The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1868.

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FRENCH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
Incorporated under the Companies Acts of 1862 and 1867,
under the title of
SOCIETE DU CABLE TRANSATLANTIQUE
FRAN CATS
(Limited).
- _ _

With a Capital of £1,200,000, or 30,000,000 f., in 60,000
shares of £2O or 500 f., of which 10,000 are to be issued as
fully paid shares, according to the Prosp3ctus.
The Union Bank of London will receive Subscriptions
for £1,000,000, in 50,000 shares of £2O each of this capital,
on the following conditions:—
Deposit on application £1 per share.
On Allotment £4 per share. On the 15th of February,
On the 15th of October, 1868, 1869, £3.
£3. On the 15th of April, 1869,
On the 15th of December, £3.
1868, £3. On the 15th of May, 1869,
Subscriptions will be opened simultaneously •

At PARIS with The Societe Generale de Credit
Industriel et Commercial, and
Messrs. E. Erlanger and Co.
BERLIN .... „ Mr. Joseph Jaques.
HA M BERG .7. „ Mr. Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
B REM EN „ Messrs. D. H. Watjen and Co.
FRANKFORT „ Messrs. von Erlanger and Sons.
AMSTERDAM „ Messes. Lipprnann, Rosenthal, and
Co.
And in the United States of America through the agency
of Messrs. Duncan Sherman and Co., of New York.
HONORARY CoNIMITTEE IN FRANCE.
His Excellency M. Drouyn de Lhuys.
31. Elie de Beaumont, Senator.
Count Mallet, Senator.
Vice-Admiral Treliouart, Senator.
DIRECTORS.
London Board.
The Right Hon. ROBERT LOWE, M.P., Chairman.
C )ruelius Grinnell, Esq. (Messrs. Grinnell and Co.)
Edward J. Halsey, Esq. (Messrs. Fesser, Uhthoff and Co.,
and F. sser and Co., Havana).
Julius Reuter, Esq.
William Henry Schroder, Esq. (Items. J. H. Schroder
and Co.)

Paris Board.
Contra Amiral Lacapelle, President.
Lo Marquis Eliacin de Beaumont.
M. S. Boitelle, Sonateur.
Lo Baron Ph. de Bourgoing.
M. Charles Crapelet (MM. Rattier and Co.)
Le Baron Emile d'Erlanger.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
Sir James Anderson.
CONSULTING ELECTRICIANS.
Sir William Thomson, F.R.S.
Cromwell F. Varley, Esq., M.LC.E.
TECHNICAL ADVISER. IN FRANCE.
M. Bertsch, Member of the Committee of Telegraphs in
France.
ENGINEERS AND ELECTRICIANS.
Latimer Clark, Esq.,
Henry C. Fordo, Esq., M.I.G.E.
Flemming Jenkin, Esq., F.R.S., M. 1.0 E.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
The Union Bank of London, Princes-street.
BANKERS IN PARIS.
Societd GemSrale do Cr&lit Industriel et Commercial.
MM. Emile Erlanger et Cie.
BANKERS AND AGENTS IN NEW YORK.
Messrs. Duncan Sherman and Co.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bischoff, Cosa, and Bompas.
SECRETARY.
Frederick J. Griffiths, Esq.
OFFICES IN LONDON—Bartholomew lICUSe, E.C.
OFFICES IN PARIS Raitbout, 20.

The object of the Company is to establish and work a
direct line of Telegraph between the Continent of Europe
and the -United States of America, in accordance with the
concession granted by the Imperial French Government
to Baron Emile d'Erlanger, of Paris, and Mr. Julius
Reuter, of London.
This concession bears data 6th July, 1863, and confers
the privilege of laying and working Submarine Telegraphs
between France and the United States. The French Go-
vernment binds itself not to grant any other concession
for lines between Prance and North America during the
period of twenty years from the Ist September, 1869.
A concession granted by the State Legislature of Now
York, for landing and working cables between that State
and France, has been secured.
Arrangements have been made with the Submarine
Telegraph Company for the exclusive use of one of their
wires between England and Dieppe, from which place the
French Government will construct a special wire to Brest
direct for the Company. By this means, the valuable co
operation of the Submarine Telegraph Company has been
secured, awl an uninterrupted route from England to the
UnitA States will be established.

The French Government has promised its support and
as•istauco to the undertaking, and an honorary committee
of the highest position has been formed in Paris.
The growth of te:egraphy on tho Continent in recent
years has, owing to greater facilitiesand a lower tariff, been
even more rapid than in England. In England the num-
ber of messages has been annually increasing at the rate
of from 15 to 20 per cent. In France the number of mes-
sages increasA between 1863 and 1867 from 1,755,000 to
3,214,000, having nearly doubled in five years. In Prussia
the average annual increase has been 34 per cent. In Aus-
tria the traffic increased nearly four-fold between 1861 and
1866.

It has been generally acknowledged that, both for poli-
tical and commercial reasons, the laying of a direct and
indepenilent cable from the Continent of Europe to the
United States was only a question of time, and consider-
ing the extraordinary increase of telegraphic messages
wherever new facilities are afforded, it is to be expected
that the new undertaking will create fresh traffic, inde-
pendent of that of the old companies, sufficient to insure
earnings of equal if not greater amount.
The published report of the Directors of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company to their annual meeting, held in
February last, contains the following sta!emeut " The
revenue from tho cable is progressing satisfactorily, and
the reductiou in the rates, which commenced on Decem-
ber let (1867), has tended much to the development cf
business. The gross returns of traffic made to this coin-
piny since the 27th July, 1867, by the Anglo-Arnerican
Company show the following daily averages, namely :
"From July 27th, 1867, to Feb. 21, 1863, Vie average per
day has been about .£1,043.
"From December Ist, 1367, to Feb. 21st, 1868, the
average per day has been about £1,213.
" From January Ist, 1863, to Feb. 21st, 1863, the average
per day has been about £1,300.
" The gross daily traffic for the month of February has
been as follows:

Feb. 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
This average of £1,300 gives an income of about
£i75,000 a-year. From their income, however, the exist-
ing companies have to pay one-third to the Newfound-
land Companies, a charge from which the present Com-
pany will be free. It will be the object of the new
Company to fix such rates for messages as will secure the
largest possible traffic. The price to be charged is in-
tended to be £2 for a message of 10 wools, and it seems
not too sanguine an expectation that at this rat) the line
will find constant employment.
.The power of transmission of tho now cable is estimated,
according to the report of the engineers and electricians,
at a minimum of twelve words per minute, which, allow_
ing 14 hours a-day for waste time, and consequently only
ten hours a-day for actual work, and taking 300 woiking
days in the year, gives, at the rate of £2 per message, an
annual income of £432,000. Practically, the proportion of
days and hours lost would in all probability be less than
is assumed in this estimate. The working expenses of the
new line may be calculated to amount at the utmost to
£30,000 per annum.
-
The proposed cable will be laid in two sections—the first
from Brost, in France, to the French island of St. Pierre,
off Newfoundland ; the second from St. Pierre either to
New York direct or to a point between Boston and New
York, with a special line to the last-named city.
The length of the cable is as follows:--
Ist section, from Brest to St. Pierre ......... 2,323 miles.
2nd section, from St. Pierre to the United
States, about..

722

,047 .
To this length an amply sufficient amount
of 3slackmiles will
be added.
A contract has been entered into with the Telegraph
-ConstrueCult and Maintenance Company to manufacture
and lay the cable for the sum of £920,000, of which
1:31.0,0U;) is payable in cash by agreed instalments during
the manufacture and shipment of the cable. The remain-
ing £llO,OOO will be payable in the following manner, viz.,
£60,000 in fully paid-up Shares, after the sntion from Brest to St. Pierre shall have been laid and tested satis-
factorily for thirty successive days ; £lO,OOO in cash aster
the section from St. Pierre to the United States shall have
b.'en laid and tested for thirty days, and the final payment
of £20,000 in fully paid-up Shares after the entire- cable
shall have been six months in satisfactory operation.
Allowing £lOO,OOO for the construction of the land lines,
engineers' charges, supervision, and all expenses up
to the
opening of the line, and deducting the consideration here-
after stated to be given for tho concession upon success,
there will remain a balance, by way of reserve, of £BO,OOO.
The Great Eastern will be employed in laying the deep
sea portiod. Sir Samuel Canning with a competent star
will ha :e charge of the submersion of the cable. Sir James
Anderson will act on behalf of, and watch over, the in-
terests of the Company.
Tho cable is contracted to be shipped in June next, and
the line is expected to b 3 op ;in for traffic in the course of
neat year.
The cable will be of the best construction, and generally
of the same description as those manufactured by the Tele-
graph Construction Company for the Atlantic and Anglo-
Ai Telegraph Companies. The cable will be pro-
tior'can
teeted by tar like the 1863 cable, and advantage has been
t 'ken 01 all the experience since gained. In accordance
with the unanimous reco,nmendation of the engineers cud
electricians, the iveight of copper in the conductor li or as
beau increased front 0001 b. to 4001 b. per km:t Bythis
means greater rapidity of trans:nission is
obtained.
the
In tracing the route a detour has been made to avoid
risk of icebergs and anchorage on the banks of. Newfound-
land. It is on these battles limit all accidents to the
exist-
ing cables have occurred.

sir James Anderson has recorded his opinion that the
object thus sought for will be fully attained ; that, in fact,
the new line will be entirely free from accidents by ice-
I ergs, and does not cros.-, any anchorage resorted to by
fishing vessels. Nearly one-half the cable will be in a depth
of water where the submergence will be easy, and the re-
c:)v,.ry for repairs inexpensive. The deep-sea portion will
be in a depth similar to that in which the present cables
aro laid, and from which the 1865 cable was recovered.
Under those circumstances, and the Company having se-
cured the services and expel icnco of all the eminent men
wiosleive contributed to the success of the forne ex t ioluthe risk of the present undertaking is reduced to a
minimum.
Arrangements have been
jeumk.ade with Sir WT.
'Thompson, Mr. Fleerninr, .n lam
, and Mr. Varley, for
the use of their patented instruments with any future
improvements.
The Concessionaires, by an agreement dated 3d August,
1868, and scheduled to the Articles of Association, have
agreed to transfer to the Company their concession from

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LONDON, IVEDNE,SDAY, AUGUST 12, 1868.

The moderation of the extreme heat which has
marked the past two months has produced, as
might have been expected, a favourable effect on
the public health. The weekly return of the
Registrar-General shows the difference in number,
although the average for the week is still exceeded.
The improvement on the preceding week is very
marked, since, notwithstanding that the present re-
turn exceeds the estimate by 52, it is less by 120
than the return of the previous week. The rate of
mortality last week was 23 per 1,000 in London
and in Dublin, 30 in Edinburgh, and
40 in Manchester, while all the other
large towns ranged between these figures.
Liverpool for once had the advantage of its busy
neighbourhood, and only figures at 35. Iu Vienna
the rate of mortality was 27 per 1,000 during the
week ending on the Ist inst., when the tempera-
ture was 1.3 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the
same week in London, where it was 28. This
proves that other causes must be at work besides
the hot weather, and should induce us to look
closely to our sanitary arrangements. The mor-
tality from diarrhcei is still high. Last week
the deaths were 294, of whom 270 were
children under ten years of age. In all the large
towns, with the exception of Manchester and Hull,
the mortality from diarrhoea showed a marked de-
cline, and the coolness of the present weather gives
us good ground for hoping that we have seen the
worst of it. Four deaths from sunstroke were re-
corded in the week ending on Saturday, in the pre-
ceeding week six, in the week ending the 25th of
July 11. Two persons were killed during last
week by street accidents, a source of danger which
steadily swells our bills of mortality without being
much noticed, yet the deaths from this cause must
certainly be ranked under the head of deaths from
preventible causes. Many of the deaths which are
reckoned under other heads might also, if we had
the full particulars, be put in the same rank. The
crowded and unhealthy state of many parts of Lon-
don, the ignorance and mismanagement of mothers,
lead unquestionably to the deaths of hundreds of
ill-tended, ill-fed infants. The mortality under
ten years of age from diarrhoea is of itself sufficient
to prove that there must be grievous ignorance, as
well as most unfavourable conditions at work. It
would be well if all would bear in mind that the
causes which produce such disastrous results in a week
of exceptional temperature are i n themselves injurious
at all times, and are slowly but surely at work,
mowing down the population, impairing the vigour
of those who survive them, crippling the infirm,
and taking the bloom and freshness from childhood
and early youth. Bad air, bad water, foul smells,
ill-ventilated rooms, crowded and close houses, and
the dirt and degradation in which too many of our
people spend their days and nights, are all deadly
foes, not only to decency and self-respect, but to
health and life itself. Unless there is a panic
about the cholera no one heeds these facts, though
fever in its many forms is always busy amongst us,
and the list of its annual victims would be for
midable if placed beside the records of an
epidemic.

Mr. FORSTER appeared before his constituents at
Bradford on Monday, and spoke to a crowded assem-
bly. The hon. member gave a long account of his
stewardship, and with his usual ability discussed
the chief subjects of interest and importance which
the present day presents to our notice. Foremost
he placed the Irish Church, and repeated the main
arguments he has used before in the House. It
must be a matter of regret to sober-minded persons,
of whatever views they are, to find hon. members
and candidates for election. speaking in so exagge-
rated a strain upon this subject. Let the
question rest upon its own merits, with no
straining after effect, and no undue stress put
upon the facts adverted to. Thus, when we find
Mr. FORSTER declaring that the motive which urges
him on in common with his friends id that they be-
lieve " unless they carry out the mei sure proposed
they cannot preserve the union betty, len England
and Ireland without civil war," it certa. 'ally appears
a strange way of representing matters. ha the fir6t
place, this mode of argument is nol lair to the
Irish people ? In common justice, it sh ,uld be
remembered t!:at there was no syrup' .thy for
Feuianisw felt among the body of th€ people,
and that, on the contrary, it q as held
in reproach and contumely by them. Had
Ireland
broken
been inclined for civil war it would bave
out before this for very certain. Another thi
'ng to
bear iu mind is, that such a style of talking.
not

in accordance with the right spirit which should
animate a legislator, and if the plea or pretext of
disaffection hold good in one country, it can in
another, so that we should always be hearing in
some quarter or other that this bill must pass, and
that measure be repealed for fear of riots
and disturbances taking place. Mr. DISRAELI'S
remarks on the state of Ireland at the Mansion
house the other day gave great umbrage, it appears,
and Mr. FORSTER adverts to them in terms of dis-
approval. The union between the two countries
ought not to be founded upon the conquest of one
people over another, remarks the hon. member, and
that is very true, so far as it goes ; but we must
protest against the practice some politicians are fall-
ing into, of persistently discussing the principles of
the Union to forward their own views and to faci-
litate the progress of their own particular schemes.
No doubt they are actuated by the beat intentions,
and believe they are working for the good of
the country ; but a measure, excellent in
itself, must not be advocated by wrong
means, and it is a false and dangerous policy
to stir up slumbering passions and arouse jealous
fears. Of such it can truly be said, " The hand
that kindled cannot quench the flame." We believe
that the Irish, taken collectively, are too patriotic
to adopt a course so prejudicial to the interests of
their country as that held out to them so repeat-
edly as the most likely to adopt; but that doss not
lessen the responsibility of those who persist in
repeating the offence, and forcibly illustrates the
injuries and inconveniences that arise from making
religious questions so exclusively the groundwork
of Parliamentary schemes and attempts to re-
build a party or change a Ministry. We live
in an age when sensation is the prevailing
element in speeches and writings ; but even with
this fact before us, it seems a matter of astonish-
ment that a member of Parliament should inform
his constituents that the Irish Church can only be
maintained at the point of the bayonet. Those
who argue in this strain inflict great injury on the
cause they advocate, and give their opponents a
handle against them by their intemperate lan-
guage.

Mr. FORSTER dwelt briefly upon the other topics
that attract notice just:now. Trades-unions ought
to be allowed for innocent purposes, he thinks, and
every obstacle should be put in the way of coercion,
which is so far a wise opinion on the matter. It is
worthy of notice that by this time few are found to
speak against some legislation on this question, and
the imposition of some restrictions when the Rport
of the Commission is made known to the public.
As in many previous instances, the abuses of these
Unions, or some of them at any rate, have become
of so flagrant a nature that the offenders over-
reached themselves, and by their own acts forced
on the inquiry and spoke their own condemnation.
Mr. FORSTER was one of the Com:nission that sat
on the Schools, and gives a doleful relation of his
arduous labours in that capacity. The
honourable member holds very just views on
this subject, and thinks that one of the
chief advantages we may get fro►n " endowed
schools" will be to enable the clever poor boy to
" show his talent and rise to almost any position."
Corning back to politics, again Mr. FORSTER disap-
proves of a great deal done in the Reform Bill, and
does not think the minority clause will hold next
Parliament, and gives us the cooling assurance that
the " whole question of reform will have to be re-
considered." This is really too bad for everybody
concerned in the affair, and besides very absurd
when the new schemes have not been tried at all.
In his eagerness to prove his opponents wrong Mr.
FORSTER says the clause is working very badly in
Leeds, and then adds that as a part► they will
gain by it.
Mr. GLADSTONE denounced the " extravagant
expenditure" of this Ministry, and the member for
Bradford follows suit, and yet tries to find out a
reason for his opponents having made such an
error. A Government in a minority cannot be an
economical one, he says, to which it may be re-
torted that a strong Administration, with a ma-
jority in Parliament, should have looked a little
better after the defences of the country, and then
their unfortunate successors would not have had
so much thrust upon them in order to serve the
public interests faithfully. Mr. FORSTER spurns the
notion that any gratitude will be shown to the
"Tories for the Reform Bill." Its faults belong to
Mr. DISRAELI, its merits to Mr. GLADSTONE, who
improved upon the Government proposals, and the
passing of the measure was the doing of Mr. BRIGHT,
who infused into the House the spirit of Liberalism.
No wonder the conclusion he draws from all this is
that the tiara has come when the rule of the minority
must end. The hon. member wound up his speech
by admitting that Lord STANLEY had been an ex-
cellent Foreign Minister, and conducted affairs
with great skill and public spirit.

It was only to be expected that the successful
accomplishment of the endeavour to unite England
and America by the wonder-working cable would
be the first in many similar undertakings. We are
not surprised therefore to find our continental
neighbours busy with a project which bids fair to
be eminently successful. The development of
scientific knowledge in the present day justifies the
most ambitious schemes which a few years since
would have appeared to be preposterous, while
so great is the amount of business now carried on
with the distant regions of the world, and
so constant the desire for communication,
that the demand for telegraph lines is always on
the increase. The Continent used to be behind
this country in matters of the kind. The people
were less enterprising, less daring, and showed
alike less readiness to invest their money in an un-
certain undertaking, and less aptitude to carry a
difficult piece of practical science to a successful
termination. Of late, however, a change has come
over the sccne. Telegraphy has made even more
rapid strides on the Continent than in England, not-
withstanding our vast submarine undertakings.
There are greater facilities for the use of the
land lines, and the cost of transmission has been
less. At any rate, while in England the number
of messages has increased from 15 to 20 per cent.,
in France, in five years, it has nearly doubled, in
Prussia the average annual increase has been 34
per cent., and in Austria the traffic increased nearly
fourfold between 1861 and 1866. Under the cir-
cumstances it is only reasonable to expect that a
direct and independent cable from the Conti-
nent to the United Sates would be highly
remunerative, and the very fact of its exis-
tence will create a fresh demand independent
of that already existing. The object of
the French Atlantic Telegraph Company, now
completely organised, is to establish and work a
direct line of telegraph between the Continent of
Europe and the United States of Atneric t. 'The
necessary powers have been obtained from the
French Government, which has, moreover, pledged
itself not to grant any other concession for lines
between France and America for twenty years.
The cable is to be laid in two sections —the first
from Brest to the French island of St. Pierre off
Newfoundland ; the second, from St. Pierre either
to New York direct, or to a point between New
York and Boston, with a special line to the

former. The estimated length of the two cables if,
about 3,017 miles, and the Great Eastern will be
employed to lay it. The assistance of Sir STRAT-
FORD CANNING and Sir JAMES ANDERSON is pro-
mised, and altogether this prospectus promises most
favourably.

LATEST INTELIAGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, TUESDAY, August 11,

One of the journals here, I see, states that an incorrect
account of the interview between the Empress of the
French and Queen Victoria has been published. This is
not unlikely, for who was present at the interview, that
would be likely to furnish a correct account? The Paris
paper, however, is able to guarantee one sentence. It says
that though the English Constitution does not admit of
interference in politics on the part of the sovereign, the
Queen did make this remark : "Use your gracious influ-
ence with the Emperor, madame, to prevent war, which
carries off children from their mothers."

Royal personages are all en conge just now. The
Emperor is not yet involved in the stern pleasures of his
fete, and his return to Fontainebleau on the 10th was
celebrated by a grand dinner. The public were after-
wards admitted to a portion of the reserved gardens, and
there was a display of fireworks. The Emperor and
Empress of Russia are still at Kicsengen, where it is said
their Majesties and the King of Bavaria are on terms of
the greatest intimacy. This close friendship has given rise
to the report of a marriage between the young King
and a princess of the Imperial Family of Russia. The
rumour has been denied once, but it is reviving again.
The Queen of Spain has left La Granj a, for the Escurial ; the
Empress of Austria is about to stay a month at Garats-
hausen, on the shore of Lake Starnberg ; and the
Queen of Wurtemberg is shortly expected at Ostend.
Prince Humbert of Italy and his bride have departed from
Holland to Baden. Not even (luring the Paris Exhibition
were there so many illustrious personages en voyage at
the same time.

There was a Cabinet Council yesterday morning at
Fontainebleau. The arrangements for the 15th were con-
sidered, and will be finally settled to-morrow. Prepara-
tions are already being made for the review.

The papers are still occupied with the speech at Troyes.
The word augourd'hui gives the most trouble, many of the
Opposition journals thinking such a term not sufficiently
comprehensive. They do not read the phrase
" Nothing now threatens the peace of Europe," but
" Nothing at present threatens the peace of Europe."
Following up this ingenious conclusion, they decide that
the speech is not at all pacific, but Tito the reverse. This,
however, is a decision which they would have formed
under any circumstances ; they are resolved that the Em-
peror means war, and nothing can alter that opinion.
They rather, however, overlook the important question of
date ; it is most probable that we shall have a war some
time, but the difficulty is to fix the time.
Some vague rumours are floating about here re-
specting the state of affairs in Portugal. " Great
events " are expected, but no one can tell of what kind.
The press prosecutions do not cease to multiply. The
Electeur has been seized, and the Liberal (Seine-et-Oise) is
likewise in difficulties. Demonstrations in favour of Lee
Lanterne are very common, especially in the Quartier-
Latin. Another weekly journal, La Cloche, is announced.
It is to be published on the same day as La Lanterne, at
the same price, and is intended it some measure to rival
the successful paper of M. Rochefort.
A double duel has been fought between two officers
of a Belgian regiment in garrison at Tournay.
The quarrel first arose in April 1867 out of some
joke of questionable taste which was followed by an
altercation, and finally, by a blow. A meeting w: s
arranged for the next morning, in the neighbourhood of
the citadel, the challenged party making the choice of five-
barreled revolvers as the weapons. At the third ball one
of the combatants, named Vandenkinboom, the author of
the obnoxious joke, announced that he was wounded ; but
on inspection it turned out that the flash was but grazed,
and the seconds considered that "honour was not satis-
fied," and the encounter must, therefore, proceed. The two
remaining barrels were fired without effect. It was then
arranged that the encounter should be continued the
next morning. At the second meeting the revolver of
M. Legrand, the other combatant, was injured at the first
shot. A reconciliation was then effected. Fourteen
months afterwards, in Marc'i last, the two late antagonists
met again, and some allusions to the duel of April 1867
were let fall. M. Legrand, who had been guilty of the
blow which led to the former combat, declared himself
ready to repeat the chastisement. Another scene was
the result, and a second, or rather a third,
meeting was arranged. At the second duel M. Vanden-
kinboom was struck with a shot, which entered his body,
and has not yet been extracted. The affair was brought
before the Military Council of Hainault, and the two
principals were sentenced to imprisonment—M. Legrand
to fifteen days, and M. Vandenkinboom to eight.
The Queen of Mohely is still in Paris. Her Majesty has
visited almost all the theatres of the city, and is altogether
an object of great curiosity in a place where royal per-
sonages are usually counted as nothing.

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HER MAJESTY.

PENSION IVALLIS, LUCERNE, August 11.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, has taken
walks over Krietz, through the romantic ravine of
the Ronggbach, and has also made excursions on
the lake on board the steamer Wiukelreid, which is
kept in constant readiness.
Lord Stanley has arrived here.