that
would flow from household suffrage. Naturally, therefore,
he concluded by eloquently beseeching the working men
of England to assist the labours of political justice through
the potent agency of personal virtue. The response given
by this great meeting undoubtedly signified the highets
resolve to assist our leading statesmen in the grand work
.not only of doing justice to Ireland, but of developing a
higher political and social life throughout all classes and
conditions of the British people.

The Daily News remarks that a gallant English, or
rather Irish soldier, of the true chivalrous type has passed
away in the late Sir de Lacy Evans. He was the Murat
of our English army, the prince of sabreurs. But he was
something more than this. He was a good strategist and
tactician. There are generals in our army who have
never seen a shot fired in anger. For nearly fifty years,
from the campaign against the Pindaroes in 1807,
to the Crimean War in 1354, Sir De Lacy Evans,
found means of being present wherever fighting
was going forward. In India, in the Peninsular war,
under Wellington; in America, during the war of 1812
with the United States ; soon afterwards, at Quatre Bras
and at Waterloo; at the head of the British Legion in
Spain; at the battles of Alma and Inkermann, Sir Do
Lacy Evans shewed himself among the most daring and
skilful of soldiers. Unlike many military men, he
did not allow his professional interests and
pursuits to deaden or narrow his political con-
victions and feelings. He was a gallant and
chivalrous politician. Westminster was never represented
by a stronger Radical. He assaulted abuses as he attacked
the enemies' lines or strongholds, with British pluck and
French élan. A better type of the patriot-soldier could not
be found. His death at 82 years of age, after an active
military and political life, from which it is scarcely five
''nears since he sought retirement, is an event
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