The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-10 00:00:00

THE SUN,. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1870

THIS EVENING'S NEWS.

FURIOUS SCENE IN THE
CHAMBERS.

THE PEOPLE CHARGED
BY SOLDIERS.

M. OLLIVIER'S DOWNFALL.

THE DUG DE PALIKAO THE NEW

I%IINISTER.

DEMAND FOR THE EMPEROR'S
RECALL.

PARIS, Tuesday Evening

A transformation has to-day made made in the
Imperial Government. M. 011ivier is out. The Duo de
PALIKAO, that is General Montauban, is in. So •far it is
a satisfaction to have a strong man of the sword, instead
of a weak man of pen, Prime Minister. with the enemy
advancing upon the Capital, and revolution at our door,
ready at any moment, it may be, for an outburst. Nay,
Revolutionis not simply preparing, it is here close at hand.
Mobs overrun the streets andthe boulevards, and at one or
two points have been charged by the soldiery. There is need
for a Dictatorship. The Emperor away on the frontiers is
wanted back here to deal one way or the other with the'
emergency. In the Corps Ldgislatif M. Duvernois pro-
posed the following—" The Chamber being determined to
support a Cabinet capable of organising the defence of the
country passes to the order of the day."
M. 011ivier announced that the Government could not
accept the motion, which the Chamber nevertheless
adopted. At the request of M. 011ivier the sitting was
suspended.

On the sitting being resumed, M. 011ivier announced
that in consequence of the adoption of the order of the
day proposed by M. Duvernoise, General Cousin de Mon-
tauban (Duke of Palikao) had been charged with the for-
mation of a new Cabinet.

On the Place de la Concorde, at 3 o'clock, the public
were not permitted to cross the bridge. Large bodies of
Infantry and Cavalry are drawn up on the Quay to pro-
tect the Chamber. Excited crowds encumbered the
Place de la Concorde, and the parapets of the Quays. Ca-
valry—Lancers, Cuirassiers, and Guides—are continually
clearing the way between the Place de la Concorde and
the wing of the Tuileries next the Seine. The Tuileries
gardens are shut up, and a large force is under arms to
protect the Empress.
After several charges upon the people, executed by the
Cuirassiers, the National Guard protested, lodged their
arms, and exclaimed that the proper place for all regular
troops was on the frontier.
In the Legislative Corps it appears there was a f earful
row. M. Jules Favre having spoken the President called
out, " You will never make a revolution with this
Chamber."

M. Granier de Cassagnae said, with immense energy,
that if he were in the Ministry he would have M. Jules
Favre and all the membera of the Left brought to a court-
martial and shot this very evening !

M. Emile 011ivier. in an excited state, thereupon ex-
claimed, "M. Jules Simon has asked me whether we mean
to have all the Opposition deputies shot 7"
What answer he made, the tumult rendered it impossi-
ble to understand.

Count de Keratry proposed that the Chamber should
now treat Napoleon 111. as the Chamber had treated
Napoleon I. in 1815.
Ministers and Deputies here came to blows !

There is a rumour that the Duc de Persigny will co-open
rate with the Due de Palikao in forming the new Govern-
ment.

IMPERIAL PA RUA Al EN

HOUSE OF LORDS.—This DAY.

Parliament was prorogued by Royal Commission

to-day.
The Speaker of the House of Commons having
appeared at the bar of the House of Lords, the Lord
Chancellor read

tion of Criminals, will tend to confirm our friendly rela.
tions with foreign' Powers. '

The Act which regulates enlistment for a shortened
term of service in the ranks of the Army will, I trust,
tend to increase the efficiency of the force, to promote
the welfare of the soldier, and to provide for the nation a
reserve of men well trained to arms, and ready in any case
of emergency to return to the standards.'

I bid you farewell for the recess, with the earnest
prayer that, when you are again summoned to your duties,
I may be enabled to rejoice with you in the re-establish-
ment of peace on the Continent of Europe.

ME MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLI GENCE.

Stock Markets generally good to-day, tendency of quo-
tations upwards. Consols are 901. to 901 for account.
Railways steady. Metropolitan- 65 to 66. Caledonian
71 to 72. • North Eastern Consols 133 to 1,34.
Foreign Bonds are firm, political news being construed
favourably. Italians 46 to 461, Spanish 1867, 254 to 25g.
Consoll are now 904 to 901 for money, and 901 to
901 for account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 901 to 902 ;
New Three per Cents., 901 to 901; India Five per
Cents., 203 ; ditto Four per Cents., 1001; ditto 4
Bonds., par; Metropolitan Board of Works, 3i per
Cent. Stock, 891.

In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds of 1865 are
881; Egyptian Seven per Cents. of 1864, 81 to 83; ditto
of 1868, 681 to 69}; Spanish .of 1847, 25 to 25 ; ditto of
1869, 251 to 25i ; ditto Quicksilver, 68 to 681; Peru-
vian, 83 to 841; Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865, 40 to 39k
ditto of 1869, 50 to 51f ; and Five per Cent. Italian of
1865, 77.

The Railway Market—Metropolitan are 651 ; Great
Eastern 31 to 3n ; London and Brighton, 341 to 34 ;
Caledonian, 711 to 72; South-Eastern, 66; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3911; Great Northern, 116 to
115/ ; ditto (A), 1211 ; North Eastern, 1331 ; London
and North-Western, 1231 ; Midland, 1231 ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1261 ; Great Western, 631.
Canada Six per Cents. are quoted 1001 ; New
South Wales Five per Cents., 98 to 981 ; New
Zealand Five per Cents:; 941 to 951 ; Queensland 1031 ;
Victoria Five per Cents., 981; and ditto Six!per Cents.,
1091 to 110.

In Bank shares Alliance are quoted 13 to 14; Anglo-
Austrian, 6to 8 premium; Chartered Mercantile, 27 ;
Consolidated, 4 prem ; Imperial Ottoman, 11 I; London
and County, 51; London and Westminster, 59; London
Joint Stock, 32; ; and Union of London, 37.
In DTiscellaneaus Shares Berlin Water Works are quoted
14 ; Viceroy of Egypt 7 per cent. Mortgage Loan, 69n ;
National Discount Company, 11i ; and Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 39 to 41.
The financial advices from Paris state it to he impossi-
ble to describe the feeling of despondency` observable in
all quarters. The demand for bills on London had become
so great as to cause a rise of between 1 and 2 per cent. in
the rate of exchange.

The recent statements in Paris of the intended exporta-
tion of gold by the respective houses of Hirsch, Bischoffs-
heim, Oppenheim, &c., are ascertained to have been with-
out a shadow of foundation, and indignation is felt that
at a time like the present the Paris journals shcvld have
given currency to anything so calculated to expose influ-
ential establishments to mob violence. ,
A telegram from Rotterdam mentions the destruction
by fire in the warehouses there of the entire cargo of tea
brought by the Bristow, but does not state if other pro-
perty was extensively injured, The cargo of tea was in-
sured in the local offices.

Mr. Sheridan's bill to facilitate compromises and ar-
rangements between creditors and shareholders of Joint-
stock Companies in liquidation has passed through Par-
liament. It was supported by all the law officers of the
Crown and also by the Board of Trade. The bill applies
not only to all companies that may come into liquidation,
but to all now in liquidation. It can, therefore, be re-
sorted to in the case of the Albert Assurance Company,
which Vice-Chancellor James recently avowed his inabi-
lity to deal with, owing to the existing law giving him
no power to authorise the required reconstruction.

The Levant Herald states with regard to commerce :
—" We regret to announce that, owing to the present
commercial crisis, the much respected Galata firm of
Messrs. John Seager and Co. has been obliged to suspend
payment. The liabilities of the house—whose business
lay chiefly in the wool trade with Yorkshire—al.& said to
be considerable, and it is feared that more than one other
local firm may be brought down with it."
Notice has been given by the Bank of England that
holders of stock wishing to receive their dividends by post
must make application before the Ist of September iri
order to have the October dividend transmitted in that
manner.

MABKETS.—Tms DAY.

MARK-LANE.

There was a fair attendance of millers at Mark-lane this
morning, notwithstanding only a s. mall amount of busi-
ness was concluded, and the general tendency throughout
the trade was downward. The supply of English wheat
was limited, but of Foreign it was tolerably good. The
demand for qualities was quiet, with a drooping tendency
in prices. Barley, the supply of which was moderate,
experienced a quiet sale, at about previous currencies.
Malt was dull at late rates. Oats were in good supply.
The enquiry was moderate, at about Monday's prices.
Beans and peas were dull, and prices were With difficulty
maintained. Flour met with a slow inquiry, at late
quotations.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(THIS DAY.)
THE SMOKE NUISANCE ACT.—CAUTION TO FOREMEN.—
Henry Cooper, foreman in the employ of Mr. Huntsman,
baker, of No. 378, Oxford-street, was summoned before
Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-street police court,
by Sergeant Dunlop, of the C Division, for
negligently using a furnace so that the smoke therefrom
was not consumed. Mr. Sandison, C.E., appointed
by Government to conduct the proceedings under
the Smoke Nuisance Act, having produced the
authority of the Secretary of State for the
proceedings, Daniel Bettridge, 225 C, proved seeing
thick black smoke issuing from Mr. Huntsman's premises
on different days, and calling attention to it. Mr. Sandi-
son deposed that the apparatus on Mr. Huntsman's pre-
mises was constructed to consume smoke if attended t 4::
_ _

properly. Mr. Huntsman said he understood his foreman
requested the constable to go down and see the furnace,
but he refused to do so. There were witnesses to bhow
that there was no smoke. Mr. Sandison said constables
were strictly prohibited from going into bakers' places, so
that they should not be tampered with, it having for-
merly heen dome. The defendant, who appeared far from
sober, and conducted himself in a very impertinent
manner, said the constable could not tell smoke
from steam, and that there was no smoke whatever.
Three witnesses were called by the defendant, two of
whom, however, contradicted each other materially. Mr.
Knox fined the defendant 18s., and ordered him to pay
12s. 6d. costs.

' Robert Pike, fireman in the employ of Mrs. Sarah
Liddle, baker, of Charlotte-street, was also fined ls. and
12s. 6d costs for a similar offence.
BENEFIT SOCIETIES AND THE POOR.—Apoor man made
a complaint at the Thames Police Court before Mr. Lush-
ington against the St. Michael's, Lodge of a Benefit
Society of Druids. He joined the Druids and went,
through all the mysteries and ceremonies on the 11th of.
October last, and was free to receive all the benefits on
the 11th of April. He paid ss. fees, and had regularly
contributed is. 3d. weekly ever since On the 28th of
March last the society came to a resolution to suspend all
benefits. He was taken ill and afflicted with bronchitis
on the 28th of March, and when he became a free member
and entitled as a sick member to 14s. per week, it was
declared that it became within the operations of the new
law. He received no summons before he was free, but on
the 4th of July he received a smnrnons stating he was
nqf entitled under the new law suspending benefits
to poor members to anything. He wished to know
if the Druids had the power to make such an order. Mr.
Lushingtcn believed they had. For how long a period,
sir. Mr. Lushington : For three months longer. It is
quite within their power to make the order. It applies
to every member, and
‘you must submit to it.
will not be entitled 'to anything for -three
months longer. The applicant said it was a hard case
upon him and retired.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF AN UNFORTUNATE.—Cathprine
White, an unfortunate girl, was brought up on remand
before Mr. Lushington charged with attempting to drown
herself at the Old Gravel-lane dock bridge over the
London Dock afortnight ago. She has been in the Clerken-
well House of Detention ever since, and the chaplain
forwarded a letter to the magistrate declaring she was
penitent. Her mother said her daughter had not been
long on the streets, and her course of life had preyed on
her mind, and led her to make the rash attempt upon her
life. She promised to take care of her, and look after her
future welfare. Mr. Lushington admonished the prisoner
on her rashness, and gave her up to the charge _of her
mother,

THIS MORNING'S NEWS.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS OF THE
GOVERNMEN'U.

Both the War Office and the Admiralty have written to
the London and South-Western Railway (Devon and
Cornwall section), urging them to complete at the earliest
date the junction of the Devon and Cornwall Railway
between Okeharnpt on and Lidford, as„that small link is
all that is,needed to enable the Government to send stores
from one arsenal to another without break of gauge.
The line is of such strategical importance that it is ,ex.-
pected that the London and South-Western and Devon
and Cornwall Railways will at their meeting on Thursday
next order the works to be pushed forward with all pos-
sible speed. The Government are also pressing for an
extension of the line to Portland and Devonport, so
as to send coal direct from Wales to their fleets by rail.

THE BATTLE NEAR SAARBRUCK.

The special correspondent of the Daily 7'elegraplto
writing on Saturday, gives the following outline 'of the
battle which took-place on the French left centre on that
day, when General Frossard's troops met with a reverse :
, —"lt is almost impossible for' me to send you the
full particulars cif to-day's severe engagement ; but
as the field 'post is just leaving I send a few lines.
The divit.m of General von Goben advanced
upon Saarbrucken this morning; the French,
whose outpolts were still on the parade ground,
retiring as the German advanced guard came in
sight. The suburb of 4St. Johann.,..was immediately
occupied by the cavalry, and when he infantry
anX.artillery came up they crossed over the river into the
town of Saarbrucken. Skirmishers, with two batteries of
artillery, were then. thrown out, and a desultory sort of.
fire 'commeticefl, the few French troops left there slowly
rttiting upon the next ridge
.of hills, having 'St. Arn*ul
on their right, and FOrbach on their left. The
position is perhaps one of the strong-4st, if pot the
stronges, on the frontier) and General Fros-lard
shewed great judgment when he retired and took up
a position commanding the plateau across which the
Prussian army must advance. The morning was driz-
zling, but about eleven a.m. it cleared, and, the troops
havinlrested, the attack upon the French position
commenced. You will be good enough to understand
that the French position was one which Nature
had done her utmost to matt infopregnablo. Prom
the bottom of the hill, covered with brushwood and
intersected here and there with deep gorges, to
the top, where' there was a level plateau, the • ascent
might beabout an English mile. But before reaching the
base of this ascent the Prussian army had to advance
acs n plateau about two miles in length. The first
troops to attack the enemy's pOsition were my old friends
the 40th regiment, the 39th, and the 77th—
about 6,500 men, supported by four batteries of
artillery, their advance being covered by a bat-
talion of rifles. The woods to the right of the
French position swarmed. with tititilleurs, whilst
a
the centre was occupied by strong brigade, which seemed
to me to be about 8,000 strong.. In the meanwhile Gene-
ral von Goben, anticipating the arrival of Prince Frederic
Charles, ordered the attack to commence,at the same time
massing a large body of cavalry, compojed of cuirassiers,
lancers, hussars, and dragoons on either flank. At about
twenty minutes past ten the engagement began in
earnest, some six batteries opening fire on the French
position, and covering the advance of the first line—this

time with but little loss—gained the foot of the hill, and
then tlirconflict became sanguinary. Foot by foot was
each iitisputed, the continual roll of musketry being
ahnos oo awful to listen to. Gradually the French re.
tired until they gained*the crest of the hill. Here they
turned, anethe loss on the Prussian side was fearfully
heavy; they fired at about sixty yards, and ,the French,
having to fire down whilst the Prussians had to fire up,
and being but ill-conditioned, must have suffered great
slaughter. The regiments that had got so far were now
greatty reduced, the blue uniforms and brass-topped
helmets ilying in hegps along the crest of the hill.
"goanthne the triains from Neuenkirchen had been cring-
ing up rigl troop-s,-who ' formed to the right and left,
and advanced to the relief of their hardly-pressed corn.
rades. The French, on the right of the Prussian position,
then re red upon. Forbach, remaining in position with
artilleryn their front, when they reached the suburbs of
that place. Meantime anxious eyes were looking
out for Prince Frederic Charles's force ; but no signs of it
weie to be seen. The first line was then relieved, and
the. Fan* under a severe fire, retired to the crest
t
of the hill. Here, or an hour, thiltruggle for possession
of,the crest of the hill was hot and furious. At
length the French gave 'lefty, and the Prussian infantry
steadily advanced: No sooner had the French reached

the svburbs of Forbach than they opened a hot
fire of artillery upon the right of the Prussian line,
causing the cavalry placed there to change their

position to the left flank. Here thy* whole cavalry
division—some B,ooo.eahrss—were massed behind a shel-
tering hill. glthalf-rattery of field artillery had, by some
extraordinary means, been gagged up to We crest of the
hill, and the service lone by these guns will always be a
prominent feature of the battle. The French, nowrein-
forced, advanced their whble line, compelling the Prus-
sians to retire, and pitching shells with beautiful-precision
into the cavalry, whose hiding-place they had disco-
vered. "Fresh PitABSian trops then rtlieved those on the
heights, whilst four battalions covered by artillery were
massed an the right to strengthen their petsition towards
Forbach. Night was now falling, and darkness soon put
an end to the Qbstinate struggle for the' crest of the hill.
The Prussian advance up the heights of Forbach, in the
ffice of the fearful fire that wain poured upon them, was
simply magnificent. They-were as steady as if on
parade, and I shall never forget tha.do;sged sort of way in
which they retreated whtficompelled to leave the crest of

the hill. The regiments that,suffered most were the 77th,
the 40th, and 39th. The 40th lost nearly all their officers
in one battalion, and according to the opinitm of Wally c f
the generals the ltss on the Prussian side may be
put down at 2,000 or 1,600 men killed and wounded.
The French loss must have been nearly as large. At
half-past seven Prince Frederic Charles arrived.
The generals in Saarbrucken. to-night are Prince.
Frederic Charles, General von Steinnlitz, general
von. Oobon, General .von Zastro7, and General
von Zimmermann. The PrusSians had some
28,000 infantry engaged, the whole force under
fire being about 40,000 men, composed of the 7th
and half the 3rd .g.rmy Corps. The town of Saar-
brucken is full of wounded, and they are stilt-bringing the
poor fellows in; I very much fear that many of those
wounded towards evening will have to remain till daylight,
for the-night is pitch dark. I write this on the top of a
baggage waggon, by the light of a very bad oil-lamp ; and;
shoilld there be an advance to-morrow I will then send
further partleulars.