The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-27

voted, 1856, 291; number who voted eyes"
1885 number who voted "No, 1907; votes
annulled, 1913.
The total of ships entered inwards and
outwards in Great Britain during the year
1869 amounted to "a, $40, ,2S1 tons, as COM
pared with 33,680,97 tons of the previous
year. A total of 1852 new vessels were built
and registered in the British empire during
1869.
The North German Correspondence, expa-
tiating on thesrecovery of Strasburg, says
''Among all the successes which this fair au-
tumn month has brought us, though the
capitulation of Sedan may be considered the
most brilliant, the recovery of the old Ger
man fortress of Strasburg is undoubtedly the
most gratifying to German hearts.
Lord Elcho has addressed to the London
papers another letter respecting the organi-
zation of the British army regarded in the
light of the events now taking place on the
Continent. He alleges ''our military organi-
zation is not such as to give US needful secu-
rity or to enable us to fill the part on the
worlds stage which we profess to play"
The Swiss newspapers, in view of the
probable annexation of Alsace to Germany,
are anxious for better strategic frontier.
The SoontdgSpoSt of Berne comments on the
unprotected state of Geneva and French
Switzerland, through the incorporation of
Savoy with France in 1860, and urges that
the union of Alsace with Germany would
make the defense of Basle almost impossi-
ble."
Victor Hugo, in another address of en-
couragement to the Parisians, says:-ssIt ap-
pears that the Prussians have desired that
France should be Germany and that Germany
should be Prussia; that 1, who address you,
a born Lorraine, am German-that is night
in full noon-that the Eurotus, the Nile, the
Tiber, and the Seine, afiuents of the Spree;
that the city which for four centuries has en-
hghtened the world need no longer exist; that
Berlin is sufficient; that Montaigne, Rabelais
DAubigne, Pascal, Corneille, Moliere, Mon
tesquieu, Diderot, Jean jacques Mirabeau,
Danton, and the French Revolution never
existed; that Voltaire is no longer wanted
since we have M. Bismarck; that the universe
belongs to the vanquished of Napoleon the
Great and the conquerors of Napoleon the
Little; that henceforth thought conscience,
poetry, art, progress, and intelligence will
begin at Potsdain and end at Spandau; that
there will be no more civilization, no longer
Paris; that it has not been shown that the
sun is necessary; that, moreover, we set bad
example; that we are Gomorrah, and that
they (the Prussiaus) are the fire of heaven"
The London Standard says:-''A rumor
of very painful character was in circulation
on the 9th inst, which emanated from good
source, having reached London, it is said,
through General Burnside, being that of the
murder of three gentlemen in Paris, faithful
adherents of the empire, among them GER
tain viscount well known and universally
popular in England
1t is stated that the celebrated trial for
the possession of the Tchborne baronetcy
and estates in England will commence on the
18th of November. This extraordinary case,
the details of which, it is said, TEEN with ro-
mantle incidents totally eclipsing anything
that has ever appeared in the pages of fiction,
is expected to last over a month"; while the
expenses already incurred amount, we hear,
to an enormous sum.
The idea of an Austro- German alliance is
warmly advocated in an interesting letter in
the Cologne Gazette, by Rhinelander who,
says the Gazette, has Just arrived from
Vienna, where he was received in the highest
court and government circles. The corre-
spopdent holds that Germany has not shown
sufficient appreciation of the attitude of Aus
tria during the war as compared with that of
the other neutral States. England, he says,
refrained with ''heartless egotism" from
stopping the war when she could have pre-
vented it; and if Germany had been beaten
England would have become 'the last and
most helpless prey of France"
Three acts were passed in the late par
liamentary session to take the census of the
United Kingdom. The first applies to Ire
land, and is the only one where the ''reli-
| gious profession" of the inhabitants is to be
taken. The police are to ascertain on the
Sd of April, 1871, the persons who abode in
each house on Sunday, the I'd of April. The
next statute relates to England, and here no
mention is made of religion nor in the third
act, relating to Scotland. On the Sd of April
the particulars are to be collected of all per.
sons "who abode in the house on Sunday, the
I'd of April"
Several young ladies 81 recently astonished